Epic Failure - Super Bowl 59

Sports Gematria’s Video 

Is there heaven for a scammer?  The introductory song does make you wonder.  Interesting also is that at around after 3 minutes of introductory song stuff it switches to Zach talking about eugenics.  Not openly calling it that, but trying to improve the IQ of a population by killing low IQ people in the aim of pairing up high IQ people to breed and make more high IQ people?  Oh yeah, that’s gas chambers for large populations talk, and if there is a beneficial deity watching over it’s the kind of talk that will firmly send you to the warm place below.  And his choice of the cutoff is really grim —>less than IQ 120, into the woodchipper you go.  119 isn’t just average, it’s even slightly above the “average” range.  At least Thanos snapped away his targets at random and didn’t make shitty sports picks on top of that.

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/football/2025/2025-super-bowl-stats-least-exciting-1234827664/

Of course Hubbard picked the Chiefs.  Why not finish another losing season with another epic failure?

As for the game itself, if you haven’t heard, it was one of the least competitive Super Bowls ever.  Essentially by the time halftime rolled around it was over.  As with a lot of blowouts there was a letdown that allowed the final score to cosmetically appear that the contest was more competitive than it really was.  As if the 24-0 halftime score wasn’t enough to forecast the fall of the Chiefs, it was 34-0 before the Chiefs first scored, then it was 40-6 before a couple of 4th quarter TDs made it look like it might not have been the yawner it was.

By all normal standards (things like players, matchups, coaches, injuries -i.e. NOT gematria) it was supposed to be a highly competitive game.  But Zach and the other sports decode scammers channel their inner Alex Jones, at least on occasion, and turn something that should be just simple entertainment into a life and death situation based on a single binary outcome.  Trivializing the added on information and associating bigotry with gambling.  And based on the comments these days most people are really only interested in the economics, that is the winning or losing money part.  Nothing trivializes a binary outcome like:

easily finding that the team names have matching gematria.  Seriously, do you really want someone deciding who is worthy of living and dying based on IQ who uses a system that leads to a coin flip?  That sounds more and more like Thanos.

IQ is a pretty terrible and arbitrary metric in a lot of ways, but even if it is a good standard I’d put money on a population of IQ 120+ having the common sense to recognize gematria for the bullshit it is.

The Fear of Learning, Part 2

So where do you stand on the topic of Gumby and Pokey?  One guess I would take is that you might be young enough that Gumby and Pokey are completely alien to your world or maybe just a vague joke reference from a more recent movie or tv show.  Just because you don’t know about something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or never existed.

The truly intelligent people have a defining trait (and this is just one of those out of many “smart person” traits.  The ability to admit you don’t know something, and if you want to know it how to do actual research.  Real research, not bullshit gematria research that insists that Dishonest=113 and never Truth=113.  Or Nigger=102 (the enslaved) and never Oppressor=113.

Yesterday I learned there is a word for the fear of claymation - lutumotophobia. And just like other more common phobias those that suffer from it have a measurable negative physical reaction to watching claymation animation.  The idea of watching an episode of Wallace and Gromit is terrifying.

Your typical conspiracy theorist “true believer” who does not actually suffer from lutumotophobia would dismiss the idea as nonsense.  They themselves often suffer from neophobia, a fear of actually learning new ideas or skills.  A terrible problem when a world is changing rapidly without even a full generation going by before what was learned becomes obsolete in a lifetime.  They don’t want to learn and decades of mental anguish from the ridicule has made the expense of therapy not an option.  The option of being a keyboard warrior and mouthing off in retaliation is the outlet for pent up frustration in a world that demands keeping a pace that’s unsustainable.  And frankly, thinking that climate change is a hoax really doesn’t help - even for the promoters of grift centered around it.  There seems to be a lot of, “Oh fuck it - I’ll be dead before it’s a problem” mentality going on while the expense - born of lack of even basic education - is already here.

