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GAME THEORY: STATE OF PLAY

You might want to listen up for this one.

I’ll be touching on the subjects Trump, the GOP and the Global Mob have been avoiding on the run up to impeachment and justice - so we can block their last, desperate moves.
First, remember that while the American political system is driving inexorably toward impeaching Trump, he is but a symptom of the real crisis - a coup against civilization by oligarchs around the world looking to rid themselves of liberal democracy.
Second, the real issue to which we must always return is MONEY.

There are two economies: the above-board one in which you participate and pay taxes, and the SECOND one, which is largely secret and based on illegal activities, offshoring banking, and tax evasion.
The tax evasion part of the second economy is the most damaging, but the least ugly. One of the reasons the Global Mob - which comprises gangbangers, accountants, politicians and more - needs PR services is to conceal the ugly source of its wealth.
The ugly part is comprised of cash flow from industrialized suffering: human trafficking, rape, forced labor, fraud, addiction, environmental degradation, and more.

That second economy pays for Putin, Trump, Erdogan, and every tinpot Mob boss now in charge of countries.
While the U.S. House Intelligence Committee has been focused on the Trump-Ukraine attack on democracy, it has gone as far as it can, which is more than enough to impeach Trump.

The GOP can’t even bear to *hear* these truths in public- much less what underlies them.
The GOP - and similar parties around the world - know that the source of their power and position is either too ugly to examine, or they know damn well who they represent and that they have to defend them or face nasty consequences.
P.S. Don't for a second think that this is about Left vs Center vs Right.

When it's trillions at stake, Bad Guys don't leave their flanks unpurchased.

Every party has its issues. In some parties, they have nothing *but* Mob problems.
The current moment: in many countries around the world - Israel, Brazil, the UK, and many more - true corruption, its connection, and its support structure are ready to burst through to the public consciousness.

Get ready, because this System is going to fight back HARD.
Fact is, since the all-too-revealing—and accidental—election of Donald Trump, the System has still slogged forth, trying its old tricks to cover up their ugly secrets:

Divide people, push gauzy, positive false narratives, smear the reputations of truth tellers.
It didn’t work. It couldn’t work.

Fact is, these corrupt politicians, PR whores, and financiers only got here because of that toolkit. It can’t *also* get them out of trouble.
That doesn’t mean they won’t try.

Just like the GOP tried to smear Lt. Col. Vindman, Gordon Sondland (?!), and Dr. Fiona Hill (suicidally!) with the same partisan script as for democrats - they will try their old toolkit one last time. Good and hard and DUMM.
Here’s what to expect now that the Bad Guys cannot escape exposure: all of the same, but with a couple of added, likely hilarious features.

Ready?
Divisive, provocative narratives, aka “provokatsiya” - race, gender, class, and every other wedge issue they’ve used for decades to get us fighting while they steal everything not nailed down.
Before anyone tries the "Oh, we can focus on taking down the Global Mob while *also* falling for the same divisive politics as past decades," trope: sorry, no you can't.

There's a reason Team Bad Guy uses this trick: IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM.

Focus on the Mob.
Anyone talking divisive issues instead of “Global Mob” until we get them out of power is playing right into provokatsiya.

Example: gender provocation, which I suspect is why Dr. Hill so expertly “protected” Rep. Stefanik. She knows the Russian playbook -and how to fight it.
P.S. Why would the GOP make some bullshit "feminist" issue around Rep. Stefanik?

Look at the 2019 election returns: they're losing suburban female voters. This is a ham-fisted way to try to appeal them while also changing the subject away from MOB. Classic.
Then there’s one last attempt at normalization of the Mob. PR whores will take to the mainstream media and blame various people for “being interested in populism.”

In reality, they just wanted health insurance and jobs, but PR whores will say they asked for dictators.
Lastly, there is already a final attempt to smear the reputations of truth tellers as “conspiracy theorists” pushing a hoax. The bots and trolls showed up right after yesterday’s hearing and Netanyahu’s indictments. Sad, but predictable. It won’t work.
Here’s what Team Bad Guy cannot prevent:

The Mt. Everest-sized piles of court admissible evidence that every scam has left EVERYWHERE ON EARTH, about everything from human trafficking to tax evasion to election interference to money laundering.
Like cancer cells, this illicit system of putrescent corruption only knows one thing: growth.

The Global Mob managed to take over so much around the world…that they can’t hide anything.
And in the last three years, they desperately tried to consolidate their conquests while TRUMP, WHO WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PRESIDENT, KEEPS F**KING TALKING, WILL NOT SHUT UP, NO MATTER HOW GUILTY HE’S MAKING EVERYONE LOOK.
Here’s a prediction - and I think I have pretty good track record these past three years:

You’re about to learn why these politicians are owned. As their handlers burn them to toast.
Crooks are between the Mob and a prison place.

When they’re no longer useful, get marshmallows and chocolate. I'll bring the Graham crackers.
Crimes against citizens will be revealed. Schemes to defraud democracy will be revealed.

The global interconnections will be revealed.
With each revelation, there will be new panic and predictable reliance on a useless toolkit for a bygone age.

And we will see that which must repaired in democratic society - to leave for our children.
So there’s good news and bad news. The bad news: every revelation will be *another* institution we need to rebuild.

The good news: the revelations are inevitable, and we get a chance to make it better for future generations.
We’ve got this, patriots. Remember that as we enter another bumpy ride. Remember that through the holidays. Listen hard, practice self-care, and lash yourself to the mast of your most cherished values. They will see you to safe harbor.
Let freedom ring and let Justice rain down. In every nation. Not one single person left out.

Sorry: not LET freedom ring. MAKE it ring. Get to work. History has its eyes on us. Has the whole time.

Love ya.
-EG
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