Yesterday Karoline ( mouthpiece) the press secretary stated
“ I have a message directly from the president for all of you”
She then proceeded to read his words:
“Based on FACT that there is a substantial chance of negotiations that MAY or MAY NOT take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether to go within the next two weeks”
She then concluded
“ this is a quote from the president for all of you today”
It has been recognized and talked about all the irrational thinking, rambling thoughts and many rants both on line and talking in public .
The stating things as a “fact” followed by a “maybe “ it’s a form of narcissistic communication.
A search shows:
“Why this is characteristic of narcissistic communication:
Ambiguity and Control:
Narcissists often use vague or non-committal language to maintain control and avoid accountability. By introducing "maybe" after a definite statement, they create uncertainty and leave room for denial or shifting responsibility later. This keeps others off-balance and guessing, as the narcissist can later deny ever stating something as a definitive fact.
Manipulation and Deception:
Narcissistic communication can involve manipulation through ambiguity and deception. The statement "X is a definite fact, maybe..." can be a way to plant doubt or create a situation where the narcissist can later backtrack or change their story without taking responsibility. This type of communication can make the victim feel confused, insecure, and question their own perception of reality.
Need for Power:
Narcissists crave power and control in their interactions. By using this communication style, they exert dominance and keep the other person reliant on them for clarification or confirmation. “
Malignant narcissism and psychopathy are serious personality disorders and mental mental illness.
The Republicans that are going along with this and they think it sounds normal most likely had these tendencies to begin with .
All Americans have emotionally abused with communication like this
Fire hose of misinformation
Pathological gaslighting at highest level manipulation .
Anyone that attaches themselves to this environment and orbit gets emotionally compromised .
The key is to stay grounded in truth in reality with all of it being unraveled, which Charlie has been doing a good job for us here .
The podcast he had with Brian Klass was wonderful and so informative.
Everyone needs to stay grounded emotionally in reality and with the truth, which gives everybody a clear head to push back and get through this.
Standing up for what is right to protect our democracy our freedoms and our rights
Charlie has been speaking up against all this from the beginning.
Thank you for taking the time to write this. I have a tendency to hyperfocus on the authoritarian and cult ideations to the exclusion of malignant narcissistic PD. All three are critical to understand this administration.
It's a standard authoritarian ploy to "dumb down" the population it wants to propagandize. Fox set it up for him beautifully by training its audience into accepting whatever appealed to them emotionally or made it easier to understand (they didn't know or care that some things can't be 'easy'...they are complex). Some of it's laziness, some of it's gratification in having their previous biases stroked -- for the smarter ones, they appreciate a quick "excuse."
Then there are the truly intellectually limited, sad fodder for the appeal.
Just off the top of my head, the people who were throwing punches at anyone in a yarmulke in Times Square seemed pretty violent and the guy who shot Steve Scalise had a gun. There are many examples. Sometimes it IS both sides - and denying that there is anti-Semitism, etc in elements of the left is very MAGA.
Geez...those are such rare examples as to not be statistically significant. But I do concede that genuine anti-semitism is again increasing in America, mostly because those in authority have allowed white supremacists a free hand with "free speech" when what they are actually doing is hate speech.
Regarding the recent arrests of Democrats, I am wondering why they don't hire or bring policeman on such occasions?(Padila for example). Likewise, why don't judges in immigration court do the same? That has become the tactic of ICE now to show up at immigration court to detain. I realize this is an escalation. But police and ICE are at odds in their jobs. Trump loves the confrontations that have been occurring. Lets face it, a scene with ICE and local police is something Trump can't spin.
Re: predicting Trump's next steps on Iran, remember that Trump is mostly about scapegoating; finding other people to blame for problems or failures, real or imagined. He's not a leader, not someone to act boldly, out of conviction or principle, and bear the consequences, for better or worse, without an easy off-ramp.
With that in mind, I expect that Trump will give Bibi the green light for some kind of escalation, e.g. Israeli commando force on the ground at Fordo, or Israeli attacks on Iranian eeconomy to try to bring down the Iranian regime, or some other big Israeli move. But Trump will not strike Iran directly. If Bibi stumbles, Bibi becomes Trump's scapegoat. If Bibi succeeds, Trump can claim credit. In that sense, Trump will use Bibi almost like he used Elon.
It seems to me as if Bibi is using Trump as his "useful idiot," like Putin. With far more arrogance that Trump is somewhat helpless, because of the traditional US/Israel ties.
This is complex, there are so many factors it's hard to congeal them. Trump loves deal-making and wants his name on peace deals. This thing has gone so far as to make that impossible, since Bibi has long made his intentions known and he pretty much has a green light w/ the Trump Admin.
Also, boys love their toys, and both Israel and the Pentagon have been itching to use their various new tech on someone.
Unless we know DJT's influencers and his mental decompensation at this point, it's anybody's guess. But the Zionist entity running Israel right now is bound and determined to have their way with Iran, regardless of what it looks like. The Likud Party is truly extremist, and was founded by extremist entities internationally deemed "terrorist." People forget that.
