The NYTimes’ primary function isn’t journalism. It’s narrative coordination—setting the frame so the entire political-media machine knows how to think about an issue before it takes off.
Ever notice how, overnight, everyone starts saying “Biden is sharp as a tack” or “JD Vance is weird”?
It’s not random. It’s a system.
The Narrative Pipeline: How The Blob Operates
The NYTimes, NPR, WaPo, CNN, and the rest don’t just react to news. They function as a distributed, decentralized mission command system for the Democratic Party and the broader Blob.
Step 1: Local Bureau Chiefs – These guys are stationed across the country, watching which stories gain traction and fielding calls from Dem operatives feeding them narratives.
Stories that they need to start controlling
Step 2: New York Editors – Bureau chiefs snip the news and send it to NY, where an editor triages it:
•Will this explode nationwide?
•Will it simmer for days?
•Or should we bury it?
Step 3: Editorial Meeting – The most concerning stories get flagged. Here, editors decide on the narrative framing and who to assign to write it.
But before they assign a journalist, they make one critical call—to the Deep State.
Why? To give the government a head start on controlling the story.
At this point, the Deep State doesn’t just say, “Here’s what happened.”
They strategically select sources based on the tone they want.
•If they need hawkish China rhetoric, they have a “China hardliner” expert on speed dial.
•If they want to downplay a Chinese spy scandal, they go to a “dovish” China expert who will say it’s being blown out of proportion.
•If it’s a military scandal, they pick a “trustworthy” retired general to subtly steer the discussion toward a desired conclusion.
This isn’t journalism—it’s perception warfare.
Once the tone is set, the editor assigns the story and suggests the approved sources to call.
The journalist’s job is simple:
•Get quotes from the right experts.
•Write it up.
•Stick to the approved angles
If something goes wrong with the angle (e.g. a source exposes it as a lie) they return to the editor for “guidance”
Occasionally, a journalist oversteps. If it’s minor, it passes. If it’s major, the editor kills the piece, buries it on page 16, or reassigns it to a more trusted writer to “correct” the framing.
Overstep too many times and your reassigned to local news or gently (it’s not your fault, we LOVE your spark, just downsizing) let go
Do a really good job sticking to the approved script you’ll get awards or book deals and travel assignments
Nobody flatly says “this award isn’t for toeing the party line” because that would expose the scam
No, these journalist are smart. They either pick up on the reward incentives or they are gently pushed aside.
Suddenly, every news outlet, late-night host, and blue check is reinforcing the same message.
And because they aren’t technically taking orders, they think it’s their own independent analysis.
This is why the narrative feels so unified. No one’s forcing compliance—it’s a system that rewards alignment.
Now each individual pundit and blog is allowed to post independently but they all know unconsciously to work the narrative because that’s where the rewards are.
If someone breaks the narrative in a bug way intentionally there are three options:
1) smear campaign to make them toxic 2) ban them from the system (wikipedia blacklist, social media throttle, no DC party invites, no pentagon press pass, etc) 3) turn them into a double agent who claims to buck the narrative but subtly shifts things left (@bariweiss is the ultimate genius at this)
Not all stories emerge organically. Sometimes, the Deep State calls first.
•A senior editor gets a call:
•“Everyone in DC is talking about how weird JD Vance is.”
•The next morning, at the editorial meeting, that becomes:
•“People are saying JD Vance is weird. Let’s get some stories on that.”
•Then every editor repeats it to their reporters:
•“Did you hear JD Vance is weird? Let’s explore that.”
Suddenly, every news outlet, late-night host, and blue check is reinforcing the same message.
And because they aren’t technically taking orders, they think it’s their own independent analysis.
This is why the narrative feels so unified. No one’s forcing compliance—it’s a system that rewards alignment.
The deep state tries its best to play a soft hand.
They let things emerge around the narrative and only step in if the narrative is evolving in a bad way or new information disturbs the narrative
So where does this organic command and control system come from?
Well, the military, of course
Why This Matters: The Mission Command Model
This decentralized coordination mirrors how the best militaries operate—through a doctrine called Mission Command.
A bad general micromanages:
•“Move three platoons and six tanks around this road and attack the base.”
A good general gives flexibility:
•“Take this logistics base by X time. Figure out the best way.”
A great general sets intent:
•“We need to cripple their supply lines. Here’s what we know about their logistics.”
The best commanders set objectives, not orders—then let their officers adapt on the ground.
This is exactly how the NYTimes and the Blob operate.
They don’t give direct orders to every outlet. They set the intent—how the political-media machine should think about an issue.
Then, think tanks, columnists, TV hosts, and activists execute their own variations of the message.
Why Republicans Keep Losing the Narrative War
Republicans don’t have this.
