JILL
STEIN'S EFFORT TO nullify the 2016 presidential election by last-minute
recounts reeks of Green Party naivety, typically dishonest Democratic
(sic) Party sleight-of-hand and the sinister guile for which Hillary
Clinton is rightfully infamous. In all probability, Stein is Hillary's
figurehead, positioned to be the perfect scapegoat for the debacle that
will inevitably follow if this newest campaign to monkeywrench Donald
Trump's victory is even half as effective as Hillary's felonious
suppression of Sen. Bernie Sanders' candidacy.
Properly
cynical analysis of the Stein campaign – Stein's relative innocence and
limited finances as opposed to Hillary's bottomless corruption and
obscenely unlimited wealth – indicates it can hardly be anything but
another Clinton operation. In any case it has turned a long-cliched
Madison Avenue hyperbole into new reality. Advertisers often boast their
product “changes everything,” but this is precisely the outcome the
breathtakingly Machiavellian recount-ploy will have if it triumphs,
which several sources say is highly probable. For this “everything”
truly is everything – not just the hitherto-certain, now unnervingly
dubious outcome of the election, but the now equally dubious longevity
of our nation, our species and our planet.
As
I have said for months, the actual choice allowed us by our capitalist
overlords – minor parties, write-ins, incomplete ballots and
hell-no-I-won't-vote abstentions aside – was between two latter-day
Hitlers and the horrific agenda each represents: the new Holocaust as
promised by Donald Trump; the attack on Russia and the resultant
thermonuclear apocalypse as sought by Hillary Clinton. In other words,
we were forced to choose between possibly survivable horrors versus
absolutely certain extinction.
Obviously
exploiting Stein as her puppet – and obviously both as Stein's
financier and puppet-master (diabolical, yes, especially in its multiple
betrayals, but nevertheless the only conclusion allowed by logic) –
Hillary is timing the recount to invalidate enough electoral votes to
deny Trump the presidency and possibly – depending on whether the
Democratic (sic) election-fixing apparatus can alter recount results as
efficiently as it killed Sen. Sanders' primary victory – give it to
herself.
Here's how it might work:
As The Hill reports, failure to complete an official recount by the federal 13 December deadline probably nullifies the state's electoral votes.
Rightist websites – in this instance to be believed – are already saying
Stein's belated filing of the recount demands is intended to ensure the
three states' miss the 13 December deadline, thereby subtracting their
electoral votes from Trump's total and throwing the presidential
election into the House of Representatives.
(Apologetic note: this link to Inquisitr.com,, which summarizes the
associated arithmetic, is obnoxiously clogged by advertisement
monitoring and takes at least five minutes to stabilize to readability.)
What
would happen were the presidency to be decided by the Republican-ruled
House remains to be seen. There are at least three possibilities: that
it confirms Trump's election; that it finds another Republican whose
domestic Nazism is perhaps more closeted than Trump's but who will obey
with absolute reliability the One Percent's global-conquest mandates
Trump seems to opposes; or that it will find a compromise candidate
acceptable to both parties – a possibility no less remote than Alpha
Centauri, but one that nevertheless could put the hugely popular Sen. Sanders in the White House. (You read it first here.)
But let us not forget the recounts could also reverse enough votes
to give Hillary the presidency. Thus she would seize the White House
after having positioned Stein and the Green Party as the immediate
scapegoat for the civil war that is certain to result. Meanwhile who can
doubt the recount is yet another product of Hillary's limitless
vindictiveness? As I said before, Stein not only lacks the requisite
malice, but – without Hillary's clandestine intervention – it's gravely
doubtful she'd have been able to access the requisite wealth. Cynicism –
which sometimes is the most revealing Muse of all – suggests only two
possibilities: that Hillary has blackmailed Stein into becoming her
figurehead, or that Stein's ambitions have reduced her to Hillary's
sacrificial lamb and turned her into another of Clintons' useful idiots.
(Wikileaks: please tell all!)
As
to the danger of civil war, the KuKlux/Christian/Nazi militias have
already threatened to rise in armed rebellion if Trump is denied the
presidency. They would be even more enraged were Trump's ouster –
seemingly accomplished by the same typical Democratic (sic) deviousness
that invariably spares the Clintons from prosecution despite their
brazen criminality – to succeed in putting Hillary in the White House.
