As We Stare Down the Precipice, Final Ruminations

On the eve of momentous change...what lies ahead of the turning point? Chaos or salvation?

A major shift is happening.

On the eve of what could be the most consequential election in US history—perhaps even global history—the elite class representing their favored stalking racehorse seem to have thrown in their towels and hung up their riding crops.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/opinion/trump-harris-election.html

What we’re seeing is unprecedented. For a couple months leading up to now, it felt like the unusual calm was merely a portent for some grand scheme being formulated in the webby dungeons beneath the DNC citadel. When Trump’s popularity shot up and Kamala’s tanked, the uncharacteristic silence from the other side took on an even stranger tenor.

But being so used to the now-dominant elite class always having their final trump card at the ready, we ignored the telltale signs of their demise. In reality, it appears they have finally run out of options. They have tried every malicious subterfuge and cheap gimmick, up to and including eliminating their opponent via kinetic means—twice—and they have failed, as polls and common sentiment now point to a catastrophic loss for Kamala in a few days’ time.

Something finally broke.

Some major tensioner undergirding the entire neoliberal military-media-industrial-complex Leviathan as fusion of state and corporate power, otherwise known as the ‘Blob’, has come loose, and now threatens to send events spiraling.

The canary choked on the thickening fumes this week as the Washington Post dropped the bombshell that DC’s top paper of record would not be endorsing a presidential candidate for the first time in almost 40 years—since Bush-Dukakis. LA Times and USA Today followed suit—a presentiment of the disastrously choreographed and stenciled candidacy of nonentity, empty-vessel Kamala.

USA Today has refused to endorse any candidate in the US presidential election, Fox News reports.

The LA Times and The Washington Post made a similar decision a few days ago. According to NPR, the WP lost more than 200,000 subscribers due to its refusal to support Harris.

In an unprecedented address, WaPo’s owner Jeff Bezos wrote a brief OpEd explaining the decision:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/

It starts off with the statistic naming this year as when America’s trust in journalists had finally sunk even below that of Congressmen:

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

He affects atonement, hoping to right course in order to win back America’s trust. Unfortunately, he flubs right off the starting block:

Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement.

Read that carefully a second time. He’s saying, “We are accurate…but people don’t believe we are accurate.” That means he’s calling the American people liars to their faces. He’s saying the people are wrong for misinterpreting his publication’s putative commitment to truth. But in a quest for reconciliation, he’s already starting off on a bad foot by shifting all the blame onto readers and not himself. In reality, the self-evident reason the people don’t believe in the accuracy of his publication is because they are not stupid: they have seen lie after prima facie lie being printed with no regard for accountability, time and again.

Case in point.

A wave of resignations in protest of Bezos’ shock move was expected, and the charge was led by arch-neocon Robert Kagan, who happens to be ‘editor-at-large’ at the disgraced paper. In this CNN clip, Kagan blames the move on Bezos’ desire to ‘curry favor’ with Trump in advance of Trump’s victory, seeing as how Trump had allegedly threatened retaliation against Amazon or other of Bezos’ business interests:

The most revealing moment came at the end when Kagan admits that Bezos’ stake in Washington Post is a negligible trifle in comparison to the bulk of his empire. And it proves the point: billionaires don’t buy influential news organizations for the money, they do it to buy influence in order to generate good PR and policies which benefit said empire. Soros didn’t buy 200 radio stations in the run up to the election to boost his porfolio’s health—he did it to control the narrative to make sure Trump loses. Naturally, Kagan seems to have had no problem with a billionaire oligarch owning his beloved toilet paper of record up until that very billionaire went tragically off-script.

Top pundits like Taibbi began to cotton on to this pivotal shift in energy:

Note On The Washington Post’s Non-Endorsement

Taibbi observes:

I’ve heard so many crazy things in the last weeks about behind-the-scenes maneuvering in Washington that it’s been tough to know what to believe, but it’s clear we’re headed for some kind of historic confrontation. I have trouble believing institutional America will really reverse course after eight years of dystopian lunacy, but Bezos and the Post just changed something, probably over the passionate objections of 98% of staff. Whatever’s going on, it sure isn’t boring.

