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Recently, I dubbed the 2024 election the ‘Inflection Election’ in my preview piece, but that doesn’t mean it represents an endpoint.
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I had a simple, broad take going into the Inflection Election:
An inherently trustless election system is incapable of codifying the public mandate.
And yet, today is seismic, as mass engagement begets mass exposure.
Either the machine succeeds in subverting that public mandate DURING the election window, or they have to wait until AFTER.
As it turns out,
had a similar take, saying the following on during election day coverage:"If Donald Trump wins every state, the election system still sucks, and it needs to be replaced."
And of course, my friends and peers
and have continued to bang that drum before, during and likely following November 5 … as they—as we all—undoubtedly should.And yet, I do believe, as I have long believed we stand before the threshold of a true American Restoration, a Renaissance and yes, a Golden Age, as the man himself put it, and while fighting the Info War has been its own sort of journey since before I first created this publication almost three years ago, and while it will continue, I’m looking forward to the time when the real work begins.
The work of building. Of creating. Of being exactly what we were born, called and trained to be.
Thus, among the many things Trump said in his victory speech, you’ll not be shocked to learn my favorite came back around to one of my infamously favorite words in the context of the War of Stories:
“The American People have given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Trump said during his victory address.
I pegged “mandate” as the most important word of the Trump campaign before they started using it, and to that I hold, as mandate is another word for sovereign will made manifest, which is the point of it all, after all.
And we’ll have years to explore the actual and mass psychological effects of that mandate, my friends. But for now, let’s revisit the recent journey here, and project where we might be headed in the immediate future.
I believe the "Golden Age" is a story in the form of a promise.
And I believe that the image of Trump the “God King” is both a harbinger and a memetic inversion all its own, at once serving as a joke and a vow, a threat and a promise, and the remembrance of the natural law of peace on the back of a final war we’ve been waging for the better part of a decade against the invisible enemy made corporeal to an increasing plurality that never would have spared the creatures of the dark a second thought had they not been forced to.
Where it concerns the obvious concern of the US election system, it remains not only valid, but more vital to maintain than ever before.
That said, it IS possible to have our cake and eat it too when it comes to largescale reforms to said systems; I believe Trump acknowledged this when he capped off his Rogan appearance by saying he "owes the American people fair elections."
(He also said MUCH more in that now-infamous interview, which you can read about in-depth below, including tantalizing comms that relate to both John F. Kennedy and the 2020 election.)
To wit, the 2024 election is already helping to retroactively expose the 2020 fraud.
What's that saying about Hindsight, again?
What's more, it's not so much the fact that Trump was declared the winner that's going to mark a rapid phase shift, but the Bicameral fissure already developing in the aftermath of exactly that.
On the one hand, markets reacting with jubilation to the prospect of another Trump Admin is a golden-tinged red pill all its own for many.
On the other hand, the machine will now shift full bore into the Palpatine Paradigm, as they pull out all remaining stops in an attempt to deprive the people of their mandate.
This will fail, and in so doing, will only accelerate an Awakening Cascade that will resemble a Crisis Cascade. But we’ll save that analysis for my next feature.
In the meantime, we should ruminate on the election cycle we’re still in the midst of, on both actual and narrative terms.
Elections are either-or scenarios, and yes, that includes fake elections, and gaining comfort with a wide variance of if-then scenario offshoots of the Macro possibility branches that spin off from them is what Game Theory is all about.
Contrary to popular framing in the Info War, Game Theory is less about overt control, and much more about adaptation. He who pivots and adjusts with the greatest speed and mental flexibility tends to survive the game on a long enough timeline.
Which is why one of the best things you can do to protect your mind in a war meant to alternatively control it or free it is to lower your time preference, something many of us were forced to learn in the aftermath of the last stolen election—one that most of us now believe was not only necessary with the benefit of hindsight, but will be regarded as the most condensed era of awakening in world history, another in a long series of perfect paradoxes that define the Info War, and our place in it.
When it comes to elections, then— fake, real or somewhere in between—either the story matches and codifies public mandate, or it subverts it. In our lifetimes, usually it’s the latter, but the media machine has existed to obfuscate and sow doubt in the collective mind as to what its true mandate is, casting doubt not onto the story, but our interpretation of it.
Herein, you might see why Trump’s ‘Too Big to Rig’ approach has been about depriving the machine of their story … not their mechanisms for cheating, which I have long believed will be addressed in the proper legal channels, and only at the proper time, which is not measured in temporal degrees, but in mass psychological phase shifts. We might not be able to see those shifts the same way we believe patriots can, but we can feel them.
