Superliminal Horror

 Although there is a video game from 2019 called Superliminal, this isn’t really about that.  Swapping out the prefix sub- for super- does generate a word nobody uses in everyday conversation.  Subliminal famously creates a somewhat subliminal perception of the use of the concept itself.  For many it will evoke a sort of dirty trick in advertising.  The jury is out on whether psychologically it works or not.  Personally, I’m in the camp that it’s unlikely to have much actual effect as the up front flooding the zone tactic of beating people over the head with repetitive bad information works a helluva lot better.

The inspiration here is the recent focus on the subgenre of horror movies - liminal horror.  At its heart, a liminal horror movie involves an ordinary place that becomes horrific because although it’s overwhelming ordinary for the bulk of the visuals, there’s something not quite right.  Something feels just a little bit…off.  It doesn’t need to be explained.  The spark of imagination ignited in the viewers mind is enough.

For a spoiler alert worthy example from the newly released liminal horror movie Backrooms there is an opening table setting (figuratively speaking) sequence.  There’s a massive complex of seemingly endless rooms like a basement of a vacant office space with ordinary and explained normal “stuff” in it.  Randomly placed furniture, signs that don’t seem to have relevance.  And then there’s an explained bird.  A loud squawk and there’s a bird.  Another living creature that serves as the only companion to a person obviously in distress as they give context clues that they’re being chased by something.  Something that definitely doesn’t fit in with the overwhelming banality of the liminal space.  Why is the bird there?  What does it eat?  Is it running from this Thing also?  Regardless, there’s no need for explanation.  It just hammers home that the space itself is the terror as there’s precious little deviation in the overall boringly normalcy of the space.  Letting the viewer’s brain create the dread of the character’s problem without presenting him with a zombie or dragon or whatever as the obvious monster.

Although education in the U.S. will acknowledge the historical background of Naziism in WWII, the focus has actually been the monster in the space.  Fascist goons with machine guns blitzkrieging their way across Europe and threatening democracy everywhere.  Corporations cozying up with autocrats since bombs, bullets and petroleum dependent vehicles are necessary for full blown war and a lot more profitable for the manufacturers.  As normalcy returns, the machine gun is set aside as a rather inefficient way to spend your retirement bass fishing or knitting.  And in this arena, the liminal space is capitalism vs. communism.

Capitalism just “is”.  It’s the walls, the occasional door, the archways, the random puddles of unexplained water.  You may have been told that communism is the enemy.  It probably is the actual enemy, or rather AN actual monster among different competing monsters.  I’m not a big fan of the idea of communism.  Others are dead certain it has to be the way to go.  Regardless, what I do know is that my personal historical context is that capitalism just is.  And to fit in with the world around me, to fake it until I make it I’m subliminally forced to ignore critical thinking and some not extremely difficult to understand math.

A prime example and returning to some of the math from last week - it is quite literally impossible for “good inflation” to continually have housing prices rise while simultaneously having affordable housing for new buyers.  Not only can you pull up a calculator, make some perfectly reasonable assumptions, arrive at a disturbing and perfectly foreseeable result, the occasional housing bubble crash will bring the numbers to the forefront.  The liminal horror has been replaced by the actual horror.  And unless it’s a movie like Cabin In the Woods where the ancient ones destroy everything at the end a victory of sorts is achieved and the possible franchise comes to a conclusion.

Actual functioning government work is very boring.  It’s resource allocation decisions and sensible regulations being enforced and dull and repetitive bureaucracy.  It’s far less sexy than creating a Ponzi scheme and grabbing billions of dollars out of an exploitation machine that’s been running in the background.  Going with the flow and surviving in the middle of the liminal space.  Keeping quiet.  Being asleep while They Live.

And it’s all fun and games until the liminal horror gives way to the superliminal.  (Supercriminal?!)  Backrooms spoiler #2 - for me the end reveal fell flat.  The design choice was a cartoonish version of one of the main characters.  But leaving aside something too nitpicking, the makers had to do something for some kind of payoff.  A physical presence besides the existential dread of boredom.  A bit rushed instead of a slower reveal stretching the running time into Marvel superhero movie at least twenty minutes too long running time.

But meanwhile, back in the real world we have reached that uncomfortable superliminal horror stage.  The wealth inequality is staggering.  Fragile resource allocation systems take two big hits in 2026 with tariffs and the Strait of Hormuz shutdown.  The Epstein class took us straight from the Backrooms liminal horror into an in an your face cartoonishly bad monster wearing the face of a broken mind housed in the body of a reality TV show host turned con man extraordinaire.

Rule #1

Complex problems require complex solutions.  You absolutely are allowed to acknowledge to yourself and your like minded tribe mates that the liminal space has existed.  And despite pressure to ignore it, that it has advanced to the superliminal horror state.

Rule #2

Don’t panic until it’s time to actually panic.  Seek out those that actually seem to be actively looking to be part of the fix instead of breaking more stuff.

Rule #3

Be prepared for one of the hidden traps of superliminal horror.  Hitting your head with a hammer isn’t a good idea, even if it feels great when you stop.  Even now, rich assholes with no concern for your well being are plotting on how to capitalize on the upcoming, “anything is better than Trump” sentiment.

Part 2 - Pulling Back the Curtain On Oz

 Original Stevie Baskin Analysis of Oz

The interview I posted yesterday is a much more digestible version of the concepts involved.  A five hour long recap.  Wow.  Mr. Baskin, thou art one smart and dedicated guy.

A broad look at the themes, one point that sticks out to me is the timing of admission that what you’re providing is an illusion.  A trick done for fun.  A harmless white lie like belief in Santa Claus until a child’s brain develops enough to understand that it’s really just Mom & Dad giving you presents because they love you.

