👉From 2016:👈
"Columnists and magazines that a month
ago were saying #NeverTrump are now
vibrating with the frisson of his audacity."
Same story updating itself to 2024:
👉🏻May 20, 2016
"The three-part process by
which the gross becomes
taken for granted has been
on matchlessly grim view
this past week in the ascent
of Donald Trump.”
"If Trump came to power, [again]
"If Trump came to power, [again]
there is a decent chance
that the American experiment
would be over. This is not a
hyperbolic prediction; it is
not a hysterical prediction;
it is simply a candid reading
of what history tells us
happens in countries with
leaders like Trump. Countries
don’t really recover from being
taken over by unstable
authoritarian nationalists of
any political bent, left or
right—not by Peróns or Castros
right—not by Peróns or Castros
or Putins or Francos or Lenins
or fill in the blanks. The nation
may survive, but the wound to
hope and order will never fully
heal. Ask Argentinians or
Chileans or Venezuelans or
Russians or Italians—or
Germans. The national psyche
never gets over learning that
its institutions are that fragile
The 1st and 2nd rule of reality based
Bell is the psychiatrist associated with
It was good PR in 2008 for media friendly
The 2016 election media piled on with
Dr. Vaughan Bell, in his best most convincing
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/
Trump never believed his Obama
and their ability to resist a
dictator that weak. If he can
rout the Republican Party in
a week by having effectively
secured the nomination, ask
yourself what Trump could
do with the American
government if he had a mandate."
...Adam Gopnik, New Yorker,
May 2016
As authoritarians, both Trump and Putin
get to say what's true. They both
manufacture doubt and distrust in facts,
manufacture doubt and distrust in facts,
logic, nuance, governments and reality
itself. The aim of Russian trolls and the
Republican Party long before Trump was
to make sure further erosion seeped into U.S.
mainstream news, politics and culture.
Explaining the in-progress self parody of
RW politics. Over and above anything mainstream.
Never thought I’d be quoting
neoconservative, James Kirchick:
“I should not have been surprised.
I’ve been following Russia’s cultivation
of the American right for years, long
before it became a popular subject, and
I have been amazed at just how deep
and effective the campaign to shift
conservative views on Russia has been.
Four years ago, I began writing a series
of articles about the growing sympathy
for Russia among some American
conservatives. Back then, the Putin fan
club was limited to seemingly fringe figures
like Pat Buchanan,…a bunch of cranks
organized around the Ron Paul Institute…”
(Kirchick voted Hillary in 2016)
“ After land, sea, air, internet
and space, there is another
final frontier, another
domain of contention and
warfare. The sixth domain,
the human brain” and the
control of same.” …Wired
(Recently updated in 2024 by
China via biological warfare
designed to alter brain function)
@41:00, the word troll takes on new context
regarding Wikileaks (not Wikipedia) and
Julian Assange.
The Wikileaks suspect attacks on the
veracity of the Panama Papers shouldn’t
be an afterthought to end the Solatov interview.
One of the main “Panama Papers” reporters
exposing the sources of Putin’s wealth has
recently stated that he’s been targeted for
death by Russia’s FSB. Along with journalists
and half dozen rich Russians who “fell off a balcony”
after refusing to salute Putin’s Ukraine war.
Masha Gessen on Putin
Masha Gessen’s description of Putin’s
post WWII Leningrad/ St. Petersburg
background describes a multi-generational
“Chekist” KGB grim kill or be killed, zero
sum klepto reality.
Paraphrasing Gessen:
any St. Petersburg family surviving WWII
was unusual. Anyone with their own apartment,
watch, washer machine and private telephone
was even more unusual and had to be criminal
elite KGB. Like Putin’s grandfather.
RUSSIAN TROLL BLIZZARD OF LIES:
The 1st and 2nd rule of reality based
“Fight Club” trolling, never talk about
Fight Club. Repeatedly violated in this blog.
Which means I always talk about compulsive
Russian, religious nationalists, US militia and
elected Republican *reality distortion fields.* Exemplified by…
…Fight Club troll volunteers wearing
the Russian version of COVID face masks
like in this Samantha Bee “Full Frontal”
segment from Moscow long before 2020:-)
Comments under the Sam Bee
video gave accurate praise for her
reporting on Russian trolling (likely also
the comment writers) over mainstream
journalists operating under editors and
legal restraints.
