Trump Really Messes Up Smart People

A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest as S&G so aptly sang, and wily arch Zionist Susie is the one whispering in the Don’s ear while smirking Stevie Miller writes the tweets. Come on, you think Donny boy is going to put an apostrophe after fuckin if he even posted it?

Not that it matters who’s writing what or saying what, it’s all chaos and the bottom line is everybody’s screwed over under sideways down.

Not into TikTok or porn, but go for it if that’s your thing. Not expecting a revolution let alone enlightened response.

Just as an aside, a bright and lovely friend of mine asked me today if there’s still a war going on. I kept my hands on the wheel and the truck heading steady down the road at an even 55, and said it’s escalating and getting worse. Hospitals petro chemical plants bombed, savage murder children dogs and cats innocents etc etc. Shit. How can you answer a question like that? Imposible.

Yellow daffodils bloom and purple irises push up toward sunlight while lilac blossoms perfume the air as cherry blossoms fill boughs light and airy, like popcorn. Spring is in the air.

Don’t you let nobody bring you down, turn you round, you got to keep on talking, keep on walking, baby til the cows come home. Or the chickens come home to roost. Whatever comes first.
Ciao brothers and sisters.

The Blasphemer in Chief graduated from the New York Military Academy which is in its death throes. Perhaps rescinding his diploma might reverse the Academy’s fortune.
Placing this addled cheese burger stuffed miscreant in a full body restraint and then relocated to a padded cell would definately improve the fortune of our planet.

I think there’s one simple thing to always think about when it comes to Trump: how can he personally profit off what he’s saying or doing?

And the casinos and hotels he’s bankrupted, there’s probably something more to it all — money laundering or embezzlement — but if nothing else, he’s got good instincts of when to cut bait and run so he’s more than happy to bring his businesses into bankruptcy to escape scrutiny.

But he’s also got good instincts when people are becoming problems and that they need to be silenced in some shape or way. He’s a dangerous man.

But then again, he’s just a crook. Always been one. And he’ll die one. But he’s going to take so many with him.

Here’s a video by Parkrose Permaculture about the stopped-for-now TrumpHouse Ballroom project and the military super-bunker to be built under it, and the TrumpAdmin appeal against the Judge’s stop-for-now order about it. She has a theory based on some evidence as to why Trump wants the Ballroom and the SuperBunker under it. Is she just another smart person tripped up by looking for order in Trump’s random fingerpainting with Trump’s own fished-from-his-diaper feces? Or is she seeing a Trump motive which Trump really has?

Since her interpretation of Trump’s reason for the Ballroom and a Bunker is that Trump wants to start World War Three to get revenge on us Americans for not all loving and worshipping Trump the way Trump thought we would . . . and he wants to survive in the bunker while we all die ( he desperately hopes) up on the surface for not loving him . . . I think she is correct in the pattern she sees in all this.

“Trump is frantic to restart construction on his ballroom/bunker. Why?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-NR7w0sqQ8

not even the deep state can carry out a coherent plan thru Trump.

“thru Trump” or Biden or Obama or Bush the Younger

An essential point about “the Deep State” is that highly structured, but distributed, consensus-ideology coordinated collectives like the Imperial American Deep State are inherently incapable of formulating or carrying out a coherent plan.

The “Deep State” is an automaton of many parts, highly resistant to rational governance from the center, by direction or principle. It will, by its nature, be inclined to do from “automatic” habit many contradictory, conflicting things that, altogether, make no rational sense.

The “Deep State” is an epiphenomenon of the vast, complex organization created to win WWII and continued on a permanent basis to carry on the Cold War. Its initial architecture was originally intentional and purposeful, though it inevitably incorporated many questionable “design decisions” only some of which were questioned with experience and of those, only some were partially corrected.

It is a slender reed, but we can hope that an actual human being, reviewing choices and policies, might question the craziness as it flows past the nominal organs of power — in the Congress or the Executive — and intervene.

As Trump has declined, that slender hope has been extinguished.

My point is to remind all that the Deep State at the core of the Imperium is the Monster.

Smart People tweeting snark or spinning long-form essays on Substack have a hard time recognizing and fully accepting the irrational sociopathy of the Deep State phenomenon. A great many Smart People have a day job in or adjacent to the Deep State or in iso-similar economic structures. They are familiar with, comfortable even, the intellectual process of ideological conformity. They automatically suppress alarm and rationalize the crazy, as they sink into trance.

Many Smart People, not so many months ago, were just fine with the concept of a figurehead paralyzed by Parkinson’s or pickled in alcohol, trusting in a Deep State with no singular governor. They trust in the experts. Their trust is confusing them.

