Counterpoint: it could be that Liz' delusion is genuine, that she really thinks she has a shot. The play would be to present herself as the great centrist uniter of a divided America. The Democrats don't have a strong candidate for the race. The incumbent is as popular as a wet fart in a crowded elevator. Cheney might imagine that she can appeal to the left (she's a woman! She hates Trump!) while peeling off enough of the right to put together a sufficiently large coalition to have a shot. In a pure popularity contest she'd get pasted, and she might even realize that; but assuming 2020 levels of electoral corruption, the thumbs on the scale could make up the difference.
You could well be right, chronic ego inflation is a defining feature of most politicians. It does not take much to encourage delusions of being a saviour. She'd be surrounded by sycophants and toadies.
At best Cheney hopes to end up as a token Republican hire in either the current or future administration. When all else fails, she can nominate for a vice-presidential nomination and rake in money from a book deal. The Deep State, like the Devil, looks after its own.
The primary process is all Trump and she knows it. Desantis can make a run, with a focus on Covid justice, but Liz can't. But what she can do is run as a Democrat, speaking of humiliation rituals. Compared to any of the supposed contenders in the Dem hierarchy, she is at least at the moment more popular among Dems than any of them. She could spend the next two years ingratiating herself. Her ambition is the presidency, what does it matter to her, what party? The typical Dem doesn't know anything about her politics, all they know is she is a chief never trumper. Fact is she very much embodies much of what the Democratic party has become.
Right on point about the humilitation ritual. That is also why we have the constant changing of words, from fireman to fire fighter, etc. Homosexual to "gay" - a word consciously stolen with the media's help - to "members of the LGBTQ community".
(Though the changing of words for homosexuals and Gypsies ("roma"), Blacks, etc, is also because they sully their real names with their actions. Make it long and difficult and no one can get a feeling for the word. "the African-American community". Also change it from a noun to an adjective, so that they are less removed from the audience. "He's a black" means he's removed from you, but "a black person" is a person like you. "Jews" becomes "Jewish people". Note that the media will always say "a blonde" to remove blond people from you.)
Humiliation rituals were a tool used in every town and village by the Maoists, forcing people to confess their sins in public. The Stalin-admiring, raving mental case Cesar Chavez (even got himself a Stalin mustache) used the same humiliation ritual for people living at the large ranch he bought for union members' money. He forced them to tell him before the others how they had failed to be good socialists and how they would obey him even more in the future. (Some idiots think he's a hero for "opposing immigration". He already had enough Latinos to use and didn't want outsiders not under his control.)
It goes back all the way to the Catholic Church using the "confession booth," which of course doesn't exist in the Bible. Line up and you have declared to the world that you are a dirty sinner who can only have some value again through the priest's decision, after you've submitted and publicly humiliated yourself.
Changing linguistic practices is about destabilising people through constant change and assuming the authority/agency involved with setting standards.
Humiliation is about weaponising the adrenal, pituitary and other glands in order to manage the behaviour of subordinates. The word derives from the Latin humiliores, the lower classes who by definition were liable to public flogging etc, as opposed to the privileged classes.
The humiliation rituals play an important part in the assortation that precedes culling. The next systemic financial crisis will be closely followed by a wave of downsizing.
Yes! And in Minneapolis too (which was once the great Midwestern bastion of old school Teutonic social democracy, pasteurised Marxism at its finest).
Looking at things from the long term perspective, the Left is very useful for culling perceived undesirables from the workforce...above all older males whose accumulated entitlements constitute a financial liability. Defunding the police (or at least disrupting police employment and recruitment) would have to figure in the calculations of municipal and state authorities. No serious or consequential phenomenon in politics lacks a financial dimension. None.
Too few people realise the role that the Left played in implementing the austerity economics of the 70s in New York City and managing/misdirecting the opposition from the grassroots.
