Analysis: Spot On

Twitter contributor “MartyrMade” has generated a multi-tweet op-ed that I think is absolutely accurate. The thread is here, but I’m going to post it so I can find it later:

I think I’ve had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people at the Capitol on 1/6, and probably even Trump himself.

Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to them is that, while they’ll defend those positions w/info they got from Hannity or Breitbart or whatever, they’re not particularly attached to them.

Here are the facts – actual, confirmed facts – that shape their perspective: 1) The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan’s July 2016 memo, etc).

These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them.

Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew.

This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff – who were on TV saying they’d seen clear evidence of collusion w/Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn’t – all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was ALL fake.

At first, many Trump ppl were worried there must be some collusion, because every media & intel agency wouldn’t make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning, and shed many illusions about their gov’t when it didn’t happen.

We know as fact: a) The Steele dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign, b) The FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op, c) Steele’s source told the FBI the info was unserious, d) they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying.

Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam, then watched as every institution – agencies, the press, Congress, academia – gaslit them for another year.

Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov’t destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected admin.

This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naive belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper.

GOP propaganda still has many of them thinking in terms of partisan binaries, but A LOT of Trump supporters see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb Bush election.

It’s hard to describe to people on the left (who are used to thinking of gov’t as a conspiracy… Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how shocking & disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don’t stand for the Anthem.

They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or gov’t official, because they feel most betrayed by them.

The idea that the press is driven by ratings/sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they’d be all over the Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.

This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don’t know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it’s probably true.

They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots.

They always claimed the media had liberal bias, fine, whatever. They still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. Now they don’t. It’s a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence.

Time Mag told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving, among others, leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution.

Throughout the summer, Democrat governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn’t just the mail-ins (they lowered signature matching standards, etc). After the collusion scam, the fake impeachment, Trump ppl expected shenanigans by now.

Re: “fake impeachment”, we now know that Trump’s request for Ukraine to cooperate w/the DOJ regarding Biden’s $ activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate request.

Then you get the Hunter laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a “mistake” – but, ya know, the election’s over, so who cares?

Goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr’s laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the NYT wouldn’t have been banned.

Think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. The NY Post was banned for reporting on true information.

The reaction of Trump ppl to all this was not, “no fair!” That’s how they felt about Romney’s “binders of women” in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process.

And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13m more votes than in 2016, 10m more than Clinton got! As election night dragged on, they allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew.

Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real.

Media & Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange – the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc – but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!)

Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr’s laptop would’ve been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would’ve been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof.

Even the courts’ refusal of the case gets nowhere w/them, because of how the opposition embraced mass political violence. They’ll say, w/good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he’ll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house?

It’s a fact, according to Time Magazine, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were “protests”, but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too.

Forget the ballot conspiracies. It’s a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system.

They knew it was unconstitutional, it’s right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn’t see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn’t implied, it was direct.

a) The entrenched bureaucracy & security state subverted Trump from Day 1, b) The press is part of the operation, c) Election rules were changed, d) Big Tech censors opposition, e) Political violence is legitimized & encouraged, f) Trump is banned from social media.

They were led down some rabbit holes, but they are absolutely right that their gov’t is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost; it might’ve kept him alive.

MartyrMade

That basically is it in a nutshell – the last six years of American political history. Perhaps the eulogy for our nation.

16 thoughts on “Analysis: Spot On

  1. Probably.

    This explains a number of recent moves by the current misadministration — the establishment of ‘satellite offices’ for the Capitol Police (lolwat), and the relentless insistence on vaccination by unindicted scumbag Becerra and that CNN ‘medical analyst’ Dr. Reiner.

    I don’t think the vaccinations are the danger. I think that’s just the foot in the door they’ll use to grind away more legal rights and protections. ‘While we’re discussing your vaccinations, how many guns do you own?’ That sort of thing.

    The only good news is that they are unmitigated screwups. They’re going to drop the ball — heck, they’re in full on panic mode half the time when Biden shuffles out — and all we have to be is ready to (figuratively) shank them when they lean down to grab it.

