I am wondering why this is happening all now. After years of “peaceful” existence or Pax Americana as historians call it, right around the time Hamas - Israel war began we see back to back cases like Epstein and Combs investigations. There are connections between the Israel lobby and rumors of both being intelligence assets for many agencies… these were not out in the open before. Why are they now? What changed?
When do you mean by the beginning of the Hamas Israel 'war'? It has been going for decades, most of us just weren't as aware of it until recently (very intentionally).
The conflict has been there and we can question Hamas’s role in it as well, but yes you are right. All of these horrendous events have been happening behind the scenes. The zionist lobby has been thriving in the US and a lot Western counties. Epstein had/ has a huge illegal underage sex ring, and Diddy was also mostly known in the industry and was scared of. So I should maybe rephrase my question; why are all these systemic evils (for lack of a better term) are coming out now?
Personally I think it's inevitable when harmful systems are in power for too long. But there is also evidence that previous pandemics have accelerated fascism - and perhaps we are seeing that now as people are scared, and apparently willing to believe anything.
We can only hope, pray and work to end this evil suck of energy an get back to focusing on the real danger--Climate change. Without a healthy climate we all perish
The is a lady on TikTok, ex-children of god, then army, then Masters in org psych, who studies bad orgs and cults, wrote the book Uncultured. What she is saying makes sense: for MAGA, getting to the bottom of the Epstein files was the cult's mission, and when that fails, cults crack up. Explains why this is unlike anything else so far. It's what holds the believers together. Anywhoo, why not release false info, just make it up? That's what I want to know. They could weaponize this vitriol to go after the dems that were on the list or in that world, selectively.
How do cults crack up? They “spiritualize” events, saying that it all happened really but on some spiritual realm. They blame others especially outsiders. They recalibrate, making a new prophecy or new emphasis. Often they get stronger
Unfortunately, I think the most that will happen is Trump is removed and replaced with someone like JD Vance, so MAGA will continue to fuel hate and fascism, but can claim they care about the law by keeping Trump out of public power.
Great article and! Just pointing out another piece. Many MAGA are also vehement anti Semites/Christian Zionists. Qanon is based in the idea that a billionaire JEWISH cabal is controlling the world. Epstein is the pin holding their Nazi conspiracy theory together - they desperately want the details not just bc they hate pedophilia and the elite, but bc they’re anti Semitic.
J P, though I agree with much of what you say here, I am saddened a bit by the partisan view; MAGA and BlueANON are both fed diets of non-stop propaganda resulting in incoherent hatred for imagined others. It was just a few short years ago when my liberal friends were cheering the COVID deaths of people they believed to be “MAGA” for not getting what turned out to be a pretty useless vaccine. And for years we had to put up with manufactured news stories about Russia Gate, and of Sanders and Corbyn being antisemites, racists, sexist etc.
We will never be able to have a conversation about class or democratic society so long as these divisions are being stoked by the very same class that owns Islands for purposes of child sex orgies - a group that, if you scratch their skin, really has no deep ideological attachment to either “party.” Fascism as a system benefits these jackals. Team blue serves up fascism with paternalistic smugness and good manners under the rubric of “safetyism,” while team red serves up the same agenda with a side of masculine vitriol.
The leadership of both “teams” take the same coin and dance for the same kings.
I find two things interesting about this entire sordid affair: the first is how far the super wealthy and powerful have to go to get their kicks and to belong to this club, and the level of absolute impunity this class of Caligula’s enjoy. It’s like watching the Satyricon.
Next - while this story takes weeks of our consumeristic attention, I have to wonder what more important stories are not being discussed.
Noise is being made about bombing Moscow, with the insane leaders of empire trying to start a nuclear war.
Globally, people are being named as terrorists for any act of resistance to our new world order.
The US is building concentration camps, and is deporting “undesirables” to black sites in client nations. Children are being arrested by goons wearing masks and disappeared.
US mercenaries in accord with the IDF are now not only murdering 100 or more Palestinians per day under a humanitarian umbrella, but we’re now hearing reports of ad hoc gas chambers - the entrapment of people in “food”warehouses, the locking of doors, and the dispersal of canisters of “tear gas,” leading to deaths by suffocation, trampling, etc.
These stores all seem deserving of outraged, feverish coverage, but yet again, the Trump clown show and the ginned up MAGA v. ShitLib spectacle are eating every column inch.
Is this by design, or just life in late stage empire?
Stop saying that all of his corruption and scandals have washed off. The man is a recidivist convicted felon and we must remind people of that every day …NOT talk about how slippery he is – he loves that! It’s just another part of the illusion. We must demand that everything sticks. Everything.
I'm scared the left gets too focused on this, instead of building something positive as you say, and gets destroyed by the monster as well. The amount of "mean" nicknames I see the left using, like "KKKaroline Leavitt" and other phrases that are indistinguishable from something QAnon would have been shouting 6 years ago, makes me fear that culturally Trump has won an entire era. If we can only focus on hatred of the other like you illustrate in here, we're doomed.
