Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1897649837970968944

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

@VigilantFox
NEW: Bill O’Reilly says Donald Trump is bringing the Democratic Party “on the verge of COLLAPSE.”

He says it could take 20 years — an entire generation — for Democrats to recover.

It turns out, when your entire platform revolves around hating and opposing Trump, you no longer have a platform worth running on.

O’Reilly explains:

“I think the Democratic Party is on the verge of collapse. And I liken it to 1931, when Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party basically said to the very suffering American people in the Depression, ‘We’re not helping you. You got to do it on your own. It’s all about self-reliance. We’re not going to give you any safety nets.’ That led to five consecutive Democratic wins. Five. Not until Dwight Eisenhower, 20 years later, did the Republicans recover. I see the same scenario for the Democrats.”

“What happened [to the Democratic Party]? What happened was Trump hatred. And that’s what the headline is of the speech [Tuesday] night. When you are hating someone, you lose all perspective, you lose all feeling, you’re consumed. And I wrote a book, it’s going to be out in September, called Confronting Evil. And these people who did all these terrible things, they all had one thing in common. They hated. They were just haters across the board. That’s what you saw in that chamber last night.”

[Mike]

Posted by T Smith (here)

Posted by rgray222 (here)
The hubris and the hypocrisy of the democrats are beyond the pale. These people hate Trump with such ferocity that they are willing to destroy their own self-worth and their political party. Not to stand and applaud a child with brain cancer or the mothers of children who were murdered. I have never in my life witnessed such hideous behavior. The country was watching and once seen it can not be unseen.

I'm not making an excuse for it--or condoning the behavior we saw last night in any way. Just observing it clinically.

It's a sickness. It really is. These people aren't well--none of them.

The very alarming thing about this condition is--there are millions of millions of people walking the streets like this.

Like SilentFeathers I'm of the mind that this sickness is an expression of something far deeper, something evil. Increasingly I'm viewing this TDS phenomenon (and all it's tentacles) in a religious or spiritual context. I think it's just good ol' fashioned good vs evil here.

I mentioned on a recent thread that I commented on my uncles's FB posts on the Ukraine war. The thread was filled with Trump deranged types, and I walked away from it thinking that these people would really rather see thousands more Ukrainians and Russians die in an endless war than see Trump get credit for ending the thing.

What they're doing by "defending Ukraine" is dressing up their hatred for Trump as a virtue. And it's not obvious to me that all of them are aware of it. There's a brainwashing or a possession of some sort in play here; I know we've discussed it on the forum but it's original cause remains elusive.

[T Smith]

Posted by Merkaba360 (here)

Unconscious people really need the group think and being part of the majority. If those in your worldview shrink from 50% to 20% or lower then that becomes an increasing pressure on them and feeling of being more alone and powerless.

From a more humane perspective, we can hope a shrinking support group may trigger a wave of self-reflection and re-examination of the world, rather than a hopeless state of solitude and powerlessness (which can be a danger to society and to the social order in general). It's not hyperbolic to claim this condition should be in the DSM-5--it's a real thing, and as Chris Martenson and others point out, there may be no cure (at least for some). But I do reserve some hope that as the Trump administration continues to "pull back the curtain" we will have an opportunity to welcome some of those afflicted with TDS back to sane society.

To underscore your point, I think it's vital to continue to accelerate the truth bombs to have any hope at all of this, no matter how crazy the protestors get and whatever degree of resistance a certain demographic of society wages. As in, floor it. Any pulling back now or caving to crazy, e.g. capitulating to violence at Tesla dealerships, etc., will only empower those with TDS and will risk those who may have a chance to slipping back into derangement land.

We are rife for a paradigm shift of understanding--we can only hope this team of leaders have the courage to see it through.

[T Smith]

Posted by Mike (here)

What they're doing by "defending Ukraine" is dressing up their hatred for Trump as a virtue. And it's not obvious to me that all of them are aware of it. There's a brainwashing or a possession of some sort in play here; I know we've discussed it on the forum but its original cause remains elusive.

One can only wonder if this has anything to do with the cause...

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Oh God...looks like some of these people will be shipping over here. Like we don't have enough problems already!

