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“If you’re confused about what to do, it’s a sign that your enemy is winning.”

― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

What makes up a country?

If the United States is a country, then what exactly does that mean?

Well, I can start by telling you what it doesn’t mean. To begin, whenever you hear someone say that the United States is an idea they would be completely incorrect.

I opened up this discussion asking the question about what makes up a country for a significant reason. Well, the United States is a country—a physical place with borders and with people who have properties, families, and businesses; with obligations, communities, churches, investments, livelihoods, and a shared culture of Americanism.

The United States is not an idea; it’s a physical place within a physical world, populated by people who either seek to build it or seek to destroy it. If you have studied history close enough then you understand that this is the way that it’s always been. However, in today’s world, the reality is that these lines, concerning who desires to build and who desires to destroy, are as clear and as bold as they ever have been.

When I first decided to start writing and podcasting in this information space, I did so because I saw that the Marxists were on the march. I saw that the Marxists were organized, relentless, and unified in their efforts to destroy the United States.

However, as clear as this was to me the other thing that I observed was that much of the rest of normal everyday American citizens were clueless to the threat that was facing them. Even today, there are many that are either apathetic, ignorant, or outright stupid about the reality of what’s currently happening in this nation.

I’ve communicated this many times before, but I’ll take the time here to say it again—we are at war.

This is not a hyperbolic statement. This is a literal statement and the evidence of this is literally everywhere. However, this type of warfare isn’t a traditional kinetic war in the way that you’re used to imagining involving tanks, bombs, and soldiers. The type of warfare that I’m referring to involves what is known as asymmetric warfare.

When you first hear what I’m about to say you’re probably going to think I’m crazy, but just stay with me because I’m going to clarify my point in a way that you will completely understand by the time you get to the end of this episode.

Believe it or not, the most recent example of this asymmetric warfare involved the Super Bowl halftime show with the pop singer Bad Bunny. Now, full disclosure, I didn’t watch it, but I’ve seen highlights of the show and have read and heard commentary in regards to the content of the lyrics involved in the music of choice.

Now having said that, Time magazine reported on how Republican representative Andy Ogles has recently addressed the House Energy and Commerce Committee in which he called for an inquiry into the NFL and the broadcaster NBCUniversal.

His motivation behind doing this was to initiate the attempt to expose the level of prior knowledge they had, along with their review and approval concerning the show’s performance. According to representative Ogles, the inquiry is to determine whether broadcast delay protocols and standard review procedures—were “properly applied” or “intentionally disregarded.”

Now, aside from the criticism surrounding the nature of the content of the show, my observation of the music having been performed purely in Spanish was an intentional slap in the face of the country as well.

Anyone who claims that perspective is racist is, in my view, an actual racist. In addition to that, those are the people who hate the United States of America. Now, when I say that I mean it, and I can make the case here in order to prove it.

So why do I say this?

Once again, let’s go back to my earlier explanation in regards to what makes a country. In that list that I covered near the beginning of this episode, I included at the end of that list the trait of a shared culture of Americanism.

To be specific regarding the culture of Americanism, for a long time, everything surrounding it never involved one of the most powerful American institutions—the NFL—separating itself from it and turning its back on that very culture. After all, for a long time the NFL built their existence off of the culture of Americanism which propelled their immense success.

The thing that made the NFL such a great product long ago was its embrace of American culture. Nowadays, the NFL scoffs at Americanism and much of the personnel that are in charge of making the big decisions for that league are either globalists or cultural Marxists.

One of the mysteries that has always surprised me is this seemingly consistent formula of rot that always seems to occur whenever these very cool and popular institutions start to hit a certain level of growth and success. As sure as the turning of the earth, it seems that every single time a major institution reaches a certain level of success, without fail, the cultural identity of that institution always goes right out the window.

It’s like clockwork — the very ingredients involved in the recipe for that institution’s greatness eventually triggers a strange metamorphosis, resulting in the degradation of it into a lesser state than its original self, despite its popularity. In short, it seems success brings on a complete loss of identity.

Because nature abhors a vacuum, that loss of identity that I’m referring to here is also replaced with a sense of superiority, and a sense of superiority always leads to hate. By the way, that same sense of superiority also leads to racism.

This is why those people who hate the United States are the actual racists, because their hate for it is derived from a sense of superiority about something else that doesn’t align with the culture of Americanism. In short, what they believe is superior is anti-American; and to be anti-American means that you don’t support the only nation in world history that fought the bloodiest war in its own history—the Civil War—to end slavery. So given this, you tell me who is racist?

Dilution

I remember when I was in college at the University of Georgia, one weekend, I happened to have had a slow Saturday, which was very uncommon. I can’t remember the reason why it was slow, but I do remember that it was a very lax day, to say the least.

I don’t ever recall having too many of those days, but on this particular day I remember that I hadn’t planned to do a whole lot of anything else other than some grocery shopping and perhaps some light cleaning around my apartment at that time.

Now, I remember I had this neighbor that would frequently stay up all night as this was a common occurrence in college with a lot of people getting in on the party scene in Athens, Georgia during the late 90s. There’s no judgment here, I’m just giving you the details of the story so you’ll understand where I’m headed with this. Please be patient with me for a bit longer because this will all make sense in a minute.

As I remember, on this slow Saturday, I got a knock on my door from my neighbor (John), who had been up all night, and he had asked if I would like to grab some lunch with him at Zaxbys. Now, for context, Zaxbys was fairly new at the time and had become a very popular place to eat.

So then I agreed to have lunch with John at Zaxbys. However, once we had gotten to the restaurant and worked our way to the register to place our order, John looked at me and asked if I knew what the hottest thing on the menu was to eat. I told him I wasn’t sure so he then proceeded to turn to the cashier to ask him.

I cannot remember the item, but I believe the cashier had suggested to John to eat some of their popular spicy wings. At this point, John inquired as to how spicy their wings actually were.

Now, whatever the answer was that the cashier offered John next, he wasn’t satisfied with it and asked if they had anything else that was hotter than that.

After thinking on it for a few seconds, the cashier called over the supervisor to ask him if they had anything hotter than what was already displayed on the main menu. Now, at this point, we were all curious as to what John was aiming to do here.

However, right as I was about to ask him, he turned to me and said that he needed to eat some really spicy, hot food so that it would force him to drink enough fluids in order to overcome the dehydration of his beer binge from the night before.

No, I’m not making this up and it gets even crazier from here. Once John had clarified the reason for his need for spicy food the supervisor seemed really intrigued at this point.

Because of this, the supervisor asked us to give him a few minutes while he went and fetched the store manager. After a couple of minutes had passed, both the store manager and the supervisor returned and then John proceeded to communicate to the store manager why he needed to eat the spiciest food that they could make.

Now, it was pretty obvious that the store manager was just as intrigued by the persistence of John’s request as the supervisor and myself were at this point. So then the store manager told us to give him a couple of more minutes as he said he believed he had a solution for John’s desire for something hot.

The store manager walked away, and a few minutes later, he returned carrying this bag that was filled with red liquid in one hand, and a sheet of paper in the other. As I remember, he walked up and carefully placed the bag on the counter and slammed the sheet of paper flat beside it. He then turned to the supervisor and asked him for his pen.

After doing this the store manager pointed to the bag and said that the red liquid was the hottest concentrate that they used to make their hot sauce. He then proceeded to clarify that the hot sauce that they used on their hot wings already had a reputation for being hot, but the sauce that got their wings that reputation was diluted down from the red liquid that was filled in that big bag. He warned that the concentrate was so hot that it required significant dilution before using it for mixing and cooking.

As he was smiling, John then pointed to the pen and the sheet of paper, and asked the store manager what that was for. At this point the store manager told John that he had never considered using the concentrate to make a custom order of hot wings that far exceeded the heat of their normal menu. Therefore, he clarified that the paper was basically a waiver and informed consent for John to give him permission to custom spice his day’s lunch to a nuclear level.

As a result, John signed the form, he was able to achieve rapid rehydration, and we all had a good laugh from the experience afterwards.

So what is my point in telling you this story?

The thing that I wanted to point out here was John’s solution to getting rehydrated. Now, I’m not here to say that my approach would have been the same as his. However, in his mind at that moment, that solution required the strongest hot sauce possible, in order to force him to overcome his lack of discipline to drink enough fluids to rehydrate his body.

In this particular instance, in order to get the strongest possible sauce, the store manager decided that the concentrated formula could not be diluted. You see, from the store manager’s position, in order to please the customer he had to ensure the strongest possible solution could not be diminished in the least.

Here, that store manager had to maintain the optimal strength of the concentrated formula in order to achieve the success of pleasing a vocal customer. He understood what made their restaurant successful involved not watering down that which made them the most popular place for lunch at that time.

Now with that being said, when it comes to the Super Bowl, the NFL’s approach to this has completely been the opposite concerning their halftime shows and commercials for many years now. For years, the NFL has gone through that metamorphosis that I mentioned earlier, resulting in the degradation of it into a lesser state than its original self. In fact, the NFL is itself a system of degradation. For years, it’s consistently decided to dilute the concentrated formula of Americanism in an attempt to water down and weaken the very thing that made them successful.

This dilution has watered down their view of the nation so much that it doesn’t resemble anything that the nation believes in, or supports with the majority. Instead, their representation of what the nation is involves a false interpretation of an alternative, failing entity, that they are diligently trying to perpetuate, while the majority of American citizens are fighting to defeat it and to prevent it from happening.

In the case of their most recent halftime show entertainer Bad Bunny, such things involved the celebration of a self-professed America hating Marxist, performing his entire set in Spanish while using lyrical content to express sexually explicit and vulgar behavior in front of millions families viewing the show.

Additionally, from what I understand, Bad Bunny is fully in support of mass illegal migration and recently openly demonized ICE at the Grammys. His claims were that the illegals that are being targeted by ICE are actually American citizens. This is the absurdly stupid and intellectually dishonest position of the Marxist left, yet I don’t see Bad Bunny volunteering his personal home to be a refuge for any of these people he claims to fight for.

“Politics is downstream from culture.”

–Andrew Breibart

The one thing that much of the population gets wrong about culture is that it comes about as this sort of unexplained phenomenon that just naturally occurs throughout society with no driving force to direct it. Because of this, over time, I’ve often heard people chalk up the declining quality of music, media, and entertainment to this ambiguous, unexplainable phenomenon known as ‘culture’.

Therefore, when the NFL signs musical personnel, such as Bad Bunny, to be their headline entertainer at the Super Bowl halftime show, traditionally, other Americans would simply say, “Well, that’s just the culture.” The reason I point out this example is that it suggests that the NFL is reacting to the culture as to the reason for headlining Bad Bunny, and others like him, as their halftime show entertainer.

Just to be clear, the NFL isn’t reacting to anything. On the contrary, the NFL is directly driving the culture it wants. Without question, the NFL is one of the biggest drivers of culture that exists throughout all of sports and entertainment; and this is the reason Breitbart’s famous quote resonates so much with this exercise of asymmetric warfare— involving the garbage performance of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.

On that note, this is exactly why understanding what drives culture and influence is central to understanding where the country is headed. Without such an understanding you’re allowing for an environment of dilution in order to water down the culture of Americanism. If this dilution continues unabated, it will eventually lead to Americanism dissolving completely out of existence.

As you can see, intelligence such as this is provided in the Sling and Stone which is the map, whereas this briefing is the breakdown of the cultural battlefield. On that note, to the 31 practitioners already holding the full hardware solution: you have the tactical advantage here.

To the 150 scouts still operating in a Strategic Deficit: the window of clarity is closing. The next feature, ‘The Armory of Solutions,’ and the full execution of the 2026 theater will be reserved for the Annual Vanguard. For that matter, make sure you resolve this issue and arm yourself with the tactical knowledge inside the Zenith vault just as John Wick arms himself with his own armory of guns and gold. The Fight has begun.

To be fair to Bad Bunny, his performance wasn’t the beginning. The NFL started their dilution of American culture long ago.

We can see one of the first signs of this starting to sprout back during the 2000 Super Bowl halftime show with their effort to promote the strong globalist theme that was titled the Tapestry of Nations.

