The first element of the discussion was here {GO DEEP}. A short follow up is prudent.
The word “normal” is no longer politically correct to say. The cultural Marxists have manipulated language to fit their needs; however, there is a need to stop pretending, therefore it becomes necessary to stop playing by their stupid rules and talk to each other in ordinary terms.
You are likely a person of normal disposition. You go about your affairs with an outlook of decency and general respect toward the goals and aspirations of others. You have the ability to remain emotionally stable, ignore the swirling nonsense of idiots, boil down the issues to their most common attributes and go about finding the best optimal solution for the events in your life.
The people in Washington DC are not normal. Not like that. If they perceive an event to have negative impact upon them, they cannot independently remain stable and deal with the issue on a level of solution they can independently create. When they encounter a negative situation, they need to pull other people into the quicksand of their gibberish and stupidity in order to avoid accepting that they are less capable. At a cognitive or psychological level, this is a defense mechanism.
DC operates like a school of fish stupid fish, a tribe that swarms together looking for consensus which allows them to not hold responsibility for their own shortcomings. They view systems as solutions in order to avoid responsibility. They are not emotionally stable, cogent, capable or independent thinkers. They require tribalism to avoid what they lack. These are not stable people.
This is not a blanket statement that would be considered hyperbolic. Every entity, every individual person within the bubble of DC, cannot fathom self-reliance. It is a concept as foreign to them as the distinction between a ‘constitutional republic’ and a ‘democracy.’ This is not a mistake or flaw in their perception and mindset, this is the reality of how their brain synapses fire. This is who they are.
Within this dependency, those who assemble the silos of information find great reception. Each sheeple tribe paying attention only to their immediate surroundings without the capacity to stand back and see the entire world around them. They do not have this skillset. They do not possess this ability. This applies to all of them; every single one.
Within this system of dependency, they are like the crowd in the story of the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes.’ The political representatives and the staff that support them, literally are manifestations of weird minds, brought together by a career that rewards and attracts esoteric thinking devoid of pragmatic common sense. They care about the opinion of others. They only care about the opinion of others; however, the “others” only apply to their tribe. Again, tribalism is how they define themselves. These are not emotionally stable people.
The outcome of their decision-making only flows through the prism of self-interest, where the ‘interest’ is about the preservation of the bubble that provides them a walled-off life of affluence inside the petri dish of toxic identity. In a general world, the population of advanced and diagnosed narcissists is around 10%. Inside the DC bubble, far more than half of the residents carry this narcissistic trait. This is the origin of the abusive relationship that exists between “them” and “us.”
This applies to all of them.
All of them.
If you say the emperor is naked, from their perspective you are the stupid one. Worse still, if you keep saying it, they view you as dangerous.
They are assembling systems to keep track of the dangerous people.
This is the disconnect that must be understood.
These are not normal people.
Cue the visual aid:


The door “that is normally open” is an “EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY” with an alarm if opened door. Liar!
Plus Fire Alarms do NOT open doors, they CLOSE them.
Looks like rather insurrectiony thing to do to me…
So this vote was held outside?
That’s why he threw aside the big signs that were in front of them.
He thinks we don’t know how stuff works. He probably believes it too.
He believes we will pretend. Or should have to.
Stoopid people doing stoopid things.
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I’ve often wondered if minds would be blown if all the siloed information on one particular subject was combined into one big pot and stirred for all to see if ANYONE would agree with just one of the determinations any one of these silo-keepers have professed as ‘the truth’ . . .
Peace and Love? I have been on business for 40 years involving billions of $ of contracts and have never seen correspondence of any kind signed this way. Is he an idiot or a communist or both
Both, but I would argue that he is a Marxist Totalitarian.
You forgot to mention, Sundance, that the creatures that inhabit the swamp of DC are incapable of discerning the truth of any matter, and as such they swim with the school out of a sense of safety because they have no moral compass to guide them.
They lie, cheat and steal every minute of every day, calculating where they can gain the most ground, without regard of the consequences to others.
These are not real people. They are sick, disgusting, slime that should be relegated to the dustbin of history as a warning to real people for what happens when infected with the swamp of power, money and corruption.
