Don’t Let Them Frame War As Politics.
The establishment is still performing Kabuki in a shelled-out theater
It has been reported that while arguing with his staff over which J6 terrorists were too violent to pardon, the President of the United States said “Fuck it! Release ‘em all.”
Over 200 prisoners, including the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oathkeepers, Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes, were set free to create Trump’s Brownshirts and seek retribution on their enemies.
Trump also signed 200+ executive orders attacking every marginalized group in the country. Tom Homan, a psychotic racist who spoke at Mike Flynn’s Rod of Iron Ministries event, is preparing for raids in schools, hospitals and churches. Elon Musk did a Hitler salute at the inauguration — “and a very belligerent one too.”
Nevertheless, the plucky corporate media is still hanging on to the idea that this is all politics. Here’s what Fox, I mean MSNBC, looks like this morning.
“Politics” as we knew it is over. The power of the US government is in the hands of amoral psychopaths beholden to Christian supremacists, neo-Nazi tech bro plutocrats, and a Russian war criminal. Framing this as an “administration” in a two-party system is a lie. This is war. On us.
Here is Russian state media favorably comparing Trump to Lenin, mocking Ukraine because Trump blocked military aid, and confirming for their audience that “the richest and most influential man on the planet threw a Sieg Heil” at the inauguration.
Source: Russian Media Monitor
Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht — a vile criminal who took a hit out on someone and dealt hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal drugs, child porn and stolen personal identification on the Dark Web — because the “Libertarian Movement… supported me so strongly.”
“Make no mistake: Ulbricht was a drug dealer and criminal profiteer who exploited people’s addictions and contributed to the deaths of at least six young people… and as today’s sentence proves, no one is above the law.”
So much for that.
Congress, a supposedly co-equal branch of the federal government, is just the Duma now. The Republican Party no longer exists as a political body. It’s just a front for war on the United States of America. The Supreme Court is a theocratic crime cult happy to go along with the end of democracy because it will create a vacuum for their religion and make them even richer.
But nevertheless, the feckless press is pretending that Biden’s DOJ, who couldn’t figure out how to prosecute anyone above Proud Boy for four years, for the most documented crime in history, thinks Trump’s pardons are “appalling.”
As someone who was trying to warn that J6 was not just a protest ahead of time — that it was not just a bunch of MAGAs who got riled up, I can tell you it was a plan, created by the same people who stole the 2016 election. The “appalling” thing is that the FBI and DOJ did absolutely nothing to stop it, or punish the people who planned it.
In order to understand what’s happening to America, and across the world, you cannot use the system that has been corroded in the process. You cannot look at this scenario in a political lens and come up with solutions. What has happened is that “politics” — the exchange of ideas to come to a collective solution — has been removed and replaced with coercive psychological warfare that creates a reality that benefits our enemies.
But as I wrote 3 years ago, when I said WWIII started in 2015 the day Mike Flynn traveled to Moscow to sit beside Putin and the head of RT:
Psychological warfare has two primary objectives:
To diminish the enemy by causing chaos and changing popular sentiment through propaganda
To prepare the battlefield for kinetic war
The first objective has been achieved. The second began when the jailhouse doors opened up yesterday and the violent criminals who beat cops and tried to hang the Vice President outside the Capitol were told they did nothing wrong by the President.
Do not let them tell you this is politics anymore. The establishment and corporate press that allowed themselves to be corrupted to this point are no longer trustworthy.
The correct frame for this is war. And the only solution is to win it.
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Jim, there is something sinister about Trump that many of us sense, but can't permit ourselves to bring to full consciousness...he is a mortal threat.
Trump is not an aberration. His arrogance and oppositional-defiant attitude is magnetically attractive to vulnerable people who idealize a man whose appearance of self-confidence resonates with the part of them that is afraid to stand up for themselves.
But there is one more element that is less obvious unless you can sense it…it’s the murderous rage that gets evoked in Trump when others don’t behave as he demands. It’s a narcissistic rage, an annihilating rage, that many of us know from childhood experiences with parents. You can feel it just by looking at Trump’s glaring mug-shot. It communicates, “I will END YOU if you don’t do as I say, meet my every need, and willingly abandon your autonomous self. When we sense THIS threat, we instinctively get the message…we back down. Gradually we accept “alternative facts,” we start seeing the world as Trump sees it, we surrender any perception of reality that doesn’t align with his.
He threatens EVERYONE, whether they’re conscious of it or not. Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and others like them have done the same. THAT’S the element that causes individuals within the Congress, the courts, the D.O.J., the media, anyone in his immediate surround and the general public to “obey in advance.” They are trying to appease, and thereby avoid, Trump’s narcissistic rage which sends a signal to his “Brownshirts” to wipe out the source of the narcissistic injury that he, their idealized leader, can’t tolerate.
We must learn to recognize people who use the threat of their narcissistic fury to manipulate others into submission so we don’t elect them in the first place. But now that we’re here, we must grapple with how we support one another in large enough numbers to protect ourselves. This requires a lot more thinking, research, and discussions with experts like you, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben Ghiat, Anne Applebaum, Bandy Lee, Steve Hassan, Malcolm Nance, et.al.
And Jim, thank you again and again for your consistent framing of the moment.
Been listening to you, Heidi and Hi Fi for quite a while now; I believe you, and have been spreading the word to family and friends. Wanted to simply tell you that at least once here….