Exactly one year ago I wrote a three part article comparing Issac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy to our current political environment. I pondered whether Donald Trump was the Mule character in this science fiction classic. At the end of part three I wrote these words:
Will Trump’s reign resemble the reign of The Mule? The Mule’s conquest was astonishingly fast. He defeated the Foundation and established the Union of Worlds after only five years. The unpredictability of his arrival and rare mental talents befuddled the Foundation. Then he inexplicably paused in his campaign of conquests. Instead he launched repeated expeditions in search of the Second Foundation. The mysterious Second Foundation inhibits The Mule from further conquest as he is consumed with finding their location and paralyzed with fear they can defeat his mentalic powers.
The Second Foundation comes briefly out of hiding to face the threat of The Mule. It is revealed to be an assemblage of the most intelligent humans in the galaxy, descendants of Seldon’s psychohistorians. Using the force of its strongest minds, the Second Foundation ultimately wears down the Mule. They succeed in defeating the Mule, transforming him into a relatively harmless individual, lacking ambition, and no longer a threat to the Seldon Plan. His destructive posture is adjusted to a benign one. He returns to rule over his kingdom peacefully for the rest of his life, without any further thought of conquering the Second Foundation.
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Trump has had an astonishingly fast rise to power. He went from frivolous reality TV star to the most powerful leader on earth in the space of two years. With his clownish exploits and rhetoric, he rose to power through being underestimated every step of the way – infuriating his many enemies who miscalculated his level of political savvy and persuasion skills. Unless he is overthrown by the Deep State or killed, he will be able to put his imprint on the nation for at least four years and possibly eight.
His first two months in power will likely reflect his entire presidency. The Washington establishment and sinister Deep State players will attempt to thwart Trump’s every move. They have already impeded his immigration controls and attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare, while using their illegal surveillance state techniques to undermine his administration.
The Second Foundation, through unyielding pressure and generating fear of the unknown into the mind of The Mule, was able undermine his plans of conquest and turn him into a non-disruptive, toothless, nonthreatening, passive figurehead. As Trump’s best laid plans are obstructed, agenda foiled, and legislation hindered, will his enthusiasm for governance wane?
The surveillance agencies who are supposed to act on his behalf are clearly trying to subvert his presidency. Leaks and fake news designed to sabotage the credibility of Trump and his administration will continue. Will the fear of retribution from mysterious surveillance state operatives convince Trump to fall into line and become a submissive lackey, no longer making waves for the Deep State?
I think my questions were answered this week. The hopium drunk Trumpeteers need to step back, assess their cognitive biases, and view what is happening through the lens of reality rather than false hope. Trump is the Mule and he is now falling into line with the Deep State/Second Foundation. He has no super powers and cannot defeat the powers arrayed against him. But he will likely trigger a financial crisis and global conflict, so we have that going for us. Enjoy part two of the Fourth Turning. It’s guaranteed to be a doozy.
Well, that didn’t last long. I can’t believe I have worked my ass off in a career I didn’t care for, paid taxes, raised children, gone to church and ‘played by the rules’ just to now have the damn bus driven off the cliff by degenerates of various types, globalists, soy boys, minorities and psychopaths at the behest of the Deep State.
Why in the hell didn’t he declare Martial Law and arrest most of the NWO scum and Leftist leaders. About 3,000 would have done it and the Deep State would have been on it’s knees.
This is the letter POTUS sent to the Speaker and President of the Senate which details the ‘emergency requirement’ for the funds and under which statutes he uses those funds in the Omnibus Bill
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/text-letter-president-speaker-house-representatives-president-senate-21/
This is a good rundown of what ‘powers’ those laws give POTUS
https://mobile.twitter.com/PlaysTrumpCard/status/977557754104729606
Remembering that he did declare a State of Emergency, which may give him more leeway that appears to be apparent.
