By Pepe Escobar posted with permission and first posted at Asia Times
The massive psyops is ongoing. Everyone familiar with the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) knew how this would imperatively play out. I chose to frame it as a think tank gaming exercise in my Banana Follies column. 
This is a live exercise. Yet no one knows exactly how it will end.
US intel is very much aware of well-documented instances of election fraud. Among them: NSA software that infiltrates any network, as previously detailed by Edward Snowden, and capable of altering vote counts; the Hammer supercomputer and its Scorecard app that hacks computers at the transfer points of state election computer systems and outside third party election data vaults; the Dominion software system, 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 tried to debunk Wisconsin and didn’t even try with Michigan); multiple instances of Dead Men Do Vote.
The key actor is the Deep State, which decides what happens next. They have weighed the pros and cons of placing as candidate a senile, stage 2 dementia, neocon warmonger and possible extorsionist (along with son) as “leader of the free world”, 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.
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 – especially in its own backyard.
Welcome to the New Resistance
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…consequences.
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 saga, Rupert Murdoch made it very clear, via the laptop from hell caper, that he has all sorts of kompromat on the Biden family. So they will do whatever he wants. Murdoch does not need Trump anymore.
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 – 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.
Still, to clear any lingering doubts, a vote recount would be absolutely necessary in all 6 contested states – 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’s no evidence Team Trump – on top of it short of funds and manpower – will be able to convince Daddy Bush asset William Barr to go for it.
While relentlessly demonizing Trump for spreading “a torrent of misinformation” and “trying to undermine the legitimacy of the US election”, mainstream media and Big Tech have declared a winner – a classic case of pre-programming the sheep multitudes.
Yet what really matters is the letter of the law. State legislatures decide whose electors go to the Electoral College to appoint the President.
Here it is – Article II, Section 1, Clause 2: Each state shall appoint electors “in such Manner as the Legislature Thereof May Direct.”
So this has nothing to do with governors, not to mention the media. It’s 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.
Meanwhile, talk of a New Resistance is spreading like wildfire.
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.
So what will Deplorables do?
The always indispensable Alastair Crooke hits the nail on the head in a powerful essay: 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.
Crooke references a crucial parallel evoked by historian Mike Vlahos, who shows how the current American saga mirrors Ancient Rome in the last century of the Republic, pitting the Roman elite against the Populares – which today are represented by Red (Trumpist) America:
“This was a new world, in which the great landowners, with their latifundia [the slave-land source of wealth], who had been the ‘Big Men’ leading the various factions in the civil wars, became the senatorial archons that dominated Roman life for the next five centuries — while the People, the Populares, were ground into a passive — not helpless — 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.”
So as much as the Dem machine had wanted it, Trump is not yet Imperator Caesar Augustus, whom the Greeks called Autokrator (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.
In the meantime, what will imperial Big Capital do?
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.
So the Deep State is reasoning that with Biden – or, sooner rather than later, Supreme shakti and Commander-in-Chief Maa Durga Kamala – 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 – which not accidentally was evoked by teleprompter-reading Biden himself on the final presidential debate. The script gets ominously closer to the Rockefelller Foundation’s 2010 Lock Step.
Meanwhile, Plan B is kept in ready, steady, go mode: the lineaments of a global rampage, focused on “malign” Russia’s sphere of influence to satisfy a “revived” NATO and the military-industrial complex, which selected the now media-appointed President-Elect in the first place because he’s no more than a pliant cardboard figure.
“Ungovernable”, I like it. I’ve always admired the white Russians, even the partisans. The new role suits me right down to the ground.
Its going to be a hard long cold winter and spring may arrive late and it will be an even hotter summer as the pot simmers and boils,at this point I wouldn’t bet on anything not even the country itself,rather then Dollar stores police stations,etc and others being visited by the mob perhaps the mansions and summer homes will get a visit for they richly deserve it.!!!!
The misjudgment of the Elites and the Deep State regarding this Election Theft indicates they will take another misstep against Russia.
First, in Syria. Biden has indicated he will not pull out, but will engage more in Syria.
Second, Ukraine, the bastard step-child the Khazarians desire to begin the tearing apart of the Russian Federation. For these tribal lunatics in the State Dept., Military and NATO/EU, the Russian flatlands in front of them look as easy as it did to the Hitlerians, Banderas and Napoleon. Just fire the missiles, drop the bombs, roll the armor and artillery forward.
