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It’s unfathomable.

The whole world was turned upside down. Businesses were shuttered. Schools were closed. Loved ones died in lonely isolation. Life we knew it came to a bitter end.

Why?

Because “The Science” said so.

Besides being a global scale psyop intended to mind-melt public opinion into mindless compliance and blind obedience, COVID-19 was a training exercise in collective reprogramming. The public psyche was repeatedly trained to trust The Science and accept without question whatever “The Experts” said The Science said.

The Experts became an exalted class of government stooges who were quickly deemed our overlords, endowed with greater authority than local leaders, logical thinking, or even our own self-sovereignty. The Experts rose to the occasion in stalwart fashion and reveled in their new found sense of importance and unchecked power.

The public was instructed to bow before The Experts, because they alone could read the tea leaves and interpret The Science—and they wielded The Science like a mighty scepter over the scared and prostrate population. No local official dared to resist, no policy could escape the intractable pull, and indeed it seemed that nothing in life was immune to the raw unabated influence and power of The Science.

And so it was, The Science became revered by all, and lo, so too were The Experts—the greatest among them being the almighty head of state sanctioned truth, the most honorable among men, the most honest, trustworthy, intelligent, altruistic, always correct, exceedingly compassionate, and completely infallible Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Indeed, to question or criticize Dr. Fauci was to criticize The Science itself.

What blasphemy!

Are you picking up what I’m putting down?

By training the public to only trust government experts and state sanctioned truth, by ridiculing and removing conflicting research and narratives, global propagandists were able to effectively implant the belief that The Science was the only just determinant of public policy—and only if The Science was directly endorsed by The Experts who were employed or funded by The State.

Anything else is misinformation, and misinformation might make people question The Science and all the irrational policies that ensue, which of course is an existential threat to public health and safety. Wear a mask or you’ll kill grandma. Get your vax or you’re a plague upon the earth. Do as you’re told or you’re a threat to democracy.

You get the point.

Fall in line peasant!

It is important to note that while many people have since moved past this irrational infatuation with The Science, there are a great deal more who still remain captivated by this entire narrative. They’ve been brainwashed. We see them every day, walking down the sidewalk or driving down the road all by themselves, all “masked-up.”

They are the “good humans” of the world. They’re following The Science and doing their part to keep people safe. They are wholly incapable of seeing the insanity of it all, let alone challenge the narrative or question anything The Experts tell them to do.

In short, these are the useful idiots who are being leveraged to institute tyranny. They have no thought or will of their own. They have been fully assimilated into the collective and suffer from the mass psychosis that is keeping them blind to reality. They are hopelessly lost within the illusions being projected by The Science.

Here’s the twist.

What if machines were making up The Science? What if Artificial Intelligence was entrusted to run and write the research that The Experts then promote?

Just to get granular here: Imagine an AI machine designing a study, directing experiments, deriving conclusions, and delivering research to government agencies that then used this “science” to determine and direct public policy.

What could go wrong?!

As absurd as it sounds, The Experts have been conducting this type of research for almost twenty years. It all started back in 2005, when The Experts were just punk graduate students at MIT who decided to program AI to generate some scientific reports. According to the scientific journal Nature, the experiment was an astounding success:

“[C]omputer scientist Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013. Sixteen appeared in publications by Springer, which is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and more than 100 were published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), based in New York.”

So, the AI code was written at MIT back in 2005, and within just a few short years over 100 computer-generated research papers had been published in academic journals and referenced in scientific conference proceedings—and all of this was happening over ten years ago.

How much you want to bet that over the last decade they’ve only gotten better?

(Just for kicks-and-giggles, you can create your own bogus scientific papers by playing around with the original MIT SCIGen Automatic CS Paper Generator, located here.)

Fast forward to now.

This week we learn that Meta AI (think Facebook) just announced its own version of AI-for-science called Galactica, which was programmed to “store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge.” After feeding the machine over 48 million scientific papers, textbooks and lecture notes, scientific websites, and encyclopedias, they expected the AI would be able to crank out high quality scientific literature.

In other words, if they are successful, the AI would be able to create The Science.

Of course, the purpose of launching Galactica is purely altruistic, and we can totally trust that Meta AI is completely unbiased and not at all influenced by Big Gov’s insatiable desire to manipulate public perception with weaponized Artificial Intelligence—and we are to be impressed by the fact that Galactica was actually used to write the scientific paper on Galactica, using its own “self supervision.”

It’s both mind boggling and unbelievable.

To be fair, there are noble aims. The research team documents the fact that as far back as 1945, scientists realized there was more information being produced through research than anyone could possibly keep up with. This creates a bottleneck in innovation, as one person might make a big discovery that would hugely impact research somewhere else in the world—but that new information too often gets lost in the swelling sea of scientific studies. That’s where the AI could be helpful.

BUT… let’s not lose sight of The Science.

The Science directs public policy. The Science has authority over our lives.

The only problem is, nobody actually understands what The Science actually says, because there is an incomprehensible amount of research and data available. That’s why we have to trust The Experts to decipher it for us, remember?

Here’s the thing.

I don’t trust The Experts—especially the government experts. They have an inherent conflict of interest. They have repeatedly used The Science to justify their own tyrannical impulse. In reality, the experts don’t really agree. Consensus is an illusion.

Government experts, equipped with weaponized AI, can easily generate scientific papers to substantiate any narrative they choose—and even the actual scientists cannot tell whether or not these papers are legitimate or just made up.

How are we the peasants of the world supposed to know what is actual research, versus government directed, computer-generated scientific propaganda?

That is an honest and pressing question. The very unfortunate answer is, we have to choose who to trust. Do we trust Dr. Fauci and Dr. Wallensky? Or do we trust Dr. Gupta, Dr. Kulldorff, and Dr. Bhattacharya? Do you see the dilemma?

Now consider the intelligence of the average useful idiot, the prolific use of state sponsored propaganda and sophisticated psychological warfare, and the integration of weaponized AI—noting that the machines are being “fed” by so-called experts, and they often produce seemingly spurious results, such as science on the “benefits of being white” or “the benefits of eating glass”—and we have a perfect recipe for a perpetual trip down the proverbial rabbit hole.

The Experts will have to train the racism out of the machines. The Experts will have to ensure that the AI-generated science respects diversity, equity, and inclusion, along with all the other state policies about hate speech, extremism, and democracy, and we the peasants will simply have to trust that this newly fabricated science will keep us safe from believing, thinking, or feeling any way that we’re not supposed to.

I can only image how many people will welcome the new world order that is currently being created by this new all-knowing, all-powerful technology—and how many more are destined to remain ignorant forever, peacefully enslaved by machines.

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Look. Listen. Learn.

Look at what passes as news. Listen to the conflicting narratives.

Learn to discern the distinction between fact, fiction, and utter farce.

Let’s take it one issue at a time. First up, election integrity.

Fact: Voting machines lead to widespread election fraud with zero accountability.

* High profile Democrats have been pointing this out for years, claiming that voting machines are controlled by the Bush dynasty, and that is the only reason that Al Gore and John Kerry lost their presidential bids.

Fiction: Widespread election fraud is a vast right-wing conspiracy.

* In 2008, Barrack Obama admitted on C-SPAN that the machines had no paper trail and were rife with fraud, pointing out that the problem could be fixed if they could just get “Democrats in charge of the machines”—like they had in Chicago.

FARCE: U.S. elections are safe and secure.

* Note that this information has been labeled as “misleading” followed by the completely baseless religious mantra that US elections are “safe and secure.”

How do we know for sure that our elections are safe and secure? We just have to click the “Find out more” to learn that “Voting machines provide accurate election results”—according to the Twitter fact-checkers. What an F*ing FARCE!!

Meanwhile, in Arizona, AG Mark Brnovich's election integrity unit is demanding a full investigation into the “well-publicized irregularities,” claiming there is abundant evidence of “statutory violations”—even as the Associated Press tries to sell Americans on the idea that even though programming errors and machine malfunctions are known to have occurred, “no major problems have been reported.”

It’s maddening.

Even more insane, over 70% of Democrats actually believe that sock-puppet Joe Biden (who turned 80 years old on Sunday) will be able to win the presidency again in 2024. Democrat leaders are telling the media that he is still “extremely capable” and that he has delivered an “unprecedented level of accomplishment” over the last two years.

Listen for yourself, and look at his eyes:

People actually believe this crap!!!

The fact that 70% of people cannot distinguish fact from fiction, and that they cannot recognize a flat out lie, does not bode well for our future. With this degree of gullibility—let alone the sheer stupidity—we are almost destined to be enslaved by the global cabal, with the growing chorus of useful idiots cheering for their own demise.

But come on, a global cabal? That’s just fiction, right? Is there really a small group of power hungry people trying to take over the world? Are they really using AI to manipulate humanity and institute a new world order?

By now, that should all seem rhetorical.

Just last week French President Emmanuel Macron—member of Klaus Schwab’s Young Global Leaders and WEF stooge—told the world, “We need a single global order.” And let’s not forget, earlier this year our own sock-puppet in office declared that there was “going to be a new world order” and that the US was going to lead it.

Friends, just to drive the point home, it would be wise to recall that it was Republican President H.W. Bush who first announced to the American people that we were heading into a New World Order—and that was all the way back in 1990:

“A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective -- a New World Order -- can emerge…”

Let that sink in, please.

