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“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

In the days when I practiced Muay Thai kickboxing I remember when we would spar in the gym and how sore I would often be after doing so. However, like anything else the more I practiced the more my body adapted to the stress.

In the beginning this adaptation phase was very uncomfortable and it took a few months before I could get to a point where I felt like it was a more normal training stimulus rather than a complete shock to my system. The physical and mental adaptation from this period of time was also something that impacted my body in more ways than one.

You see, the reason we sparred was to start the process of getting used to the act of fighting. As you might imagine fighting is not an easy thing to do and it is certainly a skill that requires many hours of repetition and training before most can become more accustomed to it and comfortable with engaging in a very uncomfortable physical activity.

During this time sparring I remember when I first started to learn the real value in it one day when I had a very skilled partner who was blessed with speed and could move really fast. Fortunately, I was also blessed with the ability of speed, but at this particular point of my sparring experience I hadn’t had a lot of repetition in order to coordinate my movements to an effective level just yet. I’ll just say that I was still in an early learning stage at this point of my training.

However, on this particular day I remember watching this guy that I was sparring with and I started to notice something that got my attention. I started noticing small physical cues with the way he would move his body into position to throw a punch or a kick before he would actually throw the punch or the kick.

In other words, I could see him setting up his body to deliver a certain strike before he would actually deliver the strike. In short, he was telegraphing his moves and I was starting to reach a point in my training where I could actually read his body language and pick up on what he was telegraphing with the nonverbal communication that he was signaling with his body’s movement.

Now once I started to get better at reading these movements I found that I could counter his strikes much easier because it was something that started to become more natural to me the more time and repetition I put into my training.

So why did I bother to share my Thai boxing experience with you here in today’s post?

The reason I shared it with you is something I’m going to come back to in order to connect to the theme of today’s message here in a bit because it involves the uncomfortable process of adaptation.

Mark To Market

I just recently watched an interview that Tucker Carlson had with Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam’s case is world famous, but just in case you don’t know who he is, he was, at one time, one of the richest people in crypto thanks to his widely known FTX exchange and his Alameda Research trading firm. Sam was very successful and made some strides with the venture before his empire came crashing down in November 2022.

Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with fraud and his case was one of the most notorious involving white collar-crime ranking right up there with Bernie Madoff according to many that followed his case. Now I’m not here to discuss Sam’s innocence or his guilt because I don’t want to get into the weeds of all of that here.

What I do know is that Sam’s case had a political component to it as he had been a big donor to the Democrat party on top of the fact that he was involved with crypto. However, in his interview with Tucker Carlson he had communicated that he had been shocked at the level of corruption in Washington D.C. regarding the regulatory authorities surrounding the area of his business where he was looking to gain some traction regarding the crypto market.

However, according to Sam towards the end of his time he had actually transitioned to making donations to Republican causes in an effort to get some movement with his business after hitting multiple dead ends with his previous efforts.

Oddly enough, and as a sidenote, Sam was at one time being detained at the same prison facility as Sean Diddy Combs, but that’s currently no longer the case.

Regardless of all of that I wanted to touch on a few things that really stood out to me in Sam’s interview with Tucker that really caught me by surprise.

For starters, to be completely transparent I never really followed Sam’s case that closely when he was in the news on almost a daily basis. Yes, he was everywhere I and I knew what he was involved with, but given my normal dive into things when exploring the current events of the day I never really did that deeper dive into Sam’s story.

There’s no particular explanation as to why I didn’t, other than to say that at the time I had been preoccupied with other stories that I had more of an interest in.

Now having said that at one point during his interview Tucker started asking him about some of the main differences in prison compared to his experiences in the free world. Like most of Tucker’s interviews they had a very candid conversation with one another about the circumstances of his life.

During one point of the conversation Sam was telling Tucker about the prison environment and how much different it was from everything involving the activities that he was able to engage in to what he spent most of his time doing, which according to Sam, involved a lot of reading and working on his case whenever he is given the opportunity to do so.

In addition to this he also spoke about the challenge of his environment not allowing him to really pursue something of higher purpose. I want to briefly interject here as I know people who serve inside prison and are definitely pursuing a higher purpose, but this is obviously Sam’s perspective at this moment. However, given what he had lost with this crypto business I suppose I can see where he’s coming from.

After communicating this, and many other differences he has had to adjust to in prison, it was almost a passing comment where he told Tucker that the one thing he noticed with the other inmates is that they really liked playing chess.

This was surprising enough to Tucker, but what Sam told Tucker next was even more surprising. Sam said that many of the guys in the prison where he was that played chess barely had a middle school or high school education, but despite that fact they could beat him at chess on a regular basis.

Sam elaborated on this further by stating that the reason he believed that they could do this was because he recognized that people possess a wide range of talents, instincts, and inherent gifts that just don’t always match up to what’s on paper beside their names. When Sam communicated this it was something that really stood out to Tucker and quite honestly it stood out to me as well.

The reason this got my attention was because this demonstrated to me that Sam Bankman-Fried has a good amount of self-awareness to even be capable of making that observation.

Given the fact that he’s now in prison after having been where he was before this was obviously a very honest attribute that I saw with this man as he continued his conversation with Tucker Carlson. I believe he already possessed this trait when he was out in the free world, but the fact that he would also share this as an observable moment of fascination for himself in prison is also quite astute. In other words, it was a learning experience and one who is willing to learn is on a path towards wisdom.

Now I want you to hold onto that and I want to talk about another video that I saw this week with Glenn Beck that revolves around this entire idea of people who have been blessed with good instincts.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

-Proverbs 1:7

So in my recent article/podcast titled Thermonuclear Boycott I took the time to dive into the geopolitical concerns surrounding the weakening of the dollar, the current rise of gold in the financial system, and my concerns surrounding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) current efforts to achieve global hegemony.

I would strongly encourage you to listen or read that episode as I highlight many of the real concerns that you won’t hear coming from the Administrative State Media (ASM). However, Glenn Beck shares my same concerns, but he also came out with a video this week where he offered a different take on the role of gold, the U.S. dollar, and the possible direction concerning the financial situation of the United States.

Like many of us Glenn has been expressing his same concerns surrounding the weakening of the dollar and the rise of the price of gold as in the past week gold has skyrocketed to almost $4500 per ounce.

Up till now Glenn has also been saying what I’ve been hearing from many other people about the fact that they don’t really want to be around in a world where gold actually hits $5000 per ounce. The reason for this is because of the inverse relationship gold has with the strength of the dollar and this would signal a strong loss of trust in the U.S. dollar. Obviously this would be a tremendous concern and is something that many people have been warning about now for several years.

However, in his talk this past week Glenn Beck offered an alternative perspective in terms of what actually could be happening regarding the current upward path of gold and the financial situation of the United States, and if his hypothesis is correct we are on the verge of witnessing one of the most incredible events in our nation’s history.

So to properly frame this I want to give you a snapshot of the current perspective on the United States financial situation along with what’s going on across the geopolitical landscape. The common line of thinking regarding the financial situation of the United States has been one that looks grim. After all, up until recently there’s been a series of wars breaking out signaling global instability, the national debt is now $38 trillion and counting, and there’s absolutely zero political will in the U.S. Congress and Senate to cut any meaningful spending whatsoever.

At the current trajectory we’ve seen gold explode in value, we’ve seen the balance sheet of the country explode, and we’ve seen the threat of the CCP’s economic warfare with their attempt to cut us off from rare earth minerals…a threat that could theoretically grind our manufacturing to a halt in a matter of five or six weeks.

When you take all of this into account it seems that we are living on the edge of a cliff with no other options in sight, but just like what always occurs with the usual habits of human nature we always seem to hyperfocus on the negative while allowing it to distract us from our faith and the positive actions that are going on right in front of us.

So what exactly am I talking about?

Well in his recent talk this past week Glenn Beck offered up a very different perspective on everything that has been happening across the board.

First of all, as we look at all of the chaos that’s happening with the recent surge in the price of gold, the bombing of the drug boats down in the South Caribbean, and the recent economic warfare regarding tariffs and rare earth minerals with China it seems like things are spinning out of control.

However, like anything in life where there are significant changes taking place there’s going to be an uncomfortable adaptation phase. Now where did you hear that before?

Oh yeah, I touched on that already when I explained this to you earlier regarding my own experience in training in the discipline of Muay Thai. I explained this to you with the uncomfortable phase that my body went through during the process of physical adaptation before I was able to reach a point where the stimulus of the stress became more settled. Once I had obtained this elevated level of physical performance I could function on a different plane than I had previously been accustomed to prior to the adaptation taking place.

Now keeping this in mind this is essentially the hypothesis that Glenn Beck highlighted this week regarding what our country is going through now with President Trump at the helm. As Glenn Beck pointed out, the usual grim look regarding what the price of gold traditionally signals in terms of the strength of the dollar is obviously very concerning.

However, he also reminded us that we’re not living in traditional times as the one outlier that is known for having the ability to completely invert everything because of his own gift of having very good instincts is President Donald J. Trump. Like Sam Bankman-Fried was able to recognize this gift of good instincts while playing chess with the inmates at his detention center, I know you can recognize this with the President in the current political arena.

Now regarding the concern surrounding the growing debt, Glenn points out that the one thing we all naturally want to focus on that none of our politicians ever want to do is to cut spending. This is obviously needed in a very significant way, but the simple reality of the world that we’re living in is that nobody is going to step up to cut any significant spending through the usual political process.

However, he reminds us that what President Trump believes in the most is growing the bottom line. In other words, his viewpoint is that as a business or a country we can grow our way out of things and it’s with this perspective that the picture of all the chaos starts to change when you start paying attention to what’s going on.

For starters, this idea of growth is a strategy that could drastically pull down the deficit if it is carried out in a way that makes sense. As Beck points out one of the ways this can be done right out of the gate is with the revaluation of gold.

In other words, right now the government only values its alleged store of gold reserves of 260 million troy ounces at $35 an ounce.

Now why is this the case?

The reason that the price of this gold is valued at $35 an ounce is because that’s what FDR set the price at back in the 1930’s. Therefore, on paper our 260 million ounces of gold is only valued at $9 billion.

However, the current value of an ounce of gold is priced at nearly $4500 per ounce in the current market. This is obviously far greater of an adjustment in the price per ounce compared to the set price of $35 an ounce that FDR placed on the precious metal in the 1930s. Now with this adjusted value that $9 billion value now suddenly goes to $1.1 trillion in value.

This adjustment is what is known in accounting as the mark to market value which means you mark the price to what the market value is at the time. As an example, if you bought and paid for a house in the 1980s the price of that home, if it is kept up to quality, in today’s market would be worth considerably more when you adjust its value to today’s real estate market.

In other words, the United States is actually sitting on a trillion dollar asset and we’re not even counting it. Now knowing this it is absolutely insane that this hasn’t been thought about before.

This adjustment would be massive as it would drastically shift the debt to asset ratio of our country while also strengthening the dollar and simultaneously shrinking the deficit on paper literally overnight.

Now as you look at this and then combine it with all of the multiple deals of $8-$10 trillion that President Trump has closed with foreign investments coming into the country, his belief in the growth of the economy, the newly implemented H1b visa fees, and the trillions of dollars of tariff revenue that is expected to flow into the economy next year, all of the sudden the picture doesn’t look so desperate because we’re actually growing at a massive scale.

In other words, by looking at these actions taking place it’s like you can start to take notice of the movements of the economic and global landscape before the actual movements take place. Just like with my example of when I was sparring in fight training, these actionable events involve President Trump telegraphing his moves just as that fighter’s body telegraphed his moves when I was sparring with him. The difference is that you and I are already familiar with this fighter and know that he’s quite dangerous because despite all of these years many people still don’t know how to read him. After all, this is what makes him such a great fighter.

There’s also more to this story here involving the possible selling off of millions of acres of federal land. As Beck reiterated this has absolutely nothing to do with selling national parks. This land does not involve any national parks, but is rather unusable land that can be used for the purpose of development in the private sector.

Now it gets even better because what do we currently find ourselves in the middle of right now? Just in case you need a reminder we’re in the middle of a government shutdown where the hope is that head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought (aka Darth Vader) can kick in some meaningful cuts to eliminate hundreds of thousands, or hopefully millions, of redundant and wasteful government bureaucratic positions in order to enforce some actual needed cuts.

Now if all of this isn’t shocking enough the actions of the President are possibly going even deeper with the termination of the drugboats down in the South Caribbean.

You see the elimination of those boats down in the Caribbean have been sold to the public as being a part of a modern day drug war. Granted it’s true that the U.S. military is hammering the cartel’s supply chains and wreaking havoc on their bottom line with these targeted drone strikes on their drug boats.

However, the other problem is that Venezuela has descended into Communism and the CCP has been all over South America as they’ve been aggressive in the expansion of their Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) throughout all of that region.

You see, the CCP, Venezuela, and Colombia have all had a strong alliance now for quite a while and those drug boats we’re blowing up with our heavy military presence in the Caribbean creates a strong pressure cooker for the CCP and their presence in that region. Sure the hits on the drug boats are framed by the ASM as being a modern day drug war, but in reality it has more to do with making life difficult for the CCP.

This not only stalls their efforts to enforce chemical warfare against the United States with their trafficking of fentanyl, but it also slams the brakes on the BRI campaign and drives a wedge between the CCP’s alliance with Colombia and Venezuela.

The more pressure we can create in South America the more we stand to create a natural scenario of possibly triggering a grassroots regime change to naturally occur within those countries among their own citizens.

Just as the Sun Tzu quote states that I Ied off with at the beginning of this episode If sovereign and subject are in accord, we could be putting division between them. This could also lay the groundwork for a new alliance among the United States, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Keep in mind that Venezuela is probably the richest country on the planet in terms of its natural resources as well. A new alliance between the United States and Venezuela would shore up the Western Hemisphere in a modern day version of the Monroe Doctrine.

The Wrap Up

Look, there’s no doubt I believe our country is going through some transitional pains right now, but the fact is that President Trump was left with an absolute dumpster fire of a mess to clean up due to decades of inept leaders that were controlled by a corrupt system that we now identify as the Administrative State (also the Deep State).

The fact is that to correct such wide scale corruption and failure, when it involves fighting against domestic enemies of the most powerful nation in world history, the transition period is not going to be smooth. In fact, such a transition is going to be very nasty and as nasty as it has already been, it’s going to get even worse before it gets better.

If you think about it, the entire country has had to adapt to getting used to understanding how to combat this modern version of asymmetric warfare. We’re literally seeing the worst elements of evil that have infiltrated all of our major institutions now calling for the literal death of their opposition.

Whether you like it or not, this is the reality that we’re up against. However, the country has been able to make it this far after the corrupt election of 2020, after going up against a multi-billion dollar propaganda media, and direct violence to political opponents that fought against the system.

Now it’s you and I (the citizens) that drive the narrative along with alternative media platforms such as this one that tirelessly work to be the needed forces of nature in order to take the fight to the enemy. The reality is that the country is still going through an adaptation phase on its way to getting into fighting shape for this modern age of cultural and political warfare.

However, thanks to the Lord almighty there’s a giant revival happening across the globe, and the more we lean on Jesus the more victories we’ll continue to pile up.

The reality is that defeating these evil Marxists is unfortunately an uncomfortable process that is needed to save this Republic. Just like we need to adjust the value of gold with the day’s mark to market value, we need to act to adjust the mark to market value of our human individuality for this modern age in order to achieve victory in this Grand Strategy chess match between good and evil.

Do you see the reordering of the entire geopolitical landscape taking place with President Trump’s plan of action?

Do you see the revaluation of gold or some other asset playing a huge role in this Grand Strategy?

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“If we’re to continue to advance world peace and human freedom, America must remain strong.... Peace through Strength works.”

–Ronald Reagan

As a quick disclaimer for today’s episode I want to begin by first saying that I’m not a financial advisor and I do not give financial advice to anyone. However, I do believe in the power of information and the significance of you taking valuable information and researching that for yourself in order for you to make your own decisions. I just wanted to be clear about that in regards to today’s episode before I get into the weeds of this discussion because today’s topic is full of powerful information that many would consider to be valuable.

