Asking For National Guard MPs?

 I've sat for an hour now pondering over this story.  

Apparently....the National School Boards Association wrote up some letter in 2021, and asked the White House to 'call up' Army National Guard units (in particular the MPs.....Military Police) to restore order to school board meetings.  

What happened with the request?  The White House handed it to the Attorney General and he told the FBI to review the situation.  

No deployments were ordered and no Guard folks were put into this mess.

The FBI?  Well....much less has been said, and I suspect one of the odd things to occur in January of 2023....with the Republicans controlling the House.....there's going to be a investigation over their actions.

If the Guard had been deployed?  I would guess in some states.....the state police would have been there to ask questions and demand to know who was running the Guard operation from the state (or DC)?

So here's the three things to come away from this with:

1.  You've got an element of society who believe they should be entitled to elected jobs with real responsibilities  but not have to answer to the public who elected them.  

2.  Once you deploy Guard people into a hostile situation....anything can happen (reflect upon Kent State).  You could easily have forty MPs in some 'war-zone' in North Carolina....asking at the hospital for their gunshot wounds....how they got dragged into this.

3.  Isn't this all leading to a civil war?  Just a rational question....but how is it resolving the mess at hand.....to have armed soldiers in the midst of a school board meeting?

But I'm kinda interested what the FBI did, and how many files have been created.  You see....this has the funny smell of the East German Stasi to it.  

Social Media Meeting the 'Climax'?

 For most of 2021, and all of 2022....I've been an observer of social media (both in Europe and the US).

There are five things that I've come to observe and note:

1.  Instagram is mostly chained to influencers and people who want the latest trend/fashion/sport/food/diet/etc.  

Instagram is very unlikely to expand past the point where it is today.  If a world recession occurs.....the influencers lose traction.  If you were a Russian influencer, your path to market/profit is now corrupted.  

2.  Facebook/Meta.  

If you categorize users (the guy who only checks it once a day, the guy who checks twelve times a day, and the habitual twice an hour user)....FB needs the habitual twice an hour guy a lot.

With all the hype of censoring....a fair number of people left FB (I did). 

This imaginary world stuff that Meta is heading into....is mostly for gamers, not the content-hunters.

3.  On content.

The only reason for the existence of any of these....is content.  People don't come to Meta, Twitter or Instagram for crappy content.

Meta appears destined in some weird way to have AI working to write content.  For me, it's questionable if you teach AI to write like Hemingway, or hype like Art Buchwald, or lecture like Aristotle, or criticize Greg Gutfeld, or interview like Rogan.

4.  For the tech crowd, there is absolute belief that the 2016 election was triggered by Trump figuring out the social media business, and beating Hillary via their own tool.

You can laugh over the view, but within their circles.....they absolutely believe this.  

Disinformation/misinformation to the extreme?  Absolutely. 

But these people running the 'industry' are not seeing their 'game' or 'toy' as public speech domain.....they see it as a 'roller-rink' that they personally operate, and you only 'skate' by their rules.  Frankly, they don't care if they never generate dividends for the stock-holders.

5.  Fake accounts.

There were always fake accounts and everyone's imagination was limited to 5-percent.

Once Elon said it might be more than 10-percent, and that the wording for the SEC documentation might be fraud.....the whole game got called into question.

Here's the thing, if you were selling a car brand, and suddenly you said the horsepower was not 160 Horsepower, but 130 Hp.....that car's value is cut (maybe 10-percent...maybe 20-percent).  If I were the CEO, I'd be all over this to resolve this and ensure it's like 5-percent.  The longer this joker of a CEO spins this with no answer.....the more likely I'm to believe it's 20-percent.

Most of the fake accounts belong to WaPo, Nancy Pelosi, CNN, or Joe Biden?  Well....that really makes you wonder how bad the situation was allowed to develop like this.

MySpace started up in 2003.....hyped itself for five years, and by 2009....was slowly dying.  

If Twitter comes to a point of admitting 25-percent of the users/accounts are fake?  I'd say they will evolve into a lesser Twitter, and Elon won't be the owner of a Twitter-lite gimmick.

All of this leads back to content, and if you don't have legit content......there's no future.  

Shakespeare had content.  Hemmingway and Steinbeck had content.  Cass Elliot and Janis Joplin had content.  Scooby Doo had content.  Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth had content.  Dark Shadows, Hee Haw, Kong Fu, and Columbo had content.  Wrestling has content.  Putin (at least in Russia) has content.  Without content, you can go back to mowing grass, or painting fence posts.

How Things Will Go?

 1.  Monkeypox.  Within ten days....some medical authority will admit in public that the ratio of men to women having the virus....is something 75 men to 1 woman.  Then, some weird questions will start up.

2.  The Disinformation Governance Board will hand a list of objectives to the White House by late August.  A copy will be gained by the news media.  More negativity will start up.....with this oddly being a top ten problem for the November mid-terms.

3.  Durham-Sussman court case.  Jury will be deadlocked and unable to reach a decision.  Trump will take comments made in the court to a sue-Hillary Clinton situation....in the range of $250-million.  Hillary will disappear from public view for two months, and then appear in some alcohol rehab program....admitting she was drunk in 2016 when she made this Trump accusation business.  

4.  Some discussion will start up from the Democratic core after the November losses....that maybe the party can't function as one, and it's time to break the party up.

5.  Twitter cannot come to a legal point on how many fake accounts exist....even 60 days after Elon brought up the topic.  The SEC will ask their CEO to appear and explain this problem, and he suddenly resigns....admitting that various compartments of the company are not (nor ever have been) under his authority.

6.  Around 20,000 teachers nationally will be given a notice that the schools don't require their services (by mid-July).  This will occur because parents finally said enough and went to private schools or home schooling.  A massive crisis will be brewing where some federal agency wants to aide the unemployed teachers for a year....hoping for the chaos to go away.

7.  Gas by October will be $7.50 per gallon.

A Bit of Wisdom

 "When a clown moves into a palace.....it does not make the clown a king.  It instead makes the palace a circus."

-- Old Turkish saying

For several decades, I've tended to view DC activities as a entertainment show, and more of a comedy....sadly.  The saying fits the occasion perfectly.