The Vague Promise vs.The F-U

Following up on the Hyperkrieg and the “we’ve seen this movie before” themes.  Just because you real history fans need some more fun.

In World War I, surprisingly, Axis power Japan was a big winner.

The power of the blitzkrieg - overwhelm the weak.  Isolate the true threat from their allies and only need to deal with the one threat to your forcing your will on to others.  A quaint side feature of older warfare is the end of war capitulation, which is what we’re experiencing with Russia and Ukraine now.  We’ll stop blowing up your shit and killing you if you give us your shit.  Japan masterfully jumped into the give me your shit phase without participating a whole lot in the blowing your shit up phase, because that would have resulted in some of their own shit getting blown up.

On a smaller scale, the Nazis had the economic support of coattail riding businesses.  The threat of blowing your shit up is hollow and laughable if you’re not actually capable of blowing shit up.  Forced labor vs. patriotic fervor, which is better?  History tells us patriotic fervor.  The will to exist free is more powerful than “join or die”.  And never underestimate the facet of human nature for people getting to a point of recognizing things aren’t going well and saying, “Fuck you.”

———————————————————————

From a perspective of personal philosophy and outlook on life I find it ironic that the patriotic fervor of the desire to live free is itself an increasingly vague promise.  But anyway….

Before MAGA, Nazi Germany had their MOGGA, Make Our Germany Great Again.  Great news for businesses that would end up having cheap forced labor to make batteries, Lugers, Panzers and Luftwaffe planes.  And the bankers and other economic infrastructure to make it happen.

And what did the MAGA movement give us?  Great news for Tech billionaires making the weapons of misinformation and disinformation warfare.  Social media, online grifting, bigotry, misogyny and intimidation.  Financed by monetized hate speech.  The Hyperkrieg attack on individuals with artificial and arbitrary labels applied by stupid and vague promises that can’t possibly be met.  There’s no upcoming economic boom from gematria decoding of yesterday’s victors in sporting competitions.

A perfectly foreseeable conclusion of the Hyperkrieg vague promises is here now.  Localized to just the U.S., its short term effect was solid and went according to a semblance of a strategy.  Capitalize on vague promises of long term benefit.  And we’re officially out of the opening and middle game phases.  Based on the European reaction to Marco Rubio’s love bombing speech, Europe is fed up with the U.S.  The vague promises of being a steadfast ally is gone.  NATO was openly ditched.  Imperial accusations are openly announced.  The economic sanctions on top of the self imposed foot bullet of using tariffs to declare sanctions on your own people is coming, and since that was based on the Hyperkrieg it’s coming faster than most would think.  In short, Europe is at the “Fuck you” stage of diplomacy.  Think of it as a larger scale reaction to Minnesota saying “Fuck You” to ICE.  The proven arbitrariness of target selection destabilizing a group of people that would be so much happier and productive if they weren’t worried about broken bones, tear gas, and murder.

This is the essence of the phrase, “If you’re not aware of history, you’re doomed to repeat it.”

Hyperkrieg

 Super Bowl Gematria Failure

Since picking a Super Bowl winner with gematria is actually a coin flip, it’s nice that the flip landed this way this year.  The world doesn’t need another year of “I’m never wrong about anything” commentary from the Attaboy!^TM wielding coattail riding grifters that helped make Qanon.  The song (AI generated?) at the start of the linked video tells you all of the story you need to know. 

I personally feel that the failure of gematria is the lack of correct choice of cipher.  A new cipher needs to be implemented.  The Hyper reduction, where since all the four basic ciphers are divisible by nine, no matter what you cherry pick from you add 9 to the result.  HyperSatanic just sounds so much more fake cooooool than Satanic.

A quick chess reference.  Online chess has evolved that for profit and marketability the faster time controls are much more popular.  Hardly anyone wants to watch a a 5 hour game that likely ends in a draw.  Rapid chess with 10-15 minutes plus a bit of bonus time for move played, those games end in less than an hour.  Blitz chess - three to five minutes plus an even smaller bonus time allotted for a move played, now those end in a few minutes.  Then bullet chess, one minute per game.  And the truly insane variation of HYPERbullet, 30 seconds per game.  As the time decreases, mistakes increase and the peaceful ties are fewer and fewer.

We have seen the blitzkrieg movie before.  A truly great innovation in warfare when introduced.  Throw everything all at once on a weak spot, dominate quickly and worry about supply chains later.  Since education doesn’t mean anything to several generations, actual knowledge of German blitzkrieg tactics is not great.  Remarkably effective early on, but as time marched forward over the years defensive and counteroffensive strategies adapted.  Finally, culminating into encounters like the Battle of the Bulge.  A last blitzkrieg style push, without any real chance of working since only a miraculous amount of good fortune would keep the necessary fuel supply in place.  Live by the blitzkrieg, die by the blitzkrieg.

One thing that didn’t help the WWII German generals was that their leader was batshit crazy.  Somehow, that sounds familiar….  And once the adaptions were made, Hitler took over a lot of the planning himself.  There was a lot of military leader, “Ummm, we shouldn’t do that.  It’s not going to work” countered by, “Fuck you, I’m the boss.”  Somehow, that sounds familiar….

Now, with the super fast paced computing power of the Information Age, a mere blitzkrieg is not sufficient.  You can’t effectively do a cryptocurrency pump and dump rug pull without trading in less than a second.  It’s baffling to see Qanon content influencing people looking for a long term trend out of stupid shit that happened in the morning news cycle.  There’s no chance for an ordinary person to take advantage of the Hyperkrieg.  Grab the money now, and the lack of a viable consolidation mechanism afterwards.

I’ve often seen it said that Trump is an instinctive authoritarian.  I agree, but I suggest that it’s more that Trump is instinctively unpredictable. This is largely due to his mental health.  A topic that was hyperkrieged into being he’s a genius with ample evidence over time that he’s never been even average.  The equivalent of German WWII officers that could talk him back from the edge in the first term are gone.  Now there’s this:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/

Pam, the Hyperkrieg is over.  Instead of petty insults it’s time to move on to something else.  Petty insults to deflect haven’t changed the damage tariffs have done to grocery prices.

Or this:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/

The Hyperkrieg tactic of all out attack doesn’t work so well when courts have a chance to think about stuff.  It’s a Battle of the Bulge counterattack instead of a surprise Hyperkrieg invasion.

Oh, and if you want to actually pay attention to what’s going on in the world these are just samples.  Especially in Europe, the Hyperkrieg has been halted.  What might work with the continually clueless voting base of MAGA republicans doesn’t hold the same sway on the global stage.  The damage is done.  Trade deals are being renegotiated outside the once almighty U.S. dollar.  Enjoy your red hat memorabilia.

