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Trumpian Vision: Personal Patronage System –> Enserfment, Gulag, Sovietization

31 Saturday May 2025

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, American Domestic Affairs, Syndicate Red Brown Green, United States of America

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#MuskTrumpPutin, #RussiaRussiaRussia, American Enserfment, American Gulag, American Mafia State, American Sovietization, AmericaUnderAssault, Donald Trump, feudalism, mafia state, MafiaDon, New American Aristocracy, Trumpian Vision, TrumpPutin

Enserfment refers to the virtual enslavement of workers to select business owners and industrialists beneath the umbrella of a vast system of patronage headed by a leader invested with absolute power in relation to all persons and property–one to whom there should be no difference between the two in their treatment–within his domain.

Free men would never stand for it; easily led and subjugated men would–and will.

With America boarded, commanded by a wealthy criminal, disarmed from the top, and prepared for plundering, Americans may have only their agitating protest for power, a not insignificant power but perhaps a power the same criminal mentality in high office may choose to ignore with impunity and thereby dismiss as merely a bothersome noise.

To produce enserfment: break the country’s economy as well as confidence in it; reduce the middle class; shrink government support for basic standards of living as well as modern healthcare. Who among the patronized wealthy should care about those impoverished and without means for even their own basic dignity and independence? And who among those reduced in means as well as access to education and defense against illness–or aid with established conditions–will have the capability, cognizance, desire, and energy to defend the democracy that had in fact become The Great Society, i.e., a national culture and government strong and stable and methodically given to improvements beneath the remit of the nation’s secular democratic republic?

Donald Trump’s reactionary clique would do away with basic defenses against the potential ravishing of the nation’s human and natural complement by private interests. For example, both Jeff Bezos (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-nlrb.html) and Elon Musk (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/business/spacex-elon-musk-nlrb-workers.html) have sought to neutralize the venerable National Labor Relations Board defending workers from each titan’s own unconscionable greed and venality.

For an example of the same illness in a different dimension, here’s coverage of the Trump Administration’s assault on the natural beauty and environmental health of the nation: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/trump-air-climate-pollution-regulation-100-days.

Donald’s Gulag

A second Trump administration threatens to accelerate mass incarceration, further dehumanize people in our criminal legal system, engage in a death penalty “killing spree,” and reverse many reforms gained over the last two decades.

Trump’s proposals are dangerous on two levels. First, with respect to the federal system, Trump will seek to double down on the failed policies of the past: encouraging brutal policing practices, pursuing extreme sentences, and expanding the use of the death penalty. Second, Trump’s racist and extremist rhetoric may embolden states that have previously embraced reform to return to failed crime policies, fueling mass incarceration and widening racial inequality – https://www.aclu.org/trump-on-the-criminal-legal-system.

Before reporters entered the room, Trump even suggested to Bukele he should build more prisons because the mega-prison isn’t “big enough” to hold “the homegrowns” he wants to send from the U.S.

“We’re studying the laws right now,” Trump said, after earlier saying they “always have to obey the law.”

He made a similar comment about sending Americans to foreign prisons in February, saying back then as well that the laws would be need to be checked – https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-send-us-citizens-foreign-prisons-legal-experts/story?id=120834167.

With President Trump, an American felon has arrived in power as a political force. We may keep in mind that he faces at least three additional felony-level trials should he ever lose power: election interference in relation to January 6, 2021; classified documents abuse for the haul he tried to hide at Mar-A-Lago; attempted election fixing for his “perfect phone call” begging for a fraudulent win in Georgia. As an American President who perhaps has his position confused with that of a mafia don, he’s bound to have some enemies he believes deserve prison for disliking him vocally. Why should he differ from any other fascist contemporary in power or personality to be dredged out of the more repugnant patches of history?

As it stands, anyone Donald Trump says is a criminal may be treated as one given his own arrogant, ignorant, and impudent lawlessness.

Sovietization

The boot in the face, the knock on the door, the secret police — the tropes of dystopian literature have arrived in corrosive small displays.

