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Yesterdays General Chat

Many Anons are aware of what I am going to tell you to a degree, but there are still many here that have no clue about it. Realize that there are things that you don't even know that you don't know in the ongoing war to control YOU - AND - DIVIDE you, your family and friends via the narrative.

You have been at war for your entire life & most people are completely unaware of it. Only in recent years have revelations about the proverbial "High Table" been revealed to some degree, albeit cryptically & never "straight in your face".

This war has been raging for thousands of years. It is a battle to control humanity; What you think, what you believe, what triggers your emotions and gets you to take action in one way or another. It's the reason why psyops, propaganda & fake news exist. It is the "winning hearts & minds" through an entire ecosystem of carefully engineered methods, researched, tested, focus-group verified and implemented in every single type of media under the sun. It is also very much the means to DIVIDE & CONQUER, plus the means to SILENCE dissenting thoughts, opinions & "wrong think".

While I could go on for pages on this topic & cover all the ways it is applicable to what we're doing here on GAW, I'm just going to focus on one area today: TRINOs

TRINO - TRuther In Name Only

GAW mods know about this & it is the reason why we are strict about certain content. We are well aware of the damage it can cause in ways you have no idea about. Read on...

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU FOLLOW Q Drop #1339

A few years back, during C19, a friend who was living in SoCal was going through a nasty divorce and moving out to Tennessee. Surrounded by liberals his entire life, he thought nothing of listening to NPR and just going along with whatever was considered "popular thought and sentiment" and wasn't really into politics up to that point. Gutted from his life essentially being uprooted and the divorce - we had lots of conversations about "other things" than his predicament.

C19 and everything that went along with that, was a good springboard into other things Anons were discovering about the war on us. The C19 censorship was WAY beyond anything we saw during the 2016 election, where whether you liked it or not, you earned the title of "Deplorable" just for loving your country and the principles it was based on. Need I remind you how many resources, time, personnel, money, campaigns and effort went into both quieting "dissenting voices" as well as efforts to counteract the truth that was being shared, such as the whole "horse paste" nonsense. Everywhere from FacePlace, Twitter, Instagram, and even cell phone carriers absolutely scraping ANY links pointed to the .wins via text, like The Great Awakening & TheDonald. Things were blatant...The censorship was real & starting to affect even those like my friend who wasn't even trying to buck the "system" with his comments on FacePlant and other social media outlets. Pepe Farms remembers Facebook cited its "Coordinating Harm" policy and would ban, delete or shadow ban anyone who even mentioned the name, Eric Ciaramella. He was a CIA intelligence officer and former National Security Council aide who served as the whistleblower in the 2019 Ukraine impeachment inquiry. The focus on controlling what you thought, spoke about and shared was laser point focused. In one sense, it should make you think about just how important YOU really are that they would go through that much trouble and expense for just "little old you".

I'm sure plenty of you have helped to Red Pill many of your friends in the past decade to help wake them up to the war upon us, that has been craftily camouflaged with plausible deniability and ambiguity for every subject in their crosshairs. C19 wasn't the only thing that tore families apart - whether that was the decision to take the poison or not, lockdowns that were "too close for comfort" for many couples, cancelled BBQ get togethers, funerals, weddings and other social events - all verboten - and this has unfortunately remained disjointed with family and friends - long after the C19 social mandates were in the rearview mirror. Even today for some, getting together is less frequent than before the C19 BS started.

I've read countless stories here where others have made attempts to wake up and red pill their family and friends - quite often asking for the best initial video, article or idea to start with - because the stakes were high - They're emotionally invested in this person and wants them to see the light of truth, and reduce their confusion about why things are the way they are. The stakes are high. Sometimes this is a great success story. Families mended. Friendships made stronger. New alliances at work made, and things like that. BUT - there are also situations that did not go so well - Friendships lost. Families divided. Regrets at work and other situations where they either chose the blue pill or spat the red pill back in your face and laughed.