Of course, President Putin, General Gerasimov and Sergey Shoigu have the safety off on “the end of the war” weaponry.
Ukraine will be terminated as a nation, as will NATO and therefore, the EU. The CENTCOM troops in Syria will taste Kalibrs like ISIS did. And Biden will be the first American President who sues for Peace.
They haven’t gotten away with the theft of the Election. That is not over yet. Nor will it ever be forgotten any more than the assassination of JFK is a lone gunman crime.
Conspiracies this large have enormous number of planners, action officers, financiers and coverup and disinformation operatives.
The sunlight is already shining on the conspiracy.
desperation backstopped by overwheening arrogance of ones own infallibility makes for epic misjudgements and miscalculations.
in the days before the widespread use of the internet these machinations were not only possible but fairly easy to perform and sleep well once it had been done.
no longer since the internet makes everyone a journalist and a columnist…….it is the ultimate for now anyway, a truth finding device.
no stone is too small no secret is too petty to conceal from a the relentless sifting available to its users.
imo every boulder erected to hide the fraud of this election will be ground into sand before this is over and in the words of warren buffet….once the tide goes out only then do you discover who is swimming without trunks.
as for any biden led new or reinvigorated hegemony projects this is no longer 2014 or even 2016. the world has profoundly changed since obama left office but american technology has only grown older and more tired compared to its challengers.
Will anyone weep for the end of that running sore Ukraine? I doubt it, even less the end of America. The idea of war is horrific but ultimately this is the right time for Russia and the wrong time for America. NATOs ultimate demise will be no loss either. Russia cannot back down in these proxy wars and must act decisively and definitively. Better to destroy the West ‘over there’ than at home. Sleepy Joe, or just as likely ‘do as she’s told’ Kamala are the dupes for the deep states folly.
Larchmonter445
Well spoken. If Biden is placed into power, the Anglo-American elites will take another offensive against Russia. However, they should take into consideration that after Putin’s arrival on the political scene, Russia has grown in strength by the year. The problem is if the elites have grasped this. It’s no secret that there are crazies who think that Russia can be taken out by a sneak attack. I sincerely hope this does not apply to the US military as well. As for Ukraine, it’s obituary has been printed. This artificial state will implode, with at least 75 % of the country rejoining Russia, where it belongs. The Western part, the former Galicia, will become an area of contention between Poland and Hungary. As for Belarus, it should have rejoined Russia years ago.
Pepe Escobar has stated:
” … the current American saga mirrors Ancient Rome in the last century of the Republic, pitting the Roman elite against the Populares …”.
Yes, that is perfectly correct. And what happened in 476, when the Vandals appeared before the walls of Rome ? The first to flee was the elite, while the “mob” opened the gates of the city, seeing in the Vandals liberators and not invaders. Something similar will happen to the US. No, it won’t get invaded by any new Vandals. However, the elite will flee to their foreign getaways, where for years it has been buying real estate, like in New Zealand and Tasmania.
But first, this bow shot from deep stater Bush remnant Bill Barr:
DOJ Election Crimes chief RESIGNS after AG Barr approves probe into 2020 presidential vote
A lone gunman and a decoy.
Agree with Larchmonter 445. As a result of this coup, many Republicans that used to have blind faith in the FBI, CIA and Military are going to convinced that the leadership are traitors loyal to Global Financiers, the Davos crew.
The Dem leadership kowtowing to the view that everything is White Supremacy and Colonialism will have a hard time justifying intervention in foreign countries. The interventions are based on American superior Democratic values, which they have said are masks for white supremacy. How can Biden continue the “White Man’s burden” in Syria or Ukraine? The Dems will have to pull out of foreign countries or admit the whole Republicans are racists line was nothing more than the Big Lie.
