2020: The Deep Political Realities
“MUCH WAS DECIDED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN” —Jenny Holzer, Truisms, 1977–1979
Reactions to the essay at the end of my book, The Deep State in the Heart of Texas, titled “The Deep Political Realities of the 2016 U.S. General Election,”1 have given me insight into the cognitive biases held by its readers and the way we tend to take politics at face value based on stubborn political myths. Many are biased against Hillary Clinton. Others are biased against Donald Trump. Both biases are irrelevant to my thesis, except that they prevent readers from comprehending it.
In short, my thesis can be summarized this way: What was left of U.S. government by 1963, after the rise of the post-war Deep State, ceased to exist entirely upon President Kennedy’s death. What replaced it can best be called an assassinocracy. Trump is merely the latest manifestation of that usurpation, and Clinton was aware of it all along.
The assassinocracy is what created the lies voters believe. It is what has prevented candidates from addressing the deep political issues of our time. The takeover was secured with the assassinations of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy, the last political leaders who directly addressed them. The assassinocracy is the thing to understand, and the thing to stop if you want a legitimate election. As John Judge taught us, we won’t have a democracy until we resolve the Kennedy assassination.2
Clinton haters tell me they are upset about Clinton atrocities, as if I am not. It would be insane not to be upset about the Clintons, or with anyone seriously seeking power within a Deep State faction. My essay on the Clintons is not advocacy but explanatory, as I wrote near its beginning.
Electing the Unelectable
This question gets to the root of my thesis: If you believed that the only solution was to gain the powers of the presidency, as RFK did, how would you realistically do it in this assassinocracy?
I first drafted notes for that essay in 2007 for personal reference only. I updated and expanded it starting in late 2015, sensing its time may have come. It had, but for too few. I finished it in June 2016, two years before my book’s publication. I wrote this sequel based on my observations since the election. My thoughts have evolved, but nothing has happened that contradicts my basic concepts. Quite the contrary.
From my perspective, Hillary was allowed to believe her double-agent strategy was working until election day. It was evident to me, however, that her Deep State enemies would stop her and use Trump, like they did Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, to move their preferred, but unelectable, operatives into power and then, as with Watergate and the Reagan assassination attempt, eliminate Trump.
I said after the primaries it was not about Trump, it was about his vice presidential nominee, and after the convention, I said it was about Mike Pence. It is the Reagan-Bush model and the Bush-Cheney model, all of which are corollaries of the Kennedy-LBJ, Eisenhower-Nixon, and FDR-Truman (Pauley Coup) models.3 Trump is the culmination of the Eisenhower-Nixon model. He was used to get the unelectable into power.
Voters don’t matter in the assassinocracy except to the extent their votes can be manipulated to help steal elections or to prevent their theft. Donald Trump was “elected” solely for the purpose of being removed after being used primarily to prevent release of the JFK files. There are dozens of ways to easily remove him. The only question is: Why do it via Russiagate? Of course, the answer is because it is a pretext for war, the ultimate goal being control of China.*
Chasing Hillary
In 2017, the deadline for the release of all the JFK assassination files, it mattered a lot who was president. Jimmy Carter, during the HSCA investigation, and Bill Clinton, during the ARRB investigation, helped damage those Deep State conspirators. Both presidents paid a price. That Deep State faction was ready for Hillary in advance.
Barack Obama surrendered to their threats. As reported by Ray McGovern in 2013, Obama asked supporters privately, when they complained about his reneging on his progressive campaign promises, “Don’t you remember what happened to Dr. King?”4
Bernie Sanders was the Democratic Party’s sheepdog in the Clintons’ attempted full spectrum dominance. As Bruce A. Dixon reported, “... the sheepdog candidate is charged with herding activists and voters back into the Democratic fold who might otherwise drift leftward and outside of the Democratic Party.”5 But they underestimated the fervor that became “Bernie or Bust.” The fact that there is still no viable third party being founded on that fervor speaks volumes about Bernie’s sheepdog role. Nobody got to Bernie. No one had to. He knew his role and played it well. But it went too well, unexpectedly, and that made it easier for the spooks to hack the needed votes for Trump.