There is an ethical question about metadeception and Oz specifically.  Is it just a fun trick when the lie is continually perpetuated as a lifestyle?  Long time readers know my stance.  The same way Oz inserts himself in front of celebrities and large gatherings like Rogan - I’m special.  “This is not a trick.  I have a genuine super power that you can buy my book and learn.”  Compare that to a decade of meta-deception with gematria.  “I can predict sports results.  If you want my really good work, join my Patreon.”

And for me, Zach crossed the line by joining the Sandy Hook is a hoax crowd.  Which naturally turned in to the fake narrative of how misinformation morphed into a weakened response to the worst pandemic in modern history, Qanon insanity, and “ritual sacrifice” scapegoating among other things.

My own thoughts about being respectful to my elders long held cognitive biases have changed.  Somebody needed to try something.  And I’m pretty much the only person I know stupid enough to interact with a group of people known to through out the occasional death threat.

But anyway, back to yesterday’s original video because it’s way shorter.  I cannot emphasize enough how I can review both these videos and admire Mr. Baskin as somebody smarter than I am, and certainly way better with screen presence and public speaking.

https://youtu.be/yhvzmIDdUVY?si=FU_SLNYnIIwHDI4Q  (Reposting yesterday’s video)

0:14. The foreshadowing of the rhetorical question of who has the balls to call out the fraudster.

3:10. A great mentalist tells you he doesn’t have MAGIC powers.  But insists it’s still a form of superpower.  Just not pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

5:00. Oz, like Zach is a great performer.  It’s convincing if you don’t know what to look for.

8:30 Oz has inserted himself as the entertainment at the White House correspondents dinner that the shooting attempt occurred at.  A collection of people bound to have some thinking they’re smarter than they are.  Personal speculation and opinion - Trump’s body language and speech patterns reek of insincerity.  A target audience of people who think they can get a book to help them that doesn’t address the stage magician aspects of Oz’s performance.

9:20  Talk about cognitive biases based lifestyle and how it impacts your life when you ignore reality.

16:45 The payoff on the sleight of hand down.  Turning off a phone instead of reading body language.  And the audience of two doesn’t get suspicious when they realize the phone has turned off.

18:30 Other magicians don’t like that he’s giving away the secrets.  Not deliberately.  But just like Zach pick’s winners the day after the game, just like Zach picks both teams all the time -Oz’s media blitz has had him “go to the well” too many times.  Spoiling the trick for other performers who have audiences genuinely looking for fun regardless of any thoughts whether it’s real or not.

21:20 Preshow work.  Basically lying about the background to the on air performance.

24:45 Show business code.  Don’t give it away since we’re all professionals here.

26:20-26:50+. Outside the performance.  The preshow is admitted.  Simple (for a ‘mentalist’) math tricks and/or calculator app recall tech were used to decipher the REAL PIN.  And,

28:10 The violation of trust about the use of the real PIN instead of the fake PIN.  Not cool.  When you first comment on Zach’s videos you are setting yourself up to give out information about yourself.  Which teams you like, which particular players.  How much effort he has to produce to get you to break down and donate.

32:00 In addition to pre-show (think cold reading) there’s also post show editing tricks.  Pre-show Zach ==>. Talk up the current popular numbers which can change depending on circumstances.  Pi, Jesuit numbers, 666, 113, 47, whatever.  The audience looks for those numbers.  Post show Zach.  They flipped the script.  Double narrative.  Lying.

37:20  Oopsie.  Screw up caught on camera.

42:00 Particularly appropriate for sports gambling gematria scamming.  Barkley has been forced to pick between two options.  It’s a lot easier to guess between two options than hundreds of options.  Every football game is one out of two teams, even though the gematria might be more appropriate for an entirely different game.  Pre-show patter and the gift of gab for dual reality to mask that it’s really not so random at all.  If you think it’s easy, try keeping it up for an entirely different game football season to just make picks for the Super Bowl.

48:00 Another oopsie on camera.  Barkley actually picked the wrong one of two.  The cover up isn’t very convincing if you know what you’re looking for.  The studio audience doesn’t have a clue.

55:00 All the steps for fraud are there.  Regardless of whether it gets prosecuted or not, the smarter people will figure it out.

57:00. Oz is a “con man” for entertainment.

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This is not a great time in the history of the world to be deceptive.  Even gambling on war crimes is a thing, where insider information is more important than being right.  The political con has been exposed.  Get elected.  Get access to insider trading information, bribes, contracts that are based on wasteful government spending.  Then as the magician’s tricks are being exposed, rely on your ability to lie your way out of a jam.  All because a handful of toxic narcissists spoiled the trick for generations to come.

Part 1 - Pulling Back the Curtain On Oz

Pablo Torres Finds Out - Oz Pearlman

No notes needed, but I’m going to do it despite no notes needed.  But first let’s do a trip along the highway of confirmation bias and the belief in things that aren’t real.

It’s generally socially acceptable to start kids right away into religion.  There are good messages and long lasting values in religion.  Way down the highway there is extremism.  Go ahead and allow yourself a mental image regarding fanatics using passenger planes as bombs if you need an example.  This is a far cry from reading the bible before bedtime for comfort.  Or even doing a gematria synchronicity decode as an exercise in self spirituality.

There’s a major branch along the confirmation bias highway called Economics.  Eventually, many brains even give up entirely on the religious road and develop an identity solely based on their economic and political beliefs.  Yes, those are tied together whether we like it or not.  Regarding U.S. propaganda, there is a belief that capitalism is the one and only path to enlightenment.  The political part is reduced to a false binary option only, far too often.  Left vs. Right.  No nuance.  No context.  And by golly your belief in the wrong side means you have the audacity to ruin the welfare of others that do not share your belief.

