Thursday, August 31, 2023

Crooked Nilly Willy stuck in mania American politicians facing the rise of The Fourth Reich need Kali's help?

    I posted this below on Facebook and got a nibble.

Sloan Bashinsky
Beyond bizarre, President Biden.
A Republican friend told me about this last night. 
 
Business Insider
August 22, 2023
When President Joe Biden met with survivors of the Maui wildfires on Monday, he told them that he could relate to them because he and First Lady Jill Biden knew what it was like to lose a home to a fire.
But the fire in question was described by the Associated Press at the time as "a small fire that was contained to the kitchen," with the Delaware fire chief indicating that it was under control in 20 minutes.
During Biden's visit to Maui, where the devastating wildfires have killed at least 114 people, he made a 13-minute speech to a group of survivors in Lahaina —the city destroyed by flames, with nearly every building to ash and rubble.
"I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home," he said, according to remarks published by The White House.

Frank
His Pants are always on FIRE! Liar Liar!

Sloan Bashinsky
This incident is about Biden being an idiot in that moment. Sometimes he lies, or spins, but it looks to me Trump lies and spins most of the time.

Frank
They are ALL crooked Sloan! It is all about the Greed! Very Very Sad! Not sure that anything matters but the $$ in Their pockets.

Sloan Bashinsky 
Yes, they’re all crooked. It may be in politicians’ genes? I wondered that when I ran as an independent 10 times for local office in the Florida Keys, during which time I closely watch national politics and concluded political parties are cults and should be outlawed. That said, Donald Trump and his legions, and the RINOs who stand by him, including his RINO presidential opponents, remind me a lot of Nazi Germany in late1930s, which Joe Biden and the Dems do not. 
 
Frank
I knew that Trump was shady from things He had done in his past but when He went up against the Professionals in DC, we see what happened. Agreed that we need to clean house and start over, However I do not believe that there are any honest politicians these days.
   
Sloan Bashinsky
It's not in their genes. Trump came along to show them that, by being a bigger liar than any of them. 

    Along not all that similar lines, Dominican Republic native Sancho Panza, who voted twice for Barack Obama and twice for Donald Trump, had at me over the While almost nobody was talking about Amendment 14, Secton 3, Donald the Thug, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen and St. Peter had themselves some serious yucks  post at this blog, and I took the bait😎.

Sancho
Still obsessed with that Trump whale, ah, Abe?

Me
I can’t turn on tv or internet withoutTrump hogging the airways, and since I’m running against him, maybe he is who you who voted twice for him should poke?😎

Sancho
If people like you, in The MSM and Social Media, would simply stop talking about Trump, perhaps he would just fade away into obsolescence! As I see it, all these indictments and media attention are aimed at making sure that he is the Republican Nominee for 2024... so the choice, once again, would be between the same two preselected Flimflam Men... I will vote for Trump, again, for kicks! Biden's is now just a rotting corpse... is that why you like him? I bet you kind of feel sorry for him... and for your self? Maybe he will pick you as his VP, oh, but wait, you're the wrong color and not gay... sorry old buddy! Emoji

Me
If you read my missives, you know I don’t like Biden. Nothing will shut up Trump but prison, or he has a coronary and dies or a stroke and can’t move or talk, or someone with the means takes him out. You think this is but a game for you, and you do not understand the stakes, but at some point in time and space, you will. 

Sancho
I know you say that you don't like uncle Joe, but you always give him a pass on all the things that he (or whoever is pulling his strings) has screwed up, like our Rampant Inflation and his "Enlightened" Despotism in the name of the common good(lockdowns, mandated experimental shots, children genital mutilation, etc.)... but, especially in his Neocon-Stacked Administration being responsible for creating the ripe conditions for a nuclear war with Russia and China, a civilization ending holocaust in the name of defending a corrupt country's borders, while opening up our own borders to a passive invasion of Third World refuges and the concomitant Drug Cartel's trafficking that will only exacerbate the suffering in many of our major cities which are already littered with homeless people and riddled with addiction, moral decay, crime, gang violence, etc. 

So, yeah, I don't know the stakes, like you did when you closed your eyes and pulled the lever for uncle Joe KKK Biden....  EmojiEmojiEmojiEmoji

But there is hope for the future, lol, the guy below is such a Politically Eloquent BS Artist that I don't know anybody that can hold a candle to him; Obama and Trump are like talking baboons next to him. Enjoy, he might be your POTUS one day! Emoji 



Joe Biden is a racists carpet bagger videos







Me
So, you won’t vote for The Fourth Reich candidate the third time after all?  

