Trump Derangement Syndrome
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Maybe we are taking small steps towards something similar?
-- It feels like part one of the plan (if there is one) is to create chaos and confusion.
Maybe this bill doesn't go through, but it is now part of the news cycle.
This is different though, this is seeing if there is any push back.
Do something -> see if there is a response/pushback -> if no response push harder. It's testing if there are limits on abuses of power to either overcome them, or figure out what they need to overcome/who will resist so they can punish them.
He was calling it "flooding the zone". As he said:
"The Democrats don’t matter, the real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit."
That seems to be also motivation for so many executive orders in such short time.
The idea is to flood the public sphere with so much nonsense and bullshit that nobody can keep up with it. Flood the media, flood the courts, flood everything with crap.
People eventually disengage and can't keep up. It becomes a job to pay attention to what's going on.
The idea, not surprisingly, comes from Russia. Bannon basically uses the same term Russia did for it. Again, not surprising considering the number of known Russian operates who are in Trump's orbit.
Yes, it's still stupid.
There are some things that are disqualifying even as a "joke". This is one of them.
Like an elementary school principal who keeps "joking" about sexually abusing the children.
Or a President who keeps "joking" about becoming "President for life".
TDS is like calling Ukrainians russophobic. It flips cause and effect. It frames criticism as irrational hatred so that the accusers can see themselves as victims. It dismisses problems with trump or Russia as blind hatred and directly ignores any harms caused by them.
I don't know the name for this technique, but it is straight out of Russia's playbook. There is even a history of weaponized psychiatry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry#...
> Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity. This hypothesis was based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape.
One not mentioned, but similar to Clennon W. King, Jr. - Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Trumpauer_Mulholland
> In the spring of 1960, Mulholland participated in her first of many sit-ins. Her civil rights activism was not understood, being a white, southern woman. She was branded as mentally ill and was taken in for testing after her first arrest.
The fact that they are introducing this bill itself proves that they are possibly suffering from clinically concerning levels of delusion, paranoia, or brainwashing.