tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post8867147306406676087..comments2024-01-08T04:16:25.601-08:00Comments on Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa: Transformative Presidencies Ché Pasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-83891967736285939672017-01-27T18:31:49.652-08:002017-01-27T18:31:49.652-08:00Just so you know, I wrote that "theory" ...Just so you know, I wrote that "theory" in Word then copied and pasted here. It's frustrating. <br /><br />Thanks for the links. Curious relationships, that's for sure.<br /><br />Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-27291315421765922632017-01-27T12:36:02.347-08:002017-01-27T12:36:02.347-08:00Damn, my comment disappeared as soon as I hit publ...Damn, my comment disappeared as soon as I hit publish. Argh.<br /><br />Anyway, see these links for some telling interactions between Trump and his wife.:<br />http://jezebel.com/melania-hates-donald-a-theory-1791428158<br /><br /><br />http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/donald-and-melania-trump-inauguration-smile-video.html?mid=twitter-share-thecutterinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-91743321733438166672017-01-26T12:21:23.710-08:002017-01-26T12:21:23.710-08:00So here’s my theory, such as it is.
I too have won...So here’s my theory, such as it is.<br />I too have wondered why certain people who should know better, online and in real life, have become Trump apologists and defenders. How can they be so blind? Well, maybe they aren’t. Maybe there’s something else going on, something much deeper seated than objective reality.<br />I watched the inauguration in bits and pieces, and one scene really stuck out for me. You know that odd boy, what’s his name, Baron or something? He was in the presidential box awaiting the parade. He looked really sad, but then he always does. He was playing with his device when some uniformed officer approached with his hand out in greeting. The boy looked up and recoiled as if he were going to be smacked. Hard. <br />Oh jebus, I thought. That boy’s been beaten. Severely abused. Probably by both his mother and his father. Jebus. I started looking at the other kids, watching their behavior, and I think a case could be made that all of them, including his darling Ivanka, have been equally severely physically and emotionally abused. The boy is a wreck, and I don’t think it’s autism, though it might be brain damage. The others are functional – more or less – but how badly damaged they are is anybody’s guess.<br />This explained a lot – if it’s true. <br />Trump has a really over the top persona, much of it show business in my estimation, but some of it, the constant underlying threat display, is real. There are so many testimonies about the way he is, the way he’s been since he was expelled from his first private school and sent to the New York Military Academy. It’s not just bullying. It’s sadism, designed to compel obedience through physical and psychological cruelty. He’s a pretty classic abuser-type.<br />I think what happens is that a lot of people who have been abused or who are abusers themselves key into that and respond to it the way they’ve been conditioned to. People who have been abused defend him in part out of a survival instinct. They figure if they cower and grovel sufficiently, they’ll be OK. Well, until they aren’t, and nobody knows when that time will come, and when it does, there’s nothing they can do anyway. <br />On the other hand, people who are abusers would want to align with the Alpha+ male, toadying. It does them no harm to do so, and they might get tremendous, tremendous rewards. Gold and diamonds and girls. You never know, but never get anything at all if you don’t try.<br />That’s my theory. I don’t know whether it’s right. But when I saw that boy react the way he did to a hand held out, a lot of things that made no sense suddenly did.<br />Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-49504535773993522812017-01-26T11:14:11.401-08:002017-01-26T11:14:11.401-08:00Gracias. Yet another of my increasingly frequent b...Gracias. Yet another of my increasingly frequent brain fartz.<br /><br />Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-39718117506572201932017-01-26T10:09:22.558-08:002017-01-26T10:09:22.558-08:00Delurking to offer that it was Joe, not Eugene, Mc...Delurking to offer that it was Joe, not Eugene, McCarthy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-58999048372590050402017-01-26T09:46:34.999-08:002017-01-26T09:46:34.999-08:00I have a theory about your question, but I can'...I have a theory about your question, but I can't get into it now -- press of events and all -- but I fully intend to return to it. If we can answer it clearly, we may find a positive way forward.<br /><br />C.Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-37449528786342436122017-01-26T04:20:32.782-08:002017-01-26T04:20:32.782-08:00Excellent summary of past presidencies and how we ...Excellent summary of past presidencies and how we got here. I had forgotten some of this history.<br />Thank you, Che.<br /><br />I am having some trouble knowing what to say to people (in particular, one a relative and one a blogger I read regularly and where I was commenting frequently until just recently, since he has allowed one new commenter to abuse everyone else there relentlessly and with gleeful ignorance, and in general with Democrats in office who are going to "work with" Trump and who are voting FOR his bizarre and oligarchic cabinet picks) who adamantly refuse to criticize Trump on the basis that "he is not doing anything that wasn't done before" or that "he is just the obvious continuance of what happened before", or that "Hillary would be just as bad" (the politicians don't say this last), or "this is just the way it works now". <br /><br />That all these might be true to some degree or another is beside the point, I think. These same people (I'm referring to the personal ones I mentioned, not the politicians hereafter) didn't hesitate to correctly, in my opinion, rebuke Obama for continuing or worsening the policies of Bush/Clinton and the assorted neolibs/neocons, and furthermore, took pains to point out what he has made worse. Yet with Trump, it's hands off because there's "no particular difference". And these are not people who like Trump or voted for him.<br /><br />I find this more than odd. Why would anyone who could clearly see that things have continually regressed for some decades decide that now, of all times, it's time to absolve the current asshole for taking it further down the hill, just because he didn't start the shit himself? Especially since he is making it worse so fast it makes the head swim and the eyes water.<br /><br />I find it weird. I say, point out relentlessly every single piece of shit Trump and the Republicans and the oligarchs they are bringing in with them do and, sure, make a note that they are "merely" continuing the downward slide that someone else started if you feel compelled to. But, Jesus, why are they refusing to criticize what is going on right in front of their faces? Or worse, offering excuses for it, as though in some mysterious fashion, it's okay now because Obama was doing the same abhorrent things, or in some cases was headed down the same path? I don't get it at all. Maybe Trump has infected most of the country with his Stupid Syndrome. Trump, the Republicans in office, and the oligarchs they are bringing in absolutely loathe the American population. They don't even try to hide it. The Democrats go, "tsk, tsk. Well, we're trying to influence things for the better, blah, blah, blah," and then they go vote for whatever billionaire asshole is set in front of them to run some agency in the government. We're in a bad spot, with no-one looking out for us or the world.<br /><br />Trump may not be the anti-Christ, but he sure plays the role to a fair-thee-well. I won't even start on the Trump supporters, who are going to be stunned when they realize how "their guy" and his merry crew truly sees them as so much disposable human dung. Or maybe they'll never see it. They will assume there is something lacking in themselves that forces them to drink fracking waste while they have no jobs or jobs with ever-decreasing pay, and cannot ever retire because social security has been eliminated.<br /><br />That's the real secret of Ayn Rand and Trump's Art of the Deal: make the commoners think their shitty lives are entirely their own fault, while the wealthy and the politicians who serve them run off with the loot.terinoreply@blogger.com