And there has been a phase shift. If you didn’t know it heading into November 5, surely you’ve felt it coming out.
The American Election is always a worldwide inflection point that either maintains or sets the mass psychological paradigm for the coming cycle.
Yes, even and especially when it's fake.
From an election fraud apparatus that may or may not have been partially neutered to narrative seeding on everything from foreign interference to the Insurrection Act, the paradigm pump has been primed for pure, engineered chaos in November and for some time beyond, with 11/5 serving not as an endpoint, but an inflection point, which is to say, a change point, and while change is inherently stressful, there isn’t a soul reading these words who doesn’t believe it’s wholly, perhaps Biblically necessary.
As for me, I've personally always maintained that Donald Trump and the patriots behind him are chaos conductors, using and moving the story to suit our sovereign ends, something I’ve been discussing in written form since Trump’s first criminal indictment that some of us saw coming, and that Trump transformed into the bedrock of his narrative campaign throughout the last two years, which brought us here today, when our agenda has never been more popular, and its antithesis more reviled.
(I dubbed Donald Trump the original Chaos Conductor in March 2023, immediately following the actualization of the mythic Witch Hunt.)
So, whose Chaos is it, anyway?
That depends on whose story you think we’re watching, and writing.
As for me, I personally argued going in that, no matter what we were going to be told was happening in the midst of the most contentious election cycle in American history, the enemy’s posture was already broken heading into the inflection point. And again, the inflection point wasn’t an Actual, but the story of the election.
To wit, Instead of maintaining a core central narrative, as they prefer to, they’ve been engaged in projection and preemptive reaction for months, which we’ve been discussing in these digital pages.
This put them in an unenviable pincer:
The narrative actualization of the Red Wave scenario has forced the System of Systems into a defensive posture, in which the only options available to them are to chart a path down Overton's Goalpost and first deny the election results in a perfect inversion of 2020 while prepping to decertify and/or prevent Trump's constitutional ascension to office, thereby VERY publicly depriving the people of their sovereign mandate.
Additionally, the true communist subversion is taking the form of a shame campaign that even some within the MAGA corps are embracing, wherein the “losers” of the latest election are attempting to get the America First base to sign off wholesale on the very system that has been engineered to at least SOMETIMES deprive them of their sovereign will, as it did in 2020, and as it no doubt attempted to this month.
Conversely, a SUCCESSFUL redux of the 2020 steal would have been actualized in the midst of a mass sociopolitical environment FOLLOWING four years of disastrous establishment rule & with none of the Covid hysteria acting as narrative shielding to explain away the fraud apparatus.
Patrick Byrne joined Badlands Media on election night and offered his own take on the Actuals:
"There's a military term called 'Defenses in Depth,' and it's where you just create so many different layers of defense that your opponent just can't get through because it just costs them too much; that's really what we've done over the last four years.
They had a walk-on victory four years ago. They could just cheat shamelessly because they had full information dominance."
It’s a fantastic way of crystalizing what COULD partially explain the difference between the reported results of the 2024 election when compared with the fraudulent bloodbath that was 2020. And it also signal boosts the role communities like this and platforms like this have played in the Great Awakening, which is only in its beginning stages.
What I particularly loved is that he followed this up not with calls to stay the course and keep our election systems in place, but for a returned and resurgent President Trump to completely reform said systems so such complex defensive structures aren't needed merely to protect the sovereign will of the people.
In other words, Trump may be declared the winner ... but his and our work is only just beginning.
Trump and company weren’t confident heading in because they trust the system.
They were confident because the enemy has run out of stories.
Again, ‘Too Big to Rig’ was never about the number of votes. It was about the story, and the mass psychological terrain.
The Collective American Mind is the battlefield, after all, which I first started writing about all the way back in the Righteous Russia series that started it all at Burning Bright (especially in Part 5 — The Mind War.)
And IF the Collective American Mind was the fifth-generational battlefield heading into the Inflection Election, no doubt it had been prepped for mass acceptance of the Red Wave … or mass rejection of its theft, right up until the final hours leading into the election story window.
To wit, as evidence of just how far the mass psychological goalposts had shifted in our favor in the days leading up to D Day, Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk appeared on the biggest podcast in the world back-to-back-to-back on the eve of the most contentious election cycle in modern history.
In effect, this trifecta demonstrated that narrative groundwork was being laid on the biggest podcast in the world, presenting, in order, Trump the Candidate, Vance the detail and projected (for now) future, and Elon the observing, adapting and resurgent American culture that animates both.
And through it all, Joe Rogan acted as the proxy for the reader, the viewer … the audience occupying the mythic, exhaustive and ever reachable middle of the collective mind.
