Hypothetical Games
Planning Our Future Together
Hey kids, it is time for hypotheticals. This can either be fun, or considered trending into the conspiracy theorist zone, but let’s live a little. Can’t we? You might actually enjoy this exercise, and it might just change your present view.
Let us say you were elevated to the highest levels of the CIA. You’ve come to know all the secrets. You’ve seen the evil attempting to destroy us all, up close and personal, and you carry the very heavy burden of working as a bulwark against the enemy, both foreign and domestic.
Knowledge that might keep a normal man or woman awake all night sits upon your shoulders. Lives hang in the balance. Literally. You see danger lurking everywhere, across the globe, and just around the corner.
You feel a debt to America, for you stand at the pinnacle of her defense. You are the tip of the spear, keeping the torch of Democracy lit for all, and against all odds.
At this level of decision making, with lives on the line at the mere sound of your voice, defending the nation is no longer a job, but a holy calling. You feel a palpable sense of power beyond one individual, beyond yourself.
Why the fate of our nation sits heavy in your gentle hands. You understand concretely both the fragility, and strength. There are dark days when you feel just a tenuous grip on the weapons keeping us all safe from real harm.
There are other days, better days, when actions invisible to all, that you set into motion, avert a crisis. And that while America slept silently in the good night, you and your team kept them safe from real, actual, harm. Those are the good nights. When two fingers of bourbon are just not enough. As Director of the CIA you reach for the cut glass crystal and pour another. The nation can sleep soundly this evening, you are at the helm, your hand is on the rudder.
Democracy as we’ve seen is fickle. Why just the other day voters that went big for Trump lined up standing room only for his polar opposite Bernie Sanders. The populace willing to actually listen to the other side.
As Director of the CIA, with an expansive desk, large corner office, and white table cloth dining at the push of a button delivered to your conference room, you see the men and women out there whose vote can create sweeping change in America overnight. And platform a novice idiot like Trump, instead of the more experienced and steady hand of journeyman and Washington, DC insiders, Hillary Clinton.
Just spitballin’ here, but would you decide that something as sacred as the Presidency, as important as the Oval Office, could be left to the Wal-Mart crowd, the Dollar Store denizens, the proletariat working class men and women who can’t get their act in life together enough to get out of the trailer park?
Or might you be forward thinking. Have designs, futuristic plans.
Where you comb our highest, best, and brightest institutions, the Ivy League, to find those brilliant young men made of clay, so that you might mold them in a direction.
Why it might be a good idea to bring in a few billionaires, a Peter Thiel, a Bill Gates, a Mark Zuckerberg, those Google boys, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Add in that far left founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.
Make connections with the faculties at these universities, where you already have tentacles of government through grants, whose job beyond the faculty, becomes to identify those future “stars”, who express a particular political philosophy that dovetails with one of the two major parties, and who is a “true believer”.
You know, it could be possible then to groom future candidates.
And while Mr. And Mrs. Wal-Mart feel as if they have some say in the process, who value their sacred “vote”, if you do things right, you can prevent them from sending our entire Republic circling the drain by limiting the potential candidates they can vote upon.
Identify the right candidates early, steer them into favorable jobs and positions in industry controlled by the friendly billionaire, groom them, assist in creating a back story, maybe even add in some military service in an officer capacity to gild the Lilly.
You know, you could, perhaps, possibly, create a future candidate beholden to you and your staff of Washington DC establishment insiders, and the billionaire class that both funds you, and that you reward with US tax dollars, so that this circle of grift can be sustained forever. Well into the foreseeable future.
You comb the law schools, you comb the military, you go to the universities and you look for just the right bright-eyed boy, or girl. Who has already developed a seasoned political attitude. Doesn’t matter which side they espouse, you need one of each.
You cannot put all your apples into one basket, we just saw with Trump’s victory that anyone can upset the apple cart. As CIA Director you must work to develop potential candidates on both sides of the aisle, so that no matter who Mr. and Mrs. Dollar Store select, you always win.
