Transcript for 8/19/24: KRAFT DURCH FREUDE

As the DNC gathers together for their joyous convention in Chicago it appears that their propaganda spinners have now gone from calling Trump Hitler to calling him "the false prophet."

Evangelicals For Harris is releasing their second media spot in as many weeks, this time using biblical text in 1 John 4 that mentions false prophets and how Christians are to, “test the spirits to see if they are from God.” The implication and context are pretty clear: they want Evangelicals to ask themselves if Trump fits the characteristics of a false prophet.

Those who support Trump see him as someone promoting biblical values when it comes to policy. They’ll also mightily argue that it’s actually the Christian Left that is spreading a false presentation of the biblical message.

The Evangelicals for Harris are saying to choose joy and Christs love against Trump.

If Kamala Harris wins 20 percent or more of these skeptical evangelicals, she’ll win. That’s what history tells us. Just ask Joe Biden who did it and Hillary Clinton who didn’t.

I remember warning people that this whole campaign is dovetailing into some sectarian cult -- and the methods that the propaganda spinners are using are very familiar to me and I have to call it out so you can see where I am coming from.

They have mastered the social engineering processes of exploiting gaps that we have with regard to recall of history -- it is normal to have these blind spots because you cannot file everything that has passed because most of the time we think in a linear fashion. 

Over the past decades, social science has cataloged numerous knowledge gaps in the human mind. Many of us suffer from selective hearing and selective thinking. We are complacent about what we know and oblivious to what we miss. 

This is a condition known as hypocognition. It is a condition that is being exploited by social media and various other media outlets in order to give them justification for binding certain types of media from speaking against state oligarchies and their proclivities.

I would say the others are the conspiracy theorists. Those who have heighten awareness and use history as a means to reveal how the more things change the more they stay the same.

I guess that would mean that they have hypercognotion in a world that appears to be hyper real.

If you were not aware of this then you just experienced hypocognition. 

Hypocognition, a term introduced to modern behavioral science by anthropologist Robert Levy, means the lack of a linguistic or cognitive representation for an object, category, or idea. It means that when you are introduced to a new concept that you are unaware of – you tend to think it is unimportant or you reject it.

All of us are hypocognitive of the numerous concepts that elude our awareness. Hypocognition is about the absence of things. It is hard to recognize precisely because it is invisible.

There is plenty of information that our media excludes or finds a way to exclude it is ignored because of what can be called impossible criteria or because an editor sees to it that a particular item is ignored for a more sensational item that can jar an emotional complacent response.

This adds to the idea that if you don’t see it then you can assume it is not there. If it is not reported in a mainstream framework then it must be a conspiracy theory.

Ever since the events of January 6th, 2001 the media has adapted the use of the phrase "The Big Lie" which refers to the so called lie that the last election was stolen or rigged for a Biden win.

I remember when I first heard Anderson Cooper use the terminology I winced a bit because of how that phrase, the Big Lie was coined by Nazi Germany's chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth primarily used as a political propaganda technique. The German expression was first used by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf to describe how people could be induced to believe so colossal a lie because they would not believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". 

Hitler claimed that the technique had been used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic.

According to historian Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. 

Herf maintains that Nazi Germany's chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder. 

Herf further argues that the Nazis' big lie was their depiction of Germany as an innocent, besieged nation striking back at "international Jewry", which the Nazis blamed for starting World War I. Nazi propaganda repeatedly claimed that Jews held outsized and secret power in Britain, Russia, and the United States. 

It further spread claims that the Jews had begun a war of extermination against Germany, and used these to assert that Germany had a right to annihilate the Jews in self-defense.

In the 21st century, the term has been applied to attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election by Donald Trump and his allies, this has been used as a weaponized tool of propaganda to accuse Trump supporters as being a threat to democracy,

What is "the big lie" that has been used by the Democratic party? That conservatives—and President Donald Trump in particular—are fascists. Nazis, even. 

In a typical comment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says the Trump era is reminiscent of "what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor." 

She also once said that she worried that if Trump became President that he would round her up and send her to a concentration camp.

So the left hijacked a Nazi propaganda slogan to accuse their opponents of being Nazis -- using a bait and switch claiming that they are the truth tellers and that everyone else is participating in "The Big Lie."

