Donald’s Mass Illusion: A Guest Post By Stephen Douglas of ‘DeCoding Trolls’
Disinfolklore and DeCoding Trolls analyst Stephen Douglas invites us out of the hall of mirrors created by an out-of-work actor to puncture Donald’s fake popularity and bring us back to reality
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“We’re focussed on the shadow play not the actual reality: Donald’s a washed-up actor propped up by stagehands and oligarchs who want our souls (and to enslave our children)… overly made-up, sad, scared, demented, out of work… propped up by similar people afraid of what will happen when they’re in jail..”—Stephen Douglas, DeCoding Trolls
I have been making rounds of calls to people who have been meaningful to me on this eight-year journey back toward decency and truth, and yesterday I was asked why I’m still on Twitter. I explained that I won’t abandon my allies on a battlefield and that my presence gives me an opportunity to engage in counter-messaging.
This morning, when I learned of the ‘demon’ references coming out of the MAGA propagandists, I was able to calmly explain that they continue to use a cruel playbook in an attempt to make people overthrow their own democracy and by so doing, encouraged them not to fall for the troll.
I cited a report that explained how “Nazi propaganda posters likened Hitler to a god-king… and to strengthen the idea of domestic enemies, the vilification of Jews was one of the most common themes in Nazi propaganda posters. Jews were depicted as blood thirsty demons, feeding on pure-blooded Germans…”
As Tucker Carlson spreads demon mythology, the MAGA Nazis spread mythology about ‘pure-bloods,’ using anti-vaxx as cover, but we know what they’re really saying. I have written volumes on what they’re really saying.
Destroying the Illusion
So when I read this morning’s post by Stephen Douglas, I immediately reached out to ask if we can repost here at Bette.
Douglas, an international lawyer and diplomat, found himself on a bridge in Ukraine, ensuring safe passage of civilians from 2015 through 2018, while listening to narratives coming from the Russian side that sounded folkloric to him.
He would then find the same narratives planted in Facebook and the media, and he began to dive into the origins of what he calls disinfolklore. He discovered that what we are experiencing is a power grab by oligarchs trying to destroy the post-World War II human rights gains through narrative warfare — they’re trying to get rid of constraints on their power.
Of his time in Ukraine, Stephen said he was a witness to a stealth genocide and didn’t know it because of disinfolklore — he now is dedicating his time to exposing the techniques so we can protect ourselves and and our world.
His post from today is sheer genius.
He describes an illusionist trick. It is my hope that enough Americans can see behind the curtain. Read on…
Donald’s Mass Illusion
We’re inside a troll. It’s only got the energy we grant it.
By Stephen Douglas, DeCoding Trolls
Today, Disinfolklore is the dominant mode of communicating “news” across our civilisation.
Disinfolklore’s stories affect our Moods/Intentions/Motivations and Attitudes towards everything.
We see Donald as a player because we’ve fallen for the troll.
Vance is Silicon Valley Venture Capital’s foot-soldier.
His job is to prevent the secondary sanctions that would necessitate the unwinding of thousands of VC funds containing $trillions of Ruschia’s wealth.
It’s that simple.
Donald has graduated from monopolising our view of Manhattan celebrity through trolling Page 8 of the New York Post into dominating our perspective on virtually every aspect of reality today. It’s a mesmerising journey. I admire the chutzpah. But not on my dime. Not at the cost of Western civilisation.
Disinfolklore began as a niche pursuit in New York real estate circles.
Today, it is the only hope for these fearful VCs and the Axis of Misogyny (Christians, Iran, China, child-stealing Putler’s Russkiy Mir troll). Of all those fighting to turn our world into Handmaid’s Tale.
Today, Donald’s nonsense dominates the fears of billions of humans, through the medium of Disinfolklore communicated as “news.”
It’s in everyone’s minds. Yet, it’s an illusion.
Donald’s oligarch and oligarch-funded controllers propagate Disinfolklore (stories that purposefully and strategically affect our Moods/Attitudes/Intentions/Motivations).
We consume their relentless Disinfolklore and even propagate it ourselves, through energetic trolls about this or that fear we’re in that moment experiencing.
We’re emotionally paralysed by these infectious fears.
Then, we transmit them onwards, and consume our victims’ fears, as if in a global scale Hall of Mirrors.
We therefore fail to see how, for example, Donald’s fake popularity is an illusion.
We’re focussed on the shadow play not the actual reality: he’s a washed-up actor propped up by stagehands and oligarchs who want our souls (and to enslave our children).
We are now today inside a mass Disinfolklore-created illusion in which an adjudicated rapist with 34 felony convictions who participated in a coup against the United States is “popular.” LoL: don’t fall for this troll. The illusion of popularity is the substance of Donald’s popularity.
Beware the notion of democracy itself is being hacked through the medium of Disinfolklore.
The illusionists want us to substitute “what’s reported as popular in the news” (Disinfolklore) for what we vote for and for what is Right.
He’s trying to upend what is Right and Truthful and replace it with what is Not Right and Not Truth.
Disinfolklore is the means of achieving this diabolical feat (crowd size Disinfolklore is his go-to means).
When Donald declares it doesn’t matter whom we vote for and that he doesn’t even want our votes, Donald and his oligarchic controllers are constructing a myth about ourselves within our own minds. It’s an illusionists’ trick.
Without amplification by those who use him as a means to their oligarchic and Handmaid’s Tale America ends, you would easily see through the illusion.
Boasting he’ll round up 20m Americans and deport them dares our own mental model of what’s possible to recalibrate itself against the illusion that he can do such a thing. It’s saying: “See how awful I am. See how you will obey me. The doubt in your mind that I shall do this and that you will March In Step is evidence of my power over you.”
Outside the illusion (created by and communicated through State of the Art Disinfolklore available through every sensory channel on the Interweb and even through the words of people who, until quite recently, were sensible and resistant) Kamala is truly popular.
Voting does matter.
Donald is overly made-up. A sad, scared, demented out of work actor propped up by similar people afraid of what will happen when they’re in jail.
Never lose sight of this. The onslaught we’re experiencing is unprecedented.—Stephen Douglas, DeCoding Trolls
Wow!
Good stuff, right?!
Last night, on RadPod & Chill I explained that I am mother to a thousand broken people, nurturing them back to reality.
I find those who are doing psychologically well in this moment are those who are attending the Harris/Walz rallies, going door to door to inspire people to vote, phone-banking, post-carding, donating, and engaged in the labor of democracy.
Don’t fall for the troll. Remain in action. Vote — it matters.
In reality, Harris is very popular. Lines are incredibly long in the South. People have woken up to the fact that this could be the last free and fair election in United States history if we do not show up in crushing numbers — so crushing they thwart the tricks of illusionists and charlatans, oligarchs and war criminals.
See you in DC at the Inauguration of the First Women President in US history.
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