You’d be surprised how much of the population is made up of credulous reactionaries, non-political morons, self-refuting cranks, or some combination of the above. It’s even worse when would-be revolutionaries refuse to recognize the facts because they want to have faith that the will of the people somehow represents reason, decency, or goodness.
Just try getting out and dealing with the public en masse and you’ll start cutting things down to size.

So what are the current odds that Trump is going to hit Tehran with an EMP nuke attack in the next 24 hours?

Bravo! Bravo!

I see this all the time: “sanewashing” Trump. It was the default setting for the corporate media, and on LinkedIn either Trump devotees or paid propagandists would “reinterpret” whatever stupidity that came out of Trump’s mouth a given day into some wise, far-seeing, policy.

Back in 2016, Ian, I recall you writing about Trump’s policies vs those of Clinton and Sanders. Sanders was the best, though probably not perfect, Clinton would continue more of less the same destructive course, and while you thought Trump might do some bad things, he might also do some very good things, based on his campaign utterances. That was my hope too. And I had hoped that Trump’s racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic rants were just “red meat” for his base just more overt than the BS the Republican party had been feeding its voters since Goldwater.

However, it didn’t take long for the veil to fall from my eyes. Trump had campaigned on everyone having “great health care” while talking about repealing “Obamacare”. While I held no hopes that we’d get Medicare-for-All with Trump, I did have hopes of him pulling the Republican party kicking and screaming into more worker-friendly positions, and maybe he’d make the ACA better and call it “Trumpcare”. It soon became obvious that with the ACA repeal effort Trump was going to “repeal and not replace”; and his “great health care” would have meant that a 60-year old friend of mine, laid off in 2016 in a corporate downsizing, would be paying like $30,000 a year in PREMIUMS ALONE for himself (need I say, the average individual salary back then was $29,000?), with a high-deductible health care plan that could be canceled on whim. Moreover his wife had health issues by that time!

I had hoped that the racism, the xenophobia, the Islamophobia, and the other ugly utterances were just ‘red meat’ for his base, while the “real Trump” was interested in policy. By letting traditional Rs drive healthcare reform, with little intervention by Trump (worse, he even supposedly remarked that average Americans were getting a raw deal, but didn’t try to change the substance of the bill) it showed me that Trump wasn’t interested in policy at all, and it was the racism/xenophobia that was the real man. It was the opposite of my faint hopes.

Since then, all his policy “plans” that don’t encompass degrading African-Americans, don’t involve persecuting non-white immigrants, don’t involve any of the social issues his base wants, are nothing. He talked about returning manufacturing to the US, but his first tax cut bill made it EASIER, not harder, for companies to outsource. He talked about making insulin cheaper, but it was just talk. And yet, you commentariat types all discuss these policy “plans” as if they are real things; and they almost never are.

Finally–about Trump’s appeal. I think it’s based on two things.

1) He’s a stupid guy genuinely acting stupid, and his base is stupid. They like stupid; it’s reassuring to them. It’s why Trump, a stupid guy being himself, they supported instead of people like DeSantis and Cruz, who are at least educated people playing stupid. There has been an anti-intellectual strain in rightist and especially Christian rightist movments; I recall Bob Childress’s book about his ministry in Appalachia not far from where I live how the Primitive Baptist ministers not only showed up to their sermons drunk, but also were proud that they had no ‘book-larnin’. They were ignorant and proud of it; knowledge was considered something that led you away from “truth” (and given, their form of Christianity, and that Childress was a local but one who had been educated in a seminary, I maybe can see their point).

2) Trump ditched the “dog whistles” that previous Republicans had used to appeal to fear of the ‘other’. Trump said what they wanted to hear out loud, and they loved him for it.

So what are the current odds that Trump is going to hit Tehran with an EMP nuke attack in the next 24 hours?

And IF he does nuke Iran, what are the odds he will do so with complete impunity?

Very high odds on that second question. He knows he can do whatever he wants. Who is going to stop him? Other world leaders and/or their militaries? Hardly. The complicit, feckless Dems? Hardly. America’s own military in the form of a coup? Hardly.

The controls have been set for the heart of the sun. Enjoy the ride in air-conditioned comfort.

