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James Burnham's avatar

Trump is Il Duce in diapers. A pathetic baby fascist. Whining and crying all day and throwing his food on the floor when he doesn't get his way. You'd think maybe THAT would embarrass at least some Republicans. But NO. They grovel and drool before little Lord Flaunt-le-Roi as he systematically destroys the world just as he did the East Wing. This nightmare has reached truly epic dimensions.

Allan Crow's avatar

I agree with you 100%. It doesn't need to be a false flag to morph into a psyop. The near-contemporaneous social media blitz by the MAGAsphere influencers ("build the ballroom") was a bit much, though. What are we supposed to think?

Sher''s avatar

Oh yes..I have been aware of feeling like what you described for quite sometime now. Panopyticon.

Blue Moon Pie's avatar

Another great article. Rick Wilson today begged the Trump regime and echo chamber to keep pushing the ballroom that we the taxpayers will be asked to pay for. That will go over like a lead balloon with folks who are having sticker shock at the gas pumps. I also listened to Mike Madrid today talking about Trump's sinking poll numbers, which he says are beyond bad. The wheels are coming off. But we must not get complacent, because though the madhouse is unraveling and more people are coming to their senses, we aren't out of the woods yet. Thanks for your continued wisdom and guidance.

GW B's avatar
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Great article! Always learn like 10 new things each time.

Whether Trump knew in advance or not, if it was set up by another group or nation who has a stake in the data center pipes under the Whitehouse, it feels fair to call it staged. The timing seems too important and precise to leave to chance. Here’s a worthwhile post from Drey Dossier about the “shed on top of the data center”.

https://substack.com/@thedreydossier/note/p-195759549?r=5a5n7z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Lastly, the irony of locking the first amendment press in a room with no information and hiring a mentalist (he earned his fee for sure) to help put on a psyop in front of them, making them think they’re “on-the-scene” when they have zero freedom of movement and no line of site and are forced to unwittingly publish every little drip drip of information “leaked” to them from administration plants to show their readers they are reporting from where it all happened (not) , is too complicated to set up, without some preparation. Odds are high nobody will ever see a date stamped copy of the speech he is bragging about not having had the opportunity to deliver. Classic tell? Just can’t stop repeating that line about the non-existent speech maybe. He thinks it’s too funny to stop himself. It would have been really rough, no doubt. They would have been on the ropes. Ha ha.

And a grand finale with a chattel slavery meme on a modern carpet. Bold anachronism. How avant garde.. A South African touch, maybe, or a top of the had to good ol Columbus. He seems to be a new fav of team eugenics for some reason.

Someone said murder mystery theatre. Not a bad line.

Lorraine Grula's avatar

This is the single best analysis I have read. Thanks for all you do. Cole Allen probably thought he was going to be a hero. I think the Butler attempt had the same motive. Alex Jones had been going on and on about how, as much as he'd hate for harm to come to T, if he were assassinated, it would be good for the country as a whole. John Wilkes Booth thought he'd be a hero too. But for a guy who is supposed to be smart, Mr. Allen did not plan well, unless his plan was to be caught or killed. He was an entire floor away. He should have done something like crawl into some hole where no one could see him, but he had a good shot. Then, you wait. Now maybe such a spot does not exist, but surely he knew running past the magnetometer surrounded by dozens of guards wasn't going to work. Thanks again, Jim. I had never heard the term panopticon, but it seems to be a perfect descriptor.

Mark Archambault's avatar

Excellent article Jim. We're definitely getting acclimated to the Panopticon. I for one refuse!

I would like your take on an article in Sunday's Boston Globe on Palantir. Peter Thiel is helping to finance a new operation called "Objection.

As the article states: "For $2,000, anyone can trigger a formal investigation into a published news story. An AI system evaluates the reporting. A companion tool begins broadcasting "under investigation" warnings on social media before any verdict is issued. A public clock starts ticking the moment the process begins".

Sounds like yet another way to undermine confidence in, as well as eventually freedom of, the press.

GW B's avatar

Sounds like a great idea if you own the AI doing the investigation.

S Russell's avatar

Yeah.... pay $2,000 and instantly destroy the credibility of a news story you dislike regardless of how factually honest and corroborated it is. By the time the "investigation" warning disappears, a large segment of the citizenry will have already regarded it as a "fake" story and moved on.

I'm honestly beginning to think that the best way to start combating this shit is by ultimately flipping the script.

