Paint-by-Power
Lessons from the Old Guard and Secrets in the Shadows
When is a Secret not a Secret anymore?
What happens when a whisper echoes?
When is a Plan undone?
But then, before we get too far down this esoteric path of shadowed musings of the shadows themselves, why don’t we take a quick check-in on the current Battlespace in the Info War, which I would say is defined by, well … beautiful chaos at the moment.
Sometimes, you just have to sit back and let the simulation go to work.
Over the course of the last week, the Kamala campaign (such that it is) has kicked off the Walz of the Progressives, which stands at odds with all of the narrative work the media apparatus has done on behalf of the former (and yet, still current) Biden Regime for the better part of four years.
Remember, progressivism has never been more unpopular than it is now, which is why key narrative-setters have been sending up signal flares to stop taking every bit of bait Donald Trump lays out for them, from racial branding to disturbing throwbacks to 2008 Obama campaign rhetoric.
Add to the mix the arrest of major election software executives, the death of an American censorship czar, flash market crashes, the resurfacing of 9/11 Truth, a lawfare campaign targeting the Deep State's System of Systems, and a shifting international game board built on multipolarity ... and you might begin to look forward to the precipice rather than fearing it.
Chaos is itself another word for tension, and tension, for all its attributes—all the ways it can push us forward—carries with it a negative connotation, and that’s understandable; after all, the regime has spent the better part of a century terrorizing the Collective Mind with the Hegelian Dialectic I’ve been writing about for a few years now, bringing them along an engineered Problem-Reaction-Solution logic train in order to provoke and then harness the collective tension that results from it.
That said, as I have also argued at length in these writings, tension is a feature of the Awakening, not a bug. It’s not something we need to get through, but something that quite literally provoked each of us along our own individual paths to Awakening—a Micro and Macro journey we’re still on to this day, and one that won’t end with the close of the current chapter of the Info War, or the one beyond that—when our conscious minds slipped through emergent shatterpoints such tension begot.
Of course, shatterpoints vary depending on the mind in question, and in order to have a Macro Shatterpoint in the Macro Mind, one needs it to be in a state of tension—tension stretched far enough and prodded frequently enough—and from myriad directions at once—to avoid the sort of stagnation and paralysis the enemy’s dialectic specialized in codifying for so long.
This is how the weapon of the enemy—understanding of individual and mass human psychology, understanding of fear in all its forms—has been turned around on them. This is why acceleration is the core, underlying principle behind patriot deployments—those they make directly along political, military, financial, technological and cultural lines, and, perhaps more in line with recent writings and developments in the War of Stories, ALSO those deployments they provoke.
This is asymmetric power projection, and it’s something Donald Trump and the many minds behind him excel at, because the Truth is the ultimate representation of an Infinite Player in Game Theory framing, and if your ultimate endgame is simply the acceleration of the game itself to its endpoint—the Truth that makes up the board itself— then any attempts to cover it up, to keep the game going indefinitely, is the move of a Finite Player.
This is the beautiful, logical paradox at the heart of the Info War—the war between the forces of light and darkness. Between us and them. The Infinite Player CAN play the game forever, but does not seek to, while the Finite Player CANNOT play the game forever, and so, seeks survival above all else.
The above is my general answer as to the unasked, but perhaps felt question circulating in the zeitgeist at present, which is: why have Anons and Truth-seekers felt relatively calm in the chaos of late, while the enemy has seemed anything but?
Quite simply, when you reframe chaos as convergence—convergence of the many narratives AND of what Actuals we can suss out in the many theaters of the Shadow War—you see Awakening as accelerating and inevitable, while its antithesis continues to wither and crack in the light of exposure. In the heart of the battlespace.
In my last Bright Brief, I argued that Donald Trump’s narrative deployments are so effective because he has a Story he’s pushing on and for the American people—and against those who would stand against us—while the enemy doesn’t just lack an opposing story … they have NO story at all, which means they have no central, gravitational well from which to project power.
(More on that in the linked feature below …)
In the end, the Establishment is currently seen as PLAYING politics, rather than engaging in them, which might begin to explain why the game of musical chairs the very candidacy for president the other side of the bracket has become has struck this audience as darkly comical, while it’s assailing the normie layers of the Collective Mind with a dizzying mix of cognitive dissonance and stunned paralysis.
The machine is comprised of messaging whose only consistency is its very lack thereof.
And make no mistake, there is a game afoot behind the scenes within the Establishment—one the Media Industrial Complex that holds its water has been trying and largely failing to suss out, all the better to fellate their dark masters in accordance with their dark designs.