As it turned out, Hillary was no more fooled than I. When told on election night of Trump’s upset victory by Campaign Manager Robby Mook, as reported by Amy Chozick in her book, Chasing Hillary, “Hillary didn’t seem all that surprised. ‘I knew it. I knew this would happen to me … ,’ Hillary said, now within a couple of inches of his face. ‘They were never going to let me be president’.”6
The Con Men
By discrediting Trump, Robert Mueller is not doing the right thing any more than did the Electoral College, Congress, or the Supreme Court, all of whom could have stopped or help stop Trump’s presidency. Nor is Trump trying to stop Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. If Trump really wanted to discredit Mueller, all he would have to do is use his JFK Act powers to release the files that are being illegally withheld or redacted since Oct. 26, 2017. Mueller is Richard Bissell’s great nephew, and his wife is Charles Cabell’s cousin.7 Bissell and Cabell were fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs and are alleged JFK conspiracy suspects. At the JFK Centennial, the larger defensive effort of the assassinocracy was to prevent files of any substance from being released under the JFK Records Collection Act and prevent resisters from regaining power. The larger offensive effort was perpetual war and profit. The rest is, as “X” told Garrison in Oliver Stone’s film JFK, “just scenery for the public. ... keeps ‘em guessing like some kind of parlor game. Prevents ‘em from asking the most important question: Why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up?”
In an assassinocracy, voting for purist policies gets you only more assassination. The death of RFK proved being the lesser evil is necessary for survival. How else does one become a post-RFK president? That role applies to the Kennedys as well as the Clintons. Neither the candidates nor the election process can be taken at face value. We take it at face value because, “People see what they want to see. It’s what con artists prey on,” as fictional detective Richard Castle said.8 Confidence artists work together to gain your confidence, if not your trust. Maria Konnikova explained further in her book, The Confidence Game:
“The confidence game starts with basic human psychology. From the artist’s perspective, it’s a question of identifying the victim (the put-up): Who is he, what does he want, and how can I play on that desire to achieve what I want? It requires the creation of empathy and rapport (the play): An emotional foundation must be laid before any scheme is proposed, any game set in motion. Only then does it move to logic and persuasion (the rope): the scheme (the tale), the evidence and the way it will work to your benefit (the convincer), the show of actual profits. And like a fly caught in a spider’s web, the more we struggle, the less able to extricate ourselves we become (the breakdown). By the time things begin to look dicey, we tend to be so invested, emotionally and often physically, that we do most of the persuasion ourselves. We may even choose to up our involvement ourselves, even as things turn south (the send), so that by the time we’re completely fleeced (the touch), we don’t quite know what hit us. The con artist may not even need to convince us to stay quiet (the blow-off and fix); we are more likely than not to do so ourselves. We are, after all, the best deceivers of our own minds. At each step of the game, con artists draw from a seemingly endless toolbox of ways to manipulate our belief. And as we become more committed, with every step we give them more psychological material to work with.”9
The Front Man
For those who didn’t know already exactly who and what Donald Trump is, Sidney Blumenthal reminded us in his article, “A Short History of the Trump Family,” (London Review of Books, Feb. 16, 2017): “His genius, Blumenthal wrote, was to promote his clownishness, so that the headlines … became a PR platform … for an American frontman. His salvation was a double play of a con.”10
Trump is the clownish frontman his fellow Deep State con artists want you to focus on while they take you for everything you have. We are not the first country to be hapless marks in this con game by Trump and his gang. There is an historical example.
Those who have forgotten that example might naively ask, “What might have happened had the vox populi in Weimar or Nazi Germany spoken up?” Those who remember that history will answer, “Exactly what did happen.”
