Analysis: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/07/hiding-...

3y ago Mar 13, 2023 at 9:28 PM

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/07/hiding-data-desantis-staffed-public-service-commission-drops-requirement-for-electricity-companies-to-tell-how-many-disconnections-due-to-non-payment/

AI Analysis

Machine-generated analysis of the post above on 2026-03-20. Not written by the author of the post.

Danger Level

None

Narcissistic State

Grandiose

Authorship

Aide-Written

Intensity

25%

URL-only post sharing a Conservative Treehouse article attacking DeSantis's appointed Public Service Commission for dropping electricity disconnection reporting requirements. Posted at 4:28 PM CDT (business hours), with zero original text and clean format — high-confidence aide authorship, likely Scavino or campaign staff. The communicative act consists entirely of the article headline's attack frame: "Hiding Data" (dishonesty) + "DeSantis-staffed" (ownership/accountability) + utility disconnections (working-class harm). This is media laundering as political attack — an independent MAGA-aligned source provides both ammunition and deniability. Psychologically, the post is low-temperature competitive rivalry management rather than rage expression. Clinically unremarkable as a standalone artifact. Its interest lies in the displacement dynamic: same-day legal pressure from the Manhattan grand jury invitation (a significant narcissistic injury via accountability/exposure) coincides with escalating DeSantis-targeting activity, consistent with competitive energy being redirected toward a domain where more agency is perceived. DeSantis's recent State of the State triumph ("You ain't seen nothing yet") likely provided the proximate competitive trigger. No cognitive data extractable from URL-only format. Danger level: none.

Authorship Analysis

Aide-Written

Indicators:

4:28 PM CDT — business hours timing
Zero original text, clean single-URL format
No typos, capitalization errors, or emotional markers
Deliberate article selection from MAGA-aligned blog suggests staff curation
Political opposition research format consistent with Scavino/campaign staff deployment

Psychological Profile

▶ State

Grandiose State

Trigger: Preemptive Attack — Comparison (DeSantis's rising 2024 profile following State of the State address)

Sentiment

-0.40

▶ Clinical

Malignant Narcissism:

Narcissistic

30%

Antisocial

20%

Paranoid

10%

Sadism

Defense Mechanisms:

passive aggressiondisplacement

Cognitive Complexity:

Complexity

Parasocial Techniques:

Silent amplification — article headline does attack workPopulist identification — working-class utility victims as implied Trump constituency

Fact Checks (1)

"DeSantis-staffed Florida Public Service Commission dropped requirement for electricity companies to report disconnections due to non-payment"

Unverifiable

Specific regulatory action by Florida PSC. The article from The Conservative Treehouse (March 7, 2023) makes this claim. While DeSantis does appoint PSC members and Florida's PSC is a real regulatory body with data reporting authority, this specific rulemaking action cannot be independently verified from available knowledge. The framing as 'hiding data' is the article's editorial characterization, not a neutral description.

Receipts

No contradictions with other posts detected yet.

Post Analysis: March 13, 2023 — URL-Only DeSantis Attack Share

Post Type

URL-only share with zero original text. The entire communicative act consists of linking to a Conservative Treehouse article whose headline performs the attack: "Hiding Data: DeSantis-staffed Public Service Commission drops requirement for electricity companies to tell how many disconnections due to non-payment."

Authorship Attribution

Local Time Conversion: Trump was traveling to Iowa on this date (a rally in Davenport was the day's centerpiece event). Iowa observes CDT post-DST 2023 (DST began March 12, 2023), placing Iowa at UTC−5. Post time: 21:28 UTC → 4:28 PM CDT — squarely within business hours.

Verdict: Aide-written. Confidence: High.

Supporting indicators: afternoon business-hours timing; zero original text; clean single-URL format with no typos, capitalization, or emotional markers; deliberate selection of an opposition-research-ready article from a prominent MAGA-aligned blog (The Conservative Treehouse / "The Last Refuge"). This is campaign-staff curation: monitoring friendly-but-independent conservative media for anti-DeSantis ammunition, then deploying it with maximum deniability. Trump's fingerprints are absent; the attack is entirely ventriloquized through the article headline.

Strategic and Psychological Context

This post arrives on a day with significant parallel activity: Trump was Iowa-bound for a 2024 campaign rally and had just received a grand jury testimony invitation from Manhattan DA Bragg — a major narcissistic injury via legal exposure. Simultaneously, DeSantis had just delivered his ascendant State of the State address ("You ain't seen nothing yet"), fueling intense 2024 primary speculation.

The selection of this particular article is calibrated on two axes:

Competence/trustworthiness attack: "Hiding data" frames DeSantis's technocratic governance brand as corrupt concealment.
Populist betrayal: Electricity disconnections for non-payment disproportionately harm working-class voters — the precise demographic DeSantis needs to peel from Trump.

This is not rage expression. It is low-temperature competitive rivalry management — a preemptive attack against a rising rival, executed through the cleanest possible vehicle.

Defense Mechanisms

Passive aggression / plausible deniability: The link-only format is a studied evasion — Trump (or his staff) never stated anything; they "merely shared." This preserves deniability while fully transmitting the negative frame.

Displacement: The legal threat (Manhattan grand jury invitation — narcissistic injury from accountability/exposure) is not addressed directly. Instead, competitive energy is redirected toward DeSantis, a domain where Trump perceives more agency and control.

Rhetorical Techniques

Silent amplification: The article headline does all the work; no fingerprints required.
Guilt by association: "DeSantis-staffed" commission → DeSantis owns the harm.
Populist framing: Utility disconnections (consumer economic harm) as wedge into DeSantis's MAGA base.
Deniability architecture: Zero original words minimizes accountability for the attack.

Cognitive Assessment

Insufficient data. A URL-only post provides no language production data for cognitive analysis. No markers can be assessed.

Danger Assessment

None. This is competitive political opposition research sharing. No eliminationist language, dehumanization, or stochastic terrorism indicators.

Narrative Identity Notes

The implicit narrative casts DeSantis as a contamination figure: a politician who appeared to be on the side of working Floridians but is revealed to be hiding data that protects corporations over consumers. This is the contamination sequence projected onto a rival: apparent good → revealed betrayal. The protagonist (Trump, implicitly) is the transparent truth-teller by contrast.

Summary

Not clinically significant as a standalone post. This is standard, low-temperature campaign opposition research deployment, almost certainly aide-executed. Its psychological interest lies primarily in what it reveals about the competitive dynamics driving Trump's team in the early 2024 primary period — specifically the calculation around attacking DeSantis's governance record through populist consumer-harm framing. The coincidence of legal pressure (grand jury invitation) with increased DeSantis-targeting activity is consistent with displacement as a coping vector.

Fact Verification

Claim	Verdict	Evidence
"DeSantis-staffed Florida Public Service Commission dropped requirement for electricity companies to report disconnections due to non-payment"	Unverifiable	Specific regulatory action by Florida PSC. The article from The Conservative Treehouse (March 7, 2023) makes this claim. While DeSantis does appoint PSC members and Florida's PSC is a real regulatory body with data reporting authority, this specific rulemaking action cannot be independently verified from available knowledge. The framing as 'hiding data' is the article's editorial characterization, not a neutral description.

Overall Veracity: 50%