Yes, no one in our country wants to acknowledge the reality of Trump, and that is because our country has never experienced anyone or anything like this before. The blind loyalty of millions of Republican Americans to Donald Trump is the elusive piece of the puzzle that evaded my understanding - just like you. How could so many Americans believe Trump's lies and fanatical speeches, his constant remarks full of hatred, and his crazy conspiracy stories? How could Americans want a President who is a convicted felon, and convicted of massive fraud and sexual assault? The piece of the puzzle that is missing is actually hard to recognize and even harder to admit.
The political party division in our country went from a tradition of "extending a hand across the aisle" previous to 2000, to now in 2024, we are so divided we could be living in two different nations. So what happened in 2000 to cause or assist this U.S. internal rift and the government dissention in Washington, D.C. and across our country?
IN THE YEAR 2000, VLADIMIR PUTIN BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA. This is a man who has spent his entire life as a Russian secret service intelligence officer - a spy - before becoming the President of Russia. He thinks the U.S. should be wiped off the face of the earth, because he blames us for the breakup of the Soviet Union. Over the last twenty-four years, Put has consistently worked to create a divide in our country for one reason - a country divided is weaker.
Putin's Russia has penetrated the U.S. in many ways, and Microsoft has PROVED that almost sixty percent of all cyber attacks into the U.S. come from Russia. This includes our: food supplies, gas and oil, banking and finance, health and hospitals, cell phone communications, elections and polls, and military data bases - just to name a few. They appear to winning the war of international cyber attacks and information control.
The Soviet working model placed a man loyal to Russia as the head of each satellite country, and in the U.S. that man is Donald Trump. This is the government model that Putin grew up with and his goal is to return Russia to the glorious days of the Soviet Union. A list of his Presidential goals are found in a book called The Foundations of Geopolitics which was published in Russia in 1997.
The Mueller Report was created to investigate Trump and his relationship with Russia. William Barr, the AG at the time, prevented the American public to absorb the full impact of the 2-year and $32 million dollar investigation. "March 24, 2019 may go down as one of the most artfully deceptive and effective undertakings in the history of spin control. In this masterpiece of disinformation, Barr completely stole Mueller's thunder, misrepresented it, and presented Trump forces (including the Russians) with a victory they then used to label the entire Trump-Russia scandal as a hoax." (Unger, American Kompromat). IT WAS NOT A HOAX, but the real thing - a man wrongly elected to the Presidency of the United States due to Russian election interference is most likely working for the Russians.
The Mueller Report stated in the Preface that "That fall (2016), two federal agencies jointly announced that the Russian government directed recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including U.S. political organizations" and these thefts are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process. The Special Counsel's investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign. The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. This investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency. " On page 180 of this report, it says "In any event, probing the President's intent in a criminal matter is unquestionably constitutional in at least one context: the offense of bribery turns on the 'corrupt intent to received a thing of value in return for being influenced in official action'." (Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, March 2019)
Donald Trump was an easy snatch. Russians lure foreigners to work for Russia with money and beautiful women. In the 1990's, the Trump Organization was bleeding money and at the same time the KGB had expanded their services to hook more foreigners - especially Americans. Both Eric and Don Jr bragged about the Trump Organization receiving $100 Million from Russian banks (www.businessinsider.com). Russian banks are managed and controlled by the Russian KGB and the FSB. The lure of both Russian money and Russian women seized Trump's attention and captured his allegiance. As an extremely ignorant American to the world of mob mentality, he realized too late that his life and the lives of his family are at stake.