As Hitler scholar Ron Rosenbaum wrote in his Feb. 5, 2017 Los Angeles Review of Books article, “Against Normalization: The Lesson of the ‘Munich Post’,” it is the same thing happening now, and “The playbook is Mein Kampf.”11
Upon consulting Hitler’s first post-war biographer, Alan Bullock, Rosenbaum discovered, “Hitler was a ‘mountebank,’ Bullock exclaimed, a con man who played the Jewish card, using it to whip up rowdy enthusiasm and give the impression of a movement.”12
“As it turned out,” Rosenbaum continued, “Hitler used the tactics of bluff masterfully, at times giving the impression of being a feckless Chaplinesque clown, at other times a sleeping serpent, at others yet a trustworthy statesman. The Weimar establishment didn’t know what to do, so they pretended this was normal. They ‘normalized’ him.”13
Rosenbaum said Hitler “saw that this tactic of playing the fool, the Chaplinesque clown, had worked over and over again, worked like a charm. It kept the West off balance. They consistently underestimated him and were divided over his plans (‘What does Hitler really want?’). The tactic became irresistible, as repeated success always does.”14
We didn’t take him seriously because of all the clownish acts and gaffes we thought would cause him to drop out of the race. Except these gaffes were designed to distract.
Applying that lesson to Trump, Rosenbaum explained, “We didn’t take him seriously because of all the outrageous, clownish acts and gaffes we thought would cause him to drop out of the race. Except these gaffes were designed to distract. This was his secret strategy, the essence of his success – you can’t take a stand against Trump because you don’t know where Trump is standing. You can’t find him guilty of evil, you can’t find him at all. And the tactics worked. Trump was not taken seriously, which allowed him to slip by the normal standards for an American candidate. The mountebank won. Again.”15
What we are seeing in Trump, and what serious, honest deep political historians have long seen, is the rise of the Fourth Reich. Read for example, “The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination,” by Mae Brussell,16 and “Good Americans,” by John Judge.17
Kennedy v. Nixon
But where there are Nazis, there is resistance. A major shift in this battle of Deep State factions was signaled by the publication in May 2018 of the book, American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Edward Curtin emphasized RFK Jr.’s deep political sea change in his June 11, 2018 review at the Global Research website:
“American Values revolves around the long war between the Kennedys and the CIA that resulted in the deaths of JFK and RFK. All the other chapters, while very interesting personal and family history, pale in importance.
“No member of the Kennedy family since JFK or RFK has dared to say what RFK Jr. does in this book. He indicts the CIA.”18
U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, by ducking questions about his uncle’s book during his 2018 campaign,19 was still playing the Kennedys’ old post-JFK game: going along to get elected. It is the same game Hillary played in 2016, mostly. For Joe Kennedy, it worked. But now, that game depends on Hillary’s faction winning (via Russiagate). It certainly looks like it will. With Russiagate, as with the propaganda that Oswald killed JFK, plausibility is not a requirement. All that is required is that enough voters believe the Big Lie that foreign spies substantially interfered with the election, and that the only remedy is to seat Hillary as the rightful winner in a 2020 do-over.
But isn’t Russiagate the Mueller-Trump-anti-Hillary con game? It is, but it is not unreasonable that Hillary and her Deep State enemies are using the Russiagate juggernaut as means to opposite ends, the latter to protect itself from the threat posed by releasing all of the JFK files, and the former to justify a do-over of the 2016 election in order to free those files.
Viewing Russiagate as the original plan used by these opposing factions, RFK Jr. has opened a second front, which might be more about the Kennedy-Clinton faction’s survival as they try to regain the presidency. That paradigm shift is one of direct confrontation against the Mueller-Trump faction now that Hillary’s indirect, double-agent strategy failed. The Clintons have always been close to the Kennedys. It was never just the Clintons. In the long term, big picture, I think this period of factional history since 1960 will be defined as Kennedy vs. Nixon.
Ask the Question
The whispers soon after the 2016 election that Hillary would run again in 2020, mine included, have been getting louder and are now at conversational decibels. Those who flinch at the idea are reacting to their anti-Clinton biases again, not the evidence. But that she is planning on running is all any informed observer can say at the moment.
