{"id":172934,"date":"2020-11-16T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=172934"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:08:55","slug":"first-comes-a-rolling-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/11\/first-comes-a-rolling-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"First Comes a Rolling Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Nov 2020 – Biden is on a double precipice of the worst-ever economic depression coupled with imminent explosions of social rage.<\/em><\/p>\n

The massive psyops is ongoing. Everyone familiar with the\u00a0Transition Integrity Project\u00a0(TIP) knew how this would imperatively play out. I chose to frame it as a think tank gaming exercise in my Banana Follies <\/a>column. This is a live exercise. Yet no one knows exactly how it will end.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Al Jazeera<\/p><\/div>\n

US intel is very much aware of well-documented instances of election fraud. Among them: NSA software<\/a> that infiltrates any network, as previously detailed<\/a> by Edward Snowden<\/strong>, and capable of altering vote counts; the Hammer supercomputer and its Scorecard app<\/a> that hacks computers at the transfer points of state election computer systems and outside third party election data vaults; the Dominion software system<\/a>, known to have serious security issues since 2000, but still used in 30 states, including every swing state; those by now famous vertical jumps to Biden in both Michigan and Wisconsin at 4am on November 4 (AFP unconvincingly <\/a>tried to debunk Wisconsin and didn\u2019t even try with Michigan); multiple instances of Dead Men Do Vote.<\/p>\n

The key actor is the Deep State, which decides what happens next.\u00a0They have weighed the pros and cons of placing as candidate a senile, stage 2 dementia, neocon warmonger and possible extorsionist (along with son) as \u201cleader of the free world\u201d, campaigning from a basement, incapable of filling a parking lot in his rallies, and seconded by someone with so little support in the Dem primaries that she was the first to drop out.<\/p>\n

The optics, especially seen from vast swathes of the imperial-interfered Global South, may be somewhat terrible. Dodgy elections are a prerogative of Bolivia and Belarus. Yet only the Empire is able to legitimize a dodgy election \u2013 especially in its own backyard.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the New Resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n

The GOP is in a very comfortable position. They hold the Senate and may end up picking up as may as 12 seats in the House. They also know that any attempt by Biden-Harris to legislate via Executive Orders will have\u2026consequences.<\/p>\n

The Fox News\/ New York Post angle is particularly enticing. Why are they suddenly supporting Biden? Way beyond internal family squabbles worthy of the Succession <\/a>saga, Rupert Murdoch<\/strong> made it very clear, via the laptop from hell caper, that he has all sorts of kompromat<\/em> on the Biden family. So they will do whatever he wants. Murdoch does not need Trump anymore.<\/p>\n

Nor, in theory, does the GOP. Former CIA insiders assure of serious backroom shenanigans going on between GOP honchos and the Biden-Harris gang. Trade-offs bypassing Trump \u2013 which most of the GOP hates with a vengeance. The most important man in Washington will be in fact GOP Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Still, to clear any lingering doubts, a vote recount would be absolutely necessary in all 6 contested states \u2013 WI, MI, PA, GA, NV and AZ. Through hand counting. One by one. The DoJ would need to act on it, immediately. Not gonna happen. Recounts cost a ton of money. There\u2019s no evidence Team Trump \u2013 on top of it short of funds and manpower \u2013 will be able to convince Daddy Bush asset William Barr<\/strong> to go for it.<\/p>\n

While relentlessly demonizing Trump for spreading \u201ca torrent of misinformation\u201d and \u201ctrying to undermine the legitimacy of the US election\u201d, mainstream media and Big Tech have declared a winner \u2013 a classic case of pre-programming the sheep multitudes.<\/p>\n

Yet what really matters is the letter of the law. State legislatures decide whose electors go to the Electoral College to appoint the President.<\/p>\n

Here it is \u2013 Article II, Section 1, Clause 2: Each state shall appoint electors \u201cin such Manner as the Legislature Thereof May Direct.\u201d<\/p>\n

So this has nothing to do with governors, not to mention the media. \u00a0It\u2019s up to GOP state legislatures to act accordingly. The drama may roll out for weeks. The first step of the Electoral College procedure takes place on December 14. The final determination will only happen in early January.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, talk of a New Resistance is spreading like wildfire.<\/p>\n

Trumpism, with 71 million + votes, is firmly established as a mass movement. No one in the GOP commands this kind of popular appeal. By sidelining Trumpism, the GOP may be committing seppuku.<\/p>\n

So what will Deplorables do?<\/p>\n

The always indispensable Alastair Crooke hits the nail on the head in a powerful essay<\/a>: Trump is the President of Red America. And depending on how the scripted (s)election tragicomedy develops next, the Deplorables are bound to become The Ungovernables.<\/p>\n

Crooke references a crucial parallel evoked by historian Mike Vlahos, who shows<\/a> how the current American saga mirrors Ancient Rome in the last century of the Republic, pitting the Roman elite against the Populares<\/em> \u2013 which today are represented by Red (Trumpist) America:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a new world, in which the great landowners, with their latifundia [the slave-land source of wealth], who had been the \u2018Big Men\u2019 leading the various factions in the civil wars, became the senatorial archons that dominated Roman life for the next five centuries \u2014 while the People, the Populares, were ground into a passive \u2014 not helpless \u2014 but generally dependent and non-participating element of Roman governance: This sapped away at the creative life of Rome, and eventually led to its coming apart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So as much as the Dem machine had wanted it, Trump is not yet Imperator Caesar Augustus, whom the Greeks called <\/em>Autokrator<\/em> (autocrat), but was a de facto monarch. The American Augustus, Tiberius and most of all Caligula is still further on down the road. He will definitely be a benign, humanitarian imperialist. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the meantime, what will imperial Big Capital do?<\/p>\n

The West, and especially the American Rome, is on the edge of a double precipice: the worst economic depression ever, coupled with imminent, myriad, uncontrollable explosions of social rage.<\/p>\n

So the Deep State is reasoning that with Biden \u2013 or, sooner rather than later, Supreme shakti and Commander-in-Chief Maa Durga Kamala \u2013 the path gets smoother towards the Davos Great Reset. After all, to reset the chess pieces, first the chessboard must be knocked over. This will be one step beyond Dark Winter <\/a>\u2013 which not accidentally was evoked <\/a>\u00a0by teleprompter-reading Biden himself on the final presidential debate. The script gets ominously closer to the Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s 2010 Lock Step<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Plan B is kept in ready, steady, go mode: the lineaments of a global rampage, focused on \u201cmalign\u201d Russia\u2019s sphere of influence to satisfy a \u201crevived\u201d NATO and the military-industrial complex, which selected the now media-appointed President-Elect in the first place because he\u2019s no more than a pliant cardboard figure.<\/p>\n

_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian independent geopolitical analyst. He is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for <\/em>Asia Times Online. He has been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9\/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of <\/em>Globalistan<\/a> (2007),<\/em> Red Zone Blues<\/a> (2007), <\/em>Obama Does Globalistan<\/a> (2009), <\/em>Empire of Chaos<\/a> (2014) and <\/em>2030<\/a> (2015), all by Nimble Books.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original – globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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