Sunday, April 27, 2025
Predicting the Next Big Grift
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Know Your Grifter Tactics - New/Obscure Gematria Ciphers
It’s just a happy coincidence that the original poster of this decode match chose OBSCURE while using an obscure cipher. I’m not familiar with anything close to a widespread use of these, mostly because the EFL - Elizabethan Football League - folded many centuries ago. Presumably, Elizabethan ciphers are based off the idea that the Old English Alphabet is missing several of the 26 letters we know today. And over time the missing ones were added singularly instead of all at once getting us to the full 26 we use now. You can Google “What letters are missing in the Elizabethan Alphabet” for more detail on how J,K,Q,V,W, and Z got the short end of the stick for a long time.
Calling it Elizabethan Gematria is by itself a tactic grifters capitalizing on a known grift use. The same way most people stick with the music that was popular while they were growing up, most loons today are familiar with the four base ciphers for the “regular” alphabet and the values 1-26. And although there’s a bunch more available on the Gematrinator calculator only those four get significant usage. So if you are making a low budget movie and need a hook you do something like put words together that don’t make sense. Sharknado. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. And Elizabethan combined with the Hebrew background of gematria, that doesn’t make any sense.
The point is, you’re supposed to get curious about how you got a different interpretation than what you are used to.
Since the original poster doesn’t provide a familiar number you are supposed to get curious. Oh wise and wonderful master. Teach me your ways so that I too may one day spend hours doom scrolling on the Internet and get bombarded by shitty ads for magic candles, tarot cards and Alex Jones vitamins.
And there is some explaining to do. Exactly how many of the missing letters are dropped in your Elizabethan cipher? Here’s one that has all the letters, but just the numbers 1-24:
I and J are both 9. U and V are both 20. Even playing around with this format and the famous missing 6 leads to a whole bunch of variations. Maybe one day I’ll try to do the math, but for now just trust me - it’s a lot. All with the valid claim, as flimsy as it is to be called by a high powered word like valid, that they are a form of Elizabethan Gematria.
One of the first things casual readers of gematria narratives with a bit of brain power will associate with Elizabethan is Shakespeare. See, how smart we are? We’re reading Shakespeare here, not just ordinary modern text! Now I’m decoding old time smart people’s works! And don’t forget how the modern Capitals Added cipher used to be called Francis Bacon. That must be valid, because he’s an Olde Timey Dude, too!
The choice of matching SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE with OBSCURE HORROR GAMES is also so typical of gematria grift, even in modern times. Instead of making matches about CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS and INSIDER STOCK TRADING and what’s really going on with failing democracies, there’s much comfort to be had in knowing that some dark demonic forces are at work instead of just human beings who have no business being elected officials are colossal douches. Or admired CEOs aren’t really that smart, just better at getting away with theft than you’ll ever be.
Just an aside about the Elizabethan Short R cipher. I’d love to see someone do a full decode of Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia
Surely there’s something going on there that needs to be uncovered. An unsolved mystery just waiting for someone to take a break from picking the next Super Bowl champion after the game is over.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Know Your Propagandist Tactics - Hypocrisy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right_pipeline
The proverbial rabbit hole entrance. A hook based on a seemingly innocuous entrance to sports gambling for fun and profit (spoiler alert, the profit part is definitely missing, the fun part is questionable at best). Frustratingly, gematria is perfectly designed for its role as conflicting sides to a number’s meaning abound. Even the most simple and basic debunk like Truth =113 (Caps added) and Veracious = 113 (Ordinal) while Dishonest = 113 (Ordinal) and Bullshit = 113 (Reverse) has zero impact on the most closed minded confirmation biased minds.
