The current 'leaders' have been so coddled that they no longer have the ability to lead, if they ever did. But even for somebody like me who literally expects nothing from government, Biden's Hawaii trip was shockingly terrible. It saner times, it would end his campaign right there.
Big amen to that, Eric. When I think of the actual people who voted for Biden, it is totally depressing. Well, then there’s the ballot harvesting! We are stuck with this corrupt puppet. Embarrassing.
Let’s be honest. “He” didn’t campaign for jack sh!t.
“He” was trotted out by his handlers, to play a bit part in a massively orchestrated fraud.
The “Biden” administration is the ultimate manifestation of our self appointed technocratic elite imposing their perverse, rapacious, mendacious agenda on the rest of us.
At work I like to say that there are people who speak in clichés but haven’t lost the ability to think, and then there are some who literally think in clichés (i.e., HR). Politicians are our HR department, except we’ve put them in charge of the whole country.
After we stand together & link arms let's lean into this so we can work smarter & protect democracy so at the end of the day we can circle back. Let's do this!
There’s no humanity there because he doesn’t care. If you care about people, you don’t need to fake it. As weird as Trump is, I think he cares. People can sense that. FWIW people who worked for him have told me that he remembers their family members and events and that contrary to his public image he was an empathetic boss who inspired and demonstrated loyalty. That’s all second hand so discount accordingly.
Martin Armstrong met with Trump (as he has many leaders) and said he was the only one he ever met who talked about people with a sense he actually cared.
Someone said of Bill Clinton, "the only thing left inside him is appetite." Covetousness consumes the one who covets. Joe Biden has been coveting political power his entire life. There is no sacrifice he would not make to his God. It has destroyed his humanity.
"Learned disconnection" is generous, and I agree, it's that. Though I think it's more too. Some deeper disconnect happened, reflected in language. A disconnect from self must be present too, imo, be so absent of empathy and compassion in the face of so much grief.
Sous like negativistic personality disorder, a diagnosis now dropped from the DSM-V. Typical traits are: procrastination, covert obstructionism, inefficiency and stubbornness, all of them taken to a clearly and undeniably abnormal level. It was also called passive-aggressive personality disorder.
Not that I think diagnosing politicians is a good idea - bad precedents for that kind of thing. Also, it makes them not responsible for their behaviour, and I want them one and all to suffer the full consequences of their actions.
They are disconnected from humanity in that they no longer consider themselves politicians. They are the ruling class, immune from criticism or question. They are elitists, morally and intellectually superior.
I like these insights but I am not sure it is the "ritualness" that is the problem. One of the reasons everyone loved Queen Elizabeth II was her ability to do very ritualistic things with the right look on her fact and the right body language, every time, over and over and over again. She didn't have to be a saintly human being on the inside, but she conveyed the impression of someone who took her role seriously (I think she did take her role seriously, but at the very least she made it difficult to imagine that she didn't, so she succeeded at the role either way).
The problem with the current ritual language is that they don't even try to make the mask the face -- their contempt basically comes out around the edges of the mask in great clouds of grayish steam. Your war dead, your incinerated kids -- they recite the lines like a kid writing a thank you note to a distant relation for a present they didn't even like.
That's a very interesting thought, and my impression is that Elizabeth respected the ritual and honored her role with deep consciousness. She took tradition as a source of stability. You're right -- very different minds behind the performance.
In the new book The Wonder Paradox by Jennifer Micheal Hecht, she talks a lot about the role of ritual and performance. She embraces ritual as a positive while I see the way that it can be exploited by the priests to create superstitious fear. I view it as a rationality killer. I sense that Ms. Hecht has developed an audience of women primarily. It's not my favorite book by her but you might dig it. All her books are good.
It sounds like she is big on creating rituals? I never feel like those work very well, for me anyway... the trick with ritual seems to be to keep doing old ones, with outward seriousness and conviction and then (a lot of the time, but it doesn't truly matter if not every single time) the inner state follows. Rather than "I hereby with a very meaningful inner state invent the following ritual in my life". But this may be a difference of personal sensibility, not a general rule.
But the problem is you watch any of these people in charge (Exhibit A, the Lahaina mayor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GvyjmxOd4) and it's like they all have the same disease. They *don't* see people. They see obstacles to their own ambitions and they react badly when people don't reciprocate their shallowness like trained seals.
The reality is that politicians, no matter the elected or appointed office they hold, seem not to assume any responsibility for what should be the obvious responsibilities of their position. Rather, they believe they are merely spokespersons to console the masses for the ineptitude the public is witnessing.
