“Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.”

–Luke 8:35

Nature is both a brutal and fascinating teacher.

When examining a major storm such as a hurricane or typhoon the anatomy of such a phenomenon is something to behold. Whenever one is able to successfully endure the first phase of the storm the mysterious introduction of an eerie calm is exposed with what is recognized as the eye of the storm.

When a hurricane hits landfall the eye can be a more pleasant experience compared to one that encounters this portion of the storm at sea. Given that the storm draws its energy from the warm ocean water, the land starts to bleed energy off from the storm the further it moves inland.

When making a functional comparison of the eye of the storm on stable land compared to the eye of the storm at sea one could say that the presence of land serves to be a source of stability in terms of calming the turbulent waters. The Dark Studio will return to analyze this phenomenon a bit more later in this briefing.

Reality doesn’t solely deal in measures of applied theory when it comes to the sound function of a society. The reason for this is due to the unpredictable element of human nature.

No matter the greatness of a battle plan, institutional collapse doesn’t happen overnight from a single catastrophic failure, but rather through the slow, incremental compounding actions of minor moral and operational compromises. The failure of a plan, a political party, or an ideology isn’t solely determined by the plan itself but, rather, is determined by the actors who are in position to execute that plan.

To inject some clarity, today The Dark Studio is going to demonstrate why certain economic and social theories never work unless the correct people are injected into the formula for the desired chemical reaction to occur.

The significance of the MAGA populist movement is that it goes beyond the surface-level diagnosis involved with recognizing widespread global institutional corruption. The central tenet of the MAGA coalition is that it’s the most intellectual, the most informed, and the most engaged political movement in world history. Given the pandemic of global institutional rot, MAGA understands that governments, ideologies, and plans will completely succeed or fail solely based on the individuals that exist and work within those institutions.

True MAGA understands how the evidence of history clearly details this by demonstrating how small unified group minorities have managed to consistently overthrow the majorities who have held power within various governmental systems over time.

The evidence of this was clearly demonstrated by the Bolsheviks who did this by overthrowing the Russian Provisional Government in 1917. In 1933 the Nazis demonstrated this when they took power and dismantled Germany’s democratic, constitutional Weimar Republic. In 1966, Mao’s Red Guard demonstrated this with the overthrow of the entrenched, moderate bureaucracy of the Chinese Communist Party after successfully mobilizing a significant number of radical youths.

An operational zenith understands how dangerous a concentrated and relentless minority can be to an established ruling majority based on the evidence of history outlined here. An operational zenith also recognizes the failures of those ruling majorities when examining the comparative metrics of those circumstances compared to the circumstances that exist across the political landscape of the nation today.

MAGA was once that governmental minority tasked with infiltrating an established system already ruined by Marxist corruption creep and longstanding established political grifters. However, the goal of MAGA has always been a goal of restoration, whereas the goals of those other minorities outlined in history were all about destructionism.

Upon a closer dissection of the nefarious elements concerning the Bolsheviks, the Nazis, and Mao’s Red Guard, there’s a common denominator that surfaces to reveal the secret to their success. Granted, there was a manifestation of events that certainly cultivated an environmental architecture that allowed these movements to get a foothold, but the real reason they were able to persist hinged on another factor that will be revealed in today’s briefing.

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“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”

― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality

When examining a recent Quinnipiac University poll there’s a clear divide that’s expanding throughout the nation. The poll covered many topics, but examining the area concerning national pride is where the divide within the country starts to become glaringly apparent.

When investigating the question concerning whether Americans consider themselves to be proud Americans, the first sample of participants in the poll involving the breakdown of young adults signals a big flashing red problem.

For example, of 18 to 34 year olds: 56 percent say yes, where a staggering 37 percent say no. This is the group that signals the biggest flashing red problem. When examining 35 to 49 year olds: 71 percent say yes, where 23 percent say no. The 50 to 64 year olds: 80 percent say yes, while 17 percent say no. Finally, when examining ages 65 and over: 91 percent say yes, while 7 percent say no.

A Zenith Operator looks at this poll and immediately sees this growing divide as a clear symptom of the existing tug-of-war that’s going on with the current competing revolutions that are aggressively trying to establish a foothold on power within the country.

In examining the numbers from the poll, the one metric that highlights where that divide is at its greatest directly identifies the younger adult sample from 18-to-34-year-olds, where 37 percent say they are not proud to be Americans. This concerning number flashes caution while the reason must be investigated to accurately pinpoint the cause behind this statistical alarm to be accurately diagnosed.

