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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 Profile picture
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May 28, 2023 • 12 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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Top: Unknown author, Jan 2018
VERY accurate description of QAnon as a military-grade psychological operation to make “normies” cause “violent extremist acts”

Bottom: Mike Flynn, 2023
“Citizen’s Guide to 5th Generation Warfare” with chart “HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE”
🧵 https://t.co/l7tNnrsnp6
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The top chart was posted to Medium about ten weeks after “Q” started posting. The behavior being described here *had not manifested in QAnon yet*

This was a PLAN not a description. Note as well that the author was well aware of ISIS and its radicalization tactics. Image
This intentional radicalization pathway was workshopped and perfected on 4chan and 8chan.

“Targeting of vulnerable social groups” — like moms, veterans, aggrieved white males, neurodiverse

“With perceived victim status for political end” — this is all martyrdom, just like ISIS https://t.co/oT9sjLe3k1

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“Redpill” is a term from the Matrix that was used by incels and other misogynists in the precursor to GamerGate on Reddit. It gradually morphed into a phrase that actually means “brainwashed into neo-fascist ideology.”

Misogyny has always been the easiest way to divide. https://t.co/U64K7DMBJr

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“Algorithmic reinforcement of emotional viral payloads through network propagation” is an academic — and accurate — phrase describing how insulated disinformation networks function to cause undue influence, aka brainwashing.

Right: TOC for Mike Flynn’s 2012 paper on psyops. https://t.co/elwpIUZ6it

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Left: Jan 2018, “#IAMQ” is given as the label for “Identification, Indoctrination & Group Bonding”

Right: 2023, Mike Flynn uses “#IAMFLYNN” to promote a QAnon rapper and a song about holy war and “evil stuff” in “HOLLYWEIRD”

Flynn also promoted “I AM” doctrine in a church. https://t.co/OsCbY9er9E

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“Moralization Justifying Violence”

“These people are sick” is a phrase that has been used endlessly by QAnon adherents

“Ratcheting up of rhetoric, imagery, aggression & dehumanization of out-group” is what’s going on all around us.

The author knew QAnon’s true purpose, before. https://t.co/K33pttzyvq
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After the 2016 election a Pizzagate believer went to Comet Pizza with a rifle. He though Hillary had hidden kids in the basement. That was a successful test.

A week before the insurrection I knew people were going to die on 1/6 — because the purpose has always been violence. https://t.co/giBdPhjQNS
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While I don’t know the author of the chart on the left, I do know the author of the chart on the right.

Mike Flynn brags about being a psyops expert, and about “taking over countries around the world.”

These 2 charts are the SAME, one just has more detail.

QAnon is a psyop. https://t.co/0uY6059hU6

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Two months after the insurrection I shot a documentary that described how Mike Flynn’s QAnon psychological operation works.

I understood QAnon from the beginning because it’s weaponizing gaming techniques I helped develop for entertainment 20 years ago.

Please watch and share.
The QAnon psyop regularly causes death.

Veronica Wolski got pulled into the antivax “QAnon radicalization pathway.” She put banners up on a bridge — for Bernie, then for @GenFlynn.

Left: 1/30/21, Flynn’s house w/Flynn-signed “Q” gear
Right: 9/13/21, Dying of COVID, unvaccinated
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While it’s unclear who accessed the “QAnon Radicalization Pathway” on Medium before April 2018, “Q” made sure to promote the document, accusing the CIA (“Clowns”) of originally posting it.

Of a document describing a psyop to kill people, “Q” said: “Bad mixed w/good” Image

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 Profile picture
Jul 31
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🧵 How It Happened: Why America Mirrors Donald Trump
1/9
 Introduction

The staying power of Donald Trump’s psychological hold on millions of Americans is one of the enduring mysteries of the 21st century. Despite an endless supply of evidence of his criminality, corruption and deviance, a large minority of the body politic still remains dutifully attached.