This does not suggest that the war is over.  No it still rages on.  But the chess clock has changed.  Instead of hyperbullet the time control is longer.  And it’s slowing down enough where an endgame strategy needs to be in place.  And being extremely unpredictable is a great advantage.  Even if losing, you can still swindle and trap your way to victory.  But what has changed is globally we now know in advance that this is coming.  We know the Hyperkrieg is fundamentally unsound and our on clock is still ticking away.

The Gematria Gambling Contract

A primary issue in Minneapolis and other ICE…hotspots  is the training and efficiency of the personnel recruited.  The employer-employee relationship is always tense.  What is the right amount to pay and be fair?  Pay too much, profits shrink.  Pay too little, turnover and morale issues also can make profits shrink.  When the CEO has budget led themselves that new underground bunker to survive an upcoming economic Armageddon, how much can you promise to pay and then not pay and get away with it?

Factcheck.org - ICE funding

A big bonus is a wonderful recruitment tactic.  But even a well intentioned bonus plan can go astray.  If it’s a retirement bonus, it’s baked into the format that you will be there a long time.  A reward for making your job you are passionate about a career with a single employer.  And there’s a loooooonnnggg period of time where stuff can go wrong.  Like getting laid off just before the bonus kicks in.  On purpose, even.

The signing bonus - up to $50,000 for ICE agents is also good on paper.  I’ll let you Google the details yourself if you haven’t heard.  This is yet another topic that has lots of claims and counterclaims going around that it’s difficult to quickly assess if the source is credible or just making shit up to muddy the waters with propaganda.  These comments are inspired by recent activity regarding the shutdown and how as federal employees and being designated as essential workers, ICE is required to work through it without pay.  Presumably, back pay will be in full.  But without a rainy day fund to cover the unpaid period and math dictating that some percentage of these agents really need the money NOW, that’s stressful to them.

But fear not, because I’ve also been inspired by my words about making shit up.  Another opportunity to be snarky about gematria.  One of my favorite accounts on social media practices the loonier version of conspiracy gematria, and there’s a 100% guarantee about the <sarcasm font> most solid form of income ever </sarcasm font> - the lottery.

First, a recent post about news tells you all you need to know about what type of gematria to expect:

If the names of the ciphers, Illuminati Reverse and Agrippa Reduction, don’t clue you in right away that somebody is trying desperately to look edgier and cooler than they really are, the Gematrinator calculator seals the deal.  These are custom ciphers, created by the “decoder” since the 31 existing ciphers as of today weren’t enough choices to force a match to the narrative.

Lately the account has been posting some news stories that relate to modern times.  But there’s no doubt the financial hook is the lottery.

Astronomy, religious lingo, Freemasons, date numerology.  All classic topics to discuss for the online gematria grifter.  And the numbers themselves are completely irrelevant.  Lots of stuff throughout history has happened on December 24th.  And it is literally 100% certain that any one or two digit Powerball number will occur a jillion times on every day.

This isn’t to say that you will never win money on the lottery using this as a method.  It’s theoretically possible you may win the jackpot.  That doesn’t change that the method chosen is presented as a magical get rich quick idea when you’re essentially picking at random.  And the current gambling epidemic is a symptom of how prevalent quick monetary fixes are and how they can turn out to be not what they’re promoted as.

There’s not just the 37% federal tax in there.  The math shows payouts at 28.8%.  Mathematical expertise is not generally associated with the gambling addict.  Tell them it’s 1.6 billion, they think 1.6 billion not 28.8% of 1.6 billion.

Reminder 1 of 2:  The following math is not “fair” while comparing lottery payouts to employment gross versus net pay.  It’s just an example.

Reminder 2 of 2:  I make no claims to the accuracy of some following pieces to the example.  I’ve read that the $50,000 ICE bonus is heavily taxed, and that instead of all up front it’s in 5 annual installments.

No imagine you think you’re getting $50k up front.  It’s not unlikely you’re used to an effective tax rate that would deduct $6,000 to $7,000 from that.  $43,000 is still a really tidy sum, right?

Well if taxed at the same energy level as the lottery that’s

$50,000 x 28.8% =$14,400

And spread out over 5 years

$14,400/5 =$2,880

Doesn’t sound quite so magical anymore, doesn’t it?  And that’s before you even start sweating it out on if you’re ever going to get paid at all.

This is an “adults are needed in the room” issue instead of just some random gematria user in the room issue.  There are only three certainties in life.  Death.  Taxes.  And someone using wild claims about gematria is up to no good.

The Diary the Gematria Community Never Decoded

*** Graphic Content Warning ***

There’s a lot of conspiracy theory adjacent topics that self appointed experts have been ignoring lately.  The 2nd amendment crowd is either silent about what is happening with protesters being gunned down or even manufacturing fake evidence to support “their side” is OK to abandon it.  The free speech absolutists are silent about censorship through intimidation or algorithm.  Conspiratorial thinking is fashionable and being called a conspiracy theorist is edgy and cool when it’s for fun and profit, making up bullshit arguments to get clout, views and Patreon subscriptions.

Well the Super Bowl is tomorrow, and of course the gematria community is joining hands in ignoring their prior vocalizations.  While they yammered on about crisis actors/dead children, Freemason blood sacrifices, bitcoin, the WWE and synchronicity with the morning news stories, the biggest actual conspiracy in modern history was brewing.  Another case of the abject failure of gematria as a predictive system.  If it had any real value gematria would have found some actual hints to what was going on with Epstein.  And even though the story I’m about to share isn’t what I would call viral in any sense, it’s been out for a bit.  And I shouldn’t be mentioning it; it’s that grotesque.  But it does have words and code.  So I propose if you want to proceed further keep in mind that for a decade “conspiracy theorist” meant blowing out a lot of hot air to scam people for money instead of actually doing journalistic investigation into actual conspiracy. First of all, an image to take up the display so the thumbnail doesn’t relate to the content I’m warning about.

Here’s some source material for reference:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/distressing-jeffrey-epstein-victim-journal-36649585?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

And right off the bat one of the things missing from genuine discourse to get solutions is I look up on the internet and see The Mirror leans far left politically.  And within the story they are careful to mention that these are unproven allegations. For now, this is just a story instead of fact.

Allegedly, a young girl was groomed to bear a child as part of some weird genetics experiment cooked up by Epstein and company.

