As the worm turns, right? Let me just summarize what’s taken place so far in the Season Four — a baker’s dozen of episodes shifting away from Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and to the ongoing greasing of the wheels for a triumphant comeback for Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”
“5” Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “There’s a change in you. However subtle the change may be, it will land you in a completely different place than you would be if you had remained the same.” Pisces
Hi and welcome to Thursday’s 33rd Episode in Season 4 of “Our Disruptively Resilient Year” on this 28th day of April in the spring of 2022.
We concluded the three-year examination of how bits of wisdom changed — during the “normal” pre-pandemic year compared to the pandemic year, and more recently to the paradoxically normal year.
Season Four continues now within domestic and global chaos.
Previously in Season Four, The Disruptively Resilient Year
S4 E32 — A Rudy By Any Other Name Still Smells …; S4 E31 — Butt Dialing Your Way to a $Billion, What Could Go Wrong?; S4 E30 — Green Bay’s Conspiracy-Theories-R-Us from The OC
Related from Season Three, the Paradoxically Normal Year
S3 E33 — Do Meaningful Coincidences Really Exist?; S3 E32 — But, Why Should You Care?; S3 E31— Treat It Like a Pawn Ticket to Sketchier Things; S3 E30 — Steal These TauBits, Please. It’s Only Fair!
Related from Season Two, the Pandemic Year
S2 E33 — What Happens When Your Business Collapses?; S2 E32 — Trapped and Bored? Or Unleashing a Reinvention Wave?; S2 E31 — Getting Charged from Box Automattic-aly; S2 E30 — It’s Crazy. Why does Amazon Prime Work, but Netflix Doesn’t?
Related from Season One, the Normal Year
S1 E33 — Day 33 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E32 — Day 32 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E31 — Day 31 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E30 — Day 30 of My 1-Year Experiment;
Context
As the worm turns, right? Let me just summarize what’s taken place so far in Season Four’s bakers dozen of episodes shifting away from Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and to the ongoing greasing of the wheels for a triumphant comeback for Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
Not so fast. Even before the rest of his cabinet members negotiated book deals for after they left his service, one began writing articles about what it was like trying to follow traditional conservative principles, but witnessed Trump’s bizarre behavior all too frequently.
Anonymous better known as Miles Taylor documented his character.
S4 E19 — The Reason Character and Honesty Don’t Count Anymore
And profiled his work ethic, which seems like two words that don’t apply to what President’s actually do in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk. Looking in from the outside many of us wondered why his cabinet never activated Article 25 to remove him from office for proving to be incompetent and downright dangerous.
S4 E20 — Resiliently Living Through Domestic and Global Chaos
If that wasn’t enough there’s always the January 6th Insurrection. And, even as members of both sides of the aisle feared for their lives, condemned Trump’s role in fanning the flames of attack, in just a few days they began to backpedal. Why?
And, who’s to blame? How will we find out? And, what can be done to prevent the next one?
S4 E21 — Not Since the War of 1812
Won’t it take bipartisan efforts? Well, I guess not as the January 6th Commission is formed to unravel who, what, when, how, why and event suspicions about members of Congress and their role.
S4 E22 — Now, Who Could Argue With That?
Just as there might have been a Deutsche Bank money laundering and fishy loans, shouldn’t we take a step back to follow the money? And doing so begins with the Mercers and how Conway and Bannon join forces later in the Trump 2016 Campaign and his administration
S4 E23 — When In Doubt, Follow the Money
Why is Bannon’s role significant? That’s what Miley suddenly realizes as he recognizes the domestic terrorist plots.
S4 E24 — Another Spooky Role to Play on the Outside
We now know Bannon advised Trump to focus on January 6th, but why and how?
S4 E25 — Accountability?
Did one of the concentric circles the January 6th Commission define his role in a vast conspiracy? Who else co-conspired?
There’s Boris Epshteyn
S4 E26 — What Happens If No One Asks a Question?
And John Eastman waving the Pence Card
S4 E27 — Who Cares If It’s The Right Thing To Do Anymore?
What about Peter Navarro teaming up with Bannon executing the “Green Bay Sweep”
S4 E28 — Why Do Those Who Know the Least Talk the Longest?
One loyal Trump soldier on the front lines is Mo Brooks.
S4 E29 — How Much Mo Did He Pay for the Brooklyn Bridge?