Unfortunately, and just as I have written elsewhere,
the violence of a second civil war would kill forever the nonviolent
revolution now brewing at Standing Rock, which is fast evolving the
potential of mobilizing sufficient overseas support
to succeed much as Gandhi's revolution did against the British Empire
in India. But with the nonviolent revolution aborted by unrelated
violence, the One Percent and its Ruling Class vassals could rest in
absolute certainty the nonviolent threat to capitalist governance was
permanently terminated even as the government's technological
superiority was ensuring the defeat of the Rightist militias.
Moreover,
a second civil war (perhaps labeled by future historians “the War of
Presidential Succession”), would – under the unlimited powers Obama has
bequeathed the presidency – allow declaration of a permanent state of
emergency, thereby nullifying what little remains of the Constitution
and ensuring the eternal omnipotence of capitalist tyranny.
Were
Hillary the president, it would also facilitate her most cherished
domestic ambition: zero-tolerance forcible disarmament – confiscation
without compensation of every civilian-owned firearm in the United
States.
Hillary
would ultimately blame Russia for the millions of deaths and millions
of dollars of damage so inflicted, whether by civil war, forcible
disarmament or both. She would no doubt claim it was all the result of
some alleged Kremlin conspiracy involving Trump, Stein, the Greens and
Vladimir Putin – thereby giving herself a “nothing-to-lose” rationale
for nuking Moscow and triggering thermonuclear apocalypse.
As to why Hillary would do anything so obviously suicidal, there are only two possible answers.
One is that her decades of fanatical Christian brainwashing by The Family have driven her beyond what should be labeled JesuNazism to clinical insanity, perhaps even turning her into a believer in biblical End Times and the Apocalypse as the only sure route for the Christian god's devotees to depart this world of sin and get to Heaven.
(I apologize for the above paragraph's link-heavy text. But now with the growing likelihood Hillary Clinton will be the next USian president – remember how she stole the primary
from Sen. Sanders – I think it vital for us to recognize what a
JesuNazi she truly is, and that once she is in the White House, she is
likely to attack the remnants of the First Amendment at least as vindictively as we know she will attack the Second Amendment.)
The
other possible explanation for Hillary's obvious intent to start World
War III – an explanation that does not negate the first possibility (and
could in fact be the expression of its Noah's Ark intent) – is that the
One Percent and its Ruling Class vassals have secretly built and
stocked a vast subterranean network of bunkers to allow themselves and a
few carefully chosen and meticulously bred slaves to survive a 25-year
nuclear winter. Rumors of such refuges have persisted for years, and
knowing our overlords' genocidal contempt for all the rest of us, we the
people of the 99 Percent, I cannot doubt the rumors are founded on
truth. Thus the plutocrats, their children and their slaves – the slaves
no doubt dark-pigmented for easy identification – would emerge from
these latter-day Noah's Arks as unchallenged rulers of a planet
“cleansed” of all “sinful” humans and, not coincidentally, also healed
of global warming.
In this context, let us further examine what might be the hidden agenda of the recount.
As
I said above, on 8 November 2016 we were forced to choose between two
Hitlers: Donald Hitler of the Renewed Holocaust versus Hillary Hitler of
the Thermonuclear Apocalypse. But ultimately our choice was between
(possibly survivable) horror or (certain) extinction. And our decisions
revealed to the One Percent's psychological warfare experts the
magnitude of our national courage.
The
courageous – those of us who dared vote against Hillary (whether by
voting for Trump or one of the lesser alternative-party candidates –
voted to gamble on the likelihood of survival and thus to fight on.
But
those who voted for Hillary chose thermonuclear suicide. Some chose
suicide because their fanatical Christianity convinced them they were
better dead than Red – “Red” in this instance encompassing not only the
uncertainties of socialist revolution (as by the nonviolence of Standing
Rock), or at the very least the long-overdue rejection of Prosperity Gospel Christianity,
the consequence implicit in Senator Sanders's efforts to resurrect the
New Deal. Others chose suicide because they are terrified by the
prospect of life on a planet undergoing terminal climate change or in a
nation in which people – especially Working Class people – are allowed
to own firearms. Still others – perhaps the moronic majority of
Hillary's voters – chose suicide out of Moron Nation ignorance –
ignoring all the damning evidence of Hillary's closet fascism and
attachment to theocracy, and remaining in clinical denial of Hillary's
ever-escalating threats, whether against any remnants of USian civil
liberties or against Russia and ultimately against human survival.