The northeast and west coast elites hate Trump and have good reason to do so. Donald Trump, history’s most unlikely patriot, has managed to resuscitate the old ‘isolationist’ constituency of America. Of course, ‘isolationism’ is a term of abuse concocted by the Anglophile, Europhile, and Jewish/Zionist politicos of the day. What it really meant was an adherence to the advise contained in George Washington’s famous Farewell Address where he encouraged his fellow countrymen to ‘trade, with all nations and by all means’ while admonishing them ‘but let it stop at that’. In other words, stay out of European wars, no entangling alliances or imperialistic partnerships. America had it’s own business to attend to and should instead lead the world by example. Way back in the day this is what ‘exceptionalism’ meant. Food for thought. On the whole, aside from America’s entry into the First War, Americans adhered to the advise of their founding father. That’s really true and remained so right down to the last months of 1941 when Hitler’s armies were within sight of Moscow. Still, the people who had elected Roosevelt (and those who opposed him) were reassuring each other: ‘he kept us out of the war’. But then came the attack on Pearl Harbor and within hours America was at war with … Great Britain’s enemies.
We need to appreciate the radical change that came over American policy right after the war, though there was a tug of war going on between the Roosevelt supporters and the Morgan, Rockefeller, and Dupont circles who carried the day with help from a growing ‘anti communist’ contingent within the security services and other influential circles. But again, the difference between prewar ‘isolationism’ and post war globalism is like day and night. Trump is hated because he stirred up the hornets nest. He has managed to conjure up the old, and I dare say real, Republican party and has usurped the postwar crusaders. For the first time since the capture of the Republican party by the the North Atlantic globalists in the post war era the prevailing popular Party sentiment has become hostile to wasteful foreign entanglements and supportive of domestic economic policies that entail protectionist legislation. The North Atlantic people don’t like this.
If Trump is thrown out of office, or even especially if he is unconstitutionally thrown out, it might be just as well. He’s achieved what his enemies feared most, a revival of the traditional republicans spelling the end of the postwar imperial consensus based on anti communist scare tactics. The great danger for these elites is an alliance between traditional republicans and anti war Democrats. The best hand they can play is based squarely on identity politics, although, as we have seen, the ‘identities’ in question were surprisingly supportive of Trump this last election. In any case, the point of all this is to underscore this revival of a political electorate that was last seen in America prior to the Second World War. Trump let the genie out of the bottle. If he himself is removed from the scene it might be a blessing in disguise.
@Kevin Frost
Resonable analysis at the start.
‘If he himself is removed from the scene it might be a blessing in disguise.’
What is that blessing?
What is that blessing?
Others have suggested that the blessing of Trump’s departure might mean a spot is created for another, far more skilled politician to take over where Trump left off.
Katherine
First, thank you Katherine; yes that’s what I meant. To say a bit more. I avoid viewing Trump as a ‘personna’ with psychological quirks and inner motivations. I view him as a sort of formula, as an unstable synthesis of Sheldon Anderson’s money and the real concerns of his electoral base. And again, these are diametrically opposed. Trump has done his Hegelian work. He’s let the popular anti globalist genie out of the bottle. What this popular constituency needs is a leader that is not beholden to the Zionists. Their money is no longer necessary. What’s now needed is a leader who can speak for the traditional values that long sustained the American Republic prior to the hijacking that took place during and after the wars. One can argue this but on the other hand leaders don’t exactly grow on trees. And Trump is somebody I respect a lot more than I did back in 2016 or previously. This man has no friends whatsoever in the political class. He’s stood alone against the entire ruling class, and hasn’t buckled. Got to be made of strong stuff for this sort of thing. So, there’s that and suchlike considerations that would argue against the ‘blessing in disguise’ assertion. So yeah, point taken; this is open to question. But going a bit further, the neoliberal Dems and their Euro allies are now the political vehicle of globalist imperialism. What needs to happen now is some kind of alliance between Republican conservatives, old style, as specified above, and anti war Dems. and this on both sides of the Atlantic. New leadership is required for this.
‘What needs to happen now is some kind of alliance between Republican conservatives, old style, as specified above, and anti war Dems.’
He has already achieved this. What the mass media by demonising him and his supporters is to try to discourage people considering to vote for him and achieve the outcome you have described.
It has not worked.
Aside from the ability to steal and deceive, there is no skill in todays politics.
@Alabama
The empire has the ability to steal and deceive but that will not last forever.
It would be ironic if all the for war kids were tossed into the draft barrel and picked out one at a time, After all many of these kids are scared to death of a bug never mind risking your life for your country.
Deep down, Americans are cowards. Highly doubtful they will fight a civil war. A civil war requires a cause, effect, and benefits. A civil war is fought by two sides for control of government. America has many sides, not simply two. For what cause? For what form of Government? Americans want their Republic; it’s the only form of govt they know; and only a handful know the difference between a democracy and a republic. What might occur is an insurrection leading to a revolution to re-instate the Constitution in spirit and corpus. In other words, drain the swamp. But even this is doubtful.