But there's also another situation that I'm going to shed light on today: When your friend is enthusiastic and willing to see the perspective from your view for a little while and then when you thought they were well on their way on the red pill highway, they got off a few exits down the road and wound up in a bad neighborhood. To them, they believed this was a GREAT place to start engaging in the newly found "Truther movement" - energized and excited to learn about a whole world of these "conspiracy theories" they've always heard so much about, but weren't inclined to pursue them before, because they didn't have the time. With C19 lockdowns and others in the house driving you nuts - the time was ripe to dig into this exiting new area of study they've put off looking into for so long. Enter the TRINOs - Truthers in name only to steer seekers down the wrong path.

It all started with a workworker's meme, showing a milk carton with a Stanley tape measure on it, like a missing child. This bit of humor segued into telling him about the horrific child trafficking business that goes on around the world. He thought I was "full of shit" when I first told him about it and it took a LONG time for him digging on his own to discover things for himself. The Sound of Freedom came out at just the right time for him to see.

So...pushed him in the right direction, gave him some great links and pointings to follow, and my friend was off to a good start on his dig. Back then it was places like Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) (Which saved MANY lives, including some of my own family members) FYI - changed its name to the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA) - for the C19 life saving protocols, other "MAHA" sites, GAW OF COURSE!, TheDonald, Josh Reid, Joe Lange, Fall of the Cabal series, the Q boards and people doing great decodes and a few others to get them going. Web "surfing" being what it is, along with things like YouTube "suggestions" and things like that, invariably suggested TRINOs that steered him into some bad neighborhoods, unbeknownst to him.

For those that don't know: Craic (pronounced "crack") is an Irish slang term for fun, entertainment, good times, and enjoyable conversation. It is commonly used to describe a lively social atmosphere or a pleasant experience, as seen in the greeting "What's the craic?" - My friend emigrated to the US (legally BTW) from Ireland in the 90s...

I didn't know that my friend was a big "craic-head"...I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN - but I could not have foreseen that he would invariably wind up in places that would hurt him more than it would be helping his (!) AND OTHERS! overall well being. It seems that, much like a drug, sensational content from grifters, TRINOs and inFLOOencers was a "good hit" and it was definitely scratching that craic itch that comes along with being "in the know". But sometimes, you THINK you are in the know, but you're deep in the weeds, WAY out in left field or completely off the map. There came a time when "unsavory subject matter" entered our conversations and rather than witnessing his progression in waking up, I was hearing him getting lost deep in the weeds of disinformation.

Now before I go on, I feel it important to share something many of you can relate to. Many of us have been researching and awakening in one way or another, on our own accord - because we just MUST KNOW what's going on - and we have been looking and putting the pieces together for DECADES. So I don't say this from a place of ego, but it's similar to a kid in college vs a kid in 2nd grade and how much information about things each of them knows...It's just common sense that a college kid is going to have a deeper understanding of nearly any subject in 99.9% of all cases in comparison to the 2nd grader. That's just the way it is.

So, my friend - probably wanting to "give back" started sending me links about: The next round of lockdowns we're all going to be under "very soon", "Experts on QAnon" that you just GOTTA listen to, such as grifter extraordinaire & pedo Phil Godlewski aka The Greatest Fraud on Earth, links to Gesara/Nesara & how Bill Clinton was forced to sign Nesara into law at gunpoint by Special Forces, How Cankles, the Queen of England and a whole host of others were executed at GITMO, How I just GOTTA get in on buying Dinar/Dong currency because they're going to have "Redemption Centers" when this historically suppressed paper currency is revalued and "hits the big time" - how I'd be rich if I only invested $300 in this currency, and various other things that left me seriously questioning what I had done...and me trying to resolve being responsible for this friend being fooled by agents of controlled opposition.

When asked for even just ONE article, research or verification for ANY ONE of these things, there was never an answer. Only offense taken for me not just believing what he was told outright, despite my decades of searching for the truth, under countless layers of misdirection and lies. and I didn't even mention other topics that are verboten here on GAW like FE, CTs, and other topics "out of this world" Now most of the time, when someone is at least trying to put their finger on the "right answers" regarding geopolitics etc, I have a good bit of allowance AND the person on the other end, usually has gratitude for being pointed in a "better" direction. But this friend was addicted to all the exciting things these TRINOs were pushing, hook, line & sinker. The priority for him was the craic - the thrill of hearing "stories" he never heard before AND his mental "security guards and bouncers" that should have been deflecting "tardy thoughts and ideas" were clearly on a VERY long lunch...like a 3 bottle martini lunch.

