Ace of Spades HQ: How to Survive in the Days of Rage

[martybegan]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

 

[saveliberty]

The protestors never built a thing in their life. This falls apart soon.

 

[martybegan]

The protestors never built a thing in their life. This falls apart soon.

One would hope. but this anger seems to be of a spiritual nature, and they have people in the media constantly fanning the flames.

 

[saveliberty]

Maybe we should remind them about Church and State.

 

[martybegan]

Maybe we should remind them about Church and State.

Hard to do when for them, the Church IS the State, at least it is when they are in power.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

To survive in the age of rage, by the leftwing lunatics that go around burning buildings and punching women, see picture below... Soon there is no more rage....

 

[martybegan]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

To survive in the age of rage, by the leftwing lunatics that go around burning buildings and punching women, see picture below... Soon there is no more rage....

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We are not at the point of having to shoot them, but unless the police clamp down on the black block level protests, taking things into our own hands may have to happen.

 

[Pogo]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

 

[saveliberty]

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

I disagree, but nice effort on the post Pogo.

 

[martybegan]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

You should have just said TL;DR and have been done with it.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

 

[Pogo]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

You should have just said TL;DR and have been done with it.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

Truth never hurts. Don't know what that's got to do with anything here though.

What seems to have sailed over the author's head, if I have to spell it out, is the mass incredulity that an orange freak con artist could be elected --- regardless who the opponent was --- that he naïvely chooses to self-delude as "they lost their feeling of power and control over America". I mean come on, what is this guy, twelve years old? That's all I needed to know.

So more like "TJDR" --- too juvenile, didn't read. Once the author establishes that his premise is "they're all out to get me", how long it is is kinda irrelevant.

 

[martybegan]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

You should have just said TL;DR and have been done with it.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

Truth never hurts. Don't know what that's got to do with anything here though.

What seems to have sailed over the author's head, if I have to spell it out, is the mass incredulity that an orange freak con artist could be elected --- regardless who the opponent was --- that he naïvely chooses to self-delude as "they lost their feeling of power and control over America". I mean come on, what is this guy, twelve years old? That's all I needed to know.

So more like "TJDR" --- too juvenile, didn't read.

So it goes against your views, and has to be juvenile. Got it. That you have to call him the "orange freak con artist" just shows how right the author is about the progressive freak out.

For progressives it is all about control, and control at the highest level of government. if it wasn't they would just try to change things at the State level, where people may actually want it. But they know their policies are unpopular once people understand who has to pay for it, (hint, its not the 1%) so they have to implement them at the highest level possible, as far away from popular control as possible.

My sig sums up the sentiment perfectly, in my opinion.

 

[Pogo]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

You should have just said TL;DR and have been done with it.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

Truth never hurts. Don't know what that's got to do with anything here though.

What seems to have sailed over the author's head, if I have to spell it out, is the mass incredulity that an orange freak con artist could be elected --- regardless who the opponent was --- that he naïvely chooses to self-delude as "they lost their feeling of power and control over America". I mean come on, what is this guy, twelve years old? That's all I needed to know.

So more like "TJDR" --- too juvenile, didn't read.

So it goes against your views, and has to be juvenile. Got it. That you have to call him the "orange freak con artist" just shows how right the author is about the progressive freak out.

For progressives it is all about control, and control at the highest level of government. if it wasn't they would just try to change things at the State level, where people may actually want it. But they know their policies are unpopular once people understand who has to pay for it, (hint, its not the 1%) so they have to implement them at the highest level possible, as far away from popular control as possible.

My sig sums up the sentiment perfectly, in my opinion.

Actually, for Progressives it's all about decomposition, since they've been dead, buried and pushing up daisies for the last century.

In political discourse perhaps the only thing more fun than using a term to mean its own opposite is using one that has no contemporary meaning at all. The old "wild card lexicography".

What we have here is a bubbleblogger who imagines a world of "us" and "them" in which "them" meet continuously in some dank cave, presumably guarded by some Roman-centurioun sentinel, where they stir a continuous cauldron babbling "bubble bubble toil and trouble" and plotting how they can overthrow the world and convert it to some kind of putrid green slime made up of the collective snot of their mortal enemy-beings who they will have upon victory in their Armageddonesque World War, run through some kind of giant evil food processor.

