Month: January 2017

Here is the thing: Trump has to walk a tightrope on both targeting Hillary AND Obama, and pardoning Hillary will tilt that calculus in major ways.  Plainly, the simplest thing for him politically is likely to let sleeping dogs lie. He may or may not do this, because both Obama and Hillary are plainly guilty as hell of many felonies.  But it’s the simplest thing for him to do.

He in fact more or less said he was going to let Hillary walk.  But she has done NOTHING to stop the relentless refusal of the Left to accept the results of the election, results they had no issue saying they would accept when they assumed, based on their own propaganda, that Hillary would win.  It’s not hard to be a gracious winner.

And so, in the push and pull that is the political dance, they have created room for backlash, PARTICULARLY if the promised riots materialize, and neither Obama nor Hillary says or does a fucking thing to stop them.

And if Obama pardons Hillary, that is a big FUCK YOU, and there is no reason Trump couldn’t just say “OK, big guy, how about we make YOU the target?  How about we investigate the Bo Bergdahl deal–which violated a law YOU signed into law?  How the Iranian deal, and the pallets of $100 bills?  How about Fast and Furious?  If a court sees it, and is adjudicated by someone honest, there is no way Eric Holder would survive, and they may well get him to finger Obama.  How about the IRS targeting, with key figures visiting the White House regularly?

I used to be able to count the scandals, but I lost that ability several years ago.  Bottom line: Obama is very vulnerable, and he has to know it. His best play is to discourage the demonstrations, be generous to Trump, and not to pardon Hillary.

And as far as that goes, both Bill and Chelsea, in connection with the Clinton Foundation, are also likely guilty of many offenses that would get them long jail terms.  Does he pardon them too?  Does he not make it obvious in the process that crimes were committed?

If Hillary had won, it would have been simple.  She would not have investigated anything he did, and in fact would have doubled down on nearly all of it. If your gang controls the police, nothing is a crime you don’t want to be a crime. Her personality is much closer to a Lenin or a Hitler than Obama’s ever was. She’s determined, intelligent, absolutely amoral, and vindictive.  He’s a boy at heart.  He’s a soap opera actor, with soap opera gravitas.  Hillary scared the fuck out of me, as was no doubt obvious before the election.

Smart play: leave the White House as a gentleman, and not like an asshole.

And even there, Trump needs to figure out what DID happen.  There may well be stuff that just can’t be overlooked or condoned for any amount of political advantage.  And on that score, too, Trump has no need to play to the Left–there is NOTHING he can do to make them like or even tolerate them.  As I have said, the hatefulness of the Left makes them LESS relevant, not more.  He showed by winning that a whole lot of Americans have stopped listening to the relentless propaganda put out by our fake news organizations.

As far as Trump’s smart play, I personally would spend a month or two gathering data.  What they will likely find is either a ton of incriminating evidence, or mass evidence of data deletion, which is a crime, and which they should prosecute vigorously and promptly.  People will start squeaking.  These armchair warriors don’t want to go to jail.

China is, as Steve Piezcenik put it, a “basket case”.  They have hundreds of thousands of riots every year.  Ponder that.  They spend as much on internal security as they do on national defense.

And ponder not just that, but ponder why–like the Dalits of India–this obvious and vast case of systemic human rights abuses is never in the news. You know why.  Ponder the ethical capacities, though, of those capable of such atrocities–to be clear, covering up an atrocity is itself a journalistic atrocity.

China depends nearly entirely on trade with the United States.  They need us to buy their stuff.  We don’t sell very much into China–in my understanding–so we have much less to lose in a trade war.   Certainly the trade imbalance means they make much more money off us than we make off them. We would have less CCC, as I call it–Cheap Chinese Crap–but we have lots of idled factories around we could start back up.

China is in no position to make demands.  China also is continuing to play the role of Imperialistic Aggressor, if I might use their own language.  They have no real claim on Taiwan, any more than they had on Tibet.  The people of Taiwan are not now, and do not want to be in the future, vassals of the Communist elite.  China has literally nothing to say.  They are being bullies and aspiring to be criminals, again, in another nation.

Tibet has benefited from being “rescued” from their “oppression” so much that they have a signalling system in place in all the big cities so that if ANOTHER person sets themselves on fire in protest, they can have them out and hustled out of the public space within five minutes.  That’s the sort of place we all want to live in, right?  Somewhere where suicide seems the only option, and the official response is to hide the evidence as well and as quickly as possible.

Fuck the Chinese.

Edit: and what if we started supplying arms to the tens of millions of people who hate the regime?  Who hate the idle elite who are ten times worse than the worst Robber Barons in the worst stages of American “Capitalism”?  What would they do?  We are a much more powerful military power, and Trump is going to make us even better.  A war would not serve the interests of either nation.

