Sunday, August 2, 2026

Dementia Or Tactics?

 

The Dream Scenario of Non-tRumpers 

Some want even worse for the 45th and 47th president of the USA than this, whereas others want him declared medically unfit which would excuse him of much of what he has done. That outcome of the two presidencies of tRump I wouldn't be able to accept, no matter what. However, much of the discussion now goes on whether he is medically fit to go on doing what he is supposed to do as the head of the American state or not. Most non-tRumpers seem to admit that there is more than enough to get him jailed, but those who don't want that to happen will stress his not quite unravelled health issues: What's wrong with a man, who not only emits foul smells, suffers from edema, but also poops himself in public, as well as often have strange wounds or blemishes on one of his hands? That's a good question, but we haven't received any medical diagnosis that covers all of it, because there is also the issue of what some see as blatant dementia. Is he demented like his father became when he grew old, or not? He himself often stresses what he sees as the truth: He is a genius, and much smarter than anybody else. That said we get to the personality part of it: What is he when it comes to his ideas, ideologies and politics?

Being a wise woman, Angela Merkel nailed an important part of the issue of the tRumpian personality, but the MAGAs don't believe that she, or others who have said almost the same, are right. They saw tRump as a wonderful man and leader when they voted for him, and many still want to support him, even though his many promises have not been fulfilled; no, on the contrary.

Those who see him as a dementia-patient think that his well-known ramblings prove that he is sick. However, I feel that they shouldn't forget WHOM, tRump is addressing, namely those, who are not kings and queens of neither the vocabulary nor some illustrious brain cells: The Magas. I think that he has adopted a way of speaking that specifically targets these voters. To them, he appears as "one of them" in thoughts and actions, at the same time being a symbol of the riches they themselves are dreaming of.

Non-tRumpers laugh at his illusions about the cognitive test he presumably had to take several times: "He doesn't even know what that test is used for. What an idiot!" Yup, that he is in some respects, but not in everything, and I for one, have come to the conclusion that his so-called "dementia", his blabbering, etc., etc. more or less are part of a fixed strategy, a plan which he follows: It's his tactics for communication with people who are not exactly up to the Einstein-level. These MAGAs like a leader who, seemingly, speaks and thinks as they do. For instance, they wanted to "own the Libs", namely because they felt that this in many ways social elite was lording it over them. Instead of proven knowledge, scientific evidence, etc., etc., which non-MAGAs admire and expect in a politician of a certain standing, they wanted a "I just know it"-man like tRump whom they don't feel is lording it over them.  

His niece, Mary Trump, never wavered in her negative presentations of him. She despises everything he is and stands for, and have talked of him as a very sick person psychologically. Both she and others who have said the same may be right, but somehow that makes them forgetful of something just as interesting: He doesn't exhibit any shame when being caught in something that others would make an effort to hide or deny. As more and more has come to lights, it has been wrapped up in his public "persona": "I'm me, I grab women by the pussy and get my way with them. I like gold and "$$$", and I make them mine, whenever I have the chance." Sometimes he tells about shady actions in a presumably innocent manner, as if he is too naive or uninformed to know that it's a crime. That's his way of getting away with a lot of things, like e.g. when he told that his eldest sons, Don Jr and Eric, got inside information for their businesses.


As to the more intricate patterns of his communication with his besotted followers, he uses a special speech pattern that seems very simple, but also incoherent to everybody else. Actually, his language is one of the main causes why he is being considered demented by many people. They see it as "blabbering", embarrassingly unpretentious for a president of the USA. However, I see that as a naive description of something that is consistent and which fits into his image with his followers. It's an almost conversational, very everyday-like language with many repetitions. What strikes one the most is his way of free fabulating, using facts and non-facts of his own choice, which very often amounts to down-right lies. All of it delivered with no sense of shame at not speaking what after all is the truth. It obviously is a tactic which he even has a name for: The Weave. He weaves facts with rough fabrications or lies, and he goes on ramblings and all kinds of digressions. In my opinion this is a chosen style more than anything else, and it's definitely not demented nonsense, although the meaning of what's being said may be unintelligible. 


https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2020/06/17/trumps-weird-rambling-speech-is-a-clear-signal-to-supporters-time-to-get-off-the-trump-train/ 

 

https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2024/10/trump-and-strategy-of-bankruptcies.html 

 

https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2024/11/shameless-as-don-con.html 

 

Wikipedia 


Friday, July 31, 2026

"Workable" Lies Upon Lies

 

Yes, this is a very strange transformation of Jesus and the Christian religion - and then maybe not, when one considers the fact of America being a totally Capitalist country: As everybody else, Jesus is to bow to the mighty $$$, even though he never spoke for the money-worshippers of his time. On the contrary ....