Interesting open question as to who's using whom re: Trump and Bibi -- as it was with Trump and Elon. I guess I feel like Trump will come out on top, as he did with Elon, if only because American voters were foolish enough to make Trump the most powerful person on the planet. The only certainty is, Trump will do what's best for Trump.
Ok Olivia, Charlie, Tim, The Bulwark, Meidas Network, Pod Save America, Joe Walsh, Lincoln Square and everybody else, I am going to try and explain this, again.
These people who support trump have always been here and they have always been this; mean, despicable, deplorable, hateful, cruel, and for lack of a better word, evil. Those who support trump and the republicans who do not share the qualities mentioned in the previous sentence, do so because he is willing to allow the Christian Nationalist to get everything that they have wanted for decades, which literally is Project 2025 and the means to achieve the second coming of Jesus Christ (the end times).
Both categories believe that their beliefs are 100% right and EVERYBODY else is 100% wrong (evil). The ends justify the means regardless of how it is done or who allows them to do it.
It is unthinkable and unimaginable to me that I still hear people on podcasts who say they couldn’t believe that trump, his administration, elected republicans and maga did the unthinkable or the unimaginable, day after day after day after day. It make me scream this at the phone loud and often, “HAVE YOU NEVER SPENT TIME WITH ANY CONSERVATIVE, CHRISTIAN WHITE MEN IN THE SOUTH WHO WERE AROUND OTHER WHITE MEN WHO THEY AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMED SHARED THE SAME BELIEFS????”
I’ve heard people saying how they’ve wanted what trump, his administration and elected republicans are now doing to happen since I was old enough to have memories. And these people were not the exception or the minority, as soooo many people in this country, regardless of political affiliation, have wanted to believe for soooo long.
At some point in my life, I have heard everything that is in Project 2025 and what the Christian Nationals believe. I’ve heard it in line at the grocery store, at every job i’ve ever had, at the gas pump, at church, at the ball fields, at my kids’ and my school from students AND teachers, and all points in between.
And long before social media, they had stacks of photocopied pieces of papers with all of the racism, misogyny, bigotry, hate, conspiracy theories, Christian Nationalist religious beliefs, FASCISM/ANTI-SEMITISM, cherry-picked bible versus, etc.. I’ve been given stacks of business cards with the image of a KKK member on a horse holding a rebel flag/Christian flag/nazi flag/mioak flag/cross/burning torch etc., with things like “The Klan is watching you n****r!” or “You have been paid a social visit by the knights of the Ku Klux Klan don’t make the next visit a business call” or “We don’t allow n****r scum here! Your next visit will be your last!” There were wooden signs along the roads and highways entering counties and towns that said something like “This is a ‘Sundown Town’” or “N****r don’t let the sun set on your a$$ in (name of the town)”. AND THIS WAS THE LATE 70’s ALL THE WAY INTO THE 2000’s!!!
My entire life I have heard people talk about how they can’t wait for the civil war between the whites and the blacks to finally begin. Hearing things like “our ancestors got to play ‘cowboys and indians’ and we’re going to play ‘cowboys and n****rs’!” If I want to hear about it, I can bring up the “second coming” with just about any random person in any setting and somebody will start talking about how it’s going to happen in their lifetime and all the signs are here. I have listened to sooo many impromptu sermons by “experts” on the subject and it is beyond scary to hear what they say and believe. The Christian Nationalist don’t mind if Christians die in this battle of good versus evil, because they are going to heaven, anyway. So, if innocent people have to die to save this country or for Christ to come back, no problem because they are covered. If the “evil” people have to be destroyed to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” then so be it because they will all be destroyed when Christ comes back, anyway. And this ain’t just the religious fanatics, it is mainstream evangelical Christians. Whatever trump does is justified in their eyes.
These people have been here since the first ships touched the shores of this land. It’s just that until somebody like trump came along who said the quiet parts out loud with no hesitation or shame, they kept it within their circles of people who thought like they did. It isn’t possible for me to count the number of times I was seen somebody say the most absolutely disgusting and vile and EVIL things about a person of color, and as soon as a person of color or a stranger walked up, they would flip the switch. They would act as if they just loved people of color and smile and cut up with them and just be so sweet. As soon as that person walked away, it was right back to saying the disgusting and vile and EVIL things about them.
The people in this country who support trump, his administration and the republican party have the belief that whatever trump and the others have to do to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” is justifiable. There is nothing that is not acceptable or off the table as long as it facilitates the result they want, which is to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY”.
THERE IS NO BOTTOM. I REPEAT, THERE IS NO BOTTOM. AGAIN, THERE IS NO BOTTOM. Whoever has to die, whichever laws have to be broken, whatever the cost, THEY ARE JUSTIFIED BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” from those who are evil (democrats, liberals, socialist, homosexuals, non-whites, non-evangelical Christians, basically anybody who doesn’t believe EXACTLY what they believe).
With all of that said, I truly believe that even though trump is not mentally capable of doing it himself, the people in his administration and the elected republicans have a “master plan” to achieve their goal of taking over the government and the country and turning it into a dictatorship.
