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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.

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.