1. Start creating our own "anti-fascist rapid response" coalition with an army of cross-platform accounts ready to flood right-wing media with conflicting, confusing, and misleading mis- and disinformation about a topic the second it emerges. (I know it's unethical but, those individuals already live in a fantasy world anyway so we should at least feed them a fantasy that opposes the fascists, right?)

2. Build a coalition of anti-fascist coders and hackers who can build counter-AI tools that will target and obstruct, disorient, and when possible, turn their AI tools against them. Deploy those hackers to infiltrate Palantir's systems and extract damning information we can use as leverage AGAINST those fascist fucks. Drop some code bombs while inside to blast open backdoors that allow other hackers, allied or not, to also infiltrate.

I could go on for far longer than anybody likely cares to read, but the short short is..... we are long overdue to go on the offensive.

For those who've played any of the Watchdogs series video games, we need to Watchdogs their fuckin' asses. Think "Anonymous", but actually effective and legit instead of whatever the fuck these clowns pretending to be Anonymous are...

Lorraine Grula's avatar

Sounds like a recipe for absolute disaster. That would squelch journalism completely and turn the evening news into PR crap. Peter Thiel is psycho. Or the antichrist.

S Russell's avatar

Yeah, he's a special kinda evil for sure. My more conspiratorial side honestly wonders if that freak didn't implant himself with some of his own experimental tech years ago. He's got a whole Palpatine/Voldemort deal goin on for sure.

Like, maybe he decided to be his own test subject for the first digital AI, organic brain interface in the hopes of becoming a gen-AI infused superhuman? Instead though, like every past sci-fi tale foreshadowed, it infected the limited, K-addled brains he did have and turned them to evil mush...

Lorraine Grula's avatar

I think Peter's budget allows him to take a lot of drugs, but I do like your theory

GW B's avatar
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Don’t let Peter Thiel gaslight you into thinking he’s is any closer to a mythical anything more than any other self obsessed dip💩. It’s a racket.

Lorraine Grula's avatar

The arrogance of these rich guys is mind-blowing and very dangerous.

John Bergman's avatar

The White House doesn’t need — CANNOT USE — a drone-proof bunker. Hinkley Hilton needs better security. POTUS would be at Raven Rock, OR aloft on Air Force One. My point: POTUS would NOT be at a predictable known location if the secret service is doing its job.

S Russell's avatar

You're exactly right. Honestly though, I think our true overlords just sold the bunker idea to Trump by telling the fool that he'll have a secure facility to escape to when we all rise up to South Korea his ass. Ultimately, I don't think Trump has the slightest idea what's actually being built down there, and he wouldn't comprehend it even if they tried to tell him.

Meanwhile, the whole damn ballroom appears to be nothing more than a giant, heavily reinforced shield intended to be a buffer protecting the true prize. A massive, AI controlled, centralized database that will collect, analyze, and rank every single byte of data it collects on every digitally connected human across planet Earth.

It will contain an AI compiled dossier on every last one of us that includes every geolocation ping, financial transaction, text, email, and website we've ever visited. Our new overlords will be able to instantly find any shred of compromising dirt they can leverage against us, and if there is none, they can just fabricate it using the data it already has to make it appear legit.

All the while, the whole damn thing will be hidden under so many layers of top secret classification and exempted from Congressional oversight that even Congress, the courts, the press, and the puppet leaders they install as figureheads (like Trump and Vance), will be oblivious to what they're actually doing.

At least........ that's my ongoing and terrifying hypothesis. Maybe I'm just a little too paranoid and have read too many sci-fi stories...

Katherine Patrick's avatar

Adam Kinzinger noted that trump has no problem attending WWE events without the massive security measures he feels he must have in a “ballroom.” Interesting point.

Gerald Lewis's avatar

Trump wants to erase the White House as the residence of the President of the United States and turn it into his own impenetrable fortress/castle, like one of the several fortress/castles of Putin. Erasure of the White House leaves American democracy without a center. Trump is a malignant narcissist, but what is the diagnosis of his political enabling cadres? The real diagnosis is sociopath, but when a majority of corporate CEOs were determined to bo sociopaths, they pressured the medical industry to have the disease removed from their DSM manuals. Even today, Corporate CEOs escape being identified as among those standing in the shadows, calling all the shots.

Willa Davis's avatar

Once again, thank you for your very keen insights, Jim. In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, there was a constant war raging in the background. Now Trump has that too.