Remember when I mentioned dividing people and controlling the narrative? This is EXACTLY what all those paid "influencers" are doing. Many are intel operatives, who essentially answer to the proverbial "High Table" - that table essentially being the oligarchy that owns all the important land and stakes in every important resource, plus tribute from every illegal/dark revenue stream, mafia/mob, organized crime etc - This is EXACTLY the same it has worked since before the Dutch East India Company & their coven of spies...who answered exclusively to them. They seek to DIVIDE & CONQUER - and that means creating confusion, stirring up chaos and taking the truth and twisting it into something ripe for ridicule. This is all so YOU don't look in their direction towards them OR the resources so dear to their maintaining power and control. In essence, they've hijacked several things and poisoned the well in the MAGA community. Pushing lies about Trump, calling Q - QAnon and then maligning anyone aligned to it - while weaving in nonsense like Operation Trust, Russia etc to further muddy the waters for those genuinely seeking information about Q, but they got snared by their deceitful rendition of what Q is all about - and now they're believing "QAnon" stories because these influencers had shinier glitter that attracted them their content than say, GAW.

The phone rings...my friend is sad. "What's up?" - "My son won't call me back & the other two kids won't return my call" @Christmas time - I asked him why he thought that was. He started telling me how he told them he was concerned for them (this is 2023 BTW) - because lockdowns are coming & they're still in California. And then he went on to tell me all of the other BS he heard that he told the kids about essentially "the precipice", doom and gloom, putting money into Dinar and a whole host of other things. I warned him not to talk to the kids about this stuff, but he didn't listen. Since then, he's talked to his one son, sporadically...but not the other two. Nada. Zilch. Not for Christmas, not birthday, not to call to thank for gifts he sent etc. NOTHING. It's a messed up situation that I feel could have been avoided. The cost of buying into and not being careful who you follow can be much greater than you ever imagined. How do you heal your kids thinking you're a total nutjob - Even though I know he's not really nuts, just misguided & stubborn by not accepting guidance. He remains hopeful they'll eventually come around - and I sincerely hope they do too, because he is a good guy and he loves his kids. (youngest 19 now).

If you've got a similar story or would like to share about your experience with a similar situation in your life - please feel free to do so in the comment section below.

WWG1WGA

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Repost from Superstonk (AI Assisted):

​There is a comfortable, establishment myth that the 2008 financial crisis is a historical artifact—a dark chapter closed by time, regulation, and recovery.

​This narrative is a deliberate sedative.

​The structural mutation that caused the 2008 collapse was never dismantled. Instead, the parasites who engineered that crisis were handed the keys to the recovery, ensuring that the foundational malware of Wall Street—the financialization of human necessities—was insulated, normalized, and exported directly into the everyday infrastructure of American life. To understand why a trip to a local medical clinic now feels like walking onto a predatory car dealership lot, or why the cultural fabric of the nation feels entirely hollowed out, you must look at the unpunished lineage of 1999.

​The Genesis: How the Casino Swallowed the Utility

​The modern era of economic extraction began with a specific structural subversion: the systematic destruction of the firewall between low-risk public utilities and hyper-leveraged speculation.

​For sixty-five years, the Glass-Steagall Act maintained a boring, stable reality.

Commercial banks held savings and funded local businesses; insurance companies pooled regional risk to protect health and property. These were relationship-driven infrastructure models.

​But in the late 1990s, Sandy Weill orchestrated the massive Citigroup merger, combining traditional consumer banking with Travelers Insurance and the investment desk of Salomon Brothers. It was explicitly illegal under existing law. Yet, instead of unwinding the corporate violation, Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, aggressively championed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, repealing Glass-Steagall and retroactively legalizing Weill’s empire. ​This changed the objective function of the entire economy. It allowed Wall Street to treat the predictable, stable cash reserves of regular citizens—their insurance premiums and health security—as a giant, leveraged piggy bank to juice short-term trading metrics and generate astronomical executive bonuses.