The “fake news” proves real and Trump-approved news as delusional as its judge; the Republican Party (for cowards, criminals, sycophants, and traitors) has shown the nation the independence of the rubber-stamping Soviet Duma; the agencies most devoted to fighting crime and securing the homeland have been handed over to clowns unqualified for public service by their defects in character, education, and experience. Bottom line: the longer Trump remains in power, the greater his opportunities for exploiting the capabilities of the Federal government for his own financial and political gain. Add in “emotional gain”, i.e., “Narcissistic Supply” and the illusion — to be sustained by himself for himself — of unlimited public adoration and validation. After all, he’s making America great again and information contrary to that must be diminished. The tools of the Soviet to be embraced by Trump-Putin:

  • Agitprop, Disinformation, Mass Perceptual Control
  • Dictatorship (Confined-Exclusive Political Control)
  • Enserfment and Mass Incarceration
  • Neutralized Critical Press
  • Political Mafia
  • Political Repression
  • Psychiatric Abuse; Punitive Psychiatry
  • Punitive Surveillance State
  • Secret Political Police
  • Totalitarianism

The “leadership” of the worst of all political worlds must convince or force its population to believe it lives in the best of all possible worlds. There are ways for “power” to do that, and they are all on display in America, China, Hungary, North Korea, and Russia, i.e., the states in which the leading thug and related associates strive to control the image of the “great leader” and “greatest state” by controlling the elements in government and in media that contribute to it.

Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for a deeply authoritarian and criminal American government by abusing his power to engage in the kind of nepotism that encourages loyalty unto himself and related blind and unconscionable sycophancy. While he’s finding the American Federal Government’s defensive capabilities present, he’s only in his first year of leading American democracy to ruin.

Realpolitik

In the process of faking American leadership, Donald Trump has — as suggested above — run into real American official and popular resistance. Trump’s tariff drive and trade war against all balanced, open, and stable markets has not been smooth while efforts in other dimensions lurch around like pinballs against administrative and judicial bumpers. Trump, as he has promised with elections, prefers rigged machines.

Against Trump’s chaotic know-nothing recklessness, the American system stands but unsteadily with its confused institutions, their powers in Trumpian antibodies, and Trump’s own driven narcissistic delusions and related stupidity.

Related Online

In addition to the potential look-ups given and inline URLs, the following articles may have application as regards the American economy and its criminal leadership. Some entries have been added following publication.

Broadwater, Luke. “Trump officials intensify attacks on judges as court losses mount.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Ito, Aka. “Offices are about to get very, very grouchy.” Business Insider, May 5, 2025.

Newman, Andy. “Trump nominates a former far-right podcast host to head a federal ethics watchdog.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Romm, Tony and Ana Swanson. “Trump’s tariff defeat injects more uncertainty into U.S. trade policy.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Samuels, Brett. “Trump White House steps up attacks on courts after tariff ruling.” The Hill, May 31, 2025.

Smith, David. “Why Trump is really going after Harvard.” The Guardian, June 1, 2025.

Whitehurst, Lindsay and Josh Boak. “Federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law.” AP News, May 29, 2025.

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#AmericaUnderAssault #MafiaDon #MuskTrumpPutin #RussiaRussiaRussia #TrumpPutin

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America Under Assault by Musk, Trump, Putin

05 Saturday Apr 2025

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Extreme Brown vs Red-Green, Political Psychology, Qualities of Living (QOL), United States of America

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Absolute Power vs. Democracy, April 5, Donald Trump, Medieval vs. Modern, Russia Russia Russia

Russia, Russia, Russia!

From Cold War to Cold Takeover–The Big Picture Background

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/11/08/well-have-it-fixed-so-good-said-donald-trump/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2025/02/18/trump-piracy-board-disarm-and-plunder-the-united-states-of-america/; https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/.