But when has a made up story ever stopped a good fake conspiracy theorist from doing a decode?  Except for the past couple years where they’ve been relatively silent other than gambling?  This story is perfect for confirmation bias.  Hard right will scream FAKE!  Hard left will instantly latch on to “this is more proof!”  More middle of the road with functioning critical thinking skills may want to dive deeper into it and look for more actual evidence or have become so desensitized they pass it by.  Wanting to avoid more of the Epstein Drama.  God I hope it’s fake, because you go through the story and it sounds so mind bogglingly awful it’s gruesome.  For the record,  I searched the files for “diary” and couldn’t find this.  But I gave up before going through all the hits.

Now specifically, the sort of gematria related image from the story, the one I didn’t want to show when I posted this:

While in captivity, allegedly, the diary was maintained and written in a sort of code.  Top to bottom, left to right.  Start with the S in row 1, down to the O in row two, return to the top row since there’s a space before the next line for I.  “So, it came out in the….”

A perfect little gematria story in the making.  The words in the correct order can be made out.  You can deliberately skip around and make up other patterns to decode other  than the intended order.  You don’t like the NEVER in rows 7-8?  How about NVRAEO in row 7 alone?  Or start from the right maybe.  But like I said, Epstein is pretty much off limits now for the fake conspiracists of the good ole days.  What I take away from this for now is one of two choices, which are essentially the same:

Option A:  The story is true and just another example of how horrific these people are.

Option B:  Somebody generated fake documentation, including a “The distressing document…” DOJ disclosure at the bottom.

And those are the same because somebody wanted attention and of money.

What About Whataboutism?

Cognitive dissonance is a real thing, not just a fancy psychology term to throw around and make you sound smarter above your actual smarts.  And with multiple generations of critical thinking suppression being ingrained into literally tens of millions of people… well let’s just say the low end of the cult/grifting pyramid really are not dealing with it well right now.  The contradictory information is off the charts.  People who had been silent out of respect, e.g. respecting your elders at the Thanksgiving dinner, have started to speak out.  This is a self inflicted bullet to the foot.  There’s a wide variety of things wrong just from this year that should be called out if you prefer democracy to dictatorship.  The way the victims of Trump’s utter incompetence and creation of the contradictions is all internal.  Openly not talking about or just taking cues from far right wing media propaganda for what to say.

And what are the bottom of the food chain actually saying when they do say the quiet part out loud?  It’s not just calling Covid a hoax or a Sandy Hook parent a crisis actor of heaven forbid throwing out a gematria decode distraction.  What’s the newest catch phrase or meme that counters Trump being all over the files as Epstein’s FRIEND, shattered alliances from destruction of already dwindling trust and what a couple decades ago would be war crimes.  Looking mostly at Epstein related content and the critics commentary the new thing is <drum roll>.

Nothing.  It’s replaying the greatest hits.  All the old outrage porn from the past that worked in campaign rallies.  And not even any new variations.  The same fading brain that nostalgically yearns for a fleet of battleships that don’t fit in can’t come up with anything other than Whataboutism.  The confused brain’s first or second tactic to avoid having to think about actually answering a question directed at you with no good answer available.  (The other being the ever fun filled ad hominem attack.)

And there’s no change from years ago, as I said.  Shouldn’t we stop funding ICE.  Well the Biden crime family was worse.  Obama made a statement about the Pretti execution, what do you think?  He’s an immigrant himself.  Checkmate!  I heard that oil companies are actually thinking that it’s not economically feasible to get a ton of money from Venezuela’s oil reserves.  Do you care to comment?  They’re flooding our country with fentanyl.  It’s insane that you cannot get a straight answer from across the board.  The top sycophants are mortified they’ll be thrown under the bus next if they get off the approved answer.  The online grifter community doesn’t have anything better than, “at least Democrats aren’t in control”.  A sideways acknowledgment that they know things are bad.  But whatabout Kamala?  Boy she’s dumb.  Surely things would be even worse.  I really hate the idea of buying cheap groceries and having health care.  (But what about those bankrupt soybean farmers!  They’ve really got it good!)

If you’ve been around the Zachosphere enough, you’ve seen the Whataboutism.  A lot.  When pinned down about a failed prediction or the reporting after the fact instead of making an actual prediction.  The response?  What about how Kobe equals 33 just like Masonry equals 33 and blah, blah, blah.  In the old days it worked.  Now it can lead to a gematria doesn’t work talking point being defended by doing more gematria that doesn’t work, on an unrelated topic to boot.

This could join the Know Your Grifter Tactics series, here.  Know and recognize the whataboutism logical fallacy for what it is.  “Hillary would have been worse” has nothing to do with what will go down in history as one of the objectively worst presidents.  It would be a shame if we had to go on such a downer.

Upgrade Your Vocabulary

Qanon’s bizarre version of gematria wasn’t fundamentally different than traditional biblical gematria or sports gematria.  It was always WORD=NUMBER, force the match if you have to, make a big deal about the match and ignore the inevitable contradictions.  What it was - conspiracy theory light.  A pretty bauble to dangle and distract.  An opening gunfight at the start of the western before you begin to consider a plot.  An entry point into the world of conspiracy, just not real conspiracy like exactly who were Epstein’s clients.  It was all bullshit conspiracy about cultural war topics that were twisted into fake news defended with the childlike cry, “No, your news is fake” instead of actual evidence.  Trump himself relies on the projection accusation of ascribing his own faults onto his enemies.  Malignant narcissists have a cozy relationship with projection.

Within that world, lots of lingo became customary.  Catch phrases and dog whistles so you knew you were surrounded by your tribe.  And that tribe is a closed minded confirmation bias seeking support of literal cult members.  Lingo such as crisis actor, red-pilled, The Storm are signs that you don’t mind at all aggressively being a keyboard warrior without consideration for actually being right about stuff.

Facing the barrage of outrage porn based insults is tough.  But mentally, and if necessary verbally, you can prepare yourself for unwarranted attacks on your character with a vocabulary upgrade.  If you’ve been patiently waiting and wondering why disinformation research has been sounding alarms, the time is pretty much now.  Things escalated rapidly and the unjustified attacks aren’t going away anytime soon.  So here we go.

You’re not anti-fascist.  You’re Pro Democracy.  Just because someone has labeled themselves a patriot doesn’t actually make themselves a patriot.  They need to act like a patriot.  And if the best they can do is attack you by calling you “Antifa” as an insult, they’ve already lost the intellectual battle and have signaled they want to use the fake debate logical fallacy tactics.  With practice, delivering that you are Pro Democracy instead of Antifa is mentally healthy for you.  It’s the same way some substance abusers that have gotten over that by calling themselves an ex-alcoholic instead of the AA, “I am an alcoholic for eternity” can be an interruption of the healing process.  Both essentially mean the same thing but be positive about yourself instead of negative about others.

