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“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

― Seneca

Human nature is a very strange phenomenon.

Between life experience and stories from the past, there’s certainly no shortage of intrigue and insanity surrounding the experience that we normally refer to as human nature.

After all, the whole concept of human nature is a mystery because the entirety of the human race in which this concept references often serves to be a constant contradiction. I mean on one hand, people are unpredictable while simultaneously being very predictable. As an example, people can react to one situation with a surprisingly positive deference, but when faced with the same scenario again at a different time, they can demonstrate complete defiance.

However, as strange as this sounds, people are generally fairly predictable up until the point that they aren’t.

So, with that being said, what typically causes people to be unpredictable?

Generally speaking, I believe one good explanation for this can be chalked up to what I would usually recognize as the concept of friction. I say this because when people are faced with hardship, that adversity will either stall out their momentum in life by causing them to implode, rather than choosing to face and overcome the resistance they encounter concerning that initial friction. Granted, friction can also change variables, and variables can, at times, present different challenges depending on the time that they are introduced.

You see, in physics the only thing that can overcome friction is the increase of an externally applied force. If force is not applied then the friction will always slow down an object and eventually bring that object to a stop. This is true in physics, as well as across an array of other decisions when overcoming the friction of adversity in life, when wrestling with whether to make certain key investments, and with always involving other big important life decisions. I know you know this to be true.

I want you to hold onto this for the moment while I shift gears to talk about how the friction of life can cause people to engage in some of the most insane behavior. Granted, if you’re a regular to this show then you’re no stranger to understanding just how insane life can get as a result of human nature.

After all, when speaking to the oddities of human nature, you and I are both old enough to remember seeing people out at public restaurants lifting and lowering their masks between bites to eat a sandwich. We both know that we don’t have to look any further than the pandemic to understand that a potential level of strange behavior definitely exists.

Two Tales of Friction

In the world of human interaction, friction can cause some people to not follow through on action, while it ends up driving others directly into action. Granted, some friction is necessary to avoid, but there are other types of life friction that simply cannot be ignored.

I want to begin by highlighting two different tales involving the friction of life and show you how that friction can derive two totally different responses and outcomes from people. The key component here is to keep in mind that none of us are immune to the friction of life.

Now, I want to take you back in time to examine an unusual case concerning an individual that was faced with significant friction, but allowed that friction to slow him down and stall him out in the most bizarre and shocking kind of way.

In August of 1392, a 23-year-old King Charles VI rode out ahead of his army on an expedition. At this point, the young king was already feeling the presence of friction as he was paranoid about traitors within his circle. To make matters even worse, the purpose of this expedition was to try and track down an individual who had attacked and nearly killed his close friend. Revenge was weighing on Charles VI, so friction was already present in the young man’s mind.

As his army rode along and finally exited the forest an exhausted page boy accidentally dropped his steel lance and the loud clanking startled the hyper-vigilant king. At this point Charles drew his sword and entered into a blind frenzy resulting in him brutally slaughtering four of his own knights. By the time it was over Charles had fallen into a multi-day coma. He psychologically never recovered from the guilt and horror of his actions on that day.

However, as bad as that was for the young king, the friction of life was still not finished with him. It was only about five months later when another violent trauma occurred during a masquerade celebration. At this event Charles and five other of his high ranking nobles dressed as “wild men” donning highly flammable linen costumes that were soaked in pitch and flax.

During this event an onlooker with a torch got too close to the men and the costumes instantly ignited. Charles only survived the catastrophe because his aunt, the Duchess of Berry, threw her heavy skirts over him to smother the flames before they could spread any further. However, Charles had to watch in total horror as four of his closest companions burned to death directly in front of him at the center of the gathering.

Sadly, these two back-to-back catastrophes ended up permanently fracturing the king’s psyche. It was at this point that something unusual took place with the king as his severe paranoia developed into what is now referred to as the famous glass delusion.

If you’re not familiar with this condition, it relates to how the king believed that he was made of glass. It has been said that the condition was so real to the king that he even had his royal tailor sew iron rods into the lining of his clothes. Even though the king obviously felt there was no escape from this, he apparently only ended up in this predicament due to his deficit of intuition.

Historians and psychologists have pointed out that this condition of glass delusion was essentially a coping mechanism in order to protect his deeply traumatized, “fragile” sense of self. In short, King Charles VI tragically surrendered his sovereignty over to the life friction of fear.

It was bad enough that the young king had experienced trauma, but the fact that he surrendered his mind and identity over to the glass delusion added another layer of tragedy to the story of his life. Looking at the life of King Charles VI there’s no doubt that the friction of fear was the ultimate symptom of destructionism.

Now, I want to take a moment to shift to a different story to address another case where the friction of life showed up to try and grind another man’s momentum to a halt.

It was the year 1095 and the rapid conquest and expansion of the Seljuk Turkish forces into Anatolia was successful in shattering the Byzantine defenses.

The goal of this Islamic conquest under the Seljuk Turks was to strip Christendom of vast territories, which, in turn, prompted Pope Urban II to issue a historic call to arms at the Council of Clermont.

On the heels of the Pope’s call to arms, and with the Islamic conquests engaging in severe and violent brutality across the Holy Land, a tall blonde Norman giant with Viking blood, heard the Pope’s rallying cry and he viewed it as his personal call to divine destiny.

This blonde giant’s name was Bohemond I, and he immediately decided to journey east to create some friction of his own by engaging the Seljuk Turks, aiming to grind their violent conquest to a screeching halt.

As it turns out, Bohemond was driven by a fierce, militant Christian devotion. This was significant because after engaging the Seljuk Turkish forces in eight grueling months of wall warfare, Bohemond’s will and his faith would be put to the test. The friction of life was very present here for Bohemond and his men. The suffering was immense as Bohemond and his forces had to endure the harshest conditions involving severe weather, disease, and death.

The walls would prove to be too difficult to breach, but what Bohemond was unable to overcome by force, he managed to accomplish through his cunning.

Late in the evening around midnight of June 2, 1098 Bohemond was successful in enacting a secret pact with Firouz, a disgruntled tower commander from within the city. As a result of this pact, Bohemond was able to convince Firouz to drop a rope over the side of the wall allowing the Crusaders to finally scale it.

Once Bohemond’s Norman knights were inside they slit the throats of the guards and they were able to quickly sling open the city gates from within. The Crusader army rushed inside like a tsunami and conquered the Muslim garrison by dawn.

However, the victory celebration on this mission would be short-lived as a massive Muslim relief army under the command of Kerbogha surrounded the city managing to trap the exhausted Crusaders inside. It appeared that the build up of more friction was facing the Crusaders once again.

However, the strong-willed Christian viking Bohemond would not be denied. In a single bold decision, Bohemond ordered a desperate, all-or-nothing attack charging his men out of the gates. Bohemond himself was clad in iron and riding ahead of the vanguard. His towering frame and leadership was essential in rallying his starving knights straight to victory.

Through his militant discipline and faith, Bohemond, secured his reputation and place in history as the Prince of Antioch as he fulfilled his duty in taking back the city from the Islamist who stole it.

So, what is the significance of me sharing these stories of two individuals that each faced the drag of life friction, yet, when faced with this friction, produced very different outcomes?

Well, the reality is that there are a few reasons.

For starters, when looking at the lives of King Charles VI and Bohemond I, there are some key differences that stand out in regards to the two. In observing the comparative metrics of these two men, I am going to frame their scenarios and outcomes through my lens as a sovereign operator.

In other words, when examining the differing outcomes of both men there is a stark difference concerning their reactions when faced with some significant life friction.

In the case of the young King Charles VI he created friction for himself that he couldn’t deal with due to his own paranoia and fear. This ultimately imprisoned him by keeping him in a state of perpetual stasis. In other words, he ultimately kept himself wrapped up in his own version of a protective bubble, having his royal tailors line his clothing with iron rods. At the end of the day, this perpetual stasis resulted in the destruction of his own cognitive sovereignty, as he became a prisoner of his own mind.

On the flipside, Bohemond also created friction for himself; however, his approach to dealing with it wasn’t driven by haste, fear, or paranoia. Instead, his reaction to the friction of conquest caused by the Seljuk Turks was rooted in a sense of duty, righteousness, and, quite simply, a love for his fellow man.

Directionally, Bohemond possessed a completely different perspective and strategic approach to overcoming the friction he was voluntarily venturing out to encounter.

Unlike the young King Charles, in Bohemond’s case, his call to encounter the friction that was created by the Seljuk Turks wasn’t due to a one-off misunderstanding or incident. Bohemond was answering a call to arms that was essential to the survival of the Crusade. In short, he recognized his cause as something much larger than himself, or any other single individual for that matter.

Remember that stasis is the desired final outcome of friction. In the case of King Charles this stasis was achieved when his fear and paranoia gripped him to the point of identifying with the glass delusion. However, stasis was completely ignored by Bohemond and his forces, despite the amount of friction the Seljuk Turks tried to create for them. The contrast between these two tales of friction couldn’t be more stark.

In a modern-day comparison, we have also more recently observed similar differences in the reactions people had towards the friction that was created by the Administrative State during the pandemic. Like King Charles VI, many people simply wrapped themselves in their own bubbles by complying with the government mandates to self isolate, social distance, and to wear masks.

However, a stubborn minority chose to react to this situation in a completely opposite manner. Those that resisted the mandates reacted by choosing to increase in force and velocity against that very friction of governmental mandates.

These people recognized that they needed to do so in order to overcome the effort of that friction to grind their liberties and lives to a complete stop. In this modern-day comparison, many of the compliant succumbed to the grip of fear that spread as a mass formation from their own version of a glass delusion concerning the virus.

In short, while the majority reacted to the friction of government during the pandemic as compliant stasis, others looked at it through a similar dutiful lens as Bohemond did by fiercely fighting to take back possession of that which was wrongfully stolen.

The Wrap Up

Since the pandemic, these days we are currently facing a different kind of friction when it comes to the Red-Green alliance between the cultural Marxists and the jihadists. With this alliance we are facing an ideological friction that aims to destroy Western civilization.

When I talk about a different kind of ideological friction, I’m not implying that the core tenets of Marxism are any different from what we’ve faced before. However, what I am saying is that, in this modern-day, the appearance of this ideological friction has changed to look very different from what we’ve been used to encountering in the past.

In other words, the appearance of the “jihadists” and “cultural Marxists” have morphed over time in order to better blend in within their respective environments. Like chameleons, these people take on a certain form so that they give off the appearance of being reasonable human beings, while the reality is that they’re the furthest thing from it.

As an example, the modern-day Marxist-jihadist is an ideological chameleon that dons a nice suit and learns a polished script to communicate to the masses so that he can become the mayor of New York City. Obviously, I’m talking about Zohran Mamdani.

However, we’ve also discovered that even though these Marxist-jihadist don Western clothing and express interest in Western culture, at the end of the day, they’re far from sharing what you and I would recognize as Western values.

These Marxists-jihadists chameleons include that soccer mom that lives two doors down from you. They also include that seemingly nice, retired baby boomer on the corner whom everyone thinks is a swell guy, until a zenith operator exposes his worldview with the application of a little Organizational Hierarchy of Thought during a personal interaction. Such exposure always comes in scenarios such as this, as it always highlights the adversarial views these people hold towards President Trump and the MAGA movement.

One of the main reasons why the U.S. is facing contested dominance by the CCP is due to the fact that our society has failed at recognizing these threats, but more specifically, how these threats work.

For instance, this is why the woke right is quick to blame President Trump for the current spike in energy prices, while conveniently ignoring the past half century of corruption by establishment Washington, D.C., politicians, combined with their failure to hold Iran and China accountable for anything.

This is why certain voters (like the Marxists and the woke right) will see the current chaos spreading throughout the world and then complain about what’s happening, while they’ve lived a lifetime of apathy, completely ignorant of the cumulative buildup of corruption that has seeded this very chaos.

Yet, an Operational Zenith can look at these people and completely understand that if they didn’t recognize the friction that was built up over the course of their lives, leading to this moment, then they’re certainly not going to recognize that this same friction is what is working against them to stop the momentum of their lives now.

This past week President Trump traveled to Beijing to meet with President Xi Jinping. At one point during the meeting Xi had described the United States as a declining nation.

As part of that declaration he referenced the geopolitical theory known as the “Thucydides Trap” which reflected the idea of a rising China challenging the established global superpower, the United States.

Granted, during the Biden regime, the United States was absolutely a declining power. However, that is certainly not the case today.

Now, having said that, we have many problems to fix, or we will quickly return to becoming that declining power. The trick is understanding what those problems actually entail, along with the American citizen understanding what it’s going to take in order to fix those problems.

When the Iranian regime continues to prolong this current conflict, they understand very well how that is impacting gas prices. They know that Americans will not have the patience to endure that discomfort for very long.

Furthermore, when Xi Jinping references the Thucydides Trap he is placing a verbal exclamation point at the end of that same idea as the Iranian guard drags out the conflict in the Strait of Hormuz.

Additionally, they see how our Administrative State Media (ASM), Democrats, and anti-Trump RINOs are trying to bleed support away from President Trump and the MAGA movement in hopes that they can get those cohorts back into power come this November in the midterms.

Both Xi Jinping and the Iranian guard are counting on the Fifth Column activists inside the United States to politically drain the support of President Trump and the MAGA movement. They are doing this so that the corrupt establishment in Washington, D.C., can retake power, allowing them to exploit the return of this traditional, longstanding, business-as-usual style of corruption.

As a result of years of unabated corruption, grift, and enemy infiltration, we are now entering into a period of time where the culmination of these factors are building up to a point of critical mass. When this all finally comes to a head we have to ask ourselves if we’re going to rise to the occasion to meet that moment with a sense of duty just like Bohemond, or are we going to adopt another form of glass delusion that entraps us forever in a thousand years of darkness?

As I stated earlier, in physics the only thing that can overcome friction is the increase of an externally applied force. However, if that externally applied force is not building momentum then friction will grind everything to a complete standstill.

However, in the reality of the circumstances that we’re currently living in, the American Patriots represent that externally applied force. The question is: Are we going to continue on building up the application of that force in order to overcome that friction, or will we regress into a state of stasis while failing to break free from the grip of fear due to our own made-up version of a glass delusion?