Jeff Carlson, writing for Substack, echoes the vibe-shift:

It feels like there's been a notable shift amongst Democrats in the last month. A recent sense of fatalism - or perhaps just simple resignation to what appears to be an inevitable Trump win. But as it turns out, there are some Democrats who have been preparing for this potential outcome for at least the last year. 

I have been documenting this very shift for a while now, starting from the WEF’s 2024 Davos forum, where it had become an undeniable albatross that the elite class was starting to revolt against the excesses of their own sacred order:

Cracks Begin to Show at Davos

Ironically enough, in the earlier CNN interview Robert Kagan mentions the very pivotal Jamie Dimon statement I covered in the above article at the same Davos event, wherein Dimon began to walk himself back from the ‘Left’ and admitted that Trump is correct on certain critical points, for instance openly warning: “If you do not control the borders, you are going to destroy our country.”

The entire Davos event was a major bellwether to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, as a number of figures began to sound the alarm around the direction things have been heading. That’s not to mention that even back in January 2024, they had all imbibed which way the wind was blowing:

Many elites like Jeff Bezos never truly signed on to the most unpardonable excesses of the neo-left vanguard. They were merely browbeaten into toeing the line, which they did for a while, until it became undeniable how bad things were getting, and how dark the future envisioned by the social engineers pushing the new paradigms really was. Now a slew of elites like Jeff Bezos seek to ‘rebalance’ the equilibrium out of a sense of panic, with rumor being that Bezos intends to hire more conservative commentators for the Post in the wake of this shake up.

But there’s a sense that the shift is far greater in scale than it appears. The truth of the matter is that the very ethos, the vision behind the last several decades of neoliberal policy has finally run out of ink, it has run dry and lost its ability to inspire people to a common future. It has become a creative desert, a total bankruptcy of ideas, with nothing left but hate, bigotry, perversion and pathology, and intolerance as final sacred standbys. There’s a sense that if and when Trump wins society may be indelibly reshaped, as the depleted old guard falls by the wayside. The Democrats’ political vision, too, has stagnated into a bankrupt pastiche over the last several years. Like him or not, Trump has rattled off a litany of new policies, changes, concrete visions for the future in virtually every sphere of influence; the Democrats have gone from about a handful of core issues down to essentially two remaining holdfasts: abortion and transgenderism/LGBT rights; that’s it.

Now, having apparently grasped to the fact, they have switched tactics to revolve their entire platform around merely attacking Trump and fear-mongering as to what ‘evils’ would befall should he be elected again. The latest NY Times front page splash is evocative of the urgent hysteria in some quarters:

A point of no return has been reached. Cancellation is no longer working, deplatforming has stopped silencing voices—in part thanks to Musk’s revitalization of Twitter as a free-speech bastion. The pillars of control erected around us by the post-9/11 managerial autocracy are beginning to crumble en masse because the suffocating pressure of totalitarian coercion has become so overbearing these past few years, that people have been forcibly awakened to the realities behind the magic show curtain. The Covid era of course had its large part in that, as people’s family members were literally sacrificed and lives destroyed by large scale medical malpractice of a both deliberate and inadvertent nature.

The Titanic is sinking, and though they may seem subdued to the reality of losing the election, the elites are in general panic for the future. A grave danger remains that the smaller, more mobilized vanguard among them may try to spark anarchy and chaos to thwart Trump from taking office and delivering the finishing blow to the supreme architecture of their system. Alex Jones and many others now predict waves of violence and subversion are being prepared for the post-election crisis period in order to derail Trump’s victory. Think what you may of Jones, but he has been accurate on most of his biggest points when it comes to the globalists’ designs, whether you believe that’s by predictive programming or not.

The earlier mentioned Jeff Carlson piece likewise takes a turn down this lane, arguing that a cadre of Democrats are planning a dangerous upheaval:

Democrats Plan for Color Revolution

This includes wire-puller Michael Podhorzer, the so-called “architect” of the “shadow campaign” glorified in the famous TIME exposé which ‘saved the 2020 election’. It would be a sort of last stand, 300-style, for the most deeply-entrenched and powerful minority amongst the ‘deep state’ cadre, to maintain their power in perpetuity.

