Thom you are a 100% accurate again in my humble opinion! I think the Supreme Court is also delaying whether ex-presidents can have absolute immunity until after the election and Trump wins. Both these issues will be put on hold until after this fraud election that should never have happened if Garland was doing his job.
Thom you are a 100% accurate again in my humble opinion! I think the Supreme Court is also delaying whether ex-presidents can have absolute immunity until after the election and Trump wins. Both these issues will be put on hold until after this fraud election that should never have happened if Garland was doing his job.
As long as the rich own the media and social media, and there are phoney religions, the cult leader will be able to do their thinking for them. Trump and the media tells them what to think and they actually listen to them? I guess just as long as it is not the truth and something they don't want to hear, that's okay with the cult.
The cultural war is getting right wingers all worked up over trivial issues while letting the important issues go neglected. After frying the right winger's minds on religion.
Do you think Trump -- Trump himself -- is capable of thinking clearly enough to tell anyone else how to think? I don't. My best guess is that it's the other way around: those who are so generously supporting Thomas and Alito (and Leonard Leo, and a cast of thousands) believe that they'll be calling the shots. Trump is essential because he can rile the masses and win votes, but he's a means to an end -- or so they hope.
Susanna, I saw Trump telling his cult what to think on television just the other day. I will paraphrase it. This is right after he was found guilty of 34 felonies, "the radical left wants me dead and they want you dead also"!
Whether Trump thought that up himself or was told to say it to his cult, I'm not sure. But I have to agree with you, he's too stupid to be a godly leader or janitor.
By the way, the reason the GOP wants to control women in my opinion is because the right wingers, thrive on chaos. Liberals want law and order, while greedy rich people and churches want chaos and suffering, so they can weild more power and control. When the government takes care of the social ills, church attendance and donation goes down. With hungry humans looking for a job the price of labor goes down for the fascists also?
Some right-wingers certainly thrive on chaos for its own sake, but it's worth remembering that clever right-wingers use chaos, real or rhetorical or imaginary, as a means to an end. Mussolini did. Hitler did. Franco did. They used "chaos" as an rationale for suspending civil liberties, constitutions, etc., and taking over.
Trump followed that playbook with his "I alone can fix it," which he couldn't do, but he was posturing as a dictator wannabe.
My take is that for the white right "chaos" doesn't necessarily mean violence in the streets -- it means a multi-racial, multi-cultural nation where white Christian men aren't running the show. I'd put Viktor Orbán on a continuum with all of the above, and it's no secret how much the upper-level Republicans admire Viktor Orbán.
Yes, it does seem like chaos is one tactic by which fascists regimes take control--along with fear and despair. They dismember the social order that would be the means by which they would be resisted. And in an atmosphere of chaos, the populous will accept authoritarianism as a means of reestablishing an order. Thus, Hitler directed his Brown Shirt militia to attack gatherings of the Left. When the Left responded in kind and there was brawling in the streets, the German people said, "Do what you want, but get u peace in the streets." Hitler got Martial Law, started arresting his enemies, and it was all over. When those attacks come here, we must respond non violently. Any violent response will be used against us.
The belief that Trump is stupid, is, I think, questionable. My ten years as a teacher in a maximum security prison, taught me that sociopaths are not stupid. They are highly intelligent because their thinking is not slowed down by considerations of morality and empathy, and they can be moves ahead. They are, however, consummate actors, feigning human emotions they don't feel. They can, therefore, act stupid if they are trying to attract a following of people who pride themselves on being "anti-intellectual" or to fool their enemies. But intelligence does not translate into "good." Not able to feel empathy, their behavior is routed in the quest for power and to use their intelligence to find the loopholes in social laws and norms through which they can slip through to gain power. However, it's a moot point. Either way, Trump is evil.
I don't think he's stupid. I think he's canny, very canny. He's also telling people what they want to hear, so he doesn't have to persuade anybody. Long-range planning is not his strong suit, however. He also seems to be somewhat flummoxed that the tactics that have served him so well this far aren't working quite as well now. It's a very dangerous moment for the country.
Bob, what tRump said after his 34 count conviction was a subliminal message to his cult followers. They want you dead, therefore beat them to it and murder as many of them as you can. He has mastered the art of projection!
My daily habit is to scroll down the Google News menu. I have never been so appalled at the headlines as on this one. Thom throws in " -media headlines notwithstanding-!" I was already suspicious because I had picked up on the standing issue. Seeing the bugling of some great allowance for mifepristone, even all the "mainstream" usual suspects, I was amazed how far I had to poke down to get confirmation: yup, they copped out on standing. What a project to figure out who owns what headlines on this one! The idea would be to lull some suckers into a sigh of relief; "they" aren't THAT extreme, yadayada.
