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“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”

― Czesław Miłosz

When looking at the framework of our society over the last several years it’s obvious that we have a corrupt governmental system that serves to currently exist primarily to be a financial graft for players that have molded that system for that very purpose. 

They’ve molded the system to nurture a cronyistic environment in order to leech off the system rather than to mold the system for the purpose of serving the American people. What’s even worse than this is that being that the system has been formed to function in this way, if anyone tries to go up against the system then the system reacts in a very hostile manner. The reaction is apparent as the cronyism becomes hostile towards forces that are adversarial towards it. 

This past weekend I had an epiphany after the battery of unnatural disasters with the back to back massive hurricanes that have hammered the southeastern region of the United States where I happen to live. 

I live in the state of Georgia and fortunately where I live I didn’t have any major problems from hurricane Helene, but my neighbors in Augusta, North Carolina, and Tennessee all have had a difficult time due to some extreme damage. 

If you’ve been paying attention, most of this damage occurred due to the massive rainfall and flooding that hit the mountain area around Asheville, North Carolina which was nearly 600 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico where the storm originated. That alone doesn’t make any sense at all. 

In my lifetime I can’t remember one single instance where a hurricane occurred by starting in the Gulf of Mexico only to move east nearly 600 miles inland to administer a ton of flooding damage to a mountain region that sits at an elevation of 2134 feet above sea level. This is completely unnatural. 

I’ll be 48 years old this coming November and in the nearly 48 years that I’ve been on this planet I never remember anything like this happening involving a hurricane. Now as soon as I say that many people will read, or hear that and immediately start screaming about climate change. 

If that’s happening now I’m glad to hear it because this weekend I had an epiphany regarding the climate change movement where I might have stumbled across the greatest contradiction regarding the left’s perspective on climate change in the 21st century. 

First of all, when looking at the whole climate change movement it’s simply another graft that equates to the corrupt system that I was just describing at the onset of this episode. 

When I mentioned that I see a huge contradiction regarding the far left’s climate change movement I’ll elaborate a bit further in a bit, but first I want to talk about whether or not climate change is man made. 

Whenever I see the subject of weather and climate brought up there seems to be a misunderstanding by those on the far left in regards to these two words. 

To give you an example whenever there happens to be a disastrous storm to occur such as hurricane Helene the leftist climate change cultists are quick to throw out the climate change label as being the culprit for the storm occurring and administering whatever level of devastation it happens to cause on society at the time that it hits. 

Now what I’ve come to understand is that whenever the term climate change is used it’s simply a loaded term because it is solely used to feed a corrupt and political financial graft and part of giving fodder to any graft means that certain keywords associated with a particular graft, or leftist cause, are done for the sole purpose of spreading a victimhood narrative. To clarify a bit further this means the term climate change can be used by the left interchangeably with the term weather, but this can’t be done if anyone else uses the words weather and climate interchangeably when it doesn’t agree with the messaging of the climate cultists. 

Another example of how the left abuses terms for the purpose of giving fodder to a graft is when they use the term gun violence whenever one human harms, or kills another human in a homicide where they happen to use a firearm. 

With just a tiny bit of critical thinking it’s obvious that inanimate objects don’t come to life and kill people as the term gun violence suggests. In short, only people can kill other people with or without evil intent. A gun doesn’t have the capacity, or possess personal internal motive, or even the ability to produce the outcome of killing another person by springing into action by itself. The gun is simply an inanimate instrument that can be used by a person to kill another person. 

The thing you have to come to realize is that the nomenclature is always manipulated by the left to suit their desired narratives and if these narratives force enough influence over the masses within a given society they can achieve the goals of their political agenda, and more importantly they can achieve the goals of their financial graft. 

I realize we are living in a postmodern era where the definitions of words don’t mean anything anymore to people on the far left, but for the purpose of hammering the logic of this discussion into the vacuous minds of the leftist climate change cult, let's take a moment to clarify the definitions of the words weather and climate anyways.  

Weather is defined as the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, and calm or storm at any given moment. 

Climate is defined as the average course, or condition of weather at a place typically as it behaves over a period of years which is exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation. 

So based on both of these specific definitions weather has a direct impact on climate with the only difference generally being the period of time of observing one compared to the other. 

So there’s a few reasons why I wanted to establish this upfront because the series of realities that are about to follow are going to cause you to look at this entire climate change movement in a way that you probably never would have considered before. This will be the case if you have a critical thinking mind and are intellectually honest enough with having the capability of looking at the receipts that back up this discussion. 

The Mechanisms For Altering Weather and Climate

Dr. Daniel Martin is a key research engineer in College Station, Texas that started experimenting with a process of sending flares and burning silver iodide into clouds using an airplane to produce rain. This process is known as cloud seeding. 

Dr. Martin and his team started experimenting with this technology back in 2017. Being a member of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Martin explains that in order for water droplets in a cloud to make rain that they must collide and coalesce to collect and form drops that are large enough to then fall to the ground. 

The reason this is significant is that Martin and his research team have been nudging this process along by releasing charged water particles into clouds. These particles carry an opposite electrical charge of the water in the clouds. This acts as cloud condensation nuclei and will kickstart the rainmaking process. 

According to Martin "most programs generate 10-15% additional rainfall using the conventional flare technology. Our initial numbers show about a 25-30% increase. Limited data set, but very promising." (Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)

So here is a key researcher in the federal government openly discussing his program’s success for manipulating weather in this way using the process known as cloud seeding as the method for doing so. 

In addition to this on June 29, 2016 former CIA director John Brennan addressed the Council on Foreign Relations regarding Stratospheric Aerosol Injections (SAI), a Geoengineering campaign where he bragged about the government’s program. Brennan who was one of the 51 intelligence agents who lied about the Hunter Biden laptop story saying it was Russian disinformation touted the technology included with SAI which involves particles being released into the atmosphere in order to reflect the sun’s heat.

According to Brennan this SAI heat reflective capability can cool temperatures allowing economies time to transition off of fossil fuels for the purpose of climate change. 

Brennan also goes on to talk about how SAI’s potential to alter weather patterns could play a major role in the global relations possibly triggering opposition by some nations due to one region benefitting from the technology compared to another region. Brennan also pointed out that global norms and standards are lacking for administering and overseeing this technology on a global scale. (Source: YouTube)

However, when it comes to manipulating the weather cloud seeding is one way that the government has openly discussed here, but the federal government has even utilized cloud seeding for the purpose of weaponizing weather to assist combat missions as well and this dates as far back as the Vietnam War in an exercise known as Project Popeye. (Source: Office of The Historian)

Project Popeye was a weather modification mission that was proposed to be initiated by the Department of Defense (DoD) in order to disrupt and impair the supply chain route of the Vietcong in North Vietnam and Laos during the Vietnam War as seen in the following document. This is noted here in a memorandum from the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Kohler) to the Secretary of State David Dean Rusk on January 13, 1967 as published by the Office of The Historian. 

This operation was carried out by the Air Force during the Vietnam War between 1967-1972 with a goal to extend the monsoon season over specific areas of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. 

The chemical altering weather modification exercise was conducted from Thailand over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and was allegedly sponsored by a now very well known globalist and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger along with the CIA without the authorization from the then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. As another interesting point of mention Laird himself at the time had categorically denied to Congress that a program involving the modification of weather for use as a tactical weapon even existed. (Source: Wikipedia) 

Now it’s no secret that Henry Kissinger was also directly tied into the World Economic Forum (WEF) and has spoken at length in Davos on the historical perspectives of warfare among other geo-political ramblings among the globalists for many years. He’s carried on such conversations with Klaus Schwab. 

However, there’s an interesting theme here regarding Kissinger’s colleague and counterpart in Klaus Schwab that I wanted to address as the spokesperson for the WEF, along with the globalists, who all have frequently mentioned the prospect of the world facing what they refer to as a series of polycrisis. 

“The changes are so profound that, from the perspective of human history, there has never been a time of greater promise or potential peril.”

― Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial Revolution

So I find the interconnectivity of these global political figures that have had direct ties to warfare, global relations, and economic networking to be very disturbing in their actions. 

In addition to this I’ve already gathered a nice collection of scientists, intelligence agents, politicians, and globalist fascists to openly admit and brag about the current and emerging technologies associated with their abilities to directly modify and impact the weather and climate directly themselves. 

In fact, they’ve all openly admitted and bragged about the success of the government’s work along with the technologies that exist to modify both the weather and the climate based on the definitions of the words which I clarified here earlier. 

So the question remains is climate change man made? 

I would say that the short answer to this would be an absolute yes based on what the government is telling us that they have and are currently doing, but it’s not man made in the same way that the leftist climate cult have espoused now for many years. This episode has deconstructed the climate narrative. 

In other words, it’s a known fact that the planet goes through its own natural cycles where weather and temperature can change due to phases of its natural existence. However, the idea that man’s existence in daily life is a direct threat to the climate because functioning civilizations are contributing to “climate change” is a big stretch. .  

However, the reality is that if the left wants to blame these unnatural disasters on climate change then the federal government, as I’ve directly sourced here, has already admitted it is capable of modifying the climate and weather directly itself and, in fact, has been doing so with a history that goes back nearly 60 years to the Vietnam War. 

The Wrap Up

Over the past four years it’s been crystal clear to me that the federal government has become nothing more than a fertile ground for the graft where special interests can get their palms greased with government subsidies to financially support their so-called respective causes. 

This has literally resulted in a complete failure of our governmental systems and has resulted in some of the most evil outcomes that have been released upon our society from the pandemic, to corrupt elections, to endless wars, poor handling of unnatural disasters, an invasion of the country, and even domestic terrorism with multiple attempted assassinations against President Trump due to the Red Reality. 

I almost forgot that at the beginning of this episode I mentioned that I had discovered the greatest contradiction regarding the leftist cult’s perspective on climate change. 

The leftist climate cult have always said that climate change is the greatest threat the world faces today so we need the government’s power in order to stop it.

However, after unnatural hurricane disasters and floods those same people who believe the government has the power to stop climate change in the same breath accuse others of being “conspiracy theorists” for suggesting that the government can modify and impact the climate and weather directly. 

Well, I’ve already managed to deconstruct the leftist climate cult’s perspective on climate change in this very episode. The government has clearly admitted over many instances covering a long period of time where they can directly modify and impact the weather and climate. 

In addition to this, these global organizations like the WEF and the Council on Foreign Relations have frequently pushed the entire Environmental Social Governance (ESG) agenda onto many companies throughout the world. This agenda forces companies to meet certain requirements associated with the climate change graft in order for them to get certain investment funding based on them meeting the criteria as the WEF defines it. (Source: World Economic Forum)

This is simply a prime example of a circular funding operation where the global agendas are pushed onto the government by lobbyists whose companies benefit from the government subsidies. From here the government then issues the subsidies for the researchers to create the problems they are supposed to solve. From this point when the problems arise the demand for the organizations that are in place are promoted. 

This leads to it becoming a political issue which in turn becomes a campaign issue such as the climate change agenda. Given this you may wonder how they get companies onboard in order to comply with certain agendas? In terms of the climate change agenda this is where the funding programs such as ESG come in so that investment capital can be made to spread the growth of these movements throughout society.  

The reality is that these companies that the lobbyists represent don’t want societal problems to go away. For instance, they don’t want racism to go away because their funding would go away. They don’t want wars to go away because their funding would go away. They don’t want pandemics to go away because their funding would go away. Finally, they don’t want climate change to go away because their funding would go away. 

Understand the narrative of many of these companies and government agencies is that they exist for the purpose of tackling society’s problems, but in reality they use and mold the societal problems into feeding a circular financial graft as their main play. 

The only constructive outcome here regarding the climate change narrative is the deconstruction of this narrative.

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“The worst sound in our business is silence. That means they don't care.”

–Vince McMahon

Over the past week I took the time to watch the Netflix limited series Mr. McMahon. Now I must confess that professional wrestling, or more specifically wrestling entertainment, was a huge part of my childhood growing up. 

In the early years of my childhood it wasn’t unusual for me to be visiting a friend for a sleepover, or to have a friend visiting me, only to wake up on Saturday mornings to click on the TV to watch Pro Wrestling, or as they used to say here in the South…Wrassling. 

Being a GenXer looking back now I’m convinced that the era of Pro Wrestling served to be a real cultural spearhead that engaged the kids of my generation in a way that not many other forms of entertainment could manage to do. 

Why do I say this? 

I say this because the thing that made Pro Wrestling so effective was the storylines. I mean aside from the amazing athleticism and competition that was involved with the sport, it was the development of the characters, the connection those characters had with their audience, and the stories that they told that captivated the audiences which consisted of kids like myself, my brother, and most all of my friends. 

Within those storylines my generation got to witness many superstars in Pro Wrestling that appealed to the age old narrative of the good guy versus the bad guy with guys such as Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair that became these larger than life figures that made the entertainment from the sport of Pro Wrestling most impactful. 

Now if you’re in any way familiar with this then you know exactly what I’m talking about. However, it’s also a known fact that as my generation got older the sport of Pro Wrestling also changed in order to appeal to different age demographics and as a result there were times when those storylines were both entertaining and controversial. 

It’s safe to say that there were times when the storylines were no longer aimed towards appealing to the same age demographic of kids, but rather aimed to appeal to teenage and college aged men as the sport progressed through its storylines from the 1980s and into the late 1990s.  

Now I want to be clear about something here because I don’t want this message to get lost in my analysis of why I am choosing to discuss this sport in this episode, or the controversial personalities involved in it, especially concerning Vince McMahon himself. 

I am aware that Vince McMahon is a controversial figure and currently had to step away from the sport due to certain sexual allegations coming from people that are supposedly attached to the sport. I’m not here to pass judgment on Vince, or to act like I know what it is exactly that he did or didn’t do in terms of any potential crime that may, or may have not been committed. 

However, I will credit Vince McMahon for having at one time created one of the greatest forms of entertainment that I’ve ever experienced as a kid growing up in the 1980s and I’m sure there’s a lot of you in my audience that would agree. 

On that note, there’s another more significant reason I chose to watch this Netflix special to begin with. I was recently doing some thinking and for some strange reason there were some things that I had remembered seeing in Pro Wrestling that I felt drew some stark parallels between that sport and all the craziness we’re currently seeing in the world right now.

Blurring The Lines of Reality

Out of respect for you just in case you do have an interest in seeing the Mr. McMahon limited series I don’t want to give away too much as I really just want to take the opportunity here in this episode to focus on how the entertainment side of the WWE, as well as their competitor in WCW (founded by Ted Turner), were able to utilize narratives in their storylines to captivate their audiences. 

Now when I discuss these storylines I’m more specifically referring to that era in the late 1990s when the storylines were geared more towards an older audience of young men. Granted it was during this time when there was a lot of controversy involved in these storylines and this was an era that I would say would not have been a good time for younger kids to watch the sport because of this very reason.  

