In an Alternate Reality, Not so Far, Far Away .....

In an alternate reality, not so far, far away ... An evil seed festers within the core of our representative democracy, rendering the actual will of “We the People” ineffective and wholly inconsequential.  The question of import:  Who will you choose to believe and what, if anything, will you “the People” choose to do about it?

Change your perspective and you change your LIFE .... and quite possibly the lives of those around you.

Here follows a fictional tale???

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"House of Cards in a Perfect Storm"

Dark Party Operative 1, a.k.a. “Collin”:  “Here’s the twenty I owe you. Trump beat the Mueller gauntlet after all. That was pretty unexpected, not to mention anti-climactic. The media my have over-spun that one a bit?”

Dark Party Operative 2, a.k.a. “John”:  “Perhaps, but the media these days seem to have perfected the art of spin.  Still, our efforts are not for naught; we’ve  managed to shadow the bulk of Trump’s first term in office with ongoing controversy and lingering hints of illegitimacy, all thanks to the 24-hour news cycle and our well-oiled propaganda arms in Academia and the mainstream media. And let us not forget to give the credit due to our liberally biased social-media.  Where would we be today without their able assistance in getting our message, and our message alone, out to the public?”

Collin:  “Yeah, but it’s still over a year until official 2020 election, and thus far “the people” seem less than enthused with the bulk of party candidates. Not to mention the fact our best hope --Biden-- is proving to be an absolute train-wreck.  And what happens if Republicans actually manage to get somewhere with respect to investigating the origins of the 'Russia Probe'?"

John:  “Not to worry, the Republicans are pretty straightforward when it comes to conducting investigations.  They always ensure they’ve dotted all their “i” ’s and cross all their “t” ’s before moving forward.  What’s more in-party bickering always seems to ensure they move a snail’s pace.”

Collin:  “Indeed, you’d think the Republicans would have figured out by now how to leverage the plethora of ‘technological’ information available for the purposes of heavy-handed persuasion to ensure Congressmen abide by the party’s approved agenda. Works like a charm; witness our party’s lock-step stance and voting record on almost every issue.”

John:  “[Laughs].. And yet, the public perception persists that the “Republicans are evil, while Democrats are merely stupid.” But, hey I’m not complaining the ongoing misconception works rather nicely to our advantage, wouldn’t you say? Besides, the Republicans don’t have the media to spin narratives for them. Thanks to our mainstream media the American notion of "innocent until proven guilty" no longer matters.  These days, with media spin in the 24-hour news cycle, all it takes is any semi-credible allegation of misconduct and you're automatically 'guilty' until you find some way to prove yourself innocent, and that always takes a long, long time --given our purposely bloated, ineffective bureaucracy-- and a lot of money.  From a financial standpoint alone, we win when financially cripple someone, whether or not we wind up winning from a prosecutorial standpoint."

Collin:  "Yeah, you've gotta love the power of the media in our modern age.  He who controls the media controls the narrative, and by default public perception.  It's a win-win for us! "May you live in interesting times", indeed."

John:  "Not to mention the fact we’ve got a strong first-line of defense with our loyalist well-embedded deep with the State Department, CIA, FBI and even more recently the DNI. These assets will keep us two steps ahead of whatever card the Republicans think they are about to ‘play’  next with respect to the ‘origins of the whole Russia probe’. Subterfuge alone will ensure Republicans never find the evidence they need in order to move forward with their ‘investigation’.  Besides, just look at the number of tenured Republican Congressmen who have announced their intention to resign in the next election cycle.  Anyone who had a clue where to look, not to mention how to look, will soon be out of our hair.”

Collin:  “It’s true, the Republicans have always had an enormous deficit when it comes to their long game. I still don’t like it, though. Public opinion can be fleeting, even when we manage to rig the polling data. We need the shadow of ‘corruption and illegitimacy’ in the Trump Administration to remain fresh within the minds of the American people leading up to and well into the official election season, especially if Trump keeps-up this break-neck pace for getting things DONE on behalf of “the people” --i.e., undoing everything our party operatives did to set the stage for the American people finally being ready and willing to accept 'socialism', the ultimate state of control under the guise of looking out for 'the people'."

John:  "Well, the whole class warfare thing always sling-shots the masses back in our direction.  Sanders and Warren are doing an effective job of trumpeting that call at least.  Unfortunately, the American public may be stupid (i.e., easily led), but you can’t leave them alone with their own thoughts for too long.  We need to get a new message/crisis stirring in the public opinion again, now that the whole Mueller probe outrage has effectively fizzled out.”

[Phone rings on John’s desk.  He quickly answers the call, putting his hand up in a “just a moment” air gesture towards Collin.  Upbeat at first, John’s enthusiasm for the machination master-minding at hand suddenly begins to fade.]