Donald Trump’s ambition may be to establish his own vast system of patronage in place of the governments of the United States of America, transforming himself into a king and producing a three-tiered state of royalty, financially productive associates, laboring serfs, and dispossessed and disposable slaves. Big crayon? Yes–but he’s dumb and in his hands, power has turned out one big plug ugly crayon for ruling the land by fraud, force, and coercion. That’s the guidance of the world he knows and the world fit to his own malign narcissism. First: bankrupt the state; second: transfer state assets into private hands in the Soviet post-Soviet manner; third: marry criminal methods with state power and produce the American Mafia State to mirror the Russian one.

The two “families” represented by Moscow’s Tsar and Washington’s King will be finally at peace with one another–and the American and Russian people will hate both but have no choice as regards their displacement.


Americans vs. Trump’s Criminal Foreign Infection

Americans in yet unknown numbers will be on the streets of the nation’s capitals today and millions more will be watching through media how protest works where politically criminal power could care less about listening and much less about empathy and reason before their own aggrandizement and greed. Moreover, so I believe, Trump has set out deliberately to debase Americans and bankrupt the nation in a manner that fits his own embattled, isolated, and persecuted image of himself, an image in fact expressive of his own paranoid-delusional malignant narcissism. Whatever the character in numbers and tone the popular protest, state security elements sworn on oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America needs must set their own stance as regards their conscience and honor as well as their purpose in light of the damaged, traitorous, and treacherous usurping power in the White House.


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Criminal Mentality: Pete Hegseth Stop Lying

25 Tuesday Mar 2025

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, American Domestic Affairs, Political Psychology, United States of America

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Criminal Mentality, Defective Character, Pete Hegseth, Political Criminals, Trump Administration, Trump White House

In a stunning exercise of will over reality, it looks like Trump appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is going to attempt to invalidate Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in The Atlantic in its entirety as “fake news”, thereby eliminating any expectations Americans may have in relation to knowing the truth about anything–their government will tell them what they know, and the government will lie.

When asked about Goldberg’s access to the chat, Hegseth told reporters Monday, “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that.”

Who you gonna believe–through his proxy the dictator wannabe and malignant narcissist crying about “fake news”, the mainstream media, the world being against him, and so on, or the long experienced and responsible editor of The Atlantic?

Criminals and very sick people cover their tracks, deny their worst deeds, and paint through public display and words images of themselves as the best of souls. Some cover their tracks; some get caught and go to jail; some lie their way through life and have jobs in the Trump White House.


Cited Reference

Goldberg, Jeffrey. “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans: U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.” The Atlantic, March 24, 2025.

Suter, Tara. “Atlantic journalist pushes back on Hegseth comments: ‘He was texting war plans’.” The Hill, March 24, 2025.

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Trump Piracy: Board, Disarm, and Plunder the United States of America

18 Tuesday Feb 2025

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, Also in Media, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, United States of America

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#MuskTrumpPutin, American Traitor, assault-on-america, Donald Trump, IllTrumpo, IllTrumpolini, news, politics, project-2025, Trump

Background: Russia Russia Russia!

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/11/08/well-have-it-fixed-so-good-said-donald-trump/; https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/.

State of Affairs: National Emergency


“On day one, the new HHS secretary is gutting the agencies that would be necessary to make America healthy again,” said Reshma Ramachandran, a Yale health professor who chairs the FDA task force of the nonprofit Doctors for America. |

Democratic lawmakers have blasted the firings as a threat to the government’s defense of public health, with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) warning Friday that deep cuts at CDC “leaves Americans exposed to disease and devastates careers and livelihoods for the world’s most talented doctors and scientists.”

Cancryn, Adam, Megan Messerly, David Lim. “Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies.” Politico, February 16, 2025.


Other American health institutions with functions degraded by the Trump Administration: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Emergency Preparedness Office; Food and Drug Administration; National Institutes of Health, for a start. Elon Musk’s process has been criminal, not responsible or thoughtful.

In relation to the stewardship of the nation’s beauty and natural resources, mass firings in the Forest Service and Park Service have degraded not only the defense of largely rural American public assets but also produced adverse community-wide financial impacts.


