Chess With a Pigeon

A spoiling attack is a preemption, an interruption by a weaker force. You have a brigade in a defensive position, and an enemy is moving an armored division into place so it can attack you. You don’t have the strength to defeat that superior force, but you can spoil their advantage, at least for a while. You can sacrifice a platoon to go blow up their fuel and ammo trucks, so they can’t sustain the attack you know is coming, or you can blow up their headquarters and kill the division leadership, or you can wreck their lead element and throw them into temporary confusion. You can’t win, but you can buy yourself some time by dirtying up their ability to apply their advantage.

A spoiling attack relies on the distraction of getting ready. That superior enemy column is busy moving into place for something they intend later; you’ve learned from SIGINT that they plan to attack at dawn, so you hit them while they’re lining up at midnight, thinking about setting up the fight instead of thinking about fighting. You can’t destroy the enemy division, but you can disrupt enough of it that they can’t launch that planned dawn attack.

So.

A couple of weeks ago, the “journalist” Jen Psaki was running a panel discussion on the absolute outrage of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — because HHS is a public health organization, see, and RFK Jr. is a lawyer who has no medical background or public health credentials. One of the panelists mentioned that hey, wait a minute, the Biden administration’s current HHS secretary is a lawyer who has no medical background or public health credentials, so doesn’t that mean that Kennedy is just as qualified as the current secre—ANYWAY, LET’S MOVE ON, Psaki said, leaping into the discussion to make sure the wrong arguments weren’t made.

So Psaki knew perfectly well that she was making an untenable, partisan argument that was designed to mislead, and she knew what the evidence was against her position. And she worked to prevent the completely obvious narrative counterattack. She knew what she was doing: lying to dirty up the Kennedy appointment.

Between November 5 and January 20, every word you’ve heard from the “mainstream news media,” and every word you will hear, is designed to impede, to dirty up, to muddy. Tulsi Gabbard, who currently holds active command authority in the Army Reserve, is a Russian asset, something she somehow wasn’t when she was the vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee. Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor, NSC and ODNI staffer, and staff counsel to the House Intelligence Committee, has no background at all that qualifies him to lead the FBI, and his appointment is CRAAAAAAAZY!!!!

And on and on and on. It’s all absolute horseshit, and it has no purpose at all but to try to prevent the incoming administration from being ready on the day when they take over the executive branch. Remember what I wrote about the LOL-funny argument that the Trump appointees lack the gravitas and deep experience that we usually expect from high-ranking government appointees. None of the people who are saying this believe it. The same goes for the constant and urgent warning that Trump is appointing loyalists to important positions in his administration:

See, most presidents take care to assemble a cabinet of people who hate them and won’t be loyal or supportive. Like when Barack Obama appointed his deeply principled opponent Eric Holder to be his attorney general.

So if you know that a partisan noise machine is going to pour out a bunch of lazy, calculatedly dishonest distraction to try to impede the coming transition, the answer is to not lend your ears to the partisan noise machine. This is the correct answer:

In other news, the Guardian warns today that Trump is planning to use historically grounded “military-style tactics” to remove everyone from America who seems Mexican, including people of Mexican ancestry who are US citizens. He’s going to assault all the brown people in a massive fit of, actual quote, “ethnic cleansing.” Experts say so!

Distraction, manufactured panic, interruption. Force Trump and his team to defend…things that don’t exist. Why are you planning to militarily assault all the brown people!?!?!? Consume energy, time, and focus.

Similarly, the committee wearing the senile old party hack “Joe Biden” as a skinsuit is going to spend the next month punching America in the face, passive-aggressively, with deniability, as a demoralization operation. Being shocked by that maneuver is a choice to participate in the op. Ignore it. Until noon on January 20, when we can start cutting throats. Not literally, although another month of this may convince me otherwise.

The plan is to consume your energy and focus on made-up garbage, to clutter your mind and plant blackpills. So just don’t. “Keep calm and carry on.”