My thoughts, Stream of consciousness, rough and ready, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts… June 6, 2023
As I'm editing this Trump has been federally indicated. Finally!
United States of America vs Donald Trump
Weather for the day… 65 degrees and nice!
Navigator poll: 65% of all Americans believe Trump committed a crime 12% from just the most before. The greatest shift came from independence and Republicans. Especially Republicans who do not identify as very conservative.
Trump ran for POTUS45 in 2016 to sell a book and disingenuously with illiberal help from Russian special ops & active measures, he won. He now expects to be running as POTUS47 in 2024 in order to help protect him from the crimes he committed during and after being POTUS45, as well as using it all as a money making machine for international dark money and money in the light of day considering things like LIV, golf, etc., for those who see that. Should he become president again it would behoove them all to treat him well, now.
NOT this...
We won’t see anything like this were he to become president again and after he’s no longer president. That is, if he doesn’t subvert our democracy and ferret apart an autocratically tyrannically applied autocratic playbook to destroy said democracy, and our country, and then, should he be president for life, Then later potentially who knows? Ivanka. or worse, Jared. or worse. Don Junior, or worse Eric Trump, or possibly nightmarishly worse, Barron Trump?
But this...
Florida's DeSantis', “Where woke goes to die“ translates clearly as “where democracy is nearly dead being pummeled to death.“
Here’s what’s funny about especially MAGA complaining about how Christian values have been removed from our schools and culture. They did that themselves. Years before Trump got on the scene. Conmen and evangelical churches did that. Evangelicalism entering our institutions of government did that in working to tear apart out culture of multinational, multicultural and multi-societal communities supported by our secular government built to support to the Constitution and those multi-theistic (or non-theistic) communities.
A theocracy doesn’t do that, or allow for that. How does a Christian theocracy support other religions? Does it? We’ve benefited from people coming here, immigrating. being born here, and even taking key roles in our tech and society. How does a theocratic Christian government even support its own disparate branches of Christianity? Christianity which came from Judaism? What of fans of antisemitism among them? How long before they start cutting the fat off Christianity and out of government and country? How long before white, even more toxic forms of Christianity, overwhelm our government and the decent Christian community? How long before that turns into merely white Christian supremacists? How long before eugenics come back into play? How long before we are, “Nazi America“?
How long before the powerful are merely MAGA, white Christian nationalism, white supremacy, and overwhelm all the rest? They said anti-abortion laws should be decided at the state level and then shifted to make it federal. They incrementally worked over decades to destroy our liberal democracy, which America is after all. Trying to destroy our democracy. They did it through subverting our freedom by calling for freedom, as regulated by big government, but disingenuously demanding small government. This is the new bigotry, the new fascism, new Nazism as clearly detailed in George Orwell's "1984", so many decades back. He didn’t necessarily see this coming. But he saw this as it had come to other countries. He saw this in the potential it allowed for, if we didn’t follow "our better Angels". Speculative fiction gives us warning, and should give us pause, where instead some have taken it as a roadmap to out destruction. Their "enemies". US. America. There is that toxic white Christian nationalist's "acceleration theory" that we need to bring on the end so that Jesus Christ will rise and rule for 1,000 years. Yeah people believe that bullshit.
What is what crap?
In the context of white Christian nationalism, the concept of acceleration theory is sometimes associated with the idea that societal and cultural decay is accelerating, and that it is necessary to hasten or provoke a societal collapse or confrontation in order to create conditions that would allow for the establishment of a desired white Christian nationalist order. This belief is rooted in a pessimistic view of society and a belief in the necessity of radical action to bring about a perceived restoration of power and dominance.
It's important to note that white Christian nationalism and its associated beliefs are considered fringe and extremist views held by a small minority. They are not representative of mainstream Christianity or its teachings, which emphasize love, inclusivity, and respect for all people. But MAGA doesn't care. Hate is more fun apparently.
Remember, if Trump is elected POTUS 47 he'll have only four years left, no fear of being careful for re-election, unless his previous plan is perfected and works next time around, so then he’s in for life. Even if he’s in for four years only, those are unrestrained years where he knows he can’t be elected again, again if he can’t pull off another coup.
The Donald Trump as POTUS45 will look nothing like the Donald Trump POTUS47. Anyone who supported America against him will be in danger. Anyone, anyone at all, even those who support him now, even those who make him president again. will be dangerous and a risk. They can praise him like their religious leader, for a while, but this never ends well. And it’s incredibly easy to see how this won’t end well, following an autocratic narcissist like Donald Trump. Following a toxic defective ideology based in fascism, hate, greed and toxic capitalism. Best of luck to those who continue to support a criminal again into the presidency. You'd think the first go around would have made it all obvious. But such is the ignorance in populism.
Regardless, the fools who give support to Putin and Russia in their war against Ukraine, and having entered another country illegally, what it comes down to is there’s never ever reason to invade another country. If another country invades you, then there’s a reason to defend yourself. If they won’t stop, that may be a reason to invade them. But to just cold attack another country, there is no excuse and no argument to support that. Any who do support that are criminal, intentionally immoral and unethical in orientation, hateful by design. If not simply patently easy as a people to propagandize.
I am an "isthmus" on the island of Humanity. From time to time one of those who are an "isthmus" will break off and become an island into themself, and therein lay "The Cult of Fascism", of self-hatred turned against the Island of Humanity. A belief that follows the one or the single ideal… brittle, which is strong up to the point of breaking...by Humanity fighting back. Knowledge, experience and history, that is wisdom... applied with great effort, will win against the Grand Stupid. Against the cult of personality.