In an assassinocracy, with false flags, deep events, and October surprises, the question of who might secretly be an anti-assassinocracy successor to RFK comes down to another question: What is his or her position on the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK?
Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke topped early polls as a preferred 2020 presidential candidate.20 Even with his fame, few know his grandfather was Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy under President Kennedy, and an alleged JFK-assassination conspirator. Beto’s mother, Melissa Martha (Williams), was Korth’s stepdaughter.21
As I noted in my book, “Deputy Defence Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and resigned Navy Secretary Fred Korth were under particular scrutiny in [the TFX scandal]. Korth resigned because he had used his office in favor of his own Continental National Bank of Fort Worth, which had made loans to General Dynamics. Korth also had several Fort Worth business ties to the Oswald family.” Korth was Edwin A. Ekdahl’s lawyer in Tarrant County, Texas, when he divorced Marguerite Ekdahl (later Oswald). Korth was a member of the infamous 8-F Group, putting him close to other suspected JFK conspirators. As Ed Tatro wrote in my book’s forward, he was among those “headed for prison via the Bobby Baker-Fred Korth-Billie Sol Estes-TFX scandals.”22
Korth was also named as a target of Oswald in the little-known incident of foreknowledge of the assassination, which I wrote about, involving the wrecked submarine Thresher, involving members of an organization known as Justice for the Crew of the Thresher. The men claimed its members were planning to assassinate both John B. Connally and Fred Korth. I noted Bill Kelly’s speculation “that alternative motives were being set up for Oswald in case the ‘lone-nut’ scenario did not hold up. The JFCOTT motive, according to Kelly, ‘was predicated upon Oswald’s dissatisfaction with his ‘undesirable’ military discharge’.”23
What is Beto’s position on the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK?
Beto lost his 2018 senate campaign to his opponent, Senator Ted Cruz, who was famously accused by Trump of being the son of an alleged JFK-assassination conspirator. That the assassination surfaced at all as a mainstream issue in a post-1968 presidential campaign was not only strange, but a first. Whatever the reason that happened, its only lasting political effect was to prevent Cruz, or anyone else, from mentioning Beto’s relationship to an actual, alleged JFK conspirator. It has also been shown that his campaign rhetoric does not match his votes.24 So the question remains for 2020: What is Beto’s position on the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK?
“You’re (Reichstag) Fired!”
There is one final deep political reality to the 2020 election that must be mentioned. On March 26, 2017, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Russian interference in the election could be “considered an act of war.”25 And for a decade, Cheney has been predicting a nuclear terrorist strike on U.S. soil by the end of the decade.26 Such a deep event would make 9/11 look like child’s play. A nuclear false-flag attack would also trigger the draconian Continuity of Government emergency measures Dr. Peter Dale Scott has warned us about for decades. That would make that deep event a de facto, nuclear Reichstag fire.
As Dr. Scott concluded in his 2014 essay, “The Hidden Government Group”:
“The more I study these deep events, the more I see suggestive similarities between them, increasing the possibility that they are not unrelated external intrusions on American history, but parts of an endemic process, sharing to some degree or other a common source. ...And I would like this audience to investigate whether elements of this enduring leadership, with its ever-changing mix of CIA veterans and civilian leaders, may have constituted ‘a secret government-in-waiting,’ not just under Clinton in the 1990s, not just under Carter in 1980, but also under Kennedy in November 1963.”27
More to come as this story develops.**
(Originally published in Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics, Issue 001, Jan.-Feb. 2019, pp. 12-18.)
Author’s notes (Jan. 2, 2023):
*Trump was a monster created for a purpose. Like Frankenstein’s monster, the MAGA monster got out of easy control and became targeted for political destruction. It is better done by law, rather than by assassination, because even Trump’s natural death would make him a MAGA martyr. If the destruction is successful, Mike Pence stands poised to be the 2024 GOP/Deep-State frontrunner.
