{"id":23247,"date":"2017-03-12T18:19:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23247"},"modified":"2017-03-12T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T23:20:23","slug":"the-bag-holder-and-his-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23247","title":{"rendered":"The Bag Holder and His Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bag Holder and His Bag<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Can you see those swans coming in for a landing on Pond USA? They\u2019re not exactly black swans, because you knew they were out there circling, but they\u2019re dark enough against the twilight\u2019s last gleaming to give you the heebie jeebies.<\/p>\n

Troubles and portents of more trouble are stacking up as we approach the Ides of March zone of financial turmoil. You must surely surmise that a debt ceiling impact, a Federal Reserve interest rate hike, and the election of a Dutch anti-EU leader all scheduled for that one day are a good start on the greater unravel to follow. Glowering in the spotlight at center stage will be President Donald Trump, designated bag-holder of the Deep State and its myrmidons. And what\u2019s in that bag he\u2019s holding? Just a couple of shit sandwiches and a hair shirt for his journey down the lonely road to exile. But getting rid of Trump would only leave the Deep State with a bigger problem: itself. That is, an economy and a society that can\u2019t be governed by any means.<\/p>\n

I think many professional observers-of-the-scene are missing something in this unspooling story: the Deep State is actually becoming more impotent and ineffectual, not omnipotent. Case in point: RussiaGate \u2014 come on, let\u2019s finally call it that \u2014 the popular idea that Russia hacked the 2016 presidential election. It\u2019s popular because it\u2019s such a convenient excuse for the failure of a corrupt, exhausted, and brain-dead Democratic establishment. But all the exertions of the Deep State to put over this story since last summer were negated this week by two events.<\/p>\n

First, there was former NSA Director James Clapper\u2019s appearance on NBC\u2019s Sunday Meet the Press show with Chuck Todd featuring the following interchange:<\/p>\n

CHUCK TODD:
\nDoes intelligence exist that can definitively answer the following question, whether there were improper contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials?<\/p>\n

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The Bag Holder and His Bag Can you see those swans coming in for a landing on Pond USA? They\u2019re not exactly black swans, because you knew they were out there circling, but they\u2019re dark enough against the twilight\u2019s last gleaming to give you the heebie jeebies. Troubles and portents of more trouble are stacking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14964,279,284,303,449,827,3650],"class_list":["post-23247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-fed","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-united-states","tag-us-federal-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23249,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247\/revisions\/23249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}