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It’s a mental illness. An inability and refusal to confront and address the obvious. Hillary Clinton lost. Donald Trump won. In the few weeks Obama has taken every side on every position.  Russia did, Russia didn’t.  Hillary was robbed, Hillary screwed up.  I failed, I was a success.  I have brought hope, there is no hope.  Everything is wonderful, everything sucks.  The FBI is right, the FBI is wrong.  

Hegel is very impressed.  But he’s still waiting for the synthesis.

I’ve been trying to grasp the essential mindset of those who are so viscerally opposed to Trump and his supporters that they seem willing to do anything to express their loathing for them.  Just what is the common factor?  What makes this different from the normal partisanship?

There is no need for modern psychoanalysis.  It can be easily described in an old and well used term: self-righteousness. Pharisaical self-righteousness.  The concept has gone quite out of style, but the phenomenon is very much alive and very well.  Acquaintance with the pharisaical personality has vanished as worldly unfamiliarity with the gospels has grown.  It’s a regrettable gap in our educational system. Lest I frighten the horses with god talk, there is no need for theology to grasp the moral principle under consideration. Relax.

Perhaps this pharisaism can best be seen in Hillary Clinton.  I could multiply examples, but one will suffice.  When, with her insider friends, and with their obvious approval, she called a large portion of Trump supporters “deplorables”, any biblically or even classically literate person would have immediately caught the clear echoes of the saying of the Pharisees, “this rabble is accursed, that knows not the law”.  Here is the dripping contempt, the superiority, the snobbery, the loathing of the little people by those who regard themselves as intrinsically better than others.

Unfortunately this inner rot has spread far beyond Mrs Clinton.  Millennials have been taught since infancy that they are the best, the coolest, and in the words of one young woman, the most moral generation.  Their self deception seems complete.  For all their self supposed ethicality, they do not hesitate to indulge in open displays of spite, rancor and revenge.  Their treatment of Bocelli in this matter is reprehensible, but they do not notice.  They think nothing of depriving this man of his living and his self esteem. He must submit to their will or be given the yellow badge of the outcast.  Their self indulgent weeping and hysterics show a depth of self regard and self pity that I think has not existed before or to this extent.  The attack on the electoral college electors showed this same infantile ignorance of the reasons for the law and the glorification of self interest.  Who threatens another with death for any reason other than an immediate threat to the lives of oneself or one’s family?  Yet these threats are now commonplace over matters of opinion about political traditions, though the threats are unserious and the people making them are cowards who hide behind email.

The most telling example of this self righteousness is the gross misuse of the name Hitler.  Clearly the person Hitler achieved a notoriety for evil that surpasses all others.  Comparing someone to Hitler is the ultimate in moral distancing.  Because Hitler is seen as literally almost infinitely evil, then I, who am not like him, must be at the other end of an infinite scale, and therefore, pretty good, in my own eyes. By calling someone Hitler I don a mantle of self constructed virtue.  Other epithets that end in “ist” or “phobic” serve a similar function.  But the use of “Hitler” is truly the final solution.  It is the personal and moral er[...]

It’s lonely knowing you’re right. You’re met relentlessly by the simple-minded and trite. They never seem to wonder what’s right or wrong. We just know. 

A jazzman today is like a medieval monk on a Scottish island in the middle ages hand copying ancient manuscripts so that an intellectual tradition is not lost during a time when 99.5 % of the population had no clue about ANYTHING. O tempora! O mores! [REFERENCED]

FLOTUS told Oprah Winfrey, “Now we’re feeling what not having hope feels like.” Really?! Mrs. O, talking about how her husband sought to imbue Americans with a sense of “hope,” added that “we feel the difference now.” And this: “It has shaken me to my core in a way that I couldn’t have predicted,” Mrs. Obama said at a campaign event in October. Funny . . . my thoughts exactly.

Alistener reminded me of the apt lines from Auden. 

One could go on: Dante, the Beatles, William Morris, Tolkien and so on.

I advise the Clintons to stay out of the woods.  No good can come of it. The poetry of the woods is darksome and eldritch. (Thank you, Tom.)