I mentioned earlier how the friction of fear was the ultimate symptom of destructionism. However, I’ll be discussing the remedy for that concept with the Destructionism of Destructionism in my next strategic drop titled, The Forensic Assassin of Ideology.

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“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”

― William Francis Butler, Biography-Charles George Gordon

The 15th century brought about a rebirth throughout Europe where art, science, and literature were pursued and reborn into the zeitgeist of the time.

This period of time involved an energetic pursuit of knowledge and a widespread revival of learning throughout the region, particularly in Italy. This energetic movement produced a series of personalities and their works that we commonly cite today, ranging from the art of Leonardo da Vinci to the drama of William Shakespeare and the exploration of Christopher Columbus.

This time period involving the rebirth of knowledge has been commonly referred to as the Renaissance. Given this descriptive moniker, this is also the reason why, not that long ago, it wasn’t uncommon to hear others refer to a man that possessed a wide knowledge base as a Renaissance man.

In this modern day, the idea of a Renaissance man has largely been forgotten in society due to the social construct surrounding indoctrination over education, the hard push for specialization, and the labels of victimhood status due to the social engineering efforts of the cultural Marxists. However, there is another revival taking place these days with about a third of the population, concerning the pursuit of wisdom, knowledge, and, most importantly, with many that are in a pursuit to develop a relationship with the greatest Renaissance man of all, Jesus.

When looking at the life of the son of God, there’s nobody anywhere in any history book that compares to the overwhelming knowledge and wisdom of Jesus. Granted, King Solomon was impressive in his knowledge during the peak of his rule over the kingdom of Israel, but even he never possessed the level of wisdom that Jesus had brought to earth while also sustaining the honor of God’s statutes throughout his entire life.

After all, Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) You see, the difference with Jesus is that He is the metric of where the truth is anchored and that is literally what makes all the difference. Given the current times, this is the most critical metric because in our postmodern society, truth is said to be relative.

After all, when the truth is viewed as something that’s relative, society starts to fracture on agreement with everything due to the fact that there’s no agreement on anything. This is because nothing is accepted as a universal explanation across every spectrum. As a result, in this type of world, deception settles in and absurd beliefs take hold, such as the belief that the earth is flat, that men can become women, and that women can become men.

For the postmodern victim, every narrative is questioned as objective truth, but the problem is that this traps the postmodern victim into a paradox where they are questioning every narrative of objective truth while expecting their own assertions to be understood as true.

So, aside from his miracles, what was it that made Jesus stand out regarding his wisdom during his time here on earth with his disciples?

Well, there are many examples, but for the purpose of today’s discussion I want to point out how the Lord taught by speaking in parables. He did this because a parable enabled him to more accurately convey a message to his people in a way that was relatable through life experience.

However, for him to have been able to do this he would have had to have a wide range of knowledge and skills in order to effectively convey the meaning behind the stories that he told because those stories had to be relatable.

Effectively conveying impactful meaning requires wisdom, which stems from applied knowledge anchored in diverse life experiences and a deep understanding of those experiences. This is the level of wisdom that Jesus has and it’s the only place to develop a discerning heart and mind to decipher truth from fiction.

This is why Jesus is the greatest Renaissance man of all, because aside from being the son of God, he also had a vast set of knowledge and skills from carpentry, philosophy, theology, and his ability to captivate an audience with his edifying gift of speech.

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So, what is involved in the Organizational Hierarchy of Thought and what did Jesus understand about this cognitive process when communicating to the people in the New Testament? Furthermore, how does the Organizational Hierarchy of Thought work to help you to see through the proscenium of deception when you hear something that just doesn’t seem truthful and honest?

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“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

It was October 30, 1938 when Orson Welles took to the airways to broadcast a radio program that would cause widespread local panic.

The broadcast involved a radio drama based off of the book by H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The show sent a harrowing signal across the airways that alien monsters from Mars had landed in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey and had commenced an invasion of the countryside. According to the broadcast the Martians had deployed their gigantic tripods in order to wage an otherworldly form of military attack on innocent civilians.

The episode reportedly caused a panic among a significant portion of the population. One account involved some listeners a long way from New Jersey at the opposite end of the country in Concrete, Washington, who felt the need to literally run for the hills on horseback in order to hide in the nearby mountains due to the frightening program.

Granted, there are some questions as to just how much hysteria the radio drama caused as some say the 1938 panic was a bit over exaggerated by the newspaper headlines.

Now, keep in mind that radio was a new and rising phenomenon itself back during that time. Therefore, some suggest that the newspaper companies had deliberately played up the irresponsibility of the radio broadcasters in an attempt to discredit this new medium, which was already threatening the longstanding monopoly of the printed newspaper.

Regardless of the amount of panic that took place as a result of the drama, Welles managed to successfully leverage a significant enough amount of power with his story that the response captured enough attention for the newspapers to fill their headlines—whether that was due to significant panic or for the purpose of attempting to slander Orson Welles.

The point here is that the message that was flowing across the airways was obviously effective in terms of producing the intended emotional response. You see, I want you to think about this in terms of the differences in the delivery of the broadcast from that time compared to today.

In other words, during that time in 1938 there were fewer broadcasts that were blasted out over the airways, but there was a more focused listening audience concerning the public. Conversely, today the circumstances are reversed; whereas nowadays there are tons of broadcasts blasted out over the airways while there is a much less focused listening and viewing audience concerning the public.

Additionally, during The War of the Worlds radio event many of the listeners tuned in right as the main part of the show was starting, but the 1938 panic occurred because many of those people tuned in too late to hear the opening disclaimer. To make matters even worse, because many of those people were late to the show, they allowed the fear of the message to strip away their ability to discern what was really happening, placing them into a reactive state of hysteria due to The Phantom of Wisdom.

I wanted to point this out to illustrate how effectively the proscenium can paint a picture inside the mind of a respective listener, or viewer. This is especially true today as the information war that is raging on is at an all time high as the domestic cultural Marxists and globalists are doing their best to stall out President Trump and the MAGA movement. This is especially obvious with recent woke right podcasters that have come out against the president over this war with Iran.

The Current Alien Invaders

If you’ve been a consistent reader or listener to this show then you have regularly heard me reference the significance of human agency. I frequently talk about this concept as human agency is part of the central thesis that drives this very Substack.

Regardless, I want to take a moment and reiterate the meaning and significance of this phrase before progressing through the rest of this episode.

For clarity, human agency involves the capacity of individuals to act independently, to possess the ability to freely make their own choices, and, most importantly, to intentionally influence their own lives and their surrounding environment. In short, your agency requires you to act on your choices.

Now, keeping that in mind, I want you to think about our society and ask yourself who is more in favor of advocating for your ability to exercise your human agency, and who is advocating to eliminate it. I want you to keep those two questions in mind as you look at the actions of those who are most critical of the president, the Iran war, and their criticisms of the MAGA movement.

Additionally, I want you to recognize that you currently live in a society where you are able to exercise your agency, at least for the time being. Understanding this, I want to shift gears here to point out a common trend that you must be aware of if you care anything about maintaining, or achieving, the status of a high-level operational zenith. The trend that I want to point out to you involves a collection of actions that all detract from any plan that is designed to advance the United States as a leading power in the world.

Allow me to begin by pointing to this past week where there was a special election held in the state of Virginia involving the Democrat redistricting referendum that narrowly passed. With this election the Democrats were looking to shift the current 6-5 Democratic edge to a 10-1 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation.

Thankfully, for the moment, Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley slapped an injunction on certifying this election due to the fact that it is unconstitutional. Now, keeping that in mind, you have to understand that whether or not the courts rightfully maintain the position of the unconstitutionality of the procedures surrounding this special election, and even if the election was most likely rigged, the reality is that there were still many Virginia voters that voted in favor of taking away nearly half of the voices of the state. In short, the Virginia voters that voted in favor of this 10-1 redistricting map, just openly advocated for eliminating the ability of others to exercise their agency. Simply put, these voters basically want totalitarianism.

So why would they do this?

Well, I would argue that these Democrat voters would do this for the same exact reason as those types of Democrat voters would also donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). After all, some of the biggest and wealthiest donors to this organization involve names such as George Soros, George Clooney, and Tim Cook.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past week, a Montgomery, Alabama Grand Jury charged the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

The SPLC allegedly used donor money coming into their organization to fund the very hate groups that they espoused to condemn. According to the Office of Public Affairs, between the years of 2014-2023 the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were directly associated with various violent extremist groups. The list of those groups that they funneled money to involved the following:

-Klu Klux Klan

-United Klans of America

-Unite the Right

-National Alliance

-National Socialist Movement

-Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club

-National Socialist Party of America (Nazi Party)

-American Front

Given the state of the world, when you look at the current political environment you just can’t make up this level of insanity. After all, the SPLC had also targeted Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA, labeling them as white supremacists with a report back in May 2025 that was labeled as “The Year in Hate and Extremism.”

They included Charlie Kirk in this ‘Hate and Extremism’ report before Kirk was brutally assassinated and afterwards pathetically tried to act as if they were against political violence. Meanwhile, this organization is the perfect example of the firemen that start the fires, given how they run their operation. Just to be clear, that last statement is obviously not meant to be a dig at my firemen.

So why would these donors anchor their morals to such a corrupt grifting organization while funneling their dollars to that organization to actually fund the very hate groups that they espouse to despise?

Well, if I had to guess, the majority of the SPLC donors are most likely Democrat voters, and even if that isn’t the case, I’ve already established that their biggest donors are Democrat voters. I would surmise that they would be more likely to blindly transform the SPLC into their moral anchor in the same way that Cole Tomas Allen apparently wanted to rationalize his insanely upside-down view of morality by making his attempt at assassinating President Trump his moral anchor. After all, he outlined this in his own manifesto.

That’s right, in case you missed it there was another assassination attempt on President Trump this past week at the White House Correspondence Dinner. Given that this was the third attempt on President Trump’s life you’d think that the left would realize that they have a problem with political rhetoric that leads to political violence, but it’s obvious that these Marxists do not care about that, especially when Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about how the First Lady Melania Trump ‘had a glow like an expected widow.’

Of course, Kimmel defended his quote after the first lady publicly came out to call for his firing, claiming that the joke was intended to be a light roast in reference to the president’s age, compared to that of the first lady. Whether Kimmel is telling the truth about this or not is irrelevant.

It’s irrelevant because the rhetoric coming from people like Kimmel and the Administrative State Media (ASM) has involved a many-years-long campaign in order to dehumanize the president and the MAGA movement in the eyes of the morons that are fanboys of his show. The evidence of this was obvious. The results can be seen with the first three assassination attempts on President Trump, on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the hostile acts of violence that took place against Tesla owners when Elon Musk implemented DOGE.

If Kimmel cared anything about this he would have admitted that the rhetoric feeding political violence must be toned down, but he hasn’t. Instead, Kimmel chooses to double down on the president being the problem despite the fact that I never find myself here writing and talking about any assassination attempt on Kimmel’s life for expressing his political opinion.

On that note, I don’t view Kimmel as a guy with any opinion. I view him as a propaganda arm of the state. Allow me a moment to elaborate on this by first taking a minute to look back in time.

You see, it was on May 5, 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia when the Pravda newspaper published its first issue. In case you aren’t familiar with the Pravda, this paper eventually became the primary organ of the Bolshevik movement by 1918, and during its time Vladimir Lennon himself exercised broad editorial control over the content.

The thing you have to understand is that the purpose of the Pravda was to encourage unity of thought among its readers by stressing and interpreting the party line. It’s that unity of thought phrase that I want you to place in your memory bank as I progress through the rest of today’s message.

However, it did this by offering its readers well-written articles and analyses on various topics ranging from science, economics, culture, and literature. The Pravda also included various letters from readers and officially approved materials in order to indoctrinate and inform its readers on Communist theory and other favorable programs to the state.

In the Bolshevik world the Pravda could only exist because the state controlled it, which in turn, allowed it extended control over its population through the implementation of that prevailing unity of thought mood of the time. Granted, in that time that world was an alternate universe as Vladimir Lennon’s control was tight, but for the time, this was the degree of control that was achieved by the Bolshevik Revolution.

Now having said that, you’re probably wondering how in the world I can go from a broadcast like Jimmy Kimmel to the Pravda.

Well, when looking at the proscenium of what makes Jimmy Kimmel possible we can see some eye-raising similarities to the Pravda. You see, the Pravda, like the Welles’ broadcast, had a more focused audience because of its tight control under the approval of Lennon. Likewise, today Kimmel has a more focused core audience that is willing to absorb his message, but the broadcast obviously isn’t operating under the tight control of a dominant figure like Lennon.

However, the controlling mechanisms over Kimmel still exist, although they do so while operating under a system of more loose controls, rather than the tight controls that the Pravda had under the old Soviet leader.

For instance, it has been recently reported that Disney and Warner Brothers Discovery both piled up over $125 million in California tax credits from the California Film Commission. Just in case you didn’t know, the ABC network that airs Kimmel’s late night show is owned by the same Walt Disney Company that received those massive state tax subsidies.

Now, I understand that the state doesn’t own the network in the same way as the Pravda was owned by the state during the Bolshevik movement. However, a substantially large sum of state tax dollars do flow into the very creation of The Walt Disney Company that owns the ABC network which airs Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

Therefore, like any government program there are always strings attached to keep the gravy train alive. Furthermore, the state of California itself currently has enacted a state budget for 2025-26 including nearly $175 billion dollars in federal subsidies which consist of over one-third of the entire state’s budget according to the California Budget and Policy Center.

This is a staggering number that involves the flow of federal tax dollars into the state for a multitude of purposes. The reality is that anytime you have this amount of subsidy flowing into a state you’re going to have a scenario where these dollars are touching so many things that the concept of a free market simply goes right out the window.

This is also the problem that MAGA influencer Benny Johnson is currently pointing out regarding his position that American taxpayers are being forced “at the end of a gun” to subsidize Jimmy Kimmel due to the broadcast licenses that are granted to ABC. In short, Johnson’s position is that ABC news operates under an FCC broadcast license, and because of this it is a government-granted privilege that is directly funded by the American taxpayers.

