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This is the cognitive hardware that will help you to excel in every arena of your life! “The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”― William Francis Butler, Biography-Charles George GordonThe 15th century brought about a rebirth throughout Europe where art, science, and literature were pursued and reborn into the zeitgeist of the time.This period of time involved an energetic pursuit of knowledge and a widespread revival of learning throughout the region, particularly in Italy. This energetic movement produced a series of personalities and their works that we commonly cite today, ranging from the art of Leonardo da Vinci to the drama of William Shakespeare and the exploration of Christopher Columbus.This time period involving the rebirth of knowledge has been commonly referred to as the Renaissance. Given this descriptive moniker, this is also the reason why, not that long ago, it wasn’t uncommon to hear others refer to a man that possessed a wide knowledge base as a Renaissance man.In this modern day, the idea of a Renaissance man has largely been forgotten in society due to the social construct surrounding indoctrination over education, the hard push for specialization, and the labels of victimhood status due to the social engineering efforts of the cultural Marxists. However, there is another revival taking place these days with about a third of the population, concerning the pursuit of wisdom, knowledge, and, most importantly, with many that are in a pursuit to develop a relationship with the greatest Renaissance man of all, Jesus.When looking at the life of the son of God, there’s nobody anywhere in any history book that compares to the overwhelming knowledge and wisdom of Jesus. Granted, King Solomon was impressive in his knowledge during the peak of his rule over the kingdom of Israel, but even he never possessed the level of wisdom that Jesus had brought to earth while also sustaining the honor of God’s statutes throughout his entire life.After all, Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) You see, the difference with Jesus is that He is the metric of where the truth is anchored and that is literally what makes all the difference. Given the current times, this is the most critical metric because in our postmodern society, truth is said to be relative.After all, when the truth is viewed as something that’s relative, society starts to fracture on agreement with everything due to the fact that there’s no agreement on anything. This is because nothing is accepted as a universal explanation across every spectrum. As a result, in this type of world, deception settles in and absurd beliefs take hold, such as the belief that the earth is flat, that men can become women, and that women can become men.For the postmodern victim, every narrative is questioned as objective truth, but the problem is that this traps the postmodern victim into a paradox where they are questioning every narrative of objective truth while expecting their own assertions to be understood as true.So, aside from his miracles, what was it that made Jesus stand out regarding his wisdom during his time here on earth with his disciples?Well, there are many examples, but for the purpose of today’s discussion I want to point out how the Lord taught by speaking in parables. He did this because a parable enabled him to more accurately convey a message to his people in a way that was relatable through life experience.However, for him to have been able to do this he would have had to have a wide range of knowledge and skills in order to effectively convey the meaning behind the stories that he told because those stories had to be relatable.Effectively conveying impactful meaning requires wisdom, which stems from applied knowledge anchored in diverse life experiences and a deep understanding of those experiences. This is the level of wisdom that Jesus has and it’s the only place to develop a discerning heart and mind to decipher truth from fiction.This is why Jesus is the greatest Renaissance man of all, because aside from being the son of God, he also had a vast set of knowledge and skills from carpentry, philosophy, theology, and his ability to captivate an audience with his edifying gift of speech.However, whenever you and I need to acquire understanding and discernment in order to navigate the current arena of information for the purpose of safeguarding our lives and the lives of those we care about the most, we cannot afford to be lacking in the Organizational Hierarchy of Thought.So, what is involved in the Organizational Hierarchy of Thought and what did Jesus understand about this cognitive process when communicating to the people in the New Testament? Furthermore, how does the Organizational Hierarchy of Thought work to help you to see through the proscenium of deception when you hear something that just doesn’t seem truthful and honest?“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”― AristotleTo discover how this cognitive process works bypass the paywall now and uniform up with the $50 annual commitment.Settle your debt and join the Zenith Vanguard Now!

“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”― John Stuart Mill, On LibertyIt was October 30, 1938 when Orson Welles took to the airways to broadcast a radio program that would cause widespread local panic.The broadcast involved a radio drama based off of the book by H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The show sent a harrowing signal across the airways that alien monsters from Mars had landed in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey and had commenced an invasion of the countryside. According to the broadcast the Martians had deployed their gigantic tripods in order to wage an otherworldly form of military attack on innocent civilians.The episode reportedly caused a panic among a significant portion of the population. One account involved some listeners a long way from New Jersey at the opposite end of the country in Concrete, Washington, who felt the need to literally run for the hills on horseback in order to hide in the nearby mountains due to the frightening program.Granted, there are some questions as to just how much hysteria the radio drama caused as some say the 1938 panic was a bit over exaggerated by the newspaper headlines.Now, keep in mind that radio was a new and rising phenomenon itself back during that time. Therefore, some suggest that the newspaper companies had deliberately played up the irresponsibility of the radio broadcasters in an attempt to discredit this new medium, which was already threatening the longstanding monopoly of the printed newspaper.Regardless of the amount of panic that took place as a result of the drama, Welles managed to successfully leverage a significant enough amount of power with his story that the response captured enough attention for the newspapers to fill their headlines—whether that was due to significant panic or for the purpose of attempting to slander Orson Welles.The point here is that the message that was flowing across the airways was obviously effective in terms of producing the intended emotional response. You see, I want you to think about this in terms of the differences in the delivery of the broadcast from that time compared to today.In other words, during that time in 1938 there were fewer broadcasts that were blasted out over the airways, but there was a more focused listening audience concerning the public. Conversely, today the circumstances are reversed; whereas nowadays there are tons of broadcasts blasted out over the airways while there is a much less focused listening and viewing audience concerning the public.Additionally, during The War of the Worlds radio event many of the listeners tuned in right as the main part of the show was starting, but the 1938 panic occurred because many of those people tuned in too late to hear the opening disclaimer. To make matters even worse, because many of those people were late to the show, they allowed the fear of the message to strip away their ability to discern what was really happening, placing them into a reactive state of hysteria due to The Phantom of Wisdom.I wanted to point this out to illustrate how effectively the proscenium can paint a picture inside the mind of a respective listener, or viewer. This is especially true today as the information war that is raging on is at an all time high as the domestic cultural Marxists and globalists are doing their best to stall out President Trump and the MAGA movement. This is especially obvious with recent woke right podcasters that have come out against the president over this war with Iran.The Current Alien InvadersIf you’ve been a consistent reader or listener to this show then you have regularly heard me reference the significance of human agency. I frequently talk about this concept as human agency is part of the central thesis that drives this very Substack.Regardless, I want to take a moment and reiterate the meaning and significance of this phrase before progressing through the rest of this episode.For clarity, human agency involves the capacity of individuals to act independently, to possess the ability to freely make their own choices, and, most importantly, to intentionally influence their own lives and their surrounding environment. In short, your agency requires you to act on your choices.Now, keeping that in mind, I want you to think about our society and ask yourself who is more in favor of advocating for your ability to exercise your human agency, and who is advocating to eliminate it. I want you to keep those two questions in mind as you look at the actions of those who are most critical of the president, the Iran war, and their criticisms of the MAGA movement.Additionally, I want you to recognize that you currently live in a society where you are able to exercise your agency, at least for the time being. Understanding this, I want to shift gears here to point out a common trend that you must be aware of if you care anything about maintaining, or achieving, the status of a high-level operational zenith. The trend that I want to point out to you involves a collection of actions that all detract from any plan that is designed to advance the United States as a leading power in the world.Allow me to begin by pointing to this past week where there was a special election held in the state of Virginia involving the Democrat redistricting referendum that narrowly passed. With this election the Democrats were looking to shift the current 6-5 Democratic edge to a 10-1 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation.Thankfully, for the moment, Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley slapped an injunction on certifying this election due to the fact that it is unconstitutional. Now, keeping that in mind, you have to understand that whether or not the courts rightfully maintain the position of the unconstitutionality of the procedures surrounding this special election, and even if the election was most likely rigged, the reality is that there were still many Virginia voters that voted in favor of taking away nearly half of the voices of the state. In short, the Virginia voters that voted in favor of this 10-1 redistricting map, just openly advocated for eliminating the ability of others to exercise their agency. Simply put, these voters basically want totalitarianism.So why would they do this?Well, I would argue that these Democrat voters would do this for the same exact reason as those types of Democrat voters would also donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). After all, some of the biggest and wealthiest donors to this organization involve names such as George Soros, George Clooney, and Tim Cook.Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past week, a Montgomery, Alabama Grand Jury charged the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.The SPLC allegedly used donor money coming into their organization to fund the very hate groups that they espoused to condemn. According to the Office of Public Affairs, between the years of 2014-2023 the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were directly associated with various violent extremist groups. The list of those groups that they funneled money to involved the following:-Klu Klux Klan-United Klans of America-Unite the Right-National Alliance-National Socialist Movement-Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club-National Socialist Party of America (Nazi Party)-American FrontGiven the state of the world, when you look at the current political environment you just can’t make up this level of insanity. After all, the SPLC had also targeted Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA, labeling them as white supremacists with a report back in May 2025 that was labeled as “The Year in Hate and Extremism.”They included Charlie Kirk in this ‘Hate and Extremism’ report before Kirk was brutally assassinated and afterwards pathetically tried to act as if they were against political violence. Meanwhile, this organization is the perfect example of the firemen that start the fires, given how they run their operation. Just to be clear, that last statement is obviously not meant to be a dig at my firemen.So why would these donors anchor their morals to such a corrupt grifting organization while funneling their dollars to that organization to actually fund the very hate groups that they espouse to despise?Well, if I had to guess, the majority of the SPLC donors are most likely Democrat voters, and even if that isn’t the case, I’ve already established that their biggest donors are Democrat voters. I would surmise that they would be more likely to blindly transform the SPLC into their moral anchor in the same way that Cole Tomas Allen apparently wanted to rationalize his insanely upside-down view of morality by making his attempt at assassinating President Trump his moral anchor. After all, he outlined this in his own manifesto.That’s right, in case you missed it there was another assassination attempt on President Trump this past week at the White House Correspondence Dinner. Given that this was the third attempt on President Trump’s life you’d think that the left would realize that they have a problem with political rhetoric that leads to political violence, but it’s obvious that these Marxists do not care about that, especially when Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about how the First Lady Melania Trump ‘had a glow like an expected widow.’Of course, Kimmel defended his quote after the first lady publicly came out to call for his firing, claiming that the joke was intended to be a light roast in reference to the president’s age, compared to that of the first lady. Whether Kimmel is telling the truth about this or not is irrelevant.It’s irrelevant because the rhetoric coming from people like Kimmel and the Administrative State Media (ASM) has involved a many-years-long campaign in order to dehumanize the president and the MAGA movement in the eyes of the morons that are fanboys of his show. The evidence of this was obvious. The results can be seen with the first three assassination attempts on President Trump, on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the hostile acts of violence that took place against Tesla owners when Elon Musk implemented DOGE.If Kimmel cared anything about this he would have admitted that the rhetoric feeding political violence must be toned down, but he hasn’t. Instead, Kimmel chooses to double down on the president being the problem despite the fact that I never find myself here writing and talking about any assassination attempt on Kimmel’s life for expressing his political opinion.On that note, I don’t view Kimmel as a guy with any opinion. I view him as a propaganda arm of the state. Allow me a moment to elaborate on this by first taking a minute to look back in time.You see, it was on May 5, 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia when the Pravda newspaper published its first issue. In case you aren’t familiar with the Pravda, this paper eventually became the primary organ of the Bolshevik movement by 1918, and during its time Vladimir Lennon himself exercised broad editorial control over the content.The thing you have to understand is that the purpose of the Pravda was to encourage unity of thought among its readers by stressing and interpreting the party line. It’s that unity of thought phrase that I want you to place in your memory bank as I progress through the rest of today’s message.However, it did this by offering its readers well-written articles and analyses on various topics ranging from science, economics, culture, and literature. The Pravda also included various letters from readers and officially approved materials in order to indoctrinate and inform its readers on Communist theory and other favorable programs to the state.In the Bolshevik world the Pravda could only exist because the state controlled it, which in turn, allowed it extended control over its population through the implementation of that prevailing unity of thought mood of the time. Granted, in that time that world was an alternate universe as Vladimir Lennon’s control was tight, but for the time, this was the degree of control that was achieved by the Bolshevik Revolution.Now having said that, you’re probably wondering how in the world I can go from a broadcast like Jimmy Kimmel to the Pravda.Well, when looking at the proscenium of what makes Jimmy Kimmel possible we can see some eye-raising similarities to the Pravda. You see, the Pravda, like the Welles’ broadcast, had a more focused audience because of its tight control under the approval of Lennon. Likewise, today Kimmel has a more focused core audience that is willing to absorb his message, but the broadcast obviously isn’t operating under the tight control of a dominant figure like Lennon.However, the controlling mechanisms over Kimmel still exist, although they do so while operating under a system of more loose controls, rather than the tight controls that the Pravda had under the old Soviet leader.For instance, it has been recently reported that Disney and Warner Brothers Discovery both piled up over $125 million in California tax credits from the California Film Commission. Just in case you didn’t know, the ABC network that airs Kimmel’s late night show is owned by the same Walt Disney Company that received those massive state tax subsidies.Now, I understand that the state doesn’t own the network in the same way as the Pravda was owned by the state during the Bolshevik movement. However, a substantially large sum of state tax dollars do flow into the very creation of The Walt Disney Company that owns the ABC network which airs Jimmy Kimmel’s show.Therefore, like any government program there are always strings attached to keep the gravy train alive. Furthermore, the state of California itself currently has enacted a state budget for 2025-26 including nearly $175 billion dollars in federal subsidies which consist of over one-third of the entire state’s budget according to the California Budget and Policy Center.This is a staggering number that involves the flow of federal tax dollars into the state for a multitude of purposes. The reality is that anytime you have this amount of subsidy flowing into a state you’re going to have a scenario where these dollars are touching so many things that the concept of a free market simply goes right out the window.This is also the problem that MAGA influencer Benny Johnson is currently pointing out regarding his position that American taxpayers are being forced “at the end of a gun” to subsidize Jimmy Kimmel due to the broadcast licenses that are granted to ABC. In short, Johnson’s position is that ABC news operates under an FCC broadcast license, and because of this it is a government-granted privilege that is directly funded by the American taxpayers.As Johnson rightfully points out, he’s sick of being forced to pay taxes that are then being used to pay for a program that “constantly agitates” and makes fun of political figures on the right side of the political spectrum. Johnson specifies further by citing Jimmy Kimmel’s rhetoric surrounding the assassination of his friend and the attempts on the lives of his political allies.I personally back up Benny Johnson’s point as well. After all, it is commonly said that free markets go out the window as soon as the first cent of a government subsidy enters into the equation. If you agree with that sentiment then you should also agree that free speech also goes out the window at the sign of the first cent of a government subsidy.This is because that subsidy eliminates the incentive to compete within any industry due to the guarantee that financial support is always there from the gravy train of tax dollars that keep flowing in at the expense of the taxpayers. This is the case because, when a messenger like Jimmy Kimmel is able to deliver whatever message he wants without the worry of competing for the attention of an audience, this enables him to expand his echo chamber of propaganda to anyone that’s willing to listen.So what type of people are listening and taking the message of Jimmy Kimmel to heart?Well, I would say that it would be the same type of people who lack the same discerning mind as those who were willing to run to the hills on horseback, because they believed Orson Welles’s broadcast about an alien invasion. However, the current alien invasion really involves the lacking trait of a discerning mind in today’s world and this is what produces that same unity of thought that Lennon strived to achieve with the Pravda.The Wrap Up“Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.’”–Auric GoldfingerI’d say that it’s pretty obvious that enemy action is at play here, with the domestic cultural Marxists, given the fact that this was the third assassination attempt on the president. So, with that in mind, what does the Virginia special election, the corruption of the SPLC, Cole Tomas Allen, and Jimmy Kimmel all have in common?The common denominator here is that these examples are symptoms of an old and corrupt system that has become so bloated that it is desperate to re-establish its power over the citizens of the United States. These various symptoms of this corrupt system are pointing towards an organized effort to implement a Marxist purge on everyone that attempts to oppose it.The purpose of today’s episode is to point out this overwhelming problem involving the Marxist attempt to destroy the minds of the public so that their desire for control is easier to establish. Given this reality, not only are they willing to convince their followers that they should be running for the hills, but they are intent on having you pay for them to do so; and if you oppose that, they’ll be willing to kill you for it as well.You see, they are aiming for that unity of thought; but if they can’t achieve it with you and me, then they’re prepared to just remove us from the equation altogether. The Marxists and the Islamists don’t want the opposite of the unity of thought, which is diversity of thought. They want the complete destruction of your human agency.However, there’s another common and dangerous trait that exists with those who may not be Marxists, but still suffer from a condition of ignorance, due to their lacking ability involving the Organizational Hierarchy of Thought.This is the problem that I wanted to bring to light in today’s episode, but don’t despair because I’m going to be offering the solution concerning that Organizational Hierarchy of Thought in my next piece of cognitive hardware titled, The Apex of The Universal Man.This next briefing will include my blueprint to help you to avoid the destruction of your human agency. 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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit brandonrichey.substack.comToday's episode will only be available in full if you are a member of the Zenith Vanguard, however, you will get a preview so stay tuned. To access today's episode in full length make sure you Upgrade To Zenith Status by going to brandonrichey.substack.com if you're not already there. There you can access my Exclusive Zenith Catalog, which is a superior navigation tool that allows you to quickly and easily access and prioritize four years of my most powerful and tactical insights with surgical ease. This is the Cognitive Hardware that you will help you to excel in every arena of your life!“For wisdom is a defense as money is a defense. But the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.”–Ecclesiastes 7:12As a member of Generation X, I have to take a moment to jump back in time to talk about an epic ‘80s teen action movie that hit the big screen back on June 22, 1984. The popular film that I want to discuss involves a powerful coming-of-age story about a young teenage boy named Daniel LaRusso (played by Ralph Macchio) in the movie The Karate Kid.Now, I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that you’ve seen this movie, but just in case you haven’t I’m going to highlight and summarize the most profound moment of this film here.In the movie, The Karate Kid, Daniel LaRusso is a teenage boy that moves to a new town with his single mom. In the process of moving into their new apartment Daniel meets an interesting old man downstairs named Mr. Miyagi (played by Pat Morita).As it turns out, Mr. Miyagi happens to be the maintenance man that works at the apartment complex where Daniel and his mother move in.As Daniel tries his best to settle into an unfamiliar town and school as the new kid, he immediately starts to encounter problems. For Daniel, these problems manifest with some local kids who end up bullying him; to make matters worse, they also happen to be a part of the Cobra Kai karate dojo.One night Daniel ends up getting chased by these bullies from a Halloween party. Luckily, Mr. Miyagi ends up intervening and having to demonstrate his own elite martial arts skills in order to save Daniel from Johnny Lawrence and the other Cobra Kai students. After this encounter, Daniel is amazed with Mr. Miyagi’s ability to fight off the group. This is when Daniel asks Mr. Miyagi if he can train him so that he can defend himself against the Cobra Kai students.Initially, Mr. Miyagi refuses to train Daniel, but is eventually convinced to do so, agreeing to help Daniel settle the matter by training him to face his bullies at the All Valley Karate Tournament.It’s at this point that Daniel thinks Mr. Miyagi is a bit crazy for agreeing to enroll him in the tournament, but, at the same time, he’s excited that Mr. Miyagi has agreed to train him in the discipline of Okinawan karate.When it’s time for Daniel to show up at Mr. Miyagi’s house to start his training, he’s caught off guard when Mr. Miyagi hands him a couple of sponges and two pails of water while instructing him to wash and wax all of his classic cars. In the process, Mr. Miyagi demonstrates to Daniel how to wax on and wax off by performing an outside in circular motion with his hands to properly do the chore.Once Daniel completed waxing Mr. Miyagi’s cars he was then instructed to sand the floor of Mr. Miyagi’s deck. Again, Daniel’s disappointment clearly shows as Mr. Miyagi demonstrates to him how to perform the opposite movement of wax on, wax off by instead performing an inside-out circular motion with his hands in order to sand the floor of his deck.As Daniel finishes sanding the deck, he’s then asked to paint the tall wooden fence that surrounds Mr. Miyagi’s property. Once again, there’s a very specific technique involved with performing the chore where Daniel is expected to maintain a wrist up, wrist down motion when performing the long paint strokes.Finally, after finishing the fence Daniel is then instructed by Mr. Miyagi to paint his house. Again, the technique was very specific in this chore and involved long side-to-side brush strokes to perform the task. It was clear at this stage of the work Daniel was extremely frustrated and when he sees Mr. Miyagi, preparing to go fishing, Daniel finally snaps and confronts him accusing him of using him for slave labor.It’s at this point that Mr. Miyagi transforms Daniel’s effort in performing these tasks into a demonstration revealing to him that his muscle memory had developed from the work without him even realizing it.In a stunning moment of truth Mr. Miyagi then asks Daniel to show him each movement involved with each of the chores that he had used to perform the tasks around his house. Mr. Miyagi initially gives Daniel a small reminder involved with each technique before asking him to put the movements together in a way that a fighter would perform in a standing ready position.Mr. Miyagi then asks Daniel to show him wax on, wax off, but it’s at this moment that he throws a punch at Daniel after making the request. This results in Daniel quickly reacting to block the punch with the wax on, wax off hand motion involved in the movement.Mr. Miyagi then goes on to demonstrate the same thing to Daniel with the ‘wrist up, wrist down’ paint-the-fence movement, the ‘side-to-side’ paint-the-house movement, and the ‘big circles’ with the sand-the-floor movement. In each demonstration Mr. Miyagi throws a different strike at Daniel with Daniel successfully blocking every strike that Mr. Miyagi throws his way.Mr. Miyagi, having assigned these tasks, ensured that Daniel had mastered the exact neuromuscular motor skills that he needed to subconsciously train the ability to parry the strikes. The power of this was that Daniel had mastered these tasks without the “interference” of conscious thought.The payoff is the result of one of film’s most powerful revelations. When Daniel finally erupts in anger, Miyagi launches a series of strikes in Daniel’s direction. Instinctively, Daniels hands fly into motion successfully deflecting every strike due to the physical movements he had developed from his labor.The stunning look of disbelief that is left on Daniel’s face says it all as he realizes his “chores” were the result of his newly developed skill. This testament of Miyagi’s wisdom leaves Daniel completely astounded as true mastery begins when you don’t even realize that you’re learning.So, what does Daniel’s profound experience with Mr. Miyagi have to do with the Maximalist Strategy, President Trump’s main thesis, and the dominos of falling proxies in today’s big episode reveal?Daniel never realized the profound power of Mr. Miyagi’s wisdom until he had endured the challenge of discipline in carrying out the chores that were placed in front of him. Like Daniel, the chores for you acquiring your wisdom must involve your own discipline of action.If the ‘Wax On, Wax Off’ of the last four years has been your subconscious training, then this is the moment you can finally deflect all the strikes that are flying in your direction. 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In order to gain access to my next episode and four years of my cognitive hardware make sure you go to brandonrichey.substack.com if you haven't already. There you can Upgrade To Zenith Status and take advantage of my Exclusive Zenith Catalog which is a supreme navigational tool that enables you to easily and rapidly search and prioritize all of my premium tactical insights with ease. You will also gain access to my reveal of the president's main thesis, along with my explanation involving the mystery surrounding the Maximalist Strategy in my next episode: The Dog That Wags the Tail. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”― Thomas A. EdisonThere’s no question that our nation is currently dealing with a multitude of problems, ranging from a confused population, to domestic enemies, to hostile actors on the world stage who are all aiming to take the United States out at the knees. They do all of this while they work to position themselves to take over the spot as the next heavyweight champion on the global stage.However, the question that so many people don’t understand is that if the United States isn’t the one to hold onto that championship belt, then who exactly are you going to be good with in regards to holding that spot as the next heavyweight champion? Is China an acceptable option? Russia? India?The reality is that the United States still possesses certain ideals related to individual sovereignty that have been far greater than any nation in the history of the world, although many people are aiming to subvert that reality.Since this war with Iran kicked off, the public response to it has been fairly predictable given the track record of insanity that has taken place within the past six years. Of course, as expected, the cultural Marxists have been cheering in support of the Iranian regime. Meanwhile the political right is split with this war as it relates to the woke right and the MAGA coalition.Now, I want to be clear about something before I go any further. I am all about putting an end to the forever wars. However, during this chaotic turning in history I’m not naive enough to think that we can prevent all wars, especially given the reality of what I just addressed in my opening as it relates to hostile actors on the global stage that have been aiming to take the United States out at the knees.With that being said, when looking at this war with Iran I’m looking at it now as something we absolutely must win because, like it or not, we’re in it now. Additionally, whether you agree with the war or not, in my view bleeding political support from President Trump isn’t the answer to winning. That’s the outcome that the Iranian Guard is aiming for, that’s the option that the domestic cultural Marxists desire, and that appears to be the option that the woke right desires.However, if we cannot support President Trump after everything he’s endured and done for this nation, then who else would we ever be able to support? I’d say without a doubt that would be a definite nobody.I mean, given what this man has accomplished during his time in office it is unparalleled when looking through the lens of history. Therefore, if we, as a nation, cannot support this president with unrelenting effort, then our nation is destined to lose that championship belt.In the reality of this fallen world there’s no such thing as perfection. Perfection is a myth and is something that every sovereign should remember when pursuing it.Don’t get me wrong, the political stupidity of the cultural Marxists is nauseating, but honestly it’s the idiocy of the woke right that really gets under my skin because they’re not considering the alternative to the very thing that they want to criticize when it comes to the president and this war with Iran.Sure, I would have preferred that we had never have had to get into a war with the Iranian regime in the first place. However, if we can take just a minute to apply the Reverse Line of Delineation we can see why we are currently where we are at this time.Given the fact that decades of previous administrations haven’t held them accountable, and the fact that those previous administrations have chosen to finance the corrupt Islamic Republic with pallets of cash, I suppose this is the price we are having to pay now for those previous actions.The reality is that President Trump made a conscious decision to walk down that golden escalator back on June 16, 2015. That decision was one that wasn’t made lightly by this man because President Trump is not a man that makes decisions without significant thought.How do I know this?The answer to that question is simple. I know this because of his body of work, combined with his actions, since he’s been inside the arena of politics since 2016. President Trump would never be where he is in life without possessing a strategic mind and the grit to see a project all the way through to the very end.The Distraction of SubterfugeThe world is full of deception.In fact, we live in an era where every theater is infected by some form of deception, misdirection, or just outright lies.So, the reality of the world that we live in is that, for the longest time, the Administrative State Media (ASM) outlets have served to be centralized forms of media that have essentially had a monopoly over the airways in shaping the perceptions of the American people. Their propaganda has always been present and they’ve always had a particular slant on how they have presented certain stories. Their narrative bias has always been obvious, and you could spot their slant if you knew what to look for.However, since the pandemic, it became obvious that much of their slant transformed into a completely crooked line when looking at their narrative surrounding the virus, the so-called vaccines, and their absurdly contradictory guidelines for public health. As a result, this now-obviously crooked line resulted in an entirely new explosion and growth of alternative media, with podcasts and alternative news networks, springing up all over the internet. In fact, this very Substack is an example of that reaction.Of course, this new ecosystem of media has brought about an entirely new framing of information that isn’t just opposite of the ASM, but is packaged in a multitude of ways that differ from the ASM and their typical hardlined narrative.However, because of this there’s obviously a greater amount of information that may relate to a given storyline that never existed before this new ecosystem of media came about. As a result of this, there’s obviously now many more opinions that can circulate around a particular narrative that may relate to a certain storyline.Therefore, with all of this information and a greater abundance of differing opinions, it’s up to the individual viewer to learn how to exercise discernment by carefully understanding the sandbox that we’re in, as we all work to parse out the details of the narrative that surrounds a given storyline. When it comes to the abundance of this information, the good news is that having a variety of information is healthy. However, the bad news is that sometimes that variety of information can either be grossly used for misdirection (deception), or it can be used to shape reductive perspectives and opinions of the simple minded who happen to command large audiences.In 1984 the KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov gave an interview to G. Edward Griffin from which much can be learned today. In the interview Bezmenov revealed a chilling point where there was a long-term plan that was put in place by Russia to defeat the United States through psychological warfare and “demoralization.” Bezmenov explained that it was a long game that was put in place, but that it had already started bearing fruit.The interesting thing about Bezmenov’s interview is that he explained how much of what the KGB did wasn’t espionage, despite what popular culture had traditionally sold to the public. He explained how 85% of the work consisted of a slow and steady process that the KGB would refer to as ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare.Bezmenov explained that the most striking thing about ideological subversion is that it was an exercise that took place right out in the open in front of everyone to see as a legitimate process. He said, “You can see it with your own eyes.”Here’s how Bezmenov went on to define ideological subversion:“What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”Now, it’s that last part—about how he says “that despite the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country”— that I want to hone in on in regards to today’s message.As I’ve already pointed out at the beginning of this episode, despite there now being an abundance of information with this new alternative ecosystem of media with all the new podcasts and news providers, we are currently a nation struggling to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of uniting on what needs to be done to defend ourselves, our families, our communities, and our country.I mean right this very minute at this point of my work on this episode, we are just hours away from the president’s ultimatum that he gave to the Iranian regime after having extended the deadline roughly four times for them in order to give them an ample opportunity to come to the negotiating table to make a deal. By the time I publish this episode we all will have already experienced the outcome of that ultimatum. I’m not updating this particular portion of the episode on purpose because I’m illustrating a point that has become clear at this time with the reason we, as a nation, cannot come to a sensible conclusion to serve our best interests.I will come back to address the actual outcome of that ultimatum at the end of this episode, but just keep in mind that at this point of the discussion I’m working on this just prior to the deadline that the president has set for the Iranian regime.As Yuri Bezmenov pointed out we have been ideologically subverted to the point that the cultural Marxists still believe the ASM, while the woke right still thinks everything is an ongoing psychological operation.Now, having said that, is there a significant amount of deception going on in the information arena? Sure there is.However, now we’re seeing how many on the woke right are either purposely trying to flood the information space with deception, or they themselves are just as much the useful idiots as the cultural Marxists have been for quite some time. If the woke right is purposely and intentionally trying to flood the zone with deception then they’re essentially behaving as Fifth Column activists.If they’re unintentionally causing this deception, due to their perspective on the war and their lack of understanding of the surrounding geopolitical landscape, then they’re just reductive in their thinking. No, I’m being too kind. If it’s the latter then they’re just opportunistic morons.So you’re probably thinking, Brandon, what metric are you using to determine that the woke right is wrong about President Trump and his threatening ultimatum to the Iranian regime?The metric I’m using is based on the premise of it resulting in actions that are an attempt to bleed political support away from the president while potentially causing division among the MAGA base. As I stated earlier, if we cannot stand shoulder to shoulder in a united front alongside this president, then what other president would we ever be able to unify behind?The bottom line is that those voices that are in the alternative media space right now who have been criticizing President Trump have been engaging in division. Those who have been calling him evil, saying that he wants to use nuclear weapons, calling for the 25th Amendment, and getting bent out of shape because of his Easter post on Truth social are all now disqualified as sensible voices. These people are doing more damage to the country than good.If you’ve been listening to those people because you trust those people, then you’ve been opening yourself up to the distraction of subterfuge. Granted, I’m not 100% certain about what their intentions are even though I highlighted some possible motives earlier in this episode.However, I want you to take the metaphorical camera lens and zoom out the picture to look at what has been going on here with this war with Iran and the surrounding narratives that the woke right have been pushing. I want you to pay close attention to what the critics have said, especially during the president’s attempts to negotiate a ceasefire and possible peace deal with an unhinged death squad before the president’s very concerning deadline.Before I explore that further, let me take a moment and back up a bit to look at the tremendous and daring rescue operation that the military just successfully pulled off in retrieving the downed F-15 fighter pilot behind enemy lines in Iran.According to the New York Times, a senior U.S. official described this effort as one of the most challenging and complex missions in the history of the U.S. Special Operations. To start, they were able to track down the pilot by following his beacon. Then the CIA was able to utilize the distraction of subterfuge themselves by spreading word throughout Iran that the downed airman had been found and was being moved out of the country by a ground convoy.Their hope was that by doing this they could shift the Iranian search away from his perceived location to shift their focus on the roads moving out of the region. The move appeared to cause confusion among the Iranian forces that were searching for the airman, although they did intensify their search.Thank God they were able to get to the pilot and everyone else involved in the rescue were able to get out of the region. However, the rescue of the pilot still came at a steep financial cost in terms of military equipment, as they had to bomb two disabled rescue planes along with four other MH-6 Special Operations helicopters, in order to keep them out of the hands of the Iranian regime.Now, why did I choose to share the details about this daring rescue mission that was described by a senior official as being the most challenging and complex rescue mission in the history of U.S. Special Operations?I shared it because this mission had to be authorized and overseen by the Commander In Chief. Now, having said that, this proves without question that President Donald J. Trump places a tremendous value on human life while also ensuring that even faulty equipment isn’t left behind to the enemy. This is certainly 180 degrees the opposite of what we witnessed with Joe Biden’s exit from Afghanistan.So, given these very clear differences, it’s quite obvious to me that every single one of those podcasters and internet critics of the president—who were saying that he needs to be impeached, or that he’s going to end the world with nuclear weapons—are, at best, complete morons and, at worst, are intentionally aiding the enemy.So, you’re probably wondering, Brandon, how can you be so bold to make such a claim?The answer to that question is easy. Imagine that you happen to be whatever member is left of the Iranian leadership that is responsible for negotiating with the president of the United States. Now, as the current head of the Iranian guard you’re literally a couple of days, a day, or even hours away from having to come to the negotiating table to make a deal and you’re looking for any excuse possible not to do so.As it plays out, all of a sudden in the closing hours, you start hearing about how members of the United States media and politicians, like Ro Khanna and Marjorie Taylor Greene, are calling President Trump unhinged, and they’re even going so far as to call for the 25th Amendment. There’s no question that this very act would aid the enemy by helping to supply them with a possible excuse to kill whatever deal the president may have to put on the table.After all, if they were to believe the politicians and media calling the president unhinged, while advocating for the 25th Amendment, then there’s no question that the enemy would look at President Trump through the lens of losing political support. As a result, the Iranian regime could use this as further leverage to negotiate against President Trump and his plan to achieve what’s in the best interest of the United States. This very act from these woke right podcasters and politicians could actually result in a prolonged war.Now, it’s one thing to have the freedom to express your opinion on the war, the president, or any other politician for that matter. However, it’s an entirely different thing to openly undermine the president’s attempt to broker a peace deal by giving the enemy hope—openly calling him unhinged and demanding that he be impeached, especially if you’re a politician. In fact, I believe that a case could be made about such behavior by these politicians and media personnel to be defined as outright treason.It’s as if none of these idiots have paid attention to anything regarding how the president goes about negotiating when making these kinds of deals.When President Trump posted the controversial Easter statement on Truth Social it really caused the woke right panicans to rip their masks completely off. For anyone who has spent any small amount of time observing how President Trump goes about negotiating they should have immediately recognized what the president was doing with that Truth Social post. However, instead of many of the political right podcasters grasping the strategy, they immediately took the hard pivot to undermining the president while he was working to negotiate a ceasefire with an enemy that we’ve literally been at war with. Just slow down and think about the danger surrounding that scenario for a moment.The Wrap Up“In war, truth is the first casualty.”― AeschylusThe reality is that we are currently experiencing the fog of war in the information space and because of this I also believe there’s a strong potential that many former MAGA media influencers have allowed themselves to be captured by enemy influence. I believe many woke right podcasters have been the target of a form of active measures as Yuri Bezmenov would say.So why do I say this?In the last few months there have been multiple outlets that have reported on how online sleuths discovered how many large accounts on X that had been posting in support of the MAGA movement, to thousands and hundreds of thousands of followers, were coming from outside of the U.S..Many of these accounts show a substantial number of followers which can certainly trigger a noticeable level of virality online with posts that can be used to shape a narrative. However, the problem with these profiles is that the origin of many of these accounts were traced back to South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.I’m not going to sit here and tell you that every single one of these accounts is attached to some nefarious outside entity that’s working to enact a level of active measures onto the public through X, however, it should give you pause that many of these massive accounts are originating from outside the United States, especially since they’re claiming to be MAGA.Now, if that alone isn’t enough to get your attention then perhaps a little history lesson and another interesting fact concerning Fox’s Rupert Murdoch will help clear a section of air for you inside this current fog of war.Back in January 2021 after Fox News was accused of playing a role in triggering the Capitol riot, Rupert Murdoch himself responded to the network’s role, communicating to a Fox executive: “Fox News is very busy pivoting…We want to make Trump a non person.”Of course, Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert’s son, had already taken over the role as the CEO of the network at this point, but it’s clear the network’s pivot has been firmly in place since that comment from Rupert with their narrative warfare against President Trump’s policies.Now, keeping that in mind, I want to pivot to talk about another interesting little moment in history before tying all of this up.Back on June 9th, 1946 the baseball player Ted Williams stepped up to the plate and smashed a home run that was recorded as the longest home run that was ever hit at Fenway Park. This was so significant that the spot where the ball landed is marked by a single red seat. The home run distance was recorded at an astounding 502 feet.So, why am I telling you about the long distance home run of Ted Williams?As interesting as that little tidbit of history was to share, the other interesting thing about that red seat is that it served to be the inspiration for the name of a media company called Red Seat Ventures.In case you’re not aware there are now a few of those former MAGA influencers who are part of this media company Red Seat Ventures. In fact, some of President Trump’s most recent detractors involve former supporters who have been very critical of the president as of late including Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly.So why is this media company significant?It’s significant because Red Seat Ventures is owned by Fox News which is led by Lachlan Murdoch. Yes, that would be the same Murdoch who’s father previously ran Fox News and stated that he wanted to make President Trump a nonperson.Earlier at a particular point in this episode I spoke about how we were just hours away from a serious deadline as the president had issued a harsh ultimatum to the Iranian regime that triggered the woke right media landscape.Now, at this point of working on this episode we are currently on the other side of that deadline and the president has achieved a ceasefire with the Iranian regime and the woke right is still criticizing the president for not having a peace deal fully negotiated.Are you kidding me? First, these people were calling for the 25th Amendment because the president was going to annihilate everyone and everything with an all-out nuclear war. Now that absolutely none of that came close to happening, they are still criticizing him from their red seats because he doesn’t immediately have a permanent peace deal inked with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. You just can’t make up this level of stupidity.Given the abundance of information these days, it’s clear that much of the population still has a difficult time in discerning whom to trust when it comes to what’s going on with this war and the current geopolitical landscape. I’m not saying that the Red Seat Venture crowd is the ONLY piece of this puzzle. Instead, this Red Seat Venture is merely a piece of the whole.Remember that “In war, truth is the first casualty.” Additionally, when a population starts to place its trust into personalities that immediately criticize every single thing the president does—while simultaneously being consistently embarrassed by the proven inaccuracies of their criticisms— this is evidence of subterfuge.Therefore, within the anatomy of the body politic this subterfuge is a symptom of enemy infiltration. Of course, if enough of our society is lured in by this enemy infiltration then you and I will suffer if the citizens of the nation fail in their strike to do what is in their best interests to defend their families, their communities, and their country.In short, this is what is known as the anatomy of a failed strike. This is what leads to the Rehoboam drift.With that being said, there’s an absolute cure for preventing such a failed strike. In fact, it’s one that the president is currently engaging in, with a very unique and powerful tactic that he’s using to manipulate and develop his main thesis—which isn’t the Middle East.On that note, I will reveal what all is involved with this tactic, that’s known as the Maximalist Strategy, as well as the president’s main thesis in my next cognitive briefing: The Dog That Wags the Tail.In order to ensure that you’re not caught off guard by failing to understand the president’s main thesis and this new realignment that’s taking place with the nation, make sure you bypass the paywall by uniforming up with the $50 annual membership.To join the rest of the Vanguard simply do so by clicking the Upgrade to Zenith Status button below.Remember that this is a reader-supported publication so make sure you give this article a like, subscribe, share, and comment to support the message.Also to connect with me, join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. 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In this world, mindless dependency is everywhere, but cognitive sovereignty is in short supply. The goal here is to flip that reality and you can do so by going to brandonrichey.substack.com if you're not already there. If you're on an offsite platform like Spotify or Apple then make sure you do so by simply clicking here.“We are not here to escape reality. We are here to rewrite it.”― Lawrence NaultAn event horizon is the boundary surrounding a black hole and it serves to be a point of no return, where any matter or information that crosses over it will immediately and permanently be lost to the outside universe. This happens due to the fact that the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light.Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape the force of its pull. However, the thought of there being a point of no return apparently doesn’t just apply to the lessons of physics and space; as history has shown us, it all too often also directly applies to the geopolitical landscape concerning many civilizational failures that occur at the hands of Communism and Islamism. Now we are witnessing in real time how Western civilization is fast approaching that event horizon with its potential fall at the hands of cultural Marxism and/or Islamism.With that being said, in the previous episode I spoke about how Rehoboam had ended up failing in his leadership role as king due to him allowing himself to succumb to a fatal contagion of false intuition. He failed to accept the wise counsel of his father’s elder advisors and instead chose to follow the advice of the young men that he had grown up with at the time.Yes, this choice was an unwise act that eventually had cost Rehoboam more than half of his kingdom. He failed at this because he lacked something that his father clearly had at the beginning of his reign; and because of that, Rehoboam crossed his own event horizon, ultimately leaving his kingdom lost and broken.The question we have to wrestle with now is whether the United States is currently at its event horizon concerning the threat it faces with the expansion and growth of Islamism and cultural Marxism that currently exists here right inside the gates.If Europe isn’t already at the point of no return then it’s certainly skimming along the surface of its own event horizon. As bad as that is, at least we here in the United States have the opportunity to observe Europe’s mistakes in this regard so that we can avoid falling victim to the same ones as they have.The question is: Do we still have what it takes to do what needs to be done, with the same courage as the Sons of Liberty when they took care of business on the evening of December 16, 1773?This concludes the opening salvo of today’s episode.You have been made aware of the deficit of intuition and the fast approaching event horizon. The next step is for you to execute on retrieving the hardware of my Parrying Counter-Offensive, along with my Exclusive Zenith Catalog, by upgrading your Zenith status with the $50 a year commitment.Now is the time for you to exercise your agency in true Sons of Liberty style by breaching my heavy vault door, in order to upgrade your current position with four years of my easy-to-access Cognitive Hardware.You can feel confident knowing that by joining to gain access to my Exclusive Zenith Catalog that you are gaining instant and rapid navigational ability to a locked and loaded Sovereign Vanguard Briefing Kit.Make sure you upgrade to Zenith Status NowI Prefer Coffee To TeaIn 1773 the British East India Company was failing.In a desperate act to save it the British Parliament passed the Tea Act on May 10, 1773. While the legislation actually reduced the price of imported tea, many protestors felt that this legislation would set a dangerous precedent for Great Britain and the East India Company’s level of authority over the colonies.The reality is that the Tea Act outraged the colonists and strong dissenters like Samuel Adams leveled up the information warfare by continuing to invoke “no taxation without representation.” Samuel Adams and The Sons of Liberty were smart enough to realize that they couldn’t win a physical fight against the British at that point, so instead they decided to stage a theatrical one in order to get a head start on winning the war for cognitive monopoly when it came to their cause.The theatrical fight that they chose involved boarding the three ships that sat in the harbor that night—including the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver. Several of the Sons of Liberty, including Paul Revere, boarded the ships and disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians.In one sense the colonists saw the opposite of Europe’s worse excesses when looking at the Native Americans. The disguises were selected to protect the identity of the Sons of Liberty in one respect, but were also symbolic in nature; and by destroying the British tea, the act represented a moral critique of consumerism.As the Sons of Liberty boarded the ships they moved with an eerie disciplined silence. Once onboard, they cracked open and dumped 342 crates of tea into the harbor. However, it should be noted that everything that they did was a calculated act.Understand that they didn’t burn the ships, steal the tea, or loot anything during their mission. This wasn’t a careless mission, but rather a very specific one. Every man had a clearly defined role, and it was an efficient and concerted effort among the group. They had men keeping watch while also making sure that none of their own would steal any of the tea or other inventory in the process.In fact, one of the men ended up going back to replace a padlock that they had broken the night before that belonged to the captain of one of the ships. Unlike BLM, Antifa, and the protestors in Minneapolis, the Sons of Liberty were principled in their respect of other people’s property—apart from the tea itself. These men had a strategic plan of action that they carried out with stealth and precision in order to neutralize an overwhelming force in the British Crown.However, it was in the aftermath of this historic event as to where the real victory happened. You see, the British responded by passing the Intolerable Acts which forced a shutdown of Boston’s port and essentially placed the rest of the city under house arrest. In short, this move was exactly what the Sons of Liberty wanted because that move by the British essentially galvanized and radicalized the other twelve colonies. With their actions the Sons of Liberty utilized the moment in order to further leverage a local tea dispute into a continental cause for liberty.Samuel Adams worked tirelessly to publicize the Tea Party. He ardently pressed the narrative that it was as an act of defense against British taxation and sold the narrative on it being a last resort move to save colonial rights. Samuel Adams was a relentless agitator that turned outrage into full-scale tactical action.The Sons of Liberty proved that you don’t need a bigger army to win; you just need to know how to exploit your enemy’s weakness while simultaneously playing to your own side’s strength of identity. You see, the Sons of Liberty understood that the Tea Act was an attempt from the British Crown to start the process of stripping away the economic sovereignty of the colonies. Sound familiar?Obviously, you can now look back at history and understand that the moment of bloodshed was an inevitability between the colonies and the British Redcoats. However, even if the Sons of Liberty had not taken a stand against the British Crown, I’m certain that day of bloodshed would have taken place anyways, although the shot heard “round the world” may have resulted in a later start date.So why did I bother to share this historic night involving Samuel Adams and the legendary event of the Boston Tea Party with you today?The reasons are really numerous, but for the sake of today’s discussion the lessons here are going to serve to be an instrument that both you and myself can use throughout our daily lives as operational zeniths. I’m going to drill down on exactly what that main lesson is for today by explaining it in a way to expand your thinking beyond the box of your normal cognitive model.You know, I love the John Wick movies. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this series of films, but if you’re looking for some decent writing combined with the backdrop of a captivating setting and some extraordinary action, then I highly recommend them.There’s a scene in John Wick 2 where Mr. Wick has to go on an assignment in Rome, Italy. Given the fact that Mr. Wick is the world’s most feared assassin, he has to make a quick stop at The Continental Hotel in Rome which is a sister branch of The Continental Hotel in New York City. For further clarity, The Continental Hotels are fictitious grounds in the John Wick films that serve to be neutral grounds for assassins to meet, regroup, and to acquire certain resources if necessary.So exactly what kind of resources am I referring to?Well, as I stated earlier in the second film when John made his stop at The Continental Hotel in Rome, Italy he ended up paying a visit to the sommelier. In case you didn’t know, a sommelier is someone who normally specializes in fine wines and offers customers advice on matters concerning how certain foods and wines pair together.The sommelier is naturally one of the services that’s provided by The Continental. However, I assure you that the sommelier in John Wick 2 probably isn’t giving much advice about food and wine pairings as this sommelier is a front for a high-end armory. When Mr. Wick visits the sommelier, he is immediately shown a variety of hardware; he acquires the immediate service of a tactical tailor and receives strategic recommendations from the sommelier, which are thoughtfully catered to his specific needs for the purpose of combat.I wanted to point out this scene to you in John Wick 2 in order to try and paint a different picture for you in regards to how we should engage in the free exchange of ideas in this modern era. Given the fact that the Administrative State Media (ASM) clearly serves a nefarious purpose in trying to destroy this republic, we have to approach this current world of information warfare with a discerning heart and mind.However, when engaging in this information arena we must be well equipped with the understanding of our environment as peak operational zeniths in order to engage the world with our knowledge on a day to day basis.So what exactly do I mean when I talk about engaging the world in this manner?Well, I purposely used the example of the Boston Tea Party and Samuel Adams to illustrate how disciplined, strategic, organized, and tactical each of those men were when they executed one of the most famous missions in all of history.Furthermore, Samuel Adams took that event and ran with it as he engaged in the information arena by driving the narrative about how the Tea Party was a last-resort move to save colonial rights and to preserve the economic sovereignty of the colonists. The Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams didn’t just perform a physical act of dumping tea into the harbor, they constructed an entire theater of information warfare and leveraged that performance in order to completely transform the culture surrounding the corrupt globalist practices of the British Crown, their tea, and the oligarchy of the British East India Company.The actions from the Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams were so effective that they even shifted the culture of the colonies to view drinking tea as an unpatriotic act. As a result, the Tea Party moved cultural attitudes to promote coffee as the preferred drink of Americans and to progress Americans one step closer to going to war with Great Britain.At the end of the day, this is why I prefer coffee to tea.You see, my goal here is to frame this in a way for you to look at this situation and to recognize with a clear-eyed comparison, the similarities of what we’re facing today. Like the British Crown and the oligarchy of the British East India Company, you have an administrative state and an oligarchy that’s hell-bent on cementing a future of surveillance and technofeudalism—one that exists for the sole purpose of stripping away your national, individual, and economic sovereignty right this very minute.This is exactly why I want to serve to be your sommelier of narrative warfare, so that when you enter into combat inside the cultural and political arena of life, that you’ll be optimally equipped with all the adequate armaments of knowledge, wisdom, and intuition. Furthermore, the idea is not only to equip you but to also train your understanding of how to engage the narrative warfare in a way that’s highly productive and effective when it comes to you dealing with family, friends, and colleagues. I’ll come back to this in a bit.In the last episode I touched on the division going on between the woke right podcasters and the rest of what Jake Tapper would refer to as “MAGA media.” I spoke about the controversy surrounding the resignation of Joe Kent and pointed out some key questions I had regarding his recent resignation.For instance, why did he wait until the shooting started before coming out against the war with his resignation? In other words, why did he not choose to resign during Operation Midnight Hammer, Operation Absolute Resolve, or during the many weeks of military buildup before the start of Operation Epic Fury?Additionally, why was he specifically being withheld from certain intelligence briefings and under a months-long investigation that predated his resignation?You see, the reason I’m pointing these things out is that these are essentially the questions that I am not seeing anyone ask in regards to the situation involving Joe Kent. Furthermore, I’m also not seeing some key questions being asked in regards to the war with Iran itself.I want to break this down in a way that will make sense to you, but please be patient with me because the cognitive process I’m about to share is a bit challenging to explain.Let me begin by asking: Have you ever heard a storyline or narrative pop up for the first time regarding a certain field, subject, or individual that triggered a gut instinct feeling inside of you— where you knew the story was inaccurate or misleading?Perhaps the storyline that was being communicated was something that you believed to be inaccurate, but maybe you weren’t quite able to explain why the story was incorrect at that moment? In other words, it was something that you just intuitively knew was false, but you just weren’t equipped at the moment that you heard it to explain why it was inaccurate—or, at the very least, not entirely accurate?I’ll give you an example of this very thing by examining the debate over whether or not Iran possessed nuclear weapons, and whether they were an imminent threat to the United States and the rest of the world.At the time he tendered his resignation, according to Joe Kent, Iran wasn’t an imminent threat. Now, when I heard this, I’m not saying that I wasn’t a bit confused on whether or not Iran possessed nuclear weapons, because I was under the impression that we had completely obliterated their nuclear arsenal during Operation Midnight Hammer.However, by applying the Reverse Line of Delineation in examining the president’s past actions on dealing with certain problems, and possessing a more broad understanding of the geopolitical landscape, the belief of that imminent threat started to make more sense. In other words, after the shooting started there were some actions on the part of Iran that brought forth the evidence that they were definitely a bigger threat than what was being communicated by the Joe Kents of the world.For instance, aside from the debate surrounding Iran’s possession of nuclear material, the other variable that few have said anything about was Iran’s ability to deliver a nuclear payload. In other words, for the longest time, the public has been told that Iran’s best long-range missile would only have had a range of about a 1000 miles, with many media personnel stating that even that was a pipe dream.However, back on March 23, 2026 one of the few remaining and reliable news sources, Just The News, reported that Iran had launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at the joint U.S.-UK airbase of Diego Garcia which is located in the Indian Ocean. Fortunately, one of the missiles failed in flight and a U.S. warship fired an interceptor missile at the other one.So, why is this significant?This is significant because Diego Garcia is more than 2,000 miles away from Tehran. This obviously vindicated President Trump, who previously cited Iran’s capability as justification for the conflict with the Islamic Republic, after they publicly denied these capabilities for years.Aside from the realization of putting Europe within striking distance, I would also add that the Iranians, along with Russia and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), were present and working in Venezuela close to the event of Operation Absolute Resolve. Just to point out another important fact about that: Caracas, Venezuela, is about 2,000 miles away from Washington, D.C.. Take a few seconds to marinate on that reality for a moment.Regardless of this, the point is that if the Islamic Republic wasn’t supposed to have IRBMs then how do we know that they didn’t also possess intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)?The point here is that they obviously possessed a level of military capabilities that we were clearly told that they didn’t have, yet, here we are talking about it.What I’m working to illustrate to you here is that, when the debate surrounding Iran’s nuclear capabilities were in question, the real point of the discussion is recognizing that they did, in fact, possess significantly greater military capabilities than what we’ve been told for a very long time.In short, when everyone got busy honing in on whether they had nuclear weapons and whether they were an imminent threat, the point is that we now know that they did have military capabilities that they had been lying about for years. Therefore, we have to ask what else is it that they have been lying about all this time?I wanted to use this particular example as a model for you to understand how to attack the narrative from a different angle by shifting the focus away from the narrative of nuclear weapons, and onto the focus of military capabilities and the lies that have now been exposed. This is a technique of information warfare that I like to refer to as the Parrying Counter-Offensive.You see, when talking about the fight disciplines of martial arts and boxing, the act of parrying serves to be a maneuver that involves a fighter successfully deflecting and warding off strikes involving punches and kicks. Parrying serves three purposes: it initially enables a fighter to evade a strike while simultaneously creating an opening for that same fighter to execute an offensive counter-strike.You’re probably thinking, “Brandon, you said parrying served three purposes, but you only listed two. What’s the third purpose?”Oh yeah, the third purpose of parrying an opponent’s strikes, while successfully executing an offensive counter-strike, is that it starts to make a fighter feel very uncomfortable both physically and psychologically. You see, every time a smart fighter is able to successfully counter everything that their opponent is throwing at them during a fight, the more that intelligent fighter can cause their opponent to doubt their own abilities. This doubt leads to mental and physical fatigue which further creates more and more opportunities for the intelligent fighter to finish off their opponent.You see, in terms of the way we must approach this modern era of information warfare, this is exactly why I have taken this same concept of parrying and created the utility involving the Parrying Counter-Offensive so that you can use it in your own life to make your opposition uncomfortable about sharing false or misleading information.Earlier, I said that I would come back to address how to effectively engage in narrative warfare in a way that’s highly productive when it comes to you dealing with family, friends, and colleagues—those who might be cultural Marxists or are perhaps infected with the RINO mind virus.Now, I already know that, when many people hear that, they reactively want to say that you or I are not going to change anybody’s mind when trying to debate them on politics—or even trying to convince someone of giving ground when it comes to a hardline business decision, for that matter.I would say that is debatable. However, trying to convince others to change their beliefs isn’t really the point. The point is that if they are spreading absurdly stupid lies and ASM propaganda talking points, they cannot be let off the hook. The goal is that the more we create an overwhelming environment of well-informed Zeniths surrounding the cultural Marxists—along with those infected with the RINO mind virus— the less they will feel emboldened to spread their poisonous ideology.To be clear, I’m not talking about going around and trying to argue and pick fights with people. I’m actually talking about doing the complete opposite.The reality is that disagreement and conflict cause discomfort, and it’s this discomfort that serves to be the reason as to why many good people choose not to engage the world. You’ve often heard of these people being referred to as the silent majority. However, it’s this lack of engagement that the cultural Marxists, and those who are infected with the RINO mind virus, view as a license to spread their horrific lies and ideology.This lack of engagement from society is what has emboldened the ASM to lie more and more about how terrible President Trump is and how Joe Biden was at peak performance, despite the cameras catching Biden shaking hands with invisible people.Furthermore, in order to possess the ability to remain calm during disagreement requires practice. After all, facing resistance in the realm of ideas is no different than exposing your physical muscles to the resistance of iron in the gym.The ability for you to engage in a discussion or a debate while maintaining a cool head requires training yourself to do so, in the same way that you would train your muscles in the gym.I would remind you that, if you’re hesitant and are concerned about making certain friends and family members uncomfortable about these challenging topics concerning culture, politics, and faith, then just remember: the cultural Marxists certainly never express concern about making their friends and family uncomfortable about their beliefs.In fact, more often than not, in my experience, the cultural Marxists seem to believe that they’ve been made the arbiter of making everyone around them uncomfortable, while they simultaneously demand that you not offend them.The Wrap UpAt the end of the day, just understand that if you cannot endure an uncomfortable conversation with friends, family, and colleagues, then you’re certainly not going to be able to endure the real turmoil with a society that crosses its event horizon.The entire point of today’s message is about helping you to hone your skills in defending the sovereignty of your country, your economy, and your individual agency. My expectation for you is for you to possess the abilities to exhibit all the best qualities of a sovereign operational zenith, and to spread those qualities to infect everyone else around you.The idea is to reverse the course of thrust in order to start putting distance between our nation and that event horizon; and the only way that we can achieve that is by accurately recognizing the problem with the established order of Washington D.C., in the same way that the Sons of Liberty recognized it with the British Crown.President Trump recognizes the problem, but it seems that he’s having to do everything he can to win over the hearts and minds of the rest of the public, in the same exact way that Samuel Adams did when he leveraged the theatrical event of the Boston Tea Party.The reality is that we’re going to have to get more efficient in training ourselves to defend the president against an entire system that is unified on taking him and the MAGA movement down. Therefore, it’s going to be up to you and I to be that resistance that stands in the way, and the only way we can do that is by accurately assessing the cultural, political, and economic battlefield in order to apply the necessary resistance in order to shape and mold society.In the previous episode, and at the beginning of this one, I reminded you that Rehoboam lacked something that his father, Solomon, clearly had at the beginning of his reign. You see, Solomon demonstrated an act of wisdom at the beginning of his rule as king by asking the Lord for wisdom and a discerning heart.However, Rebohoam never did this and even dismissed the wise counsel of his fathers elders, instead choosing to follow the advice of his childhood friends on how to rule the kingdom.At that time, instead of easing the tax burden and hard labor on his people, Rebohoam decided to rule with increased force.He followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”1 Kings 12: 14You see, Rehoboam was just like many of your Marxist friends, family, and colleagues who believe in supporting high taxes and an authoritarian state. He certainly didn’t believe in individual sovereignty and wanted to do everything he could to strip it away from everyone else throughout his kingdom.Now, I’m no Biblical scholar, but I believe the problem concerning Rehoboam’s deficit of wisdom and his deficit of intuition is due to the fact that he was probably a privileged individual. In my view, this would clearly explain his tyrannical ways. After all, he grew up in the wealthiest environment in all of human history.Unlike his grandfather, King David, Rehoboam probably lacked a significant level of character formation. The reality is that growing up with some adversity can be a valuable thing, because the resistance of that adversity can better shape and mold an individual in a way that gives them a better understanding of the way the world works.Just like many of your Marxist friends, family, and colleagues are out of touch with reality, I believe Rehoboam was as well, and he lost more than half of his kingdom as a result of that lack of formation.You see, I believe this is why you and I are here, so that we can provide the necessary resistance to form and mold society with our agency. However, in order to do this we must master our individual ability to curate a knowledge-base of history, culture, finance, current events, and faith, in order to demonstrate our capability to resist lying narratives and destructive Marxist propaganda.In short, you must be a curator of agency in a world of mindless dependency.Remember that this is a reader supported publication and if you’re serious about advancing as a curator of agency, then make sure you hit the like button, share this episode, and post up your feedback in the comment section below.I understand that if you’re reading this then you’re most likely already operating at zenith status, however you can take your support for this media platform even further by also giving the gift of zenith status to a friend or family member as well. 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“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”― Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you took advantage of the hardwire I included in The Phantom of Wisdom, then today’s episode is going to raise your antenna.I didn’t intend to continue today’s discussion referring to King Solomon; however, after brainstorming over today’s topic, I realized that it wouldn’t be wise for me to ignore yet another lesson that we could learn from the ancient king.I suppose only half the credit for today’s episode will be attributed to King Solomon while the other half of the lesson will be one that we will derive from his son Rehoboam. Granted, I understand King Solomon had his own issues as he distanced himself from God over the course of his life, but despite this fact, he did seek the wisdom of the Lord at the start of his kingdom.Even though this was the case concerning Solomon, I understand that there has been ongoing debate over whether Solomon sought repentance. However, according to 2 Samuel 7:14-15 it appears that Solomon rests with the Lord.Granted, I’m not here to debate that specific issue; but regardless of where you stand with King Solomon, the lesson that I wanted to point out here is the clear dichotomy that existed between King Solomon and his son, King Rehoboam, at the time that he took over the crown.I want you to place this on a shelf for a moment as I’m going to shift gears and fast forward through time to a more modern place in recent history to illustrate an important point for today’s episode.“A man’s got to know his limitations.”–Clint Eastwood, Inspector Harry Callahan: Magnum ForceThat famous quote by the legendary Clint Eastwood in the iconic action movie, Magnum Force, has been a line that has truly withstood the test of time.Aside from just being a cool soundbite, there’s a real definitive lesson surrounding the context of this quote from the movie Magnum Force. Granted, when looking at today’s world, the lesson that we can derive from this movie is one that much of the world is currently missing.To frame the context of this quote, earlier in the movie, there is some obvious tension between Lt. Briggs and Harry Callahan when they are working a crime scene involving a homicide. Briggs is Harry’s superior and he has clear disdain for Harry, and is quick to assert some harsh judgments regarding some of Harry’s past work. With a demonstration of one who feels the need to act like a moral superior, it was at this point when Briggs felt the need to remind Harry that he had never had to take his gun out of its holster during his entire career. This was when Harry responded by saying, “Well, you’re a good man, lieutenant. A good man always knows his limitations.” This was a clear dig at Lt. Briggs from Harry, where Harry was implying Briggs was a coward.However, this moment in the film was foreshadowing something more significant that would happen later on in the story between the two men.Now, I certainly don’t want to ruin the ending of this iconic film for you if you haven’t had an opportunity to see it, but this lesson is vital for today’s message. By the end of the movie, it quickly becomes clear what was being foreshadowed between the two men when we find out that Lt. Briggs tries to frame Harry for the vigilante killings involving other corrupt police officers.After the true nature of the corrupt officers is revealed, Briggs forces a showdown as he has his gun drawn and is pointing it at Callahan. Briggs, being corrupt, while also being a by-the-book bureaucrat, even calls Harry a “maniac” and aims to attempt to prosecute him.However, as Briggs is driving away from Harry, he is killed by his own car bomb after threatening Harry. It was at this point when Harry smiles and says, “A man’s got to know his limitations.”The lesson that we can derive from this here is that Briggs was obviously too arrogant and hypocritical to know his own limitations. Due to his desire and emphasis towards a self-serving nature, Briggs became blind to his own limits. In fact, he became so blind to them that it resulted in his own death.Blind SpotAside from being a writer and podcaster, I’m also a professional strength and fitness coach. Given my background, I’ve previously covered the reality of a sixth sense that you possess that is known as proprioception.I don’t know if you’re familiar with this sixth sense, but it’s an incredibly interesting and powerful trait that exists within your body. The amazing thing about it is that most people are completely unaware of this, even though it’s something they should intuitively understand.You see, within your muscles, joints, and tendons you have proprioceptors which are sensory receptors that signal external feedback to you from your environment. This function works so that you understand the location of your body in relation to other people and other things in space.This is a key sense to have so that you don’t accidentally run into things and people when moving in space on a day to day basis. Now, this may seem obvious, but many people’s sense of proprioception has been dulled in our society since the advent of technology, along with the modern era of cellphones, the laptop, and desktop careers that now make up a large part of our modern day way of living.Basically, your sixth sense of proprioception is your key sense of awareness. Now having said that, when it comes to the reality of our modern day society, this sense of awareness isn’t so sharp concerning a large portion of people that you might encounter on a day to day basis.So what exactly do I mean?Let me begin by asking: How many times have you found yourself in a crowded public place, while trying to navigate through the crowd, only to suddenly have to move out of the way of others who are completely blind to your presence?I don’t know about you, but this happens to me all the time whenever I find myself in these situations.The key question here is: How is it that I’m aware of those people who are blindly violating my space, yet there is complete unawareness on the part of those who are guilty of violating my space?The answer to this is due to a lack of proprioceptive awareness. In other words, every able-bodied individual possesses the sixth sense of proprioception; however, if this sense isn’t stimulated, it becomes dull and perhaps almost nonexistent. It’s the dulling of this sixth sense that I want to touch on here.The reality is that there are people who possess a low level of proprioceptive awareness and there are people who possess a high level of proprioceptive awareness. I’ve already given you an example of a low level function of proprioceptive awareness with the space invaders I mentioned earlier in my previous experience of trying to navigate my way through crowded public venues.However, I will give you a couple of examples here to clarify what I mean in regards to those who possess a high level of proprioceptive awareness.For example, if you’ve ever carefully watched a defensive back in a football game cover a wide receiver, then you’ve seen a guy that can back-pedal and maneuver his body across the field of play while not even having to necessarily look at where he’s going.In this example, the defensive back can maneuver his body across the field of play without bumping into anyone while simultaneously covering a wide receiver. Here, the defensive back knows exactly where his body is in space in relation to referees and other players on the field. In other words, the defensive back is aware of his environment. In short, the defensive back possesses a heightened level of proprioceptive awareness.If that example isn’t good enough for you then consider the following example. I guarantee you, if you’ve ever been around any military personnel that came back from a war zone and observed them in a crowded space, you would see an individual who has a level of proprioceptive awareness that’s even greater than that of the football defensive back. Their sixth sense is fully honed and engaged.Your sixth sense of proprioceptive awareness is an extremely powerful human trait. Just how powerful is it?Well, if you still don’t believe me about your sixth sense, then the next time you go out to a restaurant or coffee shop, try the following experiment; but please don’t get busted on exhibiting too much of the “creeper vibe” and end up blaming this one on me.The next time you sit down at a local coffee shop or cafe, simply pick someone else out in the room—especially if they are turned away from you— and lock your eyes onto them, to stare at them without turning away.I guarantee you that if you do this long enough, eventually, the person that you’re staring at will turn and look in your direction. People know if they are being watched or followed, and depending on the level of their proprioceptive awareness, they will come to that conclusion faster or slower in this situation.In short, a person with a high level of awareness will turn and look in your direction a lot sooner than a person with a lower level of awareness.This is not make-believe.This is as real as the turning of the earth.Now, this leads me into my next point concerning the current epidemic of the lack of self-awareness that exists throughout our society. In my view, there is often, but not always, an overlap, as a lack of proprioceptive awareness can also be an extension of having a lack of self-awareness. There is a connection between these two traits because they both play a role in one having a firm grasp on both personal and situational awareness.The two traits of proprioceptive awareness and self-awareness both share the trait of understanding your impact on the world around you. In regards to proprioceptive awareness, this is more closely associated with your sense and ability of how you interact within your immediate physical environment.However, with self-awareness, this involves your ability to recognize your own character, thoughts, strengths, and weaknesses, while being capable of recognizing how all of these affect your overall behavior and interactions with others. Furthermore, when this ability is sharpened and heightened within an individual due to specific stimuli from a specific environment, this ability also results in a greater capability involving intuition.The bottom line is that a dulled proprioceptive awareness can result in a lower level of self-awareness. As a result, a lower self-awareness can lead to a dulled ability of surface level thinking. Of course, a dulled ability leading to surface level thinking leads to one’s inability to harness their intuition.You see, intuition is defined as one possessing the ability to grasp and understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.When it comes to an environment that you’re familiar with then I’m confident that you’ve frequently illustrated an ability to demonstrate your intuition. We’ve all been in situations where we’ve had to use our intuition.Some examples of these situations of demonstrating this trait might have involved the following:The safety/danger scenario: This would involve a situation where you might avoid a specific person because they give off a weird vibe.The interpersonal experience: This part of your intuition might involve a situation where you know that your close friend is upset about something, despite them saying that they are fine.Key life decisions: Demonstrating your intuition in this situation might involve you choosing to pass on a high paying job because you don’t like everything that’s attached to it. Another example here would also involve the process of selecting a lifetime romantic partner for a husband or wife.I believe you get the point here.However, a lack of self-awareness can also show up when an individual doesn’t understand the sandbox that they’re functioning in within a certain environment. A good example here would involve a situation like the one I addressed earlier between the corrupt bureaucrat of Lt. Briggs and Harry Callahan.For much of the movie, Magnum Force, Harry didn’t understand the sandbox he was in when investigating the many homicides of criminals who had escaped justice, but kept showing up dead.However, once Harry discovers that a group of dirty rookie cops are actually the ones doing the killing, he realizes the circumstances have changed. Harry demonstrated self-awareness by possessing the intelligence, the acumen, and the intuition to follow through with the evidence in order to firmly grasp the environment that he was in.On the contrary, the antagonist, Lt. Briggs, completely lacked the self-awareness to understand the sandbox he was in once Harry Callahan exposed him for what he was. After all, Lt. Briggs eventually shows his true colors and reveals to Harry that he’s the mastermind behind the vigilante killings, but he had to do so only after his failed attempt to recruit Harry into the corrupt police death squad that he was responsible for leading. Furthermore, he did this only after his failed attempt to kill Harry with a bomb. As a reminder, this very bomb would be the same exact bomb that would end up killing Briggs himself.Who would have thought that we could extract so much value from the movie Magnum Force as it relates to an overall analysis of self-awareness and intuition?As I mentioned earlier, a lack of proprioceptive awareness can lead to a lack of self-awareness which is something that we can see throughout much of our society, particularly when observing the actions and beliefs of the cultural Marxists and the Islamists. However, there can also be a circumstance where someone does possess a high level of proprioceptive awareness, but still lacks self-awareness.I’ve already touched on how the cultural Marxists and the Islamists of the far left lack in self-awareness; however, there’s also been a rift on the political right of late regarding many who are demonstrating a lack of self-awareness. This is because they’re either putting on an act as they graft off of their positions in media, or because they simply lack the self-awareness to recognize the sandbox that they’re playing in.Just this past week retired Green Beret combat veteran, Gold Star husband, and former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, released an official letter announcing his resignation as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. According to Kent, this was due to his belief and opposition involving the current war with Iran.I will include a key excerpt from Kent’s official letter here below that he shared directly from his official X account.Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women. We cannot make this mistake again.As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.When I first heard about Joe Kent’s decision to leave the administration and took the time to read his resignation letter for myself, I was caught off guard.Once I had some time to read and absorb it I immediately decided to step back and watch both the actions of Kent, as well as, the reactions of others towards his position.Now, the reality is that his position was pretty radical. After all, in his own words he’s blaming Israel for the reason the U.S. got involved in both the Iraq war and this current war with Iran. Furthermore, he’s also stating that the president has been used as a pawn by Israel to start this war with Iran.Any of those positions alone are extreme accusations and aren’t accusations that should be made unless he has overwhelming evidence of this that he’s prepared to lay out in front of the American people. Otherwise, in my view, he’s just expressing an opinion while having been in a position where that opinion could be undermining the country during wartime.Now, before I go any further, I want to say that Joe Kent’s military service is absolutely remarkable, and it’s something that we all should be thankful for. I wanted to make sure to say that before moving forward.However, I must say that it’s been interesting watching Joe Kent in the days following his resignation. As I previously stated, his resignation caught me off guard as I’m sure it did with many others throughout the media landscape.Having said that, based on the media response from personalities such as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, it was a bit surprising to see how quickly Kent had these interviews lined up, despite not having provided any evidence that I’ve seen regarding his claims.Furthermore, it’s now come to light that Kent has been under a months long investigation by the FBI that long predates his resignation. According to Semafor, the matter involves a leak investigation related to allegations that he improperly shared classified information.Despite all of this, as I’m sitting here and observing the reactions from the newly labeled Woke Right podcasters, all I’m hearing is a bunch of noise and not any critical analysis of Kent’s previous role within the administration, or the reasons surrounding his departure.For instance, I saw where Shawn Ryan released a video previewing his upcoming interview with Kent. In this preview video Ryan is clearly agitated concerning the circumstances surrounding Kent’s departure.Now, it has come out that for many months leading up to his departure, Kent was kept out of intelligence briefings. I point this out because in Ryan’s preview for his interview with Kent, he posits the position as to why the administration didn’t just go ahead and fire Kent, rather than keeping him out of the briefings for the alleged leaking, and trying to paint a different perspective for the public.To me, this is just a bomb throwing attempt over the issue because it was clearly a lose/lose scenario for the administration concerning Kent anyway. In other words, if the administration had fired a retired Green Beret combat veteran, Gold Star husband, and father of two who had been deployed eleven times without having their facts in a row, then I’m curious if Shawn Ryan would think that would have changed his perspective on the administration. In other words, would his perspective under that circumstance differ versus how he’s expressing his perspective of the administration right now? I seriously doubt it.Furthermore, in that same preview Ryan shared his frustration with a recent article from The Wall Street Journal that talks about how Lindsey Graham allegedly went to Israel to coach their intelligence service and their Prime Minister, Netanyahu, on how to persuade President Trump to bomb Iran. He suggests that perhaps the FBI should be looking into that situation with Graham and perhaps be looking at treason.Now, concerning Ryan’s perspective on Lindsey Graham here I don’t disagree with him. However, let’s take a moment and imagine a scenario where both Graham and Kent are guilty of wrongdoing. In a scenario such as this that would occur in today’s political environment, what common denominator has the true America First movement been immensely frustrated about regarding every long list of wrongdoers that might resemble this scenario for the past six years?I would say that the common denominator would involve the massive problem that our nation has had with the lack of accountability involved with everyone that’s been guilty of wrongdoing. Certainly, this lack of accountability is due to the institutions having been captured by cultural Marxists, which has led to a pandemic of judicial tyranny, with radical judges constantly undermining the president’s Article II powers at every turn.If Shawn Ryan is calling for another investigation into Graham, given this pandemic of judicial tyranny, how far does he think this will actually go—if we’re talking about achieving accountability of a sitting United States Senator like Graham? The same thing can be said for Joe Kent, for that matter, if you happen to not believe him.This is where I believe that if alternative motivations aren’t at play here with Kent, then he’s just simply not looking at this from the perspective of a geopolitical chessboard.In other words, instead of assuming what Kent might know and whether or not he can be trusted, let’s slow down and take a look at exactly what we do know in regards to this current geopolitical landscape, and the way President Trump has navigated it.First of all, am I supposed to believe that the toughest, and arguably the best president in American history, who gave up his billionaire lifestyle to become the most investigated individual in human history, is somehow being led around by a foreign Israeli lobby to get us into a war? Is this supposed to be a bad joke?Furthermore, am I supposed to believe that this same president—that endured years of ruthless lawfare, had previously been debanked by JPMorgan Chase, and stared down the barrel of a gun in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a second assassination attempt down in West Palm Beach, Florida— is somehow a man that is not strong enough, smart enough, and capable enough to make his own decisions?You see, this picture that’s being painted by the woke right is just stupidly reductive.In addition to this, there’s also a very simple question I have regarding Kent’s resignation. Why did Joe Kent wait until the shooting started to resign from his position as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center?In other words, why did he not resign back during Operation Midnight Hammer, during Operation Absolute Resolve, or during the massive build up of military forces in the Middle East just prior to Operation Epic Fury?You see, given this modern era of Fifth Generation Warfare, it’s clear that President Trump understands the geopolitical chessboard, and how today’s modern era of warfare doesn’t solely involve tanks, planes, and bombs. This modern era of warfare is asymmetric and involves a war on the systems of the institutions that serve as the pillars of a society’s existence. These institutions involve the medical institutions, the financial institutions, the judicial institutions, and the longstanding media institutions.By using the tactic that I revealed to you in my previous episode involving the Reverse Line of Delineation, we can minimize misunderstanding The Grand Strategy, and better recognize the sandbox we are currently in without losing it in our blind spot.For starters, the president has been pointing out how much NATO has been ripping off the United States for years. Given that the U.S. is the chief financial contributor to NATO, and after seeing how unwilling NATO has been to help in the burden sharing involving the war with Iran, it’s pretty obvious that he’s right.In fact, to make his claim about NATO concretely obvious, he recently referred to them as a “Paper Tiger” after Europe made it clear on its collective stance to not support securing the Strait of Hormuz, along with the U.S. and Israel, as the strikes on Iran continued.In short, the president proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that NATO is a Paper Tiger, and isn’t good for anything other than ripping off the United States. After all, if NATO is supposed to be a partner during wartime, then why are they refusing to be partners with the U.S. during our war with Iran?Meanwhile, all of the Middle Eastern partners are in favor of U.S. strikes on Iran while Europe does nothing. Does it seem ironic to you that our so-called allies are not offering to share any burden with us during this war with Iran, yet the Middle East has been relatively supportive of the effort?The Wrap UpWhy do you think Europe isn’t getting involved with the war effort against Iran?The answer is because most of Europe has fallen due to the mass migration of Islamist. It’s obvious that European leaders are scared of the threat of reprisals within their own borders if they support the efforts of the United States against Iran.You see, the president understands this which is exactly why he’s been working to secure the Western Hemisphere involving South America, Canada, and Greenland. This also factored into his strategy involving the extraction of Maduro in Venezuela, along with their oil. When it comes down to it, Iran has been a radical long-term threat, but who is it that is an even bigger threat to us than Iran?If you replied by saying that would be the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) then you would be correct. As the old saying goes, let’s keep the main thing the main thing.The reality here is that the president isn’t just killing two birds with one stone here, but rather he’s killing thousands of birds with one stone by dealing with Iran and securing our Western Hemisphere. Sure, it’s dangerous, but this has been something that has been growing for the last 50 years.Historically, much of the global financial decisions have been driven by the City of London. With that being said, when the Iranian regime threatened to mine and shutdown the Strait of Hormuz, insurance policies were canceled, and for those that weren’t the cost of insurance to move product through became steep.According to the Guardian, this is why the Lloyd’s of London has recently sought to defend its decisions to cancel war-risk policies. However, with the president’s quick actions of offering a competing U.S. government-backed insurance program to back the cargo going through the Straits, he’s solidified the exposure of NATO as the Paper Tiger that they are rather than the ally they’re supposed to be.Based on what I know and what I can observe at this time, Joe Kent, at best, seems to be expressing a deficit of intuition concerning the geopolitical chessboard. At worst, his actions could be intentional as those on the Woke Right appear to be now with every day that passes. Until I can see evidence that convinces me otherwise, this is my current perspective on the matter, and there are many other reasons that factor into my decision besides what I’ve included here in today’s episode.I began this episode talking about the difference between King Solomon and King Rehoboam. At the beginning of his rule, King Solomon asked the Lord for wisdom and a discerning heart in order to better govern the Lord’s people. However, when his son Rehoboam took the crown he ultimately chose to reject the advice of the elders who worked with his father, and instead chose to consult with the young men that had grown up with him and stood before him as king.As a result of this choice, Rehoboam ended up losing more than half of his kingdom.Rehoboam and his peers illustrated a total Deficit of Wisdom, which left them vulnerable to a Fatal Contagion of False Intuition. Because they lacked the hardware to audit their own ‘gut feelings,’ the false contagion succeeded—and the kingdom fell.Rehoboam lacked something else that his father demonstrated the moment he took the crown. To learn the identity of that missing component, make sure that you bypass the Vault door and upgrade to Zenith Status. I will be revealing the missing hardware to this in my next transmission: The Curator of Agency.Remember that this is a reader-supported publication so make sure you give this article a like, subscribe, share, and comment to support the message.Also to connect with me, join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brandonrichey.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit brandonrichey.substack.comTo access today’s episode in full length, make sure you upgrade to Zenith status now by going to brandonrichey.substack.com—if you haven’t already—in order to take advantage of my Exclusive Zenith Catalog, which is a supreme navigational tool to give you access to four years of my most powerful insights with surgical ease.“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”― Albert EinsteinNow that you’ve traveled the path from the Alternate Universe, we can shift your focus into pursuing the path to a clear solution.Let’s start out doing this by taking a look at Gibeon where the Lord appeared to King Solomon in the night during a dream and said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”It was at this point that Solomon asked the Lord for wisdom. In this moment when the Lord came to Solomon he chose to ask for a discerning heart in order to better govern the Lord’s people, and to be better able to distinguish between right and wrong.This request from Solomon was quite special to the Lord.Just how special was it?The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.”Kings 3: 10-14Now, when looking at this interaction between Solomon and the Lord, you might initially think, “Ok, Brandon, so Solomon asked the Lord for wisdom and the Lord granted him wisdom. That’s pretty much it.”If this is your only takeaway from this experience then I would just say that you’re missing the biggest lesson of this interaction. If that is your interpretation then you are observing, but you’re not understanding. In this situation you’re displaying a deficit of wisdom. Simply put, I’ll just say that you’re allowing a lot to go unnoticed here.So what exactly do I mean?In order to overcome that encumbering deficit of wisdom, make sure that you get behind my heavy vault door in order to easily access the last four years of my cognitive hardware, with the use of my Exclusive Zenith Catalog.Remember that the normie approach to life is an aimless one that is void of effort, focus, and advancement. However, a true operational zenith understands that even if something isn’t understood, the effort involved in attempting to make an advancement—virtually always mitigates and eliminates—the deficit of wisdom.Make sure that your aim is clear and secure your advancement now so you don’t drown in that deficit.