Well, bad news sunshine.  Instead of talking through things and teaching reasonable not black or white compromises you get constant failure to address anything.  And now you feel safe not believing in Santa Claus or Jesus because now you have computers, math, and technology that makes you feel invulnerable to confirmation bias criticism.  So let’s put some shade on the sunshine and show how math destroys the foundation of capitalism.  The myth of infinite growth.

Imagine if you can or get paper and pen out and draw it.  An equilateral triangle.  Now that there are three sides we get our first shape, because two sides are still just a line or two lines intersecting with no area.  No add a side and you’ve got a square, a fancy name for an equilateral rectangle.  Add another side.  An equilateral pentagon.  Then hexagon, heptagon, octagon, etc….   As the number of equilateral sides increased you get something that approaches a circle.  Congratulations, you are starting to grasp how calculus is what I call math saying “fuck you” to people who insist you can’t do math with infinity or dividing by zero.  You don’t ever reach either extreme, you just get so close.  And although you could draw a pretty respectable square or equilateral triangle, the more sides you have drawn freehand, the harder it’s going to get to draw.  Send me your best freehand drawing of an equilateral polygon with 1 billion sides.  You don’t need to hit infinite number of sides to be a problem in regards to reality.

Sane economists will acknowledge how pure capitalism with true infinite growth as just some sort of ideal.  And politically/economically your black and white choice is capitalism versus communism.  (Spice things up with some disingenuous fascism and socialism references, too.). Here in the States:  Communism = Evil/bad/destructive.  Capitalism = Patriotic/good/sexy.  Why not at least strive for being on the right side instead of settling for the compromise?  No Octagon for you, go for that perfect circle to pull up your bootstraps.

Mankind has already existed long enough for banking to debunk itself.  Our friends making AI let us know that the first prototype of a bank existed a long, long time ago.

 

So let’s pretend our ancient protobankers had one smart ass among the lot of him.  He sets himself down and one day thinks, “Ya know, I really want to be the first Rothschild.  How do I make generational wealth without actually doing something resembling real work?”

The answer is (and reality is this way now), how do I make an insane amount of income on passive income.  Just the appreciation of a modest amount of compound interest over a long time.  The following calculation does not approach the result that “infinity” would.  But it shows the thorough impracticality of someone investing the equivalent of just $1 at a modest 3% for the 4000 years since our first passive income earner let his $1 ride every year until today.

Built into finance and investment lingo are cutesy phrases like “correction” and “Bear market”.  These address the immediate concerns of anxious investors scared of losing their <cough> <cough> hard earned passive income.  But a short term politically motivated pep talk is all that’s needed.  The entire fantasy that a long term modest 3% earnings rate can create more wealth than could possibly exist.  That fantasy makes the Santa Claus story look pretty good in comparison, because grown ass adults actually believe that everyone can just pick themselves up by their own bootstraps and with minimal effort become the next Elon Musk.  With or without being a total douchebag, just the money part.

If it were that easy, we would be living the Star Trek utopian pipe dream, all loving each other.  But of course the same holds true for communism.  Actually sharing everything equally… totally impractical.  Too often capitalism versus communism gets no more than third grade insult level dialogue.  No nonagons for either of you.  It’s easier ad hominem attack when you don’t understand capitalism.  It’s supposed to work this way:  The market moves funds towards investment in useful stuff to make sure useful stuff gets down.  Checking my notes….lets see the appendices…nope…citations…nope…social media……uh nope.  Nowhere can I find that Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, Buffet, Trump, etc… hoarding cash in an insane pissing contest moves money towards useful stuff.  Go ahead and type up your angry comment about SpaceX and AI so I can tell you about the upcoming “correction”.

No, what the Epstein class has learned is that in order to avoid wars redistributing wealth, bubbles bursting and just “shit happening” over time - it doesn’t have to be infinity or even four thousand years.  You’ve got to change the $1 or the 3% rate needs to be higher to get those sweet, “I’m a thoroughly corrupt billionaire more interested in exploitation and attention than benefitting society” accolades.  Trying to get the interest rate up is pretty tough, too.  That means you pretty much need to start with more than $1 to invest.  A lot more.  You need to hoard millions before you can even start to think of investing that into billions.  The difference between a million dollars is roughly, er…one billion dollars.  So better make it in steps.  Millions turns to ten millions, tens of millions to hundreds.  Hundreds of millions to billions.  All not invested in anything useful, just sitting on a balance sheet other than the occasional deduction for doing unspeakable things that lawyers bought and paid for will take care of.

Keep that in mind as part two goes into the gullibility of the target audience for Oz Pearlman.  It’s really the same kind of gullibility from the early days of gematria.  (Gosh I miss those days). Someone pretends to have a super power which is actually just a cheat and con job.

Sand Pail Energy and Forgiveness

Meanwhile, back in real life.

This is not my first rodeo with toxic narcissism taken to its inevitable endpoint.  The only difference is scale.  A college roommate with the annoying girlfriend.  All the guys marveled at her looks and saw the personality as charming, while I solidified my burgeoning recognition of speech patterns and visual cues that something was off.  It creeped me out right away.  What I experienced was the effects of “not great” socialization combined with the heavy onset of money = intelligence = attention = power that had taken root in the education system.  I, being the only one that didn’t bow to her beauty and fake charm became the target of some really uncalled for activity.  The details are probably not as disturbing to me as they should be because I won the battle.  The prize was who would remain in the room and who would move out.  And thus my disconcerting ability to draw a line in the sand and say, “Fuck you” without actually using the words was born.