Then why did Dear Jamaal throw the signs off the door before forcing it open then pulling the fire alarm? 🔥 🚨 it actually appears he has one of the signs in the shot of him when he pulls the alarm.
Weird.
Exclusive — Capitol Sources: Jamaal Bowman Threw Signs Warning Door Was Emergency Only on Floor Before Pulling Fire Alarm
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/30/exclusive-capitol-sources-jamaal-bowman-threw-signs-warning-door-was-emergency-only-on-floor-before-pulling-fire-alarm/amp/
it actually appears he has one of the signs in the shot of him when he pulls the alarm.
Weird.
https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1708191545751380161?s=20
The shortest answer is, “He’s a liar.”
The dc crowd lives in a world of their own making. The real world scares them, because the real world has an abundance of Patriots, that they greatly fear.
Are the “behind the scenes” deep state/cia and multinational corporate people, those who are actually pulling the strings to destroy this country, of the same “abnormal” condition?
This is a very interesting discussion. You have brought out here the idea of the “elites” dependency and self-interest guiding their moves. That is an addition to a past CTH article that talks about incompetence.
I recently read an article on Substack (linked below) that had some elements of this same thesis. The article hypothesizes that this low self-awareness, low competence but elevated perception of importance, and dependency have been carefully cultivated in the people who have become the leadership of western nations, not just the United States. They MUST control any challenge. Their only “competence” then is revealed as destruction.
https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/what-is-wrong-with-the-western-political
I had a horrible thought: What if they are going to run Jamaal Bowman as president and this is just a way to get name recognition?
They couldn’t do worse than the imbecile occupant of the WH now! When voters are removed from the election loop, anything is possible.
LMAO!!!
Hilarious yet terrifying.
Like so much of current reality.
After reading bowman’s lame excuse, I believe they think we are stupid. Anyone who votes to reelect this imbecilic idiot is stupid.
My guess is he will win re-election by a landslide.
He won his first election with 84% of the vote in his district. The district is overwhelmingly D. His only way out is losing a primary.
And anyone who voted for him to begin with is stupid too.
Sundance Says: “The outcome of their decision-making only flows through the prism of self-interest, where the ‘interest’ is about the preservation of the bubble that provides them a walled-off life of affluence inside the petri dish of toxic identity.”
James Buchanan won the Nobel Prize in Economics for saying exactly the same thing.
Professors G:
Thanks for making me aware of this non-presidential James Buchanan, and his work.
If he gets by with this ridiculous rejoinder then the FBLie owes all of the arrestees from January 6 and a get out of jail free card. (Well, they owe them that anyway.)
Bowman is a wicked moron and thinks everyone else is a moron that he can fool. It’s one thing to do stupid stuff and be quiet, but no, he has to make sure everyone knows that he is an idiot, and did stupid stuff, and is trying to explain it away with even more idiotic lies.
Wicked AUTHORITARIAN moron.
They think we are ignorant rubes/hayseeds/
Deplorables who will believe whatever nonsense they feed us. Little do they think more and more people are seeing through their games!
It seems the word I find most interesting is ‘pull’. Its not hard to stumble and ‘push’ something but it takes a definite act to pull something. Know what I mean?
Since we have a Republic led by 435 incompetents and an incompetent executive and an incompetent head of SCOTUS would we not be better off without them and just run our train as a Democracy?
I’ve been trying to convince people we should get rid of those freeloaders for a long time.
no!
The United States of American is a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
There is a difference; many born citizens don’t know the difference, but many naturalized citizens must
know the difference when becoming citizens.
Hillsdale College, among other places, has great resources on this.
Did you read his post? He acknowledges that the U.S. is a republic, he just says that since the ones in charge are all incompetent, maybe pure democratic rule is preferable.
To that I say “no.” That is, in essence, mob rule and there are too many ignoramuses who vote and things would be just as bad if not worse. At least there are single virtuous people here and there.
Due to our horrendous educational system, lowering standards and denying critical thinking for years, along with the strong push to legalize drugs and stupefy the populace this is an almost complete societal breakdown at this point.
