Max, You knocked it way out of the park with this essay.
Exactly about the collapse likely coming on Trump's watch. Given the current low levels of social cohesion, no one will ride out the carnage. (The one optimistic note here is that I've been expecting the collapse for a long time.)
"What matters is what the rest of us will do in the shitstorm. Will we rise together with dragon energy to reconstitute our lives and communities, and to build new American institutions? Or will we prostrate ourselves before the Church of Politics and beg for our suppers?"
Like you, I hope we will rise and write essays about how to make that possible. Yet, I fear for the worst.
The people hoping for the worst guided by the mistaken belief that their utopia will arise from the ashes, have no idea what they working/hoping to unleash.
Only consumers acting in a free market can answer #1. And government agencies are incompatible with a free market, as they are based on force, not free choice.
Max Borders: I have told my wife for years, Barack Hussein Obama is overplaying his hand. Not only in his deeds, but also in his pride. Accordingly, methinks Barack Hussein Obama had to greenlight this failed CIA assassination of Donald J. Trump and here is the reason for my theory of BHO's involvement:
Do you remember that time in 2016 when Attorney General Loretta Lynch decided she would take a private meeting with Bill Clinton on her plane as it was parked on the tarmac in Phoenix – while Bill’s wife, Hillary Clinton (when she was Obama’s Secretary of State), was under federal investigation for using a secret and unlawful private email server at her New York home, to receive thousands of top secret and classified government emails?
With the obvious corruption of the Phoenix tarmac meeting in mind; it is my humble opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election cycle on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey ignored the rule of law and “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in American history, the “rule of law” in the USA began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (think FISA Court - “Crossfire Hurricane”) of James Comey, (et al) were never pursued; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable…... and the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago along with the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump and the “Bragg show trial in New York”, is my proof We the People now live in a banana republic.
[However, with Saturday's (7/13/2024) failed CIA assassination of DJT, the term "banana republic" is no longer accurate. Fascist/CIA/JUNTA/Stasi is closer to the DEEP STATE than "banana republic".]
Please be cognizant: The Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to a July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and Valerie Jarrett and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton" on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” [In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia.] According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.”
Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, (the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and manager of FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane”), delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussions and Obama's directives to the intelligence agencies.
That is why I posit; Barack Hussein Obama greenlighted the 7/13/2024 failed CIA assassination of Donald J. Trump.
Editor: The DEEP STATE is panicking after Biden's implosion and Trump soaring in the polls and fundraising. Whereby an actor, can get a green light from a former president, to write a NYT editorial, which then backfires because Biden refuses to resign and then in a hastily planned desperate act; the DEEP STATE tries to whack Trump immediately before the RNC. It was an Obama "hail-Mary".
good job Max, well done! and you might be right about the "collapse likely coming" on Trump's watch. BUT...we might pause before dismissing or underestimating he Deep State's abilities. they just might don their friendly olive branch coat of arms -- to subvert, overwhelm & smother Trump & his MAGAs...with a tsunami of bi-partisan "cooperation" and "good will" and a "deep patriotic devotion to Unity". just dilutes by watering down any lasting harm Trump might do, to their "long-game" agenda.
nor should we underestimate their ability to dispose of Trump later...should be become insufferable like JFK gradually became.
besides...it's a long 111 days before 5 November...another 15.8 weeks
You touched on it and I think you’re spot on; they will cripple the economy after Trump is elected. The economy is already on life support, they’re just trying to limp it across the finish line of the election. Regardless if Biden or Trump gets in, the Fed will make all the appropriate signals to scare Wall St.
If you haven’t learned lessons from 2020, I’m not sure what to tell you. Start building your community network yesterday. No one is coming to save you. It’s going to be up to you and the men in your community.
You might want to look for a local F3 group. Free fitness and networking with men in your community. Also, read Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men. You’re not going to form a group of protectors after the SHTF. You need to build your gang of men now!
TO EVERYONE: contact me if you’ want advice or recommendations on how to get started.
Very good essay Max. I’m not yet convinced that viewers of MSNBC, CNN; readers of The NY Times, Washington Post have grown skeptical of these media outlets. I would like to see a survey conducted to prove that out though, or perhaps evidence that viewership or readership has declined since Biden snuck up behind them and pantsed them all during the debate (Ben Shapiro line). I do like your explanation of Coherence theory. My question is: Is it possible that media outlets are creating the coherence by which people align their positions, or are most people organically coming up with their positions? I feel like the media, in coordination with their respective party on both the left and right are leading people into what position to take. It’s likely more complex than that as Jonathan Haidt explained in “The Righteous Mind”.
Thanks, Neal. Great questions here. First, I think it is possible in the short term to parrot narratives and create a temporary illusion of coherence. But reality has too many points of comparison through time, so over time, people cannot continue to live in contradiction, particularly when more and more people fall like dominoes around them. So there is a coherence dimension for the individual and a social dimension for the many who form a new solidarity position. This takes time. // I have always been a big fan of The Righteous Mind, but the mass psychologies of COVID seem to contradict some of those early conclusions, particularly around how 'left' or 'right' ought predictably to behave.
Max, You knocked it way out of the park with this essay.
Exactly about the collapse likely coming on Trump's watch. Given the current low levels of social cohesion, no one will ride out the carnage. (The one optimistic note here is that I've been expecting the collapse for a long time.)
"What matters is what the rest of us will do in the shitstorm. Will we rise together with dragon energy to reconstitute our lives and communities, and to build new American institutions? Or will we prostrate ourselves before the Church of Politics and beg for our suppers?"
Like you, I hope we will rise and write essays about how to make that possible. Yet, I fear for the worst.