•No clear commander’s intent.
•No unified messaging framework.
•No ecosystem where think tanks, media, and party strategists move in the same direction.
Instead, it’s chaotic, reactive, and uncoordinated.
Meanwhile, Democrats operate like a well-oiled Mission Command system—not because of a single top-down controller, but because every key player understands their role in pushing the message.
And until Republicans build a competing system, they’ll always be playing defense.
BUT TRUMP HAS BROKEN THE DEMS MISSION COMMAND SYSTEM
The famed fighter pilot John Boyd (who literally wrote the manual for top gun)
OODA is a process for making better calculated decisions faster
Observe
Orient
Decide
Act
I can’t go into all the details on how the food system works, if you can throw a LOT of information at an enemy
Information of all kinds, including false information
They start to get overloaded
This is what is called THE FOG OF WAR
Now military have been doing fake attacks and fake information and maneuvering around objectives for centuries but what Boyd found is you can’t just overload the enemy system because your troops will also get overloaded with information
What you have to do is MOVE and adapt l.
Thrown out a ton of information then let your officers change frequently
In the field an officer might bypass the logistics base and go for the train rail but then misinformation causes the enemy to abandon the base so the officer will turn around and destroy it
In a fighter jet you might fly straight so the enemy things you have a problem then when he’s on your tail most people would push the throttle… Boyd said it might be better to drop the flops as a break to make the enemy fly right past you
Be unpredictable !
Boyd called this “maneuver warfare” because you’re always maneuvering around the enemy
If you can not only throw out more information, but move a lot faster then your enemy and change tactics on the fly you will “get inside the enemy’s ooda loop” and win easily
This is exactly what TRUMP is doing
The sheer number of stories is absolutely overloading the New York Times app
New York Times editors do not have time to coordinate with the deep state and coax the process
Trump is completely overloading the information distribution system
And he’s not just overloaded the system but he’s moving FAST and adapting tactics
Instance in Panama, he was demanding the canal, but then when he went down, there took a quick win with giving Navy ship’s free transit and kicking China
Then he’s onto Canadian tariffs before the New York Times editors can figure out what the hell happened in Panama
And well before they can develop a narrative for Panama
Boyd didn’t just teach us how to defeat the enemy—he taught us how to recognize when you’re already winning.
The easiest way to tell? The enemy starts making really dumb moves.
They waste ammo shooting into empty forests, convinced you’re still there—when you actually left two days ago. They fly in a senior general to bark orders, trying to reassert control over a situation already spiraling out of their hands.
Sound familiar?
That’s exactly what the Democrats are doing right now. Chuck Schumer is firing off a constant stream of bombastic orders, desperate to override events he can’t control. The media is fixated on asinine distractions—like the price of eggs—while the real war is being fought elsewhere.
When the enemy is losing, they can’t see the forest for the trees.
Take the aid collapse—a massive exposure of corruption. Instead of grasping the real problem, Democrats have tunnel vision, obsessing over physical access to the building rather than the deeper rot it’s exposing.
And when they’re really losing? They go after the general.
Boyd taught us that when an enemy is out of options, they target the figurehead, hoping to break morale. That’s exactly what’s happening with Elon.
But a great general knows the game. Patton famously commanded a full fake army during D-Day, letting the enemy fixate on him while lower-level officers did the real work.
And that’s where we are now. The Democrats are flailing, distracted, and losing control. Meanwhile, the real fight is happening far below their line of sight.
In short the sheer number of stories on the NYTimes app right now, no deep clear narrative, tunnel focus on things that don’t matter, and bombastic attempts by generals like Schumer and AOC…. Whole point to one irrefutable fact.
TRUMP IS LITERALLY RUNNING CIRCLES AROUND THEM
Did Boyd teach us how to defeat masterful maneuver warfare like the kind Trump is executing now?
YES. But…
1️⃣ Maneuver warfare is insanely hard to stop. In any scenario, it’s designed to keep the enemy off balance.
2️⃣ What looks chaotic is actually a well-planned assault. Trump isn’t just making one move at a time—he’s prepped multiple maneuvers for every possible response. If Democrats attack a specific front, he simply drops one plan and picks up another—fully baked, ready to go.
He’s had years to refine this. The Democrats? They’re starting from scratch.
3️⃣ Maneuver warfare isn’t just about the “four-stars” (Elon, JD, Hegseth) or even the “three-stars” (Cabinet Secretaries). The real game is won by the one-stars and two-stars—the undersecretaries, chiefs of staff, and frontline commanders.
And Democrats? They haven’t even begun to focus on the actual battlefield command center—guys like @michaelgwaltz, a literal Green Beret who spent two decades mastering maneuver warfare.