The fired National Park Service members are part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce, USA TODAY reported. At least 2,300 federal workers in the Department of Interior had their positions terminated, including 800 Bureau of Land Management employees and about 1,000 National Park Service workers.

Werner, Kyle. “‘I’m not sure what’s next’: National Park ranger in Iowa among thousands fired Friday.” Des Moines Register, February 17, 2025.


At Washington’s North Cascades National Park, visitors pumped more than $26 million into the local economy in 2023./It’s leading some to surmise the president isn’t seeing the forest for the trees in his attempt to save money. | Nationwide, America’s national parks brought a record $55.6 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023, supporting more than 415,000 jobs. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/trump-fires-thousands-us-parks-and-forest-service-workers/281-ace07cac-38f9-4572-ba20-6d4af1892a4b


I had not wished to write more about Donald Trump, but his emotional issues and recklessness–and his powerlessness over himself and his assigns–makes him a foreign element within the United States. We are accustomed to democracy and freedom loving responsible politicians, not cons who appear to on a mission for Moscow. Regarding the massive and frankly stupid assault on our nation’s Federal workers and programs–as much amounts to an act of war from an untrustworthy American within. Try to read what’s happening before our eyes differently. I can’t.



Also Related Online

I know my readers have desktops too. Most, I believe, has also the question, “What can we do? What can I do? What will American defense and security services do in this developing confrontation with a deranged “leader” — #IllTrumpolini on some of my X posts — who appears both contemptuous and ignorant of our American Constitution and related ethics, law, principles, procedures, and values? If we have another fair, free, and honest American election — we may not as Dumb King Trump (#DKT) has promised — the Republican Party may be made to pay for allowing the development of the Musk-Trump-(Putin) assault on the nation from within.

Slade, Shelby, Joey Garrison, Mike Snider. “Did Donald Trump fire FAA workers? See all the agencies hit by federal layoffs.” AZ Central, February 18, 2025.

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Delusional King Trump and Dark Medieval Musk

05 Wednesday Feb 2025

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, United States of America

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America Medieval, American Mafia State, AmericanDictatorship, AmericanMonarchy, Donald Trump, Dumb King Donald, Elon Musk

Power absolute, capricious, corrupt, evil, unaccountable, lawless– and who or what is to stop him?

None should be surprised either by Donald Trump’s evisceration of the American Intelligence and American National Security Communities in their entirety or Elon Musk’s role in operationalizing a breathtaking and seemingly bloodless and invisible coup through the manipulating of the nation’s most critical and powerful cyber systems. Why not? Having been conceded the Presidency of the United States, Trump and his digital thug Elon Musk have the highest all-access rights to every asset not only in in the Federal Government but all assets subject to oversight by Federal law enforcement and security powers through every inch of their domain and now asserted sovereignty. If left alone, the announcement will come as scripted while the manner in governance will be monarchic beneath the cover of Presidential legitimacy tied to a hollowed-out American secular democratic republic.

Go with the premise.

As absolute in power–what military or police are there to oppose Trump? What armed population is there to oppose his officials or protectors? The greatest democracy on earth elected–or failed to contest the election of–an unqualified felon and mentally ill figure who has paid the ideals, laws, principles, and values of the Republic–and the Great Society it created–lip service at best.

Today, the Servants of the American State sworn to defend her Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic find themselves demonized for their integrity and honor as the incontrovertible truth will remain that Mafia Don really is a criminal with a long history of KGB/FSB interest and related revenues in real estate business involving Russian sources.

In their heads, Musk, Trump (and Putin and XI) are the good guys, and while they’ll mess with one another, even war, the structural character of their states will remain absolute, authoritarian, autocratic, totalitarian. Americans will no longer live with the dignity and freedom conferred on them through the principles, protections, and rights specified by the American Constitution. That will serve for show–and pretty images of happy (white) Americans in love with Donald Trump will serve for advertising the new “greatness” of a state monstrous in its reality. Who will be the new enemies of such a state left to establish itself: career military, police, intelligence, and security officials who won’t kiss Trump’s worn out old ass.

