Thread by @Dry_Observer

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 Also, remember we have a psychological warfare operation being driven by hostile nations, and what does that propaganda machine crave?

New material.

"Feeding the beast" is an imperative.

So why supply extremist rhetoric in soundbites crafted for your ostensible adversaries?

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 Remember, 2016 came down to two candidates, Trump & Clinton.

They had 14+ years of The Apprentice and assorted birtherism to work with regarding Trump, & 25+ years of attacks on Clinton.

What did they keep using?

New clips, images, accusations, even for attacks hailing back.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 And yes, Trump's inflammatory speech could be parsed and pared down to appeal to his base, as well as to rile up his opposition, thus making everything look less attractive to moderates and everyone look a little crazy.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 So why would you go out of your way to supply this material?

I'm not talking about foreign assets, bad actors and the woefully manipulated.

But for sane people opposed to all this, why work to support a mortal threat you supposedly disdain?

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 I believe the active illegal-influence networks online will eventually go down.

They were too obvious, & documented themselves in the public domain, through, say, Twitter, especially all the tweets archived by the Library of Congress until the end of 2017, & cryptocurrency logs.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 But an online "activist base" relentlessly retweeting anything that "feels good" or "might be true," even when it's obvious propaganda/deza, or merely normal trolling or insane rumor-mill garbage, can take the place of paid assets and paid networks.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 Will that fail, also?

Yes, eventually. I don't think those hostile nations counted on Epstein and the other monsters being taken down publicly.

They've likely planned to muddy the waters, decry investigations as political, & pretend the espionage is.

"All. Too. Unbelievable."

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 *Starting* with Epstein and any high-profile people with extensive video and audio evidence of their unspeakable acts blows that strategy out of the water, especially with all the people who have something to proffer and no particular impulse to see those videos played in court.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 But that means there's even *more* urgency to burn *all* the assets, especially anyone and everyone deemed effectively "dead already."

If you had no endgame, just an urgent desire to triage and save what you could, what would you do?

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 Try to keep Trump in place, replace him with an asset - especially on the left - or cause as much disruption as possible and weaken any legitimate successor as much as possible.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 So if you're a bot or troll, I understand. I really do.

You're expendable also, of course, but presumably you know that.

For everyone else?

Be advised.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 Consider also... The 2020 election and impeachment hearings will constitute a multi-front counterattack against this would-be coup, combined with the counterintelligence/law-enforcement front.

Doing anything and everything to prevent a viable candidate from emerging is critical.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 The Trump Administrations and their overseas allies can't go berserk because they have to still win an election, but they can't play remotely by the rules because there's no legal defense for many of his actions.

This puts them in a vise, which is steadily tightening.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 Media influence and a deluge of targeted online propaganda can only do so much.

As their assets are increasingly outed, hostile foreign intelligence needs America to distract itself, where their resources are no longer adequate to do so.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 Epstein and company are tipping their networks into oblivion, because their entire defense is predicated on the ability to attack any prosecution, no matter how justified.

They can't play that game with large numbers of elites on video raping children.

Game Over.

@ericgarland @TheRickWilson @Sarelan29 Unless we save the game for them, and reboot their chances, pretty much on our own.