Since everyone is speculating like crazy about what unfolded the other day in VZ, I feel as a kind of screenwriter I should offer my own idea of a recap.
I’m not suggesting Netflix pick it up for the official version. That’ll be Frontline’s job, right?
I’m gonna have the VZers portrayed as still not entirely persuaded that Monster U is outta control. They were speculating the inner circle had moderating handlers who could keep it melodramatic without going over the top, to use Biden’s phrase.
But when like-minded meet in Florida, there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.
As “commander in chief”, there’s this mystic ability to green light what anyone else would consider a highly improbable scenario. You need a scapegoat to really commit to the most unpopular decisions. When JFK red-lighted a couple outrageous things (vs green-lighted), deviating from his script… we saw the consequences.
What am I saying? That the VZers were taken by surprise and so didn’t mount a significant resistance. They were disbelieving the months of hype and bluster?
Even with all the big arrow armada movements, they still didn’t think the escalation would be that steep (as in vertical). Wasn’t this all Made for the USATV couch potatoes? They like to see glorious victory celebrations with lots of pomp and circumstance (lots of ribbons, hero awards). When in Rome.
Now they know. That’s why people are now saying: Greenland, get ready. Canada too. Cuba, Columbia… Nigeria… we’re just getting started.
So now the world knows too: there are no brakes left in Washington DC. That city is indeed a Monster U. Its think tanks are world-renowned for their inferior quality.
I used to call it the City of Morons. Same diff.
Maybe the miscalculation was the Pentagon brass thinking a “stony silence” — as they were being harangued to go against their oaths — was somehow going to mean something to their commanding bosses. It meant compliance is what it meant.