The new Mr. McMahon series touches on all of this and I would say that there were a lot of things that the sport covered that wouldn’t be considered family friendly, or perhaps too tasteful at times. However, it’s not necessarily my judgment of the details, or the nature of the content of the stories that I want to make the central focus here, but rather I am more interested in sharing with you how Vince McMahon managed to take the controversy in real life and leverage it for his own benefit. 

So how did Vince McMahon, or Mr. McMahon manage to do this? 

He did this through a unique practice involving the concept known in the industry as the kayfabe. The kayfabe involves the portrayal of staged events within the industry as being “real” or “true.” This particularly involves the way in which certain relationships involving rivalries, competitors, and different participants are portrayed within certain storylines that even crossover into the real world. Because of this the kayfabe is a highly effective technique that can absolutely be used to blur the lines between fiction and reality. 

To give you an example of this, according to the Mr. McMahon series one of the iconic wrestlers known as the Undertaker was talking about how the kayfabe would work within the industry among all the wrestlers. 

In the Undertaker’s explanation the kayfabe was traditionally about staying in the role of the character and never intermingling with guys that were his competitors whenever they would be out in public. Granted, Mark Calaway (aka The Undertaker) was a long time major superstar in the industry and because he was more a part of that traditional old guard of the business he communicated how serious he took honoring the kayfabe in order to protect the brand of the wrestling entertainment business. 

In a segment in the series Mark talked about how even though he may at times have been seen out in public outside of the venue of the wrestling ring alongside a character rival that he would always still give his opposition a disapproving stare, or even go so far as to engage in some unfriendly dialogue with his opponent out in public. He explained how he, along with everyone else, would do this on a consistent basis to maintain a level of doubt in the minds of the public whenever fans would encounter himself, or any of the other superstars outside of the squared circle.    

This doubt I’m referring to here involves how the superstars such as Mark and many others would shape and maintain influence on the perception of the public as they may presume and possess preconceived notions regarding the feuds among the wrestling superstars as all being staged. 

However, by Mark and the other superstars maintaining and staying in their respective character roles and acting some of that out in public it would cast a shadow of doubt in order to maintain the mystery and suggest that the rivalry between certain wrestling superstars was actually genuine. 

What made this so fascinating to me was how Vince McMahon managed to utilize the kayfabe whenever he was right in the middle of some major controversy in real life. One example that I can recall involved the very popular female WWE superstar Sable (Rena Lesnar) when she sued the WWE back in 1999 for $110 million citing sexual harassment and unsafe working conditions. McMahon and Sable eventually settled this out of court.

Now that may not seem like anything new when it comes to the normal controversial headlines of the entertainment world, however Mr. McMahon would demonstrate how this would be used as quite a test of the kayfabe by turning this controversial headline into a storyline when Sable returned to the WWE in 2003. 

Upon her return her character was a villainess that would end up portraying a role within her storyline where she would feud with Vince McMahon’s daughter Stephanie McMahon. To make matters worse in this story Vince had appointed Sable as Stephanie's personal assistant along with playing the role of Vince McMahon’s mistress. 

That’s right, the same Sable that had sued the company for $110 million for sexual harassment and unsafe working conditions would return to the WWE in a character portraying McMahon’s mistress. Now that’s what I’m talking about in regards to the kayfabe and how the lines of fiction and reality can be blurred even in a more extreme circumstance such as this. 

Here McMahon took the kayfabe to a whole new level and what’s even more incredible is that in his interview in the series he said that he didn’t remember much about the Sable lawsuit, but that the only thing he did remember was that she did come back to work. 

So why did I go to all the trouble to highlight how the founder of the WWE Vince McMahon mastered the art of blending fiction with reality? 

Well McMahon is certainly a master of keeping his audience guessing in terms of what is real and what isn’t. He was, and still is a master at producing narratives that drive storylines. 

Before I forget he was so good at it that it pushed his biggest competitor in WCW (founded by Ted Turner) to also produce some hard hitting storylines along with some very interesting narratives. Turner’s WCW managed to do this with a masterful show producer at the time named Eric Bischoff. 

Bischoff was the one storyteller that almost destroyed WWE and Vince McMahon as he was successfully able to draw away much of the WWE talent to fuel the character development and storylines of the WCW. 

I don’t want to spend too much time on the WCW here, but the one storyline that had a big splash here was when he managed to pull the biggest star and hero of the WWE over into the WCW. This major wrestling superstar was the one and only Hulk Hogan. 

However, Bischoff created a storyline with Hulk Hogan that was so shocking and made such a splash that it kicked off a streak of them pounding the WWE in the television ratings for 83 straight weeks. 

You’re probably wondering Brandon, what storyline was that? 

The storyline that I’m referring to was the introduction of Hollywood Hulk Hogan. You see, to understand the significance of this you have to understand Hogan’s traditional character role and what made him a superstar in the first place. 

You see Hulk Hogan became the iconic superstar in the WWE by being the ultimate face, or good guy. He is, and always has been, the red blooded American hero inside the squared circle. He won over the hearts of kids like myself at a very young age and then when he came to the WCW many years later many of the same kids like myself were now young men in that high school to college age demographic. 

In his introduction to the WCW he made a surprise appearance and would shock the wrestling world as he came in adopting the role of being the heel instead of the face. For some added context the heel is a term used in wrestling that is basically the antagonist, or villain, whereas the face is the term associated with being the good guy.  

In the WCW Hulk Hogan would become the heel known as Hollywood Hulk Hogan. 

Now it’s this particular storyline that was born out of the immense competitive spirit between WCW and WWE that I wanted to address here in this episode because this once again highlights some cultural and societal realities that we see existing in the real world now like never before. 

For instance, Hulk Hogan’s new stage name as the villain became Hollywood Hulk Hogan. The thing I find interesting about this is that they inserted the word Hollywood into the name which is both flashy, but it’s also associated with being antagonistic. 

Additionally Hulk Hogan had already been the ultimate face of Pro Wrestling and with this new role as Hollywood Hulk Hogan he would end up becoming the ultimate heel as well. His character didn’t stand alone in this role either. Culturally speaking there’s another very intriguing  point to highlight here concerning the central narrative around his character and the group he would be associated with in his new role. The crazy thing was that in his new role as the villain he would end up being the leader of a gang of other heels that referred to themselves as the New World Order (NWO). 

Yes, this new group of villains actually referred to themselves with the longstanding and antagonistic moniker associated with the evil global governance we’re seeing today. The thing that is so crazy about this is that this theme of globalism has been highlighted throughout our history and culture for many years and people have often joked about it. 

I just find it interesting that this theme was certainly center stage in the wrestling entertainment industry here in a big way back in 1996 with this storyline being the central driver for WCW to go to all out war with the WWE  involving their former superstar who was newly recognized as Hollywood Hulk Hogan along with his gang the NWO. 

Fiction Mirroring Reality

So you’re probably wondering Brandon, where are you going with all of this? 

The thing that stands out with the storytelling and the creative production of Pro Wrestling over the years is that it has mirrored a lot of reality that’s taking place in the real world, particularly with what we’re seeing play out today.  

I mean it’s obvious now given the collapse of our country how useless many career politicians are in reality as they’re all bought in on the grift that they can achieve through the corrupt lobbying and deal making that takes place in Washington D.C.

Because of this the overwhelming majority of them offer absolutely nothing in terms of service to the American people that voted for them and funded their campaigns in order for them to be there as representatives. 

They are simply engaging in their own version of the kayfabe playing the role of a figurehead and a talking suit that stands in front of the TV cameras to make a bunch of promises without ever following through to take any real action to benefit the American Republic. 

In fact, the only actions that ever get taken are the actions of the communist Democrats that continue to fund a woke and weaponized government which is directly contributing to dangerous geo-political instability in the world, the destruction of our currency, the dissolving of our sovereignty through globalism, and ongoing calamity and violent attacks on our homeland.  

The thing is that Hulk Hogan's iconic role as an American Hero and face of the WWE was exactly what skyrocketed him to stardom in the 1980s. Looking back now it’s obvious how much his career along with the trend of the WWE mirrored  the United States itself as the country was on top of the world economically, culturally, and was the symbol for the world of opportunity and strength. 

However, the trajectory of Hulk Hogan’s career involved a shift in character with his departure from the WWE involving him switching over to being the infamous villain of WCW as Hollywood Hulk Hogan and leader of the NWO which eerily looks like the same path of the United States. 

After all, as I previously stated the United States was on top of the world throughout the 1980s, but ended up shifting fast in the 1990s and the 2000s to ushering in globalism (aka the real life version of the NWO) which is currently eroding the sovereignty of the Republic just as the wrestling characters of the NWO were successful in doing the same with eroding the talent of the WWE. 

Wrestling entertainment might seem like the most unassuming place where one could get a lesson on the destructive nature of globalism, but the fact remains that the way the storylines and narratives have played out it has certainly demonstrated a lot of accuracy in terms of art imitating life. 

The Wrap Up

Now there’s no doubt that the WWE was on its back foot for a while and things had been looking grim thanks to Eric Bischoff and his creation of Hollywood Hulk Hogan and the NWO. 

After all, the NWO had managed to pick off one talented wrestler after the next from the WWE and the WCW had a powerful storyline as the NWO continued the beating of the WWE for those 83 straight weeks in the ratings. 

However, as much as this war of the two iconic businesses had heated up with the WCW really putting the hurt on the WWE this left the WWE in a weakened, yet unique position. 

In other words, the talent that remained at the WWE at that time realized that their company was hurting, but they also realized that because of the position they were in that they really had a clean slate and a prime opportunity for them to step up and become a star. 

It was in this moment, along with the competitive fueled nature of the business, that certain wrestlers such as Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, and Triple H stepped into the breach by embracing some creative and edgy attitude within the styles of their newly formed characters. By each of these wrestlers being bold and stepping into a leadership role with their newly created personas this resulted in the birth of what is now recognized in the wrestling industry as the Attitude Era of WWE. 

Once this creative process happened the shift in the TV ratings started to change and this eventually led to the WWE surging its way past the WCW and back to the top of the TV ratings and never looking back. In fact, the WWE would ultimately end up buying out the WCW and Hulk Hogan himself would eventually make his iconic return to the WWE in his traditional role as the face. This is where he went head to head with the WWE superstar the Rock at the WWE’s own Super Bowl level event known as Wrestlemania. 

Now that I look at the current position of the United States along with its broken institutions that have been captured by the Globalists and the CCP I have to ask, Is art still imitating real life?  After all, when drawing the comparative narratives in having observed the path of the WWE up against the WCW and with the current trajectory our country up against the globalist and the CCP one can’t help but notice a similar real world storyline narrative.   

I ask this because looking at how the WWE was on top of the world it all changed as the business found its talent being captured by its competitor in WCW. Not only was its competitor using the name of what we’d consider to be a globalist gang in the NWO, but they were behaving like the globalists as the WCW would pick off one star talent after the next from the WWE in much the same way as the globalist and the CCP have captured many of our major American corporations over the years. 

Like the WCW, the globalist and the CCP have captured many of our country’s corporate institutions and have managed to play out a dominant narrative on the global stage now for the past thirty years. That narrative has been that globalism was a better economic model and that the failure of the United States was simply inevitable. No, I’m not making this up and this absurd narrative is what is known as the Thucydides Trap.  

Of course, as far as the WWE this would all continue to happen until the WWE had its own version of a Great Awakening. 

Looking at the competitive history of these organizations I see a similar comparison in terms of the path of the WWE journey up against the WCW compared with the path that the country has been on for the past thirty years up against the forces of globalism and the CCP. 

When the remaining stars of the WWE had their backs up against the wall they stepped into the chaos and were able to set fire to an entirely new beginning with their company by leading the WWE back to the path of victory. 

With the United States currently finding itself in a similar dire situation will enough of our bold unknowns step into the chaos in the same way to become the superstars our country needs to lead us to a victory over the global communists? I believe that is already happening now. 

The important thing for each of us to remember is that we must ensure that those who are saying that they are stepping into that breach are in fact doing so because they have proven themselves by standing firm on their actions and principles. 

In short, we need to pay close attention and exercise discernment to make sure they’re the real thing and not just another establishment politician that is engaged in the D.C. Swamp Theater’s version of The Kayfabe. 

With the United States having its back up against the ropes do you see the unexpected heroes trying to step into the breach to save the Republic?

Do you see the old corrupt institutions that have been infiltrated with too much rot starting to fade while the fresh new ecosystem of talent in business, entertainment, and media are starting to ascend?

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“If Enlightenment was the salad, Entanglement is the soup”

― Neri Oxman

When looking at the very interesting field of quantum physics there is a phenomenon involving particles known as entanglement that will absolutely make you sit back in your chair and scratch your head. 

Now to be clear I’m not a physicist, but as a layman with a curious mind and some certain critical thinking abilities I’m sure that I, like you, probably find the word entanglement interesting enough to study more about it. Additionally I’m confident that it will cause you to want to continue reading this, probably to see what I’m going to say next, only to then perhaps discover whether or not your guess about my approach on the subject of the word here is similar to my own? 

Whether this revolves around your general curiosity or not, if I’m speaking for myself I’d say that the word itself is interesting enough to make me want to learn about it along with any potential concept that it could be associated with just for the sake of knowledge. Regardless of your reason I feel confident that my best attempt to explain it here involving the context of this article, along with a broader application of it that I want to attempt to explore, will hold your attention. 

So what is it that I’m talking about when I use the word entanglement along with using it in the title of this very article? 

Well the first initial concept of entanglement I want to refer to here involves the term as it relates to the field of quantum physics. 

When looking at this phenomenon in quantum physics when two particles such as a pair of electrons, or photons become entangled they remain connected even when they are separated by vast distances. Einstein himself referred to entanglement as “spooky action at a distance.” 

In my attempt at the simplest example I can try to use here in order to make a comparison of what entanglement is: the behavior of particles that are entangled can sort of be compared to how a dance such as the tango can arise out of the behavior of the particles. In other words, the concept of entanglement arises from the connection of the particles that are entangled. This is also what scientists refer to as an emerging property. 

Basically the change in the state of any particle instantly changes the state of the other when they are entangled. 

To further clarify this with one experiment researchers will use a special type of crystal to generate a couple of entangled particles from one. From this point these particles are then sent to different locations. For the sake of this discussion let’s say that the researchers want to measure and observe the direction the particles are spinning which would either be up or down along the axis of each particle in observation.  

Here before these particles are measured both will be in a state of superposition, or “both spin up” and “spin down” at the same time. (Source: Caltech) 

So as the researchers make the observation of one particle observing the direction of its spin and then they also look at the entangled partner’s spin they will discover that the two particles are correlated. 