Let’s say this billionaire Peter Thiel, with government contracts across a spectrum of companies owned, has his eye on a law school kid at Yale, a veritable factory in the history of Presidents, and Presidential contenders. Why Yale is the very home of the Bush dynasty.
You know what you could do?
As Director of the CIA you could make certain that this bright eyed shiny kid at Yale Law gets a really, really good backstory. From humble backwoods beginnings. You could fund a ghost written book on his climb from Appalachia, from a drug addled household, from dysfunction and turmoil, and on to the heights of Yale Law. There’d be sufficient funds to make a movie from the book, creating a sympathetic and adoring public.
Mr. and Mrs. Trailer Park, seeing one of their own elevated to the highest echelons of society. Holy God, they’ll race to the voting booth for this candidate. They’ll shed a tear voting for your creation, your lab created Republican Frankenstein. Your little boy from the holler, pedigreed at Yale.
Man, this is a construct, a creation, that is too good to lose!
But.
But Hillary was too, and she lost.
To a Donald J. Trump no less.
God Damn good thing we’d compromised that asshole through Epstein. That was done to keep him under control as a businessman with influence in the very important city of New York. The same way we sent Roy Cohn in, to compromise the young Trump and learn of his dirty little secrets. Wasn’t hard, he likes women, and he likes them young. End of story, idiot captured. In case we ever need to play that card.
As CIA Director, one must compromise them all. Using tax payer funds. You want to leave nothing, absolutely nothing to the vagaries of chance. Nothing.
If you were CIA Director, would you allow the sacred office of the Presidency to hinge on the votes of people watching “America’s Funniest Home Videos” at home on Sunday evening? Are you insane?
We are running the most important and most powerful nation ever conceived on the face of this here earth, there is no room for error. We cannot just allow anyone to run for the highest office in the land and gain real control outside of our own influence.
Jesus, that might jeopardize everything. All we’ve worked a lifetime for, down the drain with one bad President.
So as CIA Director, here is what we do. Are you ready?
We find some bright eyed kid at Harvard. Ivy League strikes again. We see that his dyed-in-the-wood politics as a gay man are far left, the polar opposite of the hick from the holler. We get him into Oxford, a Rhodes Scholarship. We get him into the Navy during don’t ask, don’t tell. We make this bright eyed gay man a naval officer, and put him in naval intelligence. We allow him free reign to work on Democratic campaigns.
We groom him as mayor of a small American midwest city. We move him up into a cabinet level position, and promote him as a candidate for the highest office in the land.
As CIA Director we simply do not care which of these groomed idiots garners the votes from Mr. and Mrs. Longhorn Steak House, only that as their prime benefactor from an early age that they readily admit to full and complete control by you, the Director of the CIA. They will never make a decision to cross you. Not one that really counts. You allow minor squabbles so that those who might suspect they’ve been groomed are thrown off the scent.
And then you wait. 2028 is an inevitability. You plant stories in a compliant media. You have profiles planted in magazines. The lovely couple, the beautiful children. The sharp minded candidate. Did we tell you they went to Yale Law, or went to Harvard, and gained admission to Oxford?
As CIA Director whichever way the vote goes in 2028, you win. Republican, Peter Thiel has ensured victory. Democrat, and the powers-that-be at McKinsey and Company have ensured victory. Both have earned the tax dollar investments you’ve placed into their respective firms. And as CIA Director, you appreciate their very close help and assistance, and always answering the call. Making sure the mark is hired into some elevated position with a great title. Resume fodder for a future President.
And you as CIA Director have nothing to fear, nothing at all, there will be no adversary in the Oval Office, there will be no deviation from your own plans. No loss of funding, no competition for your crown.
Excuse me, what did you say?
Oh, America may not be ready for a gay President? And the Jeb! campaign can fail and fail miserably, despite that great exclamation mark you made sure to add?
No worries at all, there has been a parallel effort to groom Gavin Newsom in case the gay guy goes down. Pun intended.