Whenever we hear that phrase Peace Through Strength everyone is always quick to point to Ronald Reagan’s famous quote. There’s certainly no doubt that Reagan’s position on this philosophy was certainly sound during his days of occupying the White House.

However, Ronald Reagan’s version of Peace Through Strength simply does not apply to the current world circumstances as today we find ourselves living in a very different world compared to the age of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

The main difference for this is due to the increased growth of globalization. According to the International Monetary Fund the value of trade (involving goods and services) as a percentage of world GDP increased from 42.1% in 1980 to 62.1% up to 2007.

Now I wanted to share that statistic with you because it’s one of many that several of these organizations like to spit out to tell you that countries have gotten richer due to the implementation of globalization. Granted this is somewhat true, but it’s also very misleading.

Additionally, the point here is that the expansion of globalization has been significant since the days of President Ronald Reagan and it’s resulted in some big changes to the economic framework of the United States. As we’re learning today here in 2025 those changes have not been for the better.

When the globalists here in the U.S. talk about how the country has gotten richer they always leave out a significant detail regarding who has gotten richer. In other words, if the country has gotten richer then who inside the country has actually gotten richer?

After all, when generalized statements are made in terms of talk about wealth creation, growth, etc. the understanding from such statements must always be anchored to something which more specifically defines the meaning. In other words, is the growth due to the increased growth of start-up entrepreneurship, a growing economy, or an explosive growth of a middle class?

Well when you look at this the answer starts to become much clearer as the answer to that certainly has not been the middle class. In fact, the percentage of adults in middle-income households has dropped from 61% down to 50% between the years of 1971 and 2021 according to the Pew Research Center.

So if the middle class hasn’t gotten richer due to globalism then who has? Well according to the Brookings Institute the answer to that question would be the rich.

According to the Brookings Institute this is due to international trade and the offshoring of manufacturing. These actions have resulted in the suppressed wages with lower skilled jobs and even though this impacts manufacturing it also extends beyond manufacturing as digital globalization expands the range of activities such as services that are deliverable across borders.

Now all of this may sound a little complex, but in reality it isn’t. Let’s take a moment and simplify this so that it makes sense.

What all of this basically means is that back in the 1980s that we, here in the United States, were actually good at making our own stuff. We made our own stuff because we were a manufacturing powerhouse.

However, because of the growth of globalization in the decades that followed we have gone from being able to make a lot of our own stuff to now allowing other countries such as China to make a lot of our stuff for us.

Autodidact or Death

Now taking that last part about China into consideration, how much sense does it make that we have allowed our biggest enemy to control such a significant part of our manufacturing of goods? This is the insane scenario that we currently find ourselves in as just this past week we find the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) declaring full blown economic warfare against us here in the United States as they take aim at trying to cut the U.S. off from access to rare earth minerals.

Now getting back to my original point, there’s a big difference between the age of Ronald Reagan compared to the age of Donald Trump because of the factors that I’ve outlined here regarding the transformation of the economic landscape. This is particularly significant with the current involvement concerning the nefarious mercantilist trade practices of the Dragon, the threat of the Dragon’s military buildup, and our mistake in underwriting the entire project by getting into business with these CCP thugs.

So understanding all of this it is vitally important to also understand that the entire concept of Peace Through Strength is completely different regarding the very definition of that concept today compared to what it meant in the 1980s.

As I stated before in the 1980s the United States was a manufacturing powerhouse and we had just under a trillion dollars on the balance sheet back then. Now compare that scenario with today where we’ve offshored a significant portion of our manufacturing to our enemy in the CCP, on top of the fact that we have over 37 trillion dollars on the balance sheet today according to the U.S. debt clock.

Of course, if you’re listening to this episode a month or so after it was published we may already be at 38 trillion dollars in debt and counting, but I digress.

So given this reality concerning the difference in the geopolitical landscape with today’s world it’s changed the very definition of what Peace Through Strength means and nobody has demonstrated this better than President Trump.

You see, Peace Through Strength means absolutely nothing if it simply involves building up military might alone. In other words, Peace Through Strength means absolutely nothing unless you have the political will to enforce that strength, whether it be through military or through economic action as we have seen President Trump do here today with the implementation of his tariffs.

So why is all of this important to understand?

It’s vitally important for you to understand that the only way that we are going to have peace in this world is if we’re willing to separate all of our major business ties with China. We must fully decouple and unplug from the CCP as they have proven that they want to exert their will over the entire world through economic sanctions, blackmail, elite capture, and subversion.

The CCP is not a competitor to the United States as the Administrative State Media (ASM) likes to frame that relationship. They are our mortal enemy and they have communicated this both in their military doctrine and in their actions involving Unrestricted Warfare.

Just to throw out some examples for you involving their efforts with Unrestricted Warfare we’ve already seen the CCP do this with their implementation of biological warfare with the pandemic involving their Wuhan lab, we’ve seen it with their fentanyl production in the form of chemical warfare, and we’re now seeing it with their attempt to cut off the rare earth minerals for the purpose of full scale economic warfare.

This is why President Trump has hit them with even more aggressive tariffs in order to push back on the CCP to stress their financial and struggling economic system even more than it is already stressed. The tariffs are also a play to create revenue flow for our nation, as well as to incentivize the manufacturing to return home to U.S. soil in order to avoid the tariffs.

Now the thing that you have to understand is that it’s been said that Xi Jinping has run the numbers on all of this and he believes that his people can endure the economic pain and suffering better than the weak and greedy foreign devils in America which will result in his triumph. I suppose this is why Xi also aligned very well with the globalists as they shared an equal level of hate and disdain for both you and me.

After all, Xi and the globalists both share the theory of how the citizens are nothing more than cattle that should keep their mouths shut and only exist for the sole purpose of being nothing more than consumers for the world market that they desire to control. In the eyes of Xi Jinping and the globalists we, as the proletariat, are nothing more than automatons that are supposed to do what we’re told.

So now the question is going to be whether or not Xi and the globalists are correct in their assessment. Many smart American Patriots have been warning about this coming war for quite a while now and believe that we can absolutely win this economic war as long as we maintain our will, never give up, and use every single tool in the toolbox in order to pull off a victory.

In the CCP’s ongoing efforts of waging economic warfare against the United States we’ve seen how they’ve been heading up the BRICS nations in an attempt to de-dollarize while they also simultaneously are working to stockpile as much gold as possible.

You have probably noticed how we’ve been suffering with inflation for the past several years after the Biden regime continued to print trillions of dollars adding to, and aiding in, the accelerated growth of large numbered dollar debt.

After Biden made the stupid move to remove Russia from the SWIFT banking system at the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine war, as well as, threatening to permanently seize (basically steal) Russian assets the rest of the world took notice.

You see since WWII the United States dollar has been the world reserve currency. Having the dollar as the world reserve currency has enabled us as a nation to borrow money more easily and to levy financial sanctions against other nations. It’s a huge benefit to us as a nation unless that status is abused and the Biden regime certainly abused it.

The SWIFT banking system is a system that sends secure payment instructions between institutions for secure international transactions to occur. At the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine war the Biden regime coordinated with other European countries to get Russian banks removed from the SWIFT banking system in an attempt to economically cripple Russia.

Once Biden did this then the rest of the world started thinking that if we could do that to Russia then what would stop the U.S. from doing that to the rest of us? Biden’s abuse of the system is what pushed the world over the edge in order to more aggressively start the process of de-dollarization with the established BRICS nations which is an acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Now part of that de-dollarization effort involves the behavior of these BRICS nations and the central banks buying up record levels of gold as they are looking to dump dollar holdings. Because they are dumping dollar holdings they must look to some other form of asset to hold and that primary asset holding is steadily and more frequently becoming gold.

In a recent interview with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon he stated that he believed gold “could easily go to $5,000, $10,000 in environments like this. This is one of the few times in my life it’s semi-rational to have some in your portfolio.” Just to give you some additional perspective on that quote Jamie Dimon has traditionally been the voice of NOT liking gold at all for years. With that quote he’s clearly not enjoying having to eat the new reality of gold’s role returning to dominance in the global financial marketplace. Guys like that hate being humbled.

It’s become clear that gold has shifted in its role in a more profound way than just being seen as solely being a hedge. It’s more and more appearing to be accepted as a more dominant asset hold for the central banks as they continue to set records on their purchase of the precious metal.

Now I want to shift gears here for a bit to talk about a recent article that came out from the Telegraph where the interesting title of the article basically speaks for itself. The article’s title is the following: Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified.

This article goes into detail about how many Western executives that have visited the floors of these manufacturing facilities in China come back shaken at the experience as they talk about the mass scale of automation, technological advancement, and wide scale robotics that are being used on the assembly lines for building cars and phones.

It goes on to talk about how they even have vast dark factories where there are so many robots that do the work alone that there’s no reason to even keep the lights on for people because there aren’t any around. It details how they’ve mastered enough automation that there are hardly any people around for anything other than a few personnel on site just to make sure that the facilities are operating properly.

Even though the article touts the impressive expansion of the widescale automation in their manufacturing process it also points out that much of the motivation behind the widescale automation isn’t to increase production for the purpose of cutting costs for a better bottomline, but is done out of the necessity to compensate for a shortage of workers in order to mitigate the impact of its loss of human labor.

Regardless of the more accurate reason as to why the CCP has been aiming to expand their technological capabilities, the reality is that it’s a legitimate concern given what we do know about how far they’ve come with the advancement of their manufacturing.

After all, they’ve industrialized their society off the backs of our technology because they’re great at stealing our intellectual property, however it was our fault to get into business with them in the first place.

When you consider the fact that it was the industrial strength of the United States that scared the Japanese officers into submission in WWII, it makes this observation from those Western executives that visited those Chinese factories a major concern.

Now I mentioned how the CCP has now engaged in full blown economic warfare by trying to cut the U.S. off from the rare earth minerals. The biggest reason for this has to do with the AI arms race that’s taking place between the United States and China.

I believe it was Vladimir Putin who said that whoever becomes the leader in AI technology will be the ruler of the world. Knowing this it’s a big concern that China has made the aggressive and direct move to try and cut the U.S. off from rare earth minerals.

Given this fact, combined with the snapshot we got regarding the automation of their manufacturing capabilities, we can honestly say that we’re currently finding ourselves in quite a concerning predicament as a nation. With that being said, thank God we have President Donald Trump in office at this time in our history.

So what is the point of all of this?

In other words, what is the main reason for me telling you about all of this besides doing my best to try and keep you up at night with this terrifying situation that we currently find ourselves in?

Well I certainly don’t want you to be terrified, but I do want you to be informed. You see, I believe the reason we are in this predicament in the first place is because our society has been asleep at the wheel for way too long while these nefarious actors, both in the CCP and here domestically, have created this problematic environment for us.

Our domestic enemies have created a lying Administrative State Media (ASM) which has also resulted in a brainwashed and intellectually lazy population for quite some time now, but fortunately a lot of that has changed.

So to answer the question I’m telling you all of this to remind you that both you and myself still have agency. In other words, we still have a mind, a body, and the opportunity to take actions right here and now in order to shift the energy on this economic battlefield back onto our side of the football so that we can go on offense and advance on the enemy.

This is exactly why we all individually need to demonstrate our ability to be an autodidact so that we survive as a nation. In case you’re not familiar with that term it’s a sophisticated word that basically means to be self-taught. I wanted this episode, like all of my episodes, to offer you valuable information for you to take and apply to your own life by taking action in your own life.

At the end of the day each of us can either be an autodidact or we’re doomed. This is exactly what I mean when I talk about being a Zenith, particularly during these chaotic times.

The Wrap Up

I’ve already mentioned that the CCP has been working on stockpiling gold in their efforts to de-dollarize with the other BRICS nations. I’ve also talked about how the CCP currently manufactures a significant amount of our goods.

Knowing both of these things I have a hypothesis regarding some outcomes that we can achieve as a result of our actions as a society if we play our cards right. Once again, I want to remind you that I’m not a financial advisor and I don’t give financial advice to anyone. With that being said I am in no way attempting to do that here.

So when I tell you my hypothesis here it’s just me sharing with you what I think regarding the current economic and geopolitical landscape in regards to our relationship with the CCP.

Given the fact that gold and silver are both smashing record highs due to the CCP’s attempt to accelerate global de-dollarization, their efforts are aimed at collapsing our dollar since we are currently dealing with forty year record high inflation.

Granted, President Trump is feverishly working to move heaven and earth to accelerate the growth of our economy, working to end all the wars, cleaning up the deep state, overcoming unconstitutional rulings from radical Marxist judges, and fighting more constant resistance from his own Republican party than the Democratic party.

Ok, keep that picture of what I just described in mind while also recognizing that China and the central banks are currently stockpiling gold for a reason. With the de-dollarization effort accelerating, while the price of gold surges, this is a clear indicator that there is a global loss of trust in the dollar. Granted, China is fueling that distrust in the U.S. dollar, but once again, I’m just giving you my hypothesis here.

With this loss of trust in the dollar China is waging full blown economic warfare against us and they’re also in a race to stockpile as much gold as possible. They started the effort having bought a significant amount of gold at a lower cost which in turn aids in driving up the price of the precious metal. As the metal becomes more expensive it becomes harder for others to purchase it themselves for the purpose of retaining the asset as a sort of safeguard against a collapsing dollar.

However, a lot of investors look solely at the price of gold and believe that they should have gotten in on the purchase of the metal when it was priced much lower. This perspective basically has them believing that there is no more bite left to take from this apple.

Now having said that, I just went through a detailed explanation of what drives the price of gold. Simultaneously we know the Federal Reserve is continuing to print money as fast as possible while the effort of de-dollarization is accelerating.

Furthermore, it’s pretty clear that we are heading for a lot of societal turbulence here in the near future with the domestic civil war that’s closing in with the Marxists while the economic war with China is just getting started.

Given all of these factors I don’t see an end in sight in regards to the price of gold slowing down. Therefore, in my own personal view I believe that investing in gold is a smart decision which is why I have invested in the precious metal myself.

Now I also believe that with China’s efforts to accelerate the de-dollarization of the world that U.S. citizens can directly counter the CCP in economic warfare. I believe that if U.S. citizens can understand gold’s role in the geopolitical landscape then the citizens can make the decision to invest in the metal across individual households.

By doing this on an individual basis I believe that, as a nation, we can sort of create our own version of a decentralized gold standard across individual households. I believe by doing this now that it will enable us to have an asset holding that will be a safeguard against de-dollarization.

Now in addition to the currency war involving the dollar there’s also the issue of China’s expansion in industrial manufacturing for the purpose of making a lot of the products that we consume as Americans.

I already touched on President Trump’s efforts to pushback on this with his use of tariffs. Of course, it’s great that President Trump is driving the action of economic warfare against the CCP along with the rest of the federal government, but I believe that we can further accelerate the economic collapse of China as consumers if we take actions ourselves to refuse to buy products that are manufactured in China.

Now obviously this will be a challenge, but major purchases could make a huge difference in regards to directing more impactful hits to products that are made with the use of their more sophisticated manufacturing.

So why is it important for us as citizens to get involved with an effort to accelerate the collapse of the Chinese economy?

Well aside from the CCP aiming to destroy us, the significance of the action of the U.S. citizen getting involved in the collapse of the Chinese economy has to do with the ancient Chinese political concept that is known as the Mandate of Heaven.

The Mandate of Heaven is viewed in Chinese culture as the divine source of authority and the right to rule of Chinese kings and emperors. With this belief it is said that the ruler is given great power, but with that power the ruler is also obligated to use that power for the good of his own people. However, if the ruler fails to do what is good for his people then the state would suffer terrible disasters and the emperor would lose his right to govern.

Therefore, I believe that as individual citizens we can take action to spread a movement across the nation to accelerate the collapse of the Chinese economy by creating a sort of thermonuclear boycott in order to create the circumstances for the Chinese President to lose the Mandate of Heaven.

According to the New Federal State of China it is said that the working class of China known as Laobaixing could overthrow the CCP within a hundred days without a single shot being fired if the United States would economically decouple from the regime.

Well it appears as if the United States and China have arrived at this very crossroad and now is the time to make sure we are autodidact in terms of our environment as our focus, grit, and determination will be put to the test.