**The coronavirus pandemic may have provided a convenient substitute, delay, or precursor to a nuclear false-flag deep event, deliberately or opportunistically. As of January 2, 2023, the world's death toll from the pandemic was estimated near 6.7 million. On March 16, 2020, Joint Task Force National Capital Region (JTF-NCR) under the command of Maj. Gen. Omar J. Jones IV, charged with facilitating continuity of government, was activated including JEEP, Atlas and the highly classified Octagon, Freejack and Zodiac plans that deal with other emergencies. On May 7, 2020, Liz Cheney blamed the pandemic on China. (https://cheney.house.gov/2020/05/07/cheney-named-to-china-task-force/). On July 13, 2022, New York City's emergency management agency released a new PSA on surviving a nuclear attack. On April 25, 2023, U.S. senators were issued satellite phones for emergency communication. In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senate Sergeant at Arms Karen Gibson said satellite communication is being deployed "to ensure a redundant and secure means of communication during a disruptive event."
ENDNOTES:
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Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion), Castle, “Fool Me Once...,” Season 2, Episode 4, Air Date: October 12, 2009.
Konnikova, Maria. The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time. New York: Viking, 2016, pp. 11-12.
Blumenthal, Sidney. “A Short History of the Trump Family,” London Review of Books, Feb. 16, 2017. Accessed July 7, 2017. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n04/sidney-blumenthal/a-short-history-of-the-trump-family
Rosenbaum, Ron. “Against Normalization: The Lesson of the ‘Munich Post’,” Feb. 5, 2017. Los Angeles Review of Books. Accessed January 10, 2019. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-munich-post/
Ibid.
Ibid.
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Brussell, Mae. “The Nazi Connection to the John F. Kennedy Assassination,” The Rebel, January 1984. Republished in The Mae Brussell Website. Accessed January 10, 2019. http://www.maebrussell.com/ Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Nazi%20Connection%20to%20JFK%20 Assass.html
Judge, John. “Good Americans,” 1983. Republished in Ratville Times. Accessed January 10, 2019. https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/GoodAmericans.html#fn137
Curtin, Edward. “‘American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family’ by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Book Review,” Global Research, June 11, 2018. Accessed January 10, 2019. https://www.globalresearch.ca/ american-values-lessons-i-learned-from-my-family-by-robert-f-kennedy-jr/5643798
Levenson, Michael. “RFK’s children divided over calls for a fresh investigation of his assassination,” Boston Globe, May 31, 2018. Accessed January 9, 2019. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/05/31/rfk-children-divided-over-calls-for-fresh-investigation-his-assassination/B5ubwQd9GFDttwNxJOAn6N/story.html
Shepard, Steven. “Poll: Biden, Bernie, Beto lead 2020 Dem field,” Politico, November 12, 2018. Accessed January 9, 2019. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/12/poll-biden-bernie-beto-lead-2020dems-983995
“Beto O’Rourke.” Wikipedia, Wikipedia.org. Accessed January 9, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beto_O’Rourke
Bartholomew, p. 249.
Ibid., p. 318.
Sirota, David. “Beto O’Rourke frequently voted for Republican legislation, analysis reveals,” The Guardian, December 20, 2018. Accessed January 9, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/ dec/20/beto-orourke-congressional-votes-analysis-capital-and-main
McCaskill, Nolan D. “Cheney: Russian meddling possibly ‘an act of war’,” Politico, March 27, 2017. Accessed January 9, 2019. https://www. politico.com/story/2017/03/dick-cheney-russia-2016-election-act-ofwar-236556
Mccormack, David. “Dick Cheney predicts US will suffer a terrorist attack ‘far deadlier’ than 9/11 before the decade is over,” Daily Mail, June 24, 2014. Accessed January 9, 2019. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ news/article-2668677/Dick-Cheney-predicts-terrorist-attack-far-deadlier-9-11-decade-over.html
Scott, Peter Dale. “The Hidden Government Group,” WhoWhatWhy, Oct. 5, 2014. Accessed January 9, 2019. https://whowhatwhy. org/2014/10/05/the-hidden-government-group-linking-jfk-watergateiran-contra-and-911/