Trump campaigned on an isolationist platform and he explicitly rejected globalism. That appealed to a majority of American people because it promised to 'put America first', but it sounded alarm bells in the all-powerful Washington political establishment that has long before embraced an expansionist ideology to ensure American global hegemony and 'exceptionalism'. These are the people that gave us the catastrophic wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Patriot Act, mass surveillance, officially sanctioned torture, and plots to destroy and subvert numerous other countries.
Whether anti-Trumpers like it or not, the fact is that their antipathy towards the current POTUS is not only irrational, it is not even really theirs. It is instead largely the result of manipulative tactics by members of the Washington establishment and the mainstream media who have very different (and inherently selfish) reasons to want to hamstring the Trump presidency.
Admittedly, Trump is not a polished politician. He's not even a politician. As such, he was not schooled in the subtle art of lying with a straight face and keeping your dirty secrets secret. Many Westerners expect their politicians to keep to the unwritten contract between the people and a leader that a leader must look better than the average person, speak better than the average person, and espouse noble ideals (to which we can naively assume they hold). What the leader then does in private is of little concern, as long as it's kept secret, even if it amounts to the exact opposite of what they espouse in public. Trump has failed on all accounts in this respect. He neither looks nor speaks like a 'superior' human being and his world-view is much more practical than it is idealistic. Hence the feeling of betrayal and anger from a large section of the population. I was treated to an example of this kind of reasoning, after an lengthy exchange with some anti-Trump friends on FB, where one of them summed up their argument by posting the below image of Trump. I fully understood the point (even if I disagreed that it was a valid one).
Among other things, Trump is accused of being a liar, yet it is the fact that he does not lie about important things that has provoked the ire of so many in the USA and in nations where the ruling elite have adopted globalist policies. Trump does not lie about traditional American globalism (aka 'Democracy building') being bad for the average American and bad for people around the world who are subjected to it, and pretending that it isn't only good for the Washington establishment. He does not lie that making minority rights the primary goal in any country is a viable political or social development strategy. He does not lie that a nation can have an 'open border' policy and maintain social cohesion and a healthy economy.
Consider also the recent news about the disappearance of US/Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was disappeared by the Saudi authorities in Turkey last week. Chances are Khashoggi is dead, possibly brutally murdered by House of Saud goons for daring to criticize the massively corrupt petrostate. Several Western nations, the US included, expressed 'concern' over the disappearance, with Trump going as far as to threaten to "punish" the country. But as usual, talk is cheap, and the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Australia (to name but a few) have made it clear that they have no intention of halting any of their pending weapons sales to the Gulf headchoppers. But amid this display of disgusting hypocrisy, Trump's penchant for telling the truth offered some consolation when he revealed why:
We don't like [the Khashoggi situation] even a little bit. But as to whether or not we should stop $110 billion dollars from being spent in this country, knowing Saudi Arabia have four or five alternatives, two very good alternatives, that would not be acceptable to me.While it may not seem like much, this is the first time (to my knowledge) that the leader of a major Western nation has explained publicly why a totalitarian state like Saudi Arabia is a 'close ally'. Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton all literally bowed to Saudi royals throughout their terms and praised them for their 'modernization'. Trump, on the other hand, is happy to spell it out: it's about money and strategic interests in the region - morals be damned.
In short, Trump's perspective and ascent to the White House threatens the idealistic world view of many people and, more importantly, through his 'America first' agenda, he is perceived as a potential threat to the neoliberal/neoconservative agenda of the Washington elite to secure US global hegemony through 'humanitarian interventions' around the world.
So what we are seeing in the USA today is public naivety and emotionality leveraged by, and used in service to, the Washington establishment's agenda to secure US global hegemony in the face of external competitors, most notably Russia. To date, this 'unholy alliance' has produced the clearly bogus 'Russia collusion' accusations against Trump, the equally bogus claim that Russia 'hacked' the US election, the feckless and divisive Mueller probe and the general anti-Russia 'hysteria' that has gripped many Western nations (most notably, and not coincidentally, the UK).