Aside from the heavy indoctrination that this age group has been subjected to for most of their lives, the other diagnosable pattern concerning the development of this sentiment among this age group can be directly attributed to cultural, economic, and political stagnation.

How does stagnation factor into this?

The Dark Studio will initiate the investigation to answer this by first examining the younger demographic from the Quinnipiac University poll. To begin, the oldest segment of that group was born as early as 1992. Therefore, this segment spent the 1990s and 2000s in the childhood stage of development before entering the workforce.

Notably, the 9/11 terrorist attack occurred right as the oldest of this segment reached the age of nine. Therefore, in the years of childhood development, this oldest segment of the population was immediately faced with incoming war and the prospect of financial calamity.

Furthermore, the events kicking off this generation resulted in ongoing war. In just seven short years following 9/11, these young families also endured the housing bubble burst and the devastating financial headwinds of the Great Recession.

As an observation of reality, the national prospect of accelerated decline was set into motion as this age demographic was entering their 16th year of existence into a rapidly changing world. Granted, at age 16, this future workforce was just a few short years from pursuing careers and wealth inside an economic paradigm already sliding towards decline—a system steadily plagued by diminishing opportunities for those seeking financial reward through merit.

Given the reality of what has been learned in recent years concerning Bush and Obama’s participation in the controlled decline of the nation, this segment of the population has been largely subjected to higher costs of living, advanced Marxist social engineering, and a significant spike in divorce rates since 2008 according to the PEW Research Center.

Where exactly does the prospect of stagnation fit into this arena?

The origin of the stagnation can be blamed on a variety of political and cultural issues that have been the direct result of stagnant and counterproductive leadership.

The Dark Studio has already established part of this with the mention of the role of Obama and Bush in the managed decline of the nation. The only thing productive associated with the act of managed decline is the success of inviting peril. The aiding of the act of managing decline is not a productive act, but rather a counterproductive act in the context of this architecture concerning the preservation of liberty.

Stagnation from leadership is defined as any policy or action that fails to advance the strength of a nation and the security of liberty. The antithesis of this is leadership participating in the managed decline of the nation while referring to such action as duty.

The Battle of Athens

The parameters of human performance are necessary to examine before understanding the baseline motivations for why certain outcomes manifest throughout society due to the actions and inactions of participants that live, work, and play within the confines of a given society.

Given that previous statement, in the realm of fitness and human performance a plyometric is a form of exercise that conditions the muscles to produce maximum power output in the shortest amount of time. This physical training modality—often referred to as jump training—is mechanically leveraged by a trainee by engaging in explosive athletic movements.

Such movements are necessary for the purpose of initiating a rapid muscular contraction known as the stretch-shortening cycle (SSC). In examining the mechanical phase of the SSC, maximum contractile force is achieved by first forcing the muscle into its stretching phase (eccentric phase) and then rapidly shortening it (concentric phase), immediately triggering a natural reflex that maximizes force output.

Sound execution of the SSC is central for achieving explosive muscular output. However, when engaging in the SSC, forceful muscular contraction can be diminished, or even compromised, if a trainee fails to properly perform the SSC.

Numerous factors can be considered when evaluating the failure of a plyometric movement. However, a common culprit in the failure of a trainee’s attempt to perform the SSC can often point to the bleeding of force output during the amortization phase of the SSC.

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What is involved with the amortization phase of a plyometric exercise?

It’s already been established that the key muscular contractions involved during the stretch-shortening cycle include the eccentric phase (stretching) and the concentric phase (shortening). This analysis of the SSC is accurate, but is structurally incomplete.

In dissecting the SSC, a closer examination reveals a brief transitional phase that exists between the stretching and shortening phase of the muscle during the contraction cycle. This brief transitional phase is what is known as the amortization phase.

This brief phase is a critical component of the SSC because the length of time that is involved within this phase determines the level of force output for a given plyometric event. To achieve maximal force output the amortization phase must be as brief as possible. The greater amount of time that is spent in the amortization phase directly results in diminishing power output, rendering the plyometric attempt useless.

In short, an extended amortization phase is the functional, real-world equivalent to hesitation, and hesitation is merely a form of stasis, or stagnation, in the context of overall performance.