Of course, as you may already know, this has been in the works for much longer than that. You may recall learning about how the Communists were instrumental in establishing the original United Nation’s charter, as carefully documented in TR 84 - Birds Of A Feather Flock Together, and how all of this is directly linked to the international banking cabal, as outlined in TR 114 - Following the Money to Future Earth.

Elsewhere we’ve explored how this is directly linked to eugenics, the desire for total control and reduction of the global population, and decades of planning that have culminated in the current Agenda 2030 and COVID-19: The Great Reset, which kicked off a decade of “incredible transitions” that will lead us to Future Earth.

More recently, we’ve looked at the deployment of weaponized AI and the Algorithmic Social Interventions that are being used to control public perceptions—which is nothing less than 21st century mind control (aka brainwashing)—and the fact that the global elite are convinced of their inevitable success because they now have the technology to treat the whole of humanity like hackable animals.

Add to that the 280+ international “interventions” that have been facilitated by a consortium of corrupt NGOs like the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems—all of which have direct ties to rigged elections and political upheavals all around the globe—and it would appear that we have a new world order indeed.

Clearly there is an invisible hand that is actively determining political outcomes all around the globe, tipping the scales in favor of the globalist agenda and all that that entails.

Keep that in mind.

Are you excited about Donald Trump running for reelection? Do you think they will let him win? The Republican establishment will oppose and undermine him every step of the way. The Democrat establishment will whip their base into a frothing mad mob. The media will run 24/7/365 coverage of all things anti-Trump and continue to label the MAGA crowd unhinged right-wing extremists—and people will believe it.

How do you think this will play out? Maybe Bill Gates is right, we’ll end up with a hung election and a civil war—as in, maybe his prediction was for 2024.

What we know for sure is that the Democrats will be in lockstep, while the Republicans tear each other apart and Libertarians increasingly split the vote.

Who do you think will win in that situation? We the People?

I don’t like it any more than you do, but near as I can tell, this is what they have planned. The political establishment knows how to out game a bunch of uppity peasants.

Zoom out.

While Americans continue to bicker and squabble, while characters like Kanye West toss their hat in the ring and the circus enters its next act, the global cabal continues to advance and accelerate their agenda. Don’t take your eye off the ball!

Remember the food shortages that Biden said are going to be real? Remember the fuel shortages and the rampant inflation? Remember the destruction of the dollar and the transition to a new digital currency? Don’t forget that this is all part of the incredible transition designed to usher us into the new socialist surveillance state.

Did you know the transition to Fedcoin is officially underway? No doubt this new digital currency will make it much easier for the United States to pay climate reparations to the third-world nations who are suffering because of the planetary damage being caused by our reckless, unsustainable western lifestyles.

This is what is being talked about while Americans bicker about politics.

Friends, we are way past Left versus Right. It’s now local against global, it’s freedom against enslavement, and it’s humanity against the machines. The fate of our future and our children’s future will be decided by the battle between We the People and the psychopathic cabal of global elites who are trying to take over the world.

Back on track.

That is the promise being made by global leaders at the COP 27 meeting, the 27th Conference of the Parties who are dead set on accelerating the implementation of their radical eugenics driven climate agenda—aka the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We are to believe that the world’s leaders need to get us back on track, because COVID-19 interrupted the implementation of their ambitious international policies.

But I don’t buy it, not even for a second. Truth be told, I’ve been camping on some information that I’m excited to finally share. While it was necessary to address the midterm fiasco and relate the experience I recently had in DC, there has been a much bigger story that needs to be told: The threat of the Quadripartite.

What is the Quadripartite? We’ll get to that in a second, thoroughly, but first, I want to share this screenshot taken on the day after the midterm election:

As the arrows emphasize, on the morning after, the climate agenda, universal healthcare, and women in politics were top of mind for the propagandist at The Hill.

To me, this was like a sneak peek into the minds of the globalists who are working tirelessly to enslave humanity. Setting aside the reasons why the globalists are so excited to celebrate the “first woman” in everything, and how health care costs are directly related to centralized control, it was the COP 27 global effort to “prevent climate catastrophe” that really perked my interest.

Digging into it is what led me to discover the Quadripartite. From the top line article:

“At this late date, cutting fossil fuel emissions by shifting to clean energy can’t cut warming fast enough to slow the self-reinforcing feedbacks that are accelerating us down the “highway to climate hell,” to borrow a phrase from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s opening speech in Egypt.”

They can’t cut fossil fuel emissions fast enough, so we are accelerating down a highway to hell. So what are our brilliant global leaders going to do to save humanity?

“As important as decarbonization will be post-2050, it is essential to couple it with a strategy to immediately cut methane and the other short-lived super climate pollutants … Cutting the super climate pollutants is the only known way to take our foot off the accelerator to give us a fighting chance to slow the self-reinforcing feedbacks, avoid tipping points and keep the planet from the existential risk of Hothouse Earth.”

Okay, cutting super climate pollutants immediately might help us avoid the existential threat of Hothouse Earth… but how? From the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report (PNAS), we learn that:

“Collective human action is required to steer the Earth System away from a potential threshold and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like state. Such action entails stewardship of the entire Earth System—biosphere, climate, and societies—and could include decarbonization of the global economy, enhancement of biosphere carbon sinks, behavioral changes, technological innovations, new governance arrangements, and transformed social values.”

Aha, the solution will be achieved through global decarbonizastion which is to be facilitated by “new governance arrangements” that drive behavioral change and transform social values—oh yeah, and the “technological innovations” like the weaponized AI and Algorithmic Social Interventions that allow the global elites to treat us all like hackable animals.

Lest we be dismayed, let’s not forget that this is all for the greater good and they are actively conditioning the whole of humanity to accept this without so much as a single cynical thought. And, lest we forget, they are actively working to preempt such cynical thoughts by managing “emerging perceptions” with “sentinel surveillance” in the ongoing effort to immunize humanity against misinformation—which is the source of all skepticism, in case you were wondering.

In other words, they’ve got it all under control. By controlling our thoughts and actions, by reconditioning human behavior, everything should work out just fine.

Besides, if we don’t go along with it, we’re all going to die, right? At least that’s the word on the street in Washington DC. Check out this propaganda:

It’s all quite inspiring, isn’t it? Aren’t you “scared shitless about climate collapse” just like everyone else? You are not alone. And the good news is, the Quadripartite is here to save you from your own self-induced extinction—at least that’s the story.

Meet your enemy.

On October 17th, 2022, the World Health Organization launched a new Plan of Action that is destined to re-shape every aspect of your daily life, and not in a good way. Their ambitious One Health Joint Plan of Action is set to be instituted through the coordinated actions and efforts of what the WHO calls the Quadripartite—which is perhaps best understood as the formation of an unelected global hit squad.

This Quadripartite consists of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH).

Together, these organizations represent a dire threat to the future of humanity.

Why is that exactly? Because they are a bunch of radical environmentalists who are wielding profoundly powerful tools—such as AI and sentinel surveillance—in an effort to forcefully impose their agenda via the manipulation of humanity en masse.

By the year 2030, you will eat bugs, own nothing, and be happy, remember? It’s such a ludicrous claim that it’s easy to scoff and laugh it off—that is, until you consider the collective power of the Quadripartite. These people intend to control you. They seek to enslave you. Your labor will enrich their purposes, nothing more and nothing less.

Just to quickly connect the dots, UNEP is the organizing force behind the COP 27, which is the organizing force behind the radical climate agenda that is driving insane environmental policies all around the globe—think European energy crisis—including right here at home, with the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act.

According to the White House, the wrongly named Inflation Reduction Act “represents the most aggressive action to combat the climate crisis” EVER, and it will enable the Biden administration to achieve its insanely ambitious goals:

“Because of the Inflation Reduction Act’s investments, America is on track to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by about 40 percent below 2005 levels in 2030—positioning America to meet President Biden’s climate goals of cutting greenhouse gases at least in half in 2030 and reaching net zero by no later than 2050.”

Reducing emissions to 40% below 2005 levels? Cutting emission by 50% by 2030? Achieving net zero by 2050? Clearly we are in for some big changes! And just in case you forgot, they’ve already declared that these are going to be “unpleasant” changes.

As noted in TR 215 - For Better or For Worse:

“They are behind schedule. If we are to achieve any of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the world is going to have to undergo some radical transformations—and endure some ‘unpleasant changes’ in the process.”

Keep in mind, in their own words, this is all about centralized control and depopulation. From TR 212 - How Do We Resist?:

“In working to achieve sustainable patterns of consumption and production and to reduce the impacts of human activity on the environment, it is important to recognize that plausible future trajectories of world population lie within a relatively narrow range, especially in the short or medium term.”

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development specifically targets a reduction in global population growth—and the global population itself. Remember, in the minds of the elite, they just don’t need the vast majority of humans. Again, this is another statement that has repeatedly been made out loud. This is not conspiracy, it’s fact.

And it’s a disturbing fact at that, but it’s a fact we must face nonetheless.

We are in this together.

I believe that the Quadripartite is a globalist hit squad that will be used to reduce the global population through a series of “iterative and disruptive” transformations that will include capturing the global food supply under the auspice of providing food security, decimating global economies with radical environmental policies to usher in a global digital currency (which will equate to enslavement), and genetically modifying humanity to further the eugenicist’s fantasy for a transhumanistic Future Earth.

