Fantasies of British Relevance, Revelations of Democratic Treason
Or why I remain a Brexiteer and how we reassemble the WWII coalition
“They are Nazis,” my late grandfather told me when we got to the subject of the British.
“Only assholes drive Jaguars,” he told me from the comfort of his Volvo. To remember him I bought a Jaguar. The joke is on me. My convertible is in the shop.
British things, like the British government, don’t seem to work all that well. But don’t worry. There’s nothing a Tory loves more than to live in California and tell us how to run America.
You can almost see the look on Rishi Sunak’s non-dom wife Akshata Murty counting down the days until she can move back to California, the place where if she wasn’t educated at least she was degreed. (Ms. Murty and I both attended Claremont McKenna College, naturally, though I think it better said that I went through college rather than to it.)
California, where the Sunaks have a $7.2 million beach home, is sunny twice as often as Jolly Old England and not nearly as deadly hot as India. Might we consider higher property taxes for foreigners in California?
Guess that Indian play by the Tories didn’t quite work out as intended but then again neither did the British Empire. Oh well, The East India Company had its day, didn’t it?
Add to that Dominic Cummings’ silly Singapore on the Thames, Cameron’s Red Toryism and you’re reaching the limits of even Albion’s delusions. Look a little closer at Paul Graham’s silly Y Combinator and you get further still.
I’ve more or less come to view the Tory defeat not so much as an election but as a counterintelligence sweep. Good riddance and let’s do make sure to block the Tory refugees who are already interfering in our elections.
Maybe it’s time for a good counterintelligence investigation into all that Russian money, Israeli technology, and British direction that visited our discourse in the Trump years?
Man am I glad my ancestors got on that boat from East Anglia…
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There was a sobering moment a little while ago when a Chinese dignitary very indignantly explained that the United Kingdom was effectively irrelevant.
There are a number of ways in which Britain has ceased to matter and this decline has seemingly accelerated.
The joke of James Bond is that there’s this is a fantasy world in which Britain shapes world events. To be sure, there’s something downright anti-American about Harry Potter where you are born doing magic in much the same was as you are born into British social class.
One of the reasons Americans like Churchill is that Churchill was half-American. (His American grandfather was a distant descendant of George Washington and of French Huguenot stock, and educated at Princeton.)
But there’s a darker Churchill — the Churchill who tried desperately to hold on to the British empire even going so far as to develop Britain’s own atomic weapons in his last government.
Indeed a friend of mine and I surmise that FDR, who was only in his early sixties after all, may well have been killed by Perfidious Albion in much the same way as the British assassinated Abraham Lincoln. (Have you ever thought about how Booth’s star role was in Our American Cousin?)
If you understand the British as having lots of ties with organized crime throughout the world a lot of things become a lot more interesting.
What was up with Winston Churchill giving a speech in Fulton, Missouri on The “Iron Curtain” descending across the globe? Maybe if there’s an iron curtain there will be emissaries who smuggle messages across the divide? Maybe this middle manning role is what nations take on between the great powers. Maybe these smaller players like it when there’s conflict between China and America or Russia and America? Something to think about. You do have to wonder how Ben Franklin was able to dodge all those assassination attempts. But then he did become the Post Master General didn’t he?
Maybe — just maybe — cracking down on money laundering in America makes it all the more possible to do that money laundering in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man. Is that what Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s real job is? That is, when he isn’t stabbing President Biden in the back?
Anyway what I find interesting is who survived on the Tory side.
Ian Duncan Smith survived. Suella Braverman survived. So did Priti Patel.
Who really is Keir Starmer? He’s obviously some sort of intelligence asset. His claim to fame is going after Rupert Murdoch once upon a time — good on him — and a few other interesting human rightsy sorts of things.
I suspect he’s but the latest in a string of new intelligence professionals who are sweeping to power throughout Europe. The first was The Netherlands where an actual spymaster is now the prime minister.
Clearly something similar is happening in France now.
I suppose I could say to Britain to stop treating us as Contintentals but then what would they have? Certainly not the weather.
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Speaking of Tories, Senator Mark Warner, chairman of Senate intelligence committee, is a traitor. I’ve had my own dealings with him when he targeted me for visiting Julian Assange.
His aide James Wolfe targeted me. Wolfe repeatedly said that he wasn’t leaking things from the Senate Intelligence committee but, in fact, he had been leaking to his lover, Ali Watkins of the New York Times.
I recorded the phone calls—and turned them over to several three letter agencies. Wolfe went to jail and was forced to pay a fine by then Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Incredibly Senator Warner called for Wolfe to get no jail time! Never mind that the material he leaked from the committee harmed national security and actual living breathing human beings, myself among them.
The other member of the Senate intelligence committee who joined Warner’s plea for Wolfe were ultimately removed from public life — Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein — but Warner has curiously remained.
The gentleman’s agreement between us is no longer in effect as he has failed to fulfill his end of the bargain. He had his chance to make good with me and my network as his network is now learning.
The way Warner’s business model works is that he effectively shakes down companies and individuals to get them to work with his people. That’s effectively what he tried to do with the Israeli spyware company NSO Group.
Are we going to talk about how the person who runs Senator Mark Warner’s money — Nicholas Perrins — is also in business with the founders of Israeli spyware company Pegasus? We might credibly ask if Mark Warner is an investor in NSO Group because it sure looks that way! Warner’s also credibly been accused of withholding information about other countries, likely Israel, and its involvement in our elections.
Neither Warner nor Wolfe was terribly interested in what really happened in 2016. Paul Manafort writes about how he was scapegoated.
That’s right. Manafort was advised by Richard Hibey, Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s attorney, on who to hire.
One way to think of the Russia collusion operation was a shakedown by Israeli-connected law firms. I refused to participate in that shakedown.
If you look closely at Warner’s wife you might ask: How many political spouses are really handlers? How many business partners are really in charge?
Might Warner’s zipper problem be how the Russian-Israeli interference came to play? He strangely asked DoD for advanced civil nuclear technology on U.S. bases to be deployed elsewhere.
At the time of this writing Warner is not going to be hosting a meeting with other U.S. Senators to remove President Joe Biden.
What really happened is Warner learned what would happen to his political career if the meeting took place. He would do well to remember that his treason could well affect his business career.
The word from France is that we’re getting the World War II coalition back together — Italian mafia, French leftists, and American know how.
We don’t have time for treasonous Tories or their step-and-fetch-its like Mark Warner.