H/T commenter on Anonymous Conservative
Way too early to even begin thinking about writing off Trump. Signing a continuing resolution spending bill is one of those kind of things nobody’s going to remember in a month, depending on what happens next. Many times in life there’s big fights coming, but it’s not time to fight them. I had many people work for me that I knew I was going to fire, but it would have been to my detriment to do it immediately. This has to play out some more. A lot of this rides on whether or not Jeff Sessions does his job. Time will tell
You’re full of shit. We’ll remember exactly what he did. So will millions of people who voted for him. I will continue to judge the man by his actions – not his bloviating tweets.
Wake up and smell the coffee. He’s a sellout. Obama would have been thrilled with this bill.
It’s just a spending bill, Jim. A horrible one, no question, but just routine stuff in Washington DC. The guy’s fighting a lot of stuff. I don’t pretend to know what he has planned. But the declaring he has sunk the midterms and things like that are a little over the top. There’s plenty of time for good things to happen between then and now. Will they? I don’t know. But it’s certainly possible. Picking your fights, and picking your moments are very important skills to get anything big done. I don’t see anything good about this bill. It certainly annoys me when I see Administration people out there defending it. It’s indefensible. But it’s not the end of the world either. It’s just a spending bill. There will be more, as a matter of fact the next one is right before the elections.
If not now, when?
I keep waiting for tough guy Trump to make a real stand.
He buckles every time.
Budget, DACA, FISA, etc.
He is now tied to the stock market and the economy. Both are going down.
His lack of courage with this $1.3 TRILLION (just a bill), plunging stock market, and a sputtering economy will combine to lose the House in November. Then his agenda is DOA.
16D chess my fat ass.
After reading some of Brandon Smith’s (alt-market.com) articles, I’m increasingly willing to believe that the Trumpster really is the int’l financial [D]elites/PTB (Psychopaths That Bugger) current puppet/fall-guy-to-be.
The size of the bill is just the same as it has been. Things that got funded are the same things that the government’s been funding for a long time. We certainly didn’t win anything here. It’s just business as usual. I don’t ever use the chess analogy. I don’t think everything Trump does is perfect. But I do think he’s trying to do something and within that something he has priorities. We’ll see how it turns out. He’s been making a lot of changes and I believe he does those things for reasons. Doesn’t appear to be a very random guy.
Wrong
Largest spending bill ever.
We didn’t elect him for business as usual.
What exactly are his priorities? World war?
He does seem like a very random guy. His cabinet should have turnstiles. Now tell me it is all part of a master plan.
His personnel decisions are atrocious.
Keep naively believing he knows what he is doing.
Top priorities. The things that have been killing us. The trade deficit. Open borders. Putting the country back to work. “His personnel decisions are atrocious.” Anyone in particular? I think he’s been doing fine with the possible exception of Sessions.
Trade deficit at all-time high. He’s done zilch to close our borders. He has hired Goldman Sachs scum and now neocon warmongers intent on blowing up the fucking world.
Are you obtuse?
I think he has created a much larger problem for himself with DACA. Looks like he thought he had quite a bargaining chip there, not realizing the dems could really give a shit about the DACA deal. No way they’re trading border security or restrictions on future immigration, and now he owns the DACA situation. If he amnesties them, his base will revolt completely. If he deports them there’s a price to pay that way too. Thinking they were useful to him, he broke it, so now he owns it. Big unforced error
Upon seeing the title, immediately though it was about that criminal/thug/low-life/BAR-fly LIEyer, Robert the Clinton MULEller.
I have withheld comment until I had a chance to go back and re-read the “Mule” series, and commentary, from last year. In the comment section of the third installment, on March 28, 2017 @ 5:31 pm – I called the Mule articles “great”, “epic”, and “first class”.
I stand by these assessments. Quality stands the test of time.
Admin’s final installment of the series was posted four days after the Republicans failed to repeal and replace Obamacare on Friday March 24, 2017. That was exactly one year and one day ago – and it was Trump’s first major legislative failure.
That, as well as Admin’s “Mule” installments inspired me to write the following (362 days ago) in my aforementioned comment:
In retrospect, the answer may be “all of the above”.
Two outcomes I would not have predicted last year would have been the strange downfall of Steve Bannon, and Trump’s signing of the recent omnibus bill.