Looking at the current zeitgeist, all the problems associated with society are the result of human nature. Logically, such a highlighted assessment is apparent to the majority of analytical thinkers. Yet, civilizational devastation doesn’t solely manifest at the hands of ignorant, or nefarious actors.

Historically, peril is also invited to walk through the front door due to the inactive state of those who comprehend the dangers, but remain static by resting on their laurels. At times, inaction is as hazardous as action itself. Just like a plyometric event, too long of pause or period of inaction leads to a compromised attempt to produce force for the purpose of achieving an intended outcome.

Just as an extended amortization phase bleeds out force production while attempting to execute a plyometric event, the extended state of pause, or stasis, concerning well-informed citizens bleeds out force production for meaningful social change when faced with the prospect of societal ruin.

The Dark Studio is now going to highlight the danger of prolonged stasis. Just recently the Los Angeles mayoral race just took place with the apparently less popular top two candidates allegedly winning out over the more popular and reasonable reality TV star, Spencer Pratt. This occurred after late mail-in ballots continued to be counted for about a week after the election took place, while showing virtually none of the late count breaking in favor of the fresh new challenger Spencer Pratt.

This prolonged stasis in Los Angeles stems from traditional inaction and a lack of civic acumen, allowing a large-scale corruption creep to facilitate the Marxist institutional capture of local and city governments. A significant part of this corruption creep has extended to election security in California.

Driven by persistent longstanding corruption within Los Angeles election systems, the city is now trapped in a vortex of out-of-control homelessness, widespread drug addiction, and an evil political syndicate—one that uses financial bribery to exploit homeless addicts for their votes.

The years of stasis has resulted in this large-scale outcome of institutional rot concerning California elections, as independent journalist James O’Keefe exposed in his undercover investigation on the ground in the neighborhood of Skid Row, located in Los Angeles.

The existence of such institutional corruption is a nauseating thought, considering the amount of blood and treasure that has been lost to establish a Republic that has managed to exist now for a quarter millennium. Has California’s new standard for securing the will of the people devolved into nothing more than incentivizing citizens to sell out their birthright for a few bucks—just to satisfy a drug habit or to buy something to eat?

Take a moment to allow the reality of this disgusting circumstance to marinate inside your head as the nation rapidly approaches its 250th anniversary.

To incentivize the universal man, The Dark Studio is now going to highlight the significance of applied agency in avoiding the failure of an intended goal concerning the preservation of liberty by looking back through time to examine the Battle of Athens. Unlike the stasis that has led to the insecure elections in Los Angeles, the Battle of Athens demonstrates the opposite of inaction when it comes to election security.

It was August 1, 1946 when the only successful armed citizen rebellion since the American Revolution took place in Athens, Tennessee.

The initiation of this rebellion was the result of a machine government of tyranny that had established a foothold in the hometown of WWII veterans that came face-to-face with it after returning home from the Pacific. The irony surrounding this involved the fact that the veterans had just returned from overseas from fighting with the Nazis only to realize that their duty with this fight wasn’t finished after returning home.

The reality was that McMinn county had fallen under the rule of a corrupt Democratic syndicate. This syndicate was tied to a state political boss named E.H. Crump. Following a heated competition for local offices, a group of veterans decided to stand in the breach and take up arms in order to prevent the state senator Paul Cantrell and E.H. Crump from stealing the election.

After having witnessed the Sheriff Pat Mansfield and his deputies suddenly flee to the jail with the ballot boxes in hand, an alert and suspicious group of veterans decided to take immediate action.

This event resulted in a small group of those veterans breaking into a local National Guard armory to stock up on weapons and ammunition before making their way to the jail to demand the return of the ballot boxes.

The Cantrell-Mansfield deputies refused to turn over the ballots so the several hundred veterans that were locked and loaded opened fire on the jail. It should be noted that these veterans clearly understood the corruption and tyranny that had infected this local government as they knew that the Cantrell-Mansfield ring had regularly colluded with illegal bootleg and gambling operations, shook down citizens and others for various fees, and regularly engaged in electoral chicanery.

Therefore, after the bullets started flying, and the front of the jail was blown open with dynamite, the deputies finally surrendered. However, the mob continued to act out as they flipped over police cars and set fire to them in the streets.

After the smoke cleared, within a few days the local election commission ultimately swore in the veteran candidates as duly elected. After the count, Knox Henry and the veteran reform ticket won the contest by an overwhelming landslide. After the conflict settled, the McMinn County veterans had won the day with pure grit, a barrage of gunfire, dynamite, and a unified group morale. It should also be noted that zero casualties occurred during this event.