As regards the “peaceful transfer of power”, that will be easy: dynasty, chosen others or family, quietly determined by rigged elections and suited to the controls of an American Technocracy and the most unbridled, unprincipled, vulgar, and ruthless of America’s wealthiest families and political mafias.

Call the above last statement a possibility, something to think about if you’re old enough to think about duty, honor, nation, and oath.

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Trump Embarks on Dismantling American Authority and Democracy from the Top Down

01 Saturday Feb 2025

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs

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For the brave and curious, look up the names from the last time (repeated here from the previous post): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vindman; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Vindman; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sondland; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._McMaster; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Maguire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Yovanovitch; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_M._Gordon. Now as would befit a criminal mastermind, a Joker in the first degree, he has set his sites on the world’s foremost tried and true Federal investigators: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/31/fbi-considering-mass-purge-agents-involved-trump-investigations/. In the mix: David Sundberg, soon to be former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI, a position “overseeing nearly 1,600 employees and operations across Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia . . . .”

The purge–perhaps an opening curtain on persecutions to come–looks as bad as it appear without basis in reality, but when the nation accepts the election of a criminal, this is what it gets–>


Emil Bove, the acting No. 2 official at the department, offered no evidence those targeted had done anything improper, illegal or unethical. Instead he cited a legal technicality.

Those informed of their dismissals had been hired to investigate the Jan. 6 riot as the office struggled to manage what became the largest prosecution in the department’s history.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/prosecutors-us-attorneys-office-trump-firings.html.


Two days earlier–>


The acting attorney general on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump for the special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda, a Justice Department spokesman said. /

Justice Department veterans called the firings an egregious violation of well-established laws meant to preserve the integrity and professionalism of government agencies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/justice-department-firings-trump-jack-smith.html


Where does it end?

It doesn’t.

The process of converting American Democracy into a politically absolute system of patronage, i.e., a dictatorship, has only just begun. However, it may be hampered and ended by cooperative resistance through the ranks of moderate Democrats and Republicans and all displaced or threatened with as much as if by a deeply criminal and traitorous king deserving little respect for his crimes and treason. Donald Trump may have won an American election but he has only outrun the law with the indictments processed against by our fellow Americans–election interference; classified documents abuse; attempted election fixing.

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Below: a glance at related news. By taking apart America’s Federal Government from the highest level down, Trump provides himself greater passage as a lawless and ruthless dictator. He’ll figure out the he cannot purchase an American conscience or repair the damage he will now bring to the careers and lives of the best and most experienced of American Federal servants, but having neither conscience nor empathy–or normal boundaries and limits–those disruptions and related suffering will not register with him. His cocked-up narrative: he’s the victim!

Davidson, Joe. “Trump’s revenge targets feds, expands his power and disrupts government.” The Washington Post, January 31, 2025.

Friedman, Drew. “Trump administration directs 70% cut to internal OPM staffing, programs.” Federal News Network, January 31, 2025.

Hsu, Andreas. “‘Not a buyout’: Attorneys and unions urge federal workers not to resign.” NPR, January 29, 2025.

Ismay, John. “Admiral Fagan is Fired As Coast Guard Commandant.” The New York Times, January 24, 2025.

Stone, Will, Selene Simmons-Duffin. “Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies.” NPR, January 31, 2025.


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In Advance of Trumpian Power

22 Wednesday Jan 2025

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Extreme Brown vs Red-Green, United States of America

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On his first day in office, President Trump not only revoked the security clearance of his former National Security Adviser John Bolton, but also his U.S. Secret Service protection.

This was not the first time Trump had stripped the advisor turned critic of the Secret Service detail. In September 2019, after Trump ousted Bolton from his position, he suspended the protection within hours. Bolton was subsequently granted security by former President Joe Biden.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/21/john-bolton-secret-service-protection-cancelled-trump/77857063007/ .

