Waters is matchmaking Diamond and Silk.
Jessie they will eat those boys alive.
Maria is actually one of the biggest news breakers in the USA.
Graham and Maria FISA may be the way to break it but it started way back in Jan or Dec.
Maria Bartaroma is woke.
Maria's guests are saying 'panic' and 'fear' regarding Barr.
The problem is that Barr will have to go against all SOP for counterintel operations; which is basically create the crime and lead the suspect to the crime. It is much harder to find the terrorists if you don't set up the crime first.
No i am not in the loop.
But as I understand the general FBI just follows leads, it is counter intel that baits and creates crimes for people to commit.
Bread and circuses
The 2020 election is all about bread and circuses. What will win intelligence or free shit? I recall I heard it first reading Asimov but i guess it goes all way back to Rome.
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This article is about a concept in political satire. For other uses, see Bread and circuses (disambiguation).
"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase critiquing superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD — and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace[1] — by offering a palliative: for example food (bread) or entertainment (circuses).
Juvenal, who originated the phrase, used it to decry the selfishness of common people and their neglect of wider concerns.[2][3][4] The phrase implies a population's erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority.[5]
Contents
1 Ancient Rome
2 The Frankfurt School
3 See also
4 Notes
5 Sources
6 Further reading
Ancient Rome
Further information: Grain supply to the city of Rome and Populares
This phrase originates from Rome in Satire X of the Roman satirical poet Juvenal (circa AD 100). In context, the Latin panem et circenses (bread and circuses) identifies the only remaining interest of a Roman populace which no longer cares for its historical birthright of political involvement. Here Juvenal displays his contempt for the declining heroism of contemporary Romans, using a range of different themes including lust for power and desire for old age to illustrate his argument.[6] Roman politicians passed laws in 140 BC to keep the votes of poorer citizens, by introducing a grain dole: giving out cheap food and entertainment, "bread and circuses", became the most effective way to rise to power.
[…] iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim / imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se / continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, / panem et circenses. […]
… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.[7]
—Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81
Juvenal here makes reference to the Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. The Annona (grain dole) was begun under the instigation of the popularis politician Gaius Sempronius Gracchus in 123 BC; it remained an object of political contention until it was taken under the control of the autocratic Roman emperors.