We are now out of yarn.
(2016) Idiots were even suggesting that “What if Trump is a Stalking Horse for the Clintons?” or even the more prosaic, “A Manchurian candidate astride a stalking Trojan horse!”
“A stalking-horse bid is an initial bid on a bankrupt company’s assets from an interested buyer chosen by the bankrupt company. From a pool of bidders, the bankrupt company chooses the stalking horse to make the first bid. This method allows the distressed company to avoid low bids on its assets.”
Attacks on the cost of Air Force One were a prelude to destabilizing the stock positions of major MIC companies on subsequent vulnerable programs (F-35).
Even a fool like POTUS45*, a stalking horse as subject or object, can also be a useful idiot/idiocy under a strategy of tension (SoT).
Never more often than in 2016 has the “puppet” meme had more literal manifestation.
Disclosure and revelation under transparency are important elements of anti-capitalist strategy even as there are tactical requirement that require discretion for insurgents.
False consciousness and decoys are operative in the recent immigration policy Executive Order and that the WH chose to ignore DHS guidance suggests more about the strategy of tension at work.
“If a state of tension exists, the effects of the decision are always greater, partly because a greater force of will and a greater pressure of circumstances manifest themselves therein…Now the real use which we derive from these reflections is the conclusion that every measure which is taken during a state of tension is more important and more prolific in results than the same measure could be in a state of equilibrium, and that this importance increases immensely in the highest degrees of tension.”[2] Von Clausewitz On War 3:18.
The Ermächtigungsgesetz or Enabling Act has certainly seen its echo in the US Patriot Act among other measures enacted in the first week of POTUS45*. The week’s Executive Orders from the WH are pretexts for a sharpened, enabling axe.
Bannon is the head locust of an Islamophobic Swidden capitalism, not so much Schumpeter’s “perennial gale” but an imperfect storm in which we ride not a business cycle but a long wave.
Trump is the galloping stalking horse or runner’s mount as the bison go off a cliff. More importantly, it is about extraction of profit from the surpluses of production/accumulation of wealth under chaotic and potentially chaotic conditions. Bannonism will continue to be useful to decipher, however indirectly.
And we’re at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict, of which if the people in this room, the people in the church, do not bind together and really form what I feel is an aspect of the church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs, but to fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that’s starting, that will completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.
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