In other words, if one particle is spinning up the other may be spinning down. Additionally they could both be in a state of spinning up together, or spinning down together, as well depending on the experiment, but the point is that both particles will be correlated in the behavior of their movement. 

Now this essentially involves the relationship and a bit of a taste of what is involved with this mystery of the universe known as entanglement. It’s fascinating that these particles will behave with such a correlation no matter how far apart in distance they may be. This is quite fascinating and it’s also quite the head scratcher that the universe behaves in this way. 

The way I see this is that the universe is clearly a created body with its own anatomy and structure that functions just as the creator intended it to function. 

The Hive Mind

Now I want to take a moment to make a slight shift here as I will return to the concept of quantum entanglement in a bit. Another interesting phenomenon that I want to touch on is the concept of the hive mind. 

This concept is one that typically involves the emergence of a type of group intelligence which is usually associated with certain types of insects. Some obvious examples that come to mind would involve bees and ants. The point here is that there’s a group intelligence that emerges when a species can be seen working together as a unit. However, this concept also applies to human intelligence when it makes up the hive mind in certain group environments. 

This concept, as it applies to humans, has also been highlighted in pop culture as a negative thing with the examples of the Borg as seen in the TV show Star Trek along with Dr. Who’s Cybermen.  (Source: VeryWellMind)

In both of these examples of pop culture these civilizations manage to assimilate large groups of people into their collective consciousness while also managing to completely eliminate their ability to think for themselves as individuals. 

There are positive examples of when the hive mind function can work in certain given scenarios when the collective is all working towards a common goal within the confines of a fixed model. A couple of examples here would be a sports team such as a football or basketball team that is trying to win a game against their opponent. 

In this type of scenario each team may have a game plan and a coach guiding their decisions towards a common goal. In such a scenario the team striving to win has a better chance of winning if they work towards executing a common strategy that has been proven to yield success against an opponent. However, even in this scenario the hive mind is a limiting factor because if the team is working together as a unit with a common strategy that is NOT yielding success then they will also fail. 

Competitive sports teams are one thing, but in terms of scenarios involving the real world with real world consequences history has shown us that the hive mind can be incredibly dark and dangerous. In fact, the fear associated with it in real life is even more terrifying than the Borg.  

Some huge examples of where the hive mind becomes incredibly dangerous can be seen in the documented history of the development of the societal concept known as Mass Formation. This phenomenon is well documented throughout history in various societies and it involves a scenario where a certain society succumbs to an object of fear. Mass Formation is so significant in these cases that society focuses on that object of fear to the point that it results in the group being radically blind to the extent that it causes them to go against everything that goes against what the people in the infected society would normally believe in.   

This very phenomenon is exactly what the renowned professor of Psychology Mattias Desmet outlined during the time of the pandemic. Desmet pointed to the documented historical context of Mass Formation and how it took over populations throughout a range of societies such as Iran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, as well as, the execution of Russian leaders by Stalin during his reign of terror.  

Desmet points out a couple of specific and disturbing incidents involving both of these societies through documented cases. 

In the 1979 Iranian Revolution Desmet points to the most extreme phase of Mass Formation when society had reached the point that it was radically intolerant of dissonant voices. 

According to Desmet, when societies reach this most radical stage of progression concerning Mass Formation that those people will commit atrocities towards those others who won’t go along with the masses and even do so as if it’s some sort of righteous sense of duty. 

In one concrete example of just how dark this can get concerning Mass Formation Desmet, from his own experience, referenced a story of when he interviewed an Iranian woman who with her own eyes witnessed another woman who had reported her own son to the state for being a dissonant. 

Now if you don’t think that’s scary this story gets much worse. Not only did the woman report her own son to the state, but she would be the one who would end up hanging the noose around her son’s neck herself in the short moment that followed. 

As if this wasn’t bad enough, after the horrendous event the woman was seen claiming to be a heroine to do what she did for the good of the state. After hearing such a story it’s hard to imagine how society could arrive at such a place, but then again people infected by Mass Formation are functioning like a collective consciousness. It’s as if their minds are part of a hive. There’s that word hive again and this is exactly what happens when the hive mind extinguishes individuality and individual thought. 

Even in the historical example I mentioned with Stalin executing some of his Communist leaders during his tenure Desmet pointed out that even then many of the Communist leaders were quoted as saying “If that is what I can do for the communist party, I will do it with pleasure.” Note that this wasn’t some high ranking official doing anything for the common good, but rather a guy choosing to sacrifice himself because the Borg demanded it. 

During the pandemic this happened when the media managed to convince society to start “othering” parts of the population who didn’t follow unconstitutional guidelines that directly  involved actions such as shutting down people’s businesses, forcing them to take a form of experimental gene therapy, and throwing them into house arrest and isolation under the guise of “being quarantined.” 

What was even more astounding was the blatant hypocrisy of this behavior as all of it was just starting to get a foothold. One famous case that comes to mind for me was when the actress Gina Carano took to her social media to make reference about how society was othering people who went against the narrative and expressed opposing political viewpoints back during the pandemic. She then proceeded to draw the parallel of how this was exactly what happened to the Jewish people when the government and media convinced society to start doing the same thing just before it all led to the Holocaust. 

What happened next with everyone’s response involving their criticism of Carano was that they started calling for her to be canceled and Disney ended up firing her from her position on the hit TV series The Mandalorian. The glaring hypocrisy here was that those who displayed public calls for her to be canceled and fired, along with Disney actually following through with the act, demonstrated to the world that everyone of those people did exactly what she had warned the public about concerning the behavior of society prior to the Holocaust. In short, they ended up othering her and many others in society at that time. 

In my view since the pandemic much of society has succumbed to this Mass Formation and it’s been quite a time to witness everyday people, businesses, and institutions all transform their traditional positions on freedom to all of the sudden moving in lockstep to assist and implement destructive fascistic policies combined with nefarious business practices onto the public and country at large. 

The attack on the American citizen has been a collective effort across the board involving many players. These attacks on the American citizenry have been relentless from the denial of the media regarding a range of issues from election integrity to child trafficking and even to Trump’s attempted assassination itself which was shown on live television, yet still those infected by the Marxist Mass Formation were cheering this violent act.  

This Mass Formation has spread throughout Corporate America with big corporations like Gillette that even went so far as to directly attack their own customer base of men referring to their masculinity as being toxic. 

Furthermore you’ve seen American citizens being replaced by foreign illegals, women being replaced by men who call themselves women, and the king of beers seemingly placing a male self identified queen on one of their cans to be the face of their largest brand as an additional attack on masculinity. 

When you look at all of these failed and outrageous Marxist acts of social injustice one has to pause and ask what’s driving all of this? 

Well, I believe the ultimate driver of several of these insane views originate from Marxists beliefs which are also helped along by the almighty dollar. This is a known variable with how many of these big companies in Corporate America are motivated to make such destructive decisions for their brand because of investment funding that they have chosen to take advantage of with programs involving DEI and ESG. 

After all, the majority of CEOs of some of these biggest corporations don’t care about the company that they run. The reason I say this is that the majority of CEOs running these large corporations aren’t Mavericks that built these companies up by their own blood and sweat, but are simply politicians that were elected by a board of trustees to run these companies. They care more about the bottom dollar and aren’t worried about anything else other than making as much money as possible before their own tenure comes to an end and they have to move on to the next thing.  

Regardless of the motive much of this can still be seen happening because these fascistic/Marxists practices have become a serious and destructive social contagion that has spread throughout society. The presence of this woke Marxist ideology has been rooted into our institutions for quite some time and it has had time to indoctrinate a couple of young generations in the process. As these generational youth have now grown into adults they’ve had time to transition and migrate into areas and positions of media, corporate America, and pop culture. 

The social contagion, or Mass Formation, then spreads to other people who lack a sound philosophical grounding, lack knowledge of history, and are already clueless as to how the world actually works because of a garbage educational system at large combined with an Administrative State Media (ASM) that has been successful in dumbing down the masses over time. 

In short, the hive mind has been formed as society has gotten more entangled in Marxist ideology. I said I would come back to that concept of entanglement. 

The Wrap Up

At the beginning of this article I referenced a method of how researchers studying the entanglement of particles would form two particles from the same crystal and then distance the particles from one another. 

Once this was done the observation of entanglement could be made with each of the particles. Here it could be observed that each of the particles were correlated in their behavior. In short, the connection between the two could be seen. 

In regards to the social contagion, the most shocking aspect of this to me over the last few years was how this Marxist ideology managed to spread in order to infiltrate churches and families that I previously would have never imagined happening in the first place. In my view much of the pressure here comes because of money and the fact that people’s livelihoods can be leveraged against them forcing them to be more tolerant of Marxist programs such as ESG and DEI which in turn mitigates a lot of pushback from everyday people. 

Like myself I’m sure you also wondered where much of this insane behavior was coming from when it started being obvious that it was spreading and becoming more apparent to those of us critical minds that this was the REAL pandemic. 

The amazing thing was seeing how a church would adopt these Marxist principles in the same exact way as Disney or Coca-Cola would, yet the church and these major companies in Corporate America would share no relationship whatsoever. 

So why was this happening? 

Well when examining the entanglement theory the entire concept of this quantum theory is that the connection between particles can remain linked even though they are separated by large distances. 

As weird as this is, it seems to be a definite function of the universe. Given this function it seems to me that human beings are also made up of a bunch of particles as well. We’re made up of atoms containing protons, neutrons, and electrons. 

Given this perhaps this social contagion we’ve witnessed since the pandemic of Marxism was operating among groups within the population behaving as some sort of entanglement. After all, this could potentially explain why individuals and institutions that both complied with the ideology, but were perhaps separated by great distances, ended up adopting these evil policies and behaviors without ever having to communicate and know one another. 

After all, the common trait here in humans concerning the hive mind, or more specifically the Mass Formation, that serves to be the driver of this radical behavior is directly tied to the emotion of fear. 

Once again, I’m no physicist, but it’s probably too bad that the top researchers can’t measure whether or not the acting particles involved in quantum entanglement possess any emotions, namely the emotion of fear. 

What do you think about this phenomenon of Mass Formation and how it seems to spread across society? 

What do you think causes fear to spread like some sort of virus among its hosts without the hosts ever having been in contact with one another? 

Make sure you post up below in the comments because I believe both the audience and myself would like to hear your feedback on this.

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“Evidently, Mr. Ringo’s an educated man. Now, I really hate him.”

 — Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), Tombstone

The date was October 26, 1881 and four determined men in long black coats walked down Fremont Street to face off against six other men who were part of the day’s criminal gang known as the Cochise County Cowboys. (Source: O.K. Corral)

The four men turned the corner to enter into a narrow vacant lot located just behind the O.K. Corral to face off against those gangsters known as Cowboys. 

In case you haven’t figured it out by now, those four men I’m talking about were Wyatt Earp along with his friend Doc Holiday and his brothers Virgil and Morgan Earp. 

This face off between the Earps and the Cowboys would end up resulting in arguably the most famous shootout in American history. After 30 seconds of gunfire the shootout would leave three members of the cowboy gang with Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers dead. Billy’s brother Ike was unarmed and ran from the fight, but after the event he would end up filing murder charges against the Earps for the death of his brother Billy. 

Now the thing you gotta understand is that back then carrying the label of being a Cowboy wasn’t a compliment, or a cool term of endearment like it is today. In fact, it was an outright insult. Cowboys were really one of the first known forms of organized crime and were notorious for stealing cattle and causing trouble. 

The thing is this trouble was no different concerning the Cochise County Cowboys. Prior to the shootout Virgil Earp had learned that Wyatt was talking to the Cowboys at Spangenberg's gun shop where he grabbed either a 10 gauge or 12 gauge short, double-barreled shotgun from the Wells Fargo office on Allen Street. Virgil would end up giving this very shotgun to Doc who would end up hiding it under his coat. 

When the Cowboys moved from Spangenberg's gun shop to the O.K. Corral several witnesses had overheard them threatening to kill the Earps. 

The truth is that the Cowboys had constant building tensions with the Earps throughout 1881 because the Earps served to be an impediment for the Cowboys making life more difficult for them to carry out their illegal activities. 

On September 16, 1881, thirty days before the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Tombstone Epitaph wrote the following regarding the “Cow-boy Nuisance” in Arizona: 

It has come to pass in this county that life and personal property are unsafe; even in the town of Tombstone it seems as if one of the leading industries is to be destroyed. There is not a teamster to-day who is not in fear and dread of the cow-boys, or so-styled "rustlers" depriving him of his hard earnings... How must such men feel to be robbed by a hand of thieves and cutthroats, who take pride in announcing to the public that they are "rustlers!" Where is the teamsters protection? Can you find any officers who will follow, arrest and recover your property? If you can, I would like to see him... These chaps seem to have no difficulty in evading the law, while others, not inclined to work, daily join the band and they are increasing fast in numbers. Our town is filled with spies watching every move of the officers and imparting their information to their comrades... Men who come to examine different mines outside of town, when they learn how the cow-boys stand fellows up, do not wish to run such risks; they quietly take the road they came and get into civilization as soon as possible. (Source: Wikipedia)

The reality is that the famous shootout was only the beginning of the disputes continuing to grow between Ike and Wyatt Earp, but aside from the bullets flying around from the wild west gunfight at the O.K. Corral these disputes also took many other forms during that time that mirrored how we see many disputes play out in this modern day hostile environment. 

You see, the concept of 5th Generation Warfare wasn’t something that just went on hyperdrive here in modern day history between 2020 and 2024, but was something that also occurred even during the life and times of Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton. 

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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

― Frédéric Bastiat

In Chapter 3 of the book of Deuteronomy in the Bible Moses is the author telling us about his leadership role and his capture and defeat of many lands with God’s protection, but the one I wanted to point out in this episode is the area of Bashan. 

During this chapter Moses talks about how God had delivered the land of Bashan over to the Israelites and that they ended up taking sixty cities involving all of the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 

The chapter goes on to say that the cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars. Moses makes clear that Israel utterly destroyed them, but that they took all the livestock and the spoil of the cities were taken as booty, or what would otherwise be known as plunder to divide among the people. 

Now there’s another interesting fact regarding the land of Bashan. I mentioned that the Israelites ended up taking over all of the region of Argob, which was the kingdom of Og. 

In case you didn’t know this Og was a giant and according to this chapter all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the giants. It said that Og king of Bashan remained as the remnant of the giants and that his bedstead was an iron bedstead nine cubits in its length and four cubits in its width, according to the standard cubit. 

Now just to give you some perspective on what the length of a cubit is, it involves the measurement from the length from your elbow to the tip of your middle finger. Given this metric the length of a cubit could vary between 18 and 20 inches in length. 

Since this is the case then Og could have been somewhere between nine and thirteen feet tall. Now if you question this something else you should consider is that modern day Bashan is located in northern Syria and even today there are literally hundreds of huge man made stone structures known as Dolmens located in the Golan Heights (Bashan) and these huge stone megalithic structures can weigh between 100 and 300 tons. 

