FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE: IS DONALD TRUMP THE MULE?

In Part One of this article I analyzed the similarities of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy to Strauss & Howe’s Fourth Turning, trying to assess how Donald Trump’s ascension to power fits into the theories put forth by those authors. Now I will compare Trump to the most interesting character in Asimov’s classic – The Mule.

The Mule

“A horse having a wolf as a powerful and dangerous enemy lived in constant fear of his life. Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally. Whereupon he approached a man, and offered an alliance, pointing out that the wolf was likewise an enemy of the man. The man accepted the partnership at once and offered to kill the wolf immediately, if his new partner would only co-operate by placing his greater speed at the man’s disposal. The horse was willing, and allowed the man to place bridle and saddle upon him.

The man mounted, hunted down the wolf, and killed him. “The horse, joyful and relieved, thanked the man, and said: ‘Now that our enemy is dead, remove your bridle and saddle and restore my freedom.’ “Whereupon the man laughed loudly and replied, ‘Never!’ and applied the spurs with a will.”Isaac Asimov, Foundation

I had not thought about the Foundation Trilogy for decades, until someone recently mentioned it in a comment on my website. They pondered whether Trump’s arrival on the scene represented The Mule’s advent during the decline of the Galactic Empire. Trump’s numerous enemies would love to portray him as an evil mutant freakish warlord, bent on using his persuasion powers to mislead the populace into doing his bidding. I don’t necessarily see Trump as The Mule, but as a disrupting factor, disturbing the best laid plans of the establishment and helping reveal the hidden agendas of the Deep State.

Seldon’s science of psychohistory was outstanding at predicting the behavior of large populations but worthless in trying to predict what an individual might do. The emergence of the Mule, a mentalic mutant with an acute telepathic ability to modify the emotions of human beings, could not have been predicted by the Seldon Plan, focused as it was on the statistical movements of vast numbers of peoples and populations across the galaxy.

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The Mule was the unpredictable variable in the equations of history and the greatest threat to the Seldon Plan. He disrupts the inevitability of the continued evolution of the First Foundation and potential early ending of the Dark Age. The Mule, through telepathic manipulation, defeats and takes over the Foundation’s growing empire, which has become increasingly control-oriented and out-of-touch with the outer planets in its rapidly expanding realm of influence.

There are certainly parallels between Trump’s arrival on the scene and The Mule’s psychohistory defying disruption of Seldon’s Plan. The Mule was described as a freak and the subject of derision. This fueled his ambition to take over the galaxy. I believe Trump decided he was going to be president on April 30, 2011 during the Correspondence Dinner at the White House when Obama unrelentingly mocked and derided him in front of the corrupt Washington power establishment. This public ridicule from an empty suit community organizer president, who never worked a real day in his life, angered Trump to his core and propelled him to seek and win the presidency.

The Mule enters the scene disguised as a clown named Magnifico Giganticus. Over time, he uses his psycho-manipulative abilities to sway the masses to his side and eventually takes over the galaxy. When Trump announced his candidacy, it was taken as a public relations stunt to further his faltering reality TV career. He has a magnificent gigantic ego. His persona was that of an irascible self-made billionaire with an enormous ego and hunger for the spotlight. He was the butt of many orange hair and orange skin jokes.

For the most part, he went along with the joke, as any publicity is good publicity when you are selling yourself as a brand. He put his name on buildings, Chinese made clothing, scam universities, and just about anything that would produce a buck. He became more famous for his TV show The Apprentice, and his tag-line “You’re Fired”, than for the billion dollar real estate empire he had built.

Like The Mule, Trump used the GOP establishment’s disdain and underestimation of his persuasion abilities to capture control of the party from the out of touch elitist party hacks. At the outset of his candidacy I was among the libertarian minded skeptics who didn’t take him seriously. I found him entertaining, but didn’t think he had the gravitas to be president. I liked his rhetoric about not interfering in foreign conflicts, protecting our borders, enforcing the rule of law, repealing the disastrous Obamacare law, and his relentless trashing of the left wing mainstream media and Washington establishment.

I wasn’t a big fan of his bloviating about inconsequential matters. As time passed I began to realize he was probably the Grey Champion of this Fourth Turning and the regeneracy towards the next phase would be his unexpected election to the highest office in the land. He was the only person capable of destroying the fetid pustule known as the Deep State.

The Mule’s tormented childhood of alienation, combined with his mental ability to alter human emotions led to his desire for power, in order to exact revenge upon the human race which caused him so much pain. Trump’s childhood was no walk in the park, but it was far from being tortured. His father did send him to military school at the age of 13 to instill some discipline in him. It does seem like his drive to succeed was spurred by a desire to prove himself to his father and be more successful than his old man. Unlike The Mule, his motivation is not revenge motivated, unless you consider it revenge upon Obama for the abuse he withstood during that dinner.