To me, performances such as this are symptoms. For clarification, a symptom, by definition, is a feature that indicates a condition of disease.

In my view, that disease includes the purposeful dilution of Americanism. Therefore, the symptom points to an infiltration of a disease into our culture and that disease of infiltration has become apparent throughout many other aspects of our society.

To drill down on this, why would the NFL have thought that it was necessary to promote a globalist theme? Additionally, why would they feel it was significant to headline Bad Bunny for this year’s halftime show where, aside from the vulgarity, the theme of the show revolved around the support of illegal immigration and was performed in Spanish?

In terms of the language of choice, I saw an online debate regarding this between Piers Morgan and Megyn Kelly. Of course, Piers Morgan takes the reductive stance that the United States hasn’t had a ‘declared’ national language for most of the country’s existence, while conveniently ignoring the obvious reality of it being the de facto language of the nation since its inception.

Megyn Kelly also pointed out the painfully obvious reality to Piers Morgan as to how that reductive line of thinking was the same thing that has recently led to the complete destruction and the fall of British culture to Islamism.

Once again, what I see is the symptom involving the dilution of Americanism and that symptom is pointing towards a sickness that has infiltrated our society. The cultural symptom here with the Super Bowl halftime show should be the most obvious symptom, but others involve the lack of prosecutions that have failed to come forward within our justice system. The obvious symptoms here have involved the rampant tyranny and crimes during the pandemic and the election of 2020.

Other major symptoms involve the lack of justice having been carried out on people like Tim Walz, the Clintons, John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, Mark Kelly and the rest of the seditious six. The lack of accountability in the financial system, the political system, and the judicial system are MAJOR symptoms pointing towards a concerning infiltration of sickness within our nation. That sickness is cultural Marxism.

The allowance of letting bad actors off the hook is the dilution of justice. Aside from illegal immigration, injustice is also enemy infiltration, and this sort of enemy infiltration is exactly what cultural Marxist understand.

The Wrap Up

When it comes to the power of cultural influence the NFL has been directly inserting itself into the war for cognitive monopoly.

That phrase cognitive monopoly refers to the circumstance where a company or a brand dominates the thought process of its consumers and how they think about a specific problem or category. In short, having cognitive monopoly translates to that particular brand of influence having the ability to shape cultural and political outcomes. This is done by convincing the consumer that they have to rely on that particular institution to solve a particular problem based on how that institution frames the problem.

However, what happens when the institution that has achieved cognitive monopoly is part of the problem, rather than the solution?

You see, this is exactly my point here regarding the role of the NFL and its Super Bowl halftime promotion of a cultural Marxist that used that platform for the purpose of diluting the concept of Americanism by advocating for illegal migrant invasion.

Thankfully, I believe that the NFL’s hold on cognitive monopoly is slipping. My evidence for this could be seen with the massive viewing success of the Turning Point USA alternative Super Bowl halftime show, featuring Kid Rock as the headliner.

According to the Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet, the TPUSA halftime show smashed over 25 million views in the first day with additional views expected to surge up to 40 to 50 million once all their distribution platforms had been factored into the final count.

Now, if you listened the Administrative State Media (ASM) they downplayed these numbers and acted as if they were no big deal, yet they would because they have been insanely desperate after losing their majority hold on the cognitive monopoly as this Great Awakening continues to counter them blow for blow in this war for cognitive monopoly.

Did you watch the TPUSA halftime show with Kid Rock?

Do you think the counter culture of Americanism is making a roaring comeback?

Please share your feedback in the comment section below.

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“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

In my previous episode, The Law of the Giant Killer has been inspected by over 1,000 different recruits, and the foundation has been set. However, having a foundation without a weapon is like having a race car with no fuel.

In other words, that’s a race you’ll lose every single time. With that being said, after a short preview of today’s episode I’m moving the rest of it behind the heavy door of the Zenith Vault to equip the vanguard with the rest of today’s Sling and Stone protocol—the agency-driven tools required to help you to turn tactical intel into precision action for your own life.

This is especially critical in the current times that we are living in with the Marxist Goliath working to try and subjugate us in a version that resembles Mao’s Cultural Revolution version 2.0. As American Patriots we absolutely cannot allow them to be successful. We must grind their movement to a halt and then work to destroy the very ideologies that created them in the first place.

When I say this I’m not talking about doing so by offering some nebulous or ambiguous approach to making that a reality. No, I’m talking about making victory a reality from the standpoint of a strategic plan. I’m talking about a plan that can be carried out by both you and myself with our daily actions by recognizing and utilizing our own gifts to do so.

As a quick recap, I highlighted the significant position that we currently find ourselves in with The Law of The Giant Killer. In addition to that, I also discussed with you how significant it was that David demonstrated optimal faith and courage to stand in the breach to face off directly against Goliath.

The thing that is so significant about this is that, in that moment, David’s courage and faith gave him a clear visual of his purpose, even though it looked like a crazy scenario to everyone else.

After all, here was this shepherd boy who stepped out onto the battlefield to face off against a giant when literally nobody else would, including the king of Israel himself.

This act obviously demanded a significant amount of faith and courage, but the thing that most forget is that along with that faith and courage comes clarity. It’s this clarity that I want to touch on here in today’s episode.

You see, David came to the table with faith, but that faith had already given him an understanding of what he was going up against because he had already experienced some similar situations that were dangerous prior to his encounter with Goliath. In fact, we’re able to catch a glimpse of this when David addresses King Saul before going out to face the giant.

But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a sheep from the flock, I went out after it and attacked it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth; and when it rose up against me, I grabbed it by its mane and struck it and killed it.

Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”

1 Samuel 17:34-36

Here we can see that David had already faced off against a bear and a lion while guarding his flock as a shepherd boy. Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t ever remember too many people referencing this part of David’s life that often.

After all, he killed both a lion and a bear long before he took down the giant, Goliath. In other words, killing a lion and a bear is no lightweight task, particularly given the fact that he managed to do it long before firearms were ever even in the picture. David was a shepherd, but there was clearly a warrior spirit within him long before he had ever faced off against the Philistine giant.

Strategic Individual Creative Destruction

Now I want to shift gears for a moment to talk to you about an interesting concept known as creative destruction.

That phrase “creative destruction” was coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942, and it refers to how innovation serves to be the action that pulls the pin on the grenade that destroys long-standing economic structures, making way for new ones.

The term “destruction” in this model aims at how this process creates both winners and losers. The idea behind this economic philosophy is that producers and workers who stay committed to older technologies and methods will be left behind. Meanwhile, the workers and entrepreneurs engaging in new technologies and methods will create an environment of disequilibrium, while also managing to highlight new profit opportunities moving forward.

Now, to be clear, Schumpeter wasn’t really supportive of the idea of creative destruction. In fact, much of his work was heavily influenced by The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Of course, one of the main themes of The Communist Manifesto involved denouncing the “constant revolutionizing of production” by the bourgeoisie.

So why am I telling you about this process of “creative destruction”?

For starters, just as I outlined in the opening quote with Sun Tzu, in order “to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” With Schumpeter’s influence having come from Karl Marx, in a way, I’m about to show you how we are going to deconstruct his “creative destruction” philosophy in order to do just that.

Since you tuned into The Law of the Giant Killer, then you understand that the Sling and Stone is the pin you need to pull out of the grenade to eliminate the giant that stands in your path.

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“Fear is not the problem; it’s how we respond to it that gets us in trouble.”

― Steve Lawson

They said an independent voice couldn’t breach the fortress of the corrupt Administrative State Media (ASM) landscape. They were wrong.

Thanks to you, in the last several episodes we’ve managed to consistently hit over the 30% Gold Standard open rate. In fact, 330 of you have already proven you’re the vanguard in the most recent episode with the immediate podcast downloads. With that in mind, today I’m going to be discussing the Law of the Giant Killer—and why the Goliaths in the current Marxist incursion are more vulnerable than they look.

As the rioting and anti-ICE protests have been ramping up in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the past few weeks it’s obvious that this is not formed from an organic movement of concerned leftists that care about liberty.

If that were the case then stop and ask yourself, What is liberty?

If you failed to come up with a clear and concise answer to that question after asking it, then I’ll start the process of defining this by first offering the textbook definition of the word here.

Liberty is defined as the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.

Now, this definition is very important because it highlights the most significant aspects that make up the characteristics of liberty that many of us love and desire while others express their discontent for it as they protest ICE in Minneapolis.

So I know what you must be thinking. You’re thinking, Brandon, how can you claim to support liberty while also supporting the efforts of a federal agency like ICE in Minneapolis?

The answer to that question is simple. The reason I am in support of ICE is because of what I’ve witnessed from the federal government, with their actions to erode the sovereignty of the American people now for the past several years, until President Trump arrived on the scene.

You see, whether you like it or not, the leadership of a particular system more accurately influences the outcomes of that system the more that time goes by. Notice that I used the phrase– “more accurately influences”--rather than stating that the leadership accurately guarantees certain outcomes. The reason for that is because the system of the federal government is so massive these days that even with a president as shrewd and as tough as President Trump, it will take years to impact that system by shaping the outcomes of it that will be associated with the MAGA agenda.

The reason for this is because for years our federal government has been allowed to grow into this massive, corrupt, and oppressive bureaucracy that serves to be both a tyrannical and financial strain on American citizens. After all, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in the fiscal year of 2024, the federal government spent a whopping $6.9 trillion which adds up to being a staggering 24 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Just to give you some perspective on how absurdly out of control and ironic that statistic actually is, the People’s Republic of China consumes somewhere between 23-28% of the GDP of that country according to Wikipedia. In other words, the so-called land of the free has nurtured and grown a federal government that competes in size, scope, and apparently corruption with that of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The fact that I’m having to talk to you about this in this episode should have never happened in the United States of America, yet here we are today having this discussion.

At the end of the day, our federal government is a modern day Goliath when it comes to its size and consumption. However, the actions of President Trump have been to work to minimize the size and scope of this Goliath by engaging in federal workforce reductions with about 320,000 federal employees, representing a reduction of about 10-11% in his first year of 2025.

Now, the real signal that this has been both necessary and completely essential is due to the fact that the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) showed that the GDP grew at 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025, which was a growth rate that exceeded economic expectations across the board.

So what is the signal here?

The signal is that despite the federal workforce having been cut at a whopping 10-11%, the GDP of the country actually accelerated in record growth anyways. In other words, the GDP growth that this economy is witnessing is coming from the private sector as the leech of the federal government is being ripped off the back of the American citizens who work in the private sector.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

–The Preamble of The Constitution of The United States

I previously mentioned the corrupt actions of the federal government for the last several years involving their attempt to erode the sovereignty of the American people.

So what exactly do I mean by this?

To put it simply, the allowance of the mass invasion of illegals to come into our country is a direct violation of migration laws and the Constitution. The years of inaction from federal officials to stop the violation of migration laws is obviously a direct act of war on the sovereignty of each and every American citizen. In essence, their inactions are their actions and their inaction to enforce laws are unconstitutional. This is the case because there is nothing about this that forms a more perfect union as I stated in the Preamble above.

David’s Stand

As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.

When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron.

1 Samuel 17: 48-52

I wanted to include this section of the Bible here in order to point out a valuable lesson that we can derive from the scripture.

In short, you’re probably familiar with the story of David and Goliath. In that famous moment, David was a mere shepherd who ended up taking down the giant Goliath with the Lord guiding his hand for the precision and speed of his sling and his stone.

Now, when David stepped into the breach to do what King Saul, at the time, was unable to do because of his lack of faith and overall spiritual decline, this reshaped the entire leadership structure and direction of Israel.

You see, it was David’s faith in the Lord, along with his courage to step into the moment, that enabled him to face down what many perceived to be this overwhelming force in Goliath.

Now, I understand that you’ve probably heard this analysis of this story before, but there’s a couple of areas that I’m going to cover for you here involving the “what” that was associated with David’s actions along with the “how” that was associated with David’s kingdom continuing on despite the giant challenges that would continue to show up to face him.