I think perhaps not being fucking psychopaths is the best way for the rulers to hang onto power.  I think compromise and human decency would be the best policy.

I was dreaming the other day when a group of people suddenly turned zombie on me.  I looked at them, and thought, I could fight them, but then it occurred to me: maybe I can create a force field around me, so I can see them, but they can’t hurt me.  And it worked: I was able to look each of them in the face closely, but none of them attacked me.

I interpret this on two levels.  The inner level is that these zombies represent, somewhat literally, unprocessed energy and stress in my abdomen, and likely particularly my intestines.  This is the hiding place of the trauma that forces me into dissociation, into chronic arousal, into physical tension.  I was able to push “Pause” on this energy, at a deep level.  This is an exceptionally positive development.  It will allow me to get perspective on it.

When you are fighting negative energies within yourself–which for the moment I think I will make synonymous with unprocessed nervous tensions–you are creating arousal out of arousal.  You are fighting tension with more tension.  You wind up locked into a fight with yourself.  In such a fight, you cannot win.  You might will your way into acting in the way your frontal cortex chose, but only at the cost of an increase in arousal.

I felt this literally in another dream a couple weeks ago.  I was fighting some monster with anger, and the anger flowed through the monster, in a circle, and right back into me.  It was a closed loop: the angrier I got, the angrier it got.  It was a very interesting and useful experience.

The outer level on the zombies is that I had been debating someone that day, and been struck powerfully, at an emotional level, how DEMENTED these Leftists are.  I think it was the one where he said war with Russia was fine if we could just keep Trump out of office.  Their sense of reason and proportion, their ability to step back and think dispassionately, their willingness to view their enemies as like themselves, but simply having different opinions, is completely gone.  Vanished.

Clinically, it is I think a form of dissociation.  It is a separation from all the body tools–balance, for example, has a physical analogue–that allow normal people to navigate social streams accurately.  Their empathy is abstract.  It finds no concrete expression in their behavior, outside their tribal grouping.  They consistently conflate ideas with actual reality, which is borderline clinical schizophrenia.

Leftism really is a mental illness.  And this is the core problem: to believe these things you have to be crazy, and to advance in the Party, you have to be crazier than the others.  This means that it is a system which selects accurately for full blown psychopaths.

It is a small thing, but I thought I might add my two cents.

The current commanding General of the National Guard in D.C. has remained in his post for all of Obama’s tenure.  This itself is suspicious, given Obama’s habit of politicizing everything. I think substantially EVERY political appointee of the last 8 years will lose their jobs within a week of Trump’s inauguration, but not until after being asked detailed questions about what they have been up to, and after whose firing there will likely be thorough audits.

Trump needs somebody he can trust in the top post, given the promised riots.  That is why he is  putting his guy in, or so I understand.  He can’t get him in until then, but 12:01 he’s good.

And as I have said, these riots will not be the start of something new, but the ending of something awful that should have ended long ago.

No political order can be so tolerant that it allows people to publicly call for its violent–or even peaceful–overthrow. This is suicide.  We have an extraordinary array of rights in this nation, and nothing that could replace it could duplicate them.  Our Constitution is the most perfect political document ever written.

As a general rule, the Bill Ayers of the world want a complete repudiation of most of the Bill of Rights, in favor of highly abstract and utterly unreal ideals like “Social Justice”.  What they want is what a hundred million people around the world have died from, and millions of whom have risked their lives trying to escape.

What Bill Ayers wants is what the East Germans had to build a wall with machine gun turrets, barbed wire, spotlights, dogs, and landmines to keep people from running from.  It is what thousands of Cubans died at sea rather than endure.

It is what over a hundred thousand South Vietnamese died to escape.  They may not have known what Communism was in 1975, but within a few short years, they realized it was forced labor, mass executions, psychological torture, political corruption, the breaking up of families permanently, the seizure of land and property by demented political elites, and mass poverty.

Here is my point: we can and should deny Federal funds to any University which employs professors who profess this horrific and anti-Liberal creed.   Fire them all.  Given my druthers, I would probably arrest them.  They have been preaching treason for many years.

Lest I be misunderstood as lusting for the same power over others they crave, let me add simply that it is impossible to calculate how much horror and suffering their ludicrous and psychotic ideas have caused over the years, with their consistent defenses of the indefensible, and even now with their on-going idiotization and zombification of our youth.  Real people have died in the millions.  Lives once filled with hope have become caged in horror, all of which they have defended proudly and loudly.