Well, to be fair, most politicians don't *have* any power in their position. Most of it is held by unelected bureaucrats. (See "Yes, Minister" for a practical example.) Heck, Harry Truman has this famous quote talking about Eisenhower:
"He'll sit right here and he'll say do this, do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won't be a bit like the Army."
I think what we Americans are waking up to, because we’ve been conditioned to believe we individually matter, is that there is an elite running this country that doesn’t give a champagne cork about the regular Joe and Joette. It’s galling, because it flies in the face of our collective values, and because these “elites” are real shits- sociopaths, incompetents, narcissistic cretins. But, and I mean this sincerely, we need to understand the landscape. This is as it ever has been everywhere. Same as it ever was. We thought we were special. We are not. In a weird way, it’s liberating. You owe no obeisance to these pathetic frauds. You owe no allegiance to their institutions. You and I have a moral obligation to fix this crap. And that’s why they are scared and attacking. They know that we now have the means to toss them out. Wake up, throw back the curtain and fix it.
Unfortunately decadent elites are pretty normal throughout history.
The weird part is the deliberate creation of artificial crises one after another that destabilize the country while they are the ones in charge. . Most of the time the incumbents want don’t want to rock the boat. It’s like these imbeciles forgot that you don’t try to burn your own house down.
Barack Obama didn’t have dementia when giving a “shout out” to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, BEFORE reading his prepared statement on the terrorist murders at Ft. Hood. But he suffers from an even worse disease: narcissism.
They are all like this. I met Sen. Rubio at a cocktail party at an event for the Marine Corps. I tried to talk with him and all he could do is say thank you for your husbands service whilst looking around for someone better to speak too. Also, I met KT McFarland at another party in NYC. She was surrounded by military members and their spouses and she just repeated her name over and over instead of speaking to us like humans. It was super weird and very off putting. They are robots.
“Interventionism inevitably leads to socialism, central banking inevitably leads to hyperinflation, total cashlessness inevitably leads to total surveillance, and "guaranteed income" inevitably leads to guaranteed enslavement. A deadly poison remains a deadly poison even when ingested in a gradual manner.”
Very much so. Oh, and they have a leader who 1) likes his own country and countrymen, and 2) stands up for its interests and 3) is actually sentient and not ga-ga.
"the ritual language burns into the brain, and then nothing else is left"
Words are thought; thoughts needs words to be expressed.
No words for a thought means it cannot be thought as it cannot be expressed.
So, make up words that express your thought? Yeah, about that... Derrida, Foucault and many shows where that leads. Maybe, tentatively, you can invent a term to encompass a thought, like it was done by the likes of Kant. Odds are, none of us are that smart, hence we'll struggle to express as we're not going to spend 100 000 words to narrow down and define our thoughts to arrive at "Das Ding an sich".
Also, the caste you describe for real believe that life as like being captain Picard. All you do is say "Make it so" and lo, it was so.
And if it's not so, blame the jews/Trump/white cis-het males/the patriarchy/Russia/whatever.
Weird, isn’t it? When they manage to bumble-fuck their way into office they are terrified of being disliked by the MSM, but seem to have no problem with being hated by their own constituents.
I live in 2 really, really white areas (snowbird).. It amuses me how many BLM yard signs there were (some are still there). FWIW, I don't really hate, but I do separate.
Many Canadians specialize in virtue-signaling while being oblivious to what they are actually supporting. They need to stay home in their Workers' Paradise.
I have a theory that narrative actors (politicians, Hollywood elites, liberals especially teachers, woke civil servants etc.) always seem to be lobbying to be invited to the elite cocktail party of their ilk. Thus they don't talk to "you" they are showing off their marketability within the group.
Rachel Zelger, who plays Snow White in the woke remake, is being savaged by twitter for her insufferable personality demonstrated in several Hollywood interviews. But she is not speaking to you, she is doing what she thinks will endear here to the Hollywood elites who can continue to promote her. (She is still getting roles and speaking engagements)
Are weathermen giving you the news, or demonstrating that they are good mouthpieces for climate change? (How many would gush over being invited to a cocktail party by Gore or Greta?)
Branch covidians would wet themselves to get vaccinated next to THE Dr. Fauci, The SCIENCE!
How often have you had a conversation (shouting contest) with a woke friend or member of your family who just shouts narrative talking points, as if there are woke judges with scorecards in the room?