    But it’s not gonna be pretty in the short term.

  2. Spot on, couldn’t add anything to that, good job. Too bad there are so many deaf/fearful ears out there. Something awful will have to happen before this changes.

      1. guys like you crack me up, Kevin. nothing to contribute, nothing to say – just an innuendo that someone else may be as cowardly as you are. This article was a concise rundown of facts, and how they affected how many perceive things at this point in history.
        You may want to get your white flag ready, because they’re coming for you too.

  3. Unlike Kevin, when we go, it won’t be “first”.
    It’ll be first five hundred.

    Because after the first one, the rest are consequence-free.

    Local, local, local.
    And remember, kids: No one can infiltrate a group with no outsiders.

      1. Anyone can be bought. Your wife for example. Do you think for one second she won’t turn you in if they threaten to take her kids? They will make up some charge against you and she will sign the document saying it is true, if they don’t take her kids. No wife you say? Maybe your mother will do the same thing if they cut off her Social Security or seize her bank accounts.

        If you are truly alone you might be safe. For a little while. But rest assured, if you enter their RADAR sweep you will be caught, unless you take it off-road indefinitely. Ready to live like a cave man?

  4. I stand by what I said when I saw this somewhere else:

    It has been proven conclusively that the ballot box and the jury box aren’t going to clean this up.

    And while the soap box is a long shot, unlike the cartridge box *it is not irrevocable.*

    Our choices are to either wait for it to fall over and shatter, hoping we’ll be able to put something together afterwards that is worth keeping, or die in WWIII. Because make no mistake, Civil War 2.0 __WILL__ spiral out of control into WWIII, and nearly everyone over 40 will be dead before it’s over.

    And the chances of either one of those giving us a result we thought would be worth it before we started is awfully slim.

    1. “…nearly everyone over 40 will be dead before it’s over.”

      And probably a majority of everybody else, as well. The ones who die before it’s over might well be the lucky ones.

  5. Right.

    Who can forget when the world ended in flaming nuclear fireballs when the former Soviet Union imploded, and billions of people died in the inevitable aftermath?

    Oh, wait, none of that ever happened either.

    Get over yourselves.

    When this shambling zombie bucket of turds former republic falls over of its own weight, 90% of the world won’t even give a flying f**k, and of the 10% left, half will cheer, and the other half will yawn.

    It’s only going to get sporty for the people that thought it could never happen, most of whom are the ones responsible for making it happen (because the guy jumping up and down on the live land mine is always the last one to realize the flaw in that approach).

    They’re going to live short but interesting lives, mostly reminiscent of the last few seconds of the Ceauçescus of Romania.

    1. The USSR wasn’t the economic linchpin of the world. But okay, set that aside.

      Do you want to bet that, if Civil War 2.0 starts in the US, within 6 months:

      China won’t invade Taiwan?
      There won’t be “low level conflicts” in the South China Sea over the Spratley islands and what constitutes international waters?
      Russia won’t invade Ukraine?
      Iran, Syria and Lebanon won’t start a new war with Israel?

      And what do you think the consequences of those actions will be? Yawns? Really?

  6. Yes, the world didn’t end but IIRC, the Soviet Union never had an economy anywhere near the size of the U.S.’s

    While I don’t think it’ll devolve into ‘Global Thermonuclear War’ either, Aesop, but with the U.S. being the economic powerhouse that it is, if CWII ever does kick off in earnest, the international economic repercussions will be significant enough that I do think that the 90% of the world you think would be unconcerned, will give that FF.

    What they’ll do about it – besides likely have their own economic collapse – is up for all kinds of speculation, but that’s what opinions are.

  7. Nailed it.

    Bottom line: too many people have lost faith in our institutions, and fatefully, in the processes that we have depended upon to correct and balance them.

    Rockets have been strapped to this shit show, and the fuse is lit.

  8. Aaaand China has vowed to nuke Japan if they intervene *when, not if,* China invades Taiwan.

    Prosecution rests.

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