In
any case, the fact Hillary is winning the popular vote – overwhelmingly
so, if the latest figures are to be believed – also tells the
psychological warfare experts Moron Nation is already significantly
subjugated, too cowardly to alter the status quo save by
imposing forcible disarmament – that is, mandatory pacifism and
compulsory victimhood – on all civilian firearms owners.
Even
so, what might the One Percent and its Ruling Class hope to accomplish
by forcing a recount and at the very least nullifying the election? Is
the One Percent perhaps still indecisive about which Hitler will serve
it best as Führer? Or is something else afoot – say deliberate
provocation of a Rightist uprising, with civil war its inevitable
result.
To
reiterate: civil war would kill forever the potentially successful
nonviolent revolution taking shape at Standing Rock. And – again
reiterating – the resultant “state of emergency” would enable the One
Percenters and their Ruling Class vassals to terminate – also forever –
any rational hope of ever restoring USian liberty. Plus – last
reiteration – a civil war's destruction, its magnitude akin to that of
Germany in 1945, would give the Hillary the perfect “nothing-to-lose”
rationale for starting World War III.
Think, people. We are tyrannized by Evil, our species' most diabolical plotters ever.
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THE FOLLOWING ARE the titles and links that were part of the blog post I had written for OAN
before the news of the recount literally changed everything. The
material – most of it about the transition to overt Nazism that would
have occurred under Trump – is still relevant. But it is way too lengthy
to add to the above, so I am reducing it to a recommended reading list,
with the briefest possible notes about content and whether I commented
on the associated discussion thread.
Fascism in Donald Trump's United States (Henry A. Giroux): Trump's comments form a discourse of hate, bigotry and exclusion...resonating
deeply in a landscape of U.S. culture and politics crafted by 40 years
of conservative counterrevolution...We heard this same hatred in the
words of Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet and other demagogic orators who
have ranted against Jews, communists and other alleged “infidels.” (No comment by LB.)
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Honor Roll Student Shares Fruit With Classmate, Gets Suspended for Violating Weapons Policy: An
honor roll student...shared part of her lunch with a classmate. The
school suspended her for six days...after she cut a peach in half with a child’s butter knife...The Pembroke Pines Police Department said it has turned over their investigation to the State Attorney’s Office. (No comment by LB.)
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His horror show hides Clinton's rotten agenda (Elizabeth Schulte and Alan Maass): Donald Trump is so despicable that no one is paying attention to what Hillary Clinton actually stands for. (No comment by LB.)
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President Obama's Last Stand (Matt Taibbi): As Taibbi often does, he buried his lead, probably in embarrassment: ...There
are a lot of people these days wondering if the election of the
race-baiting Donald Trump will end up staining or outright repudiating the legacy of Barack Obama.
I think it will be the other way around. Trump's presidency is almost
sure to throw the best qualities of this unique and powerful historical
figure into relief. (Brief comment by LB.)
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Obama Refuses to Pardon Edward Snowden. Trump's New CIA Pick Wants Him Dead (Alex Emmons and Naomi LaChance): President Obama indicated on Friday that he won’t pardon
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, even as President-elect Donald Trump
announced his pick to run the CIA: Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo, who
has called for “the traitor Edward Snowden” to be executed. (Extensive comments by LB.)
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7 Big Areas Where Jeff Sessions Could Change Policy at DOJ (Danny Vinik): Sen. Jeff Sessions was an instantly divisive figure
when President-elect Donald Trump named him as his next attorney
general: conservatives and immigration hardliners welcomed the choice,
while civil-rights groups and Democrats spent the day attacking the
pick...the critics’ focus was on controversial past comments by
Sessions, such as accusations that he said the NAACP and American Civil
Liberties Union were “un-American,” and joked that he thought the Ku
Klux Klan was “OK, until I learned they smoked pot.” But much of the
concern is what he’d actually do as AG: that he’d undermine civil rights
protections, prosecute more undocumented immigrants and allow companies
to go wild with mergers...Here are seven areas where Sessions could
most dramatically change public policy. (Extensive comments by LB.)
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Life Under Trump (Rebecca Gordon): Can
we hold back the rising seas that are already closing over island
nations on a planet where Donald Trump promises to abandon the fight
against climate change and walk away from the historic Paris climate
accord? And...(j)ust how vulnerable are we, two middle class white lesbians in our sixties, during a Trump presidency? (Brief comment by LB.)
