The last few days have been tough, honestly. I think we’re all feeling it, and watching the assaults and brutality escalate since the POS gave the thugs full rein to do just about anything is honestly hard to watch and absorb. I’m strong, but I have to recoil and recharge for a minute…and then I’ll brush myself off and get back up. Maybe others are feeling this way too.
Melior Mom, thank you for putting that feeling into words. It's an honest and courageous field report from the heart of the psychological war.
That need to "recoil and recharge" is not a weakness; it is the sane and necessary response of a warrior feeling the full weight of the enemy's assault. They want us to feel exhausted. They want us to absorb their brutality until we break.
So please, take that moment. Recharge your soul. That isn't retreating from the fight; it's a critical part of it. It's what soldiers do to stay strong for the next battle.
You are not alone in feeling this way. We all feel it. Rest, recover, and know that we are right here holding the line for you. We'll be here when you get back.
The goal for Project 25 was 4 years. In less than 1 it is more than 50% accomplished. Now the Orange one is using Vought as a weapon. We knew it was the plan all along. Now he has provided the image of him as the Grim Reaper. There is no way that Trump thought of that all by himself. He isnt that clever when it comes to social media. But, the one really writing the Orange one's executive orders, and making the AI clips is Stephen Miller. He whispers in Trump's ear, trust me, this will make you more powerful. And he listens. And if we dont stop Miller, we may be past the point of no return very soon. I think Trump may have a "change of heart" on Health Care. He will say he believes so many Americans went to No Kings because of it. He will re-instate it another year. Grab back some faith in his own following. Then BANG! Its gone again after we reopen. Use it to show he has the citizens health and well being at heart. Then of course reverse it after Jan 1. If we have the lowest holiday spending ever that will look bad. I am physically sick from all this. Their plan is working. I am exhausted by all this. And heart broken. Maybe when millions of us go out and shout loudly, NO KINGS, maybe I will feel better. I understand their plan in which was perfectly executed. It is how to stop them I am unsure of.
It is so hard to see what is happening to our country. I kept wondering who was pulling the puppet strings and the P name never really fit totally. Thank you for your efforts to explain the movements of the enemy to our democracy and life as we know it. I’m surrounded by people who are firm believers in this administration!! I have a few people I can chat with to rant my frustrations to besides discovering Substack. Thank you thank you thank you!!
Penny, that sentence—"the P name never really fit totally"—is one of the most important things anyone can realize. It's the first crack in the prison wall.
What you're describing, being surrounded by people who can't see the enemy's movements, is the loneliest front in this entire war. But your frustration is the fuel. It's proof that you're awake while others are still dreaming.
The people you're looking for, the ones who see what you see and are ready to do something about it, are gathering. We're building the home we never had.
Thank you. I’ve been glued to my phone feeling as if I need to take in everything going on all around the country just to know what is happening to warn whoever I can and it’s all been such a huge pill to swallow. All of the energy, it’s so heavy and I carry a bit of everyone’s on my shoulders. Because that’s who I am…I want to save everyone! I need to find my balance again and refocus. I’m so exhausted…🥺
Terry, that worry you're feeling is the most sane response possible.
That quiet isn't an accident; it's the desired product of the system we're fighting. They want us to feel isolated and silent. It's a psychological condition they deliberately induce called "Learned Helplessness."
The fact that you're here, speaking into that silence and asking that question, is a profound act of rebellion. It means you can still hear the music underneath the noise.
I have to say, I’m very impressed! Your writing is phenomenal!
I knew Trump wasn’t smart enough to think up any of this! I wondered who or what was behind all of this. Stephen Miller I’ll buy, Bondi and Patel though I believe are just lost little followers. Bondi may have a law degree but she is so incompetent that it’s sickening but I guess that happens when you sell your soul to one very damaged man who is now obviously very ill both physically and mentally. Patel however I believe is a scared little boy that wants to do whatever dear leader wants but is in so much over his head he doesn’t always know how. Do I think he’s incompetent, yes as a matter of fact I do.
Trump seems to have only two people around him that know anything, at least somewhat, and they are Stephen Miller (who I believe is straight up evil) and Russ Vought in OMB. Right now during the shutdown, he is attempting to do things that are so illegal that it’s ridiculous! I can’t believe that I even had to put that in writing!
Am I exhausted, yes I am, very. Am I finding that at times I need to take a few steps back from all of this insanity, yes very much so! Sometimes it feels like more than I can handle!