The fact that he followed this triple threat up by endorsing Trump, officially, ending years of speculation and forecasting, was icing on the cake.
And to us, coordination = control.
To wit, Donald Trump's "surprise" at Joe Rogan endorsing him has Hillary feigning human emotion at the sight of balloons vibes ... in the best way possible.
For those of us who've been paying attention to the war beneath the war, it's been clear that some major Mind Movers on the game board have only feigned distance from Trump in order to maintain plausible deniability ... but more importantly, to maximize the mass psychological impact of their inevitable "turn" in favor of the MAGA and America First agenda, all of which is part of the Great Awakening.
We've tracked this narrative pattern for years, with many Anons calling the convergence of Elon Musk and Donald Trump long before it happened.
Hell … I even named it the ‘Narrative Pincer’ and both documented its presence and projected its direction in the pages of the ‘Master’ series two full years ago.
Rogan is one of the prime Mind Movers on the game board because of his rare combination of reach and the persuasion of his audience—reachable independents & disillusioned liberals (I used to be one of these.)
So enjoy the show, even if the acting isn't always very believable.
It’s not about the endorsement. It’s about what it represents:
Social permission—not to vote, but to demand better. To demand the actualization of sovereign will, which is to say, mandate, on the Micro and on the Macro, for too long have we been controlled and consented to rule by a tiny band of miscreants, autocrats and yes, Satanic Pedophiles and all the weak, dumb and spiritually blind fools who would follow them, and drag us along with them, right off the edge and into an abyss beyond reckoning.
So, while it’s true that few operating at the Anon layers of the Info War have trust in our election systems, that's not a bad thing, as Americans must be forced to reckon with the inherently unreliable systems meant to codify their sovereign mandate sooner rather than later. That might—probably is—the underlying point of it all, after all, and as many of us have been arguing for years.
(On that note, I know our audiences share a lot of crossover already, but if you’re looking for the best one-man podcast in America, my friend lays this out better than just about anyone.)
With all of that said, I see these narrative deployments as being far less about ensuring enough people in the MAGA base got out to vote, and much more about prepping the mass psychological terrain for what will likely be an informational cascade of PsyOps meant to alternatively defend or wholly reject the will of the people this week, this month and through to the next infamous—hopefully for all the right reasons, this time—inauguration day.
See these figures not as paragons, then, but as cognitive cyphers to awakening. As symbols more than men.
Why all the gamesmanship, though, if Trump already has the majority?
Why all the storytelling?
As I was saying in the lead-up, Trump said he needs "a mandate in the vote," and I believe he said that not because he needs it to win an election ... but because he needs it for what comes after. Thus, it isn’t a contradiction to believe the election is at least partly fake, AND that Trump wanted as many people as possible to participate in it, as participation in the story cultivates engagement with its themes.
Those are lessons, kids … and MANY Americans still have a few to learn when it comes to the ghost of the representative republic we’re trying to revive.
Perhaps ESPECIALLY where it concerns some of the Con Inc. crowd we’ve been warning about ever since they showed their true colors during the sociopolitical maelstrom that was the 2022 midterm cycle.
The Wolves in MAGA clothing have been telling you who they are for years (and some of us have been telling you about the telling for just as long,) and yet, many have refused to accept it, roped into blind defense of the UniParty under the guise of unity.
These people have thrived in a mass censorship, regime-friendly environment, because they subsist on the controlled opposition dynamic while avoiding talking about anything important.
They don't want Trump back.
They want to preserve the status quo.
You had a chance to commit their names and faces to memory before 2016, when they called you Nazis.
You were given another chance in 2022, when they turned on Trump and threw their full support behind the RON! campaign.
You ALMOST got another chance this week, as some of them began to effect their scripted and opportunistic turns on the MAGA core (and by extension, on Trump himself,) when they threatened to once more ignore a rampant and fraudulent election apparatus and turn the blame on you for being too mean for the regime to allow you to win a fake election.
Remember. Them.
What’s that? The fire-spitting Steve Bannon wholeheartedly agrees?
(And if you don’t believe you can see these things coming, observe the following piece from said Midterm cycle …)
Either way, Hibernation Theory applies to them just as much as the MSM and the establishment protectorate. More so, which is why I felt called to coin the term to kick off the month.
(In fact, why don’t you consider these a one-two punch for your Bright Retrospective of the week, if you missed them at time of publication.)
Tigers and bears, eh?
Well, how about we round this piece toward its closing with a treatise on the lion of the American story right now, Donald J. Trump, and the narrowing set of scenarios and projections we have before us with 11/5 temporarily in the rearview mirror.