The Fear of Learning, Part 1

 

If you missed out on gematria around 2016 through 2018 you might not be aware that its use as propaganda was off the charts nuts.  Nowadays it’s settled into mostly a sports gambling grift.  Not anywhere near as fun as the wacko stories that came about from what seems like a long forgotten era.

In theory, instead of the time Pi/Eclipse ritual for a 102 year old’s passing those that saw a 102 would have been inclined to drop in how 102 meant SLAVERY, or even the “N” word.  A cheap mental gymnastics cop out.  I’m not racist, the evil empire that created the ritual is.

Although the 102 point NBA story isn’t quite that old, it still serves the purpose to show that there’s still a lingering presence of the topic of bigotry.  The author is one of Zach’s long term flunkies.  An author that also has our favorite number 113 in their most recent video.  Checking the stats, that video has 430 views after about a week.  A lot of work for a little bit of attention.  And still stuck on the old 113 MUST mean deception.  Even though it’s been amply covered here that Veracious=113, and Truth=113 (Capitals Added cipher).  And there’s a whole host of words that relate to truth that equal 113, which never get acknowledged.  This is why I took the time to find OPPRESSOR=102.  Just because you have a fear of learning that a simple antonym shows the meaningless of conspiracy gematria doesn’t mean that others might want to learn from past mistakes.

As for the 113 in the videos, there’s also a list of vaguely related words that don’t really count as synonyms of DISHONEST=113.  Things like PERVERTED and GREEN SCREEN.  And that in turn leads to the logical step that isn’t spoken aloud, that should mean that similar “nice” sound words like SCHOLAR=113 as well as SCHOLARLY=113.  Lawful=113 (Reverse Capitals Added).  It is fairly simple to find not just a neutral and totally unrelated story, but actually find the opposite to the author’s intent.

It’s As Knows As the Plane On Your Face

 

In the time honored tradition of conspiracy related gematria grifting we have what they operate best with.  Synchronicity.  Actual synchronicity, where just by luck of the draw or what bullshit keyword they overuse, what is in reality a coincidence. There has been several incidents involving planes lately.

We could try to rationalize the actual reasons behind these incidents.  Unlike gematria conspiracy which amounts to shitty journalism, after all it is based on reporting after the fact with a fake aura of prediction and scandal, it could be a combination of overcrowding at busy airport hubs, human burnout from FAA firings, and just because sometimes shit happens that is genuinely just random events coinciding in a short enough time frame that even those with the attention spans of two year olds can identify the main topic.

You really don’t need another journalist, especially a terrible one, to point out to you that 67 people died after the military helicopter crashed into the American Airlines jet in late January.  The story is plastered all over the place.  But with gematria there was a universal need to chime in and point out that dark forces are responsible.  Whether it’s a ritual sacrifice for the upcoming Super Bowl, yet another sign that the world is about to biblically end as OBVIOUSLY this is the work of the Antichrist, or if it’s the New World Order - this time faced by the secret society known as Skull and Bones.  <Sigh>, and yes anything plane related is also by default related to 9/11.

So I’m taking the time to reinforce the old point here.  Despite the wildly varying reports on what’s going on with planes now there is one common denominator.  Nobody, literally none of these predictors who can’t even maintain a consolidated position on whether they can or cannot make predictions using gematria put out a story ahead of time that explained in advance that something was going to happen with a bunch of plane crashes in early 2025.  Thousands of people watch videos recapping what already happened, thinking that their chosen cult leader has some sort of magical gift that is worthy of throwing some money at.  As if throwing that money will magically allow the gift of being a shitty journalist to be imparted on their own commentary.

And that commentary always just adds a little side piece of meaningless trivia.  Like a real reporter that adds the color of the paint job of the plane wording.  67 people died in a plane with red, or black or whatever  color lettering.  Deeply rooted in the “who cares?”  But now it’s something like the shitty journalist pointing out 76 is Skull and Bones having forgotten that 1776 is ‘76 and the Patriot Act came about after 9/11.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.  Even the sports world could have had someone with genuine prophetic vision make a gazillion dollars on the plane narrative if only the Jets hadn’t sucked so bad to finish only 5-12.  But that’s gematria for you.  Always gotta make a big stink about what already happened with an arbitrary scapegoat attached because the gullible need a little attention.