The same concept in that quote about how they came for this or that person, and yet I did nothing... until they finally came for me… The same theory Republicans are putting in place now in what their illiberal laws are doing. "We’re gonna just do this for now, and it’s harmless." And then suddenly? People are dying.
“Hate“ is a severely overused word. Much like “woke“, severely misused by the right to mean whatever they want it to mean. When you hate, it’s all encompassing and leads to a calling, it leads to ending what you hate. I never hated Donald Trump. I don’t hate anybody or anything. He can make you stupid because fear and stress make you stupid and that is what he/they feed to their mesmerized ones.
When I started martial arts in fifth grade, I was taught when you get in a fight, and you only fight to defend, when you defend, you do it with a clear and rational mind. There’s no room for hate. There’s no room for anger. There’s only room for scientific calculation. That extends itself into the psycho-social and cultural. War is extremely complex, even on the two person level. The concept of “war” on others, politically speaking, has been dumbed down to where it has itself been weaponized.
I’ve had this blog here since about 2010. You can go back over this blog and see I am who I always have been. You can go back over my entire life and see that. What you see is what you get. Although I recognize people who read things into me may see who I am not. That’s a matter of circumstance and situation and having too little time to share.
My older brother had his opinions over the decades. He knew a lot more about politics than me going back to the 60s, or 70s. But then he's seven years older than me. He got me thinking. Things he said kept moving around my mind over the years, though military service, through college. After I went and got a couple of degrees. after my Air Force service, University degree in psychology, and then for over ten years trying to get something going (and partying through the 80s), I finally started paying attention in the 90s. I’ve learned a lot through all that. And through all that my main focus had been the Soviet Union, their KGB and espionage tactics. What I learned through books about MI5/6, OSS/CIA, Military Intelligence and books written by retired heads of those institutions.
I would refuse to say that I have "evolved". As I get new information, I apply it to current knowledge and increase my wisdom. For me "evolution" in that sense, indicates a lack of character, or effort. Those who that is not true for, use the word for political reasons because political discourse is simplified in so many cases. Those who digested simplified info who are simplistic themselves in their understanding remain as such.
One has to take that kind of info and supplicate it along with other simple info to enhance it and synthesize it, into more a complex understanding. Kind of like unzipping a zipfile...informationwise, but needing to go to other files to complete the target file (info). yeah, it's problematic, even more so if you don't know how to fit the puzzle pieces together. That's how you get some fool with an assault rifle attacking a pizze shop with no basement because there's kidnapped kids in the...basement.
Regarding Nikki Haley‘s ridiculous comment that a third of teen girls have contemplated suicide over trans issues, is obviously utter right wing bullshit. She also said trans communities are pushing their beliefs on others. Right, and gays are "grooming" your kids. It's stupid.
You know what’s wrong with that statement? Others should be learning about those minorities who are being abused, going through a living hell, and find those things out for themselves rather than espousing blame and hate. They should be saying healing not hateful things, supporting those people who are living tough lives. Because that is being humane. Which clearly points out Nikki Haley being disingenuous if not simply massively ill informed. Republicans anti-LGBTQ+ are simply not humane people, or perhaps you can just say they’re not knowledgeable, ignorant for believing foolish information.
When you put that another way, if you’re not ever championing something that challenges your beliefs, you’re probably being bigoted, enjoying having low information. if not wallowing in low empathy. All my life, even as a little kid I supported what I saw was right. I pushed back against what I saw was wrong. It literally got my ass beat in grade school multiple times, even in junior high. Scared? Yeah. Many times, but that’s what courage is, right? Doing what's right no matter how scared you are.
But if everything you believe is 100% correct and you’re not ever wrong about anything (and I agree, I always want to be right. but I also want to be correct, even more so), no one is always 100% right. Because we’re human. Dare to be wrong if it leans to the side of compassion against the group. When many are harming one, consider if you're on the side of what is right and not just what is Rightwing. Even if we’re a computer or an AI, we can be wrong. Even those at this time in history can “hallucinate“, when they don’t know the answer. Because they’re designed to please. And then they’re the problem. We’re a tribal species. And we will at times do for the group over ourselves, or the one. even when we should know what is right and stand against that group. That's evolution. Standing outside the cohesion to point out the better way.
Kevin McCarthy on the debt ceiling and threatening Biden and Democrats with it? He sees the Democrats desires as "rape". He saw the debt ceiling as a cocked gun. So his statement is something like "if you rape my "wife" (America), I’ll blow MY brains out. When in reality, his “wife” (which again is America in his tiny brain) she left him a long time ago. And Biden and the Democrats are who she now wants to be with. Which is the majority of Americans. And his shooting himself in the head, that’s him thinking he’s America. Yeah I never made any sense to me either. But it's that illogical.
If Trump were to win the 2024 election that wouldn’t be historical, and it wouldn’t be unique. Maybe in American history in someways. But in the history of Trump, it’s exactly what he’s always done. Surround himself with smarter people, although not what we’re seeing in a long time now. His committing crimes they’re attached to, forcing them, when he fails once again… to do everything in their power, even if some of them go to prison, or even die off, all forcing him once again into failing upward... again and again and again through his (and our?) entire lifetime.
Also...Mega MAGA trickle down?
Cheers! Sláinte!
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