My take on the 'why' of it is that Stephen Miller and Trump are itching to declare martial law just before the midterms. Arresting judges and black members of congress are deliberate provocations. Ditto, admitting white South Afrikaners while imprisoning brown migrants. Declaring war on due process, declaring ignorance of habeas corpus, etc, etc. So many actions are intended to elicit anger, so much anger that it will lead to violence in the public square. Pretty sure trump's maga henchmen are standing by, loading their guns, filling tall buildings and waiting to shoot.
It isn't just the middle class. The only folks who actually benefit from the Big Beautiful Bill are the top tenth of the top 1% of weathy Americans.
Should document it...broadcast it on MAGA media.
Yesterday we were talking about an author in a Spanish class who committed suicide after years of suicide ideation and what comes to mind are "geniuses," each with a pathological death wish. The rationale for much of this is a fanasy of victimhood. Neither Trump nor Musk nor Miller has been a "victim."
According to Dr. AI, "victim mentality," also known as "victim syndrome" or "victim complex," is a mindset where a person feels like a victim in various situations, even when external evidence suggests otherwise. It's a cognitive distortion where individuals tend to see themselves as powerless and blame others for their problems, rather than taking responsibility for their own actions.
Trump, Musk, Miller all of Trump's cabinet seem to consider themselves victims, either because no one really like them, or there have been obstacles to them achieving self actualization.
IMO Hitler considered himself, and thus Germany a victim, He was a failure at life. until he found his niche in politics and politics is actually the art of alienation.
People don't vote on positives, people vote against, not for. Liberals may vote for, but it is the against vote, the fear vote, the amygdala that wins elections.
I've presumed for a long time that the Koch's et al just want to re instate a serf economy, where they can be Lords and we can be their serfs......and I wouldn't put it past Trump to want to cozy up to Putin so he can replace trumps' daddy as his 'sugar daddy'. It is obscene and cruel, and cruelty is probably the point. The sad thing is that American's have bought into their sales pitch and seem to be clueless about what it really going on. That says we don't deserve democracy.
" What the hell is going on here?" I too want to know....
Health and education have become con-jobs in this country. My daughter received two masters degrees in Public Heath Policy in two years from an esteemed French school at a cost of $15,000. Look at the Scandinavian countries. I know a professor in Finland that loves paying 49% in taxes because of the exceptional quality of free healthcare and education. Even corporations there like paying taxes because they want smart healthy employees...how novel! Not only that, all those countries are the happiest.
Now the government is openly trying to make us sicker, stupider, and poorer. It feels as if I woke up in a different country, one that is becoming a pressure cooker about to explode....
According to NPR, Trump has urged Congress to pass the GENIUS Act, which would make it easier for U.S. companies to deal in a type of cryptocurrency known as stablecoin. After advocating for passage of the bill, the Trump family crypto company started issuing its own stablecoin and became one of the biggest issuers in the world. Stablecoins are extremely popular in the crypto world, and they're a way of having a type of a token that has a steady value. It's worth a dollar, no matter what is happening in the Bitcoin market up or down, because there's so much volatility in crypto. And the advantage of a stablecoin is once you have dollar-to-dollar crypto token, you can use it to buy and sell things because it has a reliable value.
Per Eric Lipton. World Liberty was effectively created in September, October of last year, as the presidential election was coming towards a close. And it's a brand-new company, therefore - I mean, relatively speaking - and its goal is …to be a modern-day bank that offers a range of services. And it started off by selling tokens, in which you could buy - it's called a governance token, and you could buy the right to have some say in decisions that the company's making. “So before the election, they had a really hard time selling those tokens because it was started off by Trump's sons and some of their friends who had some experience in the crypto sector, but there wasn't much, you know, motion behind it. So they only sold tens of millions of dollars in tokens initially. But once Trump was elected, suddenly, you know, there's the thought, oh, it's the - going to be the future president of the United States. This is probably going to do well. He's going to have the power to influence policy. And next thing you know, they sell $550 million worth of tokens, and a large chunk of the revenue from those tokens is supposed to be going to the Trump family and their business partners.” https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5388474/how-trump-family-business-ventures-stand-to-directly-benefit-the-president
Putin wants the US broken as the USSR was. Simple. He has our admin in his back pocket for some reason. You tell me why/how. /cough krasnov /cough golden shower videos /cough trophy spyfe
Well, maybe the Horrors That Be want to bring back the Old Deal. Those with the money and power control things like feudal lords, and the hell with everybody else. Or the smart ones among them (not Trump) realize that climate change is going to wreck the world and so want to insulate themselves at the expense of humanity. Or perhaps like tobacco and oil company executives and many other criminals they have convinced themselves that what they are doing isn't wrong, just being "strong". As far as I can see it is a blindness to the common good. Such people might not always be outright psychopaths, most would not shoot anyone and could be nice to their children and pets, but are missing some vital part of their humanity. Desperately sad and needy hollow people, I would call them. And they will never know or admit any such thing.