As I’ve said repeatedly, this is the implementation of a global socialist surveillance state. Turns out, UNEP is already using advanced satellite surveillance to target “super emitters” all around the globe and track “mitigation progress”—an effort supported by the World Bank and our own US government, which has already spent $1.55 billion on it’s own “super emitter response program.”

Apparently, when it comes to controlling the human population, the sky is the limit!

You can’t make this stuff up!

The truth is, the global cabal is accelerating the pace of change. This week, in the White House’s announcement on G20 climate agreements, they stated the intent to accelerate these radical changes thirteen different times. Just to give you a taste of what our government intends to do, they want to:

* Accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

* Accelerate transformation towards sustainable and resilient agriculture and food systems and supply chains.

* Accelerate efforts to reduce food loss and implement the One Health approach.

* Accelerate and ensure clean, sustainable, just, affordable, and inclusive energy transitions and flow of sustainable investments.

* Accelerate transitions and achieve our climate objectives.

* Accelerate the development, deployment and dissemination of technologies, and the adoption of policies.

Everything must be accelerated, including combating disinformation, because they are losing the narrow window wherein they can dupe the masses before enough people wake up to effectivley resist the onslaught of global tyranny.

As the UN Secretary-General's COP 27 opening remarks make clear:

“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.

We need all hands on deck for faster, bolder climate action. 

A window of opportunity remains open, but only a narrow shaft of light remains.  

The global climate fight will be won or lost in this crucial decade – on our watch.”

I agree.

We are on a highway to hell, and there is now only a narrow opportunity for humanity to escape enslavement. We do need all hands on deck, faster and bolder actions, because the battle for a future worth having will be won or lost in this crucial decade—freedom for future generations will be won or lost on our watch.

It’s time for we patriots to rise to the challenge!

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The world keeps turning.

“Like sands through an hourglass, these are the days of our lives.”

Getting home after a fast and full trip to the bustling metropolis of the nation’s capital brings a special depth of gratitude. It was nearly midnight when I turned onto the lonely highway that would lead me out to my own little patch of paradise. No street lights. No cars. Just mile after mile of dark, peaceful road.

“No gas for 65 miles” caught my eye. I wondered how many of the people I had just met with, how many people from any big city, have ever seen a sign like that. Some, but few. John Denver’s “Country Roads” was the soundtrack in my mind as I contemplated the vast differences and disconnects between urban and rural America.

It occurred to me that both sides feel like they are in the majority. Could both sides be right? It sounds impossible, but let me explain. When I say “most Americans” what do think? Some people will immediately think about the percentage of the population. Others will think about the majority of the country. That is a huge distinction.

Both sides are right, in some sense, to assume they are in the majority—and I’m still trying to find the right words to express why this is so important. If you think about it, the majority of people voted for Hillary Clinton, but the majority of the country voted for Donald Trump—the contrast and distinction could not be more clear.

People in the cities believe that they are the normal ones, and assume that the majority of people can relate to their experiences. At the same time, people in the country believe that they are the normal ones, and that the majority of the country can relate to their experiences. If both are not wrong, how do we reconcile the two?

That is a critical question when we consider the political divide between us. It is understandable that people in the cities would think and act differently than people in the country, and vice versa. It’s equally as understandable that people in both situations encounter different kinds of problems, and therefore reach different kinds of conclusions. Both have different needs, desires, and ways of doing things.

These differences should be acknowledged, accepted, and even celebrated—or at the very least leveraged to our mutual advantage. There is strength in diversity, in thinking differently, in seeing things from different angles, but only if we can communicate effectively enough to collaborate and maintain mutual respect.

I also know this sort of sappy kumbaya makes some people want to puke.

Bear with me here.

Despite all of these inherent differences, the sun rises and sets on all of us. We all call ourselves Americans, with little thought about the legitimate differences between us. We assume we all want what is best for our country, without realizing that “best” means something different to everybody. At this point, it feels like we are a nation that is hopelessly divided along ideological lines and we really have no way of reconciling these differences.

That’s the problem.

Do you want a future full of perpetual conflict? A future where everyone is always at each other’s throats, ridiculing and attacking people who think differently? That doesn’t sound like much fun to me. That’s not the world I want my kids and grandkids to grow up in. This perpetual conflict is a lose-lose proposition.

Thus, if we cannot figure out how to fix this mess, this political quagmire, we’re destined to destroy what’s left of our great nation and descend into a deplorable living hell wherein neighbors literally hate each other, town and country are increasingly estranged from one another, and the political process only serves to escalate violence.

Again, to be blunt, that sounds like a shitty deal to me. How about you?

So, what are we going to do? Are we going to take back “our” country? If so, how? I’ve said those words a thousand times and I’ve sworn an oath to defend this country that I love from enemies both foreign and domestic—and I will fight to protect the blessings of liberty for my family, friends, and future generations.

But how can I fight and win?

If I walked up and b***h-slapped Mike Tyson for being a d*****s, how do you think that would play out? There is no doubt his superior force and capacity for violence would ultimately win. (On a slightly more subtle level, it would actually be his emotional reaction that destroyed me.)

What if I walked into a honky tonk—the Honky Tonk—and shouted out that everyone there was a bunch of dumb hicks, then turned and walked back out the door. How might that play out? Do you think they’d just take the insult and let me walk away? Or do you think a few of the good old boys would bum rush the door and give me the righteous ass beating that I deserved?

I know how I would handle it.

I love being at the Honky Tonk. I love seeing Willie on the wall. I love the live country music and taking shots while shooting the s**t with my friends. I love living in Small Town USA, having dirt on my shirt, living down a dusty gravel road and having a little mud on my tires—and “honey, just because I talk slow doesn’t mean I’m stupid.”

I believe that the majority of the country can relate. In fact, I know that for a fact. I’ve lived in all four corners of this country, driven up and down both coasts and zig-zagged thousands and thousands of miles across the heartland, just to see what was out there. This is not an ignorant or ill-informed conviction.

But I see the other side too.

Bright lights. Big cities. The energy, the excitement, the buzz that comes with being around so many people doing so many things all at once. The ability to find anything you want and have more options than you could possibly need. The big beautiful buildings, the monuments, the chance to meet and mingle with the movers and shakers who are truly giants in their respective fields.

The opportunities found in the cities have an inherent and undeniable appeal. I can understand why the majority of people eventually end up in metropolitan areas.

To each their own.

Part of the discussion in DC was how to use Twitter for political impact. At first, I had to work hard not to laugh out loud. Then I had to swallow my pride and listen. According to the people who know, who are on the ground, in the game, this is how the game is played. The politicians and journalists are using Twitter as their main form of communication—as in, all the cool kids are doing it.

But it’s more than that. These are the people who are shaping public perception and writing public policy. If I truly wanted to get in on the conversation, I would have to learn how to play the game. That’s just the way it works. Personally, I’ve always thought that Twitter was ridiculous—what a waste of f*ing time—but I can assure you, the people who are running our country do not see it that way.

Truth be told, when I announced that I don’t know anybody in town who uses Twitter, and that I could pretty much guarantee that none of my friends are on it, and they never would be, they just laughed. That was about as foreign to them as the fact that I didn’t have the Uber app on my phone—because I figured I would just call a cab.

Which brings up a story…

There was a sweet lady who called every cab company in the capitol before finally convincing me that if I didn’t download Uber, there was no way I was going to make my flight. In other words, I wasn’t going to make it the 6.2 miles across the city in the two hours I had left, unless I was willing to adapt and overcome.

Please meet Daphene:

The picture is a little blurry, but Daphene saved my bacon! I was beyond grateful. When I expressed my gratitude and asked if I could snap a picture she said, “Why?” I told her it was because she just helped push me into the 21st century, catch my first Uber, and get home to see my family.

It was a random act of kindness. I didn’t ask her to call a cab.

Experiences like that fill me with hope. Even though things are a little crazy right now, I know we’re going to get through this. Our shared humanity is the solution, not the problem. Our differences are a strength, not a weakness. We just have to be humble enough to see it that way.

That is the message of my heart for today…

…I’ll get back to the news and giving liberals hell tomorrow!

Here we go.

Last night Trump announced he was running for reelection in 2024. Honestly, I have mixed emotions about it, and I’ll tell you why in a minute. But first, here’s a screenshot of the front page of the Seattle Times this morning:

Notice the words “escalating” and “blame”… hasn’t the blame been escalating for years at this point? Wasn’t that the whole point of the J6 show trials? Hasn’t that been the point of labeling Trump supporters as MAGA extremists? Isn’t that why there has been so much effort to turn the establishment type Republicans against this unhinged fringe minority of the Party? I believe the answer is yes to all of the above.

And we’re not unhinged.

In fact, those of us who voted for Donald Trump in 2020, who I have insisted on asking the hard questions about all the “statistical anomalies” and voting irregularities since then—you know, why in the hell were the Democrats allowed to steal the election and insert a sock-puppet president—we are not the crazy ones.

We are the rational ones who demand logical answers, who are intelligent enough to think for ourselves, and who have yet to receive a satisfactory answer. Instead, every effort has been made to sweep 2020 under the rug and try and keep Donald Trump from getting elected ever again. Their efforts to destroy the man have been insatiable, which makes his announcement equally remarkable and flabbergasting.

And yet here we are. I cannot help but filter this through the lens of psyops.

Optimism? Hope? Will there be investigations and accountability? Will we really Make America Great Again? I suppose it’s possible. We should certainly try. But something just doesn’t quite sit right with all of this. It feels like a set up.

