— Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) September 14, 2025
Save those receipts. Bookmark them.
Then take those receipts and CHIMP THE FUCK OUT at the administration and friendly State level officials. Now that Antifa is a domestic terror organization, we need to upgrade that to a FOREIGN terror designation.
FOREIGN terrorists go to GITMO. FOREIGN terrorists get their accounts and other assets frozen. FOREIGN terrorists get blown the fuck up by the military- just as the Cartels for recent examples. FOREIGN terrorists get rolled up by the State Department and Homeland Security, not the FBI, and are subject to military tribunals- not civil justice.
Antifa has links to foreign counterparties- Antifa cells, Jihadis, Eco-terrorists, Cartels, etc. are all tied to domestic cells. Furthermore, all of these networks are paid BY THE SAME NGO NETWORK that Mike Benz talks about!
We have the moment, here and now, to smash the whole network using State power to do so. All those Antifa-aligned officials, Jihadis-aligned office holders and candidates, etc. are all tied into one global terror network that serves Globohomo via that NGO network- they are the current version of Operation GLADIO.
Strike NOW! Chimp out at the administration NOW! You allies abroad, shame the US into striking NOW! This is the moment, and we cannot waste it!
The problem is that you can't argue against this without exposing presumptions that negate the gainsaying assertion. "The enemy gets a vote" is how to summarize counterpunching against gainsaying; when the other party, by word or by deed, says (and votes, literally and otherwise) "Fuck no I'm not part of you and I will treat you accordingly."
That's the killshot.
They do not agree that they are part of you. They see you as Other, as Them, not as Us. They treat you accordingly; you are a target to be cheated, abused, and killed because you are not Us- you are not human. You are Fair Game.
That is why you cannot extend moral behavior to those who prey upon you, and thus why Friend/Enemy Distinction trump all other rubricks. You can cordial to neutrals, but you cannot abide predation upon you and yours for that just invites more of the same- both in severity and in frequency.
The Thralls of Empire, regardless of which faction they serve--Globohomo, Neo-Tsar, Red Dynasty--are all united in seeing you as not part of Us; you are Them, and that's why you must oppose them despite their claims of legitimacy over you. Enough of you have. That is why Empire is falling.
What did Two-Tier Kier do that had AA immediately say that this is Tony Blair's doing, using Kier as a puppet for his actions?
Why, it was this astounding public confession:
Holy. Shit.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just admitted that Western leaders have been running an “open borders experiment”…
"This happened by design, not accident. Immigration policies were reformed deliberately. It has been a failure. They pretended it wasn’t happening.” pic.twitter.com/vHVibQnG38
No sooner did he come into office last Summer than he immediately doubled-down on all the pro-Globohomo oppression of the British nations objecting and protesting the clear favortism of the very illegals his predecessor, his party, and his predecessor's party (all Globohomo Thralls of Empire, so this is all just squabbling over spoils) especially after one of them knifed a British girl to death.
That didn't go well.
While he used State power to repress the outrage and jail as many as he could, releasing illegal prisoners to make room for them, all of this was a Public Relations nightmare for his and got him his nickname as he openly used two-tier policing where all could see it in action.
Rather than maintain the charade that (a) illegal immigration is not happening and it's Muh Far-Right Conspiracy, and because (b) legal(ized) hostile aliens (Pajeets in particular) are openly saying this is revenge for past British colonization, Kier came out with that public statement because political enemies at home and abroad are successfully using his own incompetence to outflank him and undermine Globohomo in the UK.
The decision likely got finalized after Trump won the White House; he would not be so pressured if Heels-Up Harris scammed out a win.
What this admission does, and how he framed it as an all-Tory affair (denying all Labour involvement with this), is an attempt to do the Microsoft 3E Strategy: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Notice that he's using terms popularized by Mike Benz ("Blob") and Tucker Carlson (everything else), and they in turn took them from the Dissident Right. He will do to those terms what the bitch-tier Globohomo Thralls did to "grifter": overuse and overextend those terms until they fit the new definitions he puts to them via Frame Game manipulations. You already seen it in how he reframes the Great Replacement as a Tory-only thing.
That's the swerve: to do a Limited Hangout operation, make the rival Thralls take the fall, and reframe the Narrative back into control so the enemies of the Regime in the UK are again closed out of the Narrative and thus have no viable route to power via peaceful means, which means the framing of them as "potentially violent" extremists that need to be taken out pre-emptively remains.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Devilish of Blair, if he's the man that AA says he is ("The Dark Lord"), because someone's doing this and Two-Tier Kier ain't got the power in his brainmeats to do this on his own. This is an intent to seize the issue from the enemy, do enough performative Remigration to shut up the masses, and then continue on doing the thing behind the scenes.
This past week, the American Nation defeated the Globohomo Thralls' attempt to keep the God-Emperor away from the Golden Throne. Donald Trump won again.
The post-mortems are flying around furiously on all sides, but I want to focus your attention to Auron MacIntyre and Academic Agent. They have had, and still have, a difference of opinion on which is primary: Power or Ideology.
Below I'll embed their respective videos where they touch on this in the context of the election and the responses by the Globohomo Thralls of Empire. AA also cut an article for his Substack publication on the matter, which is worth a read.
As of this point, AA's explanation has the superior pile of receipts backing it up while Auron--aside from his valid point on non-falsifibility--was lacking until today's Regime Media clips started making the rounds proving Auron's point on Ideology being primary.
But AA's argument has a cornerstone that Auron not only cannot refute, but already accepts as correct and agrees upon: that what matters is the better-organized and supplied elite cohort, and the elite faction backing Trump was that cohort while the faction backing Biden was not. Furthermore, that losing faction acknowledged its inferior state by its action- by its deeds. AA's Jobber Hypothesis got confirmed by events.
What neither man mentioned explicitly, but Auron said implicitly, is that the Globohomo Thralls can accept the cost of replacing their man with a Jobber because they have control over the institutions of the United States and much of the Western world generally. They have a fallback position. From that position they can rally, regroup, organize, and execute a counter-strategy from a position of strength.
This is what people like Mike Cernovich, Milo, Douglas Mackey, Elon Musk, etc. are pointing out now consistently as the down-ballot races (and the fuckery therein) gets sorted. AA's position on Power being primary ignores the motivating and animating power of Ideology, believing ultimately that the end of Globohomo's Thralls is power itself and ideology is just a tool to use to get/keep/expand that power. Auron's position is that Ideology is primary because that determines the end, to which power is just the means to get those ends to manifest.
What I see is that these are, as AA implies, two rival cohorts dealing with a third cohort backing Trump and his coalition. The Power faction are the Zionists. The Ideology faction are the anti-Zionists, as that's how the Power/Ideology question is playing out between them.
The Ideology faction, when dominant, imposes its dystopian Theocratic regime upon those whom it subjugates. This is why you get all the humiliation rituals, the Friend/Enemy distinction so stark and obvious even Carl Schimdt says you're overdoing it (which is also why Muh Hypocrisy doesn't even phases them; you don't treat Friends as Enemies and vice-versa), the naked displays of petty power-tripping coupled by abject victim-performativism when they lose like they're Starscream out of Transformers. For all their performative Theater Kid bullshit, they are True Believers and thus religious fanatics so there are no brakes on their train
The Power faction, when dominant, plays Good Cop (them)/Bad Cop (Ideology) with the subjugated population. This is where AA gets "The Woke Gets Put Away" and thinks that Power always wins and Ideology is just a tool- for Power it is and they do "If you don't do as I say, I can't guarantee that these insane lunatics won't harm you" in the most naked form of Protection Racket fuckery around.