That's one way of putting it: There is a spiritual dilemma, and it doesn't solve itself. Also, nobody is trying to solve it as a genuine problem. No, it's sort of being shovelled under the carpet, as it's supposed to vaporize and just disappear. It's the same with the American "Santa": One day you're to stop believing in this nice, old man bringing presents, and instead starting to look at "that kind of men" with suspicion. And, by the way, it's called "growing up" as is the belief in the benefits of e.g. this sadly enough quite common robbery-system:

It's obvious that the words are to mask, not to explain what's really going on. Actually, words like e.g. "freedom", "faith", "poverty", etc. have that ability. So does this image of how different people may attain the same goal without any changes to the well-known structures:   
 


Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Poem by Else Cederborg: "A Stone In The River"


  

She stands on a stone in the river

sticking out her tongue she drinks in the world

each rounded drop a planet in its own right

falling from above

shooting up from beneath

each and one of them new to this world as is she

a child of five, but ready to make her impact

actually, a conqueror in disguise


Her tongue speaks out for her

singing, humming, sucking in

what it says is: This is life!


Was that the moment she slipped and fell?

That very moment, never to be lived again?

A moment lost and turned into eternity?


And she?

She nearly drowned, was rescued, got scolded

"survived" it was called

so she got wet, lost faith and grew "normal"

all in one second

she is never to stand on a stone in the river again


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Friday, July 24, 2026

Nazi-Lover

 

In this photo the British historian and author David Irving (born 24th of March 1938) looks like an impersonification of what he is/was, namely a Hitler- and Nazi-loving relic from 1938. Being born before WW II, he didn't take part in the atrocities, and maybe he wouldn't have if he were a true contemporary of Hitler. 

 

Evil eyes, as he has, don't add up a human personality, but this man has published 40 books or so about Hitler and WW II as a historian and expert on the Nazis, which means that he may have influenced many people, young and old. However, it seems that the academic establishment never accepted his conclusions about what went on in the Nazi-world. His ideas may strike people as interesting, as well as disturbing, because of his academic status which some will see as a guarantee of a genuine expert knowledge of the Nazi subject. 

 

His first book, "The Destruction of Dresden" (1963), became a bestseller as it fell in line with the new understanding of the sixties, namely that the heavy Allied bombings of Germany were non-acceptable: Many started to feel that The Allieds had gone too far. Several of other books by Irving also made a stir, so to speak. However, something like e.g. his refusal to admit that there were ovens for cremations in the camps seem ridiculous today. We know better, also when it comes to his allegations that there weren't mass murders of Jews in the camps as there were no photos depicting them in these, according to his opinion, "non-existing" ovens.


Buchenwald Memorial

Not only did he deny what happened in the kz-camps, but also that Hitler took part in the planning of the atrocities. Actually, Irving's way of thinking is quite bizarre when it comes to the "Endlosung" as he refuses to see what went on: IF some of it was true - which he was sure that it wasn't - then, Hitler, in his opinion, knew nothing about the plans of murdering all the Jews of Europe. That means that he chose not to take in what Hitler said about the planned genocide of the Jews in his speech of January 30, 1939. Also, his will is a clear indication that the future exterminations of the Jews were very important to him now that he himself was on the brink of committing suicide. 

"Die Endlosung" was a very important part of his program and can't be denied such as Irving has done. Actually, this abominable "Endlosung" was adopted as the main part of his plans on the Conference in Wannsee of January 20, 1942. As should be remembered, the main purpose of this conference was to establish the "how to" of the planned genocide. There is no doubt that innocent people were tortured and murdered, solely for being Jews or of what was considered an "inferior race", like e.g. gypsies.