Another notable example of manipulation of the mass mind that coincidentally kicked off as a result of Trump becoming POTUS is the #MeToo movement. Would the #MeToo movement have even happened if Trump had not been elected? It's an interesting question. Are we to assume that there were no actionable cases of sexual harassment in the Western world before October 2017 when the #MeToo movement began, seven months into Trump's presidency? If not, is it reasonable to assume that there is a connection between Trump's presidency and the #MeToo movement? Is it possible that the #MeToo movement is part of the US establishment's overall anti-Trump agenda? Are people in Western nations so fickle that, as long as there is no self-confessed 'pussygrabber' in the White House, they are happy to turn a blind eye to CIA support of terrorists that slaughter citizens of Middle Eastern and European countries? Are they so vacuous and unthinking that they are content to ignore the obvious fact that the Western media (for the most part) work hand-in-glove with that same 'deep state' establishment?
Unfortunately, it seems that the answer to all these questions is "yes". And if they ever succeed in taking Trump down, you can bet that those same people will instantly forget their half-baked ideologies and happily fall back into the arms of more 'presentable' leaders who will tell them comforting lies while they rape, pillage and murder - all in the name of "progress".
Reader Comments
He has a point the left are tyrants -- and if they ever gained that kind of power would genocide any detractors.
The Marxist Socialist Left, would if they gained unchallenged power, cull ever white man, ever contestor of LBGTqrxt rights (sic).
I now know that these inbreds would down hell on top of every person who they concider a deplorable.
I might not agree with GregH335 call to arms. But if this pesists and keeps escalating as it has since Trumps elections.
Then Civil War might just be the only answer to these hive minded pussies.
And Quinn backs Alex Jones type claims Sandy Hook was a false flag?!
I'm about done with website myself.
Manufactured Terror: The Boston Marathon Bombings, Sandy Hook, Aurora Shooting and Other False Flag Terror Attacks (with Niall Bradley, 2014)
Although to be clear, it doesn't say anything about backing Alex Jones.
And who are you now? Never seen you til now, must live in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to show indignation.
Ba bye! Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
I'm a free living man, in full possession of my rights. Anyone claiming that I'm not free is my enemy. If you wish to perceive my claim of freedom as "rigid" then that is your fault and not mine. My rights are absolute. If they aren't absolute then I don't have them. You speak of abject rage as if it's some amorphous, ghost-like thing, typed onto a computer screen. I defy you to point out exactly where I have engaged in such a thing. Whether I agree or disagree with what is written in an article isn't really up to you. You may wish it were up to you, but it's not up to you.
The truth hurts....and it seems quite a few of you are limping and have been wounded by it. It's not my fault you've allowed yourselves to be enslaved but it seems your all certainly looking for a scapegoat.
You want to know who is at fault for your enslavement? Look no further than the mirror.
It's like going to watch a great movie and everyone just plays on their phone the whole time.
Why? It's just easier to make "snap" thoughts based on uncontrolled emotion than it is to wonder and to think. Or maybe we've just had the curiosity bred out of us as a race.
Idealism also exists in the "America first" agenda too.
I'm not sure if they perceive him as a threat. It seems more likely that he is fake opposition to both sides. Judge by what he does, which so far is not much. We're still being pushed towards Iran, still messing around in Syria, and other wars continue. The media can focus on the stupid dramas around Trump while not covering those issues.
Even if Trump is really meaning well, he's being used as a huge distraction along with the crazy left to create this split that people focus on.
Btw, i just watched the latest redacted tonight episode and they had a funny fact about Kavanaugh: he voted 90+% with another fed judge who was an Obama appointee. You would think that a left vs right judge would be more different but the show explained it well: both parties vote similar most of the time because they're both pro big business... Haha
So much to type...so little time.
Let's start with Joe Quinns bio. Not the one you see here, on this article, but the one that can be found here [Link] or heck, I'll just copy and paste it.
Joe Quinn, Director, Vice PresidentB.A. Hons. in Spanish Language and literature and Information Management, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland, 1995
M.A. in International Business Studies and Information Technology, University of Ulster, Ireland, 1996.Certified ISO 9000:2000 Quality Assurance AuditorBefore coming to Quantum Future Group Joe was employed as a Quality Assurance Manager for Viking Interworks, a division of Sanmina SCI, the world’s largest Electronics Contract Manufacturer. He currently works as a full-time volunteer for QFG.
This is important, especially when you realize that it's the Quantum Future Group that controls what you see on sott.net. The really important part of Quinns bio is the "Information Management" part. Which is another way of saying Propaganda. Which is another way of saying Perception Management. Which is another way of saying Perception Deception.
Most folks comment on websites and don't bother to find out anything about the websites on which they post comments.