What Auron doesn't get is that Ideology fumbles power because they are driven by their fanaticism to pursue its ends no matter the costs, costs which squanders power when they have it. Because it wastes power like a teenager handed an inheritance of billions and no one around to stop them from going on a massive spending bender, Ideology rarely lasts in power if there is a rival cohort ready to pounce and able to succeed- and martyrdom, believe it or not, is not the trump card believers think it is.
What AA doesn't get is that Power gets seized by ideology when it misreads its ability to contain and control it, ending up being eaten by their own pets, because naked pursuit of power as the end in itself only appeals to Psychopaths and Sociopaths and most people Just Can't Even into that so they end up taken by ideology because of its greater power to justify action and thus power.
Yes, you need both, and that means you need an elite cohort that comprehends what Power is and how it works as well as what Ideology is (i.e. Narrative) and how it works- and why any ruling elite must have mastery of both to take and hold power long-term.
This is not a question of "Which matters?" but rather a question of "How do you mix them together to get the synthesis that is required to achieve long-term success?"
Until AA and Auron come to that point, they will continue to talk past each other and both will end up falling short of achieving the mission that they set for themselves.
N.B.: The reason martyrdom isn't a trump card is that it relies on the ability to report the events leading to that event to others. In short, it is wide open to Narrative Warfare, and if you think such events can't be recast by enemies to--at worst--not serve believers' interests then I remind you of how many who died for their beliefs are regarded today- with scorn and contempt. That, however, is worthy of a massive post to itself as control over the narratives of martyrdom is itself a theater of war.
Recently Millenial Woes began a series at his Substack feed called "The Seeds of Gay Doom".
This series talked about the revival of British television classic Doctor Who and how even at the time in 2005 the showrunner (Russel T. Davies) was hard at work using his position as the showrunner to produce propaganda- not entertainment.
Working for the British Broadcasting Corporation meant working for a corporation that had no need to produce a profit as it was state-supported and sponsored, economically as well as politically. Considering what has become of the Establishment in the United Kingdom, that is not mere Rhetoric; Davies should be considered a Client to a Patron that seeks the demoralization, dispossession, and destruction of the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish nations.
"But the latest seasons are ratings failures."
SO. FUCKING. WHAT?
Propaganda operations are not profit-seeking commercial enterprises. They are cultural and political operations; economics is a reward of Patronage and not the measure of the effectiveness of the same.
Therefore we can see that the only likely route to shutting this operation, or any other such operation, is to force the Client to compete for resources from the Patron with rival Clients. Yes, this does mean not giving time and attention to Davies' propaganda; it also means being very loud, very obnoxious, very conspicuous about giving that time and attention to what would be seen as a rival operation.
This is, by the way, how Globohomo's Thralls see the massive rise of attention, time, and money given to Japanese, Korean, and Chinese media- Clients serving a rival Patron.
The Client sees the alternative as a threat. The Patron agrees, and therefore uses other Clients to attack the alternative with the aim of either capturing or destroying it so that the Client's propaganda can succeed.
So long as the Patron is willing to back the Client, no amount of losses will put a stop to the propaganda operation. Therefore the objective is to convince the Patron to stop supporting the Client.
Identify the Patron. No, not the institution; identify the specific individual, fix him in place, and go after him personally and publically. Find out what his vulnerabilities are and hammer them without mercy; make him feel pain that only someone that can be a Patron can feel- the pain of loss. Loss of face, losss of prestige, loss of power, loss of wealth, loss of the things that DEFINE a Patron- these are the pains you must inflict and you must do so with supreme cruelty.
The objective is to make it clear to the Patron that disavowing the Client, exiling him from his network, and never re-engaging him thereafter is preferable to the damage he sustains by retaining him.
Individually, this is difficult. As a group, this is attainable.
Succeed at doing this once and the threat of it happening to others will bring them into line; no Patrons wants the illusion of power broken like that.
Because "Get Woke, Go Broke" is not a thing, especially when what "goes broke" was formerly an enemy operation that they stole and repurposed for their purposes as Davies did to Doctor Who. To break a propaganda operation, you have to break the Patron-Client relationship that enables it, and that means going after the Patron commissioning it. Sever that link and you win. Win and you get closer to seeing Empire fall.
When Ubisoft started promoting Assassin's Creed: Shadows featuring the historical man known as Yasuke, there was a concerted effort to promote the narrative that he was a full-fledged samurai.
To make a long story short, "LOLno".
But (a) that hurts Ubisoft's prospects for the game and (b) doesn't further the demoralization campaign against Japan so (c) "the evidence" needs to be doctored to support The Narrative.
When I went through University, every single librarian and historian I studied under--NO MATTER THEIR POLITICS--forbade citing Wikipedia for this reason.
But the issue here is Citogenesis turning into Accepted Fact and thus Common Sense, and that is Narrative Warfare in action.
There's a reason that competent scholars not only interrogate the evidence but those that provided them; scholars, like scientists, are just as prone to corruption as bureaucrats and elected officials- and, like scienitsts and politicans, are just as often stupidly cheap whores to boot.
This has been a well-known problem for so long that it's become a storytelling trope to itself.
(Insert theories about Prince Harry being a secret bastard here, among other Manufactured Narratives-as-History trope examples.)
Now consider this being done with things that you know or care about. Some of you care about Ukraine. Some about Gaza. Some the legitimacy of the American Federal Government. Whatever it is, consider that the narrative surrounding it may not be wholly true or factual, and consider that this may be so because the lie serves the narrative.
This wilfull fabrication and obfuscation of the truth in and of itself serves the purpose of Empire. By throwing certainty into chaos, Man is thrust into a liminal space where the core of his identity is rendered fragile and malleable; Man must anchor himself into something certain, or seemingly so, in order build first his identity and then all else that defines him and his existence- his culture, his civilization.
Deniably throw the target into chaos (cause the problem), then Empire comes along with answers that restore order (provide the solution) with the hidden costs of enslaving the target to Empire and making Thralls of them in the process because the new order rests itself on a fraudulent inversion of Original Sin that only abasement to Empire can assuage- but never release.
Tell me that is not what happened in the West post-WW2 and I will call you a liar, because that is exactly what happened- and now they're doing this to Japan, South Korea, and it will begin worming its way through Latin America too in short order. All that changes are the trappings.
This is Empire in action, and it is why Empire must fall.
This past week, in a small niche of the greater culture, a corporate media outlet got shut down.
This is because a competing corporate media conglomerate bought the outlet's parent company and shut them down. To ordinary business observors, this is nothing unusual; this is typical acquisition and consolidation operations.
As much as one can assign nefarious intent--and yes, there is such--for this the act itself needed no such thing.
I say that because media as a commercial enterprise is entirely driven by Network Effects for their value. Competing networks always end up with the greater subsuming the lesser without outside intervention purely due to how commercial incentives work. Centralization is rewarded, so that is what happens over time.