So for full disclosure, here today I’m going to cover what happened in this scenario that made it so significant, but I will cover how you can apply the lessons from it in the next episode. Just to give you fair warning, the next episode will be going into the vault behind the paywall so make sure you upgrade to Zenith status today so you’ll be able to access it in full.

We must remember that aside from the fact that Goliath was a giant that was widely feared, it was the spiritual decline and inaction of King Saul that emboldened the giant to continue to insult and challenge the sovereignty of his kingdom of Israel. What made this moment so significant was the fact that this giant bully, Goliath, was able to feel more and more confident in pushing the Philistines in the direction to try and conquer Israel.

You see, the thing about Goliath’s stand that many forget is that he came out in front of Israel every morning and every evening to challenge, insult, and mock them for forty straight days as it is written in 1 Samuel 17:16.

So why am I pointing this out to you?

This is why I want to shift back to talk about the current circumstances surrounding the seditionists and insurrectionists that are engaging in anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis that are now threatening to spread to L.A. and possibly into Atlanta.

You see, when you look at how Goliath and the Philistines were able to stand in front of the kingdom of Israel and relentlessly harass them, mock them, and challenge their sovereignty every morning and every evening for forty straight days, it’s obvious that it was due to a lack of faith and inaction from their people and their leadership at the time.

Likewise, if we look at what our nation has had to endure for the past several years we have seen a conglomeration of institutional rot due to Marxist infiltration. We’ve seen this from corrupt radical judges, the Administrative State Media (ASM), Hollywood, the medical community, the financial system, and within the systems of degradation throughout most of Corporate America. This level of widespread Marxist infiltration seems overwhelming on the surface because we can literally see it every time we turn around.

Because of this widespread rot it appears that we are dealing with our own modern day Goliath that is constantly pushing to overthrow the Republic by constantly stressing and challenging our medical system, financial system, education system, and federal government’s attempt to simply enforce the Constitution and the laws that preserve the sovereignty of the Republic.

You see, in my view the giants such as Goliath and those that roamed the earth during the antediluvian time period were a mockery of true strength. I say this because even though they were physically intimidating, they ultimately symbolized a defiance to God’s order as they reflected sin, oppression, and arrogance to rule the earth in their way instead of honoring the statutes of the Lord.

Furthermore, they were also a physical mockery of God’s creation as in 1 Chronicles 20:6 it points out that aside from their large physical stature, these giants also had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.

At the end of the day, these beings were not human and in my best judgment they appeared to desire to be the sovereign that wanted to determine the future of mankind. In short, they were the hybrid offspring and result of the Sons of God and the daughters of men. Because of this they were clearly part of a plan to establish their own power structure and to challenge God’s ordained order.

So when we look at our societal dynamics today, who else is mocking the principles of liberty and the rights that are given to all of us by God himself?

Who else is demonstrating the desire to rule over mankind and to challenge God’s ordained order?

Who is demonstrating their desire to rule by silencing, ignoring, and censoring any opposition that challenges their positions?

Who is demonstrating that they prefer intimidation, fear, and violence when it comes to advocating for any given political cause?

What people are now calling for Stalin show trials?

What people refer to these as Nuremberg trials once they get back into power to finish off the political opposition that they failed to imprison and kill the first time they possessed the office of the presidency, the majority of the House, and the majority of the Senate?

The answer to all of those questions is simple because it boils down to the same insurrectionists, seditionists, and traitors who are currently rioting in Minneapolis morning and night to mock and challenge the sovereignty of the Republic just as Goliath did to the kingdom of Israel.

The Wrap Up

The thing that you have to understand is that the giant thought he could rule by intimidation, fear, and pain in order to get Israel to yield to his call for power. The scary part about this is that Israel would have done just that, had it not been for David’s courage to step into the breach when literally nobody else would–including King Saul himself.

You and I are literally facing down this same scenario with the modern-day Marxist insurrectionists and seditionists behaving as a modern-day Goliath, demanding and threatening for the rest of us to yield to their call for power–or else.

In the showdown that Goliath initiated with Israel it created a scenario where the face off simply boiled down to involving a test of wills. Of course, the one with unshakable faith, a sling, and a stone stepped into the moment to achieve victory.

As you and I stand here today we currently find ourselves in that very same scenario with a standoff involving a test of our will as American Patriots versus the will of the American Bolsheviks.

At the end of the day, we will find out whether The Law of The Giant Killer is something that we will abide by when the standoff reaches critical mass, but the only way to know for sure is if we understand what that law is made of.

There is no way that you, myself, or the nation will survive unless we utilize our own modern day version of a sling and stone in order to face and solve the problems that we are going to encounter in this chaotic world.

What are you currently doing to get your hands around the strategic cultural shifts that are taking place that will undoubtedly impact you and your family in the very near future?

What are you doing to prepare for a world where the enemy is working 24/7 in order to erode and destroy your sovereignty?

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“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”

― Carl Sagan

I don’t know about you, but I personally view life as a war, particularly during this current period of time that we’re living through right now.

If you really slow down to think about it this is not a cynical viewpoint at all, but rather a simple observation of reality. After all, no matter where you are on the economic spectrum when you wake up in the morning to start your day the chances are pretty solid that you’re going to have to go on the attack in your life in order to get something done.

Whether you’re self-employed and having to figure out how to make payroll for the month, or if you’re a construction worker aiming to complete a project on time and within budget, you’ve got battles to fight in order to make it happen.

This is not cynical. This is not trivial. This is reality.

So why am I beginning today’s discussion by framing the vantage point of life in this particular manner?

Well the reason I’m choosing to tackle this particular topic today is because even when life is operating in a manner that you might consider to be smooth it’s still challenging enough as it is.

In other words, there are always bills to pay, there are always medical emergencies, there is always loss of life, there are always accidents, and there are always shortfalls. In short, there is always a battle looming out over the horizon.

It’s because of those unseen battles that are looming around out there in this experience that we refer to as life as to the reason that I view this experience as warfare.

Once again, this is not cynical, but realistically it is more of a way to navigate this adventure that we recognize as the human condition.

Now having said that, I don’t want you to think that I view life as this gloom and doom experience. I don’t want you to interpret this as me walking around with this overwhelming sense of dread and misery because I’m just sitting here waiting to fight whatever battle presents itself to me in this unique life experience that I’m referring to as warfare.

If that is the image that popped up inside your head regarding my perspective of this then you would be incorrect. However, to be fair to you this is exactly why I am choosing to broach this subject in today’s episode.

Now for further clarity, I don’t want anyone hearing this to think that I’m trying to cheapen the meaning or experiences of brave men and women that have actually served in the military while having to endure the horrifically violent outcomes of kinetic warfare. Of course, this is not my intent, but it is my intent to point out that life is still a form of warfare, even though the active soldier’s experience of it may be the most physically and psychologically extreme version compared to many other professions.

The goal of this discussion is to point out that my perspective of viewing life in this particular manner has more to do with my own attempt to rewire my brain for the purpose of living a more disciplined life to the best of my ability.

In short, by comparing life to a form of warfare it changes the way I approach it. In this regard, I’m now looking at life through a different type of lens which has forced me to adapt to my life experience in a way that I believe better prepares me for its unseen outcomes.

You see, I figured out long ago that how you look at a scenario often determines how you will react to that scenario when the moment arrives.

In order to enlighten you on this perspective I’ll use a pop culture reference with the iconic movie Die Hard in order to help illustrate my point and drive it home. There’s a key lesson that I want to point out with this in order to highlight the significance of achieving psychological advantage.

Now, I realize that we’ve just gotten past another Christmas season and are full steam ahead into the new year. However, during this past Christmas season I’m sure you might have had some family members that made a request to watch a Christmas movie.

When this happened you may have heard some friends or family recommend the very popular action movie Die Hard.

Now I’m not here to debate on whether or not you view the movie Die Hard as a legitimate Christmas movie, but if you’ve seen the movie then you understand that it’s quite a thrill ride from the start to the finish.

The point I want to make here with the movie Die Hard is substantial so please be patient with me as I work to point out an interesting lesson to you that I got from this movie.

In the movie our main character John McClane (played by Bruce Willis) thought he was walking into the Nakatomi Plaza to simply visit his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.

However, the evening quickly experiences a seismic mood shift when our New York City police detective, John McClane, becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover on his Christmas Eve outing.

As McClane arrives at the Christmas party and is forced to do his best to settle in and try to use the event in order to reconcile with his ex-wife, he ends up walking away to wash up after a long trip.

In his absence a German ex-radical named Hans Gruber (played by Alan Rickman) ends up seizing the tower and taking everyone hostage except McClane.

Now I’m not going to go on with a deep dive into the plot of this story, but after McClane recognizes the type of situation he’s in he quickly understands that he’s outnumbered and outgunned, but despite this he also realizes that the terrorists aren’t aware of him and who he is at the moment that they seize the Nakatomi Plaza.

Because of this McClane recognizes that he has a tactical advantage over his enemy and in this dangerous Christmas Eve scenario that element of stealth is about as much of a gift as one could possibly ask for. However, in McClane’s case he’s able to leverage this element of surprise for an even bigger gift in the movie that turns the tables on Hans Gruber and his unjolly band of terrorists.

You see, eventually the terrorists are alerted to McClane’s presence and one of the terrorists named Tony is sent to go after McClane, but after a fight on the stairway McClane ends up killing Tony by breaking his neck.

Now it’s the next scene that I wanted to point out to you here as to the lesson that I took from this movie long ago. Even though it’s sort of a bit of dark humor, it does drive home an important message in regards to the strong psychological trigger that the scene is conveying from our protagonist, McClane, to the antagonist, Gruber, in the film.

After McClane kills Tony, he then places his body in a chair and puts a Santa hat on his head. He writes a message on Tony’s sweatshirt in red ink and sends Tony down the elevator to Gruber’s floor.

On the lower floor as Gruber is continuing to threaten the hostages all the sudden the elevator dings and opens up displaying Tony’s dead body wearing a Santa hat and a personalized message for Gruber on his sweatshirt.

As you can imagine Gruber and his unjolly band of terrorists are shocked to see Tony’s body, but what disturbs them even more is the message that’s written on Tony’s light gray sweatshirt that reads, “Now I have a machine gun. Ho, Ho, Ho.”

So why am I going to the trouble of pointing this out to you?

The reason that this is significant is that John McClane just gave every single one of us one of the greatest lessons in psychological warfare.

You see, up until this point in the movie McClane and the hostages were the ones that had been hunted and preyed upon. However, when McClane delivered the dead body of one of their own with a personalized Christmas message, this was a seismic shift and major turning point in terms of the circumstances in the movie. The hunted had become the hunter.

In short, John McClane managed to turn the tables on the terrorists by shifting from a defensive posture to taking on an offensive posture against the bad guys.

The Cult of Personality

In shifting gears for the moment, I’ve written and talked about how there seems to be an obvious psychological characteristic that dominates among the most radical leftist that I’ve encountered or witnessed throughout life. This characteristic that I’m referring to has to do with the lack of self-awareness.

So what is self-awareness?

Self-awareness essentially involves the conscious knowledge of one’s own feelings, character, and personality. When one possesses self-awareness they are aware of how their behavior impacts the people in their lives and the environment that surrounds them.

Conversely, the complete opposite of someone who lacks self-awareness is someone who possesses strategic awareness. A person with strategic awareness has a deep understanding of their internal strengths and weaknesses while also possessing a solid grasp on the external environment and their role within it.

“Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.”

–1 Timothy 4:16

People who have strategic awareness are able to identify market trends, opportunities, competitors, anticipate threats, and to make informed long-term decisions for success. In short, people with strategic awareness are 360 individuals who possess a Zenith mindset and move forward in life as they intelligently navigate the situations they are in until they are able to achieve victory, or at the very least, a fair and livable outcome. In short, these people who possess strategic awareness are antifragile.

It is said in psychology that there is a strong link between self-awareness and empathy as those people who lack self-awareness often struggle with empathy due to the fact that they lack the mental mapping ability of their own emotions, which is necessary in order to navigate the feelings of other people.