Recall that Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin openly stated months ago that the Democrats would not certify Trump’s election victory if he were to win:

He invokes Article 3 of the 14th Amendment which states that no person can become President having engaged in insurrection or rebellion. This was not a ‘what if’ or ‘maybe so’ scenario, it was a definitive statement of intent: if Trump wins, they intend to do just that.

Days before Bezos’ OpEd, Washington Post ran the following column by Matt Bai, which invokes the image of civil war and openly asks if the country can ‘bend without breaking’ during the coming crisis everyone seems to know is imminent:

https://archive.ph/BecVI

The column preposterously dismisses concern for a Trump victory, but heaps fear on a marginal Trump “loss”, which would, according to the author, see Trump leading a battle rally that would require the deployment of military to stop.

But if Trump narrowly loses, the potential for social unrest is considerably greater; he has already promised as much. This time, he won’t be sitting in the White House declining to call off armed mobs of supporters — he might well be out there urging them on. Republicans in Congress seem cowed enough not only to halt the counting of votes, but also to reject electoral college certification altogether. Restoring order might fall not just to the courts, but to the military as well.

To condition the masses for what the Democrats likely have planned, the author plainly follows up with the civil war invocation:

The point is that there is a big difference between winning the election, and actually being sworn into office. The latter takes place nearly three months after election day—a vast gulf of time during which almost anything can happen. It seems nearly a foregone conclusion that Trump will ‘technically’ win, but the vote counting shenanigans that drag on for weeks or months thereafter, and the potential mass psyops and destabilizing falseflags that crop up to smokescreen the effort to stop him may only be the beginning of a dangerous period.

However, if Trump manages to actually take office on January 20th, 2025, it could very well be the death knell for the era of unrestrained, runaway tyranny—not because Trump himself is some messianic figure that will single-handedly smite the dragon from its eyrie, but rather because it would be a demoralizing blow to the last remaining virulent holdouts of that deep guard of the deep state. Much of their power was maintained not through sheer strength of force, but a kind of quasi-mystical presence—a strange, occult and web-like hypnotic psychosis which they managed to cast over the country’s populace. Trump’s victory would be a psychic blow to the entire regime that would consequently energize the dormant resistance guard to arise from their slumber and begin ransacking the remaining cultural pillars of this misbegotten era of psychosis and terminal folly.

A dam-breaking moment would follow, that could unleash all the long-time sleepers, which include corporate giants, CEOs, Hollywood bigwigs, and other figures that have hid in the closet for years under pressure of cancellation; at that point the floodgates will be too torrential to stop. To clarify again—it’s not that Trump himself will be some miraculous figure, but rather a catalyst that can energize a frenzy of cultural skirmishers to surge out of the gates and finally take the battle in the open field in strength, after years of besiegement.

For now in many ways the opponents of change seem to have resigned, their sails deflated amidst the calm winds presaging the coming storm. On many cultural fronts they have already been on the back foot, desperately parrying the re-invigorated pushes against all their most formidable fortresses—from DEI, to the fascist corporate-state merger of “disinformation” organs like Media Matters or the failed Disinformation Governance Board.

In many ways, however, their resignation to the results of the coming election forebodes a dangerous crossroads in American history. It means they have accepted that the nominal election will not go their way, which means—for that core, entrenched ‘old guard’ bureaucratic cartel—it is Plan D or bust. And that desperately culminating contingency will likely see them rolling out the most vicious of hybrid attacks in the vein foreseen by the likes of Alex Jones and Jeff Carlson from earlier, or promised by Raskin and his clan. But if the country can weather the coming storm of the next three months, it will have turned a page, reached a point of no return for the entrenched ‘deep state’. From that point forth, they will be forced permanently to the back foot, no longer carrying the initiative, as has been the case for the last decade plus since the cultural revolution’s first poisonous emanations of the Obama era.

So I say hold tight, we’re going to be in for a wild ride for the next few months; but the first shackles have broken, and the prisoners have begun to storm the courtyard.

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