Anyone who has had to plan a project or organize an event knows that the plans never turn out as expected. Even the most cynical veterans know their plans will run into some unexpected snafu. In fact, the word “snafu” comes from the people who spend most of the time planning things, the military. The word “snafu” comes from the acronym SNAFU, which was popularized during the Second World War. It is why we have another military saying. “No plan survives contact with the enemy.”
This may be what we are about to witness with The Pretender. The people who rigged the election knew Biden was unlikely to last his entire term. He is an old man in poor health and the White House is not the place for an octogenarian. He would either drop dead, become incapacitated or, most likely, lose his marbles so bad that he would have to be removed. This is why Pelosi pushed a bill to form a 25th Amendment commission in the fall of last year. She was planning ahead.
The thing is though, the plan was for Biden to be well enough to sign off on whatever the Democrats could rush through the House and Senate. The rhythm of politics is the first year of a new administration is when things can get done. The people inside the Green Zone believe the public is as happy as they are to be rid of Trump, so they want to push through all of their schemes as fast as possible. It is why the people who really run things have had Biden sign close to 50 executive order.
They also need Biden to help sell these schemes. This was the lesson of Obama’s first term when Congress deadlocked on health care. Obama sat on the sidelines letting Pelosi run the show. The project quickly went sideways, took forever to get done and the result was an embarrassing mess. We are seeing the same thing with Biden, who is quickly becoming a vegetable. The White House is now forced to spend most of their time hiding this guy from the public because of his dementia.
Most people think the plan was to nurse Biden along for a couple of years, then use year three to remove him from office. The more cynical thought the plan was to dump him after the election and install Harris. It is hard to know, but the people around Biden seem determined to keep their man upright for as long as possible. So far, the media is going along with the scheme to shield the truth of Biden’s condition from the public, but how long the White House staff can keep this going is hard to know.
Of course, it is also possible that no one thought much about what happens after installing a dementia patient in the White House. They just hated Trump so much they did not care if Biden was a corpse. They are starting to think about it now though and that is going to be the story here in the coming months. If Biden’s own party no longer trusts him with the basics of his office, it will not be long before they start noticing that he is basically the Max Headroom presidency now.
The other part of the plan is also going sideways. The plan said that once Trump was gone, he was gone for good. The people would hold a triumph for the those who vanquished the monster and the monster would be gone. It turns out that the Left needed him more than he needed them. To continue the analogy, they continue to carry the corpse of Trump around, pretending it is still alive. Given the people involved, it is more than a bit ironic that they did not learn from Kritzinger’s story.
That’s another problem with the plan. It was always better to have Trump inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. Trump is a gifted shit-talker. It is what got him the nomination. Now he gets to be the shadow president, mocking and jeering the Biden administration and his old enemies in the tent. Trump was not very good at being president, but he will be very good at mocking Biden’s mental decline. That will make it page one news going forward.
None of this should be a surprise. The people in the Green Zone are gifted schemers with a vermin-like rapacity. They live to undermine the rules and subvert the natural order, but they have never been very good at running things. They are not very good at thinking about downstream consequences. The fact that their grand plan to “restore our democracy” has sprung so many leaks is hardly a surprise. It’s why they are obsessed with the ridiculous Q hoax.
The lesson here is that politics is never about planning. It is about opportunity. This is true regardless of the political system. Politics is about human behavior and people are too irrational to fit into a plan. Good politics is always being prepared to take a bite out of the other side and boost your side. Sometimes, that means working with people you hate, which is what the Democrats should have done with Trump. It is a lesson dissidents should keep in mind as the Biden story unfolds this summer.
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Here’s a well laid plan.
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So then the more Pfizer is intentionally negligent, the more of Argentina they would own? Oof.
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well, you know what they say at davos: “you’ll own nothing and be happy!”
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Nothing at all to do with your OP, but cute pooch in your avatar image. Mix?
A lot of Biden voters are turning in their graves.
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The Road Back (cont)
Connect the dots.
No borders, no unity, no social trust. Bribable low IQ voters, auto-elected corruptocrats, vicious cycle. Federal fiscal insanity, worthless fiat money, eventual economic collapse. More desperation, more crime, more police state repression. Chaos, martial law, rise of autocracy. More awareness of systemic malfunction, more Big Brother spying, more persecution of the sane. Rapidly growing parasitism, declining productive class, tipping point. City life, high mortality, panic-fueled exodus to safety. Well-planned refuge, survival, resurrection of the fit. Disease focus, antibodies, cure.
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I always hated that Billy Joel song.