Safeguarding Your Finances With Gematria

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/sterilization-women-roe-v-wade-trump

Nothing other than death itself comes close to the finality of having children than the human female having a surgical procedure to get sterilized permanently.  Men have it way too easy, the procedure being quicker and less traumatic.  So much so that a vasectomy is reversible in case you change your mind.  Since I check way too many boxes on the naughty list of gung ho right wing ideas, I do not mind being forthright in mentioning that what a woman wants to do with her own body is best determined by her, and not some oligarch who wants to run politics as some sort of Ponzi scheme.

And that’s what it is.  In late stage capitalism as the middle class evaporates into the lower class, even if the emotional desire to have children is there, economically it just isn’t feasible.  As more people decide to not have children to make ends meet, the population ages (U.S. should be 1/4th over 65 by about 2050) pretending that a social security program can keep up with the elderly becomes obviously not viable.  Struggling as though they might to force unwanted children into the mix.

But as the screenshots show there is an amazing gematria synchronicity with sterilization and another economic staple to add to your arsenal.  And as a happy bonus they equal the same gematriot in the same suffer.  And that is 69, extremely fitting for orgasms without procreation.  There’s no way that’s a coincidence, you simply can't make this stuff up.

But it’s time to be clear in case there’s a misunderstanding.  As with previous years I am not suggesting you avoid getting involved in gematria sports decoding.  Far from it.  Decode away.  Because nothing stops the immediate loss of money on gematria and related scams like having no funds to put into those scams.  A sort of economic sterilization.  That includes a happy bonus, because there’s this wild misconception that your chosen cult leader gives a shit about your personal life.  Like, you have been a loyal puppet for so long he’s going to share in the wealth.  The wealth that was not built by embracing the sports decoding method he’s promoting, but by taking your money and keeping it.

This of course leads to identity theft protection as well.  Nothing stops your identity from being stolen quite like not having an identity being worthy of being stolen.

The New Tasseography

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasseography

One of the ways to trick your stupid brain into avoiding the outcomes of bad decisions made long ago is to engage in a little recreational pareidolia.  Sure, you can pull up the old gematria calculator and find an Antichrist confirmation every day.  Or you can find a favorable narrative for literally every sports team that played yesterday.  But that doesn’t get you your caffeine buzz.  Or alcohol as you can use wine instead of tea leaves or coffee grounds for you day drinkers out there.

Today’s content to you is sponsored by Captain Buzzkill, an old friend of ours who specializes in all things caffeine related, and that includes reading your tea leaves or coffee grounds.  Hell, he even texted me a few days ago, begging me to listen to him and recap what he just discovered.

The Captain, a previously devoted coffee drinker, had just decided to switch to tea.  One of the long term outcomes of ignoring bad decisions is a possibly upcoming trade war affecting the price of coffee beans.  By now the group of people known as the group of those with functioning brain cells and having some critical thinking skills has pointed out that tariffs as an economic policy really don’t work out well as a viable option.  Party A slaps on a tariff.  Party B slaps on a retaliatory tariff.  And on top of 1). Ordinary inflation and 2). Climate change related inflation ignored as a hoax by a particular American party we get 3). Increased prices because of what is called a trade war.  A war that says, we aren’t ready to send war planes into your airspace yet, but I’m perfectly fine with making things more expensive for you since you did it to me.

Colombia isn’t terribly happy, and the Captain and his cronies are getting jittery.  And for the first time it’s not merely that unnecessary second pot of brewed beans.

So it’s my duty to teach the proper way to do your tasseography.  Reading those tea leaves to get the real information you need while avoiding the useless part that your average gematria cult leader promotes.