Revealed Preferences shows that this stablizes at a handful of choices for the end-user with noticable, but not necessarily substantial, differences between them. This means that the end result is a Cartel arrangement where conflict is managed, even manufactured, to gatekeep out upstarts and maintain the illusion of choice between the Cartel members.
It takes real power from outside to prevent this from happening, but the irony is that only centralization allows for real power to accrue into a dense enough form to do that.
Figuring out how solve this problem, or at least come up with a practical solution, is something better minds than mine have grappled with for generations.
I may have something that works where I am, but it isn't likely to be universally applicable. Keep that in mind if you grapple with this problem.
The report goes on to say, the UN did not find a single victim or sexual violence on oct 7, despite of efforts to try to find them. pic.twitter.com/MrqcS72bni
It will have all the impact of the warrants from the International Criminal Court: Nothing.
The value of this development matters only insofar as it is a serious loss of Face for Israel that its media and influence operations will have to devote significant time and effort to address and contain.
The reality is that most of the world, being some form of Face Culture, will take this as a signal that it is permissible to go hostile on Israel and those aligned with it.
Those same parties, however, are either too weak to do any real harm to Israel or are already aligned with Israel (regardless of what the population there thinks).
In the short term, it's a nothingburger. In the long term, it depends on how Israel concludes its Gaza operations. It will remain a nothingburger if Israel wins in Gaza, cleans out the Palestinians, and completes its replacement and settlement of the area with its own kind. It will become the cause to begin shifting to open hostility, even violence, by a lot more people if Israel fails or faill short.
The reason, when stripped of the blather and bullshit, is as simple as this: most people live in Face Cultures for the reason in the meme.
It's no surprise that Face Cultures are so violent, even the ones thought of as "civilized", and as such most therein can't defend themselves. QED.
So yes, this report is theater. It is not useless theater. The distinction is in the signalling value.
By itself it's useless. It has to be done with follow-up moves to have any impact on the facts on the ground, and given that Ukraine is ongoing, Taiwan in the mix, the Red Sea being a hot warzone, and the US just getting one big step closer to a second civil war what that follow-up move will need to be is anyone's guess- but it can't be empty words. It has to involve violence targetted at Israel or its interests, and it has to be potent and massive. Talking is now worse than useless.
The Post-War Consensus is over. The new Age of War has begun. Empire must fall.
This past week there were two notable exercises of Narrative Warfare. Both of them depended on winning the Frame Game to get their way. One succeeded. One failed.
The Success: Israel Protests
Observors noted that the protests going on at American universities across the United States turned sour, and then violent, over this past week.
By Thursday this past week, those protests became the pretext for the successful passage of a bill in the United States House of Representatives. That bill would amend Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The change would have it so that in cases of alleged discrimination involving any program or activity receiving federal assistance, courts shall take into consideration the definition of antisemitism they've proffered.
This doesn't stop anyone from, on campus, saying 'Fuck you, Jew'. That said, there will be attempts to claim that it does and punish people--fair or foul--accordingly. The smarter ones will amend any university Honor Code, State statute, City ordinance, or other more local rule to do so rather than claim that this Federal Law would do it.
Why did this happen? The pro-Israel faction in this fight successfully framed a Narrative where the pro-Gaza protestors are violent criminal terrorists radicalizing the students by way of faculty agitators. As they have access to the mainstream news media, and their enemies do not, this was easy to accomplish.
It did not matter if there were people on the ground live-streaming what really went down; if it didn't get into Regime Media, it didn't exist and thus is not eligible to be Truth according to the Narrative. Within days of the protests confronting Law Enforcement, the media-driven Narrative provided enough cover for Fellow Travelers in Congress to push that bill (which, as usual, was already written and ready to go) and get it through with plausible deniability. It is, as of this post, in the U.S. Senate; if it passes (and there is every expectation that it will) Resident Biden will sign it and then the Lawfare starts.
But what was the critical point? This:
Ngo EXCLUSIVE: I've obtained undercover secret video INSIDE the ongoing violent @Portland_State library siege by Antifa and far-left extremists. They've occupied the whole building, vandalizing it floor-by-floor, ostensibly in support of Gaza. PSU has shut down the whole campus… pic.twitter.com/0Ff4fEij3q
There were similar actions over the week, all of which are organized and executed by professionals- actual students are a minority.
Dozens of extremists were arrested at Arizona State @ASU on April 27 at the illegal encampment for Gaza. Administrators say most were not students nor faculty.
These facts were allowed to reach mainstream media, which then used those facts to frame a Narrative of violent antisemitism due to Jewish students being targetted on campus. The bill then got pushed through the U.S. House and went to the U.S. Senate with popular approval because those same media reports used the pro-Gaza groups' own claims of Hamas affliation or sympathy against them to justify the bill's passage.
That is letting your enemy set the Narrative framework using your own words and deeds against you, such that you are perceived as low-status, criminal, and a clear and present danger that must be dealt with and failing to counter that Narrative framing with counter-framing of your own because any such attempts did not reach the intended audience. Therefore, it's like losing a lawsuit because you didn't file in time or in the right place; you lose by default because you didn't rebut the claims.
Not that there wasn't unintended damage to their own cause; this exercise of power has fatally weakened the very taboo that the bill is meant to reinforce, meaning that this is a short-term fix at best and savvy observors are watching for the follow-through move to make this bill's intended effects actually happen.
This is something that our second example has yet to learn, which is funny given whom the target was.
The Failure: Making Sargon Cool
A very stupid British toy company has decided to bend the knee to the Death Cult. They decided to attack the resistance to their degeneration of the properties that they operate by using one of their stable of fiction writers to set up a Narrative attack against a known critic: Carl Benjamin, co-founder of The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters (Good lads, that bunch.), better known to some as one of the Original Gamers of #Gamergate: Sargon of Akkad.
This is what Carl is gloating about: they attempted to depict him as a low-status, lame, cringy faggot and completely botched the job.
You do not win by framing your enemies as cooler than you, more awesome than you, more magnificent than you, more exciting than you, etc. because it means that when your Totally Not A Self-Insert stand-in does the violence against this doppleganger stand-in it comes off as the pathetic tantrum that it is.
If you're going to do the meme, don't fuck it up; ensure that what you claim is the Soyjack actually comes off that way to the target audience. This writer fucked that up and made Sargon out to be the Chad, and Sargon knows it. That's why he's gloating; he dun lerned from getting smeared successfully by mainstream media Narrative attacks, so he knows (a) what this fuckup attempted and (b) that he fucked it up and did the opposite.
I eagerly await Sargon posting a well-painted miniature depicting his doppleganger in all his glory.
Conclusion
The Frame Game is a game of perception and illusion, a status dance before an unseen audience, where you are attempting to wield the illusion of legitimacy to convince people that what you say is true, factual, and correct and your enemies are lying, thieving faggots that need to be driven to extinction for the good of Mankind.
The best of them, like Mike Benz described, go so far as to make it socially unacceptable to say or think certain things.
Which is leading to a lot of people complaining that they can't say (X) where they are. My Brothers In Christ, you're on the Internet. Make common cause with others who are in places where (X) can be said; feed them the info and let them say it for you- and reciprocate in kind as required. Censorship in networks is, as events have proven, seen as damage and thus are things to rout around. Decentralize, federate, organize- and Empire will fall.