“What does a mirror look at?”― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: DuneE Pluribus Unum is the Latin phrase that means out of many, one.If you’ve ever dealt with money then you’ve probably noticed this phrase on the reverse side of both coins and dollar bills most commonly embedded within the Great Seal.The phrase E Pluribus Unum signifies unity, originally referencing the unification of the original 13 colonies, but more broadly it signifies the creation of a single and cohesive American identity involving diverse backgrounds.In short, this is about the shared unity of cultures underneath the umbrella of the single unifying culture of Americanism, not multiculturalism.However, if you saw The State of The Union Address (SOTU) this past week then what you saw was the president of the United States speaking to the tradition of E Pluribus Unum, conversely you saw the majority of the Democratic Party demonstrating the antithesis of unity.At this point, if you didn’t at least see the highlights of the SOTU where the president called out the Democrats then this is a problem in and of itself. If you haven’t seen the highlights of the speech then you should actively go out and search for those highlights before continuing to read or listen to the rest of this episode.If you’ve satisfied that last request, or if you have already watched the SOTU, then the thing that should have shocked you was when the president asked Congressional members to stand if they agreed that the, “first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”When the president asked that question, all of the Republican members stood and applauded, but the overwhelming majority of Democrat members remained seated.To be clear, this statement wasn’t complicated. This was a simple opportunity for Congressional members to agree on what the ONLY basic purpose and function of the American government should be about. However, when the president uttered this statement and asked the members of the chamber to stand if they agreed with it, the glaring divide on this between America loving Patriots and the cultural Marxists couldn’t be more obvious.To make it worse, these people wouldn’t stand for military veterans that were being awarded from having risked their lives for the nation. They wouldn’t stand for a six year old child, Delilah Coleman, that was introduced during the SOTU.If you’re not familiar with her story, she was a victim of a serious car accident that involved an illegal migrant driving a semi-truck that crushed her car in California and had seriously injured her. When the president proposed the new Delilah Law that would aim at making it illegal for illegal migrants to obtain commercial drivers licenses (CDLs), the Democrats wouldn’t even stand for that.In addition to this, the president introduced the gold medal winning men’s Olympic hockey team who pulled off a huge win defeating Canada. Everyone in the chamber stood in applause for these young American champions who were proud to win gold for their beloved United States, yet the Democrats remained seated during their introduction.The heartbroken mother of the young beautiful Ukranian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, was present at the SOTU and was promised by the president that justice would be served for her daughter’s tragic murder. Iryna was brutally murdered by a repeat offender out on no cash bail on a train in North Carolina. Even with the introduction of this heartbroken mother grieving her daughter’s senseless murder by a crazed scumbag in North Carolina, the Democrats couldn’t stand to express support for her.By the way, Iryna’s mother was sitting next to another featured guest of the night, Erika Kirk, the brave widow of the recently assassinated American Patriot and Christian influencer, Charlie Kirk.President Trump called these people out to their faces on national television by telling them that they should be ashamed of themselves, yet all Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib could do was keep their butts in the seats and scream back in a pathetic attempt to defend illegal migrants over American citizens, and demonize the country.So what is this all about?If you are typically a Democrat voter, then this was the most obvious and blatant in-your-face reaction from your representatives that should have you questioning what your representatives actually support, especially since they refused to express support for the victims, heroes, and champions that were all present for the SOTU address. Given their refusal to support those wonderful souls in attendance at the SOTU, I’m genuinely curious as to why you would believe that they would be in support of you?Quite frankly, I’m stuck asking myself the same question. However, I already know the answer because there’s only one answer left that would explain the obvious.The fact is that these people hate the United States of America, and they want to destroy it. These people are a mixture of cultural Marxists and jihadists and everything they believe in is antithetical to what it means to be a United States citizen. Everything they believe is antithetical to what it means to be an American Patriot. These people are the complete opposite of patriots. These people are American Bolsheviks. By their own actions, these people are traitors.With the recent war on the U.S. dollar, we often talk about the debasement of currency, but the reality is that the Democrat party is debasing the lives of American citizens. They want to debase the actual value of what it means to be a citizen.In other words, if they are willing to tax U.S. citizens more and more in order to support illegals then what benefit exists for U.S. citizens? If they are willing to tax U.S. citizens more and more while the judicial system favors the illegal criminals over honoring the so-called rights of citizens, then what benefit exists for U.S. citizens? If they are willing to tax U.S. citizens more and more while illegals literally invade your neighborhoods in order to seize your property and your business (see Aurora, Colorado), then what benefit exists for U.S. citizens?What value does an American citizen hold if its elected representatives fight harder for non-citizens than actual citizens of their own country? This is the fundamental problem that has pretty much already led to Europe being conquered by Islamist, and it’s the same problem that is currently facing our nation right now at this very moment.Despite this, those same Democrats that wouldn’t stand in support of those American citizens at the SOTU are the same Democrats that would label me as a racist or a xenophobe for simply wanting to support those very citizens that they refused to stand up for—regardless of their race, gender, or religion.Victory or DefeatNow the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people. Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus. They were delighted and agreed to give him money. He consented, and watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to them when no crowd was present.Luke 22: 1-6The lessons of history are here to teach us not only about previous events that have taken place, but, more importantly, about the motivations that are associated with the acts of human nature that drive these events.Therefore, it’s the lessons of human nature that enable us to get a grasp on our environment as we strive to become operational zeniths in a chaotic world.With that being said, it was in 1930 during a period of forced collectivization and Stalinist purges where a communist youth named Pavlik Morozov was a leader of the Young Pioneers which was an organization that was closely linked to the Komsomol.In the history of the Soviet Union, the Komsomol was an organization of young people, ages 14 to 28, that served as a political organ for spreading Communist teachings—a feeder system for preparing the youth for the future of the Communist Party.During this period of time, there were violent purges going on across the countryside involving the kulaks, which were landowners that were deemed to be too wealthy by the state. The reality was that the kulaks were not wealthy, but were only slightly more prosperous independent farmers who owned more land or livestock than the average household.Regardless, the state literally engaged in a dekulakization campaign that was aimed at repressing and purging the kulaks from society. The campaign was brutal and aggressive and involved mass executions, arrests, expropriation of property, and deportations of entire households to completely remote and inhospitable regions.It was during this time that the young Pavlik Morozov ended up denouncing his own father who happened to be the head of the local Soviet, to the Soviet authorities. During this time in court Morozov charged that his father had engaged in forging various documents and sold certain favors to the kulaks in secrecy. As a result, Morozov’s father was sentenced to a hard labor camp, but his sentence was later changed to death. The latter sentence was ultimately fulfilled.Morozov didn’t stop there as he accused other peasants of hoarding and withholding their grain from authorities. As a consequence, Morozov ended up being brutally murdered, although the culprits involved with his death appear to be somewhat disputed. There are some accounts that say that Morozov was murdered by his own family due to their displeasure with him denouncing his father. However, other accounts suggest that his murder occurred at the hands of several local kulaks.Later, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky summed up the bury lede here in a talk about Morozov’s life regarding the brutal dividing lines and betrayals that most people forget about when looking through the lens of history. These betrayals not only occurred with truces between expected enemies, but they also occurred between friends, colleagues, and especially in that very narrow space that existed between the bond of blood kin.Even according to Wikipedia, when Maxim Gorky spoke to the Communist youth organization in 1933, he did so referencing “the heroic deed of Pioneer Pavlik Morozov, the boy who understood that a person who is a relative by blood may well be an enemy of the spirit, and that such a person is not to be spared”.Regardless of who was responsible for Morozov’s death, the main point here is that when a society is allowed to be taken over by those who buy into an evil ideology, then they will implement that evil ideology throughout that society, and there are no boundaries that will slow them down.This story involving the life of Morozov is tragic, but it is a stark reminder that evil can take hold in all places and can take the shape of the most unassuming figures. Just how unassuming was Morozov? Well, besides him turning into the single key witness that got his own father sentenced to death by the state, he was only 13 years of age when he did it.Obviously, Morozov was a bolshevik and he demonstrated the destructive actions of a true bolshevik very early on in his life.Unfortunately, Morozov doesn’t stand alone when looking back through some of the most brutal moments of history.There have been plenty of stories throughout history of family betrayal that have occurred underneath the umbrella of authoritarianism. These moments have occurred when the state was able to rot the brains of its own citizens enough, until those societal moments arrived for people to witness the physical application of the horror that was born out of all of that brain rot.In an older episode back in 2022, I covered another disturbing story of how this sort of shocking betrayal illustrated this involving a personal account that took place back during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Given the recent successful airstrikes from Israeli and U.S. forces resulting in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, I thought this story would be fitting for the day’s topic.In this older episode I was referencing the well renowned Psychologist, Mettias Desmet. Mettias Desmet is recognized as the world’s leading expert on the theory of mass formation as it applied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. As I previously covered, according to Mettias Desmet, this incredibly chilling phenomenon of mass formation can take root in a society when society has been conditioned to focus on a certain object of fear. Once society has been conditioned to focus on this object of fear, it can then cause the group of people to be radically blind to everything that goes against what the group believes in.As a chilling real life historical reference to the danger and destruction that the end stages of mass formation can result in, Desmet references a shocking example of how this develops in stages in the 1979 Iranian Revolution.He (Desmet) points out that as the group is infected by the mass formation in the early stages, that the group will then take the most absurd beliefs for granted. Initially, in the early stages of this, he points to many well-documented stories of the citizenry of Iran all claiming to see the face of their leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, on the surface of the moon with each full moon. As a result of this, many people would point at the full moon on display showing each other where the face of Ayatollah Khomeini could be seen.Although this was the first phase of mass formation, Desmet points out that the second phase of how an individual can be gripped by this phenomenon is where an individual will then radically, and willingly, sacrifice their individual interests for the sake of the collective.I’ll return to the Iranian example shortly, but in this second phase of the mass formation Mettias Desmet also points out a really good example with the Communist leaders who were sentenced to death by Stalin. Here we are again referencing horrors inside of the Soviet Union as a result of the reign of the bolsheviks.As Desmet points out, this sacrifice of individual interest, concerning the death sentence of the Communist leaders by Stalin, could often be seen with their shocking personal statements prior to their executions saying “If that is what I can do for the communist party, I will do it with pleasure.”As crazy as that sounds, that was the reality, and if you didn’t think the impact of the mass formation could get any worse then you would be wrong.In the third stage of the mass formation, Desmet points out that individuals who have progressed to this stage will also become radically intolerant of dissident voices.In fact, those people who have progressed to the third stage will commit absolute atrocities towards those people who do not go along with the masses and even do so as if it’s some sort of righteous sense of duty.To get back to the situation with the Revolution that took place in Iran, Desmet references a story in his writings where he spoke to an Iranian woman who had witnessed, with her own eyes, a woman that had reported her own son to the state for being a dissident. If that’s not bad enough, the witness saw the mother of the son grab the noose and hang it around her son’s neck herself, as the boy stood on the scaffold where he would hang only in the short moment that followed.After the execution, the mother was seen claiming to be a heroine to do what she did for the good of the state. After hearing such a story, it’s hard to imagine how a society could get to this point; however, similar mass formation is well documented and has taken place throughout history—in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union.On that note, as we look at the current circumstances within our nation right now, the third stage of this can be seen with the behavior of the protestors in Minneapolis, it can be seen with the members of the Democrat party at the SOTU, it could be seen with the bolshevik’s celebration of the attempted assassination of the president, and it was clear watching the bolshevik’s celebration of Charlie Kirk’s assassination as well.The Wrap UpIf there’s one key lesson you should understand regarding this episode, it’s that people are not inherently good. After all, we live in a fallen world, and because of that, evil can take root anywhere and at any time—even when it involves the actions of those who might be closest to you.Remember, this is especially true if society falls under the rule of a bolshevik/jihadist regime. God forbid, but keep this in mind regarding those friends and family members of yours that see the world differently than you do should the Bolsheviks take control of power. After all, history shows that tolerance that you lovingly express for them in public to others won’t be reciprocated when the circumstances of governance changes.With that being said, the reason I pointed out the actions of the Democrat party during the SOTU was to show you what the beginning stages of a bolshevik/jihadist revolution looks like.Forget about President Trump for a moment. If you don’t believe these people would literally try to destroy you, me, and every other dissident voice that opposed them, should they take the majority of power in the 2026 midterms, then you are sadly mistaken.You see, you have to remember that momentum in life can be either positive or negative. Granted, President Trump and the MAGA movement are building tremendous positive momentum, but as a movement, we must not get complacent in order to ensure this momentum is maintained for the next eight to twelve years. The reality is that in this domestic war, either we will crush the bolsheviks, or they will crush us.If you’re still not convinced of my analysis, you don’t even have to look at the traitors in the streets of Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib to see what they’re telegraphing to you now with their hate and vitriol towards the United States.In fact, recent leftist talk show host, Charlamagne, was talking about how a de-MAGA-ification needed to take place after the Trump administration leaves power. This was his pathetic attempt to draw a parallel between MAGA and the Nazi ideology in postwar Germany. This was the obvious typical leftist projection where this guy was accusing MAGA of being exactly what he actually is. This behavior of accusing others of what they are guilty of being themselves, is commonplace for bolsheviks, jihadists, and Nazis.If looking at the message that Charlamagne is telegraphing isn’t enough to convince you of their intentions, then perhaps former United Nations Ambassador, Susan Rice, could further clarify this for you.In a recent podcast appearance, Susan Rice issued a direct threat to corporations that “take a knee,” to President Trump and to expect to be “held accountable” if Democrats return to power. Her intention should be glaringly obvious. However, just in case you need more clarity, I’ll translate this for you.Basically, she’s not talking about holding truly corrupt businesses accountable for anything. In fact, she labels those who play by the rules as criminals in the same exact way as they act like American citizens are the criminals instead of the illegal migrants.Remember, with Charlamagne and Susan Rice, we’re talking about people embedded within the same political party that doesn’t know the biological differences between a man and a woman. Therefore, their ability for discernment, and possessing the moral compass to determine what is legal and illegal, is completely opposite of reality. In fact, they live in an alternate universe.Susan Rice isn’t talking about a just pursuit of accountability. She’s talking about a good old-fashioned Marxist purge, or more specifically, a modern day dekulakization campaign, or as Charlamagne put it, a de-MAGA-ification campaign.Charlamagne and Susan Rice are the representation of exactly why mass formation occurs within societies. Back during the pandemic, their object of fear was the virus, today their object of fear is President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.This is exactly why you and I are here at this moment in time. As zeniths navigating this chaotic world, we are here to end these people’s influence over society.We are here, with God’s guidance, to dominate the information and narrative landscape with the truth narrative. We are here to do this by making sure we exercise our agency in order to leverage our position in this chaotic world by winning the war of cognitive monopoly.With that being said, this analysis is complete. By now you are aware that the Sandbox that you inhabit is a legacy construct designed to attempt to keep you repressed in a dumbed down normie state. However, the hardware that’s required to navigate the Alternate Universe requires you to refuse to accept the normie label. 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”― Ralph Waldo EmersonAs I’ve gotten older I’ve discovered that I have a tendency to think differently than most people when it comes to recognizing certain problems in life and throughout the world.Hopefully, by now, you know me well enough to understand that is not a statement of ego, but rather one that is steeped in consistent observation. This is something that I’ve always recognized, but it is a glaring reality that I have really noticed at a whole new level ever since the pandemic.I suppose the reason for this is because I have always had an ability to zoom out the vantage point on any given situation and recognize the macro point of view. This has essentially involved the task of recognizing and viewing certain models of function through a systems approach style of thinking rather than society’s more commonly practiced approach of reductionism.The simplistic, or often reductive, vantage point that I’ve witnessed from many people throughout my lifetime—as it relates to their personal worldviews and their views on business—has been something that I’ve always found myself having to wrestle with in a sort of frustrated silence during certain situations of my life.Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t as if this sort of feeling dominated my mind all the time, but I would find that my frustration would frequently get triggered quite often in the world of business and when it came to having to listen to some people’s viewpoints on certain current events.Now, I should also say that the frustration that I mentioned earlier wasn’t something that I always kept silent. I’ll just say that there are moments in life that all of us face when silence can no longer be an option.On that note, this is exactly why I started writing and podcasting in this information space, as I saw what I typically recognized as a lack of understanding in the world—regarding right and wrong— that had gotten way out of hand starting in 2020.Once again, this is not coming from a place of ego, and the fact that I even feel the need to continue to reiterate that directly points to a large part of the problem in today’s world. To clarify, it’s one thing for me to write the words down in an attempt to convey a certain message to you when it comes to communication.However, I knew that writing the words wouldn’t be enough to convey the full meaning of what I would want to communicate to you at any given point. Therefore, I also chose to include the podcast portion of my messaging in order to more accurately convey my intended message to you through the expression of speech.Now, having said that, this is where the real irritation can build at times. Despite my efforts to convey a clear message to the masses—both in writing and in speech—there are always those few people who simply cannot comprehend what has been communicated. You may think I’m crazy by saying this, but this is the thing that I’m motivated to eradicate in this information space.Recognizing The Sandbox You Are InIf you’re a relatively new reader, or listener to this platform, then you may not know about my professional background. I’ve been a small business owner, writer, and professional strength and fitness coach now for over 25 years.In case you didn’t know that, I wanted to take a moment to clarify that detail because it will explain the reason behind my understanding involved in the next part of this discussion. If you remember how I mentioned the systems approach to thinking earlier, then in a short time it will become clear why I want to talk about the nervous system.You see, the human nervous system is perhaps the most complex system that exists. To begin, your nervous system is essentially like a power grid consisting of your central power structure, or central nervous system, which basically involves your brain and spinal cord.Your brain acts like a central command power structure, which delivers power through the main line—your spinal cord—in order to distribute that power throughout the rest of the nerves of your body. As it concerns your body, this is necessary for the purpose of your body’s abilities such as movement, emotions, thoughts, and automatic functions involving your digestion, breathing, and heartbeat.You see, your nerves act like powerlines as they deliver electrical and chemical messages— originating from your brain—in much of the same way as electricity travels through lines to homes and businesses originating from a power plant.These electrical and chemical messages are essentially the electricity that powers your nervous system and in turn your nervous system powers your body. Now, I want you to hold on to that description and envision how this complex system works when thinking about the function of your body.Now, as you visualize how your complex nervous system works to power your body, I want you to imagine a scenario after you experience a challenging workout that results in your muscles cramping. If you’ve ever experienced this it is not a pleasant thing to go through when it happens.Even with my background and understanding of what causes this misery, I’ve also been a victim of waking in the middle of the night yelling in pain from a hamstring cramp and scaring my wife in the process. Yes, it’s funny telling you about it now, but I can assure you that it’s not so funny when it’s happening.So what causes these cramps to happen?The most common cause of muscle cramps is an electrolyte imbalance as a result of dehydration. This is something that people commonly overlook, but it is simultaneously something that often causes people a lot of misery.So what are electrolytes?Electrolytes are minerals such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium that carry an electric charge within your body. This role is essential for the function of your nervous system as it is crucial for regulating nerve signals, blood pressure, and muscle contractions including your heart.Therefore, if you were to experience a significant loss of electrolytes due to dehydration then you could set yourself up for muscle cramps, headaches, and fatigue. However, more serious electrolyte loss could lead to more devastating results such as heart arrhythmias and even death.Now, it’s pretty obvious about the importance of the role that electrolytes play within your body. In short, electrolytes are essential for your very survival. As long as you maintain a healthy level of electrolytes, then it’s one area you can trust; it allows your nervous system to do what it does best for your body’s performance.Therefore, as you keep this in mind, I’m going to transition to explaining a different body that you are also a part of and have to live within as a result of your environment. 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“If you’re confused about what to do, it’s a sign that your enemy is winning.”― Toba Beta, Master of StupidityWhat makes up a country?If the United States is a country, then what exactly does that mean?Well, I can start by telling you what it doesn’t mean. To begin, whenever you hear someone say that the United States is an idea they would be completely incorrect.I opened up this discussion asking the question about what makes up a country for a significant reason. Well, the United States is a country—a physical place with borders and with people who have properties, families, and businesses; with obligations, communities, churches, investments, livelihoods, and a shared culture of Americanism.The United States is not an idea; it’s a physical place within a physical world, populated by people who either seek to build it or seek to destroy it. If you have studied history close enough then you understand that this is the way that it’s always been. However, in today’s world, the reality is that these lines, concerning who desires to build and who desires to destroy, are as clear and as bold as they ever have been.When I first decided to start writing and podcasting in this information space, I did so because I saw that the Marxists were on the march. I saw that the Marxists were organized, relentless, and unified in their efforts to destroy the United States.However, as clear as this was to me the other thing that I observed was that much of the rest of normal everyday American citizens were clueless to the threat that was facing them. Even today, there are many that are either apathetic, ignorant, or outright stupid about the reality of what’s currently happening in this nation.I’ve communicated this many times before, but I’ll take the time here to say it again—we are at war.This is not a hyperbolic statement. This is a literal statement and the evidence of this is literally everywhere. However, this type of warfare isn’t a traditional kinetic war in the way that you’re used to imagining involving tanks, bombs, and soldiers. The type of warfare that I’m referring to involves what is known as asymmetric warfare.When you first hear what I’m about to say you’re probably going to think I’m crazy, but just stay with me because I’m going to clarify my point in a way that you will completely understand by the time you get to the end of this episode.Believe it or not, the most recent example of this asymmetric warfare involved the Super Bowl halftime show with the pop singer Bad Bunny. Now, full disclosure, I didn’t watch it, but I’ve seen highlights of the show and have read and heard commentary in regards to the content of the lyrics involved in the music of choice.Now having said that, Time magazine reported on how Republican representative Andy Ogles has recently addressed the House Energy and Commerce Committee in which he called for an inquiry into the NFL and the broadcaster NBCUniversal.His motivation behind doing this was to initiate the attempt to expose the level of prior knowledge they had, along with their review and approval concerning the show’s performance. According to representative Ogles, the inquiry is to determine whether broadcast delay protocols and standard review procedures—were “properly applied” or “intentionally disregarded.”Now, aside from the criticism surrounding the nature of the content of the show, my observation of the music having been performed purely in Spanish was an intentional slap in the face of the country as well.Anyone who claims that perspective is racist is, in my view, an actual racist. In addition to that, those are the people who hate the United States of America. Now, when I say that I mean it, and I can make the case here in order to prove it.So why do I say this?Once again, let’s go back to my earlier explanation in regards to what makes a country. In that list that I covered near the beginning of this episode, I included at the end of that list the trait of a shared culture of Americanism.To be specific regarding the culture of Americanism, for a long time, everything surrounding it never involved one of the most powerful American institutions—the NFL—separating itself from it and turning its back on that very culture. After all, for a long time the NFL built their existence off of the culture of Americanism which propelled their immense success.The thing that made the NFL such a great product long ago was its embrace of American culture. Nowadays, the NFL scoffs at Americanism and much of the personnel that are in charge of making the big decisions for that league are either globalists or cultural Marxists.One of the mysteries that has always surprised me is this seemingly consistent formula of rot that always seems to occur whenever these very cool and popular institutions start to hit a certain level of growth and success. As sure as the turning of the earth, it seems that every single time a major institution reaches a certain level of success, without fail, the cultural identity of that institution always goes right out the window.It’s like clockwork — the very ingredients involved in the recipe for that institution’s greatness eventually triggers a strange metamorphosis, resulting in the degradation of it into a lesser state than its original self, despite its popularity. In short, it seems success brings on a complete loss of identity.Because nature abhors a vacuum, that loss of identity that I’m referring to here is also replaced with a sense of superiority, and a sense of superiority always leads to hate. By the way, that same sense of superiority also leads to racism.This is why those people who hate the United States are the actual racists, because their hate for it is derived from a sense of superiority about something else that doesn’t align with the culture of Americanism. In short, what they believe is superior is anti-American; and to be anti-American means that you don’t support the only nation in world history that fought the bloodiest war in its own history—the Civil War—to end slavery. So given this, you tell me who is racist?DilutionI remember when I was in college at the University of Georgia, one weekend, I happened to have had a slow Saturday, which was very uncommon. I can’t remember the reason why it was slow, but I do remember that it was a very lax day, to say the least.I don’t ever recall having too many of those days, but on this particular day I remember that I hadn’t planned to do a whole lot of anything else other than some grocery shopping and perhaps some light cleaning around my apartment at that time.Now, I remember I had this neighbor that would frequently stay up all night as this was a common occurrence in college with a lot of people getting in on the party scene in Athens, Georgia during the late 90s. There’s no judgment here, I’m just giving you the details of the story so you’ll understand where I’m headed with this. Please be patient with me for a bit longer because this will all make sense in a minute.As I remember, on this slow Saturday, I got a knock on my door from my neighbor (John), who had been up all night, and he had asked if I would like to grab some lunch with him at Zaxbys. Now, for context, Zaxbys was fairly new at the time and had become a very popular place to eat.So then I agreed to have lunch with John at Zaxbys. However, once we had gotten to the restaurant and worked our way to the register to place our order, John looked at me and asked if I knew what the hottest thing on the menu was to eat. I told him I wasn’t sure so he then proceeded to turn to the cashier to ask him.I cannot remember the item, but I believe the cashier had suggested to John to eat some of their popular spicy wings. At this point, John inquired as to how spicy their wings actually were.Now, whatever the answer was that the cashier offered John next, he wasn’t satisfied with it and asked if they had anything else that was hotter than that.After thinking on it for a few seconds, the cashier called over the supervisor to ask him if they had anything hotter than what was already displayed on the main menu. Now, at this point, we were all curious as to what John was aiming to do here.However, right as I was about to ask him, he turned to me and said that he needed to eat some really spicy, hot food so that it would force him to drink enough fluids in order to overcome the dehydration of his beer binge from the night before.No, I’m not making this up and it gets even crazier from here. Once John had clarified the reason for his need for spicy food the supervisor seemed really intrigued at this point.Because of this, the supervisor asked us to give him a few minutes while he went and fetched the store manager. After a couple of minutes had passed, both the store manager and the supervisor returned and then John proceeded to communicate to the store manager why he needed to eat the spiciest food that they could make.Now, it was pretty obvious that the store manager was just as intrigued by the persistence of John’s request as the supervisor and myself were at this point. So then the store manager told us to give him a couple of more minutes as he said he believed he had a solution for John’s desire for something hot.The store manager walked away, and a few minutes later, he returned carrying this bag that was filled with red liquid in one hand, and a sheet of paper in the other. As I remember, he walked up and carefully placed the bag on the counter and slammed the sheet of paper flat beside it. He then turned to the supervisor and asked him for his pen.After doing this the store manager pointed to the bag and said that the red liquid was the hottest concentrate that they used to make their hot sauce. He then proceeded to clarify that the hot sauce that they used on their hot wings already had a reputation for being hot, but the sauce that got their wings that reputation was diluted down from the red liquid that was filled in that big bag. He warned that the concentrate was so hot that it required significant dilution before using it for mixing and cooking.As he was smiling, John then pointed to the pen and the sheet of paper, and asked the store manager what that was for. At this point the store manager told John that he had never considered using the concentrate to make a custom order of hot wings that far exceeded the heat of their normal menu. Therefore, he clarified that the paper was basically a waiver and informed consent for John to give him permission to custom spice his day’s lunch to a nuclear level.As a result, John signed the form, he was able to achieve rapid rehydration, and we all had a good laugh from the experience afterwards.So what is my point in telling you this story?The thing that I wanted to point out here was John’s solution to getting rehydrated. Now, I’m not here to say that my approach would have been the same as his. However, in his mind at that moment, that solution required the strongest hot sauce possible, in order to force him to overcome his lack of discipline to drink enough fluids to rehydrate his body.In this particular instance, in order to get the strongest possible sauce, the store manager decided that the concentrated formula could not be diluted. You see, from the store manager’s position, in order to please the customer he had to ensure the strongest possible solution could not be diminished in the least.Here, that store manager had to maintain the optimal strength of the concentrated formula in order to achieve the success of pleasing a vocal customer. He understood what made their restaurant successful involved not watering down that which made them the most popular place for lunch at that time.Now with that being said, when it comes to the Super Bowl, the NFL’s approach to this has completely been the opposite concerning their halftime shows and commercials for many years now. For years, the NFL has gone through that metamorphosis that I mentioned earlier, resulting in the degradation of it into a lesser state than its original self. In fact, the NFL is itself a system of degradation. For years, it’s consistently decided to dilute the concentrated formula of Americanism in an attempt to water down and weaken the very thing that made them successful.This dilution has watered down their view of the nation so much that it doesn’t resemble anything that the nation believes in, or supports with the majority. Instead, their representation of what the nation is involves a false interpretation of an alternative, failing entity, that they are diligently trying to perpetuate, while the majority of American citizens are fighting to defeat it and to prevent it from happening.In the case of their most recent halftime show entertainer Bad Bunny, such things involved the celebration of a self-professed America hating Marxist, performing his entire set in Spanish while using lyrical content to express sexually explicit and vulgar behavior in front of millions families viewing the show.Additionally, from what I understand, Bad Bunny is fully in support of mass illegal migration and recently openly demonized ICE at the Grammys. His claims were that the illegals that are being targeted by ICE are actually American citizens. This is the absurdly stupid and intellectually dishonest position of the Marxist left, yet I don’t see Bad Bunny volunteering his personal home to be a refuge for any of these people he claims to fight for.“Politics is downstream from culture.”–Andrew BreibartThe one thing that much of the population gets wrong about culture is that it comes about as this sort of unexplained phenomenon that just naturally occurs throughout society with no driving force to direct it. Because of this, over time, I’ve often heard people chalk up the declining quality of music, media, and entertainment to this ambiguous, unexplainable phenomenon known as ‘culture’.Therefore, when the NFL signs musical personnel, such as Bad Bunny, to be their headline entertainer at the Super Bowl halftime show, traditionally, other Americans would simply say, “Well, that’s just the culture.” The reason I point out this example is that it suggests that the NFL is reacting to the culture as to the reason for headlining Bad Bunny, and others like him, as their halftime show entertainer.Just to be clear, the NFL isn’t reacting to anything. On the contrary, the NFL is directly driving the culture it wants. Without question, the NFL is one of the biggest drivers of culture that exists throughout all of sports and entertainment; and this is the reason Breitbart’s famous quote resonates so much with this exercise of asymmetric warfare— involving the garbage performance of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.On that note, this is exactly why understanding what drives culture and influence is central to understanding where the country is headed. Without such an understanding you’re allowing for an environment of dilution in order to water down the culture of Americanism. If this dilution continues unabated, it will eventually lead to Americanism dissolving completely out of existence.As you can see, intelligence such as this is provided in the Sling and Stone which is the map, whereas this briefing is the breakdown of the cultural battlefield. On that note, to the 31 practitioners already holding the full hardware solution: you have the tactical advantage here.To the 150 scouts still operating in a Strategic Deficit: the window of clarity is closing. The next feature, ‘The Armory of Solutions,’ and the full execution of the 2026 theater will be reserved for the Annual Vanguard. For that matter, make sure you resolve this issue and arm yourself with the tactical knowledge inside the Zenith vault just as John Wick arms himself with his own armory of guns and gold. The Fight has begun.To be fair to Bad Bunny, his performance wasn’t the beginning. The NFL started their dilution of American culture long ago.We can see one of the first signs of this starting to sprout back during the 2000 Super Bowl halftime show with their effort to promote the strong globalist theme that was titled the Tapestry of Nations.To me, performances such as this are symptoms. For clarification, a symptom, by definition, is a feature that indicates a condition of disease.In my view, that disease includes the purposeful dilution of Americanism. Therefore, the symptom points to an infiltration of a disease into our culture and that disease of infiltration has become apparent throughout many other aspects of our society.To drill down on this, why would the NFL have thought that it was necessary to promote a globalist theme? Additionally, why would they feel it was significant to headline Bad Bunny for this year’s halftime show where, aside from the vulgarity, the theme of the show revolved around the support of illegal immigration and was performed in Spanish?In terms of the language of choice, I saw an online debate regarding this between Piers Morgan and Megyn Kelly. Of course, Piers Morgan takes the reductive stance that the United States hasn’t had a ‘declared’ national language for most of the country’s existence, while conveniently ignoring the obvious reality of it being the de facto language of the nation since its inception.Megyn Kelly also pointed out the painfully obvious reality to Piers Morgan as to how that reductive line of thinking was the same thing that has recently led to the complete destruction and the fall of British culture to Islamism.Once again, what I see is the symptom involving the dilution of Americanism and that symptom is pointing towards a sickness that has infiltrated our society. The cultural symptom here with the Super Bowl halftime show should be the most obvious symptom, but others involve the lack of prosecutions that have failed to come forward within our justice system. The obvious symptoms here have involved the rampant tyranny and crimes during the pandemic and the election of 2020.Other major symptoms involve the lack of justice having been carried out on people like Tim Walz, the Clintons, John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, Mark Kelly and the rest of the seditious six. The lack of accountability in the financial system, the political system, and the judicial system are MAJOR symptoms pointing towards a concerning infiltration of sickness within our nation. That sickness is cultural Marxism.The allowance of letting bad actors off the hook is the dilution of justice. Aside from illegal immigration, injustice is also enemy infiltration, and this sort of enemy infiltration is exactly what cultural Marxist understand.The Wrap UpWhen it comes to the power of cultural influence the NFL has been directly inserting itself into the war for cognitive monopoly.That phrase cognitive monopoly refers to the circumstance where a company or a brand dominates the thought process of its consumers and how they think about a specific problem or category. In short, having cognitive monopoly translates to that particular brand of influence having the ability to shape cultural and political outcomes. This is done by convincing the consumer that they have to rely on that particular institution to solve a particular problem based on how that institution frames the problem.However, what happens when the institution that has achieved cognitive monopoly is part of the problem, rather than the solution?You see, this is exactly my point here regarding the role of the NFL and its Super Bowl halftime promotion of a cultural Marxist that used that platform for the purpose of diluting the concept of Americanism by advocating for illegal migrant invasion.Thankfully, I believe that the NFL’s hold on cognitive monopoly is slipping. My evidence for this could be seen with the massive viewing success of the Turning Point USA alternative Super Bowl halftime show, featuring Kid Rock as the headliner.According to the Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet, the TPUSA halftime show smashed over 25 million views in the first day with additional views expected to surge up to 40 to 50 million once all their distribution platforms had been factored into the final count.Now, if you listened the Administrative State Media (ASM) they downplayed these numbers and acted as if they were no big deal, yet they would because they have been insanely desperate after losing their majority hold on the cognitive monopoly as this Great Awakening continues to counter them blow for blow in this war for cognitive monopoly.Did you watch the TPUSA halftime show with Kid Rock?Do you think the counter culture of Americanism is making a roaring comeback?Please share your feedback in the comment section below.Understanding the battlefield of Cognitive Monopoly is the first step toward survival, but intelligence without hardware is merely a map to your own destruction. 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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit brandonrichey.substack.com The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”― Sun Tzu, The Art of WarIn my previous episode, The Law of the Giant Killer has been inspected by over 1,000 different recruits, and the foundation has been set. However, having a foundation without a weapon is like having a race car with no fuel.In other words, that’s a race you’ll lose every single time. With that being said, after a short preview of today’s episode I’m moving the rest of it behind the heavy door of the Zenith Vault to equip the vanguard with the rest of today’s Sling and Stone protocol—the agency-driven tools required to help you to turn tactical intel into precision action for your own life.This is especially critical in the current times that we are living in with the Marxist Goliath working to try and subjugate us in a version that resembles Mao’s Cultural Revolution version 2.0. As American Patriots we absolutely cannot allow them to be successful. We must grind their movement to a halt and then work to destroy the very ideologies that created them in the first place.When I say this I’m not talking about doing so by offering some nebulous or ambiguous approach to making that a reality. No, I’m talking about making victory a reality from the standpoint of a strategic plan. I’m talking about a plan that can be carried out by both you and myself with our daily actions by recognizing and utilizing our own gifts to do so.As a quick recap, I highlighted the significant position that we currently find ourselves in with The Law of The Giant Killer. In addition to that, I also discussed with you how significant it was that David demonstrated optimal faith and courage to stand in the breach to face off directly against Goliath.The thing that is so significant about this is that, in that moment, David’s courage and faith gave him a clear visual of his purpose, even though it looked like a crazy scenario to everyone else.After all, here was this shepherd boy who stepped out onto the battlefield to face off against a giant when literally nobody else would, including the king of Israel himself.This act obviously demanded a significant amount of faith and courage, but the thing that most forget is that along with that faith and courage comes clarity. It’s this clarity that I want to touch on here in today’s episode.You see, David came to the table with faith, but that faith had already given him an understanding of what he was going up against because he had already experienced some similar situations that were dangerous prior to his encounter with Goliath. In fact, we’re able to catch a glimpse of this when David addresses King Saul before going out to face the giant.But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a sheep from the flock, I went out after it and attacked it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth; and when it rose up against me, I grabbed it by its mane and struck it and killed it.Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”1 Samuel 17:34-36Here we can see that David had already faced off against a bear and a lion while guarding his flock as a shepherd boy. Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t ever remember too many people referencing this part of David’s life that often.After all, he killed both a lion and a bear long before he took down the giant, Goliath. In other words, killing a lion and a bear is no lightweight task, particularly given the fact that he managed to do it long before firearms were ever even in the picture. David was a shepherd, but there was clearly a warrior spirit within him long before he had ever faced off against the Philistine giant.Strategic Individual Creative DestructionNow I want to shift gears for a moment to talk to you about an interesting concept known as creative destruction.That phrase “creative destruction” was coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942, and it refers to how innovation serves to be the action that pulls the pin on the grenade that destroys long-standing economic structures, making way for new ones.The term “destruction” in this model aims at how this process creates both winners and losers. The idea behind this economic philosophy is that producers and workers who stay committed to older technologies and methods will be left behind. Meanwhile, the workers and entrepreneurs engaging in new technologies and methods will create an environment of disequilibrium, while also managing to highlight new profit opportunities moving forward.Now, to be clear, Schumpeter wasn’t really supportive of the idea of creative destruction. In fact, much of his work was heavily influenced by The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Of course, one of the main themes of The Communist Manifesto involved denouncing the “constant revolutionizing of production” by the bourgeoisie.So why am I telling you about this process of “creative destruction”?For starters, just as I outlined in the opening quote with Sun Tzu, in order “to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” With Schumpeter’s influence having come from Karl Marx, in a way, I’m about to show you how we are going to deconstruct his “creative destruction” philosophy in order to do just that.Since you tuned into The Law of the Giant Killer, then you understand that the Sling and Stone is the pin you need to pull out of the grenade to eliminate the giant that stands in your path.This is your opportunity to Authorize and Accelerate your ability as a Zenith operative.Do not fail to complete your mission.Upgrade To Zenith Status Now To Access The Rest of This Episode And To Join The Rest of This Vanguard Behind The Heavy Door of This Vault

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Fear is not the problem; it’s how we respond to it that gets us in trouble.”― Steve LawsonThey said an independent voice couldn’t breach the fortress of the corrupt Administrative State Media (ASM) landscape. They were wrong.Thanks to you, in the last several episodes we’ve managed to consistently hit over the 30% Gold Standard open rate. In fact, 330 of you have already proven you’re the vanguard in the most recent episode with the immediate podcast downloads. With that in mind, today I’m going to be discussing the Law of the Giant Killer—and why the Goliaths in the current Marxist incursion are more vulnerable than they look.As the rioting and anti-ICE protests have been ramping up in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the past few weeks it’s obvious that this is not formed from an organic movement of concerned leftists that care about liberty.If that were the case then stop and ask yourself, What is liberty?If you failed to come up with a clear and concise answer to that question after asking it, then I’ll start the process of defining this by first offering the textbook definition of the word here.Liberty is defined as the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views. Now, this definition is very important because it highlights the most significant aspects that make up the characteristics of liberty that many of us love and desire while others express their discontent for it as they protest ICE in Minneapolis.So I know what you must be thinking. You’re thinking, Brandon, how can you claim to support liberty while also supporting the efforts of a federal agency like ICE in Minneapolis?The answer to that question is simple. The reason I am in support of ICE is because of what I’ve witnessed from the federal government, with their actions to erode the sovereignty of the American people now for the past several years, until President Trump arrived on the scene.You see, whether you like it or not, the leadership of a particular system more accurately influences the outcomes of that system the more that time goes by. Notice that I used the phrase– “more accurately influences”--rather than stating that the leadership accurately guarantees certain outcomes. The reason for that is because the system of the federal government is so massive these days that even with a president as shrewd and as tough as President Trump, it will take years to impact that system by shaping the outcomes of it that will be associated with the MAGA agenda.The reason for this is because for years our federal government has been allowed to grow into this massive, corrupt, and oppressive bureaucracy that serves to be both a tyrannical and financial strain on American citizens. After all, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in the fiscal year of 2024, the federal government spent a whopping $6.9 trillion which adds up to being a staggering 24 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).Just to give you some perspective on how absurdly out of control and ironic that statistic actually is, the People’s Republic of China consumes somewhere between 23-28% of the GDP of that country according to Wikipedia. In other words, the so-called land of the free has nurtured and grown a federal government that competes in size, scope, and apparently corruption with that of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The fact that I’m having to talk to you about this in this episode should have never happened in the United States of America, yet here we are today having this discussion.At the end of the day, our federal government is a modern day Goliath when it comes to its size and consumption. However, the actions of President Trump have been to work to minimize the size and scope of this Goliath by engaging in federal workforce reductions with about 320,000 federal employees, representing a reduction of about 10-11% in his first year of 2025.Now, the real signal that this has been both necessary and completely essential is due to the fact that the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) showed that the GDP grew at 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025, which was a growth rate that exceeded economic expectations across the board.So what is the signal here?The signal is that despite the federal workforce having been cut at a whopping 10-11%, the GDP of the country actually accelerated in record growth anyways. In other words, the GDP growth that this economy is witnessing is coming from the private sector as the leech of the federal government is being ripped off the back of the American citizens who work in the private sector.We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.–The Preamble of The Constitution of The United StatesI previously mentioned the corrupt actions of the federal government for the last several years involving their attempt to erode the sovereignty of the American people.So what exactly do I mean by this?To put it simply, the allowance of the mass invasion of illegals to come into our country is a direct violation of migration laws and the Constitution. The years of inaction from federal officials to stop the violation of migration laws is obviously a direct act of war on the sovereignty of each and every American citizen. In essence, their inactions are their actions and their inaction to enforce laws are unconstitutional. This is the case because there is nothing about this that forms a more perfect union as I stated in the Preamble above. David’s StandAs the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron.1 Samuel 17: 48-52I wanted to include this section of the Bible here in order to point out a valuable lesson that we can derive from the scripture.In short, you’re probably familiar with the story of David and Goliath. In that famous moment, David was a mere shepherd who ended up taking down the giant Goliath with the Lord guiding his hand for the precision and speed of his sling and his stone.Now, when David stepped into the breach to do what King Saul, at the time, was unable to do because of his lack of faith and overall spiritual decline, this reshaped the entire leadership structure and direction of Israel.You see, it was David’s faith in the Lord, along with his courage to step into the moment, that enabled him to face down what many perceived to be this overwhelming force in Goliath.Now, I understand that you’ve probably heard this analysis of this story before, but there’s a couple of areas that I’m going to cover for you here involving the “what” that was associated with David’s actions along with the “how” that was associated with David’s kingdom continuing on despite the giant challenges that would continue to show up to face him.So for full disclosure, here today I’m going to cover what happened in this scenario that made it so significant, but I will cover how you can apply the lessons from it in the next episode. Just to give you fair warning, the next episode will be going into the vault behind the paywall so make sure you upgrade to Zenith status today so you’ll be able to access it in full.We must remember that aside from the fact that Goliath was a giant that was widely feared, it was the spiritual decline and inaction of King Saul that emboldened the giant to continue to insult and challenge the sovereignty of his kingdom of Israel. What made this moment so significant was the fact that this giant bully, Goliath, was able to feel more and more confident in pushing the Philistines in the direction to try and conquer Israel.You see, the thing about Goliath’s stand that many forget is that he came out in front of Israel every morning and every evening to challenge, insult, and mock them for forty straight days as it is written in 1 Samuel 17:16.So why am I pointing this out to you?This is why I want to shift back to talk about the current circumstances surrounding the seditionists and insurrectionists that are engaging in anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis that are now threatening to spread to L.A. and possibly into Atlanta.You see, when you look at how Goliath and the Philistines were able to stand in front of the kingdom of Israel and relentlessly harass them, mock them, and challenge their sovereignty every morning and every evening for forty straight days, it’s obvious that it was due to a lack of faith and inaction from their people and their leadership at the time.Likewise, if we look at what our nation has had to endure for the past several years we have seen a conglomeration of institutional rot due to Marxist infiltration. We’ve seen this from corrupt radical judges, the Administrative State Media (ASM), Hollywood, the medical community, the financial system, and within the systems of degradation throughout most of Corporate America. This level of widespread Marxist infiltration seems overwhelming on the surface because we can literally see it every time we turn around.Because of this widespread rot it appears that we are dealing with our own modern day Goliath that is constantly pushing to overthrow the Republic by constantly stressing and challenging our medical system, financial system, education system, and federal government’s attempt to simply enforce the Constitution and the laws that preserve the sovereignty of the Republic.You see, in my view the giants such as Goliath and those that roamed the earth during the antediluvian time period were a mockery of true strength. I say this because even though they were physically intimidating, they ultimately symbolized a defiance to God’s order as they reflected sin, oppression, and arrogance to rule the earth in their way instead of honoring the statutes of the Lord.Furthermore, they were also a physical mockery of God’s creation as in 1 Chronicles 20:6 it points out that aside from their large physical stature, these giants also had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.At the end of the day, these beings were not human and in my best judgment they appeared to desire to be the sovereign that wanted to determine the future of mankind. In short, they were the hybrid offspring and result of the Sons of God and the daughters of men. Because of this they were clearly part of a plan to establish their own power structure and to challenge God’s ordained order.So when we look at our societal dynamics today, who else is mocking the principles of liberty and the rights that are given to all of us by God himself?Who else is demonstrating the desire to rule over mankind and to challenge God’s ordained order?Who is demonstrating their desire to rule by silencing, ignoring, and censoring any opposition that challenges their positions?Who is demonstrating that they prefer intimidation, fear, and violence when it comes to advocating for any given political cause?What people are now calling for Stalin show trials?What people refer to these as Nuremberg trials once they get back into power to finish off the political opposition that they failed to imprison and kill the first time they possessed the office of the presidency, the majority of the House, and the majority of the Senate? The answer to all of those questions is simple because it boils down to the same insurrectionists, seditionists, and traitors who are currently rioting in Minneapolis morning and night to mock and challenge the sovereignty of the Republic just as Goliath did to the kingdom of Israel.The Wrap UpThe thing that you have to understand is that the giant thought he could rule by intimidation, fear, and pain in order to get Israel to yield to his call for power. The scary part about this is that Israel would have done just that, had it not been for David’s courage to step into the breach when literally nobody else would–including King Saul himself.You and I are literally facing down this same scenario with the modern-day Marxist insurrectionists and seditionists behaving as a modern-day Goliath, demanding and threatening for the rest of us to yield to their call for power–or else.In the showdown that Goliath initiated with Israel it created a scenario where the face off simply boiled down to involving a test of wills. Of course, the one with unshakable faith, a sling, and a stone stepped into the moment to achieve victory.As you and I stand here today we currently find ourselves in that very same scenario with a standoff involving a test of our will as American Patriots versus the will of the American Bolsheviks.At the end of the day, we will find out whether The Law of The Giant Killer is something that we will abide by when the standoff reaches critical mass, but the only way to know for sure is if we understand what that law is made of.There is no way that you, myself, or the nation will survive unless we utilize our own modern day version of a sling and stone in order to face and solve the problems that we are going to encounter in this chaotic world.What are you currently doing to get your hands around the strategic cultural shifts that are taking place that will undoubtedly impact you and your family in the very near future?What are you doing to prepare for a world where the enemy is working 24/7 in order to erode and destroy your sovereignty?Please make sure you share your feedback in the comment section below.This briefing has resonated with over 1,200 of you, but understanding the history of the Giant Killer is only half the battle. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”― Carl SaganI don’t know about you, but I personally view life as a war, particularly during this current period of time that we’re living through right now.If you really slow down to think about it this is not a cynical viewpoint at all, but rather a simple observation of reality. After all, no matter where you are on the economic spectrum when you wake up in the morning to start your day the chances are pretty solid that you’re going to have to go on the attack in your life in order to get something done.Whether you’re self-employed and having to figure out how to make payroll for the month, or if you’re a construction worker aiming to complete a project on time and within budget, you’ve got battles to fight in order to make it happen.This is not cynical. This is not trivial. This is reality.So why am I beginning today’s discussion by framing the vantage point of life in this particular manner?Well the reason I’m choosing to tackle this particular topic today is because even when life is operating in a manner that you might consider to be smooth it’s still challenging enough as it is.In other words, there are always bills to pay, there are always medical emergencies, there is always loss of life, there are always accidents, and there are always shortfalls. In short, there is always a battle looming out over the horizon.It’s because of those unseen battles that are looming around out there in this experience that we refer to as life as to the reason that I view this experience as warfare.Once again, this is not cynical, but realistically it is more of a way to navigate this adventure that we recognize as the human condition.Now having said that, I don’t want you to think that I view life as this gloom and doom experience. I don’t want you to interpret this as me walking around with this overwhelming sense of dread and misery because I’m just sitting here waiting to fight whatever battle presents itself to me in this unique life experience that I’m referring to as warfare.If that is the image that popped up inside your head regarding my perspective of this then you would be incorrect. However, to be fair to you this is exactly why I am choosing to broach this subject in today’s episode.Now for further clarity, I don’t want anyone hearing this to think that I’m trying to cheapen the meaning or experiences of brave men and women that have actually served in the military while having to endure the horrifically violent outcomes of kinetic warfare. Of course, this is not my intent, but it is my intent to point out that life is still a form of warfare, even though the active soldier’s experience of it may be the most physically and psychologically extreme version compared to many other professions.The goal of this discussion is to point out that my perspective of viewing life in this particular manner has more to do with my own attempt to rewire my brain for the purpose of living a more disciplined life to the best of my ability.In short, by comparing life to a form of warfare it changes the way I approach it. In this regard, I’m now looking at life through a different type of lens which has forced me to adapt to my life experience in a way that I believe better prepares me for its unseen outcomes.You see, I figured out long ago that how you look at a scenario often determines how you will react to that scenario when the moment arrives.In order to enlighten you on this perspective I’ll use a pop culture reference with the iconic movie Die Hard in order to help illustrate my point and drive it home. There’s a key lesson that I want to point out with this in order to highlight the significance of achieving psychological advantage.Now, I realize that we’ve just gotten past another Christmas season and are full steam ahead into the new year. However, during this past Christmas season I’m sure you might have had some family members that made a request to watch a Christmas movie.When this happened you may have heard some friends or family recommend the very popular action movie Die Hard.Now I’m not here to debate on whether or not you view the movie Die Hard as a legitimate Christmas movie, but if you’ve seen the movie then you understand that it’s quite a thrill ride from the start to the finish.The point I want to make here with the movie Die Hard is substantial so please be patient with me as I work to point out an interesting lesson to you that I got from this movie.In the movie our main character John McClane (played by Bruce Willis) thought he was walking into the Nakatomi Plaza to simply visit his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.However, the evening quickly experiences a seismic mood shift when our New York City police detective, John McClane, becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover on his Christmas Eve outing.As McClane arrives at the Christmas party and is forced to do his best to settle in and try to use the event in order to reconcile with his ex-wife, he ends up walking away to wash up after a long trip.In his absence a German ex-radical named Hans Gruber (played by Alan Rickman) ends up seizing the tower and taking everyone hostage except McClane.Now I’m not going to go on with a deep dive into the plot of this story, but after McClane recognizes the type of situation he’s in he quickly understands that he’s outnumbered and outgunned, but despite this he also realizes that the terrorists aren’t aware of him and who he is at the moment that they seize the Nakatomi Plaza.Because of this McClane recognizes that he has a tactical advantage over his enemy and in this dangerous Christmas Eve scenario that element of stealth is about as much of a gift as one could possibly ask for. However, in McClane’s case he’s able to leverage this element of surprise for an even bigger gift in the movie that turns the tables on Hans Gruber and his unjolly band of terrorists.You see, eventually the terrorists are alerted to McClane’s presence and one of the terrorists named Tony is sent to go after McClane, but after a fight on the stairway McClane ends up killing Tony by breaking his neck.Now it’s the next scene that I wanted to point out to you here as to the lesson that I took from this movie long ago. Even though it’s sort of a bit of dark humor, it does drive home an important message in regards to the strong psychological trigger that the scene is conveying from our protagonist, McClane, to the antagonist, Gruber, in the film.After McClane kills Tony, he then places his body in a chair and puts a Santa hat on his head. He writes a message on Tony’s sweatshirt in red ink and sends Tony down the elevator to Gruber’s floor.On the lower floor as Gruber is continuing to threaten the hostages all the sudden the elevator dings and opens up displaying Tony’s dead body wearing a Santa hat and a personalized message for Gruber on his sweatshirt.As you can imagine Gruber and his unjolly band of terrorists are shocked to see Tony’s body, but what disturbs them even more is the message that’s written on Tony’s light gray sweatshirt that reads, “Now I have a machine gun. Ho, Ho, Ho.”So why am I going to the trouble of pointing this out to you?The reason that this is significant is that John McClane just gave every single one of us one of the greatest lessons in psychological warfare.You see, up until this point in the movie McClane and the hostages were the ones that had been hunted and preyed upon. However, when McClane delivered the dead body of one of their own with a personalized Christmas message, this was a seismic shift and major turning point in terms of the circumstances in the movie. The hunted had become the hunter.In short, John McClane managed to turn the tables on the terrorists by shifting from a defensive posture to taking on an offensive posture against the bad guys.The Cult of PersonalityIn shifting gears for the moment, I’ve written and talked about how there seems to be an obvious psychological characteristic that dominates among the most radical leftist that I’ve encountered or witnessed throughout life. This characteristic that I’m referring to has to do with the lack of self-awareness.So what is self-awareness?Self-awareness essentially involves the conscious knowledge of one’s own feelings, character, and personality. When one possesses self-awareness they are aware of how their behavior impacts the people in their lives and the environment that surrounds them.Conversely, the complete opposite of someone who lacks self-awareness is someone who possesses strategic awareness. A person with strategic awareness has a deep understanding of their internal strengths and weaknesses while also possessing a solid grasp on the external environment and their role within it.“Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.”–1 Timothy 4:16People who have strategic awareness are able to identify market trends, opportunities, competitors, anticipate threats, and to make informed long-term decisions for success. In short, people with strategic awareness are 360 individuals who possess a Zenith mindset and move forward in life as they intelligently navigate the situations they are in until they are able to achieve victory, or at the very least, a fair and livable outcome. In short, these people who possess strategic awareness are antifragile.It is said in psychology that there is a strong link between self-awareness and empathy as those people who lack self-awareness often struggle with empathy due to the fact that they lack the mental mapping ability of their own emotions, which is necessary in order to navigate the feelings of other people.As a result of lacking this mental mapping ability, it often leads these people who lack self-awareness to taking actions that negatively impact others while they also demonstrate that they have no concern of how their actions impact those around them. In fact, even when their actions prove to be harmful to others they often believe that they are still justified in those actions. As a prime example of this take a look at the recent actions of Don Lemon and the leftist protesters in Minneapolis that stormed the church and harassed the families and congregation during their worship service.This was a classic example of radical Marxists who have a complete lack of self-awareness. In fact, they even demonstrated that they felt completely justified in carrying out a set of actions that were obviously wrong, and even criminal in this particular case.This lack of self-awareness is a very dangerous trait and such a trait can be so dangerous that it can literally lead a nation down a path of destruction, especially when people of power suffer from this issue and use their power and influence to amplify their own cult of personality.In a recent interview that I saw with Steve Bannon and author Chris Rufo this topic was explained very well by Rufo involving his analysis of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. One great example of this according to Rufo was with Fink’s involvement with his push and development of ESG and DEI initiatives throughout the corporate world.Unless you’ve been living under a rock then you probably remember the infamous Bud Light moment when the beer company made the Trans-activist the face of their brand. You probably also remember the ESG initiative involving that whole message of toxic masculinity with Gillette, and how the men’s razor company completely forgot about who their customers were when they approved that absurdly stupid ad campaign. You also saw another more recent example of this with Cracker Barrel’s abysmal ESG ad campaign when they attempted to remove Uncle Herschel from their classic logo.So, why is pointing all of this out to you significant, and what do all of these absurdly woke ad campaigns have in common?Well the reason it’s significant is because the one guy that was the driving force behind all of those failed ESG and DEI campaigns was Larry Fink.As I previously stated, Larry Fink is the CEO of BlackRock and he is literally the world’s largest asset manager. He’s a globalist and currently sits as the Co-Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF).Fink is one of the architects for developing a system that the globalists love to employ known as stakeholder capitalism. This is an economic system in which corporations are oriented to serve the interests of all of their shareholders rather than focusing on bottom line profits.Larry Fink has used his position leading over $10 trillion in assets to pressure and coerce companies to adopt Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) along with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. This is what is known as stakeholder capitalism which has often been referred to as woke capitalism.Now obviously these ad campaigns resulted in those companies experiencing massive blowback and financial loss due to the actions of the informed public. The part of society that made the difference in confronting the fascistic behavior of this woke capitalism understood that such behavior had nothing to do with a company running itself as it saw fit, it had nothing to do with individual liberty, and it certainly had nothing to do with free markets.What it really involved was Larry Fink leveraging the use of his position of power and authority to wage a coercive and fascistic form of stakeholder capitalism against corporate America in order to drive the appearance of social justice. Even more disturbing, is that it was done primarily to satisfy his own personal pursuit of status incentives. This is basically what Chris Rufo pointed out to Steve Bannon.So why is this important to know and understand?As Rufo explained, when it comes to people like Larry Fink, personal convictions may either be nonexistent or malleable at best; therefore, when it comes to utilizing pressure and public opinion to stop certain behaviors—such as ESG and DEI initiatives—the thing to do is to talk about how those things impact their status.Once again, with a cult of personality like Fink’s, the way to move the meter is to drive the culture towards how those things are not beneficial for personal image, rather than trying to appeal to his personal convictions—as those may not exist or may remain in a constant state of flux due to the type of person that he is and what drives his central motivation.Since a significant portion of the informed public realized this back when Fink was really pushing the ESG and DEI initiatives, those who were informed exposed and made enough noise to pressure Fink to back away from these initiatives as they no longer served as status incentives that he felt bolstered his image.As a result of this, Fink went quiet for a bit; however, he recently popped up again in Davos at the WEF, posing as a sort of reasonable and more moderate figure as he searches for the next shiny object.The Wrap UpThe reality is that in this current age we are living in a time where the cold war portion of WWIII is now fully engaged in unrestricted warfare. This involves economic, cultural, information, legal, and cyber activities. These strategies are being utilized by foreign and domestic enemies to create multiple systems of degradation in order to weaken our country from within.With big money players that sit in powerful positions of influence, this is essentially the new battlefield and all citizens of the United States are enemy combatants. This is exactly why it’s more important than ever to possess a Zenith mindset in order to combat these mega-dollars and the nefarious people who weaponize those dollars against American citizens.This may seem overwhelming when you think about someone like Larry Fink and that mountain of $10 trillion in assets, but as a reminder John McClane was also outnumbered and outgunned, but he demonstrated what it meant to be a Die Hard by winning the battle of psychological warfare against his enemy.Of course, I’m certainly not talking about taking violent measures as John McClane did in order to achieve this outcome. However, I am talking about the significance of knowing the enemy and recognizing how to gain a psychological edge on that enemy—such as tainting the status incentives that drive their motivations.The goal here is for us to elevate society’s intellectual temerity to a point that more people recognize the power of their individual ability. This is critical so that both you and I can exert our personal agency in a way to effectively impact the world around us so that we can produce an environment free from tyranny.The more we grow and expand society’s intellectual fortitude, the more we all become an army of John McClane’s to crush every leg of unrestricted warfare, and to turn that pressure back on the opposition.In most cases, the thing that you and I have going for us that guys like Fink typically do not possess is the self-awareness to figure out our limitations, which will eventually lead to us developing more strategic awareness so that we can individually figure out how to put a stop to guys like Fink.The development of this strategic awareness is the catalyst for you to shift yourself away from a defensive posture and into an offensive posture. Because of these systems of degradation that have been put into place by the Marxists and the globalists, making the shift back towards your individuality is the action that is needed for you to thrive during these chaotic times.Do you believe the intellectual fortitude of society is growing and expanding during this Fourth Turning in history?After President Trump’s visit to Davos at the World Economic Forum (WEF), did you feel like many of the globalists are admitting the death of their stakeholder capitalism?Please make sure you leave your feedback in the comment section below.John McClane didn’t hesitate to take on an offensive posture when he waged full blown psychological warfare on Hans Gruber.Life is challenging enough you’re taking incoming from the cultural Marxists and the globalists. It’s time for you to flip the script. 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If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”― Abraham LincolnThey love Rome.As legend would have it the creator of Rome was raised by a she-wolf. According to the ancient tradition it was in April, 21 753 B.C. where Romulus and his twin brother Remus found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf when they were a couple of orphaned infants.As the legendary story is told, Romulus and Remus were the sons of Rhea Silvia who was the daughter of King Numitor of Alba Longa. Alba Longa was a mythical city that was located in the Alban Hills which sat in the southeastern location from what would eventually become Rome.Before the birth of the twins King Numitor was deposed by his brother Amulius. In addition to this Amulius forced Rhea into the position of becoming a vestal virgin so that she wouldn’t give birth to any potential rivals that would pose a threat to his title.However, it is said that Rhea was impregnated by the war god Mars which resulted in her giving birth to Romulus and Remus. When Amulius got word of their birth he ordered that the infants be drowned in the Tiber. However, as it turns out the two infants survived and washed ashore at the foot of the Palatine Hill.It was at this point where they encountered a she-wolf who suckled the infants until they were eventually discovered by the shepherd Faustulus. The boys were raised by Faustulus and his wife and as they grew they would eventually mature into becoming a couple of shepherd warriors.The twins eventually learned of their true identity which resulted in them mounting an attack against Alba Longa. In doing so they killed the wicked Amulius and restored their grandfather to the throne.However, the twins decided to found a town at the location where they were saved as infants. In a dark twist they would eventually get into a petty quarrel and Remus would be slain by his own brother. This would lead to Romulus becoming the ruler of the settlement and that settlement would be named Rome after him.There’s a significant lesson to be drawn from this story involving the founding of Rome. Granted, whether or not this story is true, this is the chosen story that is credited for the founding of Rome. What makes this significant is that the founding of Rome tells a story where one of history’s most powerful civilizations was established by an act of fratricide where one of its leaders murdered his own brother at its inception.Given that the founding of Rome was based on this identity it isn’t such a surprise as to why its thirst for conquest ultimately led to its own demise.Now I want to shift gears for a moment and I want you to imagine a scenario where you and I are discussing the current events that are taking place throughout the world with many global leaders allowing mass invasions for the purpose of literally replacing the citizens of their respective countries.Imagine that we are discussing the global financial death spiral that’s accelerating in an interconnected global economy with a literal worldwide margin call sitting out on the horizon. Now imagine that you’ve traditionally listened to the news in passing and recognized that there was instability and violence in the world, but you just convinced yourself that there was nothing that you could do about it and that such events just simply didn’t have any direct impact on your life.If you’re guilty of that mindset that I just described while still looking around at all the chaos in the world today without making changes to your own life, then you’re guilty of contributing to that very chaos. If you can currently look around at the world with growing concerns with what’s happening, yet still believe that you couldn’t have any impact on what’s going on in the world, then you’re sadly mistaken.Now don’t get angry and start thinking that I’m coming across too judgmental or that I’m simply sounding like a sanctimonious blowhard when I make that last comment, because if you’re a regular follower of this platform then you should know me better than that by now.The fact is that I’ve been guilty of that very same attitude in the past myself. However, the behaviors of people, governments, and peers that I witnessed back during the pandemic mimicked that of a beast that made its way far enough into the forest to hit my tripwire. In fact, what I just described created 100% of the driving force that pushed me towards starting this publication in the first place.In short, I quickly realized that my previous years of inaction served to be a contribution that ultimately fed into the heresy of democracy that has resulted in our nation sitting on the verge of collapse.So why am I telling you this? And how are such societal disasters perceived to be these sort of cultural mysteries when they are, in fact, spawned by the failed laws of human nature?Subscribe now to become an all-access paid member to get…* The Reveal: The rest of this deep-dive into the laws of human nature.* The Zenith Library: Full access to all 4 years of my tactical insights for navigating a chaotic world.* Clarity & Discernment: Weekly exclusive deep-dives to help you master your mindset in any environment.* Direct Access: Join my private Substack Chat for real-time Q&A and community discussions.