The Mule had the mental capabilities to turn antagonists into followers, converting feelings of animosity into those of intense loyalty. He could also stimulate feelings of pervasive fear and panic among his enemies. He used the subtle influence of the subconscious to conscript individuals to his cause. The Mule used his mental powers to disrupt Seldon’s plan by invalidating his assumption no single individual could have a quantifiable impact on historical trends predicted by his theory of psychohistory. The Mule is a Grey Champion-like character rising to power at a crucial time in history as the disruptive factor to the best laid plans of over-confident elitists. The Mule uses his extraordinary cerebral abilities to conquer the unprepared and over-confident Foundation.

Trump has been underestimated every step of the way for the last two years. He has thrown sand into the gears of the political establishment, made up of both parties, and controlled by Deep State players used to getting their way. Trump was able to use his powers of persuasion to overcome the left wing media propaganda and motivate a large swath of disaffected Americans to come over to his side. The never ending barrage of misinformation and fake news spewed by the Deep State controlled media ignores the fact he won 53% of the white women vote, along with huge numbers of union workers from blue collar states like Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.

As documented during the campaign by Scott Adams, Trump’s phenomenal power of persuasion overcame all obstacles thrown in his way by the crooked establishment. He had no support from the GOP power players, was despised and ridiculed by the horribly corrupt Democratic establishment machine, scorned and mocked by the fake news corporate media, and undermined by the surveillance apparatus at the behest of the rancid resentful reprobate occupying the oval office. Their pure unadulterated hatred for the man resulted in them becoming blindsided and baffled by his tactics, strategy, and Svengali-like ability to draw huge crowds of normal Americans in flyover country.

Trump has disrupted the ongoing Deep State capture of our political, economic, financial, social, and cultural systems as a once in a lifetime figure destined to govern during a time of domestic disorder, global upheaval, civil chaos and ultimately war on a grand scale. The looting and pillaging campaign of the ruling class, disguised as free market capitalism and democracy, has been put at risk by an uncontrollable unpredictable outsider who doesn’t act according to their Plan.

The staged violent response by the billionaire funded left wing faux anarchists, fake news Russian conspiracy propaganda, and NSA/CIA/FBI campaign to discredit and/or overthrow the Trump presidency is the kind of response you would expect from a dangerous threatened animal backed into a corner. The establishment will not relinquish control without a bloody drawn out fight to the finish.

Since we know Asimov modeled the trilogy on Gibbons’ The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, there has been much conjecture as to who The Mule represented. He has historical parallels with Attila the Hun, Tamerlane, Charlemagne and Roman Emperor Augustus. Based on the historical time frame in which he was writing (1941 – 1950), I think it is safe to assume he modeled some of The Mule’s traits after Adolf Hitler. His disturbed childhood, trauma during the First World War, hypnotic ability to manipulate the emotions of the German people, boldness in attacking his perceived enemies, and attempt at world conquest, parallels much of The Mule’s story.

When I try to find parallels to our current situation and the role Trump is playing, I see the Foundation trilogy in a different light. Isaac Asimov was an intellectual. He had a PhD in biochemistry and was a life-long member of Mensa. He was a university professor for most of his life. Academics believe in theories and academic mumbo jumbo, as we can see from decades of academics running the Federal Reserve, destroying our currency and forcing millions into economic servitude.

Hari Seldon is an intellectual who creates the Foundation, made up of other academic intellectuals. Then he sets up a Second Foundation of even more talented intellectuals as a backup plan in case the Foundation fails. The true ruling powers on this planet always have a backup plan. You never know whether the leaders or organizations you support are really part of a bigger plan you have not considered. Keeping the populace off-balance, confused, and seeking unseen enemies is just part of the plan.

The inevitable decline of the Galactic Empire was entirely predictable by Seldon, as every empire in world history has ultimately declined. Whether the Roman Empire was ruled by a despot, wise man, or idiot, it continued its centuries long decline from glory to destruction. Empires are created by fallible men whose failings, weaknesses, and desires never change. John Adams foresaw the future of an American Empire two centuries before it became an empire. The American Empire is in the process of committing suicide and a single individual, no matter how bold and resolute, will not be able to save it from its inevitable destruction.

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy.

It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.” – John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

I don’t see Trump as an evil Mule character in this Shakespearian tragedy, as it progresses towards its ill-fated denouement. I also don’t see Seldon and his ensemble of elitist intellectuals as the saviors of the universe. I see The Foundation as the Washington and Wall Street elite who are the face of the establishment – Pelosi, Schumer, Ryan, McConnell, Yellen, Dimon, Blankfein, Immelt, Gates, Buffet, etc. The Second Foundation was hidden in plain sight, operating in the shadows, unknown to the masses, and controlling the galaxy from behind the curtain. They were the Galactic Deep State.

The Seldon Plan smells like a current day Soros Plan. Wealthy, highly educated, egotistical, hubristic, evil snakes who believe they are the smartest men in the world operate behind the scenes as the invisible government, manipulating the mechanisms of society and pulling the wires controlling the public mind. Soros, along with other shadowy smug billionaires, are not fans of populism.