And that proper reading has nothing to do with meaningless arbitrary shapes open to wild interpretations with no basis in reality.  It’s that tea is yet another thing that based on economics today has made a change that we will have to put up with future consequences.

The general idea of tea is that the tea leaves themselves are kind of yucky.  You don’t just put a pinch between your cheek and gum like chewing tobacco, you brew it.  Then the good stuff (caffeine and flavor) gets into the water and you drink tea and not chew on yucky leaves.  After the tea is gone you have your equivalent of the gematria number of the day left behind, and instead of focusing on the age of that celebrity death or number of points the Knicks scored last night there are leaves left over.  Those leaves will be in some fairly random pattern at the bottom and sides of the tea cup, and it’s time to tasseograph away.  Whether you see the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, a bunny, or Jalen Brunson is all up to you and how much of a stink you want to make about it.  And that decision is probably driven by how many Patreon subscribers has if you’re a gematria scammer or how weird you are if you’re a tasseography aficionado flying solo.

Instead of a brewing tea with a strainer or filter, we made the tea bag.  Convenience rules for short term benefit while ignoring long term consequences.  And up until the mid 2000’s they were mostly paper.  Although tasseographists might appreciate the occasional ripped tea bag with the yucky remains spoiling what they don’t want to drink laziness dictates that we really, really, really need 

Plastic.  Because sure.  Asbestos wasn’t a problem for our lungs, so why not let a bunch of tiny pieces of plastic invade our body.  What could possibly go wrong with that?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10389239/

Therefore, it is my recommendation to the Captain (and Teanille) to do this for tasseography in the modern era.  Every reading can properly summed up as these two phrases:

Holy shit!  There’s fucking plastic in my tea!

and

Holy Shit!  Government regulation is about to completely go away and it’s only going to get worse!

The Sociopathic Contract

 Why Monsters Follow the Rules

Tale Foundry on YouTube is a mostly safe haven from conspiracy content.  It’s thought provoking, intelligent and entertaining.  The content Tale Foundry puts out is totally free of conspiracy theory dumbassery, the reason I qualify it is that now that society has slipped away from a social contract almost any video is a target for some grifter to pop into the comments and try and stir up trouble.  The new Sociopathic Contract.

The bulk of the monsters following rules video relates to the movie Let the Right One In , and it’s a brilliant choice for the main point.  Monsters like vampires have long been a quality source for tales both written and filmed.  Old folklore turned into modern media where there are certain expectations.  There’s a background you know about vampires and no need to try and guess what the monster’s true abilities are.  Pointy teeth - check.  Drink blood - check.  Maybe you get further down the checklist and there’s a tweak to make the idea not be a boring copycat clone.  But the reason that TF is not a breeding ground for rampant unchecked conspiracy content - it’s too intellectual.  Many that watch already understand the thing about a lot of monster movies that doesn’t need to be bashed over their head.  Like in Let the Right One In, often the people are the true monsters.  The conspiracist prefers to comment on Alex Jones rants about immigrants eating babies, like vampires not a real thing but that’s where the conflict between fiction for entertainment and fiction for propaganda ruins the conspiracists claims to intellect.

People as true monsters are swinging towards being the normal, what is expected in society.  At the time Wall Street with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen was made the point was that despite what Douglas says, greed is NOT good.  For all his wealth and power he is a monster.  A monster that like the pre spirit visitation Scrooge thinks the social contract allows him unlimited and unregulated free rein to do whatever he wants.  The movie ends with Charlie orchestrating the financial equivalent of the stake through the monster’s heart.  The good guys win in the end.

Personally, I think a lot of the reason for the success of the Marvel superhero movies was the broken social contract.  Monsters have decided that they should be the one that’s special and allowed to decide that 50% of all living creatures get snuffed because of universal overpopulation.  Or even as simple as, “I have these supervillain powers, I’m allowed to rob a bank!”  There’s an expectation of these characters despite the historical character development from the comics, the audience needs a quick training session.  We know they are a monster because they are a supervillain, but what part of the Social Contract did they break?  What part of them makes them a true monster?  The part that’s not just the color of their skin or the way the original comic artist drew the terrifying spikes on their body, but their actions that truly define their persona.

