This past week, we had a release of part of the known Epstein files. This caused drama.
Lots of people that ought to know better started criticizing AG Bondi and Director Patel over this. They ought to know better because of the following:
- They know that the Establishment is made up of Thralls opposed to Trump.
- They know that the Thralls will use all means possible to thwart Trump; in the bureaucracy, this means insubordination- the refusal to do what you are told by your boss.
- They know that this is how the Thralls dealt with Trump last time, and that those Thralls expect to do this successfully again.
- They know that they can expect this to happen again, repeatedly.
Yet, here they are somehow aghast that there is not instant compliance with Trump's orders- including the orders of those Trump delegated his authority to. Again, the same man who swerved the Thralls twice to get into the White House is suddenly a fucking retard? You can't be this stupid. You are acting on Hollywood bullshit ideas of how things work, despite your own experiences with how this actually works and the observations of past experiences saying otherwise.
Therefore, it is no surprise that I find Brian Cates' take to be the accurate one:
It took WEEKS to get Bondi and Kash confirmed. They haven't even been on the job a month yet.
— Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 28, 2025
Then once they were confirmed and moved into office and assumed their official powers you thought...what, exactly?
They'd just...like...FIRE EVERYBODY?
Fire the entire DOJ, fire…
This entire thing is a deliberate attempt to flush out the Stay Behind cohorts in the bureaucracy. Bondi and Kash didn't get the full files. Now it's down to mapping out who, at the Southern District of New York, in particular is actively sabotaging vs. those passively going along to avoid getting shit on by local superiors- and yes, that is a distinction that matters- you can turn the latter by giving them an out that leads to those locals superiors removal, whom you replace with Your Guys.
Which leands to another thing I have to rebuke my own side for: insisting that if it's not in ENEMY CONTROLLED MEDIA OUTLETS that it's not happening.
Did you forget everything over the last decade? Media outlets are propaganda fronts; that's what they are there to do- there is no neutral or unbiased media. The Thralls still control the Mainstream Media in the entirety of the Western world and its aligned parties elsewhere (e.g. Japan, South Korea, etc.) so they will do hit pieces when it suits them, bury stories when it suits them, and wage Narrative Warfare in an unrestricted manner that makes the Chinese Communist Party and the Russian state seethe with envy.
Furthermore, this is a Woke More Correct moment- one that has been known openly for a century now (since Edward Bernays published Propaganda, which too few of you have read): the masses are driven by Narrative over all. It is literally Feelings Over Facts, and it's been known as such for millenia among elites; this is why Elite Theory is correct, and yet here I am again reminding people that what we are seeing being done is the most massive campaign of Narrative Warfare ever conducted.
It's why Academic Agent is wrong about power and the Regime--yes, 4D chess is being done here--while Auron MacIntyre and Mystery Grove are wrong about only electoral politics being viable courses of action (despite MG constantly going on about the White Russians and how Red Narrative Warfare demoralized them). The failure to comprehend that things work off Narratives is what consistently trips actors on all sides up.
Power is not just what you can do. It is also what everyone believes what you can do. The latter part is where Narrative comes in, and dissidents somehow can say "I depict you as the Soyjack and me as the Chad" and then forget like some kind of Gell-Mann Amnesia incident when some pre-programmed Narrative trap triggers like we saw this past week. The Thralls spend generations forming a fake-and-gay Narrative Warfare Frame Game where they are always able to overcome all challengers Because Reasons. Here comes Trump, himself displaying a mastery of Narrative Warfare, now allied with some Counter-Elites with equal or better acumen using that same command of illusion and demi-reaility to break the Globohomo frame and reframe things as he and his group prefer- part of which means setting up little narrative sub-arcs to make it comprehensible to the masses (a) what the issue is and (b) why what was done about it had to be done that way.
This is why Globohomo always Frame Games wars as "They attacked us first for NO REASON!" or "We have to do this BECAUSE DEMOCRACY!", and enough of you reading this knows that it works because you know plenty of people for whom it has- Boomers, Millenials, and those that just want to grill (which is why grillers are losers).
And it is why this past week's drama had to happen: "Trump gave a Lawful Order, and the traitors are committing Treason by stonewalling him!" leads to justification with public support (which is why Frame Games are played- to get and hold that) to round up some trigger-pullers and clean out the Southern District of New York. You're seeing a similar thing happen with all the Federal Judges; all their rulings are, in fact, being ignored in practice--Rubio let that slip the other day--while the legal stuff is done in such a performative manner because it's Frame Game work to get and keep public support for the coming Federal Judiciary purging.
All of this takes time, because dramas take time- both to write, and then to perform, because the rewards--overwhelming public support and ready acceptance of the New Norm--is worth the effort. Every American regime since World War I has acknowledged this, which is why the winners are those that master the game and the losers (e.g. Nixon) were those who did not.
You live in a world run by Illusionists and Bards, not Clerics or Wizards or Thieves and certainly not Fighters- or any of their subsets. That's how it is so long as mass media remains a load-bearing political institution, like it or not, and if you want to win you must master the powers of Liminality and Narrative. Trump has, as this second term will make painfully, uncomfortably clear to both Loyalists and Dissidents. Empire is already falling; the question now is what form of Imperium--and there will be Imperium--will take its place.
