We emerged from the alleged Labor Day holiday weekend with a lot of people not working. Well, it was a holiday, but you know how things go these days.

We have touched before on the curious state of play in the information operations campaign. Normally, these things are conducted sub rosa and rarely talked about where someone might hear. Now the secret stuff is being paraded as a predicate for what is going to happen next, another favorite topic here in the chest-deep opaque waters of the Big River.

I am sure you have heard it play out on the media. The Biden folks (before they knew they were Biden folks) had at least two War Game exercises how to conduct themselves in the election. They were fairly big deals that featured a lot of people from the Progressive end of the spectrum, and several of the never-Trump figures of what used to be the GOP.

This would not have been a big deal in normal times, rather, it is just what political people do to occupy their time and formulate strategy for tough times. These two games, plus the one that decided how the games should be held and what could be used in the campaign are now front and center in the “what next” headlights.

The talking points you see are about what will happen in the election, and then what actions will taken to turn whatever that is into a triumph of the people. It is pretty neat, and the results have been floating around since the decision was made to release them. The bullet points were short and essentially this simple: “The only result that does not end in violence is a Biden landslide.” If you kept reading, you were informed that Swamp Insiders had decided that a modest Biden victory, a Trump modest victory, or a landslide for Orange Man Bad would result in more riots and a constitutional crisis.

I know, I know. We have been in one since the astonishing Mrs. Clinton crashed and burned in 2016. Apparently whatever war games were conducted after that surprise included immediate overthrow of Mr. Trump by whatever means necessary.

Having seen the distressing assessment of trouble to come, I am tempted to think that this is just part of the hysterical agitprop one would normally see before a tight election. This is America, after all, and our inherent system of justice would never permit government by coup d’etat, right? Or is this some sort of a new normal thing we don’t understand yet?

I normally would chalk this up to the usual swamp smoke and mirrors and energetic hyperbole. Part of the information campaign is intended to heighten our panic, now part of our regular daily information diet. I assume it is just a more aggressive version of what we always see and everything is basically OK. But this is new, and includes the treat of more of what we have already seen on a nightly basis for more than a hundred days in some places. It has a tinge of a non-hyperbolic threat and a whiff of something that could be real and personal in nature.

You could ask Tucker Carlson about all those mostly peaceful protestors who showed up at his house and scared the shit out of his wife while he was at work. You would need some compelling hyperbole to convince me that screaming threats at an occupied dwelling is responsible exercise of Free Speech.

The volume is up. New books, including one by the historic hipster Mr. Woodward, are throwing months-old interviews into the mix of information intended to guide our votes in a few weeks. I am sure there I something like this planned for each delightful day approaching the 3rd of November. Accordingly, I will tune in with a grin to see what we have in store.

So, that is the week the volume got turned up and began to swirl old muck in our dark and humid waters. This is going to be great. Unless there is violence, of course. But the war games say there is only a 75% chance of that. Wait till we see what is next in our earnest struggle in the muggy air by the Potomac. Having a wonderful time- wish you were here!

Unless there is violence, of course. In that case, I plan to stay home and wear a mask. I saw a great one about that- a product introduced years ago that updates it all in a nutshell. Panic, disassociation and bliss all in one bottle:

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