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littlemissmartypants's JournalPeople make excuses when they can't make a difference.
Trump's critics are falling into an "obvious trap."
Some think that Trump’s critics are getting it wrong when it comes to Venezuela. Michelle Martin of Amanpour and Company leads the discussion with
David Frum.
January 8, 2026 | Clip | 18:08
As President Trump ruminates on a long-term role for the U.S. in Venezuela, The Atlantic's David Frum argues that Trump's critics are falling into an "obvious trap." In a new essay, Frum warns that opponents of the administration are bogged down in the legalities of the military operation. He joins Michele Martin to explain why he believes their message is failing to break through.
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I understand. Trump's USA though? Let's not hand it over in its entirety just yet, please.
And keep in mind that authoritarian propagandist efforts are geared towards several things. The health care changes, removal of environmental protections etc are all part of a concept called autogenocide.
It's their push away from American values and towards Christian Nationalism. This attempts to overpower us with their unpopular and easily refuted attempts at separating us as they try pushing us away from goodness and hope towards engineered despair.
This creates a world where finding good becomes useless in one's mind and the stress it creates distracts from our ability to organize, see a better tomorrow and resist their efforts.
Awareness of autogenocide exposes how nation states and rogue governments try to drive their populations to destroy themselves. Whether through poisoned environments, collapsing healthcare, misinformation & engineered despair.
It's mass death by design & by the outright neglect of society. It's also known as Social Murder.
Of course, it's OK to get angry as long as we don't stew ourselves in it. Keeping in mind that anger is really fear in translation. So let's stay strong and encouraged because it doesn't matter what they do as long as we stay aware of their attempts at making us destroy ourselves and each other.
We won't let them win.
I love your strength and compassion. But I also don't want us to lose hope.
Thank you for your reply, PatSeg.
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📌 One more time for the people in the back: He's a psychopath.
Unfortunately, he's not a lone wolf.
I'd like to offer a suggestion:
Stats on Psychopaths
Psychopathy is a very common
mental disorder. It is twice as
common as schizophrenia,
anorexia, and bipolar disorder.
It is equally common as bulimia,
panic disorder, and autism.
The only mental disorders
significantly more common than
psychopathy are substance abuse
or dependence, depression, and
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Psychopathy affects all
ethnic, cultural, racial,
and socioeconomic groups.
...psychopathy
is a spectrum disorder,
Prevalence in the United States
Approximately 70% of the
population is estimated to
have no psychopathic traits
whatsoever.
Key Point
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The remaining
30% have low, medium, or
high levels of psychopathy.
Source:
https://psychopathyis.org/stats/
1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior
*psychopath indicates that the disorder has a genetic basis, sociopath, that the basis is societal. I'm unequivocal in my stance because of his familial history and because of the expanded knowledge of the genetics of mental health disorders that supports the notion. He has benefited (his pathology is exacerbated and sustained) from and by the support for his psychopathic personality by the many other psychopaths that exist among us in the US population.
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Stay strong. Stay encouraged. Keep the faith. This too, shall pass.
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Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue
Courtesy of Susana De Leon
De Leon, an immigration attorney in Minneapolis, is also a leader of Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue, a traditional Aztec dance group that has entertained audiences and helped build a sense of community in Minnesota over the past 20 years.
In 2018, she was named a “general” — a distinction that she says was harder to earn than her law degree. The title holds special significance in the dance tradition.
“That means I have great responsibility to preserve the teachings of our ancestors,” said DeLeon, 55.
Generals are responsible for carrying forward a tradition that is hundreds of years old. Dances are ceremonies that serve to honor and connect with ancestors.
More...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/11/i-have-a-great-responsibility-connecting-with-ancestors-through-aztec-dance
Given that recent scholarly scientific research on propaganda reveals that...
The incidence of mis/disinformation not only exceeds fifty percent of all content that most are exposed to, and that such adversely affects our ability to think critically in all cases, it doesn't surprise me when the incapacity to separate fact from biased supposition exists.
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Unfortunately, slightlv...psychopaths are not capable of meaningful introspection
There is no "how do we help them see they're being unethical, immoral, and just plain evil?" because they don't see it as being unethical. We can't change them. They can't change themselves. It's a fools errand for us. And for them, they don't think changing is warranted. In their minds they see nothing wrong.
These people are so twisted, emotions have flipped in their brains. (Think prefrontal cortex injury but without the possible improvements due to the malleable nature of the brain. Psychopaths very rarely change and are born into families of psychopaths.) When I tell you that every day is opposite day I mean that literally.
To love is to hurt someone and induce pain. They are unable to comprehend that there's anything wrong with this.
It's difficult to believe and understand because it is so far outside the normal range of acceptable and expected human behavior. These people cannot tell a so-called "white lie" because lying to them is a normal process and reflexive. They can't help themselves and don't even consider twisted truth as lying. Is SOP* for them.
They can't change and are terrible candidates for therapy because they don't believe that they need to do anything differently. They truly and deeply believe that they are normal and everyone else is weird.
Here's a good article about signs of psychopathic tendencies:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201910/8-possible-signs-of-psychopathic-tendencies
*Stand Operating Procedure
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