Frankenstein is a common enough monster that people screw up the basics, totally missing the point that Frankenstein’s monster is not the true monster.  I’d be willing to bet a sizable chunk of money that the average conspiracist instantly associates the tall, slow moving, Boris Karloff in make up as the monster without thought to that Frankenstein is the man.  The hideous under the skin demented sociopath playing god.  We can get away without being too worried about the error.  It is entertainment, and film will dress it up with some gore, explosions and boobs to distract you from needing to think deeper into any meaning.

There’s a reason I chose Wall Street as an example.  After being socialized into dealing with your immediate family and close friends you’ve bonded over with similar thoughts, one gets thrust into this nasty societal creation known as work.  The construct that generates more human monsters than any other.  The drive to be admired based on what possessions and money you have.  And the new Sociopathic Contract demands that you be surrounded by others who think the same, stepping on the “little people” isn’t just greed being good, it’s a way of life.  Acting in direct opposition to the old Social Contract and behaving aggressively to counter it.  The purveyors  of the Sociopathic Contract want you to believe that unlimited wealth can be yours by just being like them.

Know You’re Grifter Tactics - Woe Is Me

 You should really watch this important video:

Just kidding!  You didn’t need to watch it, and you couldn’t watch it even if you wanted to.

Starting in 2024, one of our favorite gematria content creators (and calling gematria narrative manufacturers content creators is exceptionally generous) started accelerating the new pattern.

1). Amidst the normal repetitive bullshit put out a “Woe is me, I’m so poor and I need money!” panhandling video.  No meat to the story.  Just asking for money.

2). Leave the video up for a couple of days.

3). Delete that video so you couldn’t see how many similar videos there were in the channel history.

I suppose a lot of long time followers didn’t care that the donation plate was being passed around often.  It’s always the same people in the comments and the same reaction.  A familiar and easy pattern.  The content, even with the “meat” is extremely repetitive.  It’s difficult to believe that serious entertainment value is gained.  At least gematria sports fake decodes get you interested in watching a game.  But the predicting the end of the world every day…that’s like recording the 2008 Detroit Lions winless season and expecting that maybe somewhere one of the game results will change if you just keep rewatching them.  Nearly all the content revolves around the end of the world rapture and for years nothing new has popped up.  Unless you count that the donation requests are more frequent.  Seriously, it had to be at least a half dozen just in November 2024 through now.

But there’s a new pattern to the responses.  Finally.  The panhandling content sounds increasingly desperate.  No longer a side hustle to earn a couple extra bucks, but now somehow the only way to pay bills and buy groceries.  Whether it’s an act or genuine it doesn’t bode well, because the audience is a majority of people equally desperate.  Made up of poverty level social media acts who act like if the world does actually end that’s a good thing.  Let’s look at some of the comments.

 

I desperately need help and thanks for your

Thoughts and Prayers.

What a shocker.  Dirt poor social media addicts who also desperately need money don’t have money to give to others who desperately need money.  Sure, a couple people chimed in that they would PayPal transfer some bucks.  The number of thoughts and prayers outsizes those, and has outnumbered them for some time.

But fear not, the panhandler king is also fond of popping up in the comments of the Sports Gematria recaps of Zach’s losing football picks.  Talking about what a fraud Hubbard is; subliminally suggesting his work is more meaningful.  There’s bound to be some desperate social media addicts who don’t have money they can afford to lose on bad sports picks that will give that a try instead of buying lottery tickets.  At least with that you can generate some genuine interest in the Lions results.

Killdozer

Heemeyer - Killdozer

There’s a 1974 made for TV movie named Killdozer.  A construction bulldozer hits a rock that has some kind of alien presence in it and starts terrorizing the area.  Complete with running without fuel.  Starring Clint Walker, a young Robert Urich it is an absolute gem.