Which means that gematria by its very nature is perfect for hypocrisy at its highest level. Funneling people to a slightly more lucid argument after getting a taste of a few too many drinks of the cult leader’s Attaboy!TM Koolaid. It’s of completely no surprise to me that the ruinous effects of the current trade war are screaming out hypocrisy. The on again off again at a whim, the arbitrary choice of amounts, the attack against those that have been erstwhile allies, and don’t forget the island inhabited by penguins. When leadership engages in hypocrisy it filters down throughout the pyramid. Those at the base have ammunition to engage in the hypocrite’s favorite game. It’s ok if my side does it, but fuck you if you’re on the other side. I’m an Astro’s fan, so if they cheat it’s fine. But those damn Yankees, screw them. They have it coming to them because they’ve been cheating far longer and worse than my beloved ‘Stros. It’s all fun and games until it’s not and an alcohol fueled fight it the parking lot puts someone in the hospital just because he likes, “the wrong team.”
And that’s a lovely segue to today’s main event. The Drew Carey Show season 2 finale, New York and Queens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_and_Queens
While a trade war is bubbling along, alienating trading partners en masse and demonstrating a lopsided all or nothing lack of cooperation, so much for checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution, the murmurings that something was wrong with Trump’s lack of consistency were on display before the actual economic damage. For the gematria angle, try this out:
Conspiracy propaganda gematria has always relied on hypocrisy even when not laying claim to direct antonyms in language. Does that mean Donald has an affinity for drag queens, or does it mean he’s a champion of far right justice destined to fight the culture war hot topic that is the perceived dangers of the drag queens? It’s either or neither or both simultaneously. In this case it’s both, since Trump’s cameo appearance in this episode isn’t generally acknowledged. Both movies involved in the plot and a major part of the end of the episode are drag queen movies. Even the title while seemingly just a reference to the borough in New York is a joke about the upcoming bit about drag queens. If Trump had any consistency, why did he not proclaim he wanted nothing to do with the repulsive content of this show?
While the lower levels of the cult pyramid are embroiled in the controversy over a transgender for beer being the worst thing that’s ever happened to our country vs. protesting and driving down the price of Tesla’s is terrorism, it was snuck into the historical record that Donald new full well he was involved in a script for the Drew Carey Show involving those evil drag queens. And didn’t have any problem with it at all at the time, because for the toxic narcissist any attention is good attention. You just have to live with changing your budget and retirement plans because he can’t make up his mind on what he truly believes in, other than himself.
For those that love to make mountains out of molehills I offer you a bit of a peace offering. Instead of worrying about important stuff like long term respect in the world of global trading and sound economics, there is already an image appropriate for you.
Proof that penguins need to be taught a lesson and deserve to have tariffs placed on them. Whether you want this to incite you to beat up a drag penguin in the stadium parking lot is up to you.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Know Your Grifter Tactics - Ludicrous Claims
https://www.youtube.com/live/jZMs5WbgFw8?si=FwN82He-_cMlMGuo
The rebranding is underway. Over two hours of introduction of the new podcast, Count On It. Complete with a lack of much actual gematria, the screen background showing the various donation links, and the call in phone number.
Perhaps on purpose, therefore not so ironically, the first caller ever to the show was a supporter, pumping up how great Zach’s content is and how terribly he was mistreated by those ebil (not a typo) bastards who mercilessly out debated Zach by pointing out his unwillingness to generate a genuine prediction live on air, thus recorded for posterity.
But the stakes are raised here. Please fast forward or jump to about 1:31:10. That will give you a chance to settle in to the whopper coming a few seconds later.
Gematria Saves Lives
In the lead up to this we have the usual talking points. I’ve been doing this so long. I’m being persecuted and my channels keep getting taken down. The algorithm is out to get me.
The same way that there’s no need to get subscription donations for a magic gambling system, if it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it isn’t true. Never in the 10+ years has there ever been a well known story of someone who has had their life literally saved by gematria. An inescapable result of waiting until after the fact to report on what happened. And even this recording touts that this remarkably competent evil empire, the best they can do instead of kill you is to mock you. (It’s a little bit before the saving lives comment.) Give me your money and I will expose the mockery that didn’t kill you because you are still alive to listen to these outrageous claims today.
Now instead of just shitty sports picks losing money we’re treading on weird religious cult territory. I’d really like to hear that first caller who pipes up about how gematria literally saved their life.
That synchronicity with a 20 year old TV show about a teenage girl killing vampires saved my life!