Fast forward to a job deliberately chosen to find out why society hates intelligence so much.  On paper my grades were great, straight As.  Passed a tough licensing test on the first try.  Had a resume prepared by a “professional” head hunter (one of the fakiest of fake jobs ever faked) and got just two interviews out of about 50 resumes sent out.  Just before giving up and figuring I would be Road Housed into escaping the price fixing oligopoly I lived in, I got an offer.  Deciding to play it straight up and see if I could escape with a modest salary despite the obvious indicators that meritocracy was a myth.

And within three months of getting a job became the target of another toxic narcissist, who single-handedly turned the office experience into a miniature version of the Trump administration.  Expertise, empathy, and intelligence makes you a target as “weak”.  If you’re not blinded by exploitation of capital you’re the bad guy.  I roughed it out while the unwanted attention was just focused on me.  But after the suicide of a co-worker, the rage that built inside me was directed at finding ways to say, “Fuck you” without verbalizing it.  Things like talking to everyone except the narcissist.  And the really fun one for me was talking about Scientology non stop for about a year and half as well as taking an unhealthy interest in corporate fraud and other scams.  Even going gung ho on cancer research and fundraising for charity can be a weapon for a smart person to say, “Fuck you” to a toxic narcissist.

Dog-less and needing to touch grass, lately I’ve returned to my old stand by, the movie theater.  And my long break between posts was necessary as the smart people I’d rather hang around with are openly posting about fascism (and not just in the culture war sense of a slur but actual fascism) and MAGA as a cult (again as actual cult mind control tactics and not just a knee jerk reaction outrage porn slur).  And even a more recent addition, open content about anarchy and revolution, a decent amount of which is not the, grab your guns and start shooting”, but framed as a historical societal tipping point perspective of

We’ve seen this movie before.  And it doesn’t end well.

In my neck of the woods which is not one of the high population areas, there is a marked shift in the non verbal cues.  Trump is not openly discussed by anybody. The two ends of the nuanced spectrum are the dwindling supply of previously open supporters and the growing number of discontented who have enough critical thinking skills to realize that the proverbial shit has hit the fan.  The wealthier discontents are giving off heavy damage control vibes.  Things like increased content about caring about children while they had previously helped accelerate the impossible to maintain fucked up system of resource allocation we’ve created.

And the other side there’s what I’ve just decided to call sand pail energy.  Not a full blown desperate and suicidal bucket list.  Let’s still touch some grass while we can still do some stuff while we still can.  Don’t fear going to a museum that makes you a target of being labeled as too woke.  Returning to your faith not as a mask, but as a comforting social experience embracing the wisdom in compassion and not making you Christian Nationalist death cult member.  Taking your kid (with the wrong skin color) to the chess club and having the immigrant girl from the wrong country giving him lessons.  A safe space where smart kids aren’t being forced into picking a side in a world gone mad.  And by gosh both sides love holding doors open for you.

There’s also social media content, some from people I follow on BlueSky regarding forgiveness.  Can we ever forgive the conspiracy theorists?  The Epstein class pedophiles?  The ex friend who never shuts up about how liberals continue to ruin the world to this day?  Is this person just holding a door open for me because of damage control, or because they finally learned that treating people with a little dignity is better than trying to take their stuff by force?

My perspective.  I think you’ll know.  If you’ve come this far it has become second nature.  I got rid of my “Fuck yous” and “I told you sos” and repeating the same message was just to demonstrate to others that in case you’re new, there is not just me with my advanced foresight that made me say “fuck you” to Alex Jones and Zachary Hubbard a long time ago.  I went on this path a looooooong time ago, and it’s fucking exhausting.  Like someone said when Kamala lost the election, reality is on our side.  There comes a time to let people younger and prettier than me to take over the reigns.  And that time looks like now.  The flooding the zone with real and practical information is here.  The days of flooding the zone with complete and utter nonsense have passed because damage control and being human reached the same end point.  People that want to continue to be assholes on the Internet and real life will make it obvious by the company they keep and how they treat others.  Die hard cult members simply cannot help but give away their denial of reality.

Believe it or not, I’m a different person in real life.  Attacking gematria was second nature to me.  I recognized long ago that we’ve had several generations of children starved for real education and socialization.  Standing up to the top of the food chain immediately is, by design, counterproductive.  By design, conspiracy gematria was made to deceive the teenage mind unprepared for the adult topics of how the math of infinite capitalistic growth doesn’t work.  The push to religious extremism doesn’t work on a planet filled with billions of individuals.  A chance for kids to be lead astray with marketing, a far cry from getting kids to drink Coke instead of Pepsi to get them hooked on a preferred beverage for life.  A chance for the adults in the room to recognize that it’s not just stupid…it’s the pipeline to extremism operating as designed.

It’s the old movie we’ve seen before.  All that evil needs to succeed is for good people to do nothing.  The justified anger I felt for my ex employer - somebody needed to take a stand and say there’s a line in the sand that you just crossed.  Nothing would have made me happier than for somebody else to take up the fight.  But all of my experience with the Machiavellian machinery I learned.  When I saw the way that “ordinary people” were now fair game and how far America had degenerated.  All right.  Bring it on.  I’ve seen this movie before.  Like Mulder in the trash monster episode of the X-files - bring it on.  Here’s your warning shot across the bow.  You’re going to have to do a lot better than making shit up on the Internet to convince me you’re smarter than I am.