The Left will be used to misdirect political energies while the oligarchs restructure both the corporate sector and the technocracy. The affirmative action hires in STEM are there to guarantee that the technocrats don't turn on their betters.
I am not--nor have I ever been--a "never-Trumper". Voting for him the first time was an act of hope, which was rewarded in the areas of life and guns. Voting for him in 2020 was a hard swallow, mainly because of US wars and COVID policies.
I am, however, a "never-again-Trumper" now. Reasons: 1) He's too old; his time is past. We cannot risk another demented president run by who-knows-who. 2) Trump's COVID baggage is a weight that influencers from both parties will wield to sink him. "Operation Warp Speed" is owned by him. His name is all over it like a well-traveled steamer trunk. 3) Because of #2, he can no longer even be a king/queen-maker. Republican prospects at every level of candidacy are well-advised to maybe accept--but not overplay--Trump endorsements. A tough political judgment call. That said, do not solicit them. Also--like current Democratic candidates WRT Biden--ask for no Trump help on the stump, and be "vewy vewy" careful if you see it coming your way. If Trump really wants a non-toxic legacy, perhaps his best chances of one are in his own basement. Now that it's already been raided, anyway.
Conclusion: Trump's tragic COVID credulity and policies were destined to come back and bite him. I saw that coming in spring 2020. He's done now. Don't let him take the GOP down with him.
And just like that, the ancient and time-honoured Asiatic tradition of "point deer make horse" has found its way into the upper halls of power in the erstwhile democratic West.
I am by no means a pessimistic man, but the fact that a substantial portion of Western "elites" and their camp followers think this is an acceptable way of comporting themselves gives me little hope for the prospects of the "free west" and its constellation of social and cultural norms.
Meh, it STILL boils down to continuing election jacking cuz resolution the super-BLATANT jacking of the 2020 has and will NEVER happen. Nation is sooo zucked until - if ever - the hen house is fully "fox-proofed".
Remember how much vitriol there was against George W. Bush in the press? Remember when Bush vs Gore was a super heated race, and the fate of democracy itself was in the balance? Get out there and vote vote vote. Then, years later, it turned out Bush was always under control of the cabal, and so was the press, and so is Gore. All the hatred and vitriol against Bush was in essence fake. What if Trump is also under control? What if all the vitriol is pure merde to keep the masses watching TV politics? What if politics is the psyop? How often have the cabal controlled both sides? What if the whole show of politics is to make us forget that we are occupied by foreign corporations acting as government entities? The USA, the Federal Reserve, and the IRS are all privately held foreign corporations. What if Alex Jones and Mark Levin are controlled opposition who constantly funnel dissident sentiment back into the notion of elected officialdom? They are all always hoping for an elected official that could save the country. That's what Bongino and Goudy and Lindsay Graham and all those pseudo-conservative CIA fucks are really selling. They are getting the job done as long as no one talks about the idea of expelling the foreign corporations that are preying on us. Perhaps thats the reason Washington DC is not in a state or a county...so no Sheriff has the constitutional duty of enforcing the law of the land, and taking out the federal corporate trash.
Yes. But there is a depth below even that taboo-breaking initiation rite: offering up your children for the jab. That is the ultimate induction, as you cannot even find a psychological fig leaf in "self-sacrifice." Only the most honest self assessors have a chance of turning back from that "bridge too far". The rest will be captured for the rest of their lives.
For those who didn't want the jab but were bullied into it, yes, it serves exactly that function. Caving in corrodes one's self respect, and leads to emotional dependence on the regime. Not always, though: I've certainly seen many examples of people in whom it produced resentment instead.
The factors that lead to spiritual strength are multivariate. Hormonal, upbringing, religious faith, hard-wired personality traits - all play a role.
Re the multivariates, it is these very specific variables that attract the ire of Leviathan/Cthulhu and explain the visceral enmity towards inherited forms of social life, belief and conduct.
