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“If thou gaze long into the Deep State, the Deep State will also gaze into thee.”
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--Archibald Nietzsche (Friedrich Nietzsche's Slightly Insane Younger Brother)
Here are two recent articles about the current state of Trump's administration that need to be read in conjunction with one another...
First comes an excerpt from Bill Curry's 6-22-25 SALON article entitled "With Strikes on Iran, Trump Has Chosen a Path of Insanity":
Trump needs attention like Dracula needs blood, and the Israel-Iran war, in which the U.S. has now become an active participant, struck at the worst possible time in his feeding cycle. On Saturday, June 14, he’d just staged a disastrous military parade — presumably to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, but actually held in his own honor — at which there was no John Phillips Sousa, no red white and blue bunting and, worst of all, no adoring crowds. There were only camouflaged soldiers in a silent procession closer to the Stations of the Cross than a Fourth of July parade.Meanwhile, millions of his severest critics were throwing a raucous bash in honor of our democracy. The "No Kings" rallies may have been the biggest protest ever held in America. A palpably joyous celebration, it was everything Trump dreamed his parade would be, and just like his parade, it was all about him, only not in a good way [...].
Trump has long vowed to apply his mythical negotiating skills to the world’s thorniest problems. In Ukraine and Gaza, he failed utterly. Striking a nuclear deal with Iran was his last best chance to shine. Negotiations began in April, which to Trump was a lifetime ago. He needed a fix and would wait no longer.
Last week, Trump proclaimed negotiations the right path to peace with Iran — but hey, things change. A bad parade, a boring G7 and Netanyahu's sudden stardom were all it took for Trump to drop everything he, or rather people in his employ, had worked for. Peace was out. War was in. His mission now was to take the reins from Netanyahu, or rather to foster the false impression he’d held them all along [...].
The myth of Trump the consummate dealmaker dies hard. Cable TV pundits still speculate about his grand strategies. What’s his game? Will he settle for cashiering Iran’s nuclear program, insist on its de facto demilitarization, demand "regime change?" Is he turning away from "America First" toward global engagement? What does he want?
Trump brags that no one knows what he’s thinking and he never makes decisions till “the last second,” especially when there’s a war on. It’s scary to contemplate such derangement, but to understand his policies, we must view them in the context of the mental illness from which they emanate.
In matters of policy, Trump has no future tense, only an ever-aching present need. His "strategy" is to do whatever he thinks will secure him instant adulation. His disease is progressive, in that he is ever more detached from reality.
To read Curry's entire article, click HERE.
Second, here's an excerpt from Ali Swenson's 5-30-25 Associated Press report entitled "Trump Has Long Warned of a Government 'Deep State.' Now in Power, He's Under Pressure to Expose It":
As he crisscrossed the country in 2024, Donald Trump pledged to supporters that voting him back into the presidency would be “our final battle.”
“With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state,” he said repeatedly on the campaign trail. “We will liberate our country from these tyrants and villains once and for all.”
Four months into his second term, Trump has continued to stoke dark theories involving his predecessors and other powerful politicians and attorneys — most recently raising the specter of nefarious intent behind former President Joe Biden's use of an autopen to sign papers. The administration has pledged to reopen investigations and has taken steps to declassify certain documents, including releasing more than 63,000 pages of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Yet many of Trump’s supporters say it’s not enough.
Some who take him at his word are beginning to get restless as they ask why his administration, which holds the keys to chasing down these alleged government secrets, is denying them the evidence and retribution they expected.
His Justice Department has not yet arrested hordes of “deep state” actors as some of his supporters had hoped it would, even as the president has been posting cryptic videos and memes about Democratic politicians.
“People are tired of not knowing,” conservative commentator Damani Felder said on podcaster Tim Pool’s show last week. “We actually demand answers and real transparency. It’s not that hard to deliver.”
Trump has long promised to dismantle the “deep state” — a supposed secret network of powerful people manipulating government decisions behind the scenes — to build his base of support, said Yotam Ophir, a communications professor at the University at Buffalo.
“He built part of this universe, which at the end of the day is a fictional universe,” he said.
Now that Trump is in power and has stocked loyalists throughout his administration, his supporters expect all to be revealed. Delivering on that is difficult when many of the conspiracies he alleged aren’t real, said Joseph Uscinski, a political scientist who studies conspiracy theories at the University of Miami...
To read Swenson's entire article, click HERE.
If you want to know exactly how we reached this nadir, consider reading my 2022 nonfiction book, OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP, which maps out the anatomy of this ten-year-long campaign of asymmetric warfare directed against the American people by Trump and the cabal of right-wing nutjobs who support him...
OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP
"Voltaire suggested that those who can make us believe absurdities can make us commit atrocities, and QAnon provided the practical demonstration. Robert Guffey’s razor-sharp postings illuminate how a collage of Shaver mysteries, Discordian prankster politics and recreational conspiracy theory played out as dissociative American fugue. Jaw-dropping and essential."
—Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen
"One
of the most difficult aspects of confronting QAnon conspiracism is
finding the time and resolve to delve into its ever-expanding network of
self-reinforcing connections and concepts. Robert Guffey does that work
for you in OPERATION MINDFUCK, a codex to madness and a critical
examination of how a massive fraction of our culture has imbibed a
counter-reality. Guffey also explores underground sources lost on many
mainstream historians, bringing us into an (occasionally ingenious)
netherworld of outsider thought forms. Guffey is the Ernest Shackleton
of paranoia—and one hopes his journey will result in a happier ending."
—Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and Uncertain Places
"It's practically a guide to your character to discover whether you find this expose of possibly the stupidest political movement in human history funny, alarming, or infuriating.... Highly recommended."
—Richard Smoley, author of Supernatural: Writings on an Unknown History and How God Became God
"OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP by Robert Guffey tackles the conspiracy theories Q draws from, the history of the Q phenomenon, and the eventual attempts by mobs at least partially influenced by Q, and certainly influenced by Donald Trump, to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. The book is well-researched, with a full Bibliography of notes that reference and identify each quote from each source that Guffey cites. Guffey, additionally, has a long background studying conspiracy theories and their origins [...]. Guffey is not a lightweight."
—Steve Henn, author of And God Said Let There Be Evolution
"Whether QAnon is a religion, a cult, a joke, a political movement, or just an online game gone awry, Robert Guffey's OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP is his attempt to figure it all out. Guffey's pedigree in this area is unmatched [...]. Throughout OPERATION MINDFUCK, Guffey follows Theodore Sturgeon's advice he quoted in his book CHAMELEO: 'Always ask the next question.'"
—Roy Christopher, author of Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future
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