As Johnson rightfully points out, he’s sick of being forced to pay taxes that are then being used to pay for a program that “constantly agitates” and makes fun of political figures on the right side of the political spectrum. Johnson specifies further by citing Jimmy Kimmel’s rhetoric surrounding the assassination of his friend and the attempts on the lives of his political allies.

I personally back up Benny Johnson’s point as well. After all, it is commonly said that free markets go out the window as soon as the first cent of a government subsidy enters into the equation. If you agree with that sentiment then you should also agree that free speech also goes out the window at the sign of the first cent of a government subsidy.

This is because that subsidy eliminates the incentive to compete within any industry due to the guarantee that financial support is always there from the gravy train of tax dollars that keep flowing in at the expense of the taxpayers. This is the case because, when a messenger like Jimmy Kimmel is able to deliver whatever message he wants without the worry of competing for the attention of an audience, this enables him to expand his echo chamber of propaganda to anyone that’s willing to listen.

So what type of people are listening and taking the message of Jimmy Kimmel to heart?

Well, I would say that it would be the same type of people who lack the same discerning mind as those who were willing to run to the hills on horseback, because they believed Orson Welles’s broadcast about an alien invasion. However, the current alien invasion really involves the lacking trait of a discerning mind in today’s world and this is what produces that same unity of thought that Lennon strived to achieve with the Pravda.

The Wrap Up

“Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.’”

–Auric Goldfinger

I’d say that it’s pretty obvious that enemy action is at play here, with the domestic cultural Marxists, given the fact that this was the third assassination attempt on the president. So, with that in mind, what does the Virginia special election, the corruption of the SPLC, Cole Tomas Allen, and Jimmy Kimmel all have in common?

The common denominator here is that these examples are symptoms of an old and corrupt system that has become so bloated that it is desperate to re-establish its power over the citizens of the United States. These various symptoms of this corrupt system are pointing towards an organized effort to implement a Marxist purge on everyone that attempts to oppose it.

The purpose of today’s episode is to point out this overwhelming problem involving the Marxist attempt to destroy the minds of the public so that their desire for control is easier to establish. Given this reality, not only are they willing to convince their followers that they should be running for the hills, but they are intent on having you pay for them to do so; and if you oppose that, they’ll be willing to kill you for it as well.

You see, they are aiming for that unity of thought; but if they can’t achieve it with you and me, then they’re prepared to just remove us from the equation altogether. The Marxists and the Islamists don’t want the opposite of the unity of thought, which is diversity of thought. They want the complete destruction of your human agency.

However, there’s another common and dangerous trait that exists with those who may not be Marxists, but still suffer from a condition of ignorance, due to their lacking ability involving the Organizational Hierarchy of Thought.

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“For wisdom is a defense as money is a defense. But the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.”

–Ecclesiastes 7:12

As a member of Generation X, I have to take a moment to jump back in time to talk about an epic ‘80s teen action movie that hit the big screen back on June 22, 1984. The popular film that I want to discuss involves a powerful coming-of-age story about a young teenage boy named Daniel LaRusso (played by Ralph Macchio) in the movie The Karate Kid.

Now, I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that you’ve seen this movie, but just in case you haven’t I’m going to highlight and summarize the most profound moment of this film here.

In the movie, The Karate Kid, Daniel LaRusso is a teenage boy that moves to a new town with his single mom. In the process of moving into their new apartment Daniel meets an interesting old man downstairs named Mr. Miyagi (played by Pat Morita).

As it turns out, Mr. Miyagi happens to be the maintenance man that works at the apartment complex where Daniel and his mother move in.

As Daniel tries his best to settle into an unfamiliar town and school as the new kid, he immediately starts to encounter problems. For Daniel, these problems manifest with some local kids who end up bullying him; to make matters worse, they also happen to be a part of the Cobra Kai karate dojo.

One night Daniel ends up getting chased by these bullies from a Halloween party. Luckily, Mr. Miyagi ends up intervening and having to demonstrate his own elite martial arts skills in order to save Daniel from Johnny Lawrence and the other Cobra Kai students. After this encounter, Daniel is amazed with Mr. Miyagi’s ability to fight off the group. This is when Daniel asks Mr. Miyagi if he can train him so that he can defend himself against the Cobra Kai students.

Initially, Mr. Miyagi refuses to train Daniel, but is eventually convinced to do so, agreeing to help Daniel settle the matter by training him to face his bullies at the All Valley Karate Tournament.

It’s at this point that Daniel thinks Mr. Miyagi is a bit crazy for agreeing to enroll him in the tournament, but, at the same time, he’s excited that Mr. Miyagi has agreed to train him in the discipline of Okinawan karate.

When it’s time for Daniel to show up at Mr. Miyagi’s house to start his training, he’s caught off guard when Mr. Miyagi hands him a couple of sponges and two pails of water while instructing him to wash and wax all of his classic cars. In the process, Mr. Miyagi demonstrates to Daniel how to wax on and wax off by performing an outside in circular motion with his hands to properly do the chore.

Once Daniel completed waxing Mr. Miyagi’s cars he was then instructed to sand the floor of Mr. Miyagi’s deck. Again, Daniel’s disappointment clearly shows as Mr. Miyagi demonstrates to him how to perform the opposite movement of wax on, wax off by instead performing an inside-out circular motion with his hands in order to sand the floor of his deck.

As Daniel finishes sanding the deck, he’s then asked to paint the tall wooden fence that surrounds Mr. Miyagi’s property. Once again, there’s a very specific technique involved with performing the chore where Daniel is expected to maintain a wrist up, wrist down motion when performing the long paint strokes.

Finally, after finishing the fence Daniel is then instructed by Mr. Miyagi to paint his house. Again, the technique was very specific in this chore and involved long side-to-side brush strokes to perform the task. It was clear at this stage of the work Daniel was extremely frustrated and when he sees Mr. Miyagi, preparing to go fishing, Daniel finally snaps and confronts him accusing him of using him for slave labor.

It’s at this point that Mr. Miyagi transforms Daniel’s effort in performing these tasks into a demonstration revealing to him that his muscle memory had developed from the work without him even realizing it.

In a stunning moment of truth Mr. Miyagi then asks Daniel to show him each movement involved with each of the chores that he had used to perform the tasks around his house. Mr. Miyagi initially gives Daniel a small reminder involved with each technique before asking him to put the movements together in a way that a fighter would perform in a standing ready position.

Mr. Miyagi then asks Daniel to show him wax on, wax off, but it’s at this moment that he throws a punch at Daniel after making the request. This results in Daniel quickly reacting to block the punch with the wax on, wax off hand motion involved in the movement.

Mr. Miyagi then goes on to demonstrate the same thing to Daniel with the ‘wrist up, wrist down’ paint-the-fence movement, the ‘side-to-side’ paint-the-house movement, and the ‘big circles’ with the sand-the-floor movement. In each demonstration Mr. Miyagi throws a different strike at Daniel with Daniel successfully blocking every strike that Mr. Miyagi throws his way.

Mr. Miyagi, having assigned these tasks, ensured that Daniel had mastered the exact neuromuscular motor skills that he needed to subconsciously train the ability to parry the strikes. The power of this was that Daniel had mastered these tasks without the “interference” of conscious thought.

The payoff is the result of one of film’s most powerful revelations. When Daniel finally erupts in anger, Miyagi launches a series of strikes in Daniel’s direction. Instinctively, Daniels hands fly into motion successfully deflecting every strike due to the physical movements he had developed from his labor.

The stunning look of disbelief that is left on Daniel’s face says it all as he realizes his “chores” were the result of his newly developed skill. This testament of Miyagi’s wisdom leaves Daniel completely astounded as true mastery begins when you don’t even realize that you’re learning.

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“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

― Thomas A. Edison

There’s no question that our nation is currently dealing with a multitude of problems, ranging from a confused population, to domestic enemies, to hostile actors on the world stage who are all aiming to take the United States out at the knees. They do all of this while they work to position themselves to take over the spot as the next heavyweight champion on the global stage.

However, the question that so many people don’t understand is that if the United States isn’t the one to hold onto that championship belt, then who exactly are you going to be good with in regards to holding that spot as the next heavyweight champion? Is China an acceptable option? Russia? India?

The reality is that the United States still possesses certain ideals related to individual sovereignty that have been far greater than any nation in the history of the world, although many people are aiming to subvert that reality.

Since this war with Iran kicked off, the public response to it has been fairly predictable given the track record of insanity that has taken place within the past six years. Of course, as expected, the cultural Marxists have been cheering in support of the Iranian regime. Meanwhile the political right is split with this war as it relates to the woke right and the MAGA coalition.

Now, I want to be clear about something before I go any further. I am all about putting an end to the forever wars. However, during this chaotic turning in history I’m not naive enough to think that we can prevent all wars, especially given the reality of what I just addressed in my opening as it relates to hostile actors on the global stage that have been aiming to take the United States out at the knees.

With that being said, when looking at this war with Iran I’m looking at it now as something we absolutely must win because, like it or not, we’re in it now. Additionally, whether you agree with the war or not, in my view bleeding political support from President Trump isn’t the answer to winning. That’s the outcome that the Iranian Guard is aiming for, that’s the option that the domestic cultural Marxists desire, and that appears to be the option that the woke right desires.

However, if we cannot support President Trump after everything he’s endured and done for this nation, then who else would we ever be able to support? I’d say without a doubt that would be a definite nobody.

I mean, given what this man has accomplished during his time in office it is unparalleled when looking through the lens of history. Therefore, if we, as a nation, cannot support this president with unrelenting effort, then our nation is destined to lose that championship belt.

In the reality of this fallen world there’s no such thing as perfection. Perfection is a myth and is something that every sovereign should remember when pursuing it.

Don’t get me wrong, the political stupidity of the cultural Marxists is nauseating, but honestly it’s the idiocy of the woke right that really gets under my skin because they’re not considering the alternative to the very thing that they want to criticize when it comes to the president and this war with Iran.

Sure, I would have preferred that we had never have had to get into a war with the Iranian regime in the first place. However, if we can take just a minute to apply the Reverse Line of Delineation we can see why we are currently where we are at this time.

Given the fact that decades of previous administrations haven’t held them accountable, and the fact that those previous administrations have chosen to finance the corrupt Islamic Republic with pallets of cash, I suppose this is the price we are having to pay now for those previous actions.

The reality is that President Trump made a conscious decision to walk down that golden escalator back on June 16, 2015. That decision was one that wasn’t made lightly by this man because President Trump is not a man that makes decisions without significant thought.

How do I know this?

The answer to that question is simple. I know this because of his body of work, combined with his actions, since he’s been inside the arena of politics since 2016. President Trump would never be where he is in life without possessing a strategic mind and the grit to see a project all the way through to the very end.

The Distraction of Subterfuge

The world is full of deception.

In fact, we live in an era where every theater is infected by some form of deception, misdirection, or just outright lies.

So, the reality of the world that we live in is that, for the longest time, the Administrative State Media (ASM) outlets have served to be centralized forms of media that have essentially had a monopoly over the airways in shaping the perceptions of the American people. Their propaganda has always been present and they’ve always had a particular slant on how they have presented certain stories. Their narrative bias has always been obvious, and you could spot their slant if you knew what to look for.

However, since the pandemic, it became obvious that much of their slant transformed into a completely crooked line when looking at their narrative surrounding the virus, the so-called vaccines, and their absurdly contradictory guidelines for public health. As a result, this now-obviously crooked line resulted in an entirely new explosion and growth of alternative media, with podcasts and alternative news networks, springing up all over the internet. In fact, this very Substack is an example of that reaction.

Of course, this new ecosystem of media has brought about an entirely new framing of information that isn’t just opposite of the ASM, but is packaged in a multitude of ways that differ from the ASM and their typical hardlined narrative.

However, because of this there’s obviously a greater amount of information that may relate to a given storyline that never existed before this new ecosystem of media came about. As a result of this, there’s obviously now many more opinions that can circulate around a particular narrative that may relate to a certain storyline.

Therefore, with all of this information and a greater abundance of differing opinions, it’s up to the individual viewer to learn how to exercise discernment by carefully understanding the sandbox that we’re in, as we all work to parse out the details of the narrative that surrounds a given storyline. When it comes to the abundance of this information, the good news is that having a variety of information is healthy. However, the bad news is that sometimes that variety of information can either be grossly used for misdirection (deception), or it can be used to shape reductive perspectives and opinions of the simple minded who happen to command large audiences.

In 1984 the KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov gave an interview to G. Edward Griffin from which much can be learned today. In the interview Bezmenov revealed a chilling point where there was a long-term plan that was put in place by Russia to defeat the United States through psychological warfare and “demoralization.” Bezmenov explained that it was a long game that was put in place, but that it had already started bearing fruit.

The interesting thing about Bezmenov’s interview is that he explained how much of what the KGB did wasn’t espionage, despite what popular culture had traditionally sold to the public. He explained how 85% of the work consisted of a slow and steady process that the KGB would refer to as ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare.

Bezmenov explained that the most striking thing about ideological subversion is that it was an exercise that took place right out in the open in front of everyone to see as a legitimate process. He said, “You can see it with your own eyes.”

Here’s how Bezmenov went on to define ideological subversion:

“What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”

Now, it’s that last part—about how he says “that despite the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country”— that I want to hone in on in regards to today’s message.

As I’ve already pointed out at the beginning of this episode, despite there now being an abundance of information with this new alternative ecosystem of media with all the new podcasts and news providers, we are currently a nation struggling to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of uniting on what needs to be done to defend ourselves, our families, our communities, and our country.

I mean right this very minute at this point of my work on this episode, we are just hours away from the president’s ultimatum that he gave to the Iranian regime after having extended the deadline roughly four times for them in order to give them an ample opportunity to come to the negotiating table to make a deal. By the time I publish this episode we all will have already experienced the outcome of that ultimatum. I’m not updating this particular portion of the episode on purpose because I’m illustrating a point that has become clear at this time with the reason we, as a nation, cannot come to a sensible conclusion to serve our best interests.

I will come back to address the actual outcome of that ultimatum at the end of this episode, but just keep in mind that at this point of the discussion I’m working on this just prior to the deadline that the president has set for the Iranian regime.

As Yuri Bezmenov pointed out we have been ideologically subverted to the point that the cultural Marxists still believe the ASM, while the woke right still thinks everything is an ongoing psychological operation.

