Columbus

Xi Triggered - On China's Trade War

Help Xi's "Hate America" Allies on Oct 18 in Washington DC

Protest Trump Oct 18th

Help Send Jobs to China

 Support the "No Jobs for American Peasants" Rally!

...and other Commie Cross-Branding Stunts in Cities Like Portland during the Schumer Shutdown

Mike Benz on the State of the Deep State for Its' Current AI Architects

Schumer Shutdown - Day 12

 

Trump Implements Hammurabi Code of 'Symmetry' for Civil Servants

From Google AI:

The "architects" of the Hammurabi code were not individual architects but the scribes who codified the laws for the Babylonian king, Hammurabi. The code itself does not contain architectural guidance but holds builders accountable for their work, making it the first known building code. If a house collapsed and killed the owner, the builder would be put to death; if it killed the owner's son, the builder's son would be killed, and for other damages, the builder had to repair the structure at their own expense

Symmetry - "An Eye for an Eye"

Dis-Employing the Builder-Pseudo-Experts of our NatSec Deep State Tower of Babel

Guilt-Pride Anthems/ Answers

Shaming "the Others" because You Have Read THEIR Minds and Seen THEIR Hearts and Found THEM 'Lacking'...

...or maybe You're just Overly Fixated on "Make-me Feel Good-About-MYSELF" Guilt-Pride Answers

Our Lady of Guadalupe

..Cuz nothing wins converts to a cause quicker than a self-righteous shaming of innocent people for their political beliefs and the sins of their ancestors 160 years ago...

Patriotic Domestic Terrorism

Show Your Love!  Bash the Fash!

What's a Fash?  Everything that is against US!

Demonstrate Your Tolerance for those with whom you Disagree by Bashing the Fash!

Virtue Signal Your Antifa Support Today to Identify the Fash You Need to Bash!

On Gaza with Ret. Col. John Spencer

Correcting the Misleading Aspects of Gazan Media Asymmetry

20 Years of Kill Zone Preparation and Laying I.E.D.-Laced Booby Traps in Gaza and Southern Lebanon

Sam Harris on the Problem of Race Essentialism in Identity Politics

...and the Significance of Race Non-Essentialism in making Judgements vis "Fairness"

(Individual Justice vs. Social Justice)

DoJ Tries Talking Democrats Down from the Roof

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025

Frances Martel, "Venezuelan Freedom Fighter María Corina Machado Dedicates Nobel Prize to Donald Trump"

María Corina Machado, the 2025 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated her recognition on Friday to her Venezuelan people and to President Donald Trump, stating that Venezuelans need his support “more than ever.”

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced its prize recipient on Friday morning Oslo time, awarding Machado for decades of advocacy against socialism in her native Venezuela. While the left-leaning Committee did not mention socialism at all in its announcement of the award, failing to recognize who is repressing the former Venezuelan National Assembly member, it did congratulate Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to… pic.twitter.com/Zgth8KNJk9

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2025

In her first statement following the announcement, Machado declared that the Venezuelan opposition – now largely cleansed of the socialist elements that undermined her leadership for decades – was “on the threshold of victory.” She noted that this situation was, in part, due to President Trump’s longstanding support for the opposition and his actions to strip the illegitimate narco-dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro of its revenue funds and access to aid from its rogue allies, such as China and Iran.

“We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world,” she wrote, “as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.”

“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!” she added.

This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.

We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic…

— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) October 10, 2025

Machado’s recognition of Trump is notable given the growing number of voices throughout the past year that called for the American president to receive the prize. The leaders of the governments of Israel, Cambodia, Rwanda, Pakistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Gabon have all publicly stated they would support Trump receiving the prize, recognizing his role in ending conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Gaza. Trump also played a role in ending a rapidly escalating conflict between Pakistan and India this year, and similarly in Thailand and Cambodia.

Machado herself, a center-right leader, has been supportive of Trump administration actions to limit the influence and power of the Maduro regime. In an appearance on Donald Trump, Jr.’s podcast Triggered in February, Machado expressed optimism that the Maduro regime would fall soon because, under Trump, “there is a very strong new administration that had the correct vision on how to address a criminal structure.”

Of the Maduro regime, she emphasized, “this is not a political actor, this is a criminal structure that should be addressed from a law enforcement approach” – referring to Maduro’s close ties to the Cartel de los Soles, a cocaine-trafficking operation, and the transnational terror gang Tren de Aragua, which Maduro unleashed to cause havoc in North America in late 2023.