Bizarrely, at the same time, some of us are looking to ship over to you. I guess you could call this a cultural exchange!

https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1897523131180601851

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by Mike (here)

Posted by T Smith (here)

Posted by rgray222 (here)
The hubris and the hypocrisy of the democrats are beyond the pale. These people hate Trump with such ferocity that they are willing to destroy their own self-worth and their political party. Not to stand and applaud a child with brain cancer or the mothers of children who were murdered. I have never in my life witnessed such hideous behavior. The country was watching and once seen it can not be unseen.

I'm not making an excuse for it--or condoning the behavior we saw last night in any way. Just observing it clinically.

It's a sickness. It really is. These people aren't well--none of them.

The very alarming thing about this condition is--there are millions of millions of people walking the streets like this.

Like SilentFeathers I'm of the mind that this sickness is an expression of something far deeper, something evil. Increasingly I'm viewing this TDS phenomenon (and all it's tentacles) in a religious or spiritual context. I think it's just good ol' fashioned good vs evil here.

I mentioned on a recent thread that I commented on my uncles's FB posts on the Ukraine war. The thread was filled with Trump deranged types, and I walked away from it thinking that these people would really rather see thousands more Ukrainians and Russians die in an endless war than see Trump get credit for ending the thing.

What they're doing by "defending Ukraine" is dressing up their hatred for Trump as a virtue. And it's not obvious to me that all of them are aware of it. There's a brainwashing or a possession of some sort in play here; I know we've discussed it on the forum but it's original cause remains elusive.

That's what we are seeing right now, the UK, EU, and others are going on a total war footing and preparing for a full scale war with Russia. It's insane. They would rather see there countries totally collapse and all their people killed rather than listen to Trump and go towards the path of peace. The EU is toast, I think we will see most of these European countries totally collapse sooner than later, even if they do back down from full scale war with Russia.

Trump needs to completely scrape this mineral deal with Ukraine and get the hell out of suicidal Europe. These globalist psychopaths are spiraling out of control and are heading towards full scale war, not peace.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by Mike (here)
There's a brainwashing or a possession of some sort in play here; I know we've discussed it on the forum but it's original cause remains elusive.

All down to the media mate, all of it, literally all of it.

The media is the mouth of the Sarlacc. Once you fall in, the only way is down into its guts to be slowly digested forever.



To ever get out, it takes the intervention of a powerful catalysing force -- a slap to the consciousness, and one's eyes forced open with matchsticks. I guess it's rare, but it can and does happen.

Take this guy. It took Hurricane Helene to break the spell and shatter his media-induced delusions.

Matt Van Swol
@matt_vanswol
Growth Marketing | Former Nuclear Scientist for US Dept of Energy | Ex-Photographer for @apple

If me, one year ago, saw me now, he wouldn’t recognize me at all.

A year ago, I thought @libsoftiktok was a bigot and a racist.

I was unknowingly trapped inside a media ecosystem that told me what to believe and how to think.

I repeated these same lines to others too, without ANY research of my own.

I walked around believing I was morally superior, that I had the “truth” and the “experts” on my side.

I was wrong.

I didn’t see it until Hurricane Helene hit us in Western North Carolina.

I didn’t see it until I watched the ENTIRE media ecosystem I trusted, ignore us, while we were screaming for help.

It was so shocking, so unbelievable, some days I questioned my own reality…

I never thought the media I knew and trusted would turn on me like that, and for what? An election? For politics?

Surely not… surely people suffering would overrule any political decision these media outlets would make, right?

No. It was all a lie.

Everything I thought I knew about the media, about politics, it crashed to the ground and shattered.

I got on X and for the first time, I started seeing the truth, I started sharing my own reality in Western North Carolina…

Honestly, I owe so many people on the right SO many apologies.

Once you break out of the bubble, once you see the media turn on you, once you see the entire apparatus is set up to point you in one direction like a wind-up toy soldier…

You cannot unsee it.

Thank you for the follow, @libsoftiktok

https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1897637966433959996

[Mike]

Hey Mark, I love reading those stories. That guy may be the exception rather than the rule, but it's evidence that some people can snap out of the spell (and I think we can all agree it truly is a spell of some sort).