In addressing a Narrative Warfare outbreak in a cultural niche (see all of last week's posts at the Retreat), the recurring pattern of these events crystalized before me.
This pattern is fractal.
This pattern applies to far larger cultural and political issues. The pattern is all about Narrative Control. If you hold control over the Narrative regarding the issue, then it is far easier--to the point of triviality--to seize power, hold it, grow it, and exploit your enemies attempts to combat you to do just that.
This is what Mike Benz tried to communicate when he took up the psuedonym of "Frame Game Radio" those few years ago and explain the concept of Narrative Warfare and how it is applied by setting the Narrative framework regarding what the issue is, what the socially-acceptable range of opinion is, and how to shift that opinion (i.e. the Overton Window) away from your enemies and towards you and yours.
The problem with the specific cultural niche is that it is all about something that is inherently decentralized by its nature, and as such centralization by various parties has been a fragile affair that's easily broken and not so easily rebuilt. This is not true across the board, but it's a lot more viable than it seems.
Learning how the Frame Game works has been a massive breakthrough, as it is a game of pure Rhetoric; there is not one scrap of useful information to be had (i.e. no Dialectic). It's all about manipulation of the perception of status: who has it, who lacks it, and therefore who determines what and whom is in and what/whom is not.
Centralization of information transmission is vital to making this work; if you don't have a mass media apparatus that works, then you don't have the mass mind control necessary to wage Narrative Warfare effectively.
What centralized media outlets trade on, therefore, is legitimacy. Or, rather, the illusion that they have it and others do not. Nowhere is this more obvious than with the New York Times, "The Paper Of Record", but the entire mainstream establishment (across the Globohomo empire) plays this magic trick on the populations. When it is in full effect, it can make a population believe anything- no matter how impossible. Yes, down to believing that black is white and gravity is optional.
What happened this past week? A British game publisher pissed off their fans to include Death Cult poz, and as a result the most connected and influential hobbyists started a revolt. I argued for the expansion of that revolt to remove ALL centralizing actors in this cultural niche, and explained how and why to do it. In comparing specific events, the pattern emerged; I compared the pattern to events outside that niche and it held. I extended backwards; it held.
And now I see why the Death Cult blames #Gamergate for ruining everything. Because it did. How? By shattering the legitimacy of journalism to a critical mass of people ALL AT ONCE. Everything started cascading from there, but in a manner that showed a lack of deliberation and coordination- a potential that the enemy (who relies on both) saw and sought to put down for good.
They failed.
Which leads to solutions.
A Solution Of Unexpected Simplicity
The solution for most of these pattern occurences is "Decentralize, decentralize, decentralize!"
The distribution of agency, authority, information, resources, and accountability to the local level--while maintaining a network capacity to allow for necessary larger-scale collaboration as required--is the way out for most of these matters. Less looking to the Big Man, and more looking to the neighbor and the mirror.
This requires a paradigm shift. We are already seeing that shift occur with regarding to journalism; centralized outlets are plumetting in legitmacy with the public at-large, as smaller outlets take their place- some being literally one man with a smartphone streaming live and talking over it as it happens.
Is this a sureshot panacea? No, it is not. The enemy is at liberty to use the same tools, and does so to mask their own fronts (e.g. Unicorn Riot and other Antifa fronts, which are tied in to Globohomo via deniable Intelligence cutouts), but despite the increase in noise (to borrow radio speak) the signal strength and variety is also far greater than it was before 2007 and the introduction of the iPhone- just ask Richard Grove, The Syrian Girl, or Luke Rudowski.
The thing to learn and master for now is the Frame Game. This is no longer about loserisms like Ben Shapiro's Facts & Logic. Feelings do trump facts, and most people are wired to bend the knee to Status over everything else. Find out what High Status looks and sounds like, then perform that until you seize the high ground; once in the high status chair, change the definitions of High Status to conform to you and yours. That is what Globohomo's Thralls do to us, and have for over a century.
No more debates. No more discourses. They always engage in bad faith purely to do Frame Game attacks on you. It's a status dance, and you need to learn how to lead.
That's the trick; their claim of legitimacy is based on their claim of status- equally illusory, so it's only real if others believe it is.
Bully, mock, and mog them until they submit (or better); they are the killjoys, the life-destroyers, the kid-rapers, the Forever Warmongers, the Normie Haters and Destroyers Of Grills. This is how and why Trump won in 2016 and forced the election theft in 2020; he was too popular and high status to defeat.
Show them as cringe, lame, boring, shrill Karen Killjoys that hate you and want to rape your kids into killing themselves. Show yourselves as cool, awesome, exciting, life-enjoying fun-loving folks that love your kids and want them to be even more fun and awesome than you. That is how you win the Frame Game.
Do this and the Thralls fail, Empire falls, and the world becomes better. How? By breaking their Narrative framework, the audience (the prize you're contending for) loses allegience to Globohomo and becomes open to what you offer via coming into your Narrative frame instead. Explain nothing until they buy into your frame. Dialectic is for Ingroups, not for Outgroups.
That's how you win--how we win--and I can't believe it took 15 fucking years to finally get the answer to how to win against Empire.
Once more, it is VTubers putting in the work that Press Whores won't even bother to steal credit for.
Credit to Kirche and Rev for putting in the work and boosting the signal to others, who would repeat and enhance in turn.
Yes, the DIE Regime in Western entertainment is freaking out at being exposed. However, you already know that this is deeply embedded into Western corporate and civil policy, and that's what Kirche reported on (and Rev here is amplfying).
What the goal here got laid out in plain language by Kirche, TINA: (T)here (I)s (N)o (A)lternative.
This is why they are so hard up about attacking entertainment media outside the West, starting with Japan and Korea. That's media they don't control. What they do not control they consider a threat because it is.
"But why?"
For that, we cold-cock some British twat and nick his Police Box because we need to go back in time.
The Liminal Space Bewtween Cult and Patronage
Issac Simpson, writing at Dark Futura, published a piece called "Cthulhu Gazes Right" this past week. Long, and heady, but worth the read; do so now, as I'll be building on it below.
What Issac talks about is why the Thralls of Empire--be they serving the Red Dynasty, the Neo-Tsar, or Globohomo--act and believe as they do, with an emphasis on those that serve Globohomo because those the Thralls that dissidents reading this will have to contend with.
A lot of this can be summarized with a meme:
But that is not the whole of the story.
What you need to take away from that article is that money, by itself, is fucking worthless. Its value exists solely in terms of what it buys; it is nothing more than lubrication for the Machine Of Power- the system of contracts, relationships, and leverage by which Globohomo (or the other two Imperial Powers, and those wishing to be one) do what they do. Without it, the Machine seizes up and destroys itself.
The Neo-Tsar and the Red Dynasty don't care so much about the illusion of democratic legitimacy or the illusion of impartial business operations in a free market. Globohomo does. In an irony that few reading this will comprehend, Globohomo is far more obsessed with Face than either of its rivals- Globohomo is now, and has been for many years, the pre-eminent Face Culture on this planet, surpassing even the Red Dynasty.
This is the secular reason for all the virtue signalling and Mean Girl/Longhouse/Fox-minded social control schemes. There is a sacred one.
