I’ve been asked for my thoughts on Trump a number of times. When someone did so recently, I felt bad afterwards that I hadn’t articulated them well enough. So, this is me trying to correct that.
Trump is probably the most polarizing figure ever. I’m guessing by putting my opinions out there I’ll ruffle a few feathers. Clearly I don’t let that stop me from speaking my opinion! Please also feel free to share your point of view, and evidence for it, in the comments below.
Why am I talking about him in 2021 when he is no longer president? Well, he might be coming back, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
The main reason is he plays into our conversation of Systems vs. Control in a big way. This is important because Trump is explained by some as the effect of our systems gone awry. By others, he is explained as the result of control and conspiracy, one way or another.
I’ve grouped this into what I see as four different predominant “narratives” about the man. From what I’ve seen two of these are easily falsifiable, leaving just two possibilities. Of these, I strongly lean towards one direction, but don’t say it is certain.
I put these on a spectrum from being “For the People” to “Against the People” on the ends. And in the middle is “For Self,” that would be narcissistic, not really caring about the people one way or another excepting as it fits his own ends.
While there are four main narratives, there are variations on these themes available, for stronger or weaker positions within those categories.
(I did a similar sort of thing with Bill Gates earlier that seemed popular enough.)
Trump is a Russian Asset or the Next Hitler – The Mainstream Narrative
The mainstream narrative can be boiled down to Trump being a Russian agent and/or the next Hitler. Even Trump being a devil, the antichrist or worse than Satan is not hyperbole to some!
While these are the more extreme positions, we can consider more moderate positions (anything Orange Man Bad, that he is just a pathological liar, etc) to be in this camp.
This is the position of most of mainstream media, just about anyone left leaning. In the bubble of the coast of California, this is the predominant viewpoint by far.
And yet many of these conspiracy narratives collapse under the evidence. Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi have both done good jobs as mainstream journalists picking apart Russiagate for example in a non-partisan way.
Trump did not seize power like Hitler did, even after the election was stolen. (“But he did encourage an insurrection worse than 9/11!” they rant.)
This stuff is easily falsified and its funny how people who spit on conspiracy theories as being delusional tend to believe in their own. But, because they have the stamp of their desired authorities, they’ll buy it!
The lighter form of this is that Trump is simply a narcissist. But really, that also plays into what I call “Useful Idiot” so we’ll get there shortly.
Let’s go to the other extreme…
Trump is Our Savior – Q and the 5D Chess Player
Q is summarily dismissed as a crackpot conspiracy theory by the mainstream. So for those of us into conspiracy theories, it was a fascinating thing to observe. I’ll admit it threw me for a loop. I couldn’t understand what was going on for a long time. I wanted to believe in the hopium, this concept that there is a conspiracy of secret government agents that are going to ride in on a white horse and save us from the conspiracy of corruption.
In the Q community and its offshoots (there are many different variations from hardcore Christian, to Secret Space program focused, and many more) there is talk about everything Trump doing is him playing 5-dimensional chess. What this is is a way to spin every single thing he does as positive, you just don’t know what is going on.
Trump orders Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani killed. Assassinating world leaders must be good.
Trump surrounds himself in Deep State swamp creatures. It must be good. He does that to keep his enemies close, to entrap them in a strategy that takes years to play out. That is until he fired them, then they must be bad. (John “the devil incarnate” Bolton, for instance.)
Trump orders Operation Warp Speed to fast-track vaccine development. It must be good, that this will actually cripple Big Pharma.
Trump is being investigated by Robert Mueller. It must be good, that Mueller is actually investigating the Deep State and the arrests are imminent.
Trump allows the Democrats to steal the election. Don’t worry, conceding power is part of his masterplan to take away the demoncrats power.
So much of what Q predicted and lead people to believe didn’t come true. Something like a 90% prediction failure rate. But it can always be spun via the 5D chess metaphor.
I’m still waiting on those convictions.
Oh wait, we just got one days ago with Special Investigator John Durham arresting Igor Danchenko, the Trump dossier source. The house of cards is about to fall! Obama and the Clintons will be in jail soon!
…Oh wait, haven’t I heard this before? Like when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested. We all know what happened there. Trump’s second-hand savior AG William Burr covered up his death…but that’s because Epstein wasn’t really killed, it was a double and he’s now in Guantanamo ratting out his hire ups! Do you see how this works?
This Durham investigation almost assuredly will just deal out the hopium a little bit at a time, but at most some smaller players will see justice, the scapegoats for the whole thing.
Yet, that doesn’t mean that there is zero signal amongst all the noise. For that you must understand the term limited hangout.