Similarly, you’re not anti-capitalist, a socialist, or communist unless you actually are and are comfortable with the label.  You’re more likely a Pragmatist.  You didn’t design the system that demands consumer spending that drives GDP while simultaneously creating the poverty that has no discretionary spending left after necessities.  Wealth inequality has been the death sentence of many any empire.  Getting the empire in place always had a period of sharing the love around instead of thinking that someone like a Musk might see how loyal you are and throw you a bone instead of buying whatever rich white dude stuff Elon amuses himself with.  The balance of giving the working class enough stuff to not want to concentrate on stealing your stuff requires adults in the room having serious talks about compromise and long term sustainability.  Economic survival is a virtue and not giving up on all your worldly positions and becoming a monk for “what you believe in” is not a sin.

You’re not woke, you’re smart and educated and a realist.  History is on the side of what is called woke.  Just as hoax is the favorite word in conspiracy theory disinformation , woke is the biggest word in culture war talking points.  The realist recognizes that people who are assholes are assholes for other reasons than the color of the skin, namely being an asshole consistently across a broad spectrum of topics.  The intent is to be as controversial as possible for clicks and views.  The end result is being wrong about everything to get those clicks and views.  Those that accuse others of being woke want to play the “everything is black and white with no context of nuance” game.  Alex Pretti wasn’t part of a woke mob that loves immigrants more than natural born citizens.  He was a compassionate person caught up in a terrible situation that realistically and correctly assessed that what was going on around him was just wrong.

Going against the flow and risking losing points.  You ARE Progressive.  Even more pointedly to the losing my credibility on the theme, what is the opposite of Progressive?  Regressive.  I have no problem with conservatism.  But the trajectory of the GOP has been steady.  Deregulate everything.  Make the judicial system a bad joke.  Make financial record keeping a bad joke.  Turn law enforcement into a weapon instead of combatting those with weapons who want to be lawless.  The ultimate regression is throwing away the Constitution and everything it stands for.  A document that also baked in recognition that progression beyond the time it was written was inevitable.  So you’re progressive at least in the sense that you prefer the regressive madness has the brakes put on it.  Stop breaking shit, then there’s no need to fix it.

Rapid Fire - The Documentary Part II

 

I was headed here anyway, but Goddammit what a kick in the ass the latest federally subsidized murder was.  People dying are still a hoax.  In case you think the Alex Jones inspired nitwits could ever take a break from the morbid stupidity and psychopathic focus on monetization of tragedy.

A quick refresher.  Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) goes through a heroes journey where he’s forced to be a pawn in a higher stakes fight between drug kingpins Antonio Serrano (Nick Mancuso) and Kinman Tau (Tzi Ma).  Both villains are over the top caricatures of the quintessential bad guy.  And along for the ride are the good but flawed cop Mace Ryan (Powers Boothe) and the corrupt federal agent Frank Stuart (Raymond Barry). (Stewart according to Wikipedia, Stuart according to Wikipedia.  I wonder what the gematria has to say about that.). And Stuart is the focus for today.

The shit has hit the fan and Stuart is about to hightail it out of town.  A vengeful Jake and eternally disgruntled Mace arrive just in time to intimidating him into flipping sides.  A turnabout because the intimidation tactics are what forced Jake to give up on his political apathy and get involved in the first place.  As it’s fiction you are perfectly allowed to forgive that Jake’s violence is justified and pure.  Stuart is a piece of shit and gets rewarded with an untimely death.  Instead of no accountability and just being able to escape to an island somewhere or wherever he intended to hole up.  With his dirty drug money.

Your life has been adversely affected by intimidation more than you will admit.  Things have accelerated fast.  So fast that the I can’t believe the leopards are eating my face content can’t keep up.  If you’ve ever gotten the sense that your annual salary review was affected because you were asked to do something questionable just to keep your job, you’ve been financially intimidated.  If you live in an area which was loaded with TRUMP election banners and signs and you felt uncomfortable, you’ve been intimidated.  Even the psychological pressure to overspend and Keep Up With the Joneses is a mild form of intimidation.

And it’s certainly not my fault that politically the far right extremism is front and center at this time.  All the really nasty, historically reprehensible shit going down is monetized for a reason.  In the battle of getting along with people just to survive vs. comply or die the intimidation machinery set in motion decades, generations ago.  To be competitive as a corporation for shareholder profit, you must exploit.  Everything must be deregulated.  Wages must be cut to the bare bones, layoffs must be done, salaried workers must be overworked, multiple jobs must be held.  And you also be better fucking ecstatic about it because now a bullet through the head is on the table.  I can hear in the back of my mind the million dollar investment portfolio crowd, “Another shooting?!?  Oh No My InVeStMeNtS!!”

Just to reiterate an official prediction here, my guess is the Olympics is going to be a financial disaster.  The bigger picture is showing the world moving away from dealing with Trump’s America.  Instead of intimidating the rest of the world into submission it’s a global middle figure.  Even getting past this regime there’s the lurking fear - these assholes are so clueless in another few years they could elect another clueless mentally ill asshole.  Best to trade with someone more stable, like North Korea.  And that’s if the U.S. has fair elections anymore.  The intimidation machinery is working overtime on the voter suppression, gerrymandering, and feeling of helplessness fear-mongering that set up the rural and uneducated Americans to punch over their weight class by giving them cultural bullshit to complain about while the leopards ate their faces.

And speaking of cultural bullshit, let’s answer the question, “What proof is there anyone was shot?”

Well, for starters there’s oodles of video evidence.  There’s the government response to try and spin it that it was Pretti’s fault.  Naturally.  And a corpse.  But the Alex Jones crowd doesn’t care about that.  Because they are part of the intimidation machine.  There’s another supremely intimidating incident known as January 6th that Jones leant his voice to.  A direct chain of events that even culminated in bitcoin donation to Jones legal defense because a broken legal system works great in the intimidation machine, just like it was the last push for Jake Lo.

Also, Hubbard’s own actions years ago show him to be at odds with his response to intimidation.  Despite some unkind Trump comments recently he’s gone into Agent Stuart mode.  A forward thinking plan, since he’s not stupid, to protect his investments and lay false claim to being anti-Trump forever.  He used to go out and visit Oklahoma bombing sites or the 9/11 memorial and mouth off.  All fun and games when your opposition is people lighting candles and laying wreaths at the dead’s memorial.  Not a problem when you’re met with police trained in non-violent crowd control.  A performance designed more to outstupid the other online grifters than be an effective protest over something claimed to be a hoax.  Now that the bullets are flying, has there been any righteous anger and narratives of organizing a visit to LA, Chicago, Minneapolis, Maine?  Of course not.  Just like the NRA, instead of following through with the spirit of the second amendment the time for crickets is here.  Time for Agent Stuart to pussy out and skip town.