Every time they turn on the firehose of chaos and the absurd, it is to distract from the really horrible, unthinkable and unbelievable thing they are simultaneously doing while everybody is distracted. It’s that, or it is to crush the existing “norm” and establish their “new norm” and then tell everybody it has always been the “norm”. Or, that it’s just temporary and there’s nothing wrong with what they are doing because the previous thing was “bad” and they are just trying “fix” what ever it is.
So, let’s discuss what has been happening since Jan 20th.
He sent 2,000 more NG troops to Los Angeles and is threatening to send the military into the large “blue” cities to stop the “insurrection” and violence that’s happening (there is no insurrection or rioting or violence in LA or the other cities). Sec. Noem says that the military isn’t leaving the city until LA and CA are “liberated” from the Democratic mayor and governor.
The Dept of Homeland Security, the FBI and other agencies have armed, masked “agents” in plain clothes with no badge or identification using nongovernment vehicles abducting people off the streets, at elementary school graduations, foster homes, farms, court houses, etc.. They have also arrested a mayor, US representative, US senator and a candidate for mayor of NYC. Are these actual federal agents or just deputized militias?
Since taking office, trump and his administration and elected republicans have stated that the US should take Canada and Greenland. Trump has said that we need to “liberate” the people of Greenland and make Canada our 51st state and the Canadians want to be part of the United States. This is the same language used by Putin to justify invading Ukraine.
Netanyahu attacked Iran because Iran has threatened Israel for years and could use a nuclear weapon on Israel. There is no proof that Iran is any closer to having a nuclear weapon, now, compared to when the US and other countries had an agreement in place to control Iran’s nuclear program before trump scrapped it. Israel has the right to defend itself, full stop. But, at this point Netanyahu is committing genocide on the people of Gaza, attacking, starving and slaughtering civilians. He then attacks Iran, even though there was no change in the probability of Iran acting on their threats from the day before Netanyahu started bombing them. Netanyahu then plays trump like a cheap fiddle and goats him into dragging the US into this NEW war in the Middle East.
Trump, his administration, republicans, maga, the billionaire tech bros, and who knows who else are planning something “BIG” to happen on our soil. Call me a conspiracy nut or say that I am overreacting, but there is a reason or a purpose, if you will, that trump, his administration, elected republicans, DOGE/musk and even the SCOTUS have allowed ALL of these government agencies involved in protecting the country from external threats to be shut down, dismantled, under staffed, staffed with incompetent loyalist, etc.. They have allowed cybersecurity, election security, anti-terrorism, internal and foreign surveillance teams and departments to be scrapped.
Trump, his administration, republicans, maga, the billionaire tech bros, and who knows who else are planning something “BIG” to happen on our soil. Call me a conspiracy nut or say that I am overreacting, but there is a reason or a purpose, if you will, that trump, his administration, elected republicans, DOGE/musk and even the SCOTUS have allowed ALL of these government agencies involved in protecting the country from external threats to be shut down, dismantled, under staffed, staffed with incompetent loyalist, etc.. They have allowed cybersecurity, election security, anti-terrorism, internal and foreign surveillance teams and departments to be scrapped.
Why? There is only one reason to do this wholesale deconstruction of our security infrastructure, to prevent people outside of the trump “regime” from knowing what they are doing! Why else would they do it? They have removed all of the safeguards that would prevent or discover; actions and operations inside the government and from foreign bad actors. They now control who knows what our government is doing and what information is released concerning external threats. They can blame whoever they want for whatever it is that they do.
They can plan, implement, and execute any actions they want without anybody knowing what is being done. They can be putting the infrastructure in place to any type of “unthinkable” or “unimaginable” things to take over cities and states. They can have their own people carry out “insurrections” and then claim it was the Democrats and immigrants who are doing it to justify enacting the Insurrection Act and then implementing Martial Law. Or, they could do the same and claim it was foreign terrorist cells who are attacking to achieve the same goal. Think I’m crazy??? Why are there almost 5,000 military troops in LA? Why were they all claiming it was an “insurrection” happening in LA? Why was Rep Boebert DEMANDING that what was happening in LA was an insurrection in the House hearing with the “blue state” governors? Why is Homeland Security only carrying out raids and abducting people in blue states?
Oh, and destroying the economy with tariffs, no problem because it will only make it easier to control the middle class and low income people when they lose everything. There, done.
Remember when people like me were called crazy and we were overreacting when McConnell stole those SCOTUS seats? And when we said they are going to overturn Roe and then go after birth control and same-sex marriage? And when we said trump will try to stay in power if he lost in 2020? And when we said they would have “secret” police “disappearing” people off the streets and arresting political officials? When we said that if we didn’t immediately hold everyone involved in the Jan 6 insurrection to overthrow a free and fair election accountable and start arresting ALL of them no later than Jan 20, 2021, they would be successful the next time?
It is the same scenario with Health and Human Services being run by an insane person. They want to increase the possibility of a national health emergency to justify the use Martial Law to control the “outbreak” or whatever form it takes.