As a result of lacking this mental mapping ability, it often leads these people who lack self-awareness to taking actions that negatively impact others while they also demonstrate that they have no concern of how their actions impact those around them. In fact, even when their actions prove to be harmful to others they often believe that they are still justified in those actions. As a prime example of this take a look at the recent actions of Don Lemon and the leftist protesters in Minneapolis that stormed the church and harassed the families and congregation during their worship service.

This was a classic example of radical Marxists who have a complete lack of self-awareness. In fact, they even demonstrated that they felt completely justified in carrying out a set of actions that were obviously wrong, and even criminal in this particular case.

This lack of self-awareness is a very dangerous trait and such a trait can be so dangerous that it can literally lead a nation down a path of destruction, especially when people of power suffer from this issue and use their power and influence to amplify their own cult of personality.

In a recent interview that I saw with Steve Bannon and author Chris Rufo this topic was explained very well by Rufo involving his analysis of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. One great example of this according to Rufo was with Fink’s involvement with his push and development of ESG and DEI initiatives throughout the corporate world.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock then you probably remember the infamous Bud Light moment when the beer company made the Trans-activist the face of their brand. You probably also remember the ESG initiative involving that whole message of toxic masculinity with Gillette, and how the men’s razor company completely forgot about who their customers were when they approved that absurdly stupid ad campaign. You also saw another more recent example of this with Cracker Barrel’s abysmal ESG ad campaign when they attempted to remove Uncle Herschel from their classic logo.

So, why is pointing all of this out to you significant, and what do all of these absurdly woke ad campaigns have in common?

Well the reason it’s significant is because the one guy that was the driving force behind all of those failed ESG and DEI campaigns was Larry Fink.

As I previously stated, Larry Fink is the CEO of BlackRock and he is literally the world’s largest asset manager. He’s a globalist and currently sits as the Co-Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Fink is one of the architects for developing a system that the globalists love to employ known as stakeholder capitalism. This is an economic system in which corporations are oriented to serve the interests of all of their shareholders rather than focusing on bottom line profits.

Larry Fink has used his position leading over $10 trillion in assets to pressure and coerce companies to adopt Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) along with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. This is what is known as stakeholder capitalism which has often been referred to as woke capitalism.

Now obviously these ad campaigns resulted in those companies experiencing massive blowback and financial loss due to the actions of the informed public. The part of society that made the difference in confronting the fascistic behavior of this woke capitalism understood that such behavior had nothing to do with a company running itself as it saw fit, it had nothing to do with individual liberty, and it certainly had nothing to do with free markets.

What it really involved was Larry Fink leveraging the use of his position of power and authority to wage a coercive and fascistic form of stakeholder capitalism against corporate America in order to drive the appearance of social justice. Even more disturbing, is that it was done primarily to satisfy his own personal pursuit of status incentives. This is basically what Chris Rufo pointed out to Steve Bannon.

So why is this important to know and understand?

As Rufo explained, when it comes to people like Larry Fink, personal convictions may either be nonexistent or malleable at best; therefore, when it comes to utilizing pressure and public opinion to stop certain behaviors—such as ESG and DEI initiatives—the thing to do is to talk about how those things impact their status.

Once again, with a cult of personality like Fink’s, the way to move the meter is to drive the culture towards how those things are not beneficial for personal image, rather than trying to appeal to his personal convictions—as those may not exist or may remain in a constant state of flux due to the type of person that he is and what drives his central motivation.

Since a significant portion of the informed public realized this back when Fink was really pushing the ESG and DEI initiatives, those who were informed exposed and made enough noise to pressure Fink to back away from these initiatives as they no longer served as status incentives that he felt bolstered his image.

As a result of this, Fink went quiet for a bit; however, he recently popped up again in Davos at the WEF, posing as a sort of reasonable and more moderate figure as he searches for the next shiny object.

The Wrap Up

The reality is that in this current age we are living in a time where the cold war portion of WWIII is now fully engaged in unrestricted warfare. This involves economic, cultural, information, legal, and cyber activities. These strategies are being utilized by foreign and domestic enemies to create multiple systems of degradation in order to weaken our country from within.

With big money players that sit in powerful positions of influence, this is essentially the new battlefield and all citizens of the United States are enemy combatants. This is exactly why it’s more important than ever to possess a Zenith mindset in order to combat these mega-dollars and the nefarious people who weaponize those dollars against American citizens.

This may seem overwhelming when you think about someone like Larry Fink and that mountain of $10 trillion in assets, but as a reminder John McClane was also outnumbered and outgunned, but he demonstrated what it meant to be a Die Hard by winning the battle of psychological warfare against his enemy.

Of course, I’m certainly not talking about taking violent measures as John McClane did in order to achieve this outcome. However, I am talking about the significance of knowing the enemy and recognizing how to gain a psychological edge on that enemy—such as tainting the status incentives that drive their motivations.

The goal here is for us to elevate society’s intellectual temerity to a point that more people recognize the power of their individual ability. This is critical so that both you and I can exert our personal agency in a way to effectively impact the world around us so that we can produce an environment free from tyranny.

The more we grow and expand society’s intellectual fortitude, the more we all become an army of John McClane’s to crush every leg of unrestricted warfare, and to turn that pressure back on the opposition.

In most cases, the thing that you and I have going for us that guys like Fink typically do not possess is the self-awareness to figure out our limitations, which will eventually lead to us developing more strategic awareness so that we can individually figure out how to put a stop to guys like Fink.

The development of this strategic awareness is the catalyst for you to shift yourself away from a defensive posture and into an offensive posture. Because of these systems of degradation that have been put into place by the Marxists and the globalists, making the shift back towards your individuality is the action that is needed for you to thrive during these chaotic times.

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John McClane didn’t hesitate to take on an offensive posture when he waged full blown psychological warfare on Hans Gruber.

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“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”

― Abraham Lincoln

They love Rome.

As legend would have it the creator of Rome was raised by a she-wolf. According to the ancient tradition it was in April, 21 753 B.C. where Romulus and his twin brother Remus found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf when they were a couple of orphaned infants.

As the legendary story is told, Romulus and Remus were the sons of Rhea Silvia who was the daughter of King Numitor of Alba Longa. Alba Longa was a mythical city that was located in the Alban Hills which sat in the southeastern location from what would eventually become Rome.

Before the birth of the twins King Numitor was deposed by his brother Amulius. In addition to this Amulius forced Rhea into the position of becoming a vestal virgin so that she wouldn’t give birth to any potential rivals that would pose a threat to his title.

However, it is said that Rhea was impregnated by the war god Mars which resulted in her giving birth to Romulus and Remus. When Amulius got word of their birth he ordered that the infants be drowned in the Tiber. However, as it turns out the two infants survived and washed ashore at the foot of the Palatine Hill.

It was at this point where they encountered a she-wolf who suckled the infants until they were eventually discovered by the shepherd Faustulus. The boys were raised by Faustulus and his wife and as they grew they would eventually mature into becoming a couple of shepherd warriors.

The twins eventually learned of their true identity which resulted in them mounting an attack against Alba Longa. In doing so they killed the wicked Amulius and restored their grandfather to the throne.

However, the twins decided to found a town at the location where they were saved as infants. In a dark twist they would eventually get into a petty quarrel and Remus would be slain by his own brother. This would lead to Romulus becoming the ruler of the settlement and that settlement would be named Rome after him.

There’s a significant lesson to be drawn from this story involving the founding of Rome. Granted, whether or not this story is true, this is the chosen story that is credited for the founding of Rome. What makes this significant is that the founding of Rome tells a story where one of history’s most powerful civilizations was established by an act of fratricide where one of its leaders murdered his own brother at its inception.

Given that the founding of Rome was based on this identity it isn’t such a surprise as to why its thirst for conquest ultimately led to its own demise.

Now I want to shift gears for a moment and I want you to imagine a scenario where you and I are discussing the current events that are taking place throughout the world with many global leaders allowing mass invasions for the purpose of literally replacing the citizens of their respective countries.

Imagine that we are discussing the global financial death spiral that’s accelerating in an interconnected global economy with a literal worldwide margin call sitting out on the horizon. Now imagine that you’ve traditionally listened to the news in passing and recognized that there was instability and violence in the world, but you just convinced yourself that there was nothing that you could do about it and that such events just simply didn’t have any direct impact on your life.

If you’re guilty of that mindset that I just described while still looking around at all the chaos in the world today without making changes to your own life, then you’re guilty of contributing to that very chaos. If you can currently look around at the world with growing concerns with what’s happening, yet still believe that you couldn’t have any impact on what’s going on in the world, then you’re sadly mistaken.

Now don’t get angry and start thinking that I’m coming across too judgmental or that I’m simply sounding like a sanctimonious blowhard when I make that last comment, because if you’re a regular follower of this platform then you should know me better than that by now.

The fact is that I’ve been guilty of that very same attitude in the past myself. However, the behaviors of people, governments, and peers that I witnessed back during the pandemic mimicked that of a beast that made its way far enough into the forest to hit my tripwire. In fact, what I just described created 100% of the driving force that pushed me towards starting this publication in the first place.

In short, I quickly realized that my previous years of inaction served to be a contribution that ultimately fed into the heresy of democracy that has resulted in our nation sitting on the verge of collapse.

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“It’s a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.”

–Carroll Shelby

From time to time there are people who show up in the world to transform it and when they are here they always leave a mark that echoes forever through time.

With Christmas around the corner it goes without saying that the biggest of all of these people would be our one and only savior, Jesus. However, prior to Jesus physically coming to this world, and long after he left it, he worked through other individuals who managed to leave their mark on this place as well.

Having just turned 49 years of age this past November one thing I’ve learned in looking at life is that if you stand firm on something and do your best to do the right thing then God will honor your service…and if it comes down to it, he’ll honor your sacrifice.

This is not make believe or hyperbole, but this is an absolute statement of verifiable fact. We’ve seen this pattern emerge throughout many key moments in history that date all the way back through time to the days of Moses, to the American Revolution, and all the way up to modern day with the current Fourth Turning in history that we find ourselves living in the middle of right now.

If you pay attention you can spot these people when they arise and start working to leave their mark on society. However, what’s amazing is that even when such people pop up on the scene it’s incredible that so many other people are blind to them and their deeds even when the events of the world that they are impacting are staring them right in the face.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

–Mark 6:4

Jesus had this same problem with the Pharisees as they looked at him with jealous eyes and as a threat to their power structure rather than recognizing him as the brilliant and Holy Savior to all of mankind. Granted, nobody compares to the Lord.

However, even when people step up to grab the bull by the horns during challenging moments in society to speak truth, to stand firm on calling out the enemy, and even when they stand in the breach representing a true minority that goes against what all of society deems to be right, they most always get nothing but resistance from those they would expect to garner support from.

I’m in no way anywhere in the same category as Moses or the Lord, but even concerning my own small world I’ve still experienced this same phenomenon myself ever since I made the decision to start this Substack.

This sort of resistance, or lack of support, from people who are in close proximity to those folks that are doing what they can to change the world around them has been a consistent trait of human nature since the fall of mankind.

However, regardless of this reality there are still those people that manage to come on the scene and leave their mark on the world in a profound way. As a result, in these scenarios these Mavericks always impact the world in a way that results in significant change.

In addition to this, when it comes to the lives of these Mavericks there are acts of divine providence that always seem to occur at key moments during their lives as well.

In fact, when looking at the history of this pattern these acts of divine providence are well documented in critical scenarios throughout history and when observing the lives of four very well known American presidents the prevalence of these moments of divine providence really stands out.

From The Fog To The Fight, Fight, Fight

To kick off the first example of one of these key moments where divine providence shows up to impact the life of an American president we can go all the way back to the time of George Washington before he even became the president.

Washington actually had a few experiences where divine providence played out in numerous circumstances during his life, but for the sake of time and discussion I’m going to talk about one instance here that I’ve previously covered in an earlier episode titled Removing The Fog. I will include an excerpt from that article/podcast episode here.