 
Because of this undeniable, total cruelty, this extreme injustice I find it very hard to see what has become of the formerly so very persecuted Jewish people. They are literally doing what Hitler did to them, only targeting another innocent people: The Palestinenians. I've become very split in my opinion of them and their cause. When I'm thinking of what happened to them in WW II, I feel that they should have been offered a large part of Germany for building their state. However, I never felt that the German murder atrocities against them gave them the right to do what had been done to them to a flock of Arabs and to set out to steal their land. In a weird, backwards manner they have become Nazi-lovers themselves by accepting some of the Hitler lore about race and history. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr71z0jp4o

 

https://folkedrab.dk/artikler/hvordan-ved-vi-at-holocaust-har-fundet-sted 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Lipstadt

 

https://www.information.dk/kultur/2013/06/nazi-chefideologs-dagboeger-fundet-usa 

 

Wikipedia


Tuesday, July 21, 2026

WhenThe Object of One's Love is Non-Human

 

Of course anyone who hears about such a case love the dog and calls him a hero. Actually, the girl was a hero(-ine) too for not panicking and even finding food and other ways to survive. Anyway, in this case there was a reason to admire and love the dog. So there is in many cases of human-pet-relationships, even though the animal hasn't saved lives in such a dramatic manner as in this case.

 

The owner of these two dogs call them "The Light of My Life", and that may very well be a true description of their relationship. These dogs may have become what's generally known as "fur-babies": They are being seen and treated as the human babies their owner - male or female - have chosen not to have. Maybe he/she refers to them as my "sons", and maybe he/she "adopted" them, e.g. from a shelter. To treat and relate to a pet like to a human baby is a way to "keep one's cake and eat it", and I fully understand why women these years chose an animal over a baby. Actually, I'm more surprised that not all women do just that in a time period that's polluted with tRumpian, misogynistic laws, making it very difficult for women to have and raise children. 

Also, let's not forget that for some people animals are a sort of "toys", that may be "chosen away" when they get tired of having them. It's extremely unfair to treat a four-legged friend - a "son or daughter" - like a toy, but it may happen which is not that easy with human babies: You can't just leave them in the wood or on a busy street like it has been done over and over with pets. Such a Good Riddance-operation may mean nothing to the owner who talked about his/her pets as "sons/daughters", because, after all, "they are only animals" ....

    

However, animals are not inanimate objects without feelings or personality. This cat, for instance, has adopted a rat as a pet or a surrogate "kitten". Not normal, not happening very often, but this special cat chose to have its own "fur-baby", just like he/she is the "fur-baby" of his/her owner. 


Wednesday, July 15, 2026

WW II And the Cats of London

  

I'm not sure how many cats the, at that time, 19 years old Iris Davis saved from the debris of the bombed London, but the number 600 has been mentioned. Probably she saved even more when she went out looking for the poor pets, who - just as their humans - had lost their homes and all of a sudden had to fend for themselves. She used a kind of laso that made it possible for her to catch and secure the cat.

This is an image we are used to see from all kinds of wars: A hapless animal, struck down by the weapons that were meant to kill humans. Without Iris, London might also have seen an awful feline tragedy. Not that she saved all the poor homeless cats, but with her the number of victims was reduced.

I'm not sure that this is Iris, but whoever it is does what has to be done to save helpless pets. However, pets also saved humans, and several of them were awarded medals for bravery, for instance when they found and thus rescued people who e.g. were stuck in the rubble. 

As to Iris and her efforts for the cats of London, she became quite famous at the time as a cat saver, but her war fame doesn't seem to have stuck with her, as I haven't been able to find her biography. Anyway, there is an irony in her humane work as an animal saver, as pet owners had been advised to euthanize their pets before the bombings started, namely to save them from starvation. This led to what has been called a "massacre" of maybe 500,000 pets or even more. 

 

https://www.historyonthenet.com/war-animals-55-birds-dogs-horses-saved-thousands-lives-world-war-two 

 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205357526 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24478532 

 

https://x.com/TheNameofWar/status/2067980781809475917 


Poem by Else Cederborg: "Balloon"


 

 

 

Stepping out
dressed like a billion
all too glittering for this world
happily enough her head is floating
you may find it on a cloud up in the sky
moving in air, far from reality, it’s gleaming

It can’t be denied it’s a lantern
a will-o’-the-wisp, that’s leading her on
feet in the world of fashion and riches, head in the sky
no wonder she is out of reach, even for herself



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