America with Criminal Minds in Power

06 Thursday Mar 2025

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology

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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/.

AI Presents The Malignant

I once joked that Donald Trump never met an enterprise he couldn’t ruin and run into bankruptcy. That wry observation appears to be coming true with the United States of America. At issue and perhaps at the bottom of it all is the mentality of the leader, that delusional and paranoid malignant narcissism so sensitive to the possibility of further humiliation and shame that it needs its insularity in a theater all its own enabled by the crass and shielded by sycophancy. We Americans have been spoiled in the main by responsible and responsive governments that play by the rules, more or less, and if committing crimes get caught by internal investigators, FBI, and whistleblowers. Not this time, my fellow Americans. The darker side of the nation has taken the wheel–and it’s taking us on a joy ride into an archaic, criminal, and feudal-medieval hell.

I have left out some notables on this pass but have worked up a short list with “criminality” in mind–not crimes, per se, but just the mentality that would go along with an incompetent mafia-style leader. Were they students, their folder notes might suggest laziness about homework and wild imaginations drifting off into the most improbable and surreal of private fantasy. Of course, today, they are our “leaders” –>

J. D. Vance: “Publicly, he called the Republican businessman an “idiot” and said he was “reprehensible.” Privately, he compared him to Adolf Hitler.”

Kash Patel: “As a co-host of a talk show for The Epoch Times, a media company known for spreading baseless conspiracy theories, a review by NBC found Patel shared unfounded claims about supposed conspiracies aimed at undermining Trump perpetrated by government officials, the FBI, social media platforms, the media and others”– https://www.npr.org/2024/12/09/nx-s1-5213692/kash-patel-conspiracy-theories-fbi.

Linda McMahon: “The suit alleges McMahon, her husband, the WWE and TKO Group Holdings, the league’s parent company, knowingly allowed employee Melvin Phillips Jr. to use his position as ringside announcer to sexually exploit children. / The filing alleges Phillips would recruit children to work as “Ring Boys,” helping him set up and take down wrestling rings at WWE events. However, the job was a guise for sexually exploiting the children, which Phillips would do even in front of wrestlers and executives in the locker area, the lawsuit alleges. He also would often film his sexual abuse, according to the filing” — https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/business/linda-mcmahon-abuse-wwe-trump-education/index.html.

Pete Hegseth: “The woman, referred to throughout the report as Jane Doe, said Mr. Hegseth took her phone, blocked his hotel room door when she tried to leave, and sexually assaulted her, ejaculating on her stomach. She said that her memory was hazy, and that she had drunk far more alcohol than usual throughout the day” — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/police-report-sexual-assault-claim-hegseth.html#.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “At midlife, Mr. Kennedy won public acclaim as a crusading environmental lawyer who sued corporate polluters, cleaned up rivers and lobbied to protect New York’s drinking water. But he was also a serial philanderer who kept a journal chronicling his encounters and assigned numerical scores to women, even as he berated himself for his inability to control his actions” — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/politics/kennedy-rfk-profile-trump.html.

Russell Vought: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in a video revealed by ProPublica and the research group Documented in October. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma” — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget.

Tulsi Gabbard: “Most notoriously, she was perhaps the most prominent US politician to show solidarity with al-Assad after his brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests escalated into a catastrophic civil war, one marked by allegations of crimes against humanity committed by his regime with the backing of Russian forces. / Gabbard repeatedly voiced doubts about well-documented evidence of these crimes. In one infamous incident on a congressional visit to Syria in 2015, she suggested to victims of an airstrike that it may not have been launched by the Syrian military but by the so-called Islamic State group, which has never had an air force” — https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/29/who-is-trumps-intelligence-nominee-tulsi-gabbard-and-why-is-she-so-controversial.

By now, most Americans have caught on to the notion that “Trump-Putin” (on X, #TrumpPutin) is a real thing and the American President not much more than a traitor in fact and in spirit to the United States of America. As an usurper of power obtained through Trumpian lies–start with the whopper that was “Stop The Steal” when he had prepared fraudulent Electoral College ballots for Mike Pence to put in place of authentic ones on January 6, 2021–the unfaithful president has proceeded with the help of his fellow weaklings to degrade America’s Federal Government in the most barbaric and crude fashion. By Trump’s will, Federal agencies and departments from Education to Veterans Affairs have come under the most thoughtless and unstudied attacks on their very existence.

Don’t expect impact studies.

