The RNC has become an Organized Crime Syndicate, managed by the corporate fascist/Libertarians organized by Charles KKKoch and Leonard Leo. They’ve been at this since the early 60’s. Libertarianism has its roots in the Confederate South, reaching back to John C. Calhoun. They are de facto racists and fascists. Today, the RNC Puppet Masters have installed Puppets at every level of government—there are NO HONEST REPUBLICANS. They are all corrupt and beholden to DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN oligarchs. The RNC is aligned with Putin. And to the murderous king of Saudi Arabia. In fact, this article mentions Manafort—he was one of Arthur Friedberg’s “kids”—Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone—all working FOR THE RNC to assist PUTIN to set up dictatorships in Hungary (Orban), Ukraine (Yanukovych) and elsewhere.
THERE ARE NO HONEST REPUBLICANS. NONE.
THE RNC “LIBERTARIAN” SCAM IS THINLY DISGUISED FASCISM.
Look at Pinochet’s Chile—that is a prime example of James M. Buchanan destroying a democracy and stealing a nation’s wealth.
Today, Charles KKKoch & Gang (they call themselves a “cadre”) lead the right-wing conspiracy to destroy western democracies thru bogus, spin words like “trickle down economics. More like Piss-On-You economics.
Off Topic, but I have to say this. Trump wanted his criminal trial in NY delayed, and Bragg said no, until Merrick Garland came to his rescue and dropped tens of thousands of documents that they had from their investigation.
Here is the kicker. Alvin Bragg's office had asked for the documents one year ago, no answer from DOJ, until Bragg wouldn't delay the trial, then comes the document dump, and now defense has the right to review the docs, they asked for a 90 day delay, Bragg gave them 30, Trump's lawyers are appealing to the Supremes for more time and we know how that goes.
Once again into the breach for Trump, flies Merrick Garland.
Thanks Joe, you brought the fox into the hen house. What were you thinking?
I'll still vote you, but only because I have to, the alternative is unthinkable.
Democracy is relatively new. I had Latin and I studied ancient history and I've seen HBO Rome at least 3 times, and I had to read the original Cicero and memorized Shakespeare's speeches like Mark Anthony's who came not to praise Caesar.
IMHO we became a true democracy in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act, but SCOTUS rolled it back. We could reinstate it if we sweep.
What we're talking about is our existence. Whether we are sovereign. Whether we are to be a democracy. I want to say I come not to praise Trump or for that matter the henchmen and supplicants who would do in the United States.
I'm big on tests. I had to adjudicate credibility and beside that I had help -- not only would the parties educate me regarding both sides on an issue I could call experts in many types of cases.
My ol pappy was a lifetime prosecutor who would always ask whether witnesses would take a lie detector test, not because they were valid, but because he'd be able to size them up. Police would testify according to the case law on a subject rather than what actually happened.
As a judge, I couldn't do what a jury could do -- rely on demeanor "sit and squirm evidence" because by law I had to "articulate a legitimate reason" for every finding.
So those tests make it easy to substantiate the rendition of facts. The experts would testify as to tests like the MMPI which has "liar scales" and other psychological tests. If an employer can ask candidates for public safety jobs to take tests, even lie detector tests, so should prosecutors. I know this sounds extreme but if our national identity and national security is at stake, maybe that's a valid exception.
2. They raised roughly $100,000 yesterday that translates into 100,000 new registered Democrats. They estimate that they need $3MM to swing the election. Last night was dedicated to North Carolina.
4. Field Team 6 concentrates on young women -- who trend virtually all Democratic. Speakers also included Jessica Craven. Robert Hubbell.
5. I'm calling into Pa and Oh. I did this 4 years ago. I haven't lived there for almost 50 years, but keep in touch -- even with my 1961 HS graduating class.