Globohomo's Thralls are, ultimately, run by the Death Cult- a thing author Brian Niemeier explained almost five years ago. This is where Globohomo's power lies: it usurped the moral authority of the Church, taking the moral high ground in the culture in the Anglosphere for certain and in much of the West generally, a high ground from which all attempts to use facts, logic, law, ethics, etc. fail because they set the narrative Frame Game IN MORAL TERMS.
Yet it is a moral authority that they know is stolen- is false. The phenomenon of the Witch Test has not been defeated yet; every single time, it works to compel them to confess that they are Thralls of Empire, and with it their illusion of moral authority is shattered because they reveal themselves to be the very Enemy that they claim to be against in their posturing.
(This, by the by, is part of why they're taking the mask off and openly flouting their Satanic ways in classic inversion.)
This same phenomenon is behind the freakouts over Sweet Baby, Black Girl Gamers, BRIDGE, etc..
It is exactly the same thing. They know that they're lying while they posture, so they do all that they can to work behind the scenes unobserved. If this was not the case, they would operate in the open; they would welcome the attention of the public at-large, celebrate all of the interests that joined into the Patronage Network to get things done, etc.- as has happened in generations before ours.
This is the vulnerability, and we cannot afford to refrain from hammering it with the fist of an angry God until it breaks and shatters- unable to reform ever again.
Which means that there is now very fun, very entertaining, and very Achievable IRL content for dissidents to enjoy.
What To Do About It?
The Aristocratic Utensil has a good place to start.
Narrative Warfare is all about the Frame Game.
The DIE Regime freaked out because someone not under their control (Kabrutus) broke their frame and thereby disrupted their Narrative Warfare campaign. The DIE Regime needs to keep this quiet because, as their own communications reveal, no one wants this- IT HAS TO BE FORCED. They are now relying on their Patrons to protect them by making the moves necessary at major nodes of power and control to permit them to force this upon them.
This cannot work if they are constantly freaking out to being exposed, which is why Kirche's video matters- it's further action (not reaction) against the DIE Regime.
If you want to follow this up, map out the Patronage Network and expose THAT. Don't let them scrub their websites and lock down their social media profiles; dig, process, present, expose, and amplify.
Remember that they fear exposure and unwanted attention; every single time they've been caught out, they scrub, lock down, and hide hoping it will all blow over.
But this time there is more than can be done. The tools now exist for easy translation of their own words, including with context, to language speakers that they seek to target and either subjugate or destroy- or, failing that, lock out of Western markets. Japan and South Korea are the top two on the list of folks who need to be shown and told how these people regard them, regard their media, and how the Western audience is at war with them over their totalitarian overreach.
The second thing to do is to dig into how the Globohomo Thralls use payment processors and credit card companies as gatekeepers in both directions; getting on the Mastercard Blacklist10 is all but a death sentence to any business that lacks Fuck This Gay Earth money. Yes, there are people attempting workarounds and substitutes, but so far they've been lacking in necessary scale and scope to compete with the Globohomo-controlled global banking system. (And yes, this is the final fallback position before the guns come out- all the Geopolitical Bros have said this for years now.)
The most important thing, however, is to read that Issac Simpson article and read it deeply for comprehension. This is a game; there are rules, and Globohomo knows them better than everyone else- for now.
You're dealing with a vampire. You know what to do with vampires, don't you: expose them to the light of the Sun.
And remember to Act, not React. The initiative, and the power over the Narrative Frame, goes to those that Act. Empire Must Fall.
No one had "Exposed by a VTuber" on their Bingo Card, but here we are.
TLDR: "SJWs Always Double-Down".
What the plan is now is to wrap around the roots of institutional practice at all levels, making its removal require forcing the opposition to burn it all to ash and thus deny the captured organization to the enemy (i.e. us).
This rebranding is not isolated. It will be done in conjunction with expanded government intervention using "extremism" as the excuse.
The Extremism And Gaming website has scrubbed their page of all their founding members and contributors.
This is likely in response to gamers having discovered the common thread of people between these various funding efforts to “study” this “problem.”
The quoted post is by the man who made the Sweet Baby Detected group on Steam.
He has someone replying with images of the inidividual and institutional members of an international anti-extremism group. Posted below.
The aim is to do what was done with Anime/Manga, and seize control of a chokepoint through which all operations must pass to reach the target population (i.e. us).
This can work, but only so long as it remains undercover. Once exposed, this plan rapidly loses its utility.
Discotek's treachery has already had consequences, as had everyone else that bent the knee to this subversion once exposed.
(Hint: There are still clean fan-subs and fan-dubs online; go download and archive them as soon as possible.)
And as this develops, expect things to get worse- and weirder. Empire Must Fall.
On Monday this past week, the Narrative dam on Ukraine broke.
Official Narrative update: the idea that the CIA has been deeply involved in Ukraine for over a decade waging a secret war against Russia is no longer a conspiracy theory. pic.twitter.com/sxv2472VqY
1. The Maidan coup being launched by our own CIA 2. The Donbas refusing to recognize the CIA puppet gov't in Kyiv, setting off a 8 year civil war 3. Kyiv arming & sending actual neo-Nazis to Eastern Ukraine to commit atrocities &… https://t.co/uR8NzhQNN3
— Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) February 27, 2024
Recall that the Narrative was that Putin invaded Ukraine unprovoked.
Recall that Putin claimed that NATO, the EU, the UK, and the US (and their Intelligence agencies) had been not only violating consistent agreements to not expand NATO Eastward through former Soviet client states but (with Ukraine) up to Russia's border.
Recall that pro-Globohomo man Peter Zeihan has consistently explained Russia's intergenerational security trauma, born of their early experiences centuries ago against the Golden Horde.
This was over 6 years ago; it only got worse
What do you have when you are in Putin's position and you see someone you know to be a threat lie to your face (and to your predecessors' faces) repeated about not aggressing against you? Grounds for pre-emptive military action.
Cry as Globohomo will, Putin has precedent on his side and always had.
Now we have confirmation that Putin's claims justifying his actions were true and correct all along, so Globohomo spent a lot of time this past week smothering the story as hard as they could in the outlets that they control while doing what they could to suppress it elsewhere (e.g. Twitter).
It will not work, and it has not worked.
You know this is the correct reading because the Thrall of Empire in charge, Victoria Nuland, had to come out of her lair and grace us with the visage as hideous as her soul to gainsay this in vain.
With China also having its own collapse issues becoming too obvious to ignore, that win for Globohomo is becoming increasingly obvious by the day- and so will its own fall.
This past week on Monday, U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH 4) posted the following to Twitter.
Never-before-released internal emails subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP reveal that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of.
Someone else used one of the thread recap bots to collect this into a readable page. It is here.
If you want a summary, here: "So the ones screaming about book bans are the ones banning books."
But you ought to know how this is done.
White House wants something censored.
Amazon (biggest seller) gets an unofficial request to do so.
If Amazon doesn't comply, it becomes official.
If Amazon still doesn't comply, White House ropes in NGOs to wield media pressure to compel it.
If Amazon still doesn't comply, White House and NGOs start using their influence and power over the banks to do it.
Amazon complies, targetted media is censored. "Muh Private Company!" protects both sides from legal attacks.
