☕️ A NEW HOPIUM ☙ Sunday, February 18, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
More thoughts on why yesterday's Tucker interview is great news, a subscriber-only bonus post about the most significant Proxy War development since it started, and the resulting epochal crisis.
Good morning, regular C&C readers and loyal subscribers, it’s Sunday! Which usually means it’s time for the subscriber bonus post, but yesterday’s report about Tucker’s interview with Mike Benz has, apparently, left some of you in a funk. And that means it’s time for some more Big Picture. So the first part of today’s post is going out to the whole C&C community, and subscribers get a special report on the most significant development in the Proxy War since it began, creating both a crisis and an opportunity for us all.
🗞 THE BIGGER PICTURE 🗞
In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (also just called Star Wars, but that’s another story), a plucky band of misfit, disenfranchised, political insurrectionists get together, mount a heroic all-in final assault against all odds — in flying smart cars — against Big Government’s ultimate weapon, an impenetrable, unbeatable Directed Energy Weapon that was literally as big as the Moon.
You remember it.
Speaking of Death Stars, state-affiliated Google can be as fascinating as it is frustrating. While the search engine slyly suppresses the national conversation, it teaches us through its omissions what the directors of the censorship regime fear the most. For instance, this morning Google pretended not to understand my simple request for a picture of a group of people together lifting a car. Ironically, I found it on TikTok.
Here you go, today’s thematic illustration :
Yesterday some people felt despondent, distressed, and discouraged by Mike Benz’s revelation of the nefarious forces opposing democracy. Today’s morale-boosting post will be based on three principles. First, the Bible has something to say about that awful feeling of hopelessness, which always looks permanent but never actually lasts:
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. — Psalms 30:5b.
Despair — re-branded for the post-pandemic as being ‘black pilled’ — is designed to conceal our collective capabilities. But even a blind girl could see the power in collective effort:
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
Finally, and somehow appropriately, an epic American poet drew us a lyrical map to a better future:
“There is no way out but through. — Robert Frost.
But Jeff, I can hear some of you saying, what can we do? How can we possibly fight a sprawling, shadowy, sinister military-intelligence axis? I will suggest that is the wrong question but I will answer it anyway.
The Good News
First we must correct any misunderstanding that yesterday’s Tucker interview was somehow bad news. It wasn’t; it was actually good news. Let me give you an example.
Suppose you started having bad headaches, especially — but not always — whenever you saw a badly written, politically-correct remake movie. But then it gets progressively worse, mutating into migraines triggered by drag brunches, generals in high heels, and bald, lipsticked, luggage lifting nuclear waste officials. It even happens without cheap female knockoffs of traditional male leads, lacking any story arc, character flaws, or internal struggles. It seems serious, so you finally give in and trot off to see the neurologist, fearing the worst. Brain cancer? An inoperable clot somewhere? Mangled neurons? Or even … a toxic allergy to wokeness?
After many time-consuming tests, scans of sensitive spots, penetrating probes, and intimate interviews, followed by worrisome weeks of endless waiting for word, the doctor finally dishes the diagnosis. It’s a brain parasite, toxoplasmii Pelosi, and the doctor recommends immediate brain surgery to wriggle out the damnable worm, plus six weeks of bed rest, a year of IV antibiotics, and your solemn promise to cut back to a dozen house cats max.
You trudge out the doctor’s office, dial your spouse with numb fingers, and explain the diagnosis. But your spouse seems oddly excited. “No,” they explain, “this is actually good news! At least now we know what it is and how to fix it.”
In his Tucker interview, Mike Benz didn’t tell us anything about any new problem. He ably revealed a slow-motion disaster unfolding for a long time. The CIA’s dirty tricks only metastasized and took on a new form, responding to the new environment of social media and the Internet. “Conspiracy theorists” have been complaining for decades about media’s capture by government (see, e.g. ‘Project Mockingbird’) but there has never been any collective will to resist, change, or even admit there was a problem.
Probably because it didn’t seem to really affect regular folks. Well, that’s changed, hasn’t it?
It’s changed a lot. You have to work awfully hard to believe nobody’s doing anything. Now there’s a major Supreme Court case that is right on point (Missouri v. Biden). There’s relentless disclosure of Deep State’s dirty tricks like Tucker’s interview. There are citizens like Mike Benz and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk who are well-funded and working day and night to expose them.
And there is a growing group of millions of highly-concerned citizens who are not just willing to listen but are eager to learn. As of this morning, Tucker’s Mike Benz interview has nearly 25 million views. Tucker’s interview with Putin has surpassed 200 million views. Like antibodies assembling to resist a marxist mind virus, the culture is changing.
In the Netherlands alone, there are now more farmers who are convinced globalism threatens civilization than there were Americans ten years ago who thought government propaganda and corruption was any kind of a real problem.
Politics, as they say, is downstream from culture.
It is a big job.
Let there be no doubt; we have a lot of work to do to clean up this mess. But a community can’t clean up its mess unless citizens can collectively agree on what and where the mess is. When there’s no consensus over defining the problem, everybody just argues in circles and nothing changes.
All these 2024 disclosures, the Tucker interviews with Putin and Benz, the Taibbi and Shellenberger stories, Joe Rogan, Seymour Hersh, Russel Brand, and so on, are getting everybody on the same page.
And once enough folks agree on what the problem is, we won’t just be lifting cars, we will start lifting Death Stars. Which is why they want to stop us from talking, shut down uncompromised influencers, and keep us all fighting each other.
We are stronger than we think.
If the bad actors had the power to pull our plug, they’d have already done it. If they were secure in their powers, they wouldn’t have to operate in the dark. They obviously aren’t secure, nor are they all-powerful. However “close” you might think they are, they clearly aren’t there yet. Which means we — at least collectively — are still more powerful than they are.
They’re afraid of us.
To retain and grow their power, the globalist oligarchs can need a substantial part of society to support and protect them. Once the forces opposing them reach a certain critical mass, which is probably far below a majority, it’s all over for them. That’s why they have to censor and obfuscate. That’s why they have to bend the law to the breaking point and create all-new ‘disinformation’ agencies.
The social antibodies are already beginning to work. The globalist viruses are weakening. As Exhibit A, behold the short and unremarkable career of former Harvard President and grotesque DEI caricature Claudia Gay:
I could add lots more. Bud Lite, Trucker Convoys, Eagle Pass, Dylan Mulvaney, Anthem kneelers, farmer protests, chainsaw presidents, luggage thieves, real talk of gold-based currencies, failed WHO initiatives, defeated mandates, and so on and so forth.
Our social body remains infected by parasites and needs more time to recover. It might get worse before it gets better. But the body is healing itself. We just have to keep nursing it back to health. We are the body and we are also the antibodies. The globalists — or whatever you want to call them — are the parasitic infection.
But what to do?
First of all, stop worrying about everything that you can’t control.
“And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?” — Matthew 6:27.
We are in a mental war. And fear is the mind killer.
The best cure for worry is doing something practical. If you don’t know what else to do, do local, local, local. Oppose porn and drag at the local school board meeting. Support local freedom candidates, or support an influencer who is moving the needle and not just doomblogging. Go get on the library board. Volunteer at the local Republican Party and start earning a voice with your sweat equity. When you disagree with other conservatives, and you will, don’t take your toys and go home. Compromise for now, and work to build consensus over time.
Together we will lift the parasitic Death Star and stuff it right into the globalists’ reverse aperture. Now get out there and keep lifting, you joyful warriors.