I mean, just like you and I, Gavin leaned on a billionaire early in life, his friend Gordon Getty, whose investment led to Gavin’s riches. And hey look there, the compromised California criminal Willie Brown helped out early in Gavin’s career.
You know, looking back at my own life, that failure to meet a billionaire friend in my early 20’s, who could invest in my schemes, that was my own fault. And not befriending a party kingmaker in the guise of Willie Brown, another error.
Wow, Willie Brown shows up prominently in another career politician’s life as well, that would be Kamala Harris, who he helped elevate into the Vice Presidency, and almost the White House itself, as the failed 2024 candidate on the Democrat side.
What a coincidence. Willie as a conduit for two potential Presidents, one might think he was a tool of you, the CIA Director, helping groom our future toadies. It was said Willie was no stranger to crossing the line of propriety, and yet he was never charged with any crimes. Why, it is as if he had protection from above. Hmmm. A compliant FBI investigated, but somehow there were never charges. Willie lives on.
And why, look at that, in case that hillbilly with an Elegy can’t make it over-the-top, the kid from Florida Ron DeSantis is in the waiting and, wait for it, he used to be a naval officer. And then there is Marco. Little Marco. And Ted Cruz. No worries there, the Mossad has them both on their bellies through AIPAC contributions, they are already both purchased and paid for, they’d never go against you, the CIA Director, ever. Big men who shake in their boots like a tiny terrier behind closed doors.
Let me tell you, Mr. CIA Director, you are one who just covers all bases.
But then again, your job is all illusion, and what better than the illusion of choice, for the great unwashed masses, than actual choice.
No matter which candidate emerges to win in the great race to the White House, you sit comfortable and calm knowing that no matter which way the vote totals go, the real winner is you, Mr. CIA Director, ruler of the known world.
No wonder you’ve turned a blind eye to the Mossad conducting a blackmail campaign on US soil, their compromised candidate is also your compromised candidate, and at no cost to you. All funded by the Mossad, your hand-in-glove world partner.
What brilliance you contain Mr. CIA Director, no wonder you’ve been elevated to the highest office in the land that doesn’t require the public to vote.
Of course you’d allow a Nancy Pelosi or Elizabeth Warren to grow wealthy in office by insider trading, as CIA Director you need something to hang over their very ambitious heads in case they emerge victorious in some position of power.
What did the King say in the movie “Braveheart”, “one must come to see the good in every situation”?
As CIA Director one must focus on the greater good.
Better to allow a cabal of criminals to control government, so you can control the criminals, than to find men of pure heart and pure intent, that cannot be controlled.
Hey, doesn’t that explain what we’ve just witnessed the past ten years? An FBI, Justice Department, and CIA that not only looked the other way as criminality ran rampant, but felt compelled to participate as well, allowing 51 former Intelligence Officials to knowing lie to the American people two weeks out from an election?
Oh well.
All of this was just a hypothetical.
I am certain that as a good public servant, the CIA Director keeps his focus on worldwide events that threaten our Republic, and only the smallest of side eye on potential danger right here at home.
And I am equally certain that they’d never game plan some means of controlling our nation, for “our own greater good”, because “of the great dangers of which they and only they are aware, and have knowledge of existing in our known universe”.
No, that would be too much like “we have to destroy actual Democracy, to save Democracy”. Preposterous.
Grooming college kids is the myth of movies like “A Beautiful Mind”, where the CIA takes the best and brightest and has them do the dirty scientific work to stay advanced, and ahead of other nations.
They wouldn’t run a parallel effort to groom future political candidates. Not even JEB!. Find the graphics person that added that exclamation point. Holy Shit.
I am sure that no matter how “heavy lies the crown” of the actual CIA Director, they would not meddle in our own US politics, and they would indeed leave it to us tattooed slobs, lined up at Chili’s for happy hour, to make sure we all vote in America’s best interests. I mean, if you can’t trust the red-white-and-blue fans of Kid Rock to vote for what is best for America, who can you trust?
The head of our CIA?
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