Upon returning home from the war many veterans took quick notice of the fact that the surrounding communities of Knoxville, Oak Ridge, and Chattanooga boomed with growth and vibrance, while their hometown of Athens languished in a declining state headed for peril. Tragically, the veterans had returned home to a community that was plagued with more problems than promising opportunities.

As Operational Zeniths those veterans recognized the problem and decided to cast an internal vote of their own not to remain in stasis. The lesson here is that the liberation of Athens didn’t happen solely at the point of a gun, but rather at the transparency of the ballot count that was only able to be achieved after facing down the barrel of a gun.

At the end of the mission, the WWII veterans laid down their weapons and deferred to the public count of the ballots to correct the rot-filled system that had completely managed to remove the will of the people up until the Battle of Athens. The modern lesson of this event is clear: citizens must understand the significance of avoiding hesitation and stasis in the face of tyranny before armed force becomes necessary.

The Wrap Up

In the assessment of history this visible revelation clearly demonstrates how stasis enabled the spread of corruption creep, which resulted in total institutional capture by those who were intent on enacting destructionism.

Fortunately for Athens, the patriots returning home from the war translated into the return of the destructionism of destructionism. Unlike the recent debacle in Los Angeles, Athens, Tennessee, seized the opportunity to avert the path towards peril.

In the current zeitgeist, decades of institutional reliance and cultural acceptance directly enable large societal institutions to evade accountability through the diffusion of responsibility. Once a large-scale institution has achieved the recognized standard of centralized institutional reliance from the public, the deconstruction, defunding, and purging of institutional rot becomes exceedingly more difficult.

The patriots in Athens, Tennessee took immediate action to not hesitate by ignoring the corrupt tactics of the Cantrell-Mansfield ring and instead chose to immediately confront the problem as emissaries of freedom. Conversely, Los Angeles has allowed years of corruption creep to spread throughout its governmental and political system due to cultural, economic, and political stagnation concerning the voting populace, along with its representative leadership.

The reason for the existence of the 18-34 year old segment of adults, where 37 percent say that they aren’t proud to be Americans, is a manifestation of many years of cultural and political stagnation. The act of managed decline associated with political stagnation has resulted in several periods of potential economic woes, early and throughout the lives, of the generation highlighted in the Quinnipiac University poll.

A generation lacking in strength of leadership will lack in strength of unity. The segment of young adults highlighted in the poll have emerged as a serious symptom of a flashing red problem due to the lack of strength in cultural and political leadership throughout their lives until now. However, here in the present day, ideological subversion has captured and rotted the developmental process of 37 percent of those minds.

Centralized institutional reliance has been the societal focus surrounding the troubled generation. The diffusion of responsibility from these failed centralized institutions in government, finance, health, etc. have taken the place of strong leadership for the flashing red segment highlighted in the recent concerning poll.

Fixing this problem requires that the active citizen populace minimize the time in the amortization phase of this current cultural and political equivalent of a plyometric event. The necessary production of force output needed to overcome this existing systemic rot must be maximal and immediate to successfully purge out every last actor that desires nothing more than aiding in the act of managing decline.

Allowing institutions to grow and expand to the point of evading accountability through the implementation involved with the diffusion of responsibility requires a special remedy. Such a remedy must involve a practical real-world solution that’s the metaphorical equivalent of an armor-piercing shell.

Upon extracting from the armory of solutions, The Dark Studio will be loading the equivalent of that armor-piercing shell, with the utility referred to as the cataclysmic diffusion of support, into the next episode titled, The Age of The Zenith Patriot.

The analytical mind cannot tolerate prolonged negotiation with personal pride.

As Sun Tzu established in the classic canons of warfare: ‘If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.’

The contemporary machinery of narrative warfare functions for the explicit purpose of irritating and exhausting the population into a state of total, submissive apathy. Within this landscape, choosing to remain a passive bystander is no longer a measured position of careful consideration. Stasis is active capitulation to the theater of control.

The gate to the Dark Studio remains fixed. Serious operators are commanded to break their transaction paralysis, exit the free tier, and align their posture with the core architecture of the Operational Zenith.

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And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed.

–Exodus 3:2

The rise of the MAGA populist movement has not been an accident.

