Bright Brief - Combat Tactics

The IRS, the FBI and the Gift of Bipartisan Rage

If you’ve been hanging around this here Truth community for any length of time, you’ve probably either knowingly or unknowingly come across repurposed quotes that appeared in certain posts on a certain anonymous image board by a certain enigmatic letter of the alphabet.

Among these repurposed quotes appear memorable statements from former—and patriotic—U.S. leaders, Biblical versus the operators of said anonymous account found relevant to share, and more often than you might think, memorable movie lines, largely emanating from pulp of the 80s and 90s.

Now, whatever your feelings are on that particular operation, the practice of applying known cultural touchstones to complex, Game Theory-tinged cognitive cyphers makes a lot of sense, as does the practice of utilizing the Socratic Method of providing implied answers through the directional asking of questions—sometimes rhetorical—if you’re trying to flirt with, but not cross the line into breaking national security intel laws.

More practically, however, cultural touchstones are effective at imprinting a given macro concept into the mind of the observer, sometimes without their conscious thought. So, which quote am I referencing, here? Which quote WAS referenced in some of these famous posts, and what relevance does it have to the current media storms surrounding Donald J. Trump, the FBI and even the IRS?

“Combat tactics, Mr. Ryan. By turning into the torpedo the Captain closed the distance before it could arm itself.”

The line is uttered during the climax of The Hunt for Red October, a 1990 military thriller staring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin (I know, right?) concerning advanced tactics used during a standoff with a Soviet submarine during the height of the Cold War.  

In this scene, Connery’s Captain Marko Ramius makes the somewhat shocking decision—as the quote implies—to ram an incoming torpedo rather than attempting evasive maneuvers. By making this bold, surprising decision, Ramius saves his sub, and by extension, the lives of every man onboard … though he does cause both a crisis in faith and some casual existential anxiety as he does so.

Originally, when I was writing this particular Brief, I was planning to cover the recent announcement by the powers that would be about the hiring of 87,000 new Federal IRS agents, who will be tasked with, among other things, auditing Americans on every rung of the precarious economic ladder. This announcement was greeted with your usual share of rage and blackpilling in almost equal measure, but what I wanted to focus on here was in relation to the Narrative Whiplash concept I’ve been deploying with some frequency in recent posts.

Specifically, I wanted to focus your mind’s eye—and thus, your intellectual intent—not on the endgame of a given announcement, however unpleasant or anxiety-inducing, but on the story Americans are being told through said announcement.

So then, if we can accept that there was a good deal of anger about the Biden Admin’s IRS announcement, can we also admit that this anger was a touch more … bipartisan than usual? After all, working, lower and middle class Democrats and Republicans both pay taxes, right? Both currently exist in the same record-breaking—for all the wrong reasons—Biden Economy, right?

Both have fiscal—and therefor, literal—survival near the top of their priority lists, right?

In short, rather than considering the future potential of a federal policy announcement—one that still has to fight its way through treasury schedules and other red tape before being actualized—I would implore you to consider the base effects of the announcement in the first place. The optics, if you will.

And ask yourself a simple question: is bipartisan anger, even rage toward three-letter agencies a good thing or a bad thing for the Administrative State?

Coupled with the recent landmark victory—one among many—back in June regarding West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, and you might begin to glimpse how the dominoes of the Administrative State are being lined up … so that they might be taken down with the flick of a pen … and with overwhelming—and bipartisan—support in the process.

Now, that was meant to be where today’s Bright Brief ended, and then, well, some news broke.

Donald Trump is back in the news—not that he’s ever far from it—and this time, he’s dragged the FBI into it with him.

You read that right. Although the narrative would have you believe the opposite is true, I’ve observed Trump long enough to know that if he is prominently featured in a major media narrative, he is being featured with his full knowledge, consent and, dare I say, intent.

I realize that convincing you folks of the bipartisan rage to come directed toward the weaponization of the FBI is a tougher sell than the IRS, so let’s back up a bit and revisit some of my initial thoughts on the ‘raid’ that shall live in infamy.

That was posted two days ago, now, and frankly, my views haven’t really changed much from a macro perspective.

I don’t know what [they] were looking for. I don’t know what [they] actually got. I don’t know, specifically, what will come of the ‘raid’ in terms of potential charges, indictments or micro media narratives, but here is what I’m confident in, at a base level:

1)    Many of the documents that were alleged to be stored at Mar-a-Lago were likely already declassified by Trump before leaving office. — Breitbart

2)    If we knew that, then [they] certainly knew that.