Are these proof of the “Second Foundation” (i.e. – global elite) neutralizing the “Mule” (Trump)?
Occam’s Razor says “yes”.
At the same time, however, appearances are not always what they seem.
Part of me is too pessimistic (in the longview) to be a complete hopiate addict. But then again, at this time, it may not be wise to underestimate Trump.
Personally, I need a little more time; because, insufficient data.
“the strange downfall of Steve Bannon” What surprised you there, Unco? Bannon did not understand hierarchy, and he was not a team player. I’m surprised he lasted as long as he did. He was a duck out of water
Hey Star,
This is what I wrote about Bannon in my earlier referenced comment on Admin’s final Mule essay:
What surprised me was how confused he acted in the wake of parting ways with Trump. He said he was going to fight for Trump on the outside. Then he made the “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” comments and said that investigators would “crack Don Jr. like an egg on national TV.” Then he apologized. Then he was fired by Brietbart.
He looked like such a little bitch in the end. That’s what I meant about his downfall being “strange”. Last year at this time, I would never have predicted any of that. He once had the establishment running scared. Now he’s been completely neutralized like the Mule character in Asimov’s 68-year-old science fiction story.
Okay. I pretty much agree with that
Has anyone seen this from Q-Squared? It’s not Q or Q-Anon, but it makes a lot more sense. The message is Trump is being blackmailed and needs the support of patriots more than ever.
http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2018/03/q-squared-drops-bombshells-all-over-the-place-2989897.html?currentSplittedPage=0
My doubts are twofold:
1) It’s posted at “Before Its News” the National Enquirer of the internet although they occasionally post something accurate.
2) Sounds like another psy-op from the Deep State to give us hope and keep us complaisant in case/when the Q-Anon effect wears off.
Several things come to mind:
1) I’ve long said we’re past the point-of-no-return.
2) Satyajit Das said there’s no ‘fix’ to our financial mess all they can do is try for a soft landing.
3) Fourth Turnings cannot be fixed; they escalate.
4) Hope is not a plan.
5) Fourth Turning and Martin Armstrong’s timeline for impact is between 2028 and 2032 when even if I’m still alive, I’ll be so damn old and good for nothing; all I’ll be able to do is enjoy the show before final lights out.
Admin, if you were a wildebeest crossing a river full of crocodiles, would you be worrying about the thundershower?
The spending going on in DC is meaningless at this point no matter the noise so many people are making about it. The debt is not the problem at this juncture in the life of the nation. It is a symptom however serious it is and however demanding it is of our attention. If we do not do something about the crocodiles we are dead in the water. Asking Trump to focus on the spending is nonsense.
Our focus must be on the Deep State. That is where Trump is focusing. Justice is coming. Do we really care if Schumer is a hero for a day? Better that the lower rung players turn and point to the middle level players with names, dates, and evidence. Then when Hussein and HRC scream for mercy, the knives will come out for the long game players with the trillions of dollars sitting there waiting and available for Trump to confiscate using his EO of December 21, 2017. The Deep State has gotten rich and powerful through human trafficking, drugs, and manipulation of markets. End those things and everything changes. We might even get our country back when vast numbers of people see what has been done to yoke humanity and become acquainted with real liberty.
Stop with the anger over the spending bill and Trump’s apparent cave in. If he is not playing a deeper game and has abrogated his pledges, we will find out soon enough, but if he is indeed playing chess are we not making a big mistake in withholding support and going further than that by naming him Judas? How is that helping anything? Is it important to shout out your disappointment? What does that do for anyone? Why not wait awhile before condemning the man with the best chance we have ever had in reversing the long slide into complete State dominance?
I have a brick. His name is intelligent. He is more than you.
I can give rat’s ass over spending money created out of thin air. My concern is the riders on the bill that become permanent law.
So, yes, I am angry.
Trump had plenty of time to read the bill unlike the crappy reps and crappy senators. Why sign it at all? Left on his desk for a number of days and it becomes law. He then can say, “Hey! I didn’t sign that pile of crap!”. He would be right. But he didn’t.
My take is, why support someone that is evil?