Lost in a haunted wood,

Children afraid of the night

Who have never been happy or good.

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Create the meme. And keep repeating it. Don’t worry, Americans don’t read, research and have the attention span of a gnat. They don’t question connections alleged as to Putin and Russia somehow affecting and throwing the election. Why would a voter care what Podesta’s emails contained or alleged? It’s preposterous and redefines specious. And your MSM question not and nothing.

Fake News? That’s redundant.

Fake News and Alt-Right are the latest incantations of the attempt to reroute discussion and illumination of fraud and governmental deceit. Before them was the granddaddy of deflection: the conspiracy theory. 

In 2004, CBS’ 60 Minutes produced documents critical of President George W. Bush’s service in the Air National Guard in 1972–73. Despite heavily pushing the story, the documents turned out to be complete forgeries and the scandal was so embarrassing that it forced veteran news anchor Dan Rather to resign months later.

CBS News also dutifully spread the fake news before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein had mobile biological weapons labs, a story that turned out to be a completely contrived claim from a notoriously unreliable source. CBS helped sell a war that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, thousands of U.S. troops, and they somehow escaped the fake news label.

CNN ran an entire segment that REPORTED when Donald Trump becomes the president next month he will begin a program of rounding up Muslim-Americans and placing them in internment camps.

CNN also ran clips of former Navy SEAL and Trump supporter Carl Higbie, taking comments he made about the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII completely out of context to suggest he is in favour of such a scenario. As the Media Research Center notes, CNN failed to inform viewers that Higbie’s comments from the November 16 broadcast of The Kelly File on Fox News also contained Higbie dismissing any notion that he would ever advocate interment for Muslims. That portion of the interview was conveniently omitted from CNN’s report.

Lieutenant General Flynn specifically referred to “radical Islam” as a cancer during different speeches he made several weeks ago. Yet the CNN has repeatedly edited out this term, instead insinuating that Flynn called all Muslims a cancer.

#Pizzagate is a perfect diversion from serious crimes that have now been dismissed altogether by a sheeple faux left who’ve researched not a lick of the story or the WikiLeaks references that have chronicled far more serious concerns for a sentient world. 

NBC reported that an Internet pedophile ring with up to 70,000 members — thought to be the world’s largest —has been uncovered by police. Sadly, the usual suspects who have taken the headline of pedophile ring and dismissed is as part of “fake news” prove precisely the mission accomplished goal of the new meme, trope and conflation.

The impuissant media run the other way after receiving marching orders to ditch these references as to Hollywood pedophile rings. Had it involved the Catholic Church, you’d have another Oscar-worthy film highlighting he investigation.

Learn to work the saxophone • I play just what I feel • Drink Scotch whiskey all night long • And die behind the wheel

In my years I have never seen anything quite like this. And for good reason.

Who am I? I spell out simply.

I started off in the mid 80s as an underwear model and parlayed my love of small engine repair into dissemination of the holy word of truth. As a young man I was abandoned to wolves and thereafter abandoned by the wolves themselves. I lived a sheltered life. I was blindfolded whilst being breast-fed. I’ve always been frightened by the size of Lincoln’s ears and often go to bed without saying goodbye. I am a student of astrology and being born under the sign of Feces you can understand why. Industrial Klezmer is my music and Harold Stassen my political inspiration.

Don’t lose that number. A Truth Warrior subscriber to the Lionel Newsletter wrote me this exquisite piece whose style I love.

Cultural fascists calling him a fascist, sexual predators calling him sexist, people oozing hatred calling him a hater, idiots calling him stupid, social justice warriors committing the most unjustifiable acts of violence, retards calling his son autistic, Hollywood actors calling him phony – that’s the distorted reality Donald Trump is facing right now. But even the Master of Distortion himself, George Soros, who built his fortune by capitalizing on distorted views of the market, knows that no distortion can last forever. Yes, sometimes you win, György, (and the more spectacular the distortion, the more spectacular is your payout), but this time you lost. Markets tend to find equilibrium. What Trump needs now – is momentum, and I think he is building it superbly.