In this article, I will outline how this happened, why it retains its power, and what it means for all of us if we don’t break the system that sustains it.
This theory describes:
• The Five-Step Process of Online Brainwashing
• Emotional Mimesis and Mimetic Synchrony, an extension of Girardian theory
• How interlocking operant conditioning loops and hypervigilance drive the system
• How this is creating a regime of Epistemological Totalitarianism
• Our structural descent into Organizational and Governmental Decompensation
• Why all of this established a seemingly unbreakable national trauma bond
• Where this is going: the surveillance-carceral-epistemic state

Every component of this system is grounded in well-established clinical psychology, neurobiology, and information theory. While this system was no accident, the theory is independent of who created it. It describes how people are coaxed, traumatized and entrapped into a system that has no exit, and how the psychology of one man is on the verge of permanently bringing down the American experiment.Image
2/9
 Part I: The Five-Step Process of Online Brainwashing

Brainwashing, or undue influence, is not a metaphor or a conspiracy theory. Everyone who has been captured by Donald Trump’s personality cult has been brainwashed through a highly efficient, ruthless system of psychological, physiological and neurobiological capture which creates an intense trauma bond mirroring Trump’s own psyche.

1. Redpilling and Trauma
“Redpilling” is a euphemism for psychologically bombarding a human being with emotionally destabilizing digital content designed to traumatize the subject.

Trauma is a psychological and physiological response to an overwhelming event that exceeds the mind’s ability to process, regulate, or integrate, often resulting in lasting disruption to perception, memory, and identity.

Content that depicts a world under threat along with narratives and visuals of pedophilia, violence, terror & secret conspiracies arrayed against America and Donald Trump are designed with the specific intent of generating trauma and creating an epistemological break.

2. Dissociation
Dissociation is a psychological defense mechanism in which the mind detaches from reality, memory, emotion, or identity in order to protect itself from overwhelming stress or trauma.

Dissociation evolved to be a healthy response to trauma. If someone’s mind can’t process an event in real-time, especially when it believes it’s in danger, it creates a psychological break, and develops a new identity that is still able to function.

Normally, this is temporary and the person reintegrates identities, but in prolonged cases of trauma, the secondary identity can subsume the original. From the DSM-V on dissociative disorders:
“Identity disturbance due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion: Individuals who have been subjected to intense coercive persuasion (e.g., brainwashing, thought reform, indoctrination while captive, torture, long-term political imprisonment, recruitment by sects/cults or by terror organizations) may present with prolonged changes in, or conscious questions of, their identity.”

3. Salvation
A dissociated, traumatized person is in an extremely vulnerable state. They are effectively split, between an identity who is in overwhelming mental anguish, and a second identity created to try to analyze the situation and escape danger.

This is when the savior, or the prophet, arrives to provide a solution. It speaks to the second identity, which is depersonalized from the trauma. Whether it’s Trump, or Q, or some other prophet, it encourages the new identity and offers hope—and redemption.
“You have been chosen. Do your own research.”

4. Refreezing
The Unfreeze → Change → Refreeze process is well-established in psychology.

From Kurt Lewin, to Robert Lifton, to Dr. Steven Hassan, it has been shown that cultic systems universally break down a person’s defenses by “unfreezing” them through trauma, making changes to the subject’s belief system and personality, and then “refreezing” the new personality.

This used to require an insulated compound, like David Koresh or Jim Jones built for their authoritarian cults. Now these dynamics can all happen through your phone.

In the Trump system, you are traumatized and dissociated by content, changed through a new savior and a new ideology, and then the “boards” on 4chan, Facebook, Twitter or Telegram provides a welcoming place to land—but only as long as you mirror the group’s new emotional norms. Deviate, and you’re exiled. You are being refrozen.

5. Mimetic Synchrony
Once the subject has been unfrozen through trauma, changed to a new personality and belief system, and refrozen, cognition is replaced with emotional entrainment. Subjects begin to move, speak, and feel as one. This is not persuasion—it’s possession.
They are not hearing him. They are feeling him.
Mimetic synchrony is why Trump’s personality cult doesn’t behave like a political movement, it behaves like a flock of birds or a school of fish.Image
3/9
 Part II: Emotional Mimesis — Beyond Girard

René Girard’s mimetic theory attempts to explain human behavior through the concept of mimetic desire, or the instinct to want what someone else wants. In his model, this leads to mimetic rivalry and scapegoating. He proposed a triangulated system between the subject, another person who acts as the model, and the object of desire.

Mimesis is the process by which humans unconsciously imitate the behaviors, emotions, or desires of others, shaping identity and perception through social reflection rather than individual intention.

Girard’s theory has merit, but Girard ultimately framed Christianity—particularly the crucifixion—as the universal solution to mimetic rivalry, limiting the theory’s secular applications. Here are Girard’s model and my more generalized model of emotional mimesis in comparison.