What actions do you see the United States taking that can be the difference maker in this economic war with China?

How big of a role do you see gold playing in the everchanging global financial landscape?

Please share your feedback here in the comment section below.

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“Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours. They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers. All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you. They will be the evidence of God’s judgment on you and your descendants forever. The Lord blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.”

Deuteronomy 28: 43-47

I get so sick of milk toast anti-Trump libertarians and anti-Trump conservatives whining about how the violence and rhetoric that we see taking place literally right in front of our eyes everyday is a both sides issue. No, it isn’t a both sides issue and only a moron would say that.

If any of these people ever went to the trouble to pick up a history book then they would understand what the phrase conquest ethic means in regards to history every single time a nation or society faces a watershed moment like the one we’re witnessing right now in this very moment in history.

A conquest ethic involves a system of beliefs and principles that lead to the actions of one group of people subjugating another group of people often by using coercive political means and military force. This is done by one group of people for the purpose of gaining control of the opposing group’s land, people, and resources.

The conquest ethic is documented throughout history over and over again since Biblical times. However, in what you might consider to be more recent history we have seen this take place within countries with the actions of the aggressors typically building out these forceful movements within the construct of their society’s institutions.

This is how they lay the groundwork before these movements bubble up and result in harsh actions that can be seen with physical enforcers using their military and other violent political groups to impose their will onto the rest of society. This type of behavior is what we would consider to be terroristic by today’s standards.

We’ve literally seen all of this play out before with the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, 1930s Nazi Germany, Mao’s Red Guard Cultural Revolution, and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Now we’re seeing this same playbook right here in front of us in the United States of America with groups associated with the Communist left such as Antifa and BLM. If you need a more current concrete visual all you have to do is simply focus on Portland, Oregon at this very moment.

A watershed moment is defined as an event that marks a key turning point, or irreversible moment, such as the key development of something in regards to a moment in history. With that being said, it’s obviously no coincidence that Charlie Kirk’s organization is called Turning Point given the watershed moment that we’re currently living in now in this very moment in history.

If you’re a regular reader, or listener, to this platform then you’re very aware of what is happening. However, just like any chess piece on the playing board the pieces are always moving and the game is always in a state of change as the war for power and control over our society rages on day by day.

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Given that quote by Lenin it’s obvious that we’re living in weeks where literal decades are happening right in front of us. This war that we find ourselves in the middle of is actually the manifestation of WWIII.

For some the battle lines aren’t too clear as there are still people that look at this political war through the old lenses of being Republicans versus Democrats, or Conservatives versus Liberals. Truthfully those old monikers have been dead for a while now and the reality is that many people who were told that the other team was evil are starting to break free from their old labels to reach out and have genuine conversations with people that they traditionally were told to stay away from.

This is quite a phenomenon as I myself have experienced this with numerous people that I used to not see eye to eye with on anything prior to the pandemic. However, now I find myself aligning with these very people quite often more than I do with people that I had traditionally thought shared my values. The pandemic was the first social experiment that managed to turn many relationships on their heads while simultaneously opening the door for new and unexpected relationships to thrive.

For the record, I wouldn’t have it any other way with the friends and people that I have found common ground with here in the last five years. I’m convinced, without a doubt, that this was God’s way to use this current watershed moment in history to open the doors for all of us to find one another during this time so that we could use our strengths to save this Republic. I firmly believe this with all of my heart.

Now I mentioned how I’ve certainly made new friends during this cultural and political realignment that has been going on now for the past five years. It’s been quite something to experience on an individual basis and I’m sure you’ve probably experienced much of the same. The beauty of this is that we can look beyond our own lives and into the realm of media and culture in order to witness this happening as well.

From Rigid To Flexible

Another key observation here of how one particular individual is breaking away from his rigid side of the “political aisle” in order to seek understanding of the current events can be seen with the actor Charlie Sheen.

It was quite a pleasant surprise to learn that he has apparently worked to turn his life around with sobriety and has even gone further to talk about his new book and his new series that can be seen on Netflix that covers his life story and his past struggles with addiction.

I recently learned of Sheen’s sobriety and his awakening of the events of the world in a couple of interviews he was doing. However, the one that first got my attention was his interview with Joe Rogan.

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“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”

― Thomas Jefferson

There are a lot of interesting and unique things on this planet. To me one of those interesting and unique things is the process that is involved in the formation of a diamond.

Diamonds have a very unique chemical composition and are formed deep within the mantle of the earth. In fact, they are very unique as they have to be formed in a particular way as the conditions have to be right for the process to occur. This must take place in the mantle where tremendous heat and pressure are present.

The initial rough diamonds come out of the deep mines looking like small worthless pebbles. Once they are extracted from the mine in this raw form this is why they must be carefully cleaned in order to remove all of the unwanted exterior and impurities.

It’s at this point that skilled diamond cutters prepare these rough diamonds for being used as gemstones. Diamonds are made of the hardest material in the world and because of this only a diamond can be used to mechanically cut and shape another diamond. There is a significant skill of precision that is required to do this and the more the diamond is cut the more it gives off a sparkle.

The intense heat, pressure, and the process of cutting are all necessary steps that are involved in the effort of making a quality diamond. Each one of these stressors are necessary not only for satisfying the societal demand for possessing a beautiful gemstone, but for producing the strongest and most resilient gemstone that exists on all of planet earth.

The fact is that the diamond is the end product and the direct result of a series of stressors that shape it into the ultimate gemstone that it is. The stress that is imposed onto this gemstone is exactly what is needed to produce the finest, strongest, and arguably the most beautiful stone that has ever been discovered.

Aside from the diamond being recognized as an expensive rock at your local jewelry store, it’s also the hardest and strongest material on the planet. The end result and strength of the diamond is formed out of a literal pressure cooker and cut to form by its own kind.

The Designation

I want to shift gears here and talk about the recent course of action that we’re seeing coming from the White House since the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Many in the MAGA movement have been calling for an equal application of the law now for years as many decent Americans have been on the receiving end of relentless lawfare, riots, harassment, and direct violence from what many would describe to be radical leftist groups now for over a decade.

For the past ten years it seems that these groups have accelerated in their destruction and harassment of society with organized riots. They’ve even gone so far as to take over large sections of communities throughout various places in Oregon.

One demonstration that I mentioned in my most recent article Antifragile involved some anti-ICE protestors with Antifa affiliation. This group literally brought out a guillotine to a protest in Oregon in order to send a message to ICE.

This protest was held outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Southwest Portland and the guillotine was to me a symbolic reminder of the type of sentiment that could be seen with the violent Jacobins back during the French Revolution.

This particular protest took place back on September 1, 2025 which was only nine days before Charlie Kirk would be assassinated in Utah while simply sitting in a chair with a microphone as some students voiced their disagreement with Charlie just seconds before he was murdered.

Just recently President Trump announced that he would start looking into taking direct action against certain left-wing groups that have been fomenting political violence. As a result President Trump announced on Truth Social that he would be designating Antifa as a major terrorist organization.

This designation is significant because it will allow the process for authorities to begin digging into the financial trail involving groups and individuals who are responsible for funding this organization. It should also be noted that Charlie Kirk brought a lot of attention to Antifa during his career.

NBC News reported the following:

“The White House is exploring a wide variety of options to address left-wing political violence and the network of organizations that fuel and fund it," an administration official said. “The emphasis and focus are on criminal actions,” the official added, “not political speech.”

That last part of the statement is important to understand because the radical left will try to spin this designation to say that this action of labeling domestic terrorists is a violation of the first amendment and that this designation can be weaponized against anyone who attempts to voice a different opinion. Believe it or not that statement is both correct and incorrect and I will elaborate on that very important point here.

First, allow me to explain why this perspective is incorrect. For those on the left that adopt the belief that the terrorist designation can be weaponized against free speech I’ll explain how the problems here with holding that position are numerous.

To begin with, this line of thinking demonstrates that if they are adopting that belief they fundamentally do not understand what it takes and who it takes to go about honoring and upholding the Constitution. This seems to be the current trend with those who are currently being critical of the MAGA movement and President Trump. These criticisms are typically directed towards President Trump’s actions involving his efforts relating to the mass deportations, the crackdown on crime in big cities using the National Guard, etc.

However, President Trump is simply exercising his Article II Powers as the Executive as defined in the Constitution. As the Chief Executive he has broad powers to use for the purpose of protecting the country from enemies both foreign and domestic. If you’re a leftist, an anti-Trump libertarian, or a RINO reading this then take a moment and repeat that last sentence to yourself.

Now just as I have already referenced in the article from NBC News, the administration official stated that the investigations will focus on criminal actions, not political speech. So regardless of where you fall along the spectrum here concerning your own political beliefs, please pause and take a moment to consider the fact that we have ALREADY seen the state get directly involved with censoring speech.

This has been the case with direct governmental agency control concerning the FBI’s infiltration of both Facebook (now Meta) and Twitter prior to Elon Musk’s purchase of the company. Since this is a verifiable fact then why do those on the left, anti-Trump libertarians, and RINOs suddenly have a problem with the alleged infringement of the first amendment? Are they all suddenly suffering from amnesia with everything that has happened in the past five years?

Both of these companies deplatformed President Trump, along with many other voices in the Populist and Conservative movement, back during the pandemic under the alleged control of Joe Biden when he was in office. As it turns out they were directly under the control of Biden’s DOJ according to the infamous Twitter files that were uncovered by Elon Musk and later reported on by investigative reporter Matt Tiabbi.

These platforms were essentially commandeered and weaponized by the FBI, yet every Marxist, RINO, and anti-Trump libertarian is talking about how the actions of MAGA are infringing on free speech. Think about the absurdity of that claim.

By the way, these authoritarians did this with impunity and with consistent regularity. This also resulted in the stealing of the 2020 election with the disinformation that they used to push out through these platforms and this directly impacted a variety of major societal issues.

These issues involved everything surrounding the pandemic, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the disgusting mandates that led to many family members dying in the hospitals alone during the pandemic. Of course, this was all due to the forced social isolation that they had thrust upon us while they conveniently labeled it all as quarantine.

So when the anti-MAGA fringe levy the accusation at President Trump for violating free speech, simply remind them just how corrupt and truly weaponized the Biden DOJ was just five years ago and that they should have their memory checked by a physician.

In short, if you’re going to attempt to take the moral high ground on this, while literally having been silent for the past five years in the face of the Biden DOJ weaponizing social media platforms against political rivals, then you don’t deserve to be listened to at all.

Basically the left’s argument that somehow Jimmy Kimmel’s firing was a violation of free speech is absurd. Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings were abysmal as he had dropped 72% of his key demographic in the past decade.

Let’s also not forget that ABC was ordered to pay out $15 million to President Trump after George Stephanopoulos lied about President Trump being civilly liable for rape against E. Jean Carroll. It’s pretty obvious ABC has a track record of allowing their employees to not only spread lies, but to spread hateful and accusatory lies that aim to destroy people’s reputations.

Furthermore, many people in the public eye that would consider themselves to be left leaning are showing that they’re more upset about Jimmy Kimmel losing his job rather than the loss of Charlie Kirk’s life. Besides, Kimmel got fired for lying about the shooter being part of the MAGA movement which was a blatant lie that was proven otherwise by direct text messages from the shooter himself. Granted, I question the authenticity of those text messages, however it still doesn’t make Kimmel’s statements any more honest than he communicated in the first place.

Now I also mentioned that the left had a fear that the designation of domestic terrorists could be weaponized and I pointed out how they were partially correct in their statement and I will explain that here as well.

I’ve obviously already pointed out how a weaponized DOJ was used against thousands of conservatives and populist voices throughout the term of the Biden regime. So if the left is trying to use the whole “boomerang” argument for this it just simply doesn’t apply here because they’ve already directly applied the standard themselves for being authoritarians over speech.

However, if you take their point that the institutions could be weaponized and quickly examine that, it’s obviously true because they’ve literally already done it.

This is how their statement is actually correct in a sense.

I have touched on this particular aspect of institutional capture in a previous episode, but I’ll elaborate on it here again. The point I’m trying to make with you here is one that the so-called advocates for the Constitution and the advocates against the Constitution seemingly always argue about. However, I’d actually argue that the left has figured out what I’m about to tell you better than those who you would consider to be more right leaning in terms of the political spectrum.

So what exactly has the left figured out that many of the RINOs and anti-Trump libertarians do not understand regarding the application of the Constitution and societal laws?

The thing that the Marxists have mastered is the art of institutional capture. To me this has been blatantly obvious for years, but it was ESPECIALLY obvious during the pandemic.

In short, the Marxists have taken over the universities, the media, the DOJ, the judicial system, the pharmaceutical system, and even the financial system in order to wage a direct war against the U.S. citizens and the entire MAGA coalition for many years now.

They have been the ones promoting the violence and committing the violence that killed Charlie Kirk, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and the Ukrainian war refugee Iryna Zarutska. They have been the ones guilty of endless lawfare. They have been guilty of locking up their political opponents (see Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Roger Stone, Tina Peters, etc.).

I’ve made the following point before, but I will repeat it here again because apparently a lot of people still don’t get it.

The most insane thing to me is that all the sudden now many so-called conservatives, anti-Trump libertarians, and RINOs are saying that we have to be careful because the shoe will be on the other foot one day.

Are you kidding me?

The shoe has literally already been on the other foot for years now. How can anyone fail to recognize this reality?

This is about seizing the institutions. The plan is simple. Purge the system. Get rid of the bad people and replace them with quality people.

The end.

The Wrap Up

Since all of these so-called conservatives, anti-Trump libertarians, and Marxists love to bring up the Constitutional argument regarding everything that they want to subvert, such as this circus around the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, I want to remind both you and them of something.

When it comes to a Constitutional argument I most always see pretty much everyone default to referencing the section including the amendments. However, the opening sentence of the Constitution begins with three simple words stating We The People.

So why am I bringing this up to you?

I’m bringing this up because when the Constitution begins the document with those three powerful words We The People, it establishes the fact that government power is derived directly from the citizenry. This is what is known as popular sovereignty which means that the Constitution exists for the purpose to serve the people and that the government’s authority is based on the consent of the people. Of course the tenth amendment backs this up as well.

Therefore, in theory the will of the people must be honored. By the way this is why President Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral college vote by a landslide, thereby giving him a clear mandate to carry out the will of the people.

However, I’ve already established how our nation’s institutions have been captured by Marxists who have weaponized those very institutions for the purpose of subverting the will of the people.

They’ve done this by stripping away many rights within the Constitution, particularly the first amendment with the examples I gave with Facebook and the Twitter files.

So what does this mean?

This means that the will of the people has been subverted due to institutional capture. This has resulted in the degradation of the sovereignty of the American citizen, it’s resulted in state run media (see Facebook, the Twitter files, and USAID), and the outright theft of the election of 2020.

Now since all of this has happened what does this mean? In short, it means the globalists, the left, anti-Trump libertarians, RINOs etc. have degraded and stolen the sovereignty of the United States citizen.

Quite simply this means that we are currently living in a post-Constitutional era, therefore anyone on the left, the anti-Trump libertarians, and RINOs that are screaming about free speech being under attack regarding the Jimmy Kimmel suspension has no right to be heard. In fact, they have zero moral authority to dictate the terms and the rights that are to be interpreted, honored, and upheld regarding the Constitution that they are committed to violating.

The reality that many people are currently awakening to is the fact that our society is full of communists who do not care about the Constitution. These people have proven without a shadow of a doubt that they will absolutely NOT honor any aspect of the Constitution with the ONLY exception being if it benefits them. However, even that is questionable.

This is war and it is about purging the system of these monsters who would see you dead before canceling someone like Jimmy Kimmel due to him failing at his job.

Pay attention and think about what is happening already.

I opened this episode talking about the unique characteristics of a diamond and what all goes into the extraction of this prized gemstone from the mines. Additionally, I pointed out how the diamonds are rough and resemble worthless pebbles when they are initially pulled out of the ground.

Because of this a diamond can only be cut and shaped by another diamond since it’s the hardest material on the planet.

Like a diamond requires the use of another diamond to be cut and formed in order for it to reach its full potential the same thing must happen with people and the interactions that they have with one another.