When looking at the consistent repetition of failed policies over the course of the last half-century from both Democrats and Republicans, it’s obvious that the decline of the country hasn’t solely been the result of incompetence but, rather, it’s been intentional.

The range of issues involving the destruction of sovereignty, the devaluation of the currency, the endless wars, election fraud, and the erosion of benefits concerning what it means to be a United States citizen, all point to a well-planned and intentional effort to destroy the United States of America.

A big part involving this strategy of destructionism points directly to a sociological plan known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy. This strategy was previously discussed in an older episode. The excerpt from that briefing is included here below and covers the three steps that are involved with this strategy.

1. Mass mobilization: This part of the strategy basically encourages a large number of eligible individuals to all simultaneously apply for welfare benefits in an attempt to create an overwhelming systemic overload.

2. Crisis creation: By engaging in the process of an across-the-board effort to overwhelm the welfare system this part of the strategy is aimed at causing a fiscal and operational crisis which would demonstrate the inadequate nature of existing social policies.

3. Policy change: The thought process here is that by causing enough chaos with the existing institutions, it would lead the government into a position where they are forced to address the crisis through significant policy reforms. This would ultimately result in a more centralized communist type of control over the system involving a larger social safety net.

Isolating this mechanism concerning the Cloward-Piven Strategy means to reveal the primary operational framework that’s fueling this systemic destructionism. The widespread grift embedded within the political class cannot be observed as mere transactional corruption—it functions as the explicit fuel source for this issue of administrative capture.

The permanent survival of this administrative rot across both federal and state architectures relies entirely on the mechanics of the Panopticon Effect. The philosophical application of this architecture defines the exact psychological matrix that allows the modern surveillance state to function.

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

― Seneca

Human nature is a very strange phenomenon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two Tales of Friction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wrap Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― William Francis Butler, Biography-Charles George Gordon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

However, whenever you and I need to acquire understanding and discernment in order to navigate the current arena of information for the purpose of safeguarding our lives and the lives of those we care about the most, we cannot afford to be lacking in the Organizational Hierarchy of Thought.

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

― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Current Alien Invaders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So why would they do this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wrap Up

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

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

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

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

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

This is the problem that I wanted to bring to light in today’s episode, but don’t despair because I’m going to be offering the solution concerning that Organizational Hierarchy of Thought in my next piece of cognitive hardware titled, The Apex of The Universal Man.

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

–Ecclesiastes 7:12

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do I know this?

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

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The Distraction of Subterfuge

The world is full of deception.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wrap Up

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

So why do I say this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So why is this media company significant?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― Lawrence Nault

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blind Spot

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

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

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

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

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

So what exactly do I mean?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is not make-believe.

This is as real as the turning of the earth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe you get the point here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wrap Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― Albert Einstein

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

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

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

This request from Solomon was quite special to the Lord.

Just how special was it?

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

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

So what exactly do I mean?

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“What does a mirror look at?”

― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So what is this all about?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wrap Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Recognizing The Sandbox You Are In

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So what causes these cramps to happen?

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

So what are electrolytes?

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

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

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

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

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

― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

What makes up a country?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So why do I say this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dilution

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So what is my point in telling you this story?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wrap Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Did you watch the TPUSA halftime show with Kid Rock?

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

Please share your feedback in the comment section below.

Understanding the battlefield of Cognitive Monopoly is the first step toward survival, but intelligence without hardware is merely a map to your own destruction. If you are reading this and have not yet deployed the Sling and Stone hardware, you are currently operating in a Strategic Deficit.

Keep in mind that this mission resolves in the next briefing: The Armory of Solutions. This is where the framework meets the steel. Like John Wick, make sure that you gain access to this Armory and the full deployment of the Stone as direct access to these are reserved for the Annual Vanguard of fighters that are serious about exercising their agency.

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

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Strategic Individual Creative Destruction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― Steve Lawson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So what is the signal here?

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

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

So what exactly do I mean by this?

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

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David’s Stand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So why am I pointing this out to you?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What people are now calling for Stalin show trials?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

― Carl Sagan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Cult of Personality

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

So what is self-awareness?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So why is this important to know and understand?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do you believe the intellectual fortitude of society is growing and expanding during this Fourth Turning in history?

After President Trump’s visit to Davos at the World Economic Forum (WEF), did you feel like many of the globalists are admitting the death of their stakeholder capitalism?

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

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“The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”

–President James Monroe

For the past four to five years all we’ve heard about is how the United States is in decline and that China was on the rise.