Last, while few Americans understand coercive mind control (aka brainwashing), it began about 100 years ago in totalitarian countries (dictatorships) and was/is found in Germany, Italy, Austria, China, and a whole host of other monocratic countries. Putin spent his spy years in East Germany and acquired all the skills used by Hitler to brainwash an entire nation into mass murderers. Just like Charles Manson in the United States, whose cult followers committed nine gruesome murders, Hitler in comparison killed over six million humans. Putin returned to Russia with his acquired skills and became the head of the FSB - Russian Federal Security Service, and then the President of Russia. Lo and behold we find these skills now used in the United States on millions of Americans. Let's start to call it what it is - BRAINWASHING. Trump has turned his followers into fanatical and mindless cult followers. He recently said to Iowa voters "Even if You Vote & Die, It's Worth it." The deductive reasoning power of these cult followers is no longer working - no independent thought processes. Any attempt to change their minds or "reason" with them is inefficacious and no use.
Brainwashing is defined as "telling lies over and over until it is perceived as the truth." (wikipedia) CNN recently reported that 50% of the Republican voters still believe Trump's Big Lie that the election was stolen from him. Biden won that election by over seven (7) million votes. This lie is nonsense.
Americans are no different than the pre-WWII German public. The human mind can be altered and controlled. It is called indoctrination, re-education, and is swayed by propaganda. The many-sided destructiveness of Donald Trump includes a long list of catastrophic traits, but he learned his brainwashing techniques from Russia.
The current brainwashing epidemic we see in our country is consistently seen in cults or autocratic societies. It is not openly discussed nor is it acknowledged by most Americans. It is time to open the Pandora's Box and recognize this cult-like brainwashing sweeping across our country. We must also accept that there is little that can be done to detox these people. To win the 2024 election, we need to ignore this cult as much as possible, and loudly illustrate Biden's winning words and 50 years of public service experience - which contributes to the stability of our country.
Thank you for the stress on PERMISSION that trumpism gives people. The first thing I thought as I watched the escalator ride is "he's giving people permission to say their worst prejudices out loud." The era of Civil Rights didn't magically convert people: it just created a general sense of civility when talking in public about those they hated as Others. No more n-word. Trump shredded that civility from the get-go; he encouraged people to be uncivil and from there it was a short step to making plans to force people to take on the assumptions behind prejudice. And so: Christian Nationalism, racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBTQ laws, and eventually "life begins at conception" as a way of privileging one PART of one religion's views to endanger women's health.
“ But we have a weird convention in US politics where there’s this two symmetric sides thing that’s so deeply ingrained. This convention sustains the entire political apparatus. We can’t let it go. ”
But we don’t. See Gary Hart’s Monkey Business. The Dean Scream. Her emails. Hillary’s pneumonia. Bernie’s heart attack. **They are treating (& not just Fox) Biden’s son’s trial as more disqualifying of Biden than they are Trump’s felony conviction.**
Set aside Fox, etc. why isn’t legacy MSM treating Trump & his issues like they did these other candidates? I fall back on the owners of the media like the Trump tax cuts.
Thank you for pointing out that most of the Trump base are just plain shitty people. They have oppositional defiant disorder in which anything that provides assistance to people, anything that promotes decency and anything that helps create a cleaner environment are "woke" and must be both mocked and fought through horrific legislative means. There have been so many movements by selfish bastards who support horrific people throughout history. Do we have to forever try to "understand" the people who dwell on only their fake grievances and refuse to live in reality?
To not already know who to vote for between Trump and Biden is like being offered the choice of a sh!t sandwich laced with shards of broken glass or a chicken sandwich, thinking about it, and asking, "How is the chicken cooked?"
Unless I'm misunderstanding it, I don't love the Flight 93 analogy. What the heroes on that plane did saved lives. What Trump, et al, want to induce people to do is ruin lives, even end lives. Using that analogy dishonors the heroes who knew they were doomed to die no matter what.
I’m very impressed with Roberts; partially because I’ve been saying mostly the same thing for at least 30 years and partially because he said it so brilliantly. In the 1995 movie - that’s 29 years ago - Michael Douglas as the American President says of the Republicans, “…telling you who to blame for it (any problem) and making you afraid of it.” It’s been the Republican playbook forever. The border, crime, the “deep state”, socialism, CRT, LGBQT indoctrination, you name it. And MSM is worse than useless in combating it.