The Oh No My InVeStMeNtS crowd that I deal with semi regularly have Agent Stuarted.  Before Jan 6th they were quick to show that they thought the GOP deregulation pattern was just fine and Trump was a good and just president.  Now they do things like post on Facebook about their ski vacations.  Surely, those leopards will not follow me home.  You do not owe these people any forgiveness unless there is a clear, “Holy shit, what have I done?!!” message coming from them.

Rapid Fire - A Forgotten Documentary

Nightshift

The ongoing series of entertainment media as history continues.  Because I can and I want to.  Freedom of speech is a lovely thing and I’m sure going to miss it.

I’m dedicating this to the folks at Kurzgesagt.  A long time favorite of mine on YouTube.  A lot of effort and a catalog of science content aimed at people with a capability of understanding the concepts that are talked about.  Even the least viewed videos have several million views as there is a hunger for the smarter crowd for this content.  And if you really want to be associated with the word smart you need to comprehend this instead of something like the participation award machine that is gematria.  

But it’s not about the Kurzgesagt science channel itself.  They do make opinions and predictions.  Those are clearly separated and declared to be opinions.  They stick to facts even if the topic is uncomfortable for those that hate their own brains for disregarding reality.  Long time viewers of such a popular channel have built a bond of trust with them.  And now they’ve launched a history oriented channel linked at the top of this post.  And like a good action movie trailer they start you off right away with a teaser.  The stories that keep us up at night, which I choose to interpret as how uncomfortable it is that we’re being slammed over the head to turn away from reality and ignore how history shows that things are never and have never been so simple.  It’s almost like the timing is that it’s headed towards throwing in some content about a particularly repulsive strangely mustachioed man how ended up being responsible for a lot of people being unalived.  And how a lot of people treat that as some strange work of fiction that never really happened.

And we’re not quite done with the lengthy intro, yet.  Rapid Fire was a 1992 movie starring Brandon Lee.  The evolution of the martial arts movie included a period of time in the 70’s when it was impossible to not find a low budget kung fu flick on Saturday TV.  The setting was Qing Dynasty rural China.  Some rich and wealthy villain would do something mean.  Some chosen one would get the motivation to strike back.  There would be a nice training montage after the kung fu Luke Skywalker meets his Yoda (that always looked like a 35 year old with fake facial hair to make him look like he’s 70).  Then some lower level minions would meet their demise at the hands and feet of the champion’s newly polished skills.  Then the final boss would show off some surprising kung fu skill of his own, although since the escapist entertainment demanded it he’d lose because good needed to triumph over evil.  Roll the credits and don’t talk about the oppression that lead to the warlord being in power in the first place.

Fast forward to the John Woo urban kung fu movies made in Hong Kong.  Now we have to address the guns conveniently missing from the Qing Dynasty settings, and we’re decades away from John Wick.  Enter Brandon Lee and the movie Rapid Fire.  Now the bad guys aren’t just throwing out cannon fodder henchmen with spears, now the existence of a far more lethal long range weapon has to be addressed for the modernization of the setting.  The bad guys have paid for an upgrade.  And now the sad news.  Instead of a mythical evil empire the movie bad guys are competing drug dealers with a side dose of police corruption. And that’s not just randomly selected mythology, it’s because competing crime lords and political/law enforcement corruption are a real thing.

There’s a lot of magical superhero in Brandon’s character, Jake Lo.  He’s thrust into an impossible situation where it just so happens that his desire for the resolution coincides with “doing the right thing.”  There’s a grizzled and disillusioned Powers Booth cop character as a mentor.  There’s a dirty cop who joins the forces of good, not by seeing the error of his ways and volunteering it.  More like seeing the error of his ways and being forced into it by a literal kung fu kick to the face.  And there’s two competing drug lords, both over the top in their own ways.  Both deserving of justice being delivered on them with the only question being if you want to play the whataboutism game of who is the greater of two evils.  The only tangible reward for the hero at the end is the pretty girl cop (Kate Hodge, the sexiest werewolf in cinema history).  But as the final song plays over the credits, you got your couple of hours of feeling good that good triumphed over evil.

And the resolution of the movie does nothing to address the more global concept of the oppression that generated the systemic problems in the first place.  Wait a second?  From the Qing Dynasty up to the 1990’s, and nothing has really changed?  Stories told through books and movies haven’t been able to escape this?  Where’s the utopia I was promised?  Exactly the point.  Consumption of the media beyond the entertainment value is not recommended.  Your cognitive biases may lead you to assume everything is black and white and simpler.  Like a magical deity or single politician can fix the problems single-handedly.

Let’s round this out and finish with a couple of other Rapid Fire tidbits.

Jake Lo is lured to a party by a pretty but not a werewolf girl.  Not to hang out and have a good time, but to be part of a political fundraiser since his father was killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest.  Parents, if you watch this movie today with your kids, good luck explaining that to them in light of what’s happening in Minneapolis these days.  Explain to them how 1989 proves China is evil, yet the current administration in the U.S. is just the bestest.  And make it is convincing is possible, because when viewed in the future as history it’s pretty much a slam dunk.

The competing drug lords are complaining about market share for the drug money.  Which includes breaking old alliances and use of force.  Parents, good luck explaining to the kids how in 1992 criminals didn’t cooperate with each other and they still fight among themselves today.  

The first victim in the drug money war is a guy who used his proceeds to buy knives because he’s a collector.  Sure, lure an innocent bystander to your party for a political fundraiser because you like pretty artwork.  After this goes viral Elon is gonna want to get in on the ancient knife collecting business.  There’s only so many yachts you can buy before you get bored.

But my absolute favorite is how Jake is entered into the witness protection program so he will be safe to testify against a drug lord.  During his police interview (snagged after he killed some bad guys) he’s trying to just move on and not be involved.  He’s forced to stay involved by an out in the open admission - the legal system is rigged.  Testify or get buried in jail.  Parents, when do you want to explain that the judicial system is rigged?  That it’s a real thing and always has been?  How long do you shield them before they find it out on their own?  Even that first Nightshift video addresses corruption in China.  Maybe…Just wait until they find out about the opium that was deliberately flooded into China by the British.  Because they’re a bad guy now, they used to be a good guy, they used to be bad before that, but before that they were good and China was the top nation and then they weren’t and now they’re working back towards it again and the U.S. has always been great except when they weren’t except now they’re working on it but they aren’t really but they will soon.  Blah, blah, blah.

Rewriting history is tough.

The Illusion Of Transparency

…and how we reverse engineer bad people into beneficial geniuses.