Because of this you’ve heard from the useless establishment personalities and globalists, along with the Administrative State Media (ASM), that this was a dangerous time that would potentially lead to war with China due to the Thucydides Trap.

If you’re not familiar with that phrase, the Thucydides Trap essentially involves the belief that the likelihood of a war breaking out is greater when a rising power threatens to displace an established ruling power. However, the question here is, Does this scenario apply to the current relationship between the United States and China?

You see, according to the establishment globalist view this was the case. Their position was that we would one day go to war with China because of the risk of the Thucydides Trap and because of this it was up to them to safely manage the decline of our nation. They believed that by managing the decline of the United States that they could allow China to rise to power without triggering a provocation that would lead to an all out kinetic war.

Now have you ever heard of anything so stupid in your life?

I want you to slow down and think about that explanation for a moment. Think about how they are viewing their approach to avoid a war with a regime in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that literally hates us. Yet, they believe that we should simply manage our own failure and decline as a nation in order to avoid a war with a regime that already hates us?

You see, this is exactly why I continue to be blown away that, as a whole of society, we have allowed such morons to arise to positions of power and influence to float these ideas out to the public. The only reason that the U.S. was in decline in the first place is because we’ve allowed such people to rise to positions of power and influence. The reason the nation has struggled is simply because we’ve allowed idiots with ideas like this to make policy decisions that directly impact the well-being of the nation, combined with our so-called elites engaging in unnecessary and horrible trade practices.

It’s now more obvious than ever that this has been the problem with the leadership in our country now for the past 40 years. Basically, every president since Reagan has been directly part of the problem until President Donald J. Trump came along.

Since Reagan all of the other presidents have done nothing, but weaken us while implementing policies that resulted in gutting our manufacturing base and supporting the parasite classes. In case you need further clarity on who makes up those parasite classes it would involve the bloated and redundant positions within the federal government itself, government financial assistance primarily for non-citizens on the lower economic scale, and corporations on the high end of that economic scale. Stealing the tax dollars from the middle class to fund all of these groups has resulted in the effort to squeeze the middle class completely out of existence.

In addition to this, it also involved our politicians and corporate leadership offshoring our manufacturing to China which was an act that directly stripped away any opportunity for wealth creation for U.S. citizens. What’s incredible is that as obvious as this is that even now there are still people (everyday citizens) who defend those asinine decisions.

Now there’s a key trend that I want to point out here because it is a repeating pattern that has been obvious now for the past four decades. That pattern boils down to the reality that our leadership either didn’t recognize those levers of power that our nation actually has at its disposal, and how to apply those levers in order to strengthen our position on the global stage, or they have always recognized them and intentionally chose not to utilize that leverage.

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Regardless of what the reason was from where this all started at the beginning, the entire thing reminds me of The Parable of the Talents.

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.

So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.

Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.

And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?

Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

–Matthew 25: 14-30

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The Domino Effect

So I’ve established how useless, and even how detrimental, the leadership of the U.S. has been for the past 40 years until President Trump.

However, when it comes to the robust actions of President Trump, what outcomes are we currently seeing with his ability to recognize and engage those levers of power that I mentioned that he has at his disposal as the Chief Executive of the United States of America?

For starters, the main thing is that he has a brilliant understanding of the application of economic leverage through the use of tariffs in order to create certain leverage points to use against the CCP and other countries such as Europe and Canada.

Not only do the tariffs generate revenue for the U.S., but they also serve as strong incentives for the companies that are manufacturing goods in those other countries to leave those countries to bring their manufacturing back to the U.S. in order to avoid the tariff penalty. In short, the tariffs are a forcing function that ultimately funnels wealth and security back into the United States so that we aren’t beholden to anyone else on the global stage, particularly China.

Now let’s take a look at when President Trump carried out the highly successful strike on Iran’s nuclear site, the successful extraction of Maduro in Venezuela, and now the seizure of the Russian oil tanker in the Atlantic.

To those who don’t see and understand what’s happening with these actions from the president, it’s very clear that President Trump is signaling to the rest of the world that the United States is now calling the shots and securing our Western Hemisphere.

It’s also clear that he’s doing this by using some calculated hard power such as these surgical military actions in Iran and Venezuela, in order to increase the steadfast build up of soft power so that we can continue to leverage our position on the global stage.

If I need to spell it out, President Trump is basically playing the game in order to win it all and to win it all BIG. No other president has done this to this level since the early days of the founding with Washington and with Lincoln in the Civil War.

