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The world has tightened another ratchet click this week, and it has me in a state. I’m betting that’s the same for many of you. I’m just going to ramble because I feel compelled to, and I like the feeling of “company” seeing people read my stuff and comment. Thanks for being a reader.

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Disaffected the show did not run last night on Sunday as we had tech trouble all day from internet outages to video programs that crashed. It should be out tonight, Monday evening.

Word about the second assassination attempt on Trump didn’t come in until we were taping, so I only mentioned it briefly during the recording that will come out tonight. But since then, there’s been a day to observe the story and the reactions.

Things are getting worse in America. I am finding it difficult to keep an even keel; we are sliding more fully into a Cluster B/psychopath society, and it was already bad when I started the show to talk about this 3.5 years ago. Today is worse.

To discuss why, I’m going to have to use words that many of you will find tiresome, or that you may incorrectly believe I’m using glibly like most people do. I am not. I am using these terms in their true, real, and original sense. These phenomena exist; they are still real phenomena even though the words have been co-opted and abused.

I’m specifically asking you, as a reader, to make the effort to comprehend them in that spirit-thank you.

The gaslighting about the second assassination attempt is something I’m finding very difficult personally. Yes, it has “triggered” me. What has triggered me, and why has it?

The mainstream media did its best in the hours right after the attempt yesterday in Florida to make the attempt Not Real. They did it with plausible deniability. Headlines said things like, “Incident at golf course near Trump,” or similar constructions. The media will allege and assert that they were merely being cautious and careful in the immediate aftermath because fog of war, etc. This is not true. They are deliberately working to disappear the fact that someone was trying to kill Trump again. They wanted to make sure Americans did not have the normal emotional reaction and investment in a presidential candidate being targeted for murder.

Only after the government and the FBI had to admit it was a second assassination attempt (oh, the irony) did the media come clean. But they shifted tack, and started blaming Trump himself for his own targeting.

This is evil. It’s what the word “evil” means. It’s pure Cluster B abuse. It is exactly parallel to the way abused children are blamed by their parents for causing their own abuse. This was a constant feature of my childhood. My mother would blame me for “making” her lose her temper with me. I would not only be punished for my original infraction, but I would then be punished for “making her” get violent or abusive with me.

Yes, even as a child of less than 10 years old I knew this was morally insane. I never did not know it. It infuriated me and made me despair. I prayed to God to make her stop and to give me justice.

Justice did not come. As happens to every child with abusive parents, when the home life became too dangerous to ignore, I was placed in kid jail. Children are institutionalized, put it juvenile hall, or in corrective homes for wayward kids, for the actions of their parents. Children are punished for the literal, statutory crimes their parents commit against them.

Donald Trump is being so punished today.

It is the work of the devil. This is what evil is.

Some readers and online people have misunderstood me recently, particularly in the last essay before this one, the essay where I talk about Kamala Harris doing Cluster B to Donald Trump. This misunderstanding is coming from men. I’m going to “steel man” their argument, and put myself in their position to be fair to them. But I warn anyone—if this describes you, and you do not reciprocate and treat my view with charity if you are moved to comment, I will call you up short. You either will do reciprocity, or your comments won’t stand.

Some men reacted to what I had to say by incorrectly characterizing my piece as, well, being a whiny bitch. They believed I was saying that the only problem with the debate was that Kamala Harris was being personally mean to Donald Trump. They believed, incorrectly, that I was saying Donald Trump is a little boy just like I was, and mean Miss Kamala was hurting him.

From this, they deduced that the purpose of my essay was to generate personal, little-boy sympathy for a man named Donald.

These men are tired of the feminization of society, just like I am. They are tired of men being subordinate wimps to manipulative women. They are tired of seeing men pushed to “show their feelings” as if men had the same emotions as women. They are rightly tired of grown adults, but mainly other men, acting like little boys and wimping out of carrying themselves as adult men.

I’m with them. We agree, though some of them incorrectly think that I disagree with them.

From there, they reacted to my piece as if I were proposing that Donald Trump needed to be mommied and protected as if he were actually a little boy.

That is not my position, and it is not what I wrote. That is something these readers wrote and acted as if I had done so.

Because such men are so reactive against feminization, they go too far, and they start excusing actual substantive mistreatment by women of men. They focus only on the man’s reaction. Their only criticism is for a man being insufficiently stoic. All the time. In every situation. No matter how outnumbered he is. No matter how demonstrably rigged the legal system is.

This is going way too far. It’s going so far that such men are not actually acting like brothers in arms to men targeted this way; they are replicating the very same abuse dished out to these men.

The injustice of all of this is intolerable. No man today, no matter how ripped, how based, how stoic, how manly man, has the power to exist outside of a feminized system that has made male-specific abuse and disempowerment legally and culturally enforceable. If you’re one of those men I’m talking about, you’re not man enough either, no matter how highly you think of your abilities. You, too, are constrained to some degree within this system.

What I actually meant to get across in my essay is not that “Miss Kamala was mean to Master Donald.” The point is that Kamala Harris is a dangerous psychopath. She gets away with it in large part because she is a woman. She benefits from the false perception that women cannot be as dangerous as men.

If she is elected, Harris is going to practice psychopathy on all of us. Not just Donald Trump. I point out the narcissistic abuse so that you can see it and understand how it works, and how dangerous its effects are. I do not do it so that you’ll feel personal sympathy for Donald Trump. I do it so you’ll understand what she’s going to do to you, your family, your children, your legal system, the tax structure, and everything else she will be able to destroy if she is given more power.

Even manly, “completely self-sufficient” based Chads are able to understand this.

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