Remember those cake walks that were always at the local fairs? [View all]

[tavalon]

I know, this sounds like it should be in the Lounge, but work with me for a minute.

Even as a kid, I figured out pretty quickly, that the person controlling the music could actually pick the odd person out. Damn near every time. Needless to say, I lost interest, unless the person running the game was someone who liked me.

Why this quaint story? Well, it occurred to me that TIA (Total Information Awareness), I mean, PRISM (I have no fucking clue what that stands for, but it's just a new name for an old game) is like the cake walk. Someone or someones much bigger than any President is running the game, deciding when the music stops and who gets a seat and who get's left standing. In this game, though, the one left standing is the one who will be blamed, probably impeached and definitely will get no cake.

Now, we know this has been going on for a long time. Only recently did the technology to data mine, I mean, get metadata (I hate being lied to, don't you? words are ways to prevaricate) become possible. I can't remember the name of the fucker who was creaming over TIA during the Bush maladministration and then got "shut down", which is military industrial complex speak for got a new name. It started well before Bush but Bush was probably the first to have the actual ability to have the goods, maybe even sort the goods.

But here's the shitter. We at DU knew this was an impeachable crime, much like the dozen or so other impeachable crimes that cretin committed or was aware of (if dry drunks can be considered aware). But Bush got the chance to get a seat so no impeachment. Guess what just happened. The music stopped and our President is standing, not only standing by this travesty but standing. He's being hung out to dry for what many of his predecessors started.

Will Obama get impeached? And will he be removed? I have no crystal ball but I think it hangs on two things: How much the Republicans want President Biden and how badly the phrase, "The modest encroachments on privacy" plays out. That phrase sure took my breath away.