Charlie Kirk understood this concept very well and he learned that very concept from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as the Lord knows this better than anyone.

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another"

–Proverbs 27:17

Like a diamond we must sharpen one another as this is how we can all become a Zenith for this moment in history.

With that in mind, understand that the survival of this Republic will be determined by who wins this political and cultural war. The only way for us to win this war is to make sure that we sharpen ourselves.

We must do this and sharpen one another while continuing to expose the communists and anti-American coalitions of RINOs, anti-Trump libertarians, and others who are either themselves enemies to these United States, or are convinced that evil will somehow be capable of reason and cooperation.

I hope you will join me to become a Zenith during these chaotic times.

Are you currently engaging in anything during your daily activity to fight against the Cultural Marxists within our society?

How do you think we should deal with these people within our society that are calling for our death if we do not abandon our own beliefs and principles for theirs?

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“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”

― George Carlin

Over the past fifteen years or so there’s been a real disease that has spread throughout our society. If I can be honest I noticed when it started just based on my interactions with people and by simply observing the culture throughout my daily life.

Before I reveal to you what I’m referring to I will share with you some symptoms of what I am talking about based on some previous conversations I’ve had with close friends and family over the past few years.

I was hanging out with a few friends of mine a while back and we were talking about when the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) first came on the scene and what it was like seeing that type of competition in the early 1990s.

Now I don’t know if you follow the UFC, or if you’ve ever seen any of the UFC fights when the sport first started. If you haven’t I will warn you because there was probably nothing else that even came close to this except for the gladiators that used to fight inside the Roman Colosseum long ago.

In the early days of the UFC there was a shock factor that would either cause you to sit back in your seat at a loss for words, or you’d be jumping up and down in your living room with friends yelling at the TV. Now I’m not saying that the UFC still doesn’t produce some excitement among its biggest fans.

Of course it does, but that isn’t the point. The point I’m talking about is the original raw idea and set up involving the sport when it first began. The original idea that got the sport started was what brought on the shock factor and kicked off the wild energy that would lay the foundation for the most successful professional fighting organization that has ever existed.

So you’re probably wondering, Brandon, what was so special about the early days of the UFC?

In the early days of the UFC the entire event was formed out of the old idea and question of which martial arts discipline is the most superior? In other words, is Kempo Karate the best, or would Kung Fu be the best? Would the best discipline be American boxing, or would that title belong to Muay Thai?

You see the UFC was basically formed out of the idea where someone finally came to the table and decided that they were going to build this octagon shaped ring that was inside a steel cage. From here this is where they would throw two guys from different disciplines into the middle of that cage in order to put each discipline to the test.

Now if that idea is not crazy enough it gets even wilder. At the time the UFC barely had any rules at all. No, I’m not making this up. In the first days of the UFC there were no weight classifications, no time limits, and the fighters fought in a single elimination tournament style event.

The early days were also advertised as no rules, but they did have only three rules at the time. There was no biting, no eye gouging, and no fish-hooking. Groin strikes were not disallowed, but were frowned upon.

Now when looking at the formation of the UFC in its early days it’s no mystery as to why the sport got the level of attention that it did. Like anything else in its inception it was honest, raw, and full of personality and energy.

Sure, the sport of UFC wasn’t an immediate household success and it took a few years to work through some controversy, some regulation, and some general growing pains, but the product had a rabid base of supporters that would ensure its success. The same thing can be said for most every other sport as well involving NASCAR, the NFL, and Wrestling Entertainment.

However, like most any major sport, or business, that comes out of the gate hot there’s always a series of major changes that takes place during the growth phase of these institutions. These days when it involves these sports, or industries, this always leads to an outcome where the identity of these institutions settle on a more sanitized and watered down version of their previous selves. Without trying to sound too cynical it always seems like the growth phase leads to more corporate conformity and to less of a heterodox version of what made the original product interesting in the first place.

Loss of Identity

Granted, the UFC has retained a high level of popularity despite much of the societal changes and cultural rot we’ve had to endure over the last several years in society. Now having said that this is not an indictment on the UFC because it’s still a tremendous product, but it’s safe to say that it’s still not the same product that was first presented to the public in its earliest days.

The same thing can be said about the NFL, but in the case of the NFL in my view it’s become a horrible product as it has lost its identity over the years. Perhaps that can change, but I remember when I was a kid in the 1980s how I got the VHS tape of the NFL 25th Silver Anniversary for Christmas one year. This NFL films documentary, or perhaps I should say docudrama, was absolute gold in terms of the level of entertainment that it provided. It was an incredibly original and genuine snapshot of the history and culture of the NFL throughout the decades of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

To give you an example of how much the culture of the NFL has changed I want to include an excerpt from one of my earlier episodes here titled The American Mistake where I touched on this cultural snapshot from the old NFL Films docudrama that I previously mentioned.

The excerpt…

I remember seeing an interview from either the late 1960s, or early 1970s with the L.A. Rams defensive end Deacon Jones when I was a kid. In this interview Deacon Jones was talking about what he had imagined doing to the quarterbacks that he played against. In his own words he had said that he used to imagine putting all the quarterbacks inside of a bag and then he would take a baseball bat to beat the bag.

Now as if this wasn’t shocking enough to hear when I was a teenager, it was also the attitude that existed in those days concerning the Zeitgeist of the sport of football. Now I wanted to tell that story to you in order to tell you the following point.

You know as well as I do if any player in the league said that in an interview today there would be a 24/7 meltdown by the media and that player that made such a statement would be ordered to attend sensitivity training probably for a twelve week period. You also know as well as I do that they would have to do this while donating a significant sum of money to some charity of the league’s choice to maximize the league’s opportunity to virtue signal to the tenth power with the viewing public.

To me that excerpt illustrates a problem with many of these institutions as that description of the NFL of yesterday is clearly night and day different compared to the sanitized NFL product that exists today. So what happens to these different institutions that causes such a cultural shift? How does this generally lead to a subpar version of the product compared to the original formula that was presented in its earlier days, or at its inception?

I just recently watched the Shawn Ryan interview with the country singer Jon Rich. If you haven’t seen this interview I highly recommend that you take some time to look into it.

During this interview Jon sheds some light on the issue involving the culture change that I was just referring to within these big institutions. He explains what has been taking place with these various institutions that causes them to lose their identity.

In the interview Jon talks about how this actually played out with the record companies in Nashville. He said that there had traditionally always been a more Patriotic environment among the personalities in Nashville at the heads of the record companies. However, he said that this started to change as soon as Obama became President.

As he stated when that happened he went into detail about how the record companies started to replace the original executives with other people who were from New York and other big cities. These executives were leftist activists that started to change the environment and implement woke policies that funneled down from the leadership at the top. He said this all rolled downhill to the artists and the publicity departments. Once this culture shift was embedded it dictated what messaging was allowed in songs and the production of content in general.

Jon Rich went on to talk about how he had broken away from the stranglehold of Nashville so that he was able to work outside of the industry which in turn gave him the freedom to work outside of their control. He had engaged in what I would describe as the dictum of intentional action.

Jon Rich recognized early on that if he had remained underneath the umbrella of the Nashville record machine that he would be beholden to that machine. In other words, he knew that he would be under their boot of control if he didn’t find a way to get out from under that control on his own, so that’s exactly what he did.

You see I started out talking about the change in how these institutions have gone through these strange cultural shifts that resulted in them changing the product that made them who they are into something that is almost unrecognizable over time. However, as I highlighted the examples here with the various sports teams, I was doing so in a manner that was reflective of their change as you can observe how it managed to happen over a period of time.

However, in using the life example of Jon Rich he simply recognized the problem for himself long before the woke rot of Cultural Marxism was a problem to deal with in his industry. He simply figured out that as an individual, artist, and businessman that he didn’t want to be underneath the boot of the Nashville machine for any reason whatsoever. This was particularly true concerning the woke culture that would eventually come to pass throughout his industry.

As Jon pointed out the loss of identity occurred because the old guard of record executives in Nashville were replaced by woke activists. This was an action involving the seizing of the institutions by the communist left.

This was also allowed to happen because of a lack of competition within the entertainment industry in Nashville, along with the fact that most other artists lacked the foresight and the intestinal fortitude to do what Jon did by figuring out a path in order to venture out on their own.

Because of this the centralization of power within the Nashville record business had been allowed to grow and seize control of the creativity, voices, and actions of the artists that were under their label. In short, because of their lack of foresight the reality is that all of the artists that chose to remain underneath the umbrella of the Nashville record labels, in reality, gave up their sovereignty. If you’re thinking that this sounds familiar, this strategy involving the seizing of the music institutions in Nashville is the same strategy that has been in place in Hollywood for quite some time.

I believe this is an extremely valuable lesson for all of the rest of us no matter what industry we work in, or what it is that we do for a living. The lesson here is that it’s vitally important to recognize and to have a handle on the environment around you. After all, this is what I always talk about here on this show in terms of why it’s important to be a Zenith.

I understand that money can be very attractive and the more money that someone has dropped into their lap the more it seems like the majority of people fail to ask what comes along with that money. This may be the result of willful ignorance, or outright ignorance, but the problem is that many people fail to see, or understand, how they can end up being beholden to another entity.

This failure to recognize where the boundaries of one’s individual sovereignty exists is a problem with much of our society. It’s a symptom of Cultural Marxism having been successful in watering down the concept of individuality.

Keep in mind that your individuality goes far beyond surface level traits that may involve whether or not you get a tattoo, or dye your hair. Individuality is about an exercise in you strengthening your ability to retain your sovereignty. This involves your ability to influence, create, and demonstrate levels of competency and usefulness concerning your contributions to society.

The thought that your individuality is surface level is a reductionist way of thinking. Knowing who you are and what you are able to push yourself to do requires a personal discipline of pursuit. This is something you can exercise whether you’re engaging and helping to solve a problem in one of your study groups at school, or having the courage to speak up at your work to offer an idea about a certain policy, or a marketing strategy for a big project. Of course, it can also apply in a way that involves you making a case for, or against, something where you want to make sure your voice is heard in the political arena as well.

The bottom line is that the loss of identity is the problem and is the real disease that has spread throughout our society. Oh yeah, I said I was going to reveal the problem to you after covering the many symptoms of this issue.

The Wrap Up

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

–2 Timothy 1:7

According to the Lukin Center For Psychotherapy there are essentially five signs that are associated with one who is suffering from an identity crisis.

These signs involve the following:

* Questioning your basic understanding of who you are.

* Feeling anxious, agitated, or dissatisfied with your life.

* Going along to change yourself to fit other situations, environments, and relationships.

* You have trouble answering questions about yourself.

* You feel like you lack the ability to make good decisions.

In my view if you’re experiencing a lack of confidence, or something more severe such as an identity crisis the way I believe that you can pull out of this is by shifting your frame of mind. You can make this shift away from holding yourself where you’re in a defensive posture to transitioning your mind into a place where you can position yourself into a more assertive offensive posture.

This shift from a defensive posture to an offensive posture makes all the difference in the world in terms of how people will react to you in certain situations. Mind you this is a fact whether we’re talking about individuals who go out and face life on a daily basis, or if we’re talking about an entire nation that is trying to assert its place on the global stage.

For example, you can see just how clear this is when we take a moment to examine how the United States has been viewed on the global stage for the past four and half years.

In other words, if you think about the enemies of the United States and how they must have viewed our country over the past four years, they could clearly see how our nation was completely signaling that we were in a defensive posture, or probably even worse a more submissive posture.

So what exactly do I mean by this and how exactly would a defensive posture be a bad thing?

Well if you take a minute to examine what our country looked like through the lens of our enemies you would see a nation that has been ceding over more and more control to foreign influence specifically involving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

In addition to this you could also see how we have been suffering from intense political division. You could see how we have been weakened from the Marxist infiltration of our institutions where our military was more concerned about transgenderism and racial sensitivity rather than warfighting. You could see how we were willing to spend ourselves into oblivion by propping up literally every other nation in the world except for our own.

When you factor in all of these insane actions that were being positioned as top priority by the leaders of our nation, you can understand that our enemies could start to see us in much the same way as an advancing fighter would see his embattled opponent on his back heel and up against the ropes.

In the case of the United States we were in a total state of collapse due to an ongoing chain of domestic disasters from the Hawaiian fires all the way to a flooded and decimated Asheville, North Carolina.

At the same time that these domestic disasters have been hitting the nation, we've also seen how this domestic instability led directly to foreign instability with the war between Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East War, and with the potential of the CCP trying to make a move on Taiwan in the Pacific.

However, since President Trump has taken office now the picture of our nation looks a lot different through the lens of our enemies. Now looking at the United States both our friends and our enemies can see a President that is not willing to hesitate in order to do what is in the best interest of the nation.

Now you have seen a President with the most prolific negotiating skills in history come in and broker trade deals with both our so-called friends and enemies by using tariffs in order to create an environment of fair trade.

You’ve seen a President that has been willing to follow through on deporting illegal migrant criminals and terrorists even in the face of radical judges that are constantly trying to undermine his Article II Powers.

Furthermore, you’ve seen a President that was willing to send some B-2 bombers across the world in the dead of night in order to decapitate a mountain to destroy the nuclear facility of a sworn enemy without dragging us into another forever war.

President Trump is demonstrating to us exactly how powerful it can be to take on an offensive posture, both in terms of being successful in one’s own career, as well as, what it takes in order to reclaim the greatness that a nation has firmly held since its founding.

The identifying quality here is that the President has never wavered, or doubted what he believed and who he is as an individual. He never budged from that even when the entire world was trying to drag him down.

As a result of him embracing his individuality and staying in an offensive posture we’re now seeing that it is resulting in an effort, through God’s blessing, that is moving to save the world.

The fact is that the country temporarily went through an identity crisis and because of this the world moved to take advantage of the situation until the good Lord sent a guy along that was completely sure of his own identity and the direction that he was wanting to go. The Lord simply sent us an authentic American to remind us of who we are and what we should be striving to do.

I would imagine that if Aldous Huxley were here he would say that if we could embrace our individuality, as we have learned from President Trump, that it would be the significant exercise in demonstrating what it takes to be the ultimate anti-automaton.

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“The moral of the story is, I chose a half measure when I should have gone all the way. I’ll never make that mistake again. No more half measures, Walter.”

–Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks, Breaking Bad)

Throughout my career as a fitness and strength coach I’ve had many people approach me in the hopes that I could help them to work in order to achieve a stronger and fitter body.

Now hearing that you may think that this isn’t such an unusual request, but the thing you have to understand is that the fitness industry at large has been heavily degraded in terms of quality coaching and advice across the board, much like our institutions have been degraded over the past several decades.

Nowadays, because the market has been saturated with bad coaching, most people want to look for the latest fads with things like hot yoga, how to get a beach body in time for the summer, etc. Fortunately for me this doesn’t involve my students.

In short, with the interest in the field the majority of it has become a mix of marketing fads that have ultimately resulted in the country still suffering from the highest obesity rate consisting of 40% of the population, along with a battery of other health problems that plague the nation.

When it comes to health in the current zeitgeist many people still want to ignore doing the work all while depending on some horrible medical procedure, or a so-called magical pill from big Pharma, for their desired results. This ultimately leads them back to the physical road to perdition inviting in even more problems than what they started with in the first place.

The reality is that the fitness industry has probably been propagandized worse than just about any other industry. These days it’s all about the fads and the fad coaches rather than measurable and sustainable lifelong results. In short, perception is not reality, but perception is sold as the reality in the fitness industry. The same thing can be said for every other industry as well.

The reality is that there are very few natural results to look at regarding the industry as a whole. Instead we get stuck with the artificial Instagram models that would rather pose as being the greatest online coaches who, in reality, are primarily aiming to push you into some sales funnel in order for you to buy their latest line of Chinese manufactured supplements rather than providing you with sound physical results.

The truth is that for the last several decades in our society there has been a real detachment with many people concerning their mind/body connection due to the lack of physical activity and physical jobs that used to dominate the landscape of the workforce.

Because of this most of the population are completely incapable of making any sound healthy decision for themselves. The sad reality is that a large segment of the population have become dependent on the latest fad, the internet, a coach, or some cheap low quality supplement to feel like they’re doing something worthwhile for their health.