The best outcome would be that people of virtue restore the constitutional and republican form of government and republican values in government.
Only with a republican system is the minority protected from the whims and abuses of the majority. This is why the J6ers suffer and there is an obvious two tiered system of justice. We need to replace the incompetents and virtue less with people of virtue and integrity.
The safest and most prudent thing is to assume that everyone currently in power is without virtue and out for himself/herself and know them by their actions. We can reward and support the ones who legitimately fight for us.
I would say 99-100% of the Democrats are without virtue, as are any and all RINOs, Republicons and UniParty members. There are easily less than 10% who are truly trying to maintain and restore the republic.
As Sundance said elected office seems to attract narcissists and sadly that’s mostly who we have.
👉That’s interesting Dusty Otis, as these people are already operating this country like a so-called democracy while occupying actual seats of authority established by our Constitutional Republic 👈
😉Time for a return to an actual Constitutional Republic and cleanse our government from this democracy of the bureaucratic elites 😎
Sounds good. So, how do we do that? By talking about it?
The elites are just going to realize that our talking points are so morally right that they surrender on the spot and walk off into the horizon?
Any time anyone provides a plan of action here like a peaceful nationwide strike of the people, it is totally ignored.
The Uniparty is not backing down just bc we have the best arguments. Or just bc we complain here. Or bc we don’t agree with them. Or bc we are in the right.
Anybody else getting that feeling? Or should we just keep defeating them with our whining.
Things need to get even worse, but don’t worry they will.
So Jamal wants a benefit of a doubt, eh? Like he gave the January protestors? Some of his harsh judgement on them:
He wants Biddy to declare a National Day of Healing from the trauma of it all.
He introduced the COUP Act to investigate what he prejudged as a” pro-Trump mob’s insurrection”.
Claimed on Farcebook that the “insurrection…threatened the vitality of our democracy and caused complex trauma in our society.” (Complex trauma apparently leading to people no longer being able to recognize familiar objects such as fire alarms.)
He gave an interview to Teen Vogue about the horrors of that day. No, I didn’t read it; I can’t make that kind of sacrifice for y’all.
And called for a “9/11-type commission on the Capitol Building riot.”
No mercy for those people! Yet we are to believe that it was just an unfortunate accident that his urgency coincided with stalling the vote.
Classic example of “rules for thee,” but don’t mess with me.
The Game of Life | The Z Blog (thezman.com):
“… When the people in the ruling class have one set of rules for normal people and a different set of rules for themselves, normal people get mad. The ruling class, however, does not care, as there is one set of rules for them and another for the rest of us.
This focus on hypocrisy has left something unnoticed. That is the increasingly overwrought behavior of our rulers. They have become a collection of hysterical drama queens, who carry on like the world is about to end. This is the one thread connecting all of the insanity we have experienced from our rulers recently. Their reaction is wildly out of proportion from what is expected. The actual news, when you think about it, is always about their emotionally charged reaction to mostly normal events.
If we go way back to the 2016 election, the political class reacted as if the most important man in history had come out of his cryogenic chamber in Paraguay and seized control of the government. Instead of analyzing why it was there preferred option was rejected and making the normal adjustments, they concocted wild fantasies about invisible Russians and carried on like teenage girls for four years. It has already been forgotten, but they really believed that Russia stuff. …
What we are seeing is the reaction of people who are no longer engaged in normal life, but instead are playing the game of life. They are immersed in a live action role playing game operated by juvenile narcissists. The ruling class gets to imagine themselves as world historical figures and every event puts the world on a knife edge. Their actions will determine the outcome. The entire ruling class is swept up in these false dramas that they get to play, while the rest of the country suffers.
Another clue is how they echo one another in the use of dramatic language to describe mundane events. One uses some over-the-top language then the rest of them are repeating it, maybe adding on some more dramatic language. The “protest” went from “riot” to “insurrection” to “horrendous insurrection” in a few cycles. They are competing with one another to show their loyalty to the group. What matters to them in this game is the opinion of the people in the game, not the rest of us.
