UPDATE: Now for the rest of the Tata tape!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2024

What Red Nation hears: In our earlier report, we gave you a bit of background on Brigadier General Anthony Tata, who specializes in spotting the traitors found all over the land.

He was today's initial guest on the Red Nation "cable news" program, Fox & Friends Weekend. The show begins at 6 o'clock Eastern. As you can see by clicking this link, General Strangelove was placed on the air at 6:04 a.m. sharp.

The one-star general was on the show to evaluate the military strikes which are under way and will apparently continue. Just for the record, we're going to guess that Tata hasn't been fully briefed by President Biden on the extent of the action which is yet to come.

Oracular knowledge filled that void. The retired general's most memorable assessment was delivered at 6:07:

"This is all a psyop on the American people and the world, quite frankly."

So the general said! To his credit, he was speaking "quite frankly" to the three friends, but also to our neighbors and friends, and fellow citizens, who live within Red Nation.

On Fox, Taylor Swift was said to be a psyop. Now, so are these ongoing strikes! Along the way, we thought we'd show you some other things which were said as a former sports reporter and a former reality show performer joined Princeton's own Pete Hegseth in cheering Tata on.

Hegseth set the tone quite quickly. He paraphrased a congressman who had said, according to Hegseth, that last night's strikes were "really nothing more than a fireworks display."

That was Hegseth's paraphrase. At that point, producers played tape of the congressman's actual statement. The statement had been made to Sean Hannity, and it had gone like this:

"Sean, I just heard tonight from soldiers who are down range right now, and they're telling me this is going to equate to nothing more than a multimillion-dollar fireworks show."

So the congressman said to Hannity, last night. By the way, how did a bunch of soldiers out in the field know what this campaign will end up being like?

Questions like those are rarely asked when we separate ourselves into Blue Nation and Red.

Before the general's session was done, he turned to that image for the third time, once again calling the strikes "a fireworks display." He also said that President Biden, like President Obama before him, was involved in "a love affair with the Iranian mullahs, and they don't want to offend them."

"There's no plan, no vision, no strategy," he said. No one asked him how he could know whether such statements were accurate at this early point in time.

Eventually, the other friends inserted themselves into the unfolding imitation of life.

For Rachel Campos-Duffy, there's still a Communist or a Marxist under every bed—and yes, those are the terms she persistently uses.

We'll guess that Campos-Duffy has some very good personal qualities. We'll also guess that she may not be a global relations specialist. Inevitably, she was soon asking this:

"How much of this do you think is Obama still directing the Iran policy? You know he's obsessed with the nuke deal with Iran."

"Yeah, Rachel. Very good points there," the general quickly replied. The other good points to which he referred had been delivered in this fuller version of what Campos-Duffy said:

General, I'm trying to make sense of all of this. And from what I can gather, as far as what the rationale is, or what the doctrine is, if you will, I see a Valerie Jarrett doctrine of appeasing Iran and making sure that the funding is still there for them in different ways, with the money that has gone to them even just this past year alone.

I also see a John Kerry doctrine that a lot of this is about making sure that our, for climate purposes, our energy is shut down, but somehow they didn't seem to do anything that could shut down Iranian oil, because I believe they want to use Iranian oil instead of American oil.

How much of this do you think is Obama still directing the Iran policy? You know he's obsessed with the nuke deal with Iran.

There you see the three good points the Washington general affirmed. 

Our guess?

Most blue tribe members don't understand the extent to which the pundits serving Red America push the idea that Barack Obama is still the acting American president. 

Some of Donald J. Trump's recent statements may have been built upon that theme. Our own blue pundits seemed to be unaware of this tribal pattern.

Thanks to the Internet Archive, you can watch the entire discussion which took place with General Tata today. We know of no particular reason to think that any of the four participants had any way to know what they were actually talking about, but in a world split into The Red and The Blue, such niceties no longer arise in the course of our fully segregated, dueling pseudo-discussions.

These strikes are just the latest psyop, the crackpot general said. First Taylor Swift was caught in a psyop. Now General Tata says this!

A suggestion: We'll suggest that you review the thumbnail treatment of this general from our earlier post. As we separate into Red and Blue Nations, we're at least on the receiving end of major anthropology lessons. 

What's human functioning actually like? That thumbnail treatment should be sobering, but it's also deeply instructive.