Some of you may notice that this is a scaled-up version of the "cancellation" process that SJWs and Death Cultists use against targetted individuals. That's because it is.
This is why any serious dissident operation has to create a parallel economy across the board. To that end, it is the publishers (and Gab) that have actually put in real work and not the political organizations. Even so, there remains two major points of weakness where Globohomo has the upper hand: payment processing and banking.
(Yes, I am aware of GabPay; let's see how that plays out.)
The banking element, for now, must instead rely on the tension between the Western banking establishment and the major banking jurisdictions outside Globohomo's reach.
No one in the dissident sphere even figures that this is possible, but it is- and far richer enemies of Globohomo successfully wield it daily to fuck Globohomo over. Dissidents need to copy that homework.
(Yes, I will talk about this privately.)
And After Empire Captures A Castle
Once a "private" institution is captured by Empire, it is repurposed into a pro-Empire propaganda outlet. Film Threat had a video yesterday about how this is being done at Amazon Studios.
And they will, if they can, choke off access to media that does not conform as Crunchyroll is doing for its all-digital library (and other captured companies are doing as they do to theirs).
And if they can, they will gaslight targets into conforming prior to seizing control themselves.
To say that it's bad is an understatement, but it is not insurmountable. What a remedy will require is time, patience, and massive amounts of teamwork.
There will be more and more need to erect parallel structures as Globohomo gets worse in the West. I think now is a good opportunity to pivot and start talking solutions using this as a focus.
The Supreme Dark Lord boosted a book coming soon from a French colonel called The Russian Art of War, which can be found here. One look (and I quote the same passage Vox did) shows so much cope on display.
Throughout the Cold War period, the Soviet Union saw itself as the spearhead of a historical struggle that would lead to a confrontation between the “capitalist” system and “progressive forces.” This perception of a permanent and inescapable war led the Soviets to study war in a quasi-scientific way, and to structure this thinking into an architecture of military thought that has no equal in the Western world.
The problem with the vast majority of our so-called military experts is their inability to understand the Russian approach to war. It is the result of an approach we have already seen in waves of terrorist attacks—the adversary is so stupidly demonized that we refrain from understanding his way of thinking. As a result, we are unable to develop strategies, articulate our forces, or even equip them for the realities of war. The corollary of this approach is that our frustrations are translated by unscrupulous media into a narrative that feeds hatred and increases our vulnerability. We are thus unable to find rational, effective solutions to the problem.
The way Russians understand conflict is holistic. In other words, they see the processes that develop and lead to the situation at any given moment. This explains why Vladimir Putin’s speeches invariably include a return to history. In the West, we tend to focus on X moment and try to see how it might evolve. We want an immediate response to the situation we see today. The idea that “from the understanding of how the crisis arose comes the way to resolve it” is totally foreign to the West. In September 2023, an English-speaking journalist even pulled out the “duck test” for me: “if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” In other words, all the West needs to assess a situation is an image that fits their prejudices. Reality is much more subtle than the duck model….
The reason the Russians are better than the West in Ukraine is that they see the conflict as a process; whereas we see it as a series of separate actions. The Russians see events as a film. We see them as photographs. They see the forest, while we focus on the trees. That is why we place the start of the conflict on February 24, 2022, or the start of the Palestinian conflict on October 7, 2023. We ignore the contexts that bother us and wage conflicts we do not understand. That is why we lose our wars…
In Russia, unsurprisingly, the principles of the military art of the Soviet forces inspired those currently in use:
readiness to carry out assigned missions;
concentration of efforts on solving a specific mission;
surprise (unconventionality) of military action vis-à-vis the enemy;
finality determines a set of tasks and the level of resolution of each one;
totality of available means determines the way to resolve the mission and achieve the objective (correlation of forces);
coherence of leadership (unity of command);
economy of forces, resources, time and space;
support and restoration of combat capability;
freedom of maneuver.
It should be noted that these principles apply not only to the implementation of military action as such. They are also applicable as a system of thought to other non-operational activities.
An honest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine would have identified these various principles and drawn useful conclusions for Ukraine. But none of the self-proclaimed experts on TV were intellectually able to do so.
Thus, Westerners are systematically surprised by the Russians in the fields of technology (e.g., hypersonic weapons), doctrine (e.g., operative art) and economics (e.g., resilience to sanctions). In a way, the Russians are taking advantage of our prejudices to exploit the principle of surprise. We can see this in the Ukrainian conflict, where the Western narrative led Ukraine to totally underestimate Russian capabilities, which was a major factor in its defeat. That is why Russia did not really try to counter this narrative and let it play out—the belief that we are superior makes us vulnerable….
I shall now quote The Wombat.
Let me remind you, Anon, of the following:
The USSR lost the Cold War.
The Tsar lost to the Bolsheviks.
In both cases, "The West" knew exactly what to do to beat the Russians, they executed on that plan- and they are doing it again right now. The Russians have learned NOTHING from these events.
If you need to have it explained to you, then I will Explain It Like You're Five.
Ukraine is the Warlock pet. Russia is the NPC target. The West is the Warlock. Send in the pet to get the target's attention, load the target up with Damage Over Time effects, and keep direct actions below the threshold of the target's notice (draw Aggro), and let the DOTs do their work until the target dies.
In geopolitical terms, "DOTs" are financial and cultural subversion campaigns that wreck the target's economy and society. Ukraine is a proxy state put up to the task by Thralls of Empire aligned to Globohomo, and direct action is financing and equipping the proxy state ("pet management" for you MMO veterans) just enough to keep things going but not enough to become a problem after the fact.
It's not like Moscow doesn't notice anthing. The problem is that Russian elite culture is the end result of Russian security culture, which is itself an institutional memory of being subjugated by the Golden Horde.
The problem is that Globohomo's institutional memory extends well before 1991. It remembers how it used Lenin as an agent to knock the Tsar out of the first world war. It remembers how it exploited Gorbachov to win the Cold War. Globohomo knows all of that about Russia elite and security culture. That is what it exploits to beat the Russian state time and again, around which specific circumstances are accounted for to formulate and execute specific plans to get those wins.
Right now the specific circumstances are that Russia's economy is in the shitter and has been for years (but carefully hidden outside of the Moscow-St. Petersberg axis that it uses as Potemkin Villages to sell outsiders on Russia), its elite corruption is out of control (which filters down to the grunts getting what graft they can), its demographics are as bad as China's (i.e. crashing like the Hindenberg), and it is severely security-axious due to losing so much border control post-USSR.
Russia had to invade Ukraine. Russia has to keep Belarus on-side, as well as the 'stans of Central Asia, while inching closer to reestablishing that former border.
Globohomo knows this. Ukraine was a trap.
Globohomo does not care about Ukraine or the Ukrainian nation anymore than it does Russia or the nations within Russia. They are cogs to be used until worn out, then replaced with new cogs.
Globohomo seeks to finish the job it began in 1991, but Putin interrupted when he seized power. Globohomo will succeed because it has already inflicted killing damage to both the State and the nations.
It is not that Globohomo does not know the Russia way of war. It most certainly does, and it is using that knowledge again to beat it a third and final time. Once that is done, the looting will resume and the European Union wing of Globohomo in particular is just chomping at the bit in their eagerness to tear the Russian state apart into a suite of far smaller, weaker, and therefore controllable chunks- with North American support, of course.