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I’ll take “What is the near-term fate of the republic that our ancestors built?” for $20, Alex. (I never watched that program, so I might have messed that up.)
Answer: “What is dire?”
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Okay, I don’t know who’s running the show right now I know it’s definitely not Biden but I doubt very much they’re going to get rid of him and put Harris in charge because as awful as she is she’s going to try to run the show and the people with power now or not going to voluntarily hand it to her
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Harris is dumber than Biden was when he was in his prime. She’ll sign whatever they put in front of her.
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I don’t think it is all that clear as to which camp she is in. Her campaign staff was all Clinton people. Her money was from Silicon Valley. Biden has a mix of Obama people and Washington careerists. I tend to think Harris was the choice because she was assumed to have no future of her own. Biden would stagger through his first term, maybe quit in year three and then there would be a big fight to see who is the 2024 nominee.
That’s what will be fun to watch. As Biden fades, these people will be ripping each other’s throats out in public.
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“As Biden fades, these people will be ripping each other’s throats out in public.”
If there’s anything I can do to offer them some assistance…
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She may be dumb, but she is cunning and ruthless. Anyone who has followed politics at all knows which of those attributes are most valuable to the professional politician.
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Nonsense. Kamala has made a career out of sucking up and sucking off the right people. If she weren’t pliable and flexible, she’d never have gotten the VP position…
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If the Trump/Biden presidencies have accomplished anything, it’s that the President has virtually no control of the branch he supposedly is in charge of.
There is no one “in charge”. Only temporary coalitions of powerful interests and massive bureaucracies.
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They had a real conundrum. Could rig election laws enough to get Bernie in. The rest were zeros. I’m guessing the bad bet they made was assuming Alzheimers progression is linear…it’s not. The guy is a mess and can barely “grip” a teleprompter for a five minute canned speech. My bet is Jill (Edith Wilson in this reprise) is one of the barriers. But it explains the acceleration of EOs, fortifying the Capitol, moving immediately to persecution of the right. Their window is much narrower than Obama, who could at least talk his own book when he got off his ass. The Green Zone is not there for happened, it’s there for what will come.
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“Couldn’t rig the election laws”
His decline has been very rapid since the last debate with Trump. At this rate he’ll have to be kept in seclusion by June. After that it just gets increasingly ugly for Pelsoi and crew.
Funny thing about the Green Zone. Is that D.C. hates the NG troops. Seems the vendors supplying them with food have been poisoning them with moldy bread, uncooked meat, etc. A bunch has to go to the hospital and now they are forced to eat MRE’s because they can’t trust the food suppliers. First they get treated like animals and put in a unheated garage, forced to sleep on the floor and only one bathroom for a battalion worth of men.
WTF is wrong with the Pentagon and D.C. authorities that they are unable to provide the men with decent accommodations and food?
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You answered your own question: They hate them.
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The plan is for normal white guys to kill the other normal white guys. Why would they treat them well?
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That plan has worked very, very well over the years.
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they work for the enemy, therefore, the food suppliers will treat them like the enemy…spit checks optional
No State of the Union address is a pretty big tell. Also the lack of a press conference; Biden can’t even be propped up in front a room full of compliant lapdogs.
Everyone knows the score and nobody can say anything. Yet.
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You must not notice the dead potato. It is not permitted.
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Great article, as always. however, SNAFU isn’t an acronym for “No plan survives contact with the enemy.”—the initials don’t match up. Webster’s says the origin is actually “Situation normal all fucked up.”
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“FUBAR” has always been my favorite
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BOHICA
bend over here it comes again
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Also FUBAR: fucked up beyond all recognition. Captain Sisko told me so. Or maybe it was the Allstate Insurance guy I’m not sure.
Mike Tyson had it best. “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
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“She called me a rapist and a recluse. I am not a recluse.” -Mike Tyson
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Actually the relevant Tyson quote today would be “everybody has a plan until they get punched”
I think a closer reading of Z’s essay will reveal no correlation was imputed between SNAFU and that quote, which, by the way, is a maxim of the German field marshal, Helmuth von Moltke, who argued for flexibility and multiplicity in battle planning, saying: “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.”
I don’t think the Democrats’ attitude to government is in any way similar to that of the GOP. Sure, they’re a bunch of paranoid freaks out to rob us blind. But there’s a fundamental difference. The leftists who fund and direct the Democrats are out for REAL blood. They are looking for a final solution. Not the Stupid Party. Most Republicans treat the Democrats as the loyal opposition in the face of facts that are contrary to that assumption. For example, look at the Democrat voting legislation they just passed in the House. That legislation would lock in fraudulent elections into infinity. Instead of calling this wicked attempt at subversion what it really is, you have the usual GOP shills sounding off about its being “unconstitutional”. As if the Left gives a shit. So long as our side simply runs around smugly confident in its moral superiority and legal acumen, we stand no chance against an aggressive enemy that cares nothing for either morals or laws. We must level the playing field.