And gosh I hate being the center of attention because of this kind of stuff.  Hi, I’m the guy who’s spent the better part of his time from 2005 saying fuck you to people.  What a role model.  Let me check my notes.  Hmmmm. Before Trump’ political run and the botched response to the global financial crisis and Sandy Hook.  Time to put on my big boy pants another time and do what I do best.  Finding creative ways to say fuck you so other people have some lead time before thrust into panic mode.

So hopefully this acts as a sort of a goodbye and a final warning.  Or two.  Do as I say and not as I’ve done.  Despite awareness that there are other boomers who still give a fuck, even those of us willing to admit how the younger generations have been given the shaft have problems.  If my mindset is any barometer, the (analogy intended) gas tank is running on fumes.  Both because the actual gas (money) is running on fumes and the car (age) is old and dying.  (No, don’t go too far with the dying reference.  It’s not like I have terminal cancer, it’s just recognition that getting old and body parts stop working is a real thing.  The breaking of alliances and trade agreements.  It’s a perfectly logical conclusion to the smarter people across the globe.  Just the larger scale far beyond my petty roommate troubles or a co-worker’s suicide.  Constantly saying “Fuck you” and teaching others to say “Fuck you” is not much of a legacy to be proud of.

So when in doubt, err on the side of the youth.  It’s all projection.  All the talk projecting fake concern over children dying in school shootings being an hoax and adrenochrome harvesting.  In the big picture, now is the time to stop pussyfooting around with the petty stuff.  Now is the time to take up the fight on the middle of the food chain.  Now is the time to concentrate on who is opening doors for damage control instead of genuine concern for human dignity.  If you feel you’ve done enough, you probably have.  Acknowledging the problem is a big part of the battle.  There’s not much a conspiracy theorist can do to change how everyone outside the U.S. hates us because we’re genuinely the bad guys in this movie.  And if you want to keep fighting.  Good for you too.  Just make sure of being consistently the kind of person willing to be true to yourself first.

The really smart people of the world are with you.  And I want to acknowledge the kind of people who have popped in to this server.  I’m proud of everyone that took and will continue to work for what’s right for others, especially kids.  This is my awards ceremony for this movie.  I don’t care if you’re a key grip, part of the catering service.  Sure the people of Minneapolis get the Oscar for a major statement on saying Fuck You.  But each and every part.  Well if you were in the movie Star Wars and you had to fuel up an X-wing.  You matter.  Unlike religious extremism and unsustainable capitalism your survival is important - you win by just existing.  The wealthier douchebags are really not happy with the way things are going.  The poorer douchebags are finding out that making money from poor people isn’t so easy anymore.  Both are already guilty ridden prisoners having a tough time justifying themselves when they look at the monster in the mirror.

As for me, I’m fine.  I get to watch the movies that will inspire the youth of the future.  The ones that sneak in or blatantly throw out the “naughty” content.  Wow was Superman 2025 the movie we needed from a Superman movie.  Hey look, Ready or Not 2 is out!  A devil cult of rich assholes?!?  What is this nonsense.  Surely there’s no hidden message there.  Running Man remake?  Someone can’t be risking death for themselves just for a spouse’s medical bills.  That’s my sand pail energy.  I don’t have the resources to make the bestest conspiracy gematria movie ever, but you can’t stop me from admiring rich assholes exploding in Ready or Not.  That shit never gets old.

I love you guys.

AI, The Revolution And Synchronicity

Freedom TM

If I were a BS conspiracy theory peddler I would be overjoyed at the conspiracy content falling my way.  The reality is that instead of me be a supreme guiding force, it’s just that I have the memory to dredge up related reference points and connect some dots.

This video is from the team that used to produce the Dark Brandon channel content.  There are several videos touching on the Revolution and the creation of the Constitution.  As is their standard, they point out that those people, especially the most vocal on social media about Constitutional interpretation, don’t really have a clue what they’re talking about.  Take note at about the 3 minute mark.  The Declaration was created to deal with the instability created by the politics around the colonists.  Stabilizing the economy and lives was not going to happen under English rule.  And so take note of the video title having Freedom ^TM in it. If you havent seen my Attaboy!^TM slogan yet, you’re either new or not paying attention.

Meanwhile, coincidence number two from a video I watched earlier this morning:

 The RAM crisis - Cold Fusion YouTube channel

At about 10:50, the phrase “they’re being extra cautious, because they’ve seen this movie before”.

These videos have a common denominator.  Both describe  dealing with economic uncertainty, and what happened in the past.  The adults in the room (which means those outside the puerile minds of the Trump administration), are discussing the new conflict in Iran with an eye for what it does to the stability of a notoriously unstable region.  If you ever want to understand what’s going on, you need to leave the cult first and stop with the projection that you’re a patriot when you are really the mindless sheep you project onto others.  Which is tough to do.  Cults are notoriously difficult to escape from.  So this is aimed more at someone dealing with a cult member.  Cults are also a movie we’ve seen before.

In the meantime, the drive for AI is another hit on average person finances.  Not only do you now have supply chain and price issues for your smartphone, your phone is likely a necessity for employment.

The Erosion of Middle Class Mental Health

Another armed conflict in the Middle East!  Strangely, I get the distinct feeling we’ve seen this movie before.  Oh yeah, I used the word ANOTHER because we have seen this movie before.

In the realm of ideas that the peddlers of bullshit conspiracy theorists have that have a kernel of truth is the psyop, of psychological operation.  And there’s not much more for promotion of a good push to the extreme than a good war. I’m fresh off a quick trip to YouTube and Facebook and the confirmation bias based vibes are heavy.  Not so much based on the content of the messages, but the number and content of the replies.  You can put up an anti Trump video and receive nothing but positive feedback.  Starkly contrasted by something what I saw on Facebook.  Our purple state governor’s thoughts about the downside of the conflict met with over 10,000 comments, almost all of which were negative.  The trolls needed some action.  Which is at least partly why the conflict was initiated.  Keep the working class busy with immediacy to fail looking at the long term bigger picture.