4️⃣ I’m not about to explain how they can win in a Twitter thread.
If Democrats want a shot, they’ll have to start reading John Boyd themselves.
JK OUT
Wow!
A RT from Elon—honored, sir! 🫡 Now, let’s crush MSM. How?
BONUS 1/4 - Independent Media John Boyd Style
Bonus 2/4
I learned the NYTimes tricks because I run the small narrowly focused independent maritime news site @gCaptain
Boyd taught us that small, distributed, and specialized units dominate maneuver warfare. Independent news in general is excellent. People like @charliekirk11, @JackPosobiec & @ShawnRyan762 are crucial, but their scope is wide.
We also need specialists who think independently from editors.
We want independent journalists who own their niche. My own publication gCaptain focuses only on shipping & naval ops. @mercoglianos does the same on Youtube.
Drilling down you have @MikeSchuler focused just on ships while people like @cdrsalamander focus just on navies. Or even more specialized @maphumanintent on tariffs and trade.
Big outlets can do this too—@BreitbartNews is solidly right with editorial commander’s intent BUT their military editor, @kristina_wong, is sharp, independent, and excellent at her craft.
Support the specialists. That’s how we win.
Bonus 3/4:
@MikeBenzCyber is the perfect case study in why specialization wins. His focus? Internet censorship—not humanitarian aid. Yet he was the one who exposed USAID corruption because it intersected with his niche. That revelation triggered a chain reaction, pushing other independent journalists to dig deeper.
The New York Times has leaned liberal my entire life, but it was still a great news organization—until it abandoned specialists for generalists in the early 2000s.
In my field—shipping—they used to have dedicated dock reporters who lived and breathed maritime news. Now? Nothing. And it shows.
The BIG difference between specialist and generalist journalists? Sources.
Specialists build deep, trusted networks. Generalists rely on the same recycled “blob” sources and editorial databases—so they never break real news.
Look at me. I’m a ship captain. @gCaptain doesn’t write about media or politics. But watching the NYT bungle maritime stories for years—especially their terrible naval shipbuilding coverage—led me to investigate their process… and eventually write this thread.
Bonus 4/4 - The Blob’s War on Independent Media
But there is a big problem with specialized media: the Blob can’t control it. It also can’t outright delete it. So what does it do? Throttle.
For conservative news specialists, that means smear campaigns. Look at @JackPosobiec—accused of being a Russian agent. This man is a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Ridiculous. But once you’re on a blacklist, Google and others use it to throttle search results.
But what about conservative specialists without a news platform? They’re harder to attack—so the New York Times just buries them in allegations. Look at @MikeBenzCyber. NYT writes hit pieces, and because their articles dominate Google snippets. Social media sites pull in these snippets snd throttle him
And it’s not just conservatives who get nailed. The Blob throttles anyone it can’t control. @gCaptain is bipartisan—we have more liberal journalists than conservatives like me—yet Wikipedia straight-up deleted my personal page for being “irrelevant” and blacklisted gCaptain for “spamming” (we added facts to Wikipedia maritime articles).
Why does this matter? Because Google can’t keep its own public blacklist (or they’d get sued). But they can use Wikipedia’s blacklist to:
•Throttle our search rankings
•Deny our journalists Twitter Blue checks
•Kill our Facebook reach
gCaptain built 250,000 Facebook subs—then Meta stopped distributing our articles after Wikipedia blacklisted us.
And we’re just one example.
The Blob hates independent media because it can’t control us. It wants newsrooms run by Blob-approved editorial teams. If you have them, you get boosted by academia, think tanks, and Google’s algorithm.
If you don’t? You get blacklisted. Or graylisted. And you get throttled into irrelevance.
Finally—thank goodness for X!
Elon literally saved deep-niche independent journalism by nuking the blue checkmark scam.
Before? We couldn’t get verified by Twitter because Wikipedia blacklisted us. Now? X cut the umbilical cord to the deep state, and independent voices are finally breaking through.
THIS is why X is now packed with incredible threads from top-tier deep niche experts—everyone from esoteric specialists like @gas_biz guy to once-throttled national security journalists like @LeeSmithDC. Heck, you can even get direct insights on the Deep State from former Trump NSC directors like @EzraACohen & @JoshuaSteinman.
Bottom line: You wouldn’t be reading this thread without X.
Thank you, @elonmusk!
@gCaptain @MikeBenzCyber UPDATE: Looks like the NYT called in their top hitman, @ezraklein, to rush out a video countering this narrative.
In practice, its government moves in near-lockstep with @Maersk—the world’s largest logistics empire.
Not officially.
Not on paper.
But in outcomes, incentives, and red lines.