Roberts view embraces some typical analysis errors. His comments seem to conflate what a 25% reactionary base with all of Trump support which he calls “stupid and cruel. “ As a means to persuasion , this does the opposite by entrenching closely held delusion and misconceptions.
It is also a logical conflict to recognize that Trump can never be trusted while also claiming that we should believe what he said about $1 billion to oil executives. The correct statement was also made. It’s impossible to predict just what Trump will do.
We can be sure that it will serve his interest and no one else’s. Trump stinks. His stench is undeniable. A few people have noted that being near him is to experience a nauseating smell.
These are useful similes, similes which invoke physical disgust. (See Sapolsky. See Lakoff)
My own usage is “Trump Garbage Barge” and “Stench of Trump Crimes”.
“Pile of shit laced with broken glass” starts in a good direction, but also has a whiff of sympathy for a cur done wrong. It might be too tidy to evoke the revulsion of disgust which could dislodge closely held delusion and misconception. I offer “Trump Feces Smeared on Broken Glass.”
I have puzzled with others on the semiotic ricochet of the seemingly apt phrase “his basket of deplorables.” Maybe too tidy, too erudite, and too easily answered: “ I’m the rubber you’re the glue.”
The more obvious catastrophe was the choice in 2016 of “Love Trumps Hate” which exhorts the reader to do just what the feces brained glass
eaters aboard trump’s garbage barge already do.
To keep my disdain veiled m I’ll add: Hubris Also Stinks.
Yes, no one in our country wants to acknowledge the reality of Trump, and that is because our country has never experienced anyone or anything like this before. The blind loyalty of millions of Republican Americans to Donald Trump is the elusive piece of the puzzle that evaded my understanding - just like you. How could so many Americans believe Trump's lies and fanatical speeches, his constant remarks full of hatred, and his crazy conspiracy stories? How could Americans want a President who is a convicted felon, and convicted of massive fraud and sexual assault? The piece of the puzzle that is missing is actually hard to recognize and even harder to admit.
The political party division in our country went from a tradition of "extending a hand across the aisle" previous to 2000, to now in 2024, we are so divided we could be living in two different nations. So what happened in 2000 to cause or assist this U.S. internal rift and the government dissention in Washington, D.C. and across our country?
IN THE YEAR 2000, VLADIMIR PUTIN BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA. This is a man who has spent his entire life as a Russian secret service intelligence officer - a spy - before becoming the President of Russia. He thinks the U.S. should be wiped off the face of the earth, because he blames us for the breakup of the Soviet Union. Over the last twenty-four years, Put has consistently worked to create a divide in our country for one reason - a country divided is weaker.
Putin's Russia has penetrated the U.S. in many ways, and Microsoft has PROVED that almost sixty percent of all cyber attacks into the U.S. come from Russia. This includes our: food supplies, gas and oil, banking and finance, health and hospitals, cell phone communications, elections and polls, and military data bases - just to name a few. They appear to winning the war of international cyber attacks and information control.
The Soviet working model placed a man loyal to Russia as the head of each satellite country, and in the U.S. that man is Donald Trump. This is the government model that Putin grew up with and his goal is to return Russia to the glorious days of the Soviet Union. A list of his Presidential goals are found in a book called The Foundations of Geopolitics which was published in Russia in 1997.
The Mueller Report was created to investigate Trump and his relationship with Russia. William Barr, the AG at the time, prevented the American public to absorb the full impact of the 2-year and $32 million dollar investigation. "March 24, 2019 may go down as one of the most artfully deceptive and effective undertakings in the history of spin control. In this masterpiece of disinformation, Barr completely stole Mueller's thunder, misrepresented it, and presented Trump forces (including the Russians) with a victory they then used to label the entire Trump-Russia scandal as a hoax." (Unger, American Kompromat). IT WAS NOT A HOAX, but the real thing - a man wrongly elected to the Presidency of the United States due to Russian election interference is most likely working for the Russians.