It is the same scenario for removing FEMA and gutting the National Weather Service and other agencies that provide information to prevent and respond to natural disasters. What happens when hurricanes hit back to back to back or a CAT4 or 5 hits and causes massive destruction at landfall and continues to cause destruction inland for hundreds and hundreds of miles inland. Hurricane Helene struct Northeast TN, Western NC and Southwest VA, causing a thousand year storm event. Look at how maga reacted to the rumors on social media about FEMA and the Biden administration after the hurricane hit. Now, imagine what society in that area devolves in to with trump and Noem and RFK Jr and Hegseth and Duffy at the controls! What would be the trump admin’s response, Martial Law to take control of the lawlessness.
They want chaos and they are planning to have chaos one way or another. Those who have a platform and are fighting to stop trump from destroying our democracy and our country have to accept the cold hard truth that trump, his administration, the republican party and maga are sinister people. They play to win at all cost.
There have been sinister people in the republican party since Pres Nixon, if not long before. I’m not saying that everyone in the republican party was that type of person, but they were there and there were more of them than the other republicans wanted to see or admit to knowing.
Since Goldwater and especially during and after Pres Reagan took office, there was a significant portion of the republican party who realized that they could use the ignitors of fear; race, crime, immigrants, religion, homosexuality, and ABORTION, to control and manipulate a large section of the people in this country. They were careful to never cross the line or say the quiet parts out loud, so they could claim plausible deniability to the methods and strategies used to sway voters and public opinion/perception in their favor.
Eventually, the “operatives” realized that Democrats were either too naive or lacked the ability to imagine that there were people in politics who could possible do things without having the purest of intentions. Democrats had people in their party who weren’t always above-board on things, but Democrats had integrity and would throw them out when they found out what those individuals were doing. Get offended or pissed off that I made that statement if you choose, buts Democrats didn’t use religion as a way to cloak their behaviors to their evangelical base, as did the republicans.
The hypocrisy and “dirty tricksters” of the republican party did not start with trump or maga or “Benghazi” or the tea party or “Birthers” or W or “Swift boats” or newt gingrich or Ken Start or willie horton or Iran-Contra or the hostages in Iran or Watergate or the Southern Strategy… has always been there. It might not have been called by the same political party name, but the supporters of what the republican party now stands for and believes have ALWAYS been here.
They have something planned. Something terrible. Something that will be so unthinkable or unimaginable, until they have done it. Just like with everything else trump and the republicans have done the past 10 years, after they do it everybody will realize they should have seen it coming.
They are planning something like a “terrorist” attack or some type of “event” and they are going to blame it on the “left” or the “evil socialist marxxist communist” or the “deep state” and use it as an excuse to lock down the country. Or, they will allow a foreign group or government to attack us in some way and then use that to take over the country. I still believe it will involve the military troops in CA, in some form.
I commented about this last week to Joe Walsh. Then, yesterday I saw an “Anonymous” video saying the same thing. That made me want to put my family on a plane headed out of this country as soon as possible. That video was vague on what and when, but somebody has found something that backs up this idea of trump doing something and then using it as an excuse to implement Martial Law.
If you don’t believe me or think that I am full of crap or because I am not one of the political insiders, etc., I’ve been right more often and way earlier than most of the people who were supposed to know everything. That’s not meant to be a shot or a slight, it’s just the truth. And people like me haven’t been able to be heard or seen because politics in this country is just like every other field, when everybody in the room thinks they are the smartest person in the room or that somebody outside the world of politics couldn’t possible know something that they don’t, nobody listens to anybody else so nothing is learned or changed.
We need Democrats who understand that you defeat your opponent by anticipating their moves and taking the fight to them, when they hit you, you hit them back harder instead of expecting your opponent to forfeit because they are cheating. Once your opponent has decided to try and win by fighting dirty and breaking all the rules, we have to take meet them where they are. As I have said for almost a decade, now, you can take the high road, but when the people on the low raid are taking a wrecking ball and dynamite to the columns holding up the high road, you have to send down some “low road” people down to stop them using low road rules!
The women in the Democratic party and the “never trump” movement get it and have shown the courage and bravery to stand up to them and fight. Now, we need the men to step up!!!!
Hell-far, I could and will go on for hours and days about this. But, if people like me can’t get heard and soon, the trump fascist party is going to destroy us. Please, let’s all come together and fight back with greater force than these fascist!!!
Younger generations going through all this may be very bitter
Charlie, can you get this out to the individual congress reps and senators, plus flood the media? Olivia's story is incredibly impactfuk
Can Mike Lee be taken out of his position ?
100%. Thanks to you both for this excellent conversation!
Thank you for having Olivia on. She’s a hero to me. 🙏🏻🥰
Freedom. Yes. Defending our constitution and reclaiming freedom, flag, OUR COUNTRY. It is ours. We are the RECLAMATION.
Yesterday Karoline ( mouthpiece) the press secretary stated
“ I have a message directly from the president for all of you”
She then proceeded to read his words:
“Based on FACT that there is a substantial chance of negotiations that MAY or MAY NOT take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether to go within the next two weeks”
She then concluded
“ this is a quote from the president for all of you today”
It has been recognized and talked about all the irrational thinking, rambling thoughts and many rants both on line and talking in public .