I’ve been keeping tabs on some former employers and things are not going well.  Publicly they are moving people out of positions they were initially hired for to fill the gaps.  Turnover is through the roof.  Every time a major news event happens (e.g. Charlie Kirk) there is a barrage of new for the moment but rooted in “we’ve seen this movie before” commentary.  “I don’t want my children and grandchildren to grow up in a world like this.”  Yet, the psyop and the psychological tricks have worked their magic for generations.  The immediacy of not paying bills is obvious.  The long term military and industrial complex government waste is ignored.  You get to be unhappy about the effects without having a clue for the causes.

Amidst the Facebook comments, wow there are a lot of Constitutional law experts creeping about.  Obama did war, and nobody said anything as a defense to Trump doing war and wasting money.  Sometimes, different people can make the same bad decisions and both be wrong.  Like Bill Clinton and Trump both being in the Epstein files.  But enough about the high end stuff at the top of the political food chain.  Back to employers, the ones that are providing the middle class jobs that are increasingly not leading to economic stability.

In my view there are three main categories of remaining Trump supporters and critics within the employers.  Never mind the Facebook and YouTube commentary crowds.  Social media has always been a haven for fake intellectual.  Actual real life stuff, when tariffs, high unemployment, stagnant wages, deliberately misreported statistics, market bubbles hit the bottom line.  The angry and perpetually unhappy working class they see daily.  How do they choose a side to be on?  That is if they do ever pick a side.

It’s also noteworthy that in this day the number of people turning against President #45/47 versus those deciding that now is the time to switch to Trump is increasingly skewed towards turning away.  Is starting another expensive and sure to be unpopular waste of money war going to work?  Or is it just a momentary psyop reprieve before the next crisis gets mishandled? 

Type 1

The middle of the road.  More interested in surviving the storm that’s here now and waiting it out.  Fully capable of making rational and calm decisions that aren’t solely motivated by exploitation of their workers.  A perfectly acceptable and logical position.  They themselves are victims of the tug of war.  Trying to cater to some employees that, for example, genuinely think immigrants are ruining the country while others are like themselves.  Wait and see.  Not getting involved and remaining aloof from the big picture.  I’m happy to report that when I touch grass and go see a movie or drop by the local library or club that most people near me seem to be uninterested in doing the social media attack dog routine.

Type 2

The ever popular, “Oh No My InVeStMeNts” crowd.  No need to recreate the wheel here.  One of picks for down to earth younger generation YouTube content creators summed it up pretty well here:

https://youtu.be/i-NkhdYLn3Q?si=DPrgZM8hGAyXFq4z

The thumbnail for the video is classic.  F**k You Got Mine.  Targeted at selfish boomers, and he’s not wrong.  Although I’d add that early Gen X jumped on this train with the rise of personal computers.  These type of people do not realize how unconvincing their arguments are.  If it’s not fascism, it at least rhymes with it.  Corporate profits above long term success of a younger generation are not important thoughts to be dwelled on.

Type 3

Compassion fatigue.  Also part of the rhymes with fascism even if it’s not psyop design.  Dropping out of society and “good men doing nothing to stop evil lets evil win” lifestyle.  Typically compassion fatigue relates to something like health care.  The overworked nurse that started by wanting to help people getting burned out by the constant trauma.  Any high stress job that requires a degree of empathy is a victim.  A school teacher.  A veterinarian.  A police officer.  A rental agent in a diverse housing community.  Anything that requires dealing with a large group of people made up of a wide variety of personalities and cultural backgrounds can be a victim of compassion fatigue.  By design, earning a paycheck just to survive becomes more important than actually giving a damn.  Think of this as F**k You, Don’t Got Mine But Its Not My Problem Anymore.

As for providing a role model to youth goes, Types 2 and 3 are pretty terrible.

Road House - Intimidation At It’s Finest

For a prologue, let’s start off by saying two things up front.  Large numbers of people simply do not understand that in a machine with a lot of moving parts like a reasonably functional democracy there are things that have been going on culturally elsewhere that have a significant impact on their lives they don’t get.  To them it’s a movie plot instead of reality.  It’s just something that happens to other people, not them.  And secondly, these movie plots don’t appear magically out of thin air.  Culturally these have appeal because they are grounded in reality.  They are relatable to real life.  The Emperor, Darth Vader, the Stormtroopers, and Rebels absolutely have a basis in actual fascist ideas and consequences.  And for more grounded in reality viewing you get things like my “we’ve seen this movie before” pick of the day - Road House, starring primo Patrick Swayze.

A couple of honorable mentions to reinforce that Road House is not the only movie like this.  The Quick and The Dead has Gene Hackman as a gunslinger ruling a small western town.  Straw Dogs is about an outsider who marries a small town girl and they move to her town.  Bad Day at Black Rock - more small town corruption to cover up a murder.  A single person or small group (oligarchy) rules the town by wealth, not by being kind or being “right” about anything.  Outsiders are bullied and harassed instantly because they haven’t been forced to fed the oligarch propaganda.  Anybody that had a conscience and functioning critical thinking left the town after high school graduation to try their luck in the big city.  Here’s someone else’s thoughts about the matter in real life outside of media:

https://jacobin.com/2021/10/local-gentry-patrick-wyman-class-wealth-power

In movies, there’s not enough time to cover all the details of the backstory for all the characters.  Especially the lower level thugs.  Star Wars Stormtroopers are as vanilla as you can get, virtually identical in appearance to provide instant recognition - this is cannon fodder.  This is instantly a recognizable bad guy, someone that it’s OK for the good guys to level a blaster at and fire away.  In Roadhouse, the thugs are a bit more human, but they’re pretty obviously what could be described most simply as a redneck.  Someone that has been culturally cultivated, educationally stunted, and economically intimidated into continually going with the flow.  A flow that is exceptionally bigoted and hateful.

