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Ruby Kamm, CPA's avatar

This is so satisfying to read! “The lowest civil standards”. “The rage isn’t about what he did—it’s about what he revealed: the lies, the grift, the contempt for reality. “ Wow!!!

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Glad you enjoyed it—it was fun to write. The human mind is remarkably malleable and susceptible to propaganda. Many take emotional comfort in influences they don’t even realize are shaping their thinking—or replacing it altogether.

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Ruby Kamm, CPA's avatar

Absolute truth! It is helpful for me to contemplate my next article - thank you!

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Thank you! Keep up the great work. We are making a difference.

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Jon Stout's avatar

The Democrats use propaganda as a weapon. We must stop it!

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Jon Stout's avatar

The science behind propaganda. Full of great insights!

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Kathy Christian's avatar

They've been given over to reprobate thinking and there's no way out of that short of divine intervention.

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Jon Stout's avatar

Correct!

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Don McGregor's avatar

I get Trump derangement syndrome. People can hate for whatever reason they want but when it is at the expense of your neighbor and the country then it’s shameful!

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

They should be ashamed—but ego shields them from the ugly reality of their own shallow thinking and destructive actions. The mob is mindless.

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Jon Stout's avatar

The mob is mindless but present, unfortunately.

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Jon Stout's avatar

Hate is degrading to the haters.

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Joe Meakin's avatar

With admitting one has been wrong about something psychologically being very difficult, unfortunately not many liberal lemmings will return to reality. We're looking at having to cope with their psychosis for the rest of our lives.

I'm unfortunately more than acquainted with a particular lemmings subgroup, those whose formative years were the '60s - the few Boomers one sees still attending the Bureaucratic State's rallies. Since they perceive themselves as being righteous during that previous era, they perceive themselves as righteous now - despite aligning themselves with the very system they used to protest against. That self image impedes any overcoming of their cognitive dissonance.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

That’s a piercing insight. The 1960s moral high ground became a lifelong identity for many Boomers—so much so that they can’t see how they’ve become the system they once opposed. Admitting error would shatter their self-image, and for many, that’s unthinkable. Cognitive dissonance becomes a prison, and they double down on delusion rather than face the truth.

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Jon Stout's avatar

This writer is very informative. Great article!

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Thanks, Jon. Appreciate you taking the time to read and comment on my reports. I’ve been researching and reporting on these issues since Trump was first elected in 2016. Unfortunately, I was silenced—and eventually canceled—on social media, including LinkedIn, for reporting what is now widely acknowledged as true. I had hundreds of thousands of followers and over 20 million views before LinkedIn finally banned me. The same thing happened to thousands of other conservative voices—dozens of professionals I knew and corresponded with. One of the biggest scandals in modern American history.

The truth always breaks through—eventually. Early voices were smeared as conspiracy theorists—including yours truly.

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Jon Stout's avatar

You are very welcome. The country needs more authors like you and your reasoned, methodical approach! Please keep up the good work!

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Thanks! You too. Too many have swallowed the blue pill—and just parrot propaganda.

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Jon Stout's avatar

Brainless effort from those on the Blue Pill.

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Chris Russell's avatar

Wow! Excellent diagnosis.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Exactly!

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

thanks. These types of reports are challenging to do because of AI's censorship. What should only take a few hours takes days. I have to fight it...and I use 5 of the major services...tooth and nail to overcome its programing. You should read the my new report on AI confessions, one of three in a series. It's shocking.

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The Five Fifteen's avatar

The Narrative Addiction is strong. People want/need to be right. For so many, it's all they have.

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DMC's avatar

I have always had contempt for men who cheat on their wives. I have kept that contempt muted for two reasons. First, you never know the full story. Maybe the guy is an a hole or maybe there’s more to it. Ultimately it’s not my business. Second is because it’s not with being called a prude over something that is not my business. And it’s those folks who are so “upset”about trumps affairs.

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Nick Apel's avatar

Wash her mouth out with soap

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Crow-Magnon's avatar

Once again, you've nailed it, Vaughn. This essay lays bare the reasons why the American Nomenklatura has become unhinged over Trump, and why it's now in full beast mode. He's exposed how Nomenklatura members gamed the system to transfer wealth from the private sector to themselves by controlling how the Federal Budget gets spent. And how they've used their power as the ruling class to grant themselves extraordinary privileges. They've responded with untempered rage at Trump's temerity and anointed him as the devil incarnate.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Thanks—appreciate that. The corruption has been exposed. Now it's time for justice.

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Durling Heath's avatar

Anti-Trumpism might be more of a religion than Trumpism is. It’s religion for atheists.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Well said. Anti-Trumpism has all the hallmarks of a belief system—dogma, ritual, heretics, and emotional fervor—just without the soul. For many, it’s the only moral framework they have left, and that makes it more dangerous than any religion.

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Andy's avatar

Hatred is a blinding emotion and therefore a terrible basis for making decisions.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

A lot of mental illness also.

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Andy's avatar

I would argue that sustained hatred is a mental illness.

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Vaughn Cordle, CFA's avatar

Sustained, irrational hatred may not be a diagnosable mental illness—but it is a form of emotional disorder. And increasingly, it looks like a societal one. The lies and propaganda that fuel hatred of Trump are a case study in how mass media can manufacture emotional pathology. TDS.

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Andy's avatar

By “diagnosable” you mean “listed in the DSM”?

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Where's Mimirsbrunnr?'s avatar

You could just say, jewish thinking.

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