How to Tell if You Have Trump Cult Syndrome

‘Release the Kraken’…It’s closer to ‘release the pink lawn flamingos’

To maintain a Democracy, you need two things. First, you need a free press, that reports the facts. Second, you need people to have faith in elections, and to accept the winner, even if the winner is not the one they voted fore, and in fact, especially if the winner is not the one they voted for.

So, how do you destroy a Democracy (or Republic)? It’s a multi-step process:

1. Attack the press as unreliable. This creates a trap. If they respond with antipathy, as you would expect, their natural instinct is to condemn the criticism, moving off center, in the opposite direction. This is exactly what you want them to do, and has the effect of making the criticism ring true.
2. Once there is distrust in the media, people will get their news from other places. Those other places are easier places to plant propaganda, or they made be nothing but propaganda.
3. Using those propaganda outlets, attack the mechanisms for elections, and the results. Plant seeds of doubt before the election. Plant more seeds after the election. Create a feeling that your candidate will be cheated, and that he/she has been cheated.
4. Bring frivolous lawsuits alleging fraud. Actual fraud is not needed, nor is evidence of fraud. The point is to lose the lawsuits anyway, so that you can claim that the whole system is corrupt.
5. Suspend the Constitution, and impose a “temporary” new government, under the control of the police and military, only until such time until new elections can be held, with all votes to be counted solely by the military and police.

This same scenario has been played out before, in Central and South America, and other places. It’s not new, and it frequently works. It changes with the times, though. Some years ago, the “alternate sources for news” would have been underground newspapers, or secret radio stations. Today they are internet sites. Still, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Most of you are ill informed, period, including Mish. Take your lazy ass over to your duckduckgo app and start researching the money that Zuckerberg poured into areas of strong democratic voter bases, which is projected to be upwards of $400mm, just from his “nonprofit” (no telling what else poured where from others) . Then try to find anywhere in the US where money was spent like that on corresponding strong republican districts. This election was all hands on deck, “all you crooks used any hooks you can think of”. Mish himself bitches about Illinois, and yet appears to want “an Illinois” statewide. Our degradation of voting laws and the incorporation of questionable tactics will likely be the final leg removed from the table holding up law and order.

Karl Denninger: “…we had an election that was one of the most-outrageously insecure and corrupt in my time on this planet. It was facially illegal under the Constitution in a whole host of states simply because non-legislative modifications were made to procedure and those are facially unconstitutional — pandemic or not.”

Denninger is no fan of Trump.

After the 2016 election, The folks running Google said we can’t let this happen again. If you think it was a free and fair election, the truth eventually comes out.
Notice that we are learning new things about Hunter Biden, now that the election is over.

TCS is the result of online echo chambers. It’s almost hard to believe that supporters had sane opinions about Trump in 2016, but once he entered office people started to fantasize about what he would do rather than actually observing him. People traded these fantasies and kept upping the ante, creating the concept of 4D chess.

By 2020 too many people came completely detached from reality and hadn’t read dissenting opinions in years. Over on ZH people honestly thought Trump would win 40+ states, and comparisons were drawn with Reagan/Mondale. The only explanation for this is being steeped in groupthink for way too long.

Now that reality has intruded they’re not happy, plus they have to reckon with the fact that Trump’s main accomplishment in office was gleefully adding to our mountain of debt.

I will admit to having Trump Paranoia Syndrome. He has done a great deal to undermine our Republic, and has nearly destroyed it in four short years. My TPS will resolve itself when he is no longer in a position to do destructive things.

Mish,

Texas would have had no legal standing regardless of this case.

Presidents Tyler and Polk did not have Texas properly admitted as a state under The Texas Annexation Of 1845. Tyler. went rogue on was conspiring with John C. Calhoun behind the scenes. The Senate had rejected their plan. Just prior to Polk’s inauguration Tyler sent a messenger to Texas for the closing of the unlawful deal. Polk was aware of this but did nothing, as he was a great expansionist no matter the ways or means.

Texas is therefore still a Republic. They can leave at any time with the boundaries they had at the time in January 1845. Polk didn’t buy any title insurance, either – haha.

This case came up later with Hawaii. President Harrison tried Tyler’s maneuver, President Grover Cleveland did not let it come to pass and did not close the deal. President McKinley, another expansionist like Polk, quickly and illegally closed the deal. Hawaii can as their own republic, too, or perhaps sell themselves to Japan or China.

Why do you think the peaceful protesters tore down and desecrated a statue of McKinley in Chicago a few weeks ago? They know their history and are beginning the fight for an independent Republic Of Hawaii.

If Trump is jailed as a result of state charges in NY, will the secret service be required to provide him shower protection?