And it became predictive programming for the Heemeyer story above.

A funny thing about conspiracy theories and reporting after the fact is that there’s this quackery called predictive programming.  And since gematria lays claim to prediction there’s always a chance that “predictive” programming will be brought up.  Curiously (read in sarcasm voice) you don’t hear in 1974 some self proclaimed prophet saying, “Behold ye, this crappy but fun Killdozer movie in 1974 will yield unto us a Simpsons episode with a bulldozer in season 26, complete with undeniable gematria.”

Real life and conspiracy theories don’t mix.  The story of Heemeyer is nuanced, not black and white.  He was as described in that recap your best friend if you were on his good side, and on the other side willing to cause millions of dollars worth of damage for real and perceived injustices.  And the damage was done affecting some people who are classic ‘innocent bystanders’.  Including according to one video I watched having to evacuate children from a story time hour at the public library he mashed his Killdozer into.  No word on whether it was drag queens doing the reading or not.

Not knowing exactly what went through his head without being him, people can make up whatever conspiracy theories they want about unknown details of Heemeyer.  And closer to the time of the rampage some chose to call him a monster.  Some imagined him a folk hero of sorts.  The guy willing to put his life on the line to stick up for the little guy.  And that is an encapsulation of what is wrong with the conspiracy theory mentality today.  Using confirmation bias to justify your own preconceived notions, claiming all along you’re educated and smart when in fact you’re extremely closed minded and subject to propaganda.  Propaganda designed to push you to the extreme.

If the Killdozer rampage was last week instead of in 2004 we would certainly be hearing it alongside the Mangione/United Health Care assassination talk.  When financial issues go wrong, people get all kinds of cranky and lash out in unpredictable ways.  In a better world economic systems would not push people to the extremes.  There are those that say free market capitalism and anarcho-capitalism both inevitably lead to dictatorship, and I can see why.  It’s never as simple as just “finding a new job” or “pulling up roots and moving to a new place for a fresh start”.  Free market capitalism tells all employers that they are justified for anything related to profitability, while competition dictates that their competitors do the same.

And all the corporate laws and governmental structures are suffering at the same time.  The health care industry wants to suck you dry with exorbitant rates and no payment on claims.  Housing wants you to buy a home at a mortgage rate you can’t afford, paying more in interest over 30 years than you can really afford.  Utilities, you need them.  But here’s a water line insurance program since we don’t actually need to replace the water lines ourselves after years of depreciation.  That’s your problem now.  You don’t just need a car for employment now, there’s also your phone.  Google searches need to be paid for so more and better Google searches can find you bad information on the internet in the future.  If one is really paying attention the idea that we are in a free market has slipped more and more to anarcho-capitalism each passing generation.  With nowhere in not just your town or country, but the entire world to race off to for a better chance of a tiny bit of freedom and happiness.  If Greenland isn’t even safe anymore, then what else can we turn to?

Substituting economic warfare for bullets hasn’t resolved how oligarchy allows the worst and most selfish of us to gather a self sustaining power base.  Money leads to power which is used to make more money.  And we actually have examples of how to stop it.  It’s called taxing the rich.  An actual non violent way to simply generate more revenue that actually gets used for road repairs, hospitals, and schools where kids don’t get shot.

Aligning with my personal philosophy of cooperation above all else.  A demonstration of empathy towards those that show they are worthy of it.  Progress instead of regressive corporate laws that maintain the rich and make radicalized people think that shooting CEOs or arming bulldozers might actually be a good idea.

And amidst the talk of rich Hollywood elites deserving to lose their homes to wildfires it’s time to remind you that there’s no good side versus bad side within the government.  Mostly one side is enacting legislation to stay in power.  The other side is mostly using the argument of taxing the rich as an election talking point without worrying about it actually happening.  A solution will come from someone far smarter than I am.  My position in life is to whine and complain about it.  I’m too poor to buy a bulldozer.  But at least I didn’t make up gematria evidence to try and fake any of this.