Now, having said that, is there a significant amount of deception going on in the information arena? Sure there is.

However, now we’re seeing how many on the woke right are either purposely trying to flood the information space with deception, or they themselves are just as much the useful idiots as the cultural Marxists have been for quite some time. If the woke right is purposely and intentionally trying to flood the zone with deception then they’re essentially behaving as Fifth Column activists.

If they’re unintentionally causing this deception, due to their perspective on the war and their lack of understanding of the surrounding geopolitical landscape, then they’re just reductive in their thinking. No, I’m being too kind. If it’s the latter then they’re just opportunistic morons.

So you’re probably thinking, Brandon, what metric are you using to determine that the woke right is wrong about President Trump and his threatening ultimatum to the Iranian regime?

The metric I’m using is based on the premise of it resulting in actions that are an attempt to bleed political support away from the president while potentially causing division among the MAGA base. As I stated earlier, if we cannot stand shoulder to shoulder in a united front alongside this president, then what other president would we ever be able to unify behind?

The bottom line is that those voices that are in the alternative media space right now who have been criticizing President Trump have been engaging in division. Those who have been calling him evil, saying that he wants to use nuclear weapons, calling for the 25th Amendment, and getting bent out of shape because of his Easter post on Truth social are all now disqualified as sensible voices. These people are doing more damage to the country than good.

If you’ve been listening to those people because you trust those people, then you’ve been opening yourself up to the distraction of subterfuge. Granted, I’m not 100% certain about what their intentions are even though I highlighted some possible motives earlier in this episode.

However, I want you to take the metaphorical camera lens and zoom out the picture to look at what has been going on here with this war with Iran and the surrounding narratives that the woke right have been pushing. I want you to pay close attention to what the critics have said, especially during the president’s attempts to negotiate a ceasefire and possible peace deal with an unhinged death squad before the president’s very concerning deadline.

Before I explore that further, let me take a moment and back up a bit to look at the tremendous and daring rescue operation that the military just successfully pulled off in retrieving the downed F-15 fighter pilot behind enemy lines in Iran.

According to the New York Times, a senior U.S. official described this effort as one of the most challenging and complex missions in the history of the U.S. Special Operations. To start, they were able to track down the pilot by following his beacon. Then the CIA was able to utilize the distraction of subterfuge themselves by spreading word throughout Iran that the downed airman had been found and was being moved out of the country by a ground convoy.

Their hope was that by doing this they could shift the Iranian search away from his perceived location to shift their focus on the roads moving out of the region. The move appeared to cause confusion among the Iranian forces that were searching for the airman, although they did intensify their search.

Thank God they were able to get to the pilot and everyone else involved in the rescue were able to get out of the region. However, the rescue of the pilot still came at a steep financial cost in terms of military equipment, as they had to bomb two disabled rescue planes along with four other MH-6 Special Operations helicopters, in order to keep them out of the hands of the Iranian regime.

Now, why did I choose to share the details about this daring rescue mission that was described by a senior official as being the most challenging and complex rescue mission in the history of U.S. Special Operations?

I shared it because this mission had to be authorized and overseen by the Commander In Chief. Now, having said that, this proves without question that President Donald J. Trump places a tremendous value on human life while also ensuring that even faulty equipment isn’t left behind to the enemy. This is certainly 180 degrees the opposite of what we witnessed with Joe Biden’s exit from Afghanistan.

So, given these very clear differences, it’s quite obvious to me that every single one of those podcasters and internet critics of the president—who were saying that he needs to be impeached, or that he’s going to end the world with nuclear weapons—are, at best, complete morons and, at worst, are intentionally aiding the enemy.

So, you’re probably wondering, Brandon, how can you be so bold to make such a claim?

The answer to that question is easy. Imagine that you happen to be whatever member is left of the Iranian leadership that is responsible for negotiating with the president of the United States. Now, as the current head of the Iranian guard you’re literally a couple of days, a day, or even hours away from having to come to the negotiating table to make a deal and you’re looking for any excuse possible not to do so.

As it plays out, all of a sudden in the closing hours, you start hearing about how members of the United States media and politicians, like Ro Khanna and Marjorie Taylor Greene, are calling President Trump unhinged, and they’re even going so far as to call for the 25th Amendment. There’s no question that this very act would aid the enemy by helping to supply them with a possible excuse to kill whatever deal the president may have to put on the table.

After all, if they were to believe the politicians and media calling the president unhinged, while advocating for the 25th Amendment, then there’s no question that the enemy would look at President Trump through the lens of losing political support. As a result, the Iranian regime could use this as further leverage to negotiate against President Trump and his plan to achieve what’s in the best interest of the United States. This very act from these woke right podcasters and politicians could actually result in a prolonged war.

Now, it’s one thing to have the freedom to express your opinion on the war, the president, or any other politician for that matter. However, it’s an entirely different thing to openly undermine the president’s attempt to broker a peace deal by giving the enemy hope—openly calling him unhinged and demanding that he be impeached, especially if you’re a politician. In fact, I believe that a case could be made about such behavior by these politicians and media personnel to be defined as outright treason.

It’s as if none of these idiots have paid attention to anything regarding how the president goes about negotiating when making these kinds of deals.

When President Trump posted the controversial Easter statement on Truth Social it really caused the woke right panicans to rip their masks completely off. For anyone who has spent any small amount of time observing how President Trump goes about negotiating they should have immediately recognized what the president was doing with that Truth Social post. However, instead of many of the political right podcasters grasping the strategy, they immediately took the hard pivot to undermining the president while he was working to negotiate a ceasefire with an enemy that we’ve literally been at war with. Just slow down and think about the danger surrounding that scenario for a moment.

The Wrap Up

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”

― Aeschylus

The reality is that we are currently experiencing the fog of war in the information space and because of this I also believe there’s a strong potential that many former MAGA media influencers have allowed themselves to be captured by enemy influence. I believe many woke right podcasters have been the target of a form of active measures as Yuri Bezmenov would say.

So why do I say this?

In the last few months there have been multiple outlets that have reported on how online sleuths discovered how many large accounts on X that had been posting in support of the MAGA movement, to thousands and hundreds of thousands of followers, were coming from outside of the U.S..

Many of these accounts show a substantial number of followers which can certainly trigger a noticeable level of virality online with posts that can be used to shape a narrative. However, the problem with these profiles is that the origin of many of these accounts were traced back to South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

I’m not going to sit here and tell you that every single one of these accounts is attached to some nefarious outside entity that’s working to enact a level of active measures onto the public through X, however, it should give you pause that many of these massive accounts are originating from outside the United States, especially since they’re claiming to be MAGA.

Now, if that alone isn’t enough to get your attention then perhaps a little history lesson and another interesting fact concerning Fox’s Rupert Murdoch will help clear a section of air for you inside this current fog of war.

Back in January 2021 after Fox News was accused of playing a role in triggering the Capitol riot, Rupert Murdoch himself responded to the network’s role, communicating to a Fox executive: “Fox News is very busy pivoting…We want to make Trump a non person.”

Of course, Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert’s son, had already taken over the role as the CEO of the network at this point, but it’s clear the network’s pivot has been firmly in place since that comment from Rupert with their narrative warfare against President Trump’s policies.

Now, keeping that in mind, I want to pivot to talk about another interesting little moment in history before tying all of this up.

Back on June 9th, 1946 the baseball player Ted Williams stepped up to the plate and smashed a home run that was recorded as the longest home run that was ever hit at Fenway Park. This was so significant that the spot where the ball landed is marked by a single red seat. The home run distance was recorded at an astounding 502 feet.

So, why am I telling you about the long distance home run of Ted Williams?

As interesting as that little tidbit of history was to share, the other interesting thing about that red seat is that it served to be the inspiration for the name of a media company called Red Seat Ventures.

In case you’re not aware there are now a few of those former MAGA influencers who are part of this media company Red Seat Ventures. In fact, some of President Trump’s most recent detractors involve former supporters who have been very critical of the president as of late including Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly.

So why is this media company significant?

It’s significant because Red Seat Ventures is owned by Fox News which is led by Lachlan Murdoch. Yes, that would be the same Murdoch who’s father previously ran Fox News and stated that he wanted to make President Trump a nonperson.

Earlier at a particular point in this episode I spoke about how we were just hours away from a serious deadline as the president had issued a harsh ultimatum to the Iranian regime that triggered the woke right media landscape.

Now, at this point of working on this episode we are currently on the other side of that deadline and the president has achieved a ceasefire with the Iranian regime and the woke right is still criticizing the president for not having a peace deal fully negotiated.

Are you kidding me? First, these people were calling for the 25th Amendment because the president was going to annihilate everyone and everything with an all-out nuclear war. Now that absolutely none of that came close to happening, they are still criticizing him from their red seats because he doesn’t immediately have a permanent peace deal inked with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. You just can’t make up this level of stupidity.

Given the abundance of information these days, it’s clear that much of the population still has a difficult time in discerning whom to trust when it comes to what’s going on with this war and the current geopolitical landscape. I’m not saying that the Red Seat Venture crowd is the ONLY piece of this puzzle. Instead, this Red Seat Venture is merely a piece of the whole.

Remember that “In war, truth is the first casualty.” Additionally, when a population starts to place its trust into personalities that immediately criticize every single thing the president does—while simultaneously being consistently embarrassed by the proven inaccuracies of their criticisms— this is evidence of subterfuge.

Therefore, within the anatomy of the body politic this subterfuge is a symptom of enemy infiltration. Of course, if enough of our society is lured in by this enemy infiltration then you and I will suffer if the citizens of the nation fail in their strike to do what is in their best interests to defend their families, their communities, and their country.

In short, this is what is known as the anatomy of a failed strike. This is what leads to the Rehoboam drift.

With that being said, there’s an absolute cure for preventing such a failed strike. In fact, it’s one that the president is currently engaging in, with a very unique and powerful tactic that he’s using to manipulate and develop his main thesis—which isn’t the Middle East.

On that note, I will reveal what all is involved with this tactic, that’s known as the Maximalist Strategy, as well as the president’s main thesis in my next cognitive briefing: The Dog That Wags the Tail.

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“We are not here to escape reality. We are here to rewrite it.”

― Lawrence Nault

An event horizon is the boundary surrounding a black hole and it serves to be a point of no return, where any matter or information that crosses over it will immediately and permanently be lost to the outside universe. This happens due to the fact that the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light.

Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape the force of its pull. However, the thought of there being a point of no return apparently doesn’t just apply to the lessons of physics and space; as history has shown us, it all too often also directly applies to the geopolitical landscape concerning many civilizational failures that occur at the hands of Communism and Islamism. Now we are witnessing in real time how Western civilization is fast approaching that event horizon with its potential fall at the hands of cultural Marxism and/or Islamism.

With that being said, in the previous episode I spoke about how Rehoboam had ended up failing in his leadership role as king due to him allowing himself to succumb to a fatal contagion of false intuition. He failed to accept the wise counsel of his father’s elder advisors and instead chose to follow the advice of the young men that he had grown up with at the time.

Yes, this choice was an unwise act that eventually had cost Rehoboam more than half of his kingdom. He failed at this because he lacked something that his father clearly had at the beginning of his reign; and because of that, Rehoboam crossed his own event horizon, ultimately leaving his kingdom lost and broken.

The question we have to wrestle with now is whether the United States is currently at its event horizon concerning the threat it faces with the expansion and growth of Islamism and cultural Marxism that currently exists here right inside the gates.

If Europe isn’t already at the point of no return then it’s certainly skimming along the surface of its own event horizon. As bad as that is, at least we here in the United States have the opportunity to observe Europe’s mistakes in this regard so that we can avoid falling victim to the same ones as they have.

The question is: Do we still have what it takes to do what needs to be done, with the same courage as the Sons of Liberty when they took care of business on the evening of December 16, 1773?

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I Prefer Coffee To Tea

In 1773 the British East India Company was failing.

In a desperate act to save it the British Parliament passed the Tea Act on May 10, 1773. While the legislation actually reduced the price of imported tea, many protestors felt that this legislation would set a dangerous precedent for Great Britain and the East India Company’s level of authority over the colonies.

The reality is that the Tea Act outraged the colonists and strong dissenters like Samuel Adams leveled up the information warfare by continuing to invoke “no taxation without representation.” Samuel Adams and The Sons of Liberty were smart enough to realize that they couldn’t win a physical fight against the British at that point, so instead they decided to stage a theatrical one in order to get a head start on winning the war for cognitive monopoly when it came to their cause.

The theatrical fight that they chose involved boarding the three ships that sat in the harbor that night—including the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver. Several of the Sons of Liberty, including Paul Revere, boarded the ships and disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians.

In one sense the colonists saw the opposite of Europe’s worse excesses when looking at the Native Americans. The disguises were selected to protect the identity of the Sons of Liberty in one respect, but were also symbolic in nature; and by destroying the British tea, the act represented a moral critique of consumerism.

As the Sons of Liberty boarded the ships they moved with an eerie disciplined silence. Once onboard, they cracked open and dumped 342 crates of tea into the harbor. However, it should be noted that everything that they did was a calculated act.

Understand that they didn’t burn the ships, steal the tea, or loot anything during their mission. This wasn’t a careless mission, but rather a very specific one. Every man had a clearly defined role, and it was an efficient and concerted effort among the group. They had men keeping watch while also making sure that none of their own would steal any of the tea or other inventory in the process.

In fact, one of the men ended up going back to replace a padlock that they had broken the night before that belonged to the captain of one of the ships. Unlike BLM, Antifa, and the protestors in Minneapolis, the Sons of Liberty were principled in their respect of other people’s property—apart from the tea itself. These men had a strategic plan of action that they carried out with stealth and precision in order to neutralize an overwhelming force in the British Crown.

However, it was in the aftermath of this historic event as to where the real victory happened. You see, the British responded by passing the Intolerable Acts which forced a shutdown of Boston’s port and essentially placed the rest of the city under house arrest. In short, this move was exactly what the Sons of Liberty wanted because that move by the British essentially galvanized and radicalized the other twelve colonies. With their actions the Sons of Liberty utilized the moment in order to further leverage a local tea dispute into a continental cause for liberty.