This is an interesting modern day observation of what seems to be the remnants of Og and his kingdom, but as fascinating as that is the even more fascinating discussion here in my view is the fact that Israel, under God’s protection and guidance, was able to conquer and plunder Bashan despite the fact that it was ran by giants. 

Now that term plunder (also known as booty) is quite an interesting term because it’s historically been associated with what the victor would keep for themselves after a kinetic war with an enemy. 

This is something that is made clear here in Deuteronomy as Moses explains Israel’s journey across all of the lands they had to conquer during that time in human history. 

Granted, during that time many of the lands that Israel conquered were engaging in a lot of evil activity that was displeasing to God so the goal as I see it was that God was using Israel to build a nation while, at the same time, empowering his people to destroy and even plunder those perpetrators of evil and those who were adversarial to his purpose and will. 

Granted, war is a difficult and horrible reality, but there have been times in history where war was both a necessary and just cause. Given this reality the fact is there’s also a lot more human history to examine when war wasn’t a just cause, but rather served more as an opportunity for plunder for some to satisfy their need for power at the expense of others. 

Old Habits Die Hard

Plunder seems to be a human habit that traditionally hasn’t been for too many just causes, but regardless it is a habit that just doesn’t want to go away. 

Under the guidance of God I would give Israel a pass due to the motivations and actions of their enemies as to the reason for Israel's plunder of their inimical foes. Granted I’m by no means disregarding the severity of God’s wrath, but I'm simply saying that in my own personal belief I completely trust his reasons pertaining to his enemies. I can particularly try to empathize with the historical significance of this regarding the formation of his nation in the early days of civilization in addition to the Grace he’s given me in my own life, but I digress. 

Regardless, the point here is that plunder is most often a result of most every nation in human history that has subscribed to what is known as the conquest ethic. 

Now whether you’ve heard that term conquest ethic, or not you can probably figure out the meaning here based on the context of this discussion. For the sake of discussion and if you need a little help this basically means that traditionally if you happened to be a king, or dictator you would grow your empire by conquering rival kingdoms and nations in order to absorb their people and resources for the benefit of your own land. 

Once again this is the traditional practice involved in the act of plunder as we’ve understood it throughout history. The premise is rather simple as you just aim to take out a rival opponent in order to acquire their resources and this has mostly been done by kingdoms and nations that operate more like empires such as Rome in an attempt to spread their influence, power, and reach across the globe. 

In addition to the act of plunder, the thirst for power has also been a trait that civilizations have supported with much of their domestic ruling classes and many of their ruling leaders over time. 

After all, history seems to demonstrate that many kingdoms and nations have been consistent in supporting some of the most horrific power hungry leaders of all time. 

A few quick examples of these deranged individuals that were allowed to grasp the reigns of power in their respective lands were Ivan the Terrible, Caligula, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler just to name a few. 

Obviously throughout most of history these old habits revolving around this theme of acquiring power by plunder is an old habit of human nature that just won’t die. The old saying that old habits die hard is very true to form, particularly when looking at the stories of the past regarding history’s worst leaders.  

Granted, I would say that the only nation in existence that wasn’t built on the conquest ethic is the United States. I could also make a strong argument for Israel as well, but they did plunder the plunderers and took the fight to destroy truly evil civilizations that existed at that time and had committed horrible atrocities for well over four centuries. The bottom line is that in the Old Testament of Deutoronomy God’s decision to destroy and plunder these lands wasn’t a rash decision, but one that was based on a will to establish his code of morality in a fallen world.  

So why did I go to the trouble to cover the historical significance of the act of plunder? 

Well typically when looking at history we think of plunder in the context as I’ve described it here regarding one kingdom, or nation invading another in order to take their resources to strengthen their position in the world. 

However, in the context of the modern world when looking at the here and now this old habit certainly hasn’t died, but it has taken on a new form. 

Reverse Plunder

On August 19, 2024 the Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means Committee produced a 291 page report from their impeachment inquiry that exposed some massive corruption in their findings which involved the Biden family members receiving over $27 million from foreign individuals and entities. (Source: Committee on Oversight and Accountability)

The even more disturbing fact about these findings is that a significant chunk of this money was coming through several shell companies that the Bidens had set up to funnel money through from China. Now given the current geo-political landscape with the CCP’s provocative behavior towards Taiwan, the Philippines, and their friendly partnership with Iran, as tensions are rising in the middle east, this discovery is quite alarming. 

In fact, several lifelong politicians who have worked in D.C. have accumulated a staggering amount of wealth over the course of their careers in politics, yet the country has gotten poorer. This is not a hyperbolic statement in the least and I’ll prove it. 

For starters, the United States of America has been firmly established as being the wealthiest country in world history and has held the title of having the biggest GDP for well over a century. Regardless of these facts, the reality is that its credit rating has been downgraded twice for the first time in its history in the past 13 years. 

So let me put that into perspective as that’s a pretty staggering event to highlight given the timeline. One more time, the country has been the leading GDP of the world for well over a century, yet given the country’s 248 year existence the only two credit downgrades occurred as recently as the last 13 years. Think about that statement. Obviously someone really screwed up the finances of the country. 

Guess who was running the country during both of these downgrades. In case you didn’t know the first downgrade occurred with Standard and Poors on August 5, 2011 under Barack Hussein Obama. The second downgrade occurred on August 1, 2023 with Joe Biden at the helm. Both downgrades were a result of poor fiscal policy, too much spending, and low growth outlook as the rating systems gazed into the country’s economic future and obviously lost confidence in the decisions being made by the leadership. (Source: Budget Committee)

In addition to the country getting two downgrades we are currently experiencing 40 year record high inflation due to the massive government spending coming off this second credit downgrade in addition to the Federal Reserve having printed more money than ever before. 

If you look at the Federal Debt Clock we have surpassed the $35 trillion mark and are well on our way to $36 trillion. In fact, the Fed’s current rate of spending has now reached a pace where we are literally going a trillion dollars in debt every one hundred days. 

So why is this happening? 

The explanation is simple as the Fed continues to print more money because the government continues to spend more of it. Because of this very act the more this happens the less ownership you will have concerning your money. That’s a scary fact. 

Aside from the American citizens literally getting crushed every month with the mounting inflation, a slowing economy, and the massive spike in crime, the massive invasion of illegals is also another issue where the current regime in the White House is working to directly destroy the sovereignty of its own United States citizens. 

The fear associated with the process of how this would be done has often been referred to as the Great Replacement Theory. However this is no longer a theory, but rather a plan that is fully in action right now in front of us in real time.  

This theory has often been labeled by Marxists as being a far right white nationalist extremist theory that involves the process of black and brown immigrants engaging in the reverse-colonization of white Europeans, or when referencing the United States you can substitute white American citizens. 

However, this is once again another example of how the Marxists want to try and inject identity politics into every tragedy as skin color and race literally have nothing to do with the Great Replacement. What it does have to do with is the literal replacement of what you would consider to be the indigenous citizens of a respective country by non-citizens with the government of the citizens helping the non-citizens to do this to their own citizens. Take a pause and allow that to sink in for a moment.  

In other words, they are actively replacing U.S. citizens with an entirely new population of illegals coming in from other countries. 

There’s no conspiracy theory involved in this because the Democrat politicians that are in control want new voters to keep them in power. This is the reality and it’s happening at such a rate that these illegals are literally overrunning some of most major metropolitan cities such as New York and Chicago. 

So why am I hammering away and going on and on about the corruption of the Democratic party and the U.S. government literally being at war with its own citizenry? 

The reason I laid out all of these facts is because they all represent the same thing that I’ve been talking about in regards to the theme of this entire episode. 

That theme would be that the lifetime politicians in Washington D.C., the Bidens, and the D.C. political establishment at large have all been engaging in the act of plunder. That’s right, they’re engaging in plunder. 

Now after having said that you might be wondering how that’s possible given the traditional definition of plunder that I laid out at the beginning of this episode. After all, I haven’t mentioned anywhere in this episode where the United States is trying to invade another country right now in order to take their people and resources, right? 

Well, that would be almost right. In other words, the United States is organizing an invasion on itself by helping outsiders to come in and invade it. 

Now that’s a crazy statement, but it’s not as crazy as the fact that it’s a statement of reality. 

After all, Venezuelan gangs have taken over the Aspen Grove, Whispering Pines, and The Edge at Lowry apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado. In fact, The Denver Gazette reports “The property manager for all three Aurora Multi-Family Projects was notified of the takeover and one of our clients’ housekeepers informed the property manager not to return to the Aurora Multi-Family Projects due to the danger to his well-being,” the attorney for CBZ Management wrote.

In addition to this example of plunder another example of plunder was just reported recently on September 4, 2024 where Democrat Governor of New York Kathy Hochul’s aide and deputy Chief of staff Linda Sun was caught violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registrations Act. 

CNN reported that Sun acted as “an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government while her husband, Hu, facilitated the transfer of millions of dollars in kickbacks for personal gain,” prosecutors stated in a news release. 

What makes this corruption such an example of plunder is the fact that Governor Hochul has literally been at work full time trying to lock up President Trump rather than addressing the crystal clear corruption that resides right inside her own office. In fact, as Revolver News reported that at the DNC Hochul bragged about her own state weaponizing the legal system in order to try and destroy President Trump while blatantly interfering with a national election. 

Yet, when these acts of plunder are literally being done right up in the face of the American people there are still voters that will somehow jump through all kinds of mental gymnastics as to why Trump is the bad guy. In my view this can simply be summed up as emotional stupidity.  

So you’re probably thinking Brandon, why would the United States be engaging in an invasion on itself? This is because the politicians and big businesses are engaging in the process of reverse plunder. 

In other words, they’re selling out the country to our enemies (as in the Biden payoff example combined with this Governor Hochul example I just listed here) and enriching themselves in the process. This is precisely why you’re seeing the country in decline because it doesn’t have anything to do with an external enemy overwhelming us with an invasion that they’re orchestrating on their own in order to plunder us.  

Instead the invasion is being orchestrated by the domestic communists that are running our government and these domestic communists are selling the resources and access for our country’s destruction in exchange for personal financial gain. 

This is not complicated as the evidence clearly demonstrates this along with why it keeps happening because American citizens have habitually continued to select horrible leaders to be placed into positions of power to run the country further and further into the ground. 

I’ve already made this obvious point with the country having elected two Democrat presidents that caused the only two credit downgrades the country has ever seen. In addition to this they both happened in the past 13 years and of the two presidents that caused both downgrades the one that sits in the White House now was the sitting Vice President of the other guy that got us the first downgrade in history. Think about the absurdity of this. 

The one good decision the American people made that broke this cycle was the election of Donald Trump in 2016. When Donald J. Trump was elected this was the first time in many decades since Ronald Reagan when the cycle of selecting bad leaders was broken. 

The following story of the two hunters reminded me of the ongoing cycle of human history demonstrating the repeated behavior of making bad decisions that lead to painful outcomes.  

The story goes…

One day a couple of adventurous hunters decided to rent a small plane in order to fly them out to a distant forest region that was also known to be made up of difficult and treacherous terrain. 

The pilot dropped off the hunters and returned a couple weeks later to fly the men back to civilization. However, upon his arrival he noticed something that concerned him after observing the men’s trophies. 

Looking at the men’s game the pilot turned to the hunters and said, “The plane won’t be able to carry more than one buffalo. You’ll have to leave one of them behind.” 

The two hunters protested the pilot’s suggestion saying, “Last year’s pilot agreed to take onboard two buffalos the same size as these.” 

After this rebuttal from the two hunters the pilot paused to think about it for a few seconds and said, “Ok. If it worked last year, it should work this time too.”

As the pilot took off trying to gain altitude with the two buffalo and the two hunters onboard the plane struggled and wasn’t able to reach enough altitude to get out of the forest and as a result the plane crashed into the side of the nearest hill. 

Fortunately nobody was killed from this crash, but as the men were able to free themselves of the wreckage they all looked around and one hunter asked, “Where do you think we are?” 

His friend surveyed the land for a moment and started to explain some of the surroundings near their crash site. 

After his examination the friend replied, “I think we’re only about a couple of miles south of where we crashed last year.” 

To me this is a solid example of how the political cycles have looked with everyone the American people have selected to run for president since Ronald Reagan with the one huge exception being Donald Trump. 

Plundering The Plunderers

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” 

-The Greek philosopher, Archimedes

This quote from the philosopher Archimedes reminds me of the act of performing a heavy lift, but more importantly how one should go about attempting the heavy lift in order to make it successful. 

You see the problem with our society at the moment is the reality that we have allowed Marxists, communists, midwits, and imbeciles to take control over and weaponize our government against us…the U.S. citizens. 

We are actively being faced with the realization of these people carrying out the process of reverse plunder on us every single day and this process of reverse plunder is building momentum every single day. 

Now given this reality I want to be clear about something because in much of this episode I’ve been critical of the Democrats within our political system, but now I want to focus my ire towards the Republican establishment that have been in power and not done much to step in the way of these Democrats in order to stop them, or force them to correct course to get the country back on track. 

As we sit here right now the Republican controlled House has been more helpful towards the corrupt Biden/Harris regime and as a result has assisted them in destroying the country with endless wars, the destruction of our currency, and not done a single thing to fix the border invasion. 

Why does this always seem to happen? 

It happens because of the reason that the great Steve Bannon has pointed out for quite some time which is the fact that the Republican establishment, or RINOs, are controlled opposition for the Democrat party. You see they’re in on waging this war of reverse plunder onto the American public as well. 

You might be thinking Brandon, the Republicans have the control of the House, but they don’t control the Senate so what power do they have? 

You’d be correct with your assessment in that, however the House of Representatives has the control of the purse and how money is spent. You’ll often hear them refer to the House Appropriations Committee whenever another giant spending bill is about to hit the floor for a vote. The House Appropriations Committee is basically a fancy word for the guys that handle where the money goes.  

Speaker Mike Johnson is currently third in line from the president as Speaker of the House and he has always had the power of the purse in order to shut down the border, to grind everything to a halt, and force the Democrats into fixing these problems that plague us with the massive spending and the border invasion because he controls the money. Despite all of this it hasn’t happened. 

Now before you tell me that he’s unable to make a difference then explain to me how Nancy Pelosi was able to get everything done that she wanted to get done when she was the Speaker of the House. 

I mean Pelosi managed to impeach President Trump twice (although wrongfully) yet somehow I’m supposed to believe that Mike Johnson holds the same position, but he’s somehow magically stumbled across some sort of special Speaker of the House kryptonite that prevents him from doing what needs to be done to serve the best interest of the Republic? 

For anyone who believes that, I'll borrow a line from the country singer George Strait and just say that I’ve got some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. 