Woke up feeling bad, but remembered to check out that eclipse ritual from last night, and by golly bitcoin dropped in price! Was really thinking of drinking two pots of coffee and that shit would probably have killed me!
My girlfriend left me because the Yankees lost last night. Pretty sure she would murder me in my sleep if we stuck together. Didn’t lose any money on a bet, but I’m sure there is some numbers in there somewhere.
Here’s a variation without using gematria:
There’s a lot of things wrong with the world, and I’m not dead yet. There are a lot of things that saved my life.
You don’t need an occult crank system to identify that things are wrong. The things that are wrong are being speed run in real time. Markets are crashing, tensions are high, prices are out of control, protesters are protesting, vigilantes are murdering, Fox News is Foxing, Democrats are ignoring, storms are storming, habitats are collapsing. It used to be reading a newspaper, now it’s reading an algorithm driven outrage porn story on the internet. Do you really need to give money to someone for a two or three digit number to remind you that you haven’t died yet despite a world gone mad?
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Say Hello To The Boys
Years from now, when we’ve mutated to have our remaining dwindling population capable of withstanding temperatures in the 100 degree Fahrenheit range, scholars will be discussing current series like Severance and The Boys. There themes being a product of current times, an updated take on old stories of ultra wealthy and powerful abuse of power modernized.
My original intent was to discuss that despite the matching gematria that Homelander in The Boys is not a stand in for Donald Trump. This critique is fairly common.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jun/28/the-boys-homelander-trump-rightwing-fanbase
One of the beauties of gematria is that when things don’t turn out quite right on the easiest matches you get to cheat. I didn’t feel like doing that, playing around with prime number lists or transposition of digits and fairly quickly latched on to a reasonable substitute. The current President:
At the simplest description that doesn’t do justice to the series writers, The Boys answers the basic question of, What if Superman was a dickhead?”
As recently pointed out here, the current crop of villains are badly written, with the alarming feature of them being real life people who seem dead set on never acknowledging their gross incompetence and reveling in the damage they do to the world. Yes, a lot of the boxes on the list are checked off. But at the end of the day Homelander, viewed as a superhero despite being a well written arch villain, is actually competent at the superhero alter ego. Musk and Trump, not so much. Homelander can effectively superpower his way into killing and intimidating his way to get what he wants. Our real life villains whose superpower is being admired for wealth through fraud and getting away with it are constantly contradicting themselves, backtracking, and making whimsical decisions that make no sense.
The Boys season 4 has not been going over well with long time fans of the show. Somewhere along the way I should have mentioned that I’ve never watched it, not needing another monthly subscription drawing money from me relating to my entertainment budget. The complaint being that the show is now “too woke”. The right wing buzz phrase for, “I hate the idea of giving a shit about other people.” It appears to me that the show was purposefully designed, like The Prisoner, to have a definitive conclusion with a season 5 series finale coming in 2026. For comparison you have The Walking Dead with some compelling and well written early villains that petered out into a blatant cash grab and just dragged on long after it wasn’t any real fun anymore. The Boys could give us a spectacular season 5, with the rest of this year to tweak the storylines based on current events. Redeeming itself from an off year.
Except nothing is going to redeem the show in the eyes of the right wing fanbase that gave up on season 4. Their admiration of villains exposed makes them uncomfortable in real life. The desire to do whatever they want without consequences leading them down a path where the stark consequences of unchecked power and villainy is becoming clearer. Their real life hook (financial security), satirically written as blood, vulgarity and death by laser eye beams doesn’t change that they will never get actual superpowers the same way that their offspring have increasingly less chances of having long term promises fulfilled. A home, a stable career, a pension of sorts in retirement. The 7, the group that Homelander leads, has already done significant long term damage. The poorest ending IMO would be to give him a redemption story where he sacrifices himself. A better ending would be a Prisoner style unanswered question. The writers have a lot of wiggle room to work with, so it’s a wait and see.
