I issued warnings re: these "peace deals" a year ago, based just on my research for Proof of Conspiracy (2019)—not based on me being prescient, omniscient, or in any way special. The warnings were ignored. Now we'll all pay the price—as media lauds Trump for deals made years ago.
A Saudi-Israeli scam is coming soon—a fake normalization deal between nations that secretly made peace before the 2016 election to collaborate to aid Trump. The scam will be Trump's big "October surprise." And media will fall for it—because they wouldn't read Proof of Conspiracy.
Some of you may think, who cares how it happened if it leads to *peace*? As we discuss in the coming Episode 8 of the new PROOF podcast, what's coming is not peace but war. And the cost of that war was illicit pre-election collusion between Trump and the nations in the news now.
These nations are normalizing relations with Israel to ensure that Trump is reelected as a result of their election tampering and to create a war tribunal to bring the United States into a war with Iran.
These transient pageants of peace will soon give way to lasting nightmares.
The cost of these deals was Turkey invading Syria and committing genocide against our Kurdish allies. The cost of was US casualties in Iraq after the assassination of an Iranian general. The cost is the rebirth of ISIS in a US-less Syria. I can't believe media's falling for this.
The cost of these deals is billions and billions and billions of dollars in U.S. military aid to Saudi Arabia's senseless intervention in Yemen, even over the bipartisan objections of Congress. The cost of these deals is the Saudis and Emiratis getting Israeli hacking technology.
The cost of these deals is the nuclearization of the Middle East—with the United States giving nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt without our traditional "1-2-3" arrangement that precludes the weaponization of this very dangerous technology.
The cost of these deals is the continued dehumanization of Palestinians. The cost is the continued unnecessary suffering of average Iranians, who feel *far* more warmly toward the United States than their leaders. If you think Jared Kushner solved the Middle East, he scammed you.
The reason the only people celebrating these deals are right-wing partisans and right-wing politicians and right-wing analysts and right-wing media outlets—mindlessly echoed by mainstream media without any serious analysis—is because real experts see where this is taking America.
The mistake US media has made is in pretending that Donald Trump had a foreign policy rather than a series of illicit transactions and clandestine courses of collusion that benefited his businesses and foreign autocrats hostile to the United States—but *not* US national security.
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I'd be remiss if I didn't congratulate Sturgill Simpson on METAMODERN SOUNDS IN COUNTRY MUSIC (2014) being certified as a gold album by the RIAA!
Sturgill has said that—among many influences on the album—one was my writing on metamodernism. I couldn't be happier about this news!
(MUSIC) "Living the Dream," Sturgill Simpson, METAMODERN SOUNDS IN COUNTRY MUSIC (2014).
"I don't need to change my strings / 'cause the dirt don't hurt / the way I sing."
What an album.
(MUSIC) "Pan Bowl," Sturgill Simpson, METAMODERN SOUNDS IN COUNTRY MUSIC (2014).
There are so many good songs on the album—standouts include "Turtles All the Way Down"; "The Promise"; and "It Ain't All Flowers"—but this might be my favorite one on the LP.
I can't locate anything "metamodern" in THE BOYS—if you want metamodern superhero fare, read Matt Fraction's HAWKEYE run, which follows Hawkeye as he does things like attend neighborhood cookouts and fix his home entertainment system—but I guess WIRED can? wired.com/story/amazon-t…
PS/ Oddly, @jkehe identifies GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and THOR: RAGNAROK—two metamodern films—as postmodern, and THE BOYS, which is hardcore late postmodernism, as "metamodern." I think the problem may be that the review is using a term whose usage the reviewer is unfamiliar with?
PS2/ THE BOYS is conventional flipped-script late-postmodern dialectics—"You mean the supers are the *villains*? But!"—with a hero class that's all anti-hero, and anti-villains (conflicted villains) thrown in for good measure, all of it then clarified by trite corporatist tropes.
(MUSIC) In Milwaukee many years ago Sturgill Simpson asked if I was in the crowd and cited my essays on metamodernism from the stage before singing this song, the sort of experience that'll never be repeated but stands as one of the best moments of my life
(PS) The only thing that approached that was this completely unexpected moment in an interview with one of my favorite artists, Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood)
(PS2) I tell these nice stories because the dark ones are really dark, like a far-right convicted cyberterrorist issuing a fatwa against me on the dark web because he believed (many years ago) metamodernism was a Jewish conspiracy I had personally developed to take over the world
(THREAD) One of the questions I get most frequently on this feed—if you can believe it—is about cultural theory. I discuss #metamodernism frequently, and people often ask, "What is it?" I'll do what I can to answer the question here, with links. I hope you'll read on and retweet.
1/ I usually try to avoid answering this question, for many reasons. Here are just a few:
1⃣ Metamodernism has caused people to go crazy.
2⃣ Metamodernism is so new there is little literature on it.
3⃣ Metamodernists are currently in a civil war.
4⃣ Metamodernism can be complex.
2/ Two more:
5⃣ Metamodernism is a "cultural paradigm," so it is such an encompassing term it really can't be adequately discussed in a character-limited social media platform.
6⃣ Metamodernism permanently changes the lives of those who study it, so it must be wielded carefully.
BREAKING NEWS: As Presaged on This Feed Six Weeks Ago, Trump Has Announced a New "October Surprise"—a Scam Saudi-Israeli Normalization Deal That Is Merely the Formalization of the Two Nations' 2016 Agreement to Covertly Offer Illegal Election Assistance to the Trump 2016 Campaign
PS/ How did I know this was happening weeks ago? Because I wrote a book on Trump's dealings with the Saudis and Israelis in 2019 (Proof of Conspiracy). All the other conspirators in the "Red Sea Conspiracy" had already publicly normalized relations with Israel. Only MBS was left.
PS2/ I have consistently called out false claims by Trump's ODNI that Saudi Arabia isn't illegally tampering with the 2020 election—as they did so in 2016 and have more reason to do so now. A scam normalization deal is a gift MBS can give Trump to help aid his reelection in 2020.
BREAKING NEWS: CNN Post-Debate Poll Shows 53% Think Joe Biden Won the Third Presidential Debate; Only 39% Say Trump
MORE/ A staggering 62% of debate-watchers tell CNN that Joe Biden directly answered questions more frequently than Trump did. Only 31% say Trump was more direct—a jawdropping 31-point "doubling up" of Trump for Biden. You usually don't see numbers like this in a post-debate poll.
MORE/ 54% of debate-watchers concluded, after watching the Tennessee debate, that Democrat Joe Biden had "a better plan for solving the country's problems."