A Fourth Of You Lie Reminder (For Liberals Out There Suffering Under Trump)

Like with Naziism in the 1920s and 30s, as Fascism arrived in Germany, for the late 20th century, the Democrats opened the door for Donald Trump by adopting NewAge in America. (This is why Oprah spoke at every DNC and even got Obama's honors after peddling The Secret). Trump left the Democrat Party, but kept RFK, Jr. and Dr. Oz, so the connection to NewAge quackery - which, clearly, the left and right seem to immensely (and stupidly) enjoy - stays obvious.

Voltaire warned you: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

So, it should come as no surprise that, here we are in 2025 - long after Vietnam - celebrating the birthday of a nation known for killing babies again.

 

THE Breaking Story Of The NewAge: News Reporting Has Sucked For Decades

After we can now see it's taken over 5 years for "Washington insiders" like Joe Scarborough and Jake Tapper to recognize Joe Biden was out of his mind,

and it's been since October 7, 2023 that Piers Morgan has failed to recognize what most the of the world has seen all along in Gaza,

AND after thousands of reporters walked through the offices of Theranos but - still - couldn't see anything wrong without the aid of a whistleblower,

It's safe to say Obama giving Oprah America's highest civilian honor for her influence on journalism and culture - after she peddled quacks and con artists, anti-vaccine tropes and "The Secret" - just keeps making sense.

As has the silence from journalists.

 

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How can America be this wrapped-up in the promoter of "The Secret," anti-vaccine nonsense, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, the mass rapist John of God, the beliefs of Shirley MacLaine, and more, but still claim to be - nationally - on alert to fraud and supposedly wiping it out?

 

It Was 22 Years Ago Today America Lost It's Bearings And NewAge Took Over

I DID IT - 5 bizarre 9/11 conspiracy theories that refuse to die out

THE SECRET:

People who believe in "manifesting" to "cosmically attract" success are more likely to go bankrupt 

   

 SCIENTOLOGY VALUES - Masterson’s Ex-Stepdad Says His Kids Lied to Help Actor

FACT - Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips after her party spent years trying to convince you that Donald Trump was peeing on hookers in Russia.

FAITH: Jehovah Witness elder sentenced to jail for child sexual abuse and Jesus saw him do it.

Haiti gangs take aim at disabled children: ‘Put those kids out of their misery or we will’

CRYSTAL ENERGY - NYC Mayor Adams described as 'Black Trump'

BOOM - King Charles Is Sitting on a Reparations Time Bomb 

  

CHEER UP - Batman is still the shit: in Japanese.

I Wonder Alone (From Oprah Country)

Osteopathy in France: widely accepted yet based on wishful thinking

It is amazing - after spending years in France - how little other countries remark on the French's capacity for self-deception. The nation only now stopped funding homeopathy, though that cult of quackery's been known to be "a grave error" for over 200 years. (My French wife, exhibiting her native stupidity, actually ran away with one of these charlatans).

So, how do an ancient people - still ignorant to how the modern world functions - still, credibly, involve themselves in world politics? Without making a mess of things? And just how powerful IS "The Secret"?

 

Nothing's Been Right (Since The Democrat Party Started Wishing For Things)

 

Joe Rogan remembers when Oprah started something to "take hold" on the left - which they've forgotten just as quickly. No comments, no documentaries, no studies of the phenomena - nothing - the fact, she unleashed something cultish on America, has been scrubbed from our history.

 

Oprah: One Look At Her Lying Face - With Her Eyes Closed - Closes The Mind

"If you are a skeptic about spirituality and the law of attraction then below is a one-hour long video taken from Oprah Show."

We're On A Slippery Slope (From Being A Dope)

"All They Have To Do Is Not Go Crazy Before The Midterms - And They Can't Do It!" 

- A popular saying on the Right about the Left

I released a song about the Democrat's cult just as the Right is mounting a defense of Alex Jones. Good Lord. It’s awful weird to hear complaints, that people are unrepentantly spreading misinformation, and then watch them defend those very same people when their ability to do so is curtailed. I think the internet companies should go further and wipe out GOOP, Oprah, astrologers, Ellen (because she’s always pumping up psychics) homeopaths, yogis, and all the other charlatans we know - with 100% certainty - are making a very good living from confusing every damned issue they can get their hands on for those who are, for whatever reason, vulnerable enough to believe them. I lived with such a person. It was horrifying to watch her be manipulated by these people. There were even deaths.

