In the course of human affairs it isn’t uncommon for the front man or woman to not actually be the person that’s making the decisions. Sometimes this is a good thing, and sometimes this is not a good thing. Sometimes there’s tacit approval of the situation, where the brokers of power are aware that it’s really the Queen that’s tactical, and the King is just nice to look at in processions where velvet robes are customary.
Sometimes though, the power behind the throne is clandestine,. Rasputin mad monk types who lurk in the shadows, and may or may not be copulating with the Czarina. More often than not the aforementioned power brokers disapprove of lurkers, and the Grigori types end up shot, poisoned and thrown into the Neva river in the winter.
It’s still winter in Washington and I wonder from time to time if it’s Miller time, and if Steven has a date with the Potomac. But that’s wishful thinking, and to be honest I’m not even sure that Herr Miller has the ear of the house of Orange Emperor.
It could be another Steve. One with hair.
Or, it could be the Vulpes voices that clamor for the attention of the sultan of sleaze with adoring approbation.
But, I think it’s more likely that even dementia hasn’t diminished L’ Orange’s preference for transactional arrangements, and so I think it’s probable that he’ll be your bitch if you make him rich. That’s the presidential version of the art of the deal.
So, once again, like all things American, it’s a requirement to follow the money if you really want to know what the fuck is going on. I should add the qualifying footnote that following the money is age old wisdom and not exclusively an American nuance. However, right at this moment it appears the American president is open for business, and I find it astonishing that somehow he’s managed to normalize the concept of pay for play.
Astonishing because the brazenness of the extended Trump family venality should make it very easy to follow the money. But before that happens it appears that one of the balance of power branches of the American government has to decide to say enough is enough, and actually acquire some documentation to corroborate the obvious.
I think if I were L’Orange that I would also dedicate as much energy and lawlessness as possible to rigging the mid-terms to prevent inquiring minds from looking for Jared and thick and thin Donny’s bank statements. L’Orange requires a Duma with permanency. Hand picked by none other than Donald and an assortment of wealth whisperers.
A voting populous makes this challenging, but when the only other option is dethroning and possibly prison, then the situation invites creativity with little consideration for moral or legal constraints.
Creative things like starting a Persian war, oddly enough requested by both the tribes of Ishmael and Isaac. A war of distraction so you don’t have to release (as I heard a comedian say the other day)…………… the pedo-files. Also one mustn’t forget that Bibi has video and the Sheiks have oily riyal’s, both of which capture the fleeting attention of L’Orange.
So what’s next for America?
I suspect that the real powers behind the throne are losing sleep as they grapple with the most fundamental problem for tyrants, which is how to keep a grip on power. Each historical example of this dilemma has situational distinctions depending on the particular political system they’re trying to manipulate. In the case of our Southern neighbor the schemers in question are off to a reasonably good start. They own the supreme court and have succeeded in having that august body declare the emperor exempt from nemo est supra leges. They have also managed to convince enough voters that women leaders are incompetent, and that democrats are either uppity immigrants or communists.
Which leaves old rich white men, harpy white women and the occasional token black dude that wants to Uncle Tom role play.
So Republicans, or as I like to think of the them the fellating faction. They’re all good at it too, mostly I think because they don’t seem to have a gag reflex. Not for the stench of hypocrisy and corruption, or for the metaphorical ramming of policy down their throats. It’s curious how a bagful of money is like a spoonful of sugar in helping that disgusting medicine go down.
Chaos helps too.
Mao understood the concept and is credited with the quote there is great chaos under heaven-the situation is excellent. Like most quotes his exact words are debatable. A letter to the chairman’s wife suggests he actually said he was determined to create great disorder under heaven for the ultimate purpose of creating order under heaven.
Sounds inscrutable no?
A western interpretation would probably be less mysterious. Something to the effect of burn it all down, and then build it again.
Regardless of Eastern or Western wisdom there appears to be some consensus that chaos is desirable and then the power people do two things. They claim that only they can harness the chaos, and then they get to decide what the new structure looks like after they’ve burned down the old one.
Trump certainly has the chaos part handled. I’m not even sure if it’s deliberate or if the man has always had an innate ability to surround himself with fuck up prodigies. Either way the cast of chaos characters is long and strong, and even after one of them develops the gag reflex I mentioned a while back, there’s a seemingly endless list of replacements. That says more about human character than Don’s vetting process and that makes the reality even more disheartening.
But chaos is chaos regardless of how you get there.
So, Don has to eventually declare an emergency to manage the anarchy he’s created.
That particular move, and the timing of said move is the part that’s causing sleepless nights in the bedrooms of the wealth whisperers. It’s I think obvious that mid-term elections are paramount to any strategy. If the elections can’t be rigged towards the republican dumas, then they need to be declared illegitimate. I’m inclined to think that a majority of Americans might object to the house, senate or president deciding that their votes don’t count unless the republicans win. I could be wrong, but I think that somebody better come up with some voting fraud evidence that doesn’t activate that gag reflex I keep mentioning.
But for the entirety of the reign of Don, the American peasants have been conditioned to accept blatant bullshit, and so far only some of them seem bothered. So conditioning acts like a shock absorber and eventually you can say shit like Haitians are eating pets, we’re only deporting rapists and we’ve got trillions in foreign tariff tribute, and people just shrug and see if anyone has messaged them on Facebook.
The shrug is mostly because they aren’t personally affected. But when gas prices go up, so too will American awareness that something isn’t right. When that happens I expect the storyline from Mar a Lago to be that the problem at the pumps is the fucking Muslim brownish Ayatollah guy’s fault, and so we’ve joined up with the Jews to make it right.
It helps too if you own all the media companies.
Because it’s entirely possible that your average American might consider that bombing the place where all the cheap oil is located, might be part of the reason for five dollars a gallon suddenly happening. So somehow you’re left with saturation from right slanted media and stupid rules of engagement Petey, that the fucking Iranians started this shit.
And we’re fixing it.
Also we might have to suspend the mid-terms or people are going to have to start riding the bus because the radical leftist democrats aren’t patriots. Those non-patriots don’t want the price at the pumps to go down, and they’re cheating in elections to advance socialism and the end of white America.
I really believe that some version of the above story is eventually going to air on Fox and truth social. The money manipulators are likely as equally confident. But what I don’t understand is exactly how all of them are going to prosper under a new non-voting America. I guess those issues are sort it out later challenges. As long as most of the constraints around the wealthy are removed then the situation is manageable. Restraints like the law, from monopolies fixing prices to actual criminality. Gifts bestowed upon them by L’Orange in return for a mafia like favor or a percentage for protection.
Because if you’re an ultra wealthy whisperer, then common people problems are uncommon for you and so you really don’t give much of a fuck about the price of eggs, or gas. Unless you own the oil companies or the farms.
Then you care, but in a way that has nothing in common with Mr. and Mrs. America tasked with filling their tanks in their minivans on the way to I-hop for after church omelets.
So back to the title. Who’s in charge?
Don is going to sign the paperwork but the money is in charge. The whisperers just need to decide on the path forward. If they can formulate a plan to keep getting wealthier, and they can do it as well or better without elections, then I’m guessing America should start envisioning life where voting is staged or a memory.
You just have to listen to the noise from the airwaves. Because money talks.