​The traditional utility model optimized for stable risk pooling to yield modest, long-term community returns. The financialized model inverted this, optimizing for hyper-leveraged asset stripping—maximizing short-term extraction while offloading the systemic risk onto the public. When this shell game inevitably collapsed in 2008, the network insulated itself.

​The Insulated Network: "Foaming the Runway"

​The reason 2008 is not water under the bridge is that the cleanup crew was composed of the exact people who designed the spill.

​In 2009, the Obama administration bypassed reformist outsiders and populated the economic command center entirely with Robert Rubin’s direct lineage. Tim Geithner—Rubin’s protege and former head of the New York Fed—was made Treasury Secretary. Larry Summers, who fought alongside Rubin to keep toxic derivatives unregulated in the 90s, became Director of the National Economic Council. Peter Orszag, a staunch Rubin acolyte, took over the Office of Management and Budget.

​The revolving door operated with flawless circular logic: the Treasury Department under Rubin drove the deregulation; Rubin then cashed out with over $126 million in compensation at the newly formed Citigroup; and his proteges later stepped in via the NY Fed and Treasury to design the bailouts. ​While Citigroup was backstopped with $45 billion in direct taxpayer cash and $306 billion in government guarantees, Geithner’s Treasury explicitly rejected mass principal modification for drowning homeowners. Instead, they designed a foreclosure mitigation program that Geithner openly admitted to congressional oversight was meant to "foam the runway" for the banks. The program stretched out foreclosures so that massive institutional lenders could absorb losses slowly and orderly, while millions of regular families were systematically ejected from their homes.

​The message was permanent: Leverage is sovereign. The institution must be preserved; the individual is raw material.

​Evidence of the Rot: Look Around You ​If you think this structural architecture is confined to the high floors of Manhattan or Washington, you are missing the crime scene playing out in front of your face. You do not need a Bloomberg Terminal to see it; you only have to look around you at the slow, systemic degradation of everyday American life.

​Look at what happens to the things we love the moment private equity and corporate roll-ups acquire them. For decades, Jersey Mike’s built a bulletproof reputation on localized sub-shop culture—freshly slicing high-quality meats right in front of you. But the moment the brand finalized its multi-billion-dollar sale to Blackstone, the private equity playbook was activated. Slowly, inevitably, the extraction begins: the supply chain is optimized, margins are squeezed, and the product begins to compromise to service the massive institutional debt of the acquisition.

​Look at the video game industry. A sector once built by enthusiasts for enthusiasts has been completely hollowed out by public market mandates for infinite quarterly growth. Games are no longer sold as complete, standalone pieces of art; they are engineered as minimum-viable products designed to function as psychological traps. They are stuffed with predatory "live-service" loops, repetitive season passes, and manipulative loot boxes that extract continuous microtransactions from players just to access basic content.

​This is not a new accident; it is a proven corporate execution strategy. It is the exact same private equity malware that systematically dismantled legacy institutions like KB Toys, Toys "R" Us, and Sears. Aggressive financial raiders saddled these stable, generational brands with billions of dollars in predatory debt from leveraged buyouts, stripped their valuable real estate assets for short-term payouts, and bled them dry until they collapsed into bankruptcy—wiping out hundreds of thousands of local jobs while the executives cashed out their bonuses.

​The Modern Export: The Financialization of Human Life

​Because this financialization model was bailed out rather than broken, it migrated deeply into the systems that keep us alive. The precise playbook used by Citigroup and AIG in the lead-up to 2008 now dictates American healthcare, transforming insurance providers, hospitals, and local clinics into predatory, extractive machinery.

​The modern insurance giant is the textbook case of inverted incentives. Historically, many providers operated as mutual companies owned by policyholders, where surplus revenue was returned to lower premiums. Today, listed on the public stock exchange, their primary stakeholder is the Wall Street institutional shareholder demanding infinite quarterly growth.