The schadenfreuders are salivating. Their moment has perhaps arrived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CswMKTXPo2Q

Excellent post from Ian, as per usual. Something that Mearsheimer and Mercouris have both shared is that the catastrophic decision to join the Zionist Entity in all-out, genocidal annihilation (he & Petey keep promising) was not made by Fat Boy, it was made by 3 Ultra-Zios, Witkoff & Kushner (no background in military history, history, or diplomacy) and an Israeli named David Barnea who was “living in the White House” rent-free, paid for by the Murican taxpayers. He convinced Mafia Don that “We’ll only need to hit them hard once, their people will revolt and surrender”, absurd. Iran has its problems like every other country, but it’s not Libya when Qadafi was far-gone in senility and corruption.

Good comments all ’round, starting with mago, to stay sane and human as best as we can. Finster’s Sam Kriss quote is nice. The “Resistance” that fights via Brunch and Pussy Hats rather than organizing failed. Who’da Thunk it? As Frank Zappa sang, “Dumb All Over, A Little Ugly on the Side.” (Okay, to be fair, the wealthy clueless libs can pay for the best clothes, surgeries, diets etc. and are on the whole not as Ugly as the Cletuses who make up the R. party.)

To GlassHammer, yes, Technocracy is deeply stupid. It has ridiculous ends and uses oppressive and violent means to (not) achieve them. It’s getting stupider with AI as well. Lewis Mumford saw where things were headed nigh on a century ago. And Bruce Wilder’s point that the Deep State, including the Zio-Monsters, is at the heart of the beast is clear and evident. Nobody in the millionaire media or the Epstein Class has a problem with that. Well, to be fair, the Guardian noted in passing (once, recently) that DJT is ordering War Crimes Left and Right. But that will soon be forgotten, even as it’s occurring, & nobody ever gets punished, the Blob exists to Exterminate and Destroy, does not build, has never spread “democracy”, quite the reverse.

John9, “vast carelessness”, yes the standard setting of the clueless rich. Noted in the Great Gatsby and elsewhere. Their kids are fucked up, become criminals or junkies. The Princess of Norway had an affair and a child with Epstein. He recently murdered someone, prior had raped numerous women. He is at least in jail, I suppose the kind of “nice” jail which the Watergate crew got, tennis courts, gym, good food.

Scott S, blessed I have traveled a lot abroad, Central America and Mexico, Canada, Spain, Thailand. ‘Muricans swim in a Sea of Propaganda and don’t even know it. They are trained to Kiss Up and Kick Down, and most do so enthusiastically. A toxic culture, circling the drain. Less “free” than anywhere except (maybe) North Korea, Japan, likely Myanmar and Egypt, a few others.

Yes, programmed cruelty and violence, Finster’s right. A disease inherited straight from the US’s progenitor, always a culture big on organized violence, caste rankings, sick pathologies regarding sex, and steeped in arrogance.

Now on to an original insight. Recently I came across a nice piece in the Aug. 2023 “Harper’s” about a long-suppressed book that Sigmund Freud collaborated on with a Diplomat who’d worked directly under Woodrow Wilson, a psychoanalytic take on Woody’s poorly repressed homosexuality, massive insecurity, and Christ/Messiah Complex.

A huge problem IS the Presidency itself. We’ve had 47 and there are what, 3 to 5 who were somewhat decent, as reflected in their policies. I won’t even bother with Washington, a financial apparatchik, Jefferson to a point (but not to the slavery point), Abe Lincoln certainly, thus he had to be murdered an replaced by a Jim Crow thug, the Roosevelt Brothers (though Teddy was a bully-boy racist and imperialist, & FDR in his dotage supported the UK’s creation of the Khazar-populated pretend “Jews” in the “Middle East”, partly inspired BY anti-Semitism (Get those crooks and degenerates out of Europe!), partly just pure colonialism. Eisenhower had some good instincts, shut down the UK/France/Izzy attempted conquest of Suez. But on the other hand: Installing the Shah. I don’t believe that JFK was anything different, there is a plausible debate about that though. In any case, they have ALL been shit since the Zionists, Mob and Dulles Brothers told us all who actually runs things.

An editor named Dan Piepenbring reviews the long-suppressed book The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (Harvard University Press, $35). Freud collaborated with a diplomat who’d been at Versailles with Woody, the man who lied us into a World War after promising to stay out (I had to teach this chump to High School students several times), William Bullitt knew Sigmund as a patient, they both despised the clown. So here’s the verdict (hidden for years as too explosive).

“Freud regarded Wilson as a neurotic self-saboteur whose contradictions, especially during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, imperiled millions of lives and pushed Europe toward fascism. “As far as a single individual can be responsible for the misery of this part of the world, he surely is,” Freud wrote.”

