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“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
This famous quote, commonly attributed to American writer Mark Twain, underscores the heart of the American ethos, something that is intrinsically understood by every psychologist and deep-state operative, two professions that frequently work hand in hand. Another similar and more cynical quote repeated by many Americans is, “A sucker is born every minute,” often attributed to circus entrepreneur and sideshow ringmaster P.T. Barnum. I wonder if the self-sustaining indigenous Mbuti people struggling to preserve their way of life from the ravages of poachers and mining companies in the Congo’s Ituri Rainforest, or the Guarani natives fighting off murderous ranchers in the tropics of southern Brazil, have a proverb comparable to Barnum’s in their respective cultures.
Ready, Willing, and Able. No Questions Asked.
In the early stages of the “pandemic” and Operation Warp Speed V.1, asymptomatic Americans stood on long lines waiting to submit to a fraudulent PCR test, willingly giving up samples of their DNA. After they were told that they “tested positive” for COVID-19, or were at risk of contracting the new “deadly virus,” nearly three quarters of the country rolled up their sleeves for multiple toxic jabs, resulting in billions in profits for big pharma and millions of deaths and life-changing physical and mental disabilities for unsuspecting men, women, and children. The long-term effects for those who are fortunate to have survived the toxic, rush-to-market, gene-based emergency use mRNA vaccine are still unknown.
Here we are in 2025 and most people—many of them MAGA and MAHA supporters—still refuse to believe they were compliant participants in the greatest crime against humanity. A crime perpetrated with the help of their newly elected hero and validated by RFK Jr. who considers Operation Warp Speed “an extraordinary accomplishment” that “showed a demonstration of leadership by President Trump,” The Art of the Deal billionaire who is all in on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. This is the same former host of The Apprentice TV game show who has weaponized the popular catchphrase “YOU’RE FIRED!” against countries that don’t adhere to American trade policies by clobbering them with a 25% tariff like they were a mass of baby seals washed up on a beach. Dubbed Liberation Day, the full-scale rollout of Trump’s tariffs is set for April 2, 2025. The announcement has ignited a bad-vibes global trade war and has exacerbated inflation panic among American producers and consumers in an already-decaying US economy.
S.O.S. / Save Our Souls. Anyone?
Jihad Masharawi weeps while he holds the body of his 11-month-old son Ahmad, at Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike on their family house, in Gaza City. Credit: Majed Hamdan/AP
For many Americans, images of war and innocent people being blown to bits are like a video game that you can watch, turn off, and then proceed to nuke dinner and kick back with a football game or a night of live streaming on Netflix accompanied by a fresh stash of potent weed or a few cold brews. Their concepts of genocide, war, death, and destruction are thought of as something that happens to other people in other countries; something that never happens on American soil. I mean, why would they think otherwise? When was the last time foreign jet fighters and supersonic missiles bombed the shit out of Cleveland, Ohio or Austin, Texas? When will the world ever learn? We are not the guys who GET bombed. We’re the guys who DO the bombing.
Unfortunately—and to their great disadvantage—most Americans respond and voice dissent in matters that only affect them directly. For example: Cuts to Social Security benefits; a living wage; cuts to health care and desperately needed social services; reduced federal funding leading to increased state and local taxes; bank failures; home foreclosures; high rents; job losses; record-breaking unemployment; rising food prices; increased rates of crime and suicides; digital ID surveillance; AI medical interventions; and a suppression of free speech—all about to skyrocket off the freaking charts under the guise of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) crackdown on waste, fraud, and abuse.
Trump, Musk, and the Digital Control Grid.
For a sobering glimpse at a wake-up call for Trump and non-Trump supporters alike, Catherine Austin Fitts, a former USAssistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, offers an informed perspective on the future political and economic landscape. In a recent interview, Fitts explained the strategy behind Trump’s dual agendas:
You have to remember he’s trying to please the pro-decentralization team and the pro-centralization team at the same time. He’s telling the pro-centralization team I’m going to end censorship, I’m going to get out of the WHO, get out of the Paris Agreement, and everybody’s happy. But meantime, he’s launching Warp Speed 2.0, and promoting mRNA vaccinations, and promoting digital ID’s, and stripping out the civil service so that the bankers can control the fiscal policy. At the same time he’s doing these wonderful things, he’s building the control grid.
Fitts goes on to give us a clear warning:
And I think you have to see clearly what’s happening in both respects because—you know, I hate to say this,if you look at every good thing he’s doing on the side of decentralization; once that control grid snaps into place—bam! You’re in the digital concentration camp and they can reverse everything. I’m always saying to a lot of the freedom fighters: ‘why are you fighting for this, because as soon as they get financial transaction control, you’re toast, you’re a slave, and all this is gone.’
I shudder to think of future news coverage when the “Trump Will Fix It” crowd snaps out of it and finally realizes they’ve bought the whole MAGA/MAHA package and were duped into grabbing their ankles. I predict that it will make the 2020 Antifa riots look like an easy-peasy stroll around Walden Pond.