{"id":924,"date":"2018-06-15T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=924"},"modified":"2018-06-15T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T17:04:31","slug":"twenty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2018\/06\/15\/twenty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-Four<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[Trump\u2019s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No. No he won\u2019t. We\u2019ll stop it \u2013 text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c24\u201d was a Fox television series that ran from 2002 to 2011.\u00a0 The lead character was Jack Bauer, an agent for the Central Terrorist Unit of the US Government.\u00a0 His job, hour by hour, was to protect the United States from a variety of threats, often using any means necessary.\u00a0 Brutal torture was one of Bauer\u2019s tools, but only to \u201creally bad guys.\u201d\u00a0 He saved the country, again and again.<\/p>\n<p>If Jack Bauer had been around during the summer of 2016, here\u2019s what might have happened.<\/p>\n<p>A famous reality star and businessman, Ronald Crump, was running for the Presidency of the United States.\u00a0 As the season begins, we find out that members of Crump\u2019s campaign have been in contact with Russian Intelligence operatives.\u00a0 Russian intelligence has hacked into the email of the Crump\u2019s opponent, Jillian Hinton, and a clearly coordinated release of embarrassing emails hits the internet at the optimum time.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer receives further intelligence through highly secret electronic intercepts that the highest members of the campaign are working with the Russians.\u00a0 In addition, an old friend in British intelligence lets Bauer know that Crump is deeply indebted to Russian oligarchs, all controlled by the leader of Russia. \u00a0He also reveals that the candidate engaged in deviant sexual behavior that Russian Intelligence has on tape.\u00a0 \u201cKompromat,\u201d blackmail, was another hook into the Crump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer is faced with the possibility that a \u201cManchurian Candidate;\u201d controlled by Russian Intelligence, is a major party nominee for President of the United States.\u00a0 And Bauer has another problem, Crump\u2019s opponent is also flawed; Hinton has been extremely careless with emailing classified information, an investigation that Bauer concluded last season.\u00a0 But now, there are more emails that might further damage her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Through all of this, Bauer is having an affair with a Justice Department attorney.\u00a0 Both are married to other people, but see each other daily on the job.\u00a0 The pressure of their highly classified missions pushes them together.\u00a0 They want to communicate, but can\u2019t use their own personal phones for fear their spouses will see the texts.\u00a0 So they use their government issued phones, classified from their spouses, to carry on their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>What would we expect Jack Bauer to do?\u00a0 Will the US elect a \u201cManchurian Candidate,\u201d who could be used by the Russians to further their foreign policy aims of destroying the post Cold War world order?\u00a0Will the flawed opponent overcome her email mistakes?\u00a0 As the clock clicks down to the end of the season, we sit on the edge of our couches, wondering what will happen next.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer, confident that the US voters will make the right choice, continues to build the case against the Crump campaign.\u00a0 But then, in an unexpected plot twist, Bauer\u2019s boss at CTU decides to release new information about Hinton\u2019s email.\u00a0 Thousands of messages have been found on the laptop of a sex deviant, and turns out the deviant, a former Congressman, is married to Hinton\u2019s chief campaign advisor.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of CTU releases the news that the Hinton investigation is reopened, ten days before the election.\u00a0 Bauer and his lover are desperate; Crump, even though some of his deviant sexual actions are now public, is recovering in the polls.\u00a0 The election closes in, and Crump, by a fluke in the Constitution, becomes President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As the last hour ticks away, Bauer goes back to work, building a case.\u00a0 The man elected President of the United States is under control of the Russians.\u00a0 Tune in again next season, to see what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that season of \u201c24\u201d couldn\u2019t run on Fox.\u00a0 Maybe NBC will pick it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-Four\u00a0 [Trump\u2019s] not ever going to become president, right? 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