Here’s how we got here.
Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940.
The King stayed. He became a symbol of quiet national continuity.
But Denmark had no army to celebrate. No Normandy. No Stalingrad.
What it did have was a merchant fleet at sea, one of the largest in the world, which joined the Allied cause. Danish sailors carried fuel, food, and munitions under Allied control while their homeland was under German occupation.
They were 💯 critical to allies success.
Over a thousand Danish merchant sailors died while serving with the Allies
Those sailors became Denmark’s war heroes.
And that mattered.
It meant that after the war, shipping companies that fought with the allies had enormous political legitimacy in Denmark in a way the U.S. Merchant Marine never did in America.
Foe those unfamiliar here’s the hir piece Drew Wrote about me, a licenses ship captain and MARITIME journalist , who was invited to go with @SecWar on a shipyard tour
I like this a lot. Some sections are demanding, you have to reread them, but that’s not a flaw. It forces the reader to slow down. And sometimes hard is not only good, it’s necessary.
What many people miss is that linear systems are incredibly efficient but only under very specific conditions: rule-based order, geopolitical stability, and a high degree of trust and safety.
Linear systems excel at things like this: start a business, raise X capital, optimize for Y, expand into Z markets. Capital flows easily because there are few externalities. You don’t worry much about supply-chain collapse, interest-rate shocks, reputational risk from social media swings, or geopolitical sabotage. The system absorbs those risks for you.
For decades, the job of government was to simplify everything:
•One monetary system (the dollar)
•One diplomatic framework (the UN)
•Fewer barriers to trade
•Low interest rates
•Free trade
•Colorblind governance (no DEI sorting)
•Outsourcing complexity to NGOs
This was a very good thing.
The ultimate expression of this logic is a one-world, highly integrated system. From a pure efficiency standpoint, that is also a very good thing.
The catch is simple but fatal: everyone has to agree and act with some degree of honesty.
The reason we ended up with a “uniparty” consensus is that a global linear system made business extraordinarily efficient and reduced many traditional security risks. Conservatives liked it because it boosted growth and stability. Liberals liked it because it freed up capital and cognitive bandwidth for social priorities.
That alignment wasn’t sinister, it was rational.
To make it work, however, you need powerful international institutions capable of managing complexity. Organizations like the IMO, alongside dozens of NGOs, effectively regulate 90% of global trade. For a long time, that worked and it worked well.
“But John, I thought you were MAGA?”
Yes and what I just described is the system we had in the late 1990s and early 2000s. We came remarkably close to a near-optimal arrangement.
But a perfect system depends on trust. And trust broke.
Russia and China refused to play by the rules. Both became aggressively extractive. China hollowed out global manufacturing for themselves. Russia stripped natural resources. And NGOs, operating inside a high-trust, low-scrutiny environment, captured everything else.
Consolidated power plus high trust is an open invitation to fraud.
So now we’re stuck in the worst possible configuration: a system optimized for efficiency, but hemorrhaging value through corruption. The most honest, rule-following participants are being drained to subsidize the least honest ones.
That brings us to the present bifurcation.
We have two choices:
1.Double down on consolidation and linearization, squeezing out even more efficiency so we can do better despite the fraud (liberals)
2.Accept complexity, abandon false simplicity, and actively intervene to repair what’s broken (MAGA)
But this isn’t just MAGA vs liberals.
It’s linear thinkers vs non-linear thinkers.
The skill set required to streamline a functioning system is completely different from the skill set required to diagnose and repair a failing one.
And at the root of all of this is education.
Our education system has spent decades selecting for linear thinkers—because that’s what worked. The formula was clear: honors track, X hours of study, Y tutors, Z credentials. Choose the right majors, follow the prescribed career ladder, earn the right degrees. The path wasn’t easy, but it was linear—and it rewarded intelligence and discipline.
In a well-managed linear system, you don’t need to think broadly. If something matters, the system tells you. If CNN isn’t talking about it, keep your head down and stay on the track.
Today, we need people who can hold multiple competing ideas in their heads at once—people who can reason across systems, not just within them, so they can repair the system and end fraud while it’s still running. Those people were liabilities in a smoothly operating machine, so we sidelined them.
That’s why a single-lens worldview, what DR describes, became dominant. The people elevated into leadership across NGOs, international institutions, and finance are highly linear thinkers who need everything reduced to BLUFs and flowcharts.
But here’s the contradiction: we no longer have a linear system.
It’s impossible to go back without repairing the system. The fraud is too great.
And since roughly 2015, instead of adapting to the fraud, liberals pushed harder for linearity—forcing more people into increasingly brittle efficiency tracks—while parallel ideologies (DEI, ESG, Marxist frameworks) taught others how to exploit the growing fraud inside the system.
