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'''Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue''' is a metaphorical framework | '''Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue''' is a metaphorical framework developed by Eric Weinstein that describes interactions between institutional state actors (termed '''Cobalt Blue''') and civilians or non-institutional actors (termed '''Baby Blue''') when the latter inadvertently interfere with, uncover, or challenge covert or sensitive state operations. The term extends and adapts military languageāparticularly ''Blue-on-Blue'' (friendly fire)āto describe asymmetric encounters between classified power structures and the general public in information or governance domains. | ||
This framework was popularized in informal discourse to explore epistemic asymmetries, informal censorship, reputational control mechanisms, and the state's response to unsanctioned civilian inquiry into protected operational or narrative domains. | This framework was popularized in informal discourse to explore epistemic asymmetries, informal censorship, reputational control mechanisms, and the state's response to unsanctioned civilian inquiry into protected operational or narrative domains. | ||
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== Origin == | == Origin == | ||
The '''Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue''' framework was shared publicly by Eric Weinstein on [[Joe Rogan Experience 1945 - Eric Weinstein (YouTube Content)|Episode #1945 of the Joe Rogan Experience]] in February, 2023. | |||
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''So this is how they deconflict Blue-on-Blue. But, you see, you and I are also blue. We're having a conversation, and we may be stumbling on something the government doesn't want us to know, which is what happened when Covid maybe spilled out. ... So this is how they play keep-away from the rest of us where they tell each other what they're doing, and the rest of us can't know what's going on. Now, when you say Blue-on-Blue, there's a situation that I want to give a name to because it doesn't have a name, which I'm going to call [[Baby-on-Cobalt]] and '''Cobalt-on-Baby'''. Baby and Cobalt are two forms of blue. Cobalt is government and Baby is like civilians, like you and me. What happens when a civilian stumbles on one of these operations? They're not allowed to use these systems. All right. I called up the South Florida I think Case Explorer, had a half an hour conversation. They were telling me all sorts of stuff, and I said, "I'd like to hear about Jeffrey Epstein". Like, "who's calling?" "I'm a private citizen". "This call will be terminated in five seconds." And then they hung up on me. So I realize, okay, ordinary human beings cannot use these systems. I think a lot of what's going on is that we keep tripping over government operations in the Cobalt sector, but we're Baby Blue. And they don't have any system for figuring out how to get rid of a civilian who stumbles on, like, a drug smuggling operation. I'm like, okay, so Jeffrey Epstein traffics your daughter. What do you do if he's an intelligence asset? You don't know. You just want the creep away from your kid. So you file a complaint or whatever. Now you've got a situation where they don't know what to do because you've got a civilian and you've got some sort of super secret, dark thing that isn't supposed to exist. Ā | ''So this is how they deconflict Blue-on-Blue. But, you see, you and I are also blue. We're having a conversation, and we may be stumbling on something the government doesn't want us to know, which is what happened when Covid maybe spilled out. ... So this is how they play keep-away from the rest of us where they tell each other what they're doing, and the rest of us can't know what's going on. Now, when you say Blue-on-Blue, there's a situation that I want to give a name to because it doesn't have a name, which I'm going to call [[Baby-on-Cobalt]] and '''Cobalt-on-Baby'''. Baby and Cobalt are two forms of blue. Cobalt is government and Baby is like civilians, like you and me. What happens when a civilian stumbles on one of these operations? They're not allowed to use these systems. All right. I called up the South Florida I think Case Explorer, had a half an hour conversation. They were telling me all sorts of stuff, and I said, "I'd like to hear about Jeffrey Epstein". Like, "who's calling?" "I'm a private citizen". "This call will be terminated in five seconds." And then they hung up on me. So I realize, okay, ordinary human beings cannot use these systems. I think a lot of what's going on is that we keep tripping over government operations in the Cobalt sector, but we're Baby Blue. And they don't have any system for figuring out how to get rid of a civilian who stumbles on, like, a drug smuggling operation. I'm like, okay, so Jeffrey Epstein traffics your daughter. What do you do if he's an intelligence asset? You don't know. You just want the creep away from your kid. So you file a complaint or whatever. Now you've got a situation where they don't know what to do because you've got a civilian and you've got some sort of super secret, dark thing that isn't supposed to exist. Ā | ||