Israel Lobby Techniques Could/Should be Appropriated Into (mostly) Wrangler Actions, and a note on Political Game Theory (sketch)

I don’t want to take the time to write a proper diary. Hence this sketch.

The purpose of this sketch is mostly to illumine how to use Voter’s Revenge in the US political scene. While I hope the translation into Voter’s Revenge mechanism is obvious, it’s worth mentioning that the need to influence people related to a particular Congress critter is also made clear. (In the quotation below, the influencers/influenced are other Congress critters, also.) That there also needs to be effort directed at political relations to the primary target is (as I understand it) well known in political game theory. See the NY Times article on Bueno de Mesquita “Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb?”. While Voter’s Revenge targets are typically elected officials (as I originally envisioned it), the dysfunctional US response to covid 19 clearly indicates targets should be widened to include non-elected public officials. E.g., I highly recommend this lecture by Scott Atlas, who regularly tried to argue science (complete with referenced studies!) at task force meeting with the likes of Fauci, Birx, and Redfield. Fauci, Birx and Redfield never argued nor presented any science at the task force meetings. Fauci, Birx and Redfield should be shamed out of office, even if we can’t vote them out.  (I don’t know whether Birx or Redfield are still collecting a Federal paycheck, while they betray the American people.)  The SARS2 Pandemic: Will Truth Prevail? | Scott Atlas | Academy for Science & Freedom | LIVESTREAM

The SARS2 Pandemic: Will Truth Prevail? | Scott Atlas | Academy for Science & Freedom | LIVESTREAM

I recommend everybody watch the following documentary about the Israeli Lobby, which punches FAR above it’s weight, in terms of America’s percentage of Jewish population. (Indeed, the Israeli lobby promotes elite and conservative Israeli policy, which is often at odds with more liberal American Jews).

The Israel Lobby in the US – VPRO documentary – 2007

In particular: 26:40 – 30:54.

26:40

I also

26:43

wanna mention former member of Congress

26:45

impact does an excellent job of

26:49

constantly testing the loyalty of people

26:52

in Congress to their cause and so

26:55

there’s a constant stream of resolutions

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that get proposed on the Mideast

27:00

expressing support for Israel about

27:04

something it’s done or sympathy with

27:06

victims of a suicide bombing or

27:09

condemning Iran or other people in the

27:12

region who are being hostile to Israel

27:15

and these become tests of sort of

27:17

loyalty of people in Congress on this

27:20

issue and those who vote in the way that

27:23

AIPAC wants will ultimate well in many

27:27

ways be rewarded ultimately with with

27:29

campaign contributions from people

27:31

sympathetic to a better day back itself

27:33

does not give money but they sort of

27:35

this whole series of votes and and

27:40

they’re very careful cataloging of how

27:43

people vote very much affects where

27:45

people make decisions about who to give

27:48

the money to money does not flow into a

27:50

particular congressman’s coffers or

27:52

senators coffers and unless he supports

27:55

positions taken by the lobby that’s

27:57

that’s their first I think major

27:59

influence is money and this

28:02

administration is awash in money more so

28:07

probably than any administration in

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American history

28:11

for two months we’ve been trying to get

28:14

in contact with Congress people who

28:16

voted nay to certain of the bills that

28:18

were supported by a bank but nobody

28:22

wanted to speak to us is that normal

28:25

yeah this is an issue where Congress

28:28

person will see no gain to be made by

28:30

speaking on it just even voting against

28:33

a pax recommended positions is is

28:35

perilous for them because it can lead to

28:38

a reduction in campaign funds it can

28:41

create all kinds of problems in their

28:42

home district but they voted nay I mean

28:44

they did but they don’t want to go even

28:48

more public about it a film clip in

28:51

particular can you imagine a campaign

28:53

opponent using that it could become the

28:55

basis of a of a negative campaign ad and

28:59

look this person is against Israel’s

29:02

interest so when I whenever I have

29:07

spoken to people on Capitol Hill about

29:09

this it’s almost always on a not for

29:11

attribution basis

29:22

I was told off the record once by a very

29:29

prominent Democratic senator we were at

29:32

a meeting in Paris and it was late in

29:35

the evening sitting in the hotel he was

29:37

talking about the Middle East and he was

29:39

saying things about Israel which were

29:40

very similar to the criticisms that I

29:42

would make and so I said to him but you

29:45

never say these things in the Senate why

29:48

not

29:48

is it because you’re worried about the

29:50

Jewish vote you said forget him it’s

29:52

nothing to do with the Jewish vote I

29:54

come from a state I can’t tell you where

29:56

because I wasn’t um where there are very

30:00

few Jews and they all going to vote for

30:02

me anyway so it doesn’t matter so it’s

30:04

not the Jewish vote that’s not the issue

30:05

it’s not money I don’t get money from

30:07

the Israel lobby that’s not the issue

30:08

but he said suppose that I walk onto the

30:12

Senate floor and say in a moving speech

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why we need to take our distance from

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Israel understand better what has

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happened to the Palestinians maybe I

30:23

would win five ten senators over to a

30:27

general motion criticizing his for

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maximum he said but that’s all I could

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get and he said in return I would be

30:37

finished in the Senate because no one

30:40

would ever vote again for my needs if I

30:45

wanted to move something from my state

30:48

or an education bill or a financial bill

30:51

or a tax bill or anything to do with

30:52

domestic policy nothing to do with

30:54

Israel I would be punished

As most of the resolutions are “tests of loyalty”, and not major policy bills, it makes sense to me to use the less extreme punishments inherent in Wrangler actions, as opposed to the terminal Voteslinger action of punitive voting

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