I Don’t ❤️ Wikipedia

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/23/why-is-elon-musk-attacking-wikipedia-because-its-very-existence-offends-him

An oversimplified process of the class struggle that has existed forever:

Person becomes rich.  Enough people believe the myth that rich = smart.  Smart means qualified to rule.  Poor people finally figure out rich people don’t give a shit about them.  Poor people start talking about the bad things unqualified leader did wrong.  Bad leader does whatever it takes to cover up the sordid history.

At one time in the chain of edits the Musk page, for a brief period in time, in the opening paragraph labeled him as a conspiracy theorist.  Twixter was a great platform for him to espouse his baseless claims, being in control of it he can do whatever he wants.  But something like Wikipedia that resembles a form of unbiased journalism when it operates at its best isn’t as easy to memory hole.

Although we are in the late stages of global capitalism and the downside of wealth being concentrated in a very few people, memory holing doesn’t even seem to matter to most people.  A simple, “I never said that”, seems good enough for most with their preconceived cognitively biased opinions.  But still, they try.  Getting rid of Wikipedia altogether would stop that unhappy problem of documentation of past lawsuits, baseless claims, outright lies and hypocritical contradictions.  What I said two seconds ago is the truth.  That’s all the research your search engine needs to find.

Similarly, archiving sites are a thorn in the side.  Yes, actually yes you did just contradict yourself.  And after the earlier days when it was kind of fun to spend some time the hypocrites while they backpedaled, of course processes to stop personally operated sites are now in place from being archived.  The internet version of burning books.  Putting in a properly coded robots.txt file thwarts archiving bots.

And finally, Hubbard seems to have given up on his love affair with his old site.  Occasionally a video from his current bad news of the day livestream would reference the old blog, freetofindtruth.com.  Encouraging that newbie to look at how just by math the occasional actual correct sports prediction or generic topic was legitimately referenced many years ago.  Now in addition to being redirected to the new blog, all the archived material is gone.  The Wayback bots going back nearly a decade can’t find anything but the current blog.

We’re now one step closer to grifters wearing T-shirts, displayed for purchase at their online store, that say

I NEVER SAID THAT

And people think that’s a good thing.

Capital Grifting

That’s CAPITAL, not CAPITOL.  Although both may apply.

Ponzi schemes have a downside where some effort is required to pay off the earliest investors.  Since a pyramid scheme format is common it starts to look shadier and shadier as time goes on.  What’s a grifter to do when you want to make a quick killing and then move to the safety of a nice little beach safe from extradition?  You get involved in raising money to do something important, something so important and innovative that’s never been done before.  Which is using that money to make you look good and making it easier to raise money.  And what’s important is raising money to the point of never producing anything of value in return.  Raising capital for the sake of raising capital.  And pretty much keeping as much of it is possible.

The main story for today is coming up, but let’s see if any red flags come up.  Somebody is raising money that’s being invested in real estate by exposing how evil the government is.  And they’ve got a magic code called gematria that never produces consistent results and they ask for money to bu and pay for real estate on a daily basis.  Or try this one, you haven’t paid enough attention to your eternal soul.  You aren’t tithing enough and that will fix everything right up.  Or this one.  Donald Trump is evil, and only my podcast can shine the light on it and you need to give me money to finally stop him.  Or I’m running for Mayor as a Democrat, because Republicans are obviously evil and you need to give me money.

Everybody wants money even though a common theme is the source of their solution can be pitched as their hard work and superior brain power can be the solution.  For one example from the list, that Democrat mayor - doesn’t that job also have something called a salary?  And haven’t you noticed that campaign funds are in the news a lot for not being used for campaign funds unless pocket lining counts?

Your Ponzi scheme may require some return to early investors.  Make it look good for a while longer to get more investors googly eyed at the success of others.  People that can be lured by the promise of an unrealistic rate of return who don’t have a ton of money to start up with are a dime a dozen.  But going after investors with a lot of money - they tend to not be so frivolous.  Having some substantial cash reserves requires more common sense (or maybe born into wealth and/or grifting themselves.)  For the big score you need to raise capital with a vague product that you can just say, “Oops, sorry.”  And move on to another raising capital for the sake of raising capital.

