Parse this "interview", all you need to know about how corrupt Trump is & how venal his intentions are on the table in full view.
There is no mystery here. He would overturn & destroy every/any thing to retain power.
He claims overwhelming evidence yet none has ever been offered
in a setting where the consequences of lying actually apply.
I recall one of the Trump principles being perfectly elucidated when being challenged in a lie told congress "I have no obligation to be honest to the media".
And they prove that they are liars, and will lie about anything as necessary to get what they want every day, in regards to every matter.
The reason it works is because there still is some underlying sense that no one would be so blatent a liar.
It is unbelievable Trump&Co
would in fact make such claims if they were not true.
Trump knows how to use this innate goodness of the American people for his purposes. Though the gambit is wearing thin, & is becoming increasingly ineffective.
This is the chief mistake America made, after the initial one of
trusting this imposter with the power of the presidency and the trust of the nation, was to think he could not do what he has done repeatedly.
We are still under the thrall of this incredible lie and fiction.
The current power gambit is example.
This interview is example.
Trump is the living example and proof of the propagandist's core operational principle: If you tell a lie, loud enough & long enough, and never admit anything to the contrary, no matter the facts, people will believe you.
It is Machiavelli in our time. Cynical but effective.
Here Trump cites mountains of evidence.
Yet in every instance where they had the opportunity to show their evidence and make their case they failed.
The only place their stacks of paper, which likely as not having nothing on them, like all the stacks of paper Trump has pointed
to as "proof" of whatever fraud he was inflicting in that moment (remember the stacks of papers re his taxes...but no one ever got to see a single page out of that stack). So the thousands of pages they riffle on TV "showing" their evidence; claiming overwhelming proof of
election fraud. When it comes to showing their work, they never do. They have no work. They have no proof. And have been run out of every court in the country because of it.
Now they have to shift the story. You see the trick in this interview.
Ignore the facts (a prerequisite)
and simply assert as fact that there is evidence, and now accuse the system of being the problem.
Start bellowing that lie loud and repetitively. Get all your communication organs to replicate the lie on the same terms. And when your most reliable ally in the fraud cant keep up
, when it becomes impossible for even Fox "news" to maintain the charade, turn on them. Turn on them fast and furious. There is no loyalty. No recognition of the value they have provided hitherto.
No.
No contradiction to the Grand Lie that is being claimed and inculcated into
American public mind/heart is allowed any standing. To allow even a shred of truth is to begin to unravel the entire fabric of the deciet.
So there is no evidence. Fox News is cast out. Now Republican officials in GA, themselves more than willing to implement processes &
policies to suppress voting, to deny legitimate voters the ability to cast their vote...even these once willing and effective captains of the team are attacked and rejected as if enemies. And dealt with accordingly.
Shades of Henry VIII, and Thomas Cromwell.
The outlines of the fraud and the ends to which this drunken, addled, anti-American man & "supporters" are willing to go. There is no lie that will not be told and promulgated if it is deemed useful. And no statement made that will not be revoked or "forgotten" when it no longer
is.
Remember all the nonsense Trump advocated re his stupid responses & witches' brew nostrums of healing? Or any of hundreds of other examples of this point.
Tell the lie, ride it to the end. When it no longer is useful abandon it and pretend it never happened.
"Birtherism"?
Every day is a new day standing at yet a new crossroads of decision concerning Trump.
Every day the games & gambits Trump has employed are being exposed & revealed as wrong, factless, illegitimate & ultimately without the simplest of merit.
As unsubstantial as a Gulliani fart.
And every day "We the People" have to choose again to not allow this cancer, this blight, that is Trump and his constant, whiney, solipsistic attacks on America to continue.
We have to be willing to call it out, at every single moment & opportunity when Trump tries to claim a lie, that Trump is, not an emperor, but a fool "with no clothes."
As loudly & as often as he tries to insinuate himself he must be met & rejected as a liar & threat to America.
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Those who advocate for “no government” miss the essential point that a society will be created out of the basic fact of humans being in relationship. There will be a distribution of power.
The idea Gov is the prob that markets or “private sector” will solve is a systemic error.
The question isn’t gov versus no gov. Government is just a term describing the principles and structure of social relationships. This includes the particulars identified in the preamble of the Constitution. Common defense. Domestic tranquility as well as the general welfare.
The principles that underlie constitutional form of government, the ones underlined these days in the breach, rule of law, consent of the governed, various freedoms established in the Bill of Rights, nobody above the law, &etc, are the foundation for what can be built.
Already there is a mountain of examples of Trump and his minions bellowing at the S.C. for upholding the Constitution claiming they did not defend the Constitution by subverting it to their needs & ends.
This just this is a small glimpse into how Trump and his anti-American
supporters actually think about the Constitution. It is not America they are defending, but their claim to power. Absolute power. In every case they make no claim for the good of the people or the country only their whiny defeat and loss.
In short they don’t believe in the country, the constitution, or the rules of our society. Like all good enemies of freedom and the country, they want power will use any means to get it. Especially the structure & the systems of the society they intend to subvert.
There is the original Pandora's Box.
And there is the current version, Trump's Box.
There have been many boxes before.
We stand at the crossroads of choice...Having learned nothing about how fragile progress is & how easily destroyed, we seem poised to fight over the basics.
What Trump seems to have done, like the many authoritarian power hungry before him...examples are obvious, is to first tap into the unconscious dreads & fears of a sizable percentage of the people, then focus it into an external rage against the feared. With this base, unleash
a few wildlings who will function as the #Brownshirts, who will incite fear into the disorganized public by damaging, setting fire to, harming "those people". The poem "...but it wasn’t me, so I did nothing", comes into play.
But the effect of disruption is rippling through the
Irrational anger & outrage which is easily manipulated, as we see being done, into tribal affiliation. Predicated not on some devotion to core ideals & principles of the country, but something else.
One side largely is moved by wanting a system, a society, a government that is responsive to the situation and needs of the public. This has a number of aspects, from infrastructure, taking care of the environment, BLM, taking care of the 'least among us' &etc.
These folks...
These folks on "the other side"... Not sure what to call this other side. It is a collection of right wing people, some who are simply "members" by affiliation, by tradition, by location in the country...others by reasoned choice.
However they get there, a large % are like this.
I wonder how you live in the fog of this anger & untouchable outrage. All for a man who is flawed beyond belief.
Do you not see the difference just in tone & character.
Tr storming around like a petulant child?
Ready to subvert justice at every turn?
Tied into
@tommy_pane 2/ fanatasies of personal umbrage, while the nation burns.
When it is revealed in detail how he & his family have been profiting from the presidency is that going to make any difference?
Does it mean nothing to you that he has been subverting the constitution?
@tommy_pane 3/ You don't of course. For some reason you think what Tr is doing is just fine.
You don't think that he is subverting the will of the people at all.
Even though his "victory" of 2016 which he bellowed was "the greatest ever" (another lie, always a lie w Trump)
was less than
@StevenBeschloss@HC_Richardson How do we keep track of this?
And when it happens that we are told we have to 'move on' for the sake of the country, what shall we do then?
I fear we are going to leave the cancer in the body having only cut out the most obvious part. And that not cleanly.
It is déjà vu' all over again-the same questions from long ago: "...When will they every learn...When...".
The answer seems to be never.
I do not have faith in the resolve of @JoeBiden et al, to
@StevenBeschloss@HC_Richardson 3/ do what is necessary to explore what has happened these last 4 years.
Agreed, what needs to be done is not Retribution. Nothing done out of anger. But if we are truly unable to deal with the facts of what happened, in all of its details - there will be no healing.