What would be Joe Quinns purpose for writing and posting what I would refer to as a pro Trumppet mash of flammable garbage? Does he really believe all the things he wrote here? Well, When I look at his bio, I can't believe he really does. He's far more intelligent than that. Maybe some unpaid intern wrote it and he just pasted his name on it, but I don't think that happened, either.
What folks are most likely reading is a test. A test, to see who is buying the whole "right vs. left paradigm" and who is seeing past it. We are always being tested. Like rats in a maze, searching for a crumb of cheese. A maze reality designed by someone else. A system of command and control. I, personally, find it abhorrent that I am forced to maze my way through a reality that is created by someone else.
Here's some things that most folks don't know:
"No private person has a right to complain by suit in court on the ground of a breach of the United States constitution; for, though the constitution is a compact, he is not a party to it." Padelford Fay & Co v. The Mayor and Alderman of the City of Savannah 14, Georgia 438, 520.
"It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act [Social Security Act], March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent." H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress in session, June 5, 1933.
Joint Resolution to Suspend the Gold Standard and Abrogate. The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments, and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only. United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1933 Vol. 33."
They seized our gold in 1933, declaring us the enemy and holding us bound to them as slaves to uphold the debt. That's really what the 14th amendment is about. It didn't free the slaves, they were enslaved along with us.We're under martial law rule and have been since 1871, made stronger in 1933 and with every subsequent war.
I'm not just typing out of my ass, I'm going by what's been written down. Have some more:
"As we have said, the Federal Personal Income Tax is collected under a military venue within a martial law jurisdiction. Federal Reserve Notes are Military Scrip circulated in a Military Venue. The problem is the people don't understand how the entire United States is in a Military Venue. ... Under the Social Security Act [1933] there was brought into existence Ten Federal Regional Areas. These Ten Federal Regional Areas [sounds a lot like FEMA regions, yes? That's because they ARE the FEMA regions and they've been around nearly 100 years] are the same as a military base [gold fringe around the flag]. It is not unconstitutional to circulate "military scrip" on a military base as the base is considered to be a military venue.
"Military Scrip" cannot circulate in the civil jurisdiction of the United States. To get around this Constitutional bar the Congress created Ten Military Venues called Federal Regional Areas. The problem the Congress realized was, while Congress could restructure the Government agencies into these Federal Regional Areas, the people could not be identified to be [see: jurisdiction, they tricked us into it!] within this Military Venue but by their own consent [a commercial contract]. Dyett v. Turner, 439 P2d 266 @ 269, 20 U2d 403 (*1968*) The Non-Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment by Judge A.H. Ellett, Utah Supreme Court.
"A "citizen of the United States" is a civilly dead entity operating as a co-trustee and co-beneficiary of the PCT (Public Charitable Trust), the constructive, cestui que trust of US Inc. under the 14th Amendment, which upholds the debt of the USA and US Inc." Congressional Record, June 13, 1967, pp. 15641-15646.
"...it might be correctly said that there is no such thing as a citizen of the United States.
...A citizen of any one of the States of the Union, is held to be, and called a citizen of the United States, although technically and abstractly there is no such thing." Ex Parte Frank Knowles, 5 Cal. Rep. 300.
So, basically what we have is a Federal Government that exists solely as a corporator of a bankruptcy, which debts are to be paid through the labor of the people, without their consent. The fraud and deceit knows no boundaries. EVERY decision the fedgov makes is fraudulent, based on layers of past fraudulence. This includes Donald Trumppet and most of his predecessors.
A smart guy like Joe Quinn would know this.
"pro Trumppet mash of flammable garbage" I see you, shaking that ass...
You quote some nice quotes, and you nitpick quite well without making a point or cohesively stitching any argument together except, "Waaa, bad man!" but quite seriously, what's your point? You're just angry, and misunderstood, right? I think Joe would understand more about that than ANYONE here, you silly little man.
Anyway, I liked the article, and you quite succinctly proved the exact point he was making - you have been brainwashed by slick lying psychopaths and you would rather fall back into the comfortable lies of those you are used to who are "schooled in the subtle art of lying with a straight face and keeping their dirty secrets secret."
Enjoy.
Ah, so Joe Quinn's a what?
Information Management=Propaganda=Perception Management=Perception Deception
Wow!
While I'm yawning and your snoozing, if you took the time to read what I wrote, you'll notice that I found your friend Joe Quinn to be quite intelligent. Far too intelligent to write such a crummy farticle. He can do way better, in my opinion. But, perhaps it's not "in the cards" for him to do so.
