The New Dark Age

So Trump had to reel back in his promises and keep hidden the really juicy parts, just like he did with the JFK files. But his MAGA base cannot accept this, and the oligarchy also sees it as an issue (the non-release not the details that they certainly do not want to be released) that can be used to help oust Trump for the much more reliable, stable and order-following Vance. Trump may certainly not be a “stable genius” but he is certainly extremely devious and politically aware. Seeing the walls starting to close in he went for the biggest distraction possible, and one that would feed political red meat to MAGA; taking down Obama and his cohorts for the “Russia, Russia, Russia” fabrication. As a side benefit it would also greatly damage whatever legitimacy that the “liberal media” has left. With full control over the Whitehouse and the House and Senate, together with his MAGA legions now behind him once again, Trump calculated that attack was the best form of defence.

The problem for the oligarchy is that the “Russia, Russia, Russia” fabrication involved such large parts of the political class, the security state, and the media that it threatens to show many details of how the American ruling class sausage is made by the oligarchy and their tools. Such dangerous intra-elite conflict is many times a sign of the collapse of the power structure, as class interests become overridden by intra-elite feuds. If anyone is equipped to throw a wrecking ball through the legitimacy of the oligarchy it is Trump. And the perfect weapon is a Tulsi Gabbard that MAGA loves and that truly hates the Democratic Party, most especially its rulers in the Democratic National Convention (DNC). And once you start the ball rolling it may be hard to stop it. The document releases from Tulsi are coming thick and fast. This from the BBC:

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released a previously classified report which she says points to a “treasonous conspiracy” to undermine the results of the 2016 presidential election. The House Intelligence Committee document takes issue with the conclusion, reached by numerous intelligence reports including one by the CIA, that Russia sought to help Donald Trump in that election. Gabbard appeared at the White House on Wednesday and said the report reveals “egregious weaponisation and politicisation of intelligence”. Democrats said the White House is trying to distract from the ongoing controversy surrounding its decision not to publish files relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

Of course the Democrats are correct, but one wrong does not excuse another. The Obama clique stuck with their disproven blatant lies in response, “Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for former President Barack Obama, said in a statement earlier this week that no released information ‘undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes’”. Aaron Mate has of course utterly destroyed this very obvious lie that is based upon fabricated evidence and misinformation.

On Wednesday, Gabbard announced that she was referring former President Barack Obama for criminal charges to the Department of Justice (DOJ), while releasing more evidence to back up her claims that “exposes how the Obama Administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election.” On Twitter she stated that:

LIE: Putin and the Russian Government helped Trump win the 2016 election

TRUTH: President Obama, former Director of the CIA John Brennan, and others fabricated the Russia Hoax, suppressed intelligence showing Putin was preparing for a Clinton victory, manufactured findings from shoddy sources, disobeyed IC standards, and knowingly lied to the American people.

LIE: The fabricated Steele Dossier was not used as a source in the Obama Administration’s January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the November 2016 election

TRUTH: Not only did CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper and others include the Steele Dossier in the 2017 ICA, they overruled senior Intel officials who warned them it was fabricated and should not be used.

LIE: The Obama Administration’s January ICA was an independent Intelligence Community product, produced with apolitical analysis.

TRUTH: Obama ordered the Intelligence Community to create an Intelligence Community Assessment they knew was false, promoting a contrived narrative, with the intent of undermining the legitimacy and power of a duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.

Together, the ODNI records released on Friday, the JusticeDept’s June 2018 report known as the “Clinton annex” released earlier this week, and the House Intel oversight report we released today confirm what many Americans have known: The Russia Hoax was a lie that was knowingly created by the Obama Administration to undermine the legitimacy and power of the duly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.

With this, Trump is declaring “back off or I will blow the whole thing up!” If the oligarchy responds by pulling back on their attempt to remove him, then this whole thing will be subject to a forever “under investigation” process. Otherwise, Trump will keep escalating. He has to be careful though as he is a quite old not very healthy or fit man, and “accidents” and “natural causes” can happen to such people without raising too much suspicion. Those that risk the class interests of the oligarchy as a whole may be swiftly dealt with.

The Daily Show below is earning its keep as a propagandist liberal elite tool, working hard to say “nothing to see here, please move on!’“ with the revelations about Obama’s complicity. The show has always been one to allow limited complaints about the oligarchy to help let off citizen’s steam while sucking the energy out of any real attempt to change the system. Classic “controlled opposition”, working on the fake Democrat-Republican differences.

If this fails, and Trump does not back down, then go to Plan B. Or will the oligarchy allow Obama to be sacrificed, while limiting the fallout to the rest of the oligarchy and its political tools? Perhaps the Obama clan will be called “bad apples” with the shedding of crocodile tears. Such oligarch tools are just tools, and can be discarded by the oligarchy with ease. The behind-the-scenes machinations will be complex and intense.