“Venezuela has been hijacked by a gang that is connected to drug cartels and to the enemies of the United States, such as Iran, Hezbollah, China, and so on,” Machado explained on the program. “Maduro has taken over by force even though, as you say, it was a landslide victory, we humiliated the regime under their own extreme unfair conditions.”

Following the interview, President Trump announced an anti-drug military campaign in international waters off the shores of Venezuela, intercepting shipments of cocaine and other deadly drugs from South America. The operation is particularly tailored to cutting the flow of illicit drugs from operations such as the Tren de Aragua and Cartel de los Soles into the United States.

Maduro hosted a sham presidential “election” in 2024, which he intended to win through dubious vote counts. Machado is so popular in the country that, even with rampant cheating, Maduro did not allow her to run for president, outlawing her from running for any office due to her support for international sanctions on the regime. Machado ultimately supported Edmundo González, an elderly ex-diplomat, as her candidate, and tallies from local voting stations indicate that González won in a landslide. Maduro claimed a victory but never published any statistics of national votes. Maduro ultimately imposed a $100,000 bounty on González, prompting him to flee the country.

Machado remains in Venezuela, although deep in hiding for her own safety. She has been the victim of multiple physical assaults by socialist mobs since Maduro took power in 2013, including being attacked with tear gas while trying to enter her office in the National Assembly in 2014 and being beaten by a mob with sticks in 2018.

6/8 “Después de lo ocurrido hoy en Upata, Bolívar se ha convertido en la vanguardia para despertar a Venezuela”, dijo a su equipo en Bolívar. pic.twitter.com/rvQkvn9uJV

— Comando ConVzla (@ConVzlaComando) October 25, 2018

Conservative leaders around the world celebrated Machado’s victory on Friday, calling her a “well-deserved” laureate and supporting her fight against the Maduro regime. The Hispanic left, meanwhile, reacted with vitriol. Pablo Iglesias, a former Iranian propaganda television host and formerly the head of the popular Marxist Spanish political party Podemos, mused, “they could have given it directly to Trump, or even Adolf Hitler.”

This One's for the Engagement bots!

Schumer Shutdown Marks the Continuation of the 10 Best Government's RIFs off all Time

The RIFs have begun.

— Russ Vought (@russvought) October 10, 2025

Gavin Newsomb*tch Adds 6 More Bodies to his Tab

Catherine Salgado, "California Ignores Detainer and Releases Serial Criminal Illegal Alien; He Kills 6"

A serial criminal removed from the United States multiple times for being an illegal alien and arrested for multiple offenses, including drunk driving, was released last year by the state of California despite a federal detainer. He subsequently murdered six people.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finally caught up with Beto Cerillo-Bialva in September, but the illegal alien had had numerous encounters with law enforcement before. Unfortunately, however, the legal apparatus simply did not insist on holding him for his crimes, at least in sanctuary-state California.

“This serial criminal killed six innocent souls. Governor Newsom has blood on his hands. This serial criminal should have never been released by California authorities,” mourned Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a DHS press release. “Sanctuary policies protect the WORST OF THE WORST criminal illegal aliens. ICE will do everything in our power to remove this serial drunk driver, abuser, and drug user from our country.”

BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect arrested for the hit & run crash that killed 21-year-old University of South Carolina student Nate Baker yesterday is an illegal alien who was driving without a license. Columbia PD has charged Rosali Fernandez Cruz w/ hit & run resulting… pic.twitter.com/kDC2NThhdb

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 3, 2025

In 2024, Cerillo-Bialva was arrested for the third time for driving under the influence, but Gavin Newsom‘s California released him. As noted above, he subsequently killed half a dozen people in a drunk driving incident.

Cerillo-Bialva has been removed from the United States seven times—a felony—and maintains an extensive criminal history including possession of cocaine, three DUIs, driving without a license, and violating a court ordered restraining order for domestic abuse.

This news about Cerillo-Bialva comes just after the announcement that the illegal alien who killed University of South Carolina Student Nate Baker this year in a hit-and-run drunk driving accident was sentenced to only a year in jail.

