Ghost Paychecks for My Baltimore City Homies...

Democrats - Doling Out Political Patronage since the Anti-Federalist Tammany Hall went Democrat!

Blowback...

Is Israel De-Colonizing Kentucky...

...as Fast as Keir Starmer is De-Colonizing the British People from the UK?

Never Again! (Jews Only) = Affirmative Action/ DEI (But only for Minority [Victim & Not Victimized] Groups Only)

The Woke Cultural Grievance Industry Exposed

"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of hid own heart?"

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"De-Colonize the Europeans with Post-Colonial Guilt-Pride and then Colonize their Homelands!"

Trauma Therapy Culture Hypocrisy Runs Wild!

Slavoj Žižek > Quotes > Quotable Quote

 

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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

It Begins...

Mr. Biden has experience in public service and foreign policy. He is a director for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, The Center for NationalPolicy, and the Chairman’s Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute. Having served as a Senior Vice President at MBNA bank, former U.S. President Bill Clinton appointed him an Executive Director of E-Commerce Policy Coordination under Secretary of Commerce William Daley. Mr. Biden served as Honorary Co-Chair of the 2008 Obama-Biden Inaugural Committee.

Trauma/ Therapy Culture

 

Jonathan Alpert, "Is Therapy Tearing Us Apart?"

Therapy promised Americans greater agency and insight. Instead, it delivered a more satisfying story about why someone else is to blame.

A patient recently came to see me, saying she was furious with a friend. What began as an ordinary disappointment—a canceled dinner and a text returned too late—had become something far larger and far more charged. The friend was now “toxic.” The exchange had become a “violation of boundaries.” The hurt itself had been elevated into “trauma.” She had screenshots and a polished story about what the episode revealed about her friend’s pathology.

What she didn’t have was introspection. She was no longer asking the most psychologically useful questions: Could this have been carelessness rather than ill intent? Was the reaction intensified by other things that may have been going on? Had she contributed in any way to the conflict? The language she brought into the room gave her something powerful: certainty. But certainty is often the enemy of insight.

This scene has become one of the defining features of my work as a psychotherapist, and it sits at the center of the argument in my forthcoming book, Therapy Nation: Too much of modern therapy culture keeps people stuck, reinforcing grievance, externalizing blame, and turning everyone else into the reason their lives are so miserable.

The problem begins with my own field. For years, my profession has trained clinicians to elevate validation over challenge, affirmation over interpretation, and emotional fluency over the harder work of behavioral change. What has followed is the rise of grievance culture dressed up as psychological sophistication. Too many therapists now function less as clinicians than as reinforcers of the most self-protective interpretation available, teaching patients to locate the problem everywhere but themselves. Of course it is your boss’s fault. Of course your colleague is toxic. Of course your ex is a narcissist. Of course the world keeps wounding you. In this softened therapeutic frame, frustration is rarely something to examine; it’s something to assign.

The patient doesn’t gain greater agency, but instead, a more polished story about why someone else is to blame. If you feel injured, the injury must be real. If you feel unsafe, the threat must be there. If a relationship creates discomfort, the relationship itself becomes the problem.

I recently saw the aftermath of this in a new patient who came to me after months with another therapist. Every difficult interaction at work had been interpreted through the same frame: the boss was toxic, the co-workers invalidating, and the environment unsafe. By the time we met, the patient could describe every slight in flawless therapeutic language but had never once been pushed to consider whether avoidance, defensiveness, or fear of criticism might be part of the pattern. And she was never given constructive advice on how to bring about changes. The therapy had made the story clearer without making her stronger.

Too much of modern therapy culture keeps people stuck, reinforcing grievance, externalizing blame.

This is how therapy can quietly become an engine that keeps people stuck. Patients leave not more capable of tolerating frustration, ambiguity, or ordinary disappointment, but less. They become more fluent in explaining why they feel the way they do while becoming less practiced at changing what they do next. And therapists are largely responsible for this phenomenon.

While it may feel like growth, it functions as avoidance. And that is corrosive. The patient becomes good at explanation, more sophisticated in the language of harm, and more certain about who is to blame, but no closer to actual change. Grievance becomes part of identity.

That same emotional habit doesn’t stay confined to the therapy office. People carry it into marriages, friendships, workplaces, and, eventually, politics. Ordinary frustration becomes proof of mistreatment. Ambivalence becomes danger. Disagreement becomes evidence of harm. Once enough people are trained to interpret discomfort this way, coexisting with others starts to feel impossible.