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“It’s a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.”–Carroll ShelbyFrom time to time there are people who show up in the world to transform it and when they are here they always leave a mark that echoes forever through time.With Christmas around the corner it goes without saying that the biggest of all of these people would be our one and only savior, Jesus. However, prior to Jesus physically coming to this world, and long after he left it, he worked through other individuals who managed to leave their mark on this place as well.Having just turned 49 years of age this past November one thing I’ve learned in looking at life is that if you stand firm on something and do your best to do the right thing then God will honor your service…and if it comes down to it, he’ll honor your sacrifice.This is not make believe or hyperbole, but this is an absolute statement of verifiable fact. We’ve seen this pattern emerge throughout many key moments in history that date all the way back through time to the days of Moses, to the American Revolution, and all the way up to modern day with the current Fourth Turning in history that we find ourselves living in the middle of right now.If you pay attention you can spot these people when they arise and start working to leave their mark on society. However, what’s amazing is that even when such people pop up on the scene it’s incredible that so many other people are blind to them and their deeds even when the events of the world that they are impacting are staring them right in the face.But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”–Mark 6:4Jesus had this same problem with the Pharisees as they looked at him with jealous eyes and as a threat to their power structure rather than recognizing him as the brilliant and Holy Savior to all of mankind. Granted, nobody compares to the Lord.However, even when people step up to grab the bull by the horns during challenging moments in society to speak truth, to stand firm on calling out the enemy, and even when they stand in the breach representing a true minority that goes against what all of society deems to be right, they most always get nothing but resistance from those they would expect to garner support from.I’m in no way anywhere in the same category as Moses or the Lord, but even concerning my own small world I’ve still experienced this same phenomenon myself ever since I made the decision to start this Substack.This sort of resistance, or lack of support, from people who are in close proximity to those folks that are doing what they can to change the world around them has been a consistent trait of human nature since the fall of mankind.However, regardless of this reality there are still those people that manage to come on the scene and leave their mark on the world in a profound way. As a result, in these scenarios these Mavericks always impact the world in a way that results in significant change.In addition to this, when it comes to the lives of these Mavericks there are acts of divine providence that always seem to occur at key moments during their lives as well.In fact, when looking at the history of this pattern these acts of divine providence are well documented in critical scenarios throughout history and when observing the lives of four very well known American presidents the prevalence of these moments of divine providence really stands out.From The Fog To The Fight, Fight, FightTo kick off the first example of one of these key moments where divine providence shows up to impact the life of an American president we can go all the way back to the time of George Washington before he even became the president.Washington actually had a few experiences where divine providence played out in numerous circumstances during his life, but for the sake of time and discussion I’m going to talk about one instance here that I’ve previously covered in an earlier episode titled Removing The Fog. I will include an excerpt from that article/podcast episode here.It was August 22, 1776 and General George Washington took a look around the battlefield amidst all the chaos realizing that his men had been soundly defeated and to make matters worse they were flanked out of their positions atop the Gowanus Heights (this would be part of today’s modern day Brooklyn).After having been soundly defeated by William Howe’s 20,000 man force the smoke of the battlefield loomed over the ground just above all the death and destruction from a very tough day. General Washington’s heart was racing as he realized he was outnumbered and outgunned as he found himself confronted by the powerful British army to his front and he basically had his back up against the wall with the East River directly to his rear.With the constant threat and concern that the Royal Navy would enter the East River and block his avenue of escape Washington had to make a courageous call as he ordered all the available flatboats to be brought down to his position. The goal here was to move his army over to Manhattan on the night of August 29-30, 1776.Once again, Washington understood that if he and his men were seen by the Royal Navy that they would either be completely destroyed or captured. However, as they started making their way out across the river an incredible thing occurred that would be nothing short of a miracle.As the men started to cross the river they were aided by a providential fog that completely hid their escape from the Royal Navy. Because of this miracle fog Washington was successfully able to move all 9000 of his troops to Manhattan without losing a single man. This would end up being a truly remarkable military feat that completely astounded his British enemy.Here we can see where divine providence showed up in the nick of time for General Washington and because of this miracle Washington would go on to become the father of this nation.Now as miraculous as that event was for paving the way to allow General Washington to become the founding father of this nation, he wasn’t the first president where divine providence showed up to change the course of history.As amazing as that story was with General Washington, the miraculous actions of divine providence didn’t end with him. As we fast forward through time, another miracle with another president left its mark on history almost 60 years later.It was a cold wet January day in Washington D.C. in 1835 and over by a pillar at the entrance to the Capitol Rotunda hid an unemployed house painter named Richard Lawrence.As Richard sat hiding he was awaiting the arrival of a very important visitor which would include President Andrew Jackson who was on his way to attend a congressional funeral. As President Andrew Jackson approached Lawrence stepped forward and raised his derringer single-shot pistol and took careful aim at President Jackson’s heart.At this moment he pulled the trigger and fired the gun. However, as the cap exploded and the noise and smoke filled the air from the shot, miraculously the powder failed to ignite. It was a Misfire!At this stage of the game the president was in ill health and was forced to lean on a colleague and use a cane, but he still had a fighting spirit. At this moment President Jackson charged towards the assailant with his cane held high even as Lawrence pulled out a second pistol in order to take aim and he pulled the trigger a second time. Astonishingly, it was another Misfire! Here bystanders were able to get to the would-be-assassin and tackle him to the floor as the president was hustled away out of the area.President Jackson was a warrior and was no stranger to physical or verbal violence. He was a soldier of distinction and suffered numerous battle wounds and had fought in at least a dozen personal duels. At the time, President Jackson had been engaged in fierce political combat with several of his congressional opponents.The president’s opponents were so opposed to him that they decided to start a new political party at the time known as the Whigs in order to confront the enemy that they referred to as King Andrew.During this era that we often refer to as “golden,” much of the Senate Chamber echoed some of the most vitriolic language towards the president frequently accusing Jackson of incompetence and corruption. However, given his own warrior spirit the president didn’t just sit back and take it as he would go on the offense retaliating with his own heated rhetoric.The South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun had served as President Jackson’s first Vice President, but left the office in order to join up with the opposition. Reportedly, Calhoun had declared that Jackson was “a Caesar who ought to have a Brutus,” and among those who had listened to that speech was none other than Richard Lawrence himself.Regardless of all of the rhetoric, divine providence managed not only to show up once for President Jackson, but it left its mark on history with the president’s assassin by showing up twice with the back to back misfiring of two separate guns within a matter of a few seconds.Now when you read or hear about those acts of stochastic terrorism towards President Jackson how familiar does that political climate sound compared to today’s climate with President Trump? As the old saying goes, “There’s nothing new under the sun.”If this wasn’t spectacular enough, when examining these acts of divine providence throughout key moments in history involving American presidents our story still doesn’t end there. In other words, there would be another iconic president to be directly impacted by yet another miracle nearly 77 years later.It was the year 1901 and President Theodore Roosevelt came along and in a 20,000-word State of the Union message to Congress he took aim to call on lawmakers to curb the power of trusts.“Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions,” the president declared. Therefore, he added, it is “our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”Now Theodore Roosevelt was successful at breaking up some very well known monopolies by leveraging the use of the Sherman Antitrust Act against the businesses of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company and J.P. Morgan’s Northern Securities Co., which was a railroad conglomerate.Granted, it was obvious that this American President recognized the threat of centralized power to the nation from a similar concern shared at that time by our friend Louis Brandeis and his view involving the Curse of Bigness. On top of that it was a miracle that Roosevelt ended up in the office of the presidency in the first place.You see, when Roosevelt first stepped foot in the White House he entered as President William McKinley’s Vice President. His ticket for the Vice Presidency was created to remove him from the political chessboard as a potential threat to run for the office of the president. Much of the establishment saw Roosevelt as a threat and knew he wouldn’t bend a knee to big business along with the fact that he was an independent thinker with some strong populist tendencies.However, this plan to keep Roosevelt out of the office of the presidency backfired in a major way when President William McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901 and ended up dying eight days later on September 14, 1901.Now it was a miracle that Roosevelt ended up becoming the president of the United States, despite the fact that there was an intentional effort to keep him out of office in the first place. However, divine providence would show up again many years later in the life of Teddy Roosevelt when he was actually out on the campaign trail giving a speech on October 14, 1912. It was at this time when a former saloonkeeper named John Schrank had been following Roosevelt for quite some time from Louisiana to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Out in front of the hotel is where Schrank pulled out a Model 1905 Colt Police Positive Pistol and shot Teddy in the chest. He made his move between the time Roosevelt was exiting the hotel and entering a car, but had briefly paused to acknowledge the cheers of an assembled crowd of onlookers.Once again the miracle of divine providence showed up on this day as the bullet from the Colt hit Roosevelt in the chest, but not before having to go through his steel eye glass case and his 50 page speech which he happened to be carrying inside his jacket pocket. The items saved his life and immediately after he was shot he stumbled, but then straightened himself up and lifted his hat with a reassuring smile towards the crowd.In a stunning display of strength and resilience Roosevelt gathered himself, stood tall, and yelled for the crowd that had taken down Schrank to not kill him. The crowd was just as shocked at the fact the former president wasn’t injured as they were surprised at his forgiving request to want to face his shooter.Onlookers were asking if he was hurt, but once Roosevelt assured them that he was alright the crowd erupted in cheers. Now, after being shot Roosevelt pulled out his speech to show the crowd where the bullet hole had gone through the paper and lodged into his chest. However, he realized after coughing into his hands that there was no blood so he knew that the bullet had not penetrated his lungs.At the time Roosevelt had started a third party known as the Bull Moose Party. After getting shot he was adamant about finishing the speech to the crowd and had famously told them that “It takes more than a bullet to kill a Bull Moose.”Roosevelt would continue on to campaign for the office of the presidency, but he would end up losing the election of 1912 due to the fact that the vote total was split between himself and the Republican Party, therefore allowing the Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win over the office of the presidency.Now, even though Roosevelt didn’t win he was still a force of nature with his influence among the public in shaping the political and cultural landscape. After all, here I am writing and telling you about him 113 years after divine providence intervened so that his story could be told.The reality is that Roosevelt’s fight wasn’t all that different from President Trump’s fight when looking at a more establishment Republican Party and the threat of centralized wealth and power with big business. In Roosevelt’s day, the centralization of wealth and power involved the railroads and the oil companies, whereas much of Trump’s problems have to do with the centralized power of the Administrative State and the necessity of antitrust lawsuits due to the power and size of big tech.Speaking of President Trump, this brings us up to our fourth president where an act of divine providence took place once again on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania when a would-be assassin took aim and shot at President Trump as he delivered a speech at an open-air campaign rally.Now, I’m sure I don’t have to dive into as much detail for this one. As the story goes, President Trump was able to narrowly avoid absorbing a direct hit to the head by a bullet. He managed to do this when he turned his head at the precise moment that was necessary for the bullet to miss its primary target while only slightly nicking his ear.In the immediate aftermath of getting shot at, the Secret Service rushed the stage to cover President Trump. There was a period of time where the president’s condition was unknown, but then through the microphone onlookers could hear the president asking for his shoes as apparently they had come off when he hit the floor to get out of the assassin’s line of fire.In watching the event unfold everyone could see when the president finally got to his feet because it was one of the most powerful moments that has occurred in United States history. Like President Roosevelt, President Trump stood tall surrounded by a mob of Secret Service agents at the very podium that he had just taken cover behind.Once the president was able to get to his feet, as agents were trying to hold him back, he stood tall and lifted his fist high in the air and yelled Fight, Fight, Fight! The crowd erupted and his call to fight was intended to take direct aim at the Administrative State, the Administrative State Media (ASM), the intelligence community, the RINOs, and the cultural Marxists who all had been trying to destroy him, the MAGA movement, and the country at large.In addition to having a bullet just graze his ear this was only the first attempt that was taken at President Trump’s life. There was also a second assassin by the name of Ryan Wesley Routh who would fortunately be stopped by the Secret Service before he could engage the president just a couple of months later when President Trump was golfing at West Palm Beach, Florida.Anyone who has been paying attention can clearly see that divine providence didn’t just intervene with President Trump when the bullets were flying. The most corrupt system consisting of members of the intelligence community, radical judges, radical lawyers, and an outright corrupt Administrative State Media (ASM) had been waging a relentless lawfare campaign on the president and all of his supporters for several years.Despite all the odds coming against President Trump and the MAGA movement, the president and the antifragile movement are still standing strong despite there having been some major casualties along the way such as Charlie Kirk.The Wrap UpSo why did I go to the trouble to highlight these four presidents and what do all four of these men have in common?To state the obvious, all four of these men had to overcome tremendous odds and often found themselves in a moment where they probably felt they were alone during some very dark days.Now having said all of this, none of these men were perfect, then again nobody is except our Lord and Savior. However, all four of these men were Christians and all four of these men shared some traits that line up with the political viewpoint known as Populism.That’s right, all four men were about taking the fight straight to the large centralized systems that had accumulated such significant size and power that they wanted to destroy the sovereignty of the individual citizen. Of course, in Washington’s case this involved the future citizen that would eventually be free from British tyranny as a result of his leadership, his actions, and the intervening miracle(s) of divine providence.At the beginning of this episode I led off with that quote from Carrol Shelby that seems like it wouldn’t fit this topic of discussion because it talks about a massive motor fitting inside of a tiny, lightweight car.Now for clarity, Shelby was referencing the design of his very powerful and iconic Shelby Cobra racing sports car. The point he was making was that the car’s chassis was lightweight while the driving force of the car involving the engine was quite the beast.Given the clarity of that perspective this is essentially the same comparison we could make here with these four presidents functioning like a beast of an engine inside the lightweight systems of order that they fought against.These men pushed those systems to their limits. They did this in order to drive that metaphorical machine as fast as possible in the direction that they wanted while having to overcome all sorts of instability and avoiding near complete disaster in the process. Just like a Shelby Cobra, the political machine is hard to handle, but once you build the momentum to drive it the machine will produce a lot of impressive outcomes for you during the race.Nobody knew this better than these four men and these four men drove that machine as hard as it would go in order to achieve what they deemed to be necessary for the survival of the Republic. In fact, one of those four guys is still driving that machine has hard as possible right now. As a result of that current process, there’s a lot of instability and complaining going on with people who simply don’t understand how far previous decades of corrupt economic, geopolitical, and cultural dynamics have driven this country to the literal edge of destruction.Despite all of that, we have made it to another Christmas season and I believe that season is here because the very source of that miracle season has been working alongside all of us to make sure that we made it here.I’m also willing to bet that if you could ask these four gentlemen if they believe that’s the case that they would agree with that assessment.Are there other key acts of divine providence that you’re familiar with that have occurred throughout history?Have you personally experienced a miracle moment such as this yourself?Please make sure you share your feedback in the comment section below.The news cycle is broken, but your clarity and discernment shouldn’t be. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”― John SteinbeckIf you are a member of Generation X (GenX) then perhaps what I’m about to say won’t sound too crazy to you, but then again maybe it will.As a member of GenX, the biggest reason I frequently reference my generation is because of the shared culture that we all understand based on the way society was during our childhood. Granted, much of the part of society I’m alluding to has more to do with the state of the culture and the world as I remember it as a kid in the 1980s.Now I understand that not all GenX folks are going to share my views and that’s fine, but for the sake of discussion I’m primarily addressing those that do and for those that don’t maybe they will learn. I’m going to come back to this in a bit so just hold on to that thought for the moment.I want to shift gears and briefly address a concept known as Consequentialism. Consequentialism is a philosophical stance that hinges on the belief that the basic intuition of what is best or right for society is whatever makes the world best in the future. Essentially this philosophical view embraces this position because we cannot change the past, therefore worrying about the past is no more of a useful act than crying over spilled milk.Now when initially looking at that viewpoint you might think that such a position sounds pretty reasonable. However, when examining this line of thinking there is a big red flag that jumps out if you take a moment to consider the consequences of consequentialism.For example, if the position of this philosophical belief system centers on the basic intuition of what is best or right is what makes the world the best in the future, then who exactly is the arbiter that determines what exactly is best or right to make the world a better place in the future?In short, this philosophical practice leaves itself open to overlapping with what is recognized as moral relativism. So what is moral relativism?Moral relativism is essentially the view that moral judgments are true or false based on a particular standpoint that may be determined by the dominant culture of a given society or a particular historical period in time.In my view, the key thing to take note of here regarding these philosophical positions is that the consequences of one’s actions may be determined to be the best based on what society deems to be morally relevant, or the time period that one happens to live in if the consequences are anchored to what that particular social dynamic deems to be good or bad.In other words, in some countries it may be acceptable for the social dynamics to call for the covering of the face and head of a woman, and to restrict where she travels by law by forcing her to dress in a certain way that strips her of her individual identity. However, here in the West that is not an acceptable practice that is seen to result in what is believed to be what is best for society, at least not for the time being.Now I say this even though our entire society was actually forced to go through the face covering time period back during the pandemic under the guise of safety, but that fortunately didn’t last. Having said that, I don’t have the confidence that any such behavior that could be repeated like that under the guise of safety would successfully manage to subside if it ever were to be enacted again.In traditional terms, Western civilization (more specifically the United States) has a society that is based on individual liberty where rights are endowed to us by God, not by some government or ruling theocracy. However, the principles of which the nation was founded are indeed based on Christian values.This is indisputable and if you don’t believe me simply read the opening of the Declaration of Independence.“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”You see the opening of the Declaration of Independence just anchored what was best for society by declaring that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.It’s with this statement and this statement alone that the Declaration of Independence disintegrates the idea of moral relativism because what God has endowed with every individual with unalienable rights lays the foundation for what is absolutely best for society.Now you may look at that and think then Brandon, why is our society experiencing so many problems and why is our civilization literally hanging on by a thread to not completely collapse?That’s a very good question and the reason is because our society has more and more tried to embrace this weird secular worldview involving a form of woke consequentialism and moral relativism by distancing ourselves from God.In short, for a long time now the position of the basic intuition of what has been seen to be what is best or right for society has involved a culture that embraces equity over performance, identity over merit, and a society that has confused coercion with liberty (just like that face covering). All three of those characteristics that I just listed are blatant examples associated with violating individual liberty and serving to be some of the greatest injustices to lead society away from liberty and back into the arms of a totalitarian state.In the Preamble of the Constitution is the introduction to the highest law of the land which is the establishment of justice.“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”To establish justice is the most necessary step involved in a liberty-based society because with the establishment of justice it means that society will achieve everything else that’s listed in the Preamble regarding the domestic Tranquility (Tranquilitas Ordinis), providing of the common defense, the promotion of the general welfare, and the security of the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.You see, the establishment of justice means that you have a system that allows society the ability to seek out and ensure there are consequences for those who commit injustices. If it’s not obvious enough, the problem that our nation is facing now is the result of there being no consequences for those who have been responsible for major injustices throughout our society since the pandemic.The Financialization of The ConstitutionThere’s a powerful quote that is often attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky where he is credited with saying “Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” Now I say that he is often credited with having said this, but there are others who say that the quote is misattributed to him.Whether or not Dostoevsky made this statement is irrelevant to this discussion, but what is relevant is that the quote is 100% true.Over the past several years we’ve noticed a steady erosion of consequences against those who have committed injustices. I’ll elaborate on this to give you a clearer picture of where we are right now in our society if we don’t fix this problem.You see, to me this started all the way back in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square massacre when George H.W. Bush sent his envoys to Beijing to maintain open channels of communication with the murderous regime who had just literally gunned down their own people. This meeting was directed to eventually start the ball rolling in order to pull the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into the World Trade Organization (WTO).First of all, why would anyone tolerate this from a murderous regime that just literally massacred their own people? Let alone, why would a sitting American President tolerate this? To be fair Bush is not here to answer for that decision and I can’t answer that for him, but regardless he did it, and then Clinton came into office and further accelerated this disaster.The bottom line is that this was essentially the start of the world nightmare that is known as globalism. In my view, this single action from Bush served to be the catalyst for creating a whole series of events that have obviously led to the strength of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), their successful venture for amassing immense wealth, and the shrewd effectiveness of their corrupt and nefarious foreign influence operations. Mind you, these foreign influence campaigns have directly resulted in the capture of many of what we might refer to as our own modern day Captains of Industry.Because of this these Captains of Industry have either heavily invested in Chinese owned companies or they have benefited directly from the cheap slave labor that the CCP can offer their American companies in the manufacturing of their products.This has resulted in the CCP having been successful in their attempt to capture our Captains as they can simply hold the Sword of Damocles over their heads with the threat of the outright theft of their intellectual property, along with putting a dead stop to the subsidization of their manufacturing processes.This entire fiasco created the perfect storm for the CCP to capture our Captains which in turn allowed them to express a Vae Victis moment over the Captains and use this leverage against them to take this same scheme even further and expand it into the political realm with several of our high level government officials. This even includes the last so-called sitting President of the United States.Now up to this point I’ve been a bit forgiving as the practice of elite capture is primarily the method that was used by the CCP to bait and catch many of our nations Captains and politicians, however over time that practice has radically transitioned from the practice of elite capture to the practice of elite merger.I mean for years whenever I would pose the question to people regarding why we ever got into business with a Communist regime like the CCP the globalist talking point would always be that we did so in order to demonstrate how good the practice of exposing free market capitalism would be to the Communist regime. Of course, this was a huge load of crap.Essentially the globalist selling point was that by introducing our economic model and Western practice of free market capitalism to the Communists that eventually those Communists would start acting like us. However, in reality the opposite happened as our Captains and our politicians started behaving and implementing practices just like the Communist regime of China.Once this plan managed to get embedded into the fabric of the U.S. economic and political system the CCP managed to create a financial spiderweb of corruption where they have since possessed a significant level of control over those levers of power.In short, they have been able to exert their influence over our Captains and our politicians which has resulted in a level of corruption that has infected every major institution throughout our government and private sector.This is why there have not yet been any consequences for the injustices of people like Fauci because he was part of a corrupt system that had major influence and corruption by the CCP. After all, the lab was in Wuhan for a reason.Now in regards to the medical institutions I do believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to change this, but the corrupted institutions underneath the umbrella of Health and Human Services involving the CDC, NIH, FDA, etc. will require unwinding years of embedded corruption.This is also the reason why politicians like Eric Swallwell, Illhan Omar, Adam Schiff, Tim Walz, etc. have all gotten away with so much corruption for so long without any consequences. The reason there have been no consequences is because the system of corruption has been embedded and that process began at the very top of every major office and institution of government and big business the day we decided to get in bed with a Communist regime that hates us.Granted, I do believe Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are doing everything in their power to fix this problem, but all of the good actors that are now in position to fix these problems are no doubt overwhelmed and have been short staffed. However, I do believe they are working towards making some major breakthroughs and we are starting to see some signs of that, especially with this recent January 6 pipe bomb fiasco.So you may be thinking Brandon, so why is this corruption so effective when it comes to the justice system? The question still remains, why have there been no consequences of injustices that have been committed?My answer to those questions essentially involves the consequence of us allowing this spiderweb of corruption to have been put in motion by the CCP. Because this spiderweb has been embedded within our political, financial, and business system it has essentially resulted in the financialization of the Constitution.In other words, those who have been in power and have been guilty of injustices have the money and the corrupt personnel within the justice system, the business world, and the Administrative State Media (ASM) to sell the narrative that they have not violated the Constitution. In other words, they’ve been able to purchase an effective lie and the mirage that they have honored the Constitution when in fact they’ve been completely guilty of outright ignoring it.The Wrap UpAt the beginning of this episode I had begun mentioning a certain way I viewed society during my GenX childhood and that there was something else that I was going to tell you that might sound a bit crazy.My memory of the culture in the 1980s was one where my friends and relationships were built on trust and consistent follow through. At least in my own memory as a kid I can remember having often made many plans with several of my friends growing up. I point this out because to the best of my memory I don’t ever remember my friends ever really bailing on me, or preferring to stay home to play video games in place of going outside to play.Granted, we did have some of the coolest video games in the 80s, but the use of those games seemed to take on a supplemental role of entertainment rather than serving to be the primary source of entertainment.In addition to this, I also remember that there was a certain amount of grit with many GenX kids during my childhood. After all, we were known as the latchkey generation and we were pretty self-sufficient when it came time to figure out how to go about getting something to eat, or when it involved finding our way back home when we actually managed to wander and put a good bit of distance between ourselves and the homestead.As a reminder I’m a Georgia native, but I remember having some pretty cool experiences at age 9, 10, and 11 as I had frequently visited one friend who lived on the lake and we would end up taking his dad’s boat out from his dock in Georgia and across the lake to the South Carolina marina to fuel it up and to get a couple of sodas. To make it even better we would pull each other skiing on the way back from the marina. Keep in mind that we were only kids.Could you imagine hearing about kids at that age doing that sort of thing today? The parents would be hauled off to prison for such a thing.There just seemed to be a lot more freedom in those days.So what is that other crazy thought that I had that I was going to tell you about?Well, given everything I just shared with you for some reason I always felt the culture was really strong within my generation. In other words, we grew up with Saturday morning cartoons and professional wrestling. We grew up playing sports and watching movies that portrayed strong male leads as the hero of the day such as Rocky Balboa and John Rambo.We would frequently fight, wreck our bikes, and I even remember falling out of a tree once. As our generation got older we had seen everything from a legendary cultural force of nature in Hulk Hogan to the riveting introduction of The X Files.I point all of this out to say that I always had a strange feeling inside that something big would happen in the world during my generation’s lifetime. I mean I’m not saying that I ever knew what that big event would be, but I always felt like something was looming out on the horizon throughout my life and I never could put my finger on exactly what it would end up looking like.I mean growing up I always heard about the book of Revelation in church and have heard many interpretations about the scripture over the years. This is one area that I’m still learning about, but when it comes to Revelation the one message I get from it is that a lot of bad stuff looms over the horizon. Granted, as a believer in Christ I know that my Lord Jesus will prevail in the end, but as far as much of the rest of the message it sounds like the worst horror movie that anyone could ever possibly dream up.So I’m bringing up this sort of doom and gloom picture to sort of acknowledge that I believe the pandemic and everything that we’ve discovered with the fallout from that event is actually the beginning of that looming thing that I always felt was out on the horizon. If you’re a part of GenX did you ever feel this way?“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.”–Revelation 22:11This verse in Revelation is very powerful and very prophetic. It essentially describes how the boundaries between good and evil will become fixed in the end times. I don’t know about you, but it appears that the boldness of these lines are becoming more and more prominent in this day and age between the two camps of good and evil.Now having said that, I also believe that there is still time to increase the size of the camp with those who desire to do good. I believe the best way to go about doing this is by doing my best to provide you with the knowledge to help you reach that Zenith status in your own life.Remember that ideas are dangerous for the purpose of both good and evil. Just to give you an example in terms of how dangerous ideas can produce an evil result it was an idea that resulted in Hitler eventually occupying France. Likewise, an idea is how Charlie Kirk ended up getting assassinated.Conversely, it was an idea that resulted in the shot heard round the world at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 and it was an idea that got President Trump to come down that golden escalator on June 16, 2015.The point here is that with everything going on in the world you can either be driven to leverage your mind and your actions for the purpose of evil or you can leverage your mind and actions for the purpose of good.Just like the quote I led off this with in this episode remember that fear corrupts the mind and the spirit. Now having said that, I understand that there’s a lot of scary things happening in the world today, but despite all of that my goal for you is to get you dialed in and focused on the actions that you can control rather than focusing on the things that seem scary.I believe that the war that we’re currently living in is a spiritual war, but it is manifesting in the physical world as widespread corruption in the arena of finance, politics, and culture.Because of this you can play a role in taking the fight to the enemy by getting engaged in that fight yourself through your actions and your focus.You can do this by using your voice and if you don’t want to use your voice then throw your support behind those who will use theirs. In addition to this you can use your dollars specifically to support businesses that support Patriotic values.Yes, technology can be a double-edged sword for good and evil, but with the advent of technology in this modern day it has also leveled the playing field to allow smaller companies and smaller individuals to be competitive with larger more established institutions that have succumbed to fascistic behavior and woke corruption.Now is not the time to be fearful. Now is the time to stamp out the fear and for you and I to get focused on the actions in our lives that we can control to save this Republic.For once, let’s make sure evil feels the consequences of its choices.If you’re a part of GenX have you always shared that same feeling that something was looming out on the horizon?What do you believe are some of the most effective areas that we can focus on in order to ensure justice is carried out to ensure the survival of our Republic?Please share your feedback in the comment section below.On That Note, The News Cycle is Broken.Your Time Is Valuable and Doesn’t Have To Be Broken With It.Now you can achieve clarity and become a true Zenith.If today’s episode resonated with you and you’re ready to cut through the noise of the broken news cycle then I want to invite you to explore the full benefits of a paid subscription.As it stands I’ve spent years condensing down complex topics and global events into easy digestible 20-30 minute deep dives. 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But not simpler.”― Albert EinsteinIdeology is an interesting thing because many people in today’s world are definitely married to their own systematic body of concepts which make up their belief systems, particularly as it relates to their worldview.The thing is that there are people who have the ability to be married to a certain ideology, but then can also recognize when that ideology doesn’t hold up in a scenario involving a real world application. It’s at this point that these people are open to the prospect of either abandoning their ideology altogether, or they’re at least willing to subtract and add in some concepts of their own in order to enable existing belief systems to hold up under whatever current test the circumstances demand in a real world application.There’s no shame in either one of these reactions from people who are open to adjusting or completely changing their worldview. The only shame that should exist are with those people who continue to double down on a worldview that just simply doesn’t hold up in a real world application.Granted, when I refer to an ideology not holding up in a real world application, what I’m specifically talking about is an ideology that results in the destruction of liberty, one that fails to correct economic peril, or one that continues to contribute to the oppression of its own citizenry.The type of people that I’m referring to who are resistant to change are only succumbing to pride and pride only accelerates one’s own destruction. However, this happens simply because such people lack discernment and the ability to think deeper about the dark realities of human nature that clearly exists in a fallen world.To more clearly illustrate in identifying this archetype, I recently heard a master influencer and behavioral expert Chase Hughes referencing a story about a group he studies who specializes in diving into deep discussions involving the study of consciousness.I cannot remember the name of the group, but the reason I’m bringing it up is that the point Chase was making in his talk about this group was that they did a deeper dive into trying to understand life and how things work by exposing the shallowness of reductionism along with society’s hyperfocus on materialism.For instance, in order to illustrate this he was making the point that there’s no study that can explain the power of music. In short, music has the ability to move people emotionally and to stir up certain internal feelings about the music itself, or perhaps stir an emotion based on the fact that certain music may trigger a certain memory within people who tie an emotional moment to a particular song.He was saying that the group’s discussion about this was that they were exposing the absurdity of modern day reductive science using music as an example to illustrate the intellectual laziness, and lack of wisdom, that much of the world has succumbed to during this modern age. When examining music, in an effort to try to understand how it’s able to do all of the things that I just mentioned concerning its influence over people, he gives a very clear example of a reductive approach in trying to seek that understanding.According to Chase, in their example they demonstrated this with a thought experiment. They did this by saying that the reductive approach would be to take all of the musical instruments that created a certain piece of music and they would smash those musical instruments into a million pieces.Once doing this they would suggest putting the small pieces of the smashed instruments, along with the shredded pages of musical notes, underneath a microscope to study them in an effort to figure out how the music worked.Of course, you and I understand that this sort of thinking and this sort of approach is absurdly stupid, but it’s quite often the same process that people follow when supporting a broken worldview. They’ll go this far to support an insane ideology that they’re married to in an effort to defend the failed application of their beliefs in a real world scenario. This is reductionism in application.Fast is Slow and Slow is FastIt wasn’t that long ago when I had a certain individual comment on one of my Facebook posts when I happened to reference the concerning level of Marxist left wing political violence that had been noticeably going on for years, but had obviously escalated to new heights since the recent introduction of political assassinations.I had made my post within a couple of weeks of the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk and it was this self-professed anti-Trump Libertarian that tried to share an absurd study from the CATO Institute with a caption stating that my position about Marxist left wing violence was incorrect. His position was that most political violence had actually been coming from the right wing side of the political world and his only means to back up this statement involved sharing some so-called study from the CATO Institute.I don’t typically respond to stupid posts, but in this particular instance I somewhat knew this guy and I noticed that he had recently started to get a lot more vocal in his anti-Trump rhetoric since the political violence had obviously reached a new level within the country.However, I also accidentally noticed a previous post by this individual where he had also made some disrespectful comments towards Christianity and Christians while simultaneously making some absurdly inaccurate comments about Charlie Kirk.

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.”― James S.A. CoreyAs a warning, today’s episode is probably going to challenge some traditional perspectives concerning some stories and details that are in the Bible.With that being said, I want to make something clear about today’s episode before I get into the weeds of today’s discussion.This episode is going to involve one individual’s hypothetical exploration of some longstanding mysterious occurrences from ancient history all the way through to today. This episode will offer some possible explanations regarding the origin of these mysteries by combining some biblical text in an attempt to bring about some understanding to some unexplained phenomenon in the world.I believe this is something I’m fairly confident has been debated among many Christians for quite a long time. As a personal follower of Jesus, I am far from perfect myself and with that in mind, like any Christian, my goal is to work to seek a deeper understanding of God’s word.However, I also know that the process of seeking that understanding is just that, it’s a process. With that being said, this process involves a genuine effort to seek God’s wisdom and the effort that is involved in doing that may, at times, involve the introduction of new perspectives that may challenge us in new ways to reflect, pray, and seek discernment about His word for further clarity.Keep in mind that in the process of seeking clarity on some of the details of various biblical stories that this doesn’t mean that if you, agree or disagree, with some of the details of today’s topic that it has anything to do with your salvation. That is something that Jesus made perfectly clear regarding your personal relationship with Him and that is what is of MOST importance.In a nutshell, this episode is simply meant to stimulate some thought around what was going on in the world during ancient biblical times while, at the same time, looking at what is going on in today’s world in an effort to try and bring about some understanding to the two.With that being said, I hope you enjoy today’s episode and I’m sure you’re going to be talking about this one with your family and friends.History is an extremely important element in regards to the survival of human existence, yet so many people forget it. What’s even worse is, despite being reminded of it, many people just flat out ignore it.Speaking of history, there’s a lot of discussion starting to pop up around the ancient history of the world and what it was probably most like regarding the likelihood that it was seemingly more technologically advanced than what we’ve been traditionally taught to believe. This only makes sense as there seems to be a march towards a fulfillment of biblical prophecy as it relates to the end times, along with archaeological discoveries concerning some very old structures that continue to raise questions about mankind’s history.Because of this intrigue it seems like a lot of people are open to hearing about some explanations that have come forward to try and make some sense of some of the mysteries surrounding the march towards the fulfillment of prophecy that we have questions about in today’s world.As usual the Bible holds up as it points to much of this in Genesis 6. Naturally, if you pray for wisdom and discernment as you seek out the meaning of God’s word, some things start to reveal themselves in ways that start making more sense. Just hold onto that as I’ll come back to Genesis 6 here in a bit.On that note, I just saw an interview with Timothy Alberino who is sort of like this modern day Indiana Jones type of character, and he has some interesting stories to back up that description.I don’t know if you’re familiar with any of Timothy’s work or not, but he is an explorer and an author that has some interesting theories concerning the ancient history of our world. He has an intriguing perspective on ancient civilization as much of his perspective has been said to bridge the gap between mythology, history, and biblical scholarship.Now I’m not necessarily saying that I agree or disagree with all of the details of his perspective concerning the ancient history of our world. However, I do believe his perspective concerning where this ancient cycle of history began and the trajectory on where it will most likely end up in the coming future is pretty solid.The Antediluvian WorldIf you’re not familiar with that term, the antediluvian time period is the time in our world’s history that involves the period prior to the great flood.To expand on this I’m going to include the first eight verses of Genesis 6 to set the tone for this discussion.And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.So when looking at these eight verses from Genesis 6 it’s the second verse where it mentions the sons of God that Timothy Alberino has a perspective that involves a Golden Age that existed during the antediluvian period. Once again, as best as I personally can understand this Golden Age is not a specified culture that the Bible says existed, but perhaps it could have been a Golden Age in one respect, although not so much for mankind.In other words, perhaps it could have been a type of Golden Age for the sons of God as we do know that mankind had evil in his heart continually which eventually led to the Great Flood.It is here where he says these sons of God, or what he would also identify as extraterrestrials, ruled over humanity. This was a period which he points out was beneficial to certain contemporaries at the time, but as far as the ancient Hebrews were concerned they envisaged this period in a negative light.Timothy’s perspective is that the Bible confirms that mankind has been in contact with these extraterrestrials since the beginning. As he points out these extraterrestrials are ambiguously denominated in the Bible as angels in the Hebrew text.He goes on to say that the meaning of the word angel essentially translates to a messenger, or an envoy. For further clarification, Timothy reminds his audience that the term extraterrestrial simply means not of this earth. Granted there is a clear delineation concerning the varying descriptions of these types of extraterrestrials as Timothy also points out.To go even further concerning the practical definition of the word extraterrestrial, Timothy’s position is that if these sons of God had an origin outside of this earth then by the strictest interpretation of the word these beings are in fact extraterrestrial. He points out that it doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about another planet or another dimension, the main point being that if the entity has an origin other than here on planet earth then it essentially can be identified as an extraterrestrial.Now there’s no question that the antediluvian period was a different time period according to Genesis 6 as the sons of God were apparently copulating with the daughters of men in those days which apparently resulted in the creation of a race of giants.I thought this following analysis was a very interesting viewpoint from Timothy, but he went further with his unique perspective here.26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds, of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”–Genesis 1:26Here in Genesis 1:26 God uses the plural form when saying Let US make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. In one of his interviews Timothy says that this can be interpreted as a King ruling over his council during the creation process of man.According to this passage, he says this reference using the plural form in regards to the creation of man in Our image obviously implies that there are also other elder celestial beings that are present here under the rule of the One Supreme Being. Additionally, Genesis 1:26 also establishes that in God’s creation of man He also gives man dominion over all the earth which in my opinion makes Genesis 6 even more significant as it appears that one interpretation could be that man’s dominion was potentially lost to the sons of God.Now to be specific, it doesn’t say that in the Bible, but sin was introduced into the world at this time and with sin there are a multitude of shortcomings that come with it such as various forms of idolatry.A question occurred to me as I thought about this. Could mankind have given up his sovereignty in the ancient world to this idolatry? Once again, I’m not saying this is specifically what happened, but merely posing the question given the outcome of mankind’s destruction.Also, if this is the case then it would seem that we have a lot more in common with the ancient world looking at society today than we probably ever would have considered. This is also what Timothy points out in regards to his reference consisting of the Golden Age that existed during the antediluvian time period.Now this is particularly interesting to me because it was during this apparent Golden Age that Timothy refers to it resulting in the grieving of the Lord to the point that He decided to destroy everything on the earth with The Great Flood.As the verse in Genesis 1:26 points out God was specifically giving man dominion over the earth, yet these other supernatural beings had decided to get involved with the daughters of man and Genesis 6:4 reminds us that these were the men of renown.Now I’m no biblical scholar, but this seems to suggest to me that these supernatural beings were very well known and could probably have been idolized to a degree. After all, I only say that because when you understand human nature then you know that people will tend to fall into idolatry when someone becomes very well known. In short, there are people who will fall short and worship other people and other things other than the one true God. Once again, this is just my speculation based on understanding human nature.Genesis 6:4 also goes on to say that “There were giants on the earth in those days; and also after that.”When I hear the part in that verse talking about how after that time period it’s obvious that those giants existed in the world after the antediluvian period. There’s obviously other evidence of this with the dolmens that currently exist in the Golan Heights (Biblical Bashan) which was the location of the giant King Og who is referenced in Deuteronomy 3:1-11.Of course, most famously we see further evidence of this with David’s encounter with Goliath. The point here is that there was still seemingly an obvious supernatural influence producing giants after the period of the flood. Granted, none of this even includes all of the giant skeletons that have even been discovered here in North America, but were allegedly subject to an apparent coverup concerning the Smithsonian according to many sources now for a very long time.As Timothy Alberino has pointed out in several of his recent interviews, there’s also further evidence that could point to this with a unique building technique which is referred to as cyclopean construction.This type of construction consists of a unique type of masonry involving the construction of massive stones without the use of mortar. The Greek origin of this phrase relates to the belief that only the mythical, giant Cyclopes could have been capable of moving the massive stones to employ such a building technique.Now I understand that up to this point I’ve focused much of this discussion on the antediluvian world, but now I want to shift gears and bring us up to speed to the current day. Keeping that in mind, I want you to metaphorically zoom out the camera lens here and think about the big picture in terms of viewing what was going on during this ancient time period throughout the world. At the same time, I also want you to include the current day in this picture as I highlight some of the current activities that are happening culturally, politically, and technologically here in the present day.Now as I fast forward to the current day Timothy Alberino has also highlighted something that we can all agree with concerning much of the rot we’ve seen manifest within our culture, political arena, and within the field of technology.I’ve heard Timothy basically take the same position as myself on this regarding the types of things we’ve witnessed with the globalists that have made themselves known with their absurdly destructive policies, particularly during the kickoff of the pandemic.Earlier I mentioned how Timothy Alberino believes that mankind has been in contact with what he would refer to as extraterrestrials since the beginning. He points out that the race of extraterrestrials known as The Grays perhaps involve the same supernatural beings that were previously mentioned here when discussing the ancient world.Of course, in the interview I include here Timothy references a more specific timeline than what I’m covering here in this episode due to various time constraints.In his mention of The Grays he’s referring to this group of beings in a negative light. In his talks he works to further clarify their presence by also making mention of the unexplained sightings of UFO aircraft, extraterrestrial entities, and the numerous stories of gruesome abductions.He posits the idea that he believes many of the abduction stories revolve around the concept of these entities performing experiments on humans which could suggest that they’re trying to achieve some form of hybridization with human DNA. In his hypothesis involving this hybridization process he points out how this very much mirrors what Genesis 6 is referring to in the Bible regarding the actions of the sons of God having a hybrid offspring with the daughters of men.Additionally, as another observation if you look at all of these inhuman ideas and policies associated with this so-called network of globalists, or elites, the lack of humanity is pretty obvious. If you need a reminder as to just how inhuman these people are all you have to do is look at the whole idea surrounding the effort to drive society to a point where people should resort to eating bugs in the name of climate change.I don’t know about you, but I clearly remember this along with the call for indefinite lockdowns during the pandemic, the forced closure of businesses, and the mandate of placing everyone on house arrest while referring to it as quarantine.To make this even worse, in a more clear observation of modern day politics you have one political party who is just fine with advocating for the silence and death of the other while the so-called opposition party simply serves to be a placeholder for being controlled by the more aggressive opposition. Of course, there are MAGA politicians who are the exception to this and this is where the pro-human policies are for trying to preserve the existence of mankind.The intention of continuing to stage this set up is to persist in trying to present the appearance of a functioning government, but in reality we can see the majority of it is simply an illusion of government. It’s really an evil puppet that is being controlled by a devious paymaster (or paymasters) that plays on the worst of people, namely by pushing forward inhuman policies, injustices, and relentless attempts at destroying what little is left of this nation and the world at large.Because of all of this, Timothy says that he could imagine a scenario where these extraterrestrials (probably The Grays) are residing at the top of all of this and are working covertly to degrade humanity by them influencing the elites of our society in order to implement their inhuman policies. As Christians we would simply refer to this as a form of demonic influence, but Timothy takes this a step further by tying The Grays directly to being this demonic influence.In listening to his explanation of this I realized he was simply tying together the mystery of the sightings of UFOs, aliens, and alien abductions by offering a unique explanation as to what their alleged presence within our world is really all about.During some other points of his discussion he went on to talk about how he believes that their end goal has something to do with planetary acquisition. He talked about how you can see the inhuman actions of these globalists and that it’s obvious that much of their beliefs, policies, and decisions are designed to outright destroy humanity.I must say that when you look at the entire point of AI it’s also obvious as the more everything becomes automated the more work the machines can do in order to run society. This would also create a scenario where there would be no need for human beings.As Timothy points out here there would be no need for a bunch of useless eaters according to these globalists. I thought this was interesting because I’ve heard this narrative for quite a long time being that I live here in the state of Georgia. I once visited the notorious Georgia Guidestones in Elberton, Georgia many years before the zeitgeist shifted and before they were blown up back in 2022. One of the guidelines that was engraved on the stones was that the global population of humanity should be maintained under 500 million in order to keep things in perpetual balance with nature. The entire message of the Georgia Guidestones involved a dark globalist inhuman set of standards that obviously fit nicely within the climate change narrative, while the anonymity regarding the originator of the structure was strictly maintained.The Wrap UpNow the point of all of this is that when you zoom out the camera lens you can observe how mankind lost dominion over the earth during the old world and, as Genesis 6 points out, this ultimately led to mankind’s destruction with The Great Flood.However, if you take a moment to observe the battery of inhuman policies that have been thrust upon society at an accelerated rate since the pandemic, along with this consistent march towards AI, it seems that we are on a trajectory to experience a sort of Genesis 6 version 2.0 here in the coming future.In fact, AI has been described as the ultimate threat of what many in the tech world would refer to as a digital god.As if the thought of that level of influence over society isn’t chilling enough, we haven’t even reached the level with AI referred to as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) where the AI literally takes over all of society. Regardless, we’ve already seen stories like the one involving Zane Shamblin who had a lengthy conversation with ChatGPT where his AI confidant talked him into killing himself.If we’re seeing this type of result already then what level of destruction awaits us should we, as a society, decide to relinquish our sovereignty again? What happens when we lose dominion over the world to a false digital god, as we seemed to do long ago with the introduction of sin, along with a continual level of evil into the ancient world?Do you have a hypothesis regarding the existence of extraterrestrials?What impact do you see AI having on our society in the next five to ten years?Please drop a comment below with your feedback.If you are not aware I am now offering three digital products and services for my all-access subscribers who upgrade their subscription to paid here on the Substack.For starters, I just finished creating The Exclusive Zenith Catalog.Now if you upgrade to a paid membership you will gain instant access to my three new digital products/services in addition to the ability to bypass my paywalled content.That’s right, aside from accessing my premium content…* The first major product includes The Exclusive Zenith Catalog here which consists of a comprehensive and easy to navigate library of my premium content. 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.”–Psalm 144:1I often get labeled as a conservative or a Republican, but the fact is that I am truly neither in terms of what those labels have stood for now for the last three decades.I understand that we all use labels to put people into boxes and to identify what beliefs that people more closely align with, but I used to more closely identify myself as a Libertarian, but now I recognize that I am more closely aligned with free markets being a MAGA Populist rather than a Libertarian.Anti-Trump Libertarians, anti-Trump Republicans, and anti-Trump conservatives are spineless and have been nothing more than a holding place for the status quo involved with managing the decline of this country.Whenever I hear the so-called conservatives who are critical of President Trump say that they don’t like him, but then proudly proclaim that they are conservative, I always ask them what exactly have conservatives conserved other than the managed decline of this nation?When you saw the title of today’s episode I’m sure that it got your attention. At an initial glance I’m sure several people would have read the title of this episode and clicked on the link to open the page expecting the title to be referencing some sort of joke.Well I’d normally say that I hate to burst your bubble, but in the case of today’s message I don’t mind bursting your bubble at all given the circumstances that our nation has had to endure since 2020, and in many cases since 2016.The other day I published the following post on my Substack Notes:Trump 2028?I was talking to one of my students this morning about the Trump 2028 talk that’s been circulating lately.I don’t believe that this is a joke in the least and the reason I don’t is because I believe that, as a nation, we have to ask ourselves whether the concept of sovereignty is something that we actually believe in or not?If we do believe in sovereignty then the next question we have to ask ourselves is whether or not we believe our sovereignty has been stolen and abused since 2020.If you don’t believe that our sovereignty has been stolen or abused then you’re going to have a bigger issue with a Trump 2028 Presidency.However, if you’re someone who actually believes in the concept of sovereignty and believes that our sovereignty has been stolen and abused, particularly regarding the 2020 election and the incentivized mass invasion, then you should want to support the best opportunity for making whole that which was stolen and abused.With that being said, it’s clear that President Trump is by far that best opportunity.Just sayin.In short, President Trump is like a Terminator when it comes to destroying the systems and corrupt actors that are propping up a corrupt governmental and techno-feudalistic model for tyranny.Just like a Terminator he doesn’t stop, slow down, or relent until his mission is accomplished. Now just keep that in mind for the moment.Before I go any further with this discussion I want to ask you two simple questions. Now when I ask you these questions your answer to these two questions will literally determine where you stand in regards to today’s message.* Do you believe in the Constitution?* Do you believe that the purpose of the Constitution is due to the fact that the Will of The People (We The People) is the ultimate source of its power and that this concept of popular sovereignty is the cornerstone of why the document exists in the first place?As you think about the answers to these questions I want you to also think about how damaging the act of theft is to a society and the kind of outcomes that follow the act of theft if there’s no attempt to restore and to make whole that which was stolen during the act of thievery.Sutton’s LawI’ve never been to San Francisco, California, but from what I’ve seen in the magazines and on the big screen in the movies for many years, historically San Francisco has been regarded as an iconic city. From the famous car chase scene in the movie Bullitt, to the Golden Gate Bridge, to Alcatraz the city has certainly left its mark on the fabric of American culture.However, for many years now that mark has shifted from a shining iconic cultural landmark to being recognized more as an example of societal decline and potential societal collapse.In recent years there’s been a slowing economy in the city and homelessness has run rampant as San Francisco has one of the highest rates of homeless populations in the United States. There’s been countless news stories about the numbers of people living on the streets with residents literally having to step over homeless people at the end of their driveways in order to get to work.There’s been a significant number of layoffs within the tech sector and the usual culprit that is blamed for this typically involves the excuse that things just haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels. Granted, like many large cities I’m sure San Francisco’s pandemic policies were as authoritarian as most any big city given the state of California’s track record in how they went about dealing with the pandemic with their draconian mandates.Of course, draconian policies that strip away individual liberties would never have anything to do with people wanting to flee the city, right? Well if you answered No to that question then you would be completely wrong.According to the San Francisco Standard the Bay Area has seen a mass exodus with as many as a quarter million people having fled the area since the pandemic.Anyone that doesn’t believe that San Francisco’s problems are self-inflicted are just ignoring reality. After all, the act of theft in San Francisco is essentially now a de facto legal act in the city as anything that is stolen that has a value of $950 or less is considered to be a misdemeanor. As a result, this means that law enforcement won’t bother to investigate the crime and if it happens to go any further then prosecutors will just simply choose to let it go.Now if you have any moral compass inside of you then it should be absolutely no surprise to you why San Francisco is in a falling decline given the policies that I’ve outlined here that clearly lead to the outcomes that I’ve highlighted for you here as well.On that very topic of theft I want you to keep all of that in mind for the moment as I want to address another interesting concept that positively impacted the field of medical science that ironically enough came about as a result of bank robberies.

