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Pro-Trump media attacked for giving terrorists a walkthrough of security measures in Washington
January 17, 2021
Intercept reporter Eoin Higgins was tipped off on a series of videos from Right Side Broadcasting showing viewers the specific roads blocked off in Washington, D.C. and what security is at precise areas in the city.
For people around the country wondering what Washington looks like, photos of fences and trucks blocking roads should be more than sufficient. What RSB's Brian Glenn does is something else. He walks through the streets, pointing out specific roads, corners, and directions in multiple videos.
<p>Legal analyst Marcy Wheeler characterized it as "Pro Trump media doing reconnaissance of the Inauguration security."</p><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="17dccae5c68353f45f23b544c3c19f31" id="fbfd2"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350919227750952960"><div style="margin:1em 0">Pro Trump media doing reconnaissance of the Inauguration security.
What: Were the QAnon Congressladies unavailable? https://t.co/Gtx2TFWfsx</div> — Dr. emptywheel (@Dr. emptywheel)<a href="https://twitter.com/emptywheel/statuses/1350919227750952960">1610919217.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p>Others tagged the video to draw the attention of the FBI and Secret Service. <br/></p><p>"Over 254k people have watched the 36 minute video as of this tweet, in which Right Side Broadcasting Network anchor Brian Glenn shows his audience in detail where security checkpoints are, what they look like, and how to maneuver around locked down Washington DC," tweeted Higgins.</p><p>"We're going to take you on a journey around the city here of what exactly is going on here, as is very much a different scene here in Washington, D.C.," says Glenn in the video. </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1350630756545126400" target="_blank">See Higgins' other comments, tweets, and videos here. </a></p><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4da46108586d5432cd5a7a1640bc3832" id="8ac27"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350630756545126400"><div style="margin:1em 0">Over 254k people have watched the 36 minute video as of this tweet, in which Right Side Broadcasting Network anchor… https://t.co/L9yNBpeyRk</div> — Eoin Higgins (@Eoin Higgins)<a href="https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/statuses/1350630756545126400">1610850440.0</a></blockquote></div>
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How to wean Trump supporters off of the president's pathological manipulation: psychiatrist
January 17, 2021
Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee spoke with Scientific America this week about the next steps for weaning supporters of Donald Trump off of the president's pathological manipulation.
After watching the insurrectionists at the Capitol nearly a week ago, the world began asking what's next for those the president convinced a war was beginning. What happens to millions of Trump supporters convinced that they've been called by the president to fight a new Civil War.
<p>In her recent book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08L6RGGYK?pf_rd_r=4KBPWR60CKQ6SK2M455K&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee" target="_blank"><em>Profile of a Nation: Trump's Mind, America's Soul</em></a>, Lee outlined a psychological assessment of Trump with his ardent followers and of the United States as it steps into a new era. </p><p>Lee cited two major emotional drivers that bring people to Trump: "narcissistic symbiosis and shared psychosis."</p><p>"Narcissistic symbiosis refers to the developmental wounds that make the leader-follower relationship magnetically attractive," Lee explained. "The leader, hungry for adulation to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth, projects grandiose omnipotence—while the followers, rendered needy by societal stress or developmental injury, yearn for a parental figure. When such wounded individuals are given positions of power, they arouse similar pathology in the population that creates a 'lock and key' relationship."</p><p>A shared psychosis, when it happens at the national level or "induced delusions—refers to the infectiousness of severe symptoms that goes beyond ordinary group psychology. When a highly symptomatic individual is placed in an influential position, the person's symptoms can spread through the population through emotional bonds, heightening existing pathologies and inducing delusions, paranoia and propensity for violence—even in previously healthy individuals. The treatment is removal of exposure."