This society-wide lying in the West has to stop. The people telling the lies are determined to make us think President Trump warped our world, but, really, a short trip in history will reveal, not only that Oprah Winfrey declared “The Secret” was science long before Trump ever ran for anything (to no public condemnation) but Frank Furedi’s essay “The Age of Unreason” was published in 2005, as was the original BBC broadcast of Richard Dawkins’ “The Enemies of Reason”. Before that, we even had Francis Ween’s literary contribution, “How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions” in 2004.

As John Lennon wrote of the Maharishi’s welcoming from the West in “Sexy Sadie”, everyone has been made into fools - again. They entered the cult of NewAge. “The Wild, Wild Country” where a Rajneesh delivers their news and an astrology outfit (which is what The Daily Kos supposedly was before it switched to politics) directs their actions. It’s time to get out of it now. It’s time for America to let it go.

And it’s already waaay past time for more-than-a-few very famous people to go to jail.

James Arthur Ray: The Sweat Lodge Killer's Evolution From NewAge Master Of The Universe To Dirty Hippie

Ray at the height of his fame, after doing Oprah, and The Secret, and killing people.

And here's our boy after he got busted for three deaths in (where else?) that hot bed of NewAge gullibility spirituality, Sedona Arizona.

This is Jay Ray during his trial, totally stressed, after he'd spent every dime he scammed on a defense that netted him only two lousy years in prison.

And this was the guru in July - released on probation, to scam and/or kill again,...

 

Aussies On Oprah: "She's Using The Power Of Her Reputation To Actually Say 'This Man Is The Messiah'"

Just a reminder of where we were before the woman who endorsed The Secret (giving it two shows) went on to lend her considerable "credibility" to creating a dream starring Obama.

The American media is really on top of things out there,...

Enlightenment's Never-Ending Path (Leads To Madness)

If you've seen as many doofus' as I have, filling their minds with "spirits" and "soul mates," Eastern and "alternative" bullshit, declaring "Everything happens for a reason," or trying to validate some nonsense from The Secret, then this isn't news at all:

"Living in America will drive you insane — literally."

Keep in mind - that would be functionally insane - but still crazy, none-the-less,...

 

Decoding NewAge: So Simple Even A Socialist Can Do It

Ehrenreich: Did Positive Thinking Crash US Economy? from Commonwealth Club on FORA.tv

Heinrich Himmler's Beliefs: As American As Apple Pie,...

Another movie with a NewAge theme (I've lost count of how many this is now) but in the case of The Bling Ring, the subject is it's effect on teens - and it sounds like Sophia Coppola got it right:

Though on the surface “The Bling Ring” is slight of aim and repetitive of structure, it is actually a slam-dunk conservative critique of American culture: As if with a checklist at hand, Coppola hits the collapse in Judeo-Christian teaching, decaying educational standards, loose ethics, broken families, drugs, Hollywood and a permissive criminal justice system. (Sex is missing — the only boy in the group seems to be gay, or at least more interested in trying on women’s pumps than getting in their pants. But these girls are so in love with themselves it’s tough to imagine anyone else meeting their standards.)

NOW we're getting somewhere, huh? C'mon, this could've been a TMR production. But get this:

It's a based on a true story!

Of course it is - I've been saying it's the real world for years. And not only that, but while this movie could've been told from almost any point of view, Coppola even chose mine, in a blender:

...Watson, who is amusingly convincing as the vapid Nicki and does a flawless American accent, plays a kid who is being home-schooled by her airhead mom (Leslie Mann). Nicki has a foster sister, Sam (Taissa Farmiga) who is living in the house because her mother washed away on a tide of booze and drugs. 

The mother is teaching the girls a goofball religion based on “The Secret” — prayer as catalog shopping,..

I am so there.

I finally caught Kumaré: A True Film About a False Prophet, and it was a little too cute for my taste. That's not to say I didn't like it, or can't recommend it (I did and can) but disliked director/star Vikram Gandhi's clever scheme to avoid the resolution he builds towards. Sorry, I can't say more without giving it away:

 Get it, watch it, enjoy it, and then marvel we're here at all,...
 

Hell Of A Country We Have Here (No, Really, It's Hell,...)

 

I don't know about you, but I remember when Obama came on the scene - introduced by Oprah "The Secret" Winfrey - and there was talk of a "magic negro" who was going to pay the mortgage and gas, and he was saying he was going to lower the oceans, and CNN was asking if we didn't have a cult on our hands - BEFORE people on PBS were calling him God - and you know what?

 None of the crazy mattered enough to keep the NewAge Golden Child from office. 

 But let him say this:

And everybody's as suspicious as,...well, as paranoid and cowardly fanatics in wartime. 