As I have said before, too, I think all colleges receiving Federal funds should require their students to watch and take short tests on 10 Prager University videos a year.  If the Left wants to create an equivalent–over and above the daily and ubiquitous indoctrination already taking place–fine.  Over time, conservative ideas will win, because they are better, period.

Here is an, in my view, accurate account of the story about Trump allegedly mocking a disabled reporter:  https://www.catholics4trump.com/the-true-story-donald-trump-did-not-mock-a-reporters-disability/

I could see why someone COULD believe that Trump was mocking the reporter for his disability, but in context that makes little sense.  He was mocking the reporters bald faced lying, and disingenuous evasions.  As they point out, he used identical body language to mock Ted Cruz.  You can like or dislike this, but it is a question of style.

And Trump is charismatic.  Say whatever else you will about him, he has always had the ability to make headlines and to get attention.  That, combined with his patent willingness to buck a very corrupt system–corrupt at the Party level, the Congressional level, the intelligence agency level, the bureaucratic level–is why he won the election.  Rand Paul, even with Trump’s billions, even if he had gotten the nomination, probably would not have been able to pull that off.  Why?  He isn’t Trump.

Here is the point I wanted to make though.  In a discussion on Facebook I pointed out to a rabid Trump hater that Hillary wanted war with Russia, and war would be bad.  He said yes, but he still wouldn’t vote for Trump to avoid it.

Ponder this.  Ponder Trump mocking someone who richly deserved to be mocked becoming a more important issue than a war which could potentially end Western civilization.  Ponder the people capable of doing that math.

The frontal cortex has NOTHING to do with it.  The frontal cortex weighs and compares and contrasts, using standards of proportion.  If someone sneezes and forgets to cover their mouth, that is not the same as shooting someone in the head. If someone forgets to say thank you, that is not the same as kicking them in the balls.

But for these people, these ARE the same things. It doesn’t matter what virtues Trump has, or how horrible a human being Hillary is.  It is all the same: us versus them, period.  This is not the mindset Western civilization and our tradition of negotiated conflict was built on.  To be sure, we have fought many wars, but in spite of, not because of, our traditional reliance on reason and dispassion.

This is zombie logic.  This is “I am hungry and I want to eat”.  This is “I hate therefore I am”.

My best guess is that there will be riots in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere (Oakland is usually a given), but that far from preventing Trump’s inauguration, the net effect will be to bolster Trump supporters in their core intuition that large segments of this nation don’t want us to succeed, don’t want our problems fixed, don’t want safety and security for all us, and instead want death and destruction, simply because they are out of their minds.  And the gradual reach of Republicans across the middle will continue to grow.

On that point, I would note that American politics, unlike Parliamentary politics in other nations, is not obviously based on coalitions. We don’t obviously need to form a “government”, like they do in Britain or Israel or Italy.

But the truth is, to get things DONE you have to appeal to a broad swathe of heterogeneous voters, who in most cases can get their guy or gal in office at least in the House.

For many decades, there was a de facto social coalition between traditional Democrats, the sort who lionize FDR, and Social Justice Warriors, as we now call them (although warriors have honor and dignity, so this is perhaps not the best term, even if, as seems obvious, it is intended sardonically).  That coalition seems to have broken.  The Hard Left seems to have captured the party, and you can only say “get with us or get out” so long before you start getting mass defections.

So what Trump has done is form a de facto right and center coalition that is likely to prove very strong, particularly if, as seems likely, he does solve many real problems, and is thus a very effective and popular President.

I did want to note on that score too–this is really three posts in one–that we have historically thought that the best Presidents were politicians, that governing, per se, was an art one had to learn and master.  Past Presidents were, for this reason, usually Senators, Governors, or former Generals (who effectively were part of the government).

But if you think about the skill of a politician, it consists in the main in getting elected.  Yes, if you are horribly ineffective and dishonest you will not get elected twice, but a large corrective this has ALWAYS been perception management.  You lie about what you are going to do, lie about what you are doing, and lie about what you have done.  This is why politicians, in the main, deserve their very bad reputations.

So isn’t it ODD that people would condemn Trump’s lack of political experience?  He has been doing deals, shaking hands, compromising, negotiating, getting things done his whole life.  If he makes a bad decision it shows up in the financials.  He can’t lie about it.  If he makes a good decision, likewise.

The core point, though, is that his JOB is getting things done, not managing perceptions.  His JOB is to be effective, to make good decisions, to build a network of positive relations, to be diplomatic when needed, and a hard ass when needed.

As he said in the debates, wouldn’t it be great if our government operated like a well run business?  Of course it would.  But a well run business would have laid off half of those workers long ago.  Their fear that he may do the same is a big part of why he is being opposed so vigorously.