I am wondering why this is happening all now. After years of “peaceful” existence or Pax Americana as historians call it, right around the time Hamas - Israel war began we see back to back cases like Epstein and Combs investigations. There are connections between the Israel lobby and rumors of both being intelligence assets for many agencies… these were not out in the open before. Why are they now? What changed?
When do you mean by the beginning of the Hamas Israel 'war'? It has been going for decades, most of us just weren't as aware of it until recently (very intentionally).
The conflict has been there and we can question Hamas’s role in it as well, but yes you are right. All of these horrendous events have been happening behind the scenes. The zionist lobby has been thriving in the US and a lot Western counties. Epstein had/ has a huge illegal underage sex ring, and Diddy was also mostly known in the industry and was scared of. So I should maybe rephrase my question; why are all these systemic evils (for lack of a better term) are coming out now?
Personally I think it's inevitable when harmful systems are in power for too long. But there is also evidence that previous pandemics have accelerated fascism - and perhaps we are seeing that now as people are scared, and apparently willing to believe anything.
We can only hope, pray and work to end this evil suck of energy an get back to focusing on the real danger--Climate change. Without a healthy climate we all perish
The is a lady on TikTok, ex-children of god, then army, then Masters in org psych, who studies bad orgs and cults, wrote the book Uncultured. What she is saying makes sense: for MAGA, getting to the bottom of the Epstein files was the cult's mission, and when that fails, cults crack up. Explains why this is unlike anything else so far. It's what holds the believers together. Anywhoo, why not release false info, just make it up? That's what I want to know. They could weaponize this vitriol to go after the dems that were on the list or in that world, selectively.
How do cults crack up? They “spiritualize” events, saying that it all happened really but on some spiritual realm. They blame others especially outsiders. They recalibrate, making a new prophecy or new emphasis. Often they get stronger
Unfortunately, I think the most that will happen is Trump is removed and replaced with someone like JD Vance, so MAGA will continue to fuel hate and fascism, but can claim they care about the law by keeping Trump out of public power.
Great article and! Just pointing out another piece. Many MAGA are also vehement anti Semites/Christian Zionists. Qanon is based in the idea that a billionaire JEWISH cabal is controlling the world. Epstein is the pin holding their Nazi conspiracy theory together - they desperately want the details not just bc they hate pedophilia and the elite, but bc they’re anti Semitic.
J P, though I agree with much of what you say here, I am saddened a bit by the partisan view; MAGA and BlueANON are both fed diets of non-stop propaganda resulting in incoherent hatred for imagined others. It was just a few short years ago when my liberal friends were cheering the COVID deaths of people they believed to be “MAGA” for not getting what turned out to be a pretty useless vaccine. And for years we had to put up with manufactured news stories about Russia Gate, and of Sanders and Corbyn being antisemites, racists, sexist etc.
We will never be able to have a conversation about class or democratic society so long as these divisions are being stoked by the very same class that owns Islands for purposes of child sex orgies - a group that, if you scratch their skin, really has no deep ideological attachment to either “party.” Fascism as a system benefits these jackals. Team blue serves up fascism with paternalistic smugness and good manners under the rubric of “safetyism,” while team red serves up the same agenda with a side of masculine vitriol.
The leadership of both “teams” take the same coin and dance for the same kings.
I find two things interesting about this entire sordid affair: the first is how far the super wealthy and powerful have to go to get their kicks and to belong to this club, and the level of absolute impunity this class of Caligula’s enjoy. It’s like watching the Satyricon.
Next - while this story takes weeks of our consumeristic attention, I have to wonder what more important stories are not being discussed.
Noise is being made about bombing Moscow, with the insane leaders of empire trying to start a nuclear war.
Globally, people are being named as terrorists for any act of resistance to our new world order.
The US is building concentration camps, and is deporting “undesirables” to black sites in client nations. Children are being arrested by goons wearing masks and disappeared.
US mercenaries in accord with the IDF are now not only murdering 100 or more Palestinians per day under a humanitarian umbrella, but we’re now hearing reports of ad hoc gas chambers - the entrapment of people in “food”warehouses, the locking of doors, and the dispersal of canisters of “tear gas,” leading to deaths by suffocation, trampling, etc.
These stores all seem deserving of outraged, feverish coverage, but yet again, the Trump clown show and the ginned up MAGA v. ShitLib spectacle are eating every column inch.
Is this by design, or just life in late stage empire?
Excellent closing paragraph.
Very well said.
When this horse is dead, I’m going to keep beating it.
Stop saying that all of his corruption and scandals have washed off. The man is a recidivist convicted felon and we must remind people of that every day …NOT talk about how slippery he is – he loves that! It’s just another part of the illusion. We must demand that everything sticks. Everything.
The Powell Memo/Frankenstein Blind Spot? https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT62MKGbQ/
I'm scared the left gets too focused on this, instead of building something positive as you say, and gets destroyed by the monster as well. The amount of "mean" nicknames I see the left using, like "KKKaroline Leavitt" and other phrases that are indistinguishable from something QAnon would have been shouting 6 years ago, makes me fear that culturally Trump has won an entire era. If we can only focus on hatred of the other like you illustrate in here, we're doomed.
the zombies are waking up