The reality is that these establishment career D.C. politicians have all recognized that D.C. is the city where grifters can engage in the grifting of all grifts. 

These people only respond to three things. They respond to immense pressure from their constituents, being voted out, and the prospect of losing money. 

They’re allowed to grift because many of them take money from Super PACs which get large donations from large corporations. 

As you may imagine many large corporations like to support RINOs where many MAGA Republicans only take donations directly from their constituents in the form of individual donations. A couple of examples of MAGA Republicans that do this are Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz. 

Getting behind these types of politicians that raise their money through direct individual donations is one way you can plunder the plunderers. 

In addition to this the other way to do this is to support the Patriot Parallel Economy. Granted this is going to be a heavy lift, but the more we all support alternative media, America First businesses, etc. the more we lengthen that lever in order to execute this heavy lift…just as Archimedes has taught us. 

The Wrap Up

The bottom line is that, like Israel, we are currently faced with the prospect of having to take down our own modern day version of Og in the form of putting a stop to this reverse plunder. 

The remedy for this is for each of us as individuals to realize how much power we have in the form of our own knowledge, actions, and judgements. This is what it means to be a Zenith, particularly during chaotic times such as this. 

Sure we need to get behind Donald Trump, but we also need to recognize that this goes way beyond just simply showing up on election month to vote. Voting is a must, but we need to ALL be engaged in something extra between now and then whether it means donating money to the right people, financially supporting America First businesses in the Patriot economy, being force multipliers by spreading messages from America First platforms, or simply talking with people daily about the issues that are facing us and getting those people to the polls. 

In order to make this heavy lift a success you can look at the corruption and reverse plunder occurring from D.C. as the heavy object that needs to be moved away. Subsequently you can equate your growth as a Zenith along with your actions as lengthening the lever of Archimedes. You can view the foundation of the Republic as being the fulcrum in this exercise and most importantly you can equate Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans that we put into office as being the force that drives that lever down in order to move that heavy object away once and for all. 

How involved are you with supporting the parallel economy? 

Do you think we can transform Substack into being the new media that puts the Administrative State Media out of business? 

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"Ah yes! I was wondering what would break first! Your spirit or your body!"

–Bane, The Dark Knight Rises

That quote I just led off with involved the fight scene between the strong infamous villain Bane and Batman in the movie The Dark Knight Rises. 

This particular fight scene happens in the earlier stage of the movie when Batman confronts Bane in hand to hand combat. The quote that I included here to start this episode was uttered by Bane just before he lifts Batman overhead and slams him down onto his knee to break his back. 

In this scene it was clear that even Bane knew that Batman’s body would break long before his spirit ever would. 

I personally thought this movie contained a lot of powerful messaging and aside from Batman’s loss to Bane in the beginning it would eventually serve to be a testament to the human spirit and the power of exercising courage and willpower in order to achieve a goal. 

Unfortunately for Batman his misery was only just beginning at this stage of the film as Bane would have him transported out of Gotham and thrown into the bottom of a deep dark pit that also happened to be the prison where Bane himself claimed he discovered darkness and despair. 

Once Bruce Wayne (Batman) found himself in the bottom of this pit with a broken back Bane came to torment him further by reminding him that he wasn’t going to kill his physical body, but rather to aim to gradually erode his spirit by giving him a means to view the destruction that he would inflict onto Wayne’s beloved city of Gotham by a TV monitor that he had installed inside of this prison. 

He went on to tell Bruce that the purpose of him being in this same pit that had once imprisoned him was because it was the worst prison on earth. According to Bane this was due to the fact that you could look up directly out of the pit to see the opening to the free world, but that many men for many years had all fallen to the bottom and died trying to climb out of it only after clawing their way to the top. 

He went on to communicate that the real torment of this prison is that it gave false hope because the prisoners could see the opening to freedom, yet it would only result in despair as nobody could climb out of it. Bane was letting Bruce know that the repetition and fatal failure involved in the attempted act to escape this prison pit served to be the most brutal form of punishment as the visible daylight of the pit’s opening would gradually transform one’s view of hope into the complete darkness of despair. 

This was Bane’s plan for Batman, but Batman would have a different plan in mind to overcome his darkness. 

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Here Bruce Wayne was facing his own fog of war with the uncertainty of the outcome of his own existence, as well as with the outcome of his beloved city of Gotham. 

Not only did he find himself in the bottom of some remote miserable prison pit, but he was stuck down in the bottom of it with a broken back and no easy plan on how to get out. 

However, as dire as the circumstances were for Wayne and despite what Bane had told him about the opening at the top of the pit in an attempt to demoralize him, Wayne could still look up to the opening of that pit and see the bright sunshine and daylight. In other words, there was a sign of hope even though it was covered up in hardship and adversity. In short, the hope was still there because it could visibly be seen. 

You see, hope is one of the most powerful things, but it must first be preceded by courage and action and Wayne knew it was going to take some willpower, courage, and action in order to get himself out of that hole so that he could stop Bane once and for all. 

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The Providential Fog

I want to take a moment to shift gears to take you on a little journey back in time. 

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

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

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

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

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

However, even though they managed to escape a very dire situation as the New York campaign progressed Washington’s forces would end up suffering another couple of defeats at the Battle of White Plains on October 28, 1776 and again at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776 with that November defeat coincidentally being exactly 200 years to the day before my birthdate. 

That disaster of Fort Washington would end up costing the Continental Army 59 killed American Patriots and another 2837 captured Patriots. As they were chased from New York Washington’s army was fractured and demoralized and ended up having to retreat all the way across New Jersey and into Pennsylvania. 

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To highlight the significance of these trying times during Washington’s struggles in New York it was during this time that as those dark days and 1776 came to a close that Thomas Paine’s words published in American Crisis rang powerfully true. 

I’ve included a portion of his writing from that famous publication here. 

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. (Source, George Washington’s Mount Vernon)

Now obviously this period during the American Revolutionary War was a very grim period for our founding father General George Washington. 

However, his courageous decision to cross that river was a turning point whether he had believed that at the time or not. I’m sure he did with the miraculous escape, but the following defeats would inject some adversity that I’m sure had truly even put him to the test. Nevertheless, having gone through the fire and having emerged on the other side is something I’m sure our founding father drew comfort from even in the darkest of hours. 

His decision to cross that East River required an act of courage and despite the defeats that followed in the coming battles when the smoke cleared from the war victory was General Washington’s reward along with eventually becoming the first President of The United States in 1789. 

So why did I bother to dive into this powerful moment during the American Revolution? 

I chose to cover this powerful moment because in the middle of the heat of battle after having suffered a defeat combined with the fact that the short-term future was looking rather grim, Washington still had some hope when looking to the East River. There wasn’t a lot of daylight and there was certainly a fog of war, but that fog ended up working in the favor of Washington and his Patriots on that day thanks to God and his gift. 

Victory Begets Victory

So you’re probably thinking Brandon, what about Batman? What happened to Bruce Wayne? 

Well if you’ve seen the movie then you already know, but just in case you haven’t there’s a very important turning point in that movie with Bruce Wayne fighting against the prospect of losing all hope along with solidifying not only his own destruction, but the destruction of his beloved city of Gotham as well. 

With the usual determination of a hardened billionaire that doubles as the world’s favorite vigilante Wayne immediately starts the long difficult journey of strengthening his body and rehabilitating his back from his injury from Bane. 

As the movie clearly shows this is a difficult and cumbersome process, but a process that Wayne understands he must grind through as he has no other choice. 

With a little help from an older and wiser inmate Wayne works day after day and gets his body stronger and stronger until his physical abilities are fully restored. At this point Wayne directs his attention to the top opening of the pit with the understanding that his next feat will involve him having to make an attempt at the climb and the dreaded jump to get out of the dangerous pit to conquer his fear in order to restore his freedom. 

Wayne immediately gets some rope to tie around his waist and makes his way up the side of the wall to the dreaded small ledge that requires a jump over to another ledge that is above him. This jump is required in order to successfully climb out of the pit and is obviously the jump that has killed so many men that came before him.  

Wayne goes to make the jump and falls short and he falls down the pit, but the rope serves as a safety net preventing him from crashing down to his death onto the floor of the pit below.  Granted it’s still not a smooth fall as the rope doesn’t save him from taking a beating off the sides of the walls of the pit. 

After his failed jump the older wiser inmate is telling him that the reason that he failed is because of his fear, but Bruce responds by stating that he’s not afraid, but rather that he’s angry. He then rushes out to begin his second attempt once again tying the rope around his waist and hurrying his climb towards that ledge, but this time he loses his hand grip and falls again resulting in him bouncing off the side of the wall of the pit and knocking himself unconscious as he’s left hanging from the rope.  

Next, Wayne awakens from having been knocked unconscious in his cell and the older inmate tells him that not fearing death doesn’t make him stronger, but instead makes him weak. 

Here Wayne asks the obvious question of Why? 

The older inmate responds by asking How can you move faster than possible? Fight longer than possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The inmate then answers his own question stating, The fear of death. 

Wayne tells the older inmate that he doesn’t fear death, but rather fears dying in that pit while his city of Gotham burns. 

It is here that the older inmate responds by saying Well then make the climb. Wayne asks How? The inmate then tells him As the child did, without the rope. I won’t spoil this part, but the child that the older inmate is referring to is who we, as the audience, presume to be Bane. 

At this point Wayne is seen packing a small bag of his supplies to roll up into a shoulder harness symbolizing that he’s about to make his final attempt at the climb along with the dreaded jump for his life from that ledge. 

The Wrap Up 

Wayne successfully makes the climb up to the final ledge to make the attempted jump to freedom that will either result in him plunging to his death, or giving him an easy climb out of that pit to the surface. 

As Wayne stands up on that ledge high above the prisoners there’s a powerful moment of symbolism as he startles a colony of bats that suddenly burst into flight all around him just before he makes his attempt. 

The men below are all chanting and cheering as he turns his attention towards the ledge above him. He gives himself a brief moment to take a breath and then he doesn’t hold anything back and leaps as hard as he can. The men pause in their chant for a brief moment of silence only to erupt in cheers a moment later as Wayne successfully grabs the ledge with both hands to successfully pull himself up so that he can climb the rest of the way out of that pit back to the surface. 

You see this was a significant moment for Wayne just as Washington had a significant moment going into the East River. Even though one story here is fictional and the other is documented history the fact still remains that both of these stories carry a common theme involving hope and victory. 

Washington’s escape, which was aided under the cover of the providential fog, was a major victory even though it may have not have seemed that way after the difficult day he and his men had just endured in New York. 

Regardless of the setbacks that Washington had to endure during the New York campaign, looking back there is no doubt his enemy wanted him to succumb to despair in the fog of war, but instead he was aided by the fog of hope. Even though Washington knew that the East River would be a risky move due to the Royal Navy’s presence he also knew it was their only hope and that he had to go all in without holding back.  

In much the same way we could say that about Washington we can see the same theme playing out with Bane’s plans for Bruce Wayne. Bane wanted Wayne to succumb to despair by putting him deep into the bottom of that prison pit with a broken back. Just like Washington, Wayne didn’t succumb to his own fog of war, but rather embraced his own fog of hope by realizing that he had to make that final jump from the ledge without the safety net of being tied to the rope. He knew that once he committed to it that he simply had to go all in without holding back just as Washington recognized the same thing in his defining moment in history. 

As both of these stories play out Washington is victorious at defeating the British just as Batman is victorious at defeating Bane in the end. 

Romans 5:3-4

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

You see I’m convinced now more than ever that our country, society, and world is having to endure suffering because it will produce the perseverance, character, and hope as the Bible says here while also simultaneously strengthening our relationship with God. 

This ability to overcome our own individual fog of war in order for each of us to look for our own individual fog of hope is the key to victory. 

Remember the words of Thomas Paine as Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but as the book of Romans points out we also glory in our sufferings. 

This is how we each achieve victory and always remember that victory begets victory. Now is your time to engage in the fight for liberty because there’s no time like this time in history and we will not allow our enemies to remove our fog of hope as long as we act and persevere.

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“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

In a world where the communist media will twist the meaning and literally change the definition of words on the spot in order to dodge the responsibility of being completely wrong on just about every issue you have to know that precision with information and knowledge is significant.  

So what do I mean when I say that precision matters with information and knowledge? 

That statement is pretty self-explanatory, but to give you an example it boils down to the simple idea of having your ducks in a row and possessing the ability to back up your argument when you find yourself in a situation where you need to take a stand. 

In this day and age the war isn’t a political debate, but rather the difference between knowing how to discern between the truth and the lies. When making your stand for the truth you’ve got to be armed with knowledge so that you don’t only defeat that communist opposition, but that in your victory you also salt the earth around it. 

For far too long now we, as citizens, have allowed the steady and persistent growth and expansion of the federal government which has brought us to this current point in time. We are approaching a point of critical mass with a flashpoint that will send our country in one of two directions. As I’m working to write and record this very episode I recognize that we have officially lost this United States Republic to fascists and communists that want to run this country completely into the ground once and for all. 

That’s right, you might not like hearing this, but the REALITY is that we are in the middle of a war. Yes, I said WAR because this is a literal cultural, political, economic, and sovereignty war where you aren’t looking at simply choosing between two personalities this coming November. If that’s the way you see this current dilemma then you don’t see the reality of what’s going on at all.  

If you love this country the way I do, trust me I know how you feel. It’s a disgusting and completely infuriating scenario that all of us currently find ourselves in, especially if you have an appreciation of liberty and possess the capacity to understand what freedom truly is in the first place. I have to say it like that because it’s clear to me that those people who do not understand the true meaning of freedom are those communists you see on the television standing behind Kamala Harris (that would be the non-AI generated people) whenever she’s on TV espousing her communist beliefs while using Marxist lingo such as equity and inclusion.  

The reality of seeing this disaster unfold everyday now during this campaign season is on the one hand quite shocking to see, but at the same time, it isn’t so shocking to see. In other words, I’ve already stated that we’ve gradually allowed the trajectory of the growth and expansion of the federal government to continue unabated now for many decades. 

You may be wondering Brandon, how many decades are you talking about? I’d say it’s very clear that this all started back in 1933 when Franklin D. Roosevelt lit the fuse on his New Deal campaign during The Great Depression. 

Yes, I place a ton of blame on FDR for having kicked off this game of misery that we’re currently seeing unfold right in front of us. As I’ve already stated we have reached the point of societal critical mass with the steady expansion of this disastrous socialist/communist experiment that’s leading us fast towards a day of destruction.  

The Silver Bullet

Now I want to shift gears really hard to make another point. Granted we have lost the country to the communist werewolf. HOWEVER we have been given one more silver bullet to load into the chamber of the gun of liberty and freedom and that silver bullet comes in the form of a vote for Donald J. Trump and every MAGA Republican down ballot in every state this November. 

