Bright Brief - Pelosi's Gambit

Who Wins if Everyone Loses?

So … August hot enough for you, yet?

In all seriousness, you’ve no doubt seen the news by now. First, the Congressional crypt keeper herself was en route to … somewhere around the sovereign island not-nation of Taiwan … then she was en route to everywhere BUT Apple, Inc. the nation … and then … well, what do you know, she WAS actually there, far as we can tell, waxing poetic (drunkenly slurring, more like,) about the inherent goodness of said sort-of ally to the west (and home to biolabs aplenty,) while simultaneously decrying the evils of the great red empire that is China.

(If that paragraph hurt you to read, I promise it isn’t indicative of my usual writing style. I just felt it sort of fit the mood of the day.)

So then, unless the bombs have actually gone airborne by the time you’re reading this missive, how are we to summarize these events from a top-down perspective? How about we use a timeline, and from there, we’ll get to the point of today’s Brief.

1.     Nancy Pelosi takes it upon herself to announce a potential visit to Taiwan, which is currently embroiled in LONG-standing tensions with China, the CCP, or both, depending on what source you’re reading.

2.     Pretender-in-Chief Joseph R. Biden publicly cautions against the move, outlining a major public divide in foreign policy and escalatory politics between two of the three most prominent members of the Democratic Party, who also happen to be—publicly, at least—two of the three U.S. politicians closest to the nuclear codes.

3.     As a not insignificant aside in Biden’s public condemnation of Pelosi’s self-righteous, utterly baffling and seemingly autonomous decision, he makes direct reference to the U.S. Military having a serious issue with it, in light of the aforementioned tensions.

4.     The media—both MSM and independent—speculates breathlessly on everything from whether or not Pelosi will actually do it, to what will happen if and when she does.

5.     Pelosi goes and does the damn thing, and, while we can’t see where all the pieces are going to fall … she certainly seems to have tipped a few dominoes over on the way back to her taxpayer-funded plane.

Now, for my purposes here, I’m going to skip back to #4 above, and I’m going to offer a third option on top of the obvious two: those being, whether or not Pelosi DOES go to Taiwan and what will happen IF she does.

Instead, let’s focus on what matters most, here, at least in my view:

In a 5th Generational Warfare environment such as the one we find ourselves in now, sometimes, I would argue that the ACTUAL (meaning, verifiable occurrences, events and actions by one actor or faction or another) are of lesser importance than the POTENTIAL.

Now, that’s easy to say before Pelosi actually lands on the damn island. Potentials are much easier to talk about, to wax poetic on, and to sound assured in before said potential is actualized. Similarly, ONCE a potential is actualized, it is equally—if not even more—simple to analyze it with the benefit of hindsight, and, well, reality.

That isn’t my intention here.

Rather, what I am suggesting is that, while Pelosi’s POTENTIAL EVENT— her visit to Taiwan amidst a period of extremely heightened global tensions, perhaps more so than at any time since the advent of the last World War—collapsed into an ACTUAL EVENT, this is of lesser importance than the optics of the potential in the first place.

Put another way, seeing Pelosi go to Taiwan and talk a bunch of smack to China is almost irrelevant in the face of the story that was spun leading up to her doing so. The public was already primed. The public’s collective mind was already made up, whether or not Pelosi’s potential trip was actualized.

(Remember how half the country still believes the Russia Collusion hoax based purely on narrative potential rather than actualized reality, and how said collective belief has had lasting effects on not only American society as a whole but potentially moves and countermoves in the Shadow War we’ve been attempting to parse for half a decade? Yeah. That blade cuts both ways.)

There is, of course, significant value in the wealth of pieces that will come out analyzing the nuances of the actual events now that they have passed beyond the realm of the hypothetical. I might even write some myself. That said, I believe the entire World War Pelosi narrative is a valuable study in just how powerful the narrative itself is.

After all, the reactions—both positive and negative—to Pelosi’s Gambit weren’t delayed, were they? Pundits in the MSM and elsewhere—even Anons, myself included—didn’t keep our powder dry, holding back any projected opinions in case the narrative didn’t come to fruition. Sure, those of us who try to maintain a nuanced, movable view of events like to project in multiple directions, analyzing the potential fallout in any number of scenarios, by considering the prospect of Pelosi making good on her promises or threats just as seriously as we might consider the prospect of her NOT doing so.

But the true story of Pelosi’s Gambit is in the story itself, which I said last time and which I stand by, and whether or not Pelosi followed through, the story had already affected change in the global mind, both awakened and unawakened.

That is the power of stories, when they are amplified as this one has been.

That is what we, in this community, must endeavor not only to track, but to guard against.

In this modern, strange theater of war we find ourselves in, there are some cases where what does happen on the world stage is less important than what might happen, and that is because what might happen is often engineered through consciousness and narrative seeding.

Let me be clear, however, that the idea of consciousness or narrative seeding is not inherently bad. In fact, if you want my brief, personal read on Pelosi’s Gambit, both the actual and the potential … I think we’re largely in a war of optics, and at the end of the day, I think the optics of the situation are bad for [them.]

From exposing a clear fracture in the Democratic Party to further revealing the potential catastrophic consequences inherent in allowing reckless, self-aggrandizing public servants to take such a gambit on behalf of all Americans—even all world citizens, for surely all would be swept up in the fallout of a worst-case potential that spiderwebs out of this particular stunt—Pelosi’s Gambit has done nothing to harm our movement, and everything to harm [theirs.]

Now, if I haven’t made a complete rambling buffoon of myself with this particular take, I’ll leave you with this in closing:

As I have said before, we are currently in a war of stories, of narratives. And we have better writers.

I personally believe Pelosi’s Gambit paid off.

I’m just not sure it paid off for her.

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

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