That world does not exist.

What does exist is a population of mundane not-at-all-binary normal people, of all persuasions, none of whom own a cauldron, who are periodically presented with an "election" they're expected to pretend is in their hands. And the last time 'round, 25% of them voted for an orange TV freak con artist, 26% voted for the same-old-thing boring wife of the former same-old-thing, and 45% said "fuck it, there's nothing here worth getting out of bed for".

Of course, that doesn't sell blogs like cauldrons and centurions and century-old political zombies do. It's too mundane.

At base is the bubbleblogger's inability to see, or more correctly his self-delusion to shut out, the fact that his idol is simply grossly flawed all by Himself and needs no foil to express it. So he must invent the cauldrons and the cave scary-monster images. Because those gross flaws must at all costs be obscured, blamed on somebody else and twisted from an active into a passive --- the impotent inevitable result of the evildoing of the cauldron cave conspiracy of The "Them", against which He is apparently helpless. And because oh yeah, fear does sell comic books.

Just doesn't impress me. Maybe I've read too many comic books to take them seriously.


My sig (image) sums up the old adage "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public".

 

[martybegan]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

You should have just said TL;DR and have been done with it.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

Truth never hurts. Don't know what that's got to do with anything here though.

What seems to have sailed over the author's head, if I have to spell it out, is the mass incredulity that an orange freak con artist could be elected --- regardless who the opponent was --- that he naïvely chooses to self-delude as "they lost their feeling of power and control over America". I mean come on, what is this guy, twelve years old? That's all I needed to know.

So more like "TJDR" --- too juvenile, didn't read.

So it goes against your views, and has to be juvenile. Got it. That you have to call him the "orange freak con artist" just shows how right the author is about the progressive freak out.

For progressives it is all about control, and control at the highest level of government. if it wasn't they would just try to change things at the State level, where people may actually want it. But they know their policies are unpopular once people understand who has to pay for it, (hint, its not the 1%) so they have to implement them at the highest level possible, as far away from popular control as possible.

My sig sums up the sentiment perfectly, in my opinion.

Actually, for Progressives it's all about decomposition, since they've been dead, buried and pushing up daisies for the last century.

In political discourse perhaps the only thing more fun than using a term to mean its own opposite is using one that has no contemporary meaning at all. The old "wild card lexicography".

What we have here is a bubbleblogger who imagines a world of "us" and "them" in which "them" meet continuously in some dank cave, presumably guarded by some Roman-centurioun sentinel, where they stir a continuous cauldron babbling "bubble bubble toil and trouble" and plotting how they can overthrow the world and convert it to some kind of putrid green slime made up of the collective snot of their mortal enemy-beings who they will have upon victory in their Armageddonesque World War, run through some kind of giant evil food processor.

That world does not exist.

What does exist is a population of mundane not-at-all-binary normal people, of all persuasions, none of whom own a cauldron, who are periodically presented with an "election" they're expected to pretend is in their hands. And the last time 'round, 25% of them voted for an orange TV freak con artist, 26% voted for the same-old-thing boring wife of the former same-old-thing, and 45% said "fuck it, there's nothing here worth getting out of bed for".

Of course, that doesn't sell blogs like cauldrons and centurions and century-old political zombies do. It's too mundane.

At base is the bubbleblogger's inability to see, or more correctly his self-delusion to shut out, the fact that his idol is simply grossly flawed all by Himself and needs no foil to express it. So he must invent the cauldrons and the cave scary-monster images. Because those gross flaws must at all costs be obscured, blamed on somebody else and twisted from an active into a passive --- the impotent inevitable result of the evildoing of the cauldron cave conspiracy of The "Them", against which He is apparently helpless. And because oh yeah, fear does sell comic books.

Just doesn't impress me. Maybe I've read too many comic books to take them seriously.

Ace actually wasn't on board the Trump Train initially, and most of his support of Trump is based on opposition to the Democratic/Progressive/Statist way of doing things. And by your continued use of name calling for Trump, you make this exactly "us vs them", thus negating your entire premise.

And yes, progressive statists do want power and control, you just don't see it because you probably agree with their end game.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

UC Berkeley blames violent 'black bloc' protesters for 'unprecedented invasion'

They dressed “like ninjas” and marched onto UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza like a paramilitary force armed with bats, steel rods, fireworks and Molotov cocktails, officials say.