Now don’t get me wrong I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with hiring a coach, or for doing some research. That’s not the point I’m making here at all. After all, I’m a coach myself and I do this for a living.

The point I’m making is simply about pointing out the reality that a lot of people in our society simply have zero ability to figure out some basic level of things for themselves. As a result of this it’s simply become difficult for many people to do what should come naturally in a lot of ways when it comes to making healthy decisions concerning their personal health and lifestyle goals.

Now having said all of that there’s something I want to touch on here today that I frequently communicate to new students that do seek me out in order to help them with their physical journey.

The thing I will communicate with those students that are truly serious about making a change in their lives in order to get fitter and stronger involves the significant decision of moving forward in the process of taking full measures.

Essentially a full measure enters into the equation when a student is willing to put into their lifestyle and training the full amount of effort both mentally and physically on a consistent basis in order to acquire optimal results for their physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Now to be fair not everyone is capable of doing this. In fact, most people aren’t capable of doing this, but for those that do engage in this on a consistent basis it involves a game-changing level of personal agency that is derived from a true exercise in one’s own personal discipline of action.

Because of this, the decision for one to act on a full measure is unto itself a feat of personal strength. Furthermore, this sort of mental fortitude is the exact attribute that is necessary for one to become a Zenith in this current day and age.

Now the reason I’m telling you this is that there’s a very powerful and deep psychological lesson to be learned from one deciding to take a full measure when it comes to pursuing a particular venture.

Psychological Compartmentalization

Now I want to take a moment to explain just how powerful the decision can be for you if you decide to take an unrelenting full measure, instead of a half measure, as it pertains to your psychological frame of mind when pursuing a particular goal in your life. I believe you will find this part of the discussion to be quite riveting.

To give this some proper context I want to share a little story with you here. I had a conversation years ago with a friend of mine Brad Mcleod who is a Navy SEAL and is the founder of the organization SEALGrinderPT. I had been a contributing writer to the SEALGrinderPT website as a coach and had developed a functional fitness and martial arts strength training program for the platform years ago as one of the few civilian coaches who did not serve in the military. It was an honor to work with Brad during this time.

Back then prior to one of the projects that we worked on together Brad and I grabbed some lunch one day to catch up. During this lunch Brad shared a very interesting story with me that really illustrated the willpower and psychological edge that is necessary for one to have when one finds themselves in the middle of a high stress situation.

As we were talking at lunch I wanted to inquire about his experience when he went through the most intense form of training on the planet in order to become a Navy SEAL. By the way, if you’re not aware of what that is, this high level training is what is known as BUD/S which is an acronym for Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL Training.

Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL Training is the selection process for Navy SEALs. This is the most grueling form of training on the entire planet.

Now when I say grueling you may be wondering, just how tough is BUD/S?

Given that this is one of the most, if not the most, intense programs on the planet it’s pretty well known that it has a 75-80% attrition rate. I believe some say that if you follow the entire process to chart the full path on what it takes in order to get to BUD/S that many may say that it gets even closer to a 90% attrition rate.

Regardless of the exact number the point is that this training selection is one of the toughest there is on the planet. With such a high attrition rate the elimination of candidates can be chalked up to being a breaking point that takes place either mentally, or physically concerning each candidate that fails to make the selection.

It should also be noted that the guys that make it to BUD/S are some of the best the military has to offer and more than likely they didn’t just stumble into this program by accident.

Now let me get back to the story. So as I was saying, as we were talking at lunch I wanted to inquire about his experience when he went through BUD/S.

I knew Brad was mentally and physically a very tough individual so I asked him what part of BUD/S he found to be the most challenging.

It was at this point that he started to differentiate between the mental and physical demands of the program and he said that there were obviously many things that were challenging, but for him personally he was very honest about how difficult it was to deal with the cold water.

It was at this point that he started telling me that even though he wasn’t the biggest, or the strongest, among the candidates in his class, that he never let that stop him. He said that as much as he didn’t like the cold water he could still grind it out sitting in the cold surf for a long period of time if the training demanded it. He pointed out that if he had to, he could exhibit the mental toughness to play that game all day long.

Now it was at this point that he shared with me a story about when he was in the cold surf during one of the training exercises and they were literally working at fighting off the reality of hypothermia.

He said that they were in an exercise where they were in the cold surf and that the cold was the most intense thing he had ever felt. In this situation he was saying that they were all required to have a swim buddy. As he was in a mental fight with himself against the biting cold he told me that he could see the struggle in the face of his swim buddy, but that he knew that he also looked as weary and miserable as his swim buddy because he was right there with him in the same cold water.

However, he said that after a while he knew that once he saw the medical staff arrive on the beach that they wouldn’t be out there in the cold water that much longer. Now in this moment for Brad this signaled a near to the end of this particular exercise and the reality was that his instincts would prove to be right.

According to his story they ended up being at the end of the exercise and because he read the situation ahead of time, in the midst of a high stress situation, it was a strong affirmation for him during this point of the training.

Now having said that, this was Brad’s interpretation of this particular scenario during a high stress situation. However, what he told me next was very interesting.

He pointed out that even though he had read the situation the way that he did, there might have been another pair of guys just a few feet away that may have interpreted that situation in a completely different way.

He said that in the same exact situation another guy somewhere might have been suffering from the cold, seen the medical staff, and thought that they were intentionally trying to freeze them to death in the process of training. As Brad explained this he was pointing out that this could have been the interpretation of another candidate and explained that this was the type of psychological warfare that goes on within oneself throughout the entire experience.

Now obviously these sorts of extreme conditions are intentionally used to push these individuals to their limits as the Navy is looking to get the very best that they can in order to be a part of the teams, but what other lesson can we learn from this example?

The thing that really stood out to me here in Brad’s story was the potential differences in psychological compartmentalization that goes on with how different people can interpret and deal with the same exact situation. In other words, if everyone in a particular group, or setting, is faced with the same difficult situation there’s going to be very different reactions to that same situation from person to person.

In addition to this, here Brad was able to exercise an effective level of psychological compartmentalization when the moment called for it. For clarity, psychological compartmentalization is a mental defense mechanism where an individual can separate certain thoughts, emotions, and experiences into various mental compartments in order to manage difficult feelings, stress, or trauma.

Now I’m no psychologist, but this ability for psychological compartmentalization to me seems like a healthy coping tool for certain moments such as this example involving the challenges of a high stress situation such as BUD/S. In certain momentary situations I think this is a full display of strength involving one being able to take control of their emotions and mental stress in order to get through a difficult circumstance.

However, some professionals say that even though psychological compartmentalization can be healthy in temporary situations involving high stress jobs and relationships, it can also be very damaging if it is done excessively and unconsciously on an ongoing basis. In circumstances involving someone doing this on an excessive and ongoing basis this could lead to someone falling into a trap of emotional avoidance, a fragmented identity, and an inability to process trauma altogether.

So why am I telling you this?

I wanted to use this story here with Brad to communicate the significance of what it takes for a strong individual to decide on taking a full measure when it comes to a particular life pursuit. In his case that full measure was doing what needed to be done to get through BUD/S and to eventually become a Navy SEAL.

Now at the same time, this scenario did not highlight avoiding reality. I’ll do my best here to elaborate on this a bit further as I see it. You see I believe that a strong individual like my friend Brad here can face a difficult situation and have the ability to control the framework of his mind and to switch it on and off for the function of psychological compartmentalization when the need for it arises. As a lasting vanguard of this current populist movement I’m sure you can relate.

At the same time, I believe there are a lot of people in society that have been so traumatized by abuse, corporate media, and even in their pursuit for further education that they have probably fallen into a state of perpetual psychological compartmentalization.

I will point out that I personally believe that this would explain a great deal of the radical behavior that we’ve been seeing on college campuses, roadside Tesla vandalisms, and overall emotional immaturity that can be seen on tens of thousands of social media videos that we’ve been able to view daily over the past ten years.

I believe this organized societal trauma is a real setback for many people as it has stripped them of their ability to control the psychological framework of their minds and keeps them in a state of ongoing compartmentalization. Unfortunately, I believe this has resulted in them remaining in a state of mind where they continually ignore reality, which is why they’re incapable of dealing with reality.

The Wrap Up

That quote I led off with at the beginning of this episode is from the hit TV series Breaking Bad.

If you haven’t seen this series I’ll warn you that it is quite gritty and can be a bit dark at times, but it is very well written and paints a picture of one of the most potentially realistic and creative transformations of a character that I’ve ever seen in any modern day storytelling.

Coincidentally it’s one of my favorite series because it is written with a deeply thought out storyline that will force you to think about what you just watched, along with making you aware of how bad choices can send your life flying sideways and off the rails if you allow it.

Anyways, the quote I referenced at the beginning comes from Season 3 Episode 12 of the series and the title of that particular episode is Half Measures. I thought that was fitting given the message of today’s episode.

Now in the scene that surrounds the quote I led off with, it involves a scenario surrounding the main character Walter White (Bryan Cranston) being given a warning by his employer’s fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks). For some added context Walter’s business involves cooking meth for a kingpin named Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) that competes with the drug cartels.

Walter was literally a Nobel Prize winning chemist and earlier in his life he had taken a small buyout from a small company that he was previously a part of that literally went on to skyrocket to being worth billions of dollars. This decision ultimately led him down a path in life where he was filled with professional bitterness.

In case you haven’t seen the show this decision, combined with the piling on of several other life problems, led Walter down a path to cooking crystal meth for Gus. As it turns out Walter didn’t get to this point on his own.

He has a sidekick named Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) who worked on the dealing side of the business as Walter obviously used his dominant chemistry skills to work on the supply side of the business.

Ok now I’ll get back to the details surrounding the quote by Mike.

Without getting too much into the weeds of the storyline in this scene Mike comes to visit Walter one night at his house because he and Gus are looking at Jesse as being a bit of a liability. Out of respect for Walter, Mike comes to speak with Walter on the matter directly instead of taking any action towards Jesse without any sort of warning.

During his conversation with Walter, Mike starts telling him a story from his past when he was a beat cop. In this story Mike goes into detail about how he and his partner would consistently get a call to go out to the same residence on a frequent basis due to a domestic dispute.

According to Mike every single time they would show up to this particular residence it would always involve the same thing which was a case of spousal abuse. In this particular case Mike said it involved the husband who had a massive build, weighed close to 270 lbs., and would take out his frustration on his wife who had a very small body that was similar to a bird, according to Mike.

In this story Mike talks about how they would get call after call over a period of time. He would describe the frustrating cycle of how they would go out to the residence to pick up the husband to take him in only to have him sleep it off and to eventually be released to go back home again.

He said that they ended up doing this on what seemed to be a fairly regular basis because the woman would never press charges. She was too scared of him.

However, he said one night his partner was out sick when the call came in and he went out to the residence on his own. He said that he was driving the guy into town as usual on this particular night and during the drive the guy started humming a song in the back seat and Mike said it just rubbed him the wrong way.

So on this night instead of taking the usual left turn to head into town he took a right turn to head out into the middle of nowhere.

Mike said that once he got to a desolate spot that he took the guy out of the car and made him get on his knees. He pulled out his revolver and stuck the barrel of the gun in the guy’s mouth.

It was at this point that he told this guy that this was how it was going to end. According to Mike, the guy was begging for his life and Mike instructed him to get quiet so that he could think about what he had to do.

He said as he stood there with the gun to the guy’s head he went quiet, and then he got real quiet.

Obviously the guy was scared to death and had sat there crying, begging, and swearing that he would never lay another hand on the woman ever again. As the story goes Mike gave him a stern warning and ultimately let him go.

However, according to Mike the guy ended up brutally killing the woman just two weeks later. It was at this point that Mike said that the moral of the story was that he chose a half measure, when he should have gone all the way. Then he looked at Walter and said, “No more half measures, Walter.”

Now this is a deep dark story that this episode uses to communicate the driving motivation behind Mike’s process of decision making. Obviously this man’s constitution is serious and perhaps even unwavering at times, but it is obviously the reason he finds himself being able to work in the high risk position that he’s in, regardless of the moral implications of his position.

The reason this is significant is because to me Mike’s character is someone who operates by the law of the jungle. Despite the circumstances of his career choice Mike still understands the driving force behind human nature in his world involving survival, financial motive, and self-preservation.

Conversely, as I stated earlier I believe that many people throughout our society have been so demoralized by the media, our institutions, and culture that many have been stuck in a state of perpetual psychological compartmentalization. Unlike my friend Brad who has the ability to switch this on and off for the purpose of dealing with a high stress situation in a given moment, the demoralized portion of the population has been stuck in simply not dealing with the reality of the world whatsoever. I believe you can see this too.

Because of this it has rendered a significant portion of the population incapable of understanding human nature as it pertains to its role in the law of the jungle. Unlike our fictional character Mike Ehrmantraut, the demoralized communist left in our country are in total denial of reality as they refuse to deal with their internal cognitive dissonance and to face the reality of their actions. As a result they are incapable of acknowledging the laws of the jungle as it pertains to self-preservation, financial motive, and survival when it applies to their choices and the things that they support.

Of course, this lack of ability to address and resolve internal conflict directly results in the fragmentation of their identity, along with bringing on a serious lack of self-awareness. This lack of self-awareness is something I’ve noticed that accelerated throughout our society during the pandemic and seemingly had spread faster than the virus itself.

If you’ve ever dealt with anyone who lacks self-awareness then you understand just how serious this issue is and how much this attribute renders those people incapable of dealing with reality and recognizing the dangers in something that’s standing right in front of them. It’s a very destructive thing and in my view it’s something that has become more and more noticeable throughout society since the pandemic.

You know I have thought a lot about this condition lately because I’ve noticed several people in my life who seem to suffer from this. With the world seemingly spinning out of control, and with the coming age of AI, it got me thinking about the particular issue of people lacking in self-awareness which, by the way, strips away their ability for empathy.

If you haven’t read the Bible I’m sure you’ve still heard some of the stories of our past from the good book. One of those stories involves the fall of man which involved the disobedience of Adam and Eve and their loss of God’s grace in a perfect living world in the Garden of Eden due to the introduction of sin.

As a result of this fall we have since referred to our flaws and shortcomings involving our interactions with others as simply being human. Within this paradigm we could at least still have the opportunity to do what would be considered to be good in God’s eyes even though we now live in a fallen world that is infiltrated by sin. Thankfully we have God’s gift of grace through his mighty son Jesus.

However, now both you and I can perhaps consider that this paradigm of what it means to be human is shifting and changing once again. You can see this with the ever-growing desire and isolation for people to not interact and deal with one another altogether.

You clearly saw the negative impact of this on society during the pandemic and with the continuous spread of people throughout society that lack self-awareness and empathy this is laying the groundwork for a societal collapse unless people depend on something else to navigate this new world.

Alarmingly enough this growing isolation of people who lack self-awareness and empathy seems to be fertile ground for the coming age of AI. This could be what we will eventually refer to as the second fall of man in reference to following the first fall after Adam and Eve.

Now the way we thwart this is by optimizing ourselves with personal pursuits that lift up our own status in life so that we can then be more capable of lifting up others. We can do this by learning how to optimize our own mental, physical, and spiritual health as I stated at the beginning of this episode. This is where you and I can put our faith in God instead of placing our faith in man, or machine.

This is how you and I both can continue to upgrade our Zenith status and that starts by making sure we don’t take any half measures when doing so.

Have you noticed the steady increase in people who lack empathy and self-awareness?

Do you also believe that we can reverse this course by spending billions of dollars and effort on reaching others for the advancement of human performance rather than machine performance in order to avoid the second fall of man?

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“I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.”

–Hulk Hogan

Due to the culture of the 1960s and 1970s the music from that era is often regarded as having resulted in being some of the best that has ever been created. There were several reasons for this relating to the fact that it involved significant social and political upheaval due to some key events at the time involving the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and a change in other traditional norms.

For good or bad, and whether or not it was organic or manufactured, this time period was significant in that the culture was changing the landscape of society. This culture shift resulted in a key element of creativity that sprouted up and could be seen and heard embedded deep within the fashion, music, and art during that time period.