America has reached a point where the ruling class and its various support structures is no longer connected to the people over whom it rules. They are inside Versailles or the Winter Palace, imagining what is happening outside. Meanwhile, outside, the world is nothing like the rulers imagine. The people outside look at the palaces and try to understand what is happening inside, based on the noises and behavior they see from the organs of the state.
That really is the root of their anger. The outside broke though the wall and gently reminded them that life is not a game and they are not great men. In the game they are always the winners, but in real life they are judged by their actions. It may take a while, but they will be held accountable. This is what angers them. They hate this reality, which is why they cling to the alternative reality of their fantasy, but reality does not go away when you stop believing it.” …….
I think that your understanding of the overall DC mindset is more accurate than Sundance’s (said gently).
The ones with little power believe in the government as provider and as the answer to problems. They are in it because they genuinely believe it, but are insulated there in the bubble and they are fed narratives that make them fell good about being team players. They grew up as excellent sheep. They really do strive for “excellence” even as it requires a very flexible mind capable of believing whatever the narrative of the month dictates. Really good minds, but straight out of Orwell. If they ever wake up, they will be horrified at reality. They mostly cannot handle the truth.
The ones with great power are narcissistic people playing a game. The longer they are there, the more their narcissism excuses larceny and taking bribes. See Bribem, Dingell, Thune, Cornyn. It is about petty power and the goodies. A “legacy.” Scoring wins over small matters and political enemies. Fame and fortune and your name on a House Office Building some day.
A few are strategically placed by and/or are members of certain families and know exactly what they are doing and creating. See Bush, Pelosi, Schiff, and a whole hell of a lot of Brennan types whose names we aren’t supposed to know. Then there are the people in the shadows behind them. They sit up and bark like dogs for those people.
True story: I once nearly lost a job for not knowing to leave my desk to track down a boss at a political outfit – immediately- but instead took a message from Pamela Harriman to have him call her back. She counted, in ways that ordinary people even on the Hill do not count at all.
I didn’t know who she was. Oops.
Then you have the straight out grifters who talk a big game around race, all while ripping off the public. In truth, there’s no difference between Jamal Bowman and the inner city big talking black pastor with a large Cadillac and a few women on the side. Same grift. When caught, do the shuck and jive and dare people to say the truth. He’s an embarrassment for being so stupid he would never be able to play the Game.
Hakim Jeffries on the other hand – he is smart, and you can almost feel the evil boiling off of him. That’s a very dangerous man.
I agree with much of what you say. However, IMHO, January 6 hysteria is not accidentally amplified pearl-clutching. I think the event was deliberately amplified and weaponized (no doubt by Pelosi, but probably also others deeper in the background). The reasons for such were several:
—to halt an official proceeding (and thereby prevent presentation of evidence of election fraud)
—to provide a supposedly Constitutional reason to stop Trump (“insurrection”/14th amendment)
—to terrorize the people into silence (via the Jan 6 manhunts/prosecutions/Jean Valjean-type sentences).
It was a win-win-win from someone’s perspective. And not hysterical at all.
BTW: this certainly isn’t only my opinion. The fine work of Sundance, Regitiger, Steve Bannon, Natalie Winters, Darren Beatty, the Epoch Times writers, and various other inconvenient thinkers have helped to clarify my view of events.
What. A. Liar.
“They are not emotionally stable, cogent, capable or independent thinkers. They require tribalism to avoid what they lack. These are not stable people.”
So true, they are members of the contemporary American Mafia, aka members of the COW-coup-d’état, and have the same mind set as the members of Al Capone’s gang of the 1920s – 1930s.
Yup, just like Al Capone ….. he wasn’t that smart but he commanded a large army of street thugs and lawyers and judges and policemen who enforced his rules.
The 3 dons of the COW-coup-d’é have the entire federal government at their beck and call as their enforcers, financiers, etc. They accomplish that with their “leave-behind” surrogates from their administrations that spanned a quarter of a century.
They are crooks, not a stable people.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and the GOPe!”
Gosh, I hope AOC made it to a safe space during the Jamalsurrection.