Samuel Adams worked tirelessly to publicize the Tea Party. He ardently pressed the narrative that it was as an act of defense against British taxation and sold the narrative on it being a last resort move to save colonial rights. Samuel Adams was a relentless agitator that turned outrage into full-scale tactical action.

The Sons of Liberty proved that you don’t need a bigger army to win; you just need to know how to exploit your enemy’s weakness while simultaneously playing to your own side’s strength of identity. You see, the Sons of Liberty understood that the Tea Act was an attempt from the British Crown to start the process of stripping away the economic sovereignty of the colonies. Sound familiar?

Obviously, you can now look back at history and understand that the moment of bloodshed was an inevitability between the colonies and the British Redcoats. However, even if the Sons of Liberty had not taken a stand against the British Crown, I’m certain that day of bloodshed would have taken place anyways, although the shot heard “round the world” may have resulted in a later start date.

So why did I bother to share this historic night involving Samuel Adams and the legendary event of the Boston Tea Party with you today?

The reasons are really numerous, but for the sake of today’s discussion the lessons here are going to serve to be an instrument that both you and myself can use throughout our daily lives as operational zeniths. I’m going to drill down on exactly what that main lesson is for today by explaining it in a way to expand your thinking beyond the box of your normal cognitive model.

You know, I love the John Wick movies. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this series of films, but if you’re looking for some decent writing combined with the backdrop of a captivating setting and some extraordinary action, then I highly recommend them.

There’s a scene in John Wick 2 where Mr. Wick has to go on an assignment in Rome, Italy. Given the fact that Mr. Wick is the world’s most feared assassin, he has to make a quick stop at The Continental Hotel in Rome which is a sister branch of The Continental Hotel in New York City. For further clarity, The Continental Hotels are fictitious grounds in the John Wick films that serve to be neutral grounds for assassins to meet, regroup, and to acquire certain resources if necessary.

So exactly what kind of resources am I referring to?

Well, as I stated earlier in the second film when John made his stop at The Continental Hotel in Rome, Italy he ended up paying a visit to the sommelier. In case you didn’t know, a sommelier is someone who normally specializes in fine wines and offers customers advice on matters concerning how certain foods and wines pair together.

The sommelier is naturally one of the services that’s provided by The Continental. However, I assure you that the sommelier in John Wick 2 probably isn’t giving much advice about food and wine pairings as this sommelier is a front for a high-end armory. When Mr. Wick visits the sommelier, he is immediately shown a variety of hardware; he acquires the immediate service of a tactical tailor and receives strategic recommendations from the sommelier, which are thoughtfully catered to his specific needs for the purpose of combat.

I wanted to point out this scene to you in John Wick 2 in order to try and paint a different picture for you in regards to how we should engage in the free exchange of ideas in this modern era. Given the fact that the Administrative State Media (ASM) clearly serves a nefarious purpose in trying to destroy this republic, we have to approach this current world of information warfare with a discerning heart and mind.

However, when engaging in this information arena we must be well equipped with the understanding of our environment as peak operational zeniths in order to engage the world with our knowledge on a day to day basis.

So what exactly do I mean when I talk about engaging the world in this manner?

Well, I purposely used the example of the Boston Tea Party and Samuel Adams to illustrate how disciplined, strategic, organized, and tactical each of those men were when they executed one of the most famous missions in all of history.

Furthermore, Samuel Adams took that event and ran with it as he engaged in the information arena by driving the narrative about how the Tea Party was a last-resort move to save colonial rights and to preserve the economic sovereignty of the colonists. The Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams didn’t just perform a physical act of dumping tea into the harbor, they constructed an entire theater of information warfare and leveraged that performance in order to completely transform the culture surrounding the corrupt globalist practices of the British Crown, their tea, and the oligarchy of the British East India Company.

The actions from the Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams were so effective that they even shifted the culture of the colonies to view drinking tea as an unpatriotic act. As a result, the Tea Party moved cultural attitudes to promote coffee as the preferred drink of Americans and to progress Americans one step closer to going to war with Great Britain.

At the end of the day, this is why I prefer coffee to tea.

You see, my goal here is to frame this in a way for you to look at this situation and to recognize with a clear-eyed comparison, the similarities of what we’re facing today. Like the British Crown and the oligarchy of the British East India Company, you have an administrative state and an oligarchy that’s hell-bent on cementing a future of surveillance and technofeudalism—one that exists for the sole purpose of stripping away your national, individual, and economic sovereignty right this very minute.

This is exactly why I want to serve to be your sommelier of narrative warfare, so that when you enter into combat inside the cultural and political arena of life, that you’ll be optimally equipped with all the adequate armaments of knowledge, wisdom, and intuition. Furthermore, the idea is not only to equip you but to also train your understanding of how to engage the narrative warfare in a way that’s highly productive and effective when it comes to you dealing with family, friends, and colleagues. I’ll come back to this in a bit.

In the last episode I touched on the division going on between the woke right podcasters and the rest of what Jake Tapper would refer to as “MAGA media.” I spoke about the controversy surrounding the resignation of Joe Kent and pointed out some key questions I had regarding his recent resignation.

For instance, why did he wait until the shooting started before coming out against the war with his resignation? In other words, why did he not choose to resign during Operation Midnight Hammer, Operation Absolute Resolve, or during the many weeks of military buildup before the start of Operation Epic Fury?

Additionally, why was he specifically being withheld from certain intelligence briefings and under a months-long investigation that predated his resignation?

You see, the reason I’m pointing these things out is that these are essentially the questions that I am not seeing anyone ask in regards to the situation involving Joe Kent. Furthermore, I’m also not seeing some key questions being asked in regards to the war with Iran itself.

I want to break this down in a way that will make sense to you, but please be patient with me because the cognitive process I’m about to share is a bit challenging to explain.

Let me begin by asking: Have you ever heard a storyline or narrative pop up for the first time regarding a certain field, subject, or individual that triggered a gut instinct feeling inside of you— where you knew the story was inaccurate or misleading?

Perhaps the storyline that was being communicated was something that you believed to be inaccurate, but maybe you weren’t quite able to explain why the story was incorrect at that moment? In other words, it was something that you just intuitively knew was false, but you just weren’t equipped at the moment that you heard it to explain why it was inaccurate—or, at the very least, not entirely accurate?

I’ll give you an example of this very thing by examining the debate over whether or not Iran possessed nuclear weapons, and whether they were an imminent threat to the United States and the rest of the world.

At the time he tendered his resignation, according to Joe Kent, Iran wasn’t an imminent threat. Now, when I heard this, I’m not saying that I wasn’t a bit confused on whether or not Iran possessed nuclear weapons, because I was under the impression that we had completely obliterated their nuclear arsenal during Operation Midnight Hammer.

However, by applying the Reverse Line of Delineation in examining the president’s past actions on dealing with certain problems, and possessing a more broad understanding of the geopolitical landscape, the belief of that imminent threat started to make more sense. In other words, after the shooting started there were some actions on the part of Iran that brought forth the evidence that they were definitely a bigger threat than what was being communicated by the Joe Kents of the world.

For instance, aside from the debate surrounding Iran’s possession of nuclear material, the other variable that few have said anything about was Iran’s ability to deliver a nuclear payload. In other words, for the longest time, the public has been told that Iran’s best long-range missile would only have had a range of about a 1000 miles, with many media personnel stating that even that was a pipe dream.

However, back on March 23, 2026 one of the few remaining and reliable news sources, Just The News, reported that Iran had launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at the joint U.S.-UK airbase of Diego Garcia which is located in the Indian Ocean. Fortunately, one of the missiles failed in flight and a U.S. warship fired an interceptor missile at the other one.

So, why is this significant?

This is significant because Diego Garcia is more than 2,000 miles away from Tehran. This obviously vindicated President Trump, who previously cited Iran’s capability as justification for the conflict with the Islamic Republic, after they publicly denied these capabilities for years.

Aside from the realization of putting Europe within striking distance, I would also add that the Iranians, along with Russia and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), were present and working in Venezuela close to the event of Operation Absolute Resolve. Just to point out another important fact about that: Caracas, Venezuela, is about 2,000 miles away from Washington, D.C.. Take a few seconds to marinate on that reality for a moment.

Regardless of this, the point is that if the Islamic Republic wasn’t supposed to have IRBMs then how do we know that they didn’t also possess intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)?

The point here is that they obviously possessed a level of military capabilities that we were clearly told that they didn’t have, yet, here we are talking about it.

What I’m working to illustrate to you here is that, when the debate surrounding Iran’s nuclear capabilities were in question, the real point of the discussion is recognizing that they did, in fact, possess significantly greater military capabilities than what we’ve been told for a very long time.

In short, when everyone got busy honing in on whether they had nuclear weapons and whether they were an imminent threat, the point is that we now know that they did have military capabilities that they had been lying about for years. Therefore, we have to ask what else is it that they have been lying about all this time?

I wanted to use this particular example as a model for you to understand how to attack the narrative from a different angle by shifting the focus away from the narrative of nuclear weapons, and onto the focus of military capabilities and the lies that have now been exposed. This is a technique of information warfare that I like to refer to as the Parrying Counter-Offensive.

You see, when talking about the fight disciplines of martial arts and boxing, the act of parrying serves to be a maneuver that involves a fighter successfully deflecting and warding off strikes involving punches and kicks. Parrying serves three purposes: it initially enables a fighter to evade a strike while simultaneously creating an opening for that same fighter to execute an offensive counter-strike.

You’re probably thinking, “Brandon, you said parrying served three purposes, but you only listed two. What’s the third purpose?”

Oh yeah, the third purpose of parrying an opponent’s strikes, while successfully executing an offensive counter-strike, is that it starts to make a fighter feel very uncomfortable both physically and psychologically. You see, every time a smart fighter is able to successfully counter everything that their opponent is throwing at them during a fight, the more that intelligent fighter can cause their opponent to doubt their own abilities. This doubt leads to mental and physical fatigue which further creates more and more opportunities for the intelligent fighter to finish off their opponent.

You see, in terms of the way we must approach this modern era of information warfare, this is exactly why I have taken this same concept of parrying and created the utility involving the Parrying Counter-Offensive so that you can use it in your own life to make your opposition uncomfortable about sharing false or misleading information.

Earlier, I said that I would come back to address how to effectively engage in narrative warfare in a way that’s highly productive when it comes to you dealing with family, friends, and colleagues—those who might be cultural Marxists or are perhaps infected with the RINO mind virus.

Now, I already know that, when many people hear that, they reactively want to say that you or I are not going to change anybody’s mind when trying to debate them on politics—or even trying to convince someone of giving ground when it comes to a hardline business decision, for that matter.

I would say that is debatable. However, trying to convince others to change their beliefs isn’t really the point. The point is that if they are spreading absurdly stupid lies and ASM propaganda talking points, they cannot be let off the hook. The goal is that the more we create an overwhelming environment of well-informed Zeniths surrounding the cultural Marxists—along with those infected with the RINO mind virus— the less they will feel emboldened to spread their poisonous ideology.

To be clear, I’m not talking about going around and trying to argue and pick fights with people. I’m actually talking about doing the complete opposite.

The reality is that disagreement and conflict cause discomfort, and it’s this discomfort that serves to be the reason as to why many good people choose not to engage the world. You’ve often heard of these people being referred to as the silent majority. However, it’s this lack of engagement that the cultural Marxists, and those who are infected with the RINO mind virus, view as a license to spread their horrific lies and ideology.

This lack of engagement from society is what has emboldened the ASM to lie more and more about how terrible President Trump is and how Joe Biden was at peak performance, despite the cameras catching Biden shaking hands with invisible people.

Furthermore, in order to possess the ability to remain calm during disagreement requires practice. After all, facing resistance in the realm of ideas is no different than exposing your physical muscles to the resistance of iron in the gym.

The ability for you to engage in a discussion or a debate while maintaining a cool head requires training yourself to do so, in the same way that you would train your muscles in the gym.

I would remind you that, if you’re hesitant and are concerned about making certain friends and family members uncomfortable about these challenging topics concerning culture, politics, and faith, then just remember: the cultural Marxists certainly never express concern about making their friends and family uncomfortable about their beliefs.

In fact, more often than not, in my experience, the cultural Marxists seem to believe that they’ve been made the arbiter of making everyone around them uncomfortable, while they simultaneously demand that you not offend them.

The Wrap Up

At the end of the day, just understand that if you cannot endure an uncomfortable conversation with friends, family, and colleagues, then you’re certainly not going to be able to endure the real turmoil with a society that crosses its event horizon.

The entire point of today’s message is about helping you to hone your skills in defending the sovereignty of your country, your economy, and your individual agency. My expectation for you is for you to possess the abilities to exhibit all the best qualities of a sovereign operational zenith, and to spread those qualities to infect everyone else around you.

The idea is to reverse the course of thrust in order to start putting distance between our nation and that event horizon; and the only way that we can achieve that is by accurately recognizing the problem with the established order of Washington D.C., in the same way that the Sons of Liberty recognized it with the British Crown.

President Trump recognizes the problem, but it seems that he’s having to do everything he can to win over the hearts and minds of the rest of the public, in the same exact way that Samuel Adams did when he leveraged the theatrical event of the Boston Tea Party.

The reality is that we’re going to have to get more efficient in training ourselves to defend the president against an entire system that is unified on taking him and the MAGA movement down. Therefore, it’s going to be up to you and I to be that resistance that stands in the way, and the only way we can do that is by accurately assessing the cultural, political, and economic battlefield in order to apply the necessary resistance in order to shape and mold society.

In the previous episode, and at the beginning of this one, I reminded you that Rehoboam lacked something that his father, Solomon, clearly had at the beginning of his reign. You see, Solomon demonstrated an act of wisdom at the beginning of his rule as king by asking the Lord for wisdom and a discerning heart.

However, Rebohoam never did this and even dismissed the wise counsel of his fathers elders, instead choosing to follow the advice of his childhood friends on how to rule the kingdom.

At that time, instead of easing the tax burden and hard labor on his people, Rebohoam decided to rule with increased force.

He followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

1 Kings 12: 14

You see, Rehoboam was just like many of your Marxist friends, family, and colleagues who believe in supporting high taxes and an authoritarian state. He certainly didn’t believe in individual sovereignty and wanted to do everything he could to strip it away from everyone else throughout his kingdom.

