Political Procedural TV shows

I'm watching The Diplomat and really enjoying it, and it reminds me of Madam Secretary and The West Wing.

Political essay

Conservatives don't like government, progressives see the potential. There are always mistakes and limitations to government, and conservatives a hyper focused on it, in their own way. 

My psychoanalytical explanation is that often overbearing parents create a desire to be left alone. Also really selfish people don't like taxes or free riders. They'd rather have children starve instead of one person getting it who doesn't need it. The right would rather detain 170 citizens and catch one "illegal", an offensive term to the left (source)

I'm progressive, and feel very strongly that capitalism creates exaggerated winners and losers, and government can smooth out the excesses of capitalism. 

Conservatives feel the greed motive really important in capitalism, they're afraid people won't be groveling or hungry enough to put up with asshole bosses if they get housing, food, education at discount prices. They have a real boner for unchecked capitalism and the inequalities they create. Trump is purposefully crashing the economy to exaggerate the winners and losers. The decreased power of the American currency will bring jobs back to the USA, he fantasizes. Like everything in politics, nobody is completely wrong or completely right. There's a Godel theorem of politics, because the perspectives of right and left can never be totally right, and personality is a sort of fixed aspect to people and there will always be these two perspectives. That's why the dialectic of democracy is so powerful, neither side decisively wins. Except when things become anti-democratic and one side cheats or changes the rules. Gerrymandering is cheating. Money for elections is cheating.

The examples are packing the supreme court by not giving Obama a seat, waiting till the Trump gets in. By not swearing in a duly elected representative to the people. By creating a secret force like the Gestapo and SS (source). We've never had authorities who had to cover their faces before. By sending in troops into cities, creating a war. Trump laughed about uniting the nation, he thrives of disunity. He just needs a few rich people to believe in him, the oligarchy.

Tyranny, fascism, nazism, authoritarianism, dictatorship is an autoimmune disorder. The body politic attacks itself. It's pathological. 

The inherent rape of the people in this regime, is fittingly carried out by a convicted felon rapist and pedophile. It wasn't that long ago that the right was fantasizing about imaginary pedophilia rings, and you'd be on the left if you noticed this concern went poof, and disappeared. In the endless conversation between left and right, they will never completely see eye to eye. Just as Roosevelt created frustrated conservatives, so too, the orange transactional man creates left wing pendulum momentum. Trump is giving 40 billion to Argentina because the criminals need somewhere to flee when they lose power. Trump has said he's not going to heaven. He knows.

Noem, Stephen Miller, and others. If you google "who are the most evil people in Trump's administration, Google, which has swerved right, says it's a subjective term. The rule of law has to be suspended to establish it. 

Fourteen million people are dying because Trump abolished USAID (source). Trump was happy to let 700k+ people die of Covid through his inaction (Right wing Forbes thinks 400k, it's political how you calculate it allegedly). It's a metaphysic to say they could have lived, because they're dead. It's a hazy vague administrative murder by lack of resources, something harder to grasp. 

When I first heard about Freud's death instinct I was young and felt very strongly the urge to live. As I'm older now I understand the dark undertow of the death instinct, and being bad and killing people is what Trump wants. It's a death cult. That's why he's changed it back to the war department, because he wants to war, and death.

You ever stand in line and judge someone, wish they didn't exist? That's the murder instinct. Anger turned into action. Meanwhile Trump is unifying America in anger. Against him. If you've ever played Civilization, democracy doesn't like war, you have to overthrow it to go to war. Trump wants to take some land somewhere like his friend Putin has done over and over. The people generally don't vote for murder. That's why we just had the largest protest in American history. 

This regime has the push it till we're taken out attitude. 

No Kings Day!

Historic protest about the tyrannical moves of the pedophile felon.

Here are links to photos and videos of protest as I see them on Bluesky and Reddit:

Early footage, I can't endlessly link up videos and photos:

Portland

South Korea, Shinjuku, Tokyo

London, London, Dublin

Lisboa, Portugal

Boston, Newtown, Sussex County, New Jersey, Mystic CT

NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC

US Embassy/Brandenburg Gate Germany

Miami, Orlando, Lake Worth, Small town Sarasota county

Charlotte, Kitty Hawk

Garland Texas, Santa Fe New Mexico

Last updated 5:45 PM 10/18/25

Memes, visuals, cartoons

 

Fascist techniques used by the pedophile

Began a list of the fascist, authoritarian, nazi, tyrannical techniques:

Stochastic terrorism. In many ways the firebombing of a judge who defied the pedophile felon, might have been done by one of his cult members without even being asked. 

Neutralizing the checks and balances that limit presidential power. Buying the supreme court. Threatening the newspapers and suing media, the 4th check has been neutralized. I have to say I'm very disappointed with the New York Times the most. Look at how they had to barricade the court:

Lying (Hannah Arendt wrote on that (the marginalia)).

Dividing the country instead of uniting it. He recently said he didn't care about uniting the country. His power comes from a divided America. 

Gish gallop: Saying so many false things, nobody would have the time to debunk a big bowl of wrong. 

By not swearing in an elected official is depriving the will of the people. Obviously undemocratic. They act like democrats aren't allowed to represent the people who elect them legally. The idea that a body of people is an illegitimate. They flip the script and try to say anyone but their select group of republicans are allowed to rule, when America is the exact opposite of that idea. Whoever the people elect are to rule. Dastardly tactics. 

Civil War

Donald Trump is at war with prosperity, functioning government, the rule of law, and cities. He's putting US troops into cities in his own country. Unconstitutional, suspension of due process, kidnapping. He’s going to provoke a revolution. America doesn’t love fascism.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "ICE are raging through the streets of Chicago trying to intimidate everyday ordinary citizens trying to go to school and work. That's not what America is about. It's shameful that the president has instigated this." (Source).

Pritzker keeps saying that the mobilized from Texas National Guard who have invaded Chicago are not welcome. 

Republicans are all about states rights until they go against the vibes they're laying down.  

Fighting the regime

The resistance is the focus until the pedophile is gone. I have a previous post.

Newsom keeps trolling him online, not sure if that counts are doing something.

James Comey has been indicted, but he refuses to be intimidated or shut up. Reddit.

Pritzker is calling for a change in regime. Reddit.

Protests in Florida Reddit.

This commander says he would be obliged to defend the protesters against ICE Reddit.

People follow ICE and warn people Bluesky.

You gotta love mass protests (skeet) and singing (skeet), I can't find the skeet now but there are many.

Protest in Chicago Reddit.

New Yorkers and elected officials rallied at Foley Square to defend Letitia James after her indictment. James had filed the civil suit against Donald Trump that led to over $400M in penalties. Reddit