When a liberal looks the other way when liberalism is shown in full force like what happened at UC Berkley, they condone the actions, but when the shit hits them hard, they are the 1st out there screaming for the men in blue to put the insurrections down. Little petulant pussy liberals, cant take care of themselves, like legally armed citizens can.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

You should have just said TL;DR and have been done with it.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

Truth never hurts. Don't know what that's got to do with anything here though.

What seems to have sailed over the author's head, if I have to spell it out, is the mass incredulity that an orange freak con artist could be elected --- regardless who the opponent was --- that he naïvely chooses to self-delude as "they lost their feeling of power and control over America". I mean come on, what is this guy, twelve years old? That's all I needed to know.

So more like "TJDR" --- too juvenile, didn't read.

So it goes against your views, and has to be juvenile. Got it. That you have to call him the "orange freak con artist" just shows how right the author is about the progressive freak out.

For progressives it is all about control, and control at the highest level of government. if it wasn't they would just try to change things at the State level, where people may actually want it. But they know their policies are unpopular once people understand who has to pay for it, (hint, its not the 1%) so they have to implement them at the highest level possible, as far away from popular control as possible.

My sig sums up the sentiment perfectly, in my opinion.

Actually, for Progressives it's all about decomposition, since they've been dead, buried and pushing up daisies for the last century.

In political discourse perhaps the only thing more fun than using a term to mean its own opposite is using one that has no contemporary meaning at all. The old "wild card lexicography".

What we have here is a bubbleblogger who imagines a world of "us" and "them" in which "them" meet continuously in some dank cave, presumably guarded by some Roman-centurioun sentinel, where they stir a continuous cauldron babbling "bubble bubble toil and trouble" and plotting how they can overthrow the world and convert it to some kind of putrid green slime made up of the collective snot of their mortal enemy-beings who they will have upon victory in their Armageddonesque World War, run through some kind of giant evil food processor.

That world does not exist.

What does exist is a population of mundane not-at-all-binary normal people, of all persuasions, none of whom own a cauldron, who are periodically presented with an "election" they're expected to pretend is in their hands. And the last time 'round, 25% of them voted for an orange TV freak con artist, 26% voted for the same-old-thing boring wife of the former same-old-thing, and 45% said "fuck it, there's nothing here worth getting out of bed for".

Of course, that doesn't sell blogs like cauldrons and centurions and century-old political zombies do. It's too mundane.

At base is the bubbleblogger's inability to see, or more correctly his self-delusion to shut out, the fact that his idol is simply grossly flawed all by Himself and needs no foil to express it. So he must invent the cauldrons and the cave scary-monster images. Because those gross flaws must at all costs be obscured, blamed on somebody else and twisted from an active into a passive --- the impotent inevitable result of the evildoing of the cauldron cave conspiracy of The "Them", against which He is apparently helpless. And because oh yeah, fear does sell comic books.

Just doesn't impress me. Maybe I've read too many comic books to take them seriously.

Ace actually wasn't on board the Trump Train initially, and most of his support of Trump is based on opposition to the Democratic/Progressive/Statist way of doing things. And by your continued use of name calling for Trump, you make this exactly "us vs them", thus negating your entire premise.

And yes, progressive statists do want power and control, you just don't see it because you probably agree with their end game.

He cant see it because his head is surrounded by shit.

 

[Pogo]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

UC Berkeley blames violent 'black bloc' protesters for 'unprecedented invasion'

They dressed “like ninjas” and marched onto UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza like a paramilitary force armed with bats, steel rods, fireworks and Molotov cocktails, officials say.

When a liberal looks the other way when liberalism is shown in full force like what happened at UC Berkley, they condone the actions, but when the shit hits them hard, they are the 1st out there screaming for the men in blue to put the insurrections down. Little petulant pussy liberals, cant take care of themselves, like legally armed citizens can.

Mention "using a word to mean its own opposite", and ye shall receive. Right on time.

 

[Pogo]

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

You should have just said TL;DR and have been done with it.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

Truth never hurts. Don't know what that's got to do with anything here though.

