Trump on waterboarding:

“Would I approve waterboarding? And I said, well, let me ask you a question. On the other side, they chop off our young people’s heads, and they put them on a stick. “On the other side, they build these iron cages, and they’ll put 20 people in them. And they drop them in the ocean for 15 minutes and pull them up 15 minutes later,” Trump said. “Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would … in a heartbeat. In a heartbeat.” “And I would approve more than that,” he continued. “And don’t kid yourself folks, it works, okay? It works.” Trump said only a stupid person would argue otherwise. He said that said he knows important people, who want to be politically correct, who go on television and question the effectiveness of waterboarding – but then tell him privately later that it does work. “And you know what? If it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they’re doing to us,” he said. “But it works. It works.”

Trump even frames his argument with a diminution of stature hijack, by saying only stupid people would argue otherwise. Since we argue truth, we would argue with him, if we thought he was wrong. Liberals argue lies, and are not so bolstered by their certainty of truth. They hear that, and shut up for fear of exposing themselves as a stupid person.

Then Trump reframes the entire debate by espousing K-selected aggression. Before we were told that sating a bloodlust was wrong, and that the argument could only be whether waterboarding yielded useful intelligence. Trump has just demolished that argument, and fostered a more K-attitude in everyone present as he did it. Now, not only does it work, but we should be doing it, and more – whether it works or not, because our enemies deserve it. Violence on our enemies for violence’s sake is perfectly acceptable, and he will do it himself, if given the opportunity. But it works…

K-strategists long for that. They are starved for it, and as they eat it up, rabbits everywhere are noticing that there is a strange atmosphere in the air. It makes them uncomfortable, it scares them, and soon they will hide because of it.

That atmosphere is the sweet smell of Apocalypse, and Donald is its harbinger.