Now because he’s doing this you can look around and see that between the economic levers and the application of some of the military actions that this is creating a domino effect that we’re starting to see with some cracks in the surface concerning our adversaries involving Iran and China.

For starters, if we go back to the successful bombing mission that we pulled off in destroying the Iranian nuclear facility that now seems to have been the first domino to have fallen. You see, up until that point the threat of Iran becoming a nuclear power, along with certain past United States presidents sending pallets of cash to the mullahs, allowed them to be emboldened in their position.

Basically, the mullahs were only able to maintain a perception of global strength because of their longstanding position of being the largest State Sponsor of Terrorism, along with their threat of the development of nuclear weapons. Of course, the latter of those two was removed from the chessboard with Operation Midnight Hammer.

Now given the fact that Iran’s rial currency has essentially collapsed, inflation has skyrocketed, and they have lost their ability to develop nuclear weapons, the Persian people are now revolting. The Iranian regime’s loss of hard power has resulted in the complete destruction of what little soft power they had…if they had any at all.

Now we can take this snapshot of the geopolitical landscape and expand it even further when taking a moment to look West. President Trump took bold action in Venezuela to remove Maduro by executing on his arrest warrant to face federal drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges.

As if it wasn’t impressive enough that our military was able to execute this mission by taking Maduro alive, the military was also able to do this without any loss of American lives.

However, there are now details circulating online about Maduro’s guards talking about the night they had to engage the U.S. military when the U.S. came for Maduro. The accounts from the Venezuelan guards of what happened that night are terrifying.

One of the accounts online that Benny Johnson references is a breakdown of what one of the guards experienced when the U.S. military came on the night to extract the country’s dictator.

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I’m going to paraphrase what was said in an interview where one of the Venezuelan guards shared his experience with an interviewer during the night of the extraction here.

According to the guard, all of the Venezuelan guards were completely overmatched by the American forces. He said that they never heard the Americans coming and that all of their communications were shut down. The individual pointed out that there were only about eight helicopters that flew in and they were only carrying about 20 American soldiers.

However, in a riveting testimony the guard pointed out that the American soldiers were highly technologically advanced and were unlike anything that they had ever seen before. He went on to say that even though there were only 20 Americans that those 20 soldiers were able to wipe out hundreds of their guys in the fight and that it felt like the American soldiers were shooting with such precision and speed that it seemed like they were firing 300 rounds per minute.

In addition to this, he said that the Americans had drones that were everywhere and that the American forces had some kind of sonic boom that hit the Venezuelan guards which totally incapacitated them. He said this sonic boom dropped the men to their knees and caused them to start bleeding from their noses and puking up blood.

According to the guard, this was the most horrifying experience he had ever had in his life and that he never wanted to experience anything like it again. In the interview he said that his testimony should serve to be a warning to anyone and everyone thinking about going up against the American forces. He also said word of the details of this experience was getting around and that it would completely change the attitudes of everyone in the region.

President Trump was obviously able to make a powerful statement on the global stage with the success of this mission and because of this he has since also seized an illegal Russian oil tanker allegedly smuggling oil out of Venezuela.

Now that we have seized Venezuelan oil, the motivation for getting it had more to do with starving China of that oil than it did with us needing that oil for ourselves. Essentially, all of these actions from the president have triggered a domino effect of activity with the Iranian regime on the verge of collapsing, a possible Venezuelan liberation, a possible collapse of Cuba, and now a possible acquisition of Greenland.

This strategy by the president concerning Venezuela and Greenland is a clear ongoing execution of The Monroe Doctrine and an issue that I covered months ago in an episode titled The Era of Incentivized Expansionism. As a result of these actions President Trump is securing the Western Hemisphere and this is why I am also certain that this was the reason he floated the idea of Canada becoming The 51st State, which was the title of another popular article that I published on this subject several months ago as well.

You know, these days more than ever we always hear about the importance of preserving individual sovereignty, but the way we must go about protecting individual sovereignty must first include recognizing the threats that are facing our Hemispheric Sovereignty.

For those that claim that you should be more concerned about your individual sovereignty rather than what’s transpiring on the global stage, they fail to understand this principle.

Please humor me for a moment by allowing me to clarify this position in order to bring more understanding to this issue.