Politics in the modern age—and, sadly, stretching back to the nation’s founding—is all about abstract forms of power projection, manipulated and wielded in order to seize positions of very real, consequential and Actual power. After all, setting the direction of the nation itself includes everything from deciding how it spends its money—and, tangentially, deciding how value itself is defined, depending on the current position of the fiat pendulum—to, more importantly, deciding how and where it spends its blood.
Our blood.
This recalls the Power is Power refrain I wrote about some time ago deep in the pages of the Righteous Russia series, and which, if I do say so myself, continues to age quite well …
That said, it should never be lost that, while the Queen—in this case, the Federal Government of the United States—does indeed wield most of the Actual power when it comes to pointing its 300 million inhabitants in the direction of wasted money and wasted blood—often in that order—the court jesters and whisperers still represent a power unto themselves, in their attempts to steer and position Actuals in a war they perceive in potentials.
And so, Power IS Power, yes, BUT … those who have a guiding hand in deciding who ultimately wields it could be considered even greater powers unto themselves, as those who have made the laws that ostensibly govern these lands happen to be counted among those who’ve played no small role in deciding who signs them, and, by extension, who enforces them with the full force and weight of government.
Which is to say, with violence (at least, with the threat of it) … the only way government has and will ever enforce its agendas, or ours.
In a way, these whisperers littered throughout the Old Guard of the Deep Political Establishment in the United States are the longest-lasting and most subversive powers we currently contend with—that our proxies, from Donald Trump to whichever other patriot you’d confidently put a colored hat on of one persuasion or another, are contending with … and who are, in my personal estimation, routing from the field, one baited deployment at a time.
In short, the court whisperers are themselves kingmakers, and, in case you hadn’t noticed, the kingmakers currently find themselves without a king—by their own admission—and are thus in search of a new one.
By observing these figures—the Nancy Pelosis, Chuck Schumers and Obamas of the world—the American people are getting a second and thirdhand accounting—and sometimes, against the better judgment of the players themselves—something approximating a firsthand accounting of the game within the game.
The game we were never supposed to know they were playing, and now one they’re practically explaining the rules to as the Era of the Orange Man has forced them into the light for all the world—for all eyes in the nation—to see, and for brightening minds to discern, dissect and pick apart.
All the better to recognize the shark’s fin when next it breaks the surface.
This paint-by-numbers approach to political posturing and clandestine narrative and sociological maneuvering is currently playing out through the microcosm of the Biden Coup and ensuing cover-up much more so than the ongoing—and frankly, tired—lawfare and political warfare campaign that has been playing out against Trump and his supporters—against all of us—for the better part of a decade.
As my friend
pointed out over the weekend, chief among these Shadow Players-turned Shadow Teachers is the aforementioned Pelosi, who has now gone out of her way to describe in a series of revealing asides, tangents and allusions exactly who betrayed Joe Biden, and why:
Some of the choicer quotes, pulled by
from the source:
The whole piece in The New Yorker is a fascinating deep dive into the mind of one of the prime players in the game that has been American politics for the last century—quite literally, in her case—even if its intent as likely the opposite of its net effects.
And what were those net effects?
Well, the reveal … no, the admission that the coup the American people saw flash before their eyes over the course of the last few weeks was exactly what their unconscious minds’ perceived … just like the faux presidency he now apparently—supposedly—abdicates was exactly what those same minds perceived over the course of the last few years … and just like the attempt on the man who never should have (who never COULD have, if you’re familiar with
’s research) been deposed before him was exactly what it looked like.To wit, when one applies my own cognitive cypher to the deployment, Overton’s Goalpost turns out something like the following:
DENY = There is no "Coup" against Joe Biden. He willingly stepped down for the good of the Party and the American People.
DIMINISH = Sure, some people might have SUGGESTED that Joe step down, but that's hardly a "Coup," and claims to the contrary represent right-wing, MAGA conspiracy theorizing.
QUALIFY = Listen, the Biden team may not be super happy with the way this all shook out, but, we at Old Guard Inc. are simply trying to do what's best for our political car ... err, for you, the people.
DISTRACT = Kamala is the new Fembama and is surging in the polls! Bah Gawd is that Tim Walz' music?! Trump is racist again!
ADMIT (You are here.) = There WAS a Coup on Joe Biden (thanks Nancy,) ... and (wait for it) ... that's a GOOD thing.
This hit piece masquerading as a puff piece is ostensibly meant to leave the reader—and, more importantly, the DC Insider class of protected protectors (and yes, probably predators, too)—in awe as to the cunning and guile possessed by the scions of the System of Systems … the old ghouls still haunting the seat of proxy power on Capitol Hill.
And yet, all Nancy has done, once more, is expose the players AND the game … and the American people are NOT in the mood to play at present.
