It would be foolish of the criminal camarilla in and around the White House, who have the dotard in residence there under their thumb, not to wait as long as possible prior to Nov. 2022 before scrapping the filibuster and then bulldozing the For The People Act into law. No sense in giving the opposition extra time to foment unhappiness across these broad fruited plains.
To institute their -- perhaps interim? -- goal of near-martial law they are going to have to finesse as many domestic meltdowns as possible in order to really get the mileage they seek out ot their implementation of the Insurrection Act, which is one of the things that will, per the title of these few thoughts, "happen."
The principal hot-button conflicts the faux and real communists in the government hope to parlay into a massive take-over of raw power are, of course, the crisis at the border, and the coming crisis over the constantly developing public exposure of the recent political crime of the century, the election of Nov. 2020.
At the border it is much more clear how an escalation into armed conflict will occur, and that is what Biden and gang are praying for: "Oh please, let these "patriots" just once -- that's all we ask -- begin to shoot at us. Please!" You will see the Insurrection Act come into force so fast it will make your head spin. The criminal malfeasance on display in respect of the situation at the border is not a failure of the regime; it is their precise intention. The more horrific they manage by sleight of hand and simple lying to make the border zone the more likely it will be that shots will be fired at some point.
As the drumbeat swells for more and more state forensic audits (of the Nov. 2020 vote tallies), which are not going the White House thugs' way so far, the opposition to the For The People Act may reach explosive proportions locally, say, over policing of the no-voter-ID provision, or around demonstrations against the pathetically unconstitutional proscription against legal challenges to the provisions -- remember, at this stage of the game they will be STATUTES -- of S. 1. The crowd violence that may result will make Jan. 6th look like what it actually was: child's play.
Look for "our" Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to play ever more high profile roles in the coming totalitarian crackdown. Fomenting grass-roots violence in order to "justify" wildly over-reaching armed state repression has been a staple of totalitarian-revolutionary thought since the early Anarchists hoped one big explosion could wreak chaos sufficient to trigger "spontaneous" uprising and revolt. And the new Dem's in Congress have done their homework; federal armed incursions into corners of the Public Square could become commonplace. The DOJ now has what amounts to a legacy of co-opting the historical peace-keeping roles of local and state police organizations. Obama and the running dog thug Holder saw to that quite nicely thank you.
To pilfer a line from the late, great Paul Harvey, "and now you know the rest of what is going to happen.
Let's get oriented for time: it is now some time between one (1) and two (2) am Sunday July 18th. That bizarre creature Psaki has waxed expansively both Thursday and Friday just past as to the probity if not actual sanctity of the Big Tech Censors accepting exact references to what the White House criminal regime deems "misinformation,' for disposition as those censors (Facebook and Twitter) see fit.
Dan Bongino covered her Thursday performance in his Friday podcast ep. 1564), including speculation by him as to the impact on current and future Supreme Court cases her comments may spawn. Then the NYPost ran a column that to my mind simply nailed it. Quoth their contributor Rachel Bovard: "In other words, the platforms have banned debate and inquiry itself." (Ms. Bovard is not indulging in hyperbole; read her piece.)
Five months ago I set about obtaining permission to republish on this blog a longish snippet from a little known piece by George Orwell:
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From: Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org>
To: info@orwellsociety.com
Subject: Permission to place text on a webpage.
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 23:06:54
I have a roughly one thousand word snip from Orwell's piece "Looking Back On The Spanish War," found here:
...that I wish to place on a webpage I own. It is a non-commercial, practically zero-traffic site that I maintain strictly as a hobby. The site is 'Bob2084.branchable.com'.
I will attach the snip I have chosen in a file named: Orwell_Fading_From_The_World.txt
Pls. advise. Is there another "department" at The Orwell Society to which this mail should be addressed?
Thank you.
-- Bob Bernstein
--snip--
Since I had made application to the wrong organization (the Orwell Society very courteously and promptly remedied that), it took some time, but the extract is now on this site here: Orwell On Fact and Reality. Now you understand, from the just-cited title I gave the extract, the sense of pathos -- if that's not too strong a term -- with which I view the constant, escalating flagellation by the current regime of the notion of "fact." My purpose in posting that Orwell extract was to provide a text for thoughts on the fact-checking mania that had already, as of last Februray, attained what I felt was crisis proportions. "Someone," I thought, "has to say something reasonable and proper as to what facts are, and are not, and it might as well be me."
As it turns out I was not equal to the task. I dawdled, going down other rabbit-holes, putting up an mp3 snip from an audio version of an Orwell biography, looking into how academic philosophers now treat of facts, and so on. Fortunately Orwell did not prevaricate in his essay, but, in his hallmark plain-spoken-but-surgically-accurate style, set out some markers that any discussion of facts as they can now appear in the Public Square could benefit from as launching points.
It's now gone past three (3) in the morning. so at this juncture I could not do better than to give that link to Orwell himself again: Orwell On Fact and Reality.