The result isn’t progress or equity.
It’s systemic failure hiding behind the language of efficiency.
And now the people with the power under a linear system (like the person at CNN who is intelligent and put in the hard work to go to x school, follow y career path, and follow z type stories) are pissed off because they did everything they were told to do and they achieved the pinnacle of the system but they have zero power.
While those who were tossed out of the system (I had to leave the navy and follow a very non-traditional career to succeed) are running circles around them because we think nonlinearly and can jump around with a wrench fixing problems.
And here’s the reason why they are getting SO ANGRY at us. Because they cannot see what we see.
It’s not that they are dumb, it’s that they have been trained and selected for a very tunnel vision worldview.
And we are angry because we have no credentials or traditional power combined with a very wide field of view.
We can see all the problems very clearly and multitask…. While they can only focus on one problem in predefined buckets: in this case, that bucket is Maduro.
P. S. BOTH take work.
It takes a lot of work to get into Harvard and follow the formula to Senator or CEO. You have to read all the right books and climb the singular path.
It also takes a lot of work to read what DR is saying and my long text and map it to the world around you. You have to read a wide diversity of books and climb many difficult paths.
Work is just the prerequisite.
Problem is all the work the ivy league CEO or “top military journalist” has become useless in the last 10 years because of all the fraud while the work of the much smaller subset like Dr or Elon or me have become wildly more valuable.
This hit piece on me by @oliverdarcy wasn’t a mistake.
It wasn’t sloppy reporting.
It wasn’t “concerned journalism.”
It was a coordinated hit by the old Pentagon press corps to kneecap @PeteHegseth and to punish anyone they don’t control.
And this time, they overplayed their hand.
The first hit piece is already live, written by Oliver Darcy. I’m reliably told the second is queued up at @wapo. Same framing. Same tone. Same anonymous whispers. Same goal.
This isn’t journalism.
It’s a pile-on.
Before I tear this apart, let’s establish the inconvenient truth they couldn’t avoid.
I’ve spent over twenty years reporting on the collapse of the U.S. Merchant Marine. My wife sailed a rusting ammunition ship through known minefields during the Iraq War. I’ve fought, publicly and relentlessly, for American shipbuilding, industrial capacity, and a fleet that can actually fight a war.
So yes, I’m 💯 thrilled that a president is finally serious about shipbuilding.
And yes, as one of 🇺🇸’s few remaining licensed ship captains, I was in awe reporting from USS John F. Kennedy.
That’s called expertise.
The legacy press treats it like a crime.
Now the rot.
Instead of reporting on the most advanced aircraft carrier and attack submarine ever built, one reporter, @halbritz, who has made zero effort to hide her contempt for Hegseth spent the tour watching me. Writing about me. Whispering about me. Feeding her impressions to friends embedded in legacy newsrooms.
I’ve done more press tours than I can count. This was the first time I witnessed a reporter actively hostile not to the administration but to other journalists.
She didn’t knowI spent years sailing falling apart rust bucket ships through massive storms and years more in hard shipyards. She didn’t bother to ask, her contempt was plane as she shared stories about being invited to royal palaces overseas by previous administrations. She refused to write articles about our ships being left defenseless under attack under Biden.
That’s not competition.
That’s enforcement.
Now, the lies—because there are many.
Lie #1: “The Pentagon is icing out journalists in favor of sycophants.”
This collapses instantly. Five minutes on gCaptain shows years of hard criticism of both Trump administrations. My own X account shows me being publicly smacked down by the White House press secretary.
Yes, I’m pro-Trump.
No, that does not mean obedience.
That assumption says more about them than me.
Lie #2: “A collection of right-wing outlets.”
They didn’t check. They didn’t care. Independent bias tools rate @gCaptain near dead center. Facts are optional when the target is preselected. The majority of our employees did not vote for Trump.
Lie #3: “Niche media site gCaptain.”
This one is pure contempt. gCaptain is the largest and most-read maritime news site on the planet, covering defense, shipping, energy, labor, and national security. Calling it “niche” is what powerful institutions say when they want to make it socially acceptable to crush someone smaller.
Lie #4: “A very different cast of media figures.”
Blatantly false. Invited to the tour was:
•Two people from CNN
•Fox News—home to @JenGriffinFN, Hegseth’s loudest critic
•A reporter from Bloomberg, a news organization owned by a billionaire who openly hates Trump
That’s diversity of viewpoint.
The old press corps only supports that idea when they control it.
Lie #5: “According to people familiar with the matter.”
This is where the mask slips.