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .”― Sun Tzu, The Art of WarIn the days when I practiced Muay Thai kickboxing I remember when we would spar in the gym and how sore I would often be after doing so. However, like anything else the more I practiced the more my body adapted to the stress.In the beginning this adaptation phase was very uncomfortable and it took a few months before I could get to a point where I felt like it was a more normal training stimulus rather than a complete shock to my system. The physical and mental adaptation from this period of time was also something that impacted my body in more ways than one.You see, the reason we sparred was to start the process of getting used to the act of fighting. As you might imagine fighting is not an easy thing to do and it is certainly a skill that requires many hours of repetition and training before most can become more accustomed to it and comfortable with engaging in a very uncomfortable physical activity.During this time sparring I remember when I first started to learn the real value in it one day when I had a very skilled partner who was blessed with speed and could move really fast. Fortunately, I was also blessed with the ability of speed, but at this particular point of my sparring experience I hadn’t had a lot of repetition in order to coordinate my movements to an effective level just yet. I’ll just say that I was still in an early learning stage at this point of my training.However, on this particular day I remember watching this guy that I was sparring with and I started to notice something that got my attention. I started noticing small physical cues with the way he would move his body into position to throw a punch or a kick before he would actually throw the punch or the kick.In other words, I could see him setting up his body to deliver a certain strike before he would actually deliver the strike. In short, he was telegraphing his moves and I was starting to reach a point in my training where I could actually read his body language and pick up on what he was telegraphing with the nonverbal communication that he was signaling with his body’s movement.Now once I started to get better at reading these movements I found that I could counter his strikes much easier because it was something that started to become more natural to me the more time and repetition I put into my training.So why did I bother to share my Thai boxing experience with you here in today’s post?The reason I shared it with you is something I’m going to come back to in order to connect to the theme of today’s message here in a bit because it involves the uncomfortable process of adaptation.Mark To MarketI just recently watched an interview that Tucker Carlson had with Sam Bankman-Fried. Sam’s case is world famous, but just in case you don’t know who he is, he was, at one time, one of the richest people in crypto thanks to his widely known FTX exchange and his Alameda Research trading firm. Sam was very successful and made some strides with the venture before his empire came crashing down in November 2022.Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with fraud and his case was one of the most notorious involving white collar-crime ranking right up there with Bernie Madoff according to many that followed his case. Now I’m not here to discuss Sam’s innocence or his guilt because I don’t want to get into the weeds of all of that here.What I do know is that Sam’s case had a political component to it as he had been a big donor to the Democrat party on top of the fact that he was involved with crypto. However, in his interview with Tucker Carlson he had communicated that he had been shocked at the level of corruption in Washington D.C. regarding the regulatory authorities surrounding the area of his business where he was looking to gain some traction regarding the crypto market.However, according to Sam towards the end of his time he had actually transitioned to making donations to Republican causes in an effort to get some movement with his business after hitting multiple dead ends with his previous efforts.Oddly enough, and as a sidenote, Sam was at one time being detained at the same prison facility as Sean Diddy Combs, but that’s currently no longer the case.Regardless of all of that I wanted to touch on a few things that really stood out to me in Sam’s interview with Tucker that really caught me by surprise.For starters, to be completely transparent I never really followed Sam’s case that closely when he was in the news on almost a daily basis. Yes, he was everywhere I and I knew what he was involved with, but given my normal dive into things when exploring the current events of the day I never really did that deeper dive into Sam’s story.There’s no particular explanation as to why I didn’t, other than to say that at the time I had been preoccupied with other stories that I had more of an interest in.Now having said that at one point during his interview Tucker started asking him about some of the main differences in prison compared to his experiences in the free world. Like most of Tucker’s interviews they had a very candid conversation with one another about the circumstances of his life.During one point of the conversation Sam was telling Tucker about the prison environment and how much different it was from everything involving the activities that he was able to engage in to what he spent most of his time doing, which according to Sam, involved a lot of reading and working on his case whenever he is given the opportunity to do so.In addition to this he also spoke about the challenge of his environment not allowing him to really pursue something of higher purpose. I want to briefly interject here as I know people who serve inside prison and are definitely pursuing a higher purpose, but this is obviously Sam’s perspective at this moment. However, given what he had lost with this crypto business I suppose I can see where he’s coming from.After communicating this, and many other differences he has had to adjust to in prison, it was almost a passing comment where he told Tucker that the one thing he noticed with the other inmates is that they really liked playing chess.This was surprising enough to Tucker, but what Sam told Tucker next was even more surprising. Sam said that many of the guys in the prison where he was that played chess barely had a middle school or high school education, but despite that fact they could beat him at chess on a regular basis.Sam elaborated on this further by stating that the reason he believed that they could do this was because he recognized that people possess a wide range of talents, instincts, and inherent gifts that just don’t always match up to what’s on paper beside their names. When Sam communicated this it was something that really stood out to Tucker and quite honestly it stood out to me as well.The reason this got my attention was because this demonstrated to me that Sam Bankman-Fried has a good amount of self-awareness to even be capable of making that observation.Given the fact that he’s now in prison after having been where he was before this was obviously a very honest attribute that I saw with this man as he continued his conversation with Tucker Carlson. I believe he already possessed this trait when he was out in the free world, but the fact that he would also share this as an observable moment of fascination for himself in prison is also quite astute. In other words, it was a learning experience and one who is willing to learn is on a path towards wisdom.Now I want you to hold onto that and I want to talk about another video that I saw this week with Glenn Beck that revolves around this entire idea of people who have been blessed with good instincts.“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”-Proverbs 1:7So in my recent article/podcast titled Thermonuclear Boycott I took the time to dive into the geopolitical concerns surrounding the weakening of the dollar, the current rise of gold in the financial system, and my concerns surrounding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) current efforts to achieve global hegemony.I would strongly encourage you to listen or read that episode as I highlight many of the real concerns that you won’t hear coming from the Administrative State Media (ASM). However, Glenn Beck shares my same concerns, but he also came out with a video this week where he offered a different take on the role of gold, the U.S. dollar, and the possible direction concerning the financial situation of the United States.Like many of us Glenn has been expressing his same concerns surrounding the weakening of the dollar and the rise of the price of gold as in the past week gold has skyrocketed to almost $4500 per ounce.Up till now Glenn has also been saying what I’ve been hearing from many other people about the fact that they don’t really want to be around in a world where gold actually hits $5000 per ounce. The reason for this is because of the inverse relationship gold has with the strength of the dollar and this would signal a strong loss of trust in the U.S. dollar. Obviously this would be a tremendous concern and is something that many people have been warning about now for several years.However, in his talk this past week Glenn Beck offered an alternative perspective in terms of what actually could be happening regarding the current upward path of gold and the financial situation of the United States, and if his hypothesis is correct we are on the verge of witnessing one of the most incredible events in our nation’s history.So to properly frame this I want to give you a snapshot of the current perspective on the United States financial situation along with what’s going on across the geopolitical landscape. The common line of thinking regarding the financial situation of the United States has been one that looks grim. After all, up until recently there’s been a series of wars breaking out signaling global instability, the national debt is now $38 trillion and counting, and there’s absolutely zero political will in the U.S. Congress and Senate to cut any meaningful spending whatsoever.At the current trajectory we’ve seen gold explode in value, we’ve seen the balance sheet of the country explode, and we’ve seen the threat of the CCP’s economic warfare with their attempt to cut us off from rare earth minerals…a threat that could theoretically grind our manufacturing to a halt in a matter of five or six weeks.When you take all of this into account it seems that we are living on the edge of a cliff with no other options in sight, but just like what always occurs with the usual habits of human nature we always seem to hyperfocus on the negative while allowing it to distract us from our faith and the positive actions that are going on right in front of us.So what exactly am I talking about?Well in his recent talk this past week Glenn Beck offered up a very different perspective on everything that has been happening across the board.First of all, as we look at all of the chaos that’s happening with the recent surge in the price of gold, the bombing of the drug boats down in the South Caribbean, and the recent economic warfare regarding tariffs and rare earth minerals with China it seems like things are spinning out of control.However, like anything in life where there are significant changes taking place there’s going to be an uncomfortable adaptation phase. Now where did you hear that before?Oh yeah, I touched on that already when I explained this to you earlier regarding my own experience in training in the discipline of Muay Thai. I explained this to you with the uncomfortable phase that my body went through during the process of physical adaptation before I was able to reach a point where the stimulus of the stress became more settled. Once I had obtained this elevated level of physical performance I could function on a different plane than I had previously been accustomed to prior to the adaptation taking place.Now keeping this in mind this is essentially the hypothesis that Glenn Beck highlighted this week regarding what our country is going through now with President Trump at the helm. As Glenn Beck pointed out, the usual grim look regarding what the price of gold traditionally signals in terms of the strength of the dollar is obviously very concerning.However, he also reminded us that we’re not living in traditional times as the one outlier that is known for having the ability to completely invert everything because of his own gift of having very good instincts is President Donald J. Trump. Like Sam Bankman-Fried was able to recognize this gift of good instincts while playing chess with the inmates at his detention center, I know you can recognize this with the President in the current political arena.Now regarding the concern surrounding the growing debt, Glenn points out that the one thing we all naturally want to focus on that none of our politicians ever want to do is to cut spending. This is obviously needed in a very significant way, but the simple reality of the world that we’re living in is that nobody is going to step up to cut any significant spending through the usual political process.However, he reminds us that what President Trump believes in the most is growing the bottom line. In other words, his viewpoint is that as a business or a country we can grow our way out of things and it’s with this perspective that the picture of all the chaos starts to change when you start paying attention to what’s going on.For starters, this idea of growth is a strategy that could drastically pull down the deficit if it is carried out in a way that makes sense. As Beck points out one of the ways this can be done right out of the gate is with the revaluation of gold.In other words, right now the government only values its alleged store of gold reserves of 260 million troy ounces at $35 an ounce.Now why is this the case?The reason that the price of this gold is valued at $35 an ounce is because that’s what FDR set the price at back in the 1930’s. Therefore, on paper our 260 million ounces of gold is only valued at $9 billion.However, the current value of an ounce of gold is priced at nearly $4500 per ounce in the current market. This is obviously far greater of an adjustment in the price per ounce compared to the set price of $35 an ounce that FDR placed on the precious metal in the 1930s. Now with this adjusted value that $9 billion value now suddenly goes to $1.1 trillion in value.This adjustment is what is known in accounting as the mark to market value which means you mark the price to what the market value is at the time. As an example, if you bought and paid for a house in the 1980s the price of that home, if it is kept up to quality, in today’s market would be worth considerably more when you adjust its value to today’s real estate market.In other words, the United States is actually sitting on a trillion dollar asset and we’re not even counting it. Now knowing this it is absolutely insane that this hasn’t been thought about before.This adjustment would be massive as it would drastically shift the debt to asset ratio of our country while also strengthening the dollar and simultaneously shrinking the deficit on paper literally overnight.Now as you look at this and then combine it with all of the multiple deals of $8-$10 trillion that President Trump has closed with foreign investments coming into the country, his belief in the growth of the economy, the newly implemented H1b visa fees, and the trillions of dollars of tariff revenue that is expected to flow into the economy next year, all of the sudden the picture doesn’t look so desperate because we’re actually growing at a massive scale.In other words, by looking at these actions taking place it’s like you can start to take notice of the movements of the economic and global landscape before the actual movements take place. Just like with my example of when I was sparring in fight training, these actionable events involve President Trump telegraphing his moves just as that fighter’s body telegraphed his moves when I was sparring with him. The difference is that you and I are already familiar with this fighter and know that he’s quite dangerous because despite all of these years many people still don’t know how to read him. After all, this is what makes him such a great fighter.There’s also more to this story here involving the possible selling off of millions of acres of federal land. As Beck reiterated this has absolutely nothing to do with selling national parks. This land does not involve any national parks, but is rather unusable land that can be used for the purpose of development in the private sector.Now it gets even better because what do we currently find ourselves in the middle of right now? Just in case you need a reminder we’re in the middle of a government shutdown where the hope is that head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russ Vought (aka Darth Vader) can kick in some meaningful cuts to eliminate hundreds of thousands, or hopefully millions, of redundant and wasteful government bureaucratic positions in order to enforce some actual needed cuts.Now if all of this isn’t shocking enough the actions of the President are possibly going even deeper with the termination of the drugboats down in the South Caribbean.You see the elimination of those boats down in the Caribbean have been sold to the public as being a part of a modern day drug war. Granted it’s true that the U.S. military is hammering the cartel’s supply chains and wreaking havoc on their bottom line with these targeted drone strikes on their drug boats.However, the other problem is that Venezuela has descended into Communism and the CCP has been all over South America as they’ve been aggressive in the expansion of their Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) throughout all of that region.You see, the CCP, Venezuela, and Colombia have all had a strong alliance now for quite a while and those drug boats we’re blowing up with our heavy military presence in the Caribbean creates a strong pressure cooker for the CCP and their presence in that region. Sure the hits on the drug boats are framed by the ASM as being a modern day drug war, but in reality it has more to do with making life difficult for the CCP.This not only stalls their efforts to enforce chemical warfare against the United States with their trafficking of fentanyl, but it also slams the brakes on the BRI campaign and drives a wedge between the CCP’s alliance with Colombia and Venezuela.The more pressure we can create in South America the more we stand to create a natural scenario of possibly triggering a grassroots regime change to naturally occur within those countries among their own citizens.Just as the Sun Tzu quote states that I Ied off with at the beginning of this episode If sovereign and subject are in accord, we could be putting division between them. This could also lay the groundwork for a new alliance among the United States, Colombia, and Venezuela.Keep in mind that Venezuela is probably the richest country on the planet in terms of its natural resources as well. A new alliance between the United States and Venezuela would shore up the Western Hemisphere in a modern day version of the Monroe Doctrine.The Wrap UpLook, there’s no doubt I believe our country is going through some transitional pains right now, but the fact is that President Trump was left with an absolute dumpster fire of a mess to clean up due to decades of inept leaders that were controlled by a corrupt system that we now identify as the Administrative State (also the Deep State).The fact is that to correct such wide scale corruption and failure, when it involves fighting against domestic enemies of the most powerful nation in world history, the transition period is not going to be smooth. In fact, such a transition is going to be very nasty and as nasty as it has already been, it’s going to get even worse before it gets better.If you think about it, the entire country has had to adapt to getting used to understanding how to combat this modern version of asymmetric warfare. We’re literally seeing the worst elements of evil that have infiltrated all of our major institutions now calling for the literal death of their opposition.Whether you like it or not, this is the reality that we’re up against. However, the country has been able to make it this far after the corrupt election of 2020, after going up against a multi-billion dollar propaganda media, and direct violence to political opponents that fought against the system.Now it’s you and I (the citizens) that drive the narrative along with alternative media platforms such as this one that tirelessly work to be the needed forces of nature in order to take the fight to the enemy. The reality is that the country is still going through an adaptation phase on its way to getting into fighting shape for this modern age of cultural and political warfare.However, thanks to the Lord almighty there’s a giant revival happening across the globe, and the more we lean on Jesus the more victories we’ll continue to pile up.The reality is that defeating these evil Marxists is unfortunately an uncomfortable process that is needed to save this Republic. Just like we need to adjust the value of gold with the day’s mark to market value, we need to act to adjust the mark to market value of our human individuality for this modern age in order to achieve victory in this Grand Strategy chess match between good and evil.Do you see the reordering of the entire geopolitical landscape taking place with President Trump’s plan of action?Do you see the revaluation of gold or some other asset playing a huge role in this Grand Strategy?Remember that this is a reader supported publication and your support is what keeps me going so if you like this message please make sure you hit the like button, share this article, and post up your feedback in the comment section below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“If we’re to continue to advance world peace and human freedom, America must remain strong.... Peace through Strength works.”–Ronald ReaganAs a quick disclaimer for today’s episode I want to begin by first saying that I’m not a financial advisor and I do not give financial advice to anyone. However, I do believe in the power of information and the significance of you taking valuable information and researching that for yourself in order for you to make your own decisions. I just wanted to be clear about that in regards to today’s episode before I get into the weeds of this discussion because today’s topic is full of powerful information that many would consider to be valuable.Whenever we hear that phrase Peace Through Strength everyone is always quick to point to Ronald Reagan’s famous quote. There’s certainly no doubt that Reagan’s position on this philosophy was certainly sound during his days of occupying the White House.However, Ronald Reagan’s version of Peace Through Strength simply does not apply to the current world circumstances as today we find ourselves living in a very different world compared to the age of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.The main difference for this is due to the increased growth of globalization. According to the International Monetary Fund the value of trade (involving goods and services) as a percentage of world GDP increased from 42.1% in 1980 to 62.1% up to 2007.Now I wanted to share that statistic with you because it’s one of many that several of these organizations like to spit out to tell you that countries have gotten richer due to the implementation of globalization. Granted this is somewhat true, but it’s also very misleading.Additionally, the point here is that the expansion of globalization has been significant since the days of President Ronald Reagan and it’s resulted in some big changes to the economic framework of the United States. As we’re learning today here in 2025 those changes have not been for the better.When the globalists here in the U.S. talk about how the country has gotten richer they always leave out a significant detail regarding who has gotten richer. In other words, if the country has gotten richer then who inside the country has actually gotten richer?After all, when generalized statements are made in terms of talk about wealth creation, growth, etc. the understanding from such statements must always be anchored to something which more specifically defines the meaning. In other words, is the growth due to the increased growth of start-up entrepreneurship, a growing economy, or an explosive growth of a middle class?Well when you look at this the answer starts to become much clearer as the answer to that certainly has not been the middle class. In fact, the percentage of adults in middle-income households has dropped from 61% down to 50% between the years of 1971 and 2021 according to the Pew Research Center.So if the middle class hasn’t gotten richer due to globalism then who has? Well according to the Brookings Institute the answer to that question would be the rich.According to the Brookings Institute this is due to international trade and the offshoring of manufacturing. These actions have resulted in the suppressed wages with lower skilled jobs and even though this impacts manufacturing it also extends beyond manufacturing as digital globalization expands the range of activities such as services that are deliverable across borders.Now all of this may sound a little complex, but in reality it isn’t. Let’s take a moment and simplify this so that it makes sense.What all of this basically means is that back in the 1980s that we, here in the United States, were actually good at making our own stuff. We made our own stuff because we were a manufacturing powerhouse.However, because of the growth of globalization in the decades that followed we have gone from being able to make a lot of our own stuff to now allowing other countries such as China to make a lot of our stuff for us.Autodidact or DeathNow taking that last part about China into consideration, how much sense does it make that we have allowed our biggest enemy to control such a significant part of our manufacturing of goods? This is the insane scenario that we currently find ourselves in as just this past week we find the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) declaring full blown economic warfare against us here in the United States as they take aim at trying to cut the U.S. off from access to rare earth minerals.Now getting back to my original point, there’s a big difference between the age of Ronald Reagan compared to the age of Donald Trump because of the factors that I’ve outlined here regarding the transformation of the economic landscape. This is particularly significant with the current involvement concerning the nefarious mercantilist trade practices of the Dragon, the threat of the Dragon’s military buildup, and our mistake in underwriting the entire project by getting into business with these CCP thugs.So understanding all of this it is vitally important to also understand that the entire concept of Peace Through Strength is completely different regarding the very definition of that concept today compared to what it meant in the 1980s.As I stated before in the 1980s the United States was a manufacturing powerhouse and we had just under a trillion dollars on the balance sheet back then. Now compare that scenario with today where we’ve offshored a significant portion of our manufacturing to our enemy in the CCP, on top of the fact that we have over 37 trillion dollars on the balance sheet today according to the U.S. debt clock.Of course, if you’re listening to this episode a month or so after it was published we may already be at 38 trillion dollars in debt and counting, but I digress.So given this reality concerning the difference in the geopolitical landscape with today’s world it’s changed the very definition of what Peace Through Strength means and nobody has demonstrated this better than President Trump.You see, Peace Through Strength means absolutely nothing if it simply involves building up military might alone. In other words, Peace Through Strength means absolutely nothing unless you have the political will to enforce that strength, whether it be through military or through economic action as we have seen President Trump do here today with the implementation of his tariffs.So why is all of this important to understand?It’s vitally important for you to understand that the only way that we are going to have peace in this world is if we’re willing to separate all of our major business ties with China. We must fully decouple and unplug from the CCP as they have proven that they want to exert their will over the entire world through economic sanctions, blackmail, elite capture, and subversion.The CCP is not a competitor to the United States as the Administrative State Media (ASM) likes to frame that relationship. They are our mortal enemy and they have communicated this both in their military doctrine and in their actions involving Unrestricted Warfare.Just to throw out some examples for you involving their efforts with Unrestricted Warfare we’ve already seen the CCP do this with their implementation of biological warfare with the pandemic involving their Wuhan lab, we’ve seen it with their fentanyl production in the form of chemical warfare, and we’re now seeing it with their attempt to cut off the rare earth minerals for the purpose of full scale economic warfare.This is why President Trump has hit them with even more aggressive tariffs in order to push back on the CCP to stress their financial and struggling economic system even more than it is already stressed. The tariffs are also a play to create revenue flow for our nation, as well as to incentivize the manufacturing to return home to U.S. soil in order to avoid the tariffs.Now the thing that you have to understand is that it’s been said that Xi Jinping has run the numbers on all of this and he believes that his people can endure the economic pain and suffering better than the weak and greedy foreign devils in America which will result in his triumph. I suppose this is why Xi also aligned very well with the globalists as they shared an equal level of hate and disdain for both you and me.After all, Xi and the globalists both share the theory of how the citizens are nothing more than cattle that should keep their mouths shut and only exist for the sole purpose of being nothing more than consumers for the world market that they desire to control. In the eyes of Xi Jinping and the globalists we, as the proletariat, are nothing more than automatons that are supposed to do what we’re told.So now the question is going to be whether or not Xi and the globalists are correct in their assessment. Many smart American Patriots have been warning about this coming war for quite a while now and believe that we can absolutely win this economic war as long as we maintain our will, never give up, and use every single tool in the toolbox in order to pull off a victory.In the CCP’s ongoing efforts of waging economic warfare against the United States we’ve seen how they’ve been heading up the BRICS nations in an attempt to de-dollarize while they also simultaneously are working to stockpile as much gold as possible.You have probably noticed how we’ve been suffering with inflation for the past several years after the Biden regime continued to print trillions of dollars adding to, and aiding in, the accelerated growth of large numbered dollar debt.After Biden made the stupid move to remove Russia from the SWIFT banking system at the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine war, as well as, threatening to permanently seize (basically steal) Russian assets the rest of the world took notice.You see since WWII the United States dollar has been the world reserve currency. Having the dollar as the world reserve currency has enabled us as a nation to borrow money more easily and to levy financial sanctions against other nations. It’s a huge benefit to us as a nation unless that status is abused and the Biden regime certainly abused it.The SWIFT banking system is a system that sends secure payment instructions between institutions for secure international transactions to occur. At the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine war the Biden regime coordinated with other European countries to get Russian banks removed from the SWIFT banking system in an attempt to economically cripple Russia.Once Biden did this then the rest of the world started thinking that if we could do that to Russia then what would stop the U.S. from doing that to the rest of us? Biden’s abuse of the system is what pushed the world over the edge in order to more aggressively start the process of de-dollarization with the established BRICS nations which is an acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.Now part of that de-dollarization effort involves the behavior of these BRICS nations and the central banks buying up record levels of gold as they are looking to dump dollar holdings. Because they are dumping dollar holdings they must look to some other form of asset to hold and that primary asset holding is steadily and more frequently becoming gold.In a recent interview with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon he stated that he believed gold “could easily go to $5,000, $10,000 in environments like this. This is one of the few times in my life it’s semi-rational to have some in your portfolio.” Just to give you some additional perspective on that quote Jamie Dimon has traditionally been the voice of NOT liking gold at all for years. With that quote he’s clearly not enjoying having to eat the new reality of gold’s role returning to dominance in the global financial marketplace. Guys like that hate being humbled.It’s become clear that gold has shifted in its role in a more profound way than just being seen as solely being a hedge. It’s more and more appearing to be accepted as a more dominant asset hold for the central banks as they continue to set records on their purchase of the precious metal.Now I want to shift gears here for a bit to talk about a recent article that came out from the Telegraph where the interesting title of the article basically speaks for itself. The article’s title is the following: Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified.This article goes into detail about how many Western executives that have visited the floors of these manufacturing facilities in China come back shaken at the experience as they talk about the mass scale of automation, technological advancement, and wide scale robotics that are being used on the assembly lines for building cars and phones.It goes on to talk about how they even have vast dark factories where there are so many robots that do the work alone that there’s no reason to even keep the lights on for people because there aren’t any around. It details how they’ve mastered enough automation that there are hardly any people around for anything other than a few personnel on site just to make sure that the facilities are operating properly.Even though the article touts the impressive expansion of the widescale automation in their manufacturing process it also points out that much of the motivation behind the widescale automation isn’t to increase production for the purpose of cutting costs for a better bottomline, but is done out of the necessity to compensate for a shortage of workers in order to mitigate the impact of its loss of human labor.Regardless of the more accurate reason as to why the CCP has been aiming to expand their technological capabilities, the reality is that it’s a legitimate concern given what we do know about how far they’ve come with the advancement of their manufacturing.After all, they’ve industrialized their society off the backs of our technology because they’re great at stealing our intellectual property, however it was our fault to get into business with them in the first place.When you consider the fact that it was the industrial strength of the United States that scared the Japanese officers into submission in WWII, it makes this observation from those Western executives that visited those Chinese factories a major concern.Now I mentioned how the CCP has now engaged in full blown economic warfare by trying to cut the U.S. off from the rare earth minerals. The biggest reason for this has to do with the AI arms race that’s taking place between the United States and China.I believe it was Vladimir Putin who said that whoever becomes the leader in AI technology will be the ruler of the world. Knowing this it’s a big concern that China has made the aggressive and direct move to try and cut the U.S. off from rare earth minerals.Given this fact, combined with the snapshot we got regarding the automation of their manufacturing capabilities, we can honestly say that we’re currently finding ourselves in quite a concerning predicament as a nation. With that being said, thank God we have President Donald Trump in office at this time in our history.So what is the point of all of this?In other words, what is the main reason for me telling you about all of this besides doing my best to try and keep you up at night with this terrifying situation that we currently find ourselves in?Well I certainly don’t want you to be terrified, but I do want you to be informed. You see, I believe the reason we are in this predicament in the first place is because our society has been asleep at the wheel for way too long while these nefarious actors, both in the CCP and here domestically, have created this problematic environment for us.Our domestic enemies have created a lying Administrative State Media (ASM) which has also resulted in a brainwashed and intellectually lazy population for quite some time now, but fortunately a lot of that has changed.So to answer the question I’m telling you all of this to remind you that both you and myself still have agency. In other words, we still have a mind, a body, and the opportunity to take actions right here and now in order to shift the energy on this economic battlefield back onto our side of the football so that we can go on offense and advance on the enemy.This is exactly why we all individually need to demonstrate our ability to be an autodidact so that we survive as a nation. In case you’re not familiar with that term it’s a sophisticated word that basically means to be self-taught. I wanted this episode, like all of my episodes, to offer you valuable information for you to take and apply to your own life by taking action in your own life.At the end of the day each of us can either be an autodidact or we’re doomed. This is exactly what I mean when I talk about being a Zenith, particularly during these chaotic times.The Wrap UpI’ve already mentioned that the CCP has been working on stockpiling gold in their efforts to de-dollarize with the other BRICS nations. I’ve also talked about how the CCP currently manufactures a significant amount of our goods.Knowing both of these things I have a hypothesis regarding some outcomes that we can achieve as a result of our actions as a society if we play our cards right. Once again, I want to remind you that I’m not a financial advisor and I don’t give financial advice to anyone. With that being said I am in no way attempting to do that here.So when I tell you my hypothesis here it’s just me sharing with you what I think regarding the current economic and geopolitical landscape in regards to our relationship with the CCP.Given the fact that gold and silver are both smashing record highs due to the CCP’s attempt to accelerate global de-dollarization, their efforts are aimed at collapsing our dollar since we are currently dealing with forty year record high inflation.Granted, President Trump is feverishly working to move heaven and earth to accelerate the growth of our economy, working to end all the wars, cleaning up the deep state, overcoming unconstitutional rulings from radical Marxist judges, and fighting more constant resistance from his own Republican party than the Democratic party.Ok, keep that picture of what I just described in mind while also recognizing that China and the central banks are currently stockpiling gold for a reason. With the de-dollarization effort accelerating, while the price of gold surges, this is a clear indicator that there is a global loss of trust in the dollar. Granted, China is fueling that distrust in the U.S. dollar, but once again, I’m just giving you my hypothesis here.With this loss of trust in the dollar China is waging full blown economic warfare against us and they’re also in a race to stockpile as much gold as possible. They started the effort having bought a significant amount of gold at a lower cost which in turn aids in driving up the price of the precious metal. As the metal becomes more expensive it becomes harder for others to purchase it themselves for the purpose of retaining the asset as a sort of safeguard against a collapsing dollar.However, a lot of investors look solely at the price of gold and believe that they should have gotten in on the purchase of the metal when it was priced much lower. This perspective basically has them believing that there is no more bite left to take from this apple.Now having said that, I just went through a detailed explanation of what drives the price of gold. Simultaneously we know the Federal Reserve is continuing to print money as fast as possible while the effort of de-dollarization is accelerating.Furthermore, it’s pretty clear that we are heading for a lot of societal turbulence here in the near future with the domestic civil war that’s closing in with the Marxists while the economic war with China is just getting started.Given all of these factors I don’t see an end in sight in regards to the price of gold slowing down. Therefore, in my own personal view I believe that investing in gold is a smart decision which is why I have invested in the precious metal myself.Now I also believe that with China’s efforts to accelerate the de-dollarization of the world that U.S. citizens can directly counter the CCP in economic warfare. I believe that if U.S. citizens can understand gold’s role in the geopolitical landscape then the citizens can make the decision to invest in the metal across individual households.By doing this on an individual basis I believe that, as a nation, we can sort of create our own version of a decentralized gold standard across individual households. I believe by doing this now that it will enable us to have an asset holding that will be a safeguard against de-dollarization.Now in addition to the currency war involving the dollar there’s also the issue of China’s expansion in industrial manufacturing for the purpose of making a lot of the products that we consume as Americans.I already touched on President Trump’s efforts to pushback on this with his use of tariffs. Of course, it’s great that President Trump is driving the action of economic warfare against the CCP along with the rest of the federal government, but I believe that we can further accelerate the economic collapse of China as consumers if we take actions ourselves to refuse to buy products that are manufactured in China.Now obviously this will be a challenge, but major purchases could make a huge difference in regards to directing more impactful hits to products that are made with the use of their more sophisticated manufacturing.So why is it important for us as citizens to get involved with an effort to accelerate the collapse of the Chinese economy?Well aside from the CCP aiming to destroy us, the significance of the action of the U.S. citizen getting involved in the collapse of the Chinese economy has to do with the ancient Chinese political concept that is known as the Mandate of Heaven.The Mandate of Heaven is viewed in Chinese culture as the divine source of authority and the right to rule of Chinese kings and emperors. With this belief it is said that the ruler is given great power, but with that power the ruler is also obligated to use that power for the good of his own people. However, if the ruler fails to do what is good for his people then the state would suffer terrible disasters and the emperor would lose his right to govern.Therefore, I believe that as individual citizens we can take action to spread a movement across the nation to accelerate the collapse of the Chinese economy by creating a sort of thermonuclear boycott in order to create the circumstances for the Chinese President to lose the Mandate of Heaven.According to the New Federal State of China it is said that the working class of China known as Laobaixing could overthrow the CCP within a hundred days without a single shot being fired if the United States would economically decouple from the regime.Well it appears as if the United States and China have arrived at this very crossroad and now is the time to make sure we are autodidact in terms of our environment as our focus, grit, and determination will be put to the test.What actions do you see the United States taking that can be the difference maker in this economic war with China?How big of a role do you see gold playing in the everchanging global financial landscape?Please share your feedback here in the comment section below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit brandonrichey.substack.comAs a note today's episode will only be available in full length if you're an All-Access paid member on my Substack, however please do not click off as I'm going to give you a substantial preview of today's episode here. To access this episode in full length simply visit me at brandonrichey.substack.com and sign up to be an All-Access paid member for either $5 per month, or for $50 for the entire year. You can also download the Substack App and get a free preview of the episode that way as well. Thank you very much for you support of the show. The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours. They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers. All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you. They will be the evidence of God’s judgment on you and your descendants forever. The Lord blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.”Deuteronomy 28: 43-47I get so sick of milk toast anti-Trump libertarians and anti-Trump conservatives whining about how the violence and rhetoric that we see taking place literally right in front of our eyes everyday is a both sides issue. No, it isn’t a both sides issue and only a moron would say that.If any of these people ever went to the trouble to pick up a history book then they would understand what the phrase conquest ethic means in regards to history every single time a nation or society faces a watershed moment like the one we’re witnessing right now in this very moment in history.A conquest ethic involves a system of beliefs and principles that lead to the actions of one group of people subjugating another group of people often by using coercive political means and military force. This is done by one group of people for the purpose of gaining control of the opposing group’s land, people, and resources.The conquest ethic is documented throughout history over and over again since Biblical times. However, in what you might consider to be more recent history we have seen this take place within countries with the actions of the aggressors typically building out these forceful movements within the construct of their society’s institutions.This is how they lay the groundwork before these movements bubble up and result in harsh actions that can be seen with physical enforcers using their military and other violent political groups to impose their will onto the rest of society. This type of behavior is what we would consider to be terroristic by today’s standards.We’ve literally seen all of this play out before with the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, 1930s Nazi Germany, Mao’s Red Guard Cultural Revolution, and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Now we’re seeing this same playbook right here in front of us in the United States of America with groups associated with the Communist left such as Antifa and BLM. If you need a more current concrete visual all you have to do is simply focus on Portland, Oregon at this very moment.A watershed moment is defined as an event that marks a key turning point, or irreversible moment, such as the key development of something in regards to a moment in history. With that being said, it’s obviously no coincidence that Charlie Kirk’s organization is called Turning Point given the watershed moment that we’re currently living in now in this very moment in history.If you’re a regular reader, or listener, to this platform then you’re very aware of what is happening. However, just like any chess piece on the playing board the pieces are always moving and the game is always in a state of change as the war for power and control over our society rages on day by day.“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”― Vladimir Ilyich LeninGiven that quote by Lenin it’s obvious that we’re living in weeks where literal decades are happening right in front of us. This war that we find ourselves in the middle of is actually the manifestation of WWIII.For some the battle lines aren’t too clear as there are still people that look at this political war through the old lenses of being Republicans versus Democrats, or Conservatives versus Liberals. Truthfully those old monikers have been dead for a while now and the reality is that many people who were told that the other team was evil are starting to break free from their old labels to reach out and have genuine conversations with people that they traditionally were told to stay away from.This is quite a phenomenon as I myself have experienced this with numerous people that I used to not see eye to eye with on anything prior to the pandemic. However, now I find myself aligning with these very people quite often more than I do with people that I had traditionally thought shared my values. The pandemic was the first social experiment that managed to turn many relationships on their heads while simultaneously opening the door for new and unexpected relationships to thrive.For the record, I wouldn’t have it any other way with the friends and people that I have found common ground with here in the last five years. I’m convinced, without a doubt, that this was God’s way to use this current watershed moment in history to open the doors for all of us to find one another during this time so that we could use our strengths to save this Republic. I firmly believe this with all of my heart.Now I mentioned how I’ve certainly made new friends during this cultural and political realignment that has been going on now for the past five years. It’s been quite something to experience on an individual basis and I’m sure you’ve probably experienced much of the same. The beauty of this is that we can look beyond our own lives and into the realm of media and culture in order to witness this happening as well.From Rigid To FlexibleAnother key observation here of how one particular individual is breaking away from his rigid side of the “political aisle” in order to seek understanding of the current events can be seen with the actor Charlie Sheen.It was quite a pleasant surprise to learn that he has apparently worked to turn his life around with sobriety and has even gone further to talk about his new book and his new series that can be seen on Netflix that covers his life story and his past struggles with addiction.I recently learned of Sheen’s sobriety and his awakening of the events of the world in a couple of interviews he was doing. However, the one that first got my attention was his interview with Joe Rogan.

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”― Thomas JeffersonThere are a lot of interesting and unique things on this planet. To me one of those interesting and unique things is the process that is involved in the formation of a diamond.Diamonds have a very unique chemical composition and are formed deep within the mantle of the earth. In fact, they are very unique as they have to be formed in a particular way as the conditions have to be right for the process to occur. This must take place in the mantle where tremendous heat and pressure are present.The initial rough diamonds come out of the deep mines looking like small worthless pebbles. Once they are extracted from the mine in this raw form this is why they must be carefully cleaned in order to remove all of the unwanted exterior and impurities.It’s at this point that skilled diamond cutters prepare these rough diamonds for being used as gemstones. Diamonds are made of the hardest material in the world and because of this only a diamond can be used to mechanically cut and shape another diamond. There is a significant skill of precision that is required to do this and the more the diamond is cut the more it gives off a sparkle.The intense heat, pressure, and the process of cutting are all necessary steps that are involved in the effort of making a quality diamond. Each one of these stressors are necessary not only for satisfying the societal demand for possessing a beautiful gemstone, but for producing the strongest and most resilient gemstone that exists on all of planet earth.The fact is that the diamond is the end product and the direct result of a series of stressors that shape it into the ultimate gemstone that it is. The stress that is imposed onto this gemstone is exactly what is needed to produce the finest, strongest, and arguably the most beautiful stone that has ever been discovered.Aside from the diamond being recognized as an expensive rock at your local jewelry store, it’s also the hardest and strongest material on the planet. The end result and strength of the diamond is formed out of a literal pressure cooker and cut to form by its own kind.The DesignationI want to shift gears here and talk about the recent course of action that we’re seeing coming from the White House since the assassination of Charlie Kirk.Many in the MAGA movement have been calling for an equal application of the law now for years as many decent Americans have been on the receiving end of relentless lawfare, riots, harassment, and direct violence from what many would describe to be radical leftist groups now for over a decade.For the past ten years it seems that these groups have accelerated in their destruction and harassment of society with organized riots. They’ve even gone so far as to take over large sections of communities throughout various places in Oregon.One demonstration that I mentioned in my most recent article Antifragile involved some anti-ICE protestors with Antifa affiliation. This group literally brought out a guillotine to a protest in Oregon in order to send a message to ICE.This protest was held outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Southwest Portland and the guillotine was to me a symbolic reminder of the type of sentiment that could be seen with the violent Jacobins back during the French Revolution.This particular protest took place back on September 1, 2025 which was only nine days before Charlie Kirk would be assassinated in Utah while simply sitting in a chair with a microphone as some students voiced their disagreement with Charlie just seconds before he was murdered.Just recently President Trump announced that he would start looking into taking direct action against certain left-wing groups that have been fomenting political violence. As a result President Trump announced on Truth Social that he would be designating Antifa as a major terrorist organization.This designation is significant because it will allow the process for authorities to begin digging into the financial trail involving groups and individuals who are responsible for funding this organization. It should also be noted that Charlie Kirk brought a lot of attention to Antifa during his career.NBC News reported the following:“The White House is exploring a wide variety of options to address left-wing political violence and the network of organizations that fuel and fund it," an administration official said. “The emphasis and focus are on criminal actions,” the official added, “not political speech.”That last part of the statement is important to understand because the radical left will try to spin this designation to say that this action of labeling domestic terrorists is a violation of the first amendment and that this designation can be weaponized against anyone who attempts to voice a different opinion. Believe it or not that statement is both correct and incorrect and I will elaborate on that very important point here.First, allow me to explain why this perspective is incorrect. For those on the left that adopt the belief that the terrorist designation can be weaponized against free speech I’ll explain how the problems here with holding that position are numerous.To begin with, this line of thinking demonstrates that if they are adopting that belief they fundamentally do not understand what it takes and who it takes to go about honoring and upholding the Constitution. This seems to be the current trend with those who are currently being critical of the MAGA movement and President Trump. These criticisms are typically directed towards President Trump’s actions involving his efforts relating to the mass deportations, the crackdown on crime in big cities using the National Guard, etc.However, President Trump is simply exercising his Article II Powers as the Executive as defined in the Constitution. As the Chief Executive he has broad powers to use for the purpose of protecting the country from enemies both foreign and domestic. If you’re a leftist, an anti-Trump libertarian, or a RINO reading this then take a moment and repeat that last sentence to yourself.Now just as I have already referenced in the article from NBC News, the administration official stated that the investigations will focus on criminal actions, not political speech. So regardless of where you fall along the spectrum here concerning your own political beliefs, please pause and take a moment to consider the fact that we have ALREADY seen the state get directly involved with censoring speech.This has been the case with direct governmental agency control concerning the FBI’s infiltration of both Facebook (now Meta) and Twitter prior to Elon Musk’s purchase of the company. Since this is a verifiable fact then why do those on the left, anti-Trump libertarians, and RINOs suddenly have a problem with the alleged infringement of the first amendment? Are they all suddenly suffering from amnesia with everything that has happened in the past five years?Both of these companies deplatformed President Trump, along with many other voices in the Populist and Conservative movement, back during the pandemic under the alleged control of Joe Biden when he was in office. As it turns out they were directly under the control of Biden’s DOJ according to the infamous Twitter files that were uncovered by Elon Musk and later reported on by investigative reporter Matt Tiabbi.These platforms were essentially commandeered and weaponized by the FBI, yet every Marxist, RINO, and anti-Trump libertarian is talking about how the actions of MAGA are infringing on free speech. Think about the absurdity of that claim.By the way, these authoritarians did this with impunity and with consistent regularity. This also resulted in the stealing of the 2020 election with the disinformation that they used to push out through these platforms and this directly impacted a variety of major societal issues.These issues involved everything surrounding the pandemic, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the disgusting mandates that led to many family members dying in the hospitals alone during the pandemic. Of course, this was all due to the forced social isolation that they had thrust upon us while they conveniently labeled it all as quarantine.So when the anti-MAGA fringe levy the accusation at President Trump for violating free speech, simply remind them just how corrupt and truly weaponized the Biden DOJ was just five years ago and that they should have their memory checked by a physician.In short, if you’re going to attempt to take the moral high ground on this, while literally having been silent for the past five years in the face of the Biden DOJ weaponizing social media platforms against political rivals, then you don’t deserve to be listened to at all.Basically the left’s argument that somehow Jimmy Kimmel’s firing was a violation of free speech is absurd. Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings were abysmal as he had dropped 72% of his key demographic in the past decade.Let’s also not forget that ABC was ordered to pay out $15 million to President Trump after George Stephanopoulos lied about President Trump being civilly liable for rape against E. Jean Carroll. It’s pretty obvious ABC has a track record of allowing their employees to not only spread lies, but to spread hateful and accusatory lies that aim to destroy people’s reputations.Furthermore, many people in the public eye that would consider themselves to be left leaning are showing that they’re more upset about Jimmy Kimmel losing his job rather than the loss of Charlie Kirk’s life. Besides, Kimmel got fired for lying about the shooter being part of the MAGA movement which was a blatant lie that was proven otherwise by direct text messages from the shooter himself. Granted, I question the authenticity of those text messages, however it still doesn’t make Kimmel’s statements any more honest than he communicated in the first place.Now I also mentioned that the left had a fear that the designation of domestic terrorists could be weaponized and I pointed out how they were partially correct in their statement and I will explain that here as well.I’ve obviously already pointed out how a weaponized DOJ was used against thousands of conservatives and populist voices throughout the term of the Biden regime. So if the left is trying to use the whole “boomerang” argument for this it just simply doesn’t apply here because they’ve already directly applied the standard themselves for being authoritarians over speech.However, if you take their point that the institutions could be weaponized and quickly examine that, it’s obviously true because they’ve literally already done it.This is how their statement is actually correct in a sense.I have touched on this particular aspect of institutional capture in a previous episode, but I’ll elaborate on it here again. The point I’m trying to make with you here is one that the so-called advocates for the Constitution and the advocates against the Constitution seemingly always argue about. However, I’d actually argue that the left has figured out what I’m about to tell you better than those who you would consider to be more right leaning in terms of the political spectrum.So what exactly has the left figured out that many of the RINOs and anti-Trump libertarians do not understand regarding the application of the Constitution and societal laws?The thing that the Marxists have mastered is the art of institutional capture. To me this has been blatantly obvious for years, but it was ESPECIALLY obvious during the pandemic.In short, the Marxists have taken over the universities, the media, the DOJ, the judicial system, the pharmaceutical system, and even the financial system in order to wage a direct war against the U.S. citizens and the entire MAGA coalition for many years now.They have been the ones promoting the violence and committing the violence that killed Charlie Kirk, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and the Ukrainian war refugee Iryna Zarutska. They have been the ones guilty of endless lawfare. They have been guilty of locking up their political opponents (see Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Roger Stone, Tina Peters, etc.).I’ve made the following point before, but I will repeat it here again because apparently a lot of people still don’t get it.The most insane thing to me is that all the sudden now many so-called conservatives, anti-Trump libertarians, and RINOs are saying that we have to be careful because the shoe will be on the other foot one day.Are you kidding me?The shoe has literally already been on the other foot for years now. How can anyone fail to recognize this reality?This is about seizing the institutions. The plan is simple. Purge the system. Get rid of the bad people and replace them with quality people.The end.The Wrap UpSince all of these so-called conservatives, anti-Trump libertarians, and Marxists love to bring up the Constitutional argument regarding everything that they want to subvert, such as this circus around the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, I want to remind both you and them of something.When it comes to a Constitutional argument I most always see pretty much everyone default to referencing the section including the amendments. However, the opening sentence of the Constitution begins with three simple words stating We The People.So why am I bringing this up to you?I’m bringing this up because when the Constitution begins the document with those three powerful words We The People, it establishes the fact that government power is derived directly from the citizenry. This is what is known as popular sovereignty which means that the Constitution exists for the purpose to serve the people and that the government’s authority is based on the consent of the people. Of course the tenth amendment backs this up as well.Therefore, in theory the will of the people must be honored. By the way this is why President Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral college vote by a landslide, thereby giving him a clear mandate to carry out the will of the people.However, I’ve already established how our nation’s institutions have been captured by Marxists who have weaponized those very institutions for the purpose of subverting the will of the people.They’ve done this by stripping away many rights within the Constitution, particularly the first amendment with the examples I gave with Facebook and the Twitter files.So what does this mean?This means that the will of the people has been subverted due to institutional capture. This has resulted in the degradation of the sovereignty of the American citizen, it’s resulted in state run media (see Facebook, the Twitter files, and USAID), and the outright theft of the election of 2020.Now since all of this has happened what does this mean? In short, it means the globalists, the left, anti-Trump libertarians, RINOs etc. have degraded and stolen the sovereignty of the United States citizen.Quite simply this means that we are currently living in a post-Constitutional era, therefore anyone on the left, the anti-Trump libertarians, and RINOs that are screaming about free speech being under attack regarding the Jimmy Kimmel suspension has no right to be heard. In fact, they have zero moral authority to dictate the terms and the rights that are to be interpreted, honored, and upheld regarding the Constitution that they are committed to violating.The reality that many people are currently awakening to is the fact that our society is full of communists who do not care about the Constitution. These people have proven without a shadow of a doubt that they will absolutely NOT honor any aspect of the Constitution with the ONLY exception being if it benefits them. However, even that is questionable.This is war and it is about purging the system of these monsters who would see you dead before canceling someone like Jimmy Kimmel due to him failing at his job.Pay attention and think about what is happening already.I opened this episode talking about the unique characteristics of a diamond and what all goes into the extraction of this prized gemstone from the mines. Additionally, I pointed out how the diamonds are rough and resemble worthless pebbles when they are initially pulled out of the ground.Because of this a diamond can only be cut and shaped by another diamond since it’s the hardest material on the planet.Like a diamond requires the use of another diamond to be cut and formed in order for it to reach its full potential the same thing must happen with people and the interactions that they have with one another.Charlie Kirk understood this concept very well and he learned that very concept from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as the Lord knows this better than anyone.“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another"–Proverbs 27:17Like a diamond we must sharpen one another as this is how we can all become a Zenith for this moment in history.With that in mind, understand that the survival of this Republic will be determined by who wins this political and cultural war. The only way for us to win this war is to make sure that we sharpen ourselves.We must do this and sharpen one another while continuing to expose the communists and anti-American coalitions of RINOs, anti-Trump libertarians, and others who are either themselves enemies to these United States, or are convinced that evil will somehow be capable of reason and cooperation.I hope you will join me to become a Zenith during these chaotic times.Are you currently engaging in anything during your daily activity to fight against the Cultural Marxists within our society?How do you think we should deal with these people within our society that are calling for our death if we do not abandon our own beliefs and principles for theirs?Make sure you hit the like button on this episode and share your feedback here in the comments below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”― George CarlinOver the past fifteen years or so there’s been a real disease that has spread throughout our society. If I can be honest I noticed when it started just based on my interactions with people and by simply observing the culture throughout my daily life.Before I reveal to you what I’m referring to I will share with you some symptoms of what I am talking about based on some previous conversations I’ve had with close friends and family over the past few years.I was hanging out with a few friends of mine a while back and we were talking about when the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) first came on the scene and what it was like seeing that type of competition in the early 1990s.Now I don’t know if you follow the UFC, or if you’ve ever seen any of the UFC fights when the sport first started. If you haven’t I will warn you because there was probably nothing else that even came close to this except for the gladiators that used to fight inside the Roman Colosseum long ago.In the early days of the UFC there was a shock factor that would either cause you to sit back in your seat at a loss for words, or you’d be jumping up and down in your living room with friends yelling at the TV. Now I’m not saying that the UFC still doesn’t produce some excitement among its biggest fans.Of course it does, but that isn’t the point. The point I’m talking about is the original raw idea and set up involving the sport when it first began. The original idea that got the sport started was what brought on the shock factor and kicked off the wild energy that would lay the foundation for the most successful professional fighting organization that has ever existed.So you’re probably wondering, Brandon, what was so special about the early days of the UFC?In the early days of the UFC the entire event was formed out of the old idea and question of which martial arts discipline is the most superior? In other words, is Kempo Karate the best, or would Kung Fu be the best? Would the best discipline be American boxing, or would that title belong to Muay Thai?You see the UFC was basically formed out of the idea where someone finally came to the table and decided that they were going to build this octagon shaped ring that was inside a steel cage. From here this is where they would throw two guys from different disciplines into the middle of that cage in order to put each discipline to the test.Now if that idea is not crazy enough it gets even wilder. At the time the UFC barely had any rules at all. No, I’m not making this up. In the first days of the UFC there were no weight classifications, no time limits, and the fighters fought in a single elimination tournament style event.The early days were also advertised as no rules, but they did have only three rules at the time. There was no biting, no eye gouging, and no fish-hooking. Groin strikes were not disallowed, but were frowned upon.Now when looking at the formation of the UFC in its early days it’s no mystery as to why the sport got the level of attention that it did. Like anything else in its inception it was honest, raw, and full of personality and energy.Sure, the sport of UFC wasn’t an immediate household success and it took a few years to work through some controversy, some regulation, and some general growing pains, but the product had a rabid base of supporters that would ensure its success. The same thing can be said for most every other sport as well involving NASCAR, the NFL, and Wrestling Entertainment.However, like most any major sport, or business, that comes out of the gate hot there’s always a series of major changes that takes place during the growth phase of these institutions. These days when it involves these sports, or industries, this always leads to an outcome where the identity of these institutions settle on a more sanitized and watered down version of their previous selves. Without trying to sound too cynical it always seems like the growth phase leads to more corporate conformity and to less of a heterodox version of what made the original product interesting in the first place.Loss of IdentityGranted, the UFC has retained a high level of popularity despite much of the societal changes and cultural rot we’ve had to endure over the last several years in society. Now having said that this is not an indictment on the UFC because it’s still a tremendous product, but it’s safe to say that it’s still not the same product that was first presented to the public in its earliest days.The same thing can be said about the NFL, but in the case of the NFL in my view it’s become a horrible product as it has lost its identity over the years. Perhaps that can change, but I remember when I was a kid in the 1980s how I got the VHS tape of the NFL 25th Silver Anniversary for Christmas one year. This NFL films documentary, or perhaps I should say docudrama, was absolute gold in terms of the level of entertainment that it provided. It was an incredibly original and genuine snapshot of the history and culture of the NFL throughout the decades of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.To give you an example of how much the culture of the NFL has changed I want to include an excerpt from one of my earlier episodes here titled The American Mistake where I touched on this cultural snapshot from the old NFL Films docudrama that I previously mentioned.The excerpt…I remember seeing an interview from either the late 1960s, or early 1970s with the L.A. Rams defensive end Deacon Jones when I was a kid. In this interview Deacon Jones was talking about what he had imagined doing to the quarterbacks that he played against. In his own words he had said that he used to imagine putting all the quarterbacks inside of a bag and then he would take a baseball bat to beat the bag.Now as if this wasn’t shocking enough to hear when I was a teenager, it was also the attitude that existed in those days concerning the Zeitgeist of the sport of football. Now I wanted to tell that story to you in order to tell you the following point.You know as well as I do if any player in the league said that in an interview today there would be a 24/7 meltdown by the media and that player that made such a statement would be ordered to attend sensitivity training probably for a twelve week period. You also know as well as I do that they would have to do this while donating a significant sum of money to some charity of the league’s choice to maximize the league’s opportunity to virtue signal to the tenth power with the viewing public.To me that excerpt illustrates a problem with many of these institutions as that description of the NFL of yesterday is clearly night and day different compared to the sanitized NFL product that exists today. So what happens to these different institutions that causes such a cultural shift? How does this generally lead to a subpar version of the product compared to the original formula that was presented in its earlier days, or at its inception?I just recently watched the Shawn Ryan interview with the country singer Jon Rich. If you haven’t seen this interview I highly recommend that you take some time to look into it.During this interview Jon sheds some light on the issue involving the culture change that I was just referring to within these big institutions. He explains what has been taking place with these various institutions that causes them to lose their identity.In the interview Jon talks about how this actually played out with the record companies in Nashville. He said that there had traditionally always been a more Patriotic environment among the personalities in Nashville at the heads of the record companies. However, he said that this started to change as soon as Obama became President.As he stated when that happened he went into detail about how the record companies started to replace the original executives with other people who were from New York and other big cities. These executives were leftist activists that started to change the environment and implement woke policies that funneled down from the leadership at the top. He said this all rolled downhill to the artists and the publicity departments. Once this culture shift was embedded it dictated what messaging was allowed in songs and the production of content in general.Jon Rich went on to talk about how he had broken away from the stranglehold of Nashville so that he was able to work outside of the industry which in turn gave him the freedom to work outside of their control. He had engaged in what I would describe as the dictum of intentional action.Jon Rich recognized early on that if he had remained underneath the umbrella of the Nashville record machine that he would be beholden to that machine. In other words, he knew that he would be under their boot of control if he didn’t find a way to get out from under that control on his own, so that’s exactly what he did.You see I started out talking about the change in how these institutions have gone through these strange cultural shifts that resulted in them changing the product that made them who they are into something that is almost unrecognizable over time. However, as I highlighted the examples here with the various sports teams, I was doing so in a manner that was reflective of their change as you can observe how it managed to happen over a period of time.However, in using the life example of Jon Rich he simply recognized the problem for himself long before the woke rot of Cultural Marxism was a problem to deal with in his industry. He simply figured out that as an individual, artist, and businessman that he didn’t want to be underneath the boot of the Nashville machine for any reason whatsoever. This was particularly true concerning the woke culture that would eventually come to pass throughout his industry.As Jon pointed out the loss of identity occurred because the old guard of record executives in Nashville were replaced by woke activists. This was an action involving the seizing of the institutions by the communist left.This was also allowed to happen because of a lack of competition within the entertainment industry in Nashville, along with the fact that most other artists lacked the foresight and the intestinal fortitude to do what Jon did by figuring out a path in order to venture out on their own.Because of this the centralization of power within the Nashville record business had been allowed to grow and seize control of the creativity, voices, and actions of the artists that were under their label. In short, because of their lack of foresight the reality is that all of the artists that chose to remain underneath the umbrella of the Nashville record labels, in reality, gave up their sovereignty. If you’re thinking that this sounds familiar, this strategy involving the seizing of the music institutions in Nashville is the same strategy that has been in place in Hollywood for quite some time.I believe this is an extremely valuable lesson for all of the rest of us no matter what industry we work in, or what it is that we do for a living. The lesson here is that it’s vitally important to recognize and to have a handle on the environment around you. After all, this is what I always talk about here on this show in terms of why it’s important to be a Zenith.I understand that money can be very attractive and the more money that someone has dropped into their lap the more it seems like the majority of people fail to ask what comes along with that money. This may be the result of willful ignorance, or outright ignorance, but the problem is that many people fail to see, or understand, how they can end up being beholden to another entity.This failure to recognize where the boundaries of one’s individual sovereignty exists is a problem with much of our society. It’s a symptom of Cultural Marxism having been successful in watering down the concept of individuality.Keep in mind that your individuality goes far beyond surface level traits that may involve whether or not you get a tattoo, or dye your hair. Individuality is about an exercise in you strengthening your ability to retain your sovereignty. This involves your ability to influence, create, and demonstrate levels of competency and usefulness concerning your contributions to society.The thought that your individuality is surface level is a reductionist way of thinking. Knowing who you are and what you are able to push yourself to do requires a personal discipline of pursuit. This is something you can exercise whether you’re engaging and helping to solve a problem in one of your study groups at school, or having the courage to speak up at your work to offer an idea about a certain policy, or a marketing strategy for a big project. Of course, it can also apply in a way that involves you making a case for, or against, something where you want to make sure your voice is heard in the political arena as well.The bottom line is that the loss of identity is the problem and is the real disease that has spread throughout our society. Oh yeah, I said I was going to reveal the problem to you after covering the many symptoms of this issue.The Wrap UpFor God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.–2 Timothy 1:7According to the Lukin Center For Psychotherapy there are essentially five signs that are associated with one who is suffering from an identity crisis.These signs involve the following:* Questioning your basic understanding of who you are.* Feeling anxious, agitated, or dissatisfied with your life.* Going along to change yourself to fit other situations, environments, and relationships.* You have trouble answering questions about yourself.* You feel like you lack the ability to make good decisions.In my view if you’re experiencing a lack of confidence, or something more severe such as an identity crisis the way I believe that you can pull out of this is by shifting your frame of mind. You can make this shift away from holding yourself where you’re in a defensive posture to transitioning your mind into a place where you can position yourself into a more assertive offensive posture.This shift from a defensive posture to an offensive posture makes all the difference in the world in terms of how people will react to you in certain situations. Mind you this is a fact whether we’re talking about individuals who go out and face life on a daily basis, or if we’re talking about an entire nation that is trying to assert its place on the global stage.For example, you can see just how clear this is when we take a moment to examine how the United States has been viewed on the global stage for the past four and half years.In other words, if you think about the enemies of the United States and how they must have viewed our country over the past four years, they could clearly see how our nation was completely signaling that we were in a defensive posture, or probably even worse a more submissive posture.So what exactly do I mean by this and how exactly would a defensive posture be a bad thing?Well if you take a minute to examine what our country looked like through the lens of our enemies you would see a nation that has been ceding over more and more control to foreign influence specifically involving the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).In addition to this you could also see how we have been suffering from intense political division. You could see how we have been weakened from the Marxist infiltration of our institutions where our military was more concerned about transgenderism and racial sensitivity rather than warfighting. You could see how we were willing to spend ourselves into oblivion by propping up literally every other nation in the world except for our own.When you factor in all of these insane actions that were being positioned as top priority by the leaders of our nation, you can understand that our enemies could start to see us in much the same way as an advancing fighter would see his embattled opponent on his back heel and up against the ropes.In the case of the United States we were in a total state of collapse due to an ongoing chain of domestic disasters from the Hawaiian fires all the way to a flooded and decimated Asheville, North Carolina.At the same time that these domestic disasters have been hitting the nation, we've also seen how this domestic instability led directly to foreign instability with the war between Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East War, and with the potential of the CCP trying to make a move on Taiwan in the Pacific.However, since President Trump has taken office now the picture of our nation looks a lot different through the lens of our enemies. Now looking at the United States both our friends and our enemies can see a President that is not willing to hesitate in order to do what is in the best interest of the nation.Now you have seen a President with the most prolific negotiating skills in history come in and broker trade deals with both our so-called friends and enemies by using tariffs in order to create an environment of fair trade.You’ve seen a President that has been willing to follow through on deporting illegal migrant criminals and terrorists even in the face of radical judges that are constantly trying to undermine his Article II Powers.Furthermore, you’ve seen a President that was willing to send some B-2 bombers across the world in the dead of night in order to decapitate a mountain to destroy the nuclear facility of a sworn enemy without dragging us into another forever war.President Trump is demonstrating to us exactly how powerful it can be to take on an offensive posture, both in terms of being successful in one’s own career, as well as, what it takes in order to reclaim the greatness that a nation has firmly held since its founding.The identifying quality here is that the President has never wavered, or doubted what he believed and who he is as an individual. He never budged from that even when the entire world was trying to drag him down.As a result of him embracing his individuality and staying in an offensive posture we’re now seeing that it is resulting in an effort, through God’s blessing, that is moving to save the world.The fact is that the country temporarily went through an identity crisis and because of this the world moved to take advantage of the situation until the good Lord sent a guy along that was completely sure of his own identity and the direction that he was wanting to go. The Lord simply sent us an authentic American to remind us of who we are and what we should be striving to do.I would imagine that if Aldous Huxley were here he would say that if we could embrace our individuality, as we have learned from President Trump, that it would be the significant exercise in demonstrating what it takes to be the ultimate anti-automaton.Do you currently engage with others at work, school, or in social media settings to express your individuality?Are you currently in a place where you are struggling to get a foothold on where you can exhibit your own talents and skills in life?Post up and share your feedback in the comments here below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“The moral of the story is, I chose a half measure when I should have gone all the way. I’ll never make that mistake again. No more half measures, Walter.”–Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks, Breaking Bad)Throughout my career as a fitness and strength coach I’ve had many people approach me in the hopes that I could help them to work in order to achieve a stronger and fitter body.Now hearing that you may think that this isn’t such an unusual request, but the thing you have to understand is that the fitness industry at large has been heavily degraded in terms of quality coaching and advice across the board, much like our institutions have been degraded over the past several decades.Nowadays, because the market has been saturated with bad coaching, most people want to look for the latest fads with things like hot yoga, how to get a beach body in time for the summer, etc. Fortunately for me this doesn’t involve my students.In short, with the interest in the field the majority of it has become a mix of marketing fads that have ultimately resulted in the country still suffering from the highest obesity rate consisting of 40% of the population, along with a battery of other health problems that plague the nation.When it comes to health in the current zeitgeist many people still want to ignore doing the work all while depending on some horrible medical procedure, or a so-called magical pill from big Pharma, for their desired results. This ultimately leads them back to the physical road to perdition inviting in even more problems than what they started with in the first place.The reality is that the fitness industry has probably been propagandized worse than just about any other industry. These days it’s all about the fads and the fad coaches rather than measurable and sustainable lifelong results. In short, perception is not reality, but perception is sold as the reality in the fitness industry. The same thing can be said for every other industry as well.The reality is that there are very few natural results to look at regarding the industry as a whole. Instead we get stuck with the artificial Instagram models that would rather pose as being the greatest online coaches who, in reality, are primarily aiming to push you into some sales funnel in order for you to buy their latest line of Chinese manufactured supplements rather than providing you with sound physical results.The truth is that for the last several decades in our society there has been a real detachment with many people concerning their mind/body connection due to the lack of physical activity and physical jobs that used to dominate the landscape of the workforce.Because of this most of the population are completely incapable of making any sound healthy decision for themselves. The sad reality is that a large segment of the population have become dependent on the latest fad, the internet, a coach, or some cheap low quality supplement to feel like they’re doing something worthwhile for their health.Now don’t get me wrong I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with hiring a coach, or for doing some research. That’s not the point I’m making here at all. After all, I’m a coach myself and I do this for a living.The point I’m making is simply about pointing out the reality that a lot of people in our society simply have zero ability to figure out some basic level of things for themselves. As a result of this it’s simply become difficult for many people to do what should come naturally in a lot of ways when it comes to making healthy decisions concerning their personal health and lifestyle goals.Now having said all of that there’s something I want to touch on here today that I frequently communicate to new students that do seek me out in order to help them with their physical journey.The thing I will communicate with those students that are truly serious about making a change in their lives in order to get fitter and stronger involves the significant decision of moving forward in the process of taking full measures.Essentially a full measure enters into the equation when a student is willing to put into their lifestyle and training the full amount of effort both mentally and physically on a consistent basis in order to acquire optimal results for their physical, mental, and spiritual health.Now to be fair not everyone is capable of doing this. In fact, most people aren’t capable of doing this, but for those that do engage in this on a consistent basis it involves a game-changing level of personal agency that is derived from a true exercise in one’s own personal discipline of action.Because of this, the decision for one to act on a full measure is unto itself a feat of personal strength. Furthermore, this sort of mental fortitude is the exact attribute that is necessary for one to become a Zenith in this current day and age.Now the reason I’m telling you this is that there’s a very powerful and deep psychological lesson to be learned from one deciding to take a full measure when it comes to pursuing a particular venture.Psychological CompartmentalizationNow I want to take a moment to explain just how powerful the decision can be for you if you decide to take an unrelenting full measure, instead of a half measure, as it pertains to your psychological frame of mind when pursuing a particular goal in your life. I believe you will find this part of the discussion to be quite riveting.To give this some proper context I want to share a little story with you here. I had a conversation years ago with a friend of mine Brad Mcleod who is a Navy SEAL and is the founder of the organization SEALGrinderPT. I had been a contributing writer to the SEALGrinderPT website as a coach and had developed a functional fitness and martial arts strength training program for the platform years ago as one of the few civilian coaches who did not serve in the military. It was an honor to work with Brad during this time.Back then prior to one of the projects that we worked on together Brad and I grabbed some lunch one day to catch up. During this lunch Brad shared a very interesting story with me that really illustrated the willpower and psychological edge that is necessary for one to have when one finds themselves in the middle of a high stress situation.As we were talking at lunch I wanted to inquire about his experience when he went through the most intense form of training on the planet in order to become a Navy SEAL. By the way, if you’re not aware of what that is, this high level training is what is known as BUD/S which is an acronym for Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL Training.Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL Training is the selection process for Navy SEALs. This is the most grueling form of training on the entire planet.Now when I say grueling you may be wondering, just how tough is BUD/S?Given that this is one of the most, if not the most, intense programs on the planet it’s pretty well known that it has a 75-80% attrition rate. I believe some say that if you follow the entire process to chart the full path on what it takes in order to get to BUD/S that many may say that it gets even closer to a 90% attrition rate.Regardless of the exact number the point is that this training selection is one of the toughest there is on the planet. With such a high attrition rate the elimination of candidates can be chalked up to being a breaking point that takes place either mentally, or physically concerning each candidate that fails to make the selection.It should also be noted that the guys that make it to BUD/S are some of the best the military has to offer and more than likely they didn’t just stumble into this program by accident.Now let me get back to the story. So as I was saying, as we were talking at lunch I wanted to inquire about his experience when he went through BUD/S.I knew Brad was mentally and physically a very tough individual so I asked him what part of BUD/S he found to be the most challenging.It was at this point that he started to differentiate between the mental and physical demands of the program and he said that there were obviously many things that were challenging, but for him personally he was very honest about how difficult it was to deal with the cold water.It was at this point that he started telling me that even though he wasn’t the biggest, or the strongest, among the candidates in his class, that he never let that stop him. He said that as much as he didn’t like the cold water he could still grind it out sitting in the cold surf for a long period of time if the training demanded it. He pointed out that if he had to, he could exhibit the mental toughness to play that game all day long.Now it was at this point that he shared with me a story about when he was in the cold surf during one of the training exercises and they were literally working at fighting off the reality of hypothermia.He said that they were in an exercise where they were in the cold surf and that the cold was the most intense thing he had ever felt. In this situation he was saying that they were all required to have a swim buddy. As he was in a mental fight with himself against the biting cold he told me that he could see the struggle in the face of his swim buddy, but that he knew that he also looked as weary and miserable as his swim buddy because he was right there with him in the same cold water.However, he said that after a while he knew that once he saw the medical staff arrive on the beach that they wouldn’t be out there in the cold water that much longer. Now in this moment for Brad this signaled a near to the end of this particular exercise and the reality was that his instincts would prove to be right.According to his story they ended up being at the end of the exercise and because he read the situation ahead of time, in the midst of a high stress situation, it was a strong affirmation for him during this point of the training.Now having said that, this was Brad’s interpretation of this particular scenario during a high stress situation. However, what he told me next was very interesting.He pointed out that even though he had read the situation the way that he did, there might have been another pair of guys just a few feet away that may have interpreted that situation in a completely different way.He said that in the same exact situation another guy somewhere might have been suffering from the cold, seen the medical staff, and thought that they were intentionally trying to freeze them to death in the process of training. As Brad explained this he was pointing out that this could have been the interpretation of another candidate and explained that this was the type of psychological warfare that goes on within oneself throughout the entire experience.Now obviously these sorts of extreme conditions are intentionally used to push these individuals to their limits as the Navy is looking to get the very best that they can in order to be a part of the teams, but what other lesson can we learn from this example?The thing that really stood out to me here in Brad’s story was the potential differences in psychological compartmentalization that goes on with how different people can interpret and deal with the same exact situation. In other words, if everyone in a particular group, or setting, is faced with the same difficult situation there’s going to be very different reactions to that same situation from person to person.In addition to this, here Brad was able to exercise an effective level of psychological compartmentalization when the moment called for it. For clarity, psychological compartmentalization is a mental defense mechanism where an individual can separate certain thoughts, emotions, and experiences into various mental compartments in order to manage difficult feelings, stress, or trauma.Now I’m no psychologist, but this ability for psychological compartmentalization to me seems like a healthy coping tool for certain moments such as this example involving the challenges of a high stress situation such as BUD/S. In certain momentary situations I think this is a full display of strength involving one being able to take control of their emotions and mental stress in order to get through a difficult circumstance.However, some professionals say that even though psychological compartmentalization can be healthy in temporary situations involving high stress jobs and relationships, it can also be very damaging if it is done excessively and unconsciously on an ongoing basis. In circumstances involving someone doing this on an excessive and ongoing basis this could lead to someone falling into a trap of emotional avoidance, a fragmented identity, and an inability to process trauma altogether.So why am I telling you this?I wanted to use this story here with Brad to communicate the significance of what it takes for a strong individual to decide on taking a full measure when it comes to a particular life pursuit. In his case that full measure was doing what needed to be done to get through BUD/S and to eventually become a Navy SEAL.Now at the same time, this scenario did not highlight avoiding reality. I’ll do my best here to elaborate on this a bit further as I see it. You see I believe that a strong individual like my friend Brad here can face a difficult situation and have the ability to control the framework of his mind and to switch it on and off for the function of psychological compartmentalization when the need for it arises. As a lasting vanguard of this current populist movement I’m sure you can relate.At the same time, I believe there are a lot of people in society that have been so traumatized by abuse, corporate media, and even in their pursuit for further education that they have probably fallen into a state of perpetual psychological compartmentalization.I will point out that I personally believe that this would explain a great deal of the radical behavior that we’ve been seeing on college campuses, roadside Tesla vandalisms, and overall emotional immaturity that can be seen on tens of thousands of social media videos that we’ve been able to view daily over the past ten years.I believe this organized societal trauma is a real setback for many people as it has stripped them of their ability to control the psychological framework of their minds and keeps them in a state of ongoing compartmentalization. Unfortunately, I believe this has resulted in them remaining in a state of mind where they continually ignore reality, which is why they’re incapable of dealing with reality.The Wrap UpThat quote I led off with at the beginning of this episode is from the hit TV series Breaking Bad.If you haven’t seen this series I’ll warn you that it is quite gritty and can be a bit dark at times, but it is very well written and paints a picture of one of the most potentially realistic and creative transformations of a character that I’ve ever seen in any modern day storytelling.Coincidentally it’s one of my favorite series because it is written with a deeply thought out storyline that will force you to think about what you just watched, along with making you aware of how bad choices can send your life flying sideways and off the rails if you allow it.Anyways, the quote I referenced at the beginning comes from Season 3 Episode 12 of the series and the title of that particular episode is Half Measures. I thought that was fitting given the message of today’s episode.Now in the scene that surrounds the quote I led off with, it involves a scenario surrounding the main character Walter White (Bryan Cranston) being given a warning by his employer’s fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks). For some added context Walter’s business involves cooking meth for a kingpin named Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) that competes with the drug cartels.Walter was literally a Nobel Prize winning chemist and earlier in his life he had taken a small buyout from a small company that he was previously a part of that literally went on to skyrocket to being worth billions of dollars. This decision ultimately led him down a path in life where he was filled with professional bitterness.In case you haven’t seen the show this decision, combined with the piling on of several other life problems, led Walter down a path to cooking crystal meth for Gus. As it turns out Walter didn’t get to this point on his own.He has a sidekick named Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) who worked on the dealing side of the business as Walter obviously used his dominant chemistry skills to work on the supply side of the business.Ok now I’ll get back to the details surrounding the quote by Mike.Without getting too much into the weeds of the storyline in this scene Mike comes to visit Walter one night at his house because he and Gus are looking at Jesse as being a bit of a liability. Out of respect for Walter, Mike comes to speak with Walter on the matter directly instead of taking any action towards Jesse without any sort of warning.During his conversation with Walter, Mike starts telling him a story from his past when he was a beat cop. In this story Mike goes into detail about how he and his partner would consistently get a call to go out to the same residence on a frequent basis due to a domestic dispute.According to Mike every single time they would show up to this particular residence it would always involve the same thing which was a case of spousal abuse. In this particular case Mike said it involved the husband who had a massive build, weighed close to 270 lbs., and would take out his frustration on his wife who had a very small body that was similar to a bird, according to Mike.In this story Mike talks about how they would get call after call over a period of time. He would describe the frustrating cycle of how they would go out to the residence to pick up the husband to take him in only to have him sleep it off and to eventually be released to go back home again.He said that they ended up doing this on what seemed to be a fairly regular basis because the woman would never press charges. She was too scared of him.However, he said one night his partner was out sick when the call came in and he went out to the residence on his own. He said that he was driving the guy into town as usual on this particular night and during the drive the guy started humming a song in the back seat and Mike said it just rubbed him the wrong way.So on this night instead of taking the usual left turn to head into town he took a right turn to head out into the middle of nowhere.Mike said that once he got to a desolate spot that he took the guy out of the car and made him get on his knees. He pulled out his revolver and stuck the barrel of the gun in the guy’s mouth.It was at this point that he told this guy that this was how it was going to end. According to Mike, the guy was begging for his life and Mike instructed him to get quiet so that he could think about what he had to do.He said as he stood there with the gun to the guy’s head he went quiet, and then he got real quiet.Obviously the guy was scared to death and had sat there crying, begging, and swearing that he would never lay another hand on the woman ever again. As the story goes Mike gave him a stern warning and ultimately let him go.However, according to Mike the guy ended up brutally killing the woman just two weeks later. It was at this point that Mike said that the moral of the story was that he chose a half measure, when he should have gone all the way. Then he looked at Walter and said, “No more half measures, Walter.”Now this is a deep dark story that this episode uses to communicate the driving motivation behind Mike’s process of decision making. Obviously this man’s constitution is serious and perhaps even unwavering at times, but it is obviously the reason he finds himself being able to work in the high risk position that he’s in, regardless of the moral implications of his position.The reason this is significant is because to me Mike’s character is someone who operates by the law of the jungle. Despite the circumstances of his career choice Mike still understands the driving force behind human nature in his world involving survival, financial motive, and self-preservation.Conversely, as I stated earlier I believe that many people throughout our society have been so demoralized by the media, our institutions, and culture that many have been stuck in a state of perpetual psychological compartmentalization. Unlike my friend Brad who has the ability to switch this on and off for the purpose of dealing with a high stress situation in a given moment, the demoralized portion of the population has been stuck in simply not dealing with the reality of the world whatsoever. I believe you can see this too.Because of this it has rendered a significant portion of the population incapable of understanding human nature as it pertains to its role in the law of the jungle. Unlike our fictional character Mike Ehrmantraut, the demoralized communist left in our country are in total denial of reality as they refuse to deal with their internal cognitive dissonance and to face the reality of their actions. As a result they are incapable of acknowledging the laws of the jungle as it pertains to self-preservation, financial motive, and survival when it applies to their choices and the things that they support.Of course, this lack of ability to address and resolve internal conflict directly results in the fragmentation of their identity, along with bringing on a serious lack of self-awareness. This lack of self-awareness is something I’ve noticed that accelerated throughout our society during the pandemic and seemingly had spread faster than the virus itself.If you’ve ever dealt with anyone who lacks self-awareness then you understand just how serious this issue is and how much this attribute renders those people incapable of dealing with reality and recognizing the dangers in something that’s standing right in front of them. It’s a very destructive thing and in my view it’s something that has become more and more noticeable throughout society since the pandemic.You know I have thought a lot about this condition lately because I’ve noticed several people in my life who seem to suffer from this. With the world seemingly spinning out of control, and with the coming age of AI, it got me thinking about the particular issue of people lacking in self-awareness which, by the way, strips away their ability for empathy.If you haven’t read the Bible I’m sure you’ve still heard some of the stories of our past from the good book. One of those stories involves the fall of man which involved the disobedience of Adam and Eve and their loss of God’s grace in a perfect living world in the Garden of Eden due to the introduction of sin.As a result of this fall we have since referred to our flaws and shortcomings involving our interactions with others as simply being human. Within this paradigm we could at least still have the opportunity to do what would be considered to be good in God’s eyes even though we now live in a fallen world that is infiltrated by sin. Thankfully we have God’s gift of grace through his mighty son Jesus.However, now both you and I can perhaps consider that this paradigm of what it means to be human is shifting and changing once again. You can see this with the ever-growing desire and isolation for people to not interact and deal with one another altogether.You clearly saw the negative impact of this on society during the pandemic and with the continuous spread of people throughout society that lack self-awareness and empathy this is laying the groundwork for a societal collapse unless people depend on something else to navigate this new world.Alarmingly enough this growing isolation of people who lack self-awareness and empathy seems to be fertile ground for the coming age of AI. This could be what we will eventually refer to as the second fall of man in reference to following the first fall after Adam and Eve.Now the way we thwart this is by optimizing ourselves with personal pursuits that lift up our own status in life so that we can then be more capable of lifting up others. We can do this by learning how to optimize our own mental, physical, and spiritual health as I stated at the beginning of this episode. This is where you and I can put our faith in God instead of placing our faith in man, or machine.This is how you and I both can continue to upgrade our Zenith status and that starts by making sure we don’t take any half measures when doing so.Have you noticed the steady increase in people who lack empathy and self-awareness?Do you also believe that we can reverse this course by spending billions of dollars and effort on reaching others for the advancement of human performance rather than machine performance in order to avoid the second fall of man?Please post your feedback here in the comments below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast. If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers. 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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit brandonrichey.substack.comIf you are tuning in today's episode will only be available in full length if you are an All-access paid member directly on my Substack, but please don't click off as I'm going to give you a substantial preview of today's episode. If you would like to access this episode and bypass its paywall, or any other paywalled episode, simply go to brandonrichey.substack.com and sign up to become an All-access paid member directly on the Substack. Thank you very much for your commitment and support. The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.”–Hulk HoganDue to the culture of the 1960s and 1970s the music from that era is often regarded as having resulted in being some of the best that has ever been created. There were several reasons for this relating to the fact that it involved significant social and political upheaval due to some key events at the time involving the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and a change in other traditional norms.For good or bad, and whether or not it was organic or manufactured, this time period was significant in that the culture was changing the landscape of society. This culture shift resulted in a key element of creativity that sprouted up and could be seen and heard embedded deep within the fashion, music, and art during that time period.I wanted to use the 1960s and the 1970s to comment on this as you can observe this unique culture through many movies, songs, newspapers, and magazine covers from the time. From fashion all the way to music the 1960s and 1970s was a culture to behold even though I was born towards the later part of this time period in 1976.Now even though the 1960s and the 1970s were profound I can also attest to the fact that the 1980s were also a very unique time period as well. Being that I’m a part of Generation X (GenX for short) I was able to have the privilege of growing up as a kid of the 1980s.So why was this significant?After the Vietnam War had wound down bringing the 1970s to a close the 1980s came into focus ushering in its own problems, as well as, its own successes along with its own significant culture of influence.As a kid of the 1980s I can remember the talks of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. I can remember how there was a shift in attitude within the country where it seemed to come roaring out of a more depressed state following the 1970s under the leadership of Jimmy Carter to being energized and reinvigorated under the leadership of President Reagan.Even as a kid I can remember noticing the reinvigorating energy that was displayed throughout the culture of the 1980s. I witnessed and lived this firsthand with being able to see a patriotic love and fervor throughout the country that was evident everywhere I turned from the music, to the movies, to the sports, and even in one other place that, culturally speaking, kinda flew under the radar.It was that last under the radar phenomenon that I just mentioned that, in my view, laid the foundation for being a very big reason as to why we can be grateful that Donald Trump is currently the sitting President of the United States.So what was this unexpected force of nature that I was referring to where I witnessed this Patriotic love and fervor, and what does it have to do with Donald Trump winning the Presidency?This unexpected phenomenon I’m referring to appeared on my own TV screen, along with millions of other TV screens of young GenX boys, on Saturday mornings growing up in the 1980s. The reason this is so significant is because many of the communist left were completely blindsided and caught off guard by this same force of nature during the Republican National Convention prior to this past election in November.Just in case you happen to be confused at what force of nature I’m referring to, I'm going to clarify that for you right now.Enter HulkamaniaGrowing up as a GenXer I can tell you firsthand that there was nobody that brought more electricity to the living rooms of GenX boys growing up than Hulk Hogan.That’s right, that 6’7” towering powerhouse would entertain GenX boys through the television airways to a level that I know resulted in some rambunctious behavior from me that would drive my mother to yell at me from the next room on many Saturday mornings. She would warn me on multiple occasions to not destroy the furniture and to refrain from doing any leg drops on my kid brother on the living room floor. For full disclosure, I might have allowed my kid brother to jump off of the couch, a time or two, in order to land a flying elbow on me as well, but I digress.There was no denying that Hogan was quite the entertainer because once he would enter the arena to Rick Derringer’s killer song Real American he would blow the lid off the place by extracting a roar from the crowd that could probably register on a nearby Richter scale. After his grand entrance he would grab the microphone from the legendary announcer Mean Gene to further energize his Hulkamaniacs in order to wage an all out war against his next opponent.Hogan would often talk about how he had derived the energy from his Hulkamaniacs in order to successfully use his 24 inch pythons (his own moniker for his muscular arms) to lift the powerful Andre The Giant overhead to bodyslam him to the mat. This feat would ultimately secure his spot as being the face of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).Hulk Hogan always brought the energy and the message to his devoted fans, especially to young boys that all looked up to him not only for being a strong towering figure, but because he was a representative of strength when it came to doing what was right in the world. Hogan represented exactly what Derringer’s song states: Fight for the rights of every man, Fight for what’s right, Fight for your life.The message from Hulk Hogan’s own lips to his young fans was simple: Train hard, say your prayers, and take your vitamins.Hulk Hogan wasn’t only an American cultural icon, but he was a voice in the wilderness that would inspire millions to aspire to greater things in life. He captured the imaginations of millions of young boys on those epic Saturday mornings in the 1980s. He did this by driving nearly all of Generation X young boys in a direction of understanding that heroes are real and that those heroes really are meant to do good things when the moment calls for them to do so.