State and non-state troll contractors
exist to provide a context for autocrats
and US Republican politicians. Who
undermine accuracy, facts, news and
*informed bias.*
Troll armies prepare the way for Putin
and “charismatic” WWE trash
talking know-nothing Trump
Republican “populists.”
Informative Interview From Early 2022:
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MIND HACKS:
The old prevailing “informed” narrative was
typified by good guy P-doc, Dr. Vaughan Bell
as quoted in The NY Times 2008 link below.
Bell is the psychiatrist associated with
the appropriately named "Mind Hacks"
psychology blog. Dr. Bell and Yale
Professor Dr. William Hoffman describe
what I call “psy-war videos” as being made
mainly by and for the mentally ill. Good4biz.
Even considering video editing few
video narrators claiming persecution
as "targeted individuals" by the CIA
ever stumble over words or thoughts
regardless of how bizarre those words
and thoughts often are.
Which means many of these old and
new troll videos are scripted. Can anyone
rehearse, read or edit a flawless video?
Yes. Can it be done that way thousands
of times over thousands of videos with
narrators claiming to be “whistleblowers”
stalked and “oppressed” by the US and
Western governments because of their
politics and religious faith using the same
two or three formulas over and over to
perfection? Yes, by competent pros, not
only by the assumed legions of paranoids.
Pros who use a core honeypot truth
and disguise same by surrounding it with a
mountain of BS and deliberate implausibility.
Repeat. Wash. Spin.
To put it in perspective…
Russian/ Republican/ Christian Nationalist/
Hasbarist “paranoid style” Psy-war pros
and volunteers do not lurk everywhere.
Their amplifying methods and YouTube’s
algorithm conspire to make it *seem* like
they were and are “everywhere all the time.”
It was good PR in 2008 for media friendly
professionals like Dr. Vaughan Bell to come
to easy conclusions that all these videos were
made by the ill-informed or mentally ill and
nothing more.
The 2016 election media piled on with
"revelations" about "fake news" as if
it was anything new.
Putin did not elect DJT but he helped.
Big time.
Serious 2018 "news" headlines and a
Republican Special Prosecutor asked
the question, "Did Russia Hack The
2016 U.S. Election?"
This left “alternative" and so-called
gateway journalists and commentators
like Glenn Greenwald, Ross “Douthat,”
Matt Taibbi and Tucker Carlson to deny
the story and play at being “serious”
journalistic “voices of reason” to perfection.
Which they no longer are. That fact is now
nullified by Republican controlled election
boards, state legislatures, school boards
and Gerrymandered districts.
All of which makes Putin very happy.
He knows he can depend on a political
Party that depends on fossil fuels. Like him.
Both Putin and Republicans will do everything
possible to defeat anti-fossil fuel climate change
regulation worldwide.
Recent Biden legislation passed by Congress
overcame Senators Manchin and Sinema who
usually caucus with Republicans. Who, in turn, *unofficially* caucus with Russkies.
Putin fan Orban won in Hungary. Putin
fan Khan lost in Pakistan. Anti-Putin
Macron won in France. Meloni won in Italy.
Pro-Putin 2020 Trump lost in the U.S.
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief, Alex Marlow
admitted to Bill Maher on Maher’s show
that Russia hacked/ interfered with the
US 2016 election. And then laid down a
doublethink word bomb to make up for it.
Ex-Breitbart reporter, Kurt Schlichter,
who was working at Russia’s Sputnik
News (where else) at the time of Marlow’s
interview complained to the RNC,
Republican National Committee, that
Marlow was veering from “acceptable
Republican Party narratives.” Breitbart
and Sputnik News can be interchangeable
when convenient for both media outlets.
Dr. Vaughan Bell, in his best most convincing
professional Brit accented voice might pull a
Greenwald and say that my claims are little
more than "Russians Are Coming" Cold War
Joe McCarthy confirmation bias “Russophobia”
paranoia without proof. A mere lefty meta
conspiracy theory of conspiracy theories with
little “data or proof.”
Dr Fauci researchers (“Don’t Look Up”)
are routinely out maneuvered by Republican
hacks, Rep. Jim Jordan, Sen. Rand Paul and
“non-ideologues” Joe Rogan and P-doc, Jordan
Peterson. Like in the above Leo DeCaprio movie.