McLaughlin emphasized how outrageous is the miscarriage of justice: “21-year-old USC student Nathaniel ‘Nate’ Baker was driving a motorcycle when he was hit by a truck driver who fled the scene. The hit-and-run driver, Rosali Isaac Fernandez-Cruz, was in our country illegally and received just 1 year in prison for taking Nate’s precious life. ICE lodged a detainer to ensure as soon as this killer completes his one-year prison sentence that ICE is notified to arrest him and get him OUT of our country.”

Too much of our so-called justice system is now rigged in favor of the worst criminals and against the victims. McLaughlin deplored the series of terrible decisions by authorities that led up to the deadly crash: “Nate was a 21-year-old college student with his whole life in front of him. This monster should never have been in our country and has had a final order of removal since 2018.”

But in all those years, the illegal alien Rosali I. Fernandez-Cruz was not removed, so he was still present in the United States to kill a wonderful young American man. How many Americans have been robbed, raped, assaulted, or killed by illegal aliens who should never have been allowed here in the first place, and many of whom were even previously ordered deported?

The Democrat Party has left a trail of corpses in its wake.

All memes h/t - Woodsterman

Hu Gave Xi a Stroke?

In Other News...

On Violating Oaths and Assassinating Justice

Tessa Gervasini, "Would-be attacker of DC Red Mass targeted Catholics, police say"

Police said the man arrested outside of a Washington, D.C., cathedral Oct. 5 had hundreds of explosives and papers suggesting he planned to target Catholics and Supreme Court justices.

Louis Geri was arrested outside of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle before the annual “Red Mass” that welcomes Supreme Court justices and lawmakers. Police reported Geri had potential explosives on his person and in his tent set up near the church’s entrance.

When police approached him in the tent, he told police: “You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives/bombs,” court documents show.

Police officers and the bomb squad conducted a further search and said they found Geri had paperwork that “revealed his significant animosity towards the Catholic Church, members of the Jewish faith, members of SCOTUS, and ICE/ICE facilities.” The search also “revealed a large cache of handmade destructive devices recovered from [his] tent,” police said.

Geri also threatened to throw an explosive into the street and said he had “a hundred plus of them,” police said.

Papers found in Geri’s tent were titled: “Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives,” police said. The suspect confirmed to police they were his papers.

A business manager for St. Matthew’s provided police with paperwork showing the Metropolitan Police Department barred him from the location and that Geri had earlier been at the cathedral Sept. 26 when he had set up his tent on the steps and refused to leave.

Police said Geri told them: “Several of your people are gonna die from one of these,” referring to the explosives.

Geri was charged with unlawful entry; manufacture, transfer, use, possession, or transportation of molotov cocktails or other explosives for unlawful purposes; threats to kidnap or injure a person; assault on police officer; possession of destructive device; manufacture or possession of weapon of mass destruction (hate crime); and resisting arrest. He is being held in jail without bond.

from Google AI:

The governor of Illinois takes the following oath: "I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Illinois and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of governor according to the best of my ability". 

This oath is mandated by Article V, Section 6 of the Illinois Constitution, which specifies that the Governor and other executive officers must swear or affirm to support both the U.S. and Illinois constitutions.

K. Kisin on Race Non-Essentialism for Confused Multi-Culturalists

Turns out that opposing Multi-Culturalism isn't "Racism" (as the anti-white Neo-Racists/ Neo-Colonialists would have you believe), after  all.  It's about having a singular (and therefore easily and understandable and consistent) Rule of Law in which the ethnic culture of place of birth/ origin/ ethnicity is non-essential to social and economic cooperation within a State.  Mono-Culturalism (Race Non-Essentialism) deconstructs the currently existing Tower of Babel (Multicultural) State and places it upon a firm foundation again.  Of course the Neo-Racists all call this "White Supremacy" by forever aiming their "Post-Colonial Critical Theories" solely at European whites.

“Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals”

― Slavoj Žižek

After all, the objective aim and invisible doctrine of Capitalism is to "commodify" land, labour, information, and Capital.  Mono-Culture is an obstacle to that project, especially when it serves to protect the sovereignty of the whole of People who have both created and adopted the morality of that culture and protect it from foreign and domestic exploitative Neoliberal Multi-cultural corporate business interests and ethics established beyond the State, yet operating within and often attempting to commoditize its' government by privatizing its' public goods or publicize its' own losses/ debts.