Deputy Director of the CIA Victor Marchetti described it as “spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.”
Q did talk about some things such as Jeffrey Epstein that need thorough investigation rather than cover up. Q did “wake” some people up.
But to what kayfabe “reality” exactly?
Q did point at child sex trafficking as a massive problem, which it is. Trump did sign an executive order that targeted it. But has this changed anything fundamental?
There is SOME truth to Q. Still, that doesn’t make it THE truth.
We can say that this narratively was overwhelmingly inaccurate and thus falsified.
Trump is a Useful Idiot
In this narrative, Trump was just in over his head. He never dreamed that he’d actually get elected, just that the race would help his brand.
Maybe he was really just looking out for himself and beyond that got steered by those around him.
Perhaps Trump did want to break the deep state and help people. That he only surrounded himself deeper in the swamp, it’s possible that he was very much deceived as all of use have been.
It is possible that he ordered the lockdowns, the “economic stimulus,” the fast-tracking of vaccines for the pandemic because of the advice he got from people when COVID seemed a real threat. That he believed Fauci!
This is the least conspiratorial of the possible narratives. And I don’t completely eliminate it only because people are able to be massively deceived.
For instance, people on Team Trump right now are wrestling with why Trump is STILL promoting the vaccine. The only way to grapple with this is:
- Believing the Covid vaccine is actually good
- Thinking it’s a 5D chess-move
- Or thinking he’s still being fed bad information, that he believes the vaccine is actually good when clearly it is not
Those are the only options. It is possible that he tried his best and was simply overwhelmingly played. They managed and manipulated him successfully. Some might call him an unknowing puppet. Not Putin as the mainstream narrative claims said, but by the internal Deep State players manipulating him towards their ends.
With this narrative you can see him as more played or less played depending on which things he did that you agree with or don’t. The things you don’t agree with were him being played. The things you do agree with were him doing the right thing.
But even if you think his heart was in the right place you can’t honestly look at where we are at and see that he didn’t help get us here. That he didn’t help usher in a far more powerful and blatant government.
In other words, this narrative says that Trump was not “in on it” but became a useful idiot for the would-be controllers to move forwards their plan.
But perhaps he is in on it…
Trump is Controlled Opposition
Controlled opposition is defined as: “a strategy in which an individual, organization, or movement is covertly controlled or influenced by a 3rd party and the controlled entity’s true purpose is something other than its publicly stated purpose. The controlled entity serves a role of mass deception, surveillance and/or political/social manipulation. In most cases the controlled party is portrayed as being in opposition to the interests of the controlling party.”
I just mentioned that Trump could have been played like a fiddle. But look at what he did…
He helped usher in massive money printing, according to the banker’s plans or, more accurately, BlackRock’s plans. This supposedly free market capitalist, ushered in the greatest inflation the US has ever seen.
He helped further the vaccine agenda by leaps and bounds. He helped Big Pharma greatly, even while seemingly fighting against it, by promoting hydroxychloroquine or cutting funding to the WHO.
Even before the pandemic he talked about the vaccine-autism link, but that all got swept under the rug, when he became president.
He talked about fake news and Big Tech censorship, but acted as the foil that allowed them to ramp up fake news and censorship specifically against him.
What ever happened with “Lock her up,” referring to Hillary Clinton? Absolutely nothing.
Some polls say half the country or more believes the election was stolen from him. And yet he hasn’t been able to mount an adequate defense against such despite all the overwhelming proof.
I’m still waiting for those audits to result in anything.
The strongest evidence is that he was a lying politician like all the others.
If you doubt this I would encourage you to watch this video by James Corbett of the Corbett Report which breaks this narrative down in further detail.
(This video also available on other players, also references here.)
If you watch nothing else make sure to check out the bit at the 10 minute mark. It talks about the president of the galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. So often reality reflects art.
“The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.”
Trump is the most perfect Beeblebrox we’ve had.
I see this as the most likely scenario, with Trump being a “useful idiot” the secondary possibility.
Understand that just because the fake news maligns Trump doesn’t make him great. Just because mainstream unfairly maligns Q, doesn’t make it correct. That, in fact, is what controlled opposition is about.
Yes, 5D Chess is Being Played…Against You
I see this as the best possibility because I do think 5D chess is being played, but it’s mostly against the public, against you and I.
In my opinion, Q Anon was a limited hangout, a way to string-along and cognitively infiltrate the conspiracy crowd itself. It wasn’t targeted at normies ever. The vast majority of conspiracy crowd could never be folded back into the mainstream crowd. Therefore, this was a method to corral part of this herd and put them to good use.