I mentioned this somewhere else on the forum once: I was never "woke" and I've always considered myself to be at least pretty well informed (or red-pilled), with some gaps of knowledge of course but always trending in the direction of common sense along with a "big picture" mentality. That's all accelerated quite a bit since 2020, but in 2016 I was a little green. I'd been on the forum for years and was aware of Hillary Clinton's corruption and immorality, but I still had a fear of Trump being elected. I knew he was a disruptor, and I wasn't sure if I really wanted to know what was on the other side of that curtain.

I think most people are at least dimly aware of how sinister and evil it is on the other side of that curtain, and are just psychologically unwilling or unprepared to confront it. They sense that their very sanity is hanging in the balance, and will fight to the death to preserve the lie rather than risk the mental and emotional side effects of grappling with the truth. I think that's at least part of the TDS thing we're seeing now.

re media: absolutely. They're doing all the damage. But I guess what I'm wondering is: what exactly is the force behind the media? We've all played this game many times here, and no one really knows the answer. I think when we abstract backwards from woke and TDS etc, we'll eventually arrive at some horrific evil. We've hypothesized many times here as to what that evil may be specifically: A.I.? Archons? Demons? Satan himself?? My feeling is that this whole thing reaches the depths of hell.

[JackMcThorn]

I have a thought as to what the force is behind the media; it is not the powers that be but rather; I think it is the consumer, often driven by fear.

It would behoove the media to reflect on Damocles Sword but they do not have to because it would take the consumer(s) to place the sword; which they have not done. But if the consumer would indeed control itself better, then the media would have to change in order to survive. This would take the efforts of many. I do not suggest that the only change would be in the insistence of a political shift but rather of a return to the duty to inform rather than a duty to promote. This promotion is worth a fortune and this is why it persists. Even so, in the non-main stream- the alt stream, the participants err on the side of promotion disguised as a duty to inform. That what piques the consumers' interest must be at least controversial enough to gain traction, to gain viewership, to gain repeat access, and finally monetary reward. The competition may be fierce; however, money talks.

So how does the consumer install Damocles Sword on the main stream? PA is a start but not nearly enough and is indeed a little divided in it's perceptions and realities. The point of the Sword is to demonstrate the sensitive nature of the masses versus a monarchal ruler that is indeed by all accounts outnumbered. Until the public; while divided, can unite against these faux rulers of information; the media will never feel the pressure to return to duty.

In the early 199o's a superbowl commercial cost $1m per 3o seconds. At the last superbowl, it cost $8m per 3o seconds. Keep the public divided and consequently entertained and nothing changes.

It really is our fault the media is the way it is.

[mountain_jim]

Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
I have a thought as to what the force is behind the media; it is not the powers that be but rather; I think it is the consumer, often driven by fear.

It would behoove the media to reflect on Damocles Sword but they do not have to because it would take the consumer(s) to place the sword; which they have not done. But if the consumer would indeed control itself better, then the media would have to change in order to survive. This would take the efforts of many. I do not suggest that the only change would be in the insistence of a political shift but rather of a return to the duty to inform rather than a duty to promote. This promotion is worth a fortune and this is why it persists. Even so, in the non-main stream- the alt stream, the participants err on the side of promotion disguised as a duty to inform. That what piques the consumers' interest must be at least controversial enough to gain traction, to gain viewership, to gain repeat access, and finally monetary reward. The competition may be fierce; however, money talks.

So how does the consumer install Damocles Sword on the main stream? PA is a start but not nearly enough and is indeed a little divided in it's perceptions and realities. The point of the Sword is to demonstrate the sensitive nature of the masses versus a monarchal ruler that is indeed by all accounts outnumbered. Until the public; while divided, can unite against these faux rulers of information; the media will never feel the pressure to return to duty.

In the early 199o's a superbowl commercial cost $1m per 3o seconds. At the last superbowl, it cost $8m per 3o seconds. Keep the public divided and consequently entertained and nothing changes.

It really is our fault the media is the way it is.

I largely disagree (at least for all the 'news' outlets) - it's CIA / deep state Project Mockingbird infiltration with additional hidden funding from our tax dollars to prop the worst of it all up, not economics until now as the hidden funds are drying up.

[JackMcThorn]

Posted by mountain_jim (here)
I largely disagree (at least for all the 'news' outlets) - it's CIA / deep state Project Mockingbird infiltration with additional hidden funding from our tax dollars to prop the worst of it all up, not economics until now as the hidden funds are drying up.