Imagine if there were a contest were Trump haters submit videos of their best TDS meltdowns to get a day with Rachel Maddow? (Instead of just lots of Likes on social media)
The Politicians aren't talking to you. They are talking to the deep state who got them there. (Funny how those cheat o matic voting machines have a perfect record of picking those most submissive to the deep state). Biden is talking to his handlers, (who bring him children) Pence (In his latest gas station ad) to his fundraisers, Harris, her fawning media sycophants.
They are not talking to you because they have gotten this far by never talking to you. They know nothing about you because they live a different life and have zero interest in getting to know yours as they see themselves so superior to you. So, SO superior.
Re all of the politicians in Hawaii: Heck it has been a week already? Wasn't this supposed to blow over by now? A thousand people dead, hundreds of kids, at this point what difference does it make?! We got land to redistribute.
The current 'leaders' have been so coddled that they no longer have the ability to lead, if they ever did. But even for somebody like me who literally expects nothing from government, Biden's Hawaii trip was shockingly terrible. It saner times, it would end his campaign right there.
In saner times, it would end his presidency right there.
In saner times, he wouldn't have been President in the first place.
He isn't the president.
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
25 in 25
Big amen to that, Eric. When I think of the actual people who voted for Biden, it is totally depressing. Well, then there’s the ballot harvesting! We are stuck with this corrupt puppet. Embarrassing.
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
Yep.
“His” campaign 😂😂😂
Let’s be honest. “He” didn’t campaign for jack sh!t.
“He” was trotted out by his handlers, to play a bit part in a massively orchestrated fraud.
The “Biden” administration is the ultimate manifestation of our self appointed technocratic elite imposing their perverse, rapacious, mendacious agenda on the rest of us.
Know your enemy.
As would The Laptop, as would Afghanistan, as would East Palestine, OH….
Yep, yep, and yep, and some extra yeps for good measure.
In saner times yes, but it has been clear as day that Joe Biden has become our most protected President in history.
This glittering exchange bears repeating! Meme material with suitably dramatic arc 🤸
🗨 It saner times, it would end his campaign right there. ~~SimulationCommander
🗨 In saner times, it would end his presidency right there. ~~Chris Bray
🗨 In saner times, he wouldn't have been President in the first place. ~~Eric Brown
🗨 He isn't the president. ~~DTT
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ETA And yet another, starting right here --> chrisbray.substack.com/p/the-mask-becomes-your-face/comment/36932759 😂
Repulsive:
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1694098939912323371
Wow! So many lies. So little time.
More fake news from the Mockingbird network.
Jesus
Right?
Yuck
At work I like to say that there are people who speak in clichés but haven’t lost the ability to think, and then there are some who literally think in clichés (i.e., HR). Politicians are our HR department, except we’ve put them in charge of the whole country.
That's why it's important to think outside the box, and do more with less.
We’re really gonna lean into this and then circle back.
After we stand together & link arms let's lean into this so we can work smarter & protect democracy so at the end of the day we can circle back. Let's do this!
Imagine Joe visiting the Holocaust Museum.
"I know what these Holocaust folks went through, because I almost lost my '67 Corvette! No joke, man!"
"Hey this ground is hot!"
Don’t forget to work smarter Chris. That way we can stand together to fight systemic injustices everywhere in the name of protecting democracy
It’s important to be thinking about synergies and win-win outcomes.
Yes no definitely.
Thanks for helping hit the KPIs now let’s pay it forward and ...
...and...
There’s no humanity there because he doesn’t care. If you care about people, you don’t need to fake it. As weird as Trump is, I think he cares. People can sense that. FWIW people who worked for him have told me that he remembers their family members and events and that contrary to his public image he was an empathetic boss who inspired and demonstrated loyalty. That’s all second hand so discount accordingly.
Martin Armstrong met with Trump (as he has many leaders) and said he was the only one he ever met who talked about people with a sense he actually cared.
25 in 25
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Someone said of Bill Clinton, "the only thing left inside him is appetite." Covetousness consumes the one who covets. Joe Biden has been coveting political power his entire life. There is no sacrifice he would not make to his God. It has destroyed his humanity.
Now do Hillary.
They are the same picture
"Learned disconnection" is generous, and I agree, it's that. Though I think it's more too. Some deeper disconnect happened, reflected in language. A disconnect from self must be present too, imo, be so absent of empathy and compassion in the face of so much grief.
"A disconnect from self" is a good call.
Biden was always just a sleazy actor. But now he’s too addled-brained to act.
Sleazy actor...sorry, thought you were talking about trudeau.....
Lol! He’s the worst.
So all that's left is sleaze?
Sous like negativistic personality disorder, a diagnosis now dropped from the DSM-V. Typical traits are: procrastination, covert obstructionism, inefficiency and stubbornness, all of them taken to a clearly and undeniably abnormal level. It was also called passive-aggressive personality disorder.