You may still be wondering what it was that I meant when I said that if you’re looking at this coming election as solely being a choice between two personalities including Donald Trump and Kamala Harris that you don’t see the reality of what’s going on. Quite honestly if you need clarification at this point I'm a bit aggravated that you would because this choice isn’t solely between two personalities or two parties or two politicians. This choice is literally between whether this Republic will be saved, or whether it will be destroyed forever. 

History has shown over and over again that when a country collapses its currency it cannot sustain itself. History has shown over and over again that when a country has no borders it cannot sustain itself. History has shown over and over again that when a country engages in endless wars it cannot sustain itself. History has shown over and over again that when a country fails to protect its own citizens that it cannot sustain itself. 

Many countries that have either met a brutal end, or have gone through brutal and turbulent times have all been faced with at least one of the previous problems that I just listed out. However, the other significant civilization that had to deal with ALL of those problems that I listed out at the same time was the Roman Empire. Of course we all know what happened to the Roman Empire, but just in case you don’t, it fell.

Now that we’ve established that fact, guess what other country is having to deal with all of those problems at the same time. If you guessed the United States of America you’d be correct. 

The United States is also dealing with ALL of these problems at the same time and of the three personalities that are on the election ballot ONLY one of those individuals has reversed these problems, and ONLY one has been responsible for causing these current problems. Take a wild guess at which candidate was responsible for which outcome. 

Just in case you didn’t know this the United States Federal government spent $6.13 trillion in FY 2022. According to the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data this means federal spending was equal to 23% of the total gross domestic product (GDP), or economic activity, of the United States that year. So 23% of our country’s entire GDP is made up entirely of the federal government according to this source.  

Just to give you some perspective on that, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that prides itself as being a complete totalitarian communist police state regime only makes 10% more in spending with their government being about 33% of the country’s GDP according to the International Monetary Fund.

However, even with these numbers that I just sourced from the U.S. Treasury and the International Monetary Fund I’m still very skeptical these days since so many major institutions have been commandeered by the Administrative State. With that being said PhD Economist and  Dean of the school of business at Liberty University Dr. Dave Brat recently posted on his GETTR social media some numbers that paint a different picture as recently as 2017. 

Dave Brat points to the U.S. government having a bigger government than the Chinese Communist Party with the CCP’s share of GDP being around 14% and the U.S. Federal Government being around 18%. Keep in mind the United States is supposed to be freer than the CCP. 

Because of this it’s no wonder we are sitting here with the country being lost to the communists because the federal government has expanded to the point that it’s serving to be more of a command and control government rather than a government for the people and by the people as it was intended. 

At this point it’s undeniable to anyone with a single functioning brain cell to understand that this current public/private partnership is at a breaking point and is unsustainable as it currently stands. Therefore come November the country will either be won back, or it will be lost to the communist regime forever. 

There’s no middle ground with this at this stage in history. You’re literally faced with a binary option in this political cycle and anyone who tries to say differently doesn’t have a handle on history and/or human nature. Furthermore, people that want to make this about political personalities at this point and complain about the politicians insulting one another are just fundamentally unserious citizens…if they even happen to be voting citizens in the first place. 

I mean as I’m relaying this message to you right this very minute I just shared a video to my Facebook and Substack Notes social media where the United Kingdom authorities are literally threatening to go after people for social media posts that are made online even if they’re made from someone outside the country. 

That’s right, the British Senior Police officer and little police commissioner Mark Peter Rowley issued a statement to Sky News stating that they would be using the full extent of the law to extradite anyone who they deemed to be a threat for inciting violence. He went on to explain that this would involve anyone who they might recognize as being a provocative individual in fueling the riots in the UK from online social media posts. You can view Rowley’s communist threat on video by following the link that I’m including here. 

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Your Duty As a Citizen and Salting The Earth

It’s not a mystery to most people that the Roman Empire was absolutely huge at its peak, covering nearly 1.9 million square miles of territory and it spanned across three continents. For an ancient civilization this was truly remarkable. 

With that being said, as big and as powerful as the Roman Empire was in its day there was one other rival that did manage to send a chill down the spine of the Roman Empire and they certainly would prove to be a formidable opponent as they would war with the Empire on three different occasions. 

This opponent to the Roman Empire would be Carthage which was an ancient city located on the coast of modern Tunisia. Carthage was also a powerhouse as they were a powerful center for trade and commerce controlling much of the Western Mediterranean. 

However, like most other powerful civilizations and countries their rise to power would end up placing Carthage on a heavyweight collision course with the Roman Empire. This massive conflict between Carthage and Rome would result in the Punic Wars which involved three wars spanning from 264 to 146 BC and would involve 43 years of war between them. (Source: History Skills)

In the first Punic War this conflict took place between 264 and 241 BCE and was centered around who could take control over the island of Sicily. Rome would end up being victorious in gaining control over the island, but the animosity between Carthage and Rome continued to run hot. 

The second Punic War was fought between 218 and 201 BCE and in this the Carthaginian general Hannibal took some time to build up an army and made a keen observation about Rome. Hannibal recognized that the Roman Empire was great at winning battles off the mainland outside of Italy, but also recognized that they hadn’t really been tested inside of Italy.

Because of this Hannibal decided to march directly into the heart of Italy and almost defeated Rome. Even though they were teetering on defeat Rome would manage to emerge victorious due to the drain on manpower and supplies from Hannibal’s army previously having to traverse some very turbulent and challenging terrain from their very long march into the mainland to do battle.    

As a result of this victory Rome would impose some harsh terms on Carthage including large payments for indemnity along with ceding over much of its large territory. This would end up setting the stage for the third and final Punic War. 

The third Punic War was fought between 149 and 146 BCE and this war was a result of tensions that had been mounting from the previous two wars, but this time Rome would seek to destroy Carthage once and for all. 

This war would begin with Rome going in to lay siege to Carthage and even still this would end up taking several years before the city was completely taken and destroyed. 

Scipio Aemilianus was the ruthless Roman general that led Rome into Carthage eventually resulting in the conquest of the city and ensuring that every last Carthegenian was either killed or sold into slavery. 

This war resulted in the complete end of Carthage and many years of wars that put the Roman Empire to the test.

So now you may be wondering why it is that I chose to give you a brief breakdown in the history of the Punic Wars. 

Well it’s no secret that the Roman Empire was one of the most powerful ancient civilizations to ever exist. Given the meteoric rise of Carthage this certainly earned the respect of Rome given the circumstances as it took three wars and Rome finally decided that it needed to roll in as hard as possible in the Third Punic War in order to put an end to Carthage forever. Because it was the Roman Empire I’m not here to say whether I believe that their cause was righteous, but they clearly felt it was necessary for the very survival of their existence. There was no doubt that Rome understood that they felt they had a duty to defeat Carthage once and for all. 

Although historical evidence doesn’t strongly support the act it has often been said that after Rome finally defeated Carthage that they dug trenches around the city and salted the earth around it. 

Whether this was actually done or not such an act was a symbolic gesture to point to the spoiling of the ground so that nothing else would ever grow, or sprout from that spot ever again. It’s an exclamation point that the conqueror is communicating that they carried out a total defeat and annihilation of their enemy and cursed the ground preventing any reinhabitation of the area from that point looking forward. 

Basically the lesson to draw from this here is that this gesture communicates to anyone and everyone that there were no half measures taken when it came to having to achieve total victory. 

The other lesson we can draw from that lesson is that when it comes to you defending your citizenship as an American citizen the same thing can be said. 

You see as I’ve already established earlier in this episode the country is currently no longer a Republic, but rather behaving as an empire. I gave a list of examples of what those behaviors entail such as the dissolving of the borders, the destruction of the currency, and the failure of the country to take care of its own citizens. 

Because we are no longer a Republic the scary reality of this means that both you and I are also technically no longer citizens. Sure we are citizens in name only (CINO), but like that British police commissioner is demonstrating with the state going to war with their own citizens if Kamala Harris continues to have her way both you and myself will be in the same boat as the British citizens. 

Furthermore it’s been discovered that illegal migrants that are being shipped all over the country are given several thousands of dollars in food cards and money when we simultaneously have United States military veterans getting absolutely nothing with many of them living homeless on the streets right this second. It’s absolutely disgusting and another example of lost citizenship. 

As I’ve already pointed out, we do still have one more silver bullet left in the chamber to kill this werewolf that I refer to as communism with our ability to get everyone we know to get to the polls and to vote for Donald Trump. 

This is the way that we take back our country. This is how we reverse the weaponization of the justice department and take apart the Administrative State and the Administrative State Media (ASM). 

However, our ability to contribute to this political and cultural fight MUST involve our efforts as individuals actively engaging in this fight on a daily basis. 

If you’re not doing something to contribute to this fight on a daily basis then I would question how much you value your own citizenship. Sure, I’ve established that you’ve basically lost it, but I’ve also established that you have one more opportunity in front of you to win it back. 

So what are you actively doing in order to win it back? 

The Wrap Up

The thing that I want you to understand is that I strongly believe that if you are currently within the sound of my voice I know we can take back our country and win back our citizenship. 

You might be wondering Brandon, how can we do it? 

At the beginning of this episode I spoke about the importance of being armed with knowledge and exercising precision when it comes to arming yourself with knowledge and spreading information. This is obviously part of the equation, but you MUST also act on that knowledge. 

To elaborate further I believe that if the majority of us simply commit ourselves to doing three things a day to promote the liberty and freedom movement we will overwhelm the enemy and we will win this thing handily. 

Some examples of what I’m talking about may include, but not be limited to the following: 

* Spend your dollars with companies that align with your values to build up the alternative patriot economy. 

* Make sure that you do the same thing when supporting other alternative media outlets such as this platform which is proudly an anti-Administrative State Media (ASM) platform.

* Make sure that you spread the information from those alternative media sources relentlessly and on a daily basis. This is not hard to do because it only takes tapping on the share button, or commenting on the articles and podcasts of those anti-ASM platforms. 

* If you don’t like using social media simply share the articles from anti-ASM platforms in text messages, emails, and simply talk about the information to people in your life face to face. 

* Make sure that you plan to vote EARLY and IN PERSON. 

* Round up as many of your friends, coworkers, and neighbors as you can to vote EARLY and IN PERSON with you. 

* Sign up to be a poll watcher or precinct captain. 

* Sign up to join Commit 100

Most importantly pick three of these things and be relentless with executing them on a daily basis. 

Keep in mind that there is no other option except for victory and if you are relentless by placing that pressure on yourself while all of the rest of us do the same we will absolutely achieve victory. This is our silver bullet. 

However, after victory is achieved you must understand that it is then and only then that we can pursue accountability to hold these corrupt communist accountable for all of their actions in destroying the country in the past four years. 

This is when victory is FULLY achieved because this is where you and I follow through with our efforts as this will be the symbolic gesture of us plowing the political and cultural battlefield perimeter and salting the earth around it so it never sprouts a communist bud ever again. 

If you’re serious about saving your country then this is your duty. 

If you’re serious about saving your citizenship then this is your duty. 

This is your civic duty.

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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

― Carl Sagan

Why is it that with every week that goes by we’re seeing the world spin out of control more and more? 

Well when I say what I’m about to say you critical thinkers out there are going to experience more affirmation that you’re not alone in something you already knew, or had a sense of since all the chaos began back during the pandemic. However, for all the rest of you it’s going to be a difficult pill to swallow because you’re going to probably get a sick feeling deep down in your gut with having to face the reality, but will probably choose not to face it…at least not immediately. 

If you are a critical thinker and can pay attention to the environment it’s easy to see that in the last 10 years or so that the brightest in society have been punished while the least talented people get promoted into high positions of the corporate world, media, and politics. 

This is painfully obvious when you pay attention because it completely demonstrates how we’re living out a real life enactment of Atlas Shrugged where John Galt and all the producers of society are punished by the mid-wits that run the bureaucracies and the effete intellectuals that have stumbled their way to the top of said bureaucracies which basically equates to our modern day Administrative State. 

This is precisely why I started this podcast and blog because I wanted to affirm to those who are critical thinkers (that would be you) that you’re not alone. The beauty of having new social media and messaging platforms such as Substack always popping up is because initially these platforms aren’t run by midwits and effete intellectuals…at least not for the moment. 

It’s easy to spot the platforms that are run by lesser talent because they’re always the ones silencing the more talented, outspoken, and freedom messaging individuals that exist in society. Granted many of these existing social media companies engage in censorship by burying the posts of intelligent individuals to the bottom of their platform’s relative newsfeed while they bolster those more vanilla, less outspoken for freedom, and more outspoken Marxists that toe the company line with whatever lying narrative the Administrative State Media (ASM) decides to push forward. 

In short, the less interesting, the less intelligent, and overall the less talented in society are now celebrated in the mainstream while those on the opposite end of the spectrum are having to fight to build a new ecosystem based on individuality, intellectual free thought, and meritocracy. Hence, this is why I am liking what I’m seeing here with Substack so far.   

The problem with this is that we are now battling inside a Thunderdome with the midwits and the effete intellectuals that have possession of the bigger megaphone while the rest of us are battling to pierce the veil of censorship and suppression so that our voices can break through to the masses. 

So how is it that those of us who are critical thinkers recognize this scenario while, at the same time, are working hard to battle the censorship apparatus to reach those people who are a bit slower to understand this dilemma? 

Discernment

I want to shift gears for a moment to talk about something that can give you a deeper level of understanding. 

If you’ve been a regular reader/listener to this show then you’ve probably heard me talk about discernment, or have heard me use the word before when describing circumstances of people that have the ability to use discernment in order to avoid falling victim to a lying media narrative. 

The word discernment means the ability to judge things in a wise way and to possess the ability to figure out the meaning of a situation, or narrative, that may actually be obscure and difficult to comprehend for many. 

In terms of my faith this is something that I often pray for and study as I read more into the Bible. I’m not trying to sound like I’m preaching a sermon here, but what I am saying is that if you intently study the Bible it will provide deeper meaning for you regarding the context of life for you to acquire discernment when you have to apply it to situations that may be a bit more difficult to understand at certain moments throughout your life. 

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. 

In this verse it’s clear that the Bible is referencing those people who are deceitful (Satan’s servants) and they exist throughout society and will lie in order to attempt to deceive the public (you and me) on a consistent basis. 

However, this verse also points to something else that we can use to distinguish the difference between those who are trying to deceive and what the truth tellers are as the Bible here offers a metric that separates the two. 

That metric that will distinguish the difference between the truth tellers and the liars resides in their deeds. 

In other words, look at what the actions are of those who claim to be telling the truth, but are producing the real world physical result of lies. For instance, this can be seen when the media says that the border is secure, yet the deeds that back up that statement is that millions of illegal migrants are funneled into cities all across the United States and are literally overrunning huge hotels in major cities like New York. The deed doesn’t represent the statement that the borders are secure, therefore this is a major lie. Here we can exercise discernment by comparing the deeds to the statements that precede them. 