That's okay and your point is noted but it is not all about economics. For every message, you need a sender and a receiver otherwise there is no message. If the receivers refuse the message; the sender must change something or no longer be heard. [The refusal is indeed a sent message in return.] This happens on a small scale here. The senders and receivers are generally in flux; some get the message, some do not. Some posters have an uncanny knack for their efforts, some do not. I think at scale, the people of a place could shut the media down; at least enough for the media to have to pivot and change. Otherwise, all we are getting is the programming - designed to inflict emotion and discourage thinking. Are the spooks really that good at controlling all of this information? I cannot be sure. But I do think being selective in our information sources at scale could have an influence, CIA be damned. Even Trump is navigating the media differently than any POTUS prior. But that is just one person. I'm talking more in the millions - hang that sword strung only by a horse hair and see what happens. That's all I'm saying.

[BMJ]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)

Posted by T Smith (here)
It's a sickness. It really is. These people aren't well--none of them.

The very alarming thing about this condition is--there are millions of millions of people walking the streets like this.

But owing to the disgusting behaviour of their party some of them may just have had a small wake up call.

It's like the bubble cracked, the clouds parted, the curtain twitched for just an instant -- and they saw what was lurking behind it:

https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1897453387915878555
Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸
@KarluskaP
The Democrat party turning off more and more people!

And that little old man behind the curtain was George Soros.

[bojancan]

I am adding this video also here... it's in Palestine thread... it's good one! Yes, Owen is a liberal... very very strong warrior for Palestine!!!

Trump: ARREST Gaza Protesters - "FREE SPEECH" Lies Exposed

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=E0Qsl5NAQ7I

[rgray222]

Posted by bojancan (here)
I am adding this video also here... it's in Palestine thread... it's good one! Yes, Owen is a liberal... very very strong warrior for Palestine!!!

Trump: ARREST Gaza Protesters - "FREE SPEECH" Lies Exposed

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=E0Qsl5NAQ7I

I went down this road with a friend the other day. He maintained that Trump was going to arrest anybody on college campuses that protested Israel. After a lot of back and forth and looking at video clips and Trump quotes. He had to admit that Trump said he would have anyone "illegally" protesting on college campuses.

I understand that this would include preventing students from getting to class, preventing campus workers from doing their job, damaging property, setting off fire alarms, obstructing traffic and impeding or resisting the police, as well as other illegal activity.

The keyword which this guy and the mainstream media intentionally leave out is ILLEGALLY protesting. As long as protester abide by the law, they can protest to their hearts' content.

[onawah]

Matt Taibbi shares his views on Trump and the free speech issue on Jimmy Dore's show
Trump CRACKS DOWN On Free Speech! w/ Matt Taibbi
The Jimmy Dore Show
1.49M subscribers
Mar 6, 2025

"In what can only be described as a stunning reversal on a key political issues, Republicans have now seized the mantle of supporting free speech away from Democrats — mostly owing to Democrats’ support for efforts to counter what they call “misinformation” and “hate speech” online.
But now Donald Trump appears to be willing to crack down on speech he doesn’t like as well, in particular criticisms of Israel and support for Palestinians.

Jimmy and investigative journalist Matt Taibbi discuss just how much Trump’s proposed measures against protesters will undermine his free speech bona fides among the MAGA faithful.

Follow Matt Taibbi’’s Substack here: https://taibbi.substack.com/
Follow Matt Taibbi on Twitter: / mtaibbi "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TdnNYBapTF4

[bojancan]

3,151,726 views Mar 6, 2025 #CNN #News
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly talks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour about Trump's ideas on trade, military cooperation, annexation and more.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z3rIlAITjXk

One of the Comments :

"I'm Canadian and I've been so scared and stressed out about the threat of annexation that I can't sleep. My mom has Alzheimer's Disease and I'm in the process of helping her transition to a nursing home while I pack up her home and this conflict is putting me over the edge. I can't believe that the country I used to love to visit, and whose anthem I would sing at sporting events out of respect, is now an existential threat to us. My husband keeps telling me, "If the US tried to annex us, the rest of the world would turn on them." Reading the comments of support from people in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and all over the world means so much to me in this moment. Thank you all!"