More than anything, what I’ve learned during my time in DC is that our elected representatives are not the ones running the show. It’s just a handful of Party bosses, who despite the appearance of being arch rivals, are actually working in cahoots with global power brokers to advance an international agenda.

They control the flow of money, which is either extracted from the peasants or printed out of thin air, and then directly invested in the proverbial “Deep State” coffers. From there, thousands of unelected federal bureaucrats use these funds to regulate, manipulate, and pilfer the unsuspecting public. It’s top down control.

That’s the state of American politics in a nutshell. Our form of government is supposed to represent the will of the people, but it has become wholly dysfunctional for that purpose—and all of this dysfunction is a feature, not a bug in the system.

Remember Epstein?

Don’t think for a second this wasn’t a political suicide. Now that’s power, is it not?

The ends justify the means. There are no rules, except for the rules of radicals. Morality does not guide the people who have this sort of power. There is neither shame nor conscience in this type of character. Keep that in mind.

Isn’t it amazing that Teflon Don hasn’t been utterly destroyed by the establishment he so brazenly disrupted? They’ve tried, but he always seems to out fox them. When they’ve got him on the run, he always gets away. When they think they’ve got him pinned down or nailed to the wall, he always manages a Houdini-like escape.

It’s almost better than fiction, isn’t it?

Donald Trump is like the ultimate hero, or the ultimate villain, depending on who you ask. His meteoric rise was unimaginable, even incomprehensible to the political establishment and their media lap dogs. His crass, crude behavior reverberated across the heartland, and like him, love him, or hate him, he was a man who got stuff done.

He ushered in an era of energy independence and economic prosperity. There was record low unemployment in communities of all colors. Red tape was slashed and the beast of bureaucracy was temporarily put on a leash. He was a champion of the people.

But then, covid. That changed everything. And don’t forget, Dr. Fauci said it was going to happen, just shortly after Trump took office. Even prior to the pandemic, Trump was opposed by his own party. He was betrayed by the establishment. His efforts to Make America Great Again were undermined at every step, and We the People watched it all happen.

What we’ve been through since way back then, when Trump first came down the escalator has been a wild emotional roller coaster. At first, the surge of excitement and hope, then the tenuous, nervous unknowing of what happens next, then the utter disgust and disappointment of betrayal by the people who we thought we could trust.

Over and over again this pattern played out. Repeal and replace Obamacare? Yes! Oh, wait… oh no… argh! Stabbed in the back by our own party! But wait, there’s hope, they’re investigating Clinton’s water closet, the economy is booming, there’s going to be some accountability and things are looking up—but… no… no way, she got away with it? Now they’re going to impeach Trump? WTF? What the hell is going on out there?

By the time the pandemic struck, our emotions had already been yanked every which way for years. For many people, this new threat of an invisible enemy broke them. Hoarding toilet paper and other strange behaviors were quickly normalized. It was scary, but there was hope—just two weeks to flatten the curve—then we could get back to normal, but wait… no… no way… lockdowns? Canceling school and Christmas? Closing up shop, staying home, living in constant fear?

How much more can we take?!

But wait… wait, there’s hope… there’s going to be a vaccine… yes, then we can get back to normal, once we get the vaccine. People were desperate for the vaccine, and Trump, despite all of his despicable flaws and failures that were being relentlessly pumped out across the media, despite him being arguably the most divisive topic around the dinner table, at least he was a business man… he could get those vaccines made fast.

And he did. I mean, obviously he didn’t make them himself, but he cut the red tape and let the government partner with private corporations in ways they had never done before. Of course, he was embroiled in scandal and twice impeached in the process, but he did deliver on Operation Warp Speed—which must have saved millions of lives.

There was hope, but then came Delta… oh the disappointment when we learned that the vaccines—which we were always promised were safe and effective—was utterly useless against this new deadly variant. But wait, there’s hope, they’ve developed a booster and now Biden is the president! Surely it’s all going to be okay. We can take off our masks now, right? We’re almost back to normal now, right?

I want to get excited, but I’m just not sure….

Haven’t we been here before?

Stop the tape!

Take a slow deep breath. Pause with a full breath. Relax when you let it out.

Why not do it again? Another slow deep breath. Another pause. Feel your heartbeat. Relax your shoulders as you exhale. What’s real right now?

We’ve all been through a lot. We’ve all learned a lot these last few years. Our lives have all changed in ways that are hard. We’ve suffered. But have we grieved?

Have we grieved the loss of loved ones? Have we grieved the loss of hopes, of dreams, of jobs? Have we grieved the loss of life experiences? Have we grieved the loss of normal; of family and friends who we no longer talk to?

Have we grieved the loss of life as we know it? Or are we still holding onto the hope that one day we’ll wake up and everything will be okay, that everything will be normal again? Or perhaps we’ve come to accept that this is the new normal, and it’s not that bad? Perhaps we’ve adapted, adjusted, and accepted that all this craziness was just part of life? Nobody could have seen it coming, right?

I mean, come on, who could have seen Donald Trump running again for president?

Stop the tape, again.

Can you see the patterns? Can you see how the cycle is set to start again?

Do you realize what this is doing to the public psyche? Have you heard of mass psychosis? Are you familiar with psychological warfare? What about brainwashing?

This is how it happens. This is the cycle of emotions that heighten suggestibility. The repeated discombobulation interrupts our mental patterns. It leads to a sort of quasi-hypnotic state, a high-jacking of the mind. At some point people just shutdown, or snap. That’s why society is experiencing a skyrocketing mental health crisis.

But even those who tune out are still immersed in this new reality. They are still absorbing the messages that are bombarding their senses relentlessly. We all are.

Hey, remember that conversation we were having about how the government is using AI to manipulate emerging perceptions? They call it Algorithmic Social Interventions, remember? It’s already being deployed at a global scale. Do you think this AI understands that we are hackable animals, like elites have proclaimed?

How does that all play into this story? Wouldn’t that affect the flow of information that then affects our emotions, how we feel, what we think, what we do, and how we vote? How might our perceptions be manipulated between now and 2024?

Could the next great manipulation already be underway?

Think about it. Decide for yourself. Nothing is quite as it seems—there’s a fine line between waking and dreams. Right now is the time to keep our eyes wide open!

Buckle up.

Okay friends, as you know (if you’ve been following along), yesterday I attended a Freedom Caucus forum that addressed the issues of “who makes the rules” and dove into the many wonky procedural issues that are being used to thwart the will of the American people. For example, the “Suspension Rule” allows congressional leadership to suspend the rules and cast a vote on legislation that nobody has ever read.

Yes, you read that correctly.

I really want to tell you all about it, but I’m going to save that for the another time. I need to process everything so I can communicate it in an effective manner. On that note, let’s pivot to the bigger issues that are at play right now… the MUCH bigger issues. There’s been a lot going on.

BTW, they’re still counting…

Several of the key swing states still have not finalized there votes. More and more news outlets are calling the races, though in many cases the races are far from over. Anomalies abound, and at this point Nancy Pelosi is claiming that the Democrats may be able to keep both the house and the senate—and she said it with a straight face.

Meanwhile, the elections were a perfect distraction, weren’t they?

Everyone got excited, there was going to be a Big Red Wave—but wait, it only turned out to be a mirage. For the last week, all of the messaging has been how the Republicans under performed and the ways in which they screwed up. Simultaneously, blatant corruption continues to happen in broad daylight.

All of this keeps the saga alive. The sleuths are busy tracking down the facts of how the heist was pulled off. The media is hammering home the message of their respective teams. The politicians are trying to spin this in a fashion that favors their next election without taking any blame for the whole debacle.

And it’s almost over now, right? Americans are ready to move forward, get over Trump, and appreciate a stable democracy, right? It’s only the bitter clingers and diehard MAGA extremists who believe this election was just another sham.

Honestly, I gag on such drivel. BUT, that is the social programming at the moment.

Zoom out.

While Americans are being programmed to accept another rigged election, the invisible hand continues to work it’s magic, advancing the globalist agenda, and accelerating the pace of change in this “incredible transition.”

So the question today is: What have we missed in the midst of all these midterm election shenanigans? It turns out, a lot.

Honestly, we’re always missing out on a lot—that’s just the nature of being a peasant. We only know what they want us to know, and even the most rigorous sleuthing can only produce facts that have already escaped the vacuum of elite planning. When the closed door decisions have been made, the “facts” get trickled out from confidential sources or are occasionally spread through acts of rogue honest journalism.

And that is where our puzzle begins.

Did you catch the fact that California, Oregon, Washington, and Canada’s British Columbia just signed a Pacific Coast climate compact? Yeah, didn’t think so. They’re calling it the PCC, the Pacific Coast Collaborative, which is an international agreement that was actually signed October 6th, way ahead of the COP27 (which we’ll get to in a minute). These guys on the Left coast are the leaders of progressive insanity—which is why they are committing to accelerate the radical climate change agenda.

They want to “accelerate the transition” to centralized control. In their own words:

“Rapidly accelerating climate change threatens our communities along the Pacific Coast of North America with cascading impacts to economic livelihoods, public health and safety, cultural and social practices, and natural systems from wildfire, drought, heat waves, ocean change, and flooding. …

We need to continue to inspire accelerated efforts regionally, nationally, and at a global scale. For current generations, kids, and grandkids, we must act now in a way that gives everyone opportunity and security.”