He had a desperate need to hog the spotlight at Versailles, burnishing his messianic “Idealism”. But he sold out every single smart principle he had, helped create the patchwork, conflicting ethnic states that would explode 2 decades later. The isolationist Republicans shut it down, he refused to compromise as he thought himself morally superior to everyone.

Bullitt watching Woody realized the Presidency itself was idiotic and insane, should be abolished. Which I heartily endorse. John Maynard Keynes noted Woody’s “a blind and deaf Don Quijote.”

B & F interviewed many intimates of Woody and studied his family life, concluding in time that “he wished at the same time to be the supreme male, all powerful, all commanding, all inflicting, and the complete female, all loving, all submissive, all suffering. Only one individual in history has successfully resolved that conflict.

Wilson wanted to be Christ.” A grimy, slavery-loving politician imagined he was Christ Jesus!! Not even Trump is quite that insane.

They also judged he was a closeted gay man, found on a speaking tour he’d “shared a bed” with “a handsome young blond man”, though he likely sublimated his urges, making himself sicker. He had major “daddy issues”, initially wanted to be a Divine like daddy. He suffered from extreme “vindictiveness” due to his failures to live up to his (small, spotty) ideals. They also accused him of having a castration complex, note he enjoyed masturbation in any case. (When I had to teach Wilson, I found him such an insufferable, self-righteous prig that I researched his life. He was sexually voracious, like other Prezzies, not faithful to the wife.)

The book was trashed when Bullitt belatedly published it after Freud was dead, panned as “Freudulence”, etc. But Piepenbring rates the information as worthwhile, faults only the wooden style of writing. Knowing the things he did, brutally force-feeding women suffragists, reinstating racial segregation in the District of Columbia (mommy’s family were Southern Slave Owners), the Red Hunts and deportations, installing Hoover as FBI chief etc. showed this “Progressive” to be a full on fascist and white supremacist.

Plus ca change, right?

The “smart people” referred to here are people I label as gets-it-but-doesn’t-get-it. In my book they represent the absolute peak of idiocy because they went up to a point in understanding the world and then backed off.
Trying to work out what is Trump trying to achieve here? Why are the Israelis doing such-and-such? What is the strategy of European leadership? And so on, it’s just so completely cretinous. The world is insane and no one is really in charge. Insofar as anyone who’s supposed to be in a leadership position speaks in public, they are clearly morons and liars.
Why even bother listening to Trump? Or any so-called leaders?
All these analysts and pundants (sic) littering the modern airwaves with their incredible analysis are useless cretins.

I couldn’t avoid encountering the Orange Fuckwit’s threat to end a civilisation this evening and I acknowledge it gave me the heebie jeebies but it’s just the rantings of an imbecile. Who’s giving out the instructions? The more I listened to clever geopolitical analysis the less I feel I know.

And I’d dearly love some reassurance that Iran indeed has the upper hand and that this is the end of the US inshallah the demonic entity too. But whoever thinks they know what’s going on is an idiot.

My solidarity is with the people of Iran, Lebanon and Gaza.

@GlassHammer No, it’s a lot simpler than that. Any given problem, especially any given problem in politics, is going to have a lot of different factors that bear on it. Smart people are aware of and take into account quite a few of those factors (although cultural issues like say belief in neoliberal economics may create blind spots to very important ones).

Dumb people don’t, they will generally only take a couple of factors into account. Dumb, emotionally self-indulgent people will not only take few factors into account, they will skew to ignoring ones that make the problem hard. So then they’ll make a decision, and smart people will look at the decision and say “OK, it LOOKS as if that decision ignored this, that and the other factor. But nobody could possibly ignore those factors, so they MUST be doing something that has a payoff based on still other issues that’s so important it’s worth losing out on the obvious factors.” Except they didn’t, they really did ignore the obvious factors–like, just skipped half or more of the problem so they could solve a simpler, pretend problem instead.

The suspense was too much for me, so consulted the Yi King about Trump’s wet dream of “destroying an entire civilization”, and will share the general result I got. Huge Bang, Explosions, Carnage. One line moves and it goes to a small result, weakened agent of carnage . . . Yi is rarely wrong, we shall see. 2 hours – 7 minutes until possible planetary destruction, nukes flying. I think not, at least not in short term.

No wonder DJT was building that Fuhrer bunker under the “ballroom” in the destroyed East Wing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXdRp-fOULY

This PROVES It Doesn’t Matter Who You Vote For

Jen Perelman and Peter Hager react to some historic clips of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, proving it doesn’t matter who who vote for, especially when it comes to the Iran War.