When I categorize thousands of YT fringe channels
as RW sausage fact-ories with similar themes,
lingo and fantasies I imply they operate in
concert. Which can put me in categories
Dr. Vaughan Bell talks about. Which is why
the “paranoid style” is so useful as a tactic.
Dr. Bell might be diplomatic and say
I'm merely misinformed and a victim of
common conformation bias errors.
How can most of these sites have
How can most of these sites have
similar themes and points of view?
(“Gee, let me fact check the research
(“Gee, let me fact check the research
and deep due diligence on that one.”)
People in delusion have a tendency to
imitate each other, right? In an effort
to share their particular view of the
world when contemplating things they
*say* the “deep state” doesn’t want
them to know or say.
Sounds great. Except *some* overplay
that particular hand. Like mental health
pros who live and die by the DSM-5. And
others who gaslight any and all perceived opposition.
Like Glenn Greenwald. Like Matt Taibbi.
Like the many psych and nutrition advice
YT influencers who bowed in 2020, 2021
and 2022 to right wing Big Brother. No
conspiracy needed. With/ without RW
PAC money, fake bot followers and YT,
Facebook advert revenue.
Psychiatrists of 2008 or 2013 might/ not
have been familiar with the inconvenient
term "Troll Farm" networks whether
Russian, Israeli, CIA, Christian Nationalist,
white suprematist, militia or Republican in origin.
the very thing they pretend to be against.
They are vehicles for mind control and mass
psychosis while pretending to be fighting
both. And like all good lies these videos and
fake websites, contain some honeytrap truth.
Yup, “DEW” directed energy weapons *dew* exist.
IOW, videos and sites pretending to be
fighting older “NSA, CIA gang stalking” and
2021 - 2022 ‘vaccine depopulation/ mind control’
are themselves the purest form of mind control
via repetition and shear numbers of videos,
rigged comments, sites, blogs, forums.
Why?
Superficially to degrade the internet
Superficially to degrade the internet
which itself poses a threat mainly to
closed autocratic “Christian” Russia,
closed communist China and North Korea,
Islamic theocracies, US J6 Dominionists
and hasbarist Israeli trolls.
Then again, the act of degrading
the internet and reality itself hardly
makes a difference especially when
a Soprano level thug/ reality show host
assumes the US Presidency.
Victories for Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un,
Iran, Orban’s Hungary, Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Brazil(?), Venezuela, Belarus and
Myanmar autocracies.
(It was good to run into a 2021 very long
line of loud orderly demonstrators in NYC
protesting Myanmar military dictatorship killings)
Alex Jones, David Icke pretend persecution
and pretend being beyond political/ ideological
binary constructs of right and left. Persecuted?
All are pretend nutjob extreme right wingers
neither delusional nor stupid.
Their versions of “reality” blame Satan,
“reptilian aliens,” crisis actors, the globalist
New World Order “Soros Illuminati elites.”
Which allows outrageous “National Enquirer”
QAnon, “Star” and “Globe” *intentionally
stupid* US Republican, Religious Nationalist
and small “l” libertarian anti-vaccine claims.
With Dr. Malone credentialed pro-
Ivermectin MAGA media MD’s available
to agree. Just like Big Tobacco scientist
liars-4-hire back in the day.
IOW, superficially this blog can be
seen as cognitively dissonant when
calling out conspiracy videos which
could just be people who look at the
world differently. Sounds good, right?
Like Trump and Religious Right
Pastor’s, Jim Bakker, Ken Copeland,
Kent Christmas and Franklin Graham.
Remember Oral Roberts? Same thing.
They’re one step “up" from the “National
Enquirer” and Alex Jones as are the
following: Glenn Beck, Breitbart, Daily
Caller, Sinclair Network, Rebel Media,
Drudge, the Limbaugh of old, Dan Bongino,
Mike Levin, Murdoch Tabloids, Fox News,
Wall Street Journal editorials, and ex-KGB
Lebedev family owned Brit newspapers.
Lebedev was the #2 name under
the name of John Wick on the
fictional surreal Accounts Payable
chalkboard *most wanted* hit
list in the “John Wick” movie series.
The Lebedev name in a major hit
movie is based on names of real people
involved in real events.
Something to do with KGB Lebedev Sr.
and his favorite dog ordered killed by
Czar Putin. Lebedev’s son is a FOB,
friend of BoJo, Boris Johnson. Lebedev2.0
has been Knighted and runs a major London newspaper.