I wanted to use the 1960s and the 1970s to comment on this as you can observe this unique culture through many movies, songs, newspapers, and magazine covers from the time. From fashion all the way to music the 1960s and 1970s was a culture to behold even though I was born towards the later part of this time period in 1976.

Now even though the 1960s and the 1970s were profound I can also attest to the fact that the 1980s were also a very unique time period as well. Being that I’m a part of Generation X (GenX for short) I was able to have the privilege of growing up as a kid of the 1980s.

So why was this significant?

After the Vietnam War had wound down bringing the 1970s to a close the 1980s came into focus ushering in its own problems, as well as, its own successes along with its own significant culture of influence.

As a kid of the 1980s I can remember the talks of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. I can remember how there was a shift in attitude within the country where it seemed to come roaring out of a more depressed state following the 1970s under the leadership of Jimmy Carter to being energized and reinvigorated under the leadership of President Reagan.

Even as a kid I can remember noticing the reinvigorating energy that was displayed throughout the culture of the 1980s. I witnessed and lived this firsthand with being able to see a patriotic love and fervor throughout the country that was evident everywhere I turned from the music, to the movies, to the sports, and even in one other place that, culturally speaking, kinda flew under the radar.

It was that last under the radar phenomenon that I just mentioned that, in my view, laid the foundation for being a very big reason as to why we can be grateful that Donald Trump is currently the sitting President of the United States.

So what was this unexpected force of nature that I was referring to where I witnessed this Patriotic love and fervor, and what does it have to do with Donald Trump winning the Presidency?

This unexpected phenomenon I’m referring to appeared on my own TV screen, along with millions of other TV screens of young GenX boys, on Saturday mornings growing up in the 1980s. The reason this is so significant is because many of the communist left were completely blindsided and caught off guard by this same force of nature during the Republican National Convention prior to this past election in November.

Just in case you happen to be confused at what force of nature I’m referring to, I'm going to clarify that for you right now.

Enter Hulkamania

Growing up as a GenXer I can tell you firsthand that there was nobody that brought more electricity to the living rooms of GenX boys growing up than Hulk Hogan.

That’s right, that 6’7” towering powerhouse would entertain GenX boys through the television airways to a level that I know resulted in some rambunctious behavior from me that would drive my mother to yell at me from the next room on many Saturday mornings. She would warn me on multiple occasions to not destroy the furniture and to refrain from doing any leg drops on my kid brother on the living room floor. For full disclosure, I might have allowed my kid brother to jump off of the couch, a time or two, in order to land a flying elbow on me as well, but I digress.

There was no denying that Hogan was quite the entertainer because once he would enter the arena to Rick Derringer’s killer song Real American he would blow the lid off the place by extracting a roar from the crowd that could probably register on a nearby Richter scale. After his grand entrance he would grab the microphone from the legendary announcer Mean Gene to further energize his Hulkamaniacs in order to wage an all out war against his next opponent.

Hogan would often talk about how he had derived the energy from his Hulkamaniacs in order to successfully use his 24 inch pythons (his own moniker for his muscular arms) to lift the powerful Andre The Giant overhead to bodyslam him to the mat. This feat would ultimately secure his spot as being the face of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

Hulk Hogan always brought the energy and the message to his devoted fans, especially to young boys that all looked up to him not only for being a strong towering figure, but because he was a representative of strength when it came to doing what was right in the world. Hogan represented exactly what Derringer’s song states: Fight for the rights of every man, Fight for what’s right, Fight for your life.

The message from Hulk Hogan’s own lips to his young fans was simple: Train hard, say your prayers, and take your vitamins.

Hulk Hogan wasn’t only an American cultural icon, but he was a voice in the wilderness that would inspire millions to aspire to greater things in life. He captured the imaginations of millions of young boys on those epic Saturday mornings in the 1980s. He did this by driving nearly all of Generation X young boys in a direction of understanding that heroes are real and that those heroes really are meant to do good things when the moment calls for them to do so.

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“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:

Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;

Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;

Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;

Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;

Increased demand to live off the state.”

― Edward Gibbon

Over the past two decades with my career as a professional fitness and strength coach I’ve experienced and learned a lot concerning the function of human psychology and what goes into driving people to do what they do in their various pursuits of life.

Now I’m no psychologist and I'm certainly not saying that I have all the answers when it comes to the internal motivations of people and how they go about pursuing certain life goals. Conversely, I’m not even saying I have the answers as to why they choose not to pursue particular goals either.

However, what I do know is that whenever there is a goal that is to be pursued and accomplished the most successful achievers are always able to demonstrate two key attributes in order to make their dreams a reality. Those two attributes involve their personal discipline of action combined with having a killer instinct.

Now the attribute of possessing a personal discipline of action is pretty self-explanatory, but what is it that I mean when I talk about one possessing a killer instinct?

If you’ve ever watched a professional MMA fight then you’ve witnessed one of the most intensely competitive sports in all of history. The competition between fighters is something that is very strenuous and intense because they don’t have any other teammates to rely on in order to come out on top in their particular form of competition. In other words, the final outcome of the MMA bout solely falls onto the shoulders of each fighter.

It’s because of the recognition of the responsibility that’s involved in this individual reality that a fighter knows that they have to go all in with everything they’ve got when it comes to winning. When it involves the reality of such a one on one competition inside of that cage the stone cold fact that the fighter understands is that nobody is going to be able to come inside of that cage with them in order to win the fight for them. When it’s all said and done they clearly understand that nobody is coming in to save them.

Sure, a fighter may have a great corner of guys and girls for support. However, at the end of the day it’s up to them to walk across that mat to face off against that other guy or girl to fight the fight in order to win the day. Additionally, they understand that their competition is on the other side of that mat facing down that same exact reality.

With that being said, the last ten years have taught us a lot about what the overarching perception of our society has fallen victim to in regards to the destructive accepted beliefs and norms of our times. For clarity, those beliefs and norms certainly haven’t involved an individual mindset of achievement the way our fighter sees their pursuit, but rather our society chose to embrace mediocrity, victimhood, and mindless decadence.

Whenever a fighter gets too comfortable, too cocky, or too relaxed it most always eventually results in that fighter getting knocked out. Any fighter that doesn’t respect their competition, or in a split second moment decides to take a half measure instead of a full measure, is opening themselves up for a devastating defeat.

In other words, if you expect to win any fight in life you must have a killer instinct.

The Old Status Quo

Now when I talk about the old status quo, I’m more specifically talking about what those beliefs have been in regards to what has maintained the old status quo of our society up until the beginning of the Great Awakening that has taken place in the last five years.

That old status quo societal belief system that I’m referring to has been one of complacency and has consisted of a weak rotting culture. This weak rotting culture has more and more been the result of our society having gradually sided with mediocrity. This rotting culture has been the result of our social media platforms having given the shallow midwits a megaphone while silencing the truly skillful and talented voices of our time.

This has been apparent ever since our society succumbed to excessive laziness and decadence when it started placing more cultural emphasis on the Kardashians instead of deep diving into how our founders moved heaven and earth to put us into a position in this country to even be able to consider the Kardashians a form of brain-dead entertainment in the first place. For clarity, I don’t find the Kardashians entertaining at all, but I do recognize the business strategy behind them being a form of brain-dead entertainment.

Our society was once fit and strong, but in the current times we have had to endure an out of control obesity rate, record high disease, and an entire population of white leftist Karens that scream at us to follow the $cience of horrible medical practices that both degrade our individual health and our individual sovereignty.

President Kennedy once inspired the nation to be on a unified front by challenging us all to be as fit as possible with the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It’s been my understanding that in recent history many schools have done away with Physical Education classes and have also done away with placing an emphasis on physical fitness in general.

This was clearly intentional, and like the Kardashians it was an obvious test to see what our society would tolerate in terms of our acceptance of mediocrity because this is what communists do. Communists destroy a society by degrading a society from within. Keep in mind that a communist takeover doesn’t typically happen rapidly.

These movements happen gradually over time AND THEN rapidly all at once. This was the dire warning that we got from Yuri Besmenov long ago that we’re now experiencing with President Trump and MAGA fighting like crazy to defeat at this very moment. Unfortunately we’re dealing with a widespread Red Reality.

Fortunately President Trump is also now looking to restore that emphasis on physical fitness as well.

If we fast forward to the modern day it’s very clear that the strategy of embracing mediocrity has worked as we’re now learning just how deep, just how corrupt, and just how rotten our society has become from having embraced mediocrity as a whole instead of embracing meritocracy.

In my industry as a coach I’ve always taught my students about how complacency is a killer to everything in life. Complacency is something that will destroy an individual, a community, and a country all the same.

I’ve noticed for a long time how our society has just been on cruise control when I’ve seen disappointing election after disappointing election happen throughout my life. Like you I’ve noticed how our country would maintain a consistent status quo of failure by supporting and allowing one bad candidate after the next to come into office and put forth policies that simply moved our country in the wrong direction.

As this happened the culture continued to rot along with the country’s decline. Our financial systems worsened, our business sector transformed into corporate gulags employing system operatives that lived their lives for their corporate overlords rather than for lady liberty, and small business entrepreneurs continued to get crushed in the process.

This all happened simply because there were no intellectual Zeniths in our society, or at least those Zeniths were not given a platform, or a voice…until now. We’ve also never had a Patriot warrior for President of the United States in our lifetimes…until now.

After the pandemic hit it was so obvious to me that the things that I had always thought about were clearly leading to a drastic escalation of problems within our society and throughout the world at large. With the pandemic it was obvious to me that we were dealing with our government engaging in a declaration of war against its own citizenry. During this time I found my mind racing to try and figure out how to do my part in fighting back during a time of government mandated home imprisonment. Of course, the government preferred to fine tune its Orwellian practice by using the term quarantine in place of home imprisonment when referring to the pandemic lockdowns.

To me this was a legitimately scary time and the concern wasn’t because of some virus. The glaring concern to me was tyranny. Yet, at that time, I also remember how I went onto my various social media platforms and saw how people were more concerned about the Tiger King Netflix series rather than talking about how to organize in order to fight the freight train of tyranny that I could clearly see coming directly towards all of us. If you’ve been a long time reader to this Substack then I’m sure you experienced the same thing.

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

Mark 6:4

Over the years in being in business for myself I’ve frequently discovered that there are many talkers in society, but not so many doers when it comes to various forms of support and action. People will frequently tell you that they are going to do something, but then when the rubber meets the road the majority of those people will be nowhere to be found.

Of course, back when the population’s displeasing sentiment started growing from the obvious tyranny that was starting to show from the lockdowns, I found myself in the wilderness studying and thinking about starting a podcast and blog to expand on my conversation of geopolitics, history, philosophy, culture, faith, and health. It was apparent to me at that time that I needed to expand the conversation beyond my normal scope of telling people how to perform push ups and squats as a fitness and strength coach. It was apparent to me that the culture needed a drastic shift in the opposite direction.

I personally found this to be an uncontrollable urge as if it were a calling for me to do so. In other words, I had some knowledge in some other areas of life that I felt compelled to share with you and the rest of the world. Of course, this eventually led to me launching this very Substack.

However, there was a lesson to be learned in the process of launching this venture and striving to be a voice of liberty. Just prior to doing so I was pretty guarded about who I wanted to tell regarding this decision. At the time there were some friends, family, and colleagues that I told about my new venture.

Of course, my immediate friends and family have been supportive from the beginning. However, just like Jesus said in the verse from Mark 6:4, my extended network of friends and colleagues that expressed support were nowhere to be found once the rubber met the road and my finger hit the publish button.

Even though I knew this would probably have been the case based on my previous experience of being in business for myself for the past twenty years, I still thought this might have been a slightly different scenario when it came to this particular venture. I thought this time might be an exception given the obvious historical level of tyranny that was being exposed. In short, the way I saw it then is exactly the way we’re seeing it now regarding the reality that we are at war with domestic communists who have had aggressive control of our media and institutions.

Because of this I thought that perhaps it would be a bit easier for me to rely on those friends and colleagues that expressed their support of my venture based on the very threats that were facing them. In my view I thought in this current environment that they would see me as another one of their proxies to contribute to the fight against the same multi-billion dollar communist information war machine that was trying to destroy them.

However, at the end of the day the wise words from the Lord in Mark 6:4 still applied to the same degree as it had for me in the previous twenty years of being in business. Understand that I’m not telling you this to whine, or complain. That’s not the point of this lesson in the least.

This lesson is about merely stating an objective fact so that you can better understand this environment for yourself. The bottom line is that your contributing efforts that go into saving this country will potentially even involve disappointment in your own household and amongst the friends in your circles if you haven’t figured this out for yourself already.

The Wrap Up

The reason I’m telling you this in today’s message is because I want you to be aware of this reality should you yourself decide to start your own venture, or if you currently find yourself in this very position right now.

Additionally, I wanted to illustrate how unhelpful interpersonal relationships can also potentially funnel down to negatively impact the voices involved in the liberty movement in its attempt to save this Republic from succumbing to a literal communist revolution. I wanted to point out that even in the moment of the zero hour you cannot be ignorant to the fact that there are potentially people that you thought you might be able to count on who will not be there to save you, or to even help you along in your journey.

You know the real reason that communism exists is to simply destroy a society. Yes, the disparity between the haves and the have nots is worse in a communist system than any other system even though the proponents of this destructive system don’t understand that to a large degree. For further clarification the politicians understand it, but the useful idiots that are supporting those politicians don’t.

However, the reason communism exists in the first place is because it boils down to one simple thing and that thing simply involves the sin of envy. In other words, those who simply do not possess the traits involved with having the discipline of action and a killer instinct for pursuing a life goal don’t want anyone else to be able to do so either because they have convinced themselves that they are incapable of doing so.

Therefore, it should be a vitally important lesson to all of us that such envy is incredibly destructive, not only to individual achievement, but it can literally collapse a society at large.

This is exactly why communism exists and the thing you must understand is that at the end of the day the survival of liberty boils down to simply being a numbers game. That’s right, you have to remember that the less that people support the voices of liberty out of envy the more it creates a fertile ground for communism to blossom.

Envy basically serves as the fertilizer for communism to spread throughout a household, a community, a state, and even a nation. At this point if those numbers of people who embrace envy exceed the numbers of people who embrace liberty then it will result in you getting a totalitarian society.

The same envy that causes friends and family members within your closest circles to not support your business venture, or your pursuit of a venture that supports the liberty movement, is the same envy that exists to bring about a woke nightmare that craters industry and desires to usher in a totalitarian system of government.

When the CCP’s Mao Zedong launched his Let a hundred flowers bloom campaign back in May of 1956 it was sold by the regime to the public as a campaign to promote free thought and to display more free criticism of the communist party. However, as criticism grew from the public the regime started getting uneasy and basically used the campaign to identify those critical voices of the regime which in turn led to those individuals losing their jobs, it led them being forced into intense labor camps, and ultimately led to many of them being thrown into prison.

The key lesson from this is that under Mao the regime still maintained complete control of the government when it allowed the public to entertain the illusion of free speech and free thought during that time. However, in reality, the illusion of free speech could only be just that because the regime itself was still firmly intact.

The difference between the citizens of the CCP under Mao during the Hundred Flowers campaign and us as citizens here in the United States is that we STILL have enough of a free voice at the moment. We have the ability to express our free speech along with a Patriot warrior of a President that is willing to amplify our voices in order to take down a Deep State. Mind you this same Deep State would be more than happy to employ the same crackdown on you and me just as Mao’s communist party did to its own citizens at the end of his own campaign.

Mao’s communist regime is a reminder of just how destructive envy can be and why we should never allow it to infect our society. However, one of the most recent contrasting examples of this can be seen with two recent ad campaigns from two very well known and recognized public brands involving Jaguar and American Eagle. These two brands clearly illustrate the massive gap and measurable outcomes between two opposing perspectives.

Patrick Bet-David pointed out the glaring outcome of these two opposing ad campaigns with American Eagle launching the Sydney Sweeney ad which resulted in $300 million in a single day with about $65 million in free media exposure. I believe their stock soared up 17% as well and they made a statement standing strong against the woke communist mob who have been melting down since the campaign launched.

