Month: January 2017

it seems to me they can be usefully summarized as people who have not developed an ability to digest life. It is too much for them.

Consider what actors do, what Meryl Streep does: they pretend to be someone else, they inhabit someone else’s life.  What better way to avoid learning to inhabit your own skin, to process your pain, to grow within a character structure which is, in healthy people, flexible, adaptable, coherent, energized and stable? That is someone else’s list.

I read a number of years ago that she is a neurotic mess when she is between roles–between a vacations from her core reality–and can one not speculate that a lifetime achievement award conjures up anxieties of aging, of irrelevance, of finally being alone with her true self? What better way to redirect than an assault on someone everyone has already been conditioned to hate?

I would like to see a “IT’S TRUMPS WORST WEEK EVER, AGAIN!!!!” t-shirt, and I would like somebody to put Obama’s face on the king of Gondor falling off the cliff in Lord of the Rings, with “and thus ends the reign of Obama” printed on it.

If there was not this much friction, we would all be justified in being worried we made the wrong choice.  This friction is merely the crystallization of the hate that has impelled the Left to denounce all forms of common sense and common decency for the last 50 years.  One could make a case all this goes back to Wilson, and certainly to the attempted fascist takeover of FDR, who wanted literal government control over prices and most of the economy, and whose first administrator of the New Deal was a literal fascist, who thought Mussolini was a genius.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/cia-director-warns-trump-watch-says-careful-russia-152943817.html

What needs to be made clear here is that senior intelligence officials took part in using and amplifying the “hacking” language–the intentionally evocative but vague propaganda words chosen carefully–of the Democrats assault on Trump’s legitimacy.  They are not fucking imbeciles.  They know the phrase “hacking the election” is intentionally misleading.  They know that it is unlikely Wikileaks, and not Hillary’s horrible campaign and long record of criminality, is what put Trump over the top.  They know, as far as that goes, how much money foreign nations donated both to Hillary’s campaign, to the Clinton Foundation, and at least in the case of the $1 million check the Qataris sent Bill, to the Clintons directly.

Put another way, they have willingly participated PUBLICLY in supporting Democrat propaganda intended both to influence public opinion in a negative way about Russia, and to demonize Trump as the beneficiary of Russian influence, with the new meme, farcically enough, being that he is a puppet of Putin.

This is the same guy who got away with saying he liked to grab women’s pussies, that he watched supermodels have sex, and who is on his third wife.  At this point, even if true, how dangerous COULD even a video of hookers peeing on a bed be?  We don’t give a shit.  We are long past caring.  We voted for him because he has good policy ideas, and the ability and willingness to stand up to left wing bullies and pervasive propagandistic attacks.

But these intelligence agencies really have no excuse.  What they are doing is not what they are supposed to be doing.  This would have been the job of FBI–again, the counter-intelligence agency.  The CIA works everywhere else, the FBI works here.  What the fuck the DHS does, other than house ICE, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service, I don’t have a clue.  That is one agency likely ripe for mass layoffs, and perhaps extinction.

Net, net: Brennan is way out of line here.  He should be fired, but if possible not allowed to work in any capacity where his knowledge would be an asset to anyone but America.  I personally would just give him a fat pension and tell him to go hit golf balls somewhere.  And keep an eye on him.

Reagan won–and won against widespread expectations, like Trump did–because Carter was blamed, partly rightly, partly wrongly (the Fed played a key role) for a national malaise. But Democrats generally were not blamed. Throughout his eight years–and for that matter Bush’s four years and the first two years of Clinton–Democrats controlled Congress. If you said Liberal people thought of Norman Lear or Alan Alda: smug, but still pro-American. Tip O’Neill did his prodigious drinking with Republicans too. There was a sense of back and forth, that things were basically working. Say your piece then don’t worry about it.

But the Democrats have moved far to the Left and introduced a winner-takes-all mindset. Obama was hired to play hardball, to be hyper partisan, to divide the political world into us and them. They have forced a choice on people, and to their shock and dismay, people have rejected their venom and mouth frothing.

In many people’s minds, what best represents the Democrats are mobs in the street, anti-white racism, anti-Americanism, and economic delusion.

So Trump enters the White House, unlike Reagan, with majorities in both houses of Congress, clear national movement in a conservative direction, and a mandate to say things, often, that piss off the Left. He doesn’t need to be statesmanlike. Obama may have acted above the fray but he rubbed elbows–like Hitler, come think of it–with street thugs, crooks, and professional haters his whole time in office.

What we want is promises kept, clear talk, and sound policy.

This is possible, now.