On the purely entertainment side, Antony Starr is marvelous as Homelander. Although never seeing a full episode I have seen lots of clips. At times sneering, totally terrifying when in full evil mode, at times the insecure toxic narcissist that more closely resembles our real life poorly written villains. Unable to get true admiration and love because he’s incapable of doing anything worthy of being loved. Rumor has it his audition won him the part based on his cool and nonchalant attitude. An attitude that was so relaxed because he didn’t really think he would land the part.
No Antony, it’s a character with nuance, not just a hulking brute. You nailed it.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Know Your Grifter Takedown Technique - Debate Tactics
https://www.youtube.com/live/RIeGB1T7ZrU?si=6mFlt9f-5-NEWaM1 - Source material, a debate panel on the usefulness of gematria
https://youtu.be/Iv4_HSRvg_8?si=Mje6uuVN8J-FwucD - Sports Gematria’s edited highlights
Just in case you need the full source material, the top link is a 9 hour 45 minute marathon debate session of almost entirely Zach debunking himself amidst unfriendly fire from critics. The second link is Sports Gematria’s edited outtakes along with March Madness failures.
If you had the ability to rewind to 10 years ago, such a debate had no chance of existing. Zach, either a natural bullshitter or well practiced in delivering logical fallacies and shady debate tactics (more likely a combination of both), gathered an audience who just couldn’t get enough of Alex Jones style content. Anybody who was willing to challenge him was woefully unprepared to meet him head on. Now, things are different. You can even approach the videos with a mindset of conspiracy theory truth being a vital part of society and being loaded with lots of good ideas and still gather some important lessons. Mostly, that someone with a blatantly obvious desire for your money is not working in your best interests.
The old format, stolen from Alex Jones, worked something like this. Spend a couple of years of prep time gathering a modest audience, becoming a “gematria influencer”. Get a significant number of people invested in the middle level of the cult pyramid. Convince them to put out blogs and videos of their own. Give them a little bit of attention and Attaboy!TMs so they get something they've been missing from their lives. The rare chance to be called right even though their lifestyle has turned them into a person who is constantly wrong. But, a person who is constantly wrong BUT EXTREMELY LOUD ABOUT IT. The kind of person sane people pray does not show up at the bar they frequent that insist on debating you about what was said on Fox News the previous night and doesn’t mind something mind numbingly stupid like gematria decodes as added fuel to their pseudo intellectual brainwashed persona. Then keep them fired up enough to have all roads lead back to Zach’s fundraisers. Let social media algorithms lack of integrity allow the game show fans to find gematria content while enjoying a Wheel of Fortune. Let bad news junkies doom scroll into the disasters in the headlines yesterday and stumble on gematria. Let the Cubs fans find the endless and daily sports decodes.
And when you’re constantly wrong about everything, you are a prime cognitively biased target to fall for the sports betting scam. And part of the internet gambling epidemic that is reaching epic proportions.
If you have enough critical thinking skills you may get sidetracked and realize that some of this commentary will reflect badly on the way Trump and Musk are operating the U.S. government. Like, bullying entire countries with a cockamamie tariff plan and threats of invasion. Filling the mid level with lackeys of monstrous incompetence and corruption and pissing off everyone else to the point that they have little recourse but to push back. Sorry about that, but I did try to warn you years ago. I will try to keep focused on the Hubbard version of the con for the duration of this post.
So years ago, with a significant keyboard warrior army of people with a high tendency to be wrong about stuff there’s a pool of folks that desperately want to believe they can supplement their income by making winning sports bets. And some those folks are more than willing to defend their cult leader to the end. A ready made pool of the kind of person who would make a screen name like AlexJonesIsRight. The number of those has been steadily dwindling. What the Zach’s of the world hadn’t counted on is sustained pressure armed with actual facts. Pressure and push back on a daily basis.
If you read some of the comments to the videos you can get the gist of the core argument by Zach critics. You might disguise it by occasionally claiming you don’t make predictions. You lie like crazy about your track record just like every video creator selling sports predictions. But at the center of your entire business is the simple fact that you are claiming that gematria can make accurate predictions about sports game outcomes. And yet, you have made so few actual predictions over a decade plus it’s comical that you think nobody has noticed that you are waiting until the game is over and saying, “Look, here’s how they did it!” Relying on a tool that can always fill in the blanks to support a bogus narrative. Almost 10 hours of relentless pressure to produce a single recorded for posterity ahead of time prediction that simply didn’t happen. Because it CAN’T happen. Gematria is and always will be a tool to be an after the party is over recap of what was.