I voted for Biden because I knew Trump was fond of Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Putin. I knew he was the white supremacists’ dream come true. Photos of seas of white faces at Trump rallies, Charlottesville and Jan 6 speak for themselves. If you think the Hindu Trump clone is better than Barack Obama, for whom you voted twice, you need a brain transplant😎. I doubt many Aryans will vote for the Hindu😎.

Sancho
And you need to double your Prevagen doses... I said, I was considering a Hindu alright, but not Ramasuammy, who is just a Super Smart Obama-like BS artist... you know very well who I am talking about, I sent you many videos about him! 

My pick will never become POTUS, so the choice is going to come down to a repeat and we will both do what we did before! If Shiva is in the ballot, I will vote for him, if not, I will vote for Trump... in the primary I will vote for Vivek! 
Ciao!

Me
You seemed to be promoting another Hindu candidate, and perhaps I should have asked you if you were suffering from split personality, or remorse? It doesn't' matter, if they ever met Kali face to face, they would start behaving in ways that would cause you to wonder if they need Ghostbusters' help. I'm writing my name on the ballot this year, which I did a few tiimes in the Florida Keys. Then, the only karma I have to deal with is mine😎.

Sancho
You call this promoting?

"But there is hope for the future, lol, the guy below is such a Politically Eloquent BS Artist that I don't know anybody that can hold a candle to him; Obama and Trump are like talking baboons next to him. Enjoy, he might be your POTUS one day! Emoji "

Me
Yep. Nilly Willy stuck in mania.

    This Hindu artist's version of Hindu Goddess Kali standing on Shiva shrieks Kali and her half-naked angry female entourage do not care one iota for how men think.

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

A psychiatric mass psychosis analysis and a mass demonic possession assessment of Donald Trump and his cult

  

    Every now and then, I see something truly profound online. That happened earlier today, when the Substack column below showed up in my email account. It was the very first time I had seen someone size up in psychiatric terms, what I have been sizing up in demonic possession terms: Donald Trump and his cult. Please understand, the same analysis applies to any political cult, such as the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. Below the column is my comment to the person who published it, and his reply, and my reply back to him. I have been reading his musings for some time, but this time he went out and lassoed something every American should read a few times, but, of course, good luck that happening.

Trump’s Mass Psychosis Cult

Way back in the day (2017), a brave and outstanding professor of psychiatry Bandi X. Lee edited and then published of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a book of essays by mental health professionals including respected psychiatrists  and psychologists, who discussed the mental health of then-President Donald Trump. Dr. Lee can be credited with popularizing Trump as a “Malignant Narcissist.” Her professional focus as a Yale Professor was centered on public health, particularly in the areas of violence prevention, trauma, and the psychological effects of societal and political factors on individuals and communities.

It’s important to note that the concept of malignant narcissism is not an official diagnostic category in mental health. Instead, it’s a descriptive term used by mental health professionals to aggregate and characterize a specific combination of traits that can be observed in some individuals:

1. Narcissism: Exaggerated sense of self-importance, preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, a need for excessive admiration, and a lack of empathy.

2. Antisocial Traits: Manipulativeness, deceitfulness, disregard for the rights of others, and a tendency to exploit and manipulate others for personal gain.

3. Aggressiveness: A propensity for hostility, aggression, and a willingness to use others for personal advancement.

4. Grandiosity: An inflated sense of one’s own importance, accompanied by fantasies of power, success, and attractiveness.

5. Lack of Empathy: Difficulty understanding or caring about the feelings and needs of others.

6. Impulsivity: Acting without thinking through the consequences, often driven by a desire for immediate gratification.

7. Paranoia: Suspicion and distrust of others, often accompanied by a tendency to perceive oneself as a victim or under constant threat.

8. Inability to Handle Criticism: Strong reactions to criticism or perceived slights, often responding with defensiveness, anger, or vindictiveness.

9. Egocentrism: An excessive focus on oneself and a disregard for the needs and perspectives of others.

The above list of traits literally is Trump

Get Rid of Trump; Problem Solved – Not So Fast

Dr. Lee understands that the larger problem of Trump is that he is not in isolation. It is the dynamic between him his Fascist Loving Republican base. Lee describes this relationship as “shared psychosis” One small scale example is the crazed mob that he set forth on January 6, 2021 to storm the Capital and by one of several strategies overturn a legal election to return him office as the President. 