Emotional mimesis is the process of subconsciously imitating someone’s emotions, e.g. Donald Trump’s, such that the subject’s identity is effectively a mirror of the model.

The result of the Five Step Process to Online Brainwashing is that the subject‘s mind is tied neurologically to the savior. When Trump is angry, his followers feel angry, no matter what he’s saying or whether it makes any sense. The words don’t matter. They don’t hear him. They feel him. Their emotional mimesis puts them in mimetic synchrony with his psyche.

Emotional mimesis is instantaneous, contagious, and devoid of logic or reason. This is why it is nearly impossible for individuals to separate themselves from the system without help, and why they behave so uniformly.Image
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 Profile picture
Jul 4
This kind of speech—marked by disorganized structure, grandiosity, perseveration, and paranoia—can suggest the presence of certain psychological or neurocognitive conditions.

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🔍 Observed Features in the Speech
1.Disorganized Thought and Tangentiality
•The speaker jumps erratically between topics (e.g., 250, Olympics, World Cup, Obama, fake news, jail).
•There is loose association: ideas are linked more by superficial connections than logical progression.
•Example: “I got the Olympics, and I got it. I was president. And I said, you know, it’s a shame…” — shifting without clear transitions.
2.Repetition and Perseveration
•Repeating phrases like “I got the Olympics,” “I got the World Cup,” and “It was 250.”
•This can signal cognitive inflexibility or obsessive tendencies.
3.Grandiosity
•Claiming sole credit for global events (“Nobody else could have done it”).
•Elevating personal importance to mythical levels (“They were so starved for love… I got them both”).
4.Paranoia and Victimization
•Statements about a rigged election, being attacked by “criminals,” and unfair treatment (“just like they do in third-world countries”).
•Blames others (e.g., Obama, the media, Democrats) and frames himself as both victim and savior.
5.Mania-like Qualities
•Rapid, pressured speech.
•Inflated self-esteem and decreased need for reality-based filtering.
•Possible hypomanic or manic features.
6.Possible Cognitive Decline Indicators
•Rambling without coherence.
•Difficulty maintaining a narrative thread.
•Repeated, vague references (e.g., “Johnny,” “that whole deal”) without clarity or grounding.

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🧠 Potential Psychological Interpretations

While no single diagnosis can be assigned definitively based on a speech excerpt, the presentation is consistent with several possibilities:

1. Narcissistic Personality Traits/Disorder
•Grandiose self-image.
•Need for admiration.
•Blaming others when not admired or validated.

2. Hypomania/Mania (Bipolar Spectrum)
•Especially if this speech reflects a deviation from a person’s baseline.
•Flight of ideas, pressured speech, grandiosity.

3. Delusional Disorder or Paranoid Ideation
•Persistent belief in rigged systems and conspiracies without evidence.
•Attribution of malevolent intent to others.

4. Early Signs of Cognitive Impairment / Dementia
•If there is decline over time, the disorganized and confused nature of speech could suggest frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or vascular cognitive impairment, both of which can affect language and behavior.

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Summary

This speech displays disorganized, grandiose, and paranoid qualities that raise concerns about the speaker’s mental state. The patterns may be consistent with narcissistic traits, delusional thinking, cognitive impairment, or manic symptoms, but no clinical diagnosis can be responsibly made without a full assessment. Nonetheless, from a psychological standpoint, this style of discourse would be highly abnormal in most professional or clinical contexts.
Someone exhibiting the psychological profile reflected in the quoted speech—marked by disorganization, grandiosity, paranoia, and impaired reality testing—presents serious potential dangers if occupying the presidency of the United States. These risks span multiple domains: national security, democratic stability, public trust, and global diplomacy.

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⚠️ Key Dangers of Such a Profile in the Presidency

1. Impaired Decision-Making Capacity
•Erratic thinking and poor impulse control can lead to irrational or reckless decisions.
•Disorganized thoughts and reality distortion impede the ability to weigh evidence, listen to advisors, or anticipate consequences.
•May escalate conflicts or take dangerous actions without fully understanding implications (e.g., military strikes, nuclear posture).

