Olaf J Ogland

The grave danger of mega$ to Govt was well-noted by H Arendt in her '51 Totalitarianism: 1) being a separate power, it creates its own policy 2) being "superfluous" to the nation, its policy has only pvt meaning 3) w/ pvt meaning in power, public faith in govt is destroyed.

Grim Per Prof Snyder, wd-be autocrats punch holes in Lawful Order by setting up ‘border’ spaces where nat’nl law does not apply📌 Moths do this to eat, but autocrats do it to destroy the scarf 📌

How can she be so callous as not to feel outrage at how she was betrayed? Perhaps she overlooked Yrump’s sleaze for the greater political good, But when she found out he was at the heart of the trafficking, and she had to lie to conceal it, How could she not have felt used??

They would hear her keeping her mouth shut. Recall, her father ‘fell’ off his yacht.

It’s ALSO about: -“price of a nest” - unaffordable! -worry over children’s future -anxiety over culture, planet survival -disdain of male posturing, lack of care: Catastrophic erosion of hope📌

A theory of our politics

Insecurity In the modern condition, where everything has changed and ungroundedness is endemic, The idea of trusting oneself has become untenable, And one *must* resemble an image of some sort to feel successful: ->great disputation over *which image to impersonate*📌

“Ah, but we want people to be discouraged and armed, don’t you see?”

Greed and racism Have the same source: shame over one’s vulnerable self, to be remedied by either -savage acquisition, or -savage oppression of others: Same force, different options.

Ah, but there were warnings aplenty, But so many people ignored them, So… We have urgency and the present devastation.

Jesus, word has it, *stilled the waters* While these folks seek to trouble them, Claiming allegiance all the while to what they can never be.

Memorable, fascinating, and alarming! Earth is sounding the alarm, and we had better heed her📌

“Vengeance is mine, saith The Donald” You have a challenge from a self-deceived poseur.

…one guy who is the front man for a group that would replace the Public Thing [res publica] With “our thing,” Taking charge of Govt power, separately from the public interest: Note: “Our thing” in Italian is “cosa nostra,” which is apt here.

Ah “If we are going to do *our thing* we must make sure no one can identify us!”📌 (Some may recall the phrase in Italian, and note its methods and the separateness of its purpose from the lawful order, against which it must be vigilant.)

The only ‘Invasion’ is by them! Malevolent, invidious, incompetent, and cruel, And glorying in it like drunken thugs, Using the levers of power like war clubs, smashing heads for the thrill of it.

‘DOGE’ => Disruption Of Any Government Enforcement

“Due Process” is about us💥 NOT about the accused person!

Self-loathing is a qualification for entry: -won’t disown the loather-in-chief -will do anything he says -won’t quail at cruelty.

“If teaching religion in school would raise morality, “Why doesn’t it work in churches?”

Whoa! “is a dangerous dictator” is strong indeed💥 And 52% agree is damned strong!📌 (I’d’ve been impressed if even 20% had agreed!)

‘Victimhood’ Has a personal ontology without which it doesn’t exist: ‘Misfortune’ cannot create victimhood without a *deep grudge* at play, And its depth is in childhood, where lonely envy found no recognition, and the rejection then festers to be inflicted later on someone else.

True But the anxiety is not just the dreaded ‘replacement,’ which characterizes all rt-wing mvts, But a deeper dismay at their own impotence as human beings, unable to believe *their own* sufficiency in a world of others, unless they demonstrate ‘winning’ to themselves📌

Politics Exists in the Public Square📌 If a power is installed that replaces the Public Purpose with cruelty and deception, Replacing our civic bonds with corrupt purposes, promoting rancor among the people instead of respect, The People must reclaim the Public Square📌

“It’s ’our thing’ you know” Musk Note: in Italian, that’s ’cosa nostra’ Right?

Spot on📌 Angry at exclusion, much of public wants vengeance, And long failure to tax wealth adequately has bred it: In US, 80’s tax cuts broke New Deal framework, which rt-wing were intent to destroy, as Dems diddled w/ neolib’sm, And lost to a savage boy seeking to trash his own house.

The magnitude of the deception is quite BEYOND the capacity of honest souls even to perceive: Honest souls want to believe in human care, and CANNOT FATHOM that notable ppl can be capable of SUCH depravity: Hitler’s “big enough lie” that no one can question.

Noem, channeling the trumpian ambition, wants an *unlimited* prerogative: “Rest of their lives” =“Nothing shall stop us!” This is the ending of Law, and the replacement of politics by an imaginary fiat📌

Yes, all these …and if you believe your own lies, you have taken yourself for a fool, a fool who doesn’t know he’s being lied to, and so you are a sadist who lies to the poor fool, and a callous deceiver as well, who thinks there’s nothing wrong with either sadism nor idiocy: So…?

Bravo, to this young man📌 He is a light for the future.

Murdoch has changed his mind📌

Indeed Law is like fences, once enacted they stay put These folks seem to think judges scurry around to plop down some fencing where they want to go Rather than realize the fence was already there but they didn’t want to see it. ‘Inebriated’ doesn’t begin to cover such driving.

Heading on @maddow.msnbc.com tonight to talk Greenland. As you know I have feelings. Tune in at 9pm 🇬🇱🇩🇰

FIRST question WHY would Govt officials even be USING a group chat format that IS NOT an official record?📌 ➡️…if not to elude scrutiny!?! The content is egregious, the risk enormous, but the SUBTERFUGE spiting Govt itself is unforgivable, And DISHONORS America📌

➡️Putin is the Aggressor with whom Trump Identifies, And so Trump’s head is an open avenue for him. His militant unawareness of anything but his own personal anodyne turns executive duty into vapor, as sycophants clear all impediments: This is not Govt but an overgrown baby nursing.

It’s become the “Environmental Production Agency” Slash and burn, we call it, regarding primitive agriculture.

Yes! ‘Uniformity,’ which is ➡️the Rule of Nobody is what Rs slam ‘wokeness’ for, as an *alleged* Dem tactic, while the slammage is an overt R tactic: ➡️EVEN AS Rs succumb the SAME WAY to the Rule of Trump, who IS a Nobody whom they promote as leader: *Their* uniformity means BEING NUMB.

I discovered it 50y ago in college, went on to Renaissance polyphony, Bach, and onwards… Music captures timelessness, and is a refuge from secular chaos, commercial meaninglessness and clamor. MUCH deeper than video games!

Pertinent📌 …and characteristic!

If the Trumpian ambition is to ➡️destroy ‘shame,’ replacing it with shamelessness, The Muskian ambition is to ➡️destroy empathy, replacing it with a demotic darwinian survival of the most unscrupulous📌

Imo, Dems hv long failed to respond to deep public woe, Brought by inequity from 80s tax cuts, neo-lib wishful thinking, and offshoring of work: If Dems had fessed up to being asleep at the switch, They’d have more credibility📌

Oh my! If the Constitution created an Article III power to be coequal with that of the Executive, …it would be ‘unconstitutional’! 🙄

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“Art of the Deal” was ghost-written by Tony Schwarz, Who was stunned in ‘16 when Trump claimed credit Jane Mayer’s piece soon after told how Schwarz saw Trump as ‘a black hole’ My cartoon:

Dems (and all commentators) ought to point out the tactic *the replacement of politics by deception* Which in itself destroys any factual ground: This must be called what it is: A ‘Great Replacement’ method, flooding the earth with lunacy.