On the other hand, the Jaguar LGBTQ ad resulted in the sales in Europe plummeting 97.5% in April and it showed a devastating drop in sales from 180k cars sold in 2018 to only 27k being sold last year.

Many were critical of the stale appearance and ugliness of the Jaguar campaign as it was clearly focused on making an LGBTQ statement that involved blurring the roles of gender rather than focusing on the selling of cars.

At the end of the day the consumers chose not to conform to the demoralized imagery of the Jaguar campaign, but they did wholeheartedly put their dollars behind the bold stance of traditional beauty with the public’s praise of the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney ad campaign.

So what’s the big takeaway here?

The big takeaway is that we cannot allow envy to get between us and the pursuit of liberty. In addition to this if you choose to pursue a business venture in the parallel economy while being a voice of liberty you cannot allow the lack of support from those in your circles to discourage you from your goals.

At the end of the day you have to have a killer instinct and understand that you’ve got to be willing to go all in for you to come out on top of any pursuit because nobody else is going to do it for you.

Just remember that even though there may be some within your social circles to disappoint you with their lack of support of your venture, there will be others that will lift you up and they will show up from outside of your normal social circles during your journey.

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"Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.”

–Proverbs 22:29

Since the Jeffrey Epstein situation has resurfaced it has understandably caused a lot of frustration among the MAGA movement. Much of this has been based on the disappointing messaging that we’ve previously gotten from the Attorney General along with some other messaging that we’re now hearing from other influencers involved in the movement.

Because of this I recently addressed this with a comment on my Substack Notes and I’m going to include that comment here below so if you have already seen it please be patient as the context is essential for the message in today’s episode.

Substack Note:

I understand that there's a lot of MAGA frustrated and angry about the Epstein situation.

However, that frustration is what the Administrative State is hoping for. Remember that at the end of the day they see President Trump as a passing figure and they are just trying to hold up and delay everything he's trying to do. To delay is to deny.

However, it's yours and my duty to continue to dial up the pressure and to be relentless. We must channel our frustration into a focused and relentless offense against these evil and embedded governmental bad actors.

Understand that frustration can lead to cynicism and cynicism can lead to apathy. With that being said they only have to get 2-3% of us to fall into that trap.

At the end of the day I personally don't believe that our Lord and Savior Jesus pulled our country out of a dark place that was headed towards a technocratic slave state for nothing.

He is showing us just how far we've come and how much further we can go together with our faith and our actions.

Don't despair. Double down. Triple down. Quadruple down.

Whatever the enemy throws at us we counter tenfold.

God bless.

That was my comment on my Substack Notes just a few days ago and the one thing that this Epstein situation has reminded me of is the long battle that we (the MAGA and America First movement) have in front of us. Because of this it’s also reminding me of the necessity for our MAGA movement to demonstrate whether or not we have staying power in terms of our ability to meet ALL of the difficult issues that are threatening our liberty and freedoms head on.

Since President Trump came on the scene and spearheaded the most powerful cultural and political movement in all of history with MAGA I knew that this would be the ONLY thing that could stand a chance at defeating the deep state. However, since this story surrounding the Epstein files popped back up I’m seeing a lot of MAGA exhibiting a lack of patience and perspective on the issue.

Now before you get angry about that last statement allow me to put that into context. Remember that the deep state is a corrupt bureaucratic force that has been created, expanded, and embedded within our federal government and institutions now for many decades.

In other words, in this modern era the MAGA movement is arguably only about a decade old in its recent reorganization of our history if you’re starting the count from that famous moment that President Trump first came down that golden escalator. However, in our country’s more recent history we can trace the origin of the deep state all the way back to World War II with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his creation of the New Deal. That was the rapid birth and expansion of what we would now recognize today as the deep state.

The reason I’m telling you this is because in my lifetime I believe we’ve all, as a voting populace, become accustomed to wanting to play the short game in politics by desiring immediate change to a corrupt system such as ours between a four and eight year election cycle. Even with President Trump moving at Trump speed and proving just how useless previous presidents have been now for so long this is still a very heavy lift.

Conversely, the deep state itself plays the long game. As I previously mentioned in my Substack Notes they see President Trump as a passing figure that will be gone in three and a half years so things can return to a business as usual time of corruption.

In order to win MAGA must be willing to sustain its intensity for the long game. Speaking of the long game I want to temporarily shift the subject for a moment to talk about someone else who was great at playing the long game and this individual can teach us a lesson about how to do that in dominating fashion.

Nolan Ryan

When I was a kid I loved the game of baseball.

I played the sport, collected baseball cards, and being from Georgia I was a hardcore Atlanta Braves fan. I was there in Fulton County stadium at the age of about 15 when the Atlanta Braves went from worst to first and clinched their first pennant after being the worst team in baseball in 1991.

The Braves were loaded with talent with collectively providing the best pitching lineup in all of Major League Baseball with John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, a young Steve Avery, and Charlie Liebrandt. They would later pick up Greg Maddux, but he wasn’t in the picture here at this point.

Regardless, this rotation would prove to be the lifeblood of the Atlanta Braves franchise as they would move on from this 1991 season to be the most dominant franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB) for years to come.

Now I personally gave up on watching the MLB after they went on strike back in 1994. I thought that was the beginning of the end for a lot of the greatness that MLB had managed to produce in regards to their ability to showcase individual talent. Granted they had a few great years to come, but if we fast forward to the current day I couldn’t recognize who you might consider to be a superstar player if he walked right up to me in person and shook my hand.

Now don’t misunderstand me here. I know there are some truly talented players in the game today, but it’s the game itself that has become so corporate that to me the sport has killed the concept of the individual. To me everyone looks the same, they all act the same, and they all sound the same. I rarely see any scenario where players are allowed to speak their minds and they sort of just get shuffled into the group underneath the big corporate umbrella. It’s solely about the money they get from their advertisers in this day and age and in reality that’s the case with all of the professional sports today.

Now being that I played the game in my childhood and teenage years and loved following the Braves up until the strike, believe it or not, my favorite pitcher in the game wasn’t an Atlanta Brave.

That’s right, my favorite pitcher was the most rugged and dominant figure in all of MLB and was a force of nature when it came to strikeouts. This pitcher was more dominant than John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, and Roger Clemons.

After listing out the names of those powerhouse pitchers you may be wondering who in the world could be left that could have possibly been more dominant than those guys. Well if you’re wondering who that player was, that player was the great Nolan Ryan.

This past year I just watched a documentary on Nolan Ryan and it stirred up some childhood memories and brought back some reminders of why I once loved the game the way I did.

Just in case you’re not familiar with Nolan Ryan, he was a starting power pitcher that had a 27- year major league career where he dominated on the mound. Keep in mind that this 27 year career was longer than any player in major league baseball history.

In addition to that Nolan Ryan had struck out more batters than anyone in history with a whopping 5714 strikeouts sending dejected batters back to the dugout with zero productivity at the plate.

At one point during his documentary film Facing Nolan he spoke about how there was a moment when he had reached his forties and was sitting in the clubhouse realizing that he was older than his manager, older than the coaches, older than the general manager, and older than some of the parents of his own teammates.

It was at this moment during his career when he was the old guy being able to compete with the young talent of the major leagues at a very high level that created this sort of mythical legend about Nolan Rylan that everyone remembers to this very day. The unusual thing about Nolan Ryan was that he actually got better as he got older.

In fact, statistically speaking, he was actually a stronger pitcher from age 39-46 than he was at any other time during his entire career. You read that correctly, he was 46 years old at the time that he retired from major league baseball as a starting power pitcher that could absolutely bring the heat.

If you’re not familiar with baseball lingo, that last sentence is slang meaning that he could throw the ball really hard and really fast. In fact, it is said that Nolan Ryan could bring so much heat with his fastball that it is estimated to have been a shocking 108 mph if the radar gun technology and distance were adjusted to today’s standards.

One game when Nolan Ryan was 44 years old he was warming up just prior to his start against the Toronto Blue Jays. In this particular warm up he was having what he thought was a disastrous performance that made him start to think that it might possibly be his last performance.

According to Ryan his accuracy was off and he had been dealing with some back pain that was really giving him a difficult time. However, after this lackluster and disappointing warm up the time came for him to step out on the mound to face off against the Toronto Blue Jays.

It was at this moment where the first batter came up for Nolan to face and it only took three pitches to sit that guy down. The next two batters would suffer the same fate and suddenly Nolan had realized that the back pain that was bothering him during the pre-game warm up was no longer an issue.

He said that the more he threw the more it started to loosen up and the pain just continued to subside. Before the rest of the Texas Rangers ran back out on the field for Nolan to pitch his second inning he turned and looked at his teammates and said guys today just get me one. In other words, he was telling his team that all he needed from them was to score one run because he wasn’t going to allow the other team to score a single run.

One by one each batter would come up and one by one none of them would be able to get a hit. As each batter came to the plate each one would soon find his way right back to his team’s dugout.

As inning after inning went by everyone started to notice that the Toronto Blue Jays were simply not getting any hits or runs off of Nolan Ryan. Because of this every inning became more and more exciting. The fans were going nuts and there was a constant pop of camera flashes throughout the entire stadium as Nolan Ryan found himself in what many athletes refer to as being in the zone.

I’ve heard different definitions before describing what being in the zone means, but in this documentary one individual described the quantitative definition of being in the zone where thinking is inversely proportional to the stimulus of the environment. So in other words, during those high octane no hitter situations where the crowd is going nuts this basically meant that Nolan Ryan’s world was basically equivalent to a peaceful low quiet hum where nothing else existed except for the pitch, the ball, and his glove.

I myself have experienced moments in my athletic past where I felt what it was like to be in the zone. It’s a very unusual and phenomenal experience. When you’re in that moment you feel like you’re performing on an entirely different level than literally everyone else on the field, or in whatever competitive arena you’re involved in at that time.

At 44 years of age Nolan Ryan began a game as one of the oldest players in the game thinking that game would be the last game of his career based on his frustrating start. However, that very same game would end up being Nolan Ryan’s seventh and final no-hitter.

What started out seeming like it would be the last game of his career ended up being a game that would catapult Nolan Ryan into a category of his own with the title of being the greatest pitcher of all time.

Now I want you to put this on a shelf for now as I want to shift back to the original topic of discussion regarding all the frustration and controversy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein situation.

Once again, I understand that this is something where the patience of the American people has been running out, but the reality is that this situation hasn’t been a situation very long under the leadership of President Trump. The reality involving Jeffrey Epstein is one that involved him first being charged for unlawful sex with a minor as early as May of 2006 according to the AP.

Now I’m not going to go too much further into the details of the accusations surrounding the trafficking of young girls by Epstein and his involvement with political figures, famous people, etc. in that context. However, Epstein was mysteriously able to minimize the impact of that first serious charge involving his sexual criminal history and the reason for that is what I am going to elaborate on here in this episode.

My explanation for this is that I believe the real issue involving Epstein doesn’t necessarily center around him being this seedy figure that ran a global sex crime blackmailing operation against elite figures involved in domestic and foreign governments as his primary type of business model.

I want to be clear that this doesn’t suggest that there were no victims of sexual crimes and misconduct. I just literally quoted one of those where he was charged. With that being said I certainly want absolute justice for any and all victims that had to suffer from Epstein's actions. In fact, the full hammer of justice is an absolute MUST in this situation and this justice cannot be ignored with anyone that was associated with Epstein in this capacity.

However, with that being said I’m merely suggesting that I believe the meat and potatoes of Epstein’s nefarious business practices seem to be more centered around corrupt business dealings that he was associated with as a financial fixer for the CIA. This is actually a sound developing case that is being presented in a very intelligent way by Former State Department Cyber Mike Benz.

So what does this mean?

Mike Benz doesn't buy that Epstein was a blackmail figure, but rather a financial fixer meaning that he would broker off the book deals for the CIA. One key reason Benz points to this is the fact that Epstein had a longstanding working relationship with the CIA that goes all the way back to the early 1980s. In other words, Epstein was an intelligence asset of the deep state.

Additionally, Benz has also pointed out that it’s hard to believe that it would be practical for Epstein to have successfully run a blackmail honeypot operation among political and business elites for nearly forty years. He said this would simply be impractical without the word getting around among those communities that he was involved with while doing such a thing.

In other words, word of such a practice would have gotten around those communities long ago and the reality of a blackmail operation would have been ended all the way back in the 1980s. The fact is that business and political elites simply run in similar circles and there’s no way this would have gone unnoticed for four decades according to Benz’s perspective. I would also add that I would have a hard time arguing with Benz on this theory because if he were operating one of the most lucrative and historically powerful blackmail operations in history then how would he, or his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell have ever gotten arrested in the first place?

According to a recent Mike Benz interview with Steve Bannon there were some very sensible and meaningful dots connected to explain a lot of the mystery associated with Epstein’s past. In fact, it was discussed how former attorney general Bill Barr’s father reportedly met Epstein at a bookstore and was a key figure in helping him to get a job at one of the most prestigious prep schools in New York City known as the Dalton School.

At the time Epstein didn’t have a college degree, but he ended up being a tutor for math at the Dalton School where he would end up teaching Ace Greenberg’s son. Ace Greenberg was so impressed with Epstein’s intelligence that he ended up offering him a job at the famed Bear Stearns investment firm of which Ace himself was the chief executive of that company.

From here that interview points out how Epstein’s reputation grew in the financial arena and then strangely finds his way working with these high level figures who are involved with questionable international trade deals. One key example that Mike Benz points to here is the working relationship that Epstein had with Adnan Khashoggi.

Adnan Khashoggi was a Saudi businessman that played an infamous role in the 1986 Iran- Contra affair which would involve him bringing together the Iranian and Israeli dealers to work out a deal for the sale of 1500 U.S. missiles in exchange for the U.S. hostages that were held in Beirut at that time.

Benz points out how Epstein was acquiring financial assets through covert financing operations and he was involved with Khashoggi at the time that this deal with the Iran-Contra situation took place. According to Benz, Epstein clearly had this ability by having access to money through his relationships. Benz points out that many of these deals were probably dirty, and possibly even involved issues associated with national security due to his relationships and the nature of how many of these deals involved foreign entities and high level individuals within governments and business.

Because of Epstein’s network and connections to these high level individuals inside of governments and business these deals involved large sums of money that would exchange hands off the record for the CIA. It was because of this sort of set up that Benz suggests this is why there were girls involved with the sex crimes as he believes these girls were used more as a means to an end in the sense that they were a way Epstein would sweeten the closing of a deal. Benz believes that Epstein was using these girls in this manner of business rather than the trafficking of the girls themselves being the central focus for a global blackmailing operation.

Benz also points out that during the 1970s there was a restructuring of intelligence work where the CIA was barred from handling any activities directly. As a result this is where USAID and the NGO web (National Endowment for Democracy, Internews, US Institute of Peace, etc.) took the baton from the CIA and took over covert operations." (Source: Real Clear Politics)

In the interview with Steve Bannon and Mike Benz it was also pointed out how Epstein’s life came full circle with the Barr family. This was the case as it was Bill Barr’s father that got Epstein his job with the Dalton school and many years later it was Attorney General Bill Barr himself who drew up the entire new charging document for Epstein involving his second arrest. Here it was under Barr’s control and authority that the Bureau of Prisons reported to Barr that Epstein suicided himself.

Coincidentally it was Bill Barr who advised President George H.W. Bush to pardon six individuals who were also involved in that Iran-Contra affair as well. If this wasn’t strange enough Barr also worked for the CIA from 1973-1977.

For the sake of time I’m not going to dive any further into the Epstein past and connect anymore dots, but the reality is that I could easily keep going as the evidence is simply too great in regards to showing how Epstein had direct ties to the CIA. His relationship to the Barr family alone is a giant red flag.

For the past week when President Trump kept referring to the Epstein situation as being a hoax and kept seeming to want to simply brush it aside a lot of MAGA got very upset. Many people even started turning against President Trump. As usual the emotionally reactive people end up lashing out way too soon.

When President Trump did this with the Epstein situation he created the ultimate Streisand Effect which actually drew so much more attention to the case that even the Democrats were demanding that the files be opened despite the fact that they had been library quiet about it for four years under Biden.