White Guilt (Faux-Individual Moral 'Pride') Rising... while Neoliberal Group Ethics Falling

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

–Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

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“Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals”

― Slavoj Žižek

On Neoliberalism from George Monbiot, "The Invisible Doctrine" video:

And so, we move this away from the sphere where we don't have control , where Capital does not have control (politics), into the sphere where Capital does have control, which is the economic sphere. And of course, some people have far more power in the economic sphere than other people have. It's not one person, one vote. It can be one person's millions of votes... millions of dollars, and other person's far fewer dollars. And so they tell you, if you can shift the decision making into that sphere, you've got us where you want us.

So the the term "Neoliberalism" was developed in 1938 at a at a colloquium, a meeting in Paris. But it didn't really take off, and it wasn't really formalized, until the publication of two books in 1944, which was Friedrick Hayek's book "The Road to Serfdom", and Ludvig Von Mises's book "Bureaucracy". And they had an almost identical theme. They claim that any attempt to interfere in the workings of this thing they call "the Market", to interfere with the power of money in other words, would lead inevitably to totalitarianism.

It might look like something benign, the incipient welfare state and economic safety net, public funded services, but that would inevitably lead to Hitler or to Stalin. It was a classic slippery slope fallacy. And it was, you know, put forward with some Force by them. They're quite readable books. I mean they're absolutely chock full of holes, but you know you can sort of see there's there's a thread that you can follow, an argument that is more or less coherent, but very easy to tear apart.

And they were saying that "such impediments to Capital as high taxes, as regulation, as trade unions, as protest, should be stripped away in order to enable a kind of "natural order" to be discovered of winners and losers. There are the those who have the grace of money, and those who do not have the grace of money. And you can see from who has money, who is deserving, and who is not deserving. And if you try to alter that natural order of the righteous and the unrighteous (it's a very Calvinist approach), if you try to interfere with that, then you will sap Humanity of its Vitality. You will strip away the Spirit of Enterprise and make everyone poorer. Because if you allow the rich to get richer, they will through the "Invisible Hand" generate the money that will shower down upon the rest of us.

And you say, "Well hang on moment I thought the rest of us weren't meant to get richer. I thought we were meant to stay poor because we're unworthy!" So, straight away we start to see these enormous contradictions in it. And many people reacted with absolute horror and disgust towards these ideas. At the time, the dominant form of political economic thought was Keynesianism, Keynesian social democracy, which was very much distributive within the rich Nations. It was still highly exploitative between rich and poor. It was obviously a form of Capitalism. But it was far more distributive within the rich Nations than we've ever seen before, and was about building up Public Services, was about ensuring that everybody had a decent standard of life so they could spend into the economy, and that generates economic growth. And so, this Neoliberalism was at the time very much out of tune with the times.

What is Neoliberalism?  By the date of the term's invention and first use/ popularization (1938-44) it is the Post-WWII Open Society Consensus that is currently being replaced by the San Francisco Consensus (aka- Technofeudalism) 

So Consume Away, Cloud Serfs, and ENJOY! the experience of your singular moment of Capitalism's Inversion and Equality.  The moment you agree to pay the Capitalist his "asking price" for his "product".

“What precisely distinguishes capital from the master-slave relation is that the worker confronts him as consumer and possessor of exchange values, and that in the form of the possessor of money, in the form of money, he becomes a simple center of circulation—one of its infinitely many centers, in which his specificity as worker is extinguished.”

Slavoj Zizek' "The Parallax View: Towards a New Reading of Kant"

Consumerism - The true and VERY limited extent of every Proletarian worker's much vaunted "Freedom"

Stop Internalizing Capitalism's ethical failures.  Reject their Internalizing/ Moralizing Psychopolitical Media PsyOps!  Stop being a Prole and become a Bourgeois Small Business Owner!  And take back YOUR Government so as to reward Small Business Ownership, and not Struldbrugg Corporations administered by Surplus-salaried Government bureaucrats!  Free the economy's Invisible Hand from Capitalist legal control and the increasingly powerful billionaire Technofeudalists.

Run Mr. Potter O-U-T of Pottersville!

More Commerce, less Capitalism!

Neo-Confederates Ascendant!

The Voice of Washington DC Elitism!

"Y'all Jes be Raciss!"

Democrats: Keeping American Wages low for Corporate Overlords with ridiculous immigration policies since Way before 1865...