It was August 22, 1776 and General George Washington took a look around the battlefield amidst all the chaos realizing that his men had been soundly defeated and to make matters worse they were flanked out of their positions atop the Gowanus Heights (this would be part of today’s modern day Brooklyn).

After having been soundly defeated by William Howe’s 20,000 man force the smoke of the battlefield loomed over the ground just above all the death and destruction from a very tough day. General Washington’s heart was racing as he realized he was outnumbered and outgunned as he found himself confronted by the powerful British army to his front and he basically had his back up against the wall with the East River directly to his rear.

With the constant threat and concern that the Royal Navy would enter the East River and block his avenue of escape Washington had to make a courageous call as he ordered all the available flatboats to be brought down to his position. The goal here was to move his army over to Manhattan on the night of August 29-30, 1776.

Once again, Washington understood that if he and his men were seen by the Royal Navy that they would either be completely destroyed or captured. However, as they started making their way out across the river an incredible thing occurred that would be nothing short of a miracle.

As the men started to cross the river they were aided by a providential fog that completely hid their escape from the Royal Navy. Because of this miracle fog Washington was successfully able to move all 9000 of his troops to Manhattan without losing a single man. This would end up being a truly remarkable military feat that completely astounded his British enemy.

Here we can see where divine providence showed up in the nick of time for General Washington and because of this miracle Washington would go on to become the father of this nation.

Now as miraculous as that event was for paving the way to allow General Washington to become the founding father of this nation, he wasn’t the first president where divine providence showed up to change the course of history.

As amazing as that story was with General Washington, the miraculous actions of divine providence didn’t end with him. As we fast forward through time, another miracle with another president left its mark on history almost 60 years later.

It was a cold wet January day in Washington D.C. in 1835 and over by a pillar at the entrance to the Capitol Rotunda hid an unemployed house painter named Richard Lawrence.

As Richard sat hiding he was awaiting the arrival of a very important visitor which would include President Andrew Jackson who was on his way to attend a congressional funeral. As President Andrew Jackson approached Lawrence stepped forward and raised his derringer single-shot pistol and took careful aim at President Jackson’s heart.

At this moment he pulled the trigger and fired the gun. However, as the cap exploded and the noise and smoke filled the air from the shot, miraculously the powder failed to ignite. It was a Misfire!

At this stage of the game the president was in ill health and was forced to lean on a colleague and use a cane, but he still had a fighting spirit. At this moment President Jackson charged towards the assailant with his cane held high even as Lawrence pulled out a second pistol in order to take aim and he pulled the trigger a second time. Astonishingly, it was another Misfire! Here bystanders were able to get to the would-be-assassin and tackle him to the floor as the president was hustled away out of the area.

President Jackson was a warrior and was no stranger to physical or verbal violence. He was a soldier of distinction and suffered numerous battle wounds and had fought in at least a dozen personal duels. At the time, President Jackson had been engaged in fierce political combat with several of his congressional opponents.

The president’s opponents were so opposed to him that they decided to start a new political party at the time known as the Whigs in order to confront the enemy that they referred to as King Andrew.

During this era that we often refer to as “golden,” much of the Senate Chamber echoed some of the most vitriolic language towards the president frequently accusing Jackson of incompetence and corruption. However, given his own warrior spirit the president didn’t just sit back and take it as he would go on the offense retaliating with his own heated rhetoric.

The South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun had served as President Jackson’s first Vice President, but left the office in order to join up with the opposition. Reportedly, Calhoun had declared that Jackson was “a Caesar who ought to have a Brutus,” and among those who had listened to that speech was none other than Richard Lawrence himself.

Regardless of all of the rhetoric, divine providence managed not only to show up once for President Jackson, but it left its mark on history with the president’s assassin by showing up twice with the back to back misfiring of two separate guns within a matter of a few seconds.

Now when you read or hear about those acts of stochastic terrorism towards President Jackson how familiar does that political climate sound compared to today’s climate with President Trump? As the old saying goes, “There’s nothing new under the sun.”

If this wasn’t spectacular enough, when examining these acts of divine providence throughout key moments in history involving American presidents our story still doesn’t end there. In other words, there would be another iconic president to be directly impacted by yet another miracle nearly 77 years later.

It was the year 1901 and President Theodore Roosevelt came along and in a 20,000-word State of the Union message to Congress he took aim to call on lawmakers to curb the power of trusts.

“Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions,” the president declared. Therefore, he added, it is “our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”

Now Theodore Roosevelt was successful at breaking up some very well known monopolies by leveraging the use of the Sherman Antitrust Act against the businesses of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company and J.P. Morgan’s Northern Securities Co., which was a railroad conglomerate.

Granted, it was obvious that this American President recognized the threat of centralized power to the nation from a similar concern shared at that time by our friend Louis Brandeis and his view involving the Curse of Bigness. On top of that it was a miracle that Roosevelt ended up in the office of the presidency in the first place.

You see, when Roosevelt first stepped foot in the White House he entered as President William McKinley’s Vice President. His ticket for the Vice Presidency was created to remove him from the political chessboard as a potential threat to run for the office of the president. Much of the establishment saw Roosevelt as a threat and knew he wouldn’t bend a knee to big business along with the fact that he was an independent thinker with some strong populist tendencies.

However, this plan to keep Roosevelt out of the office of the presidency backfired in a major way when President William McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901 and ended up dying eight days later on September 14, 1901.

Now it was a miracle that Roosevelt ended up becoming the president of the United States, despite the fact that there was an intentional effort to keep him out of office in the first place. However, divine providence would show up again many years later in the life of Teddy Roosevelt when he was actually out on the campaign trail giving a speech on October 14, 1912. It was at this time when a former saloonkeeper named John Schrank had been following Roosevelt for quite some time from Louisiana to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Out in front of the hotel is where Schrank pulled out a Model 1905 Colt Police Positive Pistol and shot Teddy in the chest. He made his move between the time Roosevelt was exiting the hotel and entering a car, but had briefly paused to acknowledge the cheers of an assembled crowd of onlookers.

Once again the miracle of divine providence showed up on this day as the bullet from the Colt hit Roosevelt in the chest, but not before having to go through his steel eye glass case and his 50 page speech which he happened to be carrying inside his jacket pocket. The items saved his life and immediately after he was shot he stumbled, but then straightened himself up and lifted his hat with a reassuring smile towards the crowd.

In a stunning display of strength and resilience Roosevelt gathered himself, stood tall, and yelled for the crowd that had taken down Schrank to not kill him. The crowd was just as shocked at the fact the former president wasn’t injured as they were surprised at his forgiving request to want to face his shooter.

Onlookers were asking if he was hurt, but once Roosevelt assured them that he was alright the crowd erupted in cheers. Now, after being shot Roosevelt pulled out his speech to show the crowd where the bullet hole had gone through the paper and lodged into his chest. However, he realized after coughing into his hands that there was no blood so he knew that the bullet had not penetrated his lungs.

At the time Roosevelt had started a third party known as the Bull Moose Party. After getting shot he was adamant about finishing the speech to the crowd and had famously told them that “It takes more than a bullet to kill a Bull Moose.”

Roosevelt would continue on to campaign for the office of the presidency, but he would end up losing the election of 1912 due to the fact that the vote total was split between himself and the Republican Party, therefore allowing the Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win over the office of the presidency.

Now, even though Roosevelt didn’t win he was still a force of nature with his influence among the public in shaping the political and cultural landscape. After all, here I am writing and telling you about him 113 years after divine providence intervened so that his story could be told.

The reality is that Roosevelt’s fight wasn’t all that different from President Trump’s fight when looking at a more establishment Republican Party and the threat of centralized wealth and power with big business. In Roosevelt’s day, the centralization of wealth and power involved the railroads and the oil companies, whereas much of Trump’s problems have to do with the centralized power of the Administrative State and the necessity of antitrust lawsuits due to the power and size of big tech.

Speaking of President Trump, this brings us up to our fourth president where an act of divine providence took place once again on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania when a would-be assassin took aim and shot at President Trump as he delivered a speech at an open-air campaign rally.

Now, I’m sure I don’t have to dive into as much detail for this one. As the story goes, President Trump was able to narrowly avoid absorbing a direct hit to the head by a bullet. He managed to do this when he turned his head at the precise moment that was necessary for the bullet to miss its primary target while only slightly nicking his ear.

In the immediate aftermath of getting shot at, the Secret Service rushed the stage to cover President Trump. There was a period of time where the president’s condition was unknown, but then through the microphone onlookers could hear the president asking for his shoes as apparently they had come off when he hit the floor to get out of the assassin’s line of fire.

In watching the event unfold everyone could see when the president finally got to his feet because it was one of the most powerful moments that has occurred in United States history. Like President Roosevelt, President Trump stood tall surrounded by a mob of Secret Service agents at the very podium that he had just taken cover behind.

Once the president was able to get to his feet, as agents were trying to hold him back, he stood tall and lifted his fist high in the air and yelled Fight, Fight, Fight! The crowd erupted and his call to fight was intended to take direct aim at the Administrative State, the Administrative State Media (ASM), the intelligence community, the RINOs, and the cultural Marxists who all had been trying to destroy him, the MAGA movement, and the country at large.

In addition to having a bullet just graze his ear this was only the first attempt that was taken at President Trump’s life. There was also a second assassin by the name of Ryan Wesley Routh who would fortunately be stopped by the Secret Service before he could engage the president just a couple of months later when President Trump was golfing at West Palm Beach, Florida.

Anyone who has been paying attention can clearly see that divine providence didn’t just intervene with President Trump when the bullets were flying. The most corrupt system consisting of members of the intelligence community, radical judges, radical lawyers, and an outright corrupt Administrative State Media (ASM) had been waging a relentless lawfare campaign on the president and all of his supporters for several years.

Despite all the odds coming against President Trump and the MAGA movement, the president and the antifragile movement are still standing strong despite there having been some major casualties along the way such as Charlie Kirk.

The Wrap Up

So why did I go to the trouble to highlight these four presidents and what do all four of these men have in common?

To state the obvious, all four of these men had to overcome tremendous odds and often found themselves in a moment where they probably felt they were alone during some very dark days.

Now having said all of this, none of these men were perfect, then again nobody is except our Lord and Savior. However, all four of these men were Christians and all four of these men shared some traits that line up with the political viewpoint known as Populism.

That’s right, all four men were about taking the fight straight to the large centralized systems that had accumulated such significant size and power that they wanted to destroy the sovereignty of the individual citizen. Of course, in Washington’s case this involved the future citizen that would eventually be free from British tyranny as a result of his leadership, his actions, and the intervening miracle(s) of divine providence.

At the beginning of this episode I led off with that quote from Carrol Shelby that seems like it wouldn’t fit this topic of discussion because it talks about a massive motor fitting inside of a tiny, lightweight car.

Now for clarity, Shelby was referencing the design of his very powerful and iconic Shelby Cobra racing sports car. The point he was making was that the car’s chassis was lightweight while the driving force of the car involving the engine was quite the beast.

Given the clarity of that perspective this is essentially the same comparison we could make here with these four presidents functioning like a beast of an engine inside the lightweight systems of order that they fought against.

These men pushed those systems to their limits. They did this in order to drive that metaphorical machine as fast as possible in the direction that they wanted while having to overcome all sorts of instability and avoiding near complete disaster in the process. Just like a Shelby Cobra, the political machine is hard to handle, but once you build the momentum to drive it the machine will produce a lot of impressive outcomes for you during the race.

Nobody knew this better than these four men and these four men drove that machine as hard as it would go in order to achieve what they deemed to be necessary for the survival of the Republic. In fact, one of those four guys is still driving that machine has hard as possible right now. As a result of that current process, there’s a lot of instability and complaining going on with people who simply don’t understand how far previous decades of corrupt economic, geopolitical, and cultural dynamics have driven this country to the literal edge of destruction.

Despite all of that, we have made it to another Christmas season and I believe that season is here because the very source of that miracle season has been working alongside all of us to make sure that we made it here.

I’m also willing to bet that if you could ask these four gentlemen if they believe that’s the case that they would agree with that assessment.

Are there other key acts of divine providence that you’re familiar with that have occurred throughout history?

