Trump's base and their agenda

Bad Faith 2026: Christian Nationalism in Power is a documentary film about the political rise of Christian extremism wed to capitalist greed wed to political corruption. Their goal is achieving an American dictatorship. It's quite educational and alarming to any intelligent rational human. Donald Trump's base consists overwhelmingly of Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists who are the opposite of intelligent and rational. 

I do not believe this upcoming midterm election is going to go as well as many naive liberals hope. I do not believe that the horribly corrupt and amoral Trump and his insane base are going to be magnanimous losers should their attempt to win by voter suppression fail. I do not believe any other institution or mass peaceful law abiding movement will prevent them from continuing down their path to dictatorial power. I believe they will resort to massive deadly force if need be to accomplish this. 

One of the principal architects of  their blueprint for governance, Project 2025, Kevin Roberts, states this plainly about 5 minutes before the end of the film, as quoted here:

"We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."

I'm afraid the American political landscape is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. It might take many years for it to get better, if it ever does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LcJHyvYcC4

holy koolaid!

the holy koolaid origin story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvnzqLsdLE

holy koolaid!  are dogmatic religions like christianity ridiculous? i sure think so, and so does this guy who somehow i only just discovered, even though he's apparently been a prominent internet presence for years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5aZXXx3E6U

The End of Israel: The Ultimate Evidence

awesome talk on the unsustainability of zionism / israel from Double Down news, which i support:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpZefoQ5u2k

OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE

I decided to make the title of this post in all caps in mimicry of the book of the same title upon which it is inspired. for what it's worth, a warning such as this is worthy of ALL CAPS!

The subtitle of the book is 'Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis'. It is by Greta Thunberg's family. I've read less than 1/2 of it so far, but couldn't wait to write this review. It is based on a book published in Sweden in aug. 2018 titled Scenes from the Heart in which authorship is credited primarily to Greta's mother Malena Ernman (less so to her father, Svante Thunberg)

The reason i can't wait until completing reading this is because it's so good, at least for the (very) few of us who take the climate and sustainability crisis seriously. That is, after part I of the book, the first 65 pages, which in my opinion ought to have been edited out, as it mostly details matters of little interest outside of the Ernman-Thunberg family. Part II, which i'm only about 1/2 way through, is another matter. it consists of many brief observations (the book is further divided into 'scenes' ranging from 1 to a few pages in length) all of which are very relevant to our climate and sustainability crisis, and to the (here, adequate words fail me) absurd manner in which our absurd species is failing to respond to it, as is repeatedly pointed out.

This brings me to the crux of this crisis as i've expressed before: our species is simply too damned stupid or irrational. Long ago it became abundantly clear to me that this was so, and that consequently there was no way in hell that we would / will ever respond to the crisis in a manner which even remotely is adequate. Here i may disagree somewhat with Greta and her family, who according to this book seem to think that climate denialism is no longer rampant, and that the main problem is that we're simply unwilling to give up the luxurious comforts and possibilities that living in a fossil fueled 'paradise' affords us. It seems abundantly clear to me that if the vast majority of humans actually fully comprehended what was / is at stake with this crisis, they would be willing to make such radical changes, but they don't. They may acknowledge in a rather superficial way that the crisis exists, but it isn't surreally surreal to them yet, and it won't be until civilization is collapsing and we are going extinct.

I must admit there is some validity to the POV that humans are just to selfish to make the sacrifices necessary to address this crisis, but i believe the greater and ultimately more intransigent problem remains the inherent inability of humanity to think and behave rationally, as pointed out previously:

https://dystopiananddoomed.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-truth-will-set-u-free-and-other.html

imperfect world

to me donald trump and the republican party are pure evil. this is a problem, but perhaps the bigger problem is that their supposed opposition, the democrats, are far from their opposite. rather than standing for reason, inclusion (as with 'foreigners'), the sharing of wealth (socialism or communism), and environmentalism, they mostly stand for nothing, which is why they're so despised by true progressives.

indeed, it seems to me it's impossible to be purely good in this imperfect world. my definition of pure goodness would be to live fully without harming other beings including non-humans. some come closer to this ideal than others (vegan peace, justice, and environmentalist greta thunberg for example), but our world is inherently competitive, violent, and destructive to some extent. i find this very troubling. 