It occurs to me that “racist” is the Lefts answer to “Allahu Akbar”. It’s all purpose, reflexive, and shared universally by the in-group,

It seems to me that exaggerated feelings, out of control passions, are not the result of the capacity to feel, but rather of pervasive limitations in feeling.

Feelings are messages from our body self.  They communicate.  But when a feeling arises and it then runs into interference from some other body pattern–some chronic tension which hates and mistrusts change of any sort–it reacts by amplifying, lest it be ignored entirely.  The body system in turn strengthens its refusal.

This can result in what is called a “passionate” life, filled with impulsive decisions, powerful attachments generated in short periods of time, then broken, artistic or other obsession, and overall strong emotionality.

But what I would submit is that feelings exist across a spectrum.  They have countless discrete frequencies and amplitudes, and when allowed to, are in a state of continual, but balanced flux.  Emotionality, in contrast, only focuses on and abuses a few frequencies, and misses most of what would have been possible. It misses most of the beauty of the world, often in pursuit of beauty.  It misses happiness in pursuit of happiness.

Absent the capacity to connect in a deep, open way with all parts of the body, all sensory experiences, all momentary, evanescent “emergences”–which might be an image, a smell and a taste, or any other combination–truly “living”, which is what seems to be the goal of most people, is impossible.

I read Trump wants to meet Putin in Iceland, and it occurs to me a relevant question might be: what can you tell me about the operations of my intelligence agencies?  To the extent the American “deep state” (and I am glad to see that phrase getting quasi-mainstream acceptance, not least because we are seeing its fangs emerge now) has been agitating for war with Russia, Putin must have some idea what they have been up to, and likely who is involved.

And we share an enemy in radical Islamism.  To the extent we make Russia an enemy, they have no reason not to partner with Iran.  However, if we can make them a better deal–and deal making is what Trump does–then perhaps we can pull the rug out from under the Iranians and get actual compromises and an honest halt to their often stated plans to destroy the United States and Israel at the first opportunity.

To be clear, Putin is obviously no saint, but as Trump said on the campaign trail, he has much more consistently pursued Russian interests than Obama has pursued America’s interests.  Putin’s policies are rational.

Obama has pursued, on the contrary, virtually everything BUT our actual interests.  He was the engineer of this cluster fuck in Syria and Iraq.  Hillary was the architect of the mass violence, death, anarchy, and lawlessness in Libya.

Steve Piezcenik ran information operations across 3 Presidencies (maybe 4), so of course if he was bullshitting, he did so professionally, but he said that there was an internal coup going on within the intelligence community to prevent Hillary from getting elected.

If true, there has been a robust, but pointless, effort at a counter-coup by OTHER elements of the intelligence community, which we might shorthand as the Mike Morrell’s and John Brennan’s of that world.  Nobody wants to talk about any of this.

But ponder the sight of a de facto war between agencies.  Ponder an agency–the CIA–intended to subvert and overthrow foreign governments, interfering nearly openly in our own.  Ponder a Senate Leader cheering them on.

Drain the swamp, Donald.  You’re going to find a lot of ugliness at the bottom, but a lot of light and attention will fix it.  And these motherfuckers are not the omnipotent geniuses they have come to think they are.  They have testicles that will respond like any other testicles to a swift kick to the crotch.

There is never any loss: it is always gain.

This saying really only works for those who believe in God and the afterlife, based upon the solid and large quantity of evidence for both.

I remember watching a video I have since been unable to locate, of Mike Morrell–who was Deputy Director of the CIA, and acting Director twice–saying that we have ways of reaching out to Putin to fuck with him (in effect).  Not long after that, his chauffeur was killed in what looked like a hacking of his cars computer.  A lifelong skillful driver inexplicably veered into ongoing traffic, dying in a head-on collision captured on camera.  Morrell said his operations would not be traceable, but clearly visible to Putin.

Here is the problem: Morrell does not work for the CIA any more.  He works for Beacon Global Strategies which, interestingly enough, had strong ties to Hillary Clinton.  What do these people do?  Who the fuck knows?  But they have access to the knowledge of somebody who knew substantially everything the CIA knew.

This should not be allowed.  People who reach a certain level of security clearance need to stay in the government or retire.  People like Morrell have the knowledge to, oh, influence elections, wage propaganda campaigns, do blackmail, and as he insinuated was quite possible for private, for profit agencies, carry out contracts of various sorts.

Ponder this: our top intelligence directors going to work for private, for profit, MERCENARIES.  Anybody who knows what he knows should not be allowed to do that.  This becomes a de facto non-governmental agency capable of doing the work that organizations like the CIA do.  This means it can be contracted by foreign governments, private corporations, or even terror groups, to do whatever they have the ethical tolerance to carry out, and in his case, his ethical tolerance seems to be extraordinarily high.