Have you personally experienced a miracle moment such as this yourself?

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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

― John Steinbeck

If you are a member of Generation X (GenX) then perhaps what I’m about to say won’t sound too crazy to you, but then again maybe it will.

As a member of GenX, the biggest reason I frequently reference my generation is because of the shared culture that we all understand based on the way society was during our childhood. Granted, much of the part of society I’m alluding to has more to do with the state of the culture and the world as I remember it as a kid in the 1980s.

Now I understand that not all GenX folks are going to share my views and that’s fine, but for the sake of discussion I’m primarily addressing those that do and for those that don’t maybe they will learn. I’m going to come back to this in a bit so just hold on to that thought for the moment.

I want to shift gears and briefly address a concept known as Consequentialism. Consequentialism is a philosophical stance that hinges on the belief that the basic intuition of what is best or right for society is whatever makes the world best in the future. Essentially this philosophical view embraces this position because we cannot change the past, therefore worrying about the past is no more of a useful act than crying over spilled milk.

Now when initially looking at that viewpoint you might think that such a position sounds pretty reasonable. However, when examining this line of thinking there is a big red flag that jumps out if you take a moment to consider the consequences of consequentialism.

For example, if the position of this philosophical belief system centers on the basic intuition of what is best or right is what makes the world the best in the future, then who exactly is the arbiter that determines what exactly is best or right to make the world a better place in the future?

In short, this philosophical practice leaves itself open to overlapping with what is recognized as moral relativism. So what is moral relativism?

Moral relativism is essentially the view that moral judgments are true or false based on a particular standpoint that may be determined by the dominant culture of a given society or a particular historical period in time.

In my view, the key thing to take note of here regarding these philosophical positions is that the consequences of one’s actions may be determined to be the best based on what society deems to be morally relevant, or the time period that one happens to live in if the consequences are anchored to what that particular social dynamic deems to be good or bad.

In other words, in some countries it may be acceptable for the social dynamics to call for the covering of the face and head of a woman, and to restrict where she travels by law by forcing her to dress in a certain way that strips her of her individual identity. However, here in the West that is not an acceptable practice that is seen to result in what is believed to be what is best for society, at least not for the time being.

Now I say this even though our entire society was actually forced to go through the face covering time period back during the pandemic under the guise of safety, but that fortunately didn’t last. Having said that, I don’t have the confidence that any such behavior that could be repeated like that under the guise of safety would successfully manage to subside if it ever were to be enacted again.

In traditional terms, Western civilization (more specifically the United States) has a society that is based on individual liberty where rights are endowed to us by God, not by some government or ruling theocracy. However, the principles of which the nation was founded are indeed based on Christian values.

This is indisputable and if you don’t believe me simply read the opening of the Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

You see the opening of the Declaration of Independence just anchored what was best for society by declaring that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.

It’s with this statement and this statement alone that the Declaration of Independence disintegrates the idea of moral relativism because what God has endowed with every individual with unalienable rights lays the foundation for what is absolutely best for society.

Now you may look at that and think then Brandon, why is our society experiencing so many problems and why is our civilization literally hanging on by a thread to not completely collapse?

That’s a very good question and the reason is because our society has more and more tried to embrace this weird secular worldview involving a form of woke consequentialism and moral relativism by distancing ourselves from God.

In short, for a long time now the position of the basic intuition of what has been seen to be what is best or right for society has involved a culture that embraces equity over performance, identity over merit, and a society that has confused coercion with liberty (just like that face covering). All three of those characteristics that I just listed are blatant examples associated with violating individual liberty and serving to be some of the greatest injustices to lead society away from liberty and back into the arms of a totalitarian state.

In the Preamble of the Constitution is the introduction to the highest law of the land which is the establishment of justice.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

To establish justice is the most necessary step involved in a liberty-based society because with the establishment of justice it means that society will achieve everything else that’s listed in the Preamble regarding the domestic Tranquility (Tranquilitas Ordinis), providing of the common defense, the promotion of the general welfare, and the security of the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

You see, the establishment of justice means that you have a system that allows society the ability to seek out and ensure there are consequences for those who commit injustices. If it’s not obvious enough, the problem that our nation is facing now is the result of there being no consequences for those who have been responsible for major injustices throughout our society since the pandemic.

The Financialization of The Constitution

There’s a powerful quote that is often attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky where he is credited with saying “Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” Now I say that he is often credited with having said this, but there are others who say that the quote is misattributed to him.

Whether or not Dostoevsky made this statement is irrelevant to this discussion, but what is relevant is that the quote is 100% true.

Over the past several years we’ve noticed a steady erosion of consequences against those who have committed injustices. I’ll elaborate on this to give you a clearer picture of where we are right now in our society if we don’t fix this problem.

You see, to me this started all the way back in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square massacre when George H.W. Bush sent his envoys to Beijing to maintain open channels of communication with the murderous regime who had just literally gunned down their own people. This meeting was directed to eventually start the ball rolling in order to pull the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into the World Trade Organization (WTO).

First of all, why would anyone tolerate this from a murderous regime that just literally massacred their own people? Let alone, why would a sitting American President tolerate this? To be fair Bush is not here to answer for that decision and I can’t answer that for him, but regardless he did it, and then Clinton came into office and further accelerated this disaster.

The bottom line is that this was essentially the start of the world nightmare that is known as globalism. In my view, this single action from Bush served to be the catalyst for creating a whole series of events that have obviously led to the strength of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), their successful venture for amassing immense wealth, and the shrewd effectiveness of their corrupt and nefarious foreign influence operations. Mind you, these foreign influence campaigns have directly resulted in the capture of many of what we might refer to as our own modern day Captains of Industry.

Because of this these Captains of Industry have either heavily invested in Chinese owned companies or they have benefited directly from the cheap slave labor that the CCP can offer their American companies in the manufacturing of their products.

This has resulted in the CCP having been successful in their attempt to capture our Captains as they can simply hold the Sword of Damocles over their heads with the threat of the outright theft of their intellectual property, along with putting a dead stop to the subsidization of their manufacturing processes.

This entire fiasco created the perfect storm for the CCP to capture our Captains which in turn allowed them to express a Vae Victis moment over the Captains and use this leverage against them to take this same scheme even further and expand it into the political realm with several of our high level government officials. This even includes the last so-called sitting President of the United States.

Now up to this point I’ve been a bit forgiving as the practice of elite capture is primarily the method that was used by the CCP to bait and catch many of our nations Captains and politicians, however over time that practice has radically transitioned from the practice of elite capture to the practice of elite merger.

I mean for years whenever I would pose the question to people regarding why we ever got into business with a Communist regime like the CCP the globalist talking point would always be that we did so in order to demonstrate how good the practice of exposing free market capitalism would be to the Communist regime. Of course, this was a huge load of crap.

Essentially the globalist selling point was that by introducing our economic model and Western practice of free market capitalism to the Communists that eventually those Communists would start acting like us. However, in reality the opposite happened as our Captains and our politicians started behaving and implementing practices just like the Communist regime of China.

Once this plan managed to get embedded into the fabric of the U.S. economic and political system the CCP managed to create a financial spiderweb of corruption where they have since possessed a significant level of control over those levers of power.

In short, they have been able to exert their influence over our Captains and our politicians which has resulted in a level of corruption that has infected every major institution throughout our government and private sector.

This is why there have not yet been any consequences for the injustices of people like Fauci because he was part of a corrupt system that had major influence and corruption by the CCP. After all, the lab was in Wuhan for a reason.

Now in regards to the medical institutions I do believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to change this, but the corrupted institutions underneath the umbrella of Health and Human Services involving the CDC, NIH, FDA, etc. will require unwinding years of embedded corruption.

This is also the reason why politicians like Eric Swallwell, Illhan Omar, Adam Schiff, Tim Walz, etc. have all gotten away with so much corruption for so long without any consequences. The reason there have been no consequences is because the system of corruption has been embedded and that process began at the very top of every major office and institution of government and big business the day we decided to get in bed with a Communist regime that hates us.

Granted, I do believe Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are doing everything in their power to fix this problem, but all of the good actors that are now in position to fix these problems are no doubt overwhelmed and have been short staffed. However, I do believe they are working towards making some major breakthroughs and we are starting to see some signs of that, especially with this recent January 6 pipe bomb fiasco.

So you may be thinking Brandon, so why is this corruption so effective when it comes to the justice system? The question still remains, why have there been no consequences of injustices that have been committed?

My answer to those questions essentially involves the consequence of us allowing this spiderweb of corruption to have been put in motion by the CCP. Because this spiderweb has been embedded within our political, financial, and business system it has essentially resulted in the financialization of the Constitution.

In other words, those who have been in power and have been guilty of injustices have the money and the corrupt personnel within the justice system, the business world, and the Administrative State Media (ASM) to sell the narrative that they have not violated the Constitution. In other words, they’ve been able to purchase an effective lie and the mirage that they have honored the Constitution when in fact they’ve been completely guilty of outright ignoring it.

The Wrap Up

At the beginning of this episode I had begun mentioning a certain way I viewed society during my GenX childhood and that there was something else that I was going to tell you that might sound a bit crazy.

My memory of the culture in the 1980s was one where my friends and relationships were built on trust and consistent follow through. At least in my own memory as a kid I can remember having often made many plans with several of my friends growing up. I point this out because to the best of my memory I don’t ever remember my friends ever really bailing on me, or preferring to stay home to play video games in place of going outside to play.

Granted, we did have some of the coolest video games in the 80s, but the use of those games seemed to take on a supplemental role of entertainment rather than serving to be the primary source of entertainment.

In addition to this, I also remember that there was a certain amount of grit with many GenX kids during my childhood. After all, we were known as the latchkey generation and we were pretty self-sufficient when it came time to figure out how to go about getting something to eat, or when it involved finding our way back home when we actually managed to wander and put a good bit of distance between ourselves and the homestead.

As a reminder I’m a Georgia native, but I remember having some pretty cool experiences at age 9, 10, and 11 as I had frequently visited one friend who lived on the lake and we would end up taking his dad’s boat out from his dock in Georgia and across the lake to the South Carolina marina to fuel it up and to get a couple of sodas. To make it even better we would pull each other skiing on the way back from the marina. Keep in mind that we were only kids.

Could you imagine hearing about kids at that age doing that sort of thing today? The parents would be hauled off to prison for such a thing.

There just seemed to be a lot more freedom in those days.

So what is that other crazy thought that I had that I was going to tell you about?

Well, given everything I just shared with you for some reason I always felt the culture was really strong within my generation. In other words, we grew up with Saturday morning cartoons and professional wrestling. We grew up playing sports and watching movies that portrayed strong male leads as the hero of the day such as Rocky Balboa and John Rambo.

We would frequently fight, wreck our bikes, and I even remember falling out of a tree once. As our generation got older we had seen everything from a legendary cultural force of nature in Hulk Hogan to the riveting introduction of The X Files.

I point all of this out to say that I always had a strange feeling inside that something big would happen in the world during my generation’s lifetime. I mean I’m not saying that I ever knew what that big event would be, but I always felt like something was looming out on the horizon throughout my life and I never could put my finger on exactly what it would end up looking like.

I mean growing up I always heard about the book of Revelation in church and have heard many interpretations about the scripture over the years. This is one area that I’m still learning about, but when it comes to Revelation the one message I get from it is that a lot of bad stuff looms over the horizon. Granted, as a believer in Christ I know that my Lord Jesus will prevail in the end, but as far as much of the rest of the message it sounds like the worst horror movie that anyone could ever possibly dream up.

So I’m bringing up this sort of doom and gloom picture to sort of acknowledge that I believe the pandemic and everything that we’ve discovered with the fallout from that event is actually the beginning of that looming thing that I always felt was out on the horizon. If you’re a part of GenX did you ever feel this way?

“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.”

–Revelation 22:11

This verse in Revelation is very powerful and very prophetic. It essentially describes how the boundaries between good and evil will become fixed in the end times. I don’t know about you, but it appears that the boldness of these lines are becoming more and more prominent in this day and age between the two camps of good and evil.