President Trump plays these people like a fiddle. When the President kept calling the Epstein situation a hoax he wasn’t saying that nobody was harmed by Epstein. Instead he was saying that the Democrats, who were now magically interested in the Epstein files, were all the sudden trying to weaponize this case against him in the same exact way as they did with the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA Steele Dossier, the alleged sex tapes, etc.

After everything President Trump has been through I’m amazed people don’t just slow down to give him the benefit of the doubt, yet here we are again. Regardless, to explain this a bit further in President Trump’s interview with John Solomon and Amanda Head he reminded all of us that the previous regime had the files in their possession for four years.

After all, the previous head of the FBI was the anti-Trump bureaucrat Chris Wray and the previous Attorney General was anti-Trump Merrick Garland. Before Chris Wray was the head of the FBI it was anti-Trump James Comey’s FBI and before it was Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice it was anti-Trump Bill Barr’s Department of Justice. It’s pretty interesting how Bill Barr’s name just keeps coming up, right?

Furthermore, at this point most of MAGA understands that the Murdoch’s hate President Trump and last night I saw the report where the Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal actually published an article claiming that President Trump wrote a letter to Jeffrey Epstein.

This story was so absurd that it even stated that President Trump drew a picture of a naked woman in the letter. However, there was no letter that the Wall Street Journal published. It was simply an absurd empty accusation about a letter. This is the perfect example of how Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) will make people do really stupid things.

Of course, this morning I woke up to see where the President is unsealing all pertinent Grand Jury testimony surrounding the Epstein case. In addition to this he said he’s suing Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and is looking forward to seeing Murdoch himself personally testify in his lawsuit against Murdoch’s garbage newspaper.

The Wrap Up

The one thing that I believe is absolutely essential for all of us to remember is to understand that everything has context. When President Trump is calling the Epstein case a hoax he’s not saying that to detract from any suffering that was caused to any victims. What it meant was that he can clearly see the attacks coming from the Democrats and all of his opponents because he’s obviously seen these types of attacks before. Everything has context.

I’m pretty sure the President has a really good idea of what evidence and people may, or may not be involved with the Epstein scandal. President Trump understands that the deep state is doing everything it can to try and slow him down. After all, these are the same people that wanted to send him to prison for four hundred years to die and they will do it again if he fails at that mission this time around.

In addition to this the deep state will also come after all of us as well. You know aside from Nolan Ryan having survived a 27 year major league career, and arguably having been the hardest throwing pitcher to ever live, he was also a very seasoned and experienced warrior of a pitcher.

He could often tell whenever a batter was trying to test him because that batter would crowd the plate when getting into the batter’s box. Oftentimes this was something that Nolan said good hitters would do in order to try and get an edge on him. He said that in these situations he would have to wait for the right opportunity, but he also said he always had a bold solution to solve that problem.

In these scenarios Nolan Ryan’s solution would involve a 100+ mph fastball that would be thrown high and inside on the batter. Back in the day this is what my friends and myself would refer to as introducing some sweet chin music to the situation.

This would get the batters to back off every single time and if they didn’t then he would simply hit them with a pitch when the situation called for it.

Just like with Nolan Ryan before his final no-hitter when looking at this current Epstein situation with President Trump he’s proving again that even if his warm up seems a bit lackluster, he’s still proving once again that he’s absolutely bringing the heat come game time.

I understand that this Epstein situation caused some of MAGA to hit the panic button and that’s a problem. However, the rest of us have to remember that just like Nolan Ryan was in the zone during his final no-hitter, President Trump is also in the zone right now during the fight of his and our country’s lifetime.

Just like all 5714 of those batters came up to challenge Nolan Ryan, he sent them all back to the dugout dejected and with nothing to show for it other than failure and personal frustration.

President Trump is doing the same exact thing with every lying scandal, lying media outlet, and every anti-Trump individual that gets proven wrong on a near weekly basis over and over again.

The real justice comes with attacking this Grand Criminal Conspiracy against President Trump. You see the reason I say this is because the thing that made Jeffrey Epstein possible was the deep state itself and there are deep state bad actors that are currently being looked at for investigation involving John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey.

If any of us truly want justice for the Epstein victims then we need to make sure that these bad deep state actors get some sweet chin music from the swift hard hitting sword of Lady Justice.

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“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”

― Vince Lombardi

I want to take a moment to talk about a key trait that is involved in building significant human strength and resilience. This is a trait that’s necessary to understand not only for the purpose of building up your own individual physical resilience, but it’s also necessary for the importance of understanding how it can apply to a team, a movement, and a coalition that consists of the perpetuation of the beliefs and values of the liberty movement.

If it’s your first time on my platform then you may not know that I am a professional strength and fitness coach and small business owner. There’s a specific reason I’m telling you this and I will further clarify that reason as I elaborate on the message of today’s episode.

I’ve been a practicing coach now for close to 25 years and have trained a wide range of people from the novice all the way to world class athletes. Having been in this industry for so many years has allowed me to develop and acquire a very deep understanding of the human body and its potential.

So what is the trait I mentioned at the beginning of this episode that is essential for building optimal physical strength and resilience? The secret that I’m talking about that can build optimal physical strength and resilience in the human body simply involves having the discipline to put forth intentional consistent effort towards a goal.

That’s right, there’s no magical formula, no magical potion, or some extraordinary magical pill that is going to help you to achieve peak physical performance. There’s no quick fix for you to develop a resilient body that is resistant to almost every form of disease and injury known to mankind. That peak physical condition can only come from you possessing the discipline, willpower, and consistency in order to pursue it on a daily basis.

In order for you to have that you MUST make that decision in your mind in order to pursue such a goal in order to make it happen. Now having said that, I also mentioned that the same trait that was essential for you to build up peak physical strength and resilience was also necessary in building up a team, a movement, and a coalition particularly when involved in perpetuating the beliefs and values of the liberty movement.

So how exactly does this work?

Well I’ve really already answered that question, but I’ll still elaborate a bit further because it’s something that took me some time to come to understand. That same understanding is what led me down the path to eventually starting this Substack blog and podcast just three years ago.

From Everyday Citizen To Being An Emissary of Freedom

Unless you’ve been living under a rock since the pandemic hit there’s been a huge unmasking of villains that have been identified as enemies to this United States Republic and those enemies are domestic enemies that reside right here at home.

These enemies have pretty much been expanding inside the state governments and federal government throughout our beautiful nation for many years now. These enemies consist of communists, statists, and political radicals who all fall underneath the umbrella of being grafters that leech off of the tax dollars that are paid into the government by the hardworking American citizen.

These domestic enemies have also been able to perpetuate their corruption within our state and federal institutions because they have infected every single one of those institutions. They have infected our media, our universities, our banking systems, our judicial systems, and even our entertainment systems.

This rot is far reaching, but make no mistake this rot has spread simply because those people associated with the team of rot have been motivated. They’ve been motivated to engage in perpetuating their rot due to their commitment to putting forth a significant amount of intentional consistent effort towards their goals.

Now that last part is exactly why I want to address how when intentional consistent effort is directed towards a goal, from a movement of people, it gets results. Achieving these results works in much the same way as that effort can achieve a result on an individual level as well.

Of course, this relates to the example that I’ve already touched on when I talked about what it takes in order to build a strong, resilient body. Therefore the same intentional consistent effort is needed from a movement in order to build a strong resilient cultural and political coalition that is capable of transforming society for either better, or worse.

Sir Isaac Newton said the following…

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

Now when looking at that quote I’m reminded that the MAGA movement is a coalition that is absolutely that reaction. It’s the reaction to the longstanding actions of all of the corruption associated with the domestic enemies that reside inside the institutions of our great nation.

The MAGA coalition is definitely a strong coalition that has literally changed the arc of history.

However, for the MAGA coalition to remain strong and resilient, what do you think is required in order for it to maintain its staying power?

The answer to that last question simply involves us making sure that the awakened, informed, and engaged populace of citizens remain awakened, informed, and engaged. This is the very definition of the MAGA movement.

What we’ve witnessed in the past four years is the rapid expansion of populism cementing itself as the new norm.

President Trump lit the fuse that caused the explosion of this movement and the timing was significant due to the converging factors of corruption all culminating into a very obvious inflection point in our country’s history over the past four years.

The actions of those domestic enemies that I mentioned earlier had finally reached a point where their behavior has been so blatant and so horrible that the entire world had to take notice in recent years. There seem to be only a few exceptions of people who don’t seem to notice the severity of this corruption.

These people seem to be the leftist that are simply brainwashed by the establishment, along with the grafting RINOs and the anti-Trump Libertarians who seem to not understand history, or the gravity, of the situation that we’re living in right now regarding the state of the nation.

You see this is exactly why they say the cream rises to the top. This is the case because everyday citizens consisting of people who do understand history, business, politics, human nature, and simply possess the wisdom for discernment, have stepped up to the plate to defend the Republic within the MAGA coalition.

The reality is that the MAGA movement is the most powerful political movement in American history and MAGA has proven that despite having been outnumbered and outspent in literally every institutional category across the board.

The entire existence of the MAGA movement is a result of a very specific purpose. It’s the result of everyday citizens that have gotten sick and tired of the corruption of Washington D.C., Silicon Valley, and a garbage media ecosystem that has been literally waging war against the American citizen now for a very long time.

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Hosea 14:9

The MAGA coalition exists because it serves to remind both the corrupt politicians and their braindead followers that being an American citizen is supposed to mean something.

Despite what the moronic left and the moronic anti-Trump Libertarians think, the benefits of being an American citizen doesn’t mean having open borders to allow illegal immigration to run wild within the country.

In addition to that, since the invasion of illegals has illegally been incentivized and allowed by our federal government it certainly doesn’t mean that those same illegals are afforded Constitutional due process for their crimes. Yes, there are actually anti-Trump Libertarians stupid enough to believe this.

It’s because of these absurd allowances involving direct violations of American sovereignty that the American public has been slowly brainwashed over time into believing a watered down version of what it means to actually be a United States citizen. This lack of civic acumen from the American public has degraded the nation state to the point that we have found our individual sovereignty and individual liberties under assault across multiple battle fronts.

You see the MAGA movement recognizes these attacks that are being waged on the American citizen and thankfully the citizen movement has chosen to engage the enemy on those multiple battle fronts. We see the enemy gunning to silence our freedom of speech, we’ve seen the enemy gunning for our right to keep and bear arms, and we’ve seen the enemy use coercion in order to force us to agree to medical procedures that we may not agree that we need.

In addition to this the MAGA movement also recognizes that the right to vote, the opportunity to serve in the military, and the ability to access public services have all been rights and benefits that have been ceded over to illegal immigrants while American citizens continue to suffer.

The MAGA coalition understands that the corrupt Administrative State wants to destroy what it means to be an American citizen which will ultimately result in the actual destruction of the American citizen.

So given the detailed outline here of MAGA it’s obvious that the movement has clearly defined its purpose and that purpose is that it’s a movement that is goal oriented and very specific about saving the Republic and the American citizen.

The same thing could be seen with the Sons of Liberty back on December 16, 1773 at the Boston Tea Party. Like the MAGA movement is specific in its purpose the Sons of Liberty were also very specific in their purpose involving their disposal of the tea as well.

You see, when the Sons of Liberty secretly climbed aboard the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor ships on that December night to destroy 340 chests of tea, it was a clear message to the British that they weren’t going to be controlled and abused by their tax laws.

This move by the Sons of Liberty was both bold and specific. You see, it is said that the amount of tea that was destroyed by the Sons of Liberty would hold an estimated value today of being worth about $1.7 million. This was a huge blow to the British East India Company which meant it was a huge blow to the British overall.

However, despite the destruction of the tea with this bold move that was successfully pulled off by the Patriots, historical accounts show that there was absolutely zero damage done to the ships themselves. In fact, there was no damage done to any of the crew or any other items onboard the ships except for a single broken padlock.

It appeared that the padlock was the personal property of one of the ships’ captains, however this padlock was promptly replaced the next day by the Patriots. During this mission there was great care taken by the Patriots to ensure that there was no damage done to any of the ships, or any personal property.

In fact, there were no items looted or stolen from the ships including no stolen tea. There was one participant that tried to steal some tea, but this individual was immediately reprimanded and stopped by the Patriots.

The Sons of Liberty were very careful about how they carried out the Boston Tea Party mission as they reserved all of the destruction to be done specifically to the tea and no other property. After the destruction of the tea the participating Patriots even went so far as to sweep and clean the decks of the ships and they even took the time to move every item back to its original place if it were moved out of place during the mission.

The crews of the ships had attested to the fact that there had been absolutely zero damage done to the ships except to the cargoes of tea that were onboard at the time. The Sons of Liberty were very disciplined and specific in their message to the Royal Crown.

That message was a message of independence. That message was a message that was a show of strength. That message was a message where the Sons of Liberty were being Emissaries of Freedom and demonstrating to the British crown that the crown wasn’t going to be in control of the sovereignty of the Americans for much longer.

The Wrap Up

When you look at the Sons of Liberty and the MAGA movement in this modern era you can see how they are both one in the same. The MAGA movement has recognized that the Republic has been under attack by domestic communists and grafters and that this era that we are living in is about reclaiming the Republic.

President Trump is the instrument of destruction, or the blunt force object, that the MAGA movement has at the tip of the spear to wage war against the Administrative State. President Trump is the reason the MAGA movement exists in the way that it does with its ability to organize, inform, and to go on offense in the cultural, economic, and information war against the communists at a level not seen before throughout all of history.

I believe one thing that a lot of people don’t currently understand about the reality that we’re in now is that reality is one where we have actually lost this Republic. The question is whether or not we are going to be able to reclaim the Republic under President Trump’s leadership and the MAGA movement’s activism.

In looking at our country’s history you can see the following three main defining moments…

Under George Washington’s leadership you saw the Revolution of the country.

Under Abraham Lincoln’s leadership you saw the Restoration of the country.

Under Donald Trump’s leadership now you’re seeing the Reclamation of the country.

During this process of reclaiming the lost Republic we, as the MAGA coalition, cannot afford to get complacent. This is why your support of alternative media platforms is so vital. Whether you support this platform, or another one with a similar message, the reality is that your support is absolutely vital in turning this ship around.

It’s more important now than ever that you get engaged in the MAGA movement in order to take the fight to the communists. They’re far from being defeated and are trying to spring up throughout the country in multiple places.

For instance, you’re already seeing this in Texas, and more recently in New York, as we’ve seen with the Democratic party having put forth a self-proclaimed communist jihadist to be the city’s next mayor.

I understand that it’s easy to focus on the bad news, but it’s essential that we maintain a sound level of reality in order to not fall into the trap of complacency. This is exactly why I talked about what trait was necessary to build a strong resilient movement here at the beginning of this article.

We cannot afford to complain about being tired of the fight for liberty, or being disengaged from it. This is where that discipline to put forth intentional consistent effort towards the goal of destroying the communist revolution will be determined by our dedication to ensuring we’re successful.

You know we all just literally celebrated our special Fourth of July Independence day holiday. I believe that a lot of people have forgotten, or never realized, a very important detail regarding the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

We celebrate our forefathers' signing of this wonderful document, but the important detail that I believe a lot of people never talk about is that the signing of the Declaration of Independence was merely a collection of inked signatures on a piece of paper.

In other words, they knew that they were inviting a lot of trouble into their lives from the British Crown by putting their names on that document. Because of this the reality was that they had to back up their Declaration of Independence with SERIOUS action. This is exactly why seven years of war followed that very signing of that very important document.

By signing that Declaration into existence the founders had established their discipline to put forth their intentional consistent effort towards the goal of liberty, freedom, and independence.

They had the willpower and focus in order to carry that declaration through to its ultimate conclusion. There was no time for battle fatigue because the movement was fit enough and strong enough to endure what was coming.

Therefore, here in today’s world the MAGA movement must also demonstrate willpower, resilience, and determination to bring about the destruction of the communist revolution in order to reclaim this Republic.

Are you ready to support the Patriot movement in resuscitating the dynamism that made this country so great?

Are you willing to engage this Populist movement in order to achieve and obtain the restoration of vigor and purpose that is needed to continue to build a strong and resilient MAGA coalition?

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