Not that I think diagnosing politicians is a good idea - bad precedents for that kind of thing. Also, it makes them not responsible for their behaviour, and I want them one and all to suffer the full consequences of their actions.
They are disconnected from humanity in that they no longer consider themselves politicians. They are the ruling class, immune from criticism or question. They are elitists, morally and intellectually superior.
Sociopath mummers
I like these insights but I am not sure it is the "ritualness" that is the problem. One of the reasons everyone loved Queen Elizabeth II was her ability to do very ritualistic things with the right look on her fact and the right body language, every time, over and over and over again. She didn't have to be a saintly human being on the inside, but she conveyed the impression of someone who took her role seriously (I think she did take her role seriously, but at the very least she made it difficult to imagine that she didn't, so she succeeded at the role either way).
The problem with the current ritual language is that they don't even try to make the mask the face -- their contempt basically comes out around the edges of the mask in great clouds of grayish steam. Your war dead, your incinerated kids -- they recite the lines like a kid writing a thank you note to a distant relation for a present they didn't even like.
That's a very interesting thought, and my impression is that Elizabeth respected the ritual and honored her role with deep consciousness. She took tradition as a source of stability. You're right -- very different minds behind the performance.
Elizabeth did WW2 as a nurse.
That means mangled bodies, suffering, death.
The price of war was in her hands long before the Crown.
In the new book The Wonder Paradox by Jennifer Micheal Hecht, she talks a lot about the role of ritual and performance. She embraces ritual as a positive while I see the way that it can be exploited by the priests to create superstitious fear. I view it as a rationality killer. I sense that Ms. Hecht has developed an audience of women primarily. It's not my favorite book by her but you might dig it. All her books are good.
It sounds like she is big on creating rituals? I never feel like those work very well, for me anyway... the trick with ritual seems to be to keep doing old ones, with outward seriousness and conviction and then (a lot of the time, but it doesn't truly matter if not every single time) the inner state follows. Rather than "I hereby with a very meaningful inner state invent the following ritual in my life". But this may be a difference of personal sensibility, not a general rule.
To me, mindfulness is the key. If ritual helps you be present and mindful that's good.
Joe Biden also fell asleep during a gathering to honor the dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Jxub9gd6Q).
But the problem is you watch any of these people in charge (Exhibit A, the Lahaina mayor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GvyjmxOd4) and it's like they all have the same disease. They *don't* see people. They see obstacles to their own ambitions and they react badly when people don't reciprocate their shallowness like trained seals.
The reality is that politicians, no matter the elected or appointed office they hold, seem not to assume any responsibility for what should be the obvious responsibilities of their position. Rather, they believe they are merely spokespersons to console the masses for the ineptitude the public is witnessing.
Well, to be fair, most politicians don't *have* any power in their position. Most of it is held by unelected bureaucrats. (See "Yes, Minister" for a practical example.) Heck, Harry Truman has this famous quote talking about Eisenhower:
"He'll sit right here and he'll say do this, do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won't be a bit like the Army."
It's far past ineptitude. Their desires greatly outweigh their integrity, by vast measures. I'm not giving them a pass here.
Biden is a soulless monster and all his perverted family are monsters as well.
I cannot come up with a better description than that, which probably describes 95 percent of those who work and live in DC.
Feral incestuous pack of dogs
I think what we Americans are waking up to, because we’ve been conditioned to believe we individually matter, is that there is an elite running this country that doesn’t give a champagne cork about the regular Joe and Joette. It’s galling, because it flies in the face of our collective values, and because these “elites” are real shits- sociopaths, incompetents, narcissistic cretins. But, and I mean this sincerely, we need to understand the landscape. This is as it ever has been everywhere. Same as it ever was. We thought we were special. We are not. In a weird way, it’s liberating. You owe no obeisance to these pathetic frauds. You owe no allegiance to their institutions. You and I have a moral obligation to fix this crap. And that’s why they are scared and attacking. They know that we now have the means to toss them out. Wake up, throw back the curtain and fix it.
This is not normal history...
Unfortunately decadent elites are pretty normal throughout history.
The weird part is the deliberate creation of artificial crises one after another that destabilize the country while they are the ones in charge. . Most of the time the incumbents want don’t want to rock the boat. It’s like these imbeciles forgot that you don’t try to burn your own house down.
Hey, don't hold back, dude.
They probably aren't *actually* alien lizard people, but it's hard to see how one would be able to tell the difference.