Now having said that, I also believe that there is still time to increase the size of the camp with those who desire to do good. I believe the best way to go about doing this is by doing my best to provide you with the knowledge to help you reach that Zenith status in your own life.

Remember that ideas are dangerous for the purpose of both good and evil. Just to give you an example in terms of how dangerous ideas can produce an evil result it was an idea that resulted in Hitler eventually occupying France. Likewise, an idea is how Charlie Kirk ended up getting assassinated.

Conversely, it was an idea that resulted in the shot heard round the world at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 and it was an idea that got President Trump to come down that golden escalator on June 16, 2015.

The point here is that with everything going on in the world you can either be driven to leverage your mind and your actions for the purpose of evil or you can leverage your mind and actions for the purpose of good.

Just like the quote I led off this with in this episode remember that fear corrupts the mind and the spirit. Now having said that, I understand that there’s a lot of scary things happening in the world today, but despite all of that my goal for you is to get you dialed in and focused on the actions that you can control rather than focusing on the things that seem scary.

I believe that the war that we’re currently living in is a spiritual war, but it is manifesting in the physical world as widespread corruption in the arena of finance, politics, and culture.

Because of this you can play a role in taking the fight to the enemy by getting engaged in that fight yourself through your actions and your focus.

You can do this by using your voice and if you don’t want to use your voice then throw your support behind those who will use theirs. In addition to this you can use your dollars specifically to support businesses that support Patriotic values.

Yes, technology can be a double-edged sword for good and evil, but with the advent of technology in this modern day it has also leveled the playing field to allow smaller companies and smaller individuals to be competitive with larger more established institutions that have succumbed to fascistic behavior and woke corruption.

Now is not the time to be fearful. Now is the time to stamp out the fear and for you and I to get focused on the actions in our lives that we can control to save this Republic.

For once, let’s make sure evil feels the consequences of its choices.

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“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”

― Albert Einstein

Ideology is an interesting thing because many people in today’s world are definitely married to their own systematic body of concepts which make up their belief systems, particularly as it relates to their worldview.

The thing is that there are people who have the ability to be married to a certain ideology, but then can also recognize when that ideology doesn’t hold up in a scenario involving a real world application. It’s at this point that these people are open to the prospect of either abandoning their ideology altogether, or they’re at least willing to subtract and add in some concepts of their own in order to enable existing belief systems to hold up under whatever current test the circumstances demand in a real world application.

There’s no shame in either one of these reactions from people who are open to adjusting or completely changing their worldview. The only shame that should exist are with those people who continue to double down on a worldview that just simply doesn’t hold up in a real world application.

Granted, when I refer to an ideology not holding up in a real world application, what I’m specifically talking about is an ideology that results in the destruction of liberty, one that fails to correct economic peril, or one that continues to contribute to the oppression of its own citizenry.

The type of people that I’m referring to who are resistant to change are only succumbing to pride and pride only accelerates one’s own destruction. However, this happens simply because such people lack discernment and the ability to think deeper about the dark realities of human nature that clearly exists in a fallen world.

To more clearly illustrate in identifying this archetype, I recently heard a master influencer and behavioral expert Chase Hughes referencing a story about a group he studies who specializes in diving into deep discussions involving the study of consciousness.

I cannot remember the name of the group, but the reason I’m bringing it up is that the point Chase was making in his talk about this group was that they did a deeper dive into trying to understand life and how things work by exposing the shallowness of reductionism along with society’s hyperfocus on materialism.

For instance, in order to illustrate this he was making the point that there’s no study that can explain the power of music. In short, music has the ability to move people emotionally and to stir up certain internal feelings about the music itself, or perhaps stir an emotion based on the fact that certain music may trigger a certain memory within people who tie an emotional moment to a particular song.

He was saying that the group’s discussion about this was that they were exposing the absurdity of modern day reductive science using music as an example to illustrate the intellectual laziness, and lack of wisdom, that much of the world has succumbed to during this modern age. When examining music, in an effort to try to understand how it’s able to do all of the things that I just mentioned concerning its influence over people, he gives a very clear example of a reductive approach in trying to seek that understanding.

According to Chase, in their example they demonstrated this with a thought experiment. They did this by saying that the reductive approach would be to take all of the musical instruments that created a certain piece of music and they would smash those musical instruments into a million pieces.

Once doing this they would suggest putting the small pieces of the smashed instruments, along with the shredded pages of musical notes, underneath a microscope to study them in an effort to figure out how the music worked.

Of course, you and I understand that this sort of thinking and this sort of approach is absurdly stupid, but it’s quite often the same process that people follow when supporting a broken worldview. They’ll go this far to support an insane ideology that they’re married to in an effort to defend the failed application of their beliefs in a real world scenario. This is reductionism in application.

Fast is Slow and Slow is Fast

It wasn’t that long ago when I had a certain individual comment on one of my Facebook posts when I happened to reference the concerning level of Marxist left wing political violence that had been noticeably going on for years, but had obviously escalated to new heights since the recent introduction of political assassinations.

I had made my post within a couple of weeks of the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk and it was this self-professed anti-Trump Libertarian that tried to share an absurd study from the CATO Institute with a caption stating that my position about Marxist left wing violence was incorrect. His position was that most political violence had actually been coming from the right wing side of the political world and his only means to back up this statement involved sharing some so-called study from the CATO Institute.

I don’t typically respond to stupid posts, but in this particular instance I somewhat knew this guy and I noticed that he had recently started to get a lot more vocal in his anti-Trump rhetoric since the political violence had obviously reached a new level within the country.

However, I also accidentally noticed a previous post by this individual where he had also made some disrespectful comments towards Christianity and Christians while simultaneously making some absurdly inaccurate comments about Charlie Kirk.

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“No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.”

― James S.A. Corey

As a warning, today’s episode is probably going to challenge some traditional perspectives concerning some stories and details that are in the Bible.

With that being said, I want to make something clear about today’s episode before I get into the weeds of today’s discussion.

This episode is going to involve one individual’s hypothetical exploration of some longstanding mysterious occurrences from ancient history all the way through to today. This episode will offer some possible explanations regarding the origin of these mysteries by combining some biblical text in an attempt to bring about some understanding to some unexplained phenomenon in the world.

I believe this is something I’m fairly confident has been debated among many Christians for quite a long time. As a personal follower of Jesus, I am far from perfect myself and with that in mind, like any Christian, my goal is to work to seek a deeper understanding of God’s word.

However, I also know that the process of seeking that understanding is just that, it’s a process. With that being said, this process involves a genuine effort to seek God’s wisdom and the effort that is involved in doing that may, at times, involve the introduction of new perspectives that may challenge us in new ways to reflect, pray, and seek discernment about His word for further clarity.

Keep in mind that in the process of seeking clarity on some of the details of various biblical stories that this doesn’t mean that if you, agree or disagree, with some of the details of today’s topic that it has anything to do with your salvation. That is something that Jesus made perfectly clear regarding your personal relationship with Him and that is what is of MOST importance.

In a nutshell, this episode is simply meant to stimulate some thought around what was going on in the world during ancient biblical times while, at the same time, looking at what is going on in today’s world in an effort to try and bring about some understanding to the two.

With that being said, I hope you enjoy today’s episode and I’m sure you’re going to be talking about this one with your family and friends.

History is an extremely important element in regards to the survival of human existence, yet so many people forget it. What’s even worse is, despite being reminded of it, many people just flat out ignore it.

Speaking of history, there’s a lot of discussion starting to pop up around the ancient history of the world and what it was probably most like regarding the likelihood that it was seemingly more technologically advanced than what we’ve been traditionally taught to believe. This only makes sense as there seems to be a march towards a fulfillment of biblical prophecy as it relates to the end times, along with archaeological discoveries concerning some very old structures that continue to raise questions about mankind’s history.

Because of this intrigue it seems like a lot of people are open to hearing about some explanations that have come forward to try and make some sense of some of the mysteries surrounding the march towards the fulfillment of prophecy that we have questions about in today’s world.

As usual the Bible holds up as it points to much of this in Genesis 6. Naturally, if you pray for wisdom and discernment as you seek out the meaning of God’s word, some things start to reveal themselves in ways that start making more sense. Just hold onto that as I’ll come back to Genesis 6 here in a bit.

On that note, I just saw an interview with Timothy Alberino who is sort of like this modern day Indiana Jones type of character, and he has some interesting stories to back up that description.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with any of Timothy’s work or not, but he is an explorer and an author that has some interesting theories concerning the ancient history of our world. He has an intriguing perspective on ancient civilization as much of his perspective has been said to bridge the gap between mythology, history, and biblical scholarship.

Now I’m not necessarily saying that I agree or disagree with all of the details of his perspective concerning the ancient history of our world. However, I do believe his perspective concerning where this ancient cycle of history began and the trajectory on where it will most likely end up in the coming future is pretty solid.

The Antediluvian World

If you’re not familiar with that term, the antediluvian time period is the time in our world’s history that involves the period prior to the great flood.

To expand on this I’m going to include the first eight verses of Genesis 6 to set the tone for this discussion.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

So when looking at these eight verses from Genesis 6 it’s the second verse where it mentions the sons of God that Timothy Alberino has a perspective that involves a Golden Age that existed during the antediluvian period. Once again, as best as I personally can understand this Golden Age is not a specified culture that the Bible says existed, but perhaps it could have been a Golden Age in one respect, although not so much for mankind.

In other words, perhaps it could have been a type of Golden Age for the sons of God as we do know that mankind had evil in his heart continually which eventually led to the Great Flood.

It is here where he says these sons of God, or what he would also identify as extraterrestrials, ruled over humanity. This was a period which he points out was beneficial to certain contemporaries at the time, but as far as the ancient Hebrews were concerned they envisaged this period in a negative light.

Timothy’s perspective is that the Bible confirms that mankind has been in contact with these extraterrestrials since the beginning. As he points out these extraterrestrials are ambiguously denominated in the Bible as angels in the Hebrew text.

He goes on to say that the meaning of the word angel essentially translates to a messenger, or an envoy. For further clarification, Timothy reminds his audience that the term extraterrestrial simply means not of this earth. Granted there is a clear delineation concerning the varying descriptions of these types of extraterrestrials as Timothy also points out.

To go even further concerning the practical definition of the word extraterrestrial, Timothy’s position is that if these sons of God had an origin outside of this earth then by the strictest interpretation of the word these beings are in fact extraterrestrial. He points out that it doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about another planet or another dimension, the main point being that if the entity has an origin other than here on planet earth then it essentially can be identified as an extraterrestrial.

Now there’s no question that the antediluvian period was a different time period according to Genesis 6 as the sons of God were apparently copulating with the daughters of men in those days which apparently resulted in the creation of a race of giants.

I thought this following analysis was a very interesting viewpoint from Timothy, but he went further with his unique perspective here.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds, of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

–Genesis 1:26

Here in Genesis 1:26 God uses the plural form when saying Let US make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. In one of his interviews Timothy says that this can be interpreted as a King ruling over his council during the creation process of man.

According to this passage, he says this reference using the plural form in regards to the creation of man in Our image obviously implies that there are also other elder celestial beings that are present here under the rule of the One Supreme Being.

Additionally, Genesis 1:26 also establishes that in God’s creation of man He also gives man dominion over all the earth which in my opinion makes Genesis 6 even more significant as it appears that one interpretation could be that man’s dominion was potentially lost to the sons of God.

Now to be specific, it doesn’t say that in the Bible, but sin was introduced into the world at this time and with sin there are a multitude of shortcomings that come with it such as various forms of idolatry.

A question occurred to me as I thought about this. Could mankind have given up his sovereignty in the ancient world to this idolatry? Once again, I’m not saying this is specifically what happened, but merely posing the question given the outcome of mankind’s destruction.

Also, if this is the case then it would seem that we have a lot more in common with the ancient world looking at society today than we probably ever would have considered. This is also what Timothy points out in regards to his reference consisting of the Golden Age that existed during the antediluvian time period.

Now this is particularly interesting to me because it was during this apparent Golden Age that Timothy refers to it resulting in the grieving of the Lord to the point that He decided to destroy everything on the earth with The Great Flood.