I also found it hilariously funny that some folks think I smoke to much weed or that I'm brainwashed, when most of what I wrote in my comment is a matter of public record that anyone can look up for themselves if they chose, thus proving a severe lack of brainwashing. But, for some reason, they choose not to do so.
It's funny, they would rather let someone else tell them what to think, instead of doing some simple research that anyone with net access can do. It's akin to changing one media platform that lies to everyone, for a different media platform without vetting the new media platform and just believing everything the new media platform has to say.
ANYONE can look up the info I provided and see how an entire nation became enslaved. It's all public record. Sadly, most folks would rather shit on the truth than have to face up to reality.
I bear no ill will to you or your friend and co-worker Joe Quinn.
Here, have a song...[Link]
I also do not see anything 'isolationist' about following our founders advice.
Washington advised against "permanent alliances," whereas Jefferson, in his inaugural address on 4 March 1801, declared his devotion to "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
Keep waving your flag in front of your nose, and you will be guaranteed never to see anything you don't want to see.
You call $1.46 interest on a $1.00 earned, 'debt laden'. Hah. The dollar has been dead since 1977.
In Canada the new number is $1.71 for each dollar made...to say debt-laden, is to be absurd. And these numbers can only get worse further down the road.
The debt can never be paid, never ever be paid...the only solution -- kill all the bankers, impale their bodies, up and down Wall Street, and hit the reset button on the whole machine. And start all over again.
And you believe, what? He is adding to this nightmare.
Admit it, your a left wing spanner mate.
It took me a while to figure out what was going one...DT takes over after how many fake presidents and a Deep state that was allowed to grow unfettored for how many decades without any restraint.
Build, build, build a military industrial complex machine for war and ripping off other countries -- being the biggest arms dealer on the planet.
Decades of showing the public one set of books and then having another set for the real accounting, Until the day before 911...when Rumsfelt admits to the nation, "Fuck me purple on a pink dinosaur we, at the Pentagon can't find $2.3 trillion.", yes that's 230,000 million dollars. And then the next day, Whammo, fake terror attack, and nobody ever talks about it again.
And I get a little upset, when I loose $5.00 in the dryer, when I forget and leave it in my jeans going through the wash. But $2.3 Trillion.
Trump has a big challenge, in playing with these idiots without getting cancered, or a fake assassination, or impeached for who fuckin knows what...
To slowly and methodically disconnect from all the things that are causing the nation to hemorrhage billions of dollars. Loser godam social programs, The environmental parasite of the IPPC and all the little fucking satellite shitheads like Leo and Al Gore at the pig trough of government subsity. Headchopper asshole refugees, and wet backs crowding the southern borders like locusts. All chanting I want, I want.
MAGA is great, it disconnects all that bullshit spending on loser programs.
The best I could hope for is the US government starting a new Bank with a currency backed by gold. And slowly by slowly we would ween off the banksters in federal Reserve. Bring back Glass- Steagall, either your are in the banking business or your an investor, you can't be both ya fucking loser. Then have public hanging for all those idiots, Jamie Dimon, and Neo-Conservatives. AND LASTLY, for the grand finale. Slick willy and the witch swinging in the breeze. Ah, one could only dream.
The Trumpalator woke all those fragile teacups up, and here they are whining and crying for safeplaces and pronouns, and triggered -- wanting rights and a free lunch. Crying like little babies in their mommy's basements after the long nap of mind control from JFK to Trump.
Well suck it up snowflakes, your all going to have a aneurysm the size of a MAGA ball cap when Trump is voted in for a second term -- and then what are you losers going to do. Soros is going to run out of money sometime soon, unless he can kaboosh the Bank of England again. Or turn in Jews again.
They don't make prozac the size hockey pucks, which is what you all are going to need to numb those micro-aggressions and mega-aggressions you are going to get in the next term.
No Paris Accord, he's disconnecting from the UN, TPP down the drain, a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico excluding everybody else. The lowest black unemployment numbers in decades, charging for military support overseas, getting the EU to pay its share of NATO. Coal on a comeback, get those carbon PPM up around 600. And jobs are coming back or your going to pay a tariff, Apple you greedy shitheads.
Stop this Russian and China and the BRICS nations war on the North America. You want to sell your shit China, then behave, or were going tariff the bejesus out you.
Getting all those mommas boys out of the basement and working at a job,
Go Trump. MAGA yeah......boo for Democrats, inbred faggots.
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