Narcissists hate to be ignored—ignore them!
Put aside your beef with Frau Rowling for a moment and take heed of what she wrote in the Harry Potter series: Voldemort is Who Must Not Be Named, sometimes referred to by such names as You-Know-Who, He, or (by his followers) the Dark Lord.
Why do journalists and their publishers continue to quote and use the real names of the Orange Monster and his minions? The lies and the all-caps screeds are presented word-for-word to the readers of their publications. I can understand that technique for the neo-authoritarian rags, their talking screens and their influenzas. But why do publications like Huff Post and CounterPunch continue to give space to the words and pictures of these people?
Ask anyone from 1984, an unperson doesn’t exist. The unperson has been erased from history—thrown into the memory hole. So start now. Throw the unperson into the memory hole and stop the resonance. It’s the resonance in the echo chamber that causes mushy minds. Descend from the bell tower and stop listening to the deadly vibrations from the tolling bell.
SEX!
Everybody loves a good sex scandal.
Old Alex Hamilton of rap and stage fame (recently) was screwing someone other than his wife, but it didn’t bring him down. Seems James Reynolds didn’t mind being a cuck if it could bring him some money. “My real crime is an amorous connection with his wife [Maria Reynolds], for a considerable time with his privity and connivance, if not originally brought on by a combination between the husband and wife with the design to extort money from me.” But old ten buck Hammy bought it in a duel with a guy who instantly became an unperson.
Bunga! Bunga! Silvio Berlusconi had a number of sex scandals, as well as the more mundane fraud and bribery corruption charges leveled against him. In 2011 he was accused of paying for sex with a prostitute and with an underage girl. He survived to party hearty for the rest of his Dirty Life and Times.
The Orange Monster has modeled his political career on the Bunga! Bunga! man, and so sex scandals have been on his tail (because of the tail he chased) forever as well. Up to now he has managed to survive and still surround himself with some sleazy female hangers-on who—I wouldn’t be surprised if…
But it seems that the buck stops at pedos for the Dark Lord’s cult followers. They were promised Satanstein and his customer list (“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDxxxxxTxxxx is in the Epstein files,” [Musk] wrote. “That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT.”). For a long time, over and over, the promise was used like a caveman’s wooden club to beat the opposition over the head with at every turn.
The Pizza Gate conspiracy and other pedo conspiracies were run by a guy who called himself Q (part of the LGBTQ gang?). Wikipedia tells us that “the Q account was initially run by another person, with Jim and Ron Watkins taking over in late 2017 or early 2018. … the original ‘Q’ poster was Johannesburg resident Paul Furber, a 4chan and 8chan moderator and one of the first online commentators to promote QAnon.” Maybe this is why white South Africans are so in favor.
You can teach a dog to be vicious if you want to. Feed it red meat and get it angry at whoever you don’t like. Teach it to growl and bark and even bite if you want it to. However, if you cut off its red meat drug and it can only growl and bite at thin air, the dog will turn and go after its nasty deceiving master.
That’s what’s happening now.
Gee Gee Maxwell (a Rottweiler herself), convicted pedo trafficker, dripped honey words about the man who could give her freedom and a ticket to safety in a foreign non-extraditable country. Isn’t she too smart to get on a plane provided for her by her benefactor? Can she not remember what happened to Prigozhin? Not to mention what happened to Jeff. Hasn’t she ever listened to Hank Williams?
The distractions have been coming in a dizzying flurry, day after day, minute by minute, with the hope that his goldfish-brained cult followers will just let him ride into the sunset on a silver cloud like the Jesus they claim he must be.
LIES!
How do you know he’s lying? His mouth is moving and making sounds. He’s lying.
Just stop printing the shit he says. Stop printing the shit his people say. Blank them out. Censor them. They will eventually censor you, so get a head start. Censor them first.
Reporting a lie is not reporting the news, it’s reporting a lie and treating it as if it is news. That lie is then mistaken for “news” by some people, who believe “news” is equal to truth. Anyway, reporting their nonsense has the effect that George Lakoff was talking about in Don’t Think of an Elephant. They frame the argument and you are left searching for a rebuttal to the argument. By the time you find a logical way to tear down their lie, they have moved on to a new lie that frames the argument anew and demands a new rebuttal. It’s the old Whac-a-Mole problem.
