{"id":48654,"date":"2019-09-25T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48654"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T21:23:58","slug":"the-coup-has-begun-the-empire-strikes-back-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48654","title":{"rendered":"The Coup Has Begun \u2013 The Empire Strikes Back Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2019\/09\/24\/coup-begun-empire-strikes-back-everywhere\/\">The Coup Has Begun \u2013 The Empire Strikes Back Everywhere<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/boba-fett-darth-vader-lando.jpg?fit=816%2C459&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>\u201cI am altering the deal, pray I don\u2019t alter it any further.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><em>Darth Vader, \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know I think there are no coincidences in politics. Everything happens on a particular schedule. So when I see a day as crazy as today I have to ask the question, \u201cWhy this, why now?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at the headlines and you\u2019ll see what I\u2019m talking about. All of these things happened since I woke up at 7:30am this morning in Florida:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The British Supreme Court just arrogated unprecedented power to itself by inserting itself into any dispute between the Government and Parliament. This upends more than 300 years of constitutional process.<\/li><li>The Democrats have announced they will pursue impeachment charges against President Trump because an unverified, hearsay whistleblower made a complaint about a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski. Impeachment odds soared overnight as someone was tipped off about the Democrats\u2019 plan.<\/li><li>Bitcoin\u2019s hashrate mysteriously flash-crashed more than 40% presaging a massive $1500 drop in price.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Donald Trump delivered a blistering critique of socialism at the United Nations General Assembly. Too bad he\u2019s nearly as bad as the ones he\u2019s fighting on the far left.<\/li><li>Europe\u2019s Trio of Faded Glory \u2014 The UK, France and Germany \u2014 joined in the chorus of unverified condemnation of Iran in the attack on the Saudi oil field on the 14th.<\/li><li>The Federal Reserve continues to bail out banks to the tune of $65 to $75 billion per day through overnight repo operations that no one can give us an explanation as to why they\u2019re needed.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This feels to me like a multi-level coup against those that dare stand athwart the global power structure. Both British and American leadership institutions are under sincere attack with these moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coup Has Begun \u2013 The Empire Strikes Back Everywhere \u201cI am altering the deal, pray I don\u2019t alter it any further.\u201d Darth Vader, \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back\u201d You know I think there are no coincidences in politics. Everything happens on a particular schedule. So when I see a day as crazy as today I [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,6],"tags":[303,21273,16963,827],"class_list":["post-48654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-fed","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-tom-luongo","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48654","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=48654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48655,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48654\/revisions\/48655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}