Counterpoint: it could be that Liz' delusion is genuine, that she really thinks she has a shot. The play would be to present herself as the great centrist uniter of a divided America. The Democrats don't have a strong candidate for the race. The incumbent is as popular as a wet fart in a crowded elevator. Cheney might imagine that she can appeal to the left (she's a woman! She hates Trump!) while peeling off enough of the right to put together a sufficiently large coalition to have a shot. In a pure popularity contest she'd get pasted, and she might even realize that; but assuming 2020 levels of electoral corruption, the thumbs on the scale could make up the difference.
You could well be right, chronic ego inflation is a defining feature of most politicians. It does not take much to encourage delusions of being a saviour. She'd be surrounded by sycophants and toadies.
At best Cheney hopes to end up as a token Republican hire in either the current or future administration. When all else fails, she can nominate for a vice-presidential nomination and rake in money from a book deal. The Deep State, like the Devil, looks after its own.
The primary process is all Trump and she knows it. Desantis can make a run, with a focus on Covid justice, but Liz can't. But what she can do is run as a Democrat, speaking of humiliation rituals. Compared to any of the supposed contenders in the Dem hierarchy, she is at least at the moment more popular among Dems than any of them. She could spend the next two years ingratiating herself. Her ambition is the presidency, what does it matter to her, what party? The typical Dem doesn't know anything about her politics, all they know is she is a chief never trumper. Fact is she very much embodies much of what the Democratic party has become.
>But what she can do is run as a Democrat
That's precisely the scenario I have in mind.
Right on point about the humilitation ritual. That is also why we have the constant changing of words, from fireman to fire fighter, etc. Homosexual to "gay" - a word consciously stolen with the media's help - to "members of the LGBTQ community".
(Though the changing of words for homosexuals and Gypsies ("roma"), Blacks, etc, is also because they sully their real names with their actions. Make it long and difficult and no one can get a feeling for the word. "the African-American community". Also change it from a noun to an adjective, so that they are less removed from the audience. "He's a black" means he's removed from you, but "a black person" is a person like you. "Jews" becomes "Jewish people". Note that the media will always say "a blonde" to remove blond people from you.)
Humiliation rituals were a tool used in every town and village by the Maoists, forcing people to confess their sins in public. The Stalin-admiring, raving mental case Cesar Chavez (even got himself a Stalin mustache) used the same humiliation ritual for people living at the large ranch he bought for union members' money. He forced them to tell him before the others how they had failed to be good socialists and how they would obey him even more in the future. (Some idiots think he's a hero for "opposing immigration". He already had enough Latinos to use and didn't want outsiders not under his control.)
It goes back all the way to the Catholic Church using the "confession booth," which of course doesn't exist in the Bible. Line up and you have declared to the world that you are a dirty sinner who can only have some value again through the priest's decision, after you've submitted and publicly humiliated yourself.
Changing linguistic practices is about destabilising people through constant change and assuming the authority/agency involved with setting standards.
Humiliation is about weaponising the adrenal, pituitary and other glands in order to manage the behaviour of subordinates. The word derives from the Latin humiliores, the lower classes who by definition were liable to public flogging etc, as opposed to the privileged classes.
The humiliation rituals play an important part in the assortation that precedes culling. The next systemic financial crisis will be closely followed by a wave of downsizing.
Indeed, and we've already seen at least one school board (Minnesota?) saying that whites will be the first for the chopping block.
Yes! And in Minneapolis too (which was once the great Midwestern bastion of old school Teutonic social democracy, pasteurised Marxism at its finest).
Looking at things from the long term perspective, the Left is very useful for culling perceived undesirables from the workforce...above all older males whose accumulated entitlements constitute a financial liability. Defunding the police (or at least disrupting police employment and recruitment) would have to figure in the calculations of municipal and state authorities. No serious or consequential phenomenon in politics lacks a financial dimension. None.
Too few people realise the role that the Left played in implementing the austerity economics of the 70s in New York City and managing/misdirecting the opposition from the grassroots.
