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With the settlements, the matching genitalia description, and the locked cabinets of nude books, it’s easy to view Michael Jackson as a stone-cold liar protecting his empire. But when he said he could never harm a child, he likely believed it

It all starts with Joe Jackson. Given the corroborated physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in the Jackson home, MJ’s internal compass was shattered before he hit puberty. Sexual deviance was normalized. He lost the natural revulsion a child should feel toward adult-child contact.

Why the obsession with children specifically? They represented the innocence violently stolen from him. He didn't just want to be around them...he wanted to absorb their unbroken purity. By possessing them, he subconsciously hoped to merge with their "childness" to feel whole. And because his primary attachments were sources of terror, his definition of intimacy warped into subjugation, control, and boundary-crossing. He literally could not separate love from abuse.

He watched his brothers use and discard groupies, adopting the exact same pattern for boys. Having learned early that survival meant telling people what they wanted to hear, he became a masterful groomer, mirroring desires to isolate children and buy their parents' silence.

He called children his "natural high" and "magic." Like an addict justifies stealing for a fix, MJ justified his abuse because he needed them to survive his agony. He compartmentalized his sexual actions as just innocent childhood games ("play time" as his friend recently revealed).

Enter the Savior Complex.

He targeted vulnerable, working-class boys, positioning himself as their benevolent rescuer. By paying off mortgages and buying cars, he bought loyalty. In his twisted logic, a savior couldn't be a predator....therefore, whatever he did to them must be love.

Yet when boys hit puberty, he discarded them coldly -- proving his attraction was fetishistic, not platonic. Once they lost the "spirit of boyhood" (as he inscribed in the NAMBLA book found in his locked cabinet at Neverland) he fetishized, the magic was gone.

Understanding his psychology makes him far more terrifying. A villain who knows they are doing evil can be caught. But a predator who convinces himself his abuse is an act of salvation is a monster who hides in plain sight. And after Thriller, he became too big and too universally adored for the public to believe he could do something so horrible. His internal delusion was dangerous, but the world's collective idol worship made it bulletproof...

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From Jordan Chandler’s psychiatric interview:

Jordan: [Michael] would get me to do things and convince me that the things he was doing weren't wrong, because he would talk about people who levitate, you know, it was weird.

Dr. Gardner: And what did he say about levitation? 

Jordan: That the people who levitate are unconditioned. It's confusing; it took me a long time to understand it. [...] they were not conditioned to believe that gravity existed, and I suppose that that meant that those who are unconditioned would find what Michael was doing was not wrong.

https://themichaeljacksonallegationsblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/j-chandler-gardner-interview.pdf

New documentary

Jodie Sweetin has no issues with former Full House sister Candace Cameron Bure even if they sit on opposite sides of the political aisle.

“[Individuals often] pit me and Candace against each other, and the thing is, at the end of the day, her name has never come out of my mouth,” Sweetin, 44, said on the Tuesday, April 21, episode of the “McBride Rewind” podcast. “This is just who I am and what I believe, and if that isn’t something we share, cool. I’m not going to change anything, [and] I can still have a relationship with her where I can hug her when I see her.”

She continued, “I love her. I don’t want bad things to happen to her. I will respect her, and her ability to do whatever. But I’m a loud bitch that just disagrees with a lot of things, and that’s who I am. That’s totally OK.”

“I don’t think we hang out in too many of the same places [and] we do pretty different things and that’s OK,” Sweetin stressed. “She does her, I do me and that’s just who we have always been.”

According to Sweetin, she would also “joke with” Cameron Bure on the set of Fuller House.

“[I would] poke at her about stuff,” Sweetin quipped. “I don’t hate you, [but] we just don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things that I find important, and that’s OK. I’m going to go out in the streets and [say], ‘F*** ICE’ and watch that Bad Bunny show and get out of my chair and be dancing and loving it. It was great, and that’s just the choices that I made.”