“A new power is rising. Its victory is at hand.” – Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers
I guess she didn’t see that coming.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Back a decade ago, Anonymous Conservative (link below) was writing about the term “Amygdala Hijack”. An Amygdala Hijack occurs when a person is “an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat,” according to Wikipedia. Basically, it means that someone has gotten in the target’s face so much that their brain breaks – they can’t contain the emotion and either lash out or stroke out.
This is the definition of Trump Derangement Syndrome. People are willing to disfigure their bodies and write “Trump” permanently on them to signal they hates him, they hates him so very much.
My friend got a tattoo of his favorite Star Wars™ character on his cheek. You should have seen the Luke on his face!
As much as the GloboLeft® hates Trump, most of their beliefs are made up not of provable facts (as much as they F*****g Love Science™) but rather the way that they feel on a subject. A great example is abortion: as much as they try to hide it, an unborn child is a discrete human entity with its own DNA, blood type, and body. That’s actual science.
But to disguise that very unpleasant truth, an entire web of “feels” has to be developed, focusing on the edge cases of rape and incest. As such, members of the GloboLeft™ cannot discuss abortion in any terms other than emotional ones, mainly because they want jobs where they can make PowerPoints® and a child wouldn’t be convenient.
What’s logical doesn’t matter. It’s what the GloboLeft® feels that matters.
Men have feelings too! Like hungry. Or drunk. Or salty.
Note that this leads to a subtle but important difference: GloboLeft© people aren’t for Joe Biden, they’re against Donald Trump. When a person is against something in emotional terms, they’re ripe for their amygdala being totally hijacked. They’re deranged, raw anger because something they’re against has happened.
On the other end of the spectrum, I thing most people on the TradRight™ aren’t for Donald Trump, they were for the border wall. They were for lower gas prices. They were for a return to normalcy. The were (and are) for America, first. When Donald deviated from what the people were for, well, they let him know. Remember the choruses of “boo” at a Trump rally when he began to brag about the Vaxx?
Pepperidge Farm remembers. Trump never led us. He saw the caravan and sprinted to the front.
Michelle has a “big” future.
But the experience of GloboLeft© was the exact opposite. When it was Trump’s Vaxx, it was poison that they would never in a million years put in their veins. When it became Biden’s Vaxx, it became a holy sacrament and a sign of their oh-so-virtuous behavior. The reason for the change is that they weren’t for the Vaxx, they were against Trump and anything he ever tried to do. People on the TradRight© were always skeptical, because, I mean, what is that stuff, anyway?
Being for something is generally positive. I’ve got to say generally because there are some pretty twisted folks out there that are “for” some pretty awful things. If the thing I’m for isn’t based in virtue, well, that’s a problem.
In the long run, “our” (I’ll count you in, dear reader, but feel free to opt out) movement must be a movement about being for things, because by being against things, we’ve already lost, and we’re on the defensive.
Why did Norm MacDonald never have a farm? Because he never got old. (I think Norm would appreciate that)
We have not lost, and we need to go on the offensive for things we are for. I know, it’s a subtle point, and sometimes difficult to get to. It could be said that I’m against immigration, but I can easily swap that and say that I’m for a culture which values the lives and fortunes of its citizens more than economic growth at all costs to depress wages and serve the elite, which is the driver of our current tidal wave of immigration. I’m for a unified culture based on Western values.
It’s the same thing, but it’s not. Being against war is not at all the same thing as being for peace. I am for peace for my people. And if it takes a war to get peace for my people, then so be it. Being against war just makes a nation a victim.
By making myself state what I’m for, rather than what I’m against, I force clarity to my thoughts, and also have created the basis for going on the offense. Being against Donald Trump gives him the ability to live rent free in the heads of the GloboLeft®, which makes them exactly what Donald calls them, losers. And they hate him even more for being right.
Being for makes us winners from the beginning. It gives us a goal, even if it’s so lofty that even our grandchildren might have to wait to achieve it. It gives us hope, and a vision for a brighter future. By being for something, it gives us the pathway to achievement, and the belief that we can move to victory.
I guess a Middle Eastern nation was providing armored vehicles to Ukraine for free. Is that tanks-giving Turkey?
Do I fall into the trap of being against things? Certainly, but I try to take step back and understand and flip the script to focus on the things that I’m for. But when I’m out there creating the vision of things I’m for, I know that I’m planning and plotting the seeds of our inevitable (and I do believe it is inevitable) next victory.
All of this with my amygdala firmly my own.
After 66 years on this ball of mud, I’ve learnt that when evil people ( Pelosi, Shumer, Obama et al) are for something, I am well served to be against it, whatever it may be.
I understand and use that as a guidepost, but flipping it to something that we’re for is a winner. When we’re for the Constitution and appoint judges, well, look what happens?
It is simpler to define what one is against when it just leaves “everything else” as the definition of what one is for. Our founding documents are sufficiently vague about most things (What is ‘liberty’? How does one define the ‘pursuit of happiness’?) that the left strives to pervert the founders’ intentions to impose their will on the rest of us.
The left is simply better at articulating what they don’t like, with a burning ardor bordering on the psychotic. Here on the right, we like what we like, and dislike what we don’t. But we don’t take to the streets, hoist the black flag and slit throats to get our way. Perhaps we should start.