I think it all begins with the failure of education for the young and thus the lack of critical thinking in the voting public together with widespread apathy. Where are the entertainers, writers, folksingers, the poets? We’re living in the “sounds of silence”. If the non voters had gone to the polls the result would have been VASTLY different. The average high school student has witnessed over 10,000 murders in the entertainment media by graduation. As a culture we are illiterate and numb…and angry but we don’t know why because we haven’t learned to think.
At least not any more. This 70 year old went through a Public Education System that did teach critical thinking! Hard to believe? MAGA wants to destroy public... education and public anything. Critical Thinking 101 has been canceled. As they say " Fuck the books, the books are gone"...and have all been burned. Peace.
I think that the morbidly rich are fully in love with the idea of a completely rentier economy, or a modern-day feudalism, in which the wealthy have complete control of every aspect of everyone's life. Nobody gets anything without paying them first, so no more government freebies like education, healthcare, tax preparation or mail delivery.
It is a massive question. I think the most plausible is your first possibility of these goons taking marching orders from Putin, but not so much Xi. I believe these f'n guys are just too stupid to realize that it's actually what they are doing. At least the guys that have the spotlight, so to speak. It's my belief that trump and most, if not all, of his cabinet are the distraction, while the heritage goons tear down all our trusted institutions and systems, the tech bros/billionaires drain the Treasury, and the putin admirers destroy our Democracy. A couple of them may be in on it, like Rubio & Vance, but these guys seem totally clueless as to what is actually happening. Most of them seem pretty dim. We only see what we are allowed to see. Clearly, MSM and legacy media are not getting to the meat of the issues. It's why I am so thankful for people like you and others keeping us alert and informed.
Why do I think this is happening? Let me put it in terms the Magats might understand. There is a huge cabal, NOT of Democratic baby blood drinking individuals but there IS a cabal of dark-moneyed international & "local" individuals that want to get their hands on the US "cash cow", you know the richest country in the world moniker that is thrown around to describe our quality of life. And they don't care how they get it, even if they completely destroy the country, you know, "killing the goose that lays the golden eggs"!
I've never killed anything but I have watched fishermen gut the fish they caught, I have plucked the feathers off of pheasants that my brother & family hunted for at Holiday time for our wonderful pheasant dinners. When you go through that process there is nothing left but scraps & those get consumed by bacteria or scavengers until eventually there is no reminder of the animal that existed prior to our wonderful meal, only the pleasant memory of that meal shared by family & friends.
So gut, the government, dumb down the masses, make them sicker, remove any chance of medical intervention that might prevent worsening disease. Gut the economy so there are no jobs & the people become poorer & poorer. The homeless population that should already be a national embarrassment will balloon & the very wealthy will have their compounds that will protect them from the hordes of starving, wretched people that they have destroyed so that they can be in power. I guess being masters of a hellscape is worth it to these selfish, self-centered, egotistical bastards so that they can rule! But eventually Mother Earth will get all of us. We desecrate her every day. When I throw things away that I can't "reduce, reuse or recycle" I often multiply that item by 9 billion, the current human population of the earth. Enjoy it now, you selfish bastards, because eventually you'll be crawling around gasping for a clean breath or a sip of clean water too!
We are being prepared for merger with Russia. Could there be any other more logical reason given Trumps regular long phone calls with Putin. This has been going on at least 8 years, maybe more.
We need to call Trump what he is: Russian Asset. Not Trump. Not the President. Not anything else. Just Russian Asset. He has checked off all the boxes for Putin; every single thing Putin wants to happen to destroy this country, the Russian Asset has done and continues to do. Russian Asset. He deserves no other name.
Democracy in Chains by Nancy McLean describes how the groundwork was secretly plotted to make the Russian Asset a reality. Without the pathologically and voraciously greedy Koch brothers—especially Charles—this demise of our country would not have been possible.
Do you know Joel Edelman, a new age lawyer who was in the Barbara Marx Hubbard crowd? Salt of the earth type. He went to Russia on those citizen exchanges way back when. He has some dossier on the Russian Asset situation and he is getting senile. He asked me for connections he could deal with -- he is coherent, just not sharp. I couldn't find anyone. If of interest, let me know.