Probably just more riots, and mob violence directed every which way, rather than two sides fighting each other.
I believe that you do not understand the 70 million deplorables. They are now disenfranchised by cheating and will totally loose the 1st and 2nd amendments, Peppy is correct. they will start an insurgency. There are two sides, Republicans and Democrats. Only one side will walk away.
Long gone are the times, when you could brush off all the participants ant their hypothesized actions as mentioned as conspiracy theory. We see the effects, some methods have been revealed by great leakers, but I argue, the biggest revelation was the naked stupidity and censorship that blew the whistle the hardest. The media IS the enemy of the people. Lies, deception and plane fraud are more monstrous weapons than any small time MOAB. If you look at the fertility rate, you will find the liberal (media) propaganda has wiped out more generations worldwide than any WMD ever has.
It’s incredible, even here in the germanosphere the coronation of Biden is implemented thoroughly and strictly. They could have waited a couple of weeks, but no, it had to be implemented right now, without hesitation. It really shows how weak their position really is. Even to a comical extent major outlets run preventative stories against “Trump’s claims of voter fraud”. Been banned immediately for my detraction.
Now more on topic: Me thinks, that nobody knows if and when parts of society will explode. Me also thinks that useful tools for these kind of speculations are some of these:
http://racialdotmap.demographics.coopercenter.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#5.32/37.56/-96.69
then this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b585IA3sRXM
^this yt link is just an illustration how some of the right sees things. The future too. Don’t judge the outlandishness by the claims made, but get a feel for how societal balances can be tipped.
I’d argue even much more than that: Any state actor can light this thing on fire any time. As Rostislav Ishchenko says, only a part of the elite has to become an subject (strategic actor in Andrey Fursov’s terms) and deliver the right virulent ideology and you have at least a rebellion on your hands.
The US elite has shown, that it doesn’t value the US as a nation and detests its population. Now, even compiling lists of Trump supporters and threatening them (f.e. Jake Tapper, AOC) has crossed a very fat red line. If it wasn’t for the rational methodology, I’d say all of the US elites have become completely insane.
I’d like to read some opposition on this post, be a good sport, change my mind
There is too much confusion in the present for lessons of the past to be of any valid use.
The reason that is at work within capital emerged nearly half a millennia after the fall of the Western Roman empire. And “big capital”, as representing the controlling stake of the total accumulated capital base that directs the flows of national energies, only appears in High-Modernity sometime in the second part of the 19th century. Since then big capital had complete control over the national flows of science and technology, of corporate investments, an of national interrelations.
Starting in the seventies these flows have been globalized by the financialization of capital formation. In other words the biggest Western capital holders (big capital) have relied on financial engineers to reach the two targets they had set for themselves ‒ growing their profits that were stagnating within the confines of Western nations ‒ controlling their traditional class enemies. A neoliberal globalization expanded their profits and postmodernism destroyed the meta-narratives of the left and the working class.
The triumph of big capital was total but this was being kept hidden behind a smokescreen of academic ideological drivel like “the triumph of liberalism announces the end of history”, “the city on the hill projects its exceptional light over the world”, and so on.
But the two first decades of this 21st century laid bare the social reality that emerged from the application of the grand plans drawn by the financial engineers :
1. an increasing social inequality, that reaches historical highs, has divided Western societies between ‒ “the haves” (the 1% + their servants the next 9%) ‒ “the have not” who represent the next 90%.
2. the societal atomization of Western nations (individualism under Western Christianity + hyper-individualism under High-Modernity and consumerism + the fall of the grand narratives with postmodernism).