TBC
Simpler, but not as useful. I’m for the right of the people to keep and bear arms. That’s simple, too. And were we can articulate what we are for?
We win.
Could that back tattoo be called a “Trump stamp?”
I can somewhat relate as I too suffer from TDS but mine is Tyson Derangement Syndrome (as in Neil Degrasse Tyson). I never forgave him for demoting Pluto from the ranks of planetary status. Prior to that debacle, I enjoyed his books/articles, etc. but, in all seriousness, I get pissed off when I see him on tv because he was the voice of that anti-Pluto movement. I wouldn’t go so far as to put a tattoo on my back, but I really don’t like him now.
I’m sure she’d love her butt being called a Trump Rump.
We need to know what we are against for certain but on the “right” we often are only known for what we are against and not what we are for. Our alternative is “not that” and that allows the Left to dictate the terms of the argument and has been the case for most of the last 125 years.
Most of the “right” isn’t even against anything. 50/50 hate Jews, kill babies, change sex, Rick the homo is fine, the border.
When we threw out the absolutes in 1963, we ended the republic
In ’63, the absolutes got thrown out for us. In full living color.
A very nasty, memorable Public Ritual and next thing we knew, the Christian king was dead and LBJ and his ghouls initiated Masonic Amerika. You shoulda seen the look on the nuns’ faces.
Exactly. Where we are “for” something, like 2A rights, we are amazingly successful. So, focus on the for, not the anti.
There’s what you’re for, there’s what you’re against, and then there’s what’s actually gonna happen. At least supposedly.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47
Axios is one really screwed-up bunch. They are extremely biased left but their manifesto says:
“Every item will be written or produced to inform, analyze and explain. Axios will never be a platform for incitement or argument. We will never have an opinion section.”
So much for sticking with their principals.
Hypocracy is The Thinking Man’s Filter of The Left.
This. If he had people on-board rather than the usual parasites, 2016 to 2020 would have been transformative.
Ok I get it, I get it. Let me try.
I’m FOR the destruction of feminism and wokesterism and all related luciferianisms. I’m FOR the lynching of traitors to God and country. Toss the thieves and liars right in there too. I’m FOR the complete and permanent ruination of all enemies of the King.
I’m FOR PEZ.
You know John, I do believe you are right about coming at this from a fresh angle. I’m feeling better already, kind of warm and spirutual-y. Thanks!
Ha! So close! Be for God and country, and the lynching of traitors drops right out. Be for the King, and He will take care of us all.
Like we could stop him.
PEZ. Yes.
Dayum and I was SO close this time, too. At least I got the PEZ part of it right.
I’m for values that promote the emotional well being of humans, however young.
Emotional well being is NOT improved by agreeing with delusional thinking.
I’m for reducing the amount of money that can be taken from taxpayers. That amount should include federal, state, and local taxes. It would be a percentage of ALL residents living in a place, whether non-citizens or legal residents or citizens. If the average of taxes exceeds that certain percentage, ALL services at EVERY level have to take the same percentage cut from that district/state. NO exceptions, whether COLA, negotiated salaries and wages, pensions, or entitlements.
ALL.
We will see just how essential those taxes are when it means that the government has to take a pay cut.
I’m for elimination of income tax. If we need taxes, I’m for using an import tax.
I am of the belief that humans are divided into two species. One species thinks, the other can only feel.
The first species is Homo Sapiens, the second Homo Stupidicus. The two species are identical physically and you cannot differentiate between the two…until they speak. Then it doesn’t take long to figure out if he person speaking is thinking or merely feeling. And often the listener will be TOLD which is which because one group frequently prefaces it’s proclamations with the phrase “I Feel”….
Basically we are NOT an intelligent species, just a clever one.
You’re not wrong.
I’m for using discreet and discrete correctly. 😋
And I am for common-sense border control. 😉
Oh, my, thank you!
“…most of their beliefs are made up not of provable facts (as much as they F*****g Love Science™) but rather the way that they feel on a subject.”
What they feel is largely determined by whoever controls media, and they don’t seem to be driven by mindless emotion. They seem to have a plan.
You make some good points about needing to be for something, but if we don’t physically remove Leftists from our lands it won’t be our lands for long. They don’t give up, ever. A multigenerational eugenics effort to remove that taint from our blood will also likely be required if we truly desire long-term peace.
Removal will be a side effect. It will happen.
I am for Jesus Christ, and against Satan. This isn’t some political battle…history is wrapping up.
“history is wrapping up.”
Seems 2 be two political ‘entities’. EVIL. & EVIL Lite™
Even a devout atheist 🤔? would have to notice that something is afoot.
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It is.
Valid arguments. No disputes here. But…I have been kicking around some theories about this.
One: most of the left are people who are prone to get stuck in mob mentality mode. A ‘standing-wave mob mentality’ explains Nancy P. perfectly. So they’re not actually able to break out of it. Having a mob mentality is a useful survival skill for plains apes; maybe a mental pathway gets established, chemical imbalance, etc.
Two: they are actually Old Testament angels. Manifestations of God sent to test and judge us. (This is a low probability theory, developed after slamming my head in a car door.)
All things considered, you’re probably righter.
Satan is a mob specialist, Crucify Him still plays to the crowd
A Community Organizer. :O)
Mob mentality is built into us. Well, most of us.