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El Paso: Echoes of Trump

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With Donald Trump in office the US is each day descending deeper into his insanity. His influence is getting stronger with his control over the Senate, DOJ, possibly intelligence agencies, DOD, cabinet loyalists, right wing media, etc. His base is becoming more unhinged with each rally. When horrible things happen in the world like El Paso, they do not happen by logic or reason. Their source are primitive emotions that break through civilized defenses. Trump is appealing to the unconscious. He is stoking fear and hatred of the other to incite his base. He appeals to the basest emotions. It is what inspires him. It so happens that the collective unconscious reflects the energies of the planetary bodies in our Solar System. We are primitively attuned to the energies of the planets, fixed for each of us at our time of birth. We express these energies unconsciously throughout our life, unless we take the trouble to become conscious of them. They express mostly in our attitudes toward o...

Donald Trump: Mask and Weakness

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Trump has now succeeded in literally becoming what his father groomed him to be, a "killer". Trump did not pull the trigger, but he triggered a hate-filled racist man to do it for him. In the wake of the El Paso massacre we need to better understand the mind of Trump and what he is capable of doing. How far is he willing to go to save himself from going to jail? When I watched the video of Trump "condemning" violence, it was a disembodied voice delivering the speech. The message is that he does not believe what he is saying. His eyes were squinting and his face was stretched into a weird sort of grin, as if internally he was pleased. People still give him the benefit of the doubt, that he will do the morally right thing. But that will not happen. He will take them for fools again. Since we can not get Trump on a psychiatrist's couch we need to resort to more indirect techniques to understand his psyche. First, I will examine Trump's main weakness th...