They believe they are entitled to run the world as they choose, with no input or resistance from the ignorant masses. With the basket of deplorables rising up and electing Trump, the Deep State players are now openly fighting back and revealing their warped thought process. Elitist billionaire Ray Dalio recently revealed his populism fears and those of his fellow billionaires. He doesn’t consider himself a common man.

Populism is a political and social phenomenon that arises from the common man, typically not well-educated, being fed up with 1) wealth and opportunity gaps, 2) perceived cultural threats from those with different values in the country and from outsiders, 3) the “establishment elites” in positions of power, and 4) government  not working effectively for them.  These sentiments lead that constituency to put strong leaders in power.  Populist leaders are typically confrontational rather than collaborative and exclusive rather than inclusive.  As a result, conflicts typically occur between opposing factions (usually the economic and socially left versus the right), both within the country and between countries.  These conflicts typically become progressively more forceful in self-reinforcing ways.  

In other words, populism is a rebellion of the common man against the elites to some extent, against the system. The rebellion and the conflict that comes with it occur in varying degrees. Sometimes the system bends with it and sometimes the system breaks.  Whether it bends or breaks in response to this rebellion and conflict depends on how flexible and well established the system is.  It also seems to depend on how reasonable and respectful of the system the populists who gain power are. Classic populist economic policies include protectionism, nationalism, increased infrastructure building, increased military spending, greater budget deficits, and, quite often, capital controls.

Dalio, Soros and their fellow billionaires see populism as a threat to their wealth, power, and control of the world. But, it’s much ado about nothing. It’s like jockeying for the best seat on the Titanic as it sinks into the frigid ocean depths of the Atlantic. The American Empire is in shambles and no one can reverse its course at this point. I’ll address that distressing situation in Part Three of this article.

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Francis Marion

Good series Jim.

I’ve had that book sitting on my shelf for decades since I read it in my early teens. I’d forgotten most of the content. With the exception of the two foundations and why they were built, most of the details were gone from my conscious memory (maybe I read too much???). As I read this series you’re posting I’m struck by how much that book likely influenced how I view the cycle of human events all these years later. Trippy. I’m starting to think the article I am writing now is likely an echo of that somehow. Makes me wonder if there is anything new under the sun?

Uncola

In reading FM’s final question above, I am reminded of how Steve Bannon’s documentary, “Generation Zero” opened with some words from the Book of Ecclesiastes.

Nothing new under the sun, indeed.

Here is another writing from that book:

I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors….

Ecclesiastes 4

What is fascinating regarding Admin’s “Foundation/ Fourth Turning” comparison is how it remains consistent to the ongoing philosophical battles of the individual against the collective; autonomy over predeterminism; and free society versus the Totalitarian State.

Although I found Asimov’s books to be quite cerebral, they did not emotionally engage me as much as stories written by other authors as mentioned in this series by Admin and in the ensuing commentary (i.e. Orwell, Tolkien, Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert). I tried reading Foundation in high school and just lost interest. In my early thirties, I noticed a friend had all three books so I asked to borrow them. Even then, reading them ended up being more of a quick scan with fairly limited retention and recollection.

So, with that in mind, and I am obviously commenting out of my depth here, but, if I am not mistaken I seem to recall that the Mule’s “powers of persuasion” were, in the end, countervailed by the Established Rulers of the Universe.

If this remains the case, and previously written fiction of a distant future proves to be a portentous premonition of imminent events, then this Fourth Turning may not have a happy ending after all.

One can only wonder who will be waiting at the other end: Orwell or Huxley?

Stubb
Stubb

When I found out that the administrator of this website and author of this article was in that Gen Zero documentary I watched it on You Tube. It came out in 2010 and Lou Dobbs was worried about the 12 trillion debt. Someone else said that the cash crunch would begin in 2011 when the first baby boomers turned 65. We must really be running out time by now.

Michael Clark
Michael Clark

History does not repeat exactly — but “Seasons of History” repeat exactly. Archetypes repeat exactly.

I like the metaphor of the electron beam. Scientists can predicted exactly everything about the Electron Beam (direction, momentnum, mass…) but they can prediction nothing about the electrons that compose the beam. Every electron is free to move anwyere it wants. But the LAW of the EB is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction of another (unpredictable) electron.

There is both individual freedom (of a kind) and destiny.

Great article.

People who like this might enjoy my own article: THE COMING ASSASSINATION OF DONALD TRUMP.

https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/428250-michael-clark/4966312-et-tu-brute-coming-assassination-donald-trump

Mr Darcy
Mr Darcy

The crash-and-burn will begin next year–2018. It will take a couple of years to run its course. People everywhere will lose confidence in gov’t, which is what will precipitate the final crisis. That crisis in confidence and the total loss of confidence in government at all levels will begin when the people see that Trump cannot do anything about the Big Picture. The trend is underway, and nobody–and no combination of somebodies–can buck the trend. Alia iacta est.