How inspiring. How altruistic! Who could argue with that?!

The point in pointing that out was not to argue with the radical environmentalists, but to demonstrate how the political circus has provided a perfect distraction for them to accelerate their agenda—which is ultimately driving much of the political process. Embedded within these environmental policies are more commie tactics than you can shake a stick at… how’s that for a fun phrase?

With that in mind, here are three things I want to thread together:

* The collapse of the FTX crypto exchange.

* https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/ftx-investigates-abnormalities-wallet-movements-fear-mount-potential-hack

* https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/breaking-news-ukraine-military-aid-from-usa-was-invested-in-crypto-ftx-by-ukraine

* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=CARF+Crypto-Asset+Reporting+Framework&t=newext&atb=v206-1&ia=web

* The COP27 radical environmental agenda.

* https://www.state.gov/2022-country-operational-plan-guidance/

* https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cop27

* https://www.unep.org/events/conference/un-climate-change-conference-unfccc-cop-27

* The impending energy crisis.

* https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/america-is-running-out-of-diesel-fuel-heres-why-it-matters-to-consumers-103122.html

* https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/u-s-diesel-shortage-squeezes-farmers-homeowners-and-white-house/ar-AA13XACx

* https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-US-Diesel-Shortage-Is-Worsening.html

But first, let’s talk about…

Our interconnected world.

The globalist love to talk about how we’re all in this together, how the whole world has to fight climate change, how every person everywhere has to do their part to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals in order to save the planet—or else. Do you remember Our Common Agenda?

(HINT: You can brush up in TR 189 - When Police Get Political and TR 171 - When Elections Won’t Work. In a nutshell, Our Common Agenda outlines the “use of digital surveillance and manipulation to influence behavior and control populations.”)

At any rate, they like to talk about how the world’s economy is deeply interconnected, how international trade and commerce have made the world a smaller place, and how wealth disparity between countries is akin to global scale inequality—all of which means wealthy nations must do “their fair share” in advancing the Agenda.

Make no mistake, this is all about taking control of production and consumption—i.e. Communism—and ushering us into the socialist surveillance state of Future Earth.

That said, in some sense all of this is true. We are interconnected. We do need to work together. We do face complex global level problems that will require worldwide collaboration to effectively address. BUT, that does not mean that everyone agrees on what those problems are, what the root cause of the problem actually is, or what the most practical and effective solutions might be.

This is a major point that is too often intentionally overlooked.

Global consensus is a farce. It’s a myth, a mirage, a figment of imagination, a lie, an insidious projection of progressive illusions and collective mental delusions. There is no global consensus. There never has been and there never will be. It is not possible to get every person on the planet on the same page, thinking and believing the same things, holding the same convictions, or working toward the same goals. Period.

To some, that is just stating the obvious. To many others, to those who suffer from the collective delusions of the hive mind, they believe in consensus with utter certainty. They believe that there is global consensus, that there must be global consensus, and that “we” all must work together for the subjective “greater good”—whatever that means at any given moment.

Of course, only the people in power get to define what this collective effort looks like. Only the people in power get to decide what sacrifices you and I must make. Only the people in power get to determine the punishment for noncompliance. In short, only the people in power get to make the rules for everybody else—and threaten to penalize, ostracize, or imprison you if you disagree with their rules.

Most disturbingly, THEY believe that they have the authority, even the moral imperative, to control you by force—but that too is a lie.

If they have the right to control you by force, doesn’t that make you a slave? I believe it does. But we are not slaves, nor were we born to be slaves, nor can they control us by force unless we let them. Their authority is an illusion. We can resist. We have an inherent right to resist, to think differently and make our own decisions.

This is why socialism, communism, marxism, progressivism—all types of collectivism—are forms of psychosis: They are completely detached from reality.

Centralized control, sacrificing individuality for the sake of the greater good, is not the path to peace and stability. It is the path to perpetual conflict. For as long there is a small group of power hungry people who are hellbent on controlling everybody else, there will always be free and independent people who resist, rebel, and rise up to cast off their would be oppressors. Such is the natural cycle of life.

But I digress, I was going to tell you how the whole FTX scandal was a money laundering operation that slushed billions of dollars from the Biden administration to Ukraine to FTX, then back to Democrats just in time for the midterms.

Let that sink in.

I was going to tell you how the global cabal had gathered to predetermine the course of our lives over the next several decades by leveraging ESG ideology to systematically dismantle national sovereignty under the guise of saving the planet. I was going to point out how this is already underway, wreaking havoc on economies everywhere, leaving people cold, hungry, and without gas all around the world—how this is what a sustainable development looks like, and how economic equality will be achieved.

I was going to remind you that pain is all part of the plan.

But, in the interest of time, and to end on a more lighthearted note, I want to leave you with this fun historical fact (from yesterday):

On this day in history, Nov. 14, 1776, British press names famous Londoner Ben Franklin leader of rebellion

Ben Franklin was a genius. The aristocrats loved him and lavished him with praise. That is, right up until he sided with the American rebels who had just declared their independence. At that point he became an enemy of the state.

There are many lessons in that story. Benjamin Franklin was a wise man. He was instrumental in the founding of our country, spelling out the radical social experiment of establishing a free society in our Declaration of Independence. His timeless wisdom is perhaps best summed up in these timely words:

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

With everything going on in the world, it would be wise to reflect on this truth.

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Facts are funny.

Washington D.C. is our nation’s capitol. That is a simple irrefutable fact, right?

According to the most recent census, in 2021 the District of Columbia had a population of approximately 670,000 people—making it the 23rd largest city in the U.S., just slightly smaller than Seattle and slightly larger than Portland, Oregon:

One might think, in theory, that the capitol of our nation would generally reflect a cross-section of American politics, meaning that there were roughly as many Republicans and Democrats living in the area. We might expect that their elections would at least loosely correlate to the outcome of national elections, falling somewhere in the ballpark of around a 50/50 split. That would only make sense, right?

In reality, based on how the district votes, nothing could be further from the truth:

The truth is, over 90% of the people living in our nation’s capitol are Democrats.

Fascinating, isn’t it?

Honestly, I find it a little disturbing. Maybe it’s something in the water?

Here’s another fun fact:

5 out of the top 10 wealthiest counties in the country are in the DC metro area:

What do you make of it?

This information and data are completely unbiased, not controversial, and readily available for the whole world to see. These are just cold, hard, facts.

Of course, and unfortunately, most people will never know this particular set of facts—because who the hell would ever take the time to look it all up and make all of those nifty little arrows to help connect the dots, right?

Regardless, facts are funny things. They help us put things into perspective and make sense of our current circumstance. Facts themselves are neutral. Facts can be disturbing, inspiring, powerful, or completely irrelevant, depending on interpretation. Generally speaking, the more facts we have, the more informed and well-rounded our perspective becomes, contingent upon the quality of the facts at hand.

So, what can we extract from these facts? Let’s summarize the data:

* Washington DC has a smaller population than 48 out of 50 states, and yet it is home to 5 out of 10 of the wealthiest counties in the entire country.

Thus, it would appear that playing politics pays off—who knew?!

But it gets even better. What do you make of this fact:

* Washington DC is where our elected representatives gather to conduct national business, and yet the district disproportionately (+90%) votes for Democrats.

Why is that? Am I missing something here?

One interpretation is that voting Democrat means voting to consolidate money, power, and control. After all, this data shows a disproportionate amount of our nation’s money, power, and control is held in Washington DC, right?

Obviously there are other wealthy areas, but consider this: Of the top 20 wealthiest counties in the country, there are only four that narrowly voted for Trump in the last presidential election. The majority of wealthy counties voted overwhelmingly for Biden. Contrast that with the fact that Trump absolutely stomped Biden in the vast majority of counties all across the country, and the correlation seems to be clear:

Vote Democrat, and you’ll get more money.

More money means more power. More power means more control. Voting Democrat means more money, power, and control. Thus, by extension, all you need to consolidate more money, power, and control are more Democrat voters—and there has never been a shortage of useful idiots. There’s a sucker born every second.

Of course, all of the educated idiots—who mistakenly self-identify as “progressives” and “intellectuals”—would tell you that all of this money is only used for making things better, that the power is only for helping people out, and that the control is only for the greater good. These fools fail to grasp that money, power, and control are both the seeds and fruit of political corruption.

Them’s the facts.

From the perspective of an ignorant peasant, it appears that political corruption alone accounts for the suspicious concentration of money, power, and control in our nation’s capitol. Why are there so many Democrat voters in Washington DC, when the vast majority of the nation is comprised of constitutional conservatives? There is one simple, unflattering, speculative explanation: Manipulation.

It happens just the same in big cities from coast to coast. When you get a large enough group of people together, there are bound to be enough useful idiots who can be suckered into sacrificing their freedom for the illusion safety, to exchange their dignity and personal rights for a sense of security and some free handouts.

The point that I’m trying to make here, is that these people are being skillfully and intentionally manipulated by slick politicians. Convinced that they are victims, that they have a right to other people’s money, and that the government is both provider and protector, these plebes are persuaded to buy into the progressive agenda, endorse the Democrat party, and vote for increasing degrees of corruption.

That’s what we’re up against.

These people have been deceived into believing that a global socialist surveillance state will keep them safe, protect them from “hate” and “misinformation” and make sure that everything in life is “fair” and “equitable”—eventhough this entirely unnatural outcome requires the eviceration of free speech, cradle to grave surveillance, massive state-sanctioned censorship, and the utter suffocation of the human spirit.