The Left will be used to misdirect political energies while the oligarchs restructure both the corporate sector and the technocracy. The affirmative action hires in STEM are there to guarantee that the technocrats don't turn on their betters.
I am not--nor have I ever been--a "never-Trumper". Voting for him the first time was an act of hope, which was rewarded in the areas of life and guns. Voting for him in 2020 was a hard swallow, mainly because of US wars and COVID policies.
I am, however, a "never-again-Trumper" now. Reasons: 1) He's too old; his time is past. We cannot risk another demented president run by who-knows-who. 2) Trump's COVID baggage is a weight that influencers from both parties will wield to sink him. "Operation Warp Speed" is owned by him. His name is all over it like a well-traveled steamer trunk. 3) Because of #2, he can no longer even be a king/queen-maker. Republican prospects at every level of candidacy are well-advised to maybe accept--but not overplay--Trump endorsements. A tough political judgment call. That said, do not solicit them. Also--like current Democratic candidates WRT Biden--ask for no Trump help on the stump, and be "vewy vewy" careful if you see it coming your way. If Trump really wants a non-toxic legacy, perhaps his best chances of one are in his own basement. Now that it's already been raided, anyway.
Conclusion: Trump's tragic COVID credulity and policies were destined to come back and bite him. I saw that coming in spring 2020. He's done now. Don't let him take the GOP down with him.
And just like that, the ancient and time-honoured Asiatic tradition of "point deer make horse" has found its way into the upper halls of power in the erstwhile democratic West.
I am by no means a pessimistic man, but the fact that a substantial portion of Western "elites" and their camp followers think this is an acceptable way of comporting themselves gives me little hope for the prospects of the "free west" and its constellation of social and cultural norms.
It was a good run by any means.
Meh, it STILL boils down to continuing election jacking cuz resolution the super-BLATANT jacking of the 2020 has and will NEVER happen. Nation is sooo zucked until - if ever - the hen house is fully "fox-proofed".
Remember how much vitriol there was against George W. Bush in the press? Remember when Bush vs Gore was a super heated race, and the fate of democracy itself was in the balance? Get out there and vote vote vote. Then, years later, it turned out Bush was always under control of the cabal, and so was the press, and so is Gore. All the hatred and vitriol against Bush was in essence fake. What if Trump is also under control? What if all the vitriol is pure merde to keep the masses watching TV politics? What if politics is the psyop? How often have the cabal controlled both sides? What if the whole show of politics is to make us forget that we are occupied by foreign corporations acting as government entities? The USA, the Federal Reserve, and the IRS are all privately held foreign corporations. What if Alex Jones and Mark Levin are controlled opposition who constantly funnel dissident sentiment back into the notion of elected officialdom? They are all always hoping for an elected official that could save the country. That's what Bongino and Goudy and Lindsay Graham and all those pseudo-conservative CIA fucks are really selling. They are getting the job done as long as no one talks about the idea of expelling the foreign corporations that are preying on us. Perhaps thats the reason Washington DC is not in a state or a county...so no Sheriff has the constitutional duty of enforcing the law of the land, and taking out the federal corporate trash.
Yes. But there is a depth below even that taboo-breaking initiation rite: offering up your children for the jab. That is the ultimate induction, as you cannot even find a psychological fig leaf in "self-sacrifice." Only the most honest self assessors have a chance of turning back from that "bridge too far". The rest will be captured for the rest of their lives.
For those who didn't want the jab but were bullied into it, yes, it serves exactly that function. Caving in corrodes one's self respect, and leads to emotional dependence on the regime. Not always, though: I've certainly seen many examples of people in whom it produced resentment instead.
The factors that lead to spiritual strength are multivariate. Hormonal, upbringing, religious faith, hard-wired personality traits - all play a role.
Re the multivariates, it is these very specific variables that attract the ire of Leviathan/Cthulhu and explain the visceral enmity towards inherited forms of social life, belief and conduct.