In “the first blow to Late-Modernity. “a href=”http://laodan.byethost7.com/pdf/covid.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A3272%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C59.55%2C460%2C0%5D”>4.1.3. The gamble of Western big capital holders” I summarized how this is playing out :
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What this grand strategy entails is a grab of a greater share of existing assets by big capital holders that is intended to force a drastic reinforcement of Neo-liberalism and austerity which, if successful, will inevitably lead to the emergence of a new political economy and social system characterized by the following :
1. from supra-national islands out of reach of any national legislation big capital holders and their army of servants plot to manage their worldwide holdings free of any interference from national laws and taxes
2. within the borders of the traditional nation-states poverty will increase at levels not seen in the past and we’ll assist at a worldwide acceleration of human misery that will reach unprecedented historical levels
3. dystopian national governance systems will try to ensure that ordinary people stay put and submit to the new order
4. national governance will be delegated to a fringe vassal middle-class of servants that will act as :
4.1. a new feudal power within nations: the new vassals, or local representatives of the supra-national class of big capital holders, will impose their authority over the institutions of power of nation-states
4.2. managers of the national branches of Multi-National-Corporations : this class of vassals will act like yesteryear lords and knights, towering over a mass of peasants who till the land, buying their produce for distribution. They’ll also head, the corporations in charge of maintaining the infrastructure, and manage the factories whose workers will be chosen among the mass of have-not and will be remunerated at third-world starvation level wages.
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Big capital has already fled to its “supra-national islands” and it has delegated the management of the Western dystopias in the making to a fringe of vassal middle-class servants (national establishments). In the present stage the national establishments are seriously divided. But whatever the outcome, of the fight between the vassal middle-class servants, the interests of big capital have been secured by int’l organizations and mostly by the “legalistic trade-deals” of the last decades.
What is still unknown is how “The big game of the 21st century” between Western big capital and Chinese state capital is going to turn out… the rest is already history and it is definitely a different history than the history of the fall of the Western Roman empire.
Activated link at “a href=”http://laodan.byethost7.com/pdf/covid.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A3272%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C59.55%2C460%2C0%5D”>4.1.3. The gamble of Western big capital holders”
try this .. a link to the pdf it self http://laodan.byethost7.com/pdf/covid.pdf … mod
The democrats have to tap into the global human capital mkts in order to finance and continue to expand their operation. If at first you succeed at home, export the success overseas.
@Alabama
Let in lots of immigrants which deprives the original countries of their best and pushes wages down and prices up.
I cant disagree with you.
Barr is likely to be sacked if he doesnt do his job. Like Esper was yesterday.
Murdoch runs with the hares and hounds. Thats has always been his MO.
The Deep State are few while the Trumpers/Deplorables are many and are armed in various ways – and patriots have complied lists of names of Deep Staters and where they are if action has to be taken. The few cannot win against the many in the end. Refer Russia 1917-23
As things are going, depending on the how the voting fraud election steal turns out, if the Biden stealers get away with it the “Deplorables” will change gear and deal with the situation themselves.
I could foresee, as I said in other posts, GOP States (MT ID WY ND SD TX IA MO AL MS FL LA AR IN KY TN OH WV SC NC AK AZ) may get together and secede or refuse to comply with Federal directives making Biden-Harris a lame duck President. A split in the GOP certainly will happen. And most US military personnel (who don’t shine to those with Trump Derangement Syndrome) also will not comply either and they may in fact move on Biden and his stealers.
Even many old style honest Democrats will not be happy and there could be revolts among some Dem Senators and Reps who take the same view.
There are too many factors and elements that can bring down this plan.
Given all these facts, I cannot see how the Dem Biden-Harris steal can succeed.
Its like the July 1944 Stauffenberg Coup or the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion – failing to determine the extent of the opposition, badly thought thru & executed and lots of bungling – which means its destined to fail from the outset.
Accordingly, the game is up for the coup plotters and I urge them to surrender themselves in custody asap.
Correct Pepe. Biden is slated to serve as an embalmed, figure-head President. Hunter’s lap-top will be hauled out of FBI storage if the Big Guys steps out of line in any way.
The cabinet itself will be divided between the Obama instauration team who inherits the power roles (Treasury- Defense- State- Justice) and the female Obama figure in front of the public (Harris) . She gets the “light” stuff (Health, Education, etc). However, there will be fights, for example, Energy.
Meanwhile resentments will build in the population as the Predator Class will be busy with their cartels and rackets doing what they do best: PREYING. The end result being that the US will not be able to compete in the Tech War with China. Little by little the US will be nudged out of the Far East and Middle East.
And then, one day, the dollar collapses and the Empire goes “Poof”.
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
Harry Truman (Democractic President) in speech
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.”
– JFK
The Marxist managed to kill between 100 and 150 million people in Russia, China and Kampuchea. I wonder how many they hope for now, –this time on a global scale.