<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Psudestack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pseudo-intellectualism at its finest.]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nkrm!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5940e5a5-a45f-4952-b7af-3380fc0a48ba_518x518.png</url><title>The