In short, lefties have been manipulated into believing the impossible. They believe they have a right to get something for nothing, to be comfortable and taken care of and enjoy the fruits of other people’s efforts, all in the name of the greater good. They have been convinced and conditioned to accept dependence upon the State, without realizing that they have sacrificed freedom and been enslaved in the process.

Honestly, it’s a sad sitution.

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It’s scary.

The thought that any government, anywhere, might actually be targeting the most loyal, passionate, service oriented men and women—who willingly volunteered to sacrifice their lives to protect the freedom of perfect strangers—that the government would be targeting them for discrimination, intimidation, and even incarceration, is utterly despicable. More than that, it’s scary.

It’s scary because it means the government is intentionally and systematically targeting any individuals it thinks might be a threat, any person who might challenge their authoritarian rule. Most veterans are upstanding citizens who often continue acting out their heart of service in their own hometowns, translating their years of training and sacrifice into the betterment of their communities.

Some become entrepreneurs, inventors, innovators, or inspirational speakers. Some become corporate leaders, non-profit organizers, preachers, performers, podcasters, policemen, or politicians. In other words, American veterans—all 20 million of us—are simply out in the world, doing our thing, appreciating the fact that we’re not at war, embracing the journey of life, and building our own American Dream.

That’s the bright side of it.

On the dark side are those who come home wounded, missing arms and legs, missing their eyes or ears, suffering from the scars of horrendous burns, or heavy exposure to any number of harmful toxic hazards. For many, the darkness is even deeper. Too many of those who chose to serve come home with wounds that no one can see, and they suffer the torment of an internal hell that haunts them night and day.

And let’s just pause for a moment to appreciate those who made the greatest sacrifice of all, those who never came home, those brave men and women who died in the line of duty, sacrificing their own lives, so that others may live free.

Never forget.

All the comforts we take for granted, our American way of life, was only made possible by those who chose to rise up and resist tyranny, to cast off the crown, those who chose to fight to the death to preserve freedom for future generations.

I have a very deep respect and immense gratitude for all of the courageous warriors and brave veterans in every generation who have made my life possible—who paved the way for all of us to flourish in the most free and prosperous nation on earth.

That’s why I felt so disturbed by this headline:

The Government Is Still Waging War on America’s Military Veterans

What the hell? Is this just hype and hyperbole? Is it just another sensational headline?

Unfortunately, NO—this is a wake up call and a warning of what’s to come.

John & Nisha Whitehead penned this piece to put down on paper a host of examples of the government abusing the use of force to harass law abiding citizens, military veterans in specific, for little more than vocalizing opposition to oppressive, unconstitutional government dictates—something being dubbed as “Oppositional Defiance Disorder” per the following indications:

* Persistent stubbornness

* Resistance to directions

* Unwillingness to go along with the crowd

* Deliberately annoying others

* Testing limits by ignoring orders

If a veteran demonstrates “a recurrent pattern of negativism, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persists for at least 6 months,” then they have become a menace to society, potentially threatening public health and safety, and can be locked in a psych ward, or worse, be descended upon by jacked-up SWAT teams who are trained in lethal interventions and authorized to kill.

They may be living peaceful lives, but their acts of peaceful noncompliance—now officially a mental disorder known as ODD—are seen as subversive to the state. But it turns out that this is nothing new:

“This growing trend of diagnosing veterans as mentally unstable is troublesome for a number of reasons. In 2009, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis published a report entitled Rightwing Extremism, wherein domestic extremists were proposed to be the newest and most dangerous threat to the US since al-Qaeda.

While admitting that they did not have definitive proof that “domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.”

So, they have been sowing this narrative for more than decade. That means that agents have been trained to believe this crap, for more than a decade. That means that the weaponized DOJ of the Biden administration—itself an extension of the Obama era—has been fully indoctrinated and hyper-sensitized to the perceived threat of military veterans who might be inclined to challenge their unlawful behavior.

That’s the scary part.

Who are they targeting?

From the 2009 Department of Homeland Security assessment:

“Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

I added that emphasis on the rejection of federal authority in favor of state or local authority because that is key—that is in fact the order of Constitutional authority. Authority flows from We the People, to the many States, and then to the United States federal government, which has a very limited scope of authority.

More on that in a minute, but first, check this out:

“Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to rightwing extremists. DHS/I&A is concerned that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities.”

Doesn’t that explain why the government is targeting veterans? They claim to be concerned that “rightwing extremists” are target veterans, which gives the government cover and justification for increased surveillance of veterans who might be recruited and radicalized by these so-called “extremists” who question the authority of the federal government.

Regardless of their claims, the underlying motive is clearly to identify, surveil, and curtail anyone with the skills and experience to boost the “violent capabilities” of groups who oppose the government’s agenda—you know, like groups who oppose abortion, illegal immigration, perverted curriculum, rigged elections, political corruption, etc.

Let that sink in.

The government is tracking and going after people who challenge the government.

They’ve declared that to defy the government is a mental disorder.

They even assign a color coded threat level to the people they surveil, just to make it easy for local authorities to catch you with a passing glance at their screens.

Just wait until this is linked to your social credit score and digital ID!

“No soup for you!” Says the automated message: Your UBI has now been reduced to zero for noncompliance with State authorized attitudes that are required for peace and stability and to keep people safe. Your threats to democracy have resulted in multiple demerits and you must report for reeducation immediately. Sentinels have been dispatched to assist you in the process of restoring your status as a good human.

Awesome.

I’m excited for Future Earth, aren’t you? Everyone is going be so compliant and democratic, there will never be a need for wars or violence—and besides, all the violent guns will be confiscated anyway, that way the government can use their guns to keep everyone safe from the remnant of radical racist rightwing extremists.

According to the government report, you’ll be able to help authorities identify any of these remaining extremists if you happen to catch anyone talking about:

“Fear of Communist regimes and related conspiracy theories characterizing the U.S. Government’s role as either complicit in a foreign invasion or acquiescing as part of a “One World Government”…that would usurp the sovereignty of the United States and its Constitution, thus infringing upon their liberty.”

Have you heard any sort of that talk? I’m sure there’s an anonymous hotline that offers an enticing incentive for reporting this sort of extremist rhetoric—but I’m not going to take the time to look it up. There is something else I wanted to say…

Ha!

I bet you thought I was going to say, “The commies are taking over the world!”

No, I don’t want to pollute your mind with such a radical statement. I’d hate for you to be radicalized and become a rightwing extremist. That would be radical—and not like Ninja Turtle radical—like ultra MAGA racist, homophobic, misogynistic, carbon spewing, meat eating, mouth breathing, church going, Bible toting, Constitution loving, gun packing, pledge stating, flag saluting, far-right, alt-right EXTREMIST sort of radical… and that’s the kind of radical that might even threaten the radicals!

No friends, what I wanted to say, what I wanted to remind you of on this glorious day, is that the Constitution of the United States, which all veterans, service members, and public officials have sworn to defend, tells us exactly who holds the power of legitimate authority in this country: We the People.

The 10th Amendment make this abundantly clear:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

We the People, in order to form a more perfect union, established the Constitution as an agreement between the States that was meant to secure the blessings of liberty for future generations. The Constitution was ordained and established by the People, and it delegates certain authorities and powers to the federal government.

Think about what those words mean.

Any authority not expressly delegated to the federal government is retained by the various States, which are in fact sovereign entities; but ultimate authority is irrevocably retained by We the People, who are in fact sovereign individuals.

And just to drive home the point, consider the 9th amendment:

“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall NOT be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

In a nutshell, any rights that are not explicitly enumerated or spelled out in the Constitution are, once again, “retained by the people.” That is precisely because of the self-evident Truth that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

These are powerful truths.

Any individual may recognize and declare their own sovereignty at any point in time. That is a direct manifestation of natural order, human nature, and independent instinct. We are not slaves nor are we born to be ruled. Inherent in our humanity is free will, the power of choice, and the ability to exercise our own sovereignty.

Though tyrants, collectivists, Communists, Democrats, RINOs, globalists and progressives may try to convince you otherwise, these are immutable truths.

What makes the United States exceptional, is the fact that these rights were written into the law of the land, enshrined in the Constitution, and protected by the generations of brave men and women who have fought and sacrificed to keep this American Dream alive.

May we never forget!

And may we never stop fighting to protect these blessings for future generations!

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Just the facts Jack.

While most of the media is still rolling on the floor pissing all over themselves—either in exaltation or lamentation, depending on party preference—there are still some people trying to help Americans understand what really happened this midterm election, but they are few and far between.

Let me just cut to the chase: This was not a free and fair election.