All of this serves the robber barons and criminals of this country and the world. The Communists had Marx, the Nazis had Hitler, the morbidly rich have Steve Bannon and his calls for chaos and anarchy. They have succeeded. While I am deeply saddened that anyone supports TFG, the truth is that I also cannot trust them. Our only hope is to beat them and make them as irrelevant as possible, voting blue across the board in November.
Increasingly, I do not think that will happen. Which accounts for my two greatest regrets. First, that our grandson, the center of our lives, whom I love fiercely, was ever born. Because he will have a hideous life, regardless of what we can give him in any material or psychological support before we pass. Second,that I ever lived to see the rise of TFG, and what that showed me about too many people in this country.
I am 76, disabled, living in pain and hanging on for my wife and grandson. Would that it were not necessary. Because I believe the forces of evil will prevail in November. Too much cohesion in the plutocracy’s useful idiots. Too much division and apathy in those of us who oppose them. I so want to be proven wrong, but I have the same sick feeling I did when I predicted, almost a year before it happened, that TFG would be elected. My family and friends laughed at me for being naive and absurd. They aren’t laughing anymore.
I also think that the complicity of the "right wing" media can't be overstated. Without half the country constantly hearing these lies and distortions, I don't believe Trump would have ever had the traction and the support he now has. And without the support from the base, the spineless Republican officials would never be backing Trump and his lies. If Trump is "public enemy number one," then Murdock has to be "public enemy number two," but I'm not so convinced that the order shouldn't be reversed.
Thanks, Thom, but I always look for the psychological underpinnings of behavior and Our Mad King (wannabe) Donald has hit the ball outta da park with his "fear mongering", learned from his two main teachers: Hitler and Vince McMahon, although Putin surely plays a role in the dictators handbook. When the "emotional", "survival", "reptilian" midbrain is activated by threats, it reacts fast and turns off the "slow" higher thinking brain. This is why DJT and FAUX NEWS (?) addicted "true believers" avoid any talk of "politics" that might actually require thinking, which is their worst enemy and might spoil their rage "high" fueled by dopamine and endorphins/adrenalin. They'd rather be "fired-up" than engage in thoughtful discourse. So, your thoughtful, granular analyses are much appreciated by us thoughtful types, they are lost on the MAGAT rageaholics.
The human adaptation is human culture. The hierarchy of cultural demand is something like this: (1) Trust (at the bottom), (2) Cooperation, (3) Socialization, (4) Culture, and then at the top, (5) The Individual. When we torch trust, we're the very basis of our adaptation, or "the way we as a species make it here." We're individual members of a collective species -- members in relationship. Minus trust, the relationships are not good to our adaptation, or us as individuals. Trust is the human key.
I want to be able to trust the government, but we should also not trust blindly, government does need oversight by the people. I wish I had time to read your whole article before work.
The Dems need to wake up and understand what they are up against. Biden needs to say daily what reality is. The right wing nuts repeat lies daily and the public believes them that the nation is in decline, crime is up, and the economy is bad. Biden has the truth on his side but the leadership does not know how to use it. Trump lies and it is believed against the facts. Time to daily use the fact and promote the truth that crime is down, the economy is up, and the nation is coming into its own. That takes repeating the truth daily. That means the Dems need their own Fox News and left wing radio to echo those truths. It also means they need 3 or 4 economic issues to run on and repeat them daily in a focused way. Does not matter what your promises are if nobody knows them.
I think there’s only one powerful story that can restore a persons vision, and inspire action to do the right thing. And that is the example of the hero. We need more stories that show us there are still good people in the world, people who risk their lives for others, for children, for the Climate, who will sacrifice for the common good. Stories that show us what we are made of, or could be. Our lives are saturated daily with negativity and too many moneymaking stories about evil doing. We need a balance, or better yet, we need our media to constantly make space for greatness and Hope. In these examples come trust in ourselves, and in others.
Thank you for your clarity. While I am looking up at a beautiful blue sky, my entire being is shaken by all that has happened here and in the world since Trump descended upon us in 2015.