Cryptocurrency is awesome for that.  But it doesn’t have to be.  So here’s the abbreviated story of Nikola, also named after Tesla.  Maybe on purpose named that so the false conflation of wealth with intelligence and the name Elon Musk can be dragged into the equation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Corporation

The company still exists, but at a shadow level to the glory days.

Over 2,000 a share down to $1.18.  Like a major league ball player who has stats that mirror stopping using steroids, a classic pump and dump drop.

The Nikola article on Wikipedia doesn’t do justice to all the supposed shenanigans that were involved in the pump phase.  At the time GM was ready to shell out 34 billion dollars, not a single operational truck had been sold.  Family members with no qualifications for a hydrogen powered vehicle were on the executive board.  A non working model was presented at a Ted style launch talk, because it was easy to fake the electronic display panel and frankly nobody expected a truck to be driving on a stage.  But the ultimate, as confessed by a disgruntled ex employee.  A promotional video of a Nikola “hydrogen powered truck” was made with the truck happily tooling along an empty stretch of highway.  Able to do so because of gravity.  The truck had been towed to the top of a hill and was released.  Supposedly trouble with the door was solved by taping it so it wouldn’t fall off while filming.

Yes, that’s a lot of work to fake a functioning truck.  But the rate of return doesn’t need to be faked for investors.  The rate of return is expected to be zero.  Investors left with an excuse in place of any kind of monetary reward worth talking about.

And since nobody trusts science anymore, it was financial research that finally blew the whistle and the scheme unfolded.  Hindenburg Research gets most of the credit for coming out with the story two days after the GM deal.

https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?54656-Expose-on-the-Nikola-hydrogen-truck-scam

You really want to get into something like this.  While the shit was hitting the fan claims were made that the negative press was generated by haters, not people with evidence.  Doesn’t that sound like, oh, “The casinos flipped the script because they’re tired of me taking all their money!!”?  Never wrong about anything.  And the aftermath seems like a typical white collar crime slap on the wrist.  Maybe now there’s some actual worthwhile product in the works, but do you really trust the company with that history?  A history of, “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”?

Gematria and Fire Insurance

 

Gematria has a lot of numbers that get thrown around with claims to deep meaning.  In reality the numbers end up being arbitrary.

Fire insurance has a lot of numbers that get thrown around with claims to deep meaning.  In reality the numbers end up being arbitrary.

Gematria sports decodes are fun until you lose a big bet and get burned.

Fire insurance can be fun to shop around and make you think you’re a financial genius getting a low rate, until your house becomes ash and you get burned.

There’s a lot of con men in gematria.

Pretty sure you get the point.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pacific-palisades-fire-may-spell-an-end-cheap-homeowners-insurance-california-2025-01-09/

For example, owning a Lamborghini instead of a Mitsubishi Mirage.  If there’s an oopsie with the Lambo it’s obviously more costly to replace.  Therefore, insurance should be more expensive.  The area of the current wildfire already had the third most costly fire in California history.  And we know that the conditions are an accident waiting to happen.  There’s no reason that rates should be as low as they were.

The past week marked a change in some of the people I have to put up with on a semi regular basis, and that’s real life not online Direct Energy Weapon bullshit.  Finally, the Mangione shooting and insurance and A-list celebrity home loss and insurance have finally had an impact on some averagish pattern recognition skills.  Even volunteering up old thoughts about last years hurricanes and Asheville.  Like maybe, just maybe there’s something funny going on with this insurance thing.

Online, the assholes are out in full force.  Ghouls, the same that incessantly mocked the death of Brian Thompson also call out about the elite rich bastards getting what they deserve.  Excessive vigilantism and fires are bound to have collateral damage.  It’s just a little more obvious when it’s a fire being a fire and not picking its target.