The stating things as a “fact” followed by a “maybe “ it’s a form of narcissistic communication.
A search shows:
“Why this is characteristic of narcissistic communication:
Ambiguity and Control:
Narcissists often use vague or non-committal language to maintain control and avoid accountability. By introducing "maybe" after a definite statement, they create uncertainty and leave room for denial or shifting responsibility later. This keeps others off-balance and guessing, as the narcissist can later deny ever stating something as a definitive fact.
Manipulation and Deception:
Narcissistic communication can involve manipulation through ambiguity and deception. The statement "X is a definite fact, maybe..." can be a way to plant doubt or create a situation where the narcissist can later backtrack or change their story without taking responsibility. This type of communication can make the victim feel confused, insecure, and question their own perception of reality.
Need for Power:
Narcissists crave power and control in their interactions. By using this communication style, they exert dominance and keep the other person reliant on them for clarification or confirmation. “
Malignant narcissism and psychopathy are serious personality disorders and mental mental illness.
The Republicans that are going along with this and they think it sounds normal most likely had these tendencies to begin with .
All Americans have emotionally abused with communication like this
Fire hose of misinformation
Pathological gaslighting at highest level manipulation .
Anyone that attaches themselves to this environment and orbit gets emotionally compromised .
The key is to stay grounded in truth in reality with all of it being unraveled, which Charlie has been doing a good job for us here .
The podcast he had with Brian Klass was wonderful and so informative.
Everyone needs to stay grounded emotionally in reality and with the truth, which gives everybody a clear head to push back and get through this.
Standing up for what is right to protect our democracy our freedoms and our rights
Charlie has been speaking up against all this from the beginning.
And as he says
“ we are not the crazy ones”
Including this article that is 8 years old
https://open.substack.com/pub/richardgreenethecivicsdean/p/is-donald-trump-mentally-ill?r=eit6y&utm_medium=ios
Thank you for taking the time to write this. I have a tendency to hyperfocus on the authoritarian and cult ideations to the exclusion of malignant narcissistic PD. All three are critical to understand this administration.
Trump has actually declared that he loves “the poorly educated”
So much so he’s gutting out the department of education
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/the-dumber-you-are-the-more-you-love?r=eit6y&utm_medium=ios
It's a standard authoritarian ploy to "dumb down" the population it wants to propagandize. Fox set it up for him beautifully by training its audience into accepting whatever appealed to them emotionally or made it easier to understand (they didn't know or care that some things can't be 'easy'...they are complex). Some of it's laziness, some of it's gratification in having their previous biases stroked -- for the smarter ones, they appreciate a quick "excuse."
Then there are the truly intellectually limited, sad fodder for the appeal.
We all are in this together
I never cease to be amazed by how much the far left is a mirror image of MAGA.
Nope. Far left doesn't use violence, carry guns, etc. Anyway, please define "far left"?
Just off the top of my head, the people who were throwing punches at anyone in a yarmulke in Times Square seemed pretty violent and the guy who shot Steve Scalise had a gun. There are many examples. Sometimes it IS both sides - and denying that there is anti-Semitism, etc in elements of the left is very MAGA.
Geez...those are such rare examples as to not be statistically significant. But I do concede that genuine anti-semitism is again increasing in America, mostly because those in authority have allowed white supremacists a free hand with "free speech" when what they are actually doing is hate speech.
BTW, Palestinians are Semites as well.
The cruelty is the point.
It is conscious ‼️the violence and fear is the point. This time in America is new because America has not been authoritarian.
Regarding the recent arrests of Democrats, I am wondering why they don't hire or bring policeman on such occasions?(Padila for example). Likewise, why don't judges in immigration court do the same? That has become the tactic of ICE now to show up at immigration court to detain. I realize this is an escalation. But police and ICE are at odds in their jobs. Trump loves the confrontations that have been occurring. Lets face it, a scene with ICE and local police is something Trump can't spin.
Always fear and intimidation
Mafia type behavior and talk
Thuggery
Re: predicting Trump's next steps on Iran, remember that Trump is mostly about scapegoating; finding other people to blame for problems or failures, real or imagined. He's not a leader, not someone to act boldly, out of conviction or principle, and bear the consequences, for better or worse, without an easy off-ramp.
With that in mind, I expect that Trump will give Bibi the green light for some kind of escalation, e.g. Israeli commando force on the ground at Fordo, or Israeli attacks on Iranian eeconomy to try to bring down the Iranian regime, or some other big Israeli move. But Trump will not strike Iran directly. If Bibi stumbles, Bibi becomes Trump's scapegoat. If Bibi succeeds, Trump can claim credit. In that sense, Trump will use Bibi almost like he used Elon.
It seems to me as if Bibi is using Trump as his "useful idiot," like Putin. With far more arrogance that Trump is somewhat helpless, because of the traditional US/Israel ties.
This is complex, there are so many factors it's hard to congeal them. Trump loves deal-making and wants his name on peace deals. This thing has gone so far as to make that impossible, since Bibi has long made his intentions known and he pretty much has a green light w/ the Trump Admin.