[jaybee]

Posted by rgray222 (here)

I went down this road with a friend the other day. He maintained that Trump was going to arrest anybody on college campuses that protested Israel. After a lot of back and forth and looking at video clips and Trump quotes. He had to admit that Trump said he would have anyone "illegally" protesting on college campuses.

I understand that this would include preventing students from getting to class, preventing campus workers from doing their job, damaging property, setting off fire alarms, obstructing traffic and impeding or resisting the police, as well as other illegal activity.

The keyword which this guy and the mainstream media intentionally leave out is ILLEGALLY protesting. As long as protester abide by the law, they can protest to their hearts' content.

Thanks for that - clearly there is a difference between free speech / non violent protest and protests on University Campus's that spiral into mayhem - and potential violence + vandalism - coming from the students but also sometimes, fired up by political agitators...

[Merkaba360]

He knows that the protesting and woke and non-citizen left hears "dictator style clamp downs on protestors" and such. He may be goin a bit over the top on purpose to scare them of harsh consequences as a deterrence.

If he does try pushing the law too far , his supporters can push back as well as the sea of haters lol.

[Rizotto]

Posted by onawah (here)
Matt Taibbi shares his views on Trump and the free speech issue on Jimmy Dore's show
Trump CRACKS DOWN On Free Speech! w/ Matt Taibbi
The Jimmy Dore Show
1.49M subscribers
Mar 6, 2025

"In what can only be described as a stunning reversal on a key political issues, Republicans have now seized the mantle of supporting free speech away from Democrats — mostly owing to Democrats’ support for efforts to counter what they call “misinformation” and “hate speech” online.
But now Donald Trump appears to be willing to crack down on speech he doesn’t like as well, in particular criticisms of Israel and support for Palestinians.

Jimmy and investigative journalist Matt Taibbi discuss just how much Trump’s proposed measures against protesters will undermine his free speech bona fides among the MAGA faithful.

Follow Matt Taibbi’’s Substack here: https://taibbi.substack.com/
Follow Matt Taibbi on Twitter: / mtaibbi "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TdnNYBapTF4

Bad move. In his own words in a post he made, as shown in the above video, Trump threatens to imprison 'agitators'. What's an agitator? I'm reminded of Trump himself on January 6, 2020 when he encouraged protesters to walk over to the Capitol. That could very well fall under the meaning of 'agitator'. Agitating for political reforms is not illegal, but it could be made so under this new Trump rule if it's pro-Palestine reforms. Trump needs to seriously backtrack on this. It's bad enough that Israel is literally in control of US foreign policy, it gets much worse when criticism of this is suppressed.

[Rizotto]

Posted by bojancan (here)
3,151,726 views Mar 6, 2025 #CNN #News
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly talks to CNN's Christiane Amanpour about Trump's ideas on trade, military cooperation, annexation and more.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=z3rIlAITjXk

One of the Comments :

"I'm Canadian and I've been so scared and stressed out about the threat of annexation that I can't sleep. My mom has Alzheimer's Disease and I'm in the process of helping her transition to a nursing home while I pack up her home and this conflict is putting me over the edge. I can't believe that the country I used to love to visit, and whose anthem I would sing at sporting events out of respect, is now an existential threat to us. My husband keeps telling me, "If the US tried to annex us, the rest of the world would turn on them." Reading the comments of support from people in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and all over the world means so much to me in this moment. Thank you all!"

I don't think much of Melanie Joly or CNN, but can certainly relate to the comment you quoted above. Trump's threat of annexation has caused tremendous stress and hysteria. What I really see happening on Canadian social media is a bizarre worship of Trump, praising him for pushing down Turdeau, and insisting that becoming the 51st state would be a good thing. I don't believe that the majority of Canadians feel that way. The majority want to be rid of the Turdeau regime, and we'd like to vote them out.

However, the Trump worshippers won't accept any critical comment about Trump, even when proven by facts. It's literally turned into a cult, and it reminds me of the covidian cult in some ways. It's about the use of social media to police others and to shape an outrageous narrative that's out of touch with reality in many ways.

Personally I see that this use of social media is an intentional set up by certain entities to sway large numbers of people towards a certain goal, and it is very frightening to see so many hypnotized people fall for it.