To go back to professional wrestling, Q is the face (the good guy) for the people involved in it. But is the heel (bad guy) for the mainstream. Even without Q, Trump himself functions as both the face to the Republicans and the heel to democrats.
With these heels, the mainstream power structures are able to roll-up all the conspiracies into one to dismiss them, censor them, label them hate speech, etc. with greater ease. They’re rolling up conservatives into racists into anti-vaxxers into flat-earthers all at once.
The kayfabe of mainstream and Q narratives shows dizzying degrees of deception, that allow for greater attempts at control.
And it is working. Sadly, I think it’s just getting started.
Polarization is the Plan
Polarization is certainly based on systemic effects. Social media, filter bubbles, politicization of everything, and more. But I think willful increased polarization is part of the plan. That it moves their extreme agendas forward. And in this way Trump was and still is a key figure.
Just think, could they have run the Covid operation without Trump being president in the first place?
If there was less of a polarizing figure the people could more easily have united against such actions. If Clinton or Biden was president when this operation kicked off, the resistance against it would have been far stronger. But because of him, we were successfully divided in Red vs. Blue. It was easier to handle.
They need the splitting of realities to play people off each other, to further the polarization gap.
I concede that some of this stuff could be different deep state factions fighting it out (Democrats and Republicans just being middle management), but if that is the case, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t higher controlling powers that are still directing the controlled collapse and allowing that to happen.
If the powers-that-be intend to increase polarization, where does this lead? Why are they doing so?
We Haven’t Seen the Last of Trump – A 2024 Timeline?
Right now, I consider that there is a significant chance that Trump will get re-elected in 2024. I know that is still a long ways off but bear with me.
Just recently in New Jersey and Vermont we saw Republicans take the lead or at least close the gap. The mid-term elections will likely see even more.
And then for the 2024 election Trump could very likely step up and win again. So many people would rejoice!
But what if he is controlled opposition? How would this professional wrestling political script play out?
(Wouldn’t it be ironic if cheating occurs for Trump to win this election the next time around? And then the left goes crazy over the proof of such?)
If you think that TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) was bad before, you haven’t seen anything yet!
The pendulum swings back the other way. Trump is a fighter of freedom! Except that this time he does make some (more) totalitarian moves. It’s against the extreme left…or as the Q contingent believes the satanic left.
Martial law is prayed for…as long as it comes from Team Trump. Swift and furious military action.
Civil war erupts. Probably it starts with a few events but soon enough it’s big.
The domestic terrorist narrative is targeted on the right for the time being. But how easy is it to flip on the other side?
As Greenwald labeled it, “The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming.” Right now this is little more than propaganda being spouted by the left-wing media and politicians. But their plan is for it to become much more than that.
Throw in a bio-terrorism event (Gates back in the news days ago this time talking about smallpox in airports) and we have ourselves a real party, that fits hand in glove with the health-scare narratives.
Succession is being talked about in some right leaning states right now. What if it is the left-leaning states down the road though?
And Trump acts like Lincoln in keeping the states together. In case you don’t know, Lincoln suspended all kinds of constitutional liberties in that time. Habeas corpus. Long before the Federal Reserve, greenbacks, a fiat money, were printed to pay for war.
Some massive actions are taken. The rebellion is or is not stamped down. But either way we have become more of a totalitarian society because of it.
The might of the US military against the might of the US military.
Perhaps the UN has to step in to help keep the peace. Perhaps things get so bad a new nation (or global zone) must be born from the ashes.
Maybe after a few years of in-fighting is when China launches its attack.
However it’ll play out, the emergency allows for more power to be grabbed which is never relinquished once again.
If what we are facing indeed is controlled demolition, the USA as we know it has to go away. The constitution is already being trampled upon. It has been for decades but they kicked it up a notch the last two years especially, and that includes under Trump’s watch.
With our 2nd amendment particularly, an armed populace stands in the way. Compare where the USA is to Australia or Canada for instance.
What better way to destroy that then to get the people up in arms against manufactured enemies? To turn on one another.
The values of the USA stands in the way of the total totalitarian takeover. Simple as that.
Civil war is one option to get there. And there’s no more divisive figure than Trump to help us get there. Hasn’t he already moved us so significantly in that direction since 2016?
The way I see it, we’re in World War 3 right now. But it’s a Cold War for now. It’s information warfare and economic warfare predominately. It is these controlling elites vs. the populace.
Sadly, I believe the chances that it will turn into a hot war before the decade is out are greater than 50%, one way or another.