Lee was essentially prescient when went on to explain this even greater threat posed to society in an article that appeared in a 2022 “Scientific American” article:

When a highly symptomatic individual is placed in an influential position, the person’s symptoms can spread through the population through emotional bonds, heightening existing pathologies and inducing delusions, paranoia and propensity for violence—even in previously healthy individuals. The treatment is removal of exposure.

CBS Polls verify the depth of “Symbiotic Mass Psychosis”

This brings me to recent polls conducted by CBS, because it provides us a far more revealing set of insights than the usual who is ahead in the horse race predictions that we associate with political campaigning.

The CBS poll is far more nuanced and reveal emotive feelings, more like the results derived from a focus group in marketing. With this approach we see levels of underlying emotion and feeling about what drives people’s desires, and commitment about a product or service. In this instance Trump.

Lee explained the dynamic of Trump’s widely accepted “malignant  narcissism” which extends into a symbiosis with his cult followers. The Lee, Scientific American article stated that “When such wounded individuals are given positions of power, they arouse similar pathology in the population that creates a “lock and key” relationship.” a form of mass psychosis that goes far beyond normal group psychology.

The two polls conducted in August of 2023 describe the Trump supporter relationship as “transactional.” That is to say, it is more of a two way relationship;

“They know him better than others. Plus they like him personally, but even more, they believe he fights for them,” (CBS Poll 08/23)

Additional beliefs on which Trump and his base mirror at high levels are:

  • They feel he fights for them.

  • They want payback.

  • Violent means are justified

  • He makes them feel inspired, confident and empowered

  • Democrats are enemies and a threat to their way of life

  • Trump will restore to a past when America Was Great

The Deeply Disturbed 30%

One finds that in poll after poll and in research project that the hardcore Trump base seems to be 30 to 35% of the adult American Electorate at or over age 18.

It should come as no shock that according to the  John Hopkins school of Mental Health that: An estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older -- about 1 in 4 adults -- suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. (John Hopkins)

I would suggest this is a conservative under estimate off by 4 to as much as 10%

Meanwhile Cucker Tarlson and Trump on the “X” Interview

As litigation and criminal charges amass Trump is ratcheting up the base, cranking up the symbiosis, acknowledging their hatred and the bond he has with them.

“Asked by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson whether the nation is headed toward open conflict, Trump responded: “I don’t know. I can say this: There’s a level of passion that I’ve never seen. There’s a level of hatred that I’ve never seen. And that’s probably a bad combination.”

Trump compared the current volatile mix of passion and hatred to the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and pivoted to defending his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol that day — falsely describing the violent assault as a day of “love and unity.” (Source: Washington Post 08/23)”

Trump didn’t respond directly. “I think the people of our country don’t get enough credit for how smart they are,” he said. “They get it. I got indicted four times. All trivial. Nonsense. Bullshit. It’s all bullshit.” (From Slate Magazine: 08/24)

Trump Continues to Chum the Waters

The CBS poll insights provide strong evidence and verifies that the psycho/social dynamic of “shared psychosis” is well established and working ever more intensely.

Most of us have experienced the head banging a wall frustration in trying to get a family member or close friend who “loves Trump”and who will vote form him in 2024, even as a convicted felon to be “woke” from the illusion of Trump and his fellow fascist loving minions

Shared Psychosis is not a  new  phenomenon.  In the The Mass Delusions of Crowds, author William J. Bernstein, quotes Friedrich Nietzsche, “Madness is rare in the individual—but with groups, parties, peoples, and ages it is the rule.” Bernstein cites numerous cases in which Christianity serves as  a prime example and a constant source for the generation of mass hysteria.

One example happened in America around 150 years ago. Protestant Christianity evolved a doctrine of dispensationalism which its modern advocates have honed into the world’s most compelling end-times narrative. This includes many tropes like the Rapture, End Times, and of course, the Anti-Christ. Today’s Evangelicals are promoting Christian Nationalism with Trump integrated in these apocalyptic events as none other than a second “King Cyrus” in the role of a living demigod. As a new King Cyrus Trump will save Christians from the horror of slavery and death just as the original Cyrus saved Jews from persecution. That there is absolutely nos such threat is of course never taken into consideration in the mind of symbiotic Trumpers.