So point #1. He won’t make predictions ahead of time because he can’t.
Point #2. He really doesn’t do well in an atmosphere that he’s not in total control of. People were drawn to Zach and Alex because they adored how mouthy and insulting they were. Weak competition left them as the lone man standing in the cage after the dust settled. The alpha male wannabes in the audience get to cheer mightily on how their champion got to bully his way into another self proclaimed victory. Sandy Hook parents be damned, my wallet is far more important than your ability to walk down the street without being harassed. Being interrupted to be reminded that he’s still not made the requested prediction on a livestream really doesn’t sit well with him.
Point#3. Coinciding with point #2. Where are the friends and allies coming to his defense? The debate format queues up call ins. The rabid defenders are almost nowhere to be seen. When confronted by Andrew’s sharp and pointed criticism they know that they are in for a fight instead of just someone who’s going to roll over and crumple at the first, “But SOCIETY OF JESUS = 56!!” reference. Norm Pattis had to go up against a real lawyer in Mark Bankston. Zach doesn’t always get to go up against a weak argument like “The Earth is flat” as some kind of proof that this means gematria is wrong.
My IRL style is more aligned with ignoring the loud mouth at the other end of the bar instead of direct conflict. But direct confrontation from the right person of people does have its place. Finding someone who can at least communicate facts in a proper and respectful manner most of the time goes a long way. Getting fired up and passionate in tandem with being respectful when that’s called for is a skill I can admire that I don’t have. And for those who claim to be patriots that really aren’t I sign off with this from John Adams. An angry true patriot that knew when to cooperate and who to cooperate with.
I find this highly appropriate in these troubled times as there are a couple things you need to realize about this beyond taking it at face value without context. It may have been borrowed instead of created by Adams. And this was actually in defense of British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre. Reminding us that actual truth is actual truth and not just what makes you feel good.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The Story of Ron Vara
Oh it’s just weird they said. It’s just some harmless fun. Until you get the story of Ron Vara. Even more crazy than a made up gematria story, because it’s true. And it sounds in part like a bullshit conspiracy terminally online gematria edgelord wannabe and or grifter made it up.
Now Pete Navarro has got quite a grip on a record you normally wouldn’t want. But in this administration, the crazier and more incompetent you are, the further you go while ordinary people watch their retirement savings disappear. You see, Pete actually spent a bit of time, four months, in a federal prison. So of course instead of the sanity of that instantly disqualifying him as a trade advisor, instead that elevates him to MAGA godhood.
So how did that happen? Well Pete’s written himself some books. It looks like he got tired of being a real economist after one year in the wild and he started to get weird. And eventually, having a deep seated hatred of China, he wrote some books that eventually caught the eye of Jared Kushner. Then it moved along (up, down, it’s awfully hard to tell at this point) the food chain and Trump got wind of it. Hating China and Tariffs, a golden combo there.
But Pete was lonely, because his actual economic knowledge was not so good. And the only attention he got himself was emailing praise from a fake persona by the name of Ron Vara. (We don’t have word if there’s also a fake wife or girlfriend, but give it some more time.). Now maybe I’ve been putting too much time typing into gematria calculators, or too much Wordle, or maybe I’m just really smart. But it took me about two seconds to figure out that RON VARA is an anagram for NAVARRO. That’s right, what will soon be the ex strongest economy in the world was brought down by crazy economics from a convicted criminal that couldn’t even find a more convincing fake name than an anagram of his own last name.
Kind of makes you wonder why someone would pay money to gamble on sports when all they do is play around with numbers and words and complain a lot. It doesn’t? Well it should. You’re spreading the misinformation and disinformation that stokes the flames of a Ron Vara actual story coming to be. In addition to your own gambling losses.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Know Your Old School Grift - The Egg Curse Scam
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_telling_fraud
Eggs? Like an entire country’s economic news being obsessed with eggs. And the sleight of hand of switching out real economic data and knowledge with…whatever you call this poor substitute. This is why hundreds of thousands took to the streets in protest yesterday. I’m sick of your scams. Give me a functional eggconomy and government back.