Also, boys love their toys, and both Israel and the Pentagon have been itching to use their various new tech on someone.
Unless we know DJT's influencers and his mental decompensation at this point, it's anybody's guess. But the Zionist entity running Israel right now is bound and determined to have their way with Iran, regardless of what it looks like. The Likud Party is truly extremist, and was founded by extremist entities internationally deemed "terrorist." People forget that.
Interesting open question as to who's using whom re: Trump and Bibi -- as it was with Trump and Elon. I guess I feel like Trump will come out on top, as he did with Elon, if only because American voters were foolish enough to make Trump the most powerful person on the planet. The only certainty is, Trump will do what's best for Trump.
As they say, it's a crap shoot. Never say never...
Ok Olivia, Charlie, Tim, The Bulwark, Meidas Network, Pod Save America, Joe Walsh, Lincoln Square and everybody else, I am going to try and explain this, again.
These people who support trump have always been here and they have always been this; mean, despicable, deplorable, hateful, cruel, and for lack of a better word, evil. Those who support trump and the republicans who do not share the qualities mentioned in the previous sentence, do so because he is willing to allow the Christian Nationalist to get everything that they have wanted for decades, which literally is Project 2025 and the means to achieve the second coming of Jesus Christ (the end times).
Both categories believe that their beliefs are 100% right and EVERYBODY else is 100% wrong (evil). The ends justify the means regardless of how it is done or who allows them to do it.
It is unthinkable and unimaginable to me that I still hear people on podcasts who say they couldn’t believe that trump, his administration, elected republicans and maga did the unthinkable or the unimaginable, day after day after day after day. It make me scream this at the phone loud and often, “HAVE YOU NEVER SPENT TIME WITH ANY CONSERVATIVE, CHRISTIAN WHITE MEN IN THE SOUTH WHO WERE AROUND OTHER WHITE MEN WHO THEY AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMED SHARED THE SAME BELIEFS????”
I’ve heard people saying how they’ve wanted what trump, his administration and elected republicans are now doing to happen since I was old enough to have memories. And these people were not the exception or the minority, as soooo many people in this country, regardless of political affiliation, have wanted to believe for soooo long.
At some point in my life, I have heard everything that is in Project 2025 and what the Christian Nationals believe. I’ve heard it in line at the grocery store, at every job i’ve ever had, at the gas pump, at church, at the ball fields, at my kids’ and my school from students AND teachers, and all points in between.
And long before social media, they had stacks of photocopied pieces of papers with all of the racism, misogyny, bigotry, hate, conspiracy theories, Christian Nationalist religious beliefs, FASCISM/ANTI-SEMITISM, cherry-picked bible versus, etc.. I’ve been given stacks of business cards with the image of a KKK member on a horse holding a rebel flag/Christian flag/nazi flag/mioak flag/cross/burning torch etc., with things like “The Klan is watching you n****r!” or “You have been paid a social visit by the knights of the Ku Klux Klan don’t make the next visit a business call” or “We don’t allow n****r scum here! Your next visit will be your last!” There were wooden signs along the roads and highways entering counties and towns that said something like “This is a ‘Sundown Town’” or “N****r don’t let the sun set on your a$$ in (name of the town)”. AND THIS WAS THE LATE 70’s ALL THE WAY INTO THE 2000’s!!!
My entire life I have heard people talk about how they can’t wait for the civil war between the whites and the blacks to finally begin. Hearing things like “our ancestors got to play ‘cowboys and indians’ and we’re going to play ‘cowboys and n****rs’!” If I want to hear about it, I can bring up the “second coming” with just about any random person in any setting and somebody will start talking about how it’s going to happen in their lifetime and all the signs are here. I have listened to sooo many impromptu sermons by “experts” on the subject and it is beyond scary to hear what they say and believe. The Christian Nationalist don’t mind if Christians die in this battle of good versus evil, because they are going to heaven, anyway. So, if innocent people have to die to save this country or for Christ to come back, no problem because they are covered. If the “evil” people have to be destroyed to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” then so be it because they will all be destroyed when Christ comes back, anyway. And this ain’t just the religious fanatics, it is mainstream evangelical Christians. Whatever trump does is justified in their eyes.
These people have been here since the first ships touched the shores of this land. It’s just that until somebody like trump came along who said the quiet parts out loud with no hesitation or shame, they kept it within their circles of people who thought like they did. It isn’t possible for me to count the number of times I was seen somebody say the most absolutely disgusting and vile and EVIL things about a person of color, and as soon as a person of color or a stranger walked up, they would flip the switch. They would act as if they just loved people of color and smile and cut up with them and just be so sweet. As soon as that person walked away, it was right back to saying the disgusting and vile and EVIL things about them.
The people in this country who support trump, his administration and the republican party have the belief that whatever trump and the others have to do to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” is justifiable. There is nothing that is not acceptable or off the table as long as it facilitates the result they want, which is to “SAVE OUR COUNTRY”.