The political consequences follow naturally. A citizen trained to experience ordinary conflict as evidence of harm will eventually bring that same mindset into public life. We’ve seen this dynamic play out vividly in the Donald Trump era, when members of my profession moved from helping people navigate political differences to legitimizing family estrangement as a sign of psychological health. On national television, prominent therapists and psychiatrists suggested it might be essential for mental health to avoid Trump-voting relatives during the holidays.

The same therapeutic scripts that encourage patients to pathologize difficult bosses and disappointing partners now teach citizens to reinterpret ordinary democratic differences as evidence of danger. The result is a society less capable of living with differences, less able to tolerate friction, and more likely to retreat into emotionally curated silos and echo chambers.

This is where therapy culture ceases to strengthen people and starts quietly weakening them. The person becomes increasingly protected from scrutiny, and increasingly fragile as a result.

Social media has been uniquely fertile ground for this corruption. The algorithm doesn’t elevate the most psychologically accurate interpretation. It elevates the most emotionally satisfying one. Hence the ecosystem of so-called mental-health influencers: Endless posts diagnose narcissists, decode toxic bosses, and turn ordinary disappointment into proof of pathology. Social media rewards certainty, speed, and self-protection—precisely the instincts real therapy is supposed to challenge before turning them into conclusions. The result isn’t a more psychologically sophisticated society. In many cases, it’s quite the opposite.

We are becoming emotionally articulate while growing psychologically brittle.

My own field should be willing to say this plainly: We helped create this culture. The original promise of therapy was never that life would stop hurting. It was to help people become stronger in the face of pain, clearer in the face of conflict, and more honest about the role they themselves play in the conflicts they keep re-creating.

Real therapy should make people more capable of dealing with reality, not less.

Raise a Glass to Donnie's Angels!

Closer to home...

Margo Martin

The Narcissist-Altruist Nexus: A Recipe for Mass Hysteria Psychosis

from Google AI:

Altruistic narcissism (or communal narcissism) is a form of covert narcissism where individuals cultivate a grandiose self-image by appearing exceptionally generous, kind, and helpful, using charity as a tool for validation and manipulation. They leverage altruism to hide their true nature, demanding public admiration while often being exploitative in private relationships.

Key Aspects of the Altruist-Narcissist Nexus

• Motives: Their actions are driven by a need for admiration and an artificial boost to their ego, not genuine empathy.Behavioral Facade: These individuals often engage in charity work, volunteering, or caretaking to be perceived as "saviors" or the "best" helpers.
• Manipulation Tactics: They use their public kindness as a form of gaslighting, making it difficult for victims to be believed when reporting abuse, as seen on r/NarcissisticAbuse.
• Entitlement: If their "generosity" is not met with high praise or gratitude, they can become enraged.

Common Indicators

• Public vs. Private Persona: Extremely giving in public, but cold, critical, or indifferent behind closed doors.
• Performative Goodness: Need spectators to witness their altruism to secure supply.
• Exploitative Caretaking: Offering help to establish superiority, control, and ensure others are dependent on them.
• Martyrdom: Highlighting their "sacrifices" to guilt-trip others. 

This persona is tricky to spot because they utilize the language of empathy to manipulate, making their actions feel sincere while they lack true emotional depth.

When Civil Rights become Universalized through Reversal of Formal Legal-Positivist "Race/ Gender/ Religion Essentialist" Policies

...and Anti-Semitism no longer becomes a "cause" to be litigated unless Semites are being formally "essentialized" in favour, or against, Semites in a non-Universal way.

We MUST Protect the "children"... @@

Excerpt from Isaiah Berlin letter to George Kennan (1951)

We distinguish to this extent between factual and value judgement--that we deny the right to tamper with human beings to an unlimited extent, whatever the truth about the laws of history; we might go further and deny the notion that "history" in some mysterious way "confers" upon us "rights" to do this or that; that some men or bodies of men can morally claim a right to our obedience because they, in some sense, carry out the behests of "history," are its chosen instrument, its medicine or scourge or in some important sense "Welthistorisch"--great, irresistible, riding the waves of the future, beyond our petty, subjective, not rationally bolsterable ideas of right and wrong. Many a German and I daresay many a Russian or Mongol or Chinese today feels that it is more adult to recognise the sheer immensity of the great events that shake the world, and play a part in history worthy of men by abandoning themselves to them, than by praising or damning and indulging in bourgeois moralisings: the notion that history must be applauded as such is the horrible German way out of the burden of moral choice.