#AbsolutePower #AmericanOligarchy #ANewNobility #MalignantNarcissism #Mirroring #PoliSciPoliPsy #TrumpPutin #RussiaRussiaRussia

It's not only you, #AmbBolton, or about you. The last #TrumpAdministration initiated the disruption of career paths in the…

— J. S. Oppenheim (@JS_Oppenheim) January 22, 2025

Mentions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vindman; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Vindman; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Sondland; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._McMaster; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Maguire; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Yovanovitch; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_M._Gordon.

Add former Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson for whom I had no notes until a few minutes ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/michael-atkinson-inspector-general-fired.html.


In addition to removing John Bolton’s modern day layer of armor–that’s what personal state-detailed security comes to–President Trump has moved to revoke the security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials. In more prudent Administrations less suspect of malfeasance or malicious intents, the same former officials may be tapped for their greater experience and expertise when necessary and with a minimum of reorientation.

The signatories of the letter wrote that they didn’t know whether the emails were authentic or not but that their emergence has “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

But Trump’s director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe — also his current pick to lead the CIA — contradicted that assessment by saying there was no intelligence to support the idea that Russia had anything to do with Hunter Biden’s laptop. The FBI, which was conducting its own criminal investigations into the younger Biden, seemed to back up Ratcliffe’s statement by telling Congress in a letter it had nothing to add to what he had said.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-moves-to-revoke-clearances-of-ex-intel-officials-who-signed-letter-on-hunter-biden-laptop.

Related Online: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/20/donald-trump-inauguration-day-news-updates-analysis/trumps-revenge-on-intel-officials-00199589;


Related Involving the Last Trump Administration

Donald Trump’s shake-up of America’s Intelligence and National Security Communities bodes ill for response to threats to American Democracy–but that would seem to be the point. He has been consistent in his passions, foremost the elimination of the American Election Process–for once, he appears to have said exactly what he meant. The retelling of “The Snake“–one might expect some MAGA to have known what he was when they voted for him . . . or colluded with his “Stop The Steal” big lie. The electric battery or shark question: those might be for the drug dealers whose money his operations haven’t been laundering. And the references to Hannibal the Cannibal from The Silence of the Lambs . . . . Think about that. He sells fear through fabrication — the 2020 election hadn’t been stolen, full stop — and xenophobia through exaggeration . . . perhaps telling more about himself than any true state of affairs.

Now as President Trump, he has targeted our most critical government services in law enforcement and justice and national security, especially the Intelligence Community (IC) though which American Military and State Department leaders may see both present situations and future real threats.


I’ve commented on Donald Trump’s earlier Great Replacement (in Government) behavior: “Maria Yovanovitich–The Kind of Person President Trump Fires From His Administration” (BackChannels, November 17, 2019).

Today, we know the kind of unqualified persons he’d rather have for their sycophancy.

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On X & Tired of X

21 Tuesday Jan 2025

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, 21st Century Modern, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Extreme Brown vs Red-Green, OnX, Philosophy, Political Psychology, Psychology, United States of America

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<–A possibly final five posts on my X wall published prior to the latest Trump inauguration: General Milley’s speech on the American Oath of Office; a black tile for a black day; Special Counsel Jack Smith’s parting shot, fully justified, on the January 6, 2021 election interference indictment; and Donald Trump’s promise to his “beautiful Christians” prior to the 2024 national election: “It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians . . . in four years you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”


Intellectual Battle Fatigue

Badgering Trumpian insults to intelligence take their toll on X as may the wayward convictions of the nation’s far white right bigots and “Christian” nationalist zealots so far sunk in their Weltanschauung as to have imprisoned themselves in archaic principles discarded by the nobility of Europe–and of the American South–centuries ago–reference: Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, American Civil War. After all that . . . the latest Ketaminic Sieg Heil salute to Adolph Hitler and remnant white supremacists worldwide:


Ill Trumpolini

On Amazon: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy X. Lee, Robert Jay Lifton, et al., New York City: Thomas Dunne Books, 2017 (not yet acquired for my own library).

On BackChannels: “Malignant Narcissistic Process Distilled“; “Trump Delusional“; “A Last Note About the Malignarc“.