41 new states will emerge from #ExRussia and the world 🌎 will be a much better place - and I prepare the strategic plan how to make that happen here in Washington pic.twitter.com/zpJlBvDmdx
This is no longer a question of "If", but "When" and "How". Putin will soon realize that he has to use Russia's nukes to compel an acceptable settlement, and if he finds that Russia's nukes are as badly rotted by corruption as China's are, Russia is fucked.
Right now we're in the tri-state arrangement of 1984. Within a few years, Globohomo will again be the only power- and which point the only threats are internal.
That is dangerous, because Globohomo will also be exhausted and cannot tolerate unrest in the time it needs to rest, recover, and ready itself for the next episode.
That is when Empire falls- and not before. Colonel Bagette is high on copium.
Peter Zeihan is not the man to pay attention here. It's the other guy. Pure Narrative framing going on here; I've heard this framing before- this cohort of Globohomo ain't slick. Other guy's openly repeating the old Globohomo position on Russia: wear it down, bleed it out, break it up (implicitly, take it over).
Zeihan's there purely to give substance to the other guy's framing. For all his gainsaying of the other guy, it's not disagreement on the core point- just the details. Zeihan's role in this video is to give the audience an illusion of facts and logic for the other guy's Rhetorical statements that do the framing.
The takeaway here is that it is now thinkable to outright conquer, occupy, and Westernize (poz) Russia. "If Putin doesn't make it happen sooner due to incompetence, "business forces" and demographics will make it happen soon enough, so get ready to seize the new opportunities soon to come the West's way!" Narrative Good Cop/Bad Cop in action. It's the goal of the post-Cold War Establishment reiterated.
This video is meant for a Globohomo-friendly audience of "Outer Party" types that think they're insiders, which is the sort of audience that men like Zeihan in particular speak to on the regular. Events like this are how Establishment narratives are promulgated before they go wide with mass media, so if you want advanced warning of narrative shifts this sort of thing is what to watch out for- and Zeihan's the sort of man to follow since this is his beat.
This makes me miss Frame Game Radio. He'd be all over this video if he were still around. Classic "unthinking" (rethinking) framing in action. Learn this and you won't be surprised at what Globohomo does. Master it, and you'll see what the other Imperial Powers (and those aiming to be like them) do differently to achieve the same end. Seeing the tells is a necessary step towards making Empire fall.
Most of you reading this are not necessarily gamers. Therefore this ongoing happening in the tabletop gaming business is at some remove to you, and you will be able to follow along as I point out the Narrative Warfare campaign being waged.
This drama is a microcosm example of how Globohomo and its imperial rivals weaponizing information controls at multiple levels to achieve its objectives and defeats threats.
First, a summary of the matter is in order.
Wizards of the Coast is a wholly-owned subsidary of Hasbro. Wizards recently had a turnover in senior management, the C-Suite, and those now in charge are not gamers and do not understand the tabletop role-playing game market or hobby (or, for that matter, any other tabletop gaming market).
Wizards is under pressure from Hasbro (who's new CEO is Wizards' former CEO) and its shareholders to maximize the profit potential of Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards' new leadership may not be gamers, but they can read profit/loss statements and map out trendlines over time. They conclude--correctly--that the tabletop RPG business model only monetizes 20% of the total customer demographic at best and nothing within the existing business model can succeed in changing this.
Wizards concludes that they have to change the business model, but there is no path to success by selling physical product that is traditionally produces and distributed, which is what D&D is defined as being. The leadership concludes that they must change the product to change the model in order to achieve its goals.
Wizards' leadership sees--correctly--that the real value of D&D is the brand, not the product. They commit to changing the product and to pivot the brand identity away from it to a "lifestyle brand" of identity.
Wizards' leadership sees--correctly--that the existing customer demographic will not accept a change away from how things are. The leadership concludes that they must fire the customers and recruit a new demographic.
How does a corporation go about firing a no-longer-desired customer demographic, pivot the brand to something more profitable, and recruit a replacement demographic to achieve those revenue and profit objectives?
This is where Narrative Warfare enters the picture.
Wizards could have been open, honest, and forthright in their plans to pivot D&D away from the physical product and traditional retail channels of the business towards an all-digital Game-As-Service with microtransactions. They could have just said "We understand that many of you will not want to go along with this. We are convinced that you will see it our way in due course, and we await your return then." But no, they didn't.
Instead, Wizards set about a psychological operation intended to drive away their "legacy" customers with intentionally antagonizing and insulting Public Relations moves as the first step in a Narrative Warfare campaign.
Those familiar with psychological abuse or hardball negotiations know this pattern: Make unacceptable demands, set the narrative frame that certain things are already inevitable by what is said and how, then walk back those demands until either the other party accepts or only what you are after remains- whichever comes first.
This is what Wizards of the Coast has done, and D&D Shorts has the recepits.
Let me start with the Frame Game.
Wizards presents as inevitable that v1.0a of the Open Game License--no, you don't need to know what this is to get the point here--will not be honored ("revoked") and that any who persist thereafter will be punished in court.
Wizards' "new OGL drafts" accepts this premise as given. Other such elements so presumed include Wizards' control over all published material, as demonstrated by how Wizards uses sophistry to hide their intent to exercise such control over individual and group actors alike.
Wizards intentionally uses language tricks to focus attention on what they are willing to give ground on vs. what they do not, and then paint the reactions as "unreasonable" both in internal communications (to silence and suppress dissent) and with external parties (mainly Hasbro and the shareholders, who is whom Wizards cares about and not customers).
YOU ARE HERE!
Following from here, Wizards will begin to build up to an Outrage Marketing campaign as a defensive move against the tabletop hobbyists and publishers unhappy with Wizards and their moves to damage Wizards financially. The media outlets currently unfriendly or neutral to Wizards will turn friendly and publish hit-pieces on the tabletop gamers, and when the new D&D movie flops it will be them that take the blame- especially if an attempted boycott gets anywhere at all.
This campaign will frame the "legacy customers" and tabletop as a hobby as socially unacceptable and politically unpalatable, justfying Wizards openly pivoting away from them (and the legacy business) to where they want to go along with making it easier to recruit the replacement demographic- a demographic, at best, neutral to tabletop if not outright hostile to it.
The campaign will have all the Death Cult signals needed to get the oversocialized and terminally online Death Cultists to signal boost Wizards' claims and add social cache (in the form of "sticking it to the chuds"); the proof is that the "morality clause" in the current "draft" has already turned some objectors into agreers and prompted those in the dissent to deal with attempts to install one in alternative licenses in the works.
Wizards is also not above astroturfing support for its positions.
As the majority of the opposition are themselves either Pop Cultists or Death Cultists--and thus already accepting the moral frame Wizards presents--they cannot hope to mount an effective counterattack in time. It will come down to lawfare, and Wizards is well-positions to use a Fabian Strategy to win there also.
When you study this entire drama from a distance, you can see all the Narrative Warfare operations in real time with crystal clarity.
Now you can see how, and why, this works. If you can do that, then you can figure out how to beat it, and that will get you closer to Empire's fall.
I ended last week with a mention of the Secret Kings.