It’s a strange world of Orwellian newspeak we are now living in. Social media and the mainstream media are now in the business of creating what can be called an information famine or the deprivation of critical concepts poses a great perceptual disadvantage for all of us.

The media is successfully taking advantage of hypocognition. They have taken advantage of the fact that many Americans probably never heard of the origins of this "Big Lie" – the appropriation of Nazi and Marxist imagery and word Salad has not ended with the use of "The Big Lie."

The Democratic National Convention kicks off today and we are being told that the Harris Walz campaign is one of joy. Thats right every headline spun by the media about her campaign says that it is all about joy as opposed to Trump's campaign based on doom and nasty things.

For example, the New York Times reports that:

Harris Used to Worry About Laughing. Now Joy Is Fueling Her Campaign.

Vanity Fair runs this headline 

Sweet Emotion: How the Harris-Walz Ticket Wields Joy Against Donald Trump.

The Washington Post reports:

Harris and Walz seize on joyful message in contrast to darker Trump themes

Its all about Joy -- Joy Joy Joy.

In Fact google Campaign of Joy --and you get all of these headlines and more.

I hate to be the one to say that again -- this whole Joy campaign again stinks of borrowed propaganda from Nazis in 1933.

In 1933, when Hitler was running to be Chancellor (an election he won, after which he instantly became dictator), the German Labor Front, which was working to promote the Nazis, started an organization called “Kraft durch Freude,” or, in English, “strength through joy”:

I hate to throw in the Godwin argument here -- but I used to collect old Propaganda posters when I was in Argentina -- they were for sale everywhere--and Kraft Dirch Freude was right up there with "Got Mit Unzt!" meaning "God with us."

The Germans would use that phrase too -- it was part of the idea of creating the God like Reich which brought joy and prosperity to Germany.

"Strength Through Joy."

But again as the old saying goes , just because Hitler liked dogs, that doesn’t mean that all people who like dogs are Hitler.

But I can't help but think the party that brought you "The Big Lie" went through Goebbels playbook and found "Strength Through Joy."

It worked before -- and it appears to be working again.

The resemblance between Kamala’s and the Nazis’ “joy” is that this isn’t the first time that Democrat slogans and iconography match socialist slogans and iconography.

For example, back in 2012, Barack Obama’s reelection slogan was “Forward!” It also looks as if Kamal Harris has also borrowed the slogan -- including a similar blur and red poster -- just like the Obama ones that said hope.

But "Forward" as a slogan for a campaign was used a lot by the Marxists.

Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the word “Forward" printed on them.

The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other left-wing newspapers and publications.

The slogan “Forward!” reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism.

There have been at least two radical-left publications named “Vorwaerts” (the German word for “Forward”). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky.

Vladimir Lenin founded the publication “Vpered” (the Russian word for “forward”) in 1905. Soviet propaganda film-maker Dziga Vertov made a documentary whose title is sometimes translated as “Forward, Soviet.” 

Harris has this all down in her campaign including a Shepard Fairey’s doppelganger Obama's Hope Image -- this time it is Kamala with the word "Forward" underneath.

Fairey based the work on an Associated Press photograph by Mannie Garcia, which he transformed with his signature high-contrast stencil technique, inspired by the political message and bold graphics of Soviet Socialist Realism.

Fairey has now churned out the same poster for Kamala:

Collectivists are invariably the same. They share the same beliefs, which are that the state will always lead people to a more glorious future (“forward!”), all happiness comes from the government (“joy!”)

Collectivist regimes always start in a haze of optimism, but as their policies invariably fail, they devolve into brute force, starvation, persecution and, often, war. They also eventually create a scapegoat "Other" and they have already stated who they are -- MAGA Republicans.

Like the old saying goes Socilism is fun --until it isn't.

Given history’s lessons, it’s unnerving to see the Democrat party, using Marxist and Nazi propaganda while pointing fingers at Donald Trump being a Neo Nazi.

They have taken pages and propaganda from history -- traveling down the same familiar path, whether it comes to political slogans, propaganda images, antisemitism, or a government takeover of the economy. 

