So what? As they say, if voting could change anything it would be illegal. In the words of William Magear Tweed, “I don’t care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating”, and today, it is the Cathedral, through the portion known as the Press, that does the nominating. Any vote is, and will continue to be, between Cathedral candidate A and Cathedral candidate B.

And further, the elected offices are an ever-smaller portion of the actual government. Read Foseti; the vast majority of actual ruling is done by unelected, unfireable bureaucrats, who’ve pretty much all gone to the same (Cathedral) schools, and act in lockstep. That’s one of the important things illustrated by the IRS scandal that most mainstream “conservatives” missed. The IRS didn’t need explicit orders from above to act against conservative groups; thanks to the ideological uniformity, and common worldview, such actions are spontaneously self-organizing emergent behavior.

Yes, minority immigrants “have no qualms about Authoritarian rule.” That’s another reason the Left imports them, since any authoritarian rule coming will be authoritarian Cathedral rule. What we are seeing here is the Left, passive-agressive entryists for so long, slowly coming to realize that no viable opposition to them remains; and thus they are slowly lowering the mask, acting more and more directly as they come to see they are, in fact, free to do as they wish, since there’s no one left who can stop them.

The Prisoners Dilemma is solved by not betraying, that’s the real world answer. It works. I verify. Seriously. Don’t.
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Oh and that’s funny cuz some of us have less dilemmas. Because people are so sweet. When they need you.

Veterans Courthouse
50 West Market Street
Newark, NJ
Criminal Division
Court Administration

In any case escalation in real life quite takes on a life of it’s own. And here we are…

They can’t back down. They’re fighting over scraps of wealth that doesn’t exist, and who has the best chair or any chair when the music stops.

There are several million people in the Beltway who are now scrambling for a chair, and the problem with a leaderless conspiracy of self interest is it can’t turn around or even turn away from the Star of Self Interest especially when that Star is increasingly the only path seen for survival . When the music stops there are consequences at last.

Now Dear Admin if we can turn away for a moment – a blurb in the news. Reuters is not World Net Daily. People will pay over 100,000$ a month for the best of the Reuters news.

JP Morgan was prepared to pay government workers checks during shutdown.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-usa-fiscal-banks-warrooms-insight-idUSBRE9AI05P20131119

Less reliable but probably true, JP Morgan is stockpiling gold bullion.

Most interesting of all – for those who are new to the US Job market, since Jack Welch at least hiring Junior Military Officers has been considered best practice. Now hiring recent combat vets is quite considered patriotic.

Finally – please excuse my dyslexic connections – do you know Veterans in NJ and Phile often have their own courts? Meaning a Judge and court for Vets “having issues adjusting” who’ve stumbled into less than heinous offenses…fighting for instance. I think it’s wonderful they would give Vets a break.

Oh and they might just be considering they still will need us. There’s that too..how sweet.

Veterans Courthouse
50 West Market Street
Newark, NJ
Criminal Division
Court Administration

Except they never will be. If there is ever another non-Democrat administration (unlikely), then it certainly won’t be the sort who does this. Remember that who the candidate is comes down to who the media says is “electable”, and what they pick are, of course, the likes of McCain and Romney. That is, establisment GOP jobbers who know that their purpose in DC is to put on a good show of (fake) opposition, maintain kayfabe (in this case, the illusion that elections matter), and then lose to the noble Democrat faces. The game is rigged. They’re doing this because they believe, correctly, that no one can stop them, that this will never be used against them.

Just to be clear, this isn’t “TFT” in the normal Game-theoretical sense. That is an effective strategy for stabiliztion in mutual cooperation. This appears to me more like DC in the 1850s, or the last days of the Third Republic.

Federal judges were certainly not Originally intended to have the kind of political power they currently exercise, which is why the appointments process is not very well designed for current conditions.