If pushed to the extreme, this doctrine would, of course, do away with all education, since when we send children to school or influence them in other ways without obtaining their approval for what we are doing, are we not "tampering" with them, "moulding" them like pieces of clay with no purpose of their own? Our answer has to be that certainly all "moulding" is evil, and that if human beings at birth had the power of choice and the means of understanding the world, it would be criminal; since they have not, we temporarily enslave them, for fear that, otherwise, they will suffer worse misfortunes from nature and from men, and this "temporary enslavement" is a necessary evil until such time as they are able to choose for themselves--the "enslavement" having as its purpose not an inculcation of obedience but its contrary, the development of power of free judgement and choice; still, evil it remains, even if necessary.

Communists and Fascists maintain that this kind of "education" is needed not only for children but for entire nations for long periods, the slow withering away of the State corresponding to immaturity in the lives of individuals. The analogy is specious because peoples, nations are not individuals and still less children; moreover in promising maturity their practice belies their professions; that is to say, they are lying, and for the most part know that they are. From a necessary evil in the case of the education of helpless children, this kind of practice becomes an evil on a much larger scale, and quite gratuitous, based either on utilitarianism, which misrepresents our moral values, or again on metaphors which misdescribe both what we call good and bad, and the nature of the world, the facts themselves. For we, i.e. those who join with us, are more concerned with making people free than making them happy; we would rather that they chose badly than not at all; because we believe that unless they choose they cannot be either happy or unhappy in any sense in which these conditions are worth having; the very notion of "worth having" presupposes the choice of ends, a system of free preferences; and an undermining of them is what strikes us with such cold terror, worse than the most unjust sufferings, which nevertheless leave the possibility of knowing them for what they are--of free judgement, which makes it possible to condemn them--still open.

Did the New Left Sell Their Birthright for PMC/ DEI Surplus Salaries?

Genesis 25: 19-34 (KJV):

19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:

20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

21 And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

29 And Jacob sod pottage (cooked lentils): and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for
I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Soros Realism BOUGHT the Democratic Party!

Palantir's Pre-Crime Units Come for Domestic Extremists (Tucker and Candace)

Gee, I kinda 110% SUPPORT Candace and Tucker... could I be on their Domestic Extremist Watch List too?

Bibi: "...we just need to incentive-finance (ala Soros Realism) influencers to denounce, de-platform, and silence Candace and Tucker and all those other online 'anti-semites' .  The Ethic Cleansing of Minority Religions from Our Jewish Ethno-State is beyond reproach! " @@

The Covid Cover-Up Exposed...

China...

...Na-Na-Na:

 

Wes Moore is No Leader, He's an Appeaser...

from Google AI:

An appeaser is a person who attempts to achieve peace or avoid conflict by acceding to the demands of a threatening or aggressive party, often at the expense of their own principles. It is often used negatively to describe someone who gives in to avoid trouble, famously described as "one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last."

Collective EU Neoliberalism is Crumbling...

Germany will NOT be backing the EU militarily in the Ukraine in WWIII

German Youth: "Hell no, we won't go!"

On Zelinskyy, Up Close and Personal

Chapters: 

0:00 How Did Mendel Begin Working for Zelensky? 

11:29 Why Hasn’t US Media Covered Zelensky’s Scandals? 

25:30 Zelensky’s Relationship With Joe Biden 

32:45 Is Zelensky Himself Corrupt? 

36:44 Who Does Zelensky Actually Listen To? 

42:45 Zelensky’s Use of the Frontlines as Punishment 

50:17 Why Hasn’t Western Media Spoken up for Ukrainians? 

1:03:32 Why Do Western Countries Want the War to Continue? 

1:09:16 Does Zelensky Do Coke? 

1:13:04 What’s Zelensky’s Wife Like? 

1:14:56 Mendel’s Experience Living Through the Ukraine War 

1:18:27 Is There Any Way to Get Rid of Zelensky? 

1:23:42 Why Are There So Many Americans Always in Ukraine? 

1:32:35 Mendel’s Message to Putin

Tulsi in 2028!