I do want to make one thing clear, I’m not scared! Actually I’m angry! Angry that Americans elected a felon and sexual abuser to the highest office in the land. I’m angry that this moron is trying to destroy this country and that our allies are wondering if they can trust us anymore! Realistically, this shouldn’t be happening but unfortunately it is, and yes, that makes me angry!
With all of that, I do have faith in my fellow human beings that haven’t bought in to this crap! The saying is true, “United we stand, Divided we fall” God bless us and keep us safe! I have a feeling we’re gonna need it!
FYI: Pam Bondi was a lobbyist for Qatar at $115 K per month even though she is a lawyer. We need double the 5 Mil that came out for #1 NO KING! We MUST do 10 Million on Oct. 18 th for NO KING #2‼️ THIS IS URGENT‼️ This Regime & trump family are now BIG PHARMA with plot to Kill us all. You can’t afford $1000 for your Insulin each month? The poor and vulnerable will die first but they want to rid America of all the lower classes. The middle class that became Rich do NOT CARE🥶🥷 There are eight yes 8000 Billionaires and 22 Million MIllionaires in this Country and we’re not in their Club or CULT I should say. The Gestapo is just the beginning & the Supreme Court gave permission for those THUGS to grab, beat,shoot with pepper bullets & throw tear gas at anyone. I’ve seen police being overtaken by the gas. THIS IS NOT A REHEARSAL‼️
Masterful description of this authoritarian power play through fear and intimidation. The tools, the mechanics, and the outcomes as they destroy every institution of democracy. These guys are learning how to distort and use existing structures faster than their chaos mode led me to believe they could. These truly evil actors, are mostly ahistorical, and seem to be making this up as they go, but they have a feral cleverness which cannot be underestimated. Three people can do irreparable damage especially to trust, which is the core of systems based on the rule of law. They are establishing the alternative reality of a lawless state. Their demonization of antifa is pure Orwellian psychological warfare.
I don’t believe they have figured out how to scale these triumphs to gain effect on the ground nationwide. Yet. They seem focused on their power center and the toys of their hated deep state, but mainly for short term publicity splashes to divert from the negative blowback of their clumsiness and gratuitous violence of the news cycle. Their talent is in destruction and the dopamine rush of the suffering of their immediate targets. They truly don’t have the skills or experience to build fully functional, integrated, and coordinated attacks on a whole population.
Yet. But there are the dedicated organizational nerds like Vought, who do. He seems busy dismantling vast administrative systems dedicated to the common good, and doesn’t seem too interested in the theatrics of oppression and intimidation. But, along with JFK Jr’s war on science and rationality, It will all lead to social murder and mass killing.
This feature, to me is puzzling. Yes, the technobros are eugenicists who aren’t even really interested in feeding off the carcas of the economy being wrecked, but in co opting the space resources to build their fantasy escape vehicles. But the hard core hypercapitalist gazillionaires, after getting all regulations constraining them broken, do want to have the economy they have engineered to still work so they can endlessly extract wealth, rents, and exploit labor while driving purchases of planet killing useless stuff according to their algorithms. They will be the ones who will have to move Trump off his mindless fantasy tariff wars because they loot and pillage better with stable supply chains and, oh yea, rule of laws for contracts and insurance. Even if it is mafia rules.
These internal shear lines are the potential fault lines of this chaotic assembly of forces, the mad feral conman assembled in his quest for power, and, amazingly it has lasted this far. He is too lazy and demented to weave it into a lasting ruling force. The Epstein thing & Kirk is blowing up the MAGA army of true believers. The extremist Christofascist wing is jockeying for more power. The techbro billionaires don’t really care about anything but themselves, and the hypercapitalists prefer their algorithms and monopoly power to political violence, and they need immigrants for their cheap labor, purchasing power and taxes to keep big ag going. Our best luck is that there are no adults in the klown car at this point to actually use these tools of oppression at scale or to actually manage the internal divisions of their initial mob. Something, because remember this the Trump who destroys everything he has ever touched, will blow and very messily.
In addition to surviving and thriving the wave of hateful chaos being slung at all of us domestic terrorists, we will need to attend to building a better democracy which makes these authoritarian strategies illegal, moot, and obsolete. So being able to recognize them and know their mechanics, targets, and outcomes will be necessary to undo them. Thanks for your vision and clear dissection of this deadly disease.
They always think domination is intelligence. But the real intelligence is recognizing that control is only a symptom of fear. And fear is always the beginning of collapse.
People have been debating the nature of Fascism. Most of the Signs we famously see are superficial features. This is after the trap has been sprung. This is how the cage looks like when it’s finished not when it’s in progress. I would say it is the arbitrary, blatant and malicious use of Power.