Skinny
Skinny

Uh-oh. Methinks Uncola gave away the ending.

Uncola

It was an inadvertent “teaser” or a “trailer” if you will.

Eyes Pried Shut
Eyes Pried Shut

This article is giving WAYYYYYYYYYY too much credence and significance to an entity that was long planned to be on the throne- going back to the 1980s-90s, Trump was under consideration for POTUS contender. Sen Bob Dole and a few others said from the start that he was put in as the actual pick of the Elite. Of course we know the Elite has factions and control both sides- he was NOT some outsider anamoly/ rogue upstart coming in to clean up the crooked establishment. He is came from the Elite swamp, was built up by them and owned by them. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER POTUS we have had in last century. His marketing ploy was to sell himself as the outsider. His mouth never stopped w/ faux defiance and populist talking points that harvested the anger of the masses. Trojan Horse Trump is a demagogue du jour who told the masses what they wanted to get elected and now he’s in? We see that loud mouth stifled and Trojan falling almost docile into line. Every populist promise betrayed from scaling back the 20T debt, to espousing Hillary’s war threats against Russia. Obamacare remains for insurance CEOs and ISIS is being supported w/ a troop buildup even Obama didnt dare. Trojan Horse Trump is no mule nor muse, but another useful tool of the Elite who presented him. Historically by the same zionist bankers who used similiar tactics to push thru the Fed Reserve Act in 1913- by having the bankers, media and public NGOs of the time condemn and harshly criticize the law- thus ensuring its support and acceptance by the masses. Tavistock Trivia but true. Trump is nothing more than a continuation of the same policy packages in place for decades. Expect his betrayed vows and agenda to become more indistinguishable from Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama as his term unfolds.

George Rizk
George Rizk

Putting all this philosophy aside, a better articulation of what is going on is: about a hundred year ago, an underground godless thugs who hated Christianity started revolutions in Russia, and France, and took over the media propaganda and education institutions in the West. These losers incrementally enforced their agenda on the unsuspecting sheeple, who were prevented from organizing against them by PC and bad labels (conspiracy theorist, isolationist, homophobic, racist, Nazi, …). With the internet as an alt news instead of the presstitude, now a few sheeple started to see the light, and to smell the stink. These people including Trump undertaken a bloodless coup against the entrenched evil Christianity haters. Just to illustrate how our intelligentsia are mostly Christianity haters, just look at our military fighting alongside al Qaida in Syria and Yemen without anyone screaming WTF?

Not quite sober
Not quite sober

Funny thing synchronicity, I’ve been thinking about these books for a few weeks now. I guess after 30+ years it’s time to read them again.

James
James

All last year, I referred to Trump either as The Mule or the Kwisatz Haderach from Dune. I hope he has the success of either.

Uncola

In the Dune comparison, maybe Bannon is Duncan Idaho, Sword Master for the House of Trump.

Larry
Larry

He’s Draft Dodger 2.0

BL
BL

Last time I saw Bannon, he was giving Da Joos in Israel a blow job and a half. That’s all you need to know about him and Donnie.

Anonymous
Anonymous

When I read Part 1, I was left rather curious as to Admin’s departure from his usual data-driven, clear exposition of reality upending the MSM’s constant spewing of BS. I mean, it’s one thing to be clever about deciphering about the numbers cuz “maff is hard”.

By the end of Part 2, I’m thinking “Dang, this guy has a great grasp of allegory in fine established literature and the rhythms of history.”

It is not as though I like where you are going with this but that does not matter. You are stimulating some gray matter out here to be open and actively responsive as things evolve.

My hat’s off to you, Admin. Well done, and thanks!

Da P

Unbelievable
Unbelievable

Welcome to the party, but you really should review the TBP library. I was brought here by one of Admin’s articles that tied in the Fourth Turning with current events and the rock group Green Day.

Da Perfessor
Da Perfessor

Thanks, “Un”!

But, I have been here before and for a few years now put all my household replacement needs through the Amazon portal here.

As I see the crux of the problem as “fake money” (see Aristotle’s requirements), I am now on my 50th+ year of “doom”. Here’s the reason – –

A Ms. Gertrude Coogan was a dinner guest at our family table many times on from when I was shorter than the dinner table. You can webzearch her to see that she was on a pretty classy enemies list. (Okay, she did have some ideas that I still don’t grok but…)

In short, I should be better qualified than most to point out the problems that were born shortly after “they” got rid of JFK. That said, I do not have the engaging style of weaving the facts together, to paint the picture of “where we are now”. I am glad that Admin as chief (and several others in this community) possess those gifts.

Da P

Da Perfessor
Da Perfessor

Anon above is me. (Sorry, been awhile since I was here last and a lot of my brain has been sucked out by various tax attorneys and accountants since my last visit.)

Dennis Roe
Dennis Roe

The best thing about the Don, Mule or not, is he broke things out into the open. Even if he accomplishes nothing, he busted open that door of corruption and rot and put a light on the sheer contempt regular working class Americans are held in. All these jerkoffs yammering about the Russians look sadder and more full of shit each dismal fake news day.