The Boomers grew up with books like 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World. We kept hearing about the New World Order, Illuminati, Globalism, Freemasonry, Trans-humanism. And now it just could be we are looking at some mash-up.
The facts for 2025 seem to be pretty transparent. The oligarchs' and billionaires' faces and actions are there for everyone to see. It's happening in almost every country. Romania just defeated their version of Trump. Their polls were WRONG. Sounds familiar.
We The People are at the boiling point, the fight is on, and it's everywhere. TRump is the best worst example we could ask for at this time. These psychopaths are educating folks. It sucks learning the hard way.
The goal is to decimate the middle and lower classes to keep them sick and destitute. Then they are malleable. I detailed the CBO data before the CR bill came out of committee. The CBO projected the deficit at $52 trillion in 2035 without the new CR bill. I detail how it will actually be $60 trillion. Think $3 trillion annually in interest. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/over-budget-chaos?r=3m1bs
Excellent points all. Two things came to mind while reading. The first was indentured servitude, which is how most super-wealthy people get that way. Ya load 16 tons and whaddaya get, another day older and deeper in debt to the company store - or today - the bankers. By limiting access to higher education via tuition, the workforce has no career ladder. That enables accepting a tell-me-what-to-do autocracy.
The wealthy are not lovable, just exploitable. They cannot experience love because it makes them vulnerable. So, super wealth is their love substitute, and exploitation becomes their way of life.
My take on the 'why' of it is that Stephen Miller and Trump are itching to declare martial law just before the midterms. Arresting judges and black members of congress are deliberate provocations. Ditto, admitting white South Afrikaners while imprisoning brown migrants. Declaring war on due process, declaring ignorance of habeas corpus, etc, etc. So many actions are intended to elicit anger, so much anger that it will lead to violence in the public square. Pretty sure trump's maga henchmen are standing by, loading their guns, filling tall buildings and waiting to shoot.
And yet no one in the media or on TV is calling out Trump as racist, while he is blatantly so.
Cowards? Complicit?
That could well be the goal, and shortsighted enough that I can fully believe if of those two.
It isn't just the middle class. The only folks who actually benefit from the Big Beautiful Bill are the top tenth of the top 1% of weathy Americans.
Should document it...broadcast it on MAGA media.
Yesterday we were talking about an author in a Spanish class who committed suicide after years of suicide ideation and what comes to mind are "geniuses," each with a pathological death wish. The rationale for much of this is a fanasy of victimhood. Neither Trump nor Musk nor Miller has been a "victim."
According to Dr. AI, "victim mentality," also known as "victim syndrome" or "victim complex," is a mindset where a person feels like a victim in various situations, even when external evidence suggests otherwise. It's a cognitive distortion where individuals tend to see themselves as powerless and blame others for their problems, rather than taking responsibility for their own actions.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/
I still think that psy ops was a major contributor to the majority belief that they are a discriminated minority.
Trump, Musk, Miller all of Trump's cabinet seem to consider themselves victims, either because no one really like them, or there have been obstacles to them achieving self actualization.
IMO Hitler considered himself, and thus Germany a victim, He was a failure at life. until he found his niche in politics and politics is actually the art of alienation.
People don't vote on positives, people vote against, not for. Liberals may vote for, but it is the against vote, the fear vote, the amygdala that wins elections.
Jungian, collective racist subconscious manipilated by demagoguery and psy ops.
That’s why the military is getting a big bump in funding.
It's as if Aldous Huxley and George Orwell had collaborated to write a 2-hour episode of The Twilight Zone.
I've presumed for a long time that the Koch's et al just want to re instate a serf economy, where they can be Lords and we can be their serfs......and I wouldn't put it past Trump to want to cozy up to Putin so he can replace trumps' daddy as his 'sugar daddy'. It is obscene and cruel, and cruelty is probably the point. The sad thing is that American's have bought into their sales pitch and seem to be clueless about what it really going on. That says we don't deserve democracy.
A decimated middle class isn’t going to make anyone richer, not Apple, not Amazon, not streaming services, not Tesla. Again, what’s the goal?
" What the hell is going on here?" I too want to know....
Health and education have become con-jobs in this country. My daughter received two masters degrees in Public Heath Policy in two years from an esteemed French school at a cost of $15,000. Look at the Scandinavian countries. I know a professor in Finland that loves paying 49% in taxes because of the exceptional quality of free healthcare and education. Even corporations there like paying taxes because they want smart healthy employees...how novel! Not only that, all those countries are the happiest.