 See, Obama made what's called a definitive statement. There's no wiggle room. It either is or isn't a scandal. 

 I'm going with isn't. 

When I was about ten my beloved foster mother,...actually I had two - no three - I'm sticking with three. Anyway, this good Christian woman told me Hell was defined as trying to fill a bucket with a hole in it. O.K., that's frustration, but I got the concept and tried to live my life in a way that avoids that situation.

Instead, I find it thrust upon me, every minute of every day, year round, rain or shine, there it is, that damned media bucket, you wanna call it Seinfeld? Let's call it Seinfeld. You know how this episode is going to end? Let me tell you:

Somebody innocent is going to get hurt.

You've seen the show before, haven't you?

Here's another TV-inspired tip:

 Until you genius' "get" that it's Oprah who's a fraud, you probably are one, too,...

 

Getting The Picture (The Big One)

Most people seem to be coming to the realization that Scientology is a cult. Part of the reason for that is Scientology's adherence to the time-tested cult practice of inventing cult jargon that only fellow members understand while laughing maniacally.

I, for instance, would be considered an "SP" in Scientology-speak, or a "Suppressive Person". Oprah Winfrey - another familiar cult leader - calls us "Energy Vampires" (which is Nazi-speak for anyone who doesn't buy into the cult leader's bullshit.) Using cult jargon as a guide, it looks like Jezebel is catching on to Lululemon Athletica's yoga cult now:

"GEC" stands for "Guest Education Center" — the Orwellian name Lululemon gives its customer service call center. "Educator" is a Lululemon sales associate.

Here's how they're describing Lululemon Athletica's founder, Chip Wilson, after mentioning he's been enamored with Ayn Rand's Objectivist cult for a while:

"Wilson seems a touch megalomaniacal. He talks to reporters about creating a Lululemon 'constitution,' a philosophy he bases on a mishmash of The Secret and the Landmark Education Forum."

Click Chip Wilson's tag, below - He's a hoot. As if to make the point clear, The Guardian, U.K., has a new comment on The Landmark Forum that Lululemon "employees are encouraged to attend":

"It sounds rather cult-like."

But come on. Ever since the last election - and that minor discussion of what Mitt Romney and his wife are into - people have started saying that about everything. Let's be clear - taking what we've learned today from those looking at Lululemon:

The cultists are just Tom Cruise and Scientology, Oprah Winfrey and her show and network, Chip Wilson, Lululemon, people who do yoga, the Nazis (my contribution) Ayn Rand and all her followers (in and out of government), plus the billions who bought The Secret. 

That's it. No one else. Nothing to worry about. The 20th Century is over. 

I've been assured, by some of the best minds out there, not to worry:

 

Everybody else is totally in the clear,...

Dumb It Down And It's Called "Motivational Speaking"...

Here's a statement I caught many moons ago about the occult and quackery:

“The more convoluted the explanation, the more unintelligible the practitioners are, the more people may be inclined to believe them. It makes it appear as though it is privileged knowledge, like real medicine and auto tech.”

Now, synchronize that with this one on L. Ron Hubbard's zombie schtick:

I was convinced that Scientology had layered meanings and that, by continuing, I’d become more “causative,” and less sucker. So, getting suckered here and there only served to confirm for me that I needed more Scientology, not less, because here I am getting suckered by other Scientologists. Stating it slightly differently, I figured there were enough hidden gems waiting somewhere, hopefully, that it would all be worthwhile. And to the extent things were getting costly and for little gain, I figured that I had to mentally commit more in order to get more gains.

Then, for flavoring, let's add a twist of Rhonda Byrne and Deepak Chopra to the mix:

The negative aspect of the Law of Attraction, the truly vile part of it is that, if you are sick, it means that you’re “attracting” negativity and sickness to yourself,...If you think happy, healing thoughts, you’ll be healthy. If you don’t, if you think unhappy thoughts, if you have the slightest bit of negativity, the slightest negative mood (no matter how intangible, as Chopra himself says), you’re screwed. Chopra said so. You bear the responsibility for it. Chopra said so, and the result is the negative energy being transmitted to your cells.

Now, after looking over how quackery, the occult, Scientology, The Secret, and Deepak Chopra interconnect, your Question Of The Day is:

What is NewAge?

Let me try:

A convoluted message, endeavor, or treatment that - since it's assumed to have layered meanings - can never be blamed for it's lack of success because, darn it, if you're really so damned special, you'll "get it" one day even if it kills you.

Yeah, that sounds about right from here,...