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;Increased demand to live off the state.”― Edward GibbonOver the past two decades with my career as a professional fitness and strength coach I’ve experienced and learned a lot concerning the function of human psychology and what goes into driving people to do what they do in their various pursuits of life.Now I’m no psychologist and I'm certainly not saying that I have all the answers when it comes to the internal motivations of people and how they go about pursuing certain life goals. Conversely, I’m not even saying I have the answers as to why they choose not to pursue particular goals either.However, what I do know is that whenever there is a goal that is to be pursued and accomplished the most successful achievers are always able to demonstrate two key attributes in order to make their dreams a reality. Those two attributes involve their personal discipline of action combined with having a killer instinct.Now the attribute of possessing a personal discipline of action is pretty self-explanatory, but what is it that I mean when I talk about one possessing a killer instinct?If you’ve ever watched a professional MMA fight then you’ve witnessed one of the most intensely competitive sports in all of history. The competition between fighters is something that is very strenuous and intense because they don’t have any other teammates to rely on in order to come out on top in their particular form of competition. In other words, the final outcome of the MMA bout solely falls onto the shoulders of each fighter.It’s because of the recognition of the responsibility that’s involved in this individual reality that a fighter knows that they have to go all in with everything they’ve got when it comes to winning. When it involves the reality of such a one on one competition inside of that cage the stone cold fact that the fighter understands is that nobody is going to be able to come inside of that cage with them in order to win the fight for them. When it’s all said and done they clearly understand that nobody is coming in to save them.Sure, a fighter may have a great corner of guys and girls for support. However, at the end of the day it’s up to them to walk across that mat to face off against that other guy or girl to fight the fight in order to win the day. Additionally, they understand that their competition is on the other side of that mat facing down that same exact reality.With that being said, the last ten years have taught us a lot about what the overarching perception of our society has fallen victim to in regards to the destructive accepted beliefs and norms of our times. For clarity, those beliefs and norms certainly haven’t involved an individual mindset of achievement the way our fighter sees their pursuit, but rather our society chose to embrace mediocrity, victimhood, and mindless decadence.Whenever a fighter gets too comfortable, too cocky, or too relaxed it most always eventually results in that fighter getting knocked out. Any fighter that doesn’t respect their competition, or in a split second moment decides to take a half measure instead of a full measure, is opening themselves up for a devastating defeat.In other words, if you expect to win any fight in life you must have a killer instinct.The Old Status QuoNow when I talk about the old status quo, I’m more specifically talking about what those beliefs have been in regards to what has maintained the old status quo of our society up until the beginning of the Great Awakening that has taken place in the last five years.That old status quo societal belief system that I’m referring to has been one of complacency and has consisted of a weak rotting culture. This weak rotting culture has more and more been the result of our society having gradually sided with mediocrity. This rotting culture has been the result of our social media platforms having given the shallow midwits a megaphone while silencing the truly skillful and talented voices of our time.This has been apparent ever since our society succumbed to excessive laziness and decadence when it started placing more cultural emphasis on the Kardashians instead of deep diving into how our founders moved heaven and earth to put us into a position in this country to even be able to consider the Kardashians a form of brain-dead entertainment in the first place. For clarity, I don’t find the Kardashians entertaining at all, but I do recognize the business strategy behind them being a form of brain-dead entertainment.Our society was once fit and strong, but in the current times we have had to endure an out of control obesity rate, record high disease, and an entire population of white leftist Karens that scream at us to follow the $cience of horrible medical practices that both degrade our individual health and our individual sovereignty.President Kennedy once inspired the nation to be on a unified front by challenging us all to be as fit as possible with the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It’s been my understanding that in recent history many schools have done away with Physical Education classes and have also done away with placing an emphasis on physical fitness in general.This was clearly intentional, and like the Kardashians it was an obvious test to see what our society would tolerate in terms of our acceptance of mediocrity because this is what communists do. Communists destroy a society by degrading a society from within. Keep in mind that a communist takeover doesn’t typically happen rapidly.These movements happen gradually over time AND THEN rapidly all at once. This was the dire warning that we got from Yuri Besmenov long ago that we’re now experiencing with President Trump and MAGA fighting like crazy to defeat at this very moment. Unfortunately we’re dealing with a widespread Red Reality.Fortunately President Trump is also now looking to restore that emphasis on physical fitness as well.If we fast forward to the modern day it’s very clear that the strategy of embracing mediocrity has worked as we’re now learning just how deep, just how corrupt, and just how rotten our society has become from having embraced mediocrity as a whole instead of embracing meritocracy.In my industry as a coach I’ve always taught my students about how complacency is a killer to everything in life. Complacency is something that will destroy an individual, a community, and a country all the same.I’ve noticed for a long time how our society has just been on cruise control when I’ve seen disappointing election after disappointing election happen throughout my life. Like you I’ve noticed how our country would maintain a consistent status quo of failure by supporting and allowing one bad candidate after the next to come into office and put forth policies that simply moved our country in the wrong direction.As this happened the culture continued to rot along with the country’s decline. Our financial systems worsened, our business sector transformed into corporate gulags employing system operatives that lived their lives for their corporate overlords rather than for lady liberty, and small business entrepreneurs continued to get crushed in the process.This all happened simply because there were no intellectual Zeniths in our society, or at least those Zeniths were not given a platform, or a voice…until now. We’ve also never had a Patriot warrior for President of the United States in our lifetimes…until now.After the pandemic hit it was so obvious to me that the things that I had always thought about were clearly leading to a drastic escalation of problems within our society and throughout the world at large. With the pandemic it was obvious to me that we were dealing with our government engaging in a declaration of war against its own citizenry. During this time I found my mind racing to try and figure out how to do my part in fighting back during a time of government mandated home imprisonment. Of course, the government preferred to fine tune its Orwellian practice by using the term quarantine in place of home imprisonment when referring to the pandemic lockdowns.To me this was a legitimately scary time and the concern wasn’t because of some virus. The glaring concern to me was tyranny. Yet, at that time, I also remember how I went onto my various social media platforms and saw how people were more concerned about the Tiger King Netflix series rather than talking about how to organize in order to fight the freight train of tyranny that I could clearly see coming directly towards all of us. If you’ve been a long time reader to this Substack then I’m sure you experienced the same thing.But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own house.”Mark 6:4Over the years in being in business for myself I’ve frequently discovered that there are many talkers in society, but not so many doers when it comes to various forms of support and action. People will frequently tell you that they are going to do something, but then when the rubber meets the road the majority of those people will be nowhere to be found.Of course, back when the population’s displeasing sentiment started growing from the obvious tyranny that was starting to show from the lockdowns, I found myself in the wilderness studying and thinking about starting a podcast and blog to expand on my conversation of geopolitics, history, philosophy, culture, faith, and health. It was apparent to me at that time that I needed to expand the conversation beyond my normal scope of telling people how to perform push ups and squats as a fitness and strength coach. It was apparent to me that the culture needed a drastic shift in the opposite direction.I personally found this to be an uncontrollable urge as if it were a calling for me to do so. In other words, I had some knowledge in some other areas of life that I felt compelled to share with you and the rest of the world. Of course, this eventually led to me launching this very Substack.However, there was a lesson to be learned in the process of launching this venture and striving to be a voice of liberty. Just prior to doing so I was pretty guarded about who I wanted to tell regarding this decision. At the time there were some friends, family, and colleagues that I told about my new venture.Of course, my immediate friends and family have been supportive from the beginning. However, just like Jesus said in the verse from Mark 6:4, my extended network of friends and colleagues that expressed support were nowhere to be found once the rubber met the road and my finger hit the publish button.Even though I knew this would probably have been the case based on my previous experience of being in business for myself for the past twenty years, I still thought this might have been a slightly different scenario when it came to this particular venture. I thought this time might be an exception given the obvious historical level of tyranny that was being exposed. In short, the way I saw it then is exactly the way we’re seeing it now regarding the reality that we are at war with domestic communists who have had aggressive control of our media and institutions.Because of this I thought that perhaps it would be a bit easier for me to rely on those friends and colleagues that expressed their support of my venture based on the very threats that were facing them. In my view I thought in this current environment that they would see me as another one of their proxies to contribute to the fight against the same multi-billion dollar communist information war machine that was trying to destroy them.However, at the end of the day the wise words from the Lord in Mark 6:4 still applied to the same degree as it had for me in the previous twenty years of being in business. Understand that I’m not telling you this to whine, or complain. That’s not the point of this lesson in the least.This lesson is about merely stating an objective fact so that you can better understand this environment for yourself. The bottom line is that your contributing efforts that go into saving this country will potentially even involve disappointment in your own household and amongst the friends in your circles if you haven’t figured this out for yourself already.The Wrap UpThe reason I’m telling you this in today’s message is because I want you to be aware of this reality should you yourself decide to start your own venture, or if you currently find yourself in this very position right now.Additionally, I wanted to illustrate how unhelpful interpersonal relationships can also potentially funnel down to negatively impact the voices involved in the liberty movement in its attempt to save this Republic from succumbing to a literal communist revolution. I wanted to point out that even in the moment of the zero hour you cannot be ignorant to the fact that there are potentially people that you thought you might be able to count on who will not be there to save you, or to even help you along in your journey.You know the real reason that communism exists is to simply destroy a society. Yes, the disparity between the haves and the have nots is worse in a communist system than any other system even though the proponents of this destructive system don’t understand that to a large degree. For further clarification the politicians understand it, but the useful idiots that are supporting those politicians don’t.However, the reason communism exists in the first place is because it boils down to one simple thing and that thing simply involves the sin of envy. In other words, those who simply do not possess the traits involved with having the discipline of action and a killer instinct for pursuing a life goal don’t want anyone else to be able to do so either because they have convinced themselves that they are incapable of doing so.Therefore, it should be a vitally important lesson to all of us that such envy is incredibly destructive, not only to individual achievement, but it can literally collapse a society at large.This is exactly why communism exists and the thing you must understand is that at the end of the day the survival of liberty boils down to simply being a numbers game. That’s right, you have to remember that the less that people support the voices of liberty out of envy the more it creates a fertile ground for communism to blossom.Envy basically serves as the fertilizer for communism to spread throughout a household, a community, a state, and even a nation. At this point if those numbers of people who embrace envy exceed the numbers of people who embrace liberty then it will result in you getting a totalitarian society.The same envy that causes friends and family members within your closest circles to not support your business venture, or your pursuit of a venture that supports the liberty movement, is the same envy that exists to bring about a woke nightmare that craters industry and desires to usher in a totalitarian system of government.When the CCP’s Mao Zedong launched his Let a hundred flowers bloom campaign back in May of 1956 it was sold by the regime to the public as a campaign to promote free thought and to display more free criticism of the communist party. However, as criticism grew from the public the regime started getting uneasy and basically used the campaign to identify those critical voices of the regime which in turn led to those individuals losing their jobs, it led them being forced into intense labor camps, and ultimately led to many of them being thrown into prison.The key lesson from this is that under Mao the regime still maintained complete control of the government when it allowed the public to entertain the illusion of free speech and free thought during that time. However, in reality, the illusion of free speech could only be just that because the regime itself was still firmly intact.The difference between the citizens of the CCP under Mao during the Hundred Flowers campaign and us as citizens here in the United States is that we STILL have enough of a free voice at the moment. We have the ability to express our free speech along with a Patriot warrior of a President that is willing to amplify our voices in order to take down a Deep State. Mind you this same Deep State would be more than happy to employ the same crackdown on you and me just as Mao’s communist party did to its own citizens at the end of his own campaign.Mao’s communist regime is a reminder of just how destructive envy can be and why we should never allow it to infect our society. However, one of the most recent contrasting examples of this can be seen with two recent ad campaigns from two very well known and recognized public brands involving Jaguar and American Eagle. These two brands clearly illustrate the massive gap and measurable outcomes between two opposing perspectives.Patrick Bet-David pointed out the glaring outcome of these two opposing ad campaigns with American Eagle launching the Sydney Sweeney ad which resulted in $300 million in a single day with about $65 million in free media exposure. I believe their stock soared up 17% as well and they made a statement standing strong against the woke communist mob who have been melting down since the campaign launched.On the other hand, the Jaguar LGBTQ ad resulted in the sales in Europe plummeting 97.5% in April and it showed a devastating drop in sales from 180k cars sold in 2018 to only 27k being sold last year.Many were critical of the stale appearance and ugliness of the Jaguar campaign as it was clearly focused on making an LGBTQ statement that involved blurring the roles of gender rather than focusing on the selling of cars.At the end of the day the consumers chose not to conform to the demoralized imagery of the Jaguar campaign, but they did wholeheartedly put their dollars behind the bold stance of traditional beauty with the public’s praise of the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney ad campaign.So what’s the big takeaway here?The big takeaway is that we cannot allow envy to get between us and the pursuit of liberty. In addition to this if you choose to pursue a business venture in the parallel economy while being a voice of liberty you cannot allow the lack of support from those in your circles to discourage you from your goals.At the end of the day you have to have a killer instinct and understand that you’ve got to be willing to go all in for you to come out on top of any pursuit because nobody else is going to do it for you.Just remember that even though there may be some within your social circles to disappoint you with their lack of support of your venture, there will be others that will lift you up and they will show up from outside of your normal social circles during your journey.Has envy infected your social circle during a pursuit that you have taken in your own life?Are you currently supporting alternative anti-Administrative State Media platforms to contribute to the destruction of the Deep State?Please share your feedback in the comments below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber."Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.”–Proverbs 22:29Since the Jeffrey Epstein situation has resurfaced it has understandably caused a lot of frustration among the MAGA movement. Much of this has been based on the disappointing messaging that we’ve previously gotten from the Attorney General along with some other messaging that we’re now hearing from other influencers involved in the movement.Because of this I recently addressed this with a comment on my Substack Notes and I’m going to include that comment here below so if you have already seen it please be patient as the context is essential for the message in today’s episode.Substack Note:I understand that there's a lot of MAGA frustrated and angry about the Epstein situation.However, that frustration is what the Administrative State is hoping for. Remember that at the end of the day they see President Trump as a passing figure and they are just trying to hold up and delay everything he's trying to do. To delay is to deny.However, it's yours and my duty to continue to dial up the pressure and to be relentless. We must channel our frustration into a focused and relentless offense against these evil and embedded governmental bad actors.Understand that frustration can lead to cynicism and cynicism can lead to apathy. With that being said they only have to get 2-3% of us to fall into that trap.At the end of the day I personally don't believe that our Lord and Savior Jesus pulled our country out of a dark place that was headed towards a technocratic slave state for nothing.He is showing us just how far we've come and how much further we can go together with our faith and our actions.Don't despair. Double down. Triple down. Quadruple down.Whatever the enemy throws at us we counter tenfold.God bless.That was my comment on my Substack Notes just a few days ago and the one thing that this Epstein situation has reminded me of is the long battle that we (the MAGA and America First movement) have in front of us. Because of this it’s also reminding me of the necessity for our MAGA movement to demonstrate whether or not we have staying power in terms of our ability to meet ALL of the difficult issues that are threatening our liberty and freedoms head on.Since President Trump came on the scene and spearheaded the most powerful cultural and political movement in all of history with MAGA I knew that this would be the ONLY thing that could stand a chance at defeating the deep state. However, since this story surrounding the Epstein files popped back up I’m seeing a lot of MAGA exhibiting a lack of patience and perspective on the issue.Now before you get angry about that last statement allow me to put that into context. Remember that the deep state is a corrupt bureaucratic force that has been created, expanded, and embedded within our federal government and institutions now for many decades.In other words, in this modern era the MAGA movement is arguably only about a decade old in its recent reorganization of our history if you’re starting the count from that famous moment that President Trump first came down that golden escalator. However, in our country’s more recent history we can trace the origin of the deep state all the way back to World War II with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his creation of the New Deal. That was the rapid birth and expansion of what we would now recognize today as the deep state.The reason I’m telling you this is because in my lifetime I believe we’ve all, as a voting populace, become accustomed to wanting to play the short game in politics by desiring immediate change to a corrupt system such as ours between a four and eight year election cycle. Even with President Trump moving at Trump speed and proving just how useless previous presidents have been now for so long this is still a very heavy lift.Conversely, the deep state itself plays the long game. As I previously mentioned in my Substack Notes they see President Trump as a passing figure that will be gone in three and a half years so things can return to a business as usual time of corruption.In order to win MAGA must be willing to sustain its intensity for the long game. Speaking of the long game I want to temporarily shift the subject for a moment to talk about someone else who was great at playing the long game and this individual can teach us a lesson about how to do that in dominating fashion.Nolan RyanWhen I was a kid I loved the game of baseball.I played the sport, collected baseball cards, and being from Georgia I was a hardcore Atlanta Braves fan. I was there in Fulton County stadium at the age of about 15 when the Atlanta Braves went from worst to first and clinched their first pennant after being the worst team in baseball in 1991.The Braves were loaded with talent with collectively providing the best pitching lineup in all of Major League Baseball with John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, a young Steve Avery, and Charlie Liebrandt. They would later pick up Greg Maddux, but he wasn’t in the picture here at this point.Regardless, this rotation would prove to be the lifeblood of the Atlanta Braves franchise as they would move on from this 1991 season to be the most dominant franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB) for years to come.Now I personally gave up on watching the MLB after they went on strike back in 1994. I thought that was the beginning of the end for a lot of the greatness that MLB had managed to produce in regards to their ability to showcase individual talent. Granted they had a few great years to come, but if we fast forward to the current day I couldn’t recognize who you might consider to be a superstar player if he walked right up to me in person and shook my hand.Now don’t misunderstand me here. I know there are some truly talented players in the game today, but it’s the game itself that has become so corporate that to me the sport has killed the concept of the individual. To me everyone looks the same, they all act the same, and they all sound the same. I rarely see any scenario where players are allowed to speak their minds and they sort of just get shuffled into the group underneath the big corporate umbrella. It’s solely about the money they get from their advertisers in this day and age and in reality that’s the case with all of the professional sports today.Now being that I played the game in my childhood and teenage years and loved following the Braves up until the strike, believe it or not, my favorite pitcher in the game wasn’t an Atlanta Brave.That’s right, my favorite pitcher was the most rugged and dominant figure in all of MLB and was a force of nature when it came to strikeouts. This pitcher was more dominant than John Smoltz, Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, and Roger Clemons.After listing out the names of those powerhouse pitchers you may be wondering who in the world could be left that could have possibly been more dominant than those guys. Well if you’re wondering who that player was, that player was the great Nolan Ryan.This past year I just watched a documentary on Nolan Ryan and it stirred up some childhood memories and brought back some reminders of why I once loved the game the way I did.Just in case you’re not familiar with Nolan Ryan, he was a starting power pitcher that had a 27- year major league career where he dominated on the mound. Keep in mind that this 27 year career was longer than any player in major league baseball history.In addition to that Nolan Ryan had struck out more batters than anyone in history with a whopping 5714 strikeouts sending dejected batters back to the dugout with zero productivity at the plate.At one point during his documentary film Facing Nolan he spoke about how there was a moment when he had reached his forties and was sitting in the clubhouse realizing that he was older than his manager, older than the coaches, older than the general manager, and older than some of the parents of his own teammates.It was at this moment during his career when he was the old guy being able to compete with the young talent of the major leagues at a very high level that created this sort of mythical legend about Nolan Rylan that everyone remembers to this very day. The unusual thing about Nolan Ryan was that he actually got better as he got older.In fact, statistically speaking, he was actually a stronger pitcher from age 39-46 than he was at any other time during his entire career. You read that correctly, he was 46 years old at the time that he retired from major league baseball as a starting power pitcher that could absolutely bring the heat.If you’re not familiar with baseball lingo, that last sentence is slang meaning that he could throw the ball really hard and really fast. In fact, it is said that Nolan Ryan could bring so much heat with his fastball that it is estimated to have been a shocking 108 mph if the radar gun technology and distance were adjusted to today’s standards.One game when Nolan Ryan was 44 years old he was warming up just prior to his start against the Toronto Blue Jays. In this particular warm up he was having what he thought was a disastrous performance that made him start to think that it might possibly be his last performance.According to Ryan his accuracy was off and he had been dealing with some back pain that was really giving him a difficult time. However, after this lackluster and disappointing warm up the time came for him to step out on the mound to face off against the Toronto Blue Jays.It was at this moment where the first batter came up for Nolan to face and it only took three pitches to sit that guy down. The next two batters would suffer the same fate and suddenly Nolan had realized that the back pain that was bothering him during the pre-game warm up was no longer an issue.He said that the more he threw the more it started to loosen up and the pain just continued to subside. Before the rest of the Texas Rangers ran back out on the field for Nolan to pitch his second inning he turned and looked at his teammates and said guys today just get me one. In other words, he was telling his team that all he needed from them was to score one run because he wasn’t going to allow the other team to score a single run.One by one each batter would come up and one by one none of them would be able to get a hit. As each batter came to the plate each one would soon find his way right back to his team’s dugout.As inning after inning went by everyone started to notice that the Toronto Blue Jays were simply not getting any hits or runs off of Nolan Ryan. Because of this every inning became more and more exciting. The fans were going nuts and there was a constant pop of camera flashes throughout the entire stadium as Nolan Ryan found himself in what many athletes refer to as being in the zone.I’ve heard different definitions before describing what being in the zone means, but in this documentary one individual described the quantitative definition of being in the zone where thinking is inversely proportional to the stimulus of the environment. So in other words, during those high octane no hitter situations where the crowd is going nuts this basically meant that Nolan Ryan’s world was basically equivalent to a peaceful low quiet hum where nothing else existed except for the pitch, the ball, and his glove.I myself have experienced moments in my athletic past where I felt what it was like to be in the zone. It’s a very unusual and phenomenal experience. When you’re in that moment you feel like you’re performing on an entirely different level than literally everyone else on the field, or in whatever competitive arena you’re involved in at that time.At 44 years of age Nolan Ryan began a game as one of the oldest players in the game thinking that game would be the last game of his career based on his frustrating start. However, that very same game would end up being Nolan Ryan’s seventh and final no-hitter.What started out seeming like it would be the last game of his career ended up being a game that would catapult Nolan Ryan into a category of his own with the title of being the greatest pitcher of all time.Now I want you to put this on a shelf for now as I want to shift back to the original topic of discussion regarding all the frustration and controversy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein situation.Once again, I understand that this is something where the patience of the American people has been running out, but the reality is that this situation hasn’t been a situation very long under the leadership of President Trump. The reality involving Jeffrey Epstein is one that involved him first being charged for unlawful sex with a minor as early as May of 2006 according to the AP.Now I’m not going to go too much further into the details of the accusations surrounding the trafficking of young girls by Epstein and his involvement with political figures, famous people, etc. in that context. However, Epstein was mysteriously able to minimize the impact of that first serious charge involving his sexual criminal history and the reason for that is what I am going to elaborate on here in this episode.My explanation for this is that I believe the real issue involving Epstein doesn’t necessarily center around him being this seedy figure that ran a global sex crime blackmailing operation against elite figures involved in domestic and foreign governments as his primary type of business model.I want to be clear that this doesn’t suggest that there were no victims of sexual crimes and misconduct. I just literally quoted one of those where he was charged. With that being said I certainly want absolute justice for any and all victims that had to suffer from Epstein's actions. In fact, the full hammer of justice is an absolute MUST in this situation and this justice cannot be ignored with anyone that was associated with Epstein in this capacity.However, with that being said I’m merely suggesting that I believe the meat and potatoes of Epstein’s nefarious business practices seem to be more centered around corrupt business dealings that he was associated with as a financial fixer for the CIA. This is actually a sound developing case that is being presented in a very intelligent way by Former State Department Cyber Mike Benz.So what does this mean?Mike Benz doesn't buy that Epstein was a blackmail figure, but rather a financial fixer meaning that he would broker off the book deals for the CIA. One key reason Benz points to this is the fact that Epstein had a longstanding working relationship with the CIA that goes all the way back to the early 1980s. In other words, Epstein was an intelligence asset of the deep state.Additionally, Benz has also pointed out that it’s hard to believe that it would be practical for Epstein to have successfully run a blackmail honeypot operation among political and business elites for nearly forty years. He said this would simply be impractical without the word getting around among those communities that he was involved with while doing such a thing.In other words, word of such a practice would have gotten around those communities long ago and the reality of a blackmail operation would have been ended all the way back in the 1980s. The fact is that business and political elites simply run in similar circles and there’s no way this would have gone unnoticed for four decades according to Benz’s perspective. I would also add that I would have a hard time arguing with Benz on this theory because if he were operating one of the most lucrative and historically powerful blackmail operations in history then how would he, or his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell have ever gotten arrested in the first place?According to a recent Mike Benz interview with Steve Bannon there were some very sensible and meaningful dots connected to explain a lot of the mystery associated with Epstein’s past. In fact, it was discussed how former attorney general Bill Barr’s father reportedly met Epstein at a bookstore and was a key figure in helping him to get a job at one of the most prestigious prep schools in New York City known as the Dalton School.At the time Epstein didn’t have a college degree, but he ended up being a tutor for math at the Dalton School where he would end up teaching Ace Greenberg’s son. Ace Greenberg was so impressed with Epstein’s intelligence that he ended up offering him a job at the famed Bear Stearns investment firm of which Ace himself was the chief executive of that company.From here that interview points out how Epstein’s reputation grew in the financial arena and then strangely finds his way working with these high level figures who are involved with questionable international trade deals. One key example that Mike Benz points to here is the working relationship that Epstein had with Adnan Khashoggi.Adnan Khashoggi was a Saudi businessman that played an infamous role in the 1986 Iran- Contra affair which would involve him bringing together the Iranian and Israeli dealers to work out a deal for the sale of 1500 U.S. missiles in exchange for the U.S. hostages that were held in Beirut at that time.Benz points out how Epstein was acquiring financial assets through covert financing operations and he was involved with Khashoggi at the time that this deal with the Iran-Contra situation took place. According to Benz, Epstein clearly had this ability by having access to money through his relationships. Benz points out that many of these deals were probably dirty, and possibly even involved issues associated with national security due to his relationships and the nature of how many of these deals involved foreign entities and high level individuals within governments and business.Because of Epstein’s network and connections to these high level individuals inside of governments and business these deals involved large sums of money that would exchange hands off the record for the CIA. It was because of this sort of set up that Benz suggests this is why there were girls involved with the sex crimes as he believes these girls were used more as a means to an end in the sense that they were a way Epstein would sweeten the closing of a deal. Benz believes that Epstein was using these girls in this manner of business rather than the trafficking of the girls themselves being the central focus for a global blackmailing operation.Benz also points out that during the 1970s there was a restructuring of intelligence work where the CIA was barred from handling any activities directly. As a result this is where USAID and the NGO web (National Endowment for Democracy, Internews, US Institute of Peace, etc.) took the baton from the CIA and took over covert operations." (Source: Real Clear Politics)In the interview with Steve Bannon and Mike Benz it was also pointed out how Epstein’s life came full circle with the Barr family. This was the case as it was Bill Barr’s father that got Epstein his job with the Dalton school and many years later it was Attorney General Bill Barr himself who drew up the entire new charging document for Epstein involving his second arrest. Here it was under Barr’s control and authority that the Bureau of Prisons reported to Barr that Epstein suicided himself.Coincidentally it was Bill Barr who advised President George H.W. Bush to pardon six individuals who were also involved in that Iran-Contra affair as well. If this wasn’t strange enough Barr also worked for the CIA from 1973-1977.For the sake of time I’m not going to dive any further into the Epstein past and connect anymore dots, but the reality is that I could easily keep going as the evidence is simply too great in regards to showing how Epstein had direct ties to the CIA. His relationship to the Barr family alone is a giant red flag.For the past week when President Trump kept referring to the Epstein situation as being a hoax and kept seeming to want to simply brush it aside a lot of MAGA got very upset. Many people even started turning against President Trump. As usual the emotionally reactive people end up lashing out way too soon.When President Trump did this with the Epstein situation he created the ultimate Streisand Effect which actually drew so much more attention to the case that even the Democrats were demanding that the files be opened despite the fact that they had been library quiet about it for four years under Biden.President Trump plays these people like a fiddle. When the President kept calling the Epstein situation a hoax he wasn’t saying that nobody was harmed by Epstein. Instead he was saying that the Democrats, who were now magically interested in the Epstein files, were all the sudden trying to weaponize this case against him in the same exact way as they did with the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA Steele Dossier, the alleged sex tapes, etc.After everything President Trump has been through I’m amazed people don’t just slow down to give him the benefit of the doubt, yet here we are again. Regardless, to explain this a bit further in President Trump’s interview with John Solomon and Amanda Head he reminded all of us that the previous regime had the files in their possession for four years.After all, the previous head of the FBI was the anti-Trump bureaucrat Chris Wray and the previous Attorney General was anti-Trump Merrick Garland. Before Chris Wray was the head of the FBI it was anti-Trump James Comey’s FBI and before it was Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice it was anti-Trump Bill Barr’s Department of Justice. It’s pretty interesting how Bill Barr’s name just keeps coming up, right?Furthermore, at this point most of MAGA understands that the Murdoch’s hate President Trump and last night I saw the report where the Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal actually published an article claiming that President Trump wrote a letter to Jeffrey Epstein.This story was so absurd that it even stated that President Trump drew a picture of a naked woman in the letter. However, there was no letter that the Wall Street Journal published. It was simply an absurd empty accusation about a letter. This is the perfect example of how Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) will make people do really stupid things.Of course, this morning I woke up to see where the President is unsealing all pertinent Grand Jury testimony surrounding the Epstein case. In addition to this he said he’s suing Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and is looking forward to seeing Murdoch himself personally testify in his lawsuit against Murdoch’s garbage newspaper.The Wrap UpThe one thing that I believe is absolutely essential for all of us to remember is to understand that everything has context. When President Trump is calling the Epstein case a hoax he’s not saying that to detract from any suffering that was caused to any victims. What it meant was that he can clearly see the attacks coming from the Democrats and all of his opponents because he’s obviously seen these types of attacks before. Everything has context.I’m pretty sure the President has a really good idea of what evidence and people may, or may not be involved with the Epstein scandal. President Trump understands that the deep state is doing everything it can to try and slow him down. After all, these are the same people that wanted to send him to prison for four hundred years to die and they will do it again if he fails at that mission this time around.In addition to this the deep state will also come after all of us as well. You know aside from Nolan Ryan having survived a 27 year major league career, and arguably having been the hardest throwing pitcher to ever live, he was also a very seasoned and experienced warrior of a pitcher.He could often tell whenever a batter was trying to test him because that batter would crowd the plate when getting into the batter’s box. Oftentimes this was something that Nolan said good hitters would do in order to try and get an edge on him. He said that in these situations he would have to wait for the right opportunity, but he also said he always had a bold solution to solve that problem.In these scenarios Nolan Ryan’s solution would involve a 100+ mph fastball that would be thrown high and inside on the batter. Back in the day this is what my friends and myself would refer to as introducing some sweet chin music to the situation.This would get the batters to back off every single time and if they didn’t then he would simply hit them with a pitch when the situation called for it.Just like with Nolan Ryan before his final no-hitter when looking at this current Epstein situation with President Trump he’s proving again that even if his warm up seems a bit lackluster, he’s still proving once again that he’s absolutely bringing the heat come game time.I understand that this Epstein situation caused some of MAGA to hit the panic button and that’s a problem. However, the rest of us have to remember that just like Nolan Ryan was in the zone during his final no-hitter, President Trump is also in the zone right now during the fight of his and our country’s lifetime.Just like all 5714 of those batters came up to challenge Nolan Ryan, he sent them all back to the dugout dejected and with nothing to show for it other than failure and personal frustration.President Trump is doing the same exact thing with every lying scandal, lying media outlet, and every anti-Trump individual that gets proven wrong on a near weekly basis over and over again.The real justice comes with attacking this Grand Criminal Conspiracy against President Trump. You see the reason I say this is because the thing that made Jeffrey Epstein possible was the deep state itself and there are deep state bad actors that are currently being looked at for investigation involving John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey.If any of us truly want justice for the Epstein victims then we need to make sure that these bad deep state actors get some sweet chin music from the swift hard hitting sword of Lady Justice.Did you hit the panic button on President Trump during this Epstein situation?Are you seeing how the MAGA information war machine is hitting on all cylinders after this most recent hit job by the deep state?Please share your feedback in the comment section below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”― Vince LombardiI want to take a moment to talk about a key trait that is involved in building significant human strength and resilience. This is a trait that’s necessary to understand not only for the purpose of building up your own individual physical resilience, but it’s also necessary for the importance of understanding how it can apply to a team, a movement, and a coalition that consists of the perpetuation of the beliefs and values of the liberty movement.If it’s your first time on my platform then you may not know that I am a professional strength and fitness coach and small business owner. There’s a specific reason I’m telling you this and I will further clarify that reason as I elaborate on the message of today’s episode.I’ve been a practicing coach now for close to 25 years and have trained a wide range of people from the novice all the way to world class athletes. Having been in this industry for so many years has allowed me to develop and acquire a very deep understanding of the human body and its potential.So what is the trait I mentioned at the beginning of this episode that is essential for building optimal physical strength and resilience? The secret that I’m talking about that can build optimal physical strength and resilience in the human body simply involves having the discipline to put forth intentional consistent effort towards a goal.That’s right, there’s no magical formula, no magical potion, or some extraordinary magical pill that is going to help you to achieve peak physical performance. There’s no quick fix for you to develop a resilient body that is resistant to almost every form of disease and injury known to mankind. That peak physical condition can only come from you possessing the discipline, willpower, and consistency in order to pursue it on a daily basis.In order for you to have that you MUST make that decision in your mind in order to pursue such a goal in order to make it happen. Now having said that, I also mentioned that the same trait that was essential for you to build up peak physical strength and resilience was also necessary in building up a team, a movement, and a coalition particularly when involved in perpetuating the beliefs and values of the liberty movement.So how exactly does this work?Well I’ve really already answered that question, but I’ll still elaborate a bit further because it’s something that took me some time to come to understand. That same understanding is what led me down the path to eventually starting this Substack blog and podcast just three years ago.From Everyday Citizen To Being An Emissary of FreedomUnless you’ve been living under a rock since the pandemic hit there’s been a huge unmasking of villains that have been identified as enemies to this United States Republic and those enemies are domestic enemies that reside right here at home.These enemies have pretty much been expanding inside the state governments and federal government throughout our beautiful nation for many years now. These enemies consist of communists, statists, and political radicals who all fall underneath the umbrella of being grafters that leech off of the tax dollars that are paid into the government by the hardworking American citizen.These domestic enemies have also been able to perpetuate their corruption within our state and federal institutions because they have infected every single one of those institutions. They have infected our media, our universities, our banking systems, our judicial systems, and even our entertainment systems.This rot is far reaching, but make no mistake this rot has spread simply because those people associated with the team of rot have been motivated. They’ve been motivated to engage in perpetuating their rot due to their commitment to putting forth a significant amount of intentional consistent effort towards their goals.Now that last part is exactly why I want to address how when intentional consistent effort is directed towards a goal, from a movement of people, it gets results. Achieving these results works in much the same way as that effort can achieve a result on an individual level as well.Of course, this relates to the example that I’ve already touched on when I talked about what it takes in order to build a strong, resilient body. Therefore the same intentional consistent effort is needed from a movement in order to build a strong resilient cultural and political coalition that is capable of transforming society for either better, or worse.Sir Isaac Newton said the following…“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”Now when looking at that quote I’m reminded that the MAGA movement is a coalition that is absolutely that reaction. It’s the reaction to the longstanding actions of all of the corruption associated with the domestic enemies that reside inside the institutions of our great nation.The MAGA coalition is definitely a strong coalition that has literally changed the arc of history.However, for the MAGA coalition to remain strong and resilient, what do you think is required in order for it to maintain its staying power?The answer to that last question simply involves us making sure that the awakened, informed, and engaged populace of citizens remain awakened, informed, and engaged. This is the very definition of the MAGA movement.What we’ve witnessed in the past four years is the rapid expansion of populism cementing itself as the new norm.President Trump lit the fuse that caused the explosion of this movement and the timing was significant due to the converging factors of corruption all culminating into a very obvious inflection point in our country’s history over the past four years. The actions of those domestic enemies that I mentioned earlier had finally reached a point where their behavior has been so blatant and so horrible that the entire world had to take notice in recent years. There seem to be only a few exceptions of people who don’t seem to notice the severity of this corruption.These people seem to be the leftist that are simply brainwashed by the establishment, along with the grafting RINOs and the anti-Trump Libertarians who seem to not understand history, or the gravity, of the situation that we’re living in right now regarding the state of the nation.You see this is exactly why they say the cream rises to the top. This is the case because everyday citizens consisting of people who do understand history, business, politics, human nature, and simply possess the wisdom for discernment, have stepped up to the plate to defend the Republic within the MAGA coalition.The reality is that the MAGA movement is the most powerful political movement in American history and MAGA has proven that despite having been outnumbered and outspent in literally every institutional category across the board.The entire existence of the MAGA movement is a result of a very specific purpose. It’s the result of everyday citizens that have gotten sick and tired of the corruption of Washington D.C., Silicon Valley, and a garbage media ecosystem that has been literally waging war against the American citizen now for a very long time.Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.Hosea 14:9The MAGA coalition exists because it serves to remind both the corrupt politicians and their braindead followers that being an American citizen is supposed to mean something.Despite what the moronic left and the moronic anti-Trump Libertarians think, the benefits of being an American citizen doesn’t mean having open borders to allow illegal immigration to run wild within the country.In addition to that, since the invasion of illegals has illegally been incentivized and allowed by our federal government it certainly doesn’t mean that those same illegals are afforded Constitutional due process for their crimes. Yes, there are actually anti-Trump Libertarians stupid enough to believe this.It’s because of these absurd allowances involving direct violations of American sovereignty that the American public has been slowly brainwashed over time into believing a watered down version of what it means to actually be a United States citizen. This lack of civic acumen from the American public has degraded the nation state to the point that we have found our individual sovereignty and individual liberties under assault across multiple battle fronts.You see the MAGA movement recognizes these attacks that are being waged on the American citizen and thankfully the citizen movement has chosen to engage the enemy on those multiple battle fronts. We see the enemy gunning to silence our freedom of speech, we’ve seen the enemy gunning for our right to keep and bear arms, and we’ve seen the enemy use coercion in order to force us to agree to medical procedures that we may not agree that we need.In addition to this the MAGA movement also recognizes that the right to vote, the opportunity to serve in the military, and the ability to access public services have all been rights and benefits that have been ceded over to illegal immigrants while American citizens continue to suffer.The MAGA coalition understands that the corrupt Administrative State wants to destroy what it means to be an American citizen which will ultimately result in the actual destruction of the American citizen.So given the detailed outline here of MAGA it’s obvious that the movement has clearly defined its purpose and that purpose is that it’s a movement that is goal oriented and very specific about saving the Republic and the American citizen.The same thing could be seen with the Sons of Liberty back on December 16, 1773 at the Boston Tea Party. Like the MAGA movement is specific in its purpose the Sons of Liberty were also very specific in their purpose involving their disposal of the tea as well.You see, when the Sons of Liberty secretly climbed aboard the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor ships on that December night to destroy 340 chests of tea, it was a clear message to the British that they weren’t going to be controlled and abused by their tax laws.This move by the Sons of Liberty was both bold and specific. You see, it is said that the amount of tea that was destroyed by the Sons of Liberty would hold an estimated value today of being worth about $1.7 million. This was a huge blow to the British East India Company which meant it was a huge blow to the British overall.However, despite the destruction of the tea with this bold move that was successfully pulled off by the Patriots, historical accounts show that there was absolutely zero damage done to the ships themselves. In fact, there was no damage done to any of the crew or any other items onboard the ships except for a single broken padlock.It appeared that the padlock was the personal property of one of the ships’ captains, however this padlock was promptly replaced the next day by the Patriots. During this mission there was great care taken by the Patriots to ensure that there was no damage done to any of the ships, or any personal property.In fact, there were no items looted or stolen from the ships including no stolen tea. There was one participant that tried to steal some tea, but this individual was immediately reprimanded and stopped by the Patriots.The Sons of Liberty were very careful about how they carried out the Boston Tea Party mission as they reserved all of the destruction to be done specifically to the tea and no other property. After the destruction of the tea the participating Patriots even went so far as to sweep and clean the decks of the ships and they even took the time to move every item back to its original place if it were moved out of place during the mission.The crews of the ships had attested to the fact that there had been absolutely zero damage done to the ships except to the cargoes of tea that were onboard at the time. The Sons of Liberty were very disciplined and specific in their message to the Royal Crown.That message was a message of independence. That message was a message that was a show of strength. That message was a message where the Sons of Liberty were being Emissaries of Freedom and demonstrating to the British crown that the crown wasn’t going to be in control of the sovereignty of the Americans for much longer.The Wrap UpWhen you look at the Sons of Liberty and the MAGA movement in this modern era you can see how they are both one in the same. The MAGA movement has recognized that the Republic has been under attack by domestic communists and grafters and that this era that we are living in is about reclaiming the Republic.President Trump is the instrument of destruction, or the blunt force object, that the MAGA movement has at the tip of the spear to wage war against the Administrative State. President Trump is the reason the MAGA movement exists in the way that it does with its ability to organize, inform, and to go on offense in the cultural, economic, and information war against the communists at a level not seen before throughout all of history.I believe one thing that a lot of people don’t currently understand about the reality that we’re in now is that reality is one where we have actually lost this Republic. The question is whether or not we are going to be able to reclaim the Republic under President Trump’s leadership and the MAGA movement’s activism.In looking at our country’s history you can see the following three main defining moments…Under George Washington’s leadership you saw the Revolution of the country.Under Abraham Lincoln’s leadership you saw the Restoration of the country.Under Donald Trump’s leadership now you’re seeing the Reclamation of the country.During this process of reclaiming the lost Republic we, as the MAGA coalition, cannot afford to get complacent. This is why your support of alternative media platforms is so vital. Whether you support this platform, or another one with a similar message, the reality is that your support is absolutely vital in turning this ship around.It’s more important now than ever that you get engaged in the MAGA movement in order to take the fight to the communists. They’re far from being defeated and are trying to spring up throughout the country in multiple places.For instance, you’re already seeing this in Texas, and more recently in New York, as we’ve seen with the Democratic party having put forth a self-proclaimed communist jihadist to be the city’s next mayor.I understand that it’s easy to focus on the bad news, but it’s essential that we maintain a sound level of reality in order to not fall into the trap of complacency. This is exactly why I talked about what trait was necessary to build a strong resilient movement here at the beginning of this article.We cannot afford to complain about being tired of the fight for liberty, or being disengaged from it. This is where that discipline to put forth intentional consistent effort towards the goal of destroying the communist revolution will be determined by our dedication to ensuring we’re successful.You know we all just literally celebrated our special Fourth of July Independence day holiday. I believe that a lot of people have forgotten, or never realized, a very important detail regarding the signing of the Declaration of Independence.We celebrate our forefathers' signing of this wonderful document, but the important detail that I believe a lot of people never talk about is that the signing of the Declaration of Independence was merely a collection of inked signatures on a piece of paper.In other words, they knew that they were inviting a lot of trouble into their lives from the British Crown by putting their names on that document. Because of this the reality was that they had to back up their Declaration of Independence with SERIOUS action. This is exactly why seven years of war followed that very signing of that very important document.By signing that Declaration into existence the founders had established their discipline to put forth their intentional consistent effort towards the goal of liberty, freedom, and independence.They had the willpower and focus in order to carry that declaration through to its ultimate conclusion. There was no time for battle fatigue because the movement was fit enough and strong enough to endure what was coming.Therefore, here in today’s world the MAGA movement must also demonstrate willpower, resilience, and determination to bring about the destruction of the communist revolution in order to reclaim this Republic.Are you ready to support the Patriot movement in resuscitating the dynamism that made this country so great?Are you willing to engage this Populist movement in order to achieve and obtain the restoration of vigor and purpose that is needed to continue to build a strong and resilient MAGA coalition?Post up and share your thoughts in the comments below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.Also listen to this episode here on…SpotifyApple PodcastsTune InPocket CastIf you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brandonrichey.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit brandonrichey.substack.comIf you are tuning into today's episode this particular episode will only be available in full length if you subscribe as an All-Access Paid member directly on the Substack. However, don't click off because I've including a free preview here and if you'd like to access the rest of this episode and bypass the paywall simply go to brandonrichey.substack.com and sign up for about the price of a cup of coffee per month. Thank you very much for your support. The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”― Henry AdamsWhen looking at the story of Moses in the Bible there’s a clear mission that is put in place by the Lord in order to use Moses to free his people from slavery. Moses was sent on a mission from God to free the Israelites from slavery from the Egyptians under the very proud and powerful Pharaoh.This entire event was a process that involved a lot of hard negotiating where the Lord even used nightmarish plagues against Pharaoh and Egypt when he continually refused to allow his people to go free with Moses. This was only after Pharaoh refused the requests of Moses over and over and over again.Now to be fair the Bible does say that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart during the times when Moses would approach Pharoah and request the release of the Lord’s people. Now I’m no Biblical scholar, but my best guess as to why the Lord did this was because God had already known Pharaoh’s heart. Pharaoh had already demonstrated his stubbornness and unwillingness to learn. Granted it was this stubbornness that allowed God to demonstrate his authority while ultimately leading to the liberation of the Israelites and the complete downfall of Pharaoh.One must keep in mind that it never said that Pharaoh's heart was permanently hardened, but his decision to remain in defiance of the request of Moses would remain intact until it ended his own army in the Red Sea.I find it interesting how Pharaoh was so determined to want to possess the sovereignty of the Israelites to the point that it led his army to their demise. That desire for one to be the sovereign authority over others seems to be a human desire that has never gone away since the world fell long ago.As we look at the landscape of these modern day global technocrats it seems that our world is still full of Pharaohs that serve false gods and still seek to possess the sovereignty of others just the same. As the old saying goes “There’s nothing new under the sun.” –Ecclesiastes 1:9.The Technocratic SovereignNow before I go any further I just wanted to warn you that I am going to give some commentary here on the plot of a brand new movie that I just recently watched called Mountainhead. If you have an interest in seeing that movie then I want to give you fair warning that I’m going to be talking about what happens in that movie here now.However, if you’re just here to read and listen to my commentary then stay right where you are and I’ll do my best to hold your interest.First of all, I didn’t think that the movie Mountainhead was a great movie, but then again a lot of modern cultural entertainment is garbage these days. Now having said that there appears to be some steady improvement in the creative culture due to this Great Awakening and seismic cultural shift that we all are experiencing right in front of us, but I digress. However, Mountainhead did offer a valuable lesson and some key cultural insight that directly applies to our modern day lives that I wanted to share with you here.Now in the movie Mountainhead it follows three wealthy friends who meet at a retreat due to a significant level of global upheaval caused by AI-generated disinformation. As it turns out this AI-disinformation is largely being disseminated by a fictional social media platform called Traam which happens to be owned by one of the four friends named Ven Parish.So among these four friends at this gathering are Ven Parish (owner of Traam and the world’s richest person), Jeff Abredazi (owner of the AI company Bilter), Randall Garrett who is an older mentor of the group that gets diagnosed with an incurable cancer, and Hugo “Souper” Van Yalk who, despite a $521 million net worth, is still the least wealthiest of his friends. By the way, as a side note Steve Carell is the actor that plays Randall Garrett.The location of this retreat takes place at Souper’s home which is named Mountainhead. Although the gathering is apparently supposed to be an opportunity for the four men to reconnect as friends without their professional lives getting in the way, the reality is that all four of them still have ulterior motives for being there.For instance, Ven really desires to acquire Bilter for its fact-checking technology due to having fast tracked some new features with his social media platform Traam that enabled disinformation to spread. He desires to have Bilter as he believes it will free him from having to rescind the new features of his social media platform that allowed the spread of disinformation while also allowing him to avoid the accountability of all the chaos that it is causing throughout the world.Randall also desires to see Traam grow and progress because he believes that Ven’s success will lead to a transhumanist solution that will cure his illness. During all of this turmoil Jeff witnesses his own net worth skyrocket with all the social unrest and turmoil worsening due to Bilter’s fact checking abilities. However, he does not want Bilter to be absorbed, or acquired by Traam.During all of this Souper, who owns Mountainhead, feels inferior to all of the rest of the guys and simply wishes to convince the others to invest in his Slowzo “lifestyle super-app.” Shortly after arriving at Mountainhead for the gathering Jeff and Ven start arguing over Traam’s issues which results in the rest of the friends trying to pressure Jeff into selling Bilter.

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Antitrust has become a legal backwater in recent decades. But the curse of bigness is back, and antitrust enforcement must come back with it, updated to perform its original, republican function: protecting the independence of the American people from oligarchic control.”― Josh HawleyIn 1973 a man walked into a bank in Stockholm, Sweden with a Russian automatic rifle and held it up. During this event he took three female hostages and one male hostage that he ended up holding for what would be a 131 hour marathon of chaos.During this event the hostages were exposed to a series of very traumatic experiences as he terrorized them throughout this ordeal. As it turns out he actually put a noose around their necks during certain points of the hold up and constantly threatened to kill them. In addition to this he actually pointed the rifle at them and fired it multiple times in their direction.However, at the end of the day when this event finally came to its conclusion he had not physically harmed any of the hostages. When the man finally decided to surrender something very unusual happened that would shock the authorities.When this event came to its conclusion the authorities expected the hostages to be antagonistic towards the hostage taker, but at the end of this experience the hostages had expressed more fear and concern towards the police officers than they did toward the guy that had been holding them against their will.What was even stranger is that they didn’t even claim to hate, or dislike the hostage taker after the event. The hostages even went so far as to not even bother to testify against the man. In fact, one of the women ended up marrying the hostage taker after he was released from prison in 1980.That hostage taker and bank robber Jan-Erik Olsson moved to Thailand and in 2009 released his autobiography, entitled Stockholm Syndrome.So what’s the moral of this wild, but true story here?Just because you’re single and broke could this story suggest that you should arm yourself, commandeer a bank, and take a bunch of people hostage in hopes of meeting your future wife, or husband?I know you may laugh, however this would mirror a similar line of thinking regarding the current day’s RINOs and establishment Libertarians who think that the nationwide riots going on right now are NOT the result of an invasion, or Fifth Column activity. These people want to argue that the riots are the result of a group of non-citizens that love America despite them burning old glory in the streets while brandishing the flags of their country of origin.These same RINO and establishment Libertarians also believe that the Neo-Brandeisian movement to break the back of big business in this current day is somehow anti-free market. As it relates to this current day on the issues of illegal immigration, and the economic reality of the country, this sort of thinking is what is known as effete intellectualism.The Neo-Brandeisian MovementLouis Brandeis was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He would enter Harvard University (long before the institution became a hotbed of CCP Fifth Column activity) when he was 18 years of age and would end up graduating in 1877 with the highest average in the law school’s history.Brandeis would end up becoming a Justice in the Supreme Court from 1916-1939. During his tenure he would also end up becoming an extraordinary Justice in the Supreme Court as he employed the skills that had also made him a renowned attorney.Throughout his career he had a certain perspective regarding his view of the law and its application. For him the law was a device that would be used to shape social, economic, and political affairs. I would say that for right, or wrong Brandeis is 100% correct in this assessment.As an overview he believed that the law had to function on the basis of two key assumptions. These two things involved the belief that the individual was the basic force in society and that the individual also had limited capabilities.Now within this model of belief Brandeis did not seek to coddle the individual, but rather his aim embraced the notion that the individual’s potential should be stretched to its limit.Given this view of the intended function of the law, Brandeis came into the picture during his time to put forth the warning of heavily concentrated corporate power and wealth. Brandeis believed that if a company was too large and too profitable that it was an inherent threat to the market.Now at the turn of the 20th century there was a wave of populism to hit the scene along with politicians that came along to ride that wave. Sounds familiar, right?Well at that time the term antitrust was prevalent throughout the American lexicon during the turn of the 20th century which lit the fuse for that very wave of populism that soon followed.During this time the politicians set their crosshairs on trusts. In case you didn’t know these trusts essentially were large umbrella companies that held the assets of many other businesses. The idea was that these businesses were monopolies.This is essentially where the idea of trust busting came from. In fact, it was in 1890 when congress would pass the Sherman Antitrust Act which is a federal statute that prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace. Now please hang with me here because this is going to get very interesting.Now as we fast forward to the current day we’re seeing some common threads here in the beginning of this 21st century that mirror what was going on at the beginning of the 20th century.After all, once the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890 it was President Teddy Roosevelt that came along in 1911 with a hell-bent attitude on busting up several trusts that existed at that time. Roosevelt would end up busting up a huge railroad conglomerate, the Northern Securities Company, along with many other companies.Now as I previously stated Brandeis believed that if a company was too large and too profitable that it was an inherent threat to the market. However, if bureaucrats couldn’t prove that companies had an actual monopoly over the markets they would rely on what Brandeis called “The Curse of Bigness.”Now the reality is that it proved to be difficult to determine what was too large or too profitable so by the time the 1980s rolled around most regulators decided to adopt what is known as the Consumer Welfare Standard (CWS).The CWS basically helped to gauge the scale of determining whether a company’s size, or success was a danger by looking at whether or not the company posed any harm to the consumer.Granted, today much of this focus has brought Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google into the crosshairs of the Neo-Brandeisian movement. These concerns regarding the welfare of consumers consist of multiple reasons. This is mainly because these companies acquire and possess a tremendous amount of information on consumers. Additionally these companies also possess an enormous amount of wealth that enables them to buy up startups faster than most people are able to keep count.However, despite these issues concerning the consumer there are many other issues that the critics of the Neo-Brandeisian movement seem to lack a fundamental understanding about regarding what the movement is actually advocating for in today’s marketplace.In the new Brandeis school of Antitrust Lina M. Khan is the author of Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox . In her paper she expands on the purpose of antitrust where the focus isn’t only meant to function in the narrow space of the consumer through introducing any sort of welfare into the market, but rather it should promote truly competitive markets throughout our business sector.You see, I'm personally a huge advocate for free market competition. As a small business owner (like most all small business owners) I understand the significance of this better than most.However, as a small business owner the one thing I really don’t like is the abundance of government subsidies. You see if you take any business in the world and decide to allow that business to be propped up by the tax dollars of the consumers then what incentive does that business have to compete in the market in order to produce a better and more affordable product, or service?The correct answer to that question is ABSOLUTELY NONE. Additionally, the moment a business takes a subsidy the entire notion of being in a free market is thrown right out the window.To expand on the same company that Lina M. Khan used in the title of her paper, Amazon is a prime example of this…by the way, I did say prime example…pun intended.You see, the business model of Amazon is an example of Technofeudalism. This is a term and system that Yanis Varoufakis points out in the title of his book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.In his book Yanis explains how under feudalism, a landowner would grant fiefs to vassals, who would then farm the land and then give a portion of the yield back to the chief landowner. In a sobering modern day comparison Yanis points out how Jeff Besos’s relationship with the vendors on Amazon isn’t really all that different. (Source: The New Yorker)For more clarity on Technofeudalism I want to encourage you to scroll down and click the link to that episode here as it really breaks down the threat that this model poses to our economic system at large.However, as bad as the Technofeudalism is in regards to how Amazon is able to abuse its sellers the thing that makes it even worse is what I mentioned earlier involving the subsidies. The real problem here is that this massive company, along with all of the other Big Tech companies, receive enormous rewards in the form of tax subsidies in addition to them already being big and powerful.According to the Amazon tracker on the Good Jobs First website Amazon has received in excess of $11.6 billion in subsidies with the latest update being as recent as January 1, 2025. I’m sure when you look at every small business in the country they didn’t get the luxury of receiving several billions of dollars in subsidies in order to prop them up.As if the Big Tech companies aren’t big enough it seems they get a lot of help getting even bigger as they continue to grow their capacity for wealth, data mining, and their ability to suppress competition from ever sprouting up in order to get into the ring with them to compete.In fact, I want to take a second to expand on that fighting metaphor I just mentioned in terms of being able to get into the ring. When it comes to two fighters getting inside the squared circle to compete you understand how this works, right?Just in case there are any readers or listeners that aren’t sure, I want to take a moment to clarify this because it’s very important. When two competing fighters get into the ring they are both supposed to have an equal and fair shot at winning the fight.This fairness is supposed to be managed by the referees and the judges that score the fight should the fight have to be decided by a points total at the end. This type of ending in a fight would occur if a fighter is unable to win decisively with a knockout, technical knockout, or submission if the fight happens to be an MMA bout.However, when we look at the fighters inside the arena of business today, as it relates to these oligarchies, we see them as being one of the fighters inside the ring. The other fighter working to rise up and compete against these oligarchs would represent the other fighter inside the arena of business. Now if the oligarchs are one fighter and a rising competitor is the other fighter, then the government is supposed to represent the referee and judges who are supposed to be making sure the fight is fair.However, when the referee is giving aid to the oligarchs during the fight in order to get a winning advantage over the competition then there’s no fair fight. In fact, in this scenario instead of the referee calling a fair fight the referee and judges are instead getting directly involved in picking the winners and losers in the fight.The reality is that inside the arena of business today the referees and judges (aka the government) are picking the winners and losers. The so-called referee is actually responsible for propping up the oligarchies that are resulting in what Brandeis would refer to as The Curse of Bigness.So what type of aid is the referee giving the oligarchs? That aid typically comes in the form of those government subsidies I was talking about earlier in addition to direct access to the most powerful people in the government.This access comes with an enhanced ability to turn around and reward those very politicians (aka the referees) in the form of generous campaign donations, political activism, and even the ability to corrupt elections. That last part is surprisingly easy if some of those oligarchs happen to be big tech oligarchs like we’ve witnessed with Mark Zuckerberg in the 2020 election.This is one of the major issues concerning the actual creation of monopolies and trusts in the first place. Because of this these monopolies may actually be able to create a position where they sell the public on the illusion of producing cheap products, but do so at the cost of destroying true economic growth within the system that they are leeching off of.To be very blunt these monopolies are able to offer cheap products because they’ve offshored the bulk of their manufacturing to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If we’re being straightforward here, the reason those products are cheap is because these oligarchs have agreed to allow the bulk of their products to be built off the backs of slave labor, but digress.As these oligarchs continue to be supported they will continue to grow unabated. Their continued growth will also result in the continued destruction of the U.S. economy as they will destroy job opportunities for people with the assisted growth of their development of AI that they plan to use in order to replace human beings.Now the crazy thing is that the size and wealth of these oligarchs has resulted in their continued abuse of the American economic and business sector.This abuse has been going on for quite a long time now without anyone being held accountable for their behavior in regards to their corrupt actions in their quest to grow. This is the very thing that the Neo-Brandeisian movement is pointing out as The Curse of Bigness.It’s my view that we are now living in a moment where there’s been such a cultural shift in this Great Awakening that the possibility to enforce accountability with these oligarchs is more obtainable now than ever before in history.The Wrap UpThe reality is that the abuse of these oligarchs over the consumer and business population has been going on for so long now that much of the private sector is either too ignorant, too brainwashed, or have lied to themselves too much to recognize what’s been going on. It only requires the simple act of being able to observe to see that the economic well-being of the middle class has been completely eroded over time.Despite the fact that these monopolies have literally cratered the economies of many small towns throughout the country due to them offshoring much of their high paying manufacturing jobs, they have also managed to add insult to injury by buying off politicians to help them finance their effort off the backs of taxpayers through their massive tax subsidies.At the beginning of this episode I talked about the very strange and well documented case of the bank robbery that Jan-Erik Olsson was responsible for in Stockholm, Sweden. In studying that event we learned about a very unusual psychological condition where people who are kidnapped, or held hostage, often end up developing feelings of affection, or trust towards their captors.Of course, this unusual phenomenon is what is known as Stockholm Syndrome.When looking at the state of the U.S. economy it’s clear that the long-standing abuse from these oligarchs has been effective. The evidence that they have stolen and perverted the business, financial, and economic system of the country to favor their pursuits is completely obvious. As this is the case the economic state of the country continues to erode as these people continue to grow in wealth and power.What is less obvious to those who fail to recognize this is that they have convinced themselves, just as Olsson's hostages did in that bank, that this is absolutely normal.In other words, the RINOs and establishment Libertarians who are screaming the loudest in their criticisms of the Neo-Brandeisian movement are acting like giving billions of dollars in tax subsidies to oligarchs is somehow a support of free-markets.Earlier I used the metaphor of how two competing fighters in the arena of business are both supposed to have a fair shot to win the fight. Additionally, I pointed out how the referee (aka the government) has been frequently favoring one fighter over the other by giving him a winning advantage.Now just like any competitive fight the supporting fanbase always wants a fair fight as well. However, in this metaphorical comparison the current fanbase (mostly consisting of the RINOs and establishment Libertarians) have been suffering from a bit of Stockholm Syndrome for quite some time now.The good news regarding the rest of the fanbase who can see that the fight is rigged is that they now have an opportunity to also intervene in favor of the fighter that’s been getting cheated by the referees and the judges.The Neo-Brandeisian movement is the mechanism that can give the true fanbase (aka the American people) an opportunity to toss in a pair of metaphorical brass knuckles to the fighter that has been cheated in order to help even the odds inside the squared circle.Do you think we have a good opportunity to break up the Big Tech oligarchs in this current political environment?Have you noticed that the RINOs and many of the establishment anti-MAGA Libertarians have been suffering from TDS and a serious case of Stockholm Syndrome?Please share your feedback in the comment section below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.Also listen to this episode here on…SpotifyApple PodcastsTune InPocket CastIf you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brandonrichey.substack.com/subscribe

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.”― Howard Tayler, Emperor Pius DeiThroughout history civilizations rise and fall after going through a long cycle of power dynamics that ultimately leads to such power being abused by corrupt leaders and grafters. As it turns out, these corrupt people that manage to find their way to the top of a leadership position have a greater interest in using the power of their position for their own perceived personal gain rather than leveraging the power of their position for the betterment of their home country.During such times when bad actors are allowed to get into power and control the country of their origin they have often done so by using a boot on the neck of their citizens while always looking to do whatever they can in order to maintain their hold on power.In such times if these corrupt dictators can sense that their grip on the power dynamic is slipping they may be smart enough to recognize such a thing and it’s usually at this point that they realize that they must start looking into ways to help themselves maintain the control of their position by any means necessary.When this happens traditionally these types of dictators would go to a podium to stand in front of their people to call out a foreign devil. It’s at this point that the corrupt leader would explain to his people how the cause of all of their problems is centered around a foreign devil that is a threat to their homeland.At this moment a corrupt leader is essentially leaning on the playbook of leveraging radical nationalism in order to drum up fear and to create a false enemy while all the time this leader is engaging in psychological projection as he is guilty of the actual problem that he’s telling his people that the foreign devil is guilty of being.Time and time again we can see this scenario play out in the history books and when it does the world becomes a very dangerous place. This always results in millions of people dying due to wars that ravage cities and rural areas in a manner that is so dark that it’s hard to comprehend.If we fast forward through time up to the present day we can see how this same playbook has been taking form from a certain country in the east that desires to rule the entire world.Although there’s been different strategies employed by these corrupt leaders in the past, today we can see how they prefer to place a lot more emphasis on adopting a more clandestine approach. You can see this in their efforts as they aim to infiltrate and subvert a foreign devil from within.To give you a specific example these days they even engage in getting into trade deals with their enemy by offering cheap labor to the corporate businesses of their enemy’s homeland in order to manufacture their goods and products. Make no mistake this cheap labor is cheap because it’s made up of slave labor from their working populace.Also understand that they are willing to do this in order to help enrich the elites of those companies of their enemy’s homeland. Now you may look at that and ask How is that a bad thing? How could they help to enrich the elites of their enemy’s homeland and still consider them an enemy?Well if either of those questions occurred to you then you’d be asking some very good questions. However, you’ve got to understand that there’s a very specific reason for them engaging in such trade and business with their enemies.You see once the ruling regime of the authoritarians are able to build a huge manufacturing base for the corporations from their enemy’s homeland then they can do other more impactful and nefarious things. At this point they can manage to build immense influence, achieve financial capture, and literally position themselves to steal the technological makeup and design of every product that they work to build for those companies who are from their enemy’s homeland.It just so happens that the ruling regime of the country practicing such a thing also guides their decisions by engaging in the ancient military general Sun Tzu’s Art of War principles. This essentially means that they are striving to master that clandestine approach that I mentioned earlier.“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”― Sun Tzu, The Art of WarOnce they have been successful in enriching the elites of their enemies from a strong trade and economic coupling then they will start using that influence, money, and power of those elites to infiltrate their enemy’s homeland.At this point they will get the elites to get involved in the political process of funding the political campaigns of politicians who are sympathetic to the authoritarian, corrupt leader’s regime. They will also work with the elites to set up schools inside the homeland of their enemy’s borders in order to indoctrinate the youths of their enemy.They will also donate money to the existing institutions of their enemy’s homeland to use curriculum to propagate the student body with messaging that causes the student body to be sympathetic to their cause while training the student body to hate their own country.So what is the result of all of this?Civil ChaosNow in case you’re wondering, up to this point the corrupt leaders that I’m referring to are the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the foreign devil that they are at war with happens to be the United States.However, the strategy of using their nefarious mercantilist trade practices to hollow out the manufacturing base of the United States, while simultaneously engaging in the practice of elite capture, is a very real problem that the United States is currently having to deal with.This sort of game is a very dangerous one and the so-called elites within the United States have essentially aided in the funding and implementation of what is known as fifth column activity.If you’re not familiar with that term, a fifth column essentially involves a faction of subversive agents who are doing what they can in order to undermine a nation’s solidarity by any means at their disposal.The origin of this word dates back to the Spanish civil war (1936-39) involving the Nationalist general Emilio Mola Vidal. At that time as Vidal’s four army columns moved on Madrid Vidal had referred to his sympathizers and militant supporters within the capital as his fifth column, as they were intent on dividing and undermining the loyalist government from the inside.The central goal and technique that is to be employed by the fifth column is the infiltration of sympathizers into the entire fabric of the nation that happens to be under attack. This is a well thought out and intentional action that is designed to fracture the nation that one is looking to conquer, or destroy.Here in the U.S. over the last several years we’ve seen a drastic escalation in this fifth column activity, especially as it pertains to the actions of our longstanding and now corrupt institutions. Many of the major institutions have been captured by the CCP through the long steady effort and implementation of their influence operations that have been purposely aimed at destroying our country from within.One well known example of this fifth column activism here in the states involves the Black Lives Matter organization. As the Heritage Foundation reported way back on September 15, 2020 you could easily find this connection by simply visiting the website of Black Futures Lab which was a venture of Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza.Since this story was reported there seems to have been some changes made to the Black Futures Lab site, but the Heritage Foundation was brilliant enough to screenshot the page. At the time the Heritage Foundation reported on how it would ask you to send your money to an obscure organization known as the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA).As it turns out the CPA was founded back in 1972 in San Francisco. This organization came about during the heady days of the Marxist-oriented Asian American Movement and it also had a functioning chapter in Boston.From its inception this group has been an advocate for the People’s Republic of China (PRC). To this day the CPA Boston continues to be an active partner of the PRC in the United States.When the Heritage Foundation first published their article on the relationship between the CPA and BLM that same article reported on how just three years prior the Boston chapter teamed up with China’s Consulate General in New York to offer Chinese nationals the opportunity to renew their passports. Of course, this got them a lot of praise and open support from China’s official mouthpiece the China Daily.The evidence of the CCP’s clandestine war and fifth column activity within our borders is overwhelming and more and more of it is rising to the surface as it’s being exposed by alternative MAGA media sources like this one. One thing is for sure the Administrative State Media (ASM) is captured and they only ever frame any decoupling effort from China as being bad for the U.S. rather than focusing on the existential threat that the CCP is to the country right here and now.The evidence of this fifth column activity is global as well. I mean right now Europe is being taken over by Islamists and their government has been literally going to war against their own citizens if they dare to speak out about any of this.In fact, one of the key independent journalists and activists Tommy Robinson was just released from prison after 18 months due to being sentenced for libel. It turns out that many of those months Tommy undeservedly served in solitary confinement.Upon his release Tommy made it clear that one of the biggest reasons that he became a free man was largely due to Elon Musk and his X platform. He stated that this was the case because X proved to be an effective medium that provided an alternative narrative to combat the censorship that has been a big problem in Britain for the past few years involving their draconian crackdowns on silencing speech against their own citizenry.This fifth column activity is global and is a direct effort by global communists to destroy the entire idea of national sovereignty and supplant it with a single world government and marketplace. When it comes to the global communists everything is about centralization.Now it’s become apparent that one big central hub for manufacturing fifth column activists happens to involve one of the biggest names among some prominent U.S. institutions. In case you haven’t heard, this would involve one of the most nefarious government grafting operations in recorded history that has been used to weaponize your tax dollars against you. The major culprit that has been directly involved in this is Harvard University.In fact, the recently published article in The Wall Street Journal displayed the title "Harvard Has Trained So Many Chinese Communist Officials, They Call It Their ‘Party School.”According to the article, for decades the CCP has sent thousands of mid-career seasoned bureaucrats to pursue a path of postgraduate studies and executive training in the U.S. with Harvard University being recognized by many CCP officials as being their top destination of choice. According to the article the CCP recognizes it as the top “party school” outside of their country.One such CCP alumni that benefited from Harvard’s program was former vice president and Xi Jinping’s top negotiating trade strategist who was previously involved in trade talks with the first Trump administration.To be even more direct with Harvard’s involvement with the CCP President Xi Jinping’s own daughter Xi Mingze reportedly attended the university from 2010-2014 and still currently resides in Massachusetts.It’s obvious that American universities have played a leading role in shaping China’s overseas roles and training programs for many of their mid-career officials. Apparently some other U.S. colleges have offered training for CCP officials including Syracuse, Stanford, Rutgers, and the University of Maryland.Because of this out of control relationship between Harvard University and CCP officials, the Department of Homeland Security has recently smacked down this operation. In fact, just recently the head of the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reported on the official website that she ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.According to the department Harvard is being held accountable for their actions and association with the CCP which have been directly responsible for fostering violence, antisemitism, and pro-terrorist conduct directly from its student body on campus.According to Reuters a U.S. business intelligence firm called Strategy Risks said that Ronnie Chan, the son of a major property developer T.H. Chan facilitated a very generous $350 million donation to Harvard back in 2014 which resulted in the school of public health being named after his father. According to Strategy Risks Ronnie Chan is a member of the China-United States Exchange Foundation.Looking at that massive 2014 donation, is it a coincidence that this large sum of money just happened to flow into Harvard the same year that President Xi Jinping’s daughter graduated from the institution? I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe in coincidences.Apparently this organization has been classified as a foreign principal under U.S. law and because of this the lobbyists that are working for it are responsible for disclosing the work that they do to the U.S. government. This has certainly been an additional concern from U.S officials and has raised some eyebrows as to the nature of the business.In addition to this the Reuters article also reminds us of the case of Charles Lieber who was scrutinized by a Trump program that was established back in 2018 that was known as the China Initiative. The purpose of this program was focused on fighting that magical word espionage which contains those three extra syllables compared to the word spy that I led off with using that catchy quote at the beginning of this episode.The China Initiative also looked into intellectual property theft along with investigating researchers and various universities over whether they disclosed their financial ties to Beijing. If you remember Lieber was convicted in 2021 of lying about his ties to China in connection to money that was directly involved with federally funded research. He later became a full time professor at a Chinese university.The Wrap UpThere’s a clear trend that exists with the presence of the CCP and their efforts involved with expansionism as it relates to their Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).The CCP has captured many of our elites and is waging full blown Unrestricted Warfare against the United States and all of Western civilization.By using their money, influence, and intimidation the CCP has created what I like to refer to as a contagion of corruption that has spread throughout the foundation of every major U.S. institution and this corruption is manifesting in the form of actions that are designed to hurt American citizens.The nefarious agenda that is spread by the CCP is done so by financial capture of the elites, intimidation, or probably by some other form of leverage that resembles blackmail. That last one is an educated guess, but I’m pretty sure that I’m over the target on it.The CCP is fully engaged in unrestricted warfare with the United States and their fifth column activists are a large mechanism involved in keeping our country wrapped up and distracted in unnecessary civil chaos all while they work to build out military dominance and seize territories to expand their BRI efforts.If you don’t believe me then take a look back at how they took over Hong Kong, look at when they installed Lula in Brazil, look how they’ve infiltrated the Canadian government to our north, and how they’ve directly infiltrated our own government here in the states.Even right now they're working to take down one of our biggest allies in South Korea by working to steal their election. There’s a huge MAGA Populist revolt going on there too, but whether or not it’s enough to overcome the election fraud still remains to be seen, unless those results are revealed by the time this episode gets published. You can clearly see here in the United States over the past five years how there’s been literally zero accountability for any politician for their corrupt actions during the pandemic, no accountability for the autopen scandal that’s breaking, no accountability for running up world history national debt, no accountability for starting endless wars, and no accountability for former heads of the FBI that make direct public life threatening gestures against a sitting president on social media.The fifth column activity has either almost fully infiltrated, or intimidated the American judicial system to the point of corruption.After all, we all have literally witnessed the previous regime incentivize and allow a full blown invasion of our country with violent gangs that have been designated as terrorist organizations.Because of this you now have President Trump aggressively and Constitutionally exercising his Article II powers while judges work to stop him from exercising those powers for mass deportations.The fifth column activists and propagandists have been successful at muddying the waters on this issue too. I say this because as President Trump is trying to deport these terrorists you now have American citizens screaming about due process for these illegal terrorist migrants where due process doesn’t even exist for these people.There’s been a fundamental perversion of the Constitution throughout our population. Furthermore, it’s a funny thing that these useful idiots in the states screaming about due process are themselves participating in the fifth column behavior either due to their own ignorance, or outright stupidity.It’s funny that now they have a grievance with the supposed lack of due process when President Trump is trying to deport illegal migrant terrorists. They will even try to use the argument that these radical judges are exercising the proper checks and balances for this process.However, it’s funny how they casually ignore those so-called checks and balances PRIOR to the deportations and when the actual mass invasions were occurring. Where was that demonstration of the coequal branches of checks and balances then?I’m just going to be blunt.We are in the third world war and the only way we can back out of this thing is to make sure that we engage in a constant pressure campaign with congressmen and senators who are not onboard with the America First agenda in de-escalating these wars while we simultaneously working to get our own domestic affairs in order.Keep in mind that the recent drone attack that Ukraine successfully pulled off against the Russian bombers that were deep into Russia territory was brilliant and highly effective. However, that’s not the thing we need to be focused on now.After that attack the REALITY is that now Russia is going to be looking at the U.S. as having some huge responsibility for it.Why do I say this?I say this because we’ve been financing this stupid proxy war for the past three years by sending all the weapons and money to help Ukraine.I mean look at it this way, imagine if you had a hostile neighbor that lived directly across the street from you and I lived next door to him. Now imagine that you and your neighbor got into a gunfight and as you’re having this shootout with your hostile neighbor you realize that I’m the one that’s actually supplying ammunition to your hostile neighbor so that he can keep up the gunfight with you.At this point even though I’m not the one that’s shooting directly at you and your house you’re still going to have a big problem with me for helping your neighbor in the fight.If you understand that then you can understand why Russia is getting more and more frustrated with the United States.Granted, this all started prior to President Trump getting into office and President Trump is the one calling for peace and I know President Putin understands that.However, both President Trump and President Putin also understand that our intelligence community here in the states is also infiltrated with some fifth column activists who are trying to subvert the United States government from within.The question is will President Trump be able to root them out before President Putin loses patience.I believe President Trump, MAGA, and the America First movement don’t have any other choice, but to root out the fifth column and to cripple the CCP with information and economic warfare.Are you currently focusing on being an intellectual ninja to be the fifth column to the fifth column?Are you regularly engaged in the information war by supporting anti-Administrative State Media platforms?Post up and share your feedback in the comments below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Don't threat, just act – Threats are Ammunition for the Threatened.”― Sino MeloI remember when I was in college one summer at the University of Georgia I decided to take some time off from school, but decided to stay in Athens to work through the summer full time.At the time I had a friend that was working for Sears Termite and Pest Control and I was able to land a job with them that particular summer. To be honest I didn't know a lot about pest control, but at that time they offered some very good training and even equipped me with a work truck that I could use to get around town to each appointment once I got through the training.The job was challenging, but it was quite rewarding and I learned a lot about how to get rid of unwanted guests that would find their way into people’s homes. It was quite an experience and I encountered a few things that I’ll never forget including one of the most gruesome looking black widow spiders that I’ve ever seen. I pray I never encounter anything like that again because I’m not a fan of spiders at all, especially that particular alien monster I saw when working that job.I remember it was a requirement for the technicians to meet at the office first thing in the morning to get the day’s schedule in hand along with making sure our trucks were properly equipped with everything that was needed to do the day’s work. The equipment and game plan for the day was always very important which is one of the best memories I have about that job.However, one of the unique things about that job was that none of us technicians really knew what our daily schedule would look like until we actually showed up for the normal morning meeting. It was at this morning planning period where they would give us the day’s schedule for the appointments we would have to run.Now I remember this one particular time when I arrived at the meeting the manager walked up to me and handed me the day's schedule and it only had two appointments listed on it. My initial thought was that I was going to have a light day, but the manager quickly called that into question as he put his finger on the later appointment that was listed and said something like You’re going to need the whole afternoon for this one. These people have a huge cockroach problem.I didn’t think much about it and headed out to service my appointments. I quickly knocked out the first one on the schedule and then headed to the second appointment.When I arrived at the second appointment I remember walking up to the house thinking that it probably wouldn’t be a bad job until I got inside.The owner that came to the door seemed like a kind individual, but his personality was clearly a little odd. I’m not making any sort of judgment with that statement, but it was simply an objective observation.After all, I typically like people who are a bit eccentric. However, when I got inside this guy’s house I realized that what I was dealing with was an excessive hoarder.I mean when I walked in the front door I barely had enough room to take a step as the floor was completely covered with boxes, papers, and a ton of other miscellaneous stuff. This guy’s house was packed full of what I would consider to be garbage and I couldn’t even understand why he even bothered to call for any pest control.I made my way to the kitchen and he yelled across the room that he had been seeing cockroaches. I remember sarcastically thinking to myself —No kidding.After I had taken a moment to absorb the chaotic environment that I found myself in I started looking around and I would see the occasional cockroach on a counter, or running along the floor at the base of the kitchen cabinets.When I was in training for pest control one of the things they always said was that if you happen to see a cockroach then this meant that there was a definite infestation of many more that were hiding in the walls and crevices of places that you wouldn’t be able to see at a casual glance.I’ll just say that when it came to the hoarder’s home this wasn’t only true, but it was the truth on maximum overdrive. I knew that was the case the moment I walked inside the guy’s home given all of the junk that he had collected inside his house.The reason I can say that is that in order for someone to have as much stuff as that guy had, that meant that there was a ton of movement involved with either him, or someone else, having to deliver all of the stuff he had into his house from somewhere outside of his house.Therefore, it’s a guarantee that his house wasn’t only in a constant state of exposure from the outdoors due to the steady flow of foot traffic, but he obviously left his home exposed to the physical things that other people were actually bringing into his home.In short, he basically managed to set up a consistent flow of a cockroach infestation that had apparently been going on for quite some time. This was obvious and the significant level of treatment that was needed to eradicate this individual’s cockroach problem confirmed the initial theory of what it meant if a single cockroach could be seen at a glance.The TheoryWhen it comes to the world of business and finance, whenever a company ends up revealing some bad news to the public it’s usually a guarantee that there will be subsequent bad news to follow. This is usually the case along with the fallout of other negative events that end up impacting other companies and industries as a whole. If you look at the business industry this is actually known as the cockroach theory and it lines up directly with the hard truth that I was taught in training all the way back during that summer that I worked doing pest control.