black or white?

feeling terribly lonely and depressed, i turned once again to greta thunberg for a bit of inspiration and hope. this led me to her ted talk 8 years ago, when she was just 15 and already famous as a climate activist. in it, she mentions being on the autism spectrum, and that because of this, 'almost everything is either black or white' to her, and that this, rather than being a handicap, acts as a 'superpower'.

i too tend to see things as black or white once i understand and know relevant facts. thus i have long held the same view as greta re. the climate issue. yet here are paths diverge widely, as she became an activist while i, after failing to persuade a few sheeple to become educated on it, despite my best effort, have proceeded to do nothing more.

here's a bit of what she had to say:

'So why are we not reducing our emissions? Why are they in fact still increasing? Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction? Are we evil? No, of course not. People keep doing what they do because the vast majority doesn't have a clue about the actual consequences of our everyday life and they don't know what the rapid changes required. We will think we know and we will think everybody knows, but we don't because how could we. If there really was a crisis, and if this crisis was caused by our emissions, you would at least see some signs, not just flooded cities, tens of thousands of dead people, the whole nations leveled to piles of torn down buildings. You would see some restrictions, but no, and no one talks about it.

There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news. No one is acting as if we were in a crisis.'

here again i think things are rather black and white. emissions aren't being reduced due to ignorance, true, but why are sheeple so ignorant about something this dire? is it simply that they can't know, as greta wishes to believe, or could it be that, to paraphrase al gore, the truth is too inconvenient? are sheeple too stupid to understand the science, or too lazy to learn about it for themselves?

and what does it mean to be 'evil' in this context? again, this possibility is too awful to be countenanced by greta in this talk, but if it's evil to not prevent or try to prevent such a catastrophe from taking place, what are sheeple (the vast majority of us anyway) if not evil?

this is the crux of the matter. for whatever reason our species is unable or unwilling to deal appropriately with this crisis, making the question 'are we evil' moot, as it won't be long before we'll be extinct.

near the very end of this short talk, she has this to say:

'we do need hope. Of course, we do. But the one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then hope will come'

i don't know about this. seems like hopium to me. hopium being false hope that acts like a drug, staving off the despair of no hope.

sigh. i guess there is no inspiration, no respite from despair and ultimate loneliness, to be found here.

https://www.rev.com/transcripts/greta-thunberg-ted-talk-transcript-school-strike-for-climate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmmUIEsN9A

false flag day

the title of this post comes from a speaker (jonathan cole) who proposed it to commemmorate 9/11 at a 9/11 25th anniversary convention of truthers, which lined up several highly qualified and dedicated speakers to continue the lonely quest for 9/11 truth against all odds, over a 4 day period last month. if it needs to be spelled out yet once again, 9/11 was a false flag terrorist attack designed to mobilize public support for things like the subsequent 'patriot act' which helped turn america into an orwellian surveillance state, the military invasions of afghanistan and iraq, and of course, the perpetual 'war on terror' used to justify and maintain grossly bloated military spending. the very notable quote below was also a feature of his speech, found 2 hours and 23 minutes into the video linked below:

“Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”  -the german nazi hermann goring

another quotable quote at the 2:41:40 mark :

"the individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he can't believe it exists" -former FBI director J. Edgar  Hoover

i think this quote sums up how and why the perpetrators of this false flag incident could proceed with utter confidence that the public at large would swallow their monstrous bald-faced lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf524Jc6PN0

note: this 4 hour 4 minute video has a 1/2 hour slot in the middle from about 1:45:00 to 2:15:00 that is blank space. i don't know why it wasn't edited out, but it wasn't.

further note: while i found this whole presentation interesting, especially the latter 1/2 after the break, i must add a note of caution that it's possible if not likely that some of these 'truthers' could be CIA plants meant to throw shade or discredit upon the whole movement by their embrace of other alleged 'conspiracies' which have no sound evidencary basis, and whose support of obvious con artists such as donald trump (bret weinstein) further creates doubt as to their credibility.