From fake trillion-dollar deals to imaginary Coke negotiations, Trump’s Pennsylvania ramblings reveal a crumbling presidency while real heroes fight for democracy abroad.
Oh my, thank you for this start to my day. Levity is required as I get information and help staying informed. It's 7:41am, so now I'll go work in garden and try to forget where the unUnited States of America is spending time these days. Pulled a Mary treasure: "In Trump’s brain, which runs on expired Adderall and Diet Coke, facts are optional."
“But then a technologist emerged who went much further. And his ideas would become central to… power
He was called Vladislav Surkov. Surkov came originally from the theatre world and those who have studied his career say that what he did was take avant-garde ideas from the theatre, and bring them into the heart of politics.
Surkov's aim was not just to manipulate people, but to go deeper and play with, and undermine,
their very perception of the world so, they are never sure what is really happening.
Surkov turned … politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theatre.
He used (gov) money to sponsor all kinds of groups - from mass anti-fascist youth organizations,
to the very opposite - neo-Nazi skinheads. And liberal human rights groups who then attacked the government. Surkov even backed whole political parties that were opposed to the (president).
But the key thing was that Surkov then let it be known that this was what he was doing. Which meant that no-one was sure what was real or what was fake in modern (politics).
As one journalist put it, "It's a strategy of power that keeps any opposition "constantly confused” - a ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable "because it is indefinable."
Meanwhile, real power was elsewhere - hidden away behind the stage, exercised without anyone seeing it.
And then the same thing seemed to start happening in the West.”
Excerpt from the transcript of “HyperNormalisation” by A. Curtis 2016
How much I look forward to your icing on the cake while baked it/he becomes daily. What people cling to is how it used to be ..somehow totally missing the demented elephant .
There is no president running this country …there IS a president ruining the country .
It’s behind the scene that really matters..and slides by unchecked if not out and out sanctioned . He remains the central distraction, doing his thing, captivating by supposed mental depravity (like a fox) while America waits for a mental hygiene …the store room is looted.
The perfect storm came 10 years ago . Dazzling conspiring culminated a Republican Dream Scheme, Don-the-Con placed in the center ring. Some place the plot back beyond Regan but consistency it was. Tax breaks, speculative banking malpractice,housing bubbles (again), add in a few Russian operatives, greed, gerrymandering, and too many looking away in complacency and …here we are.
People heard what they wanted -never the double talk, wouldn’t acknowledge the lie repeated historically to playbook plagiarism and the deviant jumped on the bandwagon.
One can’t make this stuff up, but far too many keep believing the script that is.
"It's only Thursday" sounds metaphorical, because it feels like the "end of the week" for America is nigh. The Senate GOP--the Dems walked out in disgust--moved Bove's federal judgeship nomination forward for confirmation. But what better than to place a man on the judiciary who told same to F-off. Thing is, reality has a way of creeping back into to the most gifted BS. Mary's juxtaposition of a Ukrainian soldier and a posturing fascist underscores the dichotomy. As for Coca Cola, just a polite nod from them and "no comment." More folks in the US industry should do the same.
Oh my, thank you for this start to my day. Levity is required as I get information and help staying informed. It's 7:41am, so now I'll go work in garden and try to forget where the unUnited States of America is spending time these days. Pulled a Mary treasure: "In Trump’s brain, which runs on expired Adderall and Diet Coke, facts are optional."
“But then a technologist emerged who went much further. And his ideas would become central to… power
He was called Vladislav Surkov. Surkov came originally from the theatre world and those who have studied his career say that what he did was take avant-garde ideas from the theatre, and bring them into the heart of politics.
Surkov's aim was not just to manipulate people, but to go deeper and play with, and undermine,
their very perception of the world so, they are never sure what is really happening.
Surkov turned … politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theatre.
He used (gov) money to sponsor all kinds of groups - from mass anti-fascist youth organizations,
to the very opposite - neo-Nazi skinheads. And liberal human rights groups who then attacked the government. Surkov even backed whole political parties that were opposed to the (president).
But the key thing was that Surkov then let it be known that this was what he was doing. Which meant that no-one was sure what was real or what was fake in modern (politics).
As one journalist put it, "It's a strategy of power that keeps any opposition "constantly confused” - a ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable "because it is indefinable."
Meanwhile, real power was elsewhere - hidden away behind the stage, exercised without anyone seeing it.
And then the same thing seemed to start happening in the West.”
Excerpt from the transcript of “HyperNormalisation” by A. Curtis 2016
https://www.scripts.com/script-pdf/10432
some edits to strip specific gov reference, to emphasize global impacts, by me
How much I look forward to your icing on the cake while baked it/he becomes daily. What people cling to is how it used to be ..somehow totally missing the demented elephant .
There is no president running this country …there IS a president ruining the country .
It’s behind the scene that really matters..and slides by unchecked if not out and out sanctioned . He remains the central distraction, doing his thing, captivating by supposed mental depravity (like a fox) while America waits for a mental hygiene …the store room is looted.
The perfect storm came 10 years ago . Dazzling conspiring culminated a Republican Dream Scheme, Don-the-Con placed in the center ring. Some place the plot back beyond Regan but consistency it was. Tax breaks, speculative banking malpractice,housing bubbles (again), add in a few Russian operatives, greed, gerrymandering, and too many looking away in complacency and …here we are.
People heard what they wanted -never the double talk, wouldn’t acknowledge the lie repeated historically to playbook plagiarism and the deviant jumped on the bandwagon.
One can’t make this stuff up, but far too many keep believing the script that is.
Cult ? Autocracy? Project 2025?
Hook.Line.Sunk her.
See ya at the protest….
"It's only Thursday" sounds metaphorical, because it feels like the "end of the week" for America is nigh. The Senate GOP--the Dems walked out in disgust--moved Bove's federal judgeship nomination forward for confirmation. But what better than to place a man on the judiciary who told same to F-off. Thing is, reality has a way of creeping back into to the most gifted BS. Mary's juxtaposition of a Ukrainian soldier and a posturing fascist underscores the dichotomy. As for Coca Cola, just a polite nod from them and "no comment." More folks in the US industry should do the same.