</p><p>Trump tends to promote violence and has throughout the past five years. He encouraged his supporters to attack protesters at his rally, saying he would pay their legal fees. </p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b5e3d4c125f4134dd64e799424215c63" id="2b59e"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="668168739100172289"><div style="margin:1em 0">A black protester at Trump's rally today in Alabama was shoved, tackled, punched & kicked: https://t.co/Aq0wuaAtax https://t.co/cTRDMtjuBl</div> — Jeremy Diamond (@Jeremy Diamond)<a href="https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/statuses/668168739100172289">1448138816.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p>He went on to threaten Black Lives Matter protesters in 2015 who took over the stage at a Bernie Sanders event. <br/></p><p>"That will never happen with me," Trump said at the time. "I don't know if I'll do the fighting myself or if other people will. But that was a disgrace. … I felt badly for him, but it showed that he's weak."</p><p>At one point Trump claimed, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."</p><p>In Feb. 2016 told supporters to "knock the crap out of them" if they saw anyone throwing tomatoes at him. Later that month he said he wanted to punch a protester in the face. Then came the bullying of reporters and ultimately began calling the media "the enemy of the people" because he couldn't control them. The "Lock her Up" chants persisted and went mainstream. </p><p>Lee explained that the reasons behind Trump's violent rhetoric come from his mental pathology, where destructive behavior is part of the characteristic. </p><p>"First, I wish to clarify that those with mental illness are, as a group, no more dangerous than those without mental illness," said Lee. "When mental pathology is accompanied by criminal-mindedness, however, the combination can make individuals far more dangerous than either alone."</p><p>She wrote a <a href="https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Violence%3A+An+Interdisciplinary+Approach+to+Causes%2C+Consequences%2C+and+Cures-p-9781119240686" target="_blank">textbook on violence</a>, saying that such violence is a characteristic of when someone can't stop their impulses. </p><p>"Briefly, if one cannot have love, one resorts to respect," she explained. "And when respect is unavailable, one resorts to fear. Trump is now living through an intolerable loss of respect: rejection by a nation in his election defeat. Violence helps compensate for feelings of powerlessness, inadequacy and lack of real productivity."</p><p>That then appeals to a certain subset of his followers that have their own psychological injuries "from relative—not absolute—socioeconomic deprivation," she said. </p><p>"Yes, there is great injury, anger and redirectable energy for hatred, which Trump harnessed and stoked for his manipulation and use. The emotional bonds he has created facilitate shared psychosis at a massive scale," Lee explained. "It is a natural consequence of the conditions we have set up. For healing, I usually recommend three steps: (1) Removal of the offending agent (the influential person with severe symptoms). (2) Dismantling systems of thought control—common in advertising but now also heavily adopted by politics. And (3) fixing the socioeconomic conditions that give rise to poor collective mental health in the first place."<br/></p><p>This presents a plan for dealing with Trump supporters. But given Trump's own desperate need to build a kind of "shadow presidency," it could cause even further problems for the country. </p><p><span></span><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/" target="_blank">Read the rest of her interview at Scientific America. </a></p>
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Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado is facing a lawsuit for allegedly violating the First Amendment rights of her constituents, including a former lawmaker.
Former state Rep. Bri Buentello, a Democrat, has reportedly filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Denver.
<p>David Lane, an attorney for Buentello, said that Boebert had violated the constitutional rights of her constituents by blocking some of them on Twitter.</p><p>According to Lane, Boebert "apparently believes that the Constitution begins and ends with the Second Amendment. Despite her incessant whining about the alt-right being censored on social media, she has a Twitter account and she routinely blocks anyone critical of her authoritarian views."</p><p>He added: "Our client, Brianna Buentello, is a former elected state legislator who lives in Boebert's district and is very concerned that Boebert has no knowledge of, nor concern with, the United States Constitution beyond the notion that somehow everyone can carry guns anywhere they so desire. Boebert has blocked Buentello, along with many other people, who are critical of her authoritarian politics."</p><p>Buentello said that she is filing the lawsuit with the hopes that Boebert "wakes up one day and stops trampling on the First Amendment and stops blocking people."</p><p>Boebert's office declined to comment.</p>
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