Let’s revisit Peter Navarro here.
S4 E30 — Green Bay’s Conspiracy-Theories-R-Us from The OC
And, the last two episodes devoted to Rudy Giuliani’s continuing role tied to Ukraine, and the fake evidence of a stolen election.
S4 E31 — Butt Dialing Your Way to a $Billion, What Could Go Wrong?
S4 E32 — A Rudy By Any Other Name Still Smells …
Evidence
Random ones that make me want change my sign.
Today’s Holiday Birthday:
First your imagination will take you places and then the rest of you will catch up. You’ll bring inspiration to your group as you constantly seek creative fuel and fill your senses with beautiful, masterful work. Summer brings precious moments and your favorite people. A study will lead to a better financial situation.
Why chose this Holiday Birthday? Because my Holiday Tau didn’t measure up? Yes, and… And, I know tomorrow Emma the Baroness and I hit the road again in my Honda CRV with only 5000 pandemic miles on it to take us to three main places, all in Arizona — first Prescott, then Jerome and finally Sedona. If you’re one of my 12817 organically grown followers you know Prescott and Sedona have fueled my imagination.
“3” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “You like keenly observant people who ask the questions that prove their attention and interest. These people make you think. They cause you to see yourself differently.” Virgo
You bet I do, and I hope to run into some more, but with all that has to be accomplished before we leave I’m feeling a little frayed and frustrated and therefore not as much into packing as I should. Why is that? That feeling almost always shows up like a yawn the day before we take off.
“4” Steve Aoki, 41; Steven Spielberg, 74: “The way to see the big picture is to go to the top of the mountain. You can do this in your mind, or you can do it physically by heading to the highest point in your immediate geography. Either way will give you clarity.” Sagittarius
Is it cheating to postpone this one day until we arrive in higher elevated, Prescott and 3 days later in Sedona?
“5” Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “There’s a change in you. However subtle the change may be, it will land you in a completely different place than you would be if you had remained the same.” Pisces
Well, let’s really, really hope so. Will it be because of our vacation? Or because of something completely different?
What’s Going On …
Literally Bottled and Set Adrift from KnowWhere Atoll
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- @KnowLabs suite of 36 digital magazines, according to my analytics, grew from 12733 this week to 12817 organically grown followers.
- Orange County Beach Towns 216 viewers stopped by the week before.
Foresight
Quality-of-Life
Long-Form
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- “Here, Right Matters: An American Story” by Alexander Vindman. “We’d long been confused by the president’s policy of accommodation and appeasement of Russia, the United States’ most pressing major adversary. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, seizing the Crimean Peninsula, attacking its industrial heartland, the Donbass, from the capital, Kyiv. By 2019, little had changed, Russian military and security forces and their proxy separatists continued to occupy the Donbass. The biggest change was to Ukraine’s importance as a bulwark against Russian aggression weeks earlier, the White House had abruptly put a hold on nearly four hundred million dollars.”
- David Enrich begins his book with a suicide in “Deutsche Bank Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction” and then meticulously details the bank’s Russian money laundering operations. Deutsche’s Russian business surged after revenues had fallen 50% due to the 2008 financial crisis. Putin’s Russia, poured in to Deutsche from deals it did with VTB Bank, linked to the Kremlin’s intelligence apparatus. Deutsche positioned itself as a crucial cog in “The Laundromat” by doing what couldn’t be done — processing cross-border transactions for banks that were too small and didn’t have offices outside their home countries.
- “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy” by Jamie Raskin recalls one tragedy no parent should endure — the suicide of his son — and then a second tragedy at almost the same time — the insurrection on January 6th 2021, that terrified he and his congressional peers who were tasked by the Constitution to routinely oversee the orderly transfer of power from one former president to the duly elected new President.
- “A Warning” by Anonymous (Miles Taylor) written prior to the January 6th Insurrection as an insider’s account documenting how frequently the former President’s behavior and rage without any “guard rails” showed just how far he would go to win the next election at any cost while spinning lies and misinformation on top of each other.
- “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa provides anecdotes, stories and inside reporting documenting the controversial last days of Donald Trump’s presidency, as well as the presidential transition and early presidency of Joe Biden.
- “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising,” by Joshua Green tracks the money behind the scenes leading up to the 2016 presidential election and the growing influence of Steve Bannon’s network of extreme nationalists.
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