By no means do I think this is exactly our future, but something along these could play out. This was an exercise in stretching my imagination, and hopefully yours too.
As always, I sincerely hope I am wrong but I fear I am not.
There is hope to avoid such a future. But it takes more and more people seeing through the BS and standing up against it without falling into the partisan divide. If Q indeed is was a psy-op, they were playing with fire, that might come back to burn them.
And if I happen to be wrong about all that and the white horse gallops in with checkmate in the final moment, I’ll gladly eat crow. In the meantime I’ll be acting as if that will never happen, and it’s up to the people, with bottoms up organization to topple this corruption.
More on Systemic Collapse vs. Controlled Demolition and other possible timelines next time…
A polarized country? Must be kidding! Don’t let all the concertina wire around the capital fool you.🤣🤣
I do think there are many more people that see through the charades than is let on. However, if you don’t think there aren’t people that buy all the BS hook, line, and sinker I’m afraid you must be in a filter bubble. Maybe it’s because I’m in California and are surrounded by the propagandized. But they absolutely do exist. The polarization is there.
I’m in Florida and it exists here as well. I catch it from both sides as I’m an anarchist. Well, I catch it for a little while, but those who are proud to bow down to others don’t know how to deal with those who won’t.
Honestly.., I think you are SPOT ON !!! Something big is going down, and you just “framed it”. I will also eat crow, but there is something TRULY WRONG w/ everything in the last year and a half, and I don’t know why people aren’t standing up and questioning it ??? i hope I am wrong, but I feel bad times are headed our way !!!
DWB 86’D 4-LIFE
Thanks, this frame was not easy to arrive at.
Thanks for the analysis Logan. A ton to consider….
You are welcome.
“Trump did not seize power like Hitler did, even after the election was stolen.”
Wait, you say it was stolen? Do you have an article on that one on your blog? I would love to see your take on that.
I haven’t gone too deep down that rabbit hole, but the few things I’ve seen do show some compelling evidence of such. So no, I don’t personally have an article on the topic.
The valid point nonetheless is that many people believe it was. Something like 50% of the country believes so. It’s their reality as opposed to the other polarity.
Not so sure about your rant here. The way I see it Trump did a lot of good things for the country. He had no support from Democrats and many Republicans. I think he was just what the country needed, a non-politician in charge. The political establishment wanted him out though. He wasn’t afraid to call people out on their corruption and stupidity.
I actually met him a couple times. He seemed like a decent guy. Aren’t all billionaires a little flamboyant? He has great taste in women also.
Curious if you think you life and the country has improved since Biden has been in. If you think it has just wait a few more weeks or months. This guy is a total disaster and if anyone should be impeached it should be him.
As far as stolen election I think there absolutely was some monkey business going on. The Arizona audit did find some major anomalies. I also believe that elections have been rigged for many years. Trump was an outsider and did not want to play nicely when he was told he will not be in for second term. I think elections are like the wwe, all staged and predetermined.
This would largely fit in the useful idiot category as I described it. I know that sounds derogatory, but it means he was overwhelmingly played by other players.
“He wasn’t afraid to call people out on their corruption and stupidity.” Agreed in some ways. But this misses the boat on where he appointed corrupt people as well.
“Curious if you think you life and the country has improved since Biden has been in.” No, absolutely not. I described Trump as controlled opposition. At least that is opposition! Meanwhile Biden is just going for it. My greater point is that things did NOT get better with Trump in office either. He was “in charge” with all the pandemic starting up after all, that destroyed the economy, issued massive money printing, removed what little red tape we had on vaccine development, etc.
I do think you’re probably right about the election. This wasn’t the first and won’t be the last.
I’m not for either party, so don’t go thinking I’m a leftist. I just rule myself. But Trump wasn’t good for the country. He was good for the appearance of the county. He was bankrupting us with his spending, promoted asset forfeiture, red flag laws, strongly in favor of censoring anti-Israel talk, his stimulus check alone was greater than anything we’ve ever seen. Like 6 of the disgusting budgets the crooks are arguing about still. He was also an old party friend of Epstein, and had frequent flyer miles on the Lolita Express. While he claimed he wanted to put Hillary in jail, he was a family friend of the Clintons for over 30 years. However, it’s difficult to see these things when you are trapped in the cult of personality that the state likes to foster. But once you do, they’re all disgusting. The only thing you can say about any president is that the next one will be worse.
Thank you Logan. As always you frame all of these ideas perfectly, with intelligence and honesty. Words cannot convey my appreciation for the mental and spiritual work you’ve done in addition to the physical. Keep up the good work!
You’re very welcome.