2. Susceptibility to Conspiracy Thinking
•A paranoid worldview undermines trust in institutions (intelligence agencies, courts, election systems).
•May act on delusional beliefs (e.g., a rigged election, a “deep state”), which could lead to extralegal or authoritarian responses.
•Creates a siege mentality, potentially resulting in purges, loyalty tests, or misuse of federal power.

3. Authoritarian Impulses and Grandiosity
•Believing oneself uniquely qualified or chosen (“Nobody else could have done it”) often coincides with anti-democratic behavior.
•May disregard constitutional limits, seek to concentrate power, or bypass legal constraints (e.g., ignore court rulings, defy Congress).
•Prone to cult-of-personality governance, where loyalty to the leader outweighs rule of law.

4. Delegitimizing Institutions and Elections
•Publicly claiming elections are “rigged” or “fake” erodes faith in democracy.
•May refuse to concede or accept electoral defeat, increasing risk of civil unrest or authoritarian entrenchment.
•Can justify illegal retention of power under the belief that opponents are illegitimate or criminal.

5. Manipulation of Supporters
•Speech appeals to followers’ emotions with us-vs-them rhetoric, victimization, and exaggerated threats.
•Creates a mobilized base willing to justify violence or insurrection (e.g., Jan 6-like events).
•Vulnerable to triggering mass movements or armed confrontation based on delusional beliefs.

6. Erosion of International Credibility
•Foreign leaders may view such a leader as unstable, unpredictable, or dangerous.
•Allies may reduce cooperation; adversaries may exploit mental instability.
•Could undermine treaties, abandon commitments, or make erratic demands in international negotiations.

7. Use of Government Machinery for Personal Vengeance
•A paranoid and grandiose president might weaponize DOJ, IRS, or intelligence agencies against critics.
•This could suppress dissent, chill press freedom, and criminalize political opposition.

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🛑 Historical Parallels
•Leaders with similar profiles (e.g. Hitler in late-stage paranoia, Nixon in Watergate, Mussolini) often turned increasingly to repression, cult leadership, and delusion as they lost control.
•In democratic systems, the combination of mental instability + institutional fragility is particularly volatile.

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Conclusion

A president with this profile is not merely eccentric or unorthodox—they pose a clear and escalating threat to democratic governance, global stability, and constitutional order. The danger is not just in what such a leader believes, but in the power they wield while no longer tethered to shared reality. This is not a theoretical concern; history and current events show what happens when mental instability and autocratic power converge.Image
Several historical figures, particularly authoritarian leaders and cult-of-personality rulers, have exhibited psychological profiles similar to the one described—marked by disorganized or delusional thinking, grandiosity, paranoia, narcissism, and disregard for institutional constraints.

Here are some prominent examples:

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🧠 Historical Figures Matching This Psychological Profile

1. Adolf Hitler (Germany)
•Grandiosity: Claimed a messianic role for Germany; believed he was destined to create a “Thousand-Year Reich.”
•Paranoia: Increasing suspicion of his own generals and officials, especially in the war’s later years.
•Delusional Thinking: Even as Germany was collapsing, he gave nonsensical orders and believed in “miracle weapons.”
•Disorganized Late Behavior: By 1945, rambling monologues in the bunker mirrored cognitive breakdown.

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2. Benito Mussolini (Italy)
•Narcissism: Obsessed with his own image; compared himself to Roman emperors.
•Grandiosity & Delusion: Believed Italy could become a world empire despite weak military and economy.
•Authoritarian Behavior: Used violence, propaganda, and personality cult to consolidate power.

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3. Nicolae Ceaușescu (Romania)
•Delusions of Grandeur: Built a massive palace while his people starved; believed himself to be a genius scientist and global peacemaker.
•Paranoia: Created an extensive secret police network to monitor and suppress dissent.
•Disorganized Speeches: Toward the end of his regime, his public appearances became rambling and incoherent.

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4. Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan)
•Extreme Narcissism: Renamed months after himself and his mother, erected golden statues in his image.
•Delusional Beliefs: Claimed to have written a spiritual book that surpassed the Bible and Quran.
•Paranoia: Surrounded himself with a cult of loyalty, purging perceived disloyalty.

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5. Francisco Franco (Spain, late stage)
•Cognitive Decline & Paranoia: In his final years, decisions became more erratic, with a heavy reliance on trusted sycophants and fear of betrayal.
•Refusal to Cede Power: Held onto power long past effectiveness, convinced of his own indispensability.