This movie is even something I talked about ages ago, indirectly.  Before Qanon subverting into more direct pro Trump and anti-liberal content and extremely common self generated theme for the undereducated and financially intimidated was calling people the N word a doing gematria on the N word.  At that time, in 2018 it was common practice to look for and proudly announce you found a 42.  You would get your Attaboy!^TM from your gematria oligarch for matching it up with the celebrity death of the day, despite that fact that numerous words and synonyms related to rednecks where easily available to choose from.  The only thing Qanon changed was not picking Trump or Biden vs. not picking N word vs. Redneck when cherry picking your matches.

Nowadays, you might actually have to start a conversation with someone about Roadhouse and remind them that Ben Gazzara’s character is the bad guy.  Some people - people that aren’t voting in their own best interests or the best interests of an entire country.  Fun in the redneck town is what’s fun for the redneck cult leader as he deems fit to allow.  While not busy not having enough money to go to college and not having enough money to afford a place of your own you do get to go to the roadhouse, get drunk off your ass, buy drugs, and throw bottles at the blind band member.  Gazzara would adore his flunkies posting gematria decodes on social media with illusory thoughts of financial gains via magic.

Roadhouse stops short of having the rednecks lynching people who have the wrong skin color.  But Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is a fine stand in for the well intentioned, not bigoted, academic outsider.  He spouts philosophy long before resulting to violence.  His rules:

Keeping within the movie instead of diving into allegory (the smarter among you can do that on your own), rule 1 applies to the in movie bar fighting.  Something like that mouthy skinny guy might have a big ass knife on him.  Something to equalize the odds to make up for his lack of effective kicking someone in the face skills.  Rule 2, avoid collateral damage.  Some people just want to escape the forced economic misery for a night.  Don’t let them become the victim of a thrown bottle intended for someone else.  Rule 3, provocation is intended to get a reaction.  Don’t give them the luxury of getting inside your head.  And the modification to rule 3 will be addressed in a bit.

The plot is straightforward.  A businessman wants his bar to be profitable.  The bar is in a bad spot, because Gazzara doesn’t like the idea of someone else being successful.  This is my town.  I do what I want.  I like being the top dog so much I’m going to have to teach you a lesson.  Tom Cruise wasn’t available to play his patented best at something every role, so Swayze gets the call.  The pure of heart good versus the moustache twirling evil.  It’s kind of silly popcorn fun when you don’t look for trouble, and that trouble is how the wealthy man who controls the town really doesn’t want to lose any control.  Let’s just say that Gazzara would definitely be a modern day Republican because paying taxes is not something that rocks his boat.

The one allegory I do encourage thought on is the expansion of rule three while keeping in mind the other two.

Be nice, until it’s not time to be nice anymore.  The U.S. Democratic Party sucks at this.  Forever “being nice” will magically make the opposition magically see the error of their ways.  I swear if Schumer plays nice to try and compromise one more time….  Sometimes you have to throw in the towel and just admit that being nice is not working on someone who needs a good (metaphorical) kick to the face.  Some people, spurred by ungodly wealth, are too far invested in upping the ante to provoke that actual systemic change is necessary.

Reverse Troll Gets Taken Down

 

 I made this comment on a YouTube video 10 months ago.  That particular video was a well sourced, well organized, intelligent review of some blatant misogyny in printed media.  It was on a channel I had fairly recently discovered those 10 months ago.  Unlike a conspiracy gematria video that is purposefully a one shot deal maximized for immediate outrage porn attention, the video predates the worst of this political administration.

My purpose in commenting was not in any way seeking glory and attention for myself.  It was a message to the author, written in the secret code that truly smart people understand.  “I appreciate you.  You touched a nerve and I would rather spend time with you in real life than listening to Joe Rogan contradict himself for views and money.”

Joe Rogan was purposefully chosen for that example as a target that doesn’t fit the spirit of my post.  When I’m talking about the most terrible people on the planet, I’m talking about the out in the open corruption, hypocrisy, and cruelty of the Trump administration and all that ride the  flying monkey coattail riders like Musk.

This is far from my first rodeo being cyber trolled.  I “get” the personality of cult members more than the vast majority of members.  I “get” that you’ve been trained by dysfunctional media propaganda that an attack on the cult leader is an attack on yourself.

So two weeks ago when I got reverse trolled I was mentally prepared to shake it off without responding.  The goal of reverse trolling is to drag the target into a fake debate.  A debate that the reverse troller will never lose since all that can rely on is blatant disinformation, logical fallacies, and simply never shutting up about it.  The reverse troller can also never actually win as they are living outside of reality.  The mouth opens before the brain thinks.  Specifically for my new found friend here, the comment is the exact same kind of stupid shit I was supposed to endlessly put up with.  Thank you for proving my point.  Some people just need to mouth off for attention, as unproductive and meaningless the mouthing off may be.

