For those wondering at the title, it comes from this:
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
Robert A. Heinlein
In my defense, I'm not even a fake fortune teller. (Though I won't object at all if you cross my palm with silver. Have I mentioned these are fundraising days?)
What I am is someone who has an uncomfortable little imp at the back of her head. If I'm similar to a Heinlein character in that it is Friday. Why Friday? Well, remember the scene where her boss calls her in the middle of the night and asks her questions, before she has the time to think and her "guesses" are correct?
Well, the minute I read that scene my head went "ting" and I thought "that's what I do, or would be, if I could just randomly rabbit hole from subject to subject and read research and news and fiction and-- without limit." Even at that time, with "just" books (but I was a much faster reader back then, I should add, and even going to college, taking extra courses and working I read at least one full book a day and often much more.) or later, with access to a library, and with full awareness of how controlled publishing was, I'd get these uncomfortable "tings" in the back of my head and know conventional wisdom was completely wrong. Sometimes, digging after the fact even told me why it was wrong. Other times I couldn't put my finger on it, I just "knew" it was. (And that's a horrible feeling, kind of like having an itch where you can't reach.)
All of it became much stronger with the internet. Much. Like.... Through the roof. Both because it gives me a better opportunity to feed the elephant child, and even when I'm not avoiding writing (These days, TBF I don't have that much time to avoid writing. I'm usually either writing or cleaning/cooking/planting/weeding. Or looking after DIL's quail, though lately she's mostly done all of that.) I read an awful lot of ... stuff. Partly because I am a compulsive reader/can't do anything else, like, say, cook, without also reading. Partly because I'm ADD AF (Which makes me wonder if this is the evolutionary advantage of ADD brains.) So on any given day I'll read history, news, an article on some obscure craft like how to make rosaries out of dried rose petals (you only think I'm joking), ten posts screaming about the next great doom, a bunch of email lists some by highly specialized people others by my delusional lefty colleagues who have forgotten I'm on the list (yes, I know, this might get me kicked out. If they remember my email. LOL.) To which I might add I listen to people's conversations with the shamelessness only a writer is capable of. People walking by my yard while I'm weeding, people talking on the cell phone outside the pharmacy, people arguing on whether to buy the discount beef or the chicken in the grocery isle... You get the point.
And sometimes something causes me to go digging through like a deranged rabbit which is why I can honestly tell you I now believe there were humans in the Americas as far back as 100k years ago, or further (We're a curious ape.) BUT I don't believe they were enlightened; some kind of great matriarchy; gentle carers for Gaia; superior to our civilization. Whether they might have been "civilized" I leave for a future in which we know a heck of a lot more, and perhaps have less crazy academic establishment. (Which means till the afterlife, when I hope I get to KNOW stuff. Or maybe not. some of it will horrify me.)
Oh, add to that that I live with an ADD AF husband who not only falls down his own rabbit holes BUT also repeats whatever he researched lately at me during meals. (Not work. Just crazy stuff. Like the latest was Victorian Mass Murderers. Look.... I don't KNOW why. Another time and for about a week it was (I swear I'm not making this up) Ways to Make Cheese (he's never been near a dairy. He's never known anyone who ran a dairy. In our last house in Colorado some people pastured cows in the undeveloped 400 acres behind us and older DIL and I didn't know how to explain to Dan what had happened to all the cows in fall -- including the cute little calves he'd named -- without breaking his heart. I mean he used to watch them through binoculars and named them.)) He often listens to podcasts or reads stuff while puttering around the house, and then SOMEONE has to hear about it all. I'm the only one in the house. I'm someone.
And then... And then I wake up in the middle of the night, as the imp in the back of my brain stomps his little foot and goes "But everyone is wrong." And then I play Cassandra. And sometimes I'm even right. (Oh, not every time. I was so wrong in 2016! To be fair, though, I was in accord -- then -- with a substantial minority of people to the right of Lenin. Not against everyone.)
Anyway, right now the hot topic in every blog, even on the left is "When will Biden step down." and "Will he be killed if he won't."
I have bad -- or good, who knows -- news. The imp of absolute certainty in the back of my head is saying "He won't step down UNLESS a very unlikely thing takes place." "If he dies, it is either a deuced clever hit, the kind I don't actually believe the left can carry out right now, or truly natural causes."
So, how do I explain this? I've been noodling on it for days and keeping my mouth shut. And then when I figured it out, I still didn't know how to explain it.
Except.... hey, you know, any of you know your Gibbons? The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? Never mind that they're lousy history (truly) some of the things are broadly true.
Like the fact that whenever one of the truly horrible, crooked emperors fell, everyone in their circle got killed.
Look, it's a human thing. It's very akin to mob wars and dynasties, I understand. (I don't know. I don't read much mob anything, certainly not fiction. I might be the last person alive in the wild, my age, who hasn't watched The Godfather.)
That is our model for the current Democrat party. Some of the GOP too, kind of, or would be if they had any power that's not by attaching to the democrats, and if the media ran the same cover for them they run for the democrats. What I'm saying is the GOP isn't inherently virtuous, but they've suffered different evolutionary pressures than the dems. And therefore the result is different.
But the dems have now, increasingly and over the last 100 years or so been the darlings of the mass-media-entertainment establishment, meaning that they were never exposed, their bad side never shown, and they never got called to task for anything from vices to outright crimes.
They also have to a great extent controlled the voting through machine politics and outright voter fraud, with increasing ability every election.
What does this mean? It means that it have them the ability to grow into a mob-like elite where the power plays are all within the party. And they are ruthless and brutal. (Also often incompetent. I'm still convinced that Paul Pelosi was the victim of a hit, and I wonder by whom, and how he survived, and what deal he made to stay alive.)