The people hoping for the worst guided by the mistaken belief that their utopia will arise from the ashes, have no idea what they working/hoping to unleash.
I will crosspost your essay in a bit.
I agree Trump is nothing like Hitler. Hitler had some manners.
Haha, nice one
How to handle government agencies.
1. Determine what agencies are actually needed
2. Use Schedule 7, which Trump signed before leaving office. Fire all government workers.
3. Hire back only those absolutely necessary and with a sweaky clean record into those FEW agencies.
4. Going forward government uses a NEEDS BASED ACCOUNTING each year to prove each person and equipment and supplies are required.
Works in private sector and in the governments that uses it.
I hope you're right. Alas...
Only consumers acting in a free market can answer #1. And government agencies are incompatible with a free market, as they are based on force, not free choice.
Well done
I meant to point this out and forgot: https://youtu.be/XkSeW7NU03U?si=KED3Vo_SDFJmaGUV
Max Borders: I have told my wife for years, Barack Hussein Obama is overplaying his hand. Not only in his deeds, but also in his pride. Accordingly, methinks Barack Hussein Obama had to greenlight this failed CIA assassination of Donald J. Trump and here is the reason for my theory of BHO's involvement:
Do you remember that time in 2016 when Attorney General Loretta Lynch decided she would take a private meeting with Bill Clinton on her plane as it was parked on the tarmac in Phoenix – while Bill’s wife, Hillary Clinton (when she was Obama’s Secretary of State), was under federal investigation for using a secret and unlawful private email server at her New York home, to receive thousands of top secret and classified government emails?
With the obvious corruption of the Phoenix tarmac meeting in mind; it is my humble opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election cycle on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey ignored the rule of law and “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in American history, the “rule of law” in the USA began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (think FISA Court - “Crossfire Hurricane”) of James Comey, (et al) were never pursued; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable…... and the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago along with the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump and the “Bragg show trial in New York”, is my proof We the People now live in a banana republic.
[However, with Saturday's (7/13/2024) failed CIA assassination of DJT, the term "banana republic" is no longer accurate. Fascist/CIA/JUNTA/Stasi is closer to the DEEP STATE than "banana republic".]
Please be cognizant: The Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to a July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and Valerie Jarrett and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton" on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” [In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia.] According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.”
Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, (the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and manager of FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane”), delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussions and Obama's directives to the intelligence agencies.
That is why I posit; Barack Hussein Obama greenlighted the 7/13/2024 failed CIA assassination of Donald J. Trump.
Whew. This is not a completely implausible view. Brennan is the devil and power behind the power.
Editor: The DEEP STATE is panicking after Biden's implosion and Trump soaring in the polls and fundraising. Whereby an actor, can get a green light from a former president, to write a NYT editorial, which then backfires because Biden refuses to resign and then in a hastily planned desperate act; the DEEP STATE tries to whack Trump immediately before the RNC. It was an Obama "hail-Mary".
Add to this the CIA's claim that they intercepted an Iranian plot to get Trump a couple of weeks ago. Uh huh. *It has all the hallmarks of ....*
good job Max, well done! and you might be right about the "collapse likely coming" on Trump's watch. BUT...we might pause before dismissing or underestimating he Deep State's abilities. they just might don their friendly olive branch coat of arms -- to subvert, overwhelm & smother Trump & his MAGAs...with a tsunami of bi-partisan "cooperation" and "good will" and a "deep patriotic devotion to Unity". just dilutes by watering down any lasting harm Trump might do, to their "long-game" agenda.
nor should we underestimate their ability to dispose of Trump later...should be become insufferable like JFK gradually became.
besides...it's a long 111 days before 5 November...another 15.8 weeks
You touched on it and I think you’re spot on; they will cripple the economy after Trump is elected. The economy is already on life support, they’re just trying to limp it across the finish line of the election. Regardless if Biden or Trump gets in, the Fed will make all the appropriate signals to scare Wall St.
If you haven’t learned lessons from 2020, I’m not sure what to tell you. Start building your community network yesterday. No one is coming to save you. It’s going to be up to you and the men in your community.
You might want to look for a local F3 group. Free fitness and networking with men in your community. Also, read Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men. You’re not going to form a group of protectors after the SHTF. You need to build your gang of men now!
TO EVERYONE: contact me if you’ want advice or recommendations on how to get started.
Very good essay Max. I’m not yet convinced that viewers of MSNBC, CNN; readers of The NY Times, Washington Post have grown skeptical of these media outlets. I would like to see a survey conducted to prove that out though, or perhaps evidence that viewership or readership has declined since Biden snuck up behind them and pantsed them all during the debate (Ben Shapiro line). I do like your explanation of Coherence theory. My question is: Is it possible that media outlets are creating the coherence by which people align their positions, or are most people organically coming up with their positions? I feel like the media, in coordination with their respective party on both the left and right are leading people into what position to take. It’s likely more complex than that as Jonathan Haidt explained in “The Righteous Mind”.
Thanks, Neal. Great questions here. First, I think it is possible in the short term to parrot narratives and create a temporary illusion of coherence. But reality has too many points of comparison through time, so over time, people cannot continue to live in contradiction, particularly when more and more people fall like dominoes around them. So there is a coherence dimension for the individual and a social dimension for the many who form a new solidarity position. This takes time. // I have always been a big fan of The Righteous Mind, but the mass psychologies of COVID seem to contradict some of those early conclusions, particularly around how 'left' or 'right' ought predictably to behave.
Good points. The term cognitive dissonance comes to mind with what many are experiencing in the country.
Lol 😆