The Mueller Report stated in the Preface that "That fall (2016), two federal agencies jointly announced that the Russian government directed recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including U.S. political organizations" and these thefts are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process. The Special Counsel's investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election principally through two operations. First, a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Second, a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations against entities, employees, and volunteers working on the Clinton Campaign. The investigation also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign. This investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency. " On page 180 of this report, it says "In any event, probing the President's intent in a criminal matter is unquestionably constitutional in at least one context: the offense of bribery turns on the 'corrupt intent to received a thing of value in return for being influenced in official action'." (Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, March 2019)
Donald Trump was an easy snatch. Russians lure foreigners to work for Russia with money and beautiful women. In the 1990's, the Trump Organization was bleeding money and at the same time the KGB had expanded their services to hook more foreigners - especially Americans. Both Eric and Don Jr bragged about the Trump Organization receiving $100 Million from Russian banks (www.businessinsider.com). Russian banks are managed and controlled by the Russian KGB and the FSB. The lure of both Russian money and Russian women seized Trump's attention and captured his allegiance. As an extremely ignorant American to the world of mob mentality, he realized too late that his life and the lives of his family are at stake.
Last, while few Americans understand coercive mind control (aka brainwashing), it began about 100 years ago in totalitarian countries (dictatorships) and was/is found in Germany, Italy, Austria, China, and a whole host of other monocratic countries. Putin spent his spy years in East Germany and acquired all the skills used by Hitler to brainwash an entire nation into mass murderers. Just like Charles Manson in the United States, whose cult followers committed nine gruesome murders, Hitler in comparison killed over six million humans. Putin returned to Russia with his acquired skills and became the head of the FSB - Russian Federal Security Service, and then the President of Russia. Lo and behold we find these skills now used in the United States on millions of Americans. Let's start to call it what it is - BRAINWASHING. Trump has turned his followers into fanatical and mindless cult followers. He recently said to Iowa voters "Even if You Vote & Die, It's Worth it." The deductive reasoning power of these cult followers is no longer working - no independent thought processes. Any attempt to change their minds or "reason" with them is inefficacious and no use.
Brainwashing is defined as "telling lies over and over until it is perceived as the truth." (wikipedia) CNN recently reported that 50% of the Republican voters still believe Trump's Big Lie that the election was stolen from him. Biden won that election by over seven (7) million votes. This lie is nonsense.
Americans are no different than the pre-WWII German public. The human mind can be altered and controlled. It is called indoctrination, re-education, and is swayed by propaganda. The many-sided destructiveness of Donald Trump includes a long list of catastrophic traits, but he learned his brainwashing techniques from Russia.
The current brainwashing epidemic we see in our country is consistently seen in cults or autocratic societies. It is not openly discussed nor is it acknowledged by most Americans. It is time to open the Pandora's Box and recognize this cult-like brainwashing sweeping across our country. We must also accept that there is little that can be done to detox these people. To win the 2024 election, we need to ignore this cult as much as possible, and loudly illustrate Biden's winning words and 50 years of public service experience - which contributes to the stability of our country.
Thank you for the stress on PERMISSION that trumpism gives people. The first thing I thought as I watched the escalator ride is "he's giving people permission to say their worst prejudices out loud." The era of Civil Rights didn't magically convert people: it just created a general sense of civility when talking in public about those they hated as Others. No more n-word. Trump shredded that civility from the get-go; he encouraged people to be uncivil and from there it was a short step to making plans to force people to take on the assumptions behind prejudice. And so: Christian Nationalism, racism, Islamophobia, anti-LGBTQ laws, and eventually "life begins at conception" as a way of privileging one PART of one religion's views to endanger women's health.