THERE IS NO BOTTOM. I REPEAT, THERE IS NO BOTTOM. AGAIN, THERE IS NO BOTTOM. Whoever has to die, whichever laws have to be broken, whatever the cost, THEY ARE JUSTIFIED BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO “SAVE OUR COUNTRY” from those who are evil (democrats, liberals, socialist, homosexuals, non-whites, non-evangelical Christians, basically anybody who doesn’t believe EXACTLY what they believe).
With all of that said, I truly believe that even though trump is not mentally capable of doing it himself, the people in his administration and the elected republicans have a “master plan” to achieve their goal of taking over the government and the country and turning it into a dictatorship.
Every time they turn on the firehose of chaos and the absurd, it is to distract from the really horrible, unthinkable and unbelievable thing they are simultaneously doing while everybody is distracted. It’s that, or it is to crush the existing “norm” and establish their “new norm” and then tell everybody it has always been the “norm”. Or, that it’s just temporary and there’s nothing wrong with what they are doing because the previous thing was “bad” and they are just trying “fix” what ever it is.
So, let’s discuss what has been happening since Jan 20th.
He sent 2,000 more NG troops to Los Angeles and is threatening to send the military into the large “blue” cities to stop the “insurrection” and violence that’s happening (there is no insurrection or rioting or violence in LA or the other cities). Sec. Noem says that the military isn’t leaving the city until LA and CA are “liberated” from the Democratic mayor and governor.
The Dept of Homeland Security, the FBI and other agencies have armed, masked “agents” in plain clothes with no badge or identification using nongovernment vehicles abducting people off the streets, at elementary school graduations, foster homes, farms, court houses, etc.. They have also arrested a mayor, US representative, US senator and a candidate for mayor of NYC. Are these actual federal agents or just deputized militias?
Since taking office, trump and his administration and elected republicans have stated that the US should take Canada and Greenland. Trump has said that we need to “liberate” the people of Greenland and make Canada our 51st state and the Canadians want to be part of the United States. This is the same language used by Putin to justify invading Ukraine.
Netanyahu attacked Iran because Iran has threatened Israel for years and could use a nuclear weapon on Israel. There is no proof that Iran is any closer to having a nuclear weapon, now, compared to when the US and other countries had an agreement in place to control Iran’s nuclear program before trump scrapped it. Israel has the right to defend itself, full stop. But, at this point Netanyahu is committing genocide on the people of Gaza, attacking, starving and slaughtering civilians. He then attacks Iran, even though there was no change in the probability of Iran acting on their threats from the day before Netanyahu started bombing them. Netanyahu then plays trump like a cheap fiddle and goats him into dragging the US into this NEW war in the Middle East.
Trump, his administration, republicans, maga, the billionaire tech bros, and who knows who else are planning something “BIG” to happen on our soil. Call me a conspiracy nut or say that I am overreacting, but there is a reason or a purpose, if you will, that trump, his administration, elected republicans, DOGE/musk and even the SCOTUS have allowed ALL of these government agencies involved in protecting the country from external threats to be shut down, dismantled, under staffed, staffed with incompetent loyalist, etc.. They have allowed cybersecurity, election security, anti-terrorism, internal and foreign surveillance teams and departments to be scrapped.
Trump, his administration, republicans, maga, the billionaire tech bros, and who knows who else are planning something “BIG” to happen on our soil. Call me a conspiracy nut or say that I am overreacting, but there is a reason or a purpose, if you will, that trump, his administration, elected republicans, DOGE/musk and even the SCOTUS have allowed ALL of these government agencies involved in protecting the country from external threats to be shut down, dismantled, under staffed, staffed with incompetent loyalist, etc.. They have allowed cybersecurity, election security, anti-terrorism, internal and foreign surveillance teams and departments to be scrapped.
Why? There is only one reason to do this wholesale deconstruction of our security infrastructure, to prevent people outside of the trump “regime” from knowing what they are doing! Why else would they do it? They have removed all of the safeguards that would prevent or discover; actions and operations inside the government and from foreign bad actors. They now control who knows what our government is doing and what information is released concerning external threats. They can blame whoever they want for whatever it is that they do.
They can plan, implement, and execute any actions they want without anybody knowing what is being done. They can be putting the infrastructure in place to any type of “unthinkable” or “unimaginable” things to take over cities and states. They can have their own people carry out “insurrections” and then claim it was the Democrats and immigrants who are doing it to justify enacting the Insurrection Act and then implementing Martial Law. Or, they could do the same and claim it was foreign terrorist cells who are attacking to achieve the same goal. Think I’m crazy??? Why are there almost 5,000 military troops in LA? Why were they all claiming it was an “insurrection” happening in LA? Why was Rep Boebert DEMANDING that what was happening in LA was an insurrection in the House hearing with the “blue state” governors? Why is Homeland Security only carrying out raids and abducting people in blue states?
Oh, and destroying the economy with tariffs, no problem because it will only make it easier to control the middle class and low income people when they lose everything. There, done.