OK–4th post.  The CIA and other agencies are running propaganda operations within the United States.  This is clearly illegal.  Their charter specifically prevents them from interfering in our domestic affairs.  If there was a Russian hack of John Podesta, that is counter-intelligence, which is the FBI.

As I have pointed out on a number of occasions, the current CIA Director–an agency formed mainly to combat Communism–voted for the Communist candidate in 1976, which was the direct aftermath of our chosen abdication of our duty and our hard fought victory in South Vietnam.  This fact alone should tell us about where the CIA’s head is at.

Chuck Schumer is saying that the intelligence agencies have lots of ways of getting at Trump.  Ponder that too.  A United States Senator is threatening Trump with retaliation by the agencies which work FOR him, and allegedly for the United States and its people.  To undermine the President, to attack him covertly, is literal and textbook treason, as well as a violation of numerous laws.

Trump is going to have form a house-cleaning committee/operation, and start firing the fuck out of people, but only after he figures out what the hell they have been up to.  Anyone who can be found to have deleted ANY government documents can be put in jail.  The method then, would be to figure out who did the deleting, then go up the chain with plea deals, until you get to the big fish, with luck. This is a sordid Gordian Knot, and will take some skill and will to cut through it, but if anyone ever came to Washington with a sword sharp enough to do it, it’s Trump.

Pessimism is proactive disappointment.

It seems to me the major options on the table as far as the future are the perfection of the State, just waiting to see what happens–we could stumble successfully into a better future, but also a worse–the perfection of the individual as a global enterprise, or large scale failures in social and economic systems, possibly in the context of war.

For simplicity, I will say it is the Perfection of the State, versus the Perfection of the Individual.

Our thought leaders SHOULD think long term.  We can and should ask about the long term affects on human well being of consumerism, of technology, of automation, of our financial system.  And of other processes not popping immediately to mind.

What I would stipulate is that the most important human task in all ages, but particularly in our own, is self regulation, and very specifically the ability to achieve relaxation, calmness and inner peace.  We say inner peace as if it is a mystery, but in my view it is in large measure–perhaps entirely–the ability to manage tension within the body, and the ability to accept entirely a myth as true, one which binds you to others.

And when I say myth, I mean something, to coin a term, “Uebertrue”, something which goes very deep.  I do not mean an untruth.  We need groups, we need plans, we need campaigns, we need “wars”.  This all seems to be true.  And if it is true, why not be intelligent in how we collectively meet our individual needs?

As I have said, a collectivist is nothing without the collective.  Individual moral growth is impossible.

But within a truly Liberal ethos, one based on the eminently reasonable and empirically valid notion that if large numbers of small systems become organized, that the collective will likewise become organized, the goal is individual growth, and in large measure my own work, on morality at least, has been oriented around developing the philosophy needed for this.

What I would now argue, in large measure, is that the body must be the beginning, the epicenter of a revival.  Sensations lead to mythic images, lead to feelings, lead to thoughts. If we want new thoughts, a new order, a new beginning, we need to deal with the sensations of billions of people.  This is possible, even if I can’t say at this moment how.

Dogmatism is a spasm of thought.  This spasm is the lightning quick outcome of a feeling, which arises from an image, which arises from body “talk” that person simply cannot process, is not willing to process.

I will likely have more to say, but that will suffice. It’s Friday, most of my body hurts from a hard week, and I’m drinking again.

One of the main reasons Hitler was elected was he promised to put a stop to the sort of street violence–violence he controlled and instigated–that was raging in the streets across Germany; violence, to be clear, of the sort envisioned by amoral assholes like Bill Ayers. They want use Fascist tactics to protest against the non-existent threat of Trump doing anything but be a solid and reasonable President.

Among national figures of all stripes, only those on the Left have called for mass murder. I will reiterate that Bill Ayers dreamed of killing more people than Hitler did, and our best guess is he wrote both of Obamas books and that his family helped him get educated and launched his political career, which is now ending in richly deserved failure.

I can hear the sound of batch deletes and paper shredders from here. The mindset is literally and with justice that if an army which has been conquered by an enemy, and fear trial for war crimes. Again, a comparison with the Nazis is apt, for the Left.

Julian Assanges gesture of $20,000 to any whistleblowers, but it’s not nearly enough. They need immunity and protection from their accomplices. They need Trump.

He needs to announce the formation of a commission of some sort to investigate illegal document destruction, that he plans to prosecute those found guilty, and that he will treat as accomplices anyone found to have had knowledge of such activities who failed to step forth. The law is the law.

And John McCain may have committed a crime in leaking confidential documents, particularly since his intent was naked and eminently dishonorable vindictiveness.