So bow and kiss the rings of your new Technofeudal Cloud-Lords!

Divide the Masses and Keep them "engaged" in on-line Civil wars.  The Gig Economy always needs more Serfs.  Unleash MORE engagement bots... the new and improved ones with AI instead of just the regular cut-an-paste Spambots!

I wonder how many Neo-Heaven's Gater's wear Black Bloc uniforms 

Always Affirming gone Wild

Affirmative Action Policies:  Codifying Guilt-Pride Pathologies leading to Mass Hysteria Psychosis

Antifa and BLM: Counter Gangs funded by DNC Donor Class interests

Antifa and BLM are not out to OVERTHROW the Government.  Their Purpose is to DEFEND it (State and Local (D) Governments).  It's why Portland Cops Protect the Protesters.  The West Coast/ Messed Coast is a Neo-Confederate cesspool of Democratic Party Insurrectionism.

Antifa and BLM are the shock troop counter gangs of the Neo-Confederacy, attacking federally run ICE facilities much like the Confederates attacked isolated Union forts (like Fort Sumpter) in Confederate States.  They're firing on isolated Fort Sumpter-esque ICE facilities.  Democrats were traitors then.  They're traitors now.

Trump will soon be officially declaring insurrections in these States and moving federal troops in to pacify them to "Preserve the Union".  After CWII, Trump will sit opposite Lincoln at a refurbished Lincoln-Trump (Union) Memorial.  The base of Trump's statue will be gilded in gold.

Technofeudal Lords Remake the American Media Landscape

Sundance, "David Ellison Purchases The Free Press for $150 Million, Appoints Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News"

This is exactly as expected. Larry Ellison now controls TikTok while his son David Ellison now controls Paramount/ Skydance which is CBS. To solidify the objective of TikTok, new algorithms will be implemented, while to solidify the objective of CBS, Bari Weiss is hired as Editor-in-Chief of news.

The Trump administration assisted both the purchase of TikTok by Larry Ellison, and the acquisition of Paramount by David Ellison. CBS settled with President Trump for $16 million. Paramount then purchases/acquires Bari Weiss online site The Free Press and moves Weiss to editor of CBS news, while President Trump triggers a tariff against Hollywood production movies not made in the USA.

L Ellison (Oracle, TikTok), Musk (X, SpaceX), Thiel (Palantir), Sacks (Crypto), Karp (Palantir) and D Ellison (CBS) are all well positioned to fundamentally change the way information is processed for public consumption. CNN (Disney) is likely to be the final piece of the puzzle to be assembled.

David Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, said: “We are thrilled to welcome Bari and The Free Press to Paramount and CBS News. Bari is a proven champion of independent, principled journalism, and I am confident her entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision will invigorate CBS News. This move is part of Paramount’s bigger vision to modernize content and the way it connects – directly and passionately – to audiences around the world.”

(VIA NEW YORK TIMES) – […] In a move that is expected to shake up the broadcast news landscape, CBS’s owner, Paramount, said on Monday that it was buying The Free Press, an upstart digital news site founded just four years ago, and appointing Ms. Weiss, one of its founders, as the editor in chief of CBS News.

The purchase price was roughly $150 million in cash and Paramount stock, according to two people familiar with the terms who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The total amount will be paid out over time, and it may fluctuate depending on the price of Paramount’s stock.

The acquisition puts one of the country’s most traditional news institutions — the former home of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite — under the editorial guidance of a journalist who rose to fame in part by critiquing old-line media institutions that she deemed timid and untrustworthy. Ms. Weiss is also a stalwart champion of Israel, and her site frequently lambastes the perceived excesses of the so-called woke left.

Ms. Weiss, 41, has never run a TV network, and in her role will have influence over hundreds of producers, anchors and reporters around the world. She will report to David Ellison, Paramount’s chief executive, and work alongside Tom Cibrowski, the president of CBS News.

We are entering an entirely new era in information delivery.

Let the Re-Education and Re-Programming of the American People Begin! 

Meet My Homey, Hon!

Building the Permission Structures Needed for Launching Civil War II

Join the Resistance today!

...and for our more committed, violent, and enthusiastic LARPers...

...our OFFICIAL DEM-ostic Terror Organization

Beware of Mis-Dis-Mal Information!