“ But we have a weird convention in US politics where there’s this two symmetric sides thing that’s so deeply ingrained. This convention sustains the entire political apparatus. We can’t let it go. ”
But we don’t. See Gary Hart’s Monkey Business. The Dean Scream. Her emails. Hillary’s pneumonia. Bernie’s heart attack. **They are treating (& not just Fox) Biden’s son’s trial as more disqualifying of Biden than they are Trump’s felony conviction.**
Set aside Fox, etc. why isn’t legacy MSM treating Trump & his issues like they did these other candidates? I fall back on the owners of the media like the Trump tax cuts.
I suspect there’s also fear: any criticism of Trump will unleash a torrent of death threats and screaming GOP politicians.
Thank you for pointing out that most of the Trump base are just plain shitty people. They have oppositional defiant disorder in which anything that provides assistance to people, anything that promotes decency and anything that helps create a cleaner environment are "woke" and must be both mocked and fought through horrific legislative means. There have been so many movements by selfish bastards who support horrific people throughout history. Do we have to forever try to "understand" the people who dwell on only their fake grievances and refuse to live in reality?
To not already know who to vote for between Trump and Biden is like being offered the choice of a sh!t sandwich laced with shards of broken glass or a chicken sandwich, thinking about it, and asking, "How is the chicken cooked?"
What about some toast?
Just like Hitler.
This was a great piece with very deep substance. Very well articulated too.
This is exactly how I feel, all the time.
Unless I'm misunderstanding it, I don't love the Flight 93 analogy. What the heroes on that plane did saved lives. What Trump, et al, want to induce people to do is ruin lives, even end lives. Using that analogy dishonors the heroes who knew they were doomed to die no matter what.
I’m very impressed with Roberts; partially because I’ve been saying mostly the same thing for at least 30 years and partially because he said it so brilliantly. In the 1995 movie - that’s 29 years ago - Michael Douglas as the American President says of the Republicans, “…telling you who to blame for it (any problem) and making you afraid of it.” It’s been the Republican playbook forever. The border, crime, the “deep state”, socialism, CRT, LGBQT indoctrination, you name it. And MSM is worse than useless in combating it.
Just remarkable
To add to your commentary…this piece alerts us to wildly scary prospects: https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-trump-musk-thugocracy?r=e989i&utm_medium=ios
Roberts view embraces some typical analysis errors. His comments seem to conflate what a 25% reactionary base with all of Trump support which he calls “stupid and cruel. “ As a means to persuasion , this does the opposite by entrenching closely held delusion and misconceptions.
It is also a logical conflict to recognize that Trump can never be trusted while also claiming that we should believe what he said about $1 billion to oil executives. The correct statement was also made. It’s impossible to predict just what Trump will do.
We can be sure that it will serve his interest and no one else’s. Trump stinks. His stench is undeniable. A few people have noted that being near him is to experience a nauseating smell.
These are useful similes, similes which invoke physical disgust. (See Sapolsky. See Lakoff)
My own usage is “Trump Garbage Barge” and “Stench of Trump Crimes”.
“Pile of shit laced with broken glass” starts in a good direction, but also has a whiff of sympathy for a cur done wrong. It might be too tidy to evoke the revulsion of disgust which could dislodge closely held delusion and misconception. I offer “Trump Feces Smeared on Broken Glass.”
I have puzzled with others on the semiotic ricochet of the seemingly apt phrase “his basket of deplorables.” Maybe too tidy, too erudite, and too easily answered: “ I’m the rubber you’re the glue.”
The more obvious catastrophe was the choice in 2016 of “Love Trumps Hate” which exhorts the reader to do just what the feces brained glass
eaters aboard trump’s garbage barge already do.
To keep my disdain veiled m I’ll add: Hubris Also Stinks.
Thank you, Brandon.
Go, Joe Biden.
Fuck you, Hamas and Bibi.
Things are going very well for me and my family.