As the verse in Genesis 1:26 points out God was specifically giving man dominion over the earth, yet these other supernatural beings had decided to get involved with the daughters of man and Genesis 6:4 reminds us that these were the men of renown.

Now I’m no biblical scholar, but this seems to suggest to me that these supernatural beings were very well known and could probably have been idolized to a degree. After all, I only say that because when you understand human nature then you know that people will tend to fall into idolatry when someone becomes very well known. In short, there are people who will fall short and worship other people and other things other than the one true God. Once again, this is just my speculation based on understanding human nature.

Genesis 6:4 also goes on to say that “There were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that.”

When I hear the part in that verse talking about how after that time period it’s obvious that those giants existed in the world after the antediluvian period. There’s obviously other evidence of this with the dolmens that currently exist in the Golan Heights (Biblical Bashan) which was the location of the giant King Og who is referenced in Deuteronomy 3:1-11.

Of course, most famously we see further evidence of this with David’s encounter with Goliath. The point here is that there was still seemingly an obvious supernatural influence producing giants after the period of the flood. Granted, none of this even includes all of the giant skeletons that have even been discovered here in North America, but were allegedly subject to an apparent coverup concerning the Smithsonian according to many sources now for a very long time.

As Timothy Alberino has pointed out in several of his recent interviews, there’s also further evidence that could point to this with a unique building technique which is referred to as cyclopean construction.

This type of construction consists of a unique type of masonry involving the construction of massive stones without the use of mortar. The Greek origin of this phrase relates to the belief that only the mythical, giant Cyclopes could have been capable of moving the massive stones to employ such a building technique.

Now I understand that up to this point I’ve focused much of this discussion on the antediluvian world, but now I want to shift gears and bring us up to speed to the current day. Keeping that in mind, I want you to metaphorically zoom out the camera lens here and think about the big picture in terms of viewing what was going on during this ancient time period throughout the world. At the same time, I also want you to include the current day in this picture as I highlight some of the current activities that are happening culturally, politically, and technologically here in the present day.

Now as I fast forward to the current day Timothy Alberino has also highlighted something that we can all agree with concerning much of the rot we’ve seen manifest within our culture, political arena, and within the field of technology.

I’ve heard Timothy basically take the same position as myself on this regarding the types of things we’ve witnessed with the globalists that have made themselves known with their absurdly destructive policies, particularly during the kickoff of the pandemic.

Earlier I mentioned how Timothy Alberino believes that mankind has been in contact with what he would refer to as extraterrestrials since the beginning. He points out that the race of extraterrestrials known as The Grays perhaps involve the same supernatural beings that were previously mentioned here when discussing the ancient world.

Of course, in the interview I include here Timothy references a more specific timeline than what I’m covering here in this episode due to various time constraints.

In his mention of The Grays he’s referring to this group of beings in a negative light. In his talks he works to further clarify their presence by also making mention of the unexplained sightings of UFO aircraft, extraterrestrial entities, and the numerous stories of gruesome abductions.

He posits the idea that he believes many of the abduction stories revolve around the concept of these entities performing experiments on humans which could suggest that they’re trying to achieve some form of hybridization with human DNA. In his hypothesis involving this hybridization process he points out how this very much mirrors what Genesis 6 is referring to in the Bible regarding the actions of the sons of God having a hybrid offspring with the daughters of men.

Additionally, as another observation if you look at all of these inhuman ideas and policies associated with this so-called network of globalists, or elites, the lack of humanity is pretty obvious. If you need a reminder as to just how inhuman these people are all you have to do is look at the whole idea surrounding the effort to drive society to a point where people should resort to eating bugs in the name of climate change.

I don’t know about you, but I clearly remember this along with the call for indefinite lockdowns during the pandemic, the forced closure of businesses, and the mandate of placing everyone on house arrest while referring to it as quarantine.

To make this even worse, in a more clear observation of modern day politics you have one political party who is just fine with advocating for the silence and death of the other while the so-called opposition party simply serves to be a placeholder for being controlled by the more aggressive opposition. Of course, there are MAGA politicians who are the exception to this and this is where the pro-human policies are for trying to preserve the existence of mankind.

The intention of continuing to stage this set up is to persist in trying to present the appearance of a functioning government, but in reality we can see the majority of it is simply an illusion of government. It’s really an evil puppet that is being controlled by a devious paymaster (or paymasters) that plays on the worst of people, namely by pushing forward inhuman policies, injustices, and relentless attempts at destroying what little is left of this nation and the world at large.

Because of all of this, Timothy says that he could imagine a scenario where these extraterrestrials (probably The Grays) are residing at the top of all of this and are working covertly to degrade humanity by them influencing the elites of our society in order to implement their inhuman policies. As Christians we would simply refer to this as a form of demonic influence, but Timothy takes this a step further by tying The Grays directly to being this demonic influence.

In listening to his explanation of this I realized he was simply tying together the mystery of the sightings of UFOs, aliens, and alien abductions by offering a unique explanation as to what their alleged presence within our world is really all about.

During some other points of his discussion he went on to talk about how he believes that their end goal has something to do with planetary acquisition. He talked about how you can see the inhuman actions of these globalists and that it’s obvious that much of their beliefs, policies, and decisions are designed to outright destroy humanity.

I must say that when you look at the entire point of AI it’s also obvious as the more everything becomes automated the more work the machines can do in order to run society. This would also create a scenario where there would be no need for human beings.

As Timothy points out here there would be no need for a bunch of useless eaters according to these globalists. I thought this was interesting because I’ve heard this narrative for quite a long time being that I live here in the state of Georgia. I once visited the notorious Georgia Guidestones in Elberton, Georgia many years before the zeitgeist shifted and before they were blown up back in 2022.

One of the guidelines that was engraved on the stones was that the global population of humanity should be maintained under 500 million in order to keep things in perpetual balance with nature. The entire message of the Georgia Guidestones involved a dark globalist inhuman set of standards that obviously fit nicely within the climate change narrative, while the anonymity regarding the originator of the structure was strictly maintained.

The Wrap Up

Now the point of all of this is that when you zoom out the camera lens you can observe how mankind lost dominion over the earth during the old world and, as Genesis 6 points out, this ultimately led to mankind’s destruction with The Great Flood.

However, if you take a moment to observe the battery of inhuman policies that have been thrust upon society at an accelerated rate since the pandemic, along with this consistent march towards AI, it seems that we are on a trajectory to experience a sort of Genesis 6 version 2.0 here in the coming future.

In fact, AI has been described as the ultimate threat of what many in the tech world would refer to as a digital god.

As if the thought of that level of influence over society isn’t chilling enough, we haven’t even reached the level with AI referred to as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) where the AI literally takes over all of society. Regardless, we’ve already seen stories like the one involving Zane Shamblin who had a lengthy conversation with ChatGPT where his AI confidant talked him into killing himself.

If we’re seeing this type of result already then what level of destruction awaits us should we, as a society, decide to relinquish our sovereignty again? What happens when we lose dominion over the world to a false digital god, as we seemed to do long ago with the introduction of sin, along with a continual level of evil into the ancient world?

Do you have a hypothesis regarding the existence of extraterrestrials?

What impact do you see AI having on our society in the next five to ten years?

Please drop a comment below with your feedback.

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“Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.”

–Psalm 144:1

I often get labeled as a conservative or a Republican, but the fact is that I am truly neither in terms of what those labels have stood for now for the last three decades.

I understand that we all use labels to put people into boxes and to identify what beliefs that people more closely align with, but I used to more closely identify myself as a Libertarian, but now I recognize that I am more closely aligned with free markets being a MAGA Populist rather than a Libertarian.

Anti-Trump Libertarians, anti-Trump Republicans, and anti-Trump conservatives are spineless and have been nothing more than a holding place for the status quo involved with managing the decline of this country.

Whenever I hear the so-called conservatives who are critical of President Trump say that they don’t like him, but then proudly proclaim that they are conservative, I always ask them what exactly have conservatives conserved other than the managed decline of this nation?

When you saw the title of today’s episode I’m sure that it got your attention. At an initial glance I’m sure several people would have read the title of this episode and clicked on the link to open the page expecting the title to be referencing some sort of joke.

Well I’d normally say that I hate to burst your bubble, but in the case of today’s message I don’t mind bursting your bubble at all given the circumstances that our nation has had to endure since 2020, and in many cases since 2016.

The other day I published the following post on my Substack Notes:

Trump 2028?

I was talking to one of my students this morning about the Trump 2028 talk that’s been circulating lately.

I don’t believe that this is a joke in the least and the reason I don’t is because I believe that, as a nation, we have to ask ourselves whether the concept of sovereignty is something that we actually believe in or not?

If we do believe in sovereignty then the next question we have to ask ourselves is whether or not we believe our sovereignty has been stolen and abused since 2020.

If you don’t believe that our sovereignty has been stolen or abused then you’re going to have a bigger issue with a Trump 2028 Presidency.

However, if you’re someone who actually believes in the concept of sovereignty and believes that our sovereignty has been stolen and abused, particularly regarding the 2020 election and the incentivized mass invasion, then you should want to support the best opportunity for making whole that which was stolen and abused.

With that being said, it’s clear that President Trump is by far that best opportunity.

Just sayin.

In short, President Trump is like a Terminator when it comes to destroying the systems and corrupt actors that are propping up a corrupt governmental and techno-feudalistic model for tyranny.

Just like a Terminator he doesn’t stop, slow down, or relent until his mission is accomplished. Now just keep that in mind for the moment.

Before I go any further with this discussion I want to ask you two simple questions. Now when I ask you these questions your answer to these two questions will literally determine where you stand in regards to today’s message.

* Do you believe in the Constitution?

* Do you believe that the purpose of the Constitution is due to the fact that the Will of The People (We The People) is the ultimate source of its power and that this concept of popular sovereignty is the cornerstone of why the document exists in the first place?

As you think about the answers to these questions I want you to also think about how damaging the act of theft is to a society and the kind of outcomes that follow the act of theft if there’s no attempt to restore and to make whole that which was stolen during the act of thievery.

Sutton’s Law

I’ve never been to San Francisco, California, but from what I’ve seen in the magazines and on the big screen in the movies for many years, historically San Francisco has been regarded as an iconic city. From the famous car chase scene in the movie Bullitt, to the Golden Gate Bridge, to Alcatraz the city has certainly left its mark on the fabric of American culture.

However, for many years now that mark has shifted from a shining iconic cultural landmark to being recognized more as an example of societal decline and potential societal collapse.

In recent years there’s been a slowing economy in the city and homelessness has run rampant as San Francisco has one of the highest rates of homeless populations in the United States. There’s been countless news stories about the numbers of people living on the streets with residents literally having to step over homeless people at the end of their driveways in order to get to work.

There’s been a significant number of layoffs within the tech sector and the usual culprit that is blamed for this typically involves the excuse that things just haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels. Granted, like many large cities I’m sure San Francisco’s pandemic policies were as authoritarian as most any big city given the state of California’s track record in how they went about dealing with the pandemic with their draconian mandates.

Of course, draconian policies that strip away individual liberties would never have anything to do with people wanting to flee the city, right? Well if you answered No to that question then you would be completely wrong.

According to the San Francisco Standard the Bay Area has seen a mass exodus with as many as a quarter million people having fled the area since the pandemic.

Anyone that doesn’t believe that San Francisco’s problems are self-inflicted are just ignoring reality. After all, the act of theft in San Francisco is essentially now a de facto legal act in the city as anything that is stolen that has a value of $950 or less is considered to be a misdemeanor. As a result, this means that law enforcement won’t bother to investigate the crime and if it happens to go any further then prosecutors will just simply choose to let it go.

Now if you have any moral compass inside of you then it should be absolutely no surprise to you why San Francisco is in a falling decline given the policies that I’ve outlined here that clearly lead to the outcomes that I’ve highlighted for you here as well.

On that very topic of theft I want you to keep all of that in mind for the moment as I want to address another interesting concept that positively impacted the field of medical science that ironically enough came about as a result of bank robberies.