No matter the scenario we projected in the lead-up to the Inflection Election, the election and its aftermath was always going to be a major narrative entry point; that’s where we come in.
Everything we’ve learned in the Info War, everything we were called, trained and perhaps BORN to be in this time … it isn’t for when things are easy, but when they’re hard. And while things might SEEM like they’re on the edge of getting a whole lot easier as we ride a swell we were expecting to four years ago, the machine never sleeps, and rest assured, our work—and Trump’s—is far from done as we look to dismantle it and scatter its cogs, gears and rusted remnants across the mindscape so that it might never be reassembled.
Thus, it’s worth reflecting on or perhaps adopting a mission statement around which to orient your mind, which is to say, your self in this war to alternatively control it or free it.
I often use analogues to cognitive cyphers and symbols in the context of awakening, and yet, the most powerful cypher you have available to you—the only one you have the power not just to analyze and observe, but to wield, to mold and to reinvent—is that you were born with. That which you were born AS.
For we are each of us born to be, created to be creation engines—change engines—as I wrote about some time ago. We are psycho-spiritual filtration machines capable of filtering crude digital, informational and even supernatural noise and condensing it into Grade A signal.
Become a Change Engine, then, and not just a thing to be changed, and in so doing, invert your mindset in order to see every enemy action as a narrowing opportunity … as crude to be refined and drawn down into an elixir of awakening that can be shared near and far as we remake and rebuild this world by first drawing all its poison from myriad and lasting wounds.
And if you need a little bit of a helping hand from time to time, consider following the lead of the ultimate signal-setter at work in the Mind War today, and the one who no doubt kicked it off for many of you.
Because Trump's Asides have always been Signal.
Lately, he's telling you this directly in order to tell you that the signal is readily available within the engineered noise, and that it's not actually as difficult to find as you might think.
To wit, a few weeks ago, he said the following in a Town Hall:
"I give these long, sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs, but they all come together ... if you couldn't connect the dots, you've got a problem. Many stories were told in that paragraph."
On Joe Rogan, with the Nelk boys and in the lead-up to the election, he re-branded his asides as "weaves," telling anyone who will listen that they're more worthy of analysis than anything else he says.
And on the eve of the Inflection Election, he told you directly that going OFF script IS the script:
"I love going off these stupid teleprompters, because the truth comes out."
(Recognition of this narrative pattern is at the heart of 'The Master' series, which you should read now more than ever.)
Trump is the signal-setter, for now, and he’s the original chaos conductor.
And, contrary to what you may have been told up to now, chaos is a feature of the Great Awakening … NOT of the enemy’s subversive system of systems.
Not anymore.
This revelation comes on the back of the recognition of the key difference between [their] Hegelian Dialectic and ours.
Theirs was designed as a funnel, to sift people toward pre-engineered “solutions” to problems they created.
OURS is designed to spark recognition of the problems’ source … which is the System of Systems; this reverse engineers the Hegelian Dialectic toward mass recognition of Truth as THE First Principle.
Chaos begets mass psychological tension, you see, and, as I have been arguing for some time, tension creates Shatterpoints; that’s a good thing, so long as it results in exposure of the underlying systems that need to be exposed.
And in case you hadn’t noticed, that tension isn’t just for the Collective Mind … but for the collectivists.
To wit, one of the most glaring bits of signal to emerge in the immediate aftermath of the Trump declaration was the fact that the mongering was mostly shifted to the fading globalist hegemon.
Typically, election-night doomerism focuses on the perceived impacts of the President-elect on, you know, the country he was elected to lead; and yet, the MSM desks couldn't wait to talk about Western Europe and "our friends in Tel Aviv," whom they reported to be "nervous" and "highly concerned" about the advent of Trump 2.0.
Curious.
Of course, world leaders lined up to pay their respects (and to show their submission grins) to Trump, from Macron & Starmer to the collectorate in Brussels and their Proxy Prince in Ukraine, while Russia and China offered veiled optimism so as to keep the greatest game of global kayfabe going a little while longer.
It reminds me of this little gem from Trump 1.0.
Rest in Peace, Shinzo …
Why the renewed, albeit FAR more submissive globalist panic, then?
Because they know the US is patient zero for the sovereign restoration.
And that, when the truth is out, the cure will spread worldwide.
So, would you say election fraud, globalism, communism and the MIL and MSM industrial complexes are more or LESS exposed with each passing week?
Mark this pattern of controlled chaos, my friends.
Enjoy it. See it as the original chaos conductors losing control of the discordant song they would wield against us. And endeavor to become one of the mythic and Biblical frogs to destroy them.