Our only hope is that Democracy is an overall winner in November. Perhaps then there will be people in power who will do the work to repair the damage done by all the years of Republican treachery.
Putin and XI must have a really good time laughing about it all. You just described the elements of their plan to take down America. Plus they know we will stay in the arms race with both of them. If the distrust doesn't do the trick, they will simply run us out of business. That's exactly what we did to the Soviet Union. The CCP knows what they have become to our unequal business relationship, and they know we want OUT.
We can do better, and every Democrat I know wants us to. The prospects of that do not amuse Putin or Xi. They can't live forever, neither can Trump, his cult, and Murdoch. The Grim Reaper will end this. I hope I get to see that happen, but putting trustworthy people in office with our votes is one thing we can do for now.
Has any research been done on the US/Russian scientific collaboration in the Psyops experimentation at Esalen during the 1970s specifically regarding techniques to destroy social and group trust ? Didn’t one of the former group therapy leaders concerned later boast about how they destroyed an entire Convent of devout Catholic nuns by ‘psychoanalysing’ their personal belief structures ? It might be useful to analyse these techniques now regarding the orchestrated loss of social trust you have written of here. It’s what you don’t know that hurts you…
What are these criminally corrupted Masters of the Universe going to do with all their socio-political powers if they succeed in full corporate capture of the UK and US nation states ? This unfolding story is a variant on John Huston’s 1948 movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
I absolutely agree. And the danger to our republic can't be overstated. I do have one small point to make, however. It's a little disingenuous to assert that Leslie Moonves bragged about Trump destroying America. I believe he said something like it was bad for America but good for CBS. All the rest of it is so strong and so important that it doesn't need any exaggeration.
The RNC has become an Organized Crime Syndicate, managed by the corporate fascist/Libertarians organized by Charles KKKoch and Leonard Leo. They’ve been at this since the early 60’s. Libertarianism has its roots in the Confederate South, reaching back to John C. Calhoun. They are de facto racists and fascists. Today, the RNC Puppet Masters have installed Puppets at every level of government—there are NO HONEST REPUBLICANS. They are all corrupt and beholden to DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN oligarchs. The RNC is aligned with Putin. And to the murderous king of Saudi Arabia. In fact, this article mentions Manafort—he was one of Arthur Friedberg’s “kids”—Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone—all working FOR THE RNC to assist PUTIN to set up dictatorships in Hungary (Orban), Ukraine (Yanukovych) and elsewhere.
THERE ARE NO HONEST REPUBLICANS. NONE.
THE RNC “LIBERTARIAN” SCAM IS THINLY DISGUISED FASCISM.
Look at Pinochet’s Chile—that is a prime example of James M. Buchanan destroying a democracy and stealing a nation’s wealth.
Today, Charles KKKoch & Gang (they call themselves a “cadre”) lead the right-wing conspiracy to destroy western democracies thru bogus, spin words like “trickle down economics. More like Piss-On-You economics.
Off Topic, but I have to say this. Trump wanted his criminal trial in NY delayed, and Bragg said no, until Merrick Garland came to his rescue and dropped tens of thousands of documents that they had from their investigation.
Here is the kicker. Alvin Bragg's office had asked for the documents one year ago, no answer from DOJ, until Bragg wouldn't delay the trial, then comes the document dump, and now defense has the right to review the docs, they asked for a 90 day delay, Bragg gave them 30, Trump's lawyers are appealing to the Supremes for more time and we know how that goes.
Once again into the breach for Trump, flies Merrick Garland.
Thanks Joe, you brought the fox into the hen house. What were you thinking?
I'll still vote you, but only because I have to, the alternative is unthinkable.
Democracy is relatively new. I had Latin and I studied ancient history and I've seen HBO Rome at least 3 times, and I had to read the original Cicero and memorized Shakespeare's speeches like Mark Anthony's who came not to praise Caesar.
IMHO we became a true democracy in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act, but SCOTUS rolled it back. We could reinstate it if we sweep.