Now, I’m no Biblical scholar, but I believe the problem concerning Rehoboam’s deficit of wisdom and his deficit of intuition is due to the fact that he was probably a privileged individual. In my view, this would clearly explain his tyrannical ways. After all, he grew up in the wealthiest environment in all of human history.

Unlike his grandfather, King David, Rehoboam probably lacked a significant level of character formation. The reality is that growing up with some adversity can be a valuable thing, because the resistance of that adversity can better shape and mold an individual in a way that gives them a better understanding of the way the world works.

Just like many of your Marxist friends, family, and colleagues are out of touch with reality, I believe Rehoboam was as well, and he lost more than half of his kingdom as a result of that lack of formation.

You see, I believe this is why you and I are here, so that we can provide the necessary resistance to form and mold society with our agency. However, in order to do this we must master our individual ability to curate a knowledge-base of history, culture, finance, current events, and faith, in order to demonstrate our capability to resist lying narratives and destructive Marxist propaganda.

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“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you took advantage of the hardwire I included in The Phantom of Wisdom, then today’s episode is going to raise your antenna.

I didn’t intend to continue today’s discussion referring to King Solomon; however, after brainstorming over today’s topic, I realized that it wouldn’t be wise for me to ignore yet another lesson that we could learn from the ancient king.

I suppose only half the credit for today’s episode will be attributed to King Solomon while the other half of the lesson will be one that we will derive from his son Rehoboam. Granted, I understand King Solomon had his own issues as he distanced himself from God over the course of his life, but despite this fact, he did seek the wisdom of the Lord at the start of his kingdom.

Even though this was the case concerning Solomon, I understand that there has been ongoing debate over whether Solomon sought repentance. However, according to 2 Samuel 7:14-15 it appears that Solomon rests with the Lord.

Granted, I’m not here to debate that specific issue; but regardless of where you stand with King Solomon, the lesson that I wanted to point out here is the clear dichotomy that existed between King Solomon and his son, King Rehoboam, at the time that he took over the crown.

I want you to place this on a shelf for a moment as I’m going to shift gears and fast forward through time to a more modern place in recent history to illustrate an important point for today’s episode.

“A man’s got to know his limitations.”

–Clint Eastwood, Inspector Harry Callahan: Magnum Force

That famous quote by the legendary Clint Eastwood in the iconic action movie, Magnum Force, has been a line that has truly withstood the test of time.

Aside from just being a cool soundbite, there’s a real definitive lesson surrounding the context of this quote from the movie Magnum Force. Granted, when looking at today’s world, the lesson that we can derive from this movie is one that much of the world is currently missing.

To frame the context of this quote, earlier in the movie, there is some obvious tension between Lt. Briggs and Harry Callahan when they are working a crime scene involving a homicide. Briggs is Harry’s superior and he has clear disdain for Harry, and is quick to assert some harsh judgments regarding some of Harry’s past work. With a demonstration of one who feels the need to act like a moral superior, it was at this point when Briggs felt the need to remind Harry that he had never had to take his gun out of its holster during his entire career. This was when Harry responded by saying, “Well, you’re a good man, lieutenant. A good man always knows his limitations.” This was a clear dig at Lt. Briggs from Harry, where Harry was implying Briggs was a coward.

However, this moment in the film was foreshadowing something more significant that would happen later on in the story between the two men.

Now, I certainly don’t want to ruin the ending of this iconic film for you if you haven’t had an opportunity to see it, but this lesson is vital for today’s message. By the end of the movie, it quickly becomes clear what was being foreshadowed between the two men when we find out that Lt. Briggs tries to frame Harry for the vigilante killings involving other corrupt police officers.

After the true nature of the corrupt officers is revealed, Briggs forces a showdown as he has his gun drawn and is pointing it at Callahan. Briggs, being corrupt, while also being a by-the-book bureaucrat, even calls Harry a “maniac” and aims to attempt to prosecute him.

However, as Briggs is driving away from Harry, he is killed by his own car bomb after threatening Harry. It was at this point when Harry smiles and says, “A man’s got to know his limitations.”

The lesson that we can derive from this here is that Briggs was obviously too arrogant and hypocritical to know his own limitations. Due to his desire and emphasis towards a self-serving nature, Briggs became blind to his own limits. In fact, he became so blind to them that it resulted in his own death.

Blind Spot

Aside from being a writer and podcaster, I’m also a professional strength and fitness coach. Given my background, I’ve previously covered the reality of a sixth sense that you possess that is known as proprioception.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with this sixth sense, but it’s an incredibly interesting and powerful trait that exists within your body. The amazing thing about it is that most people are completely unaware of this, even though it’s something they should intuitively understand.

You see, within your muscles, joints, and tendons you have proprioceptors which are sensory receptors that signal external feedback to you from your environment. This function works so that you understand the location of your body in relation to other people and other things in space.

This is a key sense to have so that you don’t accidentally run into things and people when moving in space on a day to day basis. Now, this may seem obvious, but many people’s sense of proprioception has been dulled in our society since the advent of technology, along with the modern era of cellphones, the laptop, and desktop careers that now make up a large part of our modern day way of living.

Basically, your sixth sense of proprioception is your key sense of awareness. Now having said that, when it comes to the reality of our modern day society, this sense of awareness isn’t so sharp concerning a large portion of people that you might encounter on a day to day basis.

So what exactly do I mean?

Let me begin by asking: How many times have you found yourself in a crowded public place, while trying to navigate through the crowd, only to suddenly have to move out of the way of others who are completely blind to your presence?

I don’t know about you, but this happens to me all the time whenever I find myself in these situations.

The key question here is: How is it that I’m aware of those people who are blindly violating my space, yet there is complete unawareness on the part of those who are guilty of violating my space?

The answer to this is due to a lack of proprioceptive awareness. In other words, every able-bodied individual possesses the sixth sense of proprioception; however, if this sense isn’t stimulated, it becomes dull and perhaps almost nonexistent. It’s the dulling of this sixth sense that I want to touch on here.

The reality is that there are people who possess a low level of proprioceptive awareness and there are people who possess a high level of proprioceptive awareness. I’ve already given you an example of a low level function of proprioceptive awareness with the space invaders I mentioned earlier in my previous experience of trying to navigate my way through crowded public venues.

However, I will give you a couple of examples here to clarify what I mean in regards to those who possess a high level of proprioceptive awareness.

For example, if you’ve ever carefully watched a defensive back in a football game cover a wide receiver, then you’ve seen a guy that can back-pedal and maneuver his body across the field of play while not even having to necessarily look at where he’s going.

In this example, the defensive back can maneuver his body across the field of play without bumping into anyone while simultaneously covering a wide receiver. Here, the defensive back knows exactly where his body is in space in relation to referees and other players on the field. In other words, the defensive back is aware of his environment. In short, the defensive back possesses a heightened level of proprioceptive awareness.

If that example isn’t good enough for you then consider the following example. I guarantee you, if you’ve ever been around any military personnel that came back from a war zone and observed them in a crowded space, you would see an individual who has a level of proprioceptive awareness that’s even greater than that of the football defensive back. Their sixth sense is fully honed and engaged.

Your sixth sense of proprioceptive awareness is an extremely powerful human trait. Just how powerful is it?

Well, if you still don’t believe me about your sixth sense, then the next time you go out to a restaurant or coffee shop, try the following experiment; but please don’t get busted on exhibiting too much of the “creeper vibe” and end up blaming this one on me.

The next time you sit down at a local coffee shop or cafe, simply pick someone else out in the room—especially if they are turned away from you— and lock your eyes onto them, to stare at them without turning away.

I guarantee you that if you do this long enough, eventually, the person that you’re staring at will turn and look in your direction. People know if they are being watched or followed, and depending on the level of their proprioceptive awareness, they will come to that conclusion faster or slower in this situation.

In short, a person with a high level of awareness will turn and look in your direction a lot sooner than a person with a lower level of awareness.

This is not make-believe.

This is as real as the turning of the earth.

Now, this leads me into my next point concerning the current epidemic of the lack of self-awareness that exists throughout our society. In my view, there is often, but not always, an overlap, as a lack of proprioceptive awareness can also be an extension of having a lack of self-awareness. There is a connection between these two traits because they both play a role in one having a firm grasp on both personal and situational awareness.

The two traits of proprioceptive awareness and self-awareness both share the trait of understanding your impact on the world around you. In regards to proprioceptive awareness, this is more closely associated with your sense and ability of how you interact within your immediate physical environment.

However, with self-awareness, this involves your ability to recognize your own character, thoughts, strengths, and weaknesses, while being capable of recognizing how all of these affect your overall behavior and interactions with others. Furthermore, when this ability is sharpened and heightened within an individual due to specific stimuli from a specific environment, this ability also results in a greater capability involving intuition.

The bottom line is that a dulled proprioceptive awareness can result in a lower level of self-awareness. As a result, a lower self-awareness can lead to a dulled ability of surface level thinking. Of course, a dulled ability leading to surface level thinking leads to one’s inability to harness their intuition.

You see, intuition is defined as one possessing the ability to grasp and understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.

When it comes to an environment that you’re familiar with then I’m confident that you’ve frequently illustrated an ability to demonstrate your intuition. We’ve all been in situations where we’ve had to use our intuition.

Some examples of these situations of demonstrating this trait might have involved the following:

The safety/danger scenario: This would involve a situation where you might avoid a specific person because they give off a weird vibe.

The interpersonal experience: This part of your intuition might involve a situation where you know that your close friend is upset about something, despite them saying that they are fine.

Key life decisions: Demonstrating your intuition in this situation might involve you choosing to pass on a high paying job because you don’t like everything that’s attached to it. Another example here would also involve the process of selecting a lifetime romantic partner for a husband or wife.

I believe you get the point here.

However, a lack of self-awareness can also show up when an individual doesn’t understand the sandbox that they’re functioning in within a certain environment. A good example here would involve a situation like the one I addressed earlier between the corrupt bureaucrat of Lt. Briggs and Harry Callahan.

For much of the movie, Magnum Force, Harry didn’t understand the sandbox he was in when investigating the many homicides of criminals who had escaped justice, but kept showing up dead.

However, once Harry discovers that a group of dirty rookie cops are actually the ones doing the killing, he realizes the circumstances have changed. Harry demonstrated self-awareness by possessing the intelligence, the acumen, and the intuition to follow through with the evidence in order to firmly grasp the environment that he was in.

On the contrary, the antagonist, Lt. Briggs, completely lacked the self-awareness to understand the sandbox he was in once Harry Callahan exposed him for what he was. After all, Lt. Briggs eventually shows his true colors and reveals to Harry that he’s the mastermind behind the vigilante killings, but he had to do so only after his failed attempt to recruit Harry into the corrupt police death squad that he was responsible for leading. Furthermore, he did this only after his failed attempt to kill Harry with a bomb. As a reminder, this very bomb would be the same exact bomb that would end up killing Briggs himself.

Who would have thought that we could extract so much value from the movie Magnum Force as it relates to an overall analysis of self-awareness and intuition?

As I mentioned earlier, a lack of proprioceptive awareness can lead to a lack of self-awareness which is something that we can see throughout much of our society, particularly when observing the actions and beliefs of the cultural Marxists and the Islamists. However, there can also be a circumstance where someone does possess a high level of proprioceptive awareness, but still lacks self-awareness.

I’ve already touched on how the cultural Marxists and the Islamists of the far left lack in self-awareness; however, there’s also been a rift on the political right of late regarding many who are demonstrating a lack of self-awareness. This is because they’re either putting on an act as they graft off of their positions in media, or because they simply lack the self-awareness to recognize the sandbox that they’re playing in.

Just this past week retired Green Beret combat veteran, Gold Star husband, and former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, released an official letter announcing his resignation as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. According to Kent, this was due to his belief and opposition involving the current war with Iran.

I will include a key excerpt from Kent’s official letter here below that he shared directly from his official X account.

Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again.

As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.

When I first heard about Joe Kent’s decision to leave the administration and took the time to read his resignation letter for myself, I was caught off guard.

Once I had some time to read and absorb it I immediately decided to step back and watch both the actions of Kent, as well as, the reactions of others towards his position.

Now, the reality is that his position was pretty radical. After all, in his own words he’s blaming Israel for the reason the U.S. got involved in both the Iraq war and this current war with Iran. Furthermore, he’s also stating that the president has been used as a pawn by Israel to start this war with Iran.

Any of those positions alone are extreme accusations and aren’t accusations that should be made unless he has overwhelming evidence of this that he’s prepared to lay out in front of the American people. Otherwise, in my view, he’s just expressing an opinion while having been in a position where that opinion could be undermining the country during wartime.

Now, before I go any further, I want to say that Joe Kent’s military service is absolutely remarkable, and it’s something that we all should be thankful for. I wanted to make sure to say that before moving forward.

However, I must say that it’s been interesting watching Joe Kent in the days following his resignation. As I previously stated, his resignation caught me off guard as I’m sure it did with many others throughout the media landscape.

Having said that, based on the media response from personalities such as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, it was a bit surprising to see how quickly Kent had these interviews lined up, despite not having provided any evidence that I’ve seen regarding his claims.

Furthermore, it’s now come to light that Kent has been under a months long investigation by the FBI that long predates his resignation. According to Semafor, the matter involves a leak investigation related to allegations that he improperly shared classified information.

Despite all of this, as I’m sitting here and observing the reactions from the newly labeled Woke Right podcasters, all I’m hearing is a bunch of noise and not any critical analysis of Kent’s previous role within the administration, or the reasons surrounding his departure.

For instance, I saw where Shawn Ryan released a video previewing his upcoming interview with Kent. In this preview video Ryan is clearly agitated concerning the circumstances surrounding Kent’s departure.

Now, it has come out that for many months leading up to his departure, Kent was kept out of intelligence briefings. I point this out because in Ryan’s preview for his interview with Kent, he posits the position as to why the administration didn’t just go ahead and fire Kent, rather than keeping him out of the briefings for the alleged leaking, and trying to paint a different perspective for the public.

To me, this is just a bomb throwing attempt over the issue because it was clearly a lose/lose scenario for the administration concerning Kent anyway. In other words, if the administration had fired a retired Green Beret combat veteran, Gold Star husband, and father of two who had been deployed eleven times without having their facts in a row, then I’m curious if Shawn Ryan would think that would have changed his perspective on the administration. In other words, would his perspective under that circumstance differ versus how he’s expressing his perspective of the administration right now? I seriously doubt it.

