Panic by Design: How Manufactured Outrage Fuels the Anti-Trump Narrative

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Posted on 12/11/2024 1:39:00 PM PST by Starman417

by el gato malo

If you pay attention, the projection-driven drama donkeys will always tell on themselves. They cannot help but stare right at the floorboards beneath which the body is buried. They do this because they do not really believe in objective reality or objective morality—just subjective image shaping of such things. And so, their arguments are not about logic, rightness, or facts; they are wrestling matches to set the frame in which such things will be interpreted.

The underlying view is that the best way to win an argument is to make sure that one is always the one posing the question.

The problem with this notion is that it works. In fact, it’s incredibly effective to the point where “getting to set the frame” proves cognitively dispositive for people, to the point of generating alternate realities.

So how does one combat or escape such a trap?

By telling on the trick.

Longtime readers know that I love Penn and Teller and their penchant for playfully dismantling “magic” and revealing illusions. This is something we need far more of in politics, history, and social sciences because the only real defense against “the trick” is seeing how the trick is done. “Pre-bunking” and frame setting are tools shared by psyop teams, nudge units, and behavioral economics teams alike and are now in widespread use all over the internet and all over the world.

This maliciously manipulative magic is all the mode.

But once you see it, you see it.

And it loses its power over you.

So let’s look.

Example one:

Depending upon one’s priors, one of two things happens when one reads this:

1. “Aha! Look, she’s a bad person! I knew it! 100 ‘experts’ say she’s unfit! They would know—they are the experts. Who are you to gainsay them? Did you work in intelligence? This is national security, and they know best!”
2. “Aha! Look, the same people who lied about the Hunter laptop are now lying about Tulsi. It’s the same trick, the same bad people, and we should support her! Their disapproval is proof we’re over the target!”

Each side is sure that it’s correct.

The problem is that in the way that matters, both are wrong.

This is not even about her confirmation; it’s about something entirely different. Once one locks into the “do we trust the experts or not?” frame, this gets lost, hidden, and the pre-seeding/pre-bunking trick starts to work.

This is not what it looks like.

No one expects this to affect her hearings.

It’s not intended to head off Tulsi.

It’s a way for 100 guilty people (and, by extension, other people like them) who were always likely to be investigated for their possible past misdeeds to try to make a case it’s political retaliation when people start asking questions about what they got up to and for whom.

See it now that the cups are clear?

This is going to be the go-to playbook for the next four years:

Any investigation into past actions and activities of the people who weaponized state agencies for political or institutional purposes will be cast as Trump “using justice and intelligence to attack his political enemies.”

It’s just the next round of psyop from the people who do psyops for a living—an attempt to frame holding people accountable for their persecution of political enemies as “persecution of political enemies.”

It’s inversion and projection.

Miss this frame, and voila—those who victimized you are the victims here.

Spot it, and you gain useful information about what those who would seek to manipulate you fear.

Welcome to the game.

Spot the cloak, dodge the dagger

It’s going on all around you on many, many fields. This is an area of expertise and praxis common in intelligence agencies, counterintel, behavioral economics, nudges, advertising, marketing, politics, and 100 other places. It has, of late, become one big miasma of manipulation crossing fields and vectors.

The guilty are all so busy projecting their own acts onto others that it has grown into a signal—the UV ink that pops under a blacklight. And this is not a hotel bedspread you want to look at. But you need to.

Here’s another set:

It’s easy to mistake the histrionics about “Trump will declare martial law” and “Trump plans to set up concentration camps for political enemies” (both claims I’ve heard from people I once thought thinkers but who seem to have lost all calibration and discernment) for “just more TDS driven by mistaking CNN for news.” But this is an error.

These lockstep talking points erupted everywhere at once. This is how you know they were seeded. Every news station and wild-eyed pundit does not suddenly invent the same persecution fantasy and pitch it from the same angle, using the same words and analogies, on the same day by coincidence.

This is a talking point. Someone released and seeded it. And they did it for a reason.

The reason is this:

Trump wants to deport illegal aliens. This is hardly new news. It’s actually popular policy. The people who tried to claim “this is not happening, this is not a problem, well, akshully, it’s a good thing” before finally pivoting to “then who will mow my lawn and pick the lettuce” have lost massive credibility on this issue. They have lied over and over, and they lost public trust and public opinion.

Trump’s policy has widespread support even among Latinos.

So how do you thwart it? By saying Trump is a dictator who wants military rule and concentration camps. Then, when he starts rounding up illegals to ship home, you scream, “See! Police state! Military use on US soil! Concentration camps! Gathering those in the country illegally and enforcing its laws is literally genocide. ICE facilities are Dachau!” You frame as fascism and power grab what, in reality, amounts to an end to lawlessness and actual invasion—a return to basic ideas like “borders” and “citizenship.”

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1 posted on 12/11/2024 1:39:00 PM PST by Starman417

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