Trump Re-elected: The True MAGA Era Begins, Now What?

[mkrnhr]

Blackmail, cowardice, dementia, depravity and stupidity are not mutually exclusive, one could have them all at various degrees.

 

[gottathink]

We are perhaps conflating symptoms of the blackmail - with dementia.

"He's terrified". If he's terrified, perhaps the process has been lasting for quite a while (perhaps not). But I think if he has been coerced to carry on actions that go against his will (and humanity perhaps) - he would be developping trauma. After a while, without solutions, and being forced to go against one's own "direction" - things can become difficult.

I am not an expert in the field, but a skilled psychologist may be able to lay down a basic idea on the damages of blackmail, on the personality.

I think so also, experiencing terror will be causing extreme stress. Older people are much more vulnerable to increased stress levels causing dementia. I have dealt with this in my own clinic with elderly as well as my own father. The impacts of stress on mental health in older people is dramatic. The fact they are older causes diagnostic overshadowing of the extremely high cortisol levels and the impacts of this on the brain and behaviour.

I see Trump reverting to his life long modus operandi of trash talking but he does not have the cognitive faculties to execute his usual strategies to an end. I don’t think he ever had an end in mind that would have resulted in the exposure of Zionist controllers either. He wanted to MAGA and be the guy to do it. As well as stop human and child trafficking.

 

[palestine]

extremely high cortisol levels

Can this lead to dementia? Asking because I have zero medical knowledge. (In the sense of "what is the first & foremost consequence of high cortisol levels?)

But yeah, "stress". I think you've nailed it down. The basic, common thing. Stress.

Seeing his relatives, first having done something wrong: some relatives may have to go to prison, or could face big troubles. Then, a "guy" pops up and leverages this... I have been pondering how this would manifest in his daily routine. Does Trump receives "communications" such as "if you don't do ... we will ..."? It could be every day, or once per week. All together, Trump would be unwittingly submitting to the blackmailer's will.

So, stress, feeling of insecapability, helplessness - the whole package together.

And I think each day, things don't improve so that there is, too, a sort of "dark closed tunnel" phenomenon. Not escape, no end in sight. Those things could be very traumatizing, and I would say overall "sad". Just sadness. Seeing all the good efforts literally "ruined", front of his eyes.

But as he does this for "love", he may have a solution here. I think he will loose the Presidency but that he might not loose his relatives. (Because he copes with the blackmailers, which preserves his relatives; in turns, the blackmail is like a STS wishful thinking operation - it cannot last indefinitely - so at some point it must meet "resolution")

I was thinking: "Oh, Trump ought to name a new President". One of trust and blackmail-free. But he wouldn't be able to do so, because the blackmailers asked him not to name a new President. And so on. No clue what would work in a blackmailing scheme. I am sure there exists specific studies (with a "DOI" - those scientific numbers for official studies), and perhaps one that came up with a practical solution on how to effectively deal with blackmail.

 

[gottathink]

Can this lead to dementia? Asking because I have zero medical knowledge. (In the sense of "what is the first & foremost consequence of high cortisol levels?)

Yes it leads to the same presentation of cognitive decline as a condition of dementia.
Pubmed article

Several studies have demonstrated a wide cognitive variability among aged individuals. One factor thought to be associated with this heterogeneity is exposure to chronic stress throughout life. Animal and human evidence demonstrates that glucocorticoids (GCs), the main class of stress hormones, are strongly linked to memory performance whereby elevated GC levels are associated with memory performance decline in both normal and pathological cognitive aging. Accordingly, it is believed that GCs may increase the brain’s vulnerability to the effects of internal and external insults, and thus may play a role in the development of age-related cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The aim of this review article was to investigate the effects of GCs on normal and pathological cognitive aging by showing how these hormones interact with different brain structures involved in cognitive abilities, subsequently worsen memory performance, and increase the risk for developing dementia.

The difference is when the stress reduces the cognitive abilities recover. Others things can also contribute such as: dehydration, urinary tract infections, antibiotics, poor diet and too much sugar. All of these things can contribute to reduced mental capacity and wellness and all when addressed can dramatically improve cognition in the elderly.

 

[palestine]

Yes it leads to the same presentation of cognitive decline as a condition of dementia.
Pubmed article


The difference is when the stress reduces the cognitive abilities recover. Others things can also contribute such as: dehydration, urinary tract infections, antibiotics, poor diet and too much sugar. All of these things can contribute to reduced mental capacity and wellness and all when addressed can dramatically improve cognition in the elderly.

Thank you!

 

[Ruth]

I think so also, experiencing terror will be causing extreme stress. Older people are much more vulnerable to increased stress levels causing dementia. I have dealt with this in my own clinic with elderly as well as my own father. The impacts of stress on mental health in older people is dramatic. The fact they are older causes diagnostic overshadowing of the extremely high cortisol levels and the impacts of this on the brain and behaviour.

People don't have to be old to be 'attacked' in this way, either. A person can be young and have this done to them too.

 

[Ruth]

Let the comedians take the floor..... when it comes to the Trump Administration! Comedy seems a fairly legitimate way to tell the truth, and you might get a laugh in too.

 

[Voyageur]

Brett Cooper critiquing Trump's "spiritual advisor".

Paula White-Cain.

Had not realized a few things concerning the evangelic grifter, White-Cain. Had not realized that she floated directly into Trumps orbit as far back as 2001 (25-years ago). Trump may have even followed her earlier, yet it was he who reached out to her according to this 2020 article from Mother Jones (who I've not read anything from in a long time).