Again, life is not so simple for the parent, the business owner, and those who get involved in politics who actually give a shit about governing.  The procreative act is finished, the child’s basic nutritional needs are being met, but where do you go from there just getting them to the point of functioning in a society of other children with people who aren’t you training them?

The educators and trainers have their own set of values.  Arguably, the most effective ones can put aside egocentrism and teach without bias.  But bias is inevitable, and the resulting conflict is inevitable.  Too many people, too many competing ideas, too much compromise necessary where instead of just happiness for your share, some jackass will insist (very wrongfully) that they are being unfairly treated.

The illusion of transparency describes an individuals expectations of outsiders “getting” them.  Like relationship conflict where you are sad because you feel trivialized and your partner thinks you just had a bad day at work.  Like you want to have your birthday remembered and they didn’t get you a card because they thought, “It’s just a card or dinner or flowers.  She knows I love her so what’s the big deal”.  It is virtually impossible to know exactly what someone else is thinking all the time.  The only 100%er is you know what is going on in your brain.

And it’s not a full blown lack of empathy, it’s an unavoidable cognitive bias.  Not necessarily good or bad, it just…is.  And like the Dunning Kruger Effect it’s not just expected that you are obviously wearing your heart on your sleeve, those you interact with are obviously doing the same.  If your brain works that way, then that must be the way others brains work.  A recipe for disaster when you think the math of the poker game is solely responsible for success brings you up against  the person who is a skilled bluffer.  An illusion of transparency and giving people the benefit of the doubt.  And the problem is when that illusion is finally broken and you’re confronted with the uncomfortable reality.  You aren’t compatible with your long term romantic partner and are talking breaking up/divorce.  That promotion you were promised was given to someone else.  Are they better than you, or is it just your boss is a manipulative bastard trying to get you to work harder for the same pay?  Is trickle down economics actually going to work this time now that a failed businessman is in charge of the country, and am I a bad person suffering through my cognitive dissonance if I don’t quintuple down and give him just.  one.  more.  chance.

My source that motivates this post was titled, something about the illusion and f transparency and jumped right towards turning TRAITORS into geniuses.  A little harsh, but not entirely without merit in these times.  A key point was how like the poker bluffing expert they understand the structure of the game.  How the game is rigged against those who only start with $100 in chips playing against their stack of $10,000.  Bankruptcy means nothing to the 1% who can just find backing to start another wild venture.  The in video commentary was a clip of Elon talking about the dark times of having to choose whether to keep multiple companies going or just focus on one and “only being left with $20-$40 million”.  Well cry me a fucking river.

This is the socialization of the ultra wealthy.  The old money that has the larger stack of chips to fall back on.  The mindset that not so much they actually believe that the working class needs to just work harder and pick themselves up by their bootstraps, but that as long as that illusion is maintained - the structure of the rigged game - they can operate freely exploiting the common people.  The common people that like all recorded history has shown they really don’t give a shit about.

The obligatory gematria reference:

None of the so called experts has anything good planned for the followers.  It’s their poker game.  Their rules to be changed daily as they see fit.  Exploiting the current crop of followers, trying to maintain the illusion of transparency as long as possible.  If it wasn’t gematria, or Candace Owen’s dreams, it would be something else.  And there are a lot of other bad ideas to choose from.  The house edge is the useless Patreon subscription of the premium ad free calculator access you purchased for you reward.  That reward is another day of pretending that what your brain is saying is right.  You’re smarter than everyone (except Bill Maher who is obviously …oh who am I kidding).

You could play a fun game with the cognitive bias and gematria.  Give a presenter who hasn’t been exposed to the common conspiracy gematria narratives a list of two and three digit numbers with big lists of words that have matching gematria.  A large group of equally uninitiated in the world of gematria receives the target number from the presenter.  The presenter takes a guess at which words will be most frequently duplicated by the receivers.  The receivers are just tapping away on the calculator looking for matches.  What you’ll end up with is an idea of the topics the presenter has internalized as important.  And if the receivers answers are being recorded you’ll get what topics they think are important.  The extreme endgame of this kind of process is when the presenter continually suggests that 113 always means dishonest.  56 always means the Jesuits.  33 means 33rd degree Freemason.  This is not education or socialization.  This is conditioning, brainwashing, mental coercion.  And you’re on the path towards reverse engineering the presenter into a genius.  A genius that wants you to associate an arbitrary scapegoats and murder while you’re picking your favorite players from the Browns because you live in Cleveland.

A more innocent and actual experiment was done in 1990’s The Tapping Song Experiment.  Just like gematria sports betting, actual predictive ability is essentially not in town.

https://www.arisefromthedust.com/tap-tap-tap-surely-you-recognize-that/

Don’t read too much into my source selection.  It was one of the top hits and there’s a bunch of different choices you can read through.

The Tapper of the song knows full well what the song is.  They sing the song in their head.  And the illusion of transparency without knowledge of the actual bias way overestimates the listeners ability to recognize the tune.  Your average gematria newbie gets force fed “the tune” early on.  The tune is emotionally supercharged rage bait.  The same rage bait that dominates the discourse in the higher stakes poker table - the ones with the huge chip stacks and agendas far in excess of your tiny little sports gambling $100 chip stack.  They certainly don’t care if you think 26 means DOG to you personally.  They’re more interested that someone might convince you that ELON=62 and that’s close enough to 26.  You’re forced into a tune you didn’t want to listen to and now you can’t help but wonder - isn’t that what everyone else thinks?  Except me and my dog?

Know Your Grifter Tactics - Avoiding Stigmatization

It's all fun and games until the federal troops start shooting people<-->Candace Has A Dream (actually, a lot of them)

If you’ve entered the world of disinformation and online grifting just recently, boy did you miss out on a lot of the fun and batshit crazy stuff.  It wasn’t always talk about Nazi’s attacking marginalized groups, peaceful protesters getting murdered, and the President throwing a dart at the Big Board of Arbitrarily Selected War Crimes.  The early pipeline from angry confirmation bias based grievance to active monetization and mobilization of boots on the ground forces had moments of fun.  Like the whole evolution of gematria from grifting on sports betting to a major part of Qanon LOL fun.

The in video YouTube advertising in the Zachosphere was self contained.  You wouldn’t turn on your TV or car radio and hear about gematria because it absolutely was low quality evidence and frankly, quite stupid.  It wasn’t designed to be high quality.  The niche it filled was the social media audience.  The “real life job isn’t paying the bills, maybe I can get rich quick” audience.  The emotional reaction with no critical thinking audience.  The slick talking sophist demagogue delivering the Attaboy!^TM  and bringing to the surface the worst qualities of the worst people audience.  The monetized harassment Alex Jones audience.