George Rizk
George Rizk

As Trump was running for office he said about Syria; if Assad and Putin want to kill ISIS, I have no problem with that, I can even coordinate to help them with intelligence. Now, the embedded neocons got him to get us into religious barbaric wars in Syria and Yemen to help our arch-enemy the Wahhabi Saudis. So, after all the Muslim in Chief was not as bad after all.

BB

Professor finally admits he’s just another Meathead .Well Praise the Lord.

There is something about atheist author’s that sends red flags to the moon. I find it very hard to read their bullshit. It’s like trying to watch the national news knowing these broadcasters are liberal propagandist liar’s of the worse kind.Anyway if you believe the Bible then you already know how it all ends.N o need speculate .Right ?????

Maverick
Maverick

A good read, Admin. There’s another way to parallel Foundation and recent history: When I read Strauss & Howe I was immediately put in mind of it being a first approximation of psychohistory. The Grey Champion and the saeculum cycles and the Turnings are an attempt to place a predictive model on the motions of 300M+ of us, much as Seldon was doing with first the Trantorians and then the Empire.

I’m not sure we see the proper parallel to the Seldon Plan. Disruption of the abject thieves and crooks in all levels of government is great entertainment, and a long time coming. I think of Soros and friends as simply an extension of the Deep State, though you’re right they do believe they have all the answers for all of us; maybe they think of what they are doing as being the Greater Good much as Seldon did, though I never considered Seldon’s actions evil…

Da Perfessor
Da Perfessor

BB –

I normally skip anything you have to write but…

1) You’re what, since I last looked,…15 years old now and living in Mom’s basement?

2) Your Bible is kinda “sticky” at the Canticle of Canticles?

3) And, even if I am incorrect in the first two points, you kinda missed reading Matthew 7:1-5. (or comprehending it…)

Really looking forward to your clear exposition on the Book of Revelations, timing clearly laid out, all certainties resolved to the inquiring mind.

I try to be Christian and love my neighbor, even you. But, ya’ know, it would really help if you weren’t so frickin’ stupid.

Da P

PS. Have a nice day!

trutherator

Da Perfessor: People whose favorite Bible quote is “Judge not” sure do a lot of judging. Making a huge effort to love your neighbor “even you”. God is the great judge.

I wasn’t aware of the author’s atheism and it didn’t really enter into my reading of it. I learn even from atheist authors and their analyses, even from their quoted reasoning in the matter itself, and even from the haughty smarter-than-thou hubris-addled ones. And even the haughty ones have learned from the creationist giants of science.

(Edit: After writing the above I noticed BB’s reply. Not the way I’d answer. Jesus had one approach to the lady at the well, and stuck with a “wiser” one with the Pharisees up until his physical ministry on earth was complete and ready for his death, burial, and resurrection.)

Steven Rowlandson
Steven Rowlandson

Da Perfessor: People whose favorite Bible quote is “Judge not” sure do a lot of judging. Making a huge effort to love your neighbor “even you”. God is the great judge.

People really trip over this passage don’t they?
For the misinformed it is a demand that people and governments avoid making their own laws and judgments and in the light of other biblical scriptures use Gods laws and judgments instead and do them. Otherwise society will become criminal and perverted like it has justifying national punishment by the foreign sword or regime change.

BB

Professor , don’t get so upset .You like all the other ( Meatheads )have never proven me wrong about anything.I just kick ass and take names.Here is my God given correct version of the Book of Revolution.Ready ??? Jesus Christ wins . Christians win.
Only real hope I got.Got no faith in world system ( controlled by Satan ) Got no faith in my fellow man like you Professor ( all Meatheads )and very little faith or hope in myself ( have no power to change anything besides I got the heart of a whore and the mind of Jack the Ripper ). I’m all fucked up but I know it . That’s the good part .I know what I am .So have nice day Meathead but do tell what is your true HOPE ?

Barney
Barney

Easy now brother cat lady, Jesus Christ does win and we are living in the last days (Possibly a large timeline!) but an awful lot of bad stuff happens first and the fall of the American empire may be unrelated as horrible as it will be for the world. Please answer the question and explain Revelation with timelines 🙂 ALL Christians are a fucked up work in progress especially you and I but at least we know it unlike many of the self righteous crowd. A quick study of the subject should easily lead to the conclusion there is NO pre-tribulation rapture. “a prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished”-Proverbs 27:12 -God bless everyone and look for me, I will be sitting at the back(Luke 14:10)

Da Perfessor
Da Perfessor

“brother cat lady”

That’s funny!

Da P

RiNS

“brother cat lady”

Da P You are right. That is fucken’ hilarious. I am using that if you don’t mind Barney. Promising to use attributes and thank you very much!

Still Barney you jumped the shark with

“unlike many of the self righteous crowd”

For fuck sakes this site is full to running over with self righteous twats. Me being one of them. You have thrown out a strawman dripping with more contradictions then a Vegan, Pro-choice NeoCon in a strip club.