Another more recent example here can be seen when the media has told you for months that Joe Biden’s health was tip top and that he was sharper than ever to perform his duties as the occupant of the White House. Even Joe Biden himself has been stating for weeks that he wasn’t going anywhere and that he would undoubtedly be the Democratic nominee for President and in less than a week all the sudden an ambiguous document is released supposedly containing his signature on a letter of resignation and he’s currently nowhere in sight. 

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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

― Plato

I want to begin by asking you a question. 

How many U.S. Presidents have been assassinated in United States history? 

Just in case you didn’t know the answer, that would be four. That’s right, there have been four United States Presidents assassinated in the line of duty. If you didn’t know that, it's because that’s not commonly taught in schools in this day and age. 

Granted there have been many other attempts of assassinations that have failed, but there have been four U.S. Presidents that have died at the hands of a killer. 

When the subject of presidential assassinations comes up when referencing history you probably would automatically think about the most well known cases involving Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. However, there were two other presidents that were killed with one involving James Garfield who was shot on July 2, 1881, but he would fight for the weeks and months that followed before succumbing to his injury. . 

The second president that would fall victim to a crazed assassin would be President William Mckinley who was shot on September 6,1901 by Leon Czolgosz at point blank range taking two shots straight to his abdomen. 

The bullets didn’t immediately kill McKinley as he would die eight days later due to gangrene caused by the wound. 

However, it’s with this assassination that I want to point out something involving his killer Leon Czolgosz. At the time Czolgosz was a self proclaimed anarchist and said that he had been influenced by the writings of Emma Goldman. Goldman herself was a controversial figure and had been arrested along with 248 others during the Palmer Raids during the First Red Scare and she was deported back to Russia in 1919. 

There in Russia she had been supportive of the October Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution) that was a major historical event going on in Russia at that time giving birth to the reigning Soviet regime.  

So given this information we can see that President McKinley was killed at the hands of an anarcho-socialist in Czolgosz and as a result a young Vice President in Teddy Roosevelt would end up becoming the youngest sitting President in United States history. (Source: ThoughtCo)

A little bit ago I mentioned the Red Scare when talking about Emma Goldman’s involvement with influencing McKinley’s assassin in the arena of political ideology. 

In a brief explanation concerning the Red Scare this was a time period just after WWI that involved the public and moral panic involving the concern of the rise of extreme leftist ideologies such as Communism. 

This threat was derived from what was going on in the world with multiple other assassinations and political unrest due to the rise of Socialism and Communism that was actively taking place across Russia and Germany at that time.  

The political breeding ground and the sort of central hub of where these ideologies started to show throughout the United States revolved around the American labor movement, anarchist revolution, and political radicalism. (Source: Britannica)

To add to this there was a second Red Scare that occurred just after WWII and during this event the perception was that domestic and/or foreign communists were infiltrating, or subverting American society and the federal government. 

However, to be clear it was many years later after the end of the Cold War when there were many documents that were unearthed that revealed that there had been significant spy activity going on within the United States by the Soviets. 

So what is the significance of pointing out this historical event of President McKinley’s assassination along with all the rest? 

The reason this is important is because after examining the history and explanation of who was responsible for assassinating McKinley it’s easy to see that our so-called land of the free and home of the brave has been dealing with a serious communism problem for well over a century. 

These communist movements, whether they involved the Red Scare, McKinley’s assassination by a domestic anarchist influenced by communist ideals, or outside spies like the Soviets, have cost our country a lot of blood and treasure just as it’s doing now at one of the worst times in history under the Biden regime. 

As I’ve hammered away at the message on this platform over and over again, the Marxist infiltration into our government and institutions is real and, as demonstrated with the outcomes outlined in our history here, has always been a real problem within our country now for well over a century. 

However, these problems have been allowed to fester, grow, and firmly attach themselves to our institutions in a way that is at the very least now proving to place our country into a very precarious state, if not a fatal one. If you’re not able to observe reality then I’ll help as we are now seeing the destruction of our currency, our financial systems, our borders, the beginning of WWIII, and last, but not least, the lagging realization by the general public that the occupant of the White House isn’t mentally fit and seems to regularly shake hands with invisible people.  

So the question is why is all of this happening?  

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Human Nature, Dogma, and Fear

The UCL and the Max Planck Institute For Biological Cybernetics researchers published a study that was designed to examine the accuracy of people in a decision making process based on the confidence of their beliefs regarding a decision that was placed in front of them. 

To preface this, people who are dogmatic about their beliefs are characterized by a strong attitude related to the belief that their beliefs represent an absolute truth and as a result this causes them to be very resistant to change. 

This obviously has the potential to cause huge polarizing political, scientific, and religious debates. Boy does this sound familiar, or what?  

To simplify this the study basically consisted of a group of 700 people who were given a decision making task consisting of an image of a couple of boxes with flickering dots and had to decide which box contained more of the dots. 

However, after the initial view of the two boxes the researchers would give the participants a chance to view another clearer version of the boxes. After this the participants could make their final decision. 

Following this task the participants had to engage in a comprehensive questionnaire that allowed the researchers to get a measure on the level of political orientation and dogmatism of the participants that were involved in the study. 

In short, the study proved that the more dogmatic people were less likely to accept the additional information of the study involving the clearer view of the boxes. As a result of this they were also less accurate in being correct with their selections in the study. In short, the more dogmatic people were less accurate in their final judgements of the study with their outcomes involving the boxes. 

The most profound finding of this study basically showed that even though people may have corrective information available it doesn’t necessarily mean that people will take advantage of it and consume it. This is a frustrating reality. (Source: UCL News)

So given the findings of this study it’s not surprising that this is the case at all because people in our current society that are dogmatic basically lack the intelligence of being more consistently accurate in many of their beliefs because they willfully refuse to accept additional information that would challenge and even refute their existing beliefs. 

After all, we’ve seen this clearly play out with a significant portion of our population during the pandemic where many people were advocating for societal lockdowns, for getting the vax, and for an array of other destructive societal mandates. 

These dogmatic people within our society seem to be driven by something other than trying to drill down on the truth and that other thing is clearly fear. 

That’s right, the thing about the ideology of Marxism, socialism, and communism is that all of these ideals are centered around fear.  

After all, this is why all of these societal constructs that take the shape of authoritarianism or totalitarianism must operate using tactics such as coercion, a lying media, and outright brute force in order to drive forth their initiatives. 

This is precisely why defeating such tactics requires trusting in God along with courage, a fighting spirit, and patriotism. 

As another example of explaining just how clever and effective the subversive nature of these Marxist tactics can be they can pop up in the most seemingly innocent scenarios throughout your everyday life.  

A Red Scenario

I want to take a moment and put you into the right frame of mind. 

To begin here I want you to think about the word conformity. That word conformity means that you choose to comply with certain rules or standards that are placed in front of you for a given scenario.  Whenever I think about the word conformity in my own view I have to look at it according to the current zeitgeist of our society. 

Conformity is only detrimental when the resulting outcome of conforming involves stripping away at the permanent sovereignty of your individuality. 

So what does this mean? 

In other words, the level of conformity I’m talking about would involve permanent societal changes, or highly potential changes, that would directly violate the rights of a group of people within a society which would set the precedent for the rest of society. This type of conformity would involve negative consequences by individuals giving in to a seemingly innocent, but dangerous social mandate. 

So how would this apply to seemingly simple acts of conformity? 

For the sake of discussion let’s use a hypothetical scenario that mirrors real life and say that you work for a company that wants to involve you in a weekend softball outing. In this seemingly innocent venture you sign up because you would love to play softball and would seek to enjoy a day out with your coworkers in another environment outside of the office. 

As the day of the game comes for you to register for your softball outing you see several of your coworkers hanging out by the corporate tent signing up for the day’s softball tournament. As you walk over and approach the tent you find out that to register for the event you have to pay a fee and that fee will go towards furthering a major international pride softball organization which will go forth in supporting that organization along with their promotional efforts involving the discriminatory and Marxist Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) programs. (Source: International Pride Softball)

As it turns out, let's say that you don’t support and have never cared for the Marxist DEI programs that you’ve heard about and have seen result in completely destructive outcomes throughout our society.  

As one such example you remembered woke companies such as Annheuser Busch that have made the headlines promoting woke DEI messaging with a Trans influencer on their beer can which resulted in completely blowtorching their own Bud Light brand as a result of it. Now all the sudden your seemingly innocent company softball outing just went from being a potentially fun day out at the park to now transforming into a woke political agenda that challenges your innermost values. 

If you look at the current zeitgeist of our society, the situation that we’re faced with and have been faced with since the pandemic is this attitude that we must go along to get along. 

Because of the backdoor methods involved with DEI funding the Marxist indoctrination it now has a clever backdoor and subversive method to get a foothold into society using corporations to force advertise their agenda. As a result corporations will use coercion to leverage people to do things that they probably may not agree to do otherwise, but because they're forced into a predicament where they have to choose between their values, or their careers they usually end up caving to the pressure by choosing their careers. 

In the case here involving this scenario you might find yourself in with the hypothetical corporate softball game you would be faced with the decision of either embracing your innermost values, or possibly losing your job. 

This is a real life possibility that many people have been faced with over the past few years. This is not make believe. 

This is the most evil form of a Nazi and communist tactic because once enough people agree to cave in to undesirable demands over time then eventually society will reach a point where coercion is no longer necessary. At this point the communists will have established themselves into a total position of power to rule with complete brute force by means of full institutional infiltration.   

This is why conformity can be a very dangerous thing to engage in even in a seemingly innocent scenario as the one that I outlined here with the hypothetical softball outing. As a side note this scenario may have been hypothetical, but the organization that I cited that’s called International Pride Softball is not the least bit hypothetical and is a fully operational organization that actively promotes DEI and if you don’t believe me it’s right here directly on their website. 

Keep in mind that the Red Scare I mentioned in the opening of this episode was a historic event involving the concern of the infiltration of communism into our American society through our institutions. In this scenario I put forth here the infiltration of a Marxist agenda comes in the form of DEI and is what I would refer to as a Red Scenario. 

Once again the central component of the Red Scenario is pushed forward by playing on people’s fear. In the scenario involving whether or not you would choose to play in the softball game in the Red Scenario that I outlined you’d probably be risking the possibility of being publicly shamed by your coworkers, or even worse terminated by your employer if you chose not to go along with the DEI campaign to play in the game. 

Traditionally we’ve all probably thought about our society as being a more capitalistic, or free market type of economic system, but with these companies coercing people into promoting and supporting these DEI programs in exchange for public monetary funding this is the furthest thing there is from a true free market system. Depending on the DEI campaign this is actually a more hybrid blend of fascism and communism in application, especially in the hypothetical scenario I outlined here in this episode. 

Once again the end goal of this Marxist agenda centers around the human emotion that is based on fear which is why the types of people who support such systems seek to control everyone. They need control because they live in fear. They fear losing everything because communists cannot create things, or win in the realm of ideas, therefore they must try to kill, lie, and cheat in order to achieve their ends. 

For an even bigger and more recent example of evidence to demonstrate what I’m talking about here let’s look at what happened this past weekend on Saturday July 13th, 2024 at 6:11 p.m. in Butler, Pennsylvania when a young shooter attempted to add one more death to the total number of presidents that have been assassinated in United States history. 

At one of his big campaign rallies President Donald Trump was shot by a young shooter that fortunately missed hitting him in any vital area. President Trump immediately dropped down behind the wall onstage to take cover as Secret Service agents swarmed around him giving the counter snipers enough time to take out the young shooter that was on a rooftop at roughly a 150 yards away.

This was a scary moment, but what made it a triumphant moment was the strength and courage that President Trump demonstrated right after being shot. As I was watching the video of what happened I was actually on vacation at the beach in Florida and I could feel my blood pressure rising as I started getting angry about what I was seeing. .  

However, in a moment I heard President Trump tell the Secret Service agents to allow him to get his shoe back on before they attempted to direct him off stage. Once he got himself settled, what I saw next was nothing less than an exceptional display of strength and leadership. 

What I saw after he was shot was a man with a warrior spirit. Despite having been shot, despite blood flowing down the side of his face, despite having Secret Service agents completely surrounding him Donald Trump grounded himself looked straight at the camera position with an expression of absolute righteous indignation and defiance as he raised his fist to the crowd shouting FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! 

That alone took a very harrowing moment and immediately transformed it into a moment of complete victory. 

The Wrap Up

Even though the details of what actually happened in the attempt that was made to assassinate Donald Trump are still under investigation there are still unknown variables that will take some time to come to light as the investigations ramp up. 

However, let’s take a moment to examine what we do know in terms of the political environment that has been created by the communist left over the past nine years or so. 

Since Donald Trump first came down the escalator to announce his run for the office of the presidency for the first time the Administrative State Media (ASM) has been relentless on the drumbeat of calling Trump supporters Deplorables, the media has called Trump himself a Nazi, comedians have been pictured holding a fake severed head of Donald Trump when he was last in office, and fairly recently the Washington Post article written by a so-called leading conservative and psychologically deranged Robert Kagan compared Donald Trump to Julius Caesar. I recently talked about this in greater detail in an earlier episode that you can access here. 

Works such as this from Kagan and statements from the likes of Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton regarding the dangerous hate-filled rhetoric they have constantly screamed regarding the end of democracy have already primed the current environment that we are in for such an assassination attempt to occur. 

Believe it or not there’s a word for this and it’s called stochastic terrorism. Stochastic terrorism centers around the idea that dangerous rhetoric that is directed towards a targeted group of people, or a targeted individual will increase the likelihood of lone wolf political violence being carried out against those people that are targeted by the rhetoric. 

So when we look at what the Crime Syndicate of Narrative (aka the ASM) and the messaging that they have been aggressively communicating for the past nine years, is it really surprising that we see the attack that took place against Trump this past weekend? Furthermore, how insane is it that we learn that another presidential assassin so far had donated to a left wing organization and was known for still wearing his COVID mask long after the pandemic has been over? 

I understand that there’s still a lot of unknowns surrounding this terrible attack, but this shooter has gotten a ton of support on social media from other communists praising him for his failed assassination attempt. 

Obviously I don’t know a lot about this shooter, but what I do know is that he, like Czolgosz, was influenced by someone to do what he did, but thank God he failed. 

In my observation and given what I’ve seen for the past nine years coming from the communist left it’s my interpretation that we aren’t dealing with another Red Scare that we witnessed back during WWI and WWII, but rather a Red Reality as this single shooting event has spotlighted the fact that we have a very present communism problem that is alive and well right inside these United States of America right now. 

