https://babalublog.com/2013/07/02/how-bacardi-sold-castro-to-the-cia-using-vilma-espin/

The default setting in the intelligence community is to assume without evidence that the Russians are helping people one doesn’t like, and then to write reports that give that impression without claiming to have the final truth about the matter, so that one can easily back away from criticism if the finding turns out not to be true. Were Arbenz and Mosaddeq really pro-USSR back in the fifties? Maybe, maybe not. This has been going on for a very long time.

It seems to me the red/blue divide is between the culture that still tries to uphold rule of law and another side that is grasping for absolute power.

It’s pretty clear that this is not the case today. We’re pretty soon going to end up like any developing country, where rules are for suckers who can’t afford powerful friends.

People keep doing what’s working for them, unless a cost is imposed. If one side wins by breaking all the norms and changing the rules wherever they can, they’re not going to stop until it hurts them.

It’s not going to matter what comes out in hearings if the media continues to act as stenographers for the Deep State and the Democrats, who control the administration of elections and decide which ballots get to count.

This kind of thing can only be countered by acting locally in concert with like-minded people to fix our institutions from the bottom up. Chasing media squirrels and hurling anathemas over who the R nominee should be is a waste of time, because whoever that person is, is already defeated by the math of the Electoral College and the takeover by the Dems of the ballot counting in the only states that could tip it.

Changing the guy at the top doesn’t do anything anyway. The Deep State will not be showing any more loyalty to DeSantis or Elder or any other non-orange alternative, the media will not be showing any more fairness.

By all means, lobby for your guy. Vote for whatever R emerges from the primary. Wait for the ballots to be counted until the Dems get the answer they want. And when that’s out of your system, work to elect people in your state, county, city, and school district who will take the fight to where it needs to go. This will mean changing the rules and firing the people who aren’t reliable. If they’re not willing or able to do that, they’re part of the problem. Strong and effective red states can mitigate a lot of this.

Thanks, fixed.

I think ya gotta fix that link to “ace” . . . did you mean . . .

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/404094.php

where you write “I found a comment” (third paragraph from the bottom)?

these intelligence officers in balance are good for little, im not going to say entirely useless, just largely so, how often have they protected our nations interests and how often have they protected their House, Clinton Obama or Biden,

I wouldn’t qualify any of these revelations as particularly “stunning”. This was pretty much what I and many other people assumed to be the case. It’d only be “stunning” for people who naively seem to believe that our government and media wasn’t deeply corrupt, biased, and amoral.

At this point it would only be stunning if there were any real consequences for the actors involved in this.