Saturday March 13, 2021
How many times in the last few years have you heard or said, “You can’t make this up?” Or “If you took this to Hollywood as a script they’d throw you out of the office.”
Yeah, well, the new normal seems to be trending toward the -not absurd – but the more absurd on one side of the ledger. On the other we have people in positions of power that are actually doing the job we would expect them to do. On the other we have people, who seem to be working in a concerted effort to undermine and get control of our democracy for their own ends.
Let me explain. You can see what is going on as random stuff, or you can look from a higher more dispassionate viewpoint. For instance, people have been praying and making offerings to gods for thousands of years despite to evidence that directly links their actions to what occurs, despite all the claims there is no casual link. Likewise some people will say that it is hard to believe that all this happened by accident, that there had to be someone or thing that designed and planned it all. To which I say, “No there doesn’t. It could just be random.” It’s hard to accept. But it’s still the best case, based on the evidence.
Now let’s look at what’s been happening here in the U.S. and ask my question again about randomness. Is it in fact random that all these Republican held legislatures are all of a sudden trying to pass laws that curtail voting based on a perceived threat that doesn’t exist? You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to know that it is in some way coordinated. By coordinated I mean there is communication between these attempts, at some level.
Now to the conspiracy level…If there is a coordinated effort between these states to pass such laws who is behind those attempts? Who does it benefit?
I’ll let that lie for the rest of this screed, but I wanted to put it out there as a marker. Now, onto the bizarreness of today’s news and world.
Yesterday, Mike Flynn was back in the news. Yeah, former Director of Intelligence, convicted felon and four star general was being investigated. This time by the Army. They had been investigating him, but stopped while he was under criminal investigation by the Justice Department. Once Donnie pardoned him, he was no longer under investigation by the Justice Department so now the Army could proceed with their investigation.
Seems they got some new information, or it just became public. Mike might be in hot water. Wow, what ever for? Seems you can be an agent of a foreign government, that means you can be getting paid by said foreign government if you are National security Advisor or if you are a recently retired Army general. Who knew?
If accept money from a foreign government in exchange for information that this government thinks should be kept secret there’s a word for that. What’s that word? Oh yeah – SPYING. But Mike wasn’t spying was he? I mean he being paid by Turkey to improve their stature within the Trump administration. So what? Big deal. Oh, he forgot to tell anyone. That’s called being “an unregistered foreign agent.” That’s a no-no, or as some would say, “against the law.” Especially if you were a recently retired four star general in the army and especially if you are or soon would be The National Security Advisor. Those kind of activities would have to be disclosed on your national security form. He just forgot to mention it.
He also forgot to mention that he was being paid by Russia.
You know what is so weird? There are pictures of him in Russia. Sitting across the table from Vladimir Putin at an event where he gave a speech. There’s a picture of him reaching out to shake Putin’s hand. So weird. He forgot to mention it. He also forgot to mention that he had been in contact with the U.S. Ambassador from Russia and was conducting U.S. foreign policy when he was not a member of the government. You know the came kind of crime that Reagan did and was never charged for, so I guess it’s okay.
We’ll see.
We’ll also see how his publicly taking the Qanon pledge, whatever that is, goes over with folks.
PS Chicken!
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