Breaking up the team Trump has in the DoJ will slow/cripple the many key operations they have underway such as anti-CCP, election integrity, public corruption, swamp draining, human trafficking, deportations, etc.
I think some of the malign operators are seeking to stop one or more of these efforts, but others are simply low integrity grifters who fleece MAGA for views and clicks using a set of high engagement conspiracy theories.
They emotionally manipulate their audiences/followers with fear mongering and outrage bait, feeding them bad information (mis/dis/mal-info) and conspiracy theory propaganda.
They lead their audience to believe they are more “red pilled” or “awake” than others.
They know what’s REALLY going on.
This creates a sense of superiority to others.
They then activate that audience/follower base with more of the same, but add in gate keeping tactics and arguments from incredulity.
This makes reasoned discussions with them impossible.
Efforts to inform them using evidence and facts are useless because they rate their preferred theory above all else. Anything which challenges it must be fake or a devious ploy in some way.
Gradually they are oriented towards extremes because moderate positions seem ridiculous or worse—controlled.
They escaped the Matrix, or so they believe.
But what they have done is entered into another Matrix.
And they passionately defend it as the influencers fleeced them for clicks, views, overpriced metals, and junk medicine.
Once situated in this new matrix of falsehoods, equipped with volumes of bad information a distorted understanding of the world, and all the outrage that comes with it, they can now be weaponized.
In traditional warfare, the outcome of engagements is largely determined by the information available to each side and their ability to adapt and refine their decisions as the engagement unfolds.
The same holds true for information and cognitive warfare, but with the twist of "bad information"—misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation—acting as both a weapon of assault and denial.
I’ll have more to say about this in my next Substack article and podcast episode.
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Listen to Trump. He gave a warning here. He said there’s far more important things going on. I think he was trying to move people, particularly influencers and conspiracy focused fans, away from the Epstein issue.
Not because it doesn’t matter, but because it’s been weaponized against him, his admin, and MAGA. Not because he’s implicated, but because so many people believe things about it that simply are not true.
Hence the hostile media and Democrats now harping on it.
For sure people overreacted to the memo that was leaked to Axios, some even went turncoat IMO, but the filing in this FOIA case doesn't say anything at all about the status of any Epstein-related investigation(s).
The leaked memo, which is hosted on DOJ's website and was confirmed as authentic by @PressSec, does say something about the status of any Epstein-related investigation(s).
Funny how so many of the same influencers who are throwing hissy fits right now re: the DOJ Epstein memo were also distributing black pills to their followers when his co-conspirator/partner Ghislaine Maxwell was successfully convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
There might be something to that...
All singing the same song...
The Doomer’s Refrain:
But nothing is happening.
And if it is happening, it’s too late.
And if it’s not too late, then it’s not good enough.
And if it is good enough, then it’s the last thing that will happen, and we’ll be right back to:
but nothing is happening.
It’s not about Epstein, or his clients, or Kash or Bondi, or Trump, or the victims and it’s definitely not about the truth.
It’s about the grift and how it fits into the strategy of “audience capture.”
Overlaying a map (schematic) of the Fordow facility (aka Al Ghadir Project) with satellite imagery showing where GBU-57s entered the mountain is quite interesting.
Three GBU-57s entered near the vent shaft and three at one end of the Centrifuge Cascade Hall.
We shouldn't assume the trajectories of these bombs.
They could all be the same, i.e., roughly straight down, or they could be different, i.e., each hitting key parts of the facility but each group of three entering the mountain in roughly the same two places.
By asking Israel to turn its planes around and, essentially, allow Iran to have the last hostile move, Trump is urging Israel to adopt a Generous Tit-for-Tat strategy instead of the Tit-for-Tat approach that both Israel and Iran have been locked into.
“The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.”
—Will Durant, The Lessons of History
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I often reference the information war as a component of a larger conflict—a cognitive war, a battle for your mind.
All of this (gestures wildly at everything , but emphatically at social media) is part of that war.
It represents the armaments, the trenches, the artillery, grenadiers and riflemen of the war.