The Trumpian Coup–call it what it is, for Trump infamously lied his way back into power–has turned out a criminal enterprise certain to collapse America’s economy, impoverish millions of Americans (for most locales hosting Federal offices, the Federal dollar is a primary dollar, i.e., a dollar imported from the Federal Government to be spent and spent again locally until partially recaptured in taxes). The Trump Administration appears to care not at all about what it is stealing from America’s cities, states, and regions in relation to massive Federal contraction.

What might Putin want?

For starters, I would suggest an “American Mafia State” mirroring the “Russian Mafia State” with its “Vertical of Power” leader, its corruption, and its oligarchy made so by the favor of Putin–for Americans, by the favor of Trump.

Whatever follows Trump’s degradation, desperation will be a part of it–and an American government deeply downsized and in disarray will not be able to help ordinary Americans just starting to burn through their savings. Perhaps states will rise the occasion. Perhaps not. It’s certain that no one will have solid answers as the bills mount for basic family support, housing, and transportation. Crime will follow as may an American Gulag — an extensive and vacuous prison system for Americans stressed beyond limits. That’s a vision, of course but one fit to a know-nothing president who has had a debt to repay to Moscow and the related state and mafia power that saved his ass after American banks had learned the hard way to refuse his business.

Probably, for a literal show stopper, Putin would be happy with an insolvent America. Musk and Trump appear to be doing everything in their power to make that happen. Between now and that: desperation; enserfment (enslavement for a buck–no dignity, no freedom, no pride — and if not free to choose one’s chains, then prison where choice may not exist).

https://apnews.com/article/epa-budget-staffing-cuts-doge-9260514fd1be2397d39a80dc054d19df

https://apnews.com/article/veterans-affairs-cuts-doge-musk-trump-f587a6bc3db6a460e9c357592e165712

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24gze60yzo

https://www.businessinsider.com/justice-alito-stunned-supreme-court-ruled-against-trump-usaid-funding-2025-3

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opm-memo-mass-federal-firings/?intcid=CNR-01-0623

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-fires-over-400-dhs-employees/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/business/linda-mcmahon-abuse-wwe-trump-education/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/trump-education-department-shut-down-order/index.html

https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/29/who-is-trumps-intelligence-nominee-tulsi-gabbard-and-why-is-she-so-controversial

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/09/nx-s1-5213692/kash-patel-conspiracy-theories-fbi

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/police-report-sexual-assault-claim-hegseth.html#

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/politics/kennedy-rfk-profile-trump.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-vance-once-compared-trump-hitler-now-they-are-running-mates-2024-07-15/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/consumer-watchdog-payouts-limbo-agency-defanged-by-trump-administration-2025-03-03/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/doge-is-driving-social-security-cuts-will-make-mistakes-acting-head-says-privately/

Trump administration considering criminal referrals in USAID fight

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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.

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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

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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 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.

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.

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“We’ll have it fixed so good . . . .” said Donald Trump

08 Friday Nov 2024

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

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American Democracy, Donald Trump

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/; https://www.reuters.com/world/us/election-officials-who-back-trumps-big-lie-stir-concern-swing-states-2024-10-08/; https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/election-certification-under-threat/; https://www.npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-5100909/fake-electors-trump-electoral-college-vote.

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.

Not all of those have funding for new equipment, proper staffing or updated training of election workers. Easterly said it was a priority of her agency to get money and expertise to what she termed “target-rich, cyber-poor” entities”–Jen Easterly, CISA in Alexander, Ayanna. “Security experts warn of foreign cyber threat to 2024 voting.” AP News, February 21, 2023.

“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.

—“The primary aim is to erode Americans’ faith in democratic institutions and heighten chaos and social division,” Kenton explains, and thus to undermine the ability of the US government to function so it will have less bandwidth to contain adversarial powers.— Atlantic Council. “What to know about foreign Meddling in the US election.” November 5, 2024.

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Surreal King President Trump

06 Wednesday Nov 2024

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology

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American Autocracy, authoritarianism, fascism, mafia state, malignant narcissism, Political Criminals

Donald Trump’s elevation will change no truths about his authoritarian-fascist political stance, his crimes and criminality, his ignorance and his vulgarity. Moreover, he may not be expected to defend our American Constitution or any American law set against him.

Donald John Trump will rule, not govern.

Americans should have only the lowest expectations for him in relation to American National Security (what does that now mean?), Global Issues, and International Affairs. Expect greater emphasis on his own aggrandizement along with greater deceit and his customary excessive lying.

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