10 days ago I thought I might get around to posting about this like I am now.  After a quick reply to R&R start typing away.  Well I don’t have to reply.  Someone beat me to it.  Someone that recognizes the core issue that generated eight likes on my original comment of a video made years ago.  Sometimes you just have to throw the white flag up and drop relationships with toxic people.  By R&R’s flawed logic, a beaten wife by an alcoholic husband is never supposed to admit that getting beaten is a bad thing.  He or she is right about one thing, oh yeah, I’ve got my flaws.  But being a cult member or influenced by cult group think ain’t one of them.  I’ve been accused of being flawed off topic of core issues so many times I’m numb to it, personally.

A common theme of the reverse troll is on full display here.  R&R is most definitely part of the target audience.  The author’s channel is full of anti-Musk and anti-Trump content.  Although it is a mental happy chemical to have received the eight likes, it’s not for the reason that the logical fallacy burdened trolls think.  There are other curious and intelligent people doing the same thing I did.  Making a simple display that they appreciated what I’ve said.  And showing support for the video creator indirectly, having made the video years ago that still generates open discussion about an extremely important stage of U.S. history.  A safe harbor where mostly people who want real intellectual discussion congregate.  And the common mistaken theme of the reverse troll on display?  Invading the safe space on a topic that they have zero meaningful dialogue to share.  Getting to LARP for a day as a fake intellectual bad ass.  It’s like joining a book club that is reading Dickens when you can’t even appreciate See Spot Run.  (Uh oh, there’s my flawed personality coming through.)

Back to Rogan, the gateway drug at the center of this piece.  He is not too bad, but there’s some issues.  There’s no consistency to who he platforms.  And the smart people know it.  I would rather watch a video from the author of the misogynist video any day than be caught watching a JRE podcast.  The video author is the kind of consistent high quality information that makes me say to myself, “Holy shit this guy is smarter than me.  I wish I had someone like this in my youth as a role model to hang around with.”  Instead what I got was a cult slow burn of capitalizing on the “I was born a Republican, therefore I am a Republican.”  The all or nothing group think getting a little worse every passing day, week, month, year, and literal decade.  Never swaying from the path of the progressively worse and worse fake leaders instead of true conservatism.

A few days ago, I was wondering how I could sum this up and finalize it and was rescued by one of my super powers.  The reference point and an above average memory to the rescue.  I saw something on BlueSky that went something like this:

You don't argue with your drunken uncle at holiday dinner to try and change him. You argue so the kids know they have a safe harbor to talk to.

The Event - The Modern Minotaur Story

Doomsday Bunkers

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

Hey fans of wasted resources!  Got a great one today!

Rumors are circulating that the idea of some sort of societal collapse is coming and the morbidly wealthy are calling it “The Event”.  And nothing signifies the keeping up with the Joneses aspect more than the open flaunting of building an underground bunker to “get by a rough patch.”  In the linked video, if you key in on about the 3:20 mark you get to the lines about how it’s really kind of stupid.  In September 2024 I wrote about this town created by Libertarians, a project that didn’t go well:

https://mindelessfreeks.blogspot.com/2024/09/what-if-there-was-actual-gematria-town.html?m=1

If you have an underground bunker, who exactly is the person in charge of maintaining the septic system?  Who will nurture the plants in the hydroponic farms?  (For the fans of the we've seen this movie before theme, watch Silent Running.)  Chateaubriand doesn’t grow on trees.  A ski lift and actual snow?  All the “I’m better than you because I have money and you don’t” status symbols are meaningless.

But it does give them ammunition in the I’m a Bigger Asshole Than You pissing contest.  Just watch out for that 3:20 video mark downtrodden people in the same bunker as you are.  That’s some high quality Vague Promise vs. the Fuck You situational disaster in the making.  Somebody knows their Machiavelli or Game of Thrones,  or spontaneously figures it out that revenge is an option.  Spending extended periods of time fearful of assassination is not a fun thing.  It’s the reason you want to build a doomsday bunker in the first place.  And the contradictory nature - the narcissistic need for constant glory and admiration trapped in a bunker with a few fickle minions - good luck with that.  They aren’t dining on Chateaubriand and can’t eat bitcoin.  The entire infrastructure that allowed fraud on a massive scale to produce their ungodly wealth in the first place is gone.

These modern King Minos people are not mentally healthy.  The entire lot of them.

The Epstein Class of people that spend more effort covering up heinous crimes with cruelty for distraction.  Therapy to rehabilitate is out of the question at this point.  They’re too far gone.  I think of the labyrinth holding the Minotaur metaphorically.  Minos’s actions are a symptom of being trapped in his own mind, one that equates power and cruelty for control as admiration.

The mindset of the angry preppers from the golden days of Alex Jones is better.  But just a little bit.  They’ve grown accustomed to not being well off, poverty and voter suppression tactics reminding them of reality smacking fantasy constantly.  Caught up as pawns in the modern labyrinth.  The purposeful erosion of the middle class is a constant reinforcement that you have two choices.  Join the destitute preppers or graduate to the Epstein class.  Neither option is mentally healthy.  The odds that you’ll be genuinely happy saving up money for a portable generator that will be useless when you can’t get fuel for it vs. forced admiration to someone that would rather throw you under the bus at the first chance.  Well, at least the bus won’t have gas either….

There’s 100% certainty that if Minos was alive now he’d be prominently featured in the Epstein files.  Constantly sacrificing young Athenians to the actual monster in the labyrinth just for a little bit more attention.  Another day of pretending the imprisonment of his own thoughts and deeds eating at his conscience.  Knowing that if he dared showed up at the Super Bowl he’d be resoundingly booed, yet still insisting he’s the best king ever while the largest No Kings protest ever is brewing in the town outside the labyrinth.  Never considering that investment in the future instead of building a doomsday bunker with the resources was a better option.

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.”

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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.