But wait, Sarah, isn't that a reason for Biden to meet the Almighty personally in a month or two at most? We don't understand.
Well, it would be a very good reason. And if their dome of untouchability from the media were still in place, this would be true. Also, if Biden were alone and isolated.
Biden isn't alone and isolated. Guys, alone and isolated the walking corpse would never make it out of bed in the morning.
Instead, Biden -- on purpose or not -- came in surrounded by his own clique. And before you tell me it's Obama's clique... waggles hand. I think a lot of members of both are the same, and he inherited some of Obama's consiglieri, but you're not in fact going to convince me that Obama was more self-actuated than Biden. Oh, sure, in his life maybe, but not in governing. Over and over again we figured out Obama was just a puppet. And possibly a construct. (Likely a construct, says the imp.)
I think -- and if you pause and think for a moment you will too -- that Biden was supposed to step down to spend more time with his family two years in, tops. But Cackling Kamala is.... well, they can't even pretend she's all there. I think they expected her to be like Obama, and plausible. But also--
But also someone or some ones on Biden's consiglieri turned out to be more capable of bare knuckle fighting, and far less willing to bow out than the people picking the ticket and supporting it expected.
Look, I'm not going to guess who. Could be Dr. Jill, but I kind of doubt it, on account of she ain't very bright. Could be Hunter, but guys? The man's genetic donors aren't that bright, and he plays with mind altering stuff all the time. Could be anyone else in the clique, really. But someone there a) knows where the bodies are buried. b) has enough power/ability to command "death squads" at least equal to Hillary Clinton's.
I'm not going to guess because it could be anything, and at this point you have to realize the Praetorian guard er... three letter agencies are in play too, and not all on the same side either, but all broadly on the "democrat" side, because that's the side that gives them unlimited power. So it could be someone within those, not necessarily the official head.
Hell, for all I know, Kamala was picked as a compromise candidate between two powerful and equally murderous factions, and Kamala's is just not as strong. Though together they're obviously stronger than Hillary Clinton's, and boy, does she have a machine.
What I do know is that they haven't been able to dislodge the corpse. They haven't been able to make him stop breathing in a plausible enough way. And they haven't been able to make him step down.
The step down is out. You may -- as my grandmother would put it -- take your little horse out of the rain now. Waiting for that one is a moot point. Ain't gonna happen.
Why not? Because if he steps down, his entire faction is at risk. And given how corrupt they've been revealed to be, and how much has come out about the Biden Crime Family while they're still in control of the entire apparatus of state? The best they and their faction can hope for is that they'd be ruthlessly persecuted if Biden stepped down. More so because they know their own side is ALREADY trying to underbus them to cleanse themselves of "sin" by throwing it all on them.
These people are quite literally fighting for their lives. Because the BEST that will happen to them is persecution and imprisonment. However, death is far more likely as soon as it can be contrived without being glaringly obvious, because they all know things. Even if they're innocuous things in their circles, they probably can be made much bigger/will still shock the mundanes.
If Biden steps down, most of the people deep in his administration, including a substantial number of those pulling the strings will die. Oh, accidents. Suicide. Strange illnesses. We no longer do the praetorian guard rampaging through the palace and killing everything including babies. We're not ROMAN. But die they will. And they know enough of the inside mechanisms that they'll never do it.
I'd guess condition ONE for them to let the puppet bow out is that they get whatever the equivalent of a safe conduct and promise of never being harmed. Of course, that would require them to TRUST the other dems. Anyone see that? Because if you do, you are more trusting than I and a beautiful soul, you sweet summer child, you.
I mean, it COULD happen. But I rate it as a marginal chance at best. AND if it happens it will be only if they find another puppet the Biden faction feels as confident with. I'd say if that were possible, it would ALREADY have happened. And it would depend on the Kamala faction accepting it, too.
So, the death. Same conditions apply. How well would you guard the life of someone on whose life yours depended? And if you were a crooked mafia-like cabal, how many fail safes would you have in place?
All of this is particularly delicious, because I believe the only reason Trump is running is to stay in the public eye and avoid being Epsteined. If they'd left him alone, he'd have let DeSantis or whomever take it. But he can't, because if he falls off the public eye the dems off him, openly or not. (The fact they haven't managed to tells you how much more difficult it would be to off Joe with INTERNAL factions militating against it.)
Look, in the 35th century someone is writing a bestselling series about this time, and it's called something like "A time of knives" or "The clash of factions" or whatever. And I'd appreciate the artistry of it all far more if I weren't stuck living here.
BUT as it is my bet is: no step down. IF there is a step down expect Hunter and close family and some VERY SURPRISING people to take off to non-extraditing countries just ahead/just after.
No death, unless it's natural, or a really gifted assassination, of the kind that only happens in books. OR of course an in your face lucky hit of the kind Gavrillo Princip pulled off. And if the last one is the case, well.... It will make WWI look like the Teddy Bear Picnic. This time, the rerun will be WWI like global and combined with ACW. ON YOUR .... not movie screen, alas. But natural or really gifted assassin? They'll be prevented by all means possible, including but not limited to animatronic preserved corpse (Come on, guys, RGB, remember?) or banned therapies that are much akin to necromancy.
No, I think we're in for a very interesting time. Possibly terminally -- but briefly -- interesting.
It's The Godfather meets Weekend at Bernies meets Imperial Rome. All against the background of technologies that make the outing of plots FAR more likely, and a populace that's getting restive and frankly pissed off, worldwide.
Hold on to the edge of your seats. We're riding into a hurricane.
And -- as RAH always advised -- keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
Most of all, though, be not afraid. This kind of corruption is self-defeating in the end. And they're more of a danger to their competitors than to us. We just have to get to the other side.
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