3)    To borrow some inspiration from Kyle of Just Human fame, Trump:

a.     Did nothing wrong.

b.     Is safe in every way that matters.

c.     Is always many steps ahead of his enemies.  

d.     Is Batman

(That last point is less of a joke than you might believe, but then, as I often say around these parts, that is a story for another time, and another not-so-Brief.)

4)    The current FBI Director was appointed by Trump and was a member of the Federalist Society.

I don’t think any of those assertions (along with a few facts for good measure) will be heavily disputed by you folks.

The hard sell here comes with what I have to say next, and that is that I believe the boomerang of this particular story is going to hit the Deep State dead between the eyes from both a narrative/potential and an actual standpoint.

Starting with the second, this ‘raid’ is precedent-setting in all the worst ways for [them,] and all the best ways for our guys and gals. After all, if you have the same level of confidence that I do that DJT is clean as a whistle, you have an equal and complementary confidence that folks like, oh, say Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Biden Crime Family are less so.

If and when a Trump or Trump-allied Department of Justice gets around to following this somewhat amateurish trail of breadcrumbs back to the powers that would be, I think we’re going to see real raids, and I think we’re going to see real consequences on the back of them.

As for the first point, that being the narrative boomerang (or whiplash,) it is quite simple: the weaponization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has and will become so blatant, obvious and appalling as the layers of this particular onion get peeled back from golden brown to pale green to brilliant ripe white that a large portion of the American public will be unified in their distrust of it—and those pulling its strings.

Don’t think the normie mind can take a bipartisan view of this? All you have to do is look at public polling. J6 is at the bottom of the list, a universe away from gas prices, inflation and the economy at large. The public—even the Trump-hating variety—is tired of the Administrative State targeting him if for no other reason than it gives us too much material to work with.

When it comes out who ordered this raid, based on what intel (or lack thereof) and for WHAT REASON (America First 2022 Landslide?) I believe it is going to have the following effects on several seemingly disparate factions of American society:

1)    Trump supporters will be whipped up and spurred on even more strongly to vote in the 2022 Midterms as if their very lives depend on it.

2)    Trump-apathetic moderates will be annoyed at the clear weaponization of institutions, knowing the damage it does to the optics of criminal justice and politics at large in the U.S. (Also, they’re sick of listening to us.)

3)    Trump haters, while not rushing to the man’s defense, will nevertheless be angry at the FBI—and whomever gave the orders—for just that reason: the raid was a foolish, foolish idea. Poorly-planned and with no forethought given to the two aforementioned factions in the American voter base.

Don’t believe me? Observe, in [their] own panicked words:

Hell, even Yang got in on the anti-FBI action.

If you want my honest view on the situation (and I assume you do,) it actually isn’t too far off from what the aforementioned never-Trump and Deep State cronies offered, if a bit more sensational. (Please excuse my excitable, Truth typos.)

Nonsense, BB, you say. What happens if we NEVER find out who gave the orders, for what reason and based on what intel?

Well, even if that particular Hunt for Red October theory is a little too far-fetched for you, let’s examine the more immediate, practical ways in which this entire stunt could backfire on [them:]

1)    A baseless, partisan raid shields Trump (and his America First movement) from an October surprise by cutting the legs out from under the vestiges of the zombified J6 narrative.

2)    Shields Trump legally from future prosecution due to the confirmed and blatant weaponization of intel agencies.

3)    Seeds the collective consciousness for future, high-profile prosecutions (based on real intel and real crimes) of former political figures.

Narrative Whiplash.

This is when we refer back to the potential, not the actual. As the enemy clearly understands with their deployment of everything from the Russian Collusion hoax to Grand Theft Capital narratives wherein Trump morphed into a rabid cartoon version of Vin Diesel, the story is what counts, and no matter what side you approach the great MAGA raid of 2022 from, the following story is going to be more solidified than ever:

Trump is not one of them. Trump never was one of them. They fear Trump now more than ever before, on the doorstep of the 2022 Midterm Elections.

What a charging, scintillating prospect for us.

What a curious prospect for the reachable, unawakened mind.

What a chilling prospect for everyone else …

Until next time … stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly, stay Bright.

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