You and I are not part of is the “bond” formed by Trump minions who see him as the living embodiment of all the wealth and power they too could and should have. Trump gives legitimacy to previously frowned upon bigotry, racism, misogyny as well as the employment of rampant capitalism that features thuggery and grifting as both moral and normal to ones success.

This is why Bandi X. Lee uses the analogy of a lock and key to explain the relationship. The Trump/Base is always melding.  It is a constant feedback loop energized by and for for aggrieved people who see Trump as some form of hope, recompense and even avenging angel for their immiseration. He will enable their deliverance from decades of wage stagnation, drugs, alcohol and deaths of despair. Suffering they never see as caused by rich capitalist, but by a system that caters to the less deserving. An “other” that will breed in such numbers as to overcome them completely.

Trump and his crony sociopathic billionaires have found the ideal means to exploit those they grift to supply their endless narcissism and greed.

The CBS polls are literal handwriting on the wall. When Trump instructs his base to move from “stand down” to fight like hell then we are in truly uncharted territory as a nation.

Our least painful step to precluding the Trump Fascist State is to begin voting him and all Republicans from public office in 2024.

Reference:

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Thomas Dunne Books, 2017. (Editor) ISBN 978-1250179456

The Delusion of Crowds: Why People GO MAD in GROUPS, 2021 William J. Berstein ISBN 978-0-8021-5709-6 eISBN 978-0-8021-5711-9

Sloan Bashinsky
👍, much the same analysis for mass demonic possession, starting at the top, Trump. Yet absent Force Majuere, Trump and his supporters are unreachable, and most Republicans will vote for him, regardless. I still like Amendment 14, Section 3, under which Jan 6 disqualifies him to run for office. Why the DOJ didn’t bring that civil case D.C. US District Court in 2021 baffles me. Maybe the prosecutors can pick juries that don’t include Trump ringers? Maybe Trump will have a coronary or stroke that takes him out? Maybe a Secret Service agent will feel compelled to put country before Trump? Maybe aliens abduct Trump? Do I like Sleepy Joe? No. Do I think the Dems have their shit together? No. But they don’t remind me of Nazi Germany, they don’t look like the Fourth Reich. 

Ol’ Flawriduh Cracker
Sloan! Always good to read your responses. You are right in that there a numerous factors at play from electoral politics to strokes (Trump is in no way immune to that end as is Biden).
Your point about a Fascist Amerika becoming reality under a return of Trump is well made and I would add should be taken as fact not a could be.
There is a local PBS affiliate program that serves as a roundup of Florida political events where a Trumpite panelist was literally shouting warnings of get even payback against us Democrats. Evidently it is they who suffer under the “Communist Yoke of Biden.” Who knew?
Oh, the DOJ historically has served as a shield for the Executive in power. I give some credit to Jack Smith, but a plurality of Fascist Judges can engage in all kinds of stalls and denials. And they are currently immune from being removed by anyone.

Sloan Bashinsky
Amendment 14, Section 3
Disqualification from Holding Office
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

I clerked for a U.S. District Judge who presided over ever federal prosecution in North Alabama. I think President Biden was an idiot if he did not twist his Attorney General's arm to bring a Section 3 action in the Washington, D.C. U.S. District Court to disqualify Trump, or kiss adios being the US Attorney General. There are federal judges who are not whored out to Donald Trump. Maybe one of them would have been assigned the case by the D.C. District Court Clerk's AI. 

That aside, the psychiatric work up you shared parallels what I have been telling people for years. If they latch themselves to a political party/candidate, they do it in all ways imaginable and unimaginable, until and they unlatch themselves by renouncing the party/candidate. Meaning, if the candidate is demonically possessed, they become demonically possessed, regardless of their going to church every Sunday and reading and parading the Bible and so forth. 

I will feature your post and our discussion at my blog, The Redneck Mystical Lawyer for President on the Unicorn Ticket, which, of course, is a graveyard dead serious spoof.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

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Monday, August 28, 2023

While almost nobody was talking about Amendment 14, Secton 3, Donald the Thug, Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen and St. Peter had themselves some serious yucks

    While news and social media went bonkers over 4 indictments of Donald The Thug, I saw this in my Apple News feed:

Florida lawyer files legal challenge to disqualify Trump from 2024 presidential race 

August 23, 2023 

A lawyer from Palm Beach County has filed one of the first legal challenges to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential race under a clause in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.