Darcy emailed me warning me about the hit piece while I was still on the Secretary’s plane. I didn’t see it until we landed at Andrews Air Force Base. Walking through the terminal, I asked the other journalists, the only ones who heard my request “Oliver Darcy” was.
No one knew.
Then @halbritz panicked. Grabbed her CNN colleague. Vanished back into the terminal to avoid questions.
So let’s stop pretending.
Where did Oliver Darcy work?
CNN. 1/2
I haven’t read the full article—Darcy refused to send it but I’m told it sneers at something trivial.
What I did was asking Hegseth to sign a book.
Real journalists like Hegseth and I understand book exchanges. We’ve been doing it for centuries. There are literal stacks of books from reporters and officials inside the Pentagon press office where Britzky worked for years before self deporting over new rules meant to seal leaks.
New rules that proved wildly effective during the Maduro Raid. Rules I am proud to follow
Unlike Pete and I, neither Britzky or Darcy are real journalists with books that have been taught in some of the world’s best colleges.
This wasn’t reporting.
It was a warning shot.
Not even against me but against every “niche” journalist who tries to challenge the uni-media’s monopoly over piblic opinion
And now, right on schedule, the rest of the mainstream media, armed with billion-dollar budgets, floors of lawyers and collapsing credibility, are circling like vultures to hammer a journalist from a much smaller outlet.
Power punching down.
Always brave.
And then there’s Brixey.
The “journalist” who showed up to a heavy-industrial shipyard tour dressed for a lifestyle shoot… leather pants, designer accessories, waxed Barbour jacket… regaling is about the royal palaces the Biden Administration flew her too while cowardly attacking fellow journalists from organizations a fraction of her size.
Being a political enforcer while sneering at smaller reporters must pay well.
Shame on CNN for hiring her.
This wasn’t journalism.
It was discipline.
And the reason they’re panicking is simple:
They’re losing control and they know it.
Losing control to people who have sailed into harms way.
Let me be crystal clear…
Darcy you are lazy and careless.
Haley: YOU ARE A SNAKE SUFFOCATING AMERICA - FUCK YOU
BTW @oliverdarcy the book I asked Hegseth to sign wasn’t for me. It was for a kid who had to leave ROTC for a hardship I won’t share.
And as you already know “I voted so hard for this” was about administering the oath to she best kids this nation produces. But of course you left that fact out.
LONG POST WARNING: How did this Somali fraud happen?
I have a close relative who works inside this system. She processes medicalcare claims for a large provider, we’ll call it SMH, in a deep-blue state (not Minnesota).
What people miss is that the biggest fraud isn’t the checks written to individuals. It’s the staggering cost of administering the programs.
My relative isn’t some paper-pusher. She’s a nurse with multiple degrees, managing a full team. Her entire day is spent chained to a computer: nonstop paperwork, Zoom calls, audits. There’s a fingerprint scanner and a camera on her desk. Family emergency? Too bad. Break down in tears from abuse? Still too bad.
Now, start with a real medical event: heart attack, cancer, stroke. The hospital treats you, then pushes you home quickly because long stays are crazy expensive and the hospital doesn’t have enough beds. Fine.
But home recovery requires ramps, grab bars, equipment. The state cuts checks to upgrade homes. Many recipients simply pocket the money. The state knows this, but doesn’t have enough inspectors, so it forces SMH to do “due diligence.”
That means more paperwork. More subcontractors. More verification. More zoom meetings for my relative. One claim can consume hundreds of man-hours.
Then there’s a shortage of visiting nurses. So patients must travel for bloodwork and follow-ups. Transportation services exist, but they’re heavily regulated and audited. That’s expensive.
Cheaper solution? Pay family members. Give them money to add a ramp to a minivan and drive the patient themselves.
Have an uncle who already has a van (because he’s scamming the system too), great we pay him monthly and you have to do nothing.
Now the real games begin.
How much help you get depends entirely on how you answer Zoom questions. Normal Americans say things like, “My son can help” or “A neighbor can drive me.” That caps benefits.
But there are cheat codes.
Say instead:
“I care for my autistic grandson.”
“I provide childcare for my niece.”
Now SMH must either support those dependents or move the patient into a full-service facility which is vastly more expensive than any other option. So they pay for childcare.
Because my relative is a mandatory reporter and children are involved m, every meeting now includes medical care teams, child-safety teams, housing teams, transportation teams. The clock is running. These are highly paid professionals.
Except there doesn’t even need to be children involved because privacy laws prevent basic verification. No birth certificates. No DNA tests. So SMH provides a list of approved childcare facilities.
You can just borrow someone else’s child for the paperwork and give them a new name because things like ID and birth certificates are “anti-immigrant” so they can’t be checked.
Now if the child supposedly has autism, costs explode: specialized care, transportation, services.