The lie at the core of the neo-authoritarian movement to get rid of democracy in the United States (and around the world) is: “We are here to save you.” They claim to be saving you from the other party (in the case of the USA, the Democrats), whose members are vile, dishonest, corrupt and taking advantage of you—whoever you may happen to be. The right wing propaganda machine spews out disinformation, which “has emerged as a potent weapon, sowing discord and fueling radicalization”, filling the social media space with messages directed at causing dissatisfaction—dissatisfaction with anything and everything. It’s always the other guy who is to blame.
Now that they are in power, the chief aim—following the revised Hitler playbook for 2025—is to use the constitution to destroy the constitution:
Following his failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923 [compare January 6, 2020], Hitler had renounced trying to overthrow the Weimar Republic by violent means but not his commitment to destroying the country’s democratic system, a determination he reiterated in a Legalitätseid—“legality oath”—before the Constitutional Court in September 1930. Invoking Article 1 of the Weimar constitution, which stated that the government was an expression of the will of the people, Hitler informed the court that once he had achieved power through legal means, he intended to mold the government as he saw fit. It was an astonishingly brazen statement.
“So, through constitutional means?” the presiding judge asked.
“Jawohl!” Hitler replied.
I’m not sure if all the pundits writing opinion pieces and well-researched articles in respected newspapers and journals are fools or if they are just spewing mealy-mouthed nonsense so that they can get clicks and a paycheck from their masters in the media empire. It just so happens that the 6 or 7 corporate masters of the media empire are the same ones who have carefully been hedging their bets the last few years and have been quietly preparing the yellow brick road for the neo-authoritarian march to power.
Now, bowing their corporate heads and submitting to the will of the Orange One, they fire TV personalities who oppose or ridicule their new business partner, pay out enormous fealty fees to the regime or directly to the boss, delete cartoonists and journalists who have the Big Balls to defy the Orange Clown-in-Chief, and allow puff pieces laced with the strychnine lies of the cult leaders.
It’s no wonder that lies are everywhere, spreading more virulently than the COVID virus, and sure to cost more lives than any lab-concocted disease—oh, sorry, I mean a bat-carried disease, or was it manufactured by RFK Jr and his Q buddies? Whatever. Lies are the rule and lies rule.
RANTS GALORE!
What Mr. Newsom, the current governor of the Golden State, is attempting to do by mirroring the absurd rants in ALL-CAPS of The Man of the Crowd is to push a needle in through the thin skin of the narcissist Midnight Rambler. What surprises me is that he is the only one. I would have thought that every governor and social media person in the info-sphere would be doing that by now.
Can you imagine what a wonderful festival of absurdity that would generate? And if it is done by other people in high places then it would become “news” and it would suddenly be fashionable to spew the absurd in capital letters. Eugen Ionesco, who wrote absurdist drama that often held a political message, would be pleased to see that everywhere a new type of Rhinoceros was appearing. The next thing that has to appear is a new Hugoliade an anti-authoritarian piece that he wrote during the Ceaușescu regime in Romania.
THE ALL CAPS RANT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE IN THE WORLD OF ART. BARBARA KRUGER PUT IT ON DISPLAY IN 1994 IN BASEL. BUT SHE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH WORDS FOR A LONG TIME. FOR MUCH LONGER THAN THE ORANGE MONSTER. AND HER WORK IS MORE INTERESTING. SHE’S HOT. NOW THAT I’VE MENTIONED HER SHE’S EVEN HOTTER!!!
Personally? Although the GREAT LIQUIDATION has not yet begun in the Land of the Star Spangled Starstruck, you can see the preparations being made: the secret police, the camps, the lists of names filched by DOGE from government records, the demand for names and addresses of the voters on the voter rolls. The evil will come swiftly and brutally, before the next election cycle, or perhaps during that cycle. We are dealing with an evil that has historical parallels: Attila tops most of the lists, Stalin, Hitler and Mao always make the top ten. Idi (the token) Amin and Pinochet sneak in somehow. They never name the living in these lists, but there are a few candidates around now who will definitely get the honors after their demise.
Keep your Go Bag handy. Harvard has advice on what to pack. They know it could get nasty soon because they are still fighting the Orange Monster.
Stay safe.
Stay healthy.