It was an election that denied the will of the American people through the collusion of Big Gov and Big Tech—again. The entrenched political establishment deployed algorithmic censorship, while RINOs worked with progressives to shore up the two-party system—again. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the ample outright fraud—again:

* It Worked Once, Why Not Twice? Here Are Five Ways Democrats are Cheating and Stealing the 2022 Election Like they Did in 2020

* Unexplained Ballot Drop in GA Senate Race Likely Prevented Herschel Walker from Winning Race Outright

* “The Drop and Roll” Hit GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert Too – Two Big Drops Put Dem Ahead in Race

* Crooks: Nevada Election Officials Say Counting will Stretch into Next Week in US Senate Race

* BREAKING: Unexplained Ballot Drops Occurred in the Minnesota Governor’s Race – Illicit ‘Drop and Roll’ Gave Democrat the Win

* THEY DID IT AGAIN! Two Massive Unexplained Ballot Drops Gave Gretchen Whitmer the Lead in Michigan – They Ran a ‘Drop and Roll’ in Michigan Last Night

* Well, That’s Odd: Election Map of New York Appears to Show Exact Same Vote Counts For All Red Counties

That’s a lot of Russian misinformation, so I’m sorry if I’ve confused anyone. For my more visual friends, they say a picture can be worth a thousand words:

So there you have it, Republicans failed to produce a big red wave, because Republicans are, well, Republicans. With all due respect for my Republican friends, family members, and the strong Republican candidates who had my support and earned my vote—and with present company excluded—please allow me to excoriate the national Republican party.

Are these not the same b******s who have spent years talking about a balanced budget, while simultaneously voting to destroy the value of the dollar, inflate away our paychecks and burden our children with an incomprehensible amount of debt, by printing massive amounts of money for progressive pet projects all around the world?

Are these not the same deceitful, lying, shysters who promised over and over again that they were going to repeal and replace the abomination known as Obamacare?

What has the national Republican leadership done to secure the border, to keep our communities safe, or make sure our elections are secure? What have they done to hold corrupt politicians—people who have openly violated their oaths of office, lied through their teeth in sworn testimony, flagrantly ignored the law of the land with felonious disregard—what have Republicans done to keep these crooks accountable?

If I were to start listing off all the times We the People have been blatantly betrayed by the Republican party I’d be here all week, and I’d be spitting mad before I was done.

That would not be a good use of energy.

Instead, suffice it to say, the American people have once again been shafted by the political establishment, with Republican leadership being just as guilty and complicit in the process as the Democrats. The state of elections in our country is shameful and embarrassing. That the majority of the population is simply accepting this despicable display of raw political corruption is flat out disturbing.

WTF?! AAARGH!!

That’s right:

Our country is being destroyed by a bunch of damn fools. Fools who vote. Fools who don’t vote. Fools who think that they’re running the show. Just a bunch of damn fools!

Okay, I’m done ranting now.

Let’s get to work.

We’ve got to fix this mess. But where do we start? First we’ve gotta understand the problem, and this picture helps to put things into perspective:

That chart was created by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai (the real life genius who invented email), as part of his lawsuit against the U.S. government for censoring political speech. I’m glad this guy is on our side, because as this graphic demonstrates, we are facing a very complex mess.

With that in mind, let’s just be real:

* Most Americans will never see that chart. Most won’t question the outcome of the elections. Most will never realize that they are being manipulated.

* Since most people will never wake up to the fact they are being systematically assimilated into a global socialist surveillance state, the odds are against us.

* We the People are in fact hackable animals, and we are being hacked, but we are ultimately spiritual creatures capable of exercising the power of choice, of coordinating our efforts, and collaborating toward common goals.

Our shared humanity is both our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. As a whole, our humanity is both the greatest problem and the greatest solution. Thus, by the very virtue of being human, we simultaneously hold the keys to building a brighter future, as well as the means to ensure our mutual destruction.

Politicians are people. Governments are people. Globalists are people.

They eat, sleep, breathe and bleed like the rest us. They are not an unbeatable foe.

BUT, they do have the power, the money, the resources, the strategies, and the players in place to continue trouncing us in every election from here on out—unless something major changes. The good news is, change is always underway.

Change is coming.

Change is inevitable. It is unstoppable. It is interminable. Change is powerful.

The orchestrated chaos that has been sweeping around the globe attests to the fact that powerful forces are instigating change to upend society and seize control. Those who are pulling the strings have mastered the art of manipulation and wormed their way into the minds of the minions who invariably inhabit every community.

From the top down, the elites have changed the mind of the masses. They’ve programmed the public to forfeit freedom for the illusions of safety, security, peace and stability. They’ve conditioned the masses to accept being treated like slaves.

They take your money. They tell you what to do. They tell you what you can and cannot say, where you can and cannot go, when you can and cannot see your family. They threaten you and punish you if you don’t comply… but alas I digress… this is nothing new.

The AI, sentinel surveillance, and algorithmic social interventions are new. The forced genetic therapies are new. The unlimited authority of government to control every aspect of our lives is new, at least in America—and the question is, are we going to accept the changes? Are we going to just go along with it? Hell no!

Resistance is the spice of life!

People are waking up. More and more of the peasants are tired of being mistreated, tired of the pain at the pump, tired of the bare shelves, tired of the rigged elections.

While the media milks this election cycle for all it’s worth, don’t forget that we’re in the midst of an “incredible transition” and pain is all part of the plan. Understand that they’ve already got their sights set on stealing the 2024 election, and we’re facing a very bumpy stretch of road between now and then.

And one more thing: The commies are taking over the world!!! And this time, they’re dressed up as Republicans. Patriots take note!

***sorry I’m late today… there was a power outage this morning***

OUCH.

By now I’m sure you’ve heard, the Big Red Wave was little more than a ripple.

It was really just another smack in the face. Did you really not see that coming?

Of all the despicable swirling spin, of all the takes and takeaways, there was one article, one voice that most closely expresses how I feel. It was written by Jim Hoft at TheGatewayPundit.com, and I’m going to read some of it to you.

Here’s the headline:

BLOOD MOON BLOODBATH… Democrats Steal Midterms, Communism Comes Home to America… Crime, Inflation, Record Gas Prices, War, Open Borders and Corruption WIN BIG

“Americans reject every single dish the Democrats served. Yet, Democrats shocked Americans on Tuesday to win the US Senate, steal battleground states, and possibly keep the US Congress in Nancy Pelosi’s control, one of the most corrupt and dishonest politicians in US history.”

Take a deep breath. The world keeps turning. What happens next?

I don’t want to waste my time talking about the back-stabbing Republican political establishment. I don’t want to waste my time whining about all the little things that cumulatively usurped the will of the people, again. I don’t want to talk about hope being prematurely dashed against the rocks, or about what this means for Republicans in 2024—and I sure as hell don’t want to talk about Trump running for re-election.

Instead, I want to tell you a story. But before I do, for the record, I do believe this midterm election was stolen, much like the 2020 election, and I don’t care if radical progressives and Republican RINOs call me names because of it. I don’t care if they call me an extremist or an election denier. I do not care if they call me a quack or an unhinged conspiracy theorist. Their labels are lies, and they do not stick.

If I am not honest with myself, if I cannot speak from the heart, if I cannot tell you what I really think, or how I really feel, then some small part of me dies inside. So, I must speak up. Like many others, I must raise my voice and be heard. Many people—I honestly believe that the majority of people—know that what’s happening is wrong. They can sense it.

But too few understand what we’re up against. Too few realize what’s at stake. Too few understand how the Algorithmic Social Interventions have been shaping public perception for years at this point, and how that inevitably impacted the outcome of the election. Too few grasp how the sentinel surveillance was used to craft custom propaganda and target the “most exploitable”—their words not mine—to effectively hack humanity and predetermine the outcome of elections.

What just happened?

What just happened was exactly what needed to happen in order to continue this “incredible transition” known as the Great Reset. Just like censorship does not have to be 100% to be effective, neither do corrupt politicians need to rig every election to come out on top. That would be too obvious. But rig a couple elections here and there, in critical battleground states, in specific precincts, in certain key positions—do that and you can pull off a historic political upset that leaves the peasants scratching their heads, wondering what the hell just happened.

They told us it was going to be a Red Mirage, remember? Did you know they used that very same language when they stole the 2020 election? It only looked like Donald Trump was going to win. Similarly, it only looked like John-the-Jackass Fetterman was going to lose, etc. But he knew he was going to win. He hired a Clinton attorney, called the late-night surge, and it happened.

The writing was on the wall.

Of course, we’re not supposed to say any of that. If Democrats get their way, we won’t be able to say any of that, because questioning the outcome of elections is a threat to Democracy. Don’t forget they’ve been introducing legislation to make it illegal to question elections for years.

But what the hell, it needs to be said, and plenty of people are saying it. We must never be afraid to speak the truth, even to the face of tyrants, even under the threat of penalty, imprisonment, public shaming, social ostracization, de-platforming, or character assassination. No matter the stakes, we must speak the truth, otherwise the truth dies, and freedom dies along with it.

I just want to offer a few more observations before we zoom out:

* The entrenched Republican party was just as threatened by MAGA candidates as the Democrat party. Mitch McConnell, who just signed on more gun control measures, poured millions of dollars into local races to swing elections in favor of party players.

* The big winners last night were the Democrat and Republican leadership who worked together to shore up the status quo and keep the money flowing into their coffers. The big losers were the millions of Americans who were duped yet again to believe this time would be different, that their concerns would be heard, and accountability would be had.

* The establishment is also working together to wrangle the masses into their respective party pens, lest all hell breaks loose. The media is running cover while prominent Republicans do damage control and try to convince their plebes that this is all because of Donald Trump—that any good Republicans need to move beyond 2020 and let go of any fantasies about election integrity or political accountability.  

We are in a post-accountability era.

All of this casts a dark and ominous cloud over the horizon. There is no easy way out of this mess, but that doesn’t mean that there is no hope. It just means we have to get wise to the games, sharpen our messaging about what matters most, and why, and start campaigning today for a future worth having. Like I said yesterday, this is only one battle in a much bigger war.