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The weak conquer, the strong submit, America dies on the cross to save the world. Bad morals, bad conscience. No way out but a change of mind, no change of mind without a focusing pain, no pain without letting it burn. Like letting an addict hit bottom to see if he decides for himself to make a change. It’s sad and maddening to watch, but is there another way?
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We have to destroy America in order to save it.
A legacy from Viet Nam whose time has come round.
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Vote hard, then Harder, and then most HARDEST!!!!!!!
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No. We must level the enemy, screw the playing field!
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Yeah, they want to kill all white men and hold white women as sex slaves. It’s really that simple.
I’ve noticed the attitude of the average non white here in canada got extremely hostile and hateful towards whites in the past 5 years – for really no reason except they can sense weakness. they can smell blood and the sharks are circling.
Anyways 95% of our people are in denial about this.
I still wish Trump was inside the tent pissing out and pissing off the leftards. The downstream consequences of their idiotic and delusional policies and decisions are going to be a heavy weight for the rest of us and society to bear.
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Things aren’t going to get better for the people in charge here, because while Biden is a clown, he is sort of a bathetic, tragicomic type (outlived some of his children; one of his sons is a crackhead). He has some residual love from people who still want to believe the working class Irish-Catholic white democrat can return. The idea that the democrats have any interest in normal white people (or normalcy, period) is just the ghost of an echo at this point, but nostalgia is powerful stuff. But the woman coming in, whom Biden probably calls Vice Pina Colada Harris, is hated by too many people for even a very hard sell, Phillip Dick-style psy-op to convince anyone that she is popular. The polls and puff pieces will only work on the unhinged, and will disgust yellow dog democrats. Black women set the agenda for the black community, and they hate light-skinned bitches like Harris. Your average black dude looks at her and thinks she looks like the kind of high yellow who sat on the porch drinking mint julips and would warn Massa when one of the field hands was making a break for it from the cotton field. Black people are still at the bottom of society but they’re also still very important to the DNC coalition. Hispanics just don’t really get energized to vote once they’ve snuck in. Unlike blacks, they’re not content with someone who just sort of looks like them. And honestly if someone like Hugo Chavez was to run for president here I’d vote for him just to hear Ben Shapiro mewl about socialism.
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They no longer need to convince the voters. They simply manufacture the votes that they need.
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Think what it must be like to be Biden. You place all your hopes on one son, one day he’ll be president and continue your legacy, then he croaks. So all you are left with is tye crack addict you kept around as an after thought.
So you become president, and wouldn’t you know it instead of being able to wield any power, you lose your mind and exist as a drooling corpse for your staff to parade around.
What monkey paw did he find?
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Spot-on! The grass is always greener. The court of the Pretender is finding out just how heavy that crown is, and equally, just how hard it is to govern from the far left.
Though this house of cards will fall, I see a bad moon a-risin’ in the short-term.
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That Trump is still on the sidelines sniping at them is the reason that they’re going to prosecute him and put him in prison.
FWIW Ebay just banned the selling of those forbidden Dr. Seuss books. It is just a matter of time before the banned book list grows. Precedent has been set.
Link:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/virtual-book-burning-continues-ebay-bans-listings-offensive-dr-seuss-books/
Do people still use Ebay?
The more Trump attacks Biden,
the more the Dems have to keep Biden in,
lest they look like they are caving to Trump by retiring Biden. They will have to keep crowing about Biden, keep Kamala on the sidelines, for as long as Trump keeps mocking and ridiculing Biden. Can’t admit to anyone that their main man is a doddering old fool, especially when they just spent 4 years saying Trump was incompetant. Trump is in a strong position.
Not to frighten ya’ll too much, but this guy has the launch codes. He says launch, we launch, no? The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming! Does anyone have veto power? Mrs. B?
I’m seeing 1/6 as a metaphor for Trump’s entire presidency. He and a deplorable mob were poised to force their way in. Those in charge threw up their hands, ‘welp, let him in’. He strutted in, was led politely between the velvet ropes, sat in an important chair, took selfies and posted on social media. When he had outworn his welcome, the zookeepers said, ‘Ok, it’s time to leave’, and he allowed himself to be ushered out. (Ashli and Kyle are the country in this scenario, btw.)