The Performers (Trudeau & Zelensky)

Justin Trudeau

Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, made a speech today discussing the tariffs that President Trump put into place. Canada will be increasing tariffs in response, which should shock no one. Around 2 minutes and 20 seconds into this clip, Trudeau starts speaking directly to the US population.

He said:

Now just like I did a month ago, I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this we want to work with you as a friend, an ally, and we don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you.

Notice that he is painting the US citizens as “victims” and Trudeau is attempting to get himself out of the “persecutor” position and label himself as an “ally.” He then says our government (meaning Trump) the actual “persecutor.” He continued…

As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically all across your country. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk at the thousands of workplaces that succeed because of materials from Canada or because of consumers in Canada or both they've chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items like groceries and gas, on major purchases like cars and homes and everything in between. They've chosen to harm American National Security impeding access to the abundant critical minerals, energy-building materials and fertilizers that we have and that the United States needs to grow and prosper. They've chosen to launch a trade war that will first and foremost harm American families. They've chosen to sabotage their own agenda that was supposed to usher in a new golden age for the United States. And they've chosen to undermine the incredible work we've done together to tackle the scourge that is fentanyl a drug that must be wiped from the face of the earth.

Fentanyl is used in hospitals. We probably don’t want it wiped from the face of the earth, but he was in Drama Triangle mode and over-swept here labeling it as an evil persecutor itself, rather than focus on the illegality and unregulated (possibly contaminated) versions.

Notice how much Trudeau is labeling our government as a “persecutor” here. I wanted to say to him, “Dude, I voted for this! I am the one you’re talking about. I’m not a victim watching this happen. I’m happy about it. You’re projecting your feeling like a victim onto us here.” But I know what he’s doing. He’s acting. He’s playing a part. He’s performing for people. Not for me… he’s not performing for me. But he’s performing for the press. He’s attempting to play a part and leading the press to write the story up and comment on how the US citizens will be victimized by Trump.

It’s kind of bizarre to watch people complain about things going according to plan. I know some people were feeling the same about the department of government efficiency (DOGE). The media acted as if the sky was falling and we are all dancing in the “rain” of it all.

I do hope we don’t lose good programs and good workers. And, the whole social security fraud thing is likely not what most believe it to be. But, overall, I think a lot of really good stuff is happening with DOGE pointing out stuff we never should have paid for in the first place, like the US Agency for International Development which funded things opposite of what citizens wanted and giving money to political traitors.

Volodymyr Zelensky

If you haven’t seen this

Josh Slocum

Disaffected Podcast episode response to the visit from Zelensky to the White House to talk with Trump and Vance, please set aside some time to watch it. It’s important to understand the whole context.

I was somewhat shocked to see some people saying that Trump was a bully in that conversation. Not completely shocked, because people fall for Drama all the time and we all know people have TDS. But it still sparked something in people who should have realized something was up…but you know people just watch clips. Some people are too lazy to get the context and end up seeing the complete opposite. I’ve talked about that before in my article, The Magic of Controlling Perspectives via MSM Framing. Framing in media is all about reversing the victim and offender.

But it’s good to realize who is susceptible, who is lazy enough not to do their own research, and just accept the framing they are given. Always take those people’s beliefs with a grain of salt, and do your own research.

Zelensky seemed to be stuck in an echo chamber, thinking he held more cards than he really did. He played the “victim” well. But he came to this meeting knowing he was going to perform. He knew he would screw things up for Trump and Vance trying to negotiate for peace by asking for more than had previously been discussed. He did not seem to want peace, or he was incredibly deluded thinking that Trump would roll over as quickly as Biden did. The leaders of the world should understand that we elected a new President because of things like this.

As Trump said, Zelensky was gambling with people’s lives and World War III. The real victims here are the men being conscripted to fight for Ukraine while Zelensky plays tough with Trump, and “victim” to the rest of the world. He can flip from playing “wounded bird” to acting tough on a dime. He did it in the conversation with Trump. He has become a great performer. Zelensky is an actor. That’s how he got this job as president.

