You don’t need F-you money to speak on what’s happening in America.
You also don’t need to be a psychologist to recognize projection.
Here’s why. If you’ve ever been accused of cheating on a partner—knowing you didn’t have the time nor the energy to devote to knocking other boots—only to discover it was them straying the whole time, projection becomes forever obvious.
We see it everyday in politics.
Remember Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals?” He believed you should accuse the other side of what you’re doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt.
One of the reasons so many super smart people (Musk, Ackman, Sacks, Chamath, Naval, etc) have gotten involved in politics is because of the unprecedented lawfare in America.
Not surprising one side of the political divide claims the Department of Justice will be weaponized against its opponents if their rival is elected.
If your guy has dementia, say the other guy does.
If you’re weird, call the other guy weird.
If you dodged interviews for a month, say the other guy’s doing that.
Exhausted? In it for yourself? Claim the other guy is.
The best is saying the other side is going to “steal your democracy,” while exemplifying democracy-in-action by staging a palace coup against a democratically-elected incumbent and installing a candidate who received no votes. Not to mention trying to get your opponent kicked off the ballot and thrown in jail.
We’ve never seen anything like this. Let us hope they don’t accuse anyone of colluding with a foreign government, inciting an unarmed insurrection, or being so mentally unstable that World War III might soon ensue.
But admittedly, I don’t follow politics that closely.
Gaslighting
Something you can be assured of is more gaslighting. In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, I’ll explain.
Let’s say you pick up a friend in your shiny new Rav-4. It’s Friday night and you’re headed to the Tide pod party at the plateau, when your buddy suddenly rips what my 3-year old calls “toot-toots.”
So you roll down the windows and say, “C’mon bro, you’re ruining my new car smell.”
He laughs and says, “I didn’t rip, that was you!”
There you go. You’ve been gaslit.
And while many think Karine Jean-Pierre is the poster-child of gaslighting, we only know you can’t trust her more than a fart in a car.
I believe it was Mark Twain who said, “He who smelt it in your SUV, probably dealt a KJP.”
Gaslighting has gotten so intense because we’ve allowed the theatre kids playing “Opposite Day” to hold so many positions of power.
While young guys bully each other physically, girls and beta boys aim for reputational damage—which often takes the form of name-calling. In an effort to destroy another’s reputation, they’ll just make shit up. (Not tryna be punny—this is too serious.)
However, keeping with the theme. There’s a swath of the population that is notoriously bad at discerning bullshit. Instead of blocking the BS thrown their way, it’s like they’ve put up a screen door. Now their pale faces are freckled.
Here’s a shit list a bull couldn’t make up:
- Russian collusion
- Steel dossier (peeing on hookers)
- Russia paying bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan
- Trump calling Neo-Nazis “fine people” (the reason our current president ran for office)
- Trump suggested drinking bleach to fight covid
- Trump overfed koi fish in Japan
- Trump cleared protesters for a photo op with the Bible
- Trump called members of the US military “suckers and losers”
- Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation
- Covid wasn’t a lab-leak
- The 2020 Election was the most free & fair election
- Jan 6 was an insurrection to overthrow the US government
- Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of The Beast
- Border Patrol whipped illegal border crossers
- Trump stored nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago
- Governor Whitmer kidnap plot
- Trump mocked a reporter’s disability
- “Inflation Reduction Act” spending aimed to reduce inflation
- Social media companies didn’t “shadow ban”
By the way, have you noticed how many men seeking political office are now accused of “sexual assault?” It’s become an all-encompassing term conveniently conflating violent rape with a pat on the “willis.”
And since we’re playing that game. Back before “me too,” I was sexually violated as much as anyone—most brutally by my teammates in college.
It’s true. Every time I crossed home plate, I’d return to the dugout to high-fives and “sexual assault.”
Theory of Mind
Let’s talk about dummies among us.
Comparing how intelligent people think to how unintelligent people think is like comparing a car to a horse. They don’t simply operate at different speeds, but operate via fundamentally different processes. – Michael Malice
Dumb people have no theory of mind. Thus, when they tell you what others are thinking, you can be sure it’s what they themselves think—another clever form of projection.
Consider how long it took us to realize there’s no racist among us like an anti-racist. Or how many of our friends prided themselves on compassion and tolerance, only to de-friend those with different political views.
I’ve actually been accused of being brainwashed—despite them not being able to answer easy questions about the other side’s beliefs and why.
But this doesn’t concern them—they prefer to remain siempre smug.
The brainwashed have tells. Not only are they incapable of recognizing propaganda, they commonly parrot words and phrases originated by propagandists i.e. dark, chaos, unhinged, Project X is terrifying, turn the page, 97% of scientists agree.
Never mind that 97% of people can’t agree the sky is blue. Or that claims listed above aren’t disprovable by design.
But I could be mistaken about all this. Especially the race stuff. After all, favoring one race over another in the distribution of aid, or issuing forgivable “loans” based on the amount of melanin in your skin may not be racist at all.
And don’t think you’ll get a pass from accusations of racism because you have black friends, flew Nelson Mandela to the US on your own dime or married outside your own race.
Nope. “Projectionists” know your racism is implicit. Thus, if I ever ran for office as a Republican, not only would I be racist, but so would you for voting for me. Yet nobody’s called “ableist” for not supporting a candidate who’s clearly retarted.
By now you’re wondering why I decided to write this piece. Is it worth the backlash?
Truth is I don’t want my kids & grandkids to look back at this consequential time, and know that Grandpa had a platform and didn’t speak “his truth”—a phrase I hope will be added to the long list above by then.
I’ve also proven here it doesn’t take tons of F-you money to see something and say something. I claim no noblesse oblige—I just think we’ve lived too long in a country where reasonable people have remained silent so as not to offend stupid people.
That’s what this is. Speak up!
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