I tip my hat sir to your tripe!

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yeah and thanks fellow cat lady…

JLC
JLC

I found more insight into Heinlein by interacting with his wife than him

AtlasShrugginALL
AtlasShrugginALL

Man, I love this site! Best articles but I find myself longing for the comments and hurry reading the article just to get to the comments. Could do without the personal attacks upon each other in the comments. Bantering antagonism is lovely but personal attacks are immature and unwanted. Love reading different opinions and takes on things. Seems the same commenters are prolific and has me wondering why others are not commenting. Hope this site has many viewers and stay around a long time.

Da Perfessor
Da Perfessor

Atlas –

“Personal attacks” are pretty much a bonus feature of the site. It can be off-putting when one is new here but, after a while, you can see it really is just banter.

I’m taking it that you haven’t seen Stucky in action yet? Wait for it because it can be quite the show. Above is tame.

Da P

BL
BL

Da P

Who’s Stucky?

Francis Marion

Been wondering the same thing. Hope the old square head is ok,

BL
BL

If Trump is the mule, what are Jared Kushner and Ivanka?

NBC article today claims that Ivanka Trump is ” all powerful”, a power broker and making important decisions regarding the country. Imagine that…..

LaLa Blood

Who elected her?

DDearborn
DDearborn

Hmmm

It is my understanding that Jared is the real power broker in White House. Furthermore, he is by many accounts, in constant, daily contact with NutenYahoo. If you disregard the rhetoric spewing out from every orifice of the Establishment and the media, and stop to look at what Trump is actually doing, you quickly realize he is literally following the Zionist playbook to the letter. Jared Kushner’s primary job is to make sure Trump continues to do so. Ivanka’s primary job is to draw attention away from her husband and the rest of the treasonous cabal of Zionists that have once again, like the 2 previous administrations, seized complete control of the White House.

Did Trump disengage from Syria and the other phony wars that only benefit Israel?No
Did Trump refrain from re-invading Syria and starting another war?No
Did Trump re-open an honest dialogue with Iran to prevent another war for Israel? No
Did Trump refuse to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem which is illegally occupied?No
Does Trump care that his recognizing Israel’s illegal theft of Palestine will ignite a holy war?No
Regarding foreign police: Is Trump putting America and Americans first? No-Israel and Israelis first

Did Trump get a wall to protect America for millions of illegals pouring into the country? No
Did Trump begin enforcing the law prosecuting employers for hiring illegal aliens?No
Did Trump begin a formal investigation of the millions of votes cast by illegal Aliens?NO

Did Trump get rid of Obamacare? No
Did Trump cut prescription drug costs? No
Did Trump protect our right to privacy, particularly medical privacy online? No

Did Trump shut down the illegal spying by the NSA? No
Did Trump roll back the literally dozens of Obama era restrictions on gun rights?No
Did Trump reign in the tyrannical and often out of control “Homeland Security”? No

Did Trump reopen the Clinton lawsuits as mandated by the Appellate Court ruling?No
Did Trump prosecute Clinton for the illegal server and classified docs?No

Is Trump/Congress truly serving America and the American people, or are they still serving the 1/10 of 1% and Israel? Thus far, despite the constant bleating by the left, right, middle and everything in between for the citizens to focus on Russia, China, another false flag op in England, anything, but what Washington is really doing, assuring us that our lying eyes cannot be trusted, the short answer is it truly is business as usual; Israel and the richest 1/10 of 1% are the highest priorities, while America and Americans are left to suck eggs and eat cake……………………….

George Rizk
George Rizk

The typical mafia movies shows that reasonable citizens know not to mess with the MAFIA, as the grave yards are full of courageous people. Read the book THEY DARED TO SPEAK THE TRUTH.

Rise Up

Would you expect anything else from fake-news site NBC?

BRF

Trump as an entity is a paradox of ideas. An affluent middle class is good for the hotel and casino business. Tax cuts for the rich under whatever guise, trickle down or what have you, only serves the rich as empirically shown. Trump’s rhetoric is a mixture of both but the actions his administration takes will be the ‘tell.’ What is upsetting his fellow class of the wealthy and beyond that the wealthy that rule is that his populous shtick might well indeed spark a populous uprising under a true populous leader(s) and upset the globalist apple cart.Trump is not a ‘Mule” but is using a dangerous line to the ruling class in appropriating his political ascendancy. I say we all keep our eye on the actions he and his administration take and leave the cheap talk were in belongs as op-ed. In the early going it seems the various federal government departments are coordinating and doing exactly as they please in confirming “Continuity of Agenda” while keeping Trump off balance with their attacks on his legitimacy. Trying to metaphorically read something into this situation that may truly not be there could produce a self delusional state of thinking.

lordkoos
lordkoos

When people who consider themselves Christians are cheering on a man with the dubious personal qualities and low morals of Donald Trump, we are in even worse trouble than I thought.

