[little jeremiah]

Companion piece to ransomnote’s awesome post above.

*****WARNING***** Brian Cates’ thread below. Skip if you hate him.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1178209043552329729.html

Some people have a personality type where they think FEAR is the best motivator. So these people are constantly playing to your FEARS to try to whip you into action.

I learned LONG ago fear isn’t the best motivator. HOPE is.

Trump also knows this.
What do you think Trump was selling in his 2016 campaign? Hope or fear?

Which do you think is going to get him re-elected?

Does he go around constantly painting worst case scenarios to motivate his base?

So some people out there are selling the “Trump In Mortal Danger At All Times” narrative. A clueless guy surrounded by traitors on all sides, many of them he can’t spot or do anything about.

You may have noticed I’m not one of these people.
Here’s why the fear-mongering behavior offends me so deeply:

it is exploitative.

It’s an attempt to manipulate people.

And I’m pretty sure most of the time they’re doing it they know there’s a more reasonable alternative explanation - and they don’t care.

I’ve gotten comments from people who engage in this constant doom crying & fear mongering that I am giving people ‘false hope’ and that I am encouraging them to be passive.

That’s because the only thing that motivates THEM personally is their fears.

So there are people out there who think they’re ***HELPING*** by framing this impeachment theater in 1 committee in the House as if it’s a legitimate, real danger to President Trump because they see fear as the big motivator & they want you outraged & stirred up to act.

So what I object to, what pisses me off, is watching over the past 2 years how people were manipulated & fed doomsday scenarios by people who should have known better.

And I got some personal attacks from several of these doom criers, where they questioned my MOTIVES for selling this false hope about the Mueller investigation, Jeff Sessions, that Trump actually knew what he was doing making these appointments, that justice really is coming.

The **only possible explanation** these people would countenance when it came as to why the DOJ wouldn’t put all the cards on the table 2 years ago is that there was a massive cover up underway & Trump couldn’t stop it.

Because I would not endorse that scenario, I got attacked.

No matter how many times I patiently explained you don’t get the key evidence until the investigations are concluded & the indictments are unsealed, it didn’t matter.

There was a MASSIVE COVER UP UNDERWAY, you see.

And I wasn’t helping to expose it.

Because Trump went the patient route, and let the wheels of justice slowly turn as he prepared the battlefield, I had to put up with 2 years of people whining he wasn’t doing this the way they thought he should.

If Trump listened to morons, he wouldn’t be where he is today.

So the first reason the doom criers do what they do is that they are trying to manipulate you for attention, for clicks & often because they themselves are fear-motivated.

The second reason for their doom crying is that they’re UPSET Trump isn’t following their advice.

If Trump had listened to these people, he’d have charged straight into the Resistance guns back in 2017, full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes!

How, do you suppose, if you stopped to actually give that some serious thought for about 20 seconds, would that have ended up?

“Waaaaah! Waaaaaah! Trump didn’t opt for the full scale rush straight into the enemy guns that I wanted to see back in 2017! I want my banzai charge! WHERE’S MY BANZAI CHARGE??!!!”

Useless whiners.

The novel idea that Trump just might actually know what he’s doing, and that he actually DIDN’T blow just about every top appointment he’s made to the federal LEO & Intel agencies, they won’t even entertain that idea for a second.

But if Trump knows what he’s doing, & he’s been carefully preparing the battlefield for all the stuff that’s going to start happening once Horowitz releases this next report, that means TRUMP HAS NEVER REALLY BEEN IN ANY REAL DANGER.

So that would mean 2 years of doom crying got it all wrong, because he wasn’t doing things the way people expected him to or demanded him to.

When Whitaker announced Mueller was almost finished with his investigation, remember what happened?

I actually had to defend Whitaker against the doom criers who **INSISTED** he’d either been duped my Mueller or he was a Deep State bald faced liar.

Why, EVERYBODY knew the Mueller investigation was NEVER going to end! Certainly not with out some attempt to get Trump’s scalp!

When I said Mueller was ending, Whitaker was telling the truth, and that the Special Counsel was never even going to so much as muss up a single hair on Trump’s head, I was told I was delusional and it was time to seek professional help.

So Mueller ends, not a single charge ever made based on the Steele Dossier, not 1 single American ever charged with collusion or an election-related crime, it ends with the whimper, not the bang I predicted, what happens?

Not one apology to Whitaker. None.

All those doom criers that spent weeks while I watched them, spinning doomsday scenarios about the Mueller probe & how Whitaker was either a simpleton who’d been tricked or a nefarious Deep State agent, did they ever apologize, say “Oh wow, I got that wrong.”?

Of course not.

Mueller ended with a soft wet embarrassing fart with the SC’s office kicking up the weakest, dumbest obstruction of justice case ever formulated that it was too cautious to charge itself. So it punted.

And Barr & Rosenstein had a good laugh, shitcanned it and went out for beer.

There has been plenty of signs and plenty of evidence right there to be seen for over two years to show a diligent researcher what is really going on.