Ironically, local public schools often have excellent autism programs but school administrators won’t jump through SMH’s audit hoops. And when a child doesn’t actually have autism, schools quietly disenroll them without paperwork to avoid lawsuits. SMH is left holding the bag so better just to contract with a center.
If anyone complains you can just say the school doesn’t meet your religious needs.
Those are just patient meetings.
There are thred more meeting categories that devour time:
State audits:
Auditors expect problems and won’t leave without finding them. Missing paperwork means more meetings.
Legal:
Endless lawyers. Enough said.
Efficiency
Then come the “efficiency experts.” SMH needs to turn a profit so my relative’s boss is an Ivy League MBA. The solution is always the same: push more work onto families because it’s cheaper than more hospital time. That’s the cheapest option.
And to republicans (the only ones demanding accountability) it makes sense to support families over facilities
Except that if you’re a normal American, you’re screwed. 1/2
The forms are overwhelming. The documentation is insane. You don’t know what photos to take or how to claim modifications on someone else’s house. You don’t understand “the system”.
So you give up and sign a waiver and move in with family who are already exhausted by their jobs but are willing to care for you.
Or SMH is forced to put you in the cheapest facility possible which is crazy expensive and probably sucks.
But if you’re part of a tight-knit tribal group that knows the system, you know exactly how to answer every question on the forms to maximize payouts.
And if SMH pushes back? There’s a nuclear option: state hotlines.
A single complaint alleging elder abuse triggers audits. Audits cost SMH enormous money. So managers pressure staff to just write checks and move on.
Now imagine someone wants to scam the system but they don’t have a real medical condition.
It’s hard to lie to a doctor but easy to import sick relatives from overseas. SMH actually prefers this: no long records, no criminal history, no paperwork, no previous medical conditions they have to worry about. For SMH these patients are a clean slate.
And most importantly non-citizens can’t easily sue.
Now anyone saying MSM is hiding all this is wrong. Occasionally, the media DOES notice and hard working taxpayers are outraged.
People demand action!
A few arrests and deportations (sometimes people who wanted to go back to Somalia anyway) are made and learing center close
But… they just reopen in a few weeks or months under a new name.
A Republican senator demands accountability. He proposes a bill that will “eliminate loopholes” and “hire more auditors” and “eliminate $5 billion in fraud”.
Democrats agree on one condition: they get to spend half that “savings” on new social services for the immigrant communities.
The bill passes but now an additional $2.5B is being spent on the new programs and costs aren’t cut but instead skyrocket.
The bill results in more paperwork and rules. Lawyers get richer. Americans get buried under more red tape. The system gamers adapt instantly.
And nobody gets put in jail.
Why? Because the SMH lawyers drop gigabytes of paperwork and zoom meeting footage on the DA who can’t possibly manage it all.
Which brings us to the truth of rhe matter:
POSIWID — The purpose of a system is what it does.
P.S. and when a real emergency hits, like COVID, people die, because the whole thing is a brittle, over-engineered house of cards. There are no “transportation providers” or “learning centers” or medical care equipment in the home.
NOTE: I’m not in the medical profession, I probably got some of this wrong, It’s just what I’ve pieced together from years of hearing my relative rant.
I just felt the need to share this because she can’t talk about any of this online… if she did she would lose her license for violating patient privacy laws.
For the “stick to ships John” crowd…
This is 💯 why we can’t afford to build battleships… because our money isn’t just lost to fraud. It’s burned up by the massive administrative costs of a broken medical system.
First, yes—this post is anti-American, Pyotr. Second, it’s wrong.
The argument that Europe should unite to compete with the United States and undermine the dollar’s reserve-currency status fails for two basic reasons:
First: that’s exactly why the EU and the euro were created—and they failed to achieve that goal.
Second: the United States built enormous political, economic, and security leverage into the post-WWII system—and we haven’t even begun to fully pull those levers.
I backpacked through Europe in the late ’90s. Pro-American sentiment was real and widespread. But what many people miss is why.
A lot of that “pro-America” feeling was actually anti-EU. Ordinary Europeans understood, intuitively, that the EU wouldn’t work. American culture appealed because it offered an alternative to claustrophobic national systems and an emerging EU globalist blob.
Then reality intervened.
The EU and euro turned out to be both disastrous and convenient. Currency exchanges and border checks were a pain; the EU solved that. That convenience made it popular on a personal level.
But the downsides—work-visa chaos, rigid monetary policy, endless bureaucracy, repeated fiscal crises, and job displacement—were real. They just faded into the background. Functionally, Europeans went from a two-layer government system to a three-layer one.
After WWII, there was serious discussion about folding everything under an American umbrella.