Sundance,
I am reading the book The Deep State The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of the Deep State by Mike Lofgren.
I am in only in chapter 3 and he is describing what you are pointing out in this post. The safety of Group Think as described by Irving L. Janice.
They becoming assimilated within the departments they work in and adopt the beliefs of their superiors. Everybody has to get on board and it is not a career enhancement to question the mission.
He credits Upton Sinclair as declaring that “…it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding something.”
Per Breitbart, Jamaaaaaaal is a former SCHOOL PRINCIPAL!!!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/30/former-school-principal-jamaal-bowman-i-thought-pulling-fire-alarm-would-open-the-door/
Jamal is just a Dem jerk that was “ selected “ not elected. One of the best & brightest in DC . What a mess
America desperately needs term limits.
I would settle for actual elections.
Fire Alarms have Fire Alarm written on the front of them.
I guess he is smart enough to get elected, but not smart enough to be able to tell the difference between a door handle and a clearly marked FIRE ALARM!
see also r/K theory of politics. herd mentality cannot permit independent thinking. independent thinkers are dangerous and must be attacked. it is a primitive survival instinct for the human beings that have adopted herd and hive behavior and survival strategies.
The sad truth is that Bowman expects people to accept his “explanation.” Sadder still is that there are myriads of people who will do exactly that. We are doomed.
The Emperor has no clothes on.
Sundance
I do not disagree with your points. The unanswered question is how this happens?
A moral, logical person is elected to Congress. What changes take place to them once inside the beltway to cloud their moral compass so completely?
Say I ran for Congress. I am tempted by something and give in. Does the threat of exposure mean I turn on those I represent? Am I willing to turn my back on my God and my country to keep the secret? No way.
There is nothing I could do, no position I could find myself in, that would allow me to lose my soul and my country for fear of exposure. So, what else gets to these folks?
Again, I agreed with your assessment. I just want to know what you think happens to folks when they cross that river into DC that makes them as you describe?
SPS
Wow. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Pun intended. Too soon?
They’ve all ‘pulled’ some pretty stupid stunts but Bowman ‘pulled’ the last one.
Jamaal Bowman knows exactly what he did. He should be expelled for his action. It would take 2/3’s of our House to expel him. Could it happen, yes ,but he is siding with the odds it wouldn’t and , most likely, as much as we would want it , won’t. He’s has seen Swalwell “interact” with a communist chinese spy- see’s nothing happen. He’s seen Schiff survive a censure vote over basically committing sedition-again, nothing happens. As dumb as he and his cohorts appear to be and are, he knows the score and that is the real dumb people are the ones who will continue to support him.
☝️This.
WoW Sundance!
110% accurate. Time to share far and wide!
Maybe Jamaal went to the Jussie school of excuses.
And none of us out here in the burgs are ever going to see the person who IS Jamaal Bowman. His political persona is the only one that is important to him. His Communist highness trickled out a little bit with his fire alarm stunt. Now he is trying to deny it was him so he can go back and disappear into the darkness of the DC Swamp. We will see a glimpse of him again, I’m sure.
The tribe is now trying to expel Matt Gaetz. Will they succeed?
I’ve got to hope there are a few of these beasts who are decent people. You can be within the swarm, but some have had decent, loving, respectable upbringing. I hope.
Ha
This is you in the future without election integrity
The uniparty has plans for you.
Be enslaved or freedom ?
Get active and fight for your freedom
–forwarded from Wisconsin-Honest-Open-Transparent
“Please, please forgive me! I’z just be a po’ man who don’t know notin’ but what da tell me. Hakim, he da man who done did all dis. He done tol me to pull da alarm. He be very bad fo po’ folks like me. I’z torn dem signs down because da make no sense to me. And doe dem signs on de dor, and a switch that sez, “FIRE.” Too many choices fo my brain. I’z don’t deserve notin’ but peace and love fo my actions. I ain’t bad like dem po’ boys from da 6th, so you don’t hurry to pass de judgement on my po’ ass. And, plez, don’t yo white people throw me in no jail cell next to those 6th boys. No tellin’ what da do to my ass in dere. Love and peace, dats all I need.