When a populist movement built on frustration over decades of misrule began having electoral success, the left created a Big Lie that the backlash on January 6th, was irrational and the fault of Donald Trump, building him into a super-Hitler figure . It became cliché that he was the embodiment of all evil and needed to be stopped “at all costs.” 

By late last year, mainstream press organizations were saying legal means had failed, and more or less openly calling for a truly final solution to the Trump problem.

Then, he was shot and the aftermath has been erased and forgotten about by the people as the campaign of joy moves forward and now the media has now gotten behind the novelty act of a woman of color -- and the phony white liberal act of Black exceptionalism.

It’s the notion that black people who are educated, smart, articulate, poised, and basically every other positive adjective you can think of are atypical or rarities among the general black population-- this type of racism runs rampant in liberal circles and is the chief reason why Black Live Matter are over run with liberal racists.

Again it is a haze of joy and equality that is used to fool people into thinking they are above suspicion when it comes to being racist--and like with any oppressive movement we all know what happens in the end.

Proponents of Black exceptionalism assert that representation matters and is vital to showcase. The symbolism of a Black president and other Black firsts highlighted in the media are an impactful way of virtue signaling -- where liberals want you to know that blacks are human... rather than knowing it already and using fellowship -- it has to be showcased as if it was a handicap-- think of all of the cliches that were used by Biden when he called Obama an articulate young man. Biden called Obama the first "clean" African-American candidate-- if you remember.

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Such joy and fakery towards black Americans should be called out. The Marxist and Nazi slogans should be called out -- before they go after MAGA republicans again.

Reality is now defined by the spin. Our senses, and our reasoning mind, no longer have much to do with defining reality. For example, media tells us that young people today are not satisfied with the gender they were declared at birth -- so the answer is to subject these young people to mutations and drugs that destroy their sexual urges. 

These are similar to the Eugenics programs that were used by Dr. Josef Mengele.

Conservative Americans want to create strong, nuclear families. Communists believe the state is the family. Thus, a common trope in propaganda from both the USSR and China was to show Stalin and Mao, respectively, surrounded by happy children.

Tim Walz has always had picture of him surrounded by children because he believes he is a champion for them. 

He signed a bill to provide free breakfast and lunch to all Minnesota students at eligible schools. Walz signed the bill surrounded by lawmakers, community advocates and young students at Webster Elementary School in northeast Minneapolis.

He also supports abortion and gender-affirming care. His gender affirming care includes the state kidnapping a child if necessary to get them out of a home that does not support gender replacement surgery.

In April 2023, Walz, who has been the state's governor since 2019, signed a Minnesota law aimed at protecting the rights of the LGBTQ+ community to access and receive gender-affirming health care—which can include a range of medical procedures and care such as surgery and puberty blockers—without intervention of out-of-state laws.

The law says court orders "for the removal of a child issued in another state solely because the child's parent or guardian assisted the child in receiving gender-affirming care in this state must not be enforced in this state," with many referring to this as a "Trans Refuge" law. It prohibits the extradition of out-of-state individuals for receiving legal case in Minnesota.

It also states if a child has been abandoned or their safety is at risk, or they are unable to obtain gender-affirming care, the "court of this state has temporary emergency jurisdiction."

A parent who dissents from their child receiving so-called 'gender-affirming care' can lose custody-- the child then becomes property of the state.

Does this historically sound familiar?

Look at propaganda posters from North Korea and from Stalinist Russia -- children love their leaders.

The deception here is not to make things “better” but to actually change things to be something they are not, so they appeal to our overly sensitive senses. Like a drug that excites the nervous system to an unnatural degree, so we lose sight of what it feels like to be “normal”—a “normal” that includes down times as well as up times—comfortable moments as well as uncomfortable ones—a stinging fly amidst the wonders of nature. A “normal” that is satisfied with what it’s got, and isn’t constantly looking for instant, and over-the-top, stimulation from the “fake” world.

Remember the people that brought you "The Big Lie,The deception here is not to make things “better” but to actually change things to be something they are not, so they appeal to our overly sensitive senses Remember, the people that brought you "The Big Lie”, Joy and Forward are the same people that brought you "Safe and effective."