I stood in back of Boris Johnson on line at
Soho NYC Whole Foods back when he was
Mayor of London. I said to myself, “what
the hell is he doing here and how is it that I
recognize him?”
BoJo’s parents lived in NYC twice upon a time.
Johnson was born in NYC. When Mayor of London
he looked like a Prime Minister, not like now.
The Big Oil US Russian Republican Party
is rich enough to pacify and cater to
extreme outliers for the purpose of
propping up “mainstream” Republicans
like Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rand Paul and
his father Ron. The Paul’s were guests
on Alex Jones’ old radio show multiple times.
Ron and Rand Paul have been warning about
another Weimar economic disaster in the
US and West for decades. And been wrong
for decades. The Paul’s and gold bug
Peter Shiff and “Epoch Times” fear and doom
economic ‘fiat money gold standard’ anti-
Federal Reserve conservatives and libertarians
keep hoping. When they can finally say,
‘see, we libertarians and the *Lawd* told-ya-so…’
Like back in 1918, 1933 and 1939.
Senator Rand Paul MD would deny
being a Putin fan. The late John McCain
accused him of working for Russia in
front of the entire US Senate. Sen. Paul
walked out without a word.
Much like Putin did when accused of
corruption back in his St. Petersburg days.
Randy ran for President once. He’s mean
and nasty to offset being shorter than Vlad.
Unlike his Russian counterpart he’ll never
be President Paul. (Let’s freaking hope)
Outliers through shear manic fanatic
AAS WWE energy (called populism)
become normalized into a new mainstream
who serve to keep elected Republicans
and influencers on lockstep message.
While issuing threats to moderate
Republicans, opposition candidates,
families and friends. Then yell “cancel
culture” “Antifa” and “woke tyranny.”
Another 1930’s Germany scenario.
How many Alex Jones Psy-war pros
believe their own nonsense? Few. And it
doesn’t matter. Issues don't matter. Lying
doesn't matter.
Power is what matters. And federal
contractor trickle-down supply side
COVID PPP loan forgiveness and
defense contractor dollars.
Just keep repeating the proscribed
propaganda which for many people
makes anything true as long as it’s familiar
and resonates with core “identity values.”
Trump never believed his Obama
birther claims and I'm not the only one
who “knew"/ assumed that.
Alex Jones and David Icke, whether
on or off AAS/ cocaine/ meth/ adderall
stim “enhancements,” might only now
be falling off the spectrum. Lawsuits
forced AJ to declared InfoWars bankruptcy.
Jones lost a billion dollar lawsuit. Jones
now giving away assets to family members.
Waiting for another Republican *Casablanca* (WH)
takeover? Not Unpossible!
Both Icke and Jones are/ are not banned from
YT social media. “1st-A Musk eventually got
Jones to smell better on X, zombie Twitter.
Brit David Icke was diagnosed SCZ back in
his soccer sportscaster days. AAS anabolic
steroid and cocaine meth stim cocktails as
described in the “American Psycho”
book, play and movie isn’t confined to
any one nationality.
1930’s Germany had gift-shop chocolates
spiked with meth marching powder to get
Brown Shirts and SS goose-stepping for war.
Just as many on the religious and secular RW
admire Trump and Putin today, many 1930’s
American and Brit socialists and communists
admired Stalin. Brit aristocrats admired pre-war
Hitler. Socialist Orwell hated both extremes.
Orwell as anti-Semite? Yes, and he reformed.
Did Hemingway? (“W’hale, that’s different”)
Either before or after Hemingway’s
African private plane crashes. Before or
after J Edger Hoover’s FBI agents helped
by alcohol, drugs and plane-crash pain killers,
drove Hemingway to suicide.
(J Edgar Hoover made sure Papa knew that
the FBI were sniffing like rats on his trail.
Letting Hemingway know only isolated him more)
Hoover did the same to MLK prior to MLK’s assassination.
Many RW preachers of today resemble “Big Jim” (Bakker? Swaggert? Billy Jim Hargis?) of
Stephen King’s “Under The Dome” books
and TV series.
Stephen King’s “Big Jim” was a non-cussing,
bible quoting used car salesman who ran a
religious music radio station cover for a meth lab.
Strictly fiction of course. Not.
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