That is not a formal group. It is an idea, an archetype, an abstraction.
It is the concept that there are people who exert power covertly, whom you do not know and therefore would not recognize if you encountered them in everyday life.
They want to think of themselves as this:
Those more accepting of what they really are see themselves as this:
In reality, they are this:
Because real kings are like Alexander and just come at their objectives openly, rather than scurry about like rats, and when they become aware of Thralls in their midst then what Theoden did to Wormtongue is the best that can be expected. Instead, more often, you get this:
This is why they act like rats, focus upon corruption and blackmail, and are so big on surveilance. The smarter among them know that a network of mediocrities who know that they succeed only because they do what the Spooks tell them is far easier to cultivate, curate, and control than trying to plant a Wormtongue into every true king's ear.
They know that, compared to the masses, they are few and ready to be purged good and hard if they are exposed. They know that only so long as they can mantain superiority of information that they can maintain power, and that means the core staying in the shadows while working through disposable cutouts to work the levers of power, but due to the spiritual root of their power they have to pay tribute to their master and that's how you get mask-off moments like this.
Not a single bank has dropped Balenciaga. Chase credit shut off a generals accounts because they didn’t like his politics. JP Morgan froze conservative activists’ accounts. But every bank is fine with taking money from #Balenciaga who uses ads with children in bondage gear.
Many over the years said that those who rule the West adhere to a weird code where they have to tell you what's up before going hard on it.
Think of it as being like someone that expects you to read their minds and just know what they are thinking as they hint and gesture while you are focused on doing something useful, then get mad at you when you don't do what they want so they find some way to punish you.
That's this concept in action as the Spooks do it; they use symbolism, knowing that you're not literate in their symbolic language, to tell you and then when you don't do anything they punish you and say "But you consented" when you point it out.
If that sounds like an abusive spouse or parent gaslighting a victim, that's because it is.
They give you illusions, making you think you have a real choice, then fix the outcome to whatever suits them best.
There are no markets, only rackets. There is no democracy or republicanism, only a shadow oligarchy that operates as a dictatorship. There is no truth, only propaganda.
If you think this sounds like live under the former Soviet Bloc or the present Chinese regime, you're not wrong- it's just that the Spooks of Globohomo do all of it better.
And yet, for all their glamor and tale-telling, they can no more change reality than they can defy gravity- and reality always breaks through.
The Rule of Spooks is fragile, and their need to more overtly flex what power they have is a defensive move of weakness. Going hard, despite popular opposition, to control over movement and capital in the name of "climate regulation" or whatever bullshit it is this week--complete with media blackouts that make said Communist regimes look tame--and as such their Invisible Empire is shuddering just as their counterparts elsewhere are.
This past week, Elon Musk began releasing heretofore private information about Twitter's operations through a handful of mainstream Western journalists.
Collectively these are "The Twtter Files", and what they reveal is confirmation of what dissidents across the board have suspected and claimed for years about how the Twitter censorship regime worked.
Former CEO Jack Dorsey had no real power. He was a figurehead. The real power was "Trust and Safety", which directly liased with Globohomo assets in various governments and corporations as well as their counterparts in the Chi-Com sphere of influence. We can, reasonably, conclude that other parties at least maintained contact with this ruling cabal at Twitter.
The many rainbow-haired Thralls that Elon fired recently were the Commissars--the political officers--charged with enforcing the Twitter Politburo's diktat--and their recent purging pointed in the direction of this revelation's confirmation, pressaged by the immediate turnaround of Twitter Japan's Trending Topics from Globohomo faggotry to far more wholesome and Normie-friendly J-Pop talk of pop music, anime, manga, TV shows, etc. in the blink of an eye.
What this points to is the confirmation of a claim made by Anonymous Conservative: Rule By Spook.
AC claims that this happened in the United States about a century or so ago, and similar forensic historical analysis by Richard Grove (Peace Revolution, Grand Theft World, Tragedy & Hope Podcast) extends this to the founding of the American republic itself. (I will not expand on this further here; I direct you to Grove's many years of podcasts to pursue this.)
But you are not yet interested in that history. You want to know what this means here and now.
Imagine Twitter under Dorsey, but for all of the West. The politicians you elect are not the power-wielders, and are not elected by you; they are selected by others, and they are actors playing out a pantomime of power for a deliberately deceived population intended to be used as cattle- to be herded as useful, and culled as necessary.
There is no need to talk about supernatural creatures. There is no need to speak of extraterrestrials, or hidden civilizations. All that is necessary for this to be valid is to recognize the following:
There is power in deceit.
Those that recognize power in deceit come to recognize the power in rigging the outcomes of life by deceit in their favor.
There is absolute--but utterly fragile--power in ensuring that all operations of life are controlled by those that deceive.
Therefore there is no other outcome but to conceal oneself while assuming control over all nodes of power within a civilization, and destroying all that cannot be controlled or denying access--including, in time, acknowledgement--of what it can neither control nor destroy.
This results in the policy of "TINA": (T)here (I)s (N)o (A)lternative.
The end result of Rule By Spook is Rule By Fraud, which requires ever-increasing unreality and a constant shifting of what is and is not acceptable to keep would-be opposition off-balance and permitting easy pretexts for Spooks to enforce their rule in the deniable fashion that they require.
That may explain Clown World in a general sense, but not the civilizational suicide.
No, this is not mere "Rule The Ashes" thought. Nor is it "Manage The Inevitable Decline". Both of these are due to the Spooks' actions across recent generations over the last century or so, which means that something other than secular rationality--if you believe in such a thing--is driving this.
It is not a surprise that a lot of the roots of tradecraft and the game of espionage derive from the temple cults of Antiquity. Egpyt in particular was lousy with them, with priests using their position to establish information ratlines to create intelligence reports, reports that would be weaponized due to disparities in information to put all of those priests into a superior position of power over others- sometimes even over the Pharoahs.
(Side Note: This is what the Aten Incident was really about.)
This practice continues to this day. That's what the child abuse is about, and why the Spooks are lousy with pedophiles and pedophilia; it's not just a tennat of their faith that they must ritually defile life to satisfy their immortal master, but also grants them power over others they lure into participating in such acts where they can be seen doing it. This awareness of the prevalence of such predators is finally getting popular notice, such that it is now suspected that many supporting Globohomo are either partakers or covering for them.
The Spooks may not be vampires, aliens, or killer robots but they are predatory cultists in thrall to an evil spirit that claims mastery over the world and has enough power to make that claim seem real. That much is clear in the outright demoralization of any society and nation that comes into their power--look at Poland--and so is the clear disconnect of "elected" officials from those they claim to serve.
"We are better than you" is what the Spooks' actions say, "for we are possessed of Secret Knowledge and by dint of that knowledge we alone know what must be done, and we cannot trust you to do it so we do it out of your sight so that we need not fear your interference. We are The Secret Kings, we see all, we know all, and We Rule You."
Alas, Anonynous Conservative is also right about the only way forward: ruthless, totaly, and complete exposure followed by a more ruthless purging by fire and blood.
Empire is not stupid. It knows it should not be. That's why it hides. Rule By Spook is the inevitably outcome of its nature expressing itself via its Thralls, and in that it sows the seeds of its destruction, and Empire Falls.