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Here's What We Do Now - a Personal Note (Greg Palast): Decades of progress created with sweat and determination face destruction.
Within the next six months, we may see the Voting Rights Act
repealed—and civil rights set back 50 years; the entirety of our
environmental protection laws burnt in a coal pit; police cruelty made
our urban policy; the Education Department closed to give billionaires a
tax holiday; and a howling anti-Semite as White House Senior Counselor.
But the horror we face is countered by this one hard and hopeful fact: Donald Trump did NOT win this election. (Brief comment by LB.)
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Medics Describe How Police Sprayed Standing Rock Demonstrators With Tear Gas and Water Cannons (Alleen Brown): (T)he Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council...estimated that 300 people were treated for injuries, including 26 who were taken to area hospitals. (Brief comment by LB.)
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War Has Broken Out in North Dakota (Marc Ash): The
situation in North Dakota at the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline has
degenerated into what can now only fairly be described as a war zone. (Extensive comments by LB.)
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IN
SUCH TERRIBLE times as these I am occasionally asked what weird insight
or sickness of imagination enables me to (accurately) portray our
capitalist overlords as they truly are – that is, as boundlessly more
cunning (and therefore infinitely more Evil) – than any diabolical
creature ever conceived by the authors of the Torah, the Bible, the Qur'an or even the far more ancient and dreadful Chaldean catalogue of demons.
Usually I merely shrug my shoulders – a nonverbal “I dunno” – and leave the question unanswered.
But
if I am asked this same how-do-you-do-it question by someone with whom I
am already psychologically comfortable, I might, if there is time,
explain it as the hidden blessing of my childhood, which was all the
more miserable for the absence of physical evidence that hid its
unhealable gashes of psychological trauma. So wounded was I that even
now on adult word-association tests I equate “family” with “betrayal”
and “deception” and “scapegoating” and “rejection” and “despair.” Thus
the microcosm of family brutality prepared me – quite thoroughly in fact
– to cope with our species-wide macrocosm of bottomless Evil.
Evil
is in fact humanity's default reality. (I capitalize it not for
theological reasons – I am an ever-more-devoutly skeptical agnostic –
but to provide the proper literary emphasis due what is undeniably our
sole defining quality, intellect and soul alike, if indeed the latter is
more than hallucination.) Nor will I debate my admittedly misanthropic
conclusion; it has been confirmed more times than I can count, proven
far more conclusively by what I've witnessed done to others than by what
was ever done to me, whether during my first 18 years, or my
award-winning but grievously underpaid and overworked decades as a
journalist and social-documentary photographer, or now finally in my
final seasons as a crippled old man with a failing heart, no longer
exploitable for capitalist profit and thus like everyone else in such
circumstances knowingly, deliberately, maliciously sentenced to death by
the slow but methodically certain genocide of ever-deeper cuts to
Medicare and food-stamps and Social Security and any other programs on
which we depend for survival. Such is the quintessential Evil of Homo sapiens sapiens: Evil as it was in the beginning, Evil as it is now and Evil as it ever shall be, Evil without end amen.
Thus
the one truly vital lesson to be gleaned from life is to learn to
beware our species' penchant for perverting our most hypothetically
exalted principles into real-time rationales for mass murder as at
Wounded Knee and Mai Lai, mayhem as in Birmingham or at Standing Rock,
and the sort of sadism the invading Germans sometimes inflicted on
Russian children: bloating their bowels with gasoline enemas, lighting
matches to their petrol-leaking anuses, then – much as Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton cackled at Qaddafi's execution by anal impalement –
chortling with glee at the children's shrieking, running, sometimes
exploding and always indescribably agonized deaths. Thus do the ubermenschen – our “brightest and best” – behave toward those of us they damn as untermenschen. Such is the Evil that defines our species.
Merry
Christmas, Happy Easter, and here's a thermonuclear egg to brighten
your basket. Our Evil demonstrably exceeded our ability at self-control
when we nuked Japan to terrify our then-ally Josef Stalin and serve him
notice that henceforth we'd be his deadliest enemy, far deadlier than
the Germans his Red Army had just defeated. Now – thanks to this
election and its aftermath – no matter its outcome our Evil will almost
certainly overwhelm any possibility we might have escaped it.
LB/28 November 2016
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