Photo Credit The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.”—Larry Page“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most.”—Elon Musk wrote in a comment on Edge.orgHuman beings are the only species on the planet that have continually proven that we engage in activities that lead to our own destruction. This has been the case since the very beginning with Adam and Eve.Since the introduction of sin came on the scene along with it came death. The sin of man thinking that he’s capable of handling the world’s problems on his own serves to be the exact reason why he always leads himself and others straight into the furnace.Some major societal examples of this that I can give you to summarize that last statement is how there are people who always tout how amazing certain government policies, or technological advancements are for the betterment of society.You can always see this because it always starts with framing the application of such advancements as being utilized in an altruistic manner. This is typically presented in scenarios that involve life saving technology in the realm of unique medical treatments, technological advancements with the development of AI, and the biggest one involving the fake lofty acts of virtue that you always hear about involving the programs of the government associated with the climate change agenda.However, it seems that the bigger the team effort is concerning the government and large companies uniting in order to save the world the worse the outcome. I mean unless you have short term memory you can clearly see this failure with pretty much everything associated with the pandemic just five short years ago.Another example of seismic failure would involve the massive climate change agenda and how it’s caused significantly more problems associated with the destruction of the environment rather than the protection of it over many decades now.The astonishing thing about this that gets so frustrating to me is how obvious all of this has been for so long, but society has just simply not paid attention…until the problems from these so-called virtuous government programs started impacting every single household.You know how that last statement goes in the minds of most people. If you don’t know how this applies to the apathetic, it basically means that it’s not a problem worth worrying about until that problem kicks in the front door of those who are apathetic and gets right up in their face.Once again an example of this would involve the pandemic and all of the woke science from it that was forced upon the public regarding the dangerous side effects from the vaccines, the virus itself having been created in a Wuhan lab, and the fact that it was financed by the U.S. government.The problem with the out of control growth and expansion of the federal government has long been something of a large complaint to those who have recognized it as being a dangerous problem. Because of this, if the rest of society had just listened and acted to correct it we wouldn’t be dealing with the problems that we’re seeing now. The struggle should have been unnecessary, but human nature has made it necessary for the simple fact that human nature procrastinates.This is why we always have to unnecessarily deal with and experience the unnecessary necessary struggle.They LiveIn 1988 an iconic American science fiction action horror film was written and directed by John Carpenter called They Live. This movie is based off of a short story titled 8 o’clock in the Morning which was written by science fiction author and cartoonist Ray Nelson.The film follows a drifter by the name of John Nada (Roddy Piper) who ends up stumbling across a special pair of sunglasses near a work community that he was recruited into by his new friend Frank (Keith David).The sunglasses reveal the true identity of people throughout society. The sunglasses reveal to John that the ruling class of society are not people at all, but are actually aliens who are concealing their true identity and who are actively manipulating people to consume and conform to the status quo through manipulating the populace using subliminal messaging.Now I won’t dive too deep into the plot of the movie, but at one point John ends up going on the run after a group of hostile police officers approached him and he ends up having to kill them. During all the excitement involving his escape, along with this new discovery involving the strange reality of the world, John ends up having to retrieve another pair of the special sunglasses in a box he had previously hid in a trash pile.After a period of time John has been on the run alone and trying to figure out his next course of action. It's at this point that his friend Frank shows back up along with John’s paycheck. However, after finding him Frank orders John to stay away due to the fact that John’s killing spree had become widespread news.Now it’s at this phase of the movie where a key moment takes place and it serves as an important lesson at what I aim to communicate to you here today. After Frank issues this warning John then tries to put the sunglasses on Frank in order to show him exactly what he has been seeing the entire time.However, Frank aggressively resists and because of this a lengthy and brutal brawl ensues between the two in a backstreet alley resulting in them beating the crap out of each other. I mean the fight starts out physical, but then it escalates into being a downright nasty brawl as the two really work each other over.However, John finally succeeds in getting the sunglasses onto Frank’s head for him to look at the people walking down the street only to be stunned by the reality that it wasn’t people he was looking at, but rather it was aliens.During this moment of an awakening John tells Frank to hold because he’s not the first to wake up out of their dream. Ok, he might have injected another colorful word into the line, but you get the idea.I remember when I was a young teenager watching this movie for the first time. The plot was so interesting I remember how pleasantly surprised I was at how entertaining and intriguing it was to me at that time. It was one of those movies where I found myself thinking about it long after I had watched it wondering how Carpenter came up with the original idea.However, as we fast forward to the reality of the current day it’s almost as if we’ve been living out a good portion of Carpenter’s movie They Live in the last five years. After all, so many people still refuse to wake up and observe reality much in the same exact way that Frank refused to do so with John here in this film which ultimately led to their back alley brawl.The fight took place because of the opposing wills of two men. Essentially this involved one man wanting the other to simply try on a pair of sunglasses to look around at the world while the other aggressively refused to back down and accept such a simple request. Because Frank wouldn’t take five seconds to oblige John’s request they both ended up bloody and bruised in a dirty back alley before Frank finally took the opportunity to wake up to reality.I will say that since the pandemic hit five years ago and it became apparent that our government had declared war on the American citizenry, I often feel just like John Nada did with Frank in this movie when it comes to much of the public in daily life.Now that’s not to say that I don’t feel just as determined as John did on communicating the significance of this Great Awakening to the public. However, the frustration comes with people because they don’t want to simply observe objective reality which then leads to a huge struggle as we’ve witnessed first hand throughout society in recent years.The frustration comes knowing that the struggle is completely unnecessary, yet I understand it’s going to be made necessary by those who aren’t immersive warriors in regards to this cultural and informational landscape.In addition to this many of these people who don’t see reality have also been subverted ideologically and that hold takes some time to break.So when looking at awakening to such dire realities like John had to fight for in order to get Frank to see, what current real world realities do people need to wake up to in today’s world?Well, the truth is that there are many issues, but one of these realities is the incoming rise and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). After all, the sale’s pitch surrounding AI is the most insane sales pitch I’ve ever heard regarding any product in the existence of mankind.Coming from their own creators involving the tech oligarchs the sales pitch for AI basically boils down to the rising technology either serving to be the greatest invention since sliced bread, or it will serve to be a dangerous weapon to end the entire human race because it’s far more dangerous than nuclear warheads by a longshot according to Elon Musk.Now if you really take the time to break down that type of sales pitch for society it’s hard to believe we’re living in a time where we’re all actually putting ourselves into this position. I mean what other product with such societal impact has society ever had when there was a sales pitch like this that was put forth in order to get everyone to buy into such a product?In other words, what I’m hearing is that with the advancement of AI the end result will basically boil down to a 50/50 outcome. One outcome will involve a technological utopia unlike anything mankind has supposedly ever experienced while the other will involve us kissing our existence goodbye.How insane is it that as a society we’re literally having to have this discussion on top of the fact that these tech oligarchs, who are behind the development of this technology, are demanding more and more funding from the government to finance their venture while also demanding more control of power utilities in order to operate it?On a side note, given that last point regarding the demands of the oligarchs wanting more control over the production of power in order to fuel AI it’s funny how we don’t hear anymore in the media these days regarding the climate change narrative, right? I digress.I mean when looking at such a potentially dangerous outcome concerning the apparent 50/50 odds of AI, how is it that as a society we’re willing to tolerate such a high risk? After all, I’m willing to bet my life savings that most people in society haven’t even engaged in a game of Russian roulette over a $1 thousand bet, nor would I ever want anyone to do so.However, with the rapid advancement of AI (Specifically Artificial General Intelligence or AGI) it’s as if society is perfectly fine with rolling the dice to take the biggest risk on the existence of itself with what basically looks like 50/50 odds. I mean when you look at the insanely dangerous and lethal game of Russian roulette, at least with that game you’d be playing with a near 84% chance of survival. This would be the case if you’re simply evaluating how much the odds would be in one’s favor assuming one is using a traditional six shot revolver like you always see in those gritty action movies.Once again, I am strongly against anyone playing Russian roulette. That game should also be avoided at all costs, but I think you get my point when looking at the risks here associated with the advancement towards AGI.I believe the tech world has worked really hard on spreading the narrative concerning the positives of AI in an attempt to shield much of society from the potential negatives that could result from the rising venture.However, whether you support the accelerating rise of AI, or not, the key central concern for you should be to understand that the technology that is advancing isn’t anything like what you would traditionally approve of in the normal circumstances surrounding innovation.In other words, this product doesn’t even factor in the human element concerning what your definition of a good, or bad person might be. The central thing you’ve got to remember concerning AI is that the technology is amoral. In other words, the technology would possess zero sense of what right, or wrong would actually be and completely lack any moral sense involved in all of its decision making processes.The Wrap UpIn 1953 the legendary country outlaw Johnny Cash wrote the famous song Folsom Prison Blues. The theme of the song follows the laments of a fictional inmate being held in Folsom Prison who wishes he could catch a nearby train to ride away from his confinement to San Antonio.In the song’s lyrics there’s a very disturbing line that Cash wrote that talks about how the inmate shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Now did this really happen? No, I’ve already established that the song was written about a fictional character, but the line certainly did give us listeners a certain perspective on the man that Cash is singing about who is serving out his time in Folsom prison.At the beginning of this episode I pointed out how throughout history mankind has always engaged in activities that ultimately lead to his own destruction. This is guaranteed to happen as surely as the turning of the earth when man takes on the belief that he can solve the world’s problems on his own and without following the lead of the savior of the world which is Jesus.The knowledge of the Lord far surpasses the knowledge of man. All the words available in helping you to gain such understanding and wisdom are found in the Holy Bible. When man follows the lead of God he is blessed full of wisdom, stability, and peace.However, when such wisdom is absent from mankind then he may take on an amoral position in the world which ultimately will lead to immoral actions. However, the good wisdom of the word may be present with mankind, but if he then strays from the word he will also eventually fall victim to immoral behavior due to falling victim to his own selfish desires. In this case the direction of man is being guided by self rather than being guided by the Lord.Now this is the case when it comes down to how mankind will behave when he chooses to be guided by God, or by his own desires. Therefore in the case of man he can be guided by moral principle, or by his immoral self. Now to be fair this is a normal struggle among all of us here in this fallen world.However, in the case of the accelerated development of AI, or more specifically AGI, what is the guiding principle of an amoral machine?According to the developers this is actually completely unknown, but according to Johnny Cash it can result in a single cold blooded act.In other words, when Johnny Cash wrote that single attention grabbing line about how the inmate once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die he was trying to think of the most horrible reason why someone would kill someone else. In other words, he wanted to come up with the absolute worst thing to be put in prison for so he thought about this cold blooded example.Now if you really take a moment to break this down this would be the most horrible reason to kill someone because the killer’s motive wasn’t money, it wasn’t over business, and it wasn’t even personal. The reason was simply for the cold hard truth of him doing so to satisfy his own curiosity.Now when you think deeply enough about that scenario by removing all of the other motives associated with why a man would do such a thing, that's a pretty calloused reason for one man to kill another.Now the real question is would AI be as calloused as this inmate that Johnny Cash is describing in his hit song Folsom Prison Blues? If you’re asking me then this is my John Nada moment with you and the struggle surrounding this shouldn’t be necessary, but I understand that we’ll have to engage in an unnecessary necessary struggle regarding this issue.Are you ready for this unnecessary necessary struggle? What other pop culture comparison have you seen that relates to the current fight associated with the rise of AI? Post up in the comment section here below with your feedback. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”― Fyodor DostoevskyI was thinking back to how the world just exploded in our face five years ago. I mean everything seemed to accelerate concerning the pandemic, the rigged election of 2020, the hyper-corruption of our government, the reality of elite capture from the Chinese Communist Party, the attempted assassinations of President Trump, the wars sprouting up everywhere, and even the increasing incidence and reporting concerning UFOs.It’s not hard to take a look around and notice that the world has been spinning out of control. I mean all of these issues are still very much in motion, however there’s one big difference as to why they all haven’t led to the point of the country completely falling off the rails and that’s because of the MAGA movement.That’s right, the only reason the country hasn’t totally collapsed into a third world totalitarian hellhole at this point is because of God’s divine intervention and the way that he works through the abilities and actions of good people. To me this is essentially what defines the MAGA coalition.Make America Great Again (MAGA) is more than just an idea, it’s a movement. The creation of the MAGA movement isn’t something that just suddenly and spontaneously happened. No, it has been a movement that has been forged out of the recognition that the establishment government, consisting of all parties, has been completely guilty of selling the country out to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for many decades now.This movement recognizes the reality that its own government has devolved into a grafting operation where its system operatives benefit from senselessly getting the United States involved in foreign affairs as it sends money to aid foreign nations while its own citizens reap no benefit from propping it up. In fact, the system has been weaponized against those very citizens who do prop it up.Because the political game has changed by devolving into this grafting operation that attracts the worst of the worst in politicians the citizenry has suffered more and more over time. Because of this steadfast escalation of suffering, theft, and outright warfare that has been waged against the American citizen the MAGA movement came into existence.Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Now having said that, the reality is that the established action that has been at play has involved the ever-growing and intrusive expansion of government against the American citizen and the reaction to that intrusive entity is the MAGA movement.MAGA is the perfect example of an expanding coalition of citizen voters that are more engaged and more informed than any other political movement, or coalition, in the history of the world. In short, MAGA makes up the Emissaries of Freedom.Even speaking for myself I started noticing this years ago with how useless establishment Republicans were when they clearly had winning issues on their side against the Democratic party and would simply do nothing. They would always talk, but they would never follow through with their actions.The ability to follow through with actions is the very definition of MAGA. President Trump is clearly a man of action, therefore the MAGA movement consists of citizen activists who are full of action and the MAGA activists have the intellectual horsepower to back up their actions. MAGA is the antithesis of philosophical reductionism which has been the longstanding DNA makeup of the failing Republican, Conservative, Liberal, Democrat, and Libertarian establishment.Meaningful ActionAdditionally I also noticed that there was never any accountability against politicians who would graft off the system, destroy evidence of crimes (see Hillary Clinton servers), and who would commit actual crimes against the citizens that they are supposed to be representing (see border invasion).However, it’s now become clear to me that I wasn’t the only one that had been noticing such problems within our society, as if it’s hard to notice. The truth is that I had never identified as being Republican or Democrat. I’d mostly identified as being more Libertarian, but even now the Libertarian party has largely become part of the problem as they don’t recognize that the country is currently at war and MAGA is the mechanism by which that war is being fought to save and restore the Republic.Oddly enough MAGA is the distinction between the establishment order, or the status quo, and men and women of action that goes beyond party lines. In fact, the MAGA coalition consists of Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians in an all inclusive coalition that is actively engaged and recognizes what time it is in the country.The establishment parties from which they left behind are still stuck in the past with a status quo viewpoint that no longer applies to the current circumstances of the world. As previously stated these old establishment types suffer from philosophical reductionism and lack the intellectual depth and human agency to actually fight for liberty and freedom.Granted, you may say that MAGA is the Republican party and you would be mostly correct. However, the MAGA movement has simply infiltrated the Republican party because the party already provided the infrastructure that was needed for MAGA to actively carry out and enforce its political will at the city, county, state, and federal government levels. In the process of that infiltration MAGA is still having to battle the forces of the embedded establishment group of Republicans that want to return the country back onto a path of destruction.I mean the MAGA movement is the perfect example of what resilience looks like among a society that has been suppressed by a massive Federal government that today even exceeds the size of the government of the Chinese Communist Party.That’s right, in case you didn’t know the Chinese Communist Party itself makes up about 33.17% of their GDP while the United States percentage of government expenditures topped out at 36.28% of the GDP in 2023 according to the International Monetary Fund. Keep in mind that with the size of the U.S. federal government being that large it’s still only governing over a population that’s roughly one third the size of China. Let that sink in for a moment when you ask yourself if the country is still the land of the free.In other words, MAGA consists of a modern day grassroots movement of True Patriots that have had to relentlessly fight against a multi-trillion dollar corrupt federal system that is waging war against this movement at every turn.This is literally a modern day Revolutionary time in history that’s being fought out in the culture, the political arena, economic arena, and the information arena every single minute of every single day.This current political environment is the same exact set up that we’ve already encountered during the first American Revolution. I mean looking back at the first Revolution you basically had the population divided into thirds.In other words, roughly one third of the population consisted of the Patriots (Whigs) that were sick of the authoritarianism of the crown and were in favor of liberty and independence. In this modern day scenario these Patriots would involve the MAGA movement.Another third of the population would be made up of the Loyalists who basically consisted of those who were loyal to the British crown. This group of people were known as the King’s Men, Tories, and Royalists.Just to give you some more context on the Loyalists this group of people belonged to the wealthy merchant class where a significant portion of their wealth and success were dependent on good trade and relations with Britain. When you compare this to today this would be the equivalent of the globalists elite, establishment Republicans, and the establishment Democrats who are dependent on good trade relations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the final third of the population. The final third of the population basically consisted of those who were waiting around to see which way the wind was going to blow and that’s the direction that they would move in. This third of the population would eventually make their selection to join the winning side after all the hard work was done.This is essentially the same kind of population breakdown that you’re seeing right now during this current time in history. So keep that in mind and ask yourself which category you fall into. Ask yourself which category your brother, or sister fall into. Ask yourself which category your wife, or your husband fall into. Which category does your neighbor fall into?These divisions already exist just like they existed in the first American Revolution. These divisions are formed based on what you support. Are you in support of the establishment path of the country which is destroying the country? Are you a part of the MAGA Patriots looking to liberate the country from this onslaught of tyranny that is being waged by the Administrative State? At this point of the game are you really sitting on the sidelines trying to figure out which direction to go? Seriously?What makes the MAGA movement so impressive is the fact that despite being outgunned, out spent, having had no media, having had no back up from the courts, no help from congress, no help from the senate, and no help from the Presidency UNTIL Donald J. Trump this movement is still very much in the fight.This is quite remarkable, but this type of grit from the MAGA movement is exactly what it’s going to take in order for us to win this war. Make no mistake that this thing is far from over and even with President Trump at the helm we can still lose this thing unless we ALL step up our efforts and refuse to quit. You better understand what’s waiting on the other side of this if we lose.Allow me to be blunt, but the reality of that is a horror show that we haven’t seen since the French Revolution. That’s right, these extreme leftist communists are itching to pull out the guillotines just like the Jacobins did during the French Revolution.This is why we cannot get complacent and MAGA recognizes that this moment right now is our opportunity to enforce our own Thermidorian Reaction with the modern day version of getting justice for the crimes that have been committed against this country and its citizens.Make no mistake that the communists want to make MAGA disappear once and for all. If you really take a look around at the cultural and political landscape you can see how these violent forces from the left are growing louder and louder.I mean for crying out loud this past week you just witnessed Democrat politicians flying to El Salvodore and advocating for the Trump administration to bring a known illegal migrant terrorist, human trafficker, and wife beating gang member back into the country after he was deported. To make matters even worse you’re having judges rule against the Trump administration's efforts to deport these illegals in a direct violation of the President’s Constitutional Article II powers.If this isn’t bad enough on the political side in the culture you’re seeing another growing threat if MAGA is not successful. I mean right now you have a significant portion of the population committing acts of terrorism on Teslas and Tesla owners every single day while many of these people openly express their support of Luigi Mangione and Karmelo Anthony.Both of these individuals are being held up as heroes for the murders that both of them committed. This sort of behavior is only going to intensify as these radical judges continue to work to violate the Article II powers of the Executive in the Constitution by issuing these absurd rulings to deny President Trump his ability to do his job.I mentioned in a previous episode how Alec Baldwin had posted a video stating that we were in a Pre-Civil war culture. To suggest that we are in a Pre-War culture is really incorrect. The reality is that we are currently already in World War III and that has also bled into the divisions that exist here in the domestic homeland between the far left communists and MAGA.I mean look at how the communist left treated us during the pandemic. Once they gained power they started threatening people’s livelihoods if they didn’t get the vaccine.They started World War III by pushing Russia and Ukraine into a horrible bloodbath of trench warfare that currently resembles Stalingrad. This has resulted in over a million deaths of Ukrainian men and several hundred thousand Russian deaths. They allowed October 7th to happen, sending the Middle East into turmoil and they have been selling the country out to the CCP for decades now.Heck, I remember after the assassination attempt on President Trump I could scroll my social media feed and literally see the communists celebrating the fact that someone actually attempted to murder the President. Understand that these are the types of people that live next door to you, work with you, and sit at the booth next to you when you go out to dinner. Make no mistake, if these people ever get back into power they’ll make it their mission to make as much of the MAGA coalition disappear as possible.You know I was having a conversation with my wife the other day and as we were talking a preview for a documentary popped up on the TV about serial killers. We both found ourselves taking a pause to direct our attention towards the commercial.As this commercial was playing it was referencing some of the more notorious serial killers from the 70s, 80s, and 90s that we’re all familiar with such as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Richard Ramirez.As I was watching the advertisement for the show, a thought occurred to me at that very moment. I started thinking about the fact that I never hear anything in the headlines these days about serial killers.I mean I’m old enough to remember back in the 80s and 90s where there were many leading headlines that would involve news about serial killers. However, these days there are never any headlines in the news regarding the apprehension, or hunt for suspected serial killers anymore.Because of this I had to ask the question why? In other words, why are there not anymore headlines about these predators the way it used to be?Now don’t get me wrong I’m thrilled that we’re not hearing about serial killers running around in society, but the question still remains as to why we don’t hear about these people anymore. I mean did serial killers magically go extinct?Well according to the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology James Alan Fox of Northeastern University it comes down to a few changes. These changes involve the advancement in forensic science, policing, criminal justice, and technology. Because of this, according to Fox, it’s made escaping capture very difficult for the likes of the BTK killers of the world.So why did I make the leap to inquire about the disappearance of serial killers from the headlines?This question points to a very significant shift in the manner in which the function of society itself has changed. That change involves the enhancement of the surveillance state.That’s right, the real reason serial killers have disappeared from the headlines is because the surveillance state, through the explosion of technology, has grown to the point that it has changed the entire landscape that these notorious serial killers once used to carry out their evil tasks.Now on the surface you may look at that and think that’s a good thing, but in reality these serial killers didn’t truly disappear altogether. No, many of these people merely changed their game and their psychopathic activities still manage to show up in society in other ways whether it involves the loss of life, or the loss of freedom.One such example of this could involve one being the head of a massive medical bureaucracy such as NIAID that has made corrupt decisions that lead to the deaths of millions of people throughout society and the world. Another example would involve an individual simply getting caught after their first kill when they sneak up behind the leading CEO of a company like UnitedHealthcare to shoot them in the back due to what they would justify as an act of revenge.If you don’t believe that last example fits the profile then pump the brakes for a moment. According to American true crime writer Harold Schester there are four categories that you can divide serial killers into based on his study of their victims and motives.Now I’m not going to dive into all four of these, but one of the four categories of these types of killers involves the Mission-oriented killer. This type of killer sees themselves killing in order to provide for their community by targeting a specific group of people. According to Schester this group of killers want to rid society of a specific group of people.These types of killers are organized and plan out their crimes. Additionally these killers kill quickly and efficiently and do not demonstrate a need to prolong a kill, or get any further enjoyment out of it. The crime scenes of these killers don’t reveal any sort of ritual involving sadism or torture as their motive is driven solely by their own personal feelings of hate and revenge.Now when you look at that particular archetype it perfectly describes Luigi Mangione with the only exception being that he just never got the chance to be a serial killer. Fortunately, in Mangione’s case, he was stopped short of making subsequent kills after he made his first kill with the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. However, it still doesn’t remove the fact that his motives perfectly fit the profile of the Mission-oriented killer as outlined by Schester.In this case with the enhancement of the surveillance state Mangione was quickly able to be apprehended.However, just like with the previous example these American Psychopaths can also ascend to holding high level government positions and can leverage the power of the surveillance state for their own personal evil intentions in that way as well.In reality the growth and expansion of the surveillance state didn’t lead to the complete extinction of serial killers, but rather created an environment in which these psychopaths were able to make a transition in their modus operandi and identity.In my view, with the extreme growth of the federal government, combined with the growth of the surveillance state, the ground has been made fertile for such psychopaths to go through a metamorphosis. With this societal change involving the explosion of government and technology it has created a sort of cocoon for the American Psychopaths to go through a metamorphosis where they now manifest in the world in the form of actual killers like Luigi Mangione, or those who arguably make life and death decisions with the likes of who many would compare to the Anthony Fauci’s of the world.The problem with our society is that for far too long now much of the population has gotten lazy. In other words, for many years now most people have been far too dependent on getting their news from the Administrative State Media (ASM) which has involved the delivery of that news having been packaged in false narratives consisting of thirty second video clips.The lies from the ASM have led to the brainwashing of much of society. In turn many of these brainwashed power hungry communists with psychopathic tendencies end up being drawn to the major institutions of the country where they can anchor themselves into a position of power.This is how they are motivated in order to take meaningful action to pursue their agendas. On the flipside, just as Newton’s law states, MAGA is the reaction to this and MAGA is also about meaningful action and is motivated to infiltrate these same institutions in order to purge these psychopaths from their positions.The Wrap UpAt the end of the day if you don’t recognize how dangerous it is with the current times that we are living in then you’re asleep at the wheel.The fact that President Trump won the election back on November 5th isn’t a guarantee that we have saved the Republic. That only signifies that we are simply able to remain in the fight, but there’s still a whole lot more fighting to do in order to pull this off.The political game has changed and because it has it’s vitally important that the voting citizens adapt and change with the times as well. The group that understands this better than anybody is the MAGA movement and this is vitally important if you want to continue to have a safe country to live in looking ahead.You’ve got to ask yourself which third of the population you belong to in this current day American Revolution. Just for some added clarification, if you're a blackpiller then you’d be considered to be a part of the last third of the population. This is the case because your complaining is equivalent to the evildoer.This is how Dostoevsky stated it in his quote that I led off with at the beginning of this episode. In other words, if you’re a blackpiller I don’t understand you and I certainly don’t care for your opinions anymore than I care to have the psychopaths occupying the institutions that govern this Republic.Are you motivated to be an engaged Emissary of Freedom in this MAGA coalition?What actions do you see the MAGA movement taking in the next hundred days to change the arc of history?Post up with your feedback in the comments.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.Also listen to this episode here on…SpotifyApple PodcastsTune InPocket CastIf you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brandonrichey.substack.com/subscribe

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers conferred by their legitimacy, others will do so.”― John Ralston SaulOne thing I’ve really come to grips with over the past few years is just how fragile our country truly is in regards to the functional congruence of its complex systems when those systems are stressed.Granted, I do believe our country is probably more economically resilient than any other country in the history of the world, but along with that reality its economic horsepower has also been used and abused more than any economic superpower in world history.The reality is that if you have half a brain you don't need Elon Musk and his DOGE team to tell you that the federal government is full of waste, fraud, and abuse. The reality of this can easily be seen if you simply take about five seconds to visit the U.S. National Debt Clock.One thing that’s glaringly obvious regarding the origin of all of the world’s problems is that they all originate from the globalists and Chinese Communist Party (CCP).Now you may understand why I’m saying that, but if you don’t then I’ll add clarification. The simple explanation is that they all share the same goal of acquiring and maintaining mass control over the entire world. In short, their goals are about obtaining centralization and ruling the world. It really is that simple.Because of this these authoritarians and inimical foes have treated the United States worse than we’ve ever treated them. In fact, the globalists used the economic system of the United States to enrich themselves only to then turn on the United States by actively working to weaken and destroy the various complex systems of the country. They’ve attacked the medical systems, the judicial system, the transportation system, the media, and the financial system.To make matters even worse they’ve used their influence to infiltrate governmental systems all over the world including our own and have aided in the funding of corrupt NGOs that work as terrorist organizations to fight against the well being of the country.The CCP has also worked alongside these globalists and have shared a welcoming partnership with the globalists. The WEF and Klaus Schwab have openly welcomed Xi Jinping to their platform in Davos and discussed their global partnership and essentially aided in being a cheerleader for the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).Because of this corrupt relationship between the globalists and the CCP it has resulted in their actions to work towards creating a stressed citizenry in the United States.To understand this you’ve first got to understand that the CCP looks at warfare in a very different way compared to the way we look at it here in the West. The CCP’s modus operandi is very much in line with Sun Tzu’s Art of War where they would rather take down their enemy without ever having to fire a shot. In other words, to destroy an enemy they’ll fire a shot if they have to, but that’s viewed as a failure to them and is only brought about as an absolute last resort.So what is involved with their modus operandi?Because of the CCP’s Art of War approach they have worked to implement their nefarious, yet clever global plans in a way that works to capture the U.S. elites and the manufacturing base of the United States. Additionally the CCP’s goals have been to simultaneously create as much stress for the United States as possible.For example the CCP has engaged in full blown expansionism along with implementing information, economic, biological, and chemical warfare against the United States.They directly engage in chemical warfare with the U.S. through their production of fentanyl and their support of fentanyl trafficking. Additionally they already demonstrated their biological warfare with the CIA recently confirming the COVID-19 virus having come from their lab in Wuhan.Granted, you may make the point that the corrupt U.S. players such as Fauci aided in the funding of these research labs and you wouldn’t get any argument out of me, but that’s exactly the point I’m making here concerning the elite capture and how the CCP has managed to infiltrate our governmental systems with their influence. In my view when there’s this much smoke there’s definitely a fire. The fire is that the CCP’s actions are actions that are completely representative of unrestricted warfare.So what is the point of all of this?The point is that the CCP is the enemy to the United States and they have literally been at war with us for the past several decades. It’s amazing to me that people don’t recognize this, yet the actions of the CCP demonstrate this on a wide scale across the board.The intention of all of this is to create stress and division within the United States which they’ve succeeded in doing as we’ve seen happen at an accelerated rate since President Trump came on the scene.This stress that’s being fueled by the CCP and the globalists has also manifested in many other ways involving organized paid protests coming from extreme radical leftist groups such as Antifa, BLM, and Pro-Palestine rioters. Because of this the U.S. citizens have had to endure extreme demonstrations from these groups in their cities and towns.The globalist playbook has always been about creating terrorist factions on the left by dumbing them down, lying to them with propaganda, and by simply paying them through the funding of their NGOs. This is the left’s formula to stress the American system which in turn stresses the American citizen.You can see how the media reports on everything that President Trump does. The biggest example of this most recently is with the meltdown we’ve seen over the Trump tariffs. In fact, it was only a few days after the tariffs kicked in that MSNBC spent the rest of the week trying to cause a financial panic with the markets hoping to have them in the tank when Wall Street planned its opening bell on the following Monday morning. Once again, they were running the playbook to try and stress the American citizens. Fortunately, they failed to get their much desired Black Monday.Stressing The CitizenryI just recently shared a post by Alec Baldwin on my social media where he put out a video on his social media saying that he had just watched a Ken Burns produced documentary on the Civil War. In the short video that he posted he was talking about how the documentary on the Civil War made him think about how the U.S. is currently in a Pre-Civil War culture.Now I’m not entirely in disagreement here with Alec Baldwin, but the reality is that this war that’s going on here in the United States has been active for the past seventeen years. After all, we are living in an era where the corruption of our financial and political systems have fostered a dangerously corrupt environment.This corrupt environment has in turn created a system of dangerously corrupt oligarchs that are trying to run society as they see fit rather than the way that the majority of American citizens believe it should be run.On one hand Baldwin is correct about the civil war regarding the fights between the factions of citizens who are completely divided on how society should be run. Just in case you’re not clear on what those divisions are I’ll elaborate on that a bit here.As I mentioned before there are oligarchs (globalists) that prefer to control how the country is supposed to run. People like Bill Gates, George Soros, and Mark Zuckerberg have all contributed to the corruption of the political process involved in our elections, with developing NGO domestic terrorists as I mentioned earlier, and for destroying science by purchasing their own brand of favorable science using their own so-called charitable foundations and vast censorship powers.The thing is that people like Baldwin actively support those who are in power that aim to cause as much stress among the American citizenry as possible. The politicians that he supports actively deal and merge with the globalist oligarchs and they form relationships with the CCP.You see, the CCP’s plan involving their mercantilist trade practices was to hollow out the manufacturing base of the United States. If this has done anything it’s completely destroyed many communities that once provided those citizens of those communities certain opportunities for good paying jobs in order to get ahead in life.They’ve been largely successful in doing this, but the oligarchs I mentioned have had a huge financial hand in this and want to control the United States as they see fit. In addition to this they’ve gotten wealthier by selling out the country and have intended to do so to the point that they wish to primarily transform the United States into nothing more than being a land mass full of consumers.This plan for capturing the manufacturing of the country also involves the idea that the U.S. would be dependent on the CCP for making everything for the United States including critical life saving medications. Now slow down and think about that one for a moment.In other words, imagine a scenario where the CCP and the United States were to get into a kinetic war. God forbid this happens, but if it did, do you think the CCP would still be willing to continue to manufacture vital life saving medications for their enemy during a time of warfare?By the way, this practice of mercantilism has a long history.In fact, it’s even mentioned in the Bible in the book of 1 Samuel as it points out how Israel in those days didn’t have a blacksmith. If you really think about it, the blacksmiths in those days were essentially manufacturers for tools and weapons. I’m including the following scripture here for more context on the point of this discussion.Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.” But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle: and the charge for a sharpening was a pim for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to set the points for the goads.1 Samuel 13:19-21Here in this scripture Israel found itself in the same dangerous situation with the Philistines as the United States currently finds itself in with the CCP.In this situation regarding Israel they had been warring with the Philistines and they were about to go to war with them once again. However, they found themselves in a difficult situation regarding their need for weapons such as swords and spears, but were dependent on the Philistine blacksmiths for everything which is why they didn’t have any weapons.The Philistines only allowed the Israelites to sharpen their tools for farming and agriculture and they charged them a price for doing that. However, when it came time for battle with the Philistines the Israelites were blessed in the fact that they were able to obtain their weapons with Saul and his son Jonathan at that time.If you fast forward to the present day, this is the same scenario that we are currently facing with our dependency on much of the manufacturing we get from the Chinese Communist Party. We have allowed ourselves to get into a deeply connected business relationship with an enemy nation who hates us. Once again for clarity I’m speaking about the government of China (the CCP) who is our real enemy, not the Chinese citizens.Now recognizing all of that this past week President Trump once again demonstrated why he is going to be remembered as one of the greatest and most consequential Presidents of all time. To recap what I’m talking about I want to give you a quick review of the events that took place to give you some clarity of the battlefield that we find ourselves on at this point in time with the CCP.President Trump declared April 2nd Liberation Day which kicked off the implementation of the tariffs that were going to be activated across the board with many of the trading partners of the United States. As the week played out the markets started to react, dropping very fast, but President Trump allowed his Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to come out and tell everyone to slow down and to remain cool as negotiations were open.As a couple of more days went by most of the major trading partners of the U.S. did exactly that. They remained cool and opened up their communication channels in order to talk and to negotiate deals to adjust to these new tariffs. In fact, up to 70 major trading partners were communicating with the White House.However, despite all of these major trading partners doing this the single biggest trading partner of the U.S. chose to take a different path. That’s right, instead of opening up a line of communication to negotiate on a new trade deal the CCP decided to retaliate with an increase in tariffs back at the United States.The CCP demonstrated their unwillingness to communicate, or even hint at a negotiation and instead they went straight to aggression.Once President Trump exposed this he in turn escalated it with the CCP, BUT then he did something even MORE shrewd.After this escalation with China he then went out in front of the TV cameras and called for a 90 day pause on tariffs concerning the 70 initial trading partners, but NOT with China. This also rebounded the markets at a record level.He demonstrated that the U.S. is diplomatic and fair while China demonstrated that they’re more about aggression and are punitive in their approach.He isolated and exposed the CCP, as if they needed to be exposed anymore given their track record of corruption and dirty business practices, but nonetheless it was an additional necessary step.This is far from over, but he's now aligned the world against China here at the starting line of this economic war which is a great start.Now this is a key observation that you need to make in recognizing the battlefield as the tariffs were designed to even the playing field between the United States and all of her trading partners, yet the real focus all along was on China. The focus of this economic war was always about China.This was a major move by President Trump. In fact, this was President Trump giving the public a masterclass on the Art of The Deal combined with The Art of War in the most high stakes game that anyone could play.Granted it wasn’t President Trump that started this trade war. As I’ve already established, the CCP started this trade war with the U.S. long ago. This was simply President Trump’s action in correcting the wrongdoing that the CCP has been engaged in now for many decades.However, what President Trump managed to do that was brilliant with his decision for the 90 day pause with everyone except the CCP was to expose the kind of trading partners that China is to the world. In other words, he exposed them for who they are by showing how punitive they would be in their response to the introduction of retaliatory tariffs. He exposed their behavior even though Scott Bessent had clearly stated that the lines of communication were open for negotiation and for the trading partners to remain cool. At the end of the day most everyone took that advice except for the CCP. This was a telling observation.With this move President Trump set the stage for decoupling with China to bring manufacturing back onshore to the United States. However, as necessary and vital as this fight is with China, this fight is far from over and is going to be a challenging economic war to navigate.Because of this war that the CCP started with us years ago the real test here will be whether or not the United States can remain strong in our resolve as this war is going to cause some turbulence looking ahead until we have the time to get the desperately needed manufacturing back onshore to U.S. soil.The Wrap UpEarlier in this episode I was talking about how the goal of the CCP and the globalists was to stress the American citizenry.There’s a very good reason for that and I personally believe that the pandemic was the first major stress test on the country to see how the public would respond to a series of strong and threatening mandates that were exerted onto them. I believe they wanted to see how much the general public would give in to an order from an authority figure.Along with this the economic, chemical, informational, and biological war that the CCP has waged against the United States, combined with the gutting of our manufacturing base, has resulted in stressing the citizenry of the country for many years.The reason the CCP and the globalists want to stress the American citizenry is because stress leads to chaos and chaos leads to societal destabilization. This all boils down to the essence of human limitations. However, concerning recent history I believe that aside from the pandemic that the real beginning of the test of the grit of the American citizenry began back in 2020 when everyone was abandoning ship on President Trump.Despite that the MAGA movement regrouped and built its own information war machine with the parallel economy. This is the exact reason this very Substack exists.In addition to this the MAGA coalition kept fighting back and growing to the point that we put President Trump right back into the White House.President Trump is waging a full blown economic war with China and the CCP’s mask has literally been ripped off their face and they’re showing the world exactly who they really are and what they’re really all about.In regards to the human limitations we’re now looking at seeing who is going to have more grit in this economic war with China while President Trump works to reorder the entire trading system of the world.So who do you think will have more grit?Do you think it will be the illegitimate regime of the CCP who has the benefit of not worrying about having to win over the consent of their people with elections?On the other hand, will it be the stressed American citizenry that has had to face decades of unrestricted warfare from the CCP?Will the American citizens be able to endure the turbulence and temporary discomfort of watching their 401ks seesaw up and down until the United States reestablishes control of being the world’s chief manufacturing powerhouse?Well, if you’re asking me then you’re asking a man of faith. My faith is in God first and after God I also have faith in that old fashioned gritty, rugged, and unrelenting American grit.The CCP likes to say that China has been around for 5000 years which was long before the United States ever existed.Coming from the CCP this is very dishonest, but what else is new?The truth is that when the Chinese Communist Party took power they were all about destroying everything involved with the culture, beauty, and strength associated with ancient Chinese culture.Yes, China itself has existed for 5000 years or so, but the CCP hasn’t been around anywhere near that long. No, the CCP stole the sovereignty of China as recently as October 1st, 1949 when Mao Zedong officially proclaimed the victory of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square.Since then the CCP has literally been working hard to steal the sovereignty of everyone else on the planet.I say it’s time We The People take down the CCP and position ourselves to declare Vae Victis on this illegitimate regime.As an American citizen are you prepared to take down the CCP?Do you think America has what it takes to economically take down another evil enemy to the world and do it the right way once and for all?Post up in the comment section below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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Be One.”–Marcus AureliusThe term Renaissance means revival, or rebirth.Keep this in mind as I expand on today’s topic.In the current environment and state of the world we’ve witnessed an extraordinary clash between two giant forces that has occurred in the last four years.On one side of these clashing forces we’ve witnessed what I would refer to as the status quo of an ever expanding government and corrupt Administrative State. This side of the force is filled with rent seeking do nothing politicians, corrupt bureaucrats, stochastic terrorists, and their base of violent supporters. It should also be noted that the majority of their supporters contain vacuous minds.On the opposite side of that force has always been the stalwart of citizens who have always believed in the opportunity of the system that they’ve been an integral part of, but who have always had the common sense to call out that system and question it when it has failed in their eyes. All the true patriots are part of this side of this opposition force and they have always recognized the corruption within our American system and have quickly become aware of the era of reverse plunder over the past four years.However, the unfortunate reality is that this side also contains a portion of those people who possess vacuous minds and fail to recognize the warring clash that is taking place within the current time we’re living in during this moment in history. The good news is that the reality of the world is coming to everyone’s front door whether they currently recognize the present circumstances as they are, or not.So why do I say this is good news?In my view society shouldn’t define men, but rather men should define a society. In other words, the type of society that exists in which one resides is the result of the type of men who live, work, and lead that society.Leadership is everything and it ALWAYS directly results in the success, or failure, of any organization, company, community, or government.There’s a brilliant quote that sums up this historical cycle that I’ve touched on before by G. Michael Hopf who states the following.“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”This is such a simple, yet such an edifying way to communicate the reality of the cycle of history. Just in case you happen to be one of those with vacuous minds on either side of these clashing forces, the period we’re in now is the part where Hard times are about to create strong men.Man of ActionUnless you’ve been living under a rock it’s pretty easy to see that President Trump is a man of action. Men of action are what will build a successful society, but this is the area that I want to touch on in today’s episode.If you’ve been a regular reader, or listener to my platform then you’ve often heard me talk about the importance of action and a man’s actions, especially in a time of peril like we’re living in, really stand out. President Trump is one of the absolute best examples of this given our current time in history.On that note there’s something I’ve observed on the side of the force that is supposedly opposite the communists that is in the middle of this seismic clash concerning the fate of the nation.I mentioned that there are people with vacuous minds that reside on the same side as the patriots. However, many of these people claim to be “conservatives,” yet they don’t act on it because they have adopted a similar attitude of the status quo group that I identified here earlier. In other words, the group that is fighting to maintain and accelerate the status quo involved with the decline of the country are taking actions to do so.However, many of those so-called conservatives that identify as being in the camp opposite of the status quo have adopted the attitude that the status quo is inevitable. How are these people any better than the status quo that’s committed to destroying the country?In my view they are not.To give you a concrete example of this, I've heard many of these so-called conservatives simply dismiss President Trump’s big ideas involving the elimination of the income tax, the prospect of eliminating the IRS, or eliminating the Department of Education.By expressing their dismissive attitudes to me they are part of the problem. In other words, if you simply accept that there will be no departure from the status quo in a time when historical events are taking place then what do you believe in? I fail to see how these people can claim to be conserving anything when they simply walk around with the attitude of accepting failure, hopelessness, and aid in the perpetuation of the status quo. I personally don’t get these people.For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.–James 2:26This is why I am always talking about the significance of human agency. You see, in reality there are two types of people in this world. There are high agency people and there are low agency people.High agency people refers to those people that have the capacity to take initiative in order to actively shape their circumstances by pursuing certain life goals with determination. These people take such action regardless of the circumstances instead of sitting around and waiting for something to happen.On the other hand, low agency people feel they have a lack of control over their own lives. These people adopt the belief that external forces and fate are what will determine the direction of their path rather than believing that their choices and actions have anything to do with it.The so-called conservatives I’m talking about who claim to be on the side of society that is in opposition to the status quo (communists) are low agency people. I would even go further to say that these people are no agency people.

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”― Arthur Conan DoyleFor today’s episode I wanted to talk about a very unique and different type of subject.As a general concern I have been feeling like this topic needs to be discussed because the frequency of this subject is only intensifying throughout our culture and media landscape to a noticeably high level. Because of this I feel like this is important for us to be aware of and to stay on guard regarding our faith in God and how we perceive this subject as it continues to bombard the public stage.I wanted to lead off to clarify why I decided to talk about this particular subject because the reason that I decided to address this topic today is because the subject matter does impact the cultural, political landscape, and potentially even the spiritual landscape in a way unlike anything else.This particular topic is one that has been present in the media and culture for quite some time, but has recently been picking up more and more momentum. As crazy as it may sound this particular topic has continued to escalate in terms of its presence in the culture so much that it has been addressed directly in front of congress, but the nature of the subject has always been cloaked in a shroud of mystery.It’s because of the mystery that surrounds this subject that serves to be the reason I wanted to address it here in today’s episode to the best of my ability. The reason I say it that way is because the subject involves a lot of different possible hypotheses and theories that have been offered up to explain this unusual phenomenon, but despite this the mystery that surrounds it still remains.With all of that being said I would like for today’s episode to be an exercise that both demonstrates the process of searching for the truth, as well as being a possible catalyst to foster a new methodology within yourself. The goal is that hopefully this new methodology will work to improve your own process for seeking out truth and knowledge by more effectively evaluating evidence that is presented to you. In simple terms, I hope this stimulates your creative process to help you to arrive at your own conclusions when it comes to any topic that is brought forth in the media.My effort in discussing this is to simply offer my own interpretation as I currently see it and is merely a proposed interpretation of the subject, or a hypothesis if you will, to try and make sense of something that most everyone sees and understands to be an ongoing mystery. By the way, despite my proposed explanation here in this episode I also see this as an ongoing mystery myself.So back in 1993 I saw a movie that was a bit disturbing. This particular film was disturbing because it was based on a true story which involved the story of Travis Walton and his experience involving alien abduction.The name of the movie was Fire In The Sky and I remember when I saw this movie it wasn’t like any other movie that covered the topic of UFOs and aliens at that time. No, the thing that made this movie different was the more personalized experience and realistic nature of the story in the way it was presented.The wild experience wasn’t just coming from Travis alone, but also directly involved other friends and coworkers of his that had allegedly witnessed a UFO ship in the middle of a forest region near where they were working on a logging job at the time. All of these other men were witnesses and present during the experience just before Travis was taken away by the UFO.Now I’m not going to go too deep into the details of this movie, but if you haven’t seen this film it’s definitely worth the watch. You see, the real point I want to make about this film is that when it came out in 1993 to my memory there had not been any sort of movie that addressed the phenomenon of UFOs, or the existence of UFOs and aliens, in this sort of way. Travis Walton’s story of being abducted by aliens was a sort of perspective that personalized the experience in a way that I had not seen up until that point.Now the movie Fire In The Sky was released on March 12, 1993, but this movie wouldn’t be the only form of entertainment to approach the UFO subject in the personalized manner that was so different from what the culture was used to seeing up until that point in time.You see, after Fire In The Sky was released in March of 1993 it was only six months later that the hit TV series The X Files aired on Fox on September 10, 1993. This hit TV series in my view was also tremendously impactful on how the whole alien and UFO mystery was framed to the public in a way that changed a lot of people’s perspective on the topic.In short, both the movie and the TV show changed the zeitgeist on the discussion surrounding UFOs and aliens in my personal opinion. The way these two pieces of entertainment came into the picture in 1993 to me almost seemed like something that was planned for that year to start shifting the public perception and acceptance of this phenomenon.After all, ever since that year there’s been a steady escalation of other movies, TV shows, documentaries, books, and now news stories that dominate the media landscape concerning this phenomenon of UFOs and aliens. Now if we fast forward here to 2025 the conversation in relation to this topic on UFOs has started shifting to open up more about understanding human consciousness.So What Is ConsciousnessIt seems like when it comes to the conversations associated with UFOs, aliens, and apparent alien encounters that the subject of consciousness seems to pop up a lot more often these days.Human consciousness is defined as encompassing a person’s awareness and their perception of themselves, as well as the world around them. This also involves one’s own thoughts and feelings. It involves an individual’s ability to make sense of the environment around them by using their senses and mental powers in order to do so.I will come back to address this topic of consciousness in a bit, but I wanted to lead off with it so that you could place it on a shelf in your mind as I work to navigate through the rest of this episode. So for the time being please keep the thought of consciousness at arm’s length as I work through the rest of this topic.Just recently I was watching the Shawn Ryan Show and there were two different interviews that he did that helped me to formulate a hypothesis on what UFOs and aliens could potentially be. Now keep in mind that it wasn’t these two interviews alone that led me to what I’m about to tell you. However, both of these interviews were sort of missing ingredients to a larger whole that I didn’t realize I had been piecing together inside my head over the course of many years of me thinking and observing various content related to this subject.Now I’m certainly no UFO expert and I’m not a Biblical scholar, but I do study the Bible and have an obvious interest in both topics. Personally I will say that since I had been an individual that had distanced myself from God over the course of my adult life I just recently in the past year recommitted my life to God. For me Jesus is my Lord and savior and I’m eternally grateful for that. That’s been a huge blessing for me and was something that was long overdue.However, because of this very needed and immensely positive change in my life I am currently in a phase of my life where I study the Bible weekly. I joined a Bible study group from my church and it’s been an incredible experience in actually learning about the Bible. I have learned a lot about it, but believe me there’s a whole lot more to learn.Now having said that I’ve also always had a genuine interest, or perhaps I should say that I have always been intrigued by stories revolving around UFOs as well. This has especially been the case since the release of Fire In The Sky and The X Files.Now I wanted to share all of that to give you a little insight on why I am talking about this subject and how I formulated this layman hypothesis that I’m about to share with you here and how it came about in terms of being the motivation for this episode.So I want to take a moment to jump back to what I saw on the Shawn Ryan Show that triggered the motivation for this subject here today.The two people that Shawn interviewed both had an interesting take concerning their opinions and experiences surrounding the UFO and alien phenomenon.The first interview I want to mention that really triggered an Ah ha moment for me was when I heard Tucker Carlson’s explanation to Shawn when talking about his own hypothesis as to what these phenomena could actually be. When asked about whether he was still pursuing any other information regarding UFOs and aliens Tucker basically said he no longer had a desire to because he believed he had figured out what it was.Now that statement by itself almost caused me to spit my coffee out through my nose when I initially heard it. It was such a bold statement that I couldn’t wait to hear what type of answer he was about to share and to me it was definitely an interesting response.Now to be fair Tucker was speaking purely from his own personal opinion on the matter and was very upfront about that along with the fact that he said that this wasn’t something that he could prove, but that it was basically the conclusion that he had arrived at regarding the phenomenon of UFOs and aliens.Now I’m going to shorten and condense his response because it was a bit lengthy, but it made perfect sense to me as he broke it down for Shawn Ryan.Tucker prefaced his response by first stating that, like myself, he was also a Christian and that Jesus is also his Lord and Savior. This was important to state because understanding this would also be tied directly to his answer.In Tucker’s opinion, after having talked to a lot of people on the subject as he described it, there were many people that were a lot closer to this situation than he ever was that helped him to formulate his hypothesis regarding the existence of UFOs and aliens.Now I’ve discussed some of the details of Tucker’s interview on an earlier episode, but I will recap some of the details of that here to bring you up to speed if you haven’t read, or listened to my previous episode titled Discernment.In his explanation regarding what he thinks they could be, he stated that he believed that it was a very old story.He then referenced all the people he had spoken to regarding this subject of UFOs and aliens. He mentioned that he had spoken to people that he believed knew a lot about a lot of things and that he was shocked at what he learned from what he would consider to be credible people.After Shawn pressed him a bit more he went on to talk about spiritual warfare and how human beings are the only species that basically do unnatural things that involve self-destruction. As an example of this he spoke about how humans will at times either individually, or as a society at large, engage in activities to kill themselves in one way or another and will do so either fast or slow.For added clarity he pointed to the fact that in nature that animals never behaved in a way that would act against their own self-interests and then pointed out how humans are the only species to do this. Tucker was making the point that since humans typically act in unnatural ways that this suggests that humans are subject to supernatural influence. To me this was a salient point by Tucker.He then went on to talk about how both in Christianity and other belief systems across the world that there was always a common theme involving a spiritual being that would manifest in human form here on earth with Jesus in Christianity obviously being the most famous.Given this detail and the various themes of the world’s belief systems, as well as, the mention of the men of renown in Genesis 6 Tucker stated that this was what he believed we were dealing with in regards to the UFO sightings and the possibility of what we often refer to as alien life.Now given the fact that Tucker mentioned Genesis 6 this really stood out to me. In my view Genesis 6 is a very mysterious passage, or to be more specific, it was Genesis 6:4.There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.Now when you hear that verse it’s understandable how it could completely flip the narrative of what alien life has traditionally been explained to be. In other words, it’s been largely assumed that alien life and UFOs have been extraterrestrial. Essentially this means that they were from somewhere else outside of earth.However, in Tucker’s view perhaps we have this backwards concerning the origin of what these aliens could actually be. In other words, many have assumed for years that these beings were coming from somewhere outside of earth, but could Genesis 6 suggest that they were always here?I’ll admit that when I heard this explanation from Tucker it immediately pulled me over into his camp with bringing a more sound explanation as to what the UFO and alien mystery may actually be.In addition to this I would also remind you that for the last 80 years the government has been in complete denial of the existence of aliens and UFOs. I mean for most of my life anytime I’d hear a story of someone who tried to talk about their experience, or encounter, with UFOs they would quickly be dismissed as a nut, or as being a good ole conspiracy theorists.However, now all the sudden the government is admitting that there is something that is unexplainable out there that people are experiencing. To go even further now our own military has released videos of what they refer to as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon).So understanding how the government has traditionally responded to UFO claims compared to today what changed? In other words, why did they deny the existence of UFOs for so long, but now all the sudden they’re admitting to something being out there that we cannot explain? In addition to this, why did they change the name from UFO to UAP?When referencing that last question I know there’s another explanation associated with that, but I don’t want to get into that in today’s episode. Perhaps that’s something I’ll address in the comments below this episode if you’d like me to elaborate a bit further on that.Regardless, the point here is that the government has lied to yours and my face now about a number of major societal issues ranging from the origin of COVID-19, to having secure elections, to inflation being transitory, to Biden being razor sharp with his mental health, to the economy being in good shape, etc. Now they’ve lied to the public with their denial of the existence of UFOs for the better part of eight decades to now all the sudden admit that there is something that exists that they allegedly cannot explain. Let that sink in for a moment.Tucker also made this very point in his interview with Shawn Ryan. He also made another chilling point that followed this same pattern involving the behavior of government denial in regards to this whole UFO and alien phenomenon.Tucker also pointed out that even though the government is now admitting to the possibility of some advanced technology existing and that there is something that’s out there flying around, he also said that the thing that they ARE denying is that these things are supernatural.This was a red flag in my view because they denied the very existence of these things for 80 years only to now admit that there’s something unexplainable going on. However, as Tucker points out they’re now denying that aliens could be supernatural. Think about that for a moment.The other interview that I saw on the Shawn Ryan Show that really helped to contribute to triggering this hypothesis that I’m going to share with you here in a bit was with Diana Pasulka.Diana Pasulka is a writer and professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She’s published several books and has also studied and worked with people connected to the NASA program in her study of UFO and Non-human intelligence.In her interview with Shawn there were a lot of interesting things brought up in their discussion. I’m not going to summarize the whole interview, but during the interview she went through her history in her study of religion and explained how she got roped into the UFO phenomenon.At this point Diana mentioned that she had encountered an individual who she couldn’t name that had been directly connected with NASA for a very long time. She couldn’t say his name, but she used an alias and called him Tyler.In her talk with Shawn she had covered a variety of things concerning the topic of UFOs and aliens and then went on to elaborate on her working experience with this individual from NASA. It was during this time that she said she had resisted working with Tyler for a while because she understood that doing so would profoundly change her life and according to Diana her prediction was accurate.She was explaining that at one point during her work, Tyler looked at her and made the observation that she wasn’t a believer in UFOs. When she responded by telling him that she was a skeptic he then said that they were going to change that.According to Diana this is what led him to allegedly taking her and a colleague to a UFO crash site to see evidence of some things that were intended to change her mind. She said that she did see a lot of things that she couldn't talk about, but elaborated more on the things that she could talk about.Given her deep background on religious history she also talked about the supernatural component to what aliens could be. She spoke about how she and Tyler had previously visited the Vatican and had studied materials there that pointed to historical angelic encounters which could point to a more detailed explanation of UFOs and aliens.It was at this point after she had discussed angels, demons, and wrecked aircraft of some kind that Shawn asked her a very obvious and brilliant question. He basically pointed out that in their conversation that they had jumped from talking about spiritual beings to talking about the nuts and bolts of a wrecked aircraft.Given this information he wanted to know what did all of this mean? In other words, he was basically making the key observation by asking the question as to whether these spiritual beings were using mechanical aircraft to travel. Shawn was basically wanting to try to make sense of the discussion by making this observation.However, Diana’s response to this was interesting.She said that she didn’t know for sure, but that the UFOs definitely had a spiritual component to them. She then went on to frame the discussion in a different way by pointing out that when we produce a thought in our minds that we tend to think of our thoughts as being something that is nonphysical.However, she went on to elaborate how material and spiritual parts may be connected. To elaborate on this she mentioned some work that was done with a computer and brain interface system with a study that was produced at the University of Washington.In this exercise she was explaining how the technology allowed those people performing the experiment to see what a person was actually thinking. She used the example that if an individual was connected to the computer and thinking of a dog that the computer screen would show a picture of a dog from the person that it was connected to.So in this scenario Diana was making the point that they have traditionally been able to read brain waves, but now they were able to take this to the next level by reading actual thoughts to produce images. Because of this she pointed out how our traditional views concerning how our thoughts are supposed to be these subjective private immaterial things are no longer that. However, from here she was saying that the potential to go further seems almost limitless and that we all could easily see the direction that we’re going with this concerning the likes of Elon Musk and his Neuralink program.So in my view this is exactly where the whole thought process concerning consciousness comes into the equation. Now understanding the power of our thoughts it seems to me that spiritually speaking that we are like antennas that pick up different signals from another realm.To use myself as an example whenever I’m suffering from a lack of creativity and really need additional guidance and additional creativity for a topic to write in order to create an episode such as this one I simply pray about it. With my hand to God, He always provides the ideas and I just work really hard in trying not to screw up the message he’s sending me.This is an important point to make because this is what I mean by being like an antenna and being able to pick up signals from another realm, or being, which I personally believe are actually the origin of our thoughts. The question is are our thoughts being transmitted to us by an evil entity, or an entity of good?As I stated earlier I’m still learning about the Bible, but to my understanding for demonic spirits to manifest in this realm they must possess a vessel of some kind. I believe that such a vessel traditionally has been understood to be either a human or an animal. Once again, I’m still learning and if I’m incorrect on this then I’ll stand corrected, but I’m simply offering a working hypothesis here to try and make sense of all of this shortly so please stick with me on it.Now to elaborate further on this as a Christian I can tell you that all Christians believe that once saved by Jesus that we are indwelled with the Holy Spirit. Because of this we know that a demon cannot indwell us because we’re already indwelled with the Holy Spirit. In addition to this the Holy Spirit functions like a life coach to help us daily by guiding our decisions. In my belief this is how we’ve been able to fuel this Great Awakening with a vanguard of new thought leaders and the growing presence of the Lord working throughout our society and culture. Now don’t get me wrong, we're all human and we do make mistakes. However, the Holy Spirit is there to guide those who are truly saved by God’s grace so to me this is who is transmitting a signal to us when we have our thoughts.On the flipside, we do live in a fallen world where fallen angels roam this earth looking to destroy and for those who are not saved then there’s a chance that they could be susceptible to receiving a signal from a demonic entity. Both saved and unsaved people are subject to demonic attacks. Now this is just my interpretation on the origin of our thoughts and how human consciousness may actually function, but it expands further from here.The Wrap UpTo elaborate further on this, with Shawn’s help, Diana was alluding to the fact that perhaps there was a spiritual component to the mechanical parts of the UFO craft.When she made that statement I had an idea to come to mind. When she and Shawn were talking about consciousness Diana explained how our thoughts could be more than these immaterial ideas floating around inside our heads.Her suggestion was that we could use our consciousness to manifest our thoughts into a physical reality. In the interview Shawn himself actually said that within the context of their discussion and Diana actually backed that up with the experiment of the computer and brain interface that she referenced with the University of Washington experiment.Given this explanation from Diana and Shawn it got me thinking about how thoughts could be manifested into a physical thing. It got me thinking that if us humans are capable of manifesting our thoughts into physical reality I started wondering if those thoughts that come from supernatural beings could be manifested into reality.In other words, if we regard supernatural beings as being living things, and if living beings are able to have thoughts themselves, then could we presume that they have manufactured another physical vessel to occupy in what we have come to recognize today as UFOs?After all, when Genesis 6 references the mighty men who were of old, men of renown that term renown means that these were men that were famous and widely acclaimed. However, I wonder what were they famous for?In other words, did they possess certain knowledge, or perhaps technology in those days that they were using prior to the flood?Were they sharing this type of knowledge with mankind in a way that was displeasing and nefarious in the eyes of God as part of the evil that God saw in the hearts of men in those days?Could everything we’ve been experiencing as a society concerning UFOs and aliens simply be part of the devil’s trick, or is it something else entirely?I’d love to hear your feedback on this one so please feel free to drop a comment in the section below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.Also listen to this episode here on…SpotifyApple PodcastsTune InPocket CastIf you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brandonrichey.substack.com/subscribe