Do you remember earlier in this episode when I was discussing the absurd view of the globalists concerning their belief that they should manage the decline of the nation in order to not trigger a provocation with the CCP which could lead to a kinetic war?

Now take that same viewpoint and apply it directly to your individual life. In other words, I don’t know about you, but I am a fairly ambitious individual and I have a natural desire to excel in whatever task in life that I invest my time and energy into.

If you share this same characteristic then when it comes to your individual life, would you be willing to retreat on your goals, give away your wealth to an adversary, and continue to suffer in your individual life? Would you continue to manage the personal decline of your life out of concern for triggering a provocation with an adversary, or would you double down on the pursuit of your goals and tell that adversary to go pound sand?

Well, just in case you were wondering, the former is what the last 40 years of leadership have been doing as it relates to our hemispheric and national sovereignty, whereas the latter is what President Trump has been doing since he’s come onto the national and global stage.

So for clarity, I’m for both individual and hemispheric sovereignty as it relates to the environment in which we live. Simply put, if you look at this scenario as if it were to involve your individual life then it should be clear to you that it’s not controversial for you to want to protect your personal well-being, to protect your property, to protect your nation, and to protect your neighbors.

Given this understanding, this is the same thing the United States is doing now with its relationships with its neighbors in South America, Canada, and Greenland.

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The Wrap Up

Here it’s obvious President Kennedy was all for securing the Western Hemisphere and his inaugural address obviously perfectly lines up with President Trump’s actions to enforce the contemporary circumstances involving the modern application of the Monroe Doctrine.

After all, in this current era of geopolitical turmoil it’s becoming more and more obvious that many of our so-called allies in Europe aren’t behaving like allies when it comes to sharing the same Western values. In fact, it was just in the past week or so that the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer was criticizing Elon Musk’s social media platform X for allegedly allowing the spread of misinformation and disinformation on the platform. According to Starmer this expression of free speech is a threat to democracy.

This is exactly why his country and much of Europe is currently being overrun with Islamist and is fast approaching the reality of a civil war as a result of the tyranny that has plagued his country due to his absurdly stupid worldview and leadership.

In fact, if I were to show up in Europe after writing this I would probably be arrested and detained as Starmer’s tyrannical government has been notorious for locking up its own citizens for social media posts.

The reality is we cannot afford to accommodate Marxist people like Starmer anymore. There just simply isn’t anymore room left for people like him to have any relationship with the United States as all he’s intent on doing is contributing to the destruction of Western Civilization. The evidence of that is clear when you look at the current state of his own country.

I believe President Trump realizes that Europe is toast at this moment which is why he’s rapidly working at securing relationships in the Middle East as he simultaneously works to clean up the rest of the Western Hemisphere concerning South America, Canada, and Greenland. In short, for the United States to remain strong during all of this global instability during this Fourth Turning we must have a strong Western Hemisphere.

At the end of the day, Europe is not acting like an ally, but is really more accurately a protectorate of the United States, but even that may be changing as a result of many of Europe’s horrible leaders. In fact, much of Europe has been recently engaging in what is known as beggar-thy-neighbor trade policy, which basically means they’ve adopted a strategy where they are trying to solve their own economic problems by taking actions that worsen the economic situation of other countries. In Europe’s case this is an action that is being done to try to cover up its own incompetence, or corruption, due to the fact that they are bitter about President Trump’s trade policies which essentially involved balancing the trade between the United States and Europe.

Up until President Trump came along much of Europe enjoyed the benefits of an imbalance in trade with the U.S. that benefited their economies, but now it’s their turn to step up and for them to start getting used to the idea of paying their own bills, rather than relying on the United States to fork out the cash.

At the end of the day, President Trump is applying a Zenith strategy in order to achieve complete Hemispheric Dominance so that the United States positions itself to lead the world into the 21st century.

The fact is that the United States hasn’t been caught up in a scenario involving a Thucydides Trap due to any natural decline in the past few years. On the contrary, the U.S. has been caught up in the corruption and incompetence of a high end parasite trap involving globalists and Communists that have been trying to degrade this nation from within for many years.

Do you think much of Europe is too far gone to be saved from the horrible decisions of their leadership?

Given the speed at which President Trump moves, how long do you think it will take before Greenland becomes a part of the United States?

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

― Abraham Lincoln

They love Rome.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

–Carroll Shelby

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

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

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

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

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

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

–Mark 6:4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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From The Fog To The Fight, Fight, Fight

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Wrap Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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