cleaver
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despite whatever opinion one has of this administration,
there is a truly remarkable political dynamic at work.
if there is fire in the east room,
add smoke there
and put on a carnival in the west wing.
if the fire goes to the legitimacy of the presidency,
create confusion and misdirection
as it smolders
by focusing attentions
not on the fire itself,
but into who and what started it.
the politics of
are truly unlike any in recent memory
utilizing an array of tools
never before available.
instant media
and the more traditional - which have demonstrated their chosen niches
within the political spectrum -
are played and played against one another
to create a confusing narrative
which incites more smoke than truth
and more misdirection
than clarity.
whereas, in the past, such a political effort has usually been employed
to promote controversial policy or effect impending legislation,
this administration utilizes their acumen more directly
to protect the president and his presidency.
this, of itself, is not illegal per se, as long as the apparatus of government
are not conscripted as well into purely political ends.
the spin is spun masterfully;
as we - the ultimate consumers of that narrative -
find direction to argue vociferously over abstractions
whilst the original fire burns .
it is chess, played by a grandmaster
against a gaggle of easily distracted tyros.
the latest example is in play just now:
as the embers of the mueller investigation smolder,
embedded in what is still unknown in the redactions
may well be information that... disparages this presidency.
certainly the report's part two provides a treasure map of sorts
for congress to pursue
should it find the political will to take that gambit.
the administration has pushed back on any potential release
of the entirety of the mueller investigation's findings
on many fronts - creating, in part, the current "constitutional crisis/near crisis".
this investigation and its findings has posed, and continues to pose
the most direct threat to the legitimacy this presidency
and the president himself.
blanket executive privilege now enjoins congress from
access to materials and personnel within the executive branch
re the investigation and it's report. a judicial fight on this could take years.
concurrently, the spectre of an impending internal doj investigation - that goes to the genesis of the mueller investigation itself - looms.
the narrative being spun is that if the reasoning and/or motive for the investigation were in some way faulty,
that the investigation itself would be illegitimate and its findings irrelevant.
this narrative goes not to the findings - the smoldering fire -
but to who, what and why it began - where indeed there may be issue, but...
misdirects with smoke and noise.
it is a remarkable political stroke.
and...
and this is where it becomes more masterful...
the administration has doubled down on this narrative
with a bit of very public theatre to demonstrate the central points
of its contentions to de-legitimize mueller from its origin.
introduce presidential candidate, former vice president and current opposition front runner joe biden.
in the last several days
in a series of political speeches, multiple tweets
and through surrogates across the media,
the administration has drawn into the narrative
actions by then vice president biden
which may have consequence of conflict of interest
or more.
in short, in 2016, the vice president - on an official visit to ukraine - threatened the then current government there with withholding $1b in us aid if the nations top prosecutor were not removed. the state department and administration regarded this ukranian government to be rife with corruption and oligarchical influence and the prosecutor to be complicit. at the same time, this top prosecutor had under his department's investigation an opposition oligarch whose corporation had biden's son, hunter, on payroll as a consultant.
on it's own - and as no doubt will play out in the coming campaign -
this action by biden will have play.
it is not this issue which is part of the greater political misdirection,
but the choreographed smoke that can be made of it.
the president immediately and publicly made known that he would dispatch his personal lawyer - and obvious lightning rod - rudolph guiliani to ukraine - to dig political dirt of this incident.
as well, the president has publicly suggested that he is strongly considering employing ag barr and the justice department in investigation of it.
and though the president has not directed such an investigation by the apparatus of the ag be started in this case...
the misdirection dialog amongst the media punditry has started a most effective backfire.
the media and its pundits are lit on the question
as to whether it is legitimate
or legal to apply the instruments of government
towards purely political ends.
the media is playing its expected part;
the loud consensus being that it would be unethical or illegal
for trump to put doj on this...
again, the president today has affirmed that he has not yet asked barr to investigate.
also, after the media backfire was firmly lit,
guiliani took to various media outlets to say
that he would not be going to ukraine.
the administration has done nothing but raise the political issues
of the biden trip, make some as yet unrealized threats...
and reinforced, through a false equivalency,
the confusing issues of how and when the apparatus of government is dispatched into the political.
remember here, the most immediate potential threat to this presidency still smolders
in the darkened recesses of the mueller report...
and its ancillary ongoing legal progeny.
as well, the administration's most direct defense to the release of what is not publicly known
is a yet unreleased internal investigation into the report's genesis
with the central contention being that...
the apparatus of government was unleashed (and co-opted) by the previous administration
unethically and illegally - for purely political ends...
a narrative - the ethical/legal kernel of which is now being trumpeted by a media choreographed to do so - would suggest to those less discerning
an equivalency
between a potential illegal/unethical use of government resource re: biden
and an alleged one unleashed on the trump campaign.
and while
the current allegations v. candidate biden
and the prima facie connections between then candidate trump
both raise(d) appropriate concern and scrutiny,
the situations are in no way similar
nor can they be considered with equivalency.
and yet...
the narrative of the day
has been twisted in such a way
so as to seem to support
(not yet loudly... or yet loudly wielded)
it's backward application
to an entirely dissimilar un-equivalent set of political facts.
i am entirely convinced
that this administration is not only capable,
but also highly adept,
at putting these chess pieces in motion
and of improvising along the way
to keep the game in their advantage.
stepping back,
the political acumen,
misdirection,
media manipulation
and pure concerted operation of this
is remarkable.
it is political chess on a grand scale;
confusing enough and confounding enough
to totally obscure the ugliest truths
that may still smolder on the doorsteps
to the white house.