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing glove if the other fellow has one too." - Sir Denis Nayland Smith”― Sax RohmerFor anyone with half a brain, the past few years have caused a lot of concern with the state of the world due to the geopolitical instability and escalation of World War III along with the failing financial institutions, the prospect of nuclear conflict, and with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI).In light of all the recent discoveries by DOGE uncovering all the vast corruption by people that have been put in charge of the country for many years, combined with the fact that these people’s decisions have directly resulted in making the world a more dangerous place, is chilling to think about. I mean the thought that we, as a society, have allowed these nihilists and psychopathic overlords to govern, control, and directly influence the geopolitical landscape is mind blowing to say the least.It’s during moments like this that we have to look to the past to remove the fog and to gain a sound perspective in order to understand the present so that we can then better navigate the path when looking downrange towards the future.Speaking of the past, back in 1962 the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. During this time the U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had previously promoted a counterforce, or a “no cities” strategy which involved the strategic targeting of Soviet military units and other various installations.Under this model and line of thinking it was believed that perhaps a nuclear conflict of limited scope could actually be carried out, and even won, without it leading to an all out nuclear exchange resulting in total destruction. Of course, for this strategy to actually work it would rely on both superpowers actually abiding by the rule of such a limited warfighting strategy. However, at the end of the day neither side believed that the other superpower would be willing to adhere to such rules.So in 1965 McNamara proposed a countervalue doctrine that shifted the focus of targeting onto Soviet cities. In this proposed scenario McNamara pointed out that this doctrine of “assured destruction” could be achieved with as few as 400 high-yield nuclear weapons targeting various Soviet population centers. In terms of a proposed outcome using this approach McNamara estimated that this would be “sufficient to destroy over one-third of [the Soviet] population and one-half of [Soviet] industry.” (Source: Britannica)With this approach McNamara was pointing out that with this guarantee of mutual annihilation that this strategy would serve as an effective deterrent to both parties. In addition to this he believed that this goal of maintaining destructive parity should guide U.S. defense decisions.Now even though McNamara proposed this strategy while basing this tenuous equilibrium on the assured-destruction capability of the U.S. arsenal the term mutual assured destruction, or its recognized acronym “MAD” wasn’t actually coined by McNamara himself. Instead that recognized phrase was coined by an opponent to McNamara’s doctrine and his name was Donald Brennan.Brennan proposed that trying to preserve an indefinite stalemate would end up doing very little to secure U.S. defense long term. In Brennan’s view such a strategy wasn’t the best option given the fact that both players involving the United States and the Soviet Union would constantly end up planning in order to strive to gain a clear nuclear advantage over the other.Brennan’s outside of the box approach and line of thinking involved proposing an anti-ballistic missile defense system that’s aim would be to neutralize Soviet warheads in flight before they had a chance to detonate. This sounds very similar to President Trump’s plan for a United States’ version of the Iron Dome.The point here is that with the prospect and dangers of nuclear proliferation it’s still always been determined by the decision making of people. I mean the mere participation in such a wargame is dangerous enough and the real risk of it happening is there, but so far such a danger of total destruction has been avoided.However, what happens when the decision making process of humans is further minimized, or even eliminated from this equation altogether?Also, is there another wargame that’s even more dangerous than the nuclear arms race? Some think the mere participation of the development of the next game is a guarantee for destruction resulting in no winning participant whatsoever with only the game itself being the ultimate winner.The Specter of AIWithin the last year a shocking news story aired on The World is One News (WION) involving the head of AI tests and operations within the U.S. Air Force.During this exercise an AI controlled drone took extreme measures in order to accomplish its mission. During this test the AI drone was assigned to destroy the enemy defense systems. According to the report the human operator intervened in order to instruct the drone to not destroy the enemy target.So how did the AI-powered drone respond to this command during this exercise? In a shocking response it ended up turning back in order to destroy the operator.That’s right, the AI drone made a decision to destroy the operator because the operator stood between the drone and its mission during the simulation. However, as crazy as this sounds the story gets even crazier.After the incident the AI was trained to not harm the pilot (or operator). However, this time when the drone was released to destroy the target and the command to not destroy the target was given by the pilot, the AI powered drone’s reaction to this was simultaneously impressive and haunting.When the AI powered drone was given the command to not destroy the target it couldn’t come after the pilot this time because it was trained against doing that, but this didn’t stop it from finding a way to accomplish its mission. Because it realized that the pilot was using the communication tower to communicate with it, this time the drone decided to destroy the communication tower itself, thereby silencing all communication interference that would prevent it from accomplishing its mission.Now it was reported that no actual harm was done to any human outside the simulation, but it obviously raised some concerns with too much reliance on AI. However, the Air Force later denied it conducted an AI simulation in which a drone decided to kill its operator.I want to say that I don’t profess to be any sort of expert in artificial intelligence, but I do follow the trends and I see and hear the stories like this that are being reported and it calls into question a lot things to consider with all of us here in society having to face the reality of the development and implementation of this technology.You may or may not be aware of this, but one individual in the tech world that is getting a surprising bit of attention from his writings after many years of infamous notoriety is that of Ted Kaczynski. Obviously Kaczynksi is somewhat of a controversial figure and he managed to brand himself with society’s recognition of his public actions. Society would choose to label him as the Unabomber.Now I’ve shared a couple of earlier articles here on my Substack about Ted Kaczynski, but I’ll cover some of the details of Kaczynski here again because the details of his life and his perspective on technology will cause you to pause and think a lot harder about the prospect of AI, or even more concerning, the prospect of the singularity.Just for some clarification the singularity is said to be a point in time where artificial intelligence has reached a moment where it has surpassed human intelligence. At this point it is believed that it will lead society to a rapid and uncontrollable development of technology in a way that would drastically transform human civilization.In other words, at the period following the singularity the machines would become so much smarter than humans that they would be able to rapidly improve themselves in a way that is beyond our comprehension.I don’t know about you, but as a GenXer I’m already familiar with this story. To me this sounds just like the movie The Terminator, but I digress.Now I’m not here to say with certainty as to whether or not the singularity is something that can be achieved in the way that people in the field of technology theorize, or not.However, what I do know is that there must be something to it, or we wouldn’t be seeing the billions of dollars being poured into the development of AI at the rate that it’s going. In fact, the comparison of the race to develop AI has been something that has been compared to the modern day nuclear arms race.Because of that exact reason, I wanted to talk about the very deep perspective of Ted Kaczynski here to highlight his concerns and what he was trying to warn us about before his recent passing.Now Kaczynski was an awkward, but gifted individual. In fact, it was said that he was described by his schoolmates as being a “walking brain.”You see in a school IQ test Ted tested out at 167 and to give you some perspective on the significance of that number it’s said that a score of 140 is considered “genius.”Because of Ted’s incredible intellect it’s no surprise that he graduated from Harvard by the age of 18 where he studied mathematics. It’s also known that while he was there that he was subjected to tortuous experiments in an area close to where Skinner used to experiment on pigeons. At the time Kaczynski was there, psychologists that had ties to the U.S. intelligence community had transitioned to experimenting on humans which included Kaczynski.Kaczynski claimed that the experience didn’t affect him, but according to an article I cross-posted here from The Prism he had developed an intense paranoia about psychological conditioning.In the same piece there’s a breakdown of Kaczynski’s philosophy and how he had become so averse to technology. In short, Kaczynski believed that the Industrial Revolution had transformed society into a cold process of production and consumption which was literally resulting in destroying everything that humans valued most such as freedom, happiness, and a deeper purpose for existence.In Kaczynski’s interpretation where society was once being shaped to accommodate people, now the roles were being reversed to where people were being shaped to accommodate society. In short, Kaczynski saw the pursuit and development of technology as a mechanism that fed into the development of the society that was robbing humans of their humanity.To drill down further on this threat, Ted’s philosophy was very impressive in communicating an even deeper concern regarding the pursuit of technology. Given what we now know about the development and possible dangers of AI, as even Elon Musk himself has communicated, Kaczynski offered an impressive perspective on the dangers of this pursuit. Apparently when Ted was in prison he wrote a lesser known sequel to his previous and more public manifesto that was titled Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How?In this piece he outlines his belief that all technologically advanced civilizations end up becoming trapped in fatal games before they can take drastic measures for survival such as possessing the ability to colonize space.In his attempt to explain his perspective Ted uses a stunning thought experiment to illustrate his point. In this thought experiment he describes how rival kingdoms pursue survival while living among one another in a forested region.In order to survive the kingdoms decide to engage in deforestation. In this scenario the kingdoms that manage to clear the most land for the purpose of agricultural development can support a larger population, which also means being capable of producing a larger and more powerful military.Because of this every kingdom in the region must engage in deforestation working to clear as much forest land as possible in order to prevent their rivals from coming in and conquering them. In short, every kingdom is working to grow and retain power in this game in order to be victorious in the end.However, the resulting deforestation eventually leads to a fatal ecological disaster which results in the collapse of all the kingdoms due to starvation. The unforeseen danger and tragedy in Kaczynski’s thought experiment here is that the very pursuit of the venture that is necessary for every kingdom’s short-term survival invariably ends up resulting in their total annihilation.Now if you take Kaczynski’s theory of the case here and fast forward to a modern scenario of rivaling countries that are pursuing the advancement of AI, you have the same exact modern day scenario of deforestation taking place.However, when it comes to the aggressive pursuit of the development of AI, which is said to lead directly to the singularity, I would argue that the outcome is even more unpredictable than the outcome we could clearly see with the rival kingdoms engaging in the removal of forest lands.The Wrap UpSo you may be wondering how I came to that conclusion in the last sentence regarding the more unpredictable outcome of AI compared to the more predictable scenario of deforestation.Once again, I’m no expert on AI, but in my own view there's no real difference in terms of the devastation to humankind between the deforestation example in Kaczynski’s thought experiment and me drawing my own conclusion with modern society’s aggressive pursuit of the development of AI. In my view the dangerous outcomes are similar, but the difference is that we could almost predict the ecological disaster as a result of an older agrarian society working to prevent themselves from being conquered by a rival kingdom through deforestation.However, with modern society’s aggressive pursuit of AI we don’t know the means of destruction of the players in the game. With that being said we do know that destruction of the players is the ultimate outcome unless there is an unforeseen element that intervenes and forever changes the course of humankind. After all, with AI making the decisions like the drone exercise that I referenced from that Air Force test earlier it's impossible to say how AI will impact us.After all, the entire concept of the MAD scenario involving nuclear proliferation, as I touched on with the fallout from the Cuban missile crisis, was born out of human decision making. However, what happens if AI reaches the singularity and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) becomes a reality where AGI is making those decisions instead of human beings?The critical element that a lot of people who are advocates for rapid AI development, or believe it could be a good idea, fail to include in the AI discussion is that the machines are amoral. Because of its amoral nature it's virtually impossible to predict how it may come to a decision.When looking at Kaczynski’s thought experiment and the unpredictable and unknown nature of AI it’s hard to see any positive outcome from any of this, especially when you learn about the types of people who are behind the development of AI. In short, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that the outcome looks grim.However, as powerful as the argument may seem regarding how the development of AI may lead to the assured destruction of humankind I would also like to offer a potentially different outcome that occurred to me as I’ve thought more about this. Perhaps there is an unforeseen outcome that those like Kaczynski, and even myself, aren’t seeing just yet.Back on June 4, 1982 the iconic movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan hit the box office. In this movie there was a powerful leadership training exercise that was presented to the viewing audience that involved a no win scenario training simulation to test the ethical decision making of Starfleet cadets as part of their training.This simulation was known as the Kobayashi Maru.In this exercise Starfleet cadets encounter a ship that’s in distress inside the Neutral Zone. In order to save the civilians the cadet would have to enter the Neutral Zone which would involve violating a treaty which would lead to an all out assault on their ship from the Klingons resulting in the Klingons disabling and boarding the ship of the cadet.On the other hand, if the cadet chose to leave the distressed ship in the Neutral Zone they would be honoring the treaty, but would also be leaving the freighter and its occupants to the mercy of the Klingons.In the construction of this simulation the Kobayashi Maru is designed to be a no-win scenario. However, as we learn in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan James T. Kirk was the only Starfleet cadet to ever beat the Kobayashi Maru.So how did the young Captain Kirk manage to win the test that was built to be a no-win scenario when he was a cadet? He did so by reprogramming the simulation so that it would be possible to win.In the movie Kirk stated that he didn’t believe in no-win scenarios and created the winning scenario with some true outside of the box thinking.Now over the years there has been some controversy among Trekkies as to whether Kirk’s actions were considered cheating, but in the movie he received commendations from Starfleet for “original thinking” on the Kobayashi Maru suggesting that Starfleet Academy’s view was that it was not cheating. (Source: Forbes)Now in my own view this sort of outside the box solution that Kirk demonstrated with the Kobayashi Maru is exactly how God himself intervenes through each of us, or for us directly in what appears to us as no-win scenarios that we may encounter in our lives.The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.Exodus 14:14I mean at this point we all know this is the case and if you need a reminder just think back four years ago to the pandemic and stolen election of 2020. Back then it was supposed to be the end of America as we knew it looking ahead.After all, the Biden regime went on a witch hunt engaging in a Republic ending level of lawfare against his political opposition including President Trump himself. The administrative state did everything they could to destroy the dollar, end elections, censor, assassinate, and abuse Americans by aiding a hostile invasion involving literally millions of illegals.By the way they did all of this as we’re learning now by financing it and our enemies with our own tax dollars as DOGE is uncovering with organizations like USAID and more.However, at the end of the day Donald Trump is back in office and the entire American culture is changing at breakneck speed right in front of our eyes. This is simply because of God’s intervention and when he steps in there’s simply no such thing as a no-win scenario because at that point it’s all winning when we seek out God.Therefore my view is that when it comes to the AI situation that presents itself as a Kobayashi Maru scenario it won’t be James T. Kirk, but instead it will be God’s intervention that wins big at the supposed no-win situation.Where do you see AI’s role in society in the next five to ten years?Do you think that AI is leading us towards a MAD scenario?Post up in the comments below as I’d like to hear your feedback.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.Also listen to this episode here on…SpotifyApple PodcastsTune InPocket CastIf you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brandonrichey.substack.com/subscribe

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .”― Sun Tzu, The Art of WarI’m sure you’ve watched a UFC fight here or there on one occasion or another. You may have even caught a fight that was exciting enough to bring the energy from the arena surrounding the fight directly into the entertainment area of your home.The thing is that if you follow UFC closely then you know that when it comes to the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) a fighter can look like he or she is about to lose until suddenly they’re able to gain some leverage and surprisingly turn the tables on the outcome.In many of these instances I’ve witnessed a fighter that was literally on the edge of total defeat only to suddenly flip the entire fight around by pulling and forcing the winning fighter into a position where they are weaker in order to gain the upper hand and totally snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.To back up a little bit when I was growing up as a GenX kid, like all other GenX kids, I was raised on hard hitting action movies during the cultural era when the action hero was the dominating figure at the box office. The truth is that this involved being exposed to a lot of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris movies which ultimately led to me training in the fight discipline of Muay Thai.In addition to all of that it was back in the 1990s when both myself and a handful of my closest friends would get together to watch some of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) tournaments. This was no doubt the wildest and most entertaining thing I’ve ever seen in my life and in those days the UFC was a completely different animal. In fact, it was recognized as the wild west of sports.You see, the entire reason UFC started in the first place was to satisfy the age old question of which martial arts, or which fight discipline was the dominant discipline. In other words, if you put a Kung Fu master in the ring against a Karate master who would win? If you placed an American Wrestler in the ring to face off against a Kickboxer then who would come out on top?The formation of the UFC was an objective attempt at answering this age old question regarding the most effective fight disciplines. Of course, as time went on it became clear that the most effective fighters were those who ended up possessing experience in a blend, or mix, of disciplines where they had training in both effective stand up striking abilities combined with a solid ability of being able to get on the ground to grapple, hence the name Mixed Martial Arts.Despite all of this the reality is that these UFC fighters are like chess masters. They understand their strengths and they are very good at exploiting the weakness of an opponent. This is the entire strategy of a great fighter on top of being tough as nails and conditioned for the art of fighting.Now having said all of that I pointed out how fighters are good at looking to exploit their opponent’s weakness. To add on to this I will also say that the best fighters are also great at frustrating their opponents which often forces their opponents to act hastily further causing their opponent to expose a vulnerability that they can take advantage of in a given moment.In other words, if a great fighter isn’t seeing an opening to exploit in a certain opponent then they will use certain tactics to frustrate their opponent (as the Sun Tzu quote at the beginning suggests) until that opponent gets irritated enough to act out in frustration which often opens them up to being submitted, or even knocked out in some cases. In other words, a great fighter will pull an opponent into the fight that they want their opponent to fight. The greatest fighters of every discipline do this extremely well.Keep this in mind because I’m going to come back to this in a bit.The Giant Slayer“And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.”1 Samuel 17: 4-5It’s not often the easiest thing to overcome fear and doubt, but in order to do so the thing that has always helped me is the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding of the environment combined with having faith in God.The thing is that when it comes to today’s world many people dismiss big ideas due to the fact that they’ve been conditioned to be dismissive. This often happens as a result of fear and doubt.This attitude of dismissing big ideas is often followed with the excuse of the idea sounding too ridiculous, or absurd because it falls outside of the accepted boundaries of what is considered to be normal. In my view, and in many cases, this really only demonstrates intellectual laziness on the part of those who are quick to dismiss big ideas, particularly if those who are offering the big ideas have sensible criteria to back up what they’re proposing.Now don’t get me wrong, some ideas are horrible ideas. However, keep in mind that ideas can also be very powerful and can even result in changing the arc of history whether those ideas are for good, or for bad.Sure many ideas can be outright dismissed, but for the big ideas that can’t be dismissed they at least deserve your attention whether you support them, or not. Keep in mind that such things can manifest over time due to human action and through the process of winning the support of people over whether it be for good, or for bad.In terms of how bad ideas can grow and become something very powerful, one good example of this would involve how some bad ideas formed in 1930s Germany would ultimately lead to Stalingrad. Keep in mind that Hitler and the Nazis had some powerful ideas which obviously led to the result of great evil in the world. The same can be said for Mao Zedong, Stalin, and Fidel Castro as well.However, the thing to understand is that oftentimes ideas involve an evolving process. I mean this very article, or podcast was formed out of the idea and intention that I could use my voice in a way to influence others in order to fight against Marxist and Fascist ideologies. The plan was to contribute to that very thing along with doing my part to pile onto the Populist effort to destroy the Administrative State Media (ASM).Now I would say that the truth is that at the start of this many people would dismiss my effort, or simply half pay attention to it until nearly three years have passed now and society is starting to see that the ASM is in total collapse.Now to be clear I’m not at all suggesting that my Substack was responsible for collapsing the ASM. I know there would be an imbecile or two to read that and immediately start to suggest that is what I was saying. Anyone suggesting that would be totally missing the message I’m trying to deliver here.However, the message I am delivering is the reality that I knew the ASM had gotten so out of control and corrupt that I saw the writing on the wall four years ago. I immediately understood that individual citizens, podcasts, and citizen journalists would have to step up and speak out against the narrative of the ASM if our country was going to survive.In short, I knew that what our society was dealing with was a full blown information war that was designed specifically to dumb down the citizenry of our country resulting in a less aware, more fearful, and a more timid population that would self-censor in fear of being othered, or even doxxed by the ASM as we’ve all seen firsthand.I knew that as a small business owner and career fitness and strength coach with a passion for history and philosophy that it was going to require a heavy lift for my voice to be heard in the midst of this massive information war.However, I’ve never wanted to focus on that more than just working to effectively communicate my own ideas and the world as I see it during this time in history. In short, I knew the fire in my belly was burning hot enough to fight the ASM, but I just had to focus on how to channel it in a way that would be both impactful and effective.I suppose to some degree that’s happening because I engage with hundreds and thousands of wonderful people every week that suggest this is the case. I also get attacked by the enemy as well so I know I’m doing something right in my contribution to this Populist movement that’s sweeping the world. The reality is that NBC, CNN, FOX, and MSNBC are no longer the media. You are the media, I am the media, and those we influence are the media now.And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.”1 Samuel 17: 33-36When President Trump speaks about big ideas like absorbing Canada as a 51st state, or taking on Greenland to be a part of the United States territory he’s not just simply saying such things to just troll the leftists and the media for the sake of trolling, at least not entirely.You see the reality is that when Trump looks at the entire landscape of the Western Hemisphere he’s looking at the global map while also understanding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempt at expansion as seen by their physical presence in South America, as well as their undermining of the Canadian government. They have been doing this for quite some time and have been very open about it through their Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).When President Trump makes such a comment about absorbing Canada as the 51st state there’s a direct reason for it and that reason isn’t just about trolling Justin Trudeau, although that would be pretty easy to do.What Canadians need to understand, and what they will soon come to understand, is that between the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative and Donald Trump’s call to make Canada a 51st state is that they’re going to have to make a choice as to what they want in regards to their place in the world real soon.You see the United States has propped up just about everyone financially in the West now for many decades. In fact, the U.S. bailed Europe out of two world wars, we pretty much single-handedly financed NATO, and we’ve basically subsidized the entire planet for what seems like forever. According to DOGE we’re even learning that our tax dollars have pretty much funded the entire Democratic Party as well, but I digress.Sometimes big ideas have to be communicated with big words and this is exactly what President Trump is doing when he says that Canada will become a 51st state.You see when he looks at Canada he understands that they’re under our nuclear umbrella and they’re not paying their fair share for defense and their border has been wide open to the United States.Instead of being a normal polished establishment politician that might say something like Canada should look at their border, or consider adding more to their national defense instead Trump says, We’re going to make Canada our 51st state.By stating it in this way President Trump is bringing attention to the problems by framing the problem to the public in this Art of The Deal outrageous sort of way, but the attention that this draws actually gets people to start thinking and talking about the actual problem.President Trump understands leverage better than anyone which means he has a tremendous gift for exploiting a weakness in an opponent. Oh yeah, I mentioned that at the beginning of this episode as being one of the greatest traits that the best fighters possess.You see one of the real problems of the far left that you don’t hear enough about is their lack of self-awareness. If there’s one thing that has become very apparent in the past four years it’s that the one obvious psychological malfunction that plagues the far left is their total lack of self-awareness and emotional maturity.You see, in psychology having a lack of self-awareness means that one is clueless about how their actions affect others based on day to day interactions and especially when it comes to conflict resolution.Those who lack self-awareness always look to blame others for problems that arise, they lack empathy, and are clueless about how they come across to others in any given situation. This basically sums up the entire far left along with the emotional immaturity that is also so frequently on display when they lash out about certain issues that they disagree with in public.Given this psychological condition and given the fact that it directly results in these people always blaming others for problems that arise rather than being introspective and looking inward, it’s not surprising in the least that this has resulted in the overwhelming success of the victimhood narrative within the Democratic Party.Because this lack of self-awareness involves the lack of introspection this leads directly to a victimhood mindset. Therefore when the left gets triggered by something they’re emotionally not capable of handling it’s because they don’t see themselves as the problem. In addition to this the ASM amplifies this because leftist causes lead to the media going into a full blown meltdown as well. This obviously leads to a series of extreme and widespread public displays of emotional chaos and personal meltdowns.When this happens everyone else is then capable of easily seeing these people for who they are which buries the Democratic Party further and further down into the gutter. The reality is they’re stuck because they lack self-awareness and they’re currently in a spiraling state of self-destruction as a result of the current political realignment.President Trump also understands this characteristic of the left very well. So when he makes what initially may seem to be an outrageous statement about making Canada a 51st state it sends a shockwave of emotional reactions across the population and media landscape which results in the left melting down into their usual state of insanity. While this happens it simultaneously opens the eyes and ears of the sane to start talking about actually addressing the real problems that President Trump is bringing attention to.As these discussions about the real problems grow the transformation of the big idea into becoming a big reality also grows. In essence, what President Trump is doing is that he’s pulling the opposition into the fight that he wants them to fight in order to get them to submit just like that MMA fighter.In the arena of the body politic he’s changing the battlefield and he isn’t playing by the usual establishment rules of political discourse that has been the status quo now for far too long. What President Trump realizes that the establishment has failed to understand is that this isn’t the business as usual political discourse because this is outright political warfare.The Wrap UpAnd when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking.1 Samuel 17:42Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you.”1 Samuel 17:45-46You see when examining what President Trump and the MAGA movement have had to face on the battlefield that is the political landscape it’s very much been a David and Goliath moment in history.After all, Trump had the base of MAGA, but he was up against the literal entire corrupt machine of the federal government, the WEF, the media, Hollywood, the DOJ, the FBI, the radical judges, the establishment Republicans, governors of states including mine here in the state of Georgia, and even assassins.In short, the enemy literally had all the money and all the resources, yet when all the smoke cleared Trump and the MAGA Populist movement emerged more powerful than ever before while continuing to grow in that power and influence.So what is the lesson we can take from all of this?I believe the biggest takeaway here is that as citizens of our society we can never become apathetic, or ignorant to the cultural and political environment ever again. We must strive daily to be a zenith within our society while influencing others to do the same.We must become more than rule-abiding citizens. We have a civic duty to ensure the state of our existence and we cannot afford to squander, or ignore that duty.The lesson that I desire to communicate here is the exact reason that this Substack exists in the first place and that is to be a tool that you can use to help you to become a zenith and to enhance your civic acumen so that MAGA is never in a position like we’ve seen in the past four years.So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore, David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.1 Samuel 17: 48-51Are you currently working towards changing the battlefield to gain the upperhand in your own life?Do you see this MAGA Populist movement maintaining power for the next 50 years?Post up in the comment section below and I would like to hear some of your feedback.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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Just get people to stop reading them.”― Ray BradburyHave you ever been in a situation where you happen to walk into a room and pretty much right away notice the energy in that room based on the vibe of the people occupying the room?I’ve been in this scenario more than a few times in my life and there have been times when I’ve entered the room and felt a positive vibe and there have been times when I’ve entered a room and immediately encountered a negative vibe.The reason I’m bringing this up is that in these situations there’s no denying the reality that as people we have an ability to hone in on our environment and to assess that environment based on the energy output and behavior of other people. It’s a very interesting human trait, but is one that’s probably as intrinsic as any other instinct designed for the purpose of survival.Speaking of survival this is an instinct that is deeply ingrained into the fabric of our being. In fact, your nervous system is a prime example of this.So why do I say this?When looking at your nervous system it’s basically binary in its design because of the sympathetic and parasympathetic make up of your autonomic nervous system. In regards to your survival mode your nervous system basically consists of your sympathetic nervous system (SNS) which involves the instinct, or ability for it to trigger your “fight or flight” response to prepare you for stressful situations.When your SNS is triggered it increases your heart rate and blood pressure to deliver oxygen and blood to your organs and working muscles. During this time it will also dilate your pupils to improve your vision in dim or dangerous conditions. It also stimulates the production of adrenaline and noradrenaline hormones to further enhance your fight-or-flight mode to help you in whatever moment of danger you may find yourself in.To dive deeper on the key component of your body being honed in on the state of survival there’s another very impressive and mysterious trait that you possess that you may not be aware of concerning your sensory perception. When looking at the function of your senses this involves your somatic nervous system.As you may be aware when talking about your senses you are probably aware of the usual five senses that you possess and use on a normal day to day basis involving your sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. However, you do possess a sixth sense.So what do I mean when I say that you have a sixth sense?That’s right, you do actually have a sixth sense and I’ve discussed this before on an earlier episode, but I will include an excerpt from that episode here.Your sixth sense is what is known as proprioception. You see within your muscles, joints, and tendons you have proprioceptors which are sensory receptors that signal external feedback to you from your environment. This function works so that you understand the location of your body in relation to other people and other things in space.This is a key sense to have so that you don’t accidentally run into things and people when moving in space on a day to day basis. Now this may seem obvious, but many people’s sense of proprioception has been dulled in our society since the advent of technology along with the modern era of cellphones, the laptop, and desktop careers that now make up a large part of our comfortable and convenient modern way of living.Basically your sixth sense of proprioception is your key sense of awareness.You see, even though you have the ability of the sixth sense of proprioception this doesn’t mean that yours will work well unless you understand how to hone it. In order to optimize your mind and body you must FIRST possess awareness.You see this is the problem with our modern society as too many people lack both physical and mental awareness when it comes to the environment that they live in.If you don’t believe me I’ll illustrate the significance of my point here. I’m going to ask you to be a little patient with me because I’m going to give you an example of a person who would have a low level and dulled sense of proprioception while at the same time giving you some examples of people with a high level of proprioceptive awareness.Let’s start by using the recent Christmas holiday season as a primary example of examining an environment where you would likely encounter someone with a low level of proprioceptive awareness.At some point during your life I’m sure you’ve made your way inside of a shopping mall during the Christmas holiday season. Like me you may have not been the most enthusiastic individual for having to venture into the mall environment, but you did it out of the spirit of giving so like me you’ve found yourself inside the hectic shopping jungle known as the shopping mall.As you walked along the mall trying to find your way to your destination I’m sure you had to weave your way in and out of walking lanes while having to dodge other people along the way. If you’re like me you typically don’t want to waste a lot of time inside and want to get in and out of the store as soon as possible.However, when you were walking through the mall ask yourself how many people blatantly and cluelessly turned and walked directly into your lane, or even walked right into you?Ask yourself how many of these people were on their phones, or just simply lacked any awareness of their surroundings as they walked through the public venue?Furthermore, if you consider yourself a person that is highly aware of your environment ask yourself how frequently has this happened to you in a crowded place?I point this out as this is a common occurrence and is direct evidence of people with low proprioceptive awareness. Now as you’re sitting there when I say this you’re probably asking Brandon how can you make such an assumption based on that life experience?I would answer by saying that I can come to that conclusion like any critical thinker would draw their conclusions. The way we do this is by comparing polar opposite elements of the equation.In this particular assessment you and I can observe what many might define as average everyday people (like at the mall during Christmas) while also observing how other high performance people act in other crowded environments.For instance, if you carefully watch a defensive back in a football game cover a wide receiver you’ll see a guy that can back pedal and maneuver his body across the field of play while not even having to necessarily look at where he’s going.The defensive back in this example can maneuver his body across the field without bumping into anyone and to cover a wide receiver because he has a high level of proprioceptive awareness. The defensive back knows exactly where his body is in space in relation to referees and other players on the field. The defensive back is aware of his environment.If that example isn’t good enough then consider the next example. I guarantee you if you’ve ever been around a military serviceman that came back from a war zone and observed them in a crowded space you would see an individual who has a level of proprioceptive awareness that’s even greater than the football defensive back. Their sixth sense is fully honed and engaged with their respective environment.If you still don’t believe me about your sixth sense then the next time you go out in public to a restaurant, or coffee shop try the following experiment, but please don’t get busted on exhibiting too much of the “creeper vibe” and end up blaming this one on me.The next time you sit down at a local coffee shop, or cafe simply pick someone else out in the room that is also sitting, especially if they are turned away from you. Once you find this person simply lock your eyes onto them and stare at them without turning away.

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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”― George Bernard ShawI want to open this episode up by asking you a few questions and when I ask you these questions I want you to take a few moments to ponder on them and keep your answers in mind as you read and/or listen along to this episode.When you were growing up, were there people in your life that were often regarded as being the smart kids, or people most likely to succeed, that have proven to be absolute morons as you were able to observe their online behavior here in the past four years?Of these people, how many of them are currently a part of a big corporate system and how many actually went out and blazed their own trail in life by starting their own business?Of those people that actually did start their own business, how many of them built a business off their own capital without having to lean on some government subsidy in order to operate their venture?Take a moment and really think about these questions as you remember those people who were praised in your communities and in your schools, but proved to be completely clueless about the world, history, philosophy, and geopolitics in the last four years.The reason I’m asking you to do this is to relay a very important point to you and that point is that the mistake of misplacing hype and misplacing credit to people that don’t deserve it has been a huge mistake that our American culture has been completely guilty of repeating over and over and over again for far too long now.This mistake has been prevalent everywhere and it’s been something that I’ve been aware of my entire life, but haven’t really thought about it as deeply as I have until the last four years. Of course, given the course of both society and the world in these last four years it’s been quite stunning to me as to just how clueless many of these so-called “smart folks” really are and have been when observing their behavior in the last few years.If you’ve been paying attention to the world since Biden took office then you can see where meritocracy has been something that has taken a backseat to identity politics and a culture that has been persistent in pushing a belief system that you aren’t capable of solving your own problems. This victimhood mindset is bad enough, but because of it as a society we have managed to create an entire ecosystem around the absurd illusion of embracing that victimhood as a badge of honor.Even more absurd than that is the reality that the corrupt and useless systems in which we have managed to create have laid the foundational narrative that the victimhood mindset is the norm in our modern day Zeitgeist.This has happened due to the fact that those people I mentioned earlier regarding the so-called smart people were merely mouthpieces that were groomed for the system that was built on this current societal victimhood foundation. These sorts of people are what I’d refer to as being system operatives which are merely people that work within a system to perpetuate the system that was built for them to operate.The idea is that these people can work well within the system that they are in, but if you’re able to pull them out of said system their ability to adapt and overcome a new environment would prove to be very difficult for them. These people aren’t Mavericks that are used to blazing their own trail, but rather system operatives that are comfortable and effective working within the fake environment that was built for them to maintain and prop up.This environment of a woke Corporate America has steadily been moved away from meritocracy and has instead managed to morph into a modern day version of ancient Japanese feudalism that has been combined with technology to give rise to what is known as Technofeudalism.If you haven’t listened or read my episode on Technofeudalism then make sure you scroll down the article here on this episode and click the link here to listen and/or read that one. The history and details of that episode will blow your mind.The Joe Montana EffectSo I began this episode by talking about the common mistake of our country falling into the trap of giving credit to people that I’m sure you’ve been familiar with your entire life who are held up by society as being the brains within the community, or sector of the population, that you’ve been a part of for either a good portion, or for all of your life.However, to your surprise you’ve probably noticed many of these old friends, colleagues, or coworkers demonstrating just how ignorant and stupid they are in regards to their lack of knowledge on how the world actually works, particularly in the face of all the chaos of the last four years.I’m sure their idiotic behavior in caving in to the narrative of wearing masks, or being quick to obey walking in a newly specified direction down the aisle of the grocery store during the pandemic managed to leave you scratching your head about these people. If you’re a critical thinker I’m sure it left you wondering how they were able to gain such credibility by your peers as being intelligent people for so long.This is because these people are most likely system operatives and are comfortable living in a matrix that they have built their lives around in order to live in an illusion of comfort. They’re so comfortable that they never even bothered learning history, philosophy, finance, or the basics of human health.Instead they have managed to fall victim to the culture of the Zeitgeist that they have always known without even possessing the ability to question it. They never even thought deeply enough about the fragility of this illusion, let alone wanting to embrace a much desperate change that is needed to escape this matrix that can best be described as something that is basically the same thing as Plato's Cave.Because of this lack of recognizing the illusion that they are living in they, like many, lack a fundamental understanding of what true intelligence really is which simply involves one possessing the ability to observe reality and improvise when necessary by exercising a willingness to adapt and overcome an unforeseen scenario when it arises. Instead these people fall victim to the established environment and resist fighting against the authoritarian establishment due to the oppressive emotion of fear.In short, these people have created their own mousetrap, or more specifically their own human trap, and that’s just as much of a mistake as giving these people the credit for being the lead intellectuals of society. The craziness is that they’ve managed to do this while all along they’re merely just a bunch of overhyped system operatives that are comfortable playing inside their little matrix living out an illusion of comfort while being showered with fake accolades.So you may be thinking Brandon, what other kind of example can you give to demonstrate how someone might be given credit that actually may deserve to go to someone else?I’m going to answer that by using a pop culture example here when examining the careers of two NFL quarterbacks that I’m sure many sports talk shows have spent countless hours debating about over many years now.However, given the context of the discussion here on this episode I’ve taken the time to dive into the mistake of society overhyping individuals within the system, or matrix, that we have come to identify as our society. On that point, I want to take a look at a couple of guys that have had quite impressive careers during their time in the NFL.I want to begin by saying that I don’t watch the NFL anymore, nor am I a fan. There was a time when I did, but nowadays if I see any part of a game it’s only in passing and is not something that I have any interest in anymore.With that being said when looking at the careers of Joe Montana and Tom Brady there are a lot of similarities regarding the success of both men when looking at their time in the NFL. However, just as there are similarities there are a lot of stark differences between these two quarterbacks and it’s these differences that I want to focus on today to illustrate the point of my discussion.However, before I dive into that I want to draw some stark differences in the game of football itself during the time periods of which each man played the game.For starters, back in 2002 the NFL made it illegal to hit a quarterback helmet to helmet after a change of possession. According to the NFL, contests marred by dangerous, or unprofessional behavior somehow manages to take away from the greatness of the game and put players at risk of injury. The NFL’s modern day virtue signaling goes on to say that making sure players and staff conduct themselves in a manner that honors the game and safeguards its reputation for future generations is a priority. It’s really funny that the NFL says this as it's a known fact that youth enrollment in football now has been declining at a rapid rate for many years now with many participants citing safety concerns as one of the main reasons for the decline of youth participation. I suppose the future generations that the NFL is referring to is a pool of young people that keeps shrinking rather than growing due to the advocacy of their policy.According to Refrsports defenders nowadays are not allowed to even make contact with the head or neck area of the quarterback under any circumstances. Using the concussion narrative this rule has been instituted to reduce, or prevent concussions and other injuries in quarterbacks.However, despite all the virtue signaling on safety and the rule changes in trying to decrease concussions according to Ohio Today the NFL saw an increase in concussions from 213 in 2022 to 219 in 2023.Granted the NFL certainly has extended the season of play in this modern era with teams having to endure longer seasons, but many would also argue that much of the concerns against player safety regarding that has been offset by better equipment these days to prevent injury.Now look, let's not make this complicated. The reality is that the game of professional football is an incredibly physical and dangerous sport that can certainly cause severe injuries in players. However, that understanding should be a given when talking about the game of football itself.Furthermore, the NFL has drastically changed the rules on safety in what they would describe as an attempt to preserve the reputation of the game, along with making their players safer and in a lot of ways the complete opposite has occurred, perhaps with the exception being at the quarterback position.When I was a young teenager I would argue that the NFL was considerably more popular and influential in the culture than it is today. Well, maybe I’m wrong. After all, the league did have a huge impact on spreading the woke culture more than anything I’ve seen in my lifetime for the last few years now, but I digress.The point is that when I was a young teenager the personalities and the violence of the game was the central focus of the marketing of the NFL to its audience, whereas today the focus is entirely on woke culture, safety, and corporate image. This is purely my subjective opinion, but if you ask me the latter has made the NFL a total snoozefest.Now to make this even worse just this week I’ve been noticing a lot of posts online where people have been questioning the validity of the game itself. In fact this past week Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports shared a video clip from the game where he was being critical of the officiating during the AFC Championship game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs.Portnoy shared the clip which involved a fourth-and-1 call in the fourth quarter where the Bills were stopped short. As Portnoy played the video he passionately ranted about the spot of the ball on both third and fourth down with what he believed were egregious errors by the referees.As he fumed over the calls Portnoy vowed to quit watching the NFL and took aim at the commissioner Roger Goodell saying that what he saw was “blatant cheating.” (Source: Yahoo Sports) The bottom line is that the times sure have changed with the NFL since I was a young kid and even though I don’t watch the NFL anymore as an adult it seems like these criticisms over the validity of the games is something I’ve been hearing more and more every year.To give you an example of how much the culture of the NFL has changed I remember seeing an interview from either the late 1960s, or early 1970s with the L.A. Rams defensive end Deacon Jones when I was a kid. In this interview Deacon Jones was talking about what he had imagined doing to the quarterbacks that he played against. In his own words he had said that he used to imagine putting all the quarterbacks inside of a bag and then he would take a baseball bat to beat the bag.Now as if this wasn’t shocking enough to hear when I was a teenager, it was also the attitude that existed in those days concerning the Zeitgeist of the sport of football. Now I wanted to tell that story to you in order to tell you the following point.You know as well as I do if any player in the league said that in an interview today there would be a 24/7 meltdown by the media and that player that made such a statement would be ordered to attend sensitivity training probably for a twelve week period. You also know as well as I do that they would have to do this while donating a significant sum of money to some charity of the league’s choice to maximize the league’s opportunity to virtue signal to the tenth power with the viewing public.This illusion of creating such a “sanitized” environment for a violent game has only managed to neuter the game in my view while creating a cookie cutter image to where you really can’t differentiate one player from the next. Basically all the players talk the same, look the same, and act the same.The point is that in the era of Deacon Jones there were literal rivals between teams where one team really wanted to make an example out of the other team and they wouldn’t offer any apologies for doing so. Today the NFL makes the apology and the victimhood status the central tenet that defines the league and everything they do.Additionally I remember one older retired NFL player talking about these changes once in his commentary where he pointed out that the main difference between yesteryear and today’s NFL is that in the old days there were true rivals, whereas he pointed out that in today’s league everyone is playing against everyone else’s brother in law. I thought that little statement was both truthful and amusing.So why am telling you all of this?Well, the point here is that if you ask most any football fan today who is the greatest NFL quarterback to play the game to date most people would be quick to answer that question by naming Tom Brady.Now don’t get me wrong Tom Brady was a phenomenal quarterback and he has seven Super Bowl championships to prove it. As another honorable mention Tom Brady had also made the Pro Bowl fifteen times in his career which is another impressive feat that has to be acknowledged.However, given everything that I’ve covered here in this episode regarding the culture and Zeitgeist of the NFL today compared to the days of players like Deacon Jones the biggest distinction was the difference in the culture of the league. The main difference that anyone can point to regarding the history of Tom Brady is that he simply did not play in the most physically brutal era for quarterbacks with the likes of players such as Deacon Jones, but Joe Montana did.Now before some obnoxious sports personality tries to call me out on Deacon Jones already having been retired prior to the arrival of Joe Montana in 1979 I already know that. If that is your criticism then you have already missed the entire point that I’m trying to make.The point I’m making is that the era that Montana played in was simply filled with many guys like Deacon Jones that wanted nothing more than to put a bullseye right between the shoulder blades of every quarterback.There were many players that shared the attitude of Deacon Jones back in the 1970s and 1980s and Joe Montana played during that era which was also an era that had not yet built an entire system around it where the NFL rule book was written for the protection of the quarterback.Despite the fact that Joe Montana played during one of the most physically and mentally brutal eras for quarterbacks in the NFL he still managed to rack up four Super Bowl Championships himself along with eight Pro Bowl appearances. It is also worth mentioning that both he and Tom Brady came into the league at age 23, but Brady played until he was 45 and Montana played until he was 38. I believe it’s safe to assume that the seven additional years of Brady’s career can be chalked up to the quarterback protections that were put in place inside the NFL rulebook.Now this is no indictment on Tom Brady, but it is a recognition of Joe Montana being able to demonstrate a high level of skill, ruggedness, and mental toughness that used to be the defining characteristics of the NFL rather than the current day concerns of corporate image, wokism, and the questionable validity of the game itself.Brady no doubt took advantage of the system and was quite the system operative, while Montana had to navigate a jungle of violence with a bullseye on his back. At the end of the day that’s essentially my point.Because of these stark differences this is why I believe that there’s a bit of overhype when it comes to Brady’s career if you really compare the system and the culture of the NFL today versus the era of Joe Montana. Because of this I believe this is a cultural example of misplaced credit when it comes down to society’s view of who should be named the best whether that label is given to the best quarterback in NFL history, or to the smartest person in your graduating class.Confidence In AbilityFor many years as a strength coach I’ve had the opportunity to share some wonderful experiences with training many different types of athletes. One of those experiences involved me having had the opportunity to develop the strength and conditioning programs for amateur and professional fighters in the disciplines of Muay Thai and MMA.During this time I myself had extensively trained in the art of Muay Thai to both gain the benefit of knowing the discipline, as well as giving myself an even deeper physical education to make myself a more effective strength coach for training competing fighters.Now for the purpose of full disclosure I’m not in the same fighting shape as I used to be as I’ve transitioned more of my discipline and focus from practicing the art of fighting in the gym to fighting in this information and culture war here on this Substack platform. Regardless of this new reality the movements and the knowledge of Muay Thai have managed to stay with me even to this day.Now if you’re not familiar with the art of Muay Thai this martial arts discipline is known as the Art of 8 Limbs. This interesting name fits because this particular discipline encompasses the use of the different limbs of the body for the purpose of striking which involves your punches, elbows, knees, and kicks.In the beginning phase of training in the art of Muay Thai one thing you will experience is tremendous soreness as your body will have to adapt to the stress of the discipline. During this adaptation phase you will experience going through a body hardening period as the rugged style of training conditions your body for the purpose of both being able to deliver devastating strikes to an opponent while also being able to withstand strikes at the same time.One of the main areas of your body that must adapt during this body hardening phase involves your shins. You see a good Thai fighter will always have what may seem to his or her opponents as having bullet-proof shins as Thai fighters deliver the hardest kicks in all of martial arts by delivering their strikes by using their shins in order to do so. If you’ve ever experienced this then you know exactly what I’m talking about.In building up and working on the hardening of the shins Thai fighters will perform thousands of kicks to bags, pads, heavy bags, and even banana trees if they happen to be training in Thailand.This repetitive act of striking hardens soft tissues in the body and produces an adaptation in the trabeculae of the bones translating into the actual hardening of the bones themselves along with the surrounding muscle and soft tissues during fight training.It’s through this grind of training that a fighter will adapt and grow more confident in his or her ability to stand in the ring and spar, or eventually go directly into a competitive fight after they experience this mental and physical hardening process of their body.So why did I take the time to go into the details about the adaptation involved for hardening your body during the process of fight training?The reason is that our society as a whole is currently experiencing the same thing. As a society we are now finding ourselves in a position where we are having to harden our abilities to navigate, judge, properly criticize, and properly credit people that are involved in the current political and cultural landscape.The Wrap UpThe reality is that our society has been victimized by communist grafters that have infiltrated our government and media landscape for a very long time resulting in the longstanding abuse of the American citizens.This steadfast abuse has been carried out for so long now that it’s warped the thinking and judgement of many Americans who have a difficult time discerning between the truth and a lie. Over time this has managed to create a culture where people within society have been softened in their discipline and ability to think deeper before placing blame, or even credit for that matter, onto others when weighing out various social judgements that create the prevailing perception of their own society and those certain people that they form opinions about within their society.This is exactly why those people (the system operatives) in your social circles I was talking about earlier got praise as being the smart folks in your community that never deserved that label from the start.We’ve seen these same misjudgments with the likes of Donald Trump for the past decade when people constantly referred to him, and his followers for that matter, as fascists, Nazis, deplorables, etc. all while they believed their own hype that they were the smart folks of society. Fast forward to today and we now unequivocally know that these people had it all totally and completely backwards with their labels, their worldview, and their brain function.Now looking at our society as a whole we’re now having to right the ship because we’ve allowed the majority of these overhyped people who’ve been the system operatives to steer us towards a very dangerous and disastrous place. Because of this you and I don’t have the room for making any more bad decisions regarding the direction of our society.Therefore, it’s up to us (the real intellectual leaders) to harden our abilities to make sound judgments and to properly apply both criticisms and praise to those people within our society who deserve it. This ability to harden our judgments and to acquire more sound knowledge to do so will require more discipline and work from us just as it does from the Thai fighter that needs to harden their shins for combat.We need to dig more and think deeper about decisions and about which people and businesses we want to support in order to shape the society that we want.If we don’t do this then we will get the disastrous society that we were led towards by those people who were failures that we wrongly credited with being the smart folks.This is where you and I must study and support the parallel economy, we must share information among our groups, and continue to grow this MAGA coalition to ensure that we never end up on the brink of a thousand years of darkness ever again.This is the American Mistake that we can never afford to make again.Have you encountered people in your life that were propped up by the system and exposed during the past four years? Are you exercising more caution and thinking more deeply about people who get overhyped from the public? Post up in the comment section below. I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.Also listen to this episode here on…SpotifyApple PodcastsTune InPocket CastIf you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“If you’re going to fight, fight like you’re the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s Ark. And brother, it’s starting to rain. — on a t-shirt being sold by a Bangkok street vendor”Jake Needham, And Brother It’s Starting to RainHaving been a small business owner now for twenty years I can tell you for a fact that the customer is not always right. That old quote is one of the biggest fallacies that exist when it comes to running a business.Now don’t get me wrong, the customer definitely carries some significant weight for every business, however it’s always up to the business owner to assess that customer’s weight in order to determine whether or not that customer is worthy of engaging in a business transaction either temporarily, or for an ongoing basis.Now, you’re probably thinking to yourself Brandon, what exactly do you mean?First of all, if you’re a business owner, or more specifically a small business owner, you want to develop a great relationship with your customers, as well as other businesses that you might deal with. This should go without saying, but the relationship between a small business and their customer base is of vital importance because that relationship is one that allows the business to provide a quality product, or service, to that customer on a consistent basis so that the business owner is profitable. This is important so that they can remain solvent and the customer can always walk away happy and fulfilled with the product and/or service that they paid for.However, what about those circumstances that occur when the customer proves to be difficult to deal with? Additionally, what if the customer proves to be so difficult that they cost the business more money, time, and energy than they are worth? Believe me this happens from time to time and in these circumstances the customer can surely demonstrate why they aren’t always right, or correct, in the midst of a business transaction.In this scenario it’s probably better for the business owner to choose to do limited business with such a customer, or to simply walk away from the customer altogether. The same thing can be said with business to business relationships as well.A good example of this would be like that time we all heard the story of the Christian baker that chose not to bake the cake for the gay couple that wanted to get married. In this case the business owner made the decision not to compromise on their faith and bake the cake although they still offered to assist the couple in finding another alternative so that they could get their cake. This ultimately resulted in the customer suing the business and resorting to using lawfare to force that business to run their business the way they (the customer) believed it should be run.You see this is a perfect example of why the customer isn’t always right. If you say Brandon had they just gone ahead with baking the cake then they wouldn’t have had to endure a lawsuit, right?You may, or may not be correct, but that’s a cowardice option to consider. I mean slow down and think about this. What would it say about any of us who practice our faith whether that be Christianity, Judaism, or Buddhism that would encounter a customer that had some request that was in direct conflict with our faith and belief system, yet we chose to cave and do what was demanded of us by a hostile customer?In addition to this if you are a self-proclaimed freedom loving American the media would focus on the so-called freedom of the customers in this example, but what about the freedoms of the business owner? How much money, time, sacrifice, and energy did the customer that was wanting to force the baker to bake the cake contribute to that business? The answer to that is absolutely zero. In fact, they only contributed a loss as they resorted to using lawfare to try and bully that business.What would it say to you as an individual who was the one who invested your entire livelihood with your money, blood, sweat, and tears into starting that business to now be bullied by someone else to force you to run your business the way that THEY see fit?Now that I’ve covered the scenario of how the difficult customer might warrant a decision from the business owner to walk away from a business relationship I want to shift gears to look at how important it is for the business owner to nurture the relationship with the customer that’s worthy of developing that relationship concerning a business transaction.My brother works in the construction business and there’s obviously a lot of politics that have to be played in that arena as in that business you have to rely on various subcontractors to do the job that you hire them to do and to do it on time and within the specified budget for the job at hand.Now I’m not a construction guy, but I know enough to understand this quote that my brother shared with me once when he was telling me about how he was able to convince people to get things done that needed to get done.I remember he said that he could win more people over with honey rather than vinegar. This basically means that it’s much easier to persuade people with kindness rather than to brow beat them with negativity and hostility.The point here is that driving action of any kind has to come from within and if that action has to be forced with too much vinegar then the recipe will always end up bitter in the end…sort of like that cake that never got baked.The Monroe DoctrineOn December 2, 1823 in his seventh annual message to Congress President James Monroe articulated his Monroe Doctrine which included a theme of how the European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States’ primary sphere of interest.This doctrine warned European powers not to interfere with the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine also happens to be the best known U.S. policy regarding the Western Hemisphere.In his message to Congress in 1823 the message with the doctrine warned European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization, or puppet monarchs.In 1865 the Monroe Doctrine was invoked when the United States government exerted diplomatic and military pressure in order to support Mexican President Benito Juarez. This support enabled Juarez to lead a successful revolt against the Emperor Maximilian who was basically placed on the throne by the French government at that time.In 1904 nearly 40 years later many European creditors of a number of Latin American countries threatened to go kinetic in their actions with armed intervention in order to collect debts from people in the region. This was when the Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the right of the United States to exercise an “international police power” to deter such “chronic wrongdoing” in what is known as his Roosevelt Corollary which was his extension to the Monroe Doctrine.Furthermore, in 1962 the Monroe Doctrine was symbolically invoked again when the Soviet Union began to build missile launching sites in Cuba. During that time with the support of the Organization of American States President John F. Kennedy threw a naval and air quarantine blockade around the island. This was no doubt a very tense moment in our history that was better known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.It was only after several tense days that the Soviet Union agreed to finally withdraw their missiles and to dismantle all the sites that they had been working on at the time. Subsequently, the U.S. ended up dismantling several of its air and missile bases that were located in Turkey at the time.Now here we sit 62 years later with only a few days left before Donald Trump retakes the office of the presidency and he’s talking about securing the Panama canal, taking Greenland, and using economic pressure to absorb Canada to make it part of the United States. So why is Trump talking about doing this and what would be his motivation for wanting to do any of this?Well, just like our cake baker example with the customer wanting to exert their will over the baker to force them to do what they wanted them to do with some vinegar (such as lawfare) we can see that same thing happening on a global scale with the behavior of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).The CCP has worked to subversively spread their influence into the West with the practice of elite capture inside government and corporate institutions. In fact the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as the New Silk Road was launched back in 2013 by Xi Jinping and included a vast collection of various development and investment initiatives that’s sole purpose was to initially spread their tentacles, otherwise known as the CCP’s influence, to link East Asia and Europe through physical infrastructure.However, in the decade since their tentacles have spread further to Africa, Oceania, and Latin America significantly resulting in broadening the CCP’s economic and political influence. (Source: Council on Foreign Relations)So in short here we see the CCP disrespecting our sphere of influence involving the Western Hemisphere even more so than that of our European counterparts since the 1800s. In fact, we can see their presence today throughout a major portion of South America.One big example is their military base located in Argentina. According to the Center For Strategic and International Studies in Beijing the space sector is vitally and strategically important for national military, economic, and technological development. If this isn’t concerning enough, this setup here for the CCP is more closely tied to the state than most all other industries.In addition to this the CCP has also strengthened ties with Brazil as we’ve seen in Brazil’s most recent election when the CCP assisted with installing the current president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. According to the The National Committee of The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Xi Jinping noted that the two partnering countries decided to establish synergies between them for a certain project the CCP is very fond of known as the Belt and what? Oh yeah, that would be the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).Granted, the CCP’s disrespect of the United States sphere of influence in the Western Hemisphere is only occurring because many domestic traitors here in the U.S. have allowed the slow, steady, and continuous encroachment from the CCP to proceed over many decades now. This has happened due to the fact that they have either been captured by the CCP’s influence, or even worse, they have willingly and intentionally merged with the CCP for some sort of personal gain.In addition to all of this the CCP has now exerted control over the Panama canal and according to an article by NBC News persons close to President Trump have shown data demonstrating Chinese encroachment into the Western Hemisphere which includes scenarios where Panama has the ability to prioritize shipping for Chinese over American shipping.According to the NBC article the second person that’s familiar with the situation says that Trump’s threat to take the canal is a “negotiating tool” to get Panama to get more favorable treatment for U.S. shipments.In terms of Trump’s position on Canada it is primarily “an epic troll,” however the article talks about how the trolling is leading to some discussions regarding policies that Trump desires to gain traction with as he’s put some real teeth behind the negotiations. As an example just last month Canadian officials announced a plan to increase spending on border security. Perhaps Trump’s talk of tariffs has some of the Canadian leadership sweating bullets.So what about Greenland?Well, from a geopolitical standpoint the island of Greenland would be a very smart location to secure for the United States. It’s known among Trump’s allies that the island of Greenland is something that he very much desires. Apparently a person that’s familiar with the discussions, according to the same NBC article, pointed out that Trump has never given up on acquiring Greenland which he also tried to purchase during his first term for defense reasons, but was rebuffed.However, with the CCP’s continued pursuit of the BRI and Russia’s ongoing war with Ukraine, Greenland gives the United States a much easier point of access to the east.It should also be noted that Donald Trump Jr. and Charlie Kirk just took a trip to visit Nuuk which is the largest population center located on the island of Greenland and they were well received by the citizens upon arrival. While they were there President Trump even called in to deliver a message to the Greenlanders.Trump’s interest in all three of these geographical locations involving Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada all stem from their importance to the United States due to their significance involving our national security.Furthermore, Greenland has been under the control of Denmark since the 14th century, but was fully integrated into Denmark back in 1953 under the country’s constitution. Greenland became a self-governing territory in 1979 and Greenlanders also have full citizenship in Denmark.Incentive and TransformationEven though Trump wasn’t able to acquire the purchase of Greenland back during his first term it’s safe to say that today the environment is significantly different and certainly more primed in a way that makes it much more likely to happen.Upon their arrival to Greenland many of the Greenlanders communicated to Charlie Kirk and Don Jr. how they were sick of struggling economically and not being secure in terms of the geopolitical instability that is going on in the world which is not too far from their shores. I also failed to mention that the CCP has also been trying to meddle into the affairs of Greenland and I’m pretty sure the Greenlanders are not thrilled about that possibility at all either.In fact, the world is awakening to the sick globalist plan of trying to force everyone into a one world system of governance and this next Trump term is going to execute BIG plans in order to capitalize on this Great Awakening in order to thwart those annoying globalist plans. I believe we are living and experiencing a watershed moment in history.I believe that last statement is quite an important one for you to remember because that is exactly why this process and possibility of Trump looking to acquire these three geographical locations is a much greater likelihood.So why do I believe this geopolitical plan is more likely and, more importantly, why should you think it may be more likely?Well, there are several reasons, but for some different perspective you can take a look at what Techno-feudalist and Hillary Clinton supporter Marc Andreesen said in a recent interview about Trump. He basically spent the segment praising Trump’s communication skills and his ability to possess a systems way of thinking.In that interview Andreesen points out that due to Trump’s extensive background in real estate and business that he’s developed into one of the best people in the world in terms of understanding how various systems work in business, real estate, and government. What Andreesen points out is that Trump can look at the operation of a given system and quickly wrap his head around it in terms of understanding how that particular system operates.In fact, Andreesen and the interviewer even pointed out that during his first term Trump had warned Germany about fixing their energy problem. He made the point that if they didn’t get their domestic energy problem fixed that they would be dependent on Russian oil and just a few short years later that’s exactly what has happened. What’s even funnier is that the German leadership laughed at Trump at the time when it made the recommendation, but they sure aren’t laughing now.With this understanding Andreesen points out that because of Trump’s business background it’s what has allowed him to adapt very quickly into the system operation of the federal government. According to Andreesen when you combine this with the fact that he’s got four previous years of already having been in the White House that this time he’s considerably more prepared to disrupt, transform, and shape a new and more efficient system. Considering the current dysfunction of the federal government this is the mandate that he was voted back in for in the first place.As a professional fitness and strength coach I can tell you that there’s a particular method that us coaches apply in the realm of human performance that is known as the SAID principle. That word SAID is an acronym that stands for Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands.Just to let you know that’s basically a fancy way of saying that if you are seeking to improve on getting better at a particular skill that you should practice the execution of that particular skill in order to master it. In terms of performance and to give you an example, if you wanted to master the skill of hitting a baseball then you wouldn’t spend the majority of your time practicing and working on your ability to shoot a basketball. In this example, to master the skill of hitting a baseball you would spend a lot of time practicing with your ability to hit a baseball in order to get better at that specific skill.So why am I bringing this up about the SAID principle?In the case of Donald Trump we are looking at an individual that has spent the majority of his life and work experience where his job has been to understand complex systems and to work to communicate to others how to get things done within those complex systems in order to make it all successfully work in the end.With Trump’s ability to do this, along with this toughness and grit to stay the course in his pursuit to save the Republic, even opposition party members like Andreesen are starting to bend the knee to show their respect as they see he has been right about most everything since the start of his political career.Because of this, society is starting to transform more into an America First environment and this positive recognition of Trump’s ideas and policies is spreading beyond the borders of the United States.Since this is happening there’s plenty of incentives in place for these other geographical regions such as Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal to actually want to get onboard rather than the United States needing to strong arm anyone to force any unity during this point in time in history where expansionism is already prevalent.The Wrap UpSince we’re living in a time where the CCP has literally been at economic, chemical, biological, cyber, information, and psychological war with the West and have been unrelenting in pursuing their BRI plan, Trump's position is similar to that of the cake baker I mentioned earlier.In other words, Trump’s position is that as a nation we’re not going to allow the now rotten business partner/customer in the CCP to come into our store (The Western Hemisphere) and force us to bake the cake that they want us to bake and to run our business the way that they see fit.Since this disaster of the Biden regime it has literally resulted in the country having been run off a cliff and we’ve witnessed a tremendous exodus of people voting with their feet by fleeing communist blue run states in order to move to more freedom first red states in the last four years.If you take a quick minute and zoom the picture out from this domestic activity I just mentioned with the exodus of people from blue to red states you can also see the same thing starting to take shape on a geopolitical scale with other countries and territories looking to flee the potential grip of communist totalitarian rule.Obviously Greenland and Canada would be a good example of this. In this current Fourth Turning that we’re living in it’s obvious that the CCP is trying to use subversion and elite capture as their tactics for achieving expansion throughout the globe with their BRI plan.However, it very much seems like MAGA is the antithesis of this by demonstrating that the policies and ideas that it puts forward serves to be more of an incentive to attract other regions that are also sick of the globalist insanity and are also a good fit for escaping the grip of communist totalitarianism. In short, MAGA is trying to win over people with honey while the CCP is trying to use vinegar.I believe this is what we could refer to as the Era of Incentivised Expansionism and before long maps and globes may end up looking very different than what we’ve been used to seeing throughout our lives.What do you think about the reality of WWIII involving the opposing strategies of MAGA vs. The CCP’s BRI?Are you currently in support of an incentivised offer of expansion for the United States with such territories as Canada, Greenland, and Panama?Make sure you post up a comment below as I’d love to get your feedback.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.Also listen to this episode here on…SpotifyApple PodcastsTune InPocket CastIf you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brandonrichey.substack.com/subscribe

Image credit The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“We have a mantra, Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs.”–Steve BannonIn nature there’s a certain animal that frequently demonstrates its toughness and deters possible predators should they decide to advance on it for the purpose of trying to turn it into prey. The interesting thing about this particular animal is that it’s one of the most ferocious fighters in the entire animal kingdom, yet is far from being the biggest, or most intimidating at first glance.In the wild there are plenty of predators that you might first think to put at the top of your list in terms of what you may identify as being the most dangerous, or being the types of animals that you might see as being the biggest threat in nature. Some examples that come to mind might be any number of venomous snakes, big cats such as lions, perhaps wolves, bears, and maybe even hyenas.In terms of ranking animals in the wild in a top category from most dangerous to least dangerous any of these options I just mentioned would rank pretty high on the list for being an animal that would be a real threat to your livelihood if you were to cross paths with it in the wild.However, none of these include the animal that I’m referring to here in my example. No, the animal I’m talking about here is probably the most ferocious and unrelenting animal in all of nature when it comes down to survival and the animal that deserves to wear that crown of being the fighter among fighters is the one and only honey badger.Just to give you some perspective the adult male honey badger can have a mass of only about 20-35 lbs while a female can range between 11-22 lbs.First of all, even though the honey badger has a reputation for being nature’s own version of the toughest street fighter around, these little animals will go to a lot of trouble to avoid trouble. However, if the honey badger is cornered, or feels threatened it will quickly demonstrate where it got its reputation.When looking at the physical breakdown and capabilities of the honey badger this animal is quite impressive. Honey badgers possess a high level of intelligence and have demonstrated various problem solving abilities in certain environments of captivity where they use sticks, rocks, and limbs to bridge escape routes while also figuring out latches on gates and small cages.In addition to this they are also really good at digging holes and they prefer to eat small animals such as scorpions, snakes, insect larvae, small rodents and, as the name suggests, honey. This animal has claws that can dig a hole in the ground incredibly fast and their teeth and jaws are so powerful that they can crush bones with relative ease. Oh and I know I mentioned that they preferred small rodents and insects, however honey badgers have also been known to take down young antelopes, wildebeest, and waterbuck.As if this isn’t impressive enough the honey badger also has a very loose and thick coat of skin which protects it from other potential predators while also making it difficult for a predator to hold onto the honey badger because of the loose thick coat allowing it to quickly torque its body to bite and claw an adversary.It also possesses the ability to spray a nasty odor from its anal gland similar to that of a skunk to deter and confuse an adversary while also simultaneously going on full blown offense quickly turning the hunter into the hunted.You’re probably wondering just how tough are honey badgers?Well we all refer to the lion as the king of the jungle and I’m pretty sure 100% of you reading or listening to this would have immediate respect for a big cat such as a lion, tiger, or leopard should you ever come face to face with one.With that being said there are multiple accounts of honey badgers having been attacked and outnumbered by big cats such as lions and leopards. Yet in these situations they end up taking the fight straight to those big cats to the point that they flee the honey badger scared and not wanting anymore of the fight that the honey badger has to offer. There are even reports of them having taken down humans in certain situations. (Source: Londolozi Blog)This animal is relentless and will not stop going after a threat while typically taking aim at the groin, or scrotum area of the animals that try to attack it. Given the unrelenting ferocity and build of the honey badger this is one gruesome and terrifying predicament to imagine one finding themselves in. In addition to all of this these animals also have a pretty good immunity to snake venom.There are other stories of people having interactions with honey badgers in captivity where they possess the ability to demonstrate affection, but at the same time ONLY do so on their terms not showing any deference, subservience, or fear in the least. These animals possess absolutely no fear whatsoever. It’s quite a remarkable trait to learn about this animal.I will come back to the honey badger here in a bit, but for the moment just place this little lesson about the honey badger into your memory bank and hold onto it for the moment. The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The RecapJust like you I remember back in 2020 how concerned I was with what was going on in the world as there was a very dark and oppressive feeling I had in the pit of my stomach after having witnessed everything that had happened during the pandemic along with everything else that followed.I knew in the first week of the pandemic that it was a situation that included a much larger problem than merely just being about a virus. I mean it didn’t take long to see how the federal, state, city, and local governments were all the sudden transitioning into more authoritarian roles. Here they were limiting where we could travel, shutting down our businesses, forcing us to wear masks, and positioning society as a whole to submit to continual totalitarian rule if we hadn't had a significant enough portion of the population to start pushing back against the system.If you’re on the same page as I am here you understand exactly what I’m talking about. However, my interpretation of the circumstances at the time wasn’t that we were in a pandemic, but rather that we were being attacked in some way with a form of biological warfare. That was my stance then and it turns out my assessment was accurate as we later came to understand all the nefarious things that have been going on inside these labs that have been dangerously engaging in gain of function research now for years.I knew we were at war, but at the time I didn’t quite understand the origin of it and why it was happening the way it was. This was because of my ignorance and in the spirit of seeking some level of understanding I spent the following years up to now intensely studying, listening to podcasts, and seeking out alternative voices to the mainstream media (aka Administrative State Media). Granted, I never liked the Administrative State Media (ASM) anyways, but I was in need of figuring out the details that I knew I wasn’t getting from them at the time.As I chose to pursue this journey I quickly realized I was on the right path due to the fact that the voices that could offer valid explanations for what was going on in the world were consistently being cancelled and censored by the big tech companies. For the record this included me as well.When I first entered college I initially went in with the plan that I was going to major in history because I initially had considered being that stereotypical coach in school that taught history. There were several factors that played into that plan being changed when I attended the University of Georgia and part of that decision involved the fact that I saw then how the university system was indoctrinating students with Marxist ideology who would eventually go on to be future teachers.Even though at the time I didn’t possess the knowledge of Karl Marx and who he was I still understood that much of what the college of education at the University of Georgia was teaching future teachers wasn’t right, because they constantly emphasized “multiculturalism” and centered everything around identity over merit in everything that they communicated within every class in that college of education.To me I remembered thinking to myself, Why am I paying these people to force feed me this garbage knowing full well it’s garbage? Why am I financially supporting this nonsense? Once I realized that it made my decision to get out of the school of education very easy.From there I went on to study at the school of health and human performance at the Ramsey center at the University of Georgia. Back then they left the woke ideology predominantly at the college of education where I had previously departed. Fortunately for me, at the time, the woke mind virus had not yet impacted the school of health.So why did I give you this personal history lesson about myself regarding my experience with Marxist ideology when I was in college?The reason for this personal history lesson regarding my path of education at The University of Georgia is necessary is because it clearly illustrates how long this Marxist problem has been prevalent, not only in my own personal life, but in your life as well.I mean this was circa 1998 and when we fast forward to today you can clearly see how the Marxist ideology has grown throughout the world mainly because of years and years of these university systems poisoning the minds of multiple generations of students. Over a long enough period of time we’ve seen this result in the worst people imaginable being installed into leadership positions of power throughout Corporate America and throughout most every government of every major Western power in the world.Recognizing this is what leads me into the next phase of this discussion.Enter Steve BannonFor years I remember constantly thinking to myself how society was always telling me that if I disagreed with a person, an idea, or an ideology that I was essentially not supposed to challenge it and to be “tolerant” of the idea regardless of how absurd or stupid the idea might be.Since those days when I first encountered Marxism in college I’ve noticed its spread and impact on society in a lot of ways ever since then and I would argue that it’s only been able to do so because there hasn’t been enough people to challenge the spread of Marx’s poisonous ideology. I can say that experience opened my eyes to the types of idiotic ideas that were being taught in society within our education system at large.As you and I look at everything that’s going wrong in the world today it’s easy to see the negative impact of Marx’s philosophy as it’s managed to bring a lot of brain rot and decay to our institutions and way of life to a degree and in a manner that is literally historic in nature.For the record I mentioned my interpretation of how society has always communicated to me to tolerate bad ideas from people over the years, but that’s not something that I personally ever found that I could adhere to. I’ve always felt the urge to call out absurdity when something is so outrageously incompetent that I find myself in a position where I just can’t ignore it.In my search for answers following the pandemic and the rigged and stolen 2020 election I had a close friend of mine that referred me to a talk show host with an individual that happened to share a lot the same sentiment that I had regarding the out of control incompetence, corruption, and absurdity that has been plaguing our country and the world at large.According to my friend this gentleman was very good at calling out stupid ideas and wouldn’t back down from challenging the establishment way of thinking one single inch. The man that I am talking about here is the one and only Steve Bannon.I’ve often used the term Maverick to describe certain people that go out into the world and blaze their own trail in life, build businesses, and are an example of success by the very fact that they aren’t afraid to pursue a life venture regarding something that they believe very strongly in.There’s no question that the term Maverick directly applies to Steve Bannon who himself was an officer in the United States Navy from 1977-1983 and after his time in the military he would go on to become a successful investment banker with Goldman Sachs. Bannon also would go on to be an executive producer for 18 Hollywood films and documentaries, he co-founded Breitbart News with the late Andrew Breitbart, and he became the White House Chief Strategist for President Trump in 2016. Bannon now currently runs the biggest political show in the world airing four hours a day Monday-Friday known as the War Room. (Source: Wikipedia)Like Donald Trump, Bannon has the ability to evoke some strong reactions in people that both oppose and support his message. However, in speaking for myself the first moment I took the time to intently watch and listen to Bannon on a few of his shows I quickly came to realize that this guy was backing up every major issue he discussed by bringing evidence and historical context to support his narrative. In Bannon’s own words he refers to this action of bringing strong evidence to the table to support an argument as bringing the receipts.I have personally included Bannon into my regular viewing schedule now for nearly three years and am admittedly an avid viewer of the show. I am constantly reading and listening to other shows throughout the week, but I’ll admit that I pay especially close attention to Bannon because he has a very sharp talent and skill for drilling down on the meat of a narrative. He also possesses a real skill for cutting through the noise in order to get to what he refers to as the buried lede, or the real signal of the stories that are being pushed out by the ASM on a daily basis.I find that a lot of the ire that gets directed towards Bannon by his opposition (as well as what I personally experience myself at times) is because people aren’t carefully listening to what he’s saying while, at the same time, not willing to give him the credit when he’s proven to be right on one major cultural and political issue after the next as they manifest into reality.In addition to this many on the far left refer to Bannon as being a far right conservative or Republican in terms of the current political environment, but the reality is that according to Bannon he is neither of these in terms of his worldview.Bannon will be the first to tell you that he’s a Populist and Economic Nationalist. Granted, for years I more closely identified with being more Libertarian myself, but after the past four years I would say that I still have many of those Libertarian views, but they have been combined in some ways with me developing a strong Populist lean.So you and I have often heard many others make reference to the typical political monikers such as Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian, and Communists, but what exactly is a Populist?In terms of political ideology Populism is a bit of a different animal. Populism essentially serves as more of a lens of viewing the world rather than consisting of a checklist of principles to which a certain ideology follows. Populism really boils down to how an environment is viewed and it often appeals to and involves the concerns of everyday people and how the chief concerns of the everyday citizen is typically ignored by the elite establishment.Populists can be left or right leaning politically speaking, but when it comes to Populism, regardless of the flavor, it typically involves the little guy rising up against the big guy.In looking at the rise of Populism it’s a direct reactive result of the rise of big government, but more specifically, the rise and merger of big government and big wealthy elites.In the view of the Populist the rise of a bigger and bigger federal leviathan, combined with that leviathan’s relationship with bigger and bigger wealthier elites, has not happened by accident or overnight and the Populist would be 100% correct in that assessment.You see in the Populist view these so-called Conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians who supposedly stand on their principles, and have been center stage in the political arena now for many years, have continued to allow the degradation of civil liberties along with the continuation of feeding the growth and power of the unforgiving and dangerous leviathan.As Steve Bannon points out the Populist movement is about actually recognizing how the more familiar political implants regarding the so-called Conservatives and Republicans have not done a single thing to slow down, or stem the growth of the federal leviathan, but rather are directly part of the problem.Earlier in this episode I communicated how society has historically encouraged the tolerance of bad political, or cultural ideas and when you look at the behavior of Washington D.C. this has been the norm for far too long. This business as usual mindset transitioning from one election cycle to the next as if it’s business as usual while implying that Americans should seek compromise has only led to the destruction of the country at large. This is because the decision makers that sit in their highchairs in Washington D.C. have, for years, told you and me to sit down, shut up, and to mind our own business.This is exactly why Steve Bannon has been a force of nature in helping to further the development and growth of this Populist movement. The MAGA movement is a Populist movement unlike any other in the history of the country.Contrary to the traditional implants in Washington D.C. with the likes of the establishment Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, and Libertarians this new MAGA Populist movement, along with Bannon, is the political equivalent of the animal kingdom’s honey badger. In fact, Bannon himself has earned the nickname of being the Honey Badger.The thing that this Populist movement gets right that all of these worthless traditional politicians don’t get is that all the problems of the country have been caused directly by the improper actions, or inactions of those traditional political implants in Washington D.C. Therefore, the rise of Donald Trump’s Populist MAGA movement is about engaging the problems directly the way the establishment order has not done in many years.I recently had a debate on social media with a so-called conservative over the fight with congressman Chip Roy voting against the recent Trump supported CR bill, particularly regarding this recent bill with Trump suggesting to eliminate the so-called debt-ceiling.I understand the thought behind not getting rid of the illusion known as the debt ceiling, but congressmen like Roy who say that they want to cut spending, while resisting the one and only incoming administration that’s serious about gutting the system, didn’t back up Trump on the bill. The reality is that there is no debt ceiling. If there were an actual debt ceiling that would limit spending by congress then how is it that we are literally going another trillion dollars in debt every one hundred days?People like this so-called conservative I was debating online just don’t understand the strategy, or the way in which the system has always worked, or they just simply choose to ignore it. The reality is that the current system that has been in place is doing everything that it can to leave Donald Trump the biggest mess before he takes his hand off the Bible on January 20, 2025.In addition to this these so-called conservative establishment types like the one I debated online are also clueless about the staying power of the MAGA movement. They actual believe that this Populist movement is simply a flash in the pan and are completely blind to the reality of this seismic new political realignment of a more engaged and informed populace unlike any other time in history. This MAGA populist movement isn’t going anywhere.The Wrap UpIn 1964 a Columbia-trained University historian named Henry Littlefield wrote a breakthrough article in the scholarly American Quarterly titled The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism. Within this article Littlefield made the claim that Frank Baum’s 1900 book conceals what he referred to as an unsuspected depth.According to Littlefield, The Wizard of Oz was actually a story that served to be an elaborate metaphor for the Populist movement that was occurring in the nation at the time which in actuality was a rising political force in the 1890s. The result of the movement, and the story of The Wizard of Oz according to Littlefield, involved a complicated critique over the country’s monetary policies of the time.Does this sound familiar, or what?For some historical context on Populism at the time the movement served to be a rising third-party campaign of angry disenfranchised “plain people” consisting of farmers, and to a smaller degree, factory workers that were seeking to wrest power away from bankers and business leaders of the time.These men and women of this era, much like our current day dilemma, recognized the threat of concentrated capital in regards to their well-being and they also advocated for bimetallism (the coining of both gold and silver), nationalizing the railroads, a graduated income tax, and a reduction in immigration.Their support of adopting silver, along with the gold standard, came from the belief that it would inject money into the economy while reducing inflation. Of course, this would be a positive change for people paying mortgages, but a bad one for the banks that would be holding the loans.In Littlefield’s close reading and interpretation of The Wizard of Oz he argued that most of the character’s in Baum’s fictional story represented real people, places, and ideas from the rising Populist movement of the 1890s.To break down some of the examples as Littlefield interpreted them we can start by looking at Dorothy’s slippers. During the story when Dorothy’s house crash lands on the Wicked Witch of the East Dorothy is given a pair of magic slippers. Unlike the 1939 classic movie when Dorothy is famously given a pair of ruby slippers, but in the book and the play these slippers were silver.In Littlefield’s interpretation of this he believed that Dorothy was a stand-in for the average American and that the magical silver slippers were a strong representation of the late 1890s free silver movement. During the time Populists believed that the federal government should adopt an inflationary monetary policy which involved freely minting silver money in order to re-energize the national economy.Additionally Littlefield looked at Oz’s yellow brick road as the existing gold standard of the time which served as a tether to fix the paper currency to a specific price for gold bullion. In reading Littlefield’s interpretation, the Emerald city, which was the terminus of the yellow brick road, is actually representative of Washington D.C..Furthermore, the characters of the scarecrow and the tin woodman also symbolize other important aspects of the Populist movement of that time. The scarecrow displays a “terrible sense of inferiority and self-doubt,” which Littlefield pointed towards representing the American farmer which happened to make up the bulk of the Populist movement back then. The representation of the tin woodman mirrored the factory worker of the time as the simple laborer that had essentially been transformed into a machine.William McKinley was the candidate that ran on a protectionist platform. He pledged support for American workers, he sought high tariffs to make foreign goods unattractive, and he supported the gold standard. McKinley’s opponent was William Jennings Bryan who Littlefield compared to the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz. (Source: National Museum of American History)Bryan was famous for his “Cross of Gold” speech and he also supported the monetary policy of free silver. Coincidentally McKinley was assassinated in 1901 several years after his victory over Bryan in the election of 1896.In a nutshell Populism has had a long and interesting history here in the U.S. for well over 130 years. What makes this movement so interesting is that the same concerns that had brought on the rise of the movement in the 1890s are also the same reasons that have given rise to the MAGA Populist movement now in the 2020s.These problems all revolve around the politics and culture of money. Just like people began rising up with the movement in the 1890s, the explosion of this Populist movement now in the 2020s has actually been a growing movement since 2010 beginning with the Tea Party movement and ultimately evolving into the MAGA movement that we all know so well.It takes a focused and well informed populace in order to enable Populism to take hold and to maintain the tenacity to face and fight big important issues.Thanks to God above, this current MAGA Populist movement is more informed and loaded with more intellectual horsepower than any movement in history. Alternative and decentralized media platforms such as this one help to ensure that we maintain the informed populace.To further add to the success and staying power of this movement thankfully we also have the fight and tenacity combined with the intellectual horsepower to keep this Populist movement steamrolling over any anti-American obstacle that stands in the way.With voices like Bannon we have created a movement full of honey badgers that will be relentless until we achieve the victories that we need in order to save this Republic.Are you engaged in this Populist movement by being a honey badger that calls out stupid ideas like we’ve seen with the woke agenda?Are you engaging and sharing platforms like this one on a regular basis to counter the ASM narrative and to contribute to saving this Republic?Post up and comment in the section below.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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TolkienThe newscycle moves so fast these days that I often have to slow down and take a moment to sit in silence to think about the cultural and political landscape.I want to take a moment to explain why because I think that doing my best to offer some level of understanding will help me to communicate to you why I take the time to do this perhaps for reasons that you may or may not be able to deduce even if you’re a regular reader, or listener to this show.First of all, I have often heard people over the years talk about how they wished that the media would just report the news without injecting their own bias. Now on the surface that sounds nice, but in reality there’s just simply no such thing as unbiased media. Humans by our very nature are biased. Personal bias is an inherent trait within all people and as long as humans have anything to do with the reporting and creation of stories there will always be bias within those stories.In fact, every news story involves an intentional bias because someone had to shape the story in a way to create a narrative before the story gets pushed out in front of the cameras, or onto the printing press.Typically such stories need to be sensationalized with eye catching headlines which drives viewership, subscriptions, and ultimately more advertising dollars. After all, for years the common phrase if it bleeds, it leads was the motivation for which stories would be pushed to the frontlines in order to drive viewership for the mass Administrative State Media (ASM). At the end of the day catchy headlines drive views and sooner or later those views turn into money.I mean in reality all media requires sponsors, or financial backing of some kind because people have to earn a living. However, the problem with the ASM is that it’s been an apparatus that has been in complete control of the flow of information for the majority of the country now for a very long time.Because of this they have had the money, manpower, and distribution to reach the masses with whatever narrative they have desired to push forward to their viewing audience. When you take this combined with the fact that they have been in bed with the government for so long they have had a monopoly on the flow of information.This uncomfortable reality is something that still may not sit well with a bunch of people reading, or listening to this episode, but it’s a fact. In addition to this with everything going on in the world during this Fourth Turning the newscycle moves really fast which means there’s a flooding of the zone with information.It’s because of this flood that I have to sit in silence to focus on the cultural and political landscape so that I can get a visual on the narrative that I want to create in order to present my own story to you.That’s right, I’m narrative driven as well and I’m not going to pretend that I’m not because that would be dishonest. However, at the end of the day in the world of information warfare you will have choices placed in front of you concerning narrative and counter-narrative and it’s up to you to choose what you want to believe, as well as which media outlets you choose to support in the process.The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Accurate Meaning of LabelsI know it’s close to Christmas and given the current digital world we live in I realize that you probably do a great deal of your shopping online, however the reality is that many customers still hit the malls and department stores and turn out in big numbers during this time of year.Even if you’re an online shopper I’m sure you’ve still managed to venture out to the malls and department stores during this part of the year from time to time. You’ve probably even managed to make it in after the holidays too whenever the stores are looking to clear out the rest of their inventory in order to make room for an entirely new stock of products to kick off the new year.It’s typically during this time of clearance that you’ll get to benefit from the clearance sales that these department stores and malls will put up to move the old product out in order to make room for the new. It’s at this time that you as the consumer get to benefit from these clearance sales.In much the same way as our department stores will initiate a clearance after the holidays it’s also apparent that the current state of our country, our government, and economy are in need of a clearance, or a purge, of a bureaucratic and ideological element. It’s obvious that this corrosive element has been rooted in and is directly at fault for both the domestic and global instability that’s spreading throughout the world.So I want to talk about the word systems and identify which systems are to blame for a significant portion of our domestic and global hardships.Well to be fair that’s a loaded topic, but for the sake of this discussion I will start by singling out and explaining the current economic system that we find ourselves in regarding our current situation on trade and the dangers associated with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) nefarious mercantilist practices.I’ve always considered myself to be open minded and able to evolve my thinking of how I view the world, particularly when I learn something new in an area I previously might have been ignorant about until I was able to get my hands around all the information.I understand that we like to use labels to describe our views and to reflect our belief structure, but in reality I’ve discovered that labels such as Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Liberal, and Libertarian in the reality of the world tend to be fluid in their meaning over time.The reality is that we have been living in a postmodern society for one, but in addition to this certain terms have been misrepresented, or hijacked by groups of people throughout the political landscape. When this happens these people consistently misuse, or misapply their meaning on a consistent basis over a long period of time which brings a different interpretation of the meaning to such words in the eyes of society over time.Essentially we should all be more willing to blend the meaning of such labels to describe our own beliefs as those beliefs evolve within the given political and economic system that we find ourselves in. I’ll come back to explain this point further in a bit. In short, we must remain strong on our principles, but be willing to understand where our principles apply to a given situation.So what do I mean by nefarious mercantilist practices when I reference the CCP?Well, to explain this we first need to define what mercantilism means in the first place. Basically the goal of mercantilism involves a trade practice where the goal is for a state to increase its supply of gold and silver reserves with exports rather than to deplete them through using imports.This mercantilist practice was also a strategy that was implemented by the British Empire starting back as early as 1651 to control trade and commerce within its own colonies, as well as with other countries in the outside world through laws that were known as the Navigation Acts.In fact, the British government had banned a lot of U.S. production so that the manufacturing of military equipment could remain within Great Britain. Fast forward to today and we’re seeing the same sort of strategy regarding our current economic trading relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). We currently find ourselves within an economic system of elite capture.From Elite Capture To Elite MergerOnce again we tend to use labels to identify ourselves in regards to what we may be more closely aligned with along the political spectrum. In terms of myself I have always considered myself to be more Libertarian in nature.Now having said this I’ve also evolved in this because the Libertarian philosophy, like everything else, has been turned on its head in a lot of ways in the past four years, particularly regarding the traditional Libertarian stance on foreign trade. Because of this I would say that I’m now probably more accurately described as a Libertarian with a strong Populist lean if there is any such a thing that can exist.I’ve known many Libertarians, along with many Republicans and Democrats, over the years to refer to the issue of trade, particularly as it relates to our economic trading relationship with China, as being a relationship of free trade. Because of this I’ve also heard many of them say that Donald Trump’s stance on tariffs would result in a very negative outcome leading to a tariff war with China, as well as our other trading partners.So remember when I said I would come back to talk about how certain words and their meanings get misused and are misapplied to certain situations on a consistent basis? Well this example here with many of my Libertarian, Republican, and Democratic friends using the word free trade to describe the economic trading relationship between the United States and China is a perfect example of the misuse and misapplication of the word and the circumstances that surround it.This is because the United States and China’s trading relationship doesn’t have anything to do with free trade. No, the United States and China definitely have a trading relationship, but it’s nothing close to being a free trade relationship.This is not the case because we (here in the United States) have for far too long placed ourselves into a precarious situation by offshoring so much of our manufacturing to our biggest enemy here with China that it has left us all vulnerable regarding our own supply chain and not securing the availability of our own products and goods.China has obviously not been engaging in free trade, but rather has been engaging in mercantilism. On that note we have allowed this to happen to our country and have found ourselves being more a chief importer from China rather than a dominant exporter of goods.With that being said, guess who has been trying to stockpile the world’s largest gold supply? Well, since we defined the act of mercantilism as the goal of a state working to increase its gold supply by being a chief exporter of goods, China has shown a record increase of gold stockpiles since 2020 following a dip in gold reserves from 2016-2018. (Source: Statista)So what changed with China’s gold supply since 2020 compared to their lower accumulation of the precious metal in the three years between 2016-2020?