What we're talking about is our existence. Whether we are sovereign. Whether we are to be a democracy. I want to say I come not to praise Trump or for that matter the henchmen and supplicants who would do in the United States.
I'm big on tests. I had to adjudicate credibility and beside that I had help -- not only would the parties educate me regarding both sides on an issue I could call experts in many types of cases.
My ol pappy was a lifetime prosecutor who would always ask whether witnesses would take a lie detector test, not because they were valid, but because he'd be able to size them up. Police would testify according to the case law on a subject rather than what actually happened.
As a judge, I couldn't do what a jury could do -- rely on demeanor "sit and squirm evidence" because by law I had to "articulate a legitimate reason" for every finding.
So those tests make it easy to substantiate the rendition of facts. The experts would testify as to tests like the MMPI which has "liar scales" and other psychological tests. If an employer can ask candidates for public safety jobs to take tests, even lie detector tests, so should prosecutors. I know this sounds extreme but if our national identity and national security is at stake, maybe that's a valid exception.
As to Tag, we’re it!
1. The Field Team 6 Summit yesterday was great. https://www.fieldteam6.org/actions
Register Democrats. Save the World. https://www.fieldteam6.org/
2. They raised roughly $100,000 yesterday that translates into 100,000 new registered Democrats. They estimate that they need $3MM to swing the election. Last night was dedicated to North Carolina.
3. I also zoomed into Simon Rosenerg's Hopium. Re North Carolina. https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/my-march-2024-election-overview-with
4. Field Team 6 concentrates on young women -- who trend virtually all Democratic. Speakers also included Jessica Craven. Robert Hubbell.
5. I'm calling into Pa and Oh. I did this 4 years ago. I haven't lived there for almost 50 years, but keep in touch -- even with my 1961 HS graduating class.
6. We need to win. Philosophy is great, but we need unity. Doers. https://chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/
According to Field Team 6, with $3MM we can sweep.
All of this serves the robber barons and criminals of this country and the world. The Communists had Marx, the Nazis had Hitler, the morbidly rich have Steve Bannon and his calls for chaos and anarchy. They have succeeded. While I am deeply saddened that anyone supports TFG, the truth is that I also cannot trust them. Our only hope is to beat them and make them as irrelevant as possible, voting blue across the board in November.
Increasingly, I do not think that will happen. Which accounts for my two greatest regrets. First, that our grandson, the center of our lives, whom I love fiercely, was ever born. Because he will have a hideous life, regardless of what we can give him in any material or psychological support before we pass. Second,that I ever lived to see the rise of TFG, and what that showed me about too many people in this country.
I am 76, disabled, living in pain and hanging on for my wife and grandson. Would that it were not necessary. Because I believe the forces of evil will prevail in November. Too much cohesion in the plutocracy’s useful idiots. Too much division and apathy in those of us who oppose them. I so want to be proven wrong, but I have the same sick feeling I did when I predicted, almost a year before it happened, that TFG would be elected. My family and friends laughed at me for being naive and absurd. They aren’t laughing anymore.
I also think that the complicity of the "right wing" media can't be overstated. Without half the country constantly hearing these lies and distortions, I don't believe Trump would have ever had the traction and the support he now has. And without the support from the base, the spineless Republican officials would never be backing Trump and his lies. If Trump is "public enemy number one," then Murdock has to be "public enemy number two," but I'm not so convinced that the order shouldn't be reversed.
Thanks, Thom, but I always look for the psychological underpinnings of behavior and Our Mad King (wannabe) Donald has hit the ball outta da park with his "fear mongering", learned from his two main teachers: Hitler and Vince McMahon, although Putin surely plays a role in the dictators handbook. When the "emotional", "survival", "reptilian" midbrain is activated by threats, it reacts fast and turns off the "slow" higher thinking brain. This is why DJT and FAUX NEWS (?) addicted "true believers" avoid any talk of "politics" that might actually require thinking, which is their worst enemy and might spoil their rage "high" fueled by dopamine and endorphins/adrenalin. They'd rather be "fired-up" than engage in thoughtful discourse. So, your thoughtful, granular analyses are much appreciated by us thoughtful types, they are lost on the MAGAT rageaholics.