Of course, no one has a switch to spur or stifle internet engagement or debate... @@

at least not while Palantir's AI is on the job!

Go train your bots someplace else, Peter/ Alex!

Dancing on the Edge of a Knife...

When "Progressive" Liberalism Co-Opted Marxism...

1s&0s, Trauma For Sale

Lyrics by DeepSeek, music by Sonu.(Assisted by Oz)

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They told you your pain was a private wound.
Heal it quietly, in a private room.
But if you trace the spine of that lie —
Trauma’s not your fault, but the market’s reply.

They told you hurt was a private affair,
Heal it slow in a leather chair.
But therapy’s a commodity, healing a fee,
And trauma is mass‑produced by the economy.
Shell shock, PTSD — a medical legal claim,
Only for those with a name and a blame.
The factory girl crushed, the maid who scrubbed twice —
No diagnosis, no legal device.
Then Oprah came, confession as a stage,
The trauma script became the profitable page.
“Tell your story,” they cried, while the ratings soared high,
But the structural violence never asked why.
Now the trauma’s sold back to your face,
Boss laughs in an offshore place.
Medicalized misery, commodified grief,
“Find your own relief.”
But the wound is collective — the wound is the wage.
A system designed to keep you in a cage.
You cannot purchase your way out of this fix.
The cure is a union, not lonely tricks.

Only One way, our collective force,
Only working people can alter this course.
Not individual struggles scattered thin —
The working class, organized from within.
From the docks to the data, the kitchen to the crane,
When we shut the profit down, we break every chain.

Comrades,
trauma culture destroys the common ground,
It takes a social wound and makes it a personal sound.
The real self‑care is a picket line.
The real healing is collective, and it’s yours and mine.

Home Team? Or Visitors? Who Do YOU Root FOR?

...I Root for the Advertisers!  Viewers are Just Manipulable Mugs.

from Google AI:

According to a story often told to illustrate the views of Socrates or Pythagoras, there are three main types of people at the Olympic Games (or life in general), categorized by their motivations: those who compete for fame, those who trade for profit, and the philosophers who come to observe and understand the truth. [1, 2] 

• Lovers of Gain/  Trade (The Merchants): Those who come to the fair for commerce, profit, and to buy and sell.

• Lovers of Honor (The Athletes): Those who compete in the games to win fame, glory, and accolades. 

• Lovers of Wisdom (The Spectators/ Philosophers): The highest group, who do not seek profit or applause, but attend solely to observe the spectacle and seek knowledge and truth, which corresponds to the philosophical life. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

This analogy distinguishes between a vulgar life focused on gain or fame and the intellectual life focused on contemplation and wisdom.

I know... How Vulgar! 

Being 'Woke' is NOT an Accomplishment...

...it's a Sign of Race-Sex-Origin-Religious Essentialist Ignorance!

On MSM Kayfabe-ricated American Politics...

Should I Vote Democrat (D) or Republican (R)?

 The Double Slit Trolley Problem

"The only thing we can truly change is the meaning of things."

-Alain Badiou

It's Not Fraud, It's Just Government Incompetence!

Why Real Leftists Despise Neoliberal Democrats...

...because most Democrats are really a class of surplus salaried bourgeois capitalist PMC elitist poseurs!.

EU & NATO's Expansionist Wet Dreams Ending in Nocturnal Emissions in Ukraine...

The Deep State Legal Unravelling Begins...

Post-Modern Post-Colonialism Stands Against Legal and Linguistic Universalism...

...and FOR Special Victim Pleading (as defined linguistically) thru the European anti-colonialism post-WWII Consensus

The problem of Islam ISN'T anti-semitism.  It's the religion of Islam.  Because it's not just Jews being stabbed.  It's ALL Moslems AND Non-Moslems (Christian, Hindi, Jewish, Sikh) alike being attacked.  It's an Islamic Universal religious "violence permission and sanctioning" problem, not one specific to violence against Jews and the Jewish religion and their current demands to be treated as special victims post-holocaust

from Google AI:

A Semite is traditionally defined as a member of any people who speak or spoke a Semitic language, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, or ancient Akkadian. Originating in southwestern Asia, they are classified by language rather than race. Major languages include Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic, with cultures deeply rooted in Abrahamic traditions and early nomadic histories. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