This is my favorite drop of all time, because I believe in it wholeheartedly.
I also believe in the idea that being the "frame and support" isn't a passive endeavor, but an active one.
Thus, much like my friends
and , I don't merely celebrate the results of an election whose underlying systems are fraudulent by design, even if I DO absolutely celebrate the massive narrative win a Trump landslide signals to the Collective Mind.What 11/5/24 did was codify the vast, sweeping public mandate of the America First agenda across layers of the Collective Mind previously untouched by it, which will be wholly necessary for the very reforms we seek to usher in in the years ahead.
Trump and his team have promised to take a hammer to the Administrative Deep State, and that's already begun. That includes the election systems, which is to say, the mandate codification systems.
Now, they have the mandate to do so.
The "New World" referenced in the drops is the future they stole from us.
It can't be given to you. It has to be taken.
After all, paying attention to the Info War, Defecting without quitting, and cultivating a mindset built around understanding over reacting is most important precisely WHEN it’s difficult, not when it’s easy.
Becoming the frame and support means preparing to carry weight, even when things seem temporarily—blessedly—light for a spell.
Who better than you? Who better than us?
The November 5 election is a moment in informational time.
It was only the biggest story going until it wasn’t, and it no longer is.
I believe there's a patriot plan.
I believe that if you don't believe there's a patriot plan, you haven’t been paying attention.
And yet, I ALSO believe it's imperative we move forward with the mindset that, while there likely ARE patriots pushing from their side of the door to awakening, we HAVE to keep pushing from ours.
The Awakening isn't an inevitability because it's been ordained, or because our perceived betters have deemed it so. It's inevitable because WE have willed it so, and because some of us will continue to will it so. Until our deaths, which is to say, our stories’ endings.
Or theirs.
In the ancient world, every man was a soldier, because every man SHOULD be able to fight, no matter the era and no matter the form war takes.
But some were Legionnaires. Some were Spartans.
Some were either born or called before they were trained. They were baptised in the fires of awakening and given a chance to prove their worth on the battlefield. Uncommon men and uncommon minds, and yet, found in every era, from the first and yes, to the last, whether the slings and arrows are corporeal or spiritual.
Some of us are in this for the long haul. For some of us, the Info War is a way of life.
Some of us are looking forward to the enemy's death spiral ... because, when it comes to purging the world of darkness, we wouldn't have it any other way.
Onward is the only way forward.
The only way out is through.
And so, as we wait on the ever-expanding edge of Awakening, and see the first rays of the Golden Age peek up from beyond the horizon, I would implore you to regather your strength and spirit, and redouble your resolve, and to look ahead at the many battles that lay before us, and the promised land on the other side, one draped in the future we’re going to build out of the ashes of the system we’re going to tear down.
That we already are, in many theaters at once.
But we’ll save those explorations for the months—and the writings—ahead.
For now, don’t fret in the chaos. Bathe in it. Exult in it. Thrive in it.
It’s what you were made for.
And until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.
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Here's my favorite Brightism: "We are psycho-spiritual filtration machines capable of filtering crude digital, informational and even supernatural noise and condensing it into Grade A signal." While this Truth may stand the test of time and doesn't need embellishment, I, with my newly declared power as a psycho-spiritual filtration machine, can't hold back. The Libertarian position is that any government power is too much. That may very well be true. However, as Trump and his X-Men scale down the agencies, removing the feds of most of their power, he is in an awkward position. The BLOB has also infiltrated our state governments. We just got together to elect him to free us of this power, but he only has power over Washington. My hope is that he can use the intel gathered during the 2020, 2022, and 2024 elections to find that all state officials who participated in fraud in any federal election, including that of Kari Lake for senate, have violated their oath to the US Constitution, and are no longer eligible to hold any public office in the land. (all require allegiance to the US Constitution). That's as far as he can go. This leaves many NGOs free to continue their BLOB work. At this point, it will fall upon each of us, as Sovereign Psycho-Spiritual Filtration Machines, to sort through the chaos and create our own ways to govern ourselves, whether that involves State and County governments or not. Our responsibility goes further. We must dredge and clear ourselves of the unconscious remnants of the Woke Mind Virus in ourselves and especially in our children, and purge it from our schools. It all starts with ME!
Perhaps your best article ever. While a few of us will bask in and be satisfied with being unburdened by what has been, I will always see 11/5/24 as the doorway to our future.
If you don’t agree with Donald Trump when he just told you he owes America free and fair elections, then you couldn’t have ever truly supported him in the first place. Simple as that. To those people I say thank you for your service up to now. But get out of the way.