Flip Flop to the Golden Turd
Making Gold Great Again
Trump is just Obama in a cloak of Gold!
Here's a 5-part series in the style of G.K. Chesterton, exploring the thesis:
**"Donald Trump is Obama in a Golden Cloak, seeking to bring in the serfdom described by Keith Gardner and Walter Burien."**
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## Part I: The Golden Cloak of Illusions
It is often said that history repeats itself, but rarely do we see history dressing itself up in such flamboyant attire. Donald Trump entered the stage draped in gold, a man who, like a magician, dazzled the masses with his glittering promises of wealth and grandeur. Yet beneath this golden cloak, one discovers a familiar figure—none other than Barack Obama, whose polished rhetoric and smooth charm had once captivated the same crowd. One might wonder how two men seemingly so different could be the same; yet, as Chesterton reminds us, "definitions are very dreadful things." For beneath the superficial differences lies the same servile state, the same subtle chains of economic bondage described by Gardner and Burien, hidden beneath a cloak woven from the threads of gold.
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## Part II: The Servile State Without Definitions
The servile state, Chesterton warned, "must have no dogmas or definitions." Indeed, Trump and Obama, though superficially opposed, share a common aversion to clear definitions. Obama spoke of hope and change without ever clearly defining either, and Trump declared he would "make America great again" without specifying the greatness he envisioned. Both men skillfully evaded definitions, for definitions force clarity, and clarity forces confrontation. This vagueness is precisely the religion of the servile state—one in which citizens, dazzled by rhetoric and spectacle, fail to notice the tightening of their chains.
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## Part III: The Comfortable Men and Their Dread of Fair Fights
Chesterton tells us definitions "fight fair," and fair fights are precisely what comfortable men dread most. Trump, like Obama before him, represents not a break from the past but its continuation—each presiding over a system where wealth accumulates in fewer hands, and the many are reduced to modern serfdom. Gardner and Burien's warnings about hidden economic control mechanisms echo here, as the populace, distracted by partisan battles and staged conflicts, overlooks the quiet consolidation of power. Thus, the golden cloak worn by Trump is not merely decorative—it is a distraction, a theatrical flourish designed to prevent the fair fight of clear definitions and genuine debate.
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## Part IV: The Illusion of Opposition
In our era, the illusion of opposition is perhaps the greatest trick played upon the masses. Trump and Obama, presented as polar opposites, are in truth twin heralds of the same servile state. Both men, despite their apparent differences, have advanced policies that concentrate wealth and power, quietly eroding the economic independence of ordinary citizens. The gold standard debates, the manipulations of currency and debt described by Gardner and Burien, are but tools in this deception. The true opposition is not between these two men, but between the servile state they represent and the freedom that comes only from clarity and definition.
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## Part V: The Courage of Definitions
To escape the golden cloak of serfdom, we must embrace definitions. Definitions, as Chesterton noted, force us to fight fair, to confront uncomfortable truths. We must clearly define wealth, power, freedom, and justice, stripping away the glittering illusions offered by Trump and Obama alike. Only then can we see clearly the servile state for what it is—a subtle tyranny, dressed in gold and cloaked in comforting vagueness. The courage to define clearly is the courage to resist, to reclaim our economic independence, and to dismantle the golden illusions that bind us.
In the end, we find that Trump is indeed Obama wrapped in a golden cloak—not because they are identical in personality or rhetoric, but because both serve the same master: the servile state, which thrives on ambiguity and fears nothing more than the clarity of definitions.
Dollar Hegemony and Tarrifs?
Trump's tariffs may aim to address America's debt crisis through a controversial "Mar-a-Lago Accord," involving dollar devaluation, multilateral currency agreements, and rescheduling treasury maturities, but skepticism remains about its feasibility given global economic dynamics.
"Jacksonian corporate / State fiscal/Techno monopoly feudalism"
The Golden Calf is Europe the EU and UK with Ukraine and the minerals deal a Tasty Hors d’Oeuvres
Fattening the golden calf before market day
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4 June 2024
The Golden Calf is Europe the EU and UK with Ukraine and the minerals deal a Tasty Hors d’Oeuvres
Political False Dichotomies: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. Reply to Caitlan
7/11/2022
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/07/12/political-false-dichotomies-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/#comment-83460
“The religion of the Servile State must have no dogmas or definitions. It cannot afford to
have any definitions. For definitions are very dreadful things: they do
the two things that most men, especially comfortable men, cannot endure.
They fight; and they fight fair.”
G K Chesterton , Utopia of Userers
http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/en/bck.htm
“If your only line of argumentation consists of quibbling about definitions”?
Starting assumptions are actually a necessary condition of forming coherent conclusions and
Definition of terms are fundamental to formulating any set of starting assumptions.
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/?s=G+K+Chesterton
Dear Caitlan,
Reflecting on the comment I just made I realised that it is insufficient and ambiguous as a response to this article. As I almost completely agree with what you say in the article where you state facts about censorship, and why that censorship is essential in relation to maintaining occult knowledge at the core aspects of Power Relations in "The Empire".