There is some talent involved in the traditional egg curse grift. Not everyone can pull off the magician part of switching out a normal egg with a rigged egg. I could drone on about my extensive real life experiences in a “vote Republican or forget about a career” office environment. Instead I choose to emphasize the difference between the egg curse scam and gematria grift. At least for today.
So the first step is an old fashioned cold reading. The bujo experts seek to get some quick info, is this person here kind of on a lark because fortune telling might be fun? Is it for the lulz, or do they maybe believe in this enough to go further? And what’s their financial situation like? People get all kinds of crazy stupid when money is involved. In gematria, the cold reading is spamming the internet with blog posts and videos. Then the marks come to you, identifying themselves as gullible by posting comments. And the financial situation is most often found by their mere presence in sports gematria content. Smarter people will more likely know something funny is up. The more desperate and less risk averse will be courted into at least giving it a try for a sports season.
The sleight of hand is missing from gematria grift. There’s no need to have a physical object produced to switch out with a cursed object. No need to tinker with rigging a physical object to be switched out. Gematria itself is the switch. There’s always an alternate narrative. In addition to direct antonyms with the same values there’s always a handy and quite overused excuse. The forces of evil are on to me and flipped the script. Here’s what really happened yesterday with the numbers on that game I picked wrong. Not tinkering around much in the physical world and reporting on numbers after the fact also has the advantage of creating any backstory you want. You can go to the extent of creating fake family and friends, all that along with yourself can have an infinite variation in what fake events happened to them to produce mind bogglingly amazing gematria stories. None of which can be proven or disproven. None of which need to be concerned much with contradicting ongoing stories with other marks. You’re in the target’s mind, not needing to sit right next to them to give you money, thanks to Patreon.
The finale of the bujo is destruction of the mark’s money. The curse is lifted when the cursed money is destroyed. Presumably you can move on with life and prosper after paying some kind of occult tax. Instead your money was not destroyed, but went to someone who really just wanted to keep it. You’ve been provided with some sort of finality on the status of the cursed money. Gematria, on the other hand is weaker in this regard. Instead of finality, well yeah sure your Patreon support disappeared from your bank account, it’s “good” money. An investment. One that you are required to keep giving as the imaginary carrot is dangled in front of you. It’s a safe business model for the grifter in that whatever losses you have, YOU DID IT WRONG. There’s an infinite supply of fake winners and their fake stories that can be created to counter how instead of you being cursed, you just happen to suck at decoding.
Finally, there’s the consequences of getting caught. Both can be limited to a petty enough theft that it gets pointless to try and regain your lost money. You would end up spending far more on a private detective and lawyers than the money you get back, unless somehow you scored someone who had six figures or more to hand over to you. The only safe way is to not play in the first place. Know your grifter tactics online and not just safeguard yourself, also educate those you care about.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Fascinating Horror
I haven’t had this much fun since binge watching Forensic Files on HLN. Forensic Files was essentially the same plot over and over with just slight twists. First, here’s an incredibly stupid criminal. Add said criminal doing something incredibly stupid. Then the investigators look into it and find out that incredibly stupid criminal left enough of a trail and gets jailed. Real life crime stories. It’s CSI without supermodel female investigators and multiple easy to spot red herrings.
This YouTube channel is much the same. Real life accident. A bunch of people die. The investigators find out that costs were cut somewhere and someone was negligent. And maybe, only maybe, someone got nailed for being irresponsible.
I highly recommend you view at least some of these documentaries. They are all short enough that you don’t need to invest an hour or even half an hour to digest the entire video. In the last eight videos as of this writing the longest is about 14 1/2 minutes. The one thing I would change is the name of the channel.