But some people have a vested interest in FEAR.

Personal investment, financial investment.

So I essentially spent the past 2 years telling you Trump was fine, he was in no real danger and we were just going to have to wait for the federal investigations underway to finish, with Horowitz, Huber, Durham & others who’s names we never learned & don’t know yet.

The alternative scenario, that Trump was in constant danger & that there were no real investigations going on, that instead we were all watching a massive cover up is popular with some people.

Ah well.

I can’t help that.

The good news is, the day of reckoning approaches.
I’ve never shied away from the fact that at the end of this either I’m going to be proved right or subsequent events will destroy my credibility for all time.

I’m perfectly fine with it.

It’s the nature of the beast.

If I was timid, I’d never have opened my mouth.
But I want to tell you this, as I close this thread:

If I’m proven right, that **should** be the end of the doom criers.

But I know it wouldn’t be.

They’ll all just move on as usual, inventing new stories to scare the kids with.

They’ll never stop.

/end

[truthluva]

Bravo!!

[greeneyes]

Here’s why the fear-mongering behavior offends me so deeply:
it is exploitative.
It’s an attempt to manipulate people.
And I’m pretty sure most of the time they’re doing it they know there’s a more reasonable alternative explanation - and they don’t care.
I’ve gotten comments from people who engage in this constant doom crying & fear mongering that I am giving people ‘false hope’ and that I am encouraging them to be passive.
That’s because the only thing that motivates THEM personally is their fears.
So there are people out there who think they’re ***HELPING*** by framing this impeachment theater in 1 committee in the House as if it’s a legitimate, real danger to President Trump because they see fear as the big motivator & they want you outraged & stirred up to act.
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All good points. And I’d like to add that such is often used in Psops to give people a defeatist and hopeless attitude so they will simply give up.

[little jeremiah]

****WARNING**** Another Cates thread.

I will use asterisks for naughty words.

https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1178071389280116736

To people endlessly linking me Last Refuge’s latest panic post:

What utter bulls***.

“We changed a couple House rules, impeachment no longer has to follow the Constitution. We don’t even have to give Republicans a vote.”— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

Do me a favor.

Prove to me you can’t possibly be so f***ing stupid you are still listening to this guy.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

People are actually buying this. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/KYG49E4QiX— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

This isn’t real.

You can’t move forward with ***really*** impeaching the President without a full House vote on the floor.

Nadler & Schiff are rattling their chains & wailing about the SUPER IMPORTANT committee impeachment investigation they’re doing - be afraid!— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

Changing the COMMITTEE rules doesn’t change how impeachment is done in the House.

They’re still running a fake investigation and they can brag about what a awesome Star Chamber they’re building...in that one committee, running their bogus impeachment investigation their way.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

You know why I’m always saying there are people on BOTH SIDES that try to feed you propaganda and disinformation?

Because it’s true. It’s NOT just the Left out to manipulate you. PLENTY of people supposedly on our side have no problem misleading you for their own reasons.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

Impeachment is an electoral loser. Pelosi will bluff, but she knows what would happen if this farce got to the point of another floor vote in the House.

Democrats are NOT UNIFIED ON IMPEACHMENT.

She knows this.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

So Nads & Schifftless can play their committee games all they want.

Trump’s in no danger whatsoever of being impeached.

You are watching desperate losers point to their empty clenched fists as they try to stave off their utter defeat.https://t.co/n9xVAX4bUj— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

As the FISA evidence is rolled out in Horowitz’s report, & indictments & unsealed & perp walks begin, Schiff & Nadler will be sticking their clenched fists out the door of that Star Chamber, going “I’VE GOT IT RIGHT HERE! The evidence to impeach Trump! AND NO YOU CAN’T SEE IT!”— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

I can see it now. Wild bug eyed Schiff bursting out of the committee room pointing to frantically his clenched fist as the walls close in on him and these other losers.

“STAY BACK! I’ve got the evidence to impeach Trump right here in my hand! DON’T MAKE ME USE IT!!!”— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

“YOU FOOLS!!! Can’t you see I’m only being arrested on a false charge of leaking because Trump is persecuting his political opposition!?”

Yeah, whatever, loser.

It’s all a bluff and a stupid one at that.

So of course the usual suspects are going to tell you this is real.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 28, 2019

Some people have a personality type where they think FEAR is the best motivator. So these people are constantly playing to your FEARS to try to whip you into action.

I learned LONG ago fear isn’t the best motivator. HOPE is.

Trump also knows this.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 29, 2019

What do you think Trump was selling in his 2016 campaign? Hope or fear?

Which do you think is going to get him re-elected?

Does he go around constantly painting worst case scenarios to motivate his base?— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 29, 2019

So some people out there are selling the “Trump In Mortal Danger At All Times” narrative. A clueless guy surrounded by traitors on all sides, many of them he can’t spot or do anything about.

You may have noticed I’m not one of these people.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) September 29, 2019

[grey_whiskers]