When people think of Fascism, they thing of really awful government and they put whatever fits in their box for that into their definition. Usually it’s very harsh, incomprehensible laws and rules that are force fed down everyone’s throats. That is Autocracy but not necessarily Fascism. Liberalism is based on a sense of fairness. Fascism is designed specifically to be UNFAIR.
Over and over I hear people call out Trump and the Republicans for hypocrisy. They say “Libs are bad because blah, blah, blah but THEY do it!” Or “The GOP are so stupid for this Law. Don’t they see it biting them in the ass when the Democrats are back in charge!”
Their draconian rules are meant for YOU not for them. It is supposed to sting. It is meant to disorient you. It is to convince you that nothing is fair.
This is the LURE of Fascism. You point out the System isn’t fair. People agree with you. You promise you will fix the system. You identify scapegoats to blame for everyone’s problems. And you rig the system to be cruel and unfair for the scapegoats.
Unfair to them, in contrast to before, looks like fairness to the masses and they cheer. But who is “Them” shifts at Dear Leader’s will. This traps everyone in a mad contest to see who can be subservient to Dear Leader.
Trump is a Sociopath. One of the main features of Sociopathy is they do not believe in Good and Bad. They only know what brings pain and what brings pleasure. They will manipulate you to get whatever they want by doling out pleasure and pain until you are conditioned to do their will.
By identifying and dehumanizing the Scapegoat, they channel your sense of outrage into identifying enemies within. With the Nation, your Family or God at stake (according to them) they will turn your notion of Right and Wrong on its head. To see your former neighbors as mortal enemies.
This causes a Moral Inversion where Good and Bad flip. Suddenly it is normal, even desirable to kill your neighbor, ignore the cries of a child, ignore sacrifice and deprivation if it is in the name of a higher cause. Even God is on your side, you are certain.
So what Fascism really is is Sociopathy turned into Public Policy. Everyone becoming selfish rats doing whatever feels good while they can get away with it. Dear Leader is pleased because his mental sickness has spread throughout the land. His selfishness was not only CORRECT but triumphant.
The last few days have been tough, honestly. I think we’re all feeling it, and watching the assaults and brutality escalate since the POS gave the thugs full rein to do just about anything is honestly hard to watch and absorb. I’m strong, but I have to recoil and recharge for a minute…and then I’ll brush myself off and get back up. Maybe others are feeling this way too.
Melior Mom, thank you for putting that feeling into words. It's an honest and courageous field report from the heart of the psychological war.
That need to "recoil and recharge" is not a weakness; it is the sane and necessary response of a warrior feeling the full weight of the enemy's assault. They want us to feel exhausted. They want us to absorb their brutality until we break.
So please, take that moment. Recharge your soul. That isn't retreating from the fight; it's a critical part of it. It's what soldiers do to stay strong for the next battle.
You are not alone in feeling this way. We all feel it. Rest, recover, and know that we are right here holding the line for you. We'll be here when you get back.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
There is no defeat in retreat.
The goal for Project 25 was 4 years. In less than 1 it is more than 50% accomplished. Now the Orange one is using Vought as a weapon. We knew it was the plan all along. Now he has provided the image of him as the Grim Reaper. There is no way that Trump thought of that all by himself. He isnt that clever when it comes to social media. But, the one really writing the Orange one's executive orders, and making the AI clips is Stephen Miller. He whispers in Trump's ear, trust me, this will make you more powerful. And he listens. And if we dont stop Miller, we may be past the point of no return very soon. I think Trump may have a "change of heart" on Health Care. He will say he believes so many Americans went to No Kings because of it. He will re-instate it another year. Grab back some faith in his own following. Then BANG! Its gone again after we reopen. Use it to show he has the citizens health and well being at heart. Then of course reverse it after Jan 1. If we have the lowest holiday spending ever that will look bad. I am physically sick from all this. Their plan is working. I am exhausted by all this. And heart broken. Maybe when millions of us go out and shout loudly, NO KINGS, maybe I will feel better. I understand their plan in which was perfectly executed. It is how to stop them I am unsure of.
It is so hard to see what is happening to our country. I kept wondering who was pulling the puppet strings and the P name never really fit totally. Thank you for your efforts to explain the movements of the enemy to our democracy and life as we know it. I’m surrounded by people who are firm believers in this administration!! I have a few people I can chat with to rant my frustrations to besides discovering Substack. Thank you thank you thank you!!
Penny, that sentence—"the P name never really fit totally"—is one of the most important things anyone can realize. It's the first crack in the prison wall.