The USIC Censorship Industrial Complex

And most importantly, be sure to offer a safe exit ramp for all those deplorable racist and fascist Trump supporters who promise to defect to OUR side!  At least, until we've completed the FEMA Re-education and Eradication camps to put them in!

Remember, we're the Good People, the VICTIMS of Authoritarian Trumpism!  So do YOUR part and virtue signal your support for law-breaking foreign immigrants today!  Stop ICE!  Viva la Raza!  Become the NYU Violets who break the rocks!

...because Orange Man, BAD!

After Xi: The US-China Reset

Muh! Democracy! Moldova in the Spotlight

Recapping the Moldovan Election Win for USAID and the National Endowment for (Muh!) Democracy (NED)

Muh! Russiagate! TreasonGate! The Rest of the Story

Trump Guidelines for Identifying WoT Pre-Crime Suspects - Common Beliefs

Perpetual Presidential Powers Under the 2001 AUMF WoT Resolution - Ready to Repeal them NOW, Democrats?

Show me a Democrat and I'll List You His Crimes

- Lavrentiy Beria/ John Anderton/ Pam Bondi

NSPM-7

from Google AI:

JTTF investigative behaviors under NSPM-7

NSPM-7 directs federal agencies to investigate and disrupt individuals and entities involved in "political violence and intimidation". Key new behaviors for JTTFs include: 

• Investigating recruitment and radicalization related to political violence or conspiracies violating civil rights.
• Targeting not only those directly involved in criminal conduct but also "funders, and officers and employees of organizations" that support these actors.
• Tracing financial networks funding domestic terrorism and political violence, with new guidance for financial institutions.
• Prioritizing politically motivated acts like "doxing," "swatting," rioting, and property crimes. "Indicators" for investigation may include views described as "anti-American," "anti-capitalism," and "anti-Christian". 

• Conducting enhanced FARA investigations of U.S. citizens and NGOs with foreign ties if their activities intersect with political violence.

More PMC Trauma Therapy for the TDS Traumatized: Consolations for the Hive Minded

How trauma culture and the position of the Survivor presents a kind of class integration into Professional Managerial Class (PMC) "Therapeutics" for the mission of political capture and control by a PMC Elite.

Robert Reich, "Sunday thought: America’s trauma"

We need to talk about it openly

Friends,

I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject.

A significant number of you are disoriented by what Trump and his lapdogs are doing. Many are deeply anxious. Some of us are depressed.

For years, medical experts have recommended that Americans be screened for “anxiety disorders.”

But what many of us are feeling now is not a personal disorder. It’s a rational response to a nation that’s becoming ever more disordered.

What we’re experiencing is not a sickness or individual distress. It’s a sensible reaction to a society becoming sicker and more stressed.

Trump and the enablers around him aren’t just violating the Constitution and disregarding laws. They’re not merely doing cruel and vindictive things.

They’re also spreading fear and fueling hate.

This fear and hate are harming every one of us, even the shrinking minority who support the regime. Hate is a corrosive that eventually consumes the haters. Fear breeds more fear, which causes everyone to be afraid.

The harm may continue long after the reasons to fear and sources of hate have passed into history.

I have a friend who suffered trauma at the hands of abusive parents. She’s spent much of her life trying to cope with that trauma, trying not to let it rule (and ruin) her life.

Another friend is the child of a Holocaust survivor. He has spent much of his life trying to escape the ghosts of relatives he never knew who were murdered by the Nazis, whose deaths have cast a dark shadow over his own life.

Most of us are fortunate enough not to have suffered childhood trauma from abusive parents or been raised in the dark shadow of the Holocaust or other horrors.

But most of us are now suffering a trauma of a different sort — from an abusive president and his lapdogs, and from the dark shadows of fear and hate they cast.

Just as with my friends, many of us now feel powerless and afraid. We don’t recognize our nation. We’re disoriented, vulnerable, anxious.

Trump apologists call it “Trump derangement syndrome,” but the actual derangement is in and around the Oval Office.

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the national trauma most of us are now enduring.

Some of you may assume there’s something wrong with you when you can’t sleep or awaken feeling anxious. You may feel alone in this.

You should be aware of how widespread, and reasonable, your reaction is.

Trump’s cruelty and vengeance will pass. Years from now we’ll look back on this as a terrible period in America’s history. Our nation will survive.

But the fear and hate he has sown could cause lasting blight.