What leaves me uneasy both about my comment and your article is best summed up by this quote from Wittgenstein.
“Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
AT TIMES LIKE THESE. EPICTETUS OR WITTGENSTIEN. #COVIDPURPOSE
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/at-times-like-these-epictetus-or-wittgenstien/
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62122859
Nasa scientists are in no doubt that Webb will fulfill its promise.
"I have seen the first images and they are spectacular," deputy project scientist Dr. Amber Straughn said of Tuesday's further release.
"They're amazing in themselves just as images. But the hints of the detailed science we're going to be able to do with them is what makes me so excited," she told BBC News.
The above story is used here as a metaphor Caitlan, The European Space agency describes Infrared imaging
'Red shift' is a key concept for astronomers. The term can be understood literally - the wavelength of the light is stretched, so the light is seen as 'shifted' towards the red part of the spectrum.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/What_is_red_shift
A Century of Errors
Unless one knows the frequency of light emitted at the source, there is no way to know by how much it has been redshifted by the time it reaches the observer. For over 100 years, astrophysicists have not paid enough attention to the frequency at the source. They falsely assume that what they are witnessing are galaxies in motion and mistakenly use redshift to indicate a presumed velocity of motion. This is the logical error of circular reasoning, i.e., inadvertently including one’s conclusion in the assumption, then using the assumption to prove the conclusion. If we know the frequency of light at its source, then redshift lets us know how far away that source is. There is nothing else that redshift can tell us.
https://www.ospublishers.com/The-Redshift-Blunder-has-been-Obstructing-Cosmology-for-Over-a-Century.html
Please stay with this I use this example just because it is topical as it was back in 2003 when on 19 December 2003
"First images from infrared telescope are ('sensational')"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4503-first-images-from-infrared-telescope-are-sensational/
It's a Naming of the Rose thing, a way of thinking that addresses to UR- in the Extanbt Fascism if you will.
The Name of The Rose By That Guy Who Wrote The Fascism Essay Everyone Uses
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...Yes! Both Saussure's and Peirce's models demonstrate that meaning, as we all know, has an inherent
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slipperiness. Any sign can be interpreted in many ways. Think about the meaning that some conspiracy
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theorists put into the simplest geometric shape. Or all the meaning that can be read in a single
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letter of the alphabet. Saussure and Peirce are now considered the co-founders of the field of
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semiotics - a field which would include a graduate of the university of Turin named Umberto Eco.
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
Charles S. Peirce
Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878),
https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%201878%20Make%20Ideas%20Clear.pdf
In all matters epistemological and philosophical I demure ultimately to C S Pierce and this made-up quote from ´We Pragmatists ´
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE: ´´In order to reason well …. it is absolutely necessary to possess … such virtues as intellectual honesty and sincerity and a real love of truth (2.82). The cause [of the success of scientificinquirers] has been that the motive which has carried them to the laboratory and the field has been a craving to know how things really were … (1-34).[Genuine inquiry consists in a diligent inquiry into truth for truth’s sake(1.44), … in actually drawing the bow upon truth with intentness in the eye, with energy in the arm (1.235). [When] it is no longer the reasoning which determines what the conclusion shall be, but … the conclusion which determines what the reasoning shall be … this is sham reasoning…. The effect of this shamming is that men come to look upon reasoning as mainly decorative…´´. http://web.ncf.ca/ag659/308/Peirce-Rorty-Haack.pdf Pierces seminal essay How to make our ideas clear is also a great starting off point for embracing such truth as we might be fortunate enough to encounter in our allotted time on this blue marble suspended in eternity. http://www.peirce.org/writings/p119.html
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/why-are-we-here-an-essay-provoked-by-golem-xivs-david-malones-latest-documentary-series/
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/?s=we+pragmatists+rorty
By Way of re-cap, I have tried to engage before.
CAITLAN JOHNSON, CITES THE FALLACIES OF LOGICAL ARGUMENT AND THEN PROCEEDS TO INDULGE. IRONY, DO AUSSIES GET IT TOO? #ASSANGE
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/caitlan-johnson-cites-the-fallacies-of-logical-argument-and-then-proceeds-to-indulge-irony-do-aussies-get-it-too-assange-snowdon-freespeech-censorship-coercion-bellmarsh-guantanamo-ciagate/
Solar System 2.0 - the helical model
SOCIAL CONDITIONING AND CONVENTIONAL PIETIES. #CONSPIRACY #HYPOTHESIS #THEORY #CRIME #STATECRIMESAGAINSTDEMOCRACY #SCADS CONSPIRACY OF CONTEXT!
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/social-conditioning-and-conventional-pieties-conspiracy-hypothesis-theory-crime-statecrimesagainstdemocracy-scads-conspiracy-of-context/
Winston Chomsky Language Stories Signs Symbols
https://youtu.be/peqrrD28x3s?si=P5X_hL1MY-zPPVPb
Catherine Austin Fitts on uk column.