What you're describing, being surrounded by people who can't see the enemy's movements, is the loneliest front in this entire war. But your frustration is the fuel. It's proof that you're awake while others are still dreaming.
The people you're looking for, the ones who see what you see and are ready to do something about it, are gathering. We're building the home we never had.
Thank you. I’ve been glued to my phone feeling as if I need to take in everything going on all around the country just to know what is happening to warn whoever I can and it’s all been such a huge pill to swallow. All of the energy, it’s so heavy and I carry a bit of everyone’s on my shoulders. Because that’s who I am…I want to save everyone! I need to find my balance again and refocus. I’m so exhausted…🥺
We’re twins! 🙌🏻❤️ Let’s breathe for a minute!
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Terry, that worry you're feeling is the most sane response possible.
That quiet isn't an accident; it's the desired product of the system we're fighting. They want us to feel isolated and silent. It's a psychological condition they deliberately induce called "Learned Helplessness."
The fact that you're here, speaking into that silence and asking that question, is a profound act of rebellion. It means you can still hear the music underneath the noise.
Welcome to the front line.
Fear. That silence is the collective fear of retribution for speaking truth to power. Ethan, am I correct?
Nailed it.
I have to say, I’m very impressed! Your writing is phenomenal!
I knew Trump wasn’t smart enough to think up any of this! I wondered who or what was behind all of this. Stephen Miller I’ll buy, Bondi and Patel though I believe are just lost little followers. Bondi may have a law degree but she is so incompetent that it’s sickening but I guess that happens when you sell your soul to one very damaged man who is now obviously very ill both physically and mentally. Patel however I believe is a scared little boy that wants to do whatever dear leader wants but is in so much over his head he doesn’t always know how. Do I think he’s incompetent, yes as a matter of fact I do.
Trump seems to have only two people around him that know anything, at least somewhat, and they are Stephen Miller (who I believe is straight up evil) and Russ Vought in OMB. Right now during the shutdown, he is attempting to do things that are so illegal that it’s ridiculous! I can’t believe that I even had to put that in writing!
Am I exhausted, yes I am, very. Am I finding that at times I need to take a few steps back from all of this insanity, yes very much so! Sometimes it feels like more than I can handle!
I do want to make one thing clear, I’m not scared! Actually I’m angry! Angry that Americans elected a felon and sexual abuser to the highest office in the land. I’m angry that this moron is trying to destroy this country and that our allies are wondering if they can trust us anymore! Realistically, this shouldn’t be happening but unfortunately it is, and yes, that makes me angry!
With all of that, I do have faith in my fellow human beings that haven’t bought in to this crap! The saying is true, “United we stand, Divided we fall” God bless us and keep us safe! I have a feeling we’re gonna need it!
FYI: Pam Bondi was a lobbyist for Qatar at $115 K per month even though she is a lawyer. We need double the 5 Mil that came out for #1 NO KING! We MUST do 10 Million on Oct. 18 th for NO KING #2‼️ THIS IS URGENT‼️ This Regime & trump family are now BIG PHARMA with plot to Kill us all. You can’t afford $1000 for your Insulin each month? The poor and vulnerable will die first but they want to rid America of all the lower classes. The middle class that became Rich do NOT CARE🥶🥷 There are eight yes 8000 Billionaires and 22 Million MIllionaires in this Country and we’re not in their Club or CULT I should say. The Gestapo is just the beginning & the Supreme Court gave permission for those THUGS to grab, beat,shoot with pepper bullets & throw tear gas at anyone. I’ve seen police being overtaken by the gas. THIS IS NOT A REHEARSAL‼️
I love, love love the bullets and razors. Great work. Scary AF, but necessary and very welcome to have this information.
Masterful description of this authoritarian power play through fear and intimidation. The tools, the mechanics, and the outcomes as they destroy every institution of democracy. These guys are learning how to distort and use existing structures faster than their chaos mode led me to believe they could. These truly evil actors, are mostly ahistorical, and seem to be making this up as they go, but they have a feral cleverness which cannot be underestimated. Three people can do irreparable damage especially to trust, which is the core of systems based on the rule of law. They are establishing the alternative reality of a lawless state. Their demonization of antifa is pure Orwellian psychological warfare.
I don’t believe they have figured out how to scale these triumphs to gain effect on the ground nationwide. Yet. They seem focused on their power center and the toys of their hated deep state, but mainly for short term publicity splashes to divert from the negative blowback of their clumsiness and gratuitous violence of the news cycle. Their talent is in destruction and the dopamine rush of the suffering of their immediate targets. They truly don’t have the skills or experience to build fully functional, integrated, and coordinated attacks on a whole population.