Qanon commandeering gematria wasn’t inevitable.  I get the sense that sports betting gematria would have been totally fine without the political misinformation and disinformation crowd muscling in on the turf.  But once it happened, the love/hate relationship was introduced.  Pre Qanon, it was start an occasional flame war with Flat Earthers.  Now, the constant search for the most gullible had a crowd that was first introduced to gematria as a symbolic secret message.  A full blown cult tool instead of just a petty grift.  And how do you run a business of grift and attack your enemies when it boils down to the same tactics?  Cult leaders, con artists, corrupt politicians, it’s all the same.  Hit ‘em fast and hard.  Overwhelm them with the message as fast as possible before they realize what’s going on.  Nobody likes to admit they’re wrong about the tiniest little thing, and with the doctrine of No Truth = No Consequences in place what have you got to lose?

Well, maybe there is something to lose.  It just took too damn long to come about.  When the well runs dry and you keep trying for nonexistent water it’s a waste of energy.  The overabundance of gematria is finished.  And now post Charlie Kirk the right wing grift is doing their own version of fighting for their grifting pie market share.  Nick, Ben, Candace.  Maybe they or some of the others considered adding gematria, but that hasn’t happened.  But Candace has a dream.  Not that she’s judged by the content of her character instead of the color of her skin, but we’re literally to give her money because her actual dreams MEAN something.  Fuck your dreams you not Candace people.  My dreams are the best.  My dreams mean something.  And my high powered brain deciphered them, because that makes soooooooo much more sense than my high powered brain figuring it out during waking hours.

This is gematria without the words and numbers.  Its interpretation, deliberate and willful misinterpretation, of commentary with no actual evidence that the data being analyzed actually existed.  It’s a narrative that screams out to the actually functionally intellectual, “PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE ME YOUR NEW CULT IDOL!!”.  It’s intellectually lazy passing the offering plate to the assembled crowd without any effort into putting together a sermon that might at least give a little comfort to the flock.  The only thing missing is her pick to win the Super Bowl.

Again we see how it’s difficult for the online grifter these days.  Weeks ago I mentioned that now even other grifters are more likely to call out their own kind via critical thinking topics, a facet missing from online grift a decade ago.  Candace’s dreams aren’t going to help your medical bankruptcy from unaffordable health insurance.  Candace’s dreams aren’t going to stop corporate greed and your grocery bills.  Candace’s dreams aren’t going to stop your father being in the wrong restaurant and getting deported because ICE showed up and he had the wrong color skin despite no actual criminal record.  Maybe she can have a weekly call in show where people can request her to dream about specific issues.  (Which would be fun to troll).  But this presentational pivot is just weird.  The only good quality it has is avoiding the actual gematria that could have been used.  Because now that has a stigma attached to it.  Maybe the people it would work on are a little bit more likely to Google gematria and find Qanon content and not enjoy what they hear.

The gematria synchronicity crowd has some dream content.  Actually, too much.  Although it’s understandable.  That increases the spiritual and occult angle.  Dreams and their interpretation are an old internalized belief system.  These are my dreams, they MUST be important.  And since I walk around and interact with other people they and the dreams MUST have some connection.  And simultaneously they have internalized stigma.  Wait a second there, you gematria decode and/or dream.  Does this mean I’m a bad person or a good person?  Maybe I’ll ask the cult leader, surely they will figure it out.  I’ll just skip the electric bill this month for my bribe.  I’ll just roll the late fee into the requested interpretation that makes me so wealthy I won’t have to worry about electricity ever again.  For my children, too.

At the end of the day, stripped of its spiritual and mystical angle, stripped of the stigma of avoidance of other tactics that don’t work anymore, this is good old fashioned monetized harassment.  A convenient excuse to slander enemies with a prepackaged courtroom defense of “I never said that myself, my dreams said that.”  The same as not saying the Freemasons ritually sacrificed that celebrity, the gematria did it.  The voices in my head said it.  Listen to the voices in my head, and I will tell you what to think and say.  And don’t ever forget to tell other people that they are the mindless sheep, not you.

A while back I listed some YouTube channel recommendations.  The linked video is the new channel for the Dark Brandon crew mentioned in that post.  I read rumors of a hacking problem and loss of control of that channel.  But they’re back here and in good form still.  A modestly sized video length with sourced content and meaningful commentary.  Commentary that doesn’t just scream out that something is wrong, but points out the logical fallacies and factual errors that showvwhays wrong.

Behold The Zosimi

My main theme starting late last year and still ongoing is how media, especially entertainment media sneaking in naughty ideas, does show us a lot of stuff that simply doesn’t work long term.  We’ve seen this movie before.  Human nature prefers the protagonist to emerge triumphant, but there’s never a short supply of old, historical material to refer to.  What exactly drove that chap to join The Running Man game show?  Why are those adorable yet dirty street urchins stealing people’s money?  Don’t they know pickpocketing is illegal and wrong?  The wealthy at the times these events are recorded, whether totally fictional or based on actual history, don’t really enjoy the idea of being pointed at and mocked.

At times, it’s a thankless job being an actual journalist.  Objectively reporting facts WILL get you harassment.  The fictional setting is so much safer.  You can use plausible deniability to claim that you didn’t realize Lex Luthor in the new Superman movie is a stand in for Musk at this time in history.  Viewed decades later there will be another Musk like persona that can be substituted in a review.  Somewhere though, someone, actually a lot of someone’s, have crossed paths with Musk and despite the I’m rich and can do whatever exploitation I want have raised the middle finger and pointed out the many objectively things wrong with him.

Psychologically, a huge warning sign for someone dabbling in to being up to no good is the excessive and narcissistic need for attention.  And lacking the long term qualities of being admired for the right reasons, the artificial intelligence of money is the primary substitute.

Technological progress dictates some necessary changes in the journalism.  In movies there was a phase where the hillbilly serial killers picked off the sexy teens at the remote location that of course didn’t have a landline phone.  And there was always a convenient excuse for having no operational cellphone.  In real life, it’s amazing how alien abduction based on shitty anecdotal evidence stopped being so prolific when confronted with the fact finding query, “So, do you have pictures of that UFO on your cell?  Yeah, didn’t think so.”  Sure seemed like a cry for attention, you look at me whore.

Now the bad news.  Not so much a plan as normal reaction based on a lifetime of mental problems.  And normal doesn’t mean good or even innocuous, in this case means can reasonably be expected based on patterns that can be predicted.  The world is watching as the U.S. administration is dealing with a massive pushback.  And Trump’s signature move is to break useful stuff.  And this go to move is likely going to be on a speed run before the midterms.  And with that on the table it means that everyone loses in the short term, regardless of if the U.S. and the global followers get their shit together or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire

Scholarly research gives a lot of  well deserved credit to Edward Gibbons and his massive analysis of the Fall of the Roman Empire.  The gematria clowns would approve of this work.  It was centuries later and nothing helps with reporting like the luxury of being able to wait until all the facts are in.  Lions 17, Christian’s 3 final in the second to last game of the season.  The gematria clowns, as fake as fake can get regarding historical accuracy and journalism, would also hate having to do actual research instead of speed run ragebait.