Europe didn’t want that.
France clung to national pride.
The UK wanted to retain remnants of its empire.
And the U.S. didn’t want the hassle of direct control.
But Europe was also too weak to stand on its own.
So we built institutions and systems—NATO, free trade, freedom of navigation, the dollar reserve system—as an umbrella over weak nations.
The EU was supposed to replace that umbrella. But it was designed as direct competition to the U.S. system, which is why we resisted it quietly. And the same national pride that kept Europe from accepting American control also prevented the EU from replacing national governments.
The truth is: the U.S. should have fought harder against the EU. But we didn’t—because as long as Europe didn’t start another war, we didn’t really care.
The EU was sold as “the United States of Europe”—states replaced by nations. That analogy was always nonsense.
The single overriding priority for Americans and the U.S. elite has been simple: no more European wars. Full stop.
We had zero interest in micromanaging Europe’s economy or governance. So we tolerated the EU and the euro—even knowing they’d fail—because they helped our primary objective: stability.
If we’d believed the EU would actually succeed as a true rival system, we would have stopped it. We didn’t, because it never replaced the checks, balances, overrides, and leverage we built after WWII.
It didn’t replace the U.S. political, economic, or security umbrella. It just added another bureaucratic layer beneath it.
Then three things happened:
1.People’s daily lives improved due to easy travel.
2.The EU became a fiscal, security, migration, and bureaucratic nightmare—especially for operating inside a U.S.-led system.
3.The U.S. began quietly pulling the hidden levers.
And then came the Iraq War.
People think Iraq was George W. Bush’s personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein. It wasn’t.
It was a vendetta against Europe.
Conflicts happen constantly around the world. We don’t build coalitions for most of them. We did for Kuwait because Europe—especially the UK—asked us to.
Remember: George H.W. Bush was UN ambassador and CIA director before becoming president. And what did he do in office? He invaded Panama.
Then, in 2016, the Panama Papers exposed what had been happening all along: European elites were undermining the U.S.-led world order with dark money, political favors, and back-channel finance.
That’s the part this argument conveniently ignores. 1/3
HW Bush wanted to strengthen the American world order
He didn’t want to do this to strengthen his grip on Europe… he wanted to do it because the world order worked: it brought peace and prosperity to billions.
His plan to strengthen that was called 1000 points of light but to accomplish it he first had to regain control of a the grift and dark money he found while he was CIA.
Hence panama.
But Europe (especially the UK) was building that dark network as their own leverage against America…. And they were doing it right in our backyard… not just in Panama but CIA shell companies registered in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas… and even Canada
So they got us in a war to distract us from Panama and to take down HW Bush.
Why did he agree to it? IDK. But he did.
And the war was a success to everyone except him and his 1000 points of light.
Europe, with the help of the dark money, backed Clinton and big business (which wanted to retain global dominance) backed Ross Perot. And the vote was split and Clinton won.
Not just because of the money but also because European media pushed the narrative that Bush was there just to control the oil (which makes no sense but that’s another rabbit hole)
And in exchange for winning Clinton made a deal:
Throttle back on the dark money networks and make it legitimate with the Euro/EU
And he made a special consession to the brits: NAFTA will give you free access to the USA via the commonwealth of canada
Now nobody in America really like the EU and there was a lot of pushback against NAFTA but Clinton gave them top cover
So now W Bush comes in and starts pushing back on all these things Clinton approved.
It’s going well until 9/11 happens. Bush activates Article 5 and it’s extremely popular in Europe.
American flags are waving everywhere and pro-American sentiment hits a high pitch.
European leaders know Bush is dangerous and could reinstate his dad’s 1000 points of light.
Something must be done.
So they played the same trick on us again.
UK intelligence produced the September 2002 Iraq Dossier which claimed Iraq could deploy chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes.
Then they got the media to back another war in Iraq. People today forget but go good “New York Times apology Iraqi” and you will see that media was pushing us into war.
Why did W agree to invade? Again, IDK, maybe they have something on the Bush family.
Then, once we invaded, they created the same fake narrative: the Bushes are just in it for the oil.
Bush fell for the first part of the scam but he was prepared for the second and when they propped up World Economic Forum superstar John Kerry, Bush solidly defeated him.
But Bush was unpopular and the EU was failing so they needed a new scam.
They helped Obama write a book and pushed it to go viral.
And the deal Obama made with the globalists? We will pump massive amounts of money into Europe to prop up your failed Euro via NGOs backed by USAID, NATO, UN and direct payments
And Obama, with the help of the uniparty in congress, opened the taps full wide.
But how would they hide this massive transfer of wealth? Keep the wars going and blame the rising national debt on “military spending”