Therefore, it’s up to you and me to make sure this communist movement fails like all the rest in history. If Donald Trump can display such courage and defiance in the face of a bullet with blood dripping down the side of his face, you and I can start calling out these communists in media, social media, and right inside our neighborhoods by making everyone aware of the danger our society is facing with this very real Red Reality.

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“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

― Ronald Reagan

Is a communist not a communist if he or she doesn’t refer to themselves as one, yet at the same time supports every single policy, ideal, and agenda that aligns with the tenets of Karl Marx?  

The other day I was listening to Mr. Las Vegas Wayne Allen Root and he was making the point that using the phrase Marxist or Communist may come across as being a bit too harsh when referring to the far left Communist that reside within our government and society. 

Root was suggesting that when engaging in this culture, information, and political war that we should be smart about branding and that we should always be striving to do a better job of controlling the language for the freedom cause in an efficient way. He was making the point that we should master this in the same way, or even better, than the way the left has been so successful at doing it for years. 

This was when Root suggested that we refer to the left as the “Liars Club” rather than Marxists or Communists as he was suggesting that this would win over many more people that have a more simplistic view on the current state of our country. 

I personally like Root’s ideas and I strongly believe he’s an awesome asset to the America First movement, but I’m not sure whether he’s correct in this case or not. I will attempt to explain my point here, but in doing so I want to elaborate on a few other ideas that I have had over the past few years to add to this discussion. 

As you heard in my lead off quote with Ronald Reagan the point to that quote is that there is a significant difference between those people who would advocate and support a Communist government and those who would not. When examining the two types of people there’s an obvious gap that exists there and it’s that gap that has had philosophers and political historians debating over the subject since the dawn of mankind. 

You see the thing that makes up that gap in my opinion (and apparently Reagan’s opinion as well) is the individual’s ability to understand what it is that they are supporting or fighting against. You see to me this gap is exactly where the truth of all of this reveals itself. 

I 1000% agree with Wayne Allen Root’s point regarding how the America First movement should master the language and excel in the process of nomenclature in order to dominate the cultural wins that are needed in order to establish a new political environment that prioritizes American citizens within the borders of the United States. 

In terms of playing this game you’re not going to get any argument from me. However, in the process of building on and improving the nomenclature I also believe that it’s vitally important to educate and remind people that words do have meaning and that those meanings come from somewhere. 

After all, when you look at the teachings of Karl Marx and the past governments throughout history (and present day) that were Communist regimes, the results of those events, those ideas, and those experiences have ALWAYS resulted in horrific conditions for the citizens of every one of those places.  

You see that gap that I was referring to regarding the lack of understanding from those people that support Marxist and Communist ideals centers on a fundamental flaw at the root of the belief system that they never seem to recognize. 

You’re probably wondering Brandon, what fundamental flaw at the center of gravity of Communism and Marxism exists that the ignorant supporters of these belief systems always fail to see, or understand? 

My answer to this centers around the concept of ruin.  

This is derived from the consistent degradation of your personal agency. That’s right, if you read Karl Marx he advocates for everything to be viewed through the lens of the oppressor and the oppressed. 

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!”

― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

In that quote from Marx he is projecting fear towards the ruling class from the workers, however the problem that Marx was too simple minded to comprehend is that in the real world there’s ALWAYS a ruling class and those ruling classes have always been especially dominant in Communist countries throughout all of history. 

In fact, even if you look at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) today their head Xi Jinping and the rest of his party literally have trillions of dollars at their disposal to enforce whatever policy, or means necessary to push forward their initiatives onto the world at large. Additionally as individuals these people are the wealthiest people on the planet. 

Because of their wealth and power this makes them a complete walking contradiction to their own Marxist ideology as they ARE literally the Bourgeoisie that Marx would talk about overthrowing, yet all the Marxists supporters hypocritically allow Xi to declare himself ruler for life instead of forcing him out of office in the way Marx talks about in his writings. 

To clarify my last point, I’m not necessarily referring to all of the Chinese people as being big supporters of Xi. In fact, they are the first victims of his Communist system, but I am referring to the Marxist supporters that do exist within the Chinese state, which more than likely doesn’t include the majority of the wonderful Chinese citizens such as Laobaixing. 

These innocent citizens of China, just like the Laobaixing of America, are who this blog and podcast are fighting for. 

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The War of Nomenclature

If you’re not familiar with the term nomenclature it is an interesting word that is really at the center of power for those that think and apply its use in the world of media, or more specifically with those who are The Crime Syndicate of Narrative.  

The word nomenclature involves the process of devising and choosing the names of things. This may not sound like something that’s a big deal to you, but when language is manipulated for the purpose of framing certain narratives it can be either incredibly dangerous, or incredibly enlightening to a society depending on the nature and intent of the narrative in use.

When looking at how dangerous the war of nomenclature is, or more specifically how dangerous it can be, one of the most well known examples of how this is explained can be referenced in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 involving the fictional language (nowadays arguably accurate language) of what is referred to as Newspeak. 

In Orwell’s 1984 the totalitarian society of Oceania created Newspeak which was a controlled language involving simplified grammar and limited vocabulary that’s purpose was centered on limiting a person’s ability to critically think. 

As a result this led to an individual being unable to communicate and articulate abstract concepts which resulted in them being unable to identify their own personal identity, self-expression, and free will. This was the intent of Newspeak as these three characteristics I mentioned were not only quelled by the use of Newspeak inside of Oceania, but they were also literally labeled as Thought Crimes. 

To get a grip on this and to understand the motive you have to look at the result of what certain nomenclature produces within a society. In the case of Orwell’s 1984 model it’s clear that the purpose was to destroy the individual and it was completely successful in doing so. Once again the central flaw that we can see at the center of gravity of this Marxist behavior involves the goal of ruin. 

Additionally the irony of just how Orwellian this language is can be seen in how the left refers to themselves as Progressives, which doesn’t involve progress at all. The entire belief structure results in Regression due to the destruction of the individual. 

In the real world we have seen this in actual application within the destruction of individual liberty in the old Soviet Union with the likes of the Goskomizdat which was the official state committee for publishing that strictly enforced ideological and political censorship. 

As you can see the Goskomizdat existed a long time before Biden’s FBI infiltrated Twitter. The point here is that speech has been suppressed in Communist systems both past and present to destroy the individual and it doesn’t stop at censorship. 

As I was pointing out earlier with Wayne Allen Root, the Communist left here in America have been masters at manipulating language by applying the use of simplified vocabulary in the same form as Orwell’s Newspeak.  

To give you some concrete examples of this I always defer to the well known, yet worn out descriptive Newspeak terms such as gun violence and hate crimes. Both of these terms are commonly used by the media to strip away personal responsibility from the individual and to place that responsibility onto some external source, or to redirect the focus onto an object of blame. 

This is always done for political purposes for Communists to ruin individuality by erasing the entire concept of individual agency. Once this is done the individual loses the ability to think critically and will go along with the limited vocabulary to support a complete false narrative. 

For instance, if you break down the term gun violence it suggests that guns, as inanimate objects, commit acts of violence. If you really strip that down to its bare bones it is an absurd term. After all, as I sit here recording the audio for this podcast my Remington 870-12 gauge shotgun is sitting right above me on the shelf of my studio here inside my bedroom closet and it hasn’t once tried to shoot me since I’ve owned it. It’s been completely non-violent towards me and everyone I know. Think about that for a moment. 

Likewise, if we examine that word hate crime, while understanding its intent, we can see how the Communist left is trying to use the language with this word to suggest that ONLY crimes that involve perceived acts of violence regarding race are considered hate crimes. 

Once again this is a direct attempt to stall your ability to critically think regarding the word because the language has been manipulated in such a way to elicit a response from this word that is tied directly to race with a crime against a perceived racial injustice as being the motive. 

This word is exactly what Orwell’s 1984 was referring to as a Thought Crime because to truly know whether someone is a racist one would have to know the thoughts of that individual, but in the case of the hate crime it is assumed that the crime was motivated by race whether it’s true or not. 

This has been applied to many circumstances when it wasn’t true at all, but because the Administrative State Media (ASM) ran with it people quickly spread around the term hate crime labeling the innocent with this moniker while defending the guilty in the court of public opinion until the facts came to light. 

If you don’t believe me then do you remember George Floyd? Do you remember Kyle Rittenhouse? 

The fact is that neither of these cases had anything to do with race, but the terms hate crime and gun violence were quickly attached to both of these cases by the media and people ran with it emotionally desiring to enact woke injustice instead of digging deeper for the facts. 

Of course, once the facts came out on both of these cases it was clear that George Floyd was not outright murdered by Derek Chauvin and that Kyle Rittenhouse was simply defending himself in a moment when he was trying to aid others during the hostile riots in Wisconsin. 

Once again, the inability for the public to think critically was accelerated by the application of the nomenclature regarding the left’s control of language in the examples here concerning the words gun violence and hate crimes. 

As a result people were actually convicted and almost convicted on charges that should have never been a part of each party’s legal case discussion, but the nomenclature from the Communist left was successful in driving the desired outcomes concerning these cases against Chauvin and Rittenhouse although those outcomes, according to the facts, were not accurate. 

The War of Art

If you’ve been following this podcast and blog for a while you know I’ve previously mentioned the ancient philosopher and Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu and his writings from his book The Art of War. 

By the way if you haven’t read this book I strongly recommend you include it into your list of readings as in today’s world it’s the second most important book you can read. Just in case you’re wondering about which book I’d consider to be the most important, that would undoubtedly be the Holy Bible. 

Having said that in the teachings of Sun Tzu’s Art of War he outlines a detailed explanation and analysis of the 5th century BC Chinese military involving weapons, environmental conditions, and strategy involving rank and disciplinary structure. 

The Art of War is a tremendously valuable asset to provide you with the principles and strategies to help you to understand what it takes to win a battle whether that battle involves rivaling militaries, rivaling businesses, or rivaling political opponents. 

When it comes to the application of these strategies this goes along with what I was mentioning earlier with what Wayne Allen Root was suggesting in regards to being smart about the names we use to identify and communicate the meaning of certain things. 

What Root is pointing to is something that I actually work hard at doing as frequently as I can here on this Substack when it comes to the use of effective communication with the application of words. You see there’s the limited vocabulary with the use of words as I pointed out earlier with the purpose of Orwell’s Newspeak. 

However, in order to rival Orwell’s Newspeak there’s also the creative and powerful combination of words that can be used to more effectively communicate meaning and intent to people in a very artistic and impactful way. 

In this way I like to view the use of nomenclature in and of itself as a form of art and this form of art is what we can use to be in direct competition with the limited vocabulary of the Communist left. 

Therefore this is what I like to refer to as the War of Art. Obviously this is a play on the name of Sun Tzu’s famous book of military philosophy and strategy, but the nomenclature concerning the vocabulary is what I wanted to illustrate in a name once some context was offered. 

If you didn’t know I’ve been a professional strength and fitness coach now for over twenty years. The other day I was training a new student and novice working with her as it was her first time ever lifting dumbbells in her entire life. Even though she had lived an active lifestyle she had communicated to me that she had just never gotten around to lifting free weights in an organized manner for the purpose of a fitness and strength program.   

As we began I had her perform her very first set of dumbbell bench press to strengthen her core, chest, shoulders, and arms. As she began to press the dumbbells up away from her chest she was struggling to stabilize them in the ascent of the movement. As a result the dumbbells were swaying back and forth as she fought to keep them moving in a straight line of motion during the pressing portion of the movement. 

It was at this point that she asked me why it was so difficult for her to control the weights as she pressed them up. As I explained, the reason for this was because she was new to the movement and had not yet developed the synergist muscles which are the surrounding muscles that assist the agonist muscle (the primary mover) in making sure the movement is performed with a more accurate and fluid pattern.  

In other words, the lift isn’t smooth and seamless just yet because the muscles that are being used to assist you in the movement still have to get stronger. 

The reason I wanted to share this little story with you is because just like you have to train your synergist muscles to more smoothly execute the movement of lifting free weights the same thing can be said with how you use and apply the nomenclature in the War of Art to counter the Communist Newspeak narrative.   

For example let’s take the word gun violence and deconstruct the language. If the Communist left uses the word gun violence to describe a certain act of violence we can simply and creatively change the nomenclature to counter this false narrative. 

Since we’ve already established that as an inanimate object guns are not capable of committing violence by themselves we can instead use another descriptive noun to replace the word gun as the primary mover of the word gun violence. Therefore, since guns as inanimate objects cannot commit violence by themselves we do know that they can be used by humans to commit acts of violence. 

Therefore we can replace the word gun with the word human to describe and refer to an act of violence. As a result the next time the Communist left uses the word gun violence it’s up to us to correct them by using the word human violence in its place. 

You see the primary mover, or agonist, in the phrase gun violence is the word gun according to the Communist left Newspeak. The word violence in this example is the synergist that is assisting the primary mover (in this case the word gun) to communicate that guns are violent in this example of Newspeak. You and I are simply communicating that ONLY humans are violent and to further deconstruct the Newspeak we can also ask why other inanimate objects are never the agonist (or primary mover) from the Communist left when it comes to other acts of violence? 

In other words, if there’s a violent crime committed by an individual using a chair, a baseball bat, or car then why do we never hear the Newspeak referring to any of these acts of violence as chair violence, baseball bat violence, or car violence? 

The answer to this is because none of those things are in line with the Communist left’s narrative concerning the object of blame because those objects don’t offer the level of self-protection that a gun will offer when it comes to a citizenry that may find itself in a situation having to fend off tyranny. 

Once again, the center of gravity for the Marxist ideals involves the motive for ruin. 

The Wrap Up

I would say that I am still not sure whether I 100% agree with Wayne Allen Root’s specific request of using the phrase “Liars Club” in place of the words Communist or Marxist as I believe it’s always important to define your enemy. George Bush made that mistake by not defining the specific enemy when he declared the War on Terror after 9/11.  

However, to Root’s credit it’s still not a bad idea because Root is intelligently engaging in the War of Art by simply changing the nomenclature to counter the Communist Newspeak. It’s a really smart approach. 

Ultimately the Communist left have figured out many methods and ways to evolve their ability to destroy everything that represents liberty and freedom. 

The famous football coach Bill Parcells used to say that “you are what your record says you are” and in terms of the record of Marxism and Communism in application the record shows nothing but losses in every column since it came into existence. 

These losses have done nothing, but result in the complete ruin of the human condition and the nomenclature of the Progressive Communist left have demonstrated that their methods to sell their ideas over the years have evolved, but the methods themselves have always resulted in the devolution of the human condition. 

Therefore, with the changing times and the changing landscapes of multiple civilizations Marxism has proven to be nothing more than the Evolution of Devolution. 

This is why it’s up to you and me individually to evolve our efforts in the War of Art and together to be the organizing principle and the phalanx to overrun the Communist Newspeak with a new era of correct language that enforces freedom and liberty. 

This is what it means to be an Emissary of Freedom.  

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