Shaken, Not Stirred

 

Stuff is happening. The videos of the January 6 events are coming out. Jeffrey Epstein’s client list is presumably coming out. X has broken the censorship. The polls are turning, and half the world is going into elections. You see a growing list of prominent people coming out as on the right, or moving from apostasy to faith. To cite one example, Dr. John Campbell, who seemed at the beginning of the pandemic such an establishment figure, has evolved into a radical, no longer trusting government. Or look at Elon Musk, previously the great champion of the left who was going to give us all electric cars.

I personally have found myself being contacted recently by old acquaintances who had previously informally written me off as a Catholic of intolerably “right-wing” opinions. And they’re acting like old friends.

I’ve been predicting it for ages; people are always slower on the uptake than I expect. But this year feels like the year. The wokery have lost the moral high ground, and have lost touch with reality to a point that is impossible not to mock. They are no longer cool. Soon no one will admit to ever having been on the left.

Someone has put together time-stamped video of the January 6 events, to show the overview. Of course, what they show is still selective, crafted to discredit the official “narrative.” But it seems clear that Trump had nothing to do with what went on at the Capitol, that it was organized and controlled by a few individuals, most obviously Ray Epps; that Epps and others orchestrating affairs were pretty obviously federal agents; that the police were undermanned and underequipped, either from incompetence or in order to create an incident. And the demonstrators, most not intending to do anything but demonstrate, but lacking their own leadership, look as though they just foolishly and impulsively fell into a trap. 

I suspect it was an insurrection, but an insurrection comparable to the Reichstag fire: an inside job, an insurrection by some party in the deep state exploited if not created to seize more power. 

As they have been doing since.

And the same, fairly obviously, could be said of the supposed “occupation” by the truckers in Canada. I cannot believe it was all organized by the government, but it was provoked, mischaracterized, and exploited to seize additional powers by those already in power. I mean, seriously: a slickly-produced Confederate flag at a Canadian truckers' rally? What significance would it have to a bunch of Canadian truckers? Southern pride? Yay slavery?

Or, indeed, the same looks suspiciously possible now of the Covid lockdowns; or even of Covid itself. No conspiracy theory seems too fanciful any longer. There are bad actors in government, and they want more power.

RFK Jr. suggests the real insurrection happened with the Kennedy assassination. The current upheavals are because they feel their power threatened by the common people. They fear Trump, because he is not their guy, not beholden to them and not susceptible to blackmail. They never expected him to win that election in 2016. Now they realize preserving the machinery of democracy is too dangerous. The people are no longer as easily led, and no longer to be trusted.

Scott Adams argues that, once you create an espionage organization within government, as the US did during WWII, and expanded for the Cold War, their seizure of power is inevitable. It is only a matter of time.

The default assumption is that it has already happened. Now we are seeing it, and it may be falling apart.