Given the religious influence (not talking Christianity as generally seen) that seems to have massively expanded since 2020 - with White-Cain a key and Trump falling for that side of the Christian spectrum, the pressures from that side would be enormous.

It goes like this (skipped a fair bit):

On a Friday morning in February, televangelist Paula White-Cain spent more than two hours preaching at the King Jesus church Supernatural Ministry School in Miami. With top billing on the event website as “Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser,” White stood in front of a stage with a light show befitting a Pink Floyd cover band. With a sanctuary that holds 7,000 people, one of the nation’s largest Latino churches was packed with “apostles” and “prophets” who’d come to be “activated in God’s supernatural power” and learn to expand their ministry.
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“God kept opening doors until eventually, 19 years ago, I get a phone call out of the blue, from this man named Donald Trump,” she said, recalling the day in 2002 when the twice-divorced New York real estate mogul reached out to her after catching her show on a local Florida TV station. “He said, ‘You’re fantastic.’ He said, ‘You have the ‘it’ factor.’ I said, ‘Sir, we call that the anointing.’” White said the Lord told her to help Trump know God. “I took on that assignment never knowing that one day that man that God told me to show him who He was would become the president of the United States of America,” she told the crowd, which cheered with enthusiasm.
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At the Supernatural Ministry School, White deftly offered the audience the secret of her success. “How did I get to the White House from the trailer?” she asked. The answer, of course, was by giving money to God by way of the church—and she’s not talking about tossing the weekly pin money in the offering plate. Securing Paula White, White House-caliber blessings would require students of the supernatural to give a “First Fruits” offering, one that is significant—the first week’s pay, say, or even the first month’s pay—to signify putting God first in everything. White claimed during the sermon that God once told her that in 2009, a particularly bad year, she needed to give her entire annual salary to God—$8 million.
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They have a lot in common. Like the president, White is twice-divorced, with a history of marital infidelities and bankruptcy, but possessing remarkable TV savvy. They first connected in that fateful 2002 phone call, not long after White had launched her first TV show and her career was taking off. Trump called to tell White he’d been watching her show at Mar-a-Lago and that she was “fantastic.” Thus began a long relationship that included White gifting him a Bible for his 60th birthday in 2006 that was signed by the late, legendary minister Billy Graham. That same year, he appeared on her TV show to promote his latest book, Why We Want You to Be Rich. The year before, White bought a $3.5 million condo in Trump’s Park Avenue building. When Trump first considered a presidential run in 2011, he sought White’s counsel. “I don’t think it’s the right timing,” she told him.

The timing was obviously right in 2015, when Trump did decide to run for president. In Something Greater, she writes that he asked her to be a bridge to the evangelical community, a critical voting bloc that was far from being supportive of his candidacy. His perceived moral failings—the many wives, the notorious womanizing, his unapologetic vulgarity—all added up to the support of only 3 percent of evangelical leaders and “insiders” surveyed by WORLD magazine in July that year. When Trump appeared in 2015 at the big Christian Right confab in DC, the Values Voter Summit, he got booed.

White describes how she helped improve his standing by creating an evangelical advisory council for the campaign, made up mostly of other televangelists like her, including Franklin Graham, son of the late Billy Graham, and Robert Jeffress, the controversial Dallas megachurch pastor who in 2012, told evangelicals not to vote for Mitt Romney because, as a Mormon, Romney wasn’t a real Christian. White says she even schooled Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner—an Orthodox Jew whom she describes as “quite brilliant”—on the “evangelical landscape.”
Later, when Trump appeared headed toward the GOP nomination, White helped organize a meeting for him with more mainstream evangelical leaders who still had many reservations about his moral character, not to mention concerns about the televangelists he had assembled who were not their natural compatriots. Most of them fell into line, and after Trump became the GOP nominee, White was on hand to give the prime-time benediction on the opening night of the Republican National Convention. After he was elected with the support of more than 80 percent of white evangelical voters, White gave the invocation at his inauguration, becoming the first clergywoman to do so, though not the first televangelist.
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Among other things, a Senate report found that White’s personal ministry and the church she ran with her now ex-husband used tax-exempt ministry funds to pay nearly $900,000 one year for the Whites’ waterfront mansion. It paid over a million dollars in salaries to family members and kept the Whites in the air with a private jet. White and her church refused to cooperate with the investigation and in 2011, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), issued a report outlining the committee’s findings but took no other action. White’s church declared bankruptcy in 2014 after defaulting on $29 million in loans from an evangelical credit union. In 2011, amid controversy, she became senior pastor at the predominantly black City of Destiny—then known as New Destiny Christian Center—after its former pastor died of a drug overdose.
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When every last dime seemed to have been wrung from the audience, White invited all the “barren” women in the room who desired children to come to the front, “because fruitfulness is getting ready to hit this house. God’s about to open your natural womb. God’s gonna open barren places.” She told a story about helping a woman in Hawaii with no uterus and no fallopian tubes give birth. Then she moved to each hopeful woman—some of whom were infertile, others who struggled with repeated miscarriages—and held their hands or touched her belly, telling one that she’d no longer miscarry. One woman fell on the floor. Others cried in expectation of fruitfulness. White wept and spoke in tongues. “Holy, holy, holy, hallelujah,” she cried, and then held a basket of money up high. “It is blessed!”

When it was over, White held a book signing for her newest book release, Something Greater, which is all about her relationship with God. But Something Greater, of course, is really all about her relationship with Trump. His name is mentioned 177 times in 288 pages. Jesus merits just 82.