​To a Wall Street analyst, the actual delivery of medicine is literally defined on the balance sheet as a "Medical Loss." To drive stock prices up, public insurance conglomerates weaponize automated denial algorithms, high-friction pre-authorizations, and bureaucratic delays to maximize premiums collected while minimizing care payouts.

​This financialized gravity has entirely consumed medical delivery:

​The Private Equity Roll-Up: Local specialty clinics and community hospitals are rapidly being acquired by Private Equity (PE) firms and corporate health conglomerates. They replace the traditional doctor-patient alliance with an aggressive corporate assembly line. Every bed, operatory, and diagnostic tool is treated as a real estate optimization problem, tethered to daily production quotas required to service institutional debt.

​The Coercive Upsell: Patients facing critical, life-altering medical timelines are routinely processed through corporate administrative funnels that weaponize urgency to force high-pressure financial contracts. Elective, hyper-expensive, or unnecessary treatments are bundled into "baseline" care packages, turning vulnerable human beings into high-yield financial instruments.

​The Corruption of the American Soul ​This systemic shift has done something far more insidious than shifting balances on a spreadsheet: it has fundamentally corrupted the shared civic contract. America today feels entirely different than it did thirty years ago. ​Thirty years ago, an undercurrent of baseline trust still anchored daily life. Commerce, while competitive, was bound by localized reputation. If a merchant, doctor, or builder pulled a predatory stunt, the community firewall would react, and the business would fail.

​The financialization of everything has completely broken that firewall. By replacing human trust with predatory algorithms, brand artifice, and aggressive sales scripts, the system has engineered an environment of chronic, defensive exhaustion. When every single interaction—from seeking medical care to buying a home—is a high-friction battle against an invisible, extractive entity, society fractures.

​It breeds an ambient anxiety. When citizens realize that the institutions meant to protect, heal, and house them view their survival as a mere "line-item loss," the foundational belief in fairness evaporates. The national character shifts from cooperative community-building to an atomized, defensive survival mode. The human soul rots when it is constantly forced to treat or be treated as raw material for institutional scale.

​The Main Street Moat: The Power of Product Sovereignty

​Yet, the market is so thoroughly starved for sincerity that a profound economic counter-trend is emerging. A few distinct actors across wildly different sectors are achieving massive, unassailable success precisely by rejecting the corporate extraction playbook and operating on bedrock Main Street principles: product integrity, value, and sovereign alignment with the user.

​In-N-Out Burger: While fast-food conglomerates slice portion sizes, substitute artificial ingredients, and raise prices to feed corporate overhead, In-N-Out maintains radical simplicity. By refusing to go public or franchise, they keep the firewall up against Wall Street. They focus exclusively on a clean menu, fresh ingredients, and treating staff exceptionally well, creating a generationally loyal customer base that money cannot buy.

​Team Cherry (Hollow Knight): In a video game industry thoroughly corrupted by public markets demanding live-service models, microtransactions, and psychology-driven engagement traps, this independent studio stands as an anomaly. They have resisted every urge to rush out a minimum-viable product or compromise their art for short-term cash flow, operating on the pure, old-school philosophy: build a game so completely immersive and whole that the value speaks for itself. Their sovereignty has commanded a global level of anticipation that multi-billion-dollar corporate publishers cannot replicate.

​Ryan Cohen: Across his execution at C***y and his leadership at GameStop, Cohen’s operational blueprint is anchored in obsessive customer satisfaction and absolute capital discipline down to the base metal. While modern corporate executives prioritize stock-buyback parlor tricks and public relations fluff to cash out their options, Cohen’s philosophy strips away corporate artifice to focus on laser-focused cost control, direct alignment with the retail shareholder base, and eliminating administrative waste.

​The success of these outliers proves that the corporate matrix is not invincible. The traditional economic model—where value changes hands within an architecture of mutual benefit and uncompromised product quality—remains the most disruptive, unassailable strategy available. The battle lines of the post-2008 economy are no longer drawn on Wall Street; they are fought every day by choosing where we anchor our trust, our work, and our communities.