Here is a “stand alone” comment here at the CTH that repeats what I commented on in a previous article just yesterday.
To: Jamal B. .so-called, US House Representative(Demshovik), & also to his spokesperson, ( I think , “Emma” or some such close name.).
“Bullshit~!”,
& “Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is raining”.
YOU folks are LIARS~!
OWN IT~!
You re not fooling anyone that has ANY common sense….
Grrrr…
Indict the feller & then prosecute him to make him stand trial, just as they are messing with those in the Jan 6th crap.
Jamal meets the same criteria for crimes as the Jan 6th folks are getting blamed & convicted for and sentenced to many years in prison, & HE is on video doing the same thing~!
I don’t give a rat’s ass what color , creed, or anything else about him.
He screwed up & broke a law that others are going to prison for supposedly doing LESS.
Once the Rule of Law is gone, or changes to the “Law of Rule”…
Things are not good & the GUBMENT is no longer righteous.
“When in the course of…”
IF ya know what I mean….
OKay, MY rambling tirade has ended.
I will say no more here on the internet than I have.
Too many others that do not have the same allegiance to the US Constitution that I and others here have, and were willing to hive Life or Limb to defend, seem to pay more attention to what some of us say online, than actually doing right by this country WE served to defend against the same Tyranny.
Hey, IF… Ya swore an oath to UPHOLD & DEFEND the US Constitution… Then why not do what is the RIGHT THING & Friggin DO IT~! ???
MOST of us with any HONOR Uphold & defend it…
Don’t be qa friggin Slacker… Jamal & the rest of ya congressional pogues.
Grrr… again.
GOD bless us all as we have need for the help~!
Pray, It won’t hurt.
😉
” May the Lord help me/us to forgive those who trespass against us~!
As well as the rest of ya who believe in our Lord & Savior. ( Or, some semblance of Good overcoming Evil).
Others are catching on…
It’s important to keep in mind that marijuana is legal in DC.
And that growers have bred super potent strains, associated with increased psychosis in regular users.
This explains a lot.
Bowman’s “explanation” is an insult.
He’s simply a Liar.
They all are.
I have no remaining illusions.
But, it’s freeing actually, to realize you are on your own and no one is coming to save you.
It makes you turn off the Internet for the majority of your life, only peaking in for a brief update, while you work your tail off on the goals of self-sufficiency. The government can, and will, pull the rug out from under all of us with the flip of a switch.
I am praying for divine intervention, but I also realize, and acknowledge, that the God of the Universe is Sovereign in His plans. Amen.
exactly
i agree with sundances expanded synopsis
but the cliff note version is
they are narcissistic liars
They are real politicians; they earn that designation after their second election.
We set the term limits and We should make sure no one becomes a career politician.
but dont miss the fact that it is the staffers that are the underlying evil, they have been for a very long time.
Yes. I have been thinking for a a long time now that only a person with the nature of a Truthteller recognizes when someone is lying. And yes, the Universe is unfolding according to a Plan, and I am sometimes doubting that this Plan is Divine in its Nature.
No one but me and prayer have been my agencies to save me from my Darkness. I have a sign in my mind that flashes: “Beware of Darkness.”
Amen as eell.
(peeking, perhaps). Plans are going ahead ‘full steam”… from where IS that ‘steam’ coming?
We are screwed – you don’t vote your way out of this. And these people are going blow up our economy and then crack down like the tyrants they are.
Resist buying into this scenario because it is defeatist
It’s reality. And you are in LaLa land mentally.
If that’s what you really think then why are you here? You could be watching Morning Mica or something.
We can’t Doom our way out of this.
Here are 5 things you can do right now in addition to joining, supporting and helping to fund “The Heritage Foundation” and their Project 2025:
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/the-left-right-fear-our-plan-gut-the-federal-bureaucracy
Sounds as though you have given up…..sure glad President Trump doesn’t think like you, so…please, get out of my fox hole and surrender to the commies as you wish!
Weak! Get a grip! And go within! There is always peace there…and you can regain some strength! You need it!