Recognizing this — being aware of the toll it’s taking and will continue to take on us, even years from now — is important to our eventual recovery, that of our loved ones, and the recovery of our nation and the world.

Faux "bonds of suffering" create sources of meaning, so that I can bureaucratically explain to you the Mass Line about what all OUR suffering means (although its' entirely different and not common), and more importantly, construct a permission structure allowing you to blame all your suffering/ trauma on someone else!  The Reason for your suffering is ONLY "race/ sexual identity discrimination" by ignorant others in the Working Class and NOT the Rich Capitalist Class or System they control!  Would I, an educated Capitalist paid, surplus salary garnering opportunist worker LIE to you?  Look, I have a degree!  THAT makes me an Authority/ Expert on the matter!  I am a Professional, 'Dammit!'

"Respect Muh Authoritah!"

Race v. Class Essentialism in the Civil Rights Movement...

Robert Woodson, featured speaker above.

...and the Rise of the Surplus Salaries for PMC Race Trauma Culture Therapists

[...] Hijacking the Narrative (from Trauma Culture linked video above)

The other thing about the trauma for export idea which is supposed to be, which is,  always argues that we have to get people on the ground right away when a country goes through something as catastrophic as the tsunami, we have to get people right on the ground right after the traumatic event so we can treat them. 

In 1992, and I don't even know if a study like this would even be possible now, the Lancet did a series of studies about Palestinian children who survived the violence of the first intifada, and they found that they did not react according to a trauma script because they had a narrative about violence and survivorship that has to do with the National Mission. So the British psychiatrist who wrote this said, "You know, when you have people who are socially reintegrated into a narrative where their trauma has meaning, or their suffering, let's not even call it trauma. Their suffering has meaning, there's less of the kinds of PTSD symptoms like numbing, anxiety, phobia that we'll see." 

So the other thing though, is that the self-help movement is going to take this and run with it too. Because if any of you are in childhood education, there's a huge term now that people want to use called "Resilience", like, how do we create resilience. And that's that resilience that is something that's going to be sold back to survivors, so it's all part of the script. Recovery becomes "Resilience", and yet there is this kind of political contextualization that I think is completely out of the picture when you have this highly commodified, highly reified way of talking about mental anguish. This is a thesis that I hope I build up to in the book which is that the PMC gentrifies human suffering to make it "trauma" so that it can lay claim to a formative experience and monopolize the language around it.

[...] 

I think that that's why that kind of essentializing feminism really does the work of disguising the power of Capital. And so this gender divide which was drawn out in the FTE in February 2024  is just playing itself out in electoral politics today, and what a sad sad stupid mistake to make men the enemy.

-Catherine Liu 

A classic case of the luxury values imbued in the Professional Managerial Class (Pareto's 20%) superceding the needs, values , and expectations of the Working Class (Pareto's 80%) 

Trauma's articulation (Step 2 in Trauma 'Survivor' process)  forms the kernel around which a new Critical Theory derived Identity Narrative can now be constructed, that of 'Survivor' of Oppression by Scapegoat X (Whites/ Men/ Hetero-Normals) and not Wealthy Capitalist and their therapeutic Lackies.

NGOs and USAID - "Trauma for Export"

On Essentializing Race over Competency and Character

Bureaucratic Therapy for the Systemically Traumatized

Ian Roberts, DEI Trauma Victim turned PMC therapist

Portents from History - When Democrats Lose the Working Class

 

Vincent J. Cannato, "Remembering the Hard Hat Riot"

Fifty-five years ago, in May 1970, a riot erupted at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in Lower Manhattan. A few days after the killing of four students by National Guard troops at Kent State University, a large group of antiwar protesters gathered at the historic intersection. They stood on the steps of Federal Hall, next to the statue of George Washington, which commemorates the spot where the nation’s first president took his oath of office.

During the protest, a large group of construction workers, busy building the World Trade Center just a few blocks away, marched toward the antiwar crowd. The workers wore their hardhats and carried American flags. They also brought a deep well of anger and resentment toward the young demonstrators. A riot ensued, as construction workers smashed their way through the protest crowd. The flag-waving hard hats managed to take control of the steps of Federal Hall.

This story is the subject of a recent, fascinating episode of the PBS documentary series American Experience. Titled Hard Hat Riot, the documentary is based on David Paul Kuhn’s excellent book of the same name.