Contrary to popular belief: Frances, Allen. “I helped write the manual for diagnosing mental illness. Donald Trump doesn’t meet the criteria.” STAT, September 6, 2007. However, read the author’s statement about Trump’s mentality:

Trump is an undisputed poster boy for narcissism. He demonstrates in pure form every single symptom described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) criteria for narcissistic personality disorder, which I wrote in 1978. But lots of successful people are extremely narcissistic without being mentally ill — think most celebrities, many politicians, and a fair percentage of writers, artists, lawyers, doctors, and professors. To qualify for narcissistic personality disorder, an individual’s selfish, unempathetic preening must be accompanied by significant distress or impairment. Trump certainly causes severe distress and impairment in others, but his narcissism doesn’t seem to affect him that way.

On X, I’ve asserted the following for guidance: “delusional, grandiose, messianic ideation absent of normal boundaries and limits, i.e., the parameters of normal conscience.” If that’s not part of the DSM, I’d think the volume inadequate for addressing “Malignant Narcissism”, for every related–and above bolded term–may be searched on the web. Also as regards the narcissism of the healthy, the better natured and reparative in character may deserve or have earned a positive regard for the egoism inseparable from their own quest or struggle for success, i.e., the presence of a reparative narcissism along the lines of Maslow’s healthy competence-seeking behavior and self-esteem. When we’re good–or in the vicinity of excellence in our arts and professions–we many not need the limitless public adoration and validation that defines “Narcissistic Supply” and the neediness of the malign.

For additional curiosity related to Donald Trump’s persistent character, one may have a look into “Sociopathy“. Also worth a gander: “Anomie“; and on the other and brighter side of mental health appreciation, evaluation, and judgment–“Abraham Maslow“; “Positive Psychology“.

RussiaRussiaRussia!

On this blog: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/.

Elsewhere on the Internet related to “Trump, KGB”: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/29/czechoslovakia-spied-on-trump-to-exploit-ties-to-highest-echelons-of-us-power; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book; https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ex-kgb-agent-trump-russian-asset-mueller-putin-kompromat-unger-book.html; https://newrepublic.com/article/150646/young-trump-went-russia, https://zarinazabrisky.medium.com/trumps-early-contacts-with-russia-d92eea2f5c3c.

In relation to Donald Trump and the Russian presence in his real estate operations: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/10/09/trumps-america-in-retrospect-russian-real-estate-entanglements/ (my blog); for shorter suggestion: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-little-moscow-russians-helped-donald-trumps-brand-survive-the-recession/2016/11/04/f9dbd38e-97cf-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html; https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/11/the-trump-tower-in-panama-may-have-been-used-to-launder-drug-money-from-colombian-cartels.html; 2017-https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/; 2018-https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/; 2022-https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-little-moscow-sunny-isles-miami-russian-money-real-estate-2022-3#the-citys-luxury-development-boom-that-first-began-in-the-1990s-revitalized-the-citys-economy-which-began-to-see-an-influx-of-wealth-3.

Has the United States of America been infiltrated, invaded, overpowered by elements either foreign to it, foreign to its character. or in fact opposed to its American Constitutional ideals and intentions?


American Character and Integrity Matter — Truth Matters

Down every avenue of honest nonpartisan inquiry, one finds President Trump a traitor to the United States of America, a convicted felon who has only evaded trials involving American identity and American national security as indicated by indictments for election interference, classified documents abuse, and attempted election fixing, and yet, as of yesterday, he has once again been handed the immense power of the American Presidency. Now comes a new question: have American governments and more brave and earnest American politicians as well as America’s most spirited artists, community leaders, journalists, investigators–all of whom may prefer American truth to American bullshit–the power to defend American Democracy against an apparent usurper and a tyranny of the “majority”? And Trump is a so-called “American President” who has made this bald promise in effect to all Americans: “It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians . . . in four years you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote” (YouTube video, Turning Point Action, July 27, 2024).