The human adaptation is human culture. The hierarchy of cultural demand is something like this: (1) Trust (at the bottom), (2) Cooperation, (3) Socialization, (4) Culture, and then at the top, (5) The Individual. When we torch trust, we're the very basis of our adaptation, or "the way we as a species make it here." We're individual members of a collective species -- members in relationship. Minus trust, the relationships are not good to our adaptation, or us as individuals. Trust is the human key.
I want to be able to trust the government, but we should also not trust blindly, government does need oversight by the people. I wish I had time to read your whole article before work.
The Dems need to wake up and understand what they are up against. Biden needs to say daily what reality is. The right wing nuts repeat lies daily and the public believes them that the nation is in decline, crime is up, and the economy is bad. Biden has the truth on his side but the leadership does not know how to use it. Trump lies and it is believed against the facts. Time to daily use the fact and promote the truth that crime is down, the economy is up, and the nation is coming into its own. That takes repeating the truth daily. That means the Dems need their own Fox News and left wing radio to echo those truths. It also means they need 3 or 4 economic issues to run on and repeat them daily in a focused way. Does not matter what your promises are if nobody knows them.
I think there’s only one powerful story that can restore a persons vision, and inspire action to do the right thing. And that is the example of the hero. We need more stories that show us there are still good people in the world, people who risk their lives for others, for children, for the Climate, who will sacrifice for the common good. Stories that show us what we are made of, or could be. Our lives are saturated daily with negativity and too many moneymaking stories about evil doing. We need a balance, or better yet, we need our media to constantly make space for greatness and Hope. In these examples come trust in ourselves, and in others.
"Trust is so critical it largely defines the stability of a nation’s money, both at home and around the world."
You'd think morbidly wealthy Americans would be working to build back trust in the institutions if such a move would stabilize the US Dollar.
Thank you for your clarity. While I am looking up at a beautiful blue sky, my entire being is shaken by all that has happened here and in the world since Trump descended upon us in 2015.
Our only hope is that Democracy is an overall winner in November. Perhaps then there will be people in power who will do the work to repair the damage done by all the years of Republican treachery.
Putin and XI must have a really good time laughing about it all. You just described the elements of their plan to take down America. Plus they know we will stay in the arms race with both of them. If the distrust doesn't do the trick, they will simply run us out of business. That's exactly what we did to the Soviet Union. The CCP knows what they have become to our unequal business relationship, and they know we want OUT.
We can do better, and every Democrat I know wants us to. The prospects of that do not amuse Putin or Xi. They can't live forever, neither can Trump, his cult, and Murdoch. The Grim Reaper will end this. I hope I get to see that happen, but putting trustworthy people in office with our votes is one thing we can do for now.
Believe. Educate. Vote.
Has any research been done on the US/Russian scientific collaboration in the Psyops experimentation at Esalen during the 1970s specifically regarding techniques to destroy social and group trust ? Didn’t one of the former group therapy leaders concerned later boast about how they destroyed an entire Convent of devout Catholic nuns by ‘psychoanalysing’ their personal belief structures ? It might be useful to analyse these techniques now regarding the orchestrated loss of social trust you have written of here. It’s what you don’t know that hurts you…
What are these criminally corrupted Masters of the Universe going to do with all their socio-political powers if they succeed in full corporate capture of the UK and US nation states ? This unfolding story is a variant on John Huston’s 1948 movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
I absolutely agree. And the danger to our republic can't be overstated. I do have one small point to make, however. It's a little disingenuous to assert that Leslie Moonves bragged about Trump destroying America. I believe he said something like it was bad for America but good for CBS. All the rest of it is so strong and so important that it doesn't need any exaggeration.