The most beautiful words ever enunciated and the most surely under threat of extinction. Broadly inclusive yet exquisitely imprecise. Magnificently vague in coverage yet the first line of defense against tyranny of expression and thought and the expression of the simple idea. The troublesome idea. The noxious and noisome. This is the essence of who we are as a republic. Let me explain and give examples accordingly. 

“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”— George Orwell

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The colossal con Jill Stein trudges on. And no one’s the wiser. It seems. Rancid are the media. Brillinat are you. Enjoy.

Hillary Clinton’s ties to Google, CNN, PBS, and The New York Times illustrate the conspiracy among these organization who tried to help Hillary be crowned leader of the free world. New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has admitted that his paper was unconstitutionally biased and disgraced the very principle of the First Amendment. Sulzberger admits the paper was biased by saying they underestimated Donald Trump’s support among American voters. He then claimed they would “rededicate ourselves” to the newspaper’s standards of “honestly” reporting news. At least he admitted they were rigging the game.

A new study has been released on Google and the rumors that they skewed their search engine to support Hillary. They reported: “Among our key findings were that top search results were almost 40% more likely to contain pages with a “Left” or “Far Left” slant than they were pages from the right. Moreover, 16% of political keywords contained no right-leaning pages at all within the first page of results.” [Source]

The mythology of Castro as the romantic revolutionary barbate. Random thoughts infra.

It is impossible to love freedom and human potential and not loathe Castro.

Who are the lunatics who heap praise on the despot who ruled over an island prison nation? You know who they are.

Amazing, isn’t it? Castro’s greatest fans and admirers never lived under his regime.

Castro was an amazing man. So long as he didn’t kill or imprison you.

Ask anyone sporting a Che shirt to explain anything about him. Good luck. 

Ask about Luis Posada Carriles when speaking of Castro’s Cuba and state terrorism. I dare you. 

It is beyond the intellectual and historic ken for American media to comment cogently on Castro’s death. 

There’s must be a lobotomy that’s performed on the reasoning centers of today’s political comedians, especially those who portray the professional leftist. 

There can be no heartsease with Castro’s passing. 

There are so many dolts who rail against Trump as fascist and laud Fidel Castro as benevolent revolutionary. Only in America can we walk among the cretinous. Especially the two-bit leftie comic grasping and clawing at relevance.

The American Mafia and LCN provided some of the best countermeasures against Castro since he wrested control of their gambling interests post-Batista.

Since Executive Order 11905 our prohibitions against assassinating world leaders have been at best sketchy. Fidel knew.

American media and Americans themselves would be best served by sitting this Castro discussion out. Too complicated. Nothing Manichaean.

Fox News systematically diminishes the complexity of the Castro positioning in history by flag waving mesmerization. Please, let the adults speak.

There are so many dolts who rail against Trump as fascist and laud Fidel Castro as benevolent revolutionary. Only in America can we walk among the cretinous. Especially the two-bit leftie comic grasping and clawing at relevance.

Why is anyone spending a picosecond reviewing the relevance and sagacity of Colin Kaepernick?

The Che shirt wearing weekend revolutionary is as conversant with history as the neo-Nazi Aryan poltroon who fancies himself an Hitlerian avatar. Or the confederate flag sporting Johnny Reb who thinks Lynyrd Skynyrd is the revivification of Stonewall Jackson.

Please speak to Cuban-Americans who lost everything, had property and tresaure confiscated, loved ones imprisoned and who witnessed fellow citizens cut down via firing squads. Tell them about your revolutionary hero. Perspective children.

But while your at it, recognize the corruption of Fulgencio Batista and other hardliners who in their own way imposed horrors among the poor and defenseless. This is not an easy discussion. 

Castro was brilliant. Never forget that. And much of what he said was spot-on. Despots can be right also. 

This country imprisons and executes the innocent, enjoys a horrid infant mortality rate, ignores its poor and exports war through criminal imperialism. Glass houses, kids.

It’s really that simple. And you can help. Just listen. And learn.