Now the government is openly trying to make us sicker, stupider, and poorer. It feels as if I woke up in a different country, one that is becoming a pressure cooker about to explode....
According to NPR, Trump has urged Congress to pass the GENIUS Act, which would make it easier for U.S. companies to deal in a type of cryptocurrency known as stablecoin. After advocating for passage of the bill, the Trump family crypto company started issuing its own stablecoin and became one of the biggest issuers in the world. Stablecoins are extremely popular in the crypto world, and they're a way of having a type of a token that has a steady value. It's worth a dollar, no matter what is happening in the Bitcoin market up or down, because there's so much volatility in crypto. And the advantage of a stablecoin is once you have dollar-to-dollar crypto token, you can use it to buy and sell things because it has a reliable value.
Per Eric Lipton. World Liberty was effectively created in September, October of last year, as the presidential election was coming towards a close. And it's a brand-new company, therefore - I mean, relatively speaking - and its goal is …to be a modern-day bank that offers a range of services. And it started off by selling tokens, in which you could buy - it's called a governance token, and you could buy the right to have some say in decisions that the company's making. “So before the election, they had a really hard time selling those tokens because it was started off by Trump's sons and some of their friends who had some experience in the crypto sector, but there wasn't much, you know, motion behind it. So they only sold tens of millions of dollars in tokens initially. But once Trump was elected, suddenly, you know, there's the thought, oh, it's the - going to be the future president of the United States. This is probably going to do well. He's going to have the power to influence policy. And next thing you know, they sell $550 million worth of tokens, and a large chunk of the revenue from those tokens is supposed to be going to the Trump family and their business partners.” https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5388474/how-trump-family-business-ventures-stand-to-directly-benefit-the-president
Senate advances first-of-its-kind cryptocurrency legislation after Democrats initially blocked it amid Trump crypto deals
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/business/crypto-genius-stablecoin-nightcap
Putin wants the US broken as the USSR was. Simple. He has our admin in his back pocket for some reason. You tell me why/how. /cough krasnov /cough golden shower videos /cough trophy spyfe
Well, maybe the Horrors That Be want to bring back the Old Deal. Those with the money and power control things like feudal lords, and the hell with everybody else. Or the smart ones among them (not Trump) realize that climate change is going to wreck the world and so want to insulate themselves at the expense of humanity. Or perhaps like tobacco and oil company executives and many other criminals they have convinced themselves that what they are doing isn't wrong, just being "strong". As far as I can see it is a blindness to the common good. Such people might not always be outright psychopaths, most would not shoot anyone and could be nice to their children and pets, but are missing some vital part of their humanity. Desperately sad and needy hollow people, I would call them. And they will never know or admit any such thing.
I think it all begins with the failure of education for the young and thus the lack of critical thinking in the voting public together with widespread apathy. Where are the entertainers, writers, folksingers, the poets? We’re living in the “sounds of silence”. If the non voters had gone to the polls the result would have been VASTLY different. The average high school student has witnessed over 10,000 murders in the entertainment media by graduation. As a culture we are illiterate and numb…and angry but we don’t know why because we haven’t learned to think.
You are right. We aren't taught critical thinking skills in K-12, never have been.
There is indeed a lack of such in the general population. So given that, how do we claw our way out of this hole?.
At least not any more. This 70 year old went through a Public Education System that did teach critical thinking! Hard to believe? MAGA wants to destroy public... education and public anything. Critical Thinking 101 has been canceled. As they say " Fuck the books, the books are gone"...and have all been burned. Peace.
I dearly hope the DNC reads Thom Hartmann. Conventional politics and gerontocracy aren’t getting the job done.
I think that the morbidly rich are fully in love with the idea of a completely rentier economy, or a modern-day feudalism, in which the wealthy have complete control of every aspect of everyone's life. Nobody gets anything without paying them first, so no more government freebies like education, healthcare, tax preparation or mail delivery.
It is a massive question. I think the most plausible is your first possibility of these goons taking marching orders from Putin, but not so much Xi. I believe these f'n guys are just too stupid to realize that it's actually what they are doing. At least the guys that have the spotlight, so to speak. It's my belief that trump and most, if not all, of his cabinet are the distraction, while the heritage goons tear down all our trusted institutions and systems, the tech bros/billionaires drain the Treasury, and the putin admirers destroy our Democracy. A couple of them may be in on it, like Rubio & Vance, but these guys seem totally clueless as to what is actually happening. Most of them seem pretty dim. We only see what we are allowed to see. Clearly, MSM and legacy media are not getting to the meat of the issues. It's why I am so thankful for people like you and others keeping us alert and informed.