It would be wise to refocus on practical, intelligent strategies that take into account the full scope of what we’re up against, including the AI and the machines, and work smarter and harder than ever before.

Now is NOT the time to give up or go into hiding!

What do we do now?  

Last night I emceed an event in support of our legendary constitutional sheriff Bob Songer and other local liberty loving candidates. The room was packed to capacity and beyond, and the energy in the room was palpable. It reminded me of being on the People’s Convoy. There was so much hope. So much enthusiasm. So much genuine conversation and connection.

We were gathered as Americans and rightly feeling optimistic about the future.

But I have to tell you the truth. I shed a few tears before the event. I knew what was about to happen, that the results weren’t going go our way, not just at the local level, but all across the country. I knew there were enough shady shenanigans to swing the election. I knew both parties were in on it.

They had too much to lose. They’ve come too far. There is no turning back now.

What would happen if there was a big red wave? What would happen if there was accountability? What would happen if there was an honest investigation, legitimate arrests, and legal routing of the corrupt political establishment?

Can you imagine if the American people simply s**t-canned the majority of congress?

That would throw the entire globalist agenda into a tailspin, would it not?

Without the big bucks flowing like honey from the Federal Reserve to the innumerable and incessantly needy progressive pet projects all around the globe, many of their schemes would come to an immediate screeching halt.

Without US dollars, what would happen to the WHO? To NATO? To the UN? What would happen to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals? What would happen to Future Earth?

Do you see what I mean? There was simply too much at stake.

Besides, if there was a wave of liberty loving constitutional candidates who were hellbent on holding the corrupt career politicians’ feet to the fire, that would be a threat to democracy, would it not?

That’s what we’ve been told, repeatedly, for months. It would create civil unrest. It would further divide our already deeply divided nation. It would interrupt the peaceful transition of power. It would be a complete departure from American principles—that’s what we’ve been told. That’s how the masses have been programmed.

That’s what J6 was all about.

As you probably know, these are all lies—but sometimes lies are easier to believe than the truth. That’s what the establishment is counting on.

It’s too painful to think about our country being stolen in broad daylight. It’s too painful to think about the whole shamdemic being planned and on purpose. It’s too painful to think about the long line of usurpations and abuses that have been inflicted upon our generally unsuspecting and trusting population.

It’s easier to just believe the next lie.

It’s only the MAGA Extremists who believe all this Russian, Chinese, and Iranian propaganda. It’s only the Christian Insurrectionists who oppose the perverted indoctrination of our children. It’s only the racist White Supremacists who are trying to keep the poor Central American immigrants from pouring across the border—it’s not about Mexican cartels, fentanyl, human trafficking, anchor babies, or future illegal voters, it’s about Replacement Theory and racist Republicans clinging to power.

But good Republicans, like all good humans, will be conditioned to renounce these convictions at once. Shame on you for even entertaining the conspiracies. You see, this election was not rigged. Republicans won big in Florida. They took back the house. Not all tallies have been finalized, so there is a chance they may still squeak out a majority in the house. You see, there was no corruption or fraud!

All of the evidence indicates this was the most free and fair election we’ve ever had. Anyone who questions that gospel is a domestic terrorist!

You don’t want to be a domestic terrorist now do you? Don’t be part of the problem. Don’t buy into the lies. Don’t destroy Democracy by complaining about all these conspiracies. Come on, you’re better than that. You’re a good human. Do your part. Know your role. Sit down. Shut up. Go home. And take it, you ignorant peasant!

What the hell are YOU going to do about it anyhow? You’re just a powerless peasant. What, are you going to grab your torch and pitchfork and storm the castle? Come on, you’d have to have an F-16 to take on Joe Biden—he said so himself!

Don’t be a fool. Be cool. Be a good human.

On second thought…

Someone recently told me that to tar-and-feather a corrupt politician was only a misdemeanor offense. I’ve not looked into it to know for sure, and I’m certainly not advocating any form of violence, but it made me wonder how such behavior would be handled by authorities.

Would they treat it like a friendly neighborhood riot, where tear gas and Molotov cocktails were being thrown, innocent people were being abused, private property was being destroyed, and police were being ran out of their own precinct? Would it be treated like the gang violence, drug fueled violent crime epidemic, or heinous public assaults that are plaguing our nation?

Probably not. It would be treated much worse. To tar and feather a public official—even though it may only be misdemeanor—would be a violent act that would only be perpetrated by radical extremists or domestic terrorists hellbent on assailing the sacred institution of democracy.

That’s how the story would be told.

What about “grab the torch and pitchfork”—like in the cartoon Shrek—how might that play out? Can you imagine? Is there a law against having a pitchfork in one hand and a torch in the other? I honestly don’t know, but who would do such a ridiculous thing? How antiquated. How ignorant. How uncouth and crass. How dare the peasants be so uppity!

Still, it makes for an entertaining thought experiment, a hypothetical projection of how a torch-and-pitchfork moment might play out. This is pure speculation, for the sake of satirical conclusions, it is not a game plan or a strategy—but think about it:

Imagine millions of Americans being so cold, hungry, and desperate for food and fuel, they actually did grab torches and pitchforks. In this story, the torches would be to stay warm and light up the cold dark nights, and the pitchforks would be for self-defense against wild animals.

Now, with torches and pitchforks in hand, the peasants gather members from the community and march over to the oil rig, or the coal mine or what have you, and promptly set about pumping the fuel or extracting the coal, and immediately putting it to use to generate electricity, to fire up the trucks, the tractors, the factories, stay warm, feed their families, etc. Can you imagine that?

Imagine government goons swoop in and demand they stop pumping the fuel, burning the coal, and trying to keep the factories running. The reason? These activities are illegal because they cause pollution, harm the planet, and threaten public health and safety.

Are you with me here?

The peasants, with torches and pitchforks in hand, hear the governments’ warning but reject their arguments, because being cold and hungry for so long has created a massive shift in priorities and perspective. The peasants were now set on pumping this fuel or extracting this coal, no matter the cost. Their survival depends on it. Rather than cave to the authorities, the desperate peasants do something drastic:

They decide to make a stand.

One by one, the peasants, with their torches and pitch forks, start lining up shoulder to shoulder—in solidarity with the workers who were still working on the rigs and in the mines. Cold, hungry, and desperate for fuel, they commit to standing there for as long as necessary to make sure the community was able to get the resources it needs to survive.

The government balks. Agents threaten the peasants with penalties, tickets, and fines, but the peasants are too poor to care. After all the taxes and exorbitant inflation, they literally have nothing to lose. They say to themselves, “You can’t take what we don’t have.”

Then the government threatens arrest, but still the peasants stand strong, this time linking arms and vowing to protect each other from being dragged off and thrown into prison or a work camp—people who disappear like that are never quite the same, if they’re ever seen again.

Government agents become enraged. How dare these peasants defy their orders! How dare these peasants disrespect their authority! How dare they ignore the law and disobey!

The penalty for such seditious insubordination must be swift and defining. If more peasants started standing around with torches and pitchforks, that would be a threat to democracy. No, the authorities must make it clear to the public that such behavior is absolutely unacceptable, otherwise people might start questioning their authority, their ability to enforce the law, or their ability to maintain peace and stability and keep the public safe and secure.

They decide to break up the party and they rush in with flash-bangs and guns at the ready. The cameras are rolling as the peasants start to howl and scream in protest. An agent grabs the first unruly peasant by the arm and yanks her out of the crowd. As she falls forward, her pitchfork sticks the agent in the leg and her torch falls to the ground and lights another agent’s pants on fire. The cameras capture it all.

What happens next is not real clear, but from the footage on the news, it appears that a mob of angry peasants started attacking the authorities who were there to protect the public and ensure law and order. Some agents fire rounds from their semi-automatic rifles in self-dense. Several peasants were wounded or killed, but fortunately no agents lost their lives—the pitchforks of the angry peasants were not able to pierce their Kevlar vests and ballistic shields, thank God.

The full incident was investigated by numerous alphabet agencies and this was dubbed an insurrection. The most prominent peasants were immediately arrested and imprisoned without trial or bail. The other peasants went home, cold, hungry, and convinced they had made a mistake.

They were grateful when the government showed mercy and turned the heat back on, at least for a little while each day.

They were grateful when the government gave them some money for food, even though there wasn’t much on the shelves. They were grateful that their kids would get fed at school, that everyone could get testing and their boosters for free, that the solar bus would take them to the park, that public servants were picking up the needles, that the homeless had pillows, and the politicians were so good at keeping everyone safe and saving the planet from pollution.

In fact, the peasants were so grateful for what the government was doing, they forgot all about the torches and pitchforks. There was a big game on tonight, and a fresh episode coming out tomorrow, and a new app that would help them be an even better human—and all of this meant that life was good.

Those angry peasants were fools. They threatened democracy.

The real plight of their peaceful protest, the real story about what happened that fateful day was never told. It was censored because the algorithms had determined it would undermine peace and stability. The AI told the story a different way: That was the day that Democracy prevailed.

That was the day the ignorant peasants learned their lesson. It’s best to keep fossil fuels and coal in the ground where they belong—and if you’re going to stand in solidarity, it better be for the right reasons… and if you’re going to challenge the government, you’re going to need a lot more than just torches and pitchforks… either that, or you’re going to need a whole helluva lot more peasants!

That concludes our story… we’ll get back to reality tomorrow!