Boynton Beach tax attorney Lawrence Caplan filed the challenge in federal court in the Southern District of Florida citing the amendment's "disqualification clause" for those who engage in insurrections and rebellion against the United States. The amendment was ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, during Reconstruction, and also addressed the citizenship status of freed slaves and the re-integration of the defeated Confederate states back into the Union...

    and I posted on my Facebook:

I wonder why this took so long to happen, and only in one state- Florida?

Amendment 14, Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. 
 
Peggy
Right? Why haven’t they been shouting this from the hills since Jan 6th?

Sloan Bashinsky
Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden shout it? Why didn’t the US Attorney General file a 14th Amendment disqualification action in the US District Court in Washington D. C., where Trump was and the Jan 6, 2020 insurrection happened?

    After Donald The Thug's weigh-in at the Fulton County, Georiga jail, I posted at my Facebook:

Why was Trump permitted to tell the jail he weighed 215 pounds, instead of the jail weighing him? If he weighs only 215 pounds, there are no Scales of Justice.

    As for Stormy Daniels' view of The Thug's weight: 

The Washington Post

Stormy Daniels in disbelief over Trump weight: ‘I’m 110lbs and a virgin’

By 
Jon Levine
August 26, 2023 

Porn star Stormy Daniels said she doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump weighs only 215 pounds, as hisFulton County jail booking records attest.

“Mmmkay! And I’m 110lbs and a virgin 😂! I’m not a scale or a doctor but I have spent some time beneath 215lb men and Tiny was not one of them,” she wrote Friday on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Trump also listed his height at 6 feet 3 inches — putting him in a class alongside the likes of boxer Muhammad Ali in his prime, and actor Chris Hemsworth when he played Thor.

Trump’s last reported weight was taken in 2020 during his annual physical as president. 

At that time he weighed 244 pounds and was an inch shorter. 

Before achieving his current peak physical performance, his former weight was considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Adult BMI Calculator.

Former President Trump's weight puts him in a class of elite athletes. Former President Trump’s weight puts him in a class of elite athletes. via REUTERSStormy Daniels said she didn't buy that Trump was just 215 pounds. Stormy Daniels 
 

Trump’s indictment in Georgia — his fourth in 2023 — includes 13 new counts of racketeering and conspiracy and other alleged offenses from efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Daniels herself is at the center of an indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stemming from Trump’s alleged payment of hush money to her to keep quiet about an affair they had before the 2016 presidential election. 

Trump has denied ever sleeping with Daniels.

Daniels’ commentary was only the latest in a string of posts online dissecting the historic booking at Fulton County. One commentator compared his mugshot to the famous “Kubrick Stare”

“A method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that they are at the peak of their derangement,” said the poster. 

     The next Fulton County Jail hee haw:

HUFF POST
POLITICS 08/28/2023
Michael Cohen Says What Really ‘Appalled’ Him About Trump’s Georgia Arrest

One part of the proceedings angered the former president's fixer.

Michael Cohen, a former fixer for Donald Trump, on Sunday expressed his disgust with what he described as the “royal treatment” the former president received when he surrendered to law enforcement officials in Fulton County, Georgia, last week over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

“I was appalled, to be honest with you, while watching the news and watching how Donald was brought to the Fulton County Jail,” Cohen told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi. “Forty-motorcade in New Jersey, forty-motorcade in Georgia. Why? He’s nothing more than an indicted defendant.”e Politics 

“How much money did it cost the American taxpayers? How much money did it cost the people of Atlanta in order to put all the police officers? For what?” Cohen added. “For this man to roll up like he’s, you know, Caesar coming through the gates of Rome after victory. He is an indicted defendant on 91 counts. He should not be given this sort of royal treatment.”

    Overcome by what might cause William Shakespeare to die laughing in his grave, I posted at my Facebook page:

Sloan Bashinsky
So, I read in a news article that the Christian fundamentalist Sarah Palin warned the American left that prosecuting Donald Trump will bring a civil war, is that what the left wants? I wondered if Sarah ever even once considered that Jesus in the Gospels would tell her to tell the American right, if they start a civil war for any reason, they never knew Jesus in the Gospels, who waged civil war very differently in his day. Sarah might also tell the American right that they really should stop calling the American left communists. 
 
NIV Acts 4:
32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.
33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all
34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales
35 and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.

Charles
You do have a way with words Sloan 
 
Sloan 
I was trained by angels known in the Bible, they get most of the credit. They really roughed me up in many ways. I see no way humanity gets straightened out without similar treatment. Even after that, it won’t be easy.

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