Does your list of elite billionaires who want to control the world include only lefties? Why is it that you make no mention of Rupert Murdoch, the Kochs, Peter Thiel, Sheldon Adelson, Tom Barrack, Andrew Beal and Robert Mercer?

Rise Up

“Does your list of elite billionaires who want to control the world include only lefties? Why is it that you make no mention of Rupert Murdoch, the Kochs, Peter Thiel, Sheldon Adelson, Tom Barrack, Andrew Beal and Robert Mercer?”
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Are those elite billionaires funding social chaos?

Peaknic
Peaknic

Yes, they are if you consider that the destruction of the middle class will lead to “social chaos” as they drive as many political benefits (read “tax breaks”) to the .01% as they can.

Bob
Bob

A complete Turning cycle 1-4 (80+ years) can be part of a larger wave of social mood…

This is discussed in your article in reference to the decline of the Roman Empire, which declined in successive waves over hundreds of years. This is necessary and very useful perspective for those who are impatient with the pace of unfolding events. We have a long way to go, folks, and it will likely take a considerable amount of time!

Suzanna
Suzanna

Admin,
another brilliant piece, and I so enjoyed reading it.
Many a “turn of phrase” spelled the brilliant.
We have many fears for our fellow man, the collateral damage,
and that is the reason for fear. Otherwise, this turning, inevitable,
would be quite the road show. Prepare for some hard times, and
move out of that San Diego high rise.

Where is our dear Stucky anyway? Someone phone him up please.
Tell him he needs to check in.

Maggie
Maggie

I’m trying to summon the Stuckmeister as well… I’m trying to get his goat by discussing the circumcision dilemmer on the Second installment of Admin’s excellent rendering of this topical treatment.

I’ve been reading a LOT of Classical Literature and Greek epic sagas. Can you tell?

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garbanzo
garbanzo

Jim,
Excellent insight. Damn fine analysis and comparison. But, if you turn away from fiction and look to the past, you’ll find a much better and far more accurate comparative identity for Trump and also his sidekick, Bannon.
Donald Trump is Henry VIII reincarnated and Steve Bannon is Thomas Cromwell reincarnated. Is reincarnation real? Yes, it is. Trump was Henry and Bannon was Cromwell and not only that, both of them are “fallen angels” as described in Biblical texts.
Hard to believe? Yep. But quite true.

mystere2moi
mystere2moi

Nice to remember the Foundation Trilogy & Asimov…thank you…The denoument though, is that “The Mule” is just that, & cannot reproduce…hmmm.

DaveP
DaveP

Just to be clear..Trump was running for president long before the White House press dinner. He had spent the previous five years claiming leadership of the birther movement .. a series of outrageous lies attempting to discredit the popular Obama. He was smart enough not to run against Obama because he knew he would lose… That community organizer came a longer way in life that Trump ever did..Based on the strength of his character and native intelligence.
Who’s the biggest loser now? Why the American people of course who just voted in a narcissistic sociopath bent on taking the country backward to the age of coal burning debt serfdom…. No Foundation here.

Maggie
Maggie

You should block this page. You are far too smartypantsy for us TBP monkeys.

DDearborn
DDearborn

Hmmm

I think that your assertion that somehow the “Obama” administration was in net terms any better for the American people than the direction Trump’s cabal is dragging us is false. Did Obama take a different path to get to where we are today? yes. In aggregate however, were the American people better off after 8 years of Obama? I think the short answer to that is a resounding no. For example: let us not forget that one of the pillars of Obama’s original campaign was ending the wars in the Middle East. Instead, within weeks of getting into office, he broke his promise and restarted the war in Iraq and started wars in 2 other countries. Please, lets at the very least, examine Obama through the same lens as we are subjecting Trump to today. At this point it is abundantly clear that one of the biggest failings of the Main Stream Media and and the left in general is their inability to maintain even a semblance of objectivity when it comes to anything Trump.

Rise Up

“Who’s the biggest loser now? Why the American people of course who just voted in a narcissistic sociopath bent on taking the country backward”…
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Your sentence should end with “by dividing the country by race and class”. (i.e., Barack Obummer). circa 2008.

LetsPlay
LetsPlay

cough … cough … bullshit!

You are on the wrong site A-hole. Huffpost or Politico is more to your liking. Go away and kiss the butt of your former leader in the worn picture of him smoking his joint in college, where that is, we will never know.

BRF

When you view the litany of this new administrations right wing agenda accomplishments , more war, more tax cuts for the rich, more deregulation of labor and environmental protections, you would think the plutocracy would be very happy? The truth is though that the former Clinton Democratic Party and its Republican co-conspirator counterpart could be trusted to keep all those nasty Washington secrets,…well secret. This is the real bugaboo that has all the trough wallowing swamp dwellers and hangers on with their knickers in a knot. Trump will now be able to access a good slice of this information on skeletons and closets and this access means the power to expose should a blood letting of secrets become necessary and information is most likely being sent Trump’s way by insiders who actually believe his shtick, to their own peril. The only thing holding back these formerly complacent swamp creatures from exercising their more vicious killer penchant is the fear of a dead man’s switch being thrown and their being exposed. Flight or fight, hate and fear, which one will prevail?