What seems to have sailed over the author's head, if I have to spell it out, is the mass incredulity that an orange freak con artist could be elected --- regardless who the opponent was --- that he naïvely chooses to self-delude as "they lost their feeling of power and control over America". I mean come on, what is this guy, twelve years old? That's all I needed to know.

So more like "TJDR" --- too juvenile, didn't read.

So it goes against your views, and has to be juvenile. Got it. That you have to call him the "orange freak con artist" just shows how right the author is about the progressive freak out.

For progressives it is all about control, and control at the highest level of government. if it wasn't they would just try to change things at the State level, where people may actually want it. But they know their policies are unpopular once people understand who has to pay for it, (hint, its not the 1%) so they have to implement them at the highest level possible, as far away from popular control as possible.

My sig sums up the sentiment perfectly, in my opinion.

Actually, for Progressives it's all about decomposition, since they've been dead, buried and pushing up daisies for the last century.

In political discourse perhaps the only thing more fun than using a term to mean its own opposite is using one that has no contemporary meaning at all. The old "wild card lexicography".

What we have here is a bubbleblogger who imagines a world of "us" and "them" in which "them" meet continuously in some dank cave, presumably guarded by some Roman-centurioun sentinel, where they stir a continuous cauldron babbling "bubble bubble toil and trouble" and plotting how they can overthrow the world and convert it to some kind of putrid green slime made up of the collective snot of their mortal enemy-beings who they will have upon victory in their Armageddonesque World War, run through some kind of giant evil food processor.

That world does not exist.

What does exist is a population of mundane not-at-all-binary normal people, of all persuasions, none of whom own a cauldron, who are periodically presented with an "election" they're expected to pretend is in their hands. And the last time 'round, 25% of them voted for an orange TV freak con artist, 26% voted for the same-old-thing boring wife of the former same-old-thing, and 45% said "fuck it, there's nothing here worth getting out of bed for".

Of course, that doesn't sell blogs like cauldrons and centurions and century-old political zombies do. It's too mundane.

At base is the bubbleblogger's inability to see, or more correctly his self-delusion to shut out, the fact that his idol is simply grossly flawed all by Himself and needs no foil to express it. So he must invent the cauldrons and the cave scary-monster images. Because those gross flaws must at all costs be obscured, blamed on somebody else and twisted from an active into a passive --- the impotent inevitable result of the evildoing of the cauldron cave conspiracy of The "Them", against which He is apparently helpless. And because oh yeah, fear does sell comic books.

Just doesn't impress me. Maybe I've read too many comic books to take them seriously.

Ace actually wasn't on board the Trump Train initially, and most of his support of Trump is based on opposition to the Democratic/Progressive/Statist way of doing things. And by your continued use of name calling for Trump, you make this exactly "us vs them", thus negating your entire premise.

That would almost be a theory --- if I hadn't called them both names.

Selective Reading Class gives you an A.

And yes, progressive statists do want power and control, you just don't see it because you probably agree with their end game.

I do agree that we're all going to die eventually, as they did a hundred years ago.

 

[TNHarley]

A long read, but worth it.

How to Survive In the Age of Rage

In summary, to me its another version of the whole progressivism/statism as a religious replacement, and how the shattering of control and power that Trump created is almost like a Biblical Cataclysm to them.

Some relevant sections:

November 9, 2016 was when the actual SMOD -- reality -- hit.

They lost their feeling of control and power over America. And believe me, after 8 years of Obama, and with the social and cultural winds at their back, able to gin up social media hate-mobs against anyone who even said something they didn't like, and able to sic the IRS on conservative groups and get away with it scot-free -- they felt like they were in total control.

And they were right to feel that way: They were in total control.

And now that's gone.

November 9, 2016 -- the day they realized it was not a nightmare, but a reality akin to a nightmare -- was the progressives' 9/11. Just as real Americans felt the loss of security and control over their own fates that day, so did progressives feel that on 11/9.

What you're seeing from progressives now, and the media, is the same sort of urgent fury you saw from real Americans after 9/11 -- an anger that a great evil had been done, and honor demanded furious retribution.

In my experience, there is nothing quite so dangerous as an inflated but brittle ego. An inflated ego which is resilient is annoying and dangerous, but, being resilient, it does not really react bigly to threats. It shakes threats off, so it doesn't need to lash out or go on little Nervous Breakdown Picnics out in Ego Protection Park.