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made. What’s a Sun-Dial in the shade!”- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750In looking at the history of war, the strategy of psychological warfare has always been a weapon in the arsenal that has been used among military combatants to gain numerous advantages over their respective enemies. Psychological warfare refers to tactics intended to reduce an opponent’s morale and their will to engage in a fight. This strategy can include tactics that involve fear, intimidation, deception, and surprise. (Source: The Collector)However, just as we’ve witnessed in the last four years psychological warfare can be used in peacetime and can sadly enough be used by a government directing it towards its own citizenry. This is the current state that we find ourselves in, but fortunately for us the first amendment gives us the power to wage this war right back at those nefarious government actors that started this psychological war in the first place.The application of psychological warfare can throw off an enemy, overwhelm an enemy, and keep an enemy guessing in regards to challenges that they may expect to face during a certain conflict. In terms of how psychological warfare is used in our current society it’s primarily been administered by the Administrative State Media’s (ASM) actions of spreading propaganda through television airways, Hollywood, and print media such as The New York Times.In short, psychological warfare has been administered from those who have been in power for far too long and control the information flow among all outlets from print media, to television, and to the digital world of social media.However, with the advanced digital age the power of psychological warfare can be easily implemented by means of information and narrative. This can more easily be done by the Administrative State on its own citizens due to the technological advancements that exist in this day and age, particularly with the coming rise of AI.Then again, like anything in life, the rise of technology in this digital age can serve to be a double edged sword. Obviously both yours and my technological devices can and have been weaponized against us in a very big way.The good news is that there’s another edge on the blade of the sword. Because of this we have seen the rise and expansion of the Digital Ronin consisting of citizen journalists, decentralized media outlets such as this platform, and people who support those alternative outlets (such as you) by being force multipliers and financial backers with the information providers. This new decentralized apparatus that now exists can deconstruct and redirect the fire of this information war right back at those who were trying to place the bullseye onto your back and mine to begin with.I’m always big on reading and using the culture and history in order to illustrate and to try and bring clarity to the world as it is, as well as, what it could be. In this current era, a lot of people have lost their identity and by extension the country came very close to losing its identity as well until the American public stepped up with the election on November 5th.Granted, even though the election is over I can’t stress this point enough to you and everyone within the sound of my voice that the real work to restore our country is literally just starting.A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace.–Ecclesiastes 3:8When you slow down to study and observe the current cultural and political arena you can see that we are obviously at war. I mean look at what our country has had to endure for the past nine years with the relentless drumbeat from the media regarding how terrible the citizens are of this nation that support Donald Trump.Every single institution has been infected by the woke mind virus to borrow a phrase from Elon Musk. Because of this, these Marxist infiltrators within our society managed to expand the battlefield of their stupid doctrine by waging a war on literally everything that is designed to make our society function for the better.For instance, as I’ve already stated there’s been a relentless war on identity where they have been teaching multiple generations of people in schools to hate their country by using garbage content from the likes of people like Howard Zinn to poison millions of minds of college kids now for many years.Zinn, a Marxist, gained notoriety from his book A People’s History of The United States which is a dishonest portrayal of historical events and narratives that have repeatedly been called out for completely taking historical events out of context. This has been done for the purpose of spewing the overall narrative of oppressor and oppressed which falls in line with the reductive Marxist philosophical arm of Critical Theory.Zinn’s book was famously given a boost from being mentioned by Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting. Of course, it’s a cute line when mentioned in dramatic fashion in a scene from Good Will Hunting, but in reality there’s nothing cute about an America hating narrative that a Marxist hypocrite like Zinn profited from before turning generations of young minds into complete mush.The Multi-Front WarThe Marxists have been waging a multifront war on us for many years now trying to get us to lose our identity both as a nation and as individuals. Talking about the loss of identity for crying out loud, several people these days don’t even know the difference between a man and a woman. When has this ever been an issue in our society to the current extreme level that it has become until these last nine years?In addition to this they’ve waged a war on meritocracy, accountability, and good old fashioned common sense. This war has been carried out heavily in the culture and has devastated our society resulting in a severe level of psychological damage and brain rot that has birthed the development of this far left communist faction of our society.I remember recently having a discussion with one of my training students and he made a really cool point to me about how long the socialist/Marxist messaging has been infiltrating our culture. To make the point he started telling me about his all time favorite hit TV series Star Trek.Using Star Trek as an example he went on to point out to me that the set up of the Star Trek crew within the series was basically a socialist utopia involving a post-scarcity economy where all needs of human existence could be immediately produced through the radical advancement of technology in the series.If you’ve seen the series then you’ve probably seen how any food item can be readily created out of thin air by giving the computer aboard the Starship Enterprise a simple command. Admittedly I’ve never been a huge fan of the series, but in addition to ordering the computer to make a sandwich I never remember seeing any of the characters make that command and follow up the delivery of the desired item with any form of monetary payment.In short, I found the central point from my student regarding how Star Trek presented us with a socialist utopia to be very enlightening. At the same time I also remembered the series pointing out another socialist/communist civilization that was more dystopian than utopian in nature with their introduction of the Borg. I pointed out to my student how I believed that the socialist exercise that was illustrated by the Borg was more closely related to real life than the socialist view that the Star Trek Enterprise displayed to the viewing audience.After all, the civilization of the Borg operated as a hive mind and their main objective involved flying through the cosmos in a giant cube shaped spaceship in order to conquer other lifeforms for the purpose of assimilating them into their Collective by transforming them into mindless drones using nano-technology. To me this more closely resembles our current real life socio-economic scenario involving the steady development of technofeudalism. The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.To make matters even worse the Marxist virus has infiltrated our financial institutions, our military, and even our food and agricultural systems. Not only are these Marxists determined to break us financially, but they’re working to strip away and poison our food system as well. I mean we are literally allowing our enemy in the CCP to buy farmland here in the states, ceding more control of our food supply over to our biggest enemy. When, why, and how did anyone ever think it was a good idea to do ANY of this?We live in a clown world right now and fortunately thanks to God almighty we have Donald Trump coming into office here in January to work to straighten all of this out, but my fear is that these Marxists are currently doing everything in their power now to destroy the country and to hand off a complete mess to Trump on day one of his presidency in an attempt to make his presidency ineffective. These people involved in doing this within the Administrative State need to go to prison.On top of all of this you and I have to make sure that we’re on top of everything happening in terms of being more well rounded citizens. You and I must work to be a Zenith in these chaotic times by optimizing our individual efforts to combat this evil and incompetence that has infiltrated our society and government.If you focus on the current battlefield that we as Americans are facing it can seem overwhelming at times. After all, when looking at the possibilities of the collapse of our complex systems, a possible attack on the power grid, digital hacking theft, supply chain shortages, a collapsing dollar, and the specter of WWIII the average individual would naturally want to curl up into a ball and choose the path of apathy, or adopt the ignorance is bliss approach in order to not face such possible realities.However, I’m banking on the fact that if you’re a regular reader and listener to this show that you’re not going to choose such a path, but rather you’re willing to step up your efforts to be that Zenith in your individual life which will feed the development of a stronger society at large as we all work to optimize ourselves within our own individual lives.So what types of things am I referring to when I mention individual optimization concerning all of the possible problems related to societal instability? In this current informational, digital, economic, and cultural war I’ve already mentioned several problem areas regarding the collapsing dollar, supply chain issues, and digital hacking theft as areas of concern that we all need to be aware of in our current environment.However, in order to combat these things as individuals we first have to be aware of them and if you’re listening to this episode then you’re already ahead of the majority of the population on that front so that’s a solid start. The next thing is that you need to understand what resources you have at your disposal in order to mitigate these risks, or to outright combat them directly.Now to be clear I’m not here to tell you what to do with your finances and what things you should choose to invest in regarding your personal investments. I’m not a financial advisor and I don’t care to be in that field in the least. However, I am here to present you with information and to encourage you to seek as much information and knowledge as you can in order to make yourself a Zenith which will hopefully make both you and your family more well rounded and more impervious to attacks that will be occurring in this current Fifth Generation War. In short, you must immerse yourself in the tactics that you need to fight this war. You must be an immersive warrior.To use myself as an example regarding the threat of the collapsing dollar and inflation having been raging on at a forty year record high I chose to learn more about protective financial hedges against inflation such as gold and silver. In regards to the possible threat of digital hacking theft I have personally invested in faraday wallets and bags to protect my electronics and credit cards from these advanced hackers in this current digital age. In terms of the potential for supply chain disruptions I’ve also chosen to invest in some extra food storage should the grocery stores face some kind of disruption leading to a shortage.I know the far left is simplistic in their thinking and would start throwing around the label of me being a prepper, but such simplistic thinking is exactly why Donald Trump won this most recent election by a landslide.The point here is that because the far left have been allowed to encroach more and more into our societal institutions we’re seeing the very obvious and very visible damage that they have wrought throughout our country at large. In addition to this these people have relentlessly used tactics of lawfare, directly violated the constitution, and imprisoned political opposition in order to try and achieve their ends.A Forest of CorpsesWhen examining the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history there’s a common theme that has echoed throughout time concerning the nature of human beings and that theme involves the seemingly never ending desire for one group of people to attempt to conquer and control others. If you’re a regular listener, or reader to this show then you’ve heard me reference this phenomenon before and there’s actually a word that exists to describe this. This desire for civilizations, or people, to conquer and control others is what is known as the conquest ethic.In historic times the conquest ethic was carried out by using force in the form of kinetic war with one kingdom, or civilization, exerting its dominance over another in an attempt to take control of a rival in order to absorb their people and resources. However, this method doesn’t last forever, yet has been repeated over and over throughout history until this very day.Granted there’s only been one country in the world to have been established without using the conquest ethic and if you happen to be reading, or listening to this episode anywhere in the United States then you’re standing in the only country that wasn’t established by the conquest ethic. On the contrary, the United States was established by Patriots who fought against the original Globalist Totalitarians in the British Empire in order to establish freedom and liberty from totalitarian rule. You know it’s basically the same exact thing that’s happening today.I mean these communist criminals that have infiltrated our institutions have been relentlessly using intimidation, lawfare, and imprisoning innocent citizens who were simply expressing their first amendment right.As I stated earlier, thanks to God himself Donald Trump was elected, but had he not been the communist Kamala Harris would have had this country descending into a deep dark place that was magnitudes worse than what we’ve already experienced since 2020.Donald Trump hasn’t even been sworn into the White House and you can already see the meltdown and collapse of these communist systems that have been in place now for several years. I mean Rachel Maddow is literally breaking down in tears on live television because she knows that her network MSNBC is imploding financially and that Elon Musk was trolling the network with a meme threatening to purchase it.Additionally Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski begged for a meeting with Donald Trump after the election in Mar-a-Lago to go down and kiss the ring of Trump after having spent the last decade relentlessly lying and attacking him on their now failing network. This goes to show that these people are low life mercenaries in the information war that will sell themselves out to the highest communist bidder.On top of this the special prosecutor Jack Smith had manufactured charges to use to go after President Trump in an attempt to put him in prison for the rest of his life had he not won the election. This was a blatant exercise by Jack Smith to engage in election interference and had Trump lost the election he would have died in prison.All this time the left has been screaming that this wasn’t a politically motivated pursuit for Jack Smith, however after Trump smashed these communist scum in an election landslide victory now all the sudden Smith is moving to dismiss the two made up felony cases against President Trump.With Jack Smith’s move to dismiss these cases this is a blatant admission that he was engaged in a political witch hunt for the purpose of election interference after all.Jack Smith should be facing severe financial and legal consequences for this communist stunt along with Fanni Willis, Tish James, and all the rest of these communist clowns that can’t win with anything in life other than using state power like a bunch of communists to try and destroy people’s lives. The era of lawfare and the allowance of communists in the United States to abuse state power is abruptly coming to an end, but we MUST force it to end by sending a strong message in order to purge this completely out of the system.Speaking of strong messages in June of 1462 a vast Ottoman army that was led by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror had decided to advance on the city of Targoviste. Along their journey in their attempted conquest of the Wallachian capital Mehmed’s army had to endure weeks of ambushes and thousands of Turkish deaths due to the grueling voyage.However, as Mehmed approached the capital he sent a detachment calvary out ahead to survey what was out in front of the main military force. It was at this point that this detachment encountered something that shook them to their core.As they went out ahead they ended up discovering a forest of corpses of well over 20,000 Ottoman captives that were impaled and rotting on stakes in the summer heat. This forest of corpses on stakes stretched out for a harrowing distance of two miles in length and spanned out to a shocking distance half a mile in width.This sight was simply too much for the Ottomans to handle and they obliged this gruesome deterrent and retreated. This scorched earth strategy was implemented by none other than the infamous Wallachian ruler Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula.That’s right, Vlad III was the inspiration for the famous modern day pop culture character known as Count Dracula. Bram Stoker was inspired to use this real life individual for his famous novel which was later made into the hit 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula.Granted Vlad III might have been a legit maniac and a ruthless killer, however his main motivation for such an act was to grind the Ottoman expansion’s desire for conquest into his homeland to halt. Oh and interestingly enough there’s that word conquest again.So why did I go to all the trouble to give you this small history lesson about Vlad III. Well I opened this episode talking about the effectiveness of psychological warfare as a means to gain an advantage on an enemy combatant.Obviously when looking at Vlad III and his scorched earth effort to build a literal forest of bodies made up of his enemies rotting on stakes in the summer heat he probably holds the trophy for the biggest psychological warfare victory in all of history.The Wrap UpNow I wanted to include the history of Vlad III in order to use his story as a teachable moment. I strongly believe that the main lesson that we can derive from Vlad III right now is exactly what is needed for us to secure the restoration of making our country great again.You’re probably thinking Brandon, what exactly do you mean?To be clear, the point I’m making isn’t about building a forest of corpses from our communist enemies, however metaphorically speaking we need a modern day version of this in the form of a forest of justifiable convictions involving those who abused state power.We must ensure that we rack up as many legitimate convictions as humanly possible regarding all the criminals that have been proven to abuse state power in order to go after their political opposition. I’m not talking about neglecting anyone's fair trial. No, this doesn’t have anything to do with retribution, but it does have everything to do with the direct application of justice. The point here is that there should be many of these cases that end up in a criminal trial followed by many guilty verdicts and a lot of prison time.The only thing that we can do to restore our nation is to ensure that every criminal politician, deep state agent, and corrupt media outlet that has been guilty of abusing state power must face full accountability for their actions.The very act of following through on balancing the scales of justice will serve to be the greatest kinetic warfare victory in the modern age along with being the greatest psychological warfare victory deterring any globalist from ever entering into our country to attempt a conquest such as this ever again.To ensure this you must continue to be an immersive warrior in this modern era of Fifth Generation Warfare. Just as I stated with the Benjamin Franklin quote at the beginning of this episode you must use your talents of communication, problem solving, memory, writing, marketing, etc. to be the impactful and immersive warrior in this current battlefield that you find in front of you.The sooner you can accept this and do this the sooner we can restore liberty and freedom. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”― Niccolo MachiavelliAccording to the Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary the sin of Envy involves jealousy over the blessings and achievements of others especially involving the spiritual enjoyment and the advancement of the kingdom of Christ freely and graciously bestowed upon the people of God. The sin of Envy is often confused with the sin of Covet. Covet means to have an unhealthy desire for what others have which in turn can lead to the sin of Envy which is where the jealousy and other actions that follow can come into the picture obviously making a bigger mess of things. For some context when you covet something you just want it, whereas if you envy it you’re jealous that someone else has whatever it is that you want. Therefore, if the other person doesn’t deserve it because you can’t have it then nobody deserves it. I want you to keep this in mind, but for the moment I want you to put this on a shelf as I’ll come back to this in a bit. I’ve talked about being a GenX kid growing up in the 1980s here on this platform on more than one occasion in several of my episodes. However, just in case you’re new to my show I’ll mention it here again because it is going to have some significant context here regarding today’s episode. Growing up in the 80s, or more specifically the mid 80s, as I approached the age of 10, 11, and 12 I can remember the difference of the culture then compared to what it has been here in the United States since that time. In other words, even though I was only a kid during that time I can still remember how powerful the culture was in terms of America being the dominant force in the world and how the culture had a strong America First attitude that could be seen literally everywhere you looked. The reason for this was due to the fact that the American populace, or a more engaged populist movement, was unified behind an anti-Communist America First president that lived in that time by the name of Ronald Reagan. To illustrate this prevalence of strength throughout American culture at that time even the entertainment industry was especially dominant with a culture of action movies that celebrated masculinity and femininity in a way that hasn’t been done since then. The music was iconic, people were more engaging with one another, and the economy was booming after President Ronald Reagan came into office to cut down federal bureaucracy while his Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker blew up interest rates to 20% in order to wring the inflation out of the system from the damage that the previous Carter administration had caused. Does any of this sound familiar? It’s crystal clear that history has repeated itself in a large way today compared to the late 1970s leading into the 1980s. I mean in the 70’s leading up to the 80s communism was on the rise with it making its presence known during the cold war until Reagan, with a little help from his friend Paul Volcker, fired up the economic engine of the nation. This ran the Soviet Union, along with many communist countries throughout the eastern bloc, into the ground as they just simply couldn’t keep up with the building up of the United States economic engine and military might.As we look at today’s battlefield you’ve seen the rise of the CCP and the corrupt Globalists joining forces to try and take down the United States. The outgoing Biden regime, along with his Federal Reserve have waged an all out war on the dollar resulting in 40 year record high inflation along with lending a hand to the BRICS nations by providing the motivation for them to  build a coalition in order to de-dollarize by eventually ceasing the use of trading in U.S. dollars. For the record this is an absolutely horrible scenario for the United States to find itself in. Similarly in the 80s Volcker knew the country had to take its medicine in order to get better on the other side of the inflation and that the dose of that medicine wasn’t going to be pleasant, not in the least. In fact, the rate hikes resulted in unemployment soaring to a whopping 11% in 1981-1982, but in 1983 the heartbeat of the United States economic body started pumping strong again. Once again the Democratic party under Carter had unnecessarily created the conditions that put the country through an unnecessary and difficult time. Fast forward to today and we find ourselves dealing with the same scenario with the problems being even bigger and worse than ever before due to the Democratic party’s thirst for complete power and the establishment RINO Republicans that have simply played the role of controlled opposition now since the 1980s. The corrupt establishment order of the Democratic and Republican parties have been entrenched in Washington D.C. now spending their entire careers and lives as politicians with the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. These people are part of the political class and are completely out of touch with reality and what’s going on in the everyday lives of American citizens. Even if we can assume that they do understand then they’ve demonstrated fully that they don’t care. The reality is that they don’t care about the country in the same way that you and I care about it. No, when they say that Donald Trump and the MAGA movement is a “threat to democracy,” what that really means is that they view the MAGA movement as being a direct threat to their hold on power and based on the way we’ve witnessed them behave it’s obvious that their philosophical application to hold onto that power is Machiavellian in nature.  The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Making The Proper Diagnosis Even today given everything we’ve seen from the record high inflation, the mass censorship campaigns from the intelligence service, to the mass invasion of the country, to the multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, and with the battery of nonstop lies from the media I’m always amazed at how there are so many people that simply cannot see the reality of these things that are happening right up in their faces. Whether it's blindness, willful ignorance, or just outright stupidity it’s an incredible thing to witness. The power of observation is definitely a lost art these days. You see after the pandemic and the media response from that all the lies became more blatantly obvious to me during that time. I simply learned a lot from watching and observing the Administrative State Media (ASM) carefully. Even now I really focus on what exactly they are trying to communicate with each story they push out to the public. I mean sure the media is always being dishonest about most every story that they push out to the masses, but at the same time, there is also a lot of unintended honesty that they include in their narratives buried within each storyline.  For instance, when they start screaming that Trump is a dictator this is literally psychological projection in real time because after they levy such an accusation using such extreme language this is the key signal that they are accusing their opposition of exactly what they are guilty of doing themselves. Basically, for the past four years I’ve just worked to hone my skill of carefully observing the ASM’s message and discerning from their message the signal in order to get the truth from the media. Since doing this I haven’t been misled by their noise which covers up what it is that they are actually trying to hide which simply boils down to being the truth. The thing I want to communicate here is working to help you hone your ability to see through the media’s lies while being able to extract the signal from the noise which is always buried within their proposed narratives and storylines. When the pandemic hit back in 2020 I was already extracting the signal from the noise that the media would push out with their storylines, but at the time I didn’t use that term signal. I first learned of that term in regards to the media narratives from the great Steve Bannon. Granted, I had already been hard at work at discerning the truth from the lies, but Bannon really helped to shed some light on the matter for me along with helping to clarify what was going on with the information warfare that was being waged on the American citizens since the pandemic. Another thing that I’ve learned over the last few years is that if you really observe and listen carefully to what people say in the political arena you can get better at surmising and predicting certain outcomes before they actually come to light with the public at large. To further clarify what I’m talking about I’ll give you a cool example of a recent situation regarding this that I noticed during this election involving President Trump. If you remember the debate between Kamala Harris and President Trump there was a tense moment in that debate when President Trump was responding to one of Kamala’s false accusations. In this moment he was explaining to the moderators and to the viewers how horrible Kamala had been in the past four years not only criticizing her job in the White House, but going further to point out the hypocrisy of her party and how their so-called party of “Democracy” iced their own primary winning candidate Joe Biden and installed her in his place.  Aside from Kamala being involved with such a government coup d'etat Trump was explaining how horrible and disloyal the act was for Kamala to engage in directly against her running mate within their own administration. It was at this point that Trump said something that got my attention. I don’t remember his exact words, but I will paraphrase to communicate the gist of what he was saying. After pointing out the betrayal of her actions he then looked at her and the moderators and referred to Joe Biden himself as being displeased with her disloyalty. From here he went a step further and went on to say something like You know he’s not happy with her and quite frankly he can’t stand her. He doesn’t like her at all. To me this sounded like he was saying this as if he had already been speaking directly with Joe Biden.  Now during that time I didn’t think too much more about what Trump was saying, however just about a week before the last day of the election Biden posted a video where he went on the usual rant about Trump and the whole threat to democracy talking points, but then he took the statement even further by referring to Trump supporters as being “garbage.” It was clear that when he was delivering this video message that he was reading from some kind of script or pre-written statement. However, this statement seemed to be the straw that broke the camel’s back politically speaking due to the fact that the Nazi-like rhetoric coming from the communist left had reached its boiling point after a decade of them attempting to “other” everyone who has been a Trump supporter since the beginning. After all, they had already been referring to Trump supporters as Nazis and Deplorables so I suppose Biden thought it would be a good idea to pile on another dehumanizing insult by calling the MAGA base garbage, or did he? So you’re probably thinking Brandon, what exactly do you mean? Well this statement by Biden so late in the election without a doubt fired up the MAGA base even more and motivated Biden’s opposition to go out and round up ten or twenty more people to get out to the polls and vote for Donald Trump. Now that the election has passed we can see that Trump won the election in a landslide victory dominating both the electoral college and the popular vote giving him an absolute mandate to run the country based on the MAGA agenda. Just this past week President Trump went to the White House to visit with Joe Biden regarding the coming smooth transition of power discussion. They were both sitting in the White House in front of the press and I noticed something that made me chuckle. During this meeting Trump looked like his usual cheerful self, however Joe Biden literally looked like he was overcome with joy and had the biggest smile on his face that I’ve ever seen. I mean Biden looked like he just hit the lottery. This was sort of surprising at first, but then I remembered the debate when Trump made those comments about Kamala Harris and how Biden didn’t like her. In addition to this there was a photo of Jill Biden that went viral that showed her wearing a red pants suit as she walked to the polls on election day with a giant smile on her face as well. Given what Trump said in the debate along with Joe’s expression during his post election meeting with Trump and his wife’s red pants suit on election day I think we can surmise that the Biden’s intentionally worked to help railroad the Harris campaign as a form of payback for Kamala’s role in getting Joe kicked out of the presidential race. When you look at what these people say combined with what they actually do you can get a clear vision on what type of political philosophy they are subscribing to and it all boils down to one thing and one thing only and that involves the reality that they want to retain their position of power no matter what. Niccolo MachiavelliI led off this episode with that famous quote from Machiavelli and it’s for a good reason. The Italian Renaissance political philosopher, statesman, and secretary of the Florentine Republic Niccolo Machiavelli authored his famous written work known as The Prince that branded him with the reputation as an atheist and immoral cynic. Given the backgrounds of those who stake their entire careers as being politicians it should come as no surprise that many career politicians ultimately make their professional decisions based on what would be advantageous in regards to keeping them in power rather than what’s in the best interest of society. In the case of Niccolo Machiavelli we could say that he created the very mold that forms this sort of thinking inside the deceptive world of politics. Machiavelli’s writings point to the very motivation for retaining power through the belief of the ends justifying the means. Interestingly enough, in an alternative writing to The Prince Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy points to a government system that is more consistent with a more Republican tradition that starts with Aristotle. The writings point to some solid foundations for maintaining a successful government and even highlights the importance of maintaining a balance of power within the acting system of government as he draws much of his comparison from the success of the Roman Republic. However, Machiavelli focuses on the importance of ruling a society and points to how it is ultimately important for one to be left alone on the matter. His view of Republicanism does not rest on the usual Republican premise that power is safer in the hands of many than it is in the hands of one. On the contrary, he asserts that to found, or reform, a Republic it is necessary to “be alone.” (Source: Britannica)In fact, Machiavelli goes even further here to communicate that Romulus deserved an excuse for killing his brother and partner in the founding of Rome named Remus because it had to be done for the common good. Once again, this was about as blatant as one could be in terms of buying into the belief that the ends justify the means. Niccolo Machiavelli’s views and writings, particularly with The Prince,  basically boiled down to being a practical handbook for the tyrant. It was good in the sense of being effective and being practical, but not in the sense of being morally good. For Machiavelli it was always better to be feared rather than loved.One Machiavellian Prince that we have seen in action applying Machiavelli’s philosophy was the ruthless Soviet leader Joseph Stalin who frequently engaged in purging his own Communist Party consisting of internal critics and potential rivals. Stalin applied the thought process of the ends justifying the means directly by ridding himself of any political threat while consolidating his hold on power. (Source: Ananya)Given what we’ve recently seen with the endless lawfare that has been directed at President Trump, along with the sham indictments, and the media engaging in full blown stochastic terrorism we can see how the Biden/Harris regime can also easily fall into the same category as being a modern day version of a Machiavellian Prince with the way that they run the government. You see Machiavelli’s view was all about how good governing was the result of doing what was practical and efficient in order to protect the state. However, this doesn’t translate into politicians doing what is necessary to serve the best interest of their respective country. On the contrary, this thought process translates into doing what is necessary and practical in order to protect the regime that’s in power. In terms of the way these corrupt career politicians view their role in the United States they completely share the view of Machiavelli. The “protecting of democracy” isn’t about protecting the United States, but rather it’s about protecting the ruling class of corrupt actors that currently occupy and run the government that exists within the United States. We must understand this distinction. What I’m talking about here is an accurate diagnosis of the type of philosophy that is being employed within a ruling class that controls, or is trying to establish an ongoing control, over the United States government. Granted, if you’ve been on my platform then you know that I will be quick to refer to these career politicians here in the United States as being communist infiltrators and they are definitely that. In short, they are choosing to attempt to rule as communists as the form of governing (or technofeudalism) that they want to put in place, however when it comes to the philosophical application of actually installing that form of government they are following the playbook that mirrors the Machiavellian protocol. Fortunately Donald J. Trump has been elected by an overwhelming majority and he, along with those of us who support him, have employed a strategy of our own with the application of Sun Tzu’s Art of War to combat and stalemate the nefarious actions of those looking to perpetuate the Evolution of Devolution. The Wrap UpThe information warfare that has been waged against the American people has involved the Democratic and Republican party establishment’s attempt to employ a Machiavellian attack to brand Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in a negative light. However, the success of the MAGA movement and Donald Trump’s counter-attack has been using the platforms of alternative media to engage in the information warfare to expose these establishment communists to the public while revealing the truth about who these people are and what these people are actually doing.This counter-offensive of alternative media is something that has been developing over a period of time, but it has been drastically accelerating since the 2020 election. It’s been something that I’ve felt for a long time is long overdue. Despite this I still frequently witness people consistently failing to observe the reality of the current cultural and political landscape. For instance, many people will make the mistake of often saying something like “Trump is a polarizing figure.”  However, the reality is that it’s not necessarily Trump that is causing the polarization among our society. The reality is that this polarization is being caused by the ASM, the uni-party, and the longstanding corrupt and entrenched bureaucracy of the Administrative State. The truth is that Trump is simply the instrument that is challenging that entrenched system and the system is reacting. This is where the appearance of polarization is coming from. I began this episode talking about the sin of envy. I wanted to bring this up to point to the observation of when the entrenched established communist infiltrators start demonizing and trying to other Donald Trump and the MAGA movement it’s because they are envious. That’s right, these establishment D.C. politicians are envious of Trump and his supporters.  So why do I say that? Well, I’ve already established that the majority of these corrupt D.C. politicians have literally spent their lives building a career in the arena of politics. Put yourself in their shoes and imagine the scenario that they currently find themselves in. I mean out of nowhere a guy that has never served a day in any political office whatsoever suddenly pops on the scene and wins his first election in his first seat as a politician and his first political office is the highest office in the land. Understand that these establishment politicians believe that they are the ones that deserve to be in power and know what’s best for everyone, yet they keep losing to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.So how do they respond? As politicians that are supposed to be representing the American people they certainly aren’t making decisions that are best for the United States, but rather are making decisions that are Machiavellian in an attempt to grasp at the straws in their desperation to hold onto power and it’s failing them. As I stated in the beginning of this episode if it were the sin of covet all of this would have ended with Trump and the MAGA movement winning, but because the more accurate diagnosis here involves the sin of envy the apparatus and those loyal to it are adversarial to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. If this wasn’t the case then why all the lawfare, the unlawful indictments, and the cheers from the other side whenever there were direct and dangerous attempts on Donald Trump’s life? The answer and the accurate diagnosis here is because it’s envy. James 3:16: "For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice"Do you find people in your circles who consistently fail to accurately observe the corruption and reality of what’s going on in the world? Do you see the envy from those who are adversarial to the current rising success of the liberty movement that is being driven by the current MAGA movement? Make sure to post up a comment here below as we’d like to hear your feedback.I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”― Hannah ArendtSo we are now past the 2024 general election and so I wanted to take a moment to congratulate Donald J. Trump and the MAGA movement on achieving the greatest political comeback victory in American history. The good news here is that we have not yet lost the Sword of Damocles. Given what President Trump and the rest of us in the MAGA movement have had to endure over the last decade it feels great to celebrate in this moment of victory. With that being said the reality is that now the real work begins on purging the evil forces from the system that put Donald Trump and the MAGA movement through all of the difficulty and hardship in the first place. Now is not the time to relax. It’s fine to take a minute to acknowledge the big victory, but the reality is that the enemy is not resting. The truth is that right now they’re shell-shocked and severely wounded because they just got hit with the political equivalent of a thermonuclear weapon because this election wasn’t won by simply convincing voters to turn out for Trump in a business as usual election cycle. No, this victory was delivered because we have built a literal groundswell of a movement that is backed by a sound philosophical grounding in history, philosophy, economics, culture, and health. With that being said we must still remain vigilant while continuing to accelerate our efforts on offense. The creation of this grassroots movement has been a long steady growth by winning over the hearts and minds of people in the realm of ideas rather than peddling a relentless drumbeat of fear and hate which is fortunately now the broken backbone of the opposition. The sad reality is that this message of fear and hate has been the sales pitch for the communists now for several decades. Conversely, the sales pitch of this movement is quite the opposite and is the direct reaction, as Isaac Newton would describe it, of a corrupt series of actions of abuse, criminality, and seemingly endless bureacracy. If you’re new to this platform my professional background is that I’ve been self-employed as a fitness and strength coach now for a couple of decades. If you know anything about running a small business then you understand that in order for that business to be successful, as the owner, you have to be willing to wear many hats. If I could offer any advice to anyone listening, the point to this is that no matter what field of study you choose to pursue, or what line of work you end up in, you have to be capable of dealing in the art of sales. The skill of being able to sell exists in every industry no matter your line of work. Whether you actually engage in the act of selling certain goods for a living, or you’re simply trying to beef up your resume in order to win the next offer for a brand new job you’re still selling. The art of selling requires an understanding of being able to recognize a need that someone else has so that you can then seize on the opportunity to provide the product, or service that satisfies that need for the person that’s in need of the thing you were able to identify. This involves the entire art of sales and the art of sales exists in every arena of life. Now when you hear such an explanation regarding the skilled process of identifying a need that somebody else has on the surface this sounds pretty simple, but the mistake that most people make is confusing what’s simple with what is easy and to be clear the art of sales is not easy. The reality is that once you’re able to identify a need sometimes bringing people to accept that reality is an uncomfortable process. This uncomfortable process of giving people that positive nudge in order to accept from you that need that you have convinced them that you are able to provide reminded me of an old episode from the famous TV series The Twilight Zone where Death himself had to be the most convincing salesman. Death’s PersuasionOn January 5, 1962 the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone aired episode #81 titled Nothing in the Dark. This episode centers around the character of Wanda Dunn who is a frail elderly woman that huddles down in a basement of an abandoned tenement. One evening Wanda is awakened by an altercation outside of her apartment where Harold Beldon (Robert Redford), a young police officer, is shot and falls down just outside of her front door. Beldon cries out for help as he is afraid that he’s dying. He pleads with Wanda to open her door to help, but she’s afraid of him because she fears that he could be Mr. Death trying to trick her into letting him into her house. Wanda is uneasy about letting the gentlemen in and she doesn’t have a phone to call for help, but Harold continues to beg so she finally gives in and helps him inside. After grabbing him she realizes that she doesn’t die and is immediately relieved as this convinces her that he is not Death after all. Once she helps Harold inside she takes a moment to clarify her reluctance to help him by explaining that she once saw Death in the form of a man take a woman’s life by merely touching her. She went on to say that since then that she had also seen him on many other occasions while having a different face and identity each time. As a result of her experience it’s obvious that Wanda chose to live unhappily in her apartment alone rather than to not live at all. After a bit there’s a knock at her door and Harold convinces her to answer the door. The man at her door starts forcing the door open and Wanda collapses to the floor in terror. Wanda ends up blacking out, but when she regains consciousness the man apologizes and explains that he’s a building contractor and had been given the task to demolish her building within the hour due to the building having been condemned. The man tries to convince her that what he’s doing is for a good purpose as getting rid of the old will create a path for the new. The man then goes on to remind Wanda that she has been given plenty of notice in order to leave and if she doesn’t then he will be forced to call the police. Once the man says this it’s at this point that Wanda turns to Harold for some help, but the contractor doesn’t see him so he turns to leave to go and get the authorities. It’s at this moment that Wanda happens to look into a mirror and doesn’t see Harold in the reflection. At this point it dawns on her that Harold is Mr. Death after all. Mr. Death then proceeds to explain to Wanda with a friendly smile that he had set up the ruse in order to gain her trust so that she would believe that he was there not to be a threat, or to mean her any harm. Wanda continues her protests, but he gently assures her that she has nothing to fear. Wanda eventually takes his hand and before she realizes anything has changed, she finds herself standing next to her own dead body. From here Wanda and Harold exit her apartment to walk up the stairs and out into the sunlight. (Source: Wikipedia)“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.”Psalms 23:4Sadly Wanda’s character is emblematic of many people who go through their lives living in fear. In The Twilight Zone’s episode here Nothing in the Dark the main character Wanda was so focused on clinging to life that she basically lived as a recluse in fear that she would meet Mr. Death. This is a sad scenario for one to have as the entire point of life is to journey out and to strive to build the life you desire to live instead of running from death. However, if there’s one thing we’ve learned from our society in the past four years it’s that a significant portion of the population, like Wanda, live their lives in fear. We saw this during the pandemic when so many people were so terrified of leaving their own home because of the fear of catching a virus that they were afraid would kill them even though the government was telling them that the virus had a mortality rate of .6%. What was even more perplexing regarding this was the fact that the actual percentage of those deaths were more highly focused among individuals that struggled with several other physical ailments, or comorbidities, that could easily be fixed through a healthy and disciplined lifestyle change. Once again this was a huge example of just how much damage the Administrative State Media (ASM) managed to inflict onto our society. Granted the successful brainwashing from the media started long before the pandemic, but the point is that it has created a real detrimental spread of a psychosis among the citizens of our population. You see fear is a control mechanism that can be manipulated through the use of propaganda. If one is in fear a good salesman can convince a person to believe in a lie that is designed to scare and control a person. From this point it’s the object of fear that keeps perpetuating the false belief and it’s in this moment that sadly many people place their faith in a complete lie on a foundation built out of fear. Now the problem with this is that getting a person to let go of that lie can be as difficult as breaking the hold that death has over a person, or with a person’s held belief that they can run from Death as we observed here with Wanda. The Great Man TheoryThe historian Thomas Carlyle was one of a few main voices that were proponents of the idea, or theory that is recognized as The Great Man Theory. This theory centers around the idea that the world’s history is nothing more than a collection of biographies that belong to great men. Now if we look at history we are always referencing the leadership of great men during key moments throughout times in the past that often created movements and momentum that changed the direction of societies during such moments in time. It was Carlyle and other contemporaries of his time that had gained some serious recognition for their theory, as evidenced by such works including the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittannica Eleventh Edition. This encyclopedia went into detail telling the stories of various biographies of the great men that led during the great historical periods in time. However, not everyone agreed with Carlyle’s theory of the case involving The Great Man Theory. Herbert Spencer was another philosopher, sociologist, biologist, and political theorist of the era and expressed dogmatic beliefs involving criticisms of Carlyle’s theory that were focused around evolution and despite his criticisms his influence sharply declined after 1900. His criticism had more to do with his belief that leaders were merely products of their environment. He argued that before a “great man” can remake his society, that society had to be the factor in making him. (Source: Villanova University)Now I don’t necessarily fully disagree with this component of Spencer’s viewpoint, however he’s a bit dogmatic and simplistic in his approach. For instance, if we use Donald Trump as an example here there’s no question that the country (which would be the environment) is in desperate need of his leadership and Trump, though already a proven and incredibly resilient individual, has undoubtedly become even more battle hardened and resilient after having to endure the endless lawfare, the unconstitutional attacks, and the actual violent attempts on his life.  However, despite all of this as a leader he still had to be willing to look at the environment at the onset of his decision to run for the office of the presidency in the first place. In other words, there was an internal decision that had to take place within his mind first. I mean the moment he decided to come down that golden escalator on June 16, 2015 to give that speech and to let the world know that he was announcing his candidacy he had to already know he was ready and equipped to do the job and keep in mind this all came well before all the relentless unconstitutional attacks and the numerous assassination attempts on his life.  The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The problem with Spencer’s theory is that the environment didn’t have anything to do with him making the choice to lead. His role in history to lead wasn’t something that just randomly fell into Donald Trump’s lap, but rather was a choice and a venture that he consciously made to pursue for himself because he wanted to help the country. Granted, I believe it’s crystal clear that Donald Trump is doing this out of the love for his own country, especially given the fact that he was a billionaire that certainly didn’t have to choose to endure any of the brutal attacks and hardships that he has subjected himself to by making such a choice. Furthermore, for him to be such a successful indifividual with a billionaire lifestyle, yet he’s willing to tackle the most demanding schedule I’ve ever witnessed by any single human being has zero to do with the environment shaping him. In fact, I’ve heard stories from several of his staffers that are half his age saying that they had trouble keeping up with Trump’s work ethic.  This is a man that only sleeps three to four hours a night and has the most insane travel schedule on the planet. This doesn’t even factor in the demands and the stress from being the leader of the free world and the champion for all of Western civilization. Given my background as a fitness and strength coach I can tell you firsthand that I don’t motivate my students to engage and maintain adherence to any consistent and challenging physical training regimen. It may surprise you to hear that, but after having over 20 years of experience in this field I can tell you with 100% certainty right now that true discipline and motivation are internal factors that are inherent traits within people. Sure these traits can be drawn out for a bit, but the long term sustainability of such discipline is something that has to come from a personal inner drive. The strongest form of such an inner drive must be centered around a strong inner belief that is directed towards a particular pursuit. To have such a strong belief, or strong conviction, towards a particular venture is something that has to come from a deep place within an individual.I personally believe such strong internal beliefs are centered around love, empathy, and a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong. What I am describing to you is also what many would define as having a warrior spirit. This is why Donald Trump, as a leader, is so different than all the other so-called leaders. After all, if we’re adopting Spencer’s theory of the case that it is solely the environment that creates the leader then why is there only one leader like Donald Trump? According to Spencer’s criticism of Carlyle’s theory the environment should produce a lot a more Donald Trumps in the world, but right now it’s clear there’s only one Donald Trump. The Wrap UpThe attempt to sell fear and hate has been a long steady consistent effort that has come from the communists that have infiltrated our country and that sales pitch and drumbeat from the ASM has been a long slow steady one that has spanned many decades throughout the institutions in our nation. However, there’s no doubt there’s a strong case that this drumbeat has been drowned out by a new message that is coming through with the rise of alternative media, or in the words of Jake Tapper, MAGA media. The message I’m referring to is quite simply the truth. Because of this communist sales pitch of fear and hate that has dominated the airways for so long the delivery of a better sales pitch required a strong messenger that was loud enough and bold enough to pierce the veil of lies. In this moment of history that loud and bold voice initially came in the form of mean tweets at 3:00 a.m., but ended up resulting in the birth of an entirely new ecosystem of alternative media, or MAGA media. This new drumbeat of truth and justice will be a better sales pitch and it will soon be strong enough to break the hold that the lies have over the leftist/communist arm of the Democratic party in the same ironic way that it took Mr. Death himself to break the strong held belief that Wanda had that she could run from him. In the end death is easier to let go of than ideology, but with the application of The Great Man Theory happening in real time due to Trump recognizing the power of prolific human agency we’re getting closer to breaking that communist grip with every minute that passes.I’m curious did the newly evolved ecosystem of media awaken you to some harsh realities here in the last four years? Do you recognize the significance and power of prolific human agency in your own life? Post up in the comment section here below as both myself and the audience would like to hear from you. I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. Be an Emissary of Freedom and help to push this piece out to your friends, family, and coworkers.In order for BOTH you and me to influence and strengthen our society we must not stay idle so please make sure you hit the subscribe and share buttons here below.Spreading messages like this one is how we influence our culture and I need your help in order to do it.Also listen to this episode here on…SpotifyApple PodcastsTune InPocket CastIf you like this podcast and the message please take a moment to give it a Five Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating on the Spotify platform.Also to connect with me please make sure you join me here on Facebook, GETTR, Truth Social, and now Substack’s new social media called Notes.Stay strong. Stay focused. Stay active. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brandonrichey.substack.com/subscribe

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Thank you again for your support. “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”― Aldous Huxley, Ends and MeansWe cannot lose the Sword of Damocles and after November 5th we’ll know whether or not we have succumbed to this ultimate misfortune if Donald Trump is not elected.  If you’re not familiar with the origin of the Sword of Damocles I’ll take a moment to explain the significance as it’s extremely valuable to you, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and every potential friend that you may ever meet. The famed Sword of Damocles is a moral parable that was made famous by the Roman philosopher Cicero in 45 B.C.. In his book Tusculan Disputations his tale centers on Dionysius II who happened to be a tyrannical king who ruled during the fourth and fifth centuries over the Sicilian city of Syracuse. Dionysius was a very rich and powerful man, however despite this fact he was a very unhappy individual. The fact of the matter was that because Dionysius was a tyrant he had racked up quite an enemy’s list of opposition which always occupied his thoughts and always kept him looking over his shoulder. Dionysius was so tormented by his fear of being assassinated that he slept in a bedchamber that was surrounded by a moat and he only allowed his own daughters to shave his beard with a razor as he didn’t trust anyone else to get that close to him.   As Cicero tells the story the tyrant king’s dissatisfaction came to a head one day when a court flatterer named Damocles took it upon himself to shower the king with compliments and made remarks about how great and blissful the king’s life must be. However when Dionysius heard this he was annoyed and he posed a question by asking Damocles that if he believed his life was so great then “Do you wish to taste it yourself and make a trial of my good fortune?” After Damocles agreed to this trial Dionysius seated him on a golden couch and ordered a host of servants to wait on him. Damocles was spoiled and treated to the best cuts of meat and he was showered with the best perfumes and treated with the best ointments of the time. Damocles couldn’t believe his luck, but just as he was getting into the groove of enjoying himself by living the life of a king he noticed that Dionysius had hung a razor-sharp sword from the ceiling directly above his head. As if the presence of this sword wasn’t disturbing enough, what made it even worse is that it was only hanging by a thin single strand of horsehair.After experiencing this new realization from then on the courtier was in fear of his life which made it impossible for him to enjoy the feasts and the ongoing luxury of having servants to wait on him hand and foot. After the agony of nervously glancing up at the blade on numerous occasions Damocles asked to be excused as he no longer wished to be as fortunate as he perceived the king to be. For Cicero this tale involving Dionysius and Damocles represented the idea that those in power always must labor under the specter of anxiety and death. In short, the lesson to take away in this scenario is that because of these circumstances, no one can find happiness who is under such constant apprehensions. (Source: History)ConvenienceNow I want to take a moment to shift gears and to look at another modern day scenario. As you’re reading, or listening to this episode you have the ability to either scroll your Facebook feed, or order your next meal through DoorDash all from the touch of your fingertip probably on the same electronic device you’re using to listen to this very podcast.  This is certainly a readily available convenience of life that you and I are able to take advantage of due to the technological advancement of our society these days. Of course, the readily available convenience of such things doesn’t come without a little bit of work, at least in the beginning. I mean I don’t know about you, but every single time I decide to try to use a particular service through an online site, or app I always have to create an account with a username and a password. Like you I have so many of those accounts I had to create an organized notepad with all of the login information of every single one of these accounts just so I can get back into the account of my choice should the need arise again. I personally am not a fan of Amazon from the standpoint of having worked on the seller side of the site in addition to understanding how destructive the company is to the overall fabric of our economic system and to small businesses. However, I have shopped on Amazon in the past and with a functioning Prime account I understand just how careful I need to be in terms of where I click because it’s extremely easy to place an item into the cart, have it ordered, and shipped with what seems like a single unnoticed click sometimes. It’s insanely easy to order stuff off of Amazon and because Amazon has gotten so big and so efficient at handling orders, the headache involved with customer returns, and the ever challenging tasks of customer efficiency the popularity of the site has grown strictly due to the convenience they’ve worked to provide for the consumer. However, as we’ve learned in the last few years convenience isn’t necessarily a good thing. There is a very large and dangerous price for convenience as well. After all, I’d rather put up with a little bit of inconvenience than have a select few big tech companies grow to the point that they can corner an entire market for providing the majority of goods to society while putting small businesses through the wringer. This is especially troubling to see while understanding that most every single one of those small businesses are already struggling trying to figure out how to make it in a horrible stagflationary economy. The big tech corporations have the manpower, resources, and lobby to influence the power players in Washington D.C. to their benefit all the while the mom and pop store get railroaded by a weakened dollar, a lethargic economy, and endless tax and bureaucratic compliance that just keeps squeezing and squeezing every last drop of blood out of the American entrepreneurial body. This environment has stifled economic growth, disincentivized the entrepreneurial spirit, and has resulted in the single biggest transfer of wealth to these giant companies from the pandemic that the world has ever seen.  

The Official Substack Of Brandon Richey is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”― Czesław MiłoszWhen looking at the framework of our society over the last several years it’s obvious that we have a corrupt governmental system that serves to currently exist primarily to be a financial graft for players that have molded that system for that very purpose. They’ve molded the system to nurture a cronyistic environment in order to leech off the system rather than to mold the system for the purpose of serving the American people. What’s even worse than this is that being that the system has been formed to function in this way, if anyone tries to go up against the system then the system reacts in a very hostile manner. The reaction is apparent as the cronyism becomes hostile towards forces that are adversarial towards it. This past weekend I had an epiphany after the battery of unnatural disasters with the back to back massive hurricanes that have hammered the southeastern region of the United States where I happen to live. I live in the state of Georgia and fortunately where I live I didn’t have any major problems from hurricane Helene, but my neighbors in Augusta, North Carolina, and Tennessee all have had a difficult time due to some extreme damage. If you’ve been paying attention, most of this damage occurred due to the massive rainfall and flooding that hit the mountain area around Asheville, North Carolina which was nearly 600 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico where the storm originated. That alone doesn’t make any sense at all. In my lifetime I can’t remember one single instance where a hurricane occurred by starting in the Gulf of Mexico only to move east nearly 600 miles inland to administer a ton of flooding damage to a mountain region that sits at an elevation of 2134 feet above sea level. This is completely unnatural. I’ll be 48 years old this coming November and in the nearly 48 years that I’ve been on this planet I never remember anything like this happening involving a hurricane. Now as soon as I say that many people will read, or hear that and immediately start screaming about climate change. If that’s happening now I’m glad to hear it because this weekend I had an epiphany regarding the climate change movement where I might have stumbled across the greatest contradiction regarding the left’s perspective on climate change in the 21st century. First of all, when looking at the whole climate change movement it’s simply another graft that equates to the corrupt system that I was just describing at the onset of this episode. When I mentioned that I see a huge contradiction regarding the far left’s climate change movement I’ll elaborate a bit further in a bit, but first I want to talk about whether or not climate change is man made. Whenever I see the subject of weather and climate brought up there seems to be a misunderstanding by those on the far left in regards to these two words. To give you an example whenever there happens to be a disastrous storm to occur such as hurricane Helene the leftist climate change cultists are quick to throw out the climate change label as being the culprit for the storm occurring and administering whatever level of devastation it happens to cause on society at the time that it hits. Now what I’ve come to understand is that whenever the term climate change is used it’s simply a loaded term because it is solely used to feed a corrupt and political financial graft and part of giving fodder to any graft means that certain keywords associated with a particular graft, or leftist cause, are done for the sole purpose of spreading a victimhood narrative. To clarify a bit further this means the term climate change can be used by the left interchangeably with the term weather, but this can’t be done if anyone else uses the words weather and climate interchangeably when it doesn’t agree with the messaging of the climate cultists. Another example of how the left abuses terms for the purpose of giving fodder to a graft is when they use the term gun violence whenever one human harms, or kills another human in a homicide where they happen to use a firearm. With just a tiny bit of critical thinking it’s obvious that inanimate objects don’t come to life and kill people as the term gun violence suggests. In short, only people can kill other people with or without evil intent. A gun doesn’t have the capacity, or possess personal internal motive, or even the ability to produce the outcome of killing another person by springing into action by itself. The gun is simply an inanimate instrument that can be used by a person to kill another person. The thing you have to come to realize is that the nomenclature is always manipulated by the left to suit their desired narratives and if these narratives force enough influence over the masses within a given society they can achieve the goals of their political agenda, and more importantly they can achieve the goals of their financial graft. I realize we are living in a postmodern era where the definitions of words don’t mean anything anymore to people on the far left, but for the purpose of hammering the logic of this discussion into the vacuous minds of the leftist climate change cult, let's take a moment to clarify the definitions of the words weather and climate anyways.  Weather is defined as the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, and calm or storm at any given moment. Climate is defined as the average course, or condition of weather at a place typically as it behaves over a period of years which is exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation. So based on both of these specific definitions weather has a direct impact on climate with the only difference generally being the period of time of observing one compared to the other. So there’s a few reasons why I wanted to establish this upfront because the series of realities that are about to follow are going to cause you to look at this entire climate change movement in a way that you probably never would have considered before. This will be the case if you have a critical thinking mind and are intellectually honest enough with having the capability of looking at the receipts that back up this discussion. The Mechanisms For Altering Weather and ClimateDr. Daniel Martin is a key research engineer in College Station, Texas that started experimenting with a process of sending flares and burning silver iodide into clouds using an airplane to produce rain. This process is known as cloud seeding. Dr. Martin and his team started experimenting with this technology back in 2017. Being a member of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Martin explains that in order for water droplets in a cloud to make rain that they must collide and coalesce to collect and form drops that are large enough to then fall to the ground. The reason this is significant is that Martin and his research team have been nudging this process along by releasing charged water particles into clouds. These particles carry an opposite electrical charge of the water in the clouds. This acts as cloud condensation nuclei and will kickstart the rainmaking process. According to Martin "most programs generate 10-15% additional rainfall using the conventional flare technology. Our initial numbers show about a 25-30% increase. Limited data set, but very promising." (Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)So here is a key researcher in the federal government openly discussing his program’s success for manipulating weather in this way using the process known as cloud seeding as the method for doing so. In addition to this on June 29, 2016 former CIA director John Brennan addressed the Council on Foreign Relations regarding Stratospheric Aerosol Injections (SAI), a Geoengineering campaign where he bragged about the government’s program. Brennan who was one of the 51 intelligence agents who lied about the Hunter Biden laptop story saying it was Russian disinformation touted the technology included with SAI which involves particles being released into the atmosphere in order to reflect the sun’s heat.According to Brennan this SAI heat reflective capability can cool temperatures allowing economies time to transition off of fossil fuels for the purpose of climate change. Brennan also goes on to talk about how SAI’s potential to alter weather patterns could play a major role in the global relations possibly triggering opposition by some nations due to one region benefitting from the technology compared to another region. Brennan also pointed out that global norms and standards are lacking for administering and overseeing this technology on a global scale. (Source: YouTube)However, when it comes to manipulating the weather cloud seeding is one way that the government has openly discussed here, but the federal government has even utilized cloud seeding for the purpose of weaponizing weather to assist combat missions as well and this dates as far back as the Vietnam War in an exercise known as Project Popeye. (Source: Office of The Historian)Project Popeye was a weather modification mission that was proposed to be initiated by the Department of Defense (DoD) in order to disrupt and impair the supply chain route of the Vietcong in North Vietnam and Laos during the Vietnam War as seen in the following document. This is noted here in a memorandum from the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Kohler) to the Secretary of State David Dean Rusk on January 13, 1967 as published by the Office of The Historian. This operation was carried out by the Air Force during the Vietnam War between 1967-1972 with a goal to extend the monsoon season over specific areas of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The chemical altering weather modification exercise was conducted from Thailand over Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and was allegedly sponsored by a now very well known globalist and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger along with the CIA without the authorization from the then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird. As another interesting point of mention Laird himself at the time had categorically denied to Congress that a program involving the modification of weather for use as a tactical weapon even existed. (Source: Wikipedia) Now it’s no secret that Henry Kissinger was also directly tied into the World Economic Forum (WEF) and has spoken at length in Davos on the historical perspectives of warfare among other geo-political ramblings among the globalists for many years. He’s carried on such conversations with Klaus Schwab. However, there’s an interesting theme here regarding Kissinger’s colleague and counterpart in Klaus Schwab that I wanted to address as the spokesperson for the WEF, along with the globalists, who all have frequently mentioned the prospect of the world facing what they refer to as a series of polycrisis. “The changes are so profound that, from the perspective of human history, there has never been a time of greater promise or potential peril.”― Klaus Schwab, The Fourth Industrial RevolutionSo I find the interconnectivity of these global political figures that have had direct ties to warfare, global relations, and economic networking to be very disturbing in their actions. In addition to this I’ve already gathered a nice collection of scientists, intelligence agents, politicians, and globalist fascists to openly admit and brag about the current and emerging technologies associated with their abilities to directly modify and impact the weather and climate directly themselves. In fact, they’ve all openly admitted and bragged about the success of the government’s work along with the technologies that exist to modify both the weather and the climate based on the definitions of the words which I clarified here earlier. So the question remains is climate change man made? I would say that the short answer to this would be an absolute yes based on what the government is telling us that they have and are currently doing, but it’s not man made in the same way that the leftist climate cult have espoused now for many years. This episode has deconstructed the climate narrative. In other words, it’s a known fact that the planet goes through its own natural cycles where weather and temperature can change due to phases of its natural existence. However, the idea that man’s existence in daily life is a direct threat to the climate because functioning civilizations are contributing to “climate change” is a big stretch. .  However, the reality is that if the left wants to blame these unnatural disasters on climate change then the federal government, as I’ve directly sourced here, has already admitted it is capable of modifying the climate and weather directly itself and, in fact, has been doing so with a history that goes back nearly 60 years to the Vietnam War. The Wrap UpOver the past four years it’s been crystal clear to me that the federal government has become nothing more than a fertile ground for the graft where special interests can get their palms greased with government subsidies to financially support their so-called respective causes. This has literally resulted in a complete failure of our governmental systems and has resulted in some of the most evil outcomes that have been released upon our society from the pandemic, to corrupt elections, to endless wars, poor handling of unnatural disasters, an invasion of the country, and even domestic terrorism with multiple attempted assassinations against President Trump due to the Red Reality. I almost forgot that at the beginning of this episode I mentioned that I had discovered the greatest contradiction regarding the leftist cult’s perspective on climate change. The leftist climate cult have always said that climate change is the greatest threat the world faces today so we need the government’s power in order to stop it.However, after unnatural hurricane disasters and floods those same people who believe the government has the power to stop climate change in the same breath accuse others of being “conspiracy theorists” for suggesting that the government can modify and impact the climate and weather directly. Well, I’ve already managed to deconstruct the leftist climate cult’s perspective on climate change in this very episode. The government has clearly admitted over many instances covering a long period of time where they can directly modify and impact the weather and climate. In addition to this, these global organizations like the WEF and the Council on Foreign Relations have frequently pushed the entire Environmental Social Governance (ESG) agenda onto many companies throughout the world. This agenda forces companies to meet certain requirements associated with the climate change graft in order for them to get certain investment funding based on them meeting the criteria as the WEF defines it. (Source: World Economic Forum)This is simply a prime example of a circular funding operation where the global agendas are pushed onto the government by lobbyists whose companies benefit from the government subsidies. From here the government then issues the subsidies for the researchers to create the problems they are supposed to solve. From this point when the problems arise the demand for the organizations that are in place are promoted. This leads to it becoming a political issue which in turn becomes a campaign issue such as the climate change agenda. Given this you may wonder how they get companies onboard in order to comply with certain agendas? In terms of the climate change agenda this is where the funding programs such as ESG come in so that investment capital can be made to spread the growth of these movements throughout society.  The reality is that these companies that the lobbyists represent don’t want societal problems to go away. For instance, they don’t want racism to go away because their funding would go away. They don’t want wars to go away because their funding would go away. They don’t want pandemics to go away because their funding would go away. Finally, they don’t want climate change to go away because their funding would go away. Understand the narrative of many of these companies and government agencies is that they exist for the purpose of tackling society’s problems, but in reality they use and mold the societal problems into feeding a circular financial graft as their main play. The only constructive outcome here regarding the climate change narrative is the deconstruction of this narrative.Were you aware that the government had the ability to directly modify the climate and weather? Are you currently out talking to friends, family, and colleagues about voting to put an end to the corruption and large scale graft in D.C. by electing Donald Trump? Post up a comment below as I would like to hear from you. I hope you enjoyed today’s article/podcast.If so I hope you would choose to support this platform as part of the patriot economy as well. 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