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6. Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire/DRC)
•Grandiosity: Declared himself the embodiment of the nation, wore leopard-print robes and a feathered cap as a symbol of mystical power.
•Disconnection from Reality: Claimed Zaire was a model African nation while looting billions and letting infrastructure collapse.
•Paranoia: Constantly reshuffled his inner circle and used secret police to silence critics.

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7. Donald Trump (U.S., as perceived by many clinical observers)
•Narcissism: Documented by numerous psychologists and former aides as displaying traits of narcissistic personality disorder.
•Grandiosity & Delusion: Repeatedly claimed he alone could fix complex national issues; falsely claimed elections were stolen.
•Paranoia: Often accused government institutions, media, and opponents of conspiring against him.
•Disorganized Rhetoric: Increasingly fragmented and repetitive speech patterns in recent years.

🧠 Note: Over 30 mental health professionals contributed to “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” (2017)

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8. Idi Amin (Uganda)
•Delusions of Grandeur: Declared himself “Conqueror of the British Empire” and believed he was divinely chosen.
•Paranoia: Carried out widespread purges; believed his enemies were everywhere.
•Erratic Behavior: Impulsive decisions led to economic collapse and humanitarian disaster.

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⚠️ Bottom Line

When individuals with this kind of psychological makeup acquire supreme political power—especially without checks—they often:
•Dismantle institutions
•Suppress dissent
•Inflate their own myth
•Make reckless or catastrophic decisions

The cost to human life, democracy, and national stability has historically been immense.Image
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 Profile picture
Jun 14
BREAKING: Vance Luther Boelter has been reported to be a suspect in the murder of MN politicians. There is disinformation about his political leanings.

He is NOT “far left.”
Don’t let them seize this narrative. Not today. Image
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To all the MAGAs who think this guy was a “good friend” of Tim Walz.
Donald Trump kept mentioning that terrorists from the Congo were coming to America to kill people. Did he mean Vance Boelter?
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 Profile picture
Jun 2
AMERICA: Look deep into your soul. Really think hard about this.

Do you want this person to have a “master database” of every single man, woman and child, including biometric, DNA, tax, medical, psychological and financial information?

Did you answer “no”?
Well it’s too late.
Fun Fact: In 2017, Peter Thiel gave Ivan Raiklin $300K to run for Senate.
In 2011, atheist undergrad JD Vance met Peter Thiel at Yale.
Thiel groomed him until 2019 when Thiel gave him $15 million & Rumble stock to convert to Catholicism and run for Senate.

Peter Thiel has been connected to Opus Dei for at least four decades.
mind-war.com/p/catholic-cou…
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 Profile picture
Mar 8
Let’s be very clear. We need to put this to rest.
Elon Musk is an official, actual Nazi:
—Born to Nazi mom, dad & grandparents
—Grew up in racist apartheid
—Named after a Nazi sci-fi book
—Overt Nazi signals: 14/88/4chan
—2 Hitler salutes
—2 Nazi DOGE logos
—Terror of white replacement
—Terror of immigrants
—Pro-natalist
—Pro-eugenics
—Pro-AfD
—Pro-Afrikaner
—Hates DEI, CRT, “woke mind virus”
—Obsessed with racism against whites
—Wants to eliminate trans people, including his own daughter
—Trying to destroy democracies around the world & replace them with fascist dictatorships
—Invading the federal government with cybercriminals
—Turned Twitter into a Nazi indoctrination platform
—Personally reinstated numerous violent, criminal Nazis
—Interacts with hundreds of known Nazis, antisemites & anonymous Nazi accounts
—Has a massive Nazi following who defend him voraciously as “ourguy”

What did I miss?
ICYMI, Elon Musk’s Nazi Mom is now riding around with him on Marine One.
mind-war.com/p/americas-mum…
Errol Musk is a deviant, racist, misogynistic psychopath who brought his son up to be just like the old man.
mind-war.com/p/elon-musks-p…
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 Profile picture
Jan 2
Both the Cybertruck terrorist, who was active duty Special Forces on leave from Germany, and the veteran who murdered 15 people in New Orleans were stationed at Ft. Liberty/Bragg.

So were Mike Flynn & Tulsi Gabbard—who is set to be in charge of our entire intelligence community.
There are real problems with this base and have been for a long time.
This came out of 4th PSYOP Group at Ft. Liberty/Bragg last year.
Does this seem normal?
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