The Horrors of Deregulation
It’s all fun and games until it’s you or someone you know that gets hurt by a tragic accident. And the vast majority of times these horrors are always in part due to someone doing something they know was a bad idea and was just hoping they wouldn’t get caught. Chicken grease in a restaurant that wasn’t up to cleaning standards adding extra fuel to that fire started by an electrical shortage. The nightclub that locked the fire exits so people wouldn’t sneak in to avoid the cover charge. The boat that capsized because it was too heavy. The aircraft maintenance not done that should have been done. The carbon monoxide fumes overcoming the train operators. Over and over again these videos recap what went wrong leading to tragedy that could and should have been avoided.
This is somewhat like modern conspiracy content without the artificial scapegoat added. The denouement is the higher ups are pretty much caught red handed and whether they get away with saying, “I’m sorry”, and a slap on the wrist or if there’s at least a hefty fine and some settlement money going to victims or families of victims. It’s extremely rare that it’s just a freak accident that was unavoidable.
At least occasionally there’s someone acting heroically like the man going back into the burning plane to save an infant. Today, that man would be labeled a crisis actor in a modern conspiracy video. The corporate big wheels would be ignored. Instead it would be blamed on the propaganda generated scapegoat of the day. Almost assuredly today this would be blamed on DEI policies. Because sure. Cutting costs by corporate fat cats is always the responsibility of people not being hired by corporate fat cats cutting costs. The actual problem is not enough people being employed at all. When your plane can’t land when you want it too it’s likely to be overworked air traffic controllers regardless of their scapegoatable qualities.
I recommend you watch a few of these old stories and get desensitized to it by that doom scrolling. Or whatever you call doom scrolling on YouTube. Accidents due to cost cutting are about to reach epic proportions in the U.S. Every single member, and that’s not hyperbole, every single member in a high office in the current administration was placed in position due to loyalty to corporate interests and not actually doing a good job. Cost cutting and trimming the budget doesn’t mean the stated reduction in existing fraud. It means unemployment and reduction in staffing and not having to pay people to do a job that should be done by a person and not a robot. If this channel or a similar channel exists a couple decades from now it will be recapping the horrors of unchecked climate change disasters, pandemic caused staffing shortages, sea level rise flooding, etc….
Whether there’s some bullshit gematria along with that remains to be seen.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Ignoring the Warnings From History
Years ago, Qanon nonsense in full swing, the warnings were sent out. Gematria and other conspiracy light content was an invitation to the rabbit hole. Enter and you will be greeted by friendly commentary. Even if you are regurgitating completely batshit crazy disinformation, if you are part of the in crowd you’re a friend. But, you need to graduate to the next level to be held up as a true believer. Spread it to the potential new recruits. Seek out those who know it’s stupid and relentlessly attack them. Attack them with more made up bullshit. Combine this with a sunk cost fallacy of not wanting to give up on your time investment and maybe even a hefty financial investment you are now in the clutches of a political influencer. Now all <insert scapegoat party> here are evil. All <insert in group party> are cool. Until <in group party member> does something publicly disparaging to <in group party> and is now a <in group nickname for traitor>.
And no matter what the leaders of the party say or do, no matter how ruinous it is to the lives of others, no matter if it’s batshit crazy stupid everyone on the globe is now affected.
When tariffs were first announced as a trade war weapon, much was said about how they wouldn’t work as claimed. It was actually going to do the opposite of what was claimed. Even the WSJ went as far as calling it the dumbest trade war in history:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb2
But now we’re at gematria level nonsense in the trade war.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tariffs-antarctic-islands-heard-mcdonald/
That’s right. The precious exports of uninhabited Antarctic islands are being hit with a 10% tariff. If the goal is to blitz scale the destruction of the U.S. economy to deliberately crash it, we are well ahead of schedule. Further proof that each and every person in this administration hasn’t got a clue about governing. All you get is lies and sound bites to be repeated to and by the easily misguided. As global tensions increase, savings will dry up for lower class folks struggling to buy necessities. The middle class with some savings will see the rate of return drop. Our once a decade now economic downturn will be remembered in part by assessing tariffs on islands with no people as the scapegoats. Ultimately it doesn’t matter if slipping these islands on to the list was a misguided error by someone genuinely not knowing the innocuous nature of the targets or it was just trolling for a joke.