Using archival footage, the documentary not only brings these events to a modern audience but also places them within the larger context of contemporary events in the city and nation. Rather than relying on academic talking heads, the documentary largely features those present at the riot—mostly the hardhats themselves.

Hard Hat Riot presents a remarkably fair and even positive view of those blue-collar workers, something rarely seen on public television. They come across as reasonable men with legitimate grievances. The documentary does not excuse their violence, but it helps us understand what brought about the combustible mix of Americans in Lower Manhattan that day.

The film argues that the hard hats’ anger, and the riot itself, were driven by “deindustrialization.” That has become an academic buzzword, especially when combined with the term “neoliberalism.” It’s true that blue-collar jobs, especially on the docks and in small factories, were disappearing from New York in 1970. But this had little to do with blue-collar workers’ grievances. After all, the hard hats—steamfitters, ironworkers, electricians—were all gainfully employed at the World Trade Center. Later in the decade, stagflation, oil shocks, and the city’s fiscal crisis all hurt blue-collar workers, even those in the construction trades. But this pain was still a few years away.

So why were the hard hats so angry? The proximate cause was the anti-Vietnam War protests. Many blue-collar Americans were veterans themselves. They had a healthy respect for the flag, the military, and the country’s traditions.

Too often, they thought, anti-war protesters went beyond voicing opposition to the war. Many carried North Vietnamese flags, insulted soldiers in uniform, and showed contempt for the American flag. Opposition to the war morphed into hatred for America.

The class element of antiwar protester versus hard hat was hard to miss. Most of the protesters were college students or graduates, many either upper-middle or middle class. Few would wear a military uniform and even fewer would be sent into combat.

Hard hats saw the antiwar dissidents as spoiled rich kids whose socioeconomic backgrounds shielded them from both hard work and military service. Many of the protesters saw the hard hats as uneducated and racist reactionaries. It was a volatile mix.

To make matters worse, blue-collar New Yorkers were seeing their city and their neighborhoods deteriorate. Crime was making streets and subways dangerous, graffiti had become pervasive, streets were dirtier, and parks had grown shabby.

Leading this city in decline was Mayor John Lindsay, who played an indirect role in the hard hat riot. Lindsay was the first major American politician to come out against the Vietnam War, in 1965. An Upper East Sider who represented the Silk Stocking district in Congress, Lindsay had little firsthand knowledge of the lives of residents of working-class communities outside Manhattan. He seemed powerless to stop crime, and he made an enemy of the NYPD. Lindsay’s voice, prominently featured in the documentary, was grating to the ears of many blue-collar New Yorkers.

As the 1960s wore on, Lindsay fashioned a new coalition, attracting both affluent, college-educated liberals and racial minorities. Left out of the concord was the white working class, often painted as the enemy of enlightened liberalism.

In honor of the four dead students at Kent State, Lindsay had ordered the flag at City Hall lowered to half-staff. After the melee at Wall and Broad, many of the hard hats made their way to City Hall. By this time, Lindsay was nowhere to be found, and his deputy mayor ordered the flag put back to full staff to assuage the angry crowd.

This did not sit well with another young Lindsay aide, who climbed the roof of City Hall and lowered the flag again, flashing the hard hats a peace sign for good measure. He might as well have given them the middle finger. This gesture, combined with taunting from Pace University students across the street from City Hall, led to another round of rioting and fighting. The incident was symbolic of much of Lindsay’s tenure—taking a bad situation and making it worse.

Hard Hat Riot is notable for what it does not say. It does not use the word “fascism” to describe the rioters. It does not end with footage of the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and it makes no mention of Donald Trump.

Yet the hard hat riot is relevant to today as a lesson in the failures of elite liberalism. Liberal political action, even when taken with the best intentions, often falters when its supporters engage in cultural warfare that alienates ordinary Americans.

A liberalism that looks down on people it perceives as inferiors economically, socially, and culturally, will end up losing electorally. Richard Nixon’s landslide reelection win of 1972 made this clear, as did Trump’s victory more than a half century later in 2024. Such a politics will worsen political tensions and polarization.

Today, some Democrats are desperate to find ways to relate to male, working-class voters without college degrees. It’s not a new challenge. As Hard Hat Riot shows, the Democrats’ problem has been decades in the making.

Fast Forward Portland 2025