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\nAccording to The Fist, many Americans are demanding the freedom to work because they are broke and they know that no-one is going to help them.
\nWhy Does Trevor Bang on about America
\nBecause it is more interesting. When an authoritarian regime like China fucks people it\u2019s just plain obvious. Everyone knows. But when the USA does it through economic power and controlling the narrative it is not so obvious and people don\u2019t know. That is more interesting.
\nPlus, it’s not every day you get to witness the demise of the most powerful civilisation in history.
\nThe USA is truly a failed state.
\nUSA Protestors
\nFind some sympathy.
\nThe Video
\nLibertarian ideals mix with a Methodist work ethic in a state where welfare assistance won\u2019t be forthcoming and the prols know it.
\nThese rallies have the same DNA as the Tea Party.
\nThese people are angry and they want to protest their precarious circumstances but they have been brainwashed by Fox and by American culture so they don\u2019t understand who they should blame.
\nAs a matter of pride it\u2019s easier to say I want to work rather than I have to work.
\nTrump tweets \u201cLiberate Michigan\u201d
\nTrump is Gaslighting
\nFrom Wikipedia
\nGaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment, often evoking in them cognitive dissonance and other changes such as low self-esteem. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction, and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim’s beliefs. Instances can range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents occurred to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
\nThe term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in the 1938 stage play Gas Light,[4] and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944.[5] In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The play’s title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gas lights in their home, while pretending nothing has changed, in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. He further uses the lights in the sealed-off attic to secretly search for jewels belonging to a woman whom he has murdered. He makes loud noises as he searches, including talking to himself. The wife repeatedly asks her husband to confirm her perceptions about the dimming lights, noises and voices, but in defiance of reality, he keeps insisting that the lights are the same and instead it is she who is going insane.[6]:8 He intends on having her assessed and committed to a mental institution, after which he will be able to gain power of attorney over her and search more effectively.
\nTrump is blaming Democratic State Governors and The Who and China.
\nHe could win. Trump supporters will walk over broken glass to vote for him. Democrat supporters won\u2019t or can\u2019t do the same for Biden.
\nFortunately we have a calendar of shame
\nTexas
\nFrom the John Menadue Blog
\nBut a more useful comparison is Australia versus Texas as they have similar population sizes and urban population densities even though Australia is actually bigger than Texas \u2013 a fact which may not be generally known in the Lone Star State outside Austin...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}