So Gibbons did compile a lot of good material.  But the actual knowledge of the events was live at some point.  Spread out over a crumbling empire, bits and pieces of information written on scrolls and passed on by word of mouth.  And there was a Greek historian who got a front row seat for a part of the end of it, and his name was Zosimus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zosimus_(historian)

Oh no!  Two Wikipedia references in one post!!! Paying attention to actual historical references with a well sourced document!  Well, the monetization for this post is dead.

Yes, Zosimus did also report after the fact.  But considering the tools he had to work with it’s impressive.  It’s a lot closer to actual events than Gibbons.  And he had contact with other people who were far closer in time than Gibbons.  And now the new breed of conspiracy theorists have a new name I coined while trying to come up with something appropriate.  The fake plural of Zosimus.  The Zosimi.  And they have cell phones with cameras, knowledge of the difference between actual conspiracies vs. fake news smoke and mirrors hoax conspiracy bullshit, economic problems, and a giant chip on their shoulders.

We’ve come far since Alex Jones heyday.  Astroturfing dumbass content like crisis actors vs. what’s going on with those Epstein files.  Chemtrails making frogs gay vs. so is there really fentanyl on boats from a country that deals in cocaine instead of fentanyl.  Why aren’t there any actual photos of litter boxes in elementary school classrooms?  Explain to me again why Trump’s ballroom means something gematria related to the game winning touchdown by the Rams.  I’m intrigued and future Zosimi are going to want to know why excessive attention grabbing ragebait matters more than facts.  There are millions of them out there, and shooting people in the head getting put on video serves the breaking shit on purpose angle quite well, it doesn’t win over friends.

I’m still expecting a lot of entertainment media this year and early next year to specifically attack the core issues.  Filmmakers inspired by the middle finger South Park put up.  Or Vietnam War vet trauma upgraded to current times  Or dystopian scarcity of resources based on data center water usage for scams versus crop irrigation.  Whatever it may be there’s a lot of source material for the Zosimi.  And some of it hasn’t even happened yet.

Not The Truth Or No Consequences

Truth or Consequences was an old TV show that proves that Bob Barker was not born an old man like Morgan Freeman.  (Scholars argue over the exact age, but generally estimate that he was about 49 years old at birth.) 

Here’s the Wikipedia article:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences

And here’s the YouTube algorithm top hit for me of an old black & white episode:

https://youtu.be/YFC2xc35ezM?si=AMO6dRy2nN7sG4XM

Let’s Make A Deal comes to mind as being in the same light hearted vein.  The more outrageous the costumes, the more fun the contestant.  In ToC, it was more about the zany stunts than remotely trying to be a trivia genius.  It was centered around “ordinary” people doing crazy shit, the consequences being some teasing and putting up with gentle mockery while doing something harmless in good fun.  Which also had a modest financial reward attached.  Old school TV - put butts in front of the screen with something fun and relatable.  Deliver advertisements from established manufacturers for dish soap, cars and paper towels.  The audience is there because they’ve volunteered to be there because it’s fun.

Grammatically, Truth or Consequences is a solid “either/or” concept.  Once the Truth part is stripped from the math, the question always being answered wrong because that’s the format, a zany stunt is inevitable.  And that brings us to this moment in U.S. History.  Something that’s been baked into the non-functional legal, accounting and political systems for multiple generations.  Why should you follow rules if there are no consequences for not following rules?  Why should corporations clean up the pollution left behind if the rule only exists on paper?  Or if it only exists in the minds of those with a semblance of critical thinking skills and a functioning moral compass?

More specifically for this week, why should a federal agent be allowed to use excessive force to murder a person without due process?  Is it because the actual wording of their code of conduct is a stupid rule nobody got around to eliminating or is it maybe because there’s no expectations of consequences for their actions?

The game show analogy is solid.  There is neither actual truth nor real consequences involved in the show’s format.  And there doesn’t need to be as the show would be far less entertaining for the common person.  It’s not designed for bigger picture issues, like should it be influencing if you vote for Reagan or Mondale.  And now as the media landscape has shifted towards lopsided monetization that only the most extreme versions apply to the audience, now we’ve shifted to is it okay for ICE agents to arbitrarily murder people because there are no consequences?  Yes, that does seem to be the case.

And the arbitrary moment we’re in now didn't just suddenly appear.  Boats that may or may not be loaded with drugs getting blown up.  Rioters storming the capitol being pardoned just because they’re on the right team of extremists.  Victims of child trafficking committing suicide because any real justice, any significant consequences being issued seems remote and abnormal.  The normalization of politically motivated violence is here.  It’s no longer the fun and games of being a media influencer for some cheap thrills and a bunch of Patreon subscriptions.  Now we’re beyond, “Vote Republican if you want to keep your job.”  Now we’re officially at the stage of necessary compliance or get a bullet in the face.

Oh sure I’m biased about this.  I took the time to watch the video footage knowing it would disgust me.  The only credit I give to the pro ICE variation of the story is a tiny car bump that may have been self induced.  Easily avoidable and certainly not worth three bullets.  The entire confrontation was unnecessary and avoidable.  No trauma over affordability.  No federal troops asked to intervene and make uncoordinated and arbitrary decisions.  No violence.  The best thing that happened to me in the last 15 years was my exit from working for landlords.  How profit is going to be driven by moderating a large group of diverse people that can be arbitrarily shot any day?  Paying for security is part of the overhead and economy?  I’d never remain sane in that atmosphere of toxic office politics.  The, “Oh No My InVeStMeNtS!!” crowd smugly loves to ignore shit like this.

Before I forget, there is a gematria cheapo to throw in here.  If conspiracy gematria actually worked, this would mean something:

But they don’t want you to know that.  The quick flyby of the Zachosphere shows the old habits die hard.  The same lack of consequences for running scams by not being truthful drives all the online grifting.  The zany stunt is calling cold blooded murder a hoax, while simultaneously projecting it’s the Minnesota governors fault, the Yale Brotherhood of Death is involved and some weird shot for a two digit number match about dinosaurs.  Because, yeah sure.  That makes all kinds of fucking sense that it’s a hoax and a ritual sacrifice murder simultaneously.  It’s Not the Truth AND No Consequences by the crowd that calls themselves truth seekers.