Trump’s rhetoric is another problem as too much of a good thing in fooling the masses, like the ‘Hope and Change’ and ‘Make America Great Again’ memes following on each other could strip this thread bare narrative to the point where in could be spit through. This situation could be the catharsis for a real populous uprising under a real populous leadership. This is causing the plutocrats ‘peoples psychological warfare management’ to have to go into overdrive with their diversion and divisive operations to strangle any ‘Make America Revolting Again’ meme from gathering any momentum with the populous.

While Trump certainly is a disrupting figure to the unquestioned flow of the plutocrats narrative and Continuity of Agenda, to metaphorically equate him as the “Mule’ could lead to a false assumption and an error in thinking as dellusional as the plutocrats Ptompkin village Democracy. illusion.

Stucky

“I’m trying to summon the Stuckmeister as well… ” ——- Maggie

Still here. Log on every few days for a little bit. Holy Shit …. so many newbies! As Moses did, I am feeling like a stranger in a strange land.

This move has been a move from HELL!!!

On the bright side, we’re 100% out of the old house. Still unpacking in the new one. Ms Freud has more SHIT than anyone I’ve ever known. We just about split up over this fucken move.

Hope to be back on a regular basis some time next week … before everyone here forgets my name.

Later Gators.

PS. Go Gamecocks!!!!

PSS. The IU Hoosiers just hired Archie Miller (from Dayton) … widely believed to be THE best young coach in America. We’re baaaack baby!!!

PSS. Fuck you Tom Crean, aka Clappy The Clown. I hope your next job is in Azerbyejohn, or whatever.

PSSS. No, I’m not bitter.

Maggie
Maggie

So, what do you think of my Clarion Call to Other Mothers in the other thread

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RiNS

Yeah he does need to get back here! Fuck even bb and I are getting along and singing kumbaya…

Glendaleburbank

Being a life-long Republican, Tea Party member and conservative in every sense of the word; Consider this fact: Soros loaned Trump $315 Billion dollars when Trump was heavily in debt. Another Fact: Wilbur Ross; a puppet of the Rothschild’s. Maybe Trump will out-smart all the globalists and puppets of the NWO…we shall see. God is always in control. Unfortunately, Asimov was a staunch Atheist; and I pity anyone who goes into eternity without an eternal perspective. One can admire another author’s writings; but only true prophecy and end time events can be found in one source, and one source only…time tested and PROVEN…the Bible. I understand you are drawing analogies in your article; however, research where all the bodies are buried. Is Trump a Free mason? Many indications are that he is. Is he of the noble sect or corrupt satanic sect? Many questions lead to many more. Solomon was correct; in much knowledge there is much burden…and who can know the end of a matter?

RiNS

Asimov was a staunch Atheist….

So what Glendale! Does that fact lessen the value of the message? If so how. Your logic has many hoops for it’s flaws.

Many questions lead to many more. What the fuck does that mean?
Knowledge a burden. Wow. You feign pity yet profess ignorance.

If I was you I would be dreading spending eternity as a dumbfuck!

Anyways gotta go hang some more babies on the clothesline.

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LetsPlay
LetsPlay

Good grief!

Donald
Donald

Mule Not so sure, Ass oh Yea…

Ken Michael
Ken Michael

Good stuff – much appreciated – read Parts 1 & 2 on Zero Hedge – now subscribed here.

A ‘left-field’ factor to perhaps blindside in Part 3?…

An – if you will – Deep Establishment factor that should be take into consideration – not ‘State’ but a different Deep Establishment which could turn out to be a decisive factor: Cosa Nostra… With the power, influence, network and ruthless methods to subvert at every level in Italy, the mafia could exert sufficient influence to tip the balance in favour of restoring Italian sovereignty and currency – for its own ends, faced with equally ruthless non-Italian rivals taking advantage of current EU open borders and ‘refugee’ policies to establish themselves and muscle in on their ‘business interests’… Such a scenario could potentially trigger the collapse of the EU / Euro house of cards and domino other currencies / central banks around the world too, leading to financial panic, chaos, civil disorder, etc, out of which – hopefully – we’ll see Deep State burned and a free society rise from the ashes.

Big Dick
Big Dick

Admin How did you get to be so fucking smart? I am ashamed of my knowledge and posted fear levels.

JACk
JACk

The First Speaker (call him Schwab) of the 2nd Foundation defeats the Mule by altering The Mule’s mind; this leads to the Mule ending his quest to find and defeat the 2nd Foundation (Drain the Swamp and defeat Globalism). He spends the last years of his life as a benevolent dictator (puppet).

Trump fits. The Second Foundation I mean the 4th Reich, I mean WEF is pulling his strings now. COVID should make it obvious.

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