That's the thing! How could it possibly be any different, except for the orientation of the pupils of their eyes?
Barack Obama didn’t have dementia when giving a “shout out” to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, BEFORE reading his prepared statement on the terrorist murders at Ft. Hood. But he suffers from an even worse disease: narcissism.
They are all like this. I met Sen. Rubio at a cocktail party at an event for the Marine Corps. I tried to talk with him and all he could do is say thank you for your husbands service whilst looking around for someone better to speak too. Also, I met KT McFarland at another party in NYC. She was surrounded by military members and their spouses and she just repeated her name over and over instead of speaking to us like humans. It was super weird and very off putting. They are robots.
“Interventionism inevitably leads to socialism, central banking inevitably leads to hyperinflation, total cashlessness inevitably leads to total surveillance, and "guaranteed income" inevitably leads to guaranteed enslavement. A deadly poison remains a deadly poison even when ingested in a gradual manner.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
I’m so ashamed of our “leaders.” At least the Russians look like they give a shit.
Very much so. Oh, and they have a leader who 1) likes his own country and countrymen, and 2) stands up for its interests and 3) is actually sentient and not ga-ga.
You nailed it in the opening header:
"the ritual language burns into the brain, and then nothing else is left"
Words are thought; thoughts needs words to be expressed.
No words for a thought means it cannot be thought as it cannot be expressed.
So, make up words that express your thought? Yeah, about that... Derrida, Foucault and many shows where that leads. Maybe, tentatively, you can invent a term to encompass a thought, like it was done by the likes of Kant. Odds are, none of us are that smart, hence we'll struggle to express as we're not going to spend 100 000 words to narrow down and define our thoughts to arrive at "Das Ding an sich".
Also, the caste you describe for real believe that life as like being captain Picard. All you do is say "Make it so" and lo, it was so.
And if it's not so, blame the jews/Trump/white cis-het males/the patriarchy/Russia/whatever.
How about this for a T-shirt: Hate has a home here. Would that be wrong?
It's no good if you don't also make lawn signs.
I've always wanted to get a sign that says "Hate has no home here, except for those fucking Republicans."
Weird, isn’t it? When they manage to bumble-fuck their way into office they are terrified of being disliked by the MSM, but seem to have no problem with being hated by their own constituents.
And of course the real hatred is to the God of the Bible.
I live in 2 really, really white areas (snowbird).. It amuses me how many BLM yard signs there were (some are still there). FWIW, I don't really hate, but I do separate.
We had a house on our block here in Phoenix, AZ with that dumb BLM sign on it. The homeowners were snowbirds from Canada.
Many Canadians specialize in virtue-signaling while being oblivious to what they are actually supporting. They need to stay home in their Workers' Paradise.
“Welcome Hate!” Nice door mat!
I have a theory that narrative actors (politicians, Hollywood elites, liberals especially teachers, woke civil servants etc.) always seem to be lobbying to be invited to the elite cocktail party of their ilk. Thus they don't talk to "you" they are showing off their marketability within the group.
Rachel Zelger, who plays Snow White in the woke remake, is being savaged by twitter for her insufferable personality demonstrated in several Hollywood interviews. But she is not speaking to you, she is doing what she thinks will endear here to the Hollywood elites who can continue to promote her. (She is still getting roles and speaking engagements)
Are weathermen giving you the news, or demonstrating that they are good mouthpieces for climate change? (How many would gush over being invited to a cocktail party by Gore or Greta?)
Branch covidians would wet themselves to get vaccinated next to THE Dr. Fauci, The SCIENCE!
How often have you had a conversation (shouting contest) with a woke friend or member of your family who just shouts narrative talking points, as if there are woke judges with scorecards in the room?
Imagine if there were a contest were Trump haters submit videos of their best TDS meltdowns to get a day with Rachel Maddow? (Instead of just lots of Likes on social media)
The Politicians aren't talking to you. They are talking to the deep state who got them there. (Funny how those cheat o matic voting machines have a perfect record of picking those most submissive to the deep state). Biden is talking to his handlers, (who bring him children) Pence (In his latest gas station ad) to his fundraisers, Harris, her fawning media sycophants.
They are not talking to you because they have gotten this far by never talking to you. They know nothing about you because they live a different life and have zero interest in getting to know yours as they see themselves so superior to you. So, SO superior.
Re all of the politicians in Hawaii: Heck it has been a week already? Wasn't this supposed to blow over by now? A thousand people dead, hundreds of kids, at this point what difference does it make?! We got land to redistribute.
Totally agree.
I think you are right, and you could probably build that theory into a full thesis.