Yet. But there are the dedicated organizational nerds like Vought, who do. He seems busy dismantling vast administrative systems dedicated to the common good, and doesn’t seem too interested in the theatrics of oppression and intimidation. But, along with JFK Jr’s war on science and rationality, It will all lead to social murder and mass killing.
This feature, to me is puzzling. Yes, the technobros are eugenicists who aren’t even really interested in feeding off the carcas of the economy being wrecked, but in co opting the space resources to build their fantasy escape vehicles. But the hard core hypercapitalist gazillionaires, after getting all regulations constraining them broken, do want to have the economy they have engineered to still work so they can endlessly extract wealth, rents, and exploit labor while driving purchases of planet killing useless stuff according to their algorithms. They will be the ones who will have to move Trump off his mindless fantasy tariff wars because they loot and pillage better with stable supply chains and, oh yea, rule of laws for contracts and insurance. Even if it is mafia rules.
These internal shear lines are the potential fault lines of this chaotic assembly of forces, the mad feral conman assembled in his quest for power, and, amazingly it has lasted this far. He is too lazy and demented to weave it into a lasting ruling force. The Epstein thing & Kirk is blowing up the MAGA army of true believers. The extremist Christofascist wing is jockeying for more power. The techbro billionaires don’t really care about anything but themselves, and the hypercapitalists prefer their algorithms and monopoly power to political violence, and they need immigrants for their cheap labor, purchasing power and taxes to keep big ag going. Our best luck is that there are no adults in the klown car at this point to actually use these tools of oppression at scale or to actually manage the internal divisions of their initial mob. Something, because remember this the Trump who destroys everything he has ever touched, will blow and very messily.
In addition to surviving and thriving the wave of hateful chaos being slung at all of us domestic terrorists, we will need to attend to building a better democracy which makes these authoritarian strategies illegal, moot, and obsolete. So being able to recognize them and know their mechanics, targets, and outcomes will be necessary to undo them. Thanks for your vision and clear dissection of this deadly disease.
They always think domination is intelligence. But the real intelligence is recognizing that control is only a symptom of fear. And fear is always the beginning of collapse.
I've witnessed a great deal of life living here in LA. I have to say it's been brutal to watch my own city diminish into nothing, or so he thought! 🤔🤬
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People have been debating the nature of Fascism. Most of the Signs we famously see are superficial features. This is after the trap has been sprung. This is how the cage looks like when it’s finished not when it’s in progress. I would say it is the arbitrary, blatant and malicious use of Power.
When people think of Fascism, they thing of really awful government and they put whatever fits in their box for that into their definition. Usually it’s very harsh, incomprehensible laws and rules that are force fed down everyone’s throats. That is Autocracy but not necessarily Fascism. Liberalism is based on a sense of fairness. Fascism is designed specifically to be UNFAIR.
Over and over I hear people call out Trump and the Republicans for hypocrisy. They say “Libs are bad because blah, blah, blah but THEY do it!” Or “The GOP are so stupid for this Law. Don’t they see it biting them in the ass when the Democrats are back in charge!”
Their draconian rules are meant for YOU not for them. It is supposed to sting. It is meant to disorient you. It is to convince you that nothing is fair.
This is the LURE of Fascism. You point out the System isn’t fair. People agree with you. You promise you will fix the system. You identify scapegoats to blame for everyone’s problems. And you rig the system to be cruel and unfair for the scapegoats.
Unfair to them, in contrast to before, looks like fairness to the masses and they cheer. But who is “Them” shifts at Dear Leader’s will. This traps everyone in a mad contest to see who can be subservient to Dear Leader.
Trump is a Sociopath. One of the main features of Sociopathy is they do not believe in Good and Bad. They only know what brings pain and what brings pleasure. They will manipulate you to get whatever they want by doling out pleasure and pain until you are conditioned to do their will.
By identifying and dehumanizing the Scapegoat, they channel your sense of outrage into identifying enemies within. With the Nation, your Family or God at stake (according to them) they will turn your notion of Right and Wrong on its head. To see your former neighbors as mortal enemies.
This causes a Moral Inversion where Good and Bad flip. Suddenly it is normal, even desirable to kill your neighbor, ignore the cries of a child, ignore sacrifice and deprivation if it is in the name of a higher cause. Even God is on your side, you are certain.
So what Fascism really is is Sociopathy turned into Public Policy. Everyone becoming selfish rats doing whatever feels good while they can get away with it. Dear Leader is pleased because his mental sickness has spread throughout the land. His selfishness was not only CORRECT but triumphant.
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