Preface:
In a rather odd corner of philosophy lives a strange creature of the mind. We call him, “the Ghost Within the Machine.” The idea has been around for ages (since Descartes), and in many different forms. Now, we usually use the words to refer to how computers seem to sometimes do unexpected things, that the designers and planners, or users, never imagined.
One aspect of the “ghost” is that human beings, whenever we touch data, leave a trail, almost a signature. In other words, you can determine the identity of a user by examining the way that he or she interacts with the data. Some people, and some computers, using advanced pattern-matching skills, are able to ascertain pattern matches, even when there are only two matching occurrences in billions of pieces of data. I, for instance, could scan a couple of usage logs and tell you, from nothing but their interactions, who, what, and why someone interacted with the data.
Yesterday, when I was reading about Tom Perez’ committee appointments, a close friend chimed in and said: “That’s another “why”. Strangely, what I heard instead of his voice, was the voice of a dear friend who died in Vietnam saying: “In my family, which is the Cosa Nostra, no one ever asks the question, “Why?” Because there is only one answer: “The deal was made.”
So I started looking at stuff; you know, to test the theory. To look for more matches between Republican and Democratic behaviour. And, I saw something interesting right away!
In the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, when the Mafia thugs turned over the counting tables in Miami, chits and all, they had to be acting under orders. But, who could give such an order? Whoever did was in lockstep with the Supreme Court, and the Justice Department, and especially the Attorney General of the State of Florida. There was every reason to think that they were acting in concert – following one plan. When the count was stopped in Florida, it was the most outrageous act of political chicanery in our history. But, no one was surprised. The Supreme Court’s insane and illegal act was ignored by the press. Gore quietly stepped aside, allowing us to be cheated. Without a fight. Like Hillary didn’t fight. Too damn many coincidences!
In a recent post, I wrote about the nine big ways in which our government severely limits democracy, if indeed we have a democracy at all. Look at it this way: each limiting factor is a lever. Press this one, and pull those two, and you influence one presidential election. Manipulate a different set of levers next time – and on and on.
The more that I looked, the more matches I found! Every move by one side was mirrored by the other. And then several professional newsblog posts converged, with stories that make it abundantly clear that the same parties are apparently acting in concert now. As though they are all on the same page. And, then I read the attached story about Tom Perez. And it hit me. The same people who make the decisions for the Republican Party about long-term strategies, make the same kind of decisions for the Democratic Party. They had to be working together, and they had to have the same coordination.
My conclusion: Since 1986, there has effectively been only one political party. In secret, the deal was made, almost a half-century ago: to pass the Presidency back and forth, from political party to political party. We don’t have to worry about “why’s” anymore. Forget about elections. The deal was made uptown.
Al Gore was the “fly in the ointment;” he wasn’t part of the deal. He couldn’t be allowed to be President. Bill Clinton was a huge concession, or so it seemed. But, he was one of the parties to the deal. Mr. Smooth.
The Bush years were too important to leave to an amateur, so a team of specialists ran the White House.
President Obama was a phenomenon because he was supposed to be. Not that he had to have known. He satisfied the terms of the deal, but he had a dead hand. And a completely ossified Congress.
I was up all night on election eve 2016, digging into tons of raw data. Before the sun came up, I knew that Trump had won. In their world, there was never any doubt that Trump would win, no matter what it took. That was the deal.
This is the only conclusion that answers all the “whys.”
“Criminal So-and-so” was the title, in Revolutionary France, mockingly given to aristocrats, and even the emperor, as they were marched out to meet; “that charming mademoiselle with shockingly red lips:”
Is Criminal Rand Paul John Roberts’ pimp? Isn’t it about time the country took a cold, hard look at this man from Kentucky – who walks down the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
There is no law.
John Roberts promised to “imprison” anyone who disrespected the dignity of the Senate. Rand Paul used the Senate chambers as a political stage, and spit in the Chef Justice’s face. To which, Roberts replied, “Thank you Sir, may I have another.”
John Roberts is a cowardly soul. And now a baldfaced liar. No judge in the world would allow such disrespect. John Roberts isn’t a Justice; he is the hoax!
Speaking of truth: this post gets truer every day.
Now, the phone lines were jammed because the phone lines were down. Insane! They were hacked! The only question now is which one of our cast of villains done it. It hardly matters, with the feds so corrupted.
This hour, the Iowa Democratic Party has “identified and fixed” the error in the app’s programming. That’s a lie. It’s not possible. In a chaotic situation, with the actual users exhausted and drained; to debug, and thoroughly test that large an app (with a huge server-side, on the “Cloud,”) is nonsense.
In Chicago, there are different levels of calling someone a liar, the highest one being, “a lying sack of shit.” This whole “glitch” thing is a truckload.
If they kept the app secret until just recently, then it’s practically impossible for there to have been testing with actual, and live, users. This is on Perez. What a moron – or sellout! Imbecilic fools pretending to be capable in information technology disgust me.
I can’t believe it, but somebody woke me up this morning, Tuesday the 4th. at five; to get my analysis of the Iowa Caucus “debacle.” Okay.
Who benefited? Biden, because in the hours leading up, he was looking at a disaster – Bernie was going to walk away with it. And, Tom Perez, because big donors were riding him hard to push Biden through. And, big donors (the Machine), who have an immense investment at stake. And, of course, Thrump, who fears Sanders, wants to prevent any narrowing of the field, and who benefits from division of the electorate.
So they remotely blew up the app. Or users did. I suspect, and I know that people will hate me for saying it, that there was so much happening that could not be explained, such as, perhaps, tallies being reported, then disappearing, that users stopped reporting through the app.
And, yes! I’d bet that there was collusion between Tom Perez’ office or himself, and Trump, or his seconds. Buggered again!
And the alternative is what? I could have written much the same.
I’m sure you could have. Probably others too. But, people have really only just begun to talk openly about corruption. That’s a start. For years, it was widely thought that it was against the law even to write using the word, “Mafia.” The solution: get rid of politics altogether. We don’t need them. They failed, and betrayed us. No one believes in them anymore.