American Community

Americans should be American in spirit as well as by geopolitical fact, but what an “American” is today appears questionable. Gone: an all-white polity; forgotten: E Pluribus Unum. The latest generations of American Natives and Native Americans may all claim to have been born in the United States of America, and whether happy with that or not . . . that’s just a fact of life. Whoever we are, we are all here. And perhaps now we need a New American Community, one that affirms its ethics, morals, principles, and values–and some of that may need updating and redefinition to suit the full complement of the nation–and one that rejects the racist and religious wet dreams best laid to rest in some dimming recollection of archaic medieval attitudes, beliefs, and practices.

We are Americans, and our power is not all white, nor need it ever be so again. There is no “Great Replacement” . . . .

Ol’ Whitey–and everyone else–“got around”.

So while we Americans think about who we are NOW and what we should be and mean to be–and not what may be engineered and forced on us by coercion, fraud, and force or the MAGAdumb–well, that has been the character of our Convicted Felon in Chief–we might have to accept a little bit of Moscow’s white nationalist crap at the top of what really has been a long dismissed and lost–and good riddance–America.

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Countless hours, posts in the thousands (probably–too many for me to count)–for what? A conversation in public; trolling ladies with barely an X-presence; trolling fakes probably making up lists suited to their own derangement; a great lot of follows–really: the best notables in diplomacy and political science and related fields (most don’t know me, but I’m proud to have come to know of them)–and a pretty good base (still under one thousand) of followers–and God bless each and everything one of them. Apart from that “action”, lol, I live alone in a library. Earnest live and evolving conversations seem few to nil and far between or not expected at all.

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Epigram

Hillel the Elder

"That which is distasteful to thee do not do to another. That is the whole of Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"

"Whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

Oriana Fallaci
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon...I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

Abraham Isaac Kook

"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.

Heinrich Heine
"Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).

Simon Wiesenthal
Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."

Maimonides
"Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

Douglas Adams
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.

Thucydides
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

Milan Kundera
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Malala Yousafzai
“The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.”

Tanit Nima Tinat
"Who could die of love?"

What I Have Said About the Jews

My people, not that I speak for them, I nonetheless describe as a "global ethnic commune with its heart in Jerusalem and soul in the Land of Israel."

We have never given up on God, nor have we ever given up on one another.

Many things we have given up, but no one misses, say, animal sacrifice, and as many things we have kept, so we have still to welcome our Sabbath on Friday at sunset and to rest all of Saturday until three stars appear in the sky.

Most of all, through 5,773 years, wherever life has taken us, through the greatest triumphs and the most awful tragedies, we have preserved our tribal identity and soul, and so shall we continue eternally.

Anti-Semitism / Anti-Zionism = Signal of Fascism

I may suggest that anti-Zionism / anti-Semitism are signal (a little bit) of fascist urges, and the Left -- I'm an old liberal: I know my heart -- has been vulnerable to manipulation by what appears to me as a "Red Brown Green Alliance" driven by a handful of powerful autocrats intent on sustaining a medieval worldview in service to their own glorification. (And there I will stop).
One hopes for knowledge to allay fear; one hopes for love to overmatch hate.

Too often, the security found in the parroting of a loyal lie outweighs the integrity to be earned in confronting and voicing an uncomfortable truth.

Those who make their followers believe absurdities may also make them commit atrocities.

Positively Orwellian: Comment Responding to Claim that the Arab Assault on Israel in 1948 Had Not Intended Annihilation

“Revisionism” is the most contemptible path that power takes to abet theft and hide shame by attempting to alter public perception of past events.

On Press Freedom, Commentary, and Journalism

In the free world, talent -- editors, graphic artists, researchers, writers -- gravitate toward the organizations that suit their interests and values. The result: high integrity and highly reliable reportage and both responsible and thoughtful reasoning.

This is not to suggest that partisan presses don't exist or that propaganda doesn't exist in the west, but any reader possessed of critical thinking ability and genuine independence -- not bought, not programmed -- is certainly free to evaluate the works of earnest reporters and scholars.

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