John: [Still on the phone call.] “Uh-huh, and you’re one-hundred percent certain on this.  Alright.  Thanks for the heads-up.  Keep me appraised of any further developments.  Bye.”  [Hangs up phone with an air of gravity washing over his heretofore cheerful countenance.]

Collin:  [Concerned.]  “Who was that?”

John: “My top informant over at State.”

Collin: “And? ....”

John:  “IG [Inspector General] Horowitz is mere week(s) away from releasing his report on investigations into the other side of ‘Russian Collusion’ ... meaning us.”

Collin:  “Shit, I’d all but forgotten about that. Anything our guys can do to throw a few wrenches into the process, maybe buy us some more time to spin-up some new details toward the end of furthering our established narrative [i.e., that Donald J.Trump is a corrupt and illegitimate President, one who is doing damage to the Office of the President as well as the country]?”

John:  “They’re working on it.  Of course, they’re also open to suggestions if we have any.”

Collin:  “Any of this going to lead back to Biden?”

John: “It might just and that’s not good, but maybe we can find a way to have that work to our party's advantage? So what do you suggest? We’ve beat the whole Mueller thing to a bloody pulp with our stick. Don’t think there’s much chance of restructuring any portion of that argument again. Besides the whole thing kind of left the media sitting with egg on their face. It’s time for a bright new, shiny distraction, and time is of the essence.  We have to get our story out first!”   

Collin:  “Well, have we got any juicy phone call leaks coming out of the White House of late? We could leak something out to the media and see if it sticks; if nothing else, it might buy some time until we can cook up a bigger scandal to fuel the ongoing narrative.”

John:  “No, those bozos in the Trump White House finally caught onto us and started keeping Trump’s calls with Foreign leaders in the coded system.  If we were to leak from there they’d have a pretty short -list of culprits to choose from when assigning blame.”

Collin: “What about an anonymous whistler-blower complaint? It’s worked before.”

John: “Again, they’d still have a short-list to work with and it might wind up backfiring, lending credence to whole the notion of a fully functioning ‘Deep-State’.”

Collin: “That’s right, I forgot that the whistle-blower complaint form explicitly specifies that the complaint must be in reference to “first-hand witness of alleged wrong-doing”.”

John:  “Unless ....”

Collin: “Unless, what?”

John:  “We change the whistle-blower complaint form.”

Collin: “How so?”

John:  “We simply remove the stated requirement for “first-hand witness” on the whistle-blower complaint form.  By removing this requirement we greatly expand the circle of potential ‘whistle-blowers’, thereby providing cover for our people on the inside.”

Collin: “That’s brilliant, actually.  It could just work.  Our guy suddenly becomes the hero-whistle-blower, instead of the nefarious leaker of confidential Presidential phone calls with foreign leaders.”

John: “An the media can really run with this, really hype it up, lending cover for Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff et al to back up Jerry Naddler in moving forward with the illusion of impeachment.”

Collin:  “Indeed, even if the whole ‘process’ never winds up going anywhere in the end, Congress can spend months circling the wagons, all for the sake of the  ‘survival of our Democracy’, while affording Democrats tons of media opportunities to air grievances and advance our Party’s talking points. We’ll blanket the media coverage, sucking all of the oxygen out the room.  The Republicans won’t be able to get a meaningful word in edge-wise.”

John: “I love it! But will Pelosi go for this?”

Collin: “Once I make a few phone calls, Nancy won’t have any other choice but to move forward with the whole impeachment charade.  Sure she’ll try to stave off an actual impeachment vote on the House Floor for as long as possible, but in the end that won’t really matter. The entire point of this exercise is to make the American people think that Donald J. Trump is an illegitimate President, unworthy of the Office of the President of the United States and moreover that Trump poses the gravest threat to ‘precious democracy.’ [Laughs at the notion the people actually still believe they have any say in the matters of government].  That way, when they close the curtain on the voting booth in November 2020, no decent American with any sense of conscience could possibly find their way to voting for a second term of President Trump, right?”

John:  “My only concern is that U.S. Government forms usually require a “date of change” record for any changes made to official forms. So how do we get around that one?”

Collin:  “Simple, we’ll chalk it up to a clerical error, whereby the change-date is ‘accidentally’ omitted.  By the time they get to the bottom of things, if they ever do, the damage will already have been done.”

John:  “Alright, I’ll see to making the necessary changes to the whistle-blower form.  You make your phone calls and identify the target conversation/whistle-blower and we’ll get the team working on the actual text for the complaint.  We need this one to be a home-run. I think the public might be growing wary of all of our empty-to-date promises that the Democratic Party can deliver the actual dirt necessary for impeachment.”

Collin:   "I'm on it ... [Picks up phone to dial]."

John:  "And don't forget to somehow tie AG Barr into the complaint.  If we can cast aspersions in Barr's direction, we might be able to force him to recuse himself --just like Sessions-- taking the wind out of the sail for investigations into the 'origins of the Russia probe' ... kill two birds with one little stone."

[To Be Continued .....]