Thom you are a 100% accurate again in my humble opinion! I think the Supreme Court is also delaying whether ex-presidents can have absolute immunity until after the election and Trump wins. Both these issues will be put on hold until after this fraud election that should never have happened if Garland was doing his job.
As long as the rich own the media and social media, and there are phoney religions, the cult leader will be able to do their thinking for them. Trump and the media tells them what to think and they actually listen to them? I guess just as long as it is not the truth and something they don't want to hear, that's okay with the cult.
The cultural war is getting right wingers all worked up over trivial issues while letting the important issues go neglected. After frying the right winger's minds on religion.
Do you think Trump -- Trump himself -- is capable of thinking clearly enough to tell anyone else how to think? I don't. My best guess is that it's the other way around: those who are so generously supporting Thomas and Alito (and Leonard Leo, and a cast of thousands) believe that they'll be calling the shots. Trump is essential because he can rile the masses and win votes, but he's a means to an end -- or so they hope.
Susanna, I saw Trump telling his cult what to think on television just the other day. I will paraphrase it. This is right after he was found guilty of 34 felonies, "the radical left wants me dead and they want you dead also"!
Whether Trump thought that up himself or was told to say it to his cult, I'm not sure. But I have to agree with you, he's too stupid to be a godly leader or janitor.
By the way, the reason the GOP wants to control women in my opinion is because the right wingers, thrive on chaos. Liberals want law and order, while greedy rich people and churches want chaos and suffering, so they can weild more power and control. When the government takes care of the social ills, church attendance and donation goes down. With hungry humans looking for a job the price of labor goes down for the fascists also?
Some right-wingers certainly thrive on chaos for its own sake, but it's worth remembering that clever right-wingers use chaos, real or rhetorical or imaginary, as a means to an end. Mussolini did. Hitler did. Franco did. They used "chaos" as an rationale for suspending civil liberties, constitutions, etc., and taking over.
Trump followed that playbook with his "I alone can fix it," which he couldn't do, but he was posturing as a dictator wannabe.
My take is that for the white right "chaos" doesn't necessarily mean violence in the streets -- it means a multi-racial, multi-cultural nation where white Christian men aren't running the show. I'd put Viktor Orbán on a continuum with all of the above, and it's no secret how much the upper-level Republicans admire Viktor Orbán.
Yes, it does seem like chaos is one tactic by which fascists regimes take control--along with fear and despair. They dismember the social order that would be the means by which they would be resisted. And in an atmosphere of chaos, the populous will accept authoritarianism as a means of reestablishing an order. Thus, Hitler directed his Brown Shirt militia to attack gatherings of the Left. When the Left responded in kind and there was brawling in the streets, the German people said, "Do what you want, but get u peace in the streets." Hitler got Martial Law, started arresting his enemies, and it was all over. When those attacks come here, we must respond non violently. Any violent response will be used against us.
They will find a way to eliminate you, if you don't toe the dictator's line.
Hitler did a masterful job of that. Big brother watched every movement an individual made.
The belief that Trump is stupid, is, I think, questionable. My ten years as a teacher in a maximum security prison, taught me that sociopaths are not stupid. They are highly intelligent because their thinking is not slowed down by considerations of morality and empathy, and they can be moves ahead. They are, however, consummate actors, feigning human emotions they don't feel. They can, therefore, act stupid if they are trying to attract a following of people who pride themselves on being "anti-intellectual" or to fool their enemies. But intelligence does not translate into "good." Not able to feel empathy, their behavior is routed in the quest for power and to use their intelligence to find the loopholes in social laws and norms through which they can slip through to gain power. However, it's a moot point. Either way, Trump is evil.
Shea, very well said!
I don't think he's stupid. I think he's canny, very canny. He's also telling people what they want to hear, so he doesn't have to persuade anybody. Long-range planning is not his strong suit, however. He also seems to be somewhat flummoxed that the tactics that have served him so well this far aren't working quite as well now. It's a very dangerous moment for the country.
Bob, what tRump said after his 34 count conviction was a subliminal message to his cult followers. They want you dead, therefore beat them to it and murder as many of them as you can. He has mastered the art of projection!
My daily habit is to scroll down the Google News menu. I have never been so appalled at the headlines as on this one. Thom throws in " -media headlines notwithstanding-!" I was already suspicious because I had picked up on the standing issue. Seeing the bugling of some great allowance for mifepristone, even all the "mainstream" usual suspects, I was amazed how far I had to poke down to get confirmation: yup, they copped out on standing. What a project to figure out who owns what headlines on this one! The idea would be to lull some suckers into a sigh of relief; "they" aren't THAT extreme, yadayada.