Why do I think this is happening? Let me put it in terms the Magats might understand. There is a huge cabal, NOT of Democratic baby blood drinking individuals but there IS a cabal of dark-moneyed international & "local" individuals that want to get their hands on the US "cash cow", you know the richest country in the world moniker that is thrown around to describe our quality of life. And they don't care how they get it, even if they completely destroy the country, you know, "killing the goose that lays the golden eggs"!
I've never killed anything but I have watched fishermen gut the fish they caught, I have plucked the feathers off of pheasants that my brother & family hunted for at Holiday time for our wonderful pheasant dinners. When you go through that process there is nothing left but scraps & those get consumed by bacteria or scavengers until eventually there is no reminder of the animal that existed prior to our wonderful meal, only the pleasant memory of that meal shared by family & friends.
So gut, the government, dumb down the masses, make them sicker, remove any chance of medical intervention that might prevent worsening disease. Gut the economy so there are no jobs & the people become poorer & poorer. The homeless population that should already be a national embarrassment will balloon & the very wealthy will have their compounds that will protect them from the hordes of starving, wretched people that they have destroyed so that they can be in power. I guess being masters of a hellscape is worth it to these selfish, self-centered, egotistical bastards so that they can rule! But eventually Mother Earth will get all of us. We desecrate her every day. When I throw things away that I can't "reduce, reuse or recycle" I often multiply that item by 9 billion, the current human population of the earth. Enjoy it now, you selfish bastards, because eventually you'll be crawling around gasping for a clean breath or a sip of clean water too!
We are being prepared for merger with Russia. Could there be any other more logical reason given Trumps regular long phone calls with Putin. This has been going on at least 8 years, maybe more.
Bingo. The first right answer. Scary shit, America is in deep denial.
We need to call Trump what he is: Russian Asset. Not Trump. Not the President. Not anything else. Just Russian Asset. He has checked off all the boxes for Putin; every single thing Putin wants to happen to destroy this country, the Russian Asset has done and continues to do. Russian Asset. He deserves no other name.
Democracy in Chains by Nancy McLean describes how the groundwork was secretly plotted to make the Russian Asset a reality. Without the pathologically and voraciously greedy Koch brothers—especially Charles—this demise of our country would not have been possible.
Sara -- Welcome. We can be allies here.
Do you know Joel Edelman, a new age lawyer who was in the Barbara Marx Hubbard crowd? Salt of the earth type. He went to Russia on those citizen exchanges way back when. He has some dossier on the Russian Asset situation and he is getting senile. He asked me for connections he could deal with -- he is coherent, just not sharp. I couldn't find anyone. If of interest, let me know.
Check out the Malcolm Nance books.....
All of the Above
There rarely is one reason for anything.
The Boomers grew up with books like 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World. We kept hearing about the New World Order, Illuminati, Globalism, Freemasonry, Trans-humanism. And now it just could be we are looking at some mash-up.
The facts for 2025 seem to be pretty transparent. The oligarchs' and billionaires' faces and actions are there for everyone to see. It's happening in almost every country. Romania just defeated their version of Trump. Their polls were WRONG. Sounds familiar.
We The People are at the boiling point, the fight is on, and it's everywhere. TRump is the best worst example we could ask for at this time. These psychopaths are educating folks. It sucks learning the hard way.
See you in the streets!
The goal is to decimate the middle and lower classes to keep them sick and destitute. Then they are malleable. I detailed the CBO data before the CR bill came out of committee. The CBO projected the deficit at $52 trillion in 2035 without the new CR bill. I detail how it will actually be $60 trillion. Think $3 trillion annually in interest. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/over-budget-chaos?r=3m1bs
How did that "malleable" business work out for Nicholas II?
I agree with the Serf vs Lords plan as the ultimate goal of the current federal administration for American people.
Excellent points all. Two things came to mind while reading. The first was indentured servitude, which is how most super-wealthy people get that way. Ya load 16 tons and whaddaya get, another day older and deeper in debt to the company store - or today - the bankers. By limiting access to higher education via tuition, the workforce has no career ladder. That enables accepting a tell-me-what-to-do autocracy.
The wealthy are not lovable, just exploitable. They cannot experience love because it makes them vulnerable. So, super wealth is their love substitute, and exploitation becomes their way of life.