Also, don’t miss the forest for the trees, dear reader … as, by admitting that Joseph R. Biden wasn’t exactly a willing player in this little game of musical chairs with the highest office in the land, Nancy also let slip that, well, as many of us have speculated throughout the fake presidency, Our Boy Blue isn’t quite as [theirs] these days as they might have thought, which makes one wonder exactly who HAS been pulling that particular puppet’s strings awhile. But we’ll leave that particular thread for a future writing.
That’s an open question that keeps the Deep State up at night far more often than us, and I can promise you that.
And this isn’t the first time Nancy herself has said the quiet part out loud when it comes to the way the ‘game’ of politics and power is played in the west.
Or did you forget that, way back in 2017, Pelosi kindly explained the concept of the “Wrap-up Smear” to the American people.
This political dialectic involves first seeding claims or rumors into the media apparatus before then citing said reporting as the basis for making public comments about said claims, even if you were the one that planted them in the first place.
The benefit of the practice for both parties (the politician and the media outlet) is that it provides shielding for each. The politician gets to cite “reporting,” while the media has an “unnamed source close to the situation.”
Now, the American people are being shown the same dialectic where it concerns an intra-party Civil War on the Dem ticket, as the Old Guard is all but admitting they did indeed stage a political coup on Joe Biden.
Patriots like Donald Trump and Dan Scavino know this, which is why they’re signaling the return of #OurBoyBlue into the central narrative.
If Joe was [theirs,] this wouldn’t matter.
After all, templates abound in the Info War because Templates represent frameworks that, if successful, can be redeployed ad nauseam with new situational paint applied to them. Unless, of course, the people being tricked by the template recognize it in the first place.
So … while Nancy has indeed said the quiet part out loud once again—that the Biden Coup is a game within games—the Old Guard set its sights on the wrong enemy, that being the Biden Admin, while forgetting the true infinite player watching from the edges of the intra-party board:
Patriots. Us.
In the end, the very argument the Deep State and all its scions and sycophants would forward for WHY they are best positioned to rule, or, put another way, to keep playing the game is the same one WE would forward in favor of turning the whole game board over … of refusing to play any longer.
This is not a game.
This nation is not a game.
This world is not a game.
Our lives are not games.
Not to us, and soon … not to them, either.
And yet, we DO have better players, as long as this Shadow Game is meant to be stretched to the point of breaking, to the point of Awakening, as I believe figures like Trump, Dan Scavino and yes, each and every one of us—and collectively, the Awakening Anon world—have struck fear into the shadows on the cavern walls.
They’ve become twitchy and reactive. In the light of our many torches, they’re speaking without sound, as the watchers of the play—as the observers—have grown disillusioned with the illusion itself, as more and more see the faint flicker of strings leading up and away to spidered shadows splayed like fingers.
The American Mind—the human mind—knows, deep down, that this world is not as it was supposed to be, and certainly not as it could be.
Now, they’re beginning to know why.
More importantly, they’re beginning to know WHO.
When is a Secret not a Secret anymore?
When it’s spoken aloud.
What happens when a whisper echoes?
It betrays those who would betray.
When is a Plan undone?
When it is known.
In explaining the rules of the game—the rules of power—to those watching the shadows on the wall, they have ceded it.
Once you know how the engine works, it becomes at once more impressive to you, and yet, also more known, and thus, less alien … less prone to confound and confuse. Less likely to frustrate. Less able to frighten. And this process of disclosure and forced discovery has the opposite effect on those who sought to obfuscate the inner workings of the engine in the first place.
It’s all so Hegelian, and once you understand that overlaying and underlying template that rules them all—now thanks in large part to the controllers themselves … the puppeteers—it’s all so predictable.
So, to Nancy Pelosi and the other shadow players withering in the reaching and brightening light, and to the shadowed queen we all know is itching to reach her gnarled fingers back into the story and the fight, still hiding in shadows that begin to betray her … I say this:
Be careful what your magic hath wrought, because if you spin enough threads, you’re as likely to get caught in them as the flies you hope to ensnare.
As for you, dear reader … you’re allowed to hate the players AND the game, now that you see them for what they are.
And if that’s starting to feel an awful lot like control to you and BY you … that’s because it is.
Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.
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"In the light of our many torches, they’re speaking without sound, as the watchers of the play—as the observers—have grown disillusioned with the illusion itself, as more and more see the faint flicker of strings leading up and away to spidered shadows splayed like fingers."
-- Burning Bright
"And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
And no one dared disturb the sound of silence"
-- Paul Simon, "The Sound Of Silence," released by Simon and Garfunkel October 19, 1964
The Overton Goal Posts, from Deny to Admit, is becoming so transparent and predictable [thanks BB]. I can really see the movement as it is happening. And I agree, America is not in the mood for the bullshit [thanks DJT].
Another educational masterpiece for the Truth Community
Mike