Furthermore, in that same preview Ryan shared his frustration with a recent article from The Wall Street Journal that talks about how Lindsey Graham allegedly went to Israel to coach their intelligence service and their Prime Minister, Netanyahu, on how to persuade President Trump to bomb Iran. He suggests that perhaps the FBI should be looking into that situation with Graham and perhaps be looking at treason.

Now, concerning Ryan’s perspective on Lindsey Graham here I don’t disagree with him. However, let’s take a moment and imagine a scenario where both Graham and Kent are guilty of wrongdoing. In a scenario such as this that would occur in today’s political environment, what common denominator has the true America First movement been immensely frustrated about regarding every long list of wrongdoers that might resemble this scenario for the past six years?

I would say that the common denominator would involve the massive problem that our nation has had with the lack of accountability involved with everyone that’s been guilty of wrongdoing. Certainly, this lack of accountability is due to the institutions having been captured by cultural Marxists, which has led to a pandemic of judicial tyranny, with radical judges constantly undermining the president’s Article II powers at every turn.

If Shawn Ryan is calling for another investigation into Graham, given this pandemic of judicial tyranny, how far does he think this will actually go—if we’re talking about achieving accountability of a sitting United States Senator like Graham? The same thing can be said for Joe Kent, for that matter, if you happen to not believe him.

This is where I believe that if alternative motivations aren’t at play here with Kent, then he’s just simply not looking at this from the perspective of a geopolitical chessboard.

In other words, instead of assuming what Kent might know and whether or not he can be trusted, let’s slow down and take a look at exactly what we do know in regards to this current geopolitical landscape, and the way President Trump has navigated it.

First of all, am I supposed to believe that the toughest, and arguably the best president in American history, who gave up his billionaire lifestyle to become the most investigated individual in human history, is somehow being led around by a foreign Israeli lobby to get us into a war? Is this supposed to be a bad joke?

Furthermore, am I supposed to believe that this same president—that endured years of ruthless lawfare, had previously been debanked by JPMorgan Chase, and stared down the barrel of a gun in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a second assassination attempt down in West Palm Beach, Florida— is somehow a man that is not strong enough, smart enough, and capable enough to make his own decisions?

You see, this picture that’s being painted by the woke right is just stupidly reductive.

In addition to this, there’s also a very simple question I have regarding Kent’s resignation. Why did Joe Kent wait until the shooting started to resign from his position as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center?

In other words, why did he not resign back during Operation Midnight Hammer, during Operation Absolute Resolve, or during the massive build up of military forces in the Middle East just prior to Operation Epic Fury?

You see, given this modern era of Fifth Generation Warfare, it’s clear that President Trump understands the geopolitical chessboard, and how today’s modern era of warfare doesn’t solely involve tanks, planes, and bombs. This modern era of warfare is asymmetric and involves a war on the systems of the institutions that serve as the pillars of a society’s existence. These institutions involve the medical institutions, the financial institutions, the judicial institutions, and the longstanding media institutions.

By using the tactic that I revealed to you in my previous episode involving the Reverse Line of Delineation, we can minimize misunderstanding The Grand Strategy, and better recognize the sandbox we are currently in without losing it in our blind spot.

For starters, the president has been pointing out how much NATO has been ripping off the United States for years. Given that the U.S. is the chief financial contributor to NATO, and after seeing how unwilling NATO has been to help in the burden sharing involving the war with Iran, it’s pretty obvious that he’s right.

In fact, to make his claim about NATO concretely obvious, he recently referred to them as a “Paper Tiger” after Europe made it clear on its collective stance to not support securing the Strait of Hormuz, along with the U.S. and Israel, as the strikes on Iran continued.

In short, the president proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that NATO is a Paper Tiger, and isn’t good for anything other than ripping off the United States. After all, if NATO is supposed to be a partner during wartime, then why are they refusing to be partners with the U.S. during our war with Iran?

Meanwhile, all of the Middle Eastern partners are in favor of U.S. strikes on Iran while Europe does nothing. Does it seem ironic to you that our so-called allies are not offering to share any burden with us during this war with Iran, yet the Middle East has been relatively supportive of the effort?

The Wrap Up

Why do you think Europe isn’t getting involved with the war effort against Iran?

The answer is because most of Europe has fallen due to the mass migration of Islamist. It’s obvious that European leaders are scared of the threat of reprisals within their own borders if they support the efforts of the United States against Iran.

You see, the president understands this which is exactly why he’s been working to secure the Western Hemisphere involving South America, Canada, and Greenland. This also factored into his strategy involving the extraction of Maduro in Venezuela, along with their oil.

When it comes down to it, Iran has been a radical long-term threat, but who is it that is an even bigger threat to us than Iran?

If you replied by saying that would be the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) then you would be correct. As the old saying goes, let’s keep the main thing the main thing.

The reality here is that the president isn’t just killing two birds with one stone here, but rather he’s killing thousands of birds with one stone by dealing with Iran and securing our Western Hemisphere. Sure, it’s dangerous, but this has been something that has been growing for the last 50 years.

Historically, much of the global financial decisions have been driven by the City of London. With that being said, when the Iranian regime threatened to mine and shutdown the Strait of Hormuz, insurance policies were canceled, and for those that weren’t the cost of insurance to move product through became steep.

According to the Guardian, this is why the Lloyd’s of London has recently sought to defend its decisions to cancel war-risk policies. However, with the president’s quick actions of offering a competing U.S. government-backed insurance program to back the cargo going through the Straits, he’s solidified the exposure of NATO as the Paper Tiger that they are rather than the ally they’re supposed to be.

Based on what I know and what I can observe at this time, Joe Kent, at best, seems to be expressing a deficit of intuition concerning the geopolitical chessboard. At worst, his actions could be intentional as those on the Woke Right appear to be now with every day that passes. Until I can see evidence that convinces me otherwise, this is my current perspective on the matter, and there are many other reasons that factor into my decision besides what I’ve included here in today’s episode.

I began this episode talking about the difference between King Solomon and King Rehoboam. At the beginning of his rule, King Solomon asked the Lord for wisdom and a discerning heart in order to better govern the Lord’s people. However, when his son Rehoboam took the crown he ultimately chose to reject the advice of the elders who worked with his father, and instead chose to consult with the young men that had grown up with him and stood before him as king.

As a result of this choice, Rehoboam ended up losing more than half of his kingdom.

Rehoboam and his peers illustrated a total Deficit of Wisdom, which left them vulnerable to a Fatal Contagion of False Intuition. Because they lacked the hardware to audit their own ‘gut feelings,’ the false contagion succeeded—and the kingdom fell.

Rehoboam lacked something else that his father demonstrated the moment he took the crown. To learn the identity of that missing component, make sure that you bypass the Vault door and upgrade to Zenith Status. I will be revealing the missing hardware to this in my next transmission: The Curator of Agency.

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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

― Albert Einstein

Now that you’ve traveled the path from the Alternate Universe, we can shift your focus into pursuing the path to a clear solution.

Let’s start out doing this by taking a look at Gibeon where the Lord appeared to King Solomon in the night during a dream and said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”

It was at this point that Solomon asked the Lord for wisdom. In this moment when the Lord came to Solomon he chose to ask for a discerning heart in order to better govern the Lord’s people, and to be better able to distinguish between right and wrong.

This request from Solomon was quite special to the Lord.

Just how special was it?

The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.”

Kings 3: 10-14

Now, when looking at this interaction between Solomon and the Lord, you might initially think, “Ok, Brandon, so Solomon asked the Lord for wisdom and the Lord granted him wisdom. That’s pretty much it.”

If this is your only takeaway from this experience then I would just say that you’re missing the biggest lesson of this interaction. If that is your interpretation then you are observing, but you’re not understanding. In this situation you’re displaying a deficit of wisdom. Simply put, I’ll just say that you’re allowing a lot to go unnoticed here.

So what exactly do I mean?

In order to overcome that encumbering deficit of wisdom, make sure that you get behind my heavy vault door in order to easily access the last four years of my cognitive hardware, with the use of my Exclusive Zenith Catalog.

Remember that the normie approach to life is an aimless one that is void of effort, focus, and advancement. However, a true operational zenith understands that even if something isn’t understood, the effort involved in attempting to make an advancement—virtually always mitigates and eliminates—the deficit of wisdom.

Make sure that your aim is clear and secure your advancement now so you don’t drown in that deficit.

“What does a mirror look at?”

― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

E Pluribus Unum is the Latin phrase that means out of many, one.

If you’ve ever dealt with money then you’ve probably noticed this phrase on the reverse side of both coins and dollar bills most commonly embedded within the Great Seal.

The phrase E Pluribus Unum signifies unity, originally referencing the unification of the original 13 colonies, but more broadly it signifies the creation of a single and cohesive American identity involving diverse backgrounds.

In short, this is about the shared unity of cultures underneath the umbrella of the single unifying culture of Americanism, not multiculturalism.

However, if you saw The State of The Union Address (SOTU) this past week then what you saw was the president of the United States speaking to the tradition of E Pluribus Unum, conversely you saw the majority of the Democratic Party demonstrating the antithesis of unity.

At this point, if you didn’t at least see the highlights of the SOTU where the president called out the Democrats then this is a problem in and of itself. If you haven’t seen the highlights of the speech then you should actively go out and search for those highlights before continuing to read or listen to the rest of this episode.

If you’ve satisfied that last request, or if you have already watched the SOTU, then the thing that should have shocked you was when the president asked Congressional members to stand if they agreed that the, “first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”

When the president asked that question, all of the Republican members stood and applauded, but the overwhelming majority of Democrat members remained seated.

To be clear, this statement wasn’t complicated. This was a simple opportunity for Congressional members to agree on what the ONLY basic purpose and function of the American government should be about. However, when the president uttered this statement and asked the members of the chamber to stand if they agreed with it, the glaring divide on this between America loving Patriots and the cultural Marxists couldn’t be more obvious.

To make it worse, these people wouldn’t stand for military veterans that were being awarded from having risked their lives for the nation. They wouldn’t stand for a six year old child, Delilah Coleman, that was introduced during the SOTU.

If you’re not familiar with her story, she was a victim of a serious car accident that involved an illegal migrant driving a semi-truck that crushed her car in California and had seriously injured her. When the president proposed the new Delilah Law that would aim at making it illegal for illegal migrants to obtain commercial drivers licenses (CDLs), the Democrats wouldn’t even stand for that.

In addition to this, the president introduced the gold medal winning men’s Olympic hockey team who pulled off a huge win defeating Canada. Everyone in the chamber stood in applause for these young American champions who were proud to win gold for their beloved United States, yet the Democrats remained seated during their introduction.

The heartbroken mother of the young beautiful Ukranian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, was present at the SOTU and was promised by the president that justice would be served for her daughter’s tragic murder. Iryna was brutally murdered by a repeat offender out on no cash bail on a train in North Carolina. Even with the introduction of this heartbroken mother grieving her daughter’s senseless murder by a crazed scumbag in North Carolina, the Democrats couldn’t stand to express support for her.

By the way, Iryna’s mother was sitting next to another featured guest of the night, Erika Kirk, the brave widow of the recently assassinated American Patriot and Christian influencer, Charlie Kirk.

President Trump called these people out to their faces on national television by telling them that they should be ashamed of themselves, yet all Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib could do was keep their butts in the seats and scream back in a pathetic attempt to defend illegal migrants over American citizens, and demonize the country.

So what is this all about?

If you are typically a Democrat voter, then this was the most obvious and blatant in-your-face reaction from your representatives that should have you questioning what your representatives actually support, especially since they refused to express support for the victims, heroes, and champions that were all present for the SOTU address. Given their refusal to support those wonderful souls in attendance at the SOTU, I’m genuinely curious as to why you would believe that they would be in support of you?

Quite frankly, I’m stuck asking myself the same question. However, I already know the answer because there’s only one answer left that would explain the obvious.

The fact is that these people hate the United States of America, and they want to destroy it. These people are a mixture of cultural Marxists and jihadists and everything they believe in is antithetical to what it means to be a United States citizen. Everything they believe is antithetical to what it means to be an American Patriot. These people are the complete opposite of patriots. These people are American Bolsheviks. By their own actions, these people are traitors.

With the recent war on the U.S. dollar, we often talk about the debasement of currency, but the reality is that the Democrat party is debasing the lives of American citizens. They want to debase the actual value of what it means to be a citizen.

In other words, if they are willing to tax U.S. citizens more and more in order to support illegals then what benefit exists for U.S. citizens? If they are willing to tax U.S. citizens more and more while the judicial system favors the illegal criminals over honoring the so-called rights of citizens, then what benefit exists for U.S. citizens? If they are willing to tax U.S. citizens more and more while illegals literally invade your neighborhoods in order to seize your property and your business (see Aurora, Colorado), then what benefit exists for U.S. citizens?

What value does an American citizen hold if its elected representatives fight harder for non-citizens than actual citizens of their own country? This is the fundamental problem that has pretty much already led to Europe being conquered by Islamist, and it’s the same problem that is currently facing our nation right now at this very moment.

Despite this, those same Democrats that wouldn’t stand in support of those American citizens at the SOTU are the same Democrats that would label me as a racist or a xenophobe for simply wanting to support those very citizens that they refused to stand up for—regardless of their race, gender, or religion.

Victory or Defeat

Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people. Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus. They were delighted and agreed to give him money. He consented, and watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to them when no crowd was present.

Luke 22: 1-6

The lessons of history are here to teach us not only about previous events that have taken place, but, more importantly, about the motivations that are associated with the acts of human nature that drive these events.

Therefore, it’s the lessons of human nature that enable us to get a grasp on our environment as we strive to become operational zeniths in a chaotic world.

With that being said, it was in 1930 during a period of forced collectivization and Stalinist purges where a communist youth named Pavlik Morozov was a leader of the Young Pioneers which was an organization that was closely linked to the Komsomol.

In the history of the Soviet Union, the Komsomol was an organization of young people, ages 14 to 28, that served as a political organ for spreading Communist teachings—a feeder system for preparing the youth for the future of the Communist Party.

