Useful Idiot, Now Merely Idiot

This ridiculous Trump/Pope squabble is distracting folks (perhaps by design) from the far more meaningful story: Eric Swalwell and more crucially, related unmistakable, if circumstantial, evidence of a secret-state blackmail apparatus active in Congress. Could it be that we really do have shadow governance, and this is but a small signal thereof?

For background, back in 2012, a Chinese spy, Fang Fang a.k.a. Christine Fang, went after aspirational politicians in the Bay Area and elsewhere, who had eyes on national positions. Charm, money and seduction were her tools, variably employed depending on who she targeted for her deep-pocketed, long-game-minded, red Commie Chinese puppet masters.

Swalwell was one of the recipients of her caress, probably in both figurative and literal senses. Even as a rising local star without classified access at the time, he would have such privileges if elected to Congress, and she “helped” with those efforts, even becoming Facebook “friends” with his father and brother. She fund-raised for him and directed an intern in his office likely quite compliant with her espionage agenda. She also allegedly seduced Swalwell into an affair — which, given revelations about him since — is a notion far more credible than any of his denials about that, or denials about his other affair(s) and sexual harassments.

[Before China found out she was found out, and summoned her home for good, Fang Fang also got inside the pants of at least two Midwestern mayors, based on FBI surveillance revealed in multiple media stories, and who knows who else. The U.S. secret state therefore knew this stuff was happening and who all was involved. Hold that thought.]

This is not Days of Our Lives, or whatever J.R. Ewing dug up on the competition; this is serious stuff. Even information about current, former or potential government officials that is not classified yet private, like interests, exploitable personality weaknesses (Lust! Greed!), sexual preferences, financial problems, addictions, marital distress, browsing history, Snapchats, texts, Signal messages, other vulnerabilities, schedules, social networks, contacts…all of those are valuable as intelligence! [Same goes for domestic spies as for foreign. Hold this thought too!]

Despite that becoming known behind the scenes (and perhaps because of it?), Swalwell was elected to Congress. Wouldn’t you know it, he became a useful, reliable, dependable tool for his party’s well-connected establishment! He would vote exactly as predictable, right down the company line for a California Democrat (and perhaps, exactly as told?). If they had a blind spot for his lewd predations, it was willful.

Surprise, surprise! Fang Fang allegedly was far from the only woman Swalwell messed around with, outside whom he married. Swalwell’s sins with other women filled his closet with skeletons—more than a closet, a veritable boneyard of predation and lust — which have been known behind the scenes years before they were revealed recently. And how convenient it is they were publicized and compelled his exit, only when more palatable candidates (to his party) came along for both his old House seat and California governor. Amid this sudden storm that was a long time brewing, he also tried to fight the FBI hard regarding their consideration of releasing the Swalwell investigation files. What a surprise there, too (not)!

It wasn’t just the Democrats. The FBI and NSA outwardly knew a lot and inwardly had to have known far more, since he was already their radar as a major espionage vulnerability. The political establishment at large, including Republicans and some media, knew for years. They didn’t do a damn thing about it until…he became too inconvenient. How is this (not just his predations, but the hushing thereof until the time was “right”) not an epic scandal?

Could it be because this is business as usual on Capitol Hill? I’m not defending Slimeball Swalwell at all. Still, how many more Swalwells, or mini-Swalwells if still compromised but not so deeply, govern us? Who is holding what over their heads to get them to vote in certain ways for, or against, certain bills and provisions—or to not even allow them to the floor? Or influencing executive or judicial outcomes, perhaps?

We’ve seen this tactic before (e.g., Brett Kavanaugh, which was much more baseless, nothing but hearsay, and did not succeed). Go even further back and read about Anthony Weiner. Or when the Obama FBI visited CIA head David Petraeus and alerted him that he was having an affair with his biographer? That came in handy later, didn’t it? Go further still and J. Edgar Hoover’s files (whether real or not…and truth isn’t the point here) describing salacious sexual stories about Rev. Martin Luther King. Or the known mainstream media and political cover-ups of JFK’s affairs. [Ironically, his brother RFK signed off on wiretapping MLK. See how nasty and convoluted this can get?]

COINTELPRO proved it was possible in the ’60s, long before modern surveillance tech. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. I cannot help but wonder if perhaps not a majority—but at least a critical mass—of Congress, Presidential cabinetry of both parties, and the federal judiciary—is similarly compromised by publicly hidden dirt that is known to the deep apparatus through their surveillance tactics.

Does every Congressman and Congresswoman eventually get presented with old dirt and “asked” to do things certain ways at certain times? Or if the dirt is trivial or deemed not enough, a honey trap? Increasingly plausible against even those of the cleanest and most impeccable backgrounds: AI-generated fake dirt? How many of our leaders, all the way up to Presidential levels, have been and remain compromised by their own secrets…or by convincing fakes?

I’m not positing anything as certainty, except that Swalwell is another example of a political downfall to personal scandal. I am, however, taking real puffs of smoke wafting from cracks in the ground, patterns apparent therein, and asking if this represents a great subterranean coal-seam fire that has potential to bring much more down into its hellscape?

There is nothing wrong with asking questions. Getting believable answers is a different story. Good luck.