From Wikipedia: “Servant of the People, also known as Servant of the Nation, is a Ukrainian political satire comedy series created and produced by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy stars as the main character, Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko, a high-school history teacher in his thirties, who is unexpectedly elected President of Ukraine after a video filmed by one of his students goes viral, showing him making a profane rant against government corruption in his country. The series ran for three seasons between 2015 and 2019, as well as a film adaptation released in 2016. The series was produced by Kvartal 95, which was founded by Zelenskyy. The studio would soon become involved in Ukrainian politics, and in 2018 a political party of the same name as the show was registered. Running as its candidate, Zelenskyy was elected president of Ukraine in 2019.”

He hasn’t actually become great at performing, it’s probably all he knows. I bet he grew up in a family that was big into the Drama Triangle view of the world.

His Attire

Plenty of comments have been made about how he didn’t dress up in a suit to meet the President and VP of the US. I agree, he should, but he couldn’t. He could not decide to wea r a suit all of a sudden to meet Trump & Vance, because he’s said over and over that he won’t wear a suit until the war is over. Oh, that’s interesting. If he wore a suit and went along with Trump to get this peace deal signed, perhaps he could have gotten away with it. But we’ve already come to understand he probably didn’t go there desiring peace.

From The Times: “Since his country was invaded by Russia in 2022 Zelensky has always make it clear that he will dress in clothes that portray his solidarity with the soldiers fighting the Russian army on the front line. It is not only a noble approach but a practical one. Zelensky lives in a small bunker, in a concrete block surrounded by a ring of steel, in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The wartime leader has said: ‘I have a small wardrobe here. The clothes are all similar. Such casual things. I just don’t use suits right now.’ In his wardrobe, at the end of the rail, he keeps a suit as a ‘symbol that the war will end soon’.”

In the conversation with Trump, someone else asked why he wouldn’t wear a suit, and Zelensky responded, “I will wear costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours, yes, maybe something better, I don't know. We will see. Maybe something cheaper."

Zelensky’s attire is part of the performance.

In their conversation Trump came to understand that Zelensky had come to ruin the deal or to play rough/tough. Zelensky wanted to get Trump to bad-mouth Putin, which is an idiotic thing to do when you’re trying to get two parties to calm down. Because Trump would not label Putin as an all-evil persecutor, he’s viewed as evil by association.

But who’s really evil in this situation? Who is trying to lessen the loss of lives? Trump wanted peace and he gets turned into a persecutor by the media, Democrats, Zelensky, and other European leaders.

Trump is coming from a place of love (peace). But the people who are not, can’t stand it. They want war and/or drama of any sort. They want to revel in labeling Putin an evil persecutor. Zelensky can’t stop playing a “victim” of Russia. What would he do then? His whole identity is tied up in this performance.

I want peace. I don’t want those people to die. Zelensky doesn’t seem to give a crap about them, because, yes, he was gambling with their lives. And, I bet they (Ukrainians) know it. It’s the people who are not there on the Ukrainian ground who can be sympathetic towards Zelensky (playing wounded bird).

Trump talks big and acts big. He doesn’t feel as powerless as Biden did. Trump actually gets things done. The world needs to realize we voted this in. We want these actions. We will not take being stolen from and used and abused any longer.

I am somewhat surprised to hear that Zelensky has decided to sign a deal to attempt to bring about peace.

We will have to see what happens. But you know what this reminds me of? The time I enforced my boundaries. When you do not play along with the Drama Games and enforce your boundaries, regardless of how people cry or rage about it, they will go to find some other path to getting what they want that has less resistance. He went off to the European nations.

Perhaps, Zelensky realized, finally, that no one else out there can give him what he wants. That has been my theory on how to stop the Drama in the world through everyone taking personal responsibility and boundary enforcing. Perhaps it worked. We will see.

EDIT: Was Zelensky Trying to Look Like He Tried?

After I posted this article, I read Was Zelenskyy's Oval Office Squabble Theater? on

The Take (by Jon Miltimore)

. It’s worth a read. He suggests that perhaps Zelensky was trying to act tough so he “will return to Ukraine looking less weak having spit on the deal offered by the Americans.” Zelensky may be worried to look like a traitor to his people to just jump on this deal with Russia that Trump is putting together. If that is the case, it still goes along with my point. He would be putting on a show for Ukrainians, acting. And, once again, this is an example of how he is speaking towards the crowd, and not the people he’s in the meeting with.

What are your thoughts? /edit

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