there is a truly remarkable political dynamic at work.
if there is fire in the east room,
add smoke there
and put on a carnival in the west wing.
if the fire goes to the legitimacy of the presidency,
create confusion and misdirection
as it smolders
by focusing attentions
not on the fire itself,
but into who and what started it.
the politics of
are truly unlike any in recent memory
utilizing an array of tools
never before available.
instant media
and the more traditional - which have demonstrated their chosen niches
within the political spectrum -
are played and played against one another
to create a confusing narrative
which incites more smoke than truth
and more misdirection
than clarity.
whereas, in the past, such a political effort has usually been employed
to promote controversial policy or effect impending legislation,
this administration utilizes their acumen more directly
to protect the president and his presidency.
this, of itself, is not illegal per se, as long as the apparatus of government
are not conscripted as well into purely political ends.
the spin is spun masterfully;
as we - the ultimate consumers of that narrative -
find direction to argue vociferously over abstractions
whilst the original fire burns .
it is chess, played by a grandmaster
against a gaggle of easily distracted tyros.
the latest example is in play just now:
as the embers of the mueller investigation smolder,
embedded in what is still unknown in the redactions
may well be information that... disparages this presidency.
certainly the report's part two provides a treasure map of sorts
for congress to pursue
should it find the political will to take that gambit.
the administration has pushed back on any potential release
of the entirety of the mueller investigation's findings
on many fronts - creating, in part, the current "constitutional crisis/near crisis".
this investigation and its findings has posed, and continues to pose
the most direct threat to the legitimacy this presidency
and the president himself.
blanket executive privilege now enjoins congress from
access to materials and personnel within the executive branch
re the investigation and it's report. a judicial fight on this could take years.
concurrently, the spectre of an impending internal doj investigation - that goes to the genesis of the mueller investigation itself - looms.
the narrative being spun is that if the reasoning and/or motive for the investigation were in some way faulty,
that the investigation itself would be illegitimate and its findings irrelevant.
this narrative goes not to the findings - the smoldering fire -
but to who, what and why it began - where indeed there may be issue, but...
misdirects with smoke and noise.
it is a remarkable political stroke.
and...
and this is where it becomes more masterful...
the administration has doubled down on this narrative
with a bit of very public theatre to demonstrate the central points
of its contentions to de-legitimize mueller from its origin.
introduce presidential candidate, former vice president and current opposition front runner joe biden.
in the last several days
in a series of political speeches, multiple tweets
and through surrogates across the media,
the administration has drawn into the narrative
actions by then vice president biden
which may have consequence of conflict of interest
or more.
in short, in 2016, the vice president - on an official visit to ukraine - threatened the then current government there with withholding $1b in us aid if the nations top prosecutor were not removed. the state department and administration regarded this ukranian government to be rife with corruption and oligarchical influence and the prosecutor to be complicit. at the same time, this top prosecutor had under his department's investigation an opposition oligarch whose corporation had biden's son, hunter, on payroll as a consultant.
on it's own - and as no doubt will play out in the coming campaign -
this action by biden will have play.
it is not this issue which is part of the greater political misdirection,
but the choreographed smoke that can be made of it.
the president immediately and publicly made known that he would dispatch his personal lawyer - and obvious lightning rod - rudolph guiliani to ukraine - to dig political dirt of this incident.
as well, the president has publicly suggested that he is strongly considering employing ag barr and the justice department in investigation of it.
and though the president has not directed such an investigation by the apparatus of the ag be started in this case...
the misdirection dialog amongst the media punditry has started a most effective backfire.
the media and its pundits are lit on the question
as to whether it is legitimate
or legal to apply the instruments of government
towards purely political ends.
the media is playing its expected part;
the loud consensus being that it would be unethical or illegal
for trump to put doj on this...
again, the president today has affirmed that he has not yet asked barr to investigate.
also, after the media backfire was firmly lit,
guiliani took to various media outlets to say
that he would not be going to ukraine.
the administration has done nothing but raise the political issues
of the biden trip, make some as yet unrealized threats...
and reinforced, through a false equivalency,
the confusing issues of how and when the apparatus of government is dispatched into the political.
remember here, the most immediate potential threat to this presidency still smolders
in the darkened recesses of the mueller report...
and its ancillary ongoing legal progeny.
as well, the administration's most direct defense to the release of what is not publicly known
is a yet unreleased internal investigation into the report's genesis
with the central contention being that...
the apparatus of government was unleashed (and co-opted) by the previous administration
unethically and illegally - for purely political ends...
a narrative - the ethical/legal kernel of which is now being trumpeted by a media choreographed to do so - would suggest to those less discerning
an equivalency
between a potential illegal/unethical use of government resource re: biden
and an alleged one unleashed on the trump campaign.
and while
the current allegations v. candidate biden
and the prima facie connections between then candidate trump
both raise(d) appropriate concern and scrutiny,
the situations are in no way similar
nor can they be considered with equivalency.
and yet...
the narrative of the day
has been twisted in such a way
so as to seem to support
(not yet loudly... or yet loudly wielded)
it's backward application
to an entirely dissimilar un-equivalent set of political facts.
i am entirely convinced
that this administration is not only capable,
but also highly adept,
at putting these chess pieces in motion
and of improvising along the way
to keep the game in their advantage.
stepping back,
the political acumen,
misdirection,
media manipulation
and pure concerted operation of this
is remarkable.
it is political chess on a grand scale;
confusing enough and confounding enough
to totally obscure the ugliest truths
that may still smolder on the doorsteps
to the white house.