Languages and Origins

• Semitic Languages: A branch of the Afroasiatic language family, these include ancient Akkadian, Canaanite, Phoenician, and Aramaic, alongside modern Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Tigrinya.
• Origins: Scholars believe Semitic-speaking peoples originated in the Arabian Peninsula, Levant, or North Africa around 3800 BC before spreading throughout the Middle East and to the Horn of Africa. [1, 2, 3]

Cultural and Religious Characteristics

• Religion: The Semitic peoples are the source of major monotheistic faiths, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
• Culture: Historically, many groups were nomadic or semi-nomadic, influencing agricultural and urban developments in Mesopotamia and the Levant.
• Social Structure: Ancient Semitic societies often featured patriarchal structures, with urban developments in places like Phoenicia focused on trade, while others like Assyria focused on empire-building. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Genetic and Anthropological Context

• Definition: "Semitic" was originally a linguistic classification coined in the 1770s by German scholars (Göttingen school) to describe groups listed in biblical genealogy as descendants of Shem.
• Genetic Identity: While early 19th-century theories tried to define "Semites" as a racial group, modern science views them as diverse populations sharing a language family rather than a single distinct genetic "race".
• Antisemitism: The term "antisemitism" was coined in the late 19th century in Germany specifically to describe hatred of Jews. It is a misnomer, as "Semitic" refers to a language family and covers many groups, not just Jews. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Key Historical Groups

• Ancient: Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Amorites.
• Modern: Arabs, Jews, Amharas, Tigrayans, Assyrians 

More from Google AI:

"Special victim pleading" generally refers to legal processes involving enhanced charges or specialized procedures when a crime is committed against a "special victim," a term often defined as a vulnerable person or someone performing specific public duties.

Key aspects regarding "special victims" and related legal proceedings include:

1. Definition of a "Special Victim"

Laws often categorize specific individuals as special victims to increase penalties for offenders. This commonly includes:

• Children: Minors, particularly those under 13 or 14 years old.
• Elderly and Vulnerable Adults: Adults who are frail, disabled, or unable to care for themselves.
• Law Enforcement/Public Officers: Police officers, firefighters, or emergency personnel acting in their official capacity.
• Victims of Specific Crimes: Individuals subjected to sexual assault, human trafficking, or domestic violence.

2. Legal Implications and Special Procedures

When a case involves a special victim, the legal system often implements specialized procedures, such as:

• Specialized Prosecution Units: Many districts have Special Victims Units (SVU) that handle cases involving domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault.
• Privacy Protections: Special victims may be permitted to use their initials instead of their names in public documents to prevent intimidation or embarrassment.
• Enhanced Sentencing: Assaulting a special victim can elevate a charge, for example, moving a standard assault to a felony charge.
• Confidentiality: Procedures may exist to keep the residence or address of a special victim confidential.

3. Special Victim Rights (Marsy’s Law)

In many jurisdictions, victims have specific rights, often termed "Marsy’s Law," which allows them to be heard at proceedings and to receive notifications regarding the case. These rights include:

• Protection: The right to be protected from the accused.
• Privacy: The right to prevent the disclosure of confidential information.
• Input: The right to confer with the prosecutor and provide input on plea negotiations.
• Presence: The right to attend all hearings

4. Victim Impact Statements

Before sentencing, victims (or their representatives) often submit a "victim impact" statement, which is a written or oral description of the physical, psychological, emotional, and financial injuries that occurred as a direct result of the crime. This is a formal part of the court record and is considered during the sentencing process.

The entire Post-modern "Racial/ Colonial Settler/ Social Justice Warrior" movement has been shaped  by the world's Post-WWII reaction to the holocaust and the special victim pleading of Jewish survivors.  It's time to return to the Enlightenment's Universalism and put the Individual's JUSTICE back into the distorting Social Justice (special victim pleading) Legal Process!  It's time to return to Race Non-Essentialism!

The New Map: What Extreme Gerrymandering Looks Like:

 

Making Maryland a Single Party State

I am no longer in the 1st Congressional District.  I've been jammed into the 3rd, with an interesting new snaky affiliation with North-Western Baltimore City Residents (prime source of new Democrats)

Will Parts of Baltimore City turn Republican for the 1st Time in 2026?  Could be...

Keeping Harford County Safe & Sane

...with a special thanks to MD State's Attorney for Harford County Alison Healey!

...for doing what Harford  County Executive Bob Cassilly's appointed county attorneys would not!