Remember when people like me were called crazy and we were overreacting when McConnell stole those SCOTUS seats? And when we said they are going to overturn Roe and then go after birth control and same-sex marriage? And when we said trump will try to stay in power if he lost in 2020? And when we said they would have “secret” police “disappearing” people off the streets and arresting political officials? When we said that if we didn’t immediately hold everyone involved in the Jan 6 insurrection to overthrow a free and fair election accountable and start arresting ALL of them no later than Jan 20, 2021, they would be successful the next time?
It is the same scenario with Health and Human Services being run by an insane person. They want to increase the possibility of a national health emergency to justify the use Martial Law to control the “outbreak” or whatever form it takes.
It is the same scenario for removing FEMA and gutting the National Weather Service and other agencies that provide information to prevent and respond to natural disasters. What happens when hurricanes hit back to back to back or a CAT4 or 5 hits and causes massive destruction at landfall and continues to cause destruction inland for hundreds and hundreds of miles inland. Hurricane Helene struct Northeast TN, Western NC and Southwest VA, causing a thousand year storm event. Look at how maga reacted to the rumors on social media about FEMA and the Biden administration after the hurricane hit. Now, imagine what society in that area devolves in to with trump and Noem and RFK Jr and Hegseth and Duffy at the controls! What would be the trump admin’s response, Martial Law to take control of the lawlessness.
They want chaos and they are planning to have chaos one way or another. Those who have a platform and are fighting to stop trump from destroying our democracy and our country have to accept the cold hard truth that trump, his administration, the republican party and maga are sinister people. They play to win at all cost.
There have been sinister people in the republican party since Pres Nixon, if not long before. I’m not saying that everyone in the republican party was that type of person, but they were there and there were more of them than the other republicans wanted to see or admit to knowing.
Since Goldwater and especially during and after Pres Reagan took office, there was a significant portion of the republican party who realized that they could use the ignitors of fear; race, crime, immigrants, religion, homosexuality, and ABORTION, to control and manipulate a large section of the people in this country. They were careful to never cross the line or say the quiet parts out loud, so they could claim plausible deniability to the methods and strategies used to sway voters and public opinion/perception in their favor.
Eventually, the “operatives” realized that Democrats were either too naive or lacked the ability to imagine that there were people in politics who could possible do things without having the purest of intentions. Democrats had people in their party who weren’t always above-board on things, but Democrats had integrity and would throw them out when they found out what those individuals were doing. Get offended or pissed off that I made that statement if you choose, buts Democrats didn’t use religion as a way to cloak their behaviors to their evangelical base, as did the republicans.
The hypocrisy and “dirty tricksters” of the republican party did not start with trump or maga or “Benghazi” or the tea party or “Birthers” or W or “Swift boats” or newt gingrich or Ken Start or willie horton or Iran-Contra or the hostages in Iran or Watergate or the Southern Strategy… has always been there. It might not have been called by the same political party name, but the supporters of what the republican party now stands for and believes have ALWAYS been here.
They have something planned. Something terrible. Something that will be so unthinkable or unimaginable, until they have done it. Just like with everything else trump and the republicans have done the past 10 years, after they do it everybody will realize they should have seen it coming.
They are planning something like a “terrorist” attack or some type of “event” and they are going to blame it on the “left” or the “evil socialist marxxist communist” or the “deep state” and use it as an excuse to lock down the country. Or, they will allow a foreign group or government to attack us in some way and then use that to take over the country. I still believe it will involve the military troops in CA, in some form.
I commented about this last week to Joe Walsh. Then, yesterday I saw an “Anonymous” video saying the same thing. That made me want to put my family on a plane headed out of this country as soon as possible. That video was vague on what and when, but somebody has found something that backs up this idea of trump doing something and then using it as an excuse to implement Martial Law.
If you don’t believe me or think that I am full of crap or because I am not one of the political insiders, etc., I’ve been right more often and way earlier than most of the people who were supposed to know everything. That’s not meant to be a shot or a slight, it’s just the truth. And people like me haven’t been able to be heard or seen because politics in this country is just like every other field, when everybody in the room thinks they are the smartest person in the room or that somebody outside the world of politics couldn’t possible know something that they don’t, nobody listens to anybody else so nothing is learned or changed.
We need Democrats who understand that you defeat your opponent by anticipating their moves and taking the fight to them, when they hit you, you hit them back harder instead of expecting your opponent to forfeit because they are cheating. Once your opponent has decided to try and win by fighting dirty and breaking all the rules, we have to take meet them where they are. As I have said for almost a decade, now, you can take the high road, but when the people on the low raid are taking a wrecking ball and dynamite to the columns holding up the high road, you have to send down some “low road” people down to stop them using low road rules!
The women in the Democratic party and the “never trump” movement get it and have shown the courage and bravery to stand up to them and fight. Now, we need the men to step up!!!!
Hell-far, I could and will go on for hours and days about this. But, if people like me can’t get heard and soon, the trump fascist party is going to destroy us. Please, let’s all come together and fight back with greater force than these fascist!!!
Peace.
ICE needs to be taken to court. They are racial profiling. Grabbing everyone they can who looks Latino
Re: the NYC Iran protests, this is one of those odd times where I say "please move there".