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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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“.
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.
X Social Network
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.
What Donald Trump said on July 27, 2024 before his Turning Point Action audience in relation to elections: “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.”
Addendum to Reference from November 11, 2024 and Forward
“Of particular concern is the decentralized nature of America’s election system. There are some 10,000 local voting jurisdictions throughout the U.S., including counties and townships, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
“According to monitoring by NSFOCUS Global Threat Hunting System, since July 2024, during the U.S. election period, election-related websites, as well as sponsor websites like SpaceX and Blackstone, have frequently been targeted by DDoS attacks. Attackers have employed botnets and reflection amplification techniques, using various attack methods such as SYN Flood, UDP Flood, NTP reflection, DNS reflection, and CharGEN reflection. The attack infrastructure is primarily concentrated in North America and Europe, regions rich in network resources that are more easily exploited by attackers.” | NSFOCUS. “Behind the 2024 US Election Curtain: Cyberwar’s Silent Sabotage.” November 7, 2024 | https://nsfocusglobal.com/behind-the-2024-us-election-curtain-cyberwars-silent-sabotage/| https://nsfocusglobal.com/behind-the-2024-us-election-curtain-cyberwars-silent-sabotage/.
NSFOCUS’s CEO and COO have degrees from China. Their founding appears dated back to July 2024. I don’t know if they are managing American Federal Government business as contractors.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election and the January 6th insurrection, threats to the election certification process have escalated, now with an increasing focus on county-level certification. Since 2020, more than 30 county officials across the country have voted to deny or delay certifying election results in violation of law, often citing false claims of voter fraud or irregularities. Among those officials are avowed 2020 election deniers, individuals who acted as fake presidential electors for Donald Trump and a criminally convicted participant in the January 6th insurrection who was later removed from office in a lawsuit led by CREW. – CREW. “Election certification under threat.” August 12, 2024.
It appears that the 2024 American election will still feature fake electors as well as uncooperative and unethical Trump loyalist Republicans–and no one will do anything about them for believing their hands tied.
Why compete to win an American election when you can leverage social loyalty into rigging and stealing one?
What Donald Trump said on July 27, 2024 before his Turning Point Action audience in relation to elections: “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.”
I appreciate sentences like, “Trump has continued to falsely claim he won the 2020 election in several states” because the oh so politely underscore the undeniable fact that Trump lies absurdly, compulsively, excessively. His baseless accusations about election fraud–not to mention his delusional repitition of a rumor about Haitians eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio–have for merit only his pointing at himself–and suggesting the Trump strategy for the 2024 American election has not changed: he’d rather steal the contest then win it, and American judiciary and politicians have been hamstrung or weak enough to just about let him do that.
Addendum from September 23, 2024, Related and Cogent
The presidential election this year will come down to seven states — but there’s one that Donald Trump and his most committed lieutenants see as a blueprint for corrupting future local and national elections: Georgia.
The Peach State is unique — it’s the sole battleground state in which the Republican Party has total control over the levers of power: a trifecta in the state House, Senate, and governorship. Over the past four years, Trump-loving elements of the Georgia GOP have wielded that advantage in a crusade to convert discredited election-conspiracy theories into policies well ahead of Election Day 2024. It is an alarmingly anti-democratic experiment that Trumpland and much of the GOP hope to take national. — https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/.
Every war has a war in the shadows. This one involves #Putin#TrumpPutin#MalignantNarcissism and related circles of associates and investors as well as deep corruption and compromise. Good leaders–grounded and strong in their ethics, integrity, knowledge, and outlook plus experiences and skills–would not do as #TrumpPutin do in relation to their dishonesty, ruthlessness, and violence.
Moscow’s in . . . and we’re (we #Americans) are getting screwed. Putin has the power of a real “deep state”, specifically #SovietPostSoviet criminal #KGB / #FSB, and #RussianPower itself operates the state as a criminal enterprise–that’s how #Yanukovych got booted out of #Ukraine! In the #USA, we have gotten for a Presidential candidate a dumb narcissistic jerk. I believe he’s a traitor — #TrumpFakeElectorsAndBallots — who serves #Putin. He wants to replace our #ModernAmericanSecularDemocraticRepublic with his own system of private patronage. Add the look-up, “Trump, Money Laundering, Russia.”
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None with power, so far, appear to be able to say “No” to either #Putin or #Trump, neither of whom have normal boundaries or limits in the governing of their own behavior.
Flying rockets into playgrounds ain’t normal; baldly lying to #Americans, especially those who appear to trust you most, ain’t normal either.
Suggestions?
Lately, I’ve been noting, #WeAreAmerican–not an organization, a fact of life, #Democrats and #Republicans, all #AmericanCitizens–and I am certain the good and noble possessed of integrity are tired of #TrumpPutin, would that their “investors” would tired of them as well as all would seem to represent bad business and irremediable political evil.
I would bet #Democrat and #Republican politicians haven’t had a decent and civil chat together for quite some time. In fact, perhaps a few should retreat, stand back, get reacquainted with the big picture–and get back on a great American track.
It should go without saying that cognizant Americans may have an obligation to be helpful to too many disinformed #AmericanCitizens–literally lied to and weaponized by less noble power–and left to feel angered, lost, isolated. That has to end.
I have recently begun working with an AI generator and today asked it for “presidential portraits” of the 2024 candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America, Kamala Harris.
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