During this period of time, there were violent purges going on across the countryside involving the kulaks, which were landowners that were deemed to be too wealthy by the state. The reality was that the kulaks were not wealthy, but were only slightly more prosperous independent farmers who owned more land or livestock than the average household.

Regardless, the state literally engaged in a dekulakization campaign that was aimed at repressing and purging the kulaks from society. The campaign was brutal and aggressive and involved mass executions, arrests, expropriation of property, and deportations of entire households to completely remote and inhospitable regions.

It was during this time that the young Pavlik Morozov ended up denouncing his own father who happened to be the head of the local Soviet, to the Soviet authorities. During this time in court Morozov charged that his father had engaged in forging various documents and sold certain favors to the kulaks in secrecy. As a result, Morozov’s father was sentenced to a hard labor camp, but his sentence was later changed to death. The latter sentence was ultimately fulfilled.

Morozov didn’t stop there as he accused other peasants of hoarding and withholding their grain from authorities. As a consequence, Morozov ended up being brutally murdered, although the culprits involved with his death appear to be somewhat disputed. There are some accounts that say that Morozov was murdered by his own family due to their displeasure with him denouncing his father. However, other accounts suggest that his murder occurred at the hands of several local kulaks.

Later, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky summed up the bury lede here in a talk about Morozov’s life regarding the brutal dividing lines and betrayals that most people forget about when looking through the lens of history. These betrayals not only occurred with truces between expected enemies, but they also occurred between friends, colleagues, and especially in that very narrow space that existed between the bond of blood kin.

Even according to Wikipedia, when Maxim Gorky spoke to the Communist youth organization in 1933, he did so referencing “the heroic deed of Pioneer Pavlik Morozov, the boy who understood that a person who is a relative by blood may well be an enemy of the spirit, and that such a person is not to be spared”.

Regardless of who was responsible for Morozov’s death, the main point here is that when a society is allowed to be taken over by those who buy into an evil ideology, then they will implement that evil ideology throughout that society, and there are no boundaries that will slow them down.

This story involving the life of Morozov is tragic, but it is a stark reminder that evil can take hold in all places and can take the shape of the most unassuming figures. Just how unassuming was Morozov? Well, besides him turning into the single key witness that got his own father sentenced to death by the state, he was only 13 years of age when he did it.

Obviously, Morozov was a bolshevik and he demonstrated the destructive actions of a true bolshevik very early on in his life.

Unfortunately, Morozov doesn’t stand alone when looking back through some of the most brutal moments of history.

There have been plenty of stories throughout history of family betrayal that have occurred underneath the umbrella of authoritarianism. These moments have occurred when the state was able to rot the brains of its own citizens enough, until those societal moments arrived for people to witness the physical application of the horror that was born out of all of that brain rot.

In an older episode back in 2022, I covered another disturbing story of how this sort of shocking betrayal illustrated this involving a personal account that took place back during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Given the recent successful airstrikes from Israeli and U.S. forces resulting in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, I thought this story would be fitting for the day’s topic.

In this older episode I was referencing the well renowned Psychologist, Mettias Desmet. Mettias Desmet is recognized as the world’s leading expert on the theory of mass formation as it applied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium.

As I previously covered, according to Mettias Desmet, this incredibly chilling phenomenon of mass formation can take root in a society when society has been conditioned to focus on a certain object of fear. Once society has been conditioned to focus on this object of fear, it can then cause the group of people to be radically blind to everything that goes against what the group believes in.

As a chilling real life historical reference to the danger and destruction that the end stages of mass formation can result in, Desmet references a shocking example of how this develops in stages in the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

He (Desmet) points out that as the group is infected by the mass formation in the early stages, that the group will then take the most absurd beliefs for granted. Initially, in the early stages of this, he points to many well-documented stories of the citizenry of Iran all claiming to see the face of their leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, on the surface of the moon with each full moon. As a result of this, many people would point at the full moon on display showing each other where the face of Ayatollah Khomeini could be seen.

Although this was the first phase of mass formation, Desmet points out that the second phase of how an individual can be gripped by this phenomenon is where an individual will then radically, and willingly, sacrifice their individual interests for the sake of the collective.

I’ll return to the Iranian example shortly, but in this second phase of the mass formation Mettias Desmet also points out a really good example with the Communist leaders who were sentenced to death by Stalin. Here we are again referencing horrors inside of the Soviet Union as a result of the reign of the bolsheviks.

As Desmet points out, this sacrifice of individual interest, concerning the death sentence of the Communist leaders by Stalin, could often be seen with their shocking personal statements prior to their executions saying “If that is what I can do for the communist party, I will do it with pleasure.”

As crazy as that sounds, that was the reality, and if you didn’t think the impact of the mass formation could get any worse then you would be wrong.

In the third stage of the mass formation, Desmet points out that individuals who have progressed to this stage will also become radically intolerant of dissident voices.

In fact, those people who have progressed to the third stage will commit absolute atrocities towards those people who do not go along with the masses and even do so as if it’s some sort of righteous sense of duty.

To get back to the situation with the Revolution that took place in Iran, Desmet references a story in his writings where he spoke to an Iranian woman who had witnessed, with her own eyes, a woman that had reported her own son to the state for being a dissident. If that’s not bad enough, the witness saw the mother of the son grab the noose and hang it around her son’s neck herself, as the boy stood on the scaffold where he would hang only in the short moment that followed.

After the execution, the mother was seen claiming to be a heroine to do what she did for the good of the state. After hearing such a story, it’s hard to imagine how a society could get to this point; however, similar mass formation is well documented and has taken place throughout history—in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union.

On that note, as we look at the current circumstances within our nation right now, the third stage of this can be seen with the behavior of the protestors in Minneapolis, it can be seen with the members of the Democrat party at the SOTU, it could be seen with the bolshevik’s celebration of the attempted assassination of the president, and it was clear watching the bolshevik’s celebration of Charlie Kirk’s assassination as well.

The Wrap Up

If there’s one key lesson you should understand regarding this episode, it’s that people are not inherently good. After all, we live in a fallen world, and because of that, evil can take root anywhere and at any time—even when it involves the actions of those who might be closest to you.

Remember, this is especially true if society falls under the rule of a bolshevik/jihadist regime. God forbid, but keep this in mind regarding those friends and family members of yours that see the world differently than you do should the Bolsheviks take control of power. After all, history shows that tolerance that you lovingly express for them in public to others won’t be reciprocated when the circumstances of governance changes.

With that being said, the reason I pointed out the actions of the Democrat party during the SOTU was to show you what the beginning stages of a bolshevik/jihadist revolution looks like.

Forget about President Trump for a moment. If you don’t believe these people would literally try to destroy you, me, and every other dissident voice that opposed them, should they take the majority of power in the 2026 midterms, then you are sadly mistaken.

You see, you have to remember that momentum in life can be either positive or negative. Granted, President Trump and the MAGA movement are building tremendous positive momentum, but as a movement, we must not get complacent in order to ensure this momentum is maintained for the next eight to twelve years. The reality is that in this domestic war, either we will crush the bolsheviks, or they will crush us.

If you’re still not convinced of my analysis, you don’t even have to look at the traitors in the streets of Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib to see what they’re telegraphing to you now with their hate and vitriol towards the United States.

In fact, recent leftist talk show host, Charlamagne, was talking about how a de-MAGA-ification needed to take place after the Trump administration leaves power. This was his pathetic attempt to draw a parallel between MAGA and the Nazi ideology in postwar Germany. This was the obvious typical leftist projection where this guy was accusing MAGA of being exactly what he actually is. This behavior of accusing others of what they are guilty of being themselves, is commonplace for bolsheviks, jihadists, and Nazis.

If looking at the message that Charlamagne is telegraphing isn’t enough to convince you of their intentions, then perhaps former United Nations Ambassador, Susan Rice, could further clarify this for you.

In a recent podcast appearance, Susan Rice issued a direct threat to corporations that “take a knee,” to President Trump and to expect to be “held accountable” if Democrats return to power. Her intention should be glaringly obvious. However, just in case you need more clarity, I’ll translate this for you.

Basically, she’s not talking about holding truly corrupt businesses accountable for anything. In fact, she labels those who play by the rules as criminals in the same exact way as they act like American citizens are the criminals instead of the illegal migrants.

Remember, with Charlamagne and Susan Rice, we’re talking about people embedded within the same political party that doesn’t know the biological differences between a man and a woman. Therefore, their ability for discernment, and possessing the moral compass to determine what is legal and illegal, is completely opposite of reality. In fact, they live in an alternate universe.

Susan Rice isn’t talking about a just pursuit of accountability. She’s talking about a good old-fashioned Marxist purge, or more specifically, a modern day dekulakization campaign, or as Charlamagne put it, a de-MAGA-ification campaign.

Charlamagne and Susan Rice are the representation of exactly why mass formation occurs within societies. Back during the pandemic, their object of fear was the virus, today their object of fear is President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

This is exactly why you and I are here at this moment in time. As zeniths navigating this chaotic world, we are here to end these people’s influence over society.

We are here, with God’s guidance, to dominate the information and narrative landscape with the truth narrative. We are here to do this by making sure we exercise our agency in order to leverage our position in this chaotic world by winning the war of cognitive monopoly.

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“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I’ve gotten older I’ve discovered that I have a tendency to think differently than most people when it comes to recognizing certain problems in life and throughout the world.

Hopefully, by now, you know me well enough to understand that is not a statement of ego, but rather one that is steeped in consistent observation. This is something that I’ve always recognized, but it is a glaring reality that I have really noticed at a whole new level ever since the pandemic.

I suppose the reason for this is because I have always had an ability to zoom out the vantage point on any given situation and recognize the macro point of view. This has essentially involved the task of recognizing and viewing certain models of function through a systems approach style of thinking rather than society’s more commonly practiced approach of reductionism.

The simplistic, or often reductive, vantage point that I’ve witnessed from many people throughout my lifetime—as it relates to their personal worldviews and their views on business—has been something that I’ve always found myself having to wrestle with in a sort of frustrated silence during certain situations of my life.

Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t as if this sort of feeling dominated my mind all the time, but I would find that my frustration would frequently get triggered quite often in the world of business and when it came to having to listen to some people’s viewpoints on certain current events.

Now, I should also say that the frustration that I mentioned earlier wasn’t something that I always kept silent. I’ll just say that there are moments in life that all of us face when silence can no longer be an option.

On that note, this is exactly why I started writing and podcasting in this information space, as I saw what I typically recognized as a lack of understanding in the world—regarding right and wrong— that had gotten way out of hand starting in 2020.

Once again, this is not coming from a place of ego, and the fact that I even feel the need to continue to reiterate that directly points to a large part of the problem in today’s world. To clarify, it’s one thing for me to write the words down in an attempt to convey a certain message to you when it comes to communication.

However, I knew that writing the words wouldn’t be enough to convey the full meaning of what I would want to communicate to you at any given point. Therefore, I also chose to include the podcast portion of my messaging in order to more accurately convey my intended message to you through the expression of speech.

Now, having said that, this is where the real irritation can build at times. Despite my efforts to convey a clear message to the masses—both in writing and in speech—there are always those few people who simply cannot comprehend what has been communicated. You may think I’m crazy by saying this, but this is the thing that I’m motivated to eradicate in this information space.

Recognizing The Sandbox You Are In

If you’re a relatively new reader, or listener to this platform, then you may not know about my professional background. I’ve been a small business owner, writer, and professional strength and fitness coach now for over 25 years.

In case you didn’t know that, I wanted to take a moment to clarify that detail because it will explain the reason behind my understanding involved in the next part of this discussion. If you remember how I mentioned the systems approach to thinking earlier, then in a short time it will become clear why I want to talk about the nervous system.

You see, the human nervous system is perhaps the most complex system that exists. To begin, your nervous system is essentially like a power grid consisting of your central power structure, or central nervous system, which basically involves your brain and spinal cord.

Your brain acts like a central command power structure, which delivers power through the main line—your spinal cord—in order to distribute that power throughout the rest of the nerves of your body. As it concerns your body, this is necessary for the purpose of your body’s abilities such as movement, emotions, thoughts, and automatic functions involving your digestion, breathing, and heartbeat.

You see, your nerves act like powerlines as they deliver electrical and chemical messages— originating from your brain—in much of the same way as electricity travels through lines to homes and businesses originating from a power plant.

These electrical and chemical messages are essentially the electricity that powers your nervous system and in turn your nervous system powers your body. Now, I want you to hold on to that description and envision how this complex system works when thinking about the function of your body.

Now, as you visualize how your complex nervous system works to power your body, I want you to imagine a scenario after you experience a challenging workout that results in your muscles cramping. If you’ve ever experienced this it is not a pleasant thing to go through when it happens.

Even with my background and understanding of what causes this misery, I’ve also been a victim of waking in the middle of the night yelling in pain from a hamstring cramp and scaring my wife in the process. Yes, it’s funny telling you about it now, but I can assure you that it’s not so funny when it’s happening.

So what causes these cramps to happen?

The most common cause of muscle cramps is an electrolyte imbalance as a result of dehydration. This is something that people commonly overlook, but it is simultaneously something that often causes people a lot of misery.

So what are electrolytes?

Electrolytes are minerals such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium that carry an electric charge within your body. This role is essential for the function of your nervous system as it is crucial for regulating nerve signals, blood pressure, and muscle contractions including your heart.

Therefore, if you were to experience a significant loss of electrolytes due to dehydration then you could set yourself up for muscle cramps, headaches, and fatigue. However, more serious electrolyte loss could lead to more devastating results such as heart arrhythmias and even death.

Now, it’s pretty obvious about the importance of the role that electrolytes play within your body. In short, electrolytes are essential for your very survival. As long as you maintain a healthy level of electrolytes, then it’s one area you can trust; it allows your nervous system to do what it does best for your body’s performance.

Therefore, as you keep this in mind, I’m going to transition to explaining a different body that you are also a part of and have to live within as a result of your environment. In short, I’m about to shed some light on the significance of you recognizing the function of this bigger body while helping to bring some clarity to you on which sandbox you’re actually playing in, along with exactly what that sandbox has been telegraphing to you. You’re about to realize that the sandbox you’re currently in is not the one that you thought you were in.

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