But large brittle egos do. Large egos lash out, and brittle ones -- ones that are easily punctured by pins -- must lash out aggressively, constantly, almost randomly.

11/9 stole from them the two things most sacred: their sense of superiority and infallibility, and their precious political power over the people they hate.

And they're reacting rather poorly to that.

The daily hysteria, paranoia, conspiricizing, meltdowns, tantrums, out of left field accusations -- these are not signs of healthy minds.

We are used to saying X Derangement Syndrome but I really think there is some actual derangement going on.

And I would like to tell everyone reading: Please do not give in to it. Do not let their sickness become your sickness.

When they panic, do not let their panic cause you agitation.

Damn. I thought the title said "How To Survive in the Daze of Orange".


Based on the excerpts apparently it's an exercise in comic-book tinfoil paranoia.

See, I knew your ass couldn't read

 

[martybegan]

You should have just said TL;DR and have been done with it.

Truth hurts, doesn't it?

Truth never hurts. Don't know what that's got to do with anything here though.

What seems to have sailed over the author's head, if I have to spell it out, is the mass incredulity that an orange freak con artist could be elected --- regardless who the opponent was --- that he naïvely chooses to self-delude as "they lost their feeling of power and control over America". I mean come on, what is this guy, twelve years old? That's all I needed to know.

So more like "TJDR" --- too juvenile, didn't read.

So it goes against your views, and has to be juvenile. Got it. That you have to call him the "orange freak con artist" just shows how right the author is about the progressive freak out.

For progressives it is all about control, and control at the highest level of government. if it wasn't they would just try to change things at the State level, where people may actually want it. But they know their policies are unpopular once people understand who has to pay for it, (hint, its not the 1%) so they have to implement them at the highest level possible, as far away from popular control as possible.

My sig sums up the sentiment perfectly, in my opinion.

Actually, for Progressives it's all about decomposition, since they've been dead, buried and pushing up daisies for the last century.

In political discourse perhaps the only thing more fun than using a term to mean its own opposite is using one that has no contemporary meaning at all. The old "wild card lexicography".

What we have here is a bubbleblogger who imagines a world of "us" and "them" in which "them" meet continuously in some dank cave, presumably guarded by some Roman-centurioun sentinel, where they stir a continuous cauldron babbling "bubble bubble toil and trouble" and plotting how they can overthrow the world and convert it to some kind of putrid green slime made up of the collective snot of their mortal enemy-beings who they will have upon victory in their Armageddonesque World War, run through some kind of giant evil food processor.

That world does not exist.

What does exist is a population of mundane not-at-all-binary normal people, of all persuasions, none of whom own a cauldron, who are periodically presented with an "election" they're expected to pretend is in their hands. And the last time 'round, 25% of them voted for an orange TV freak con artist, 26% voted for the same-old-thing boring wife of the former same-old-thing, and 45% said "fuck it, there's nothing here worth getting out of bed for".

Of course, that doesn't sell blogs like cauldrons and centurions and century-old political zombies do. It's too mundane.

At base is the bubbleblogger's inability to see, or more correctly his self-delusion to shut out, the fact that his idol is simply grossly flawed all by Himself and needs no foil to express it. So he must invent the cauldrons and the cave scary-monster images. Because those gross flaws must at all costs be obscured, blamed on somebody else and twisted from an active into a passive --- the impotent inevitable result of the evildoing of the cauldron cave conspiracy of The "Them", against which He is apparently helpless. And because oh yeah, fear does sell comic books.

Just doesn't impress me. Maybe I've read too many comic books to take them seriously.

Ace actually wasn't on board the Trump Train initially, and most of his support of Trump is based on opposition to the Democratic/Progressive/Statist way of doing things. And by your continued use of name calling for Trump, you make this exactly "us vs them", thus negating your entire premise.

That would almost be a theory --- if I hadn't called them both names.

Selective Reading Class gives you an A.

And yes, progressive statists do want power and control, you just don't see it because you probably agree with their end game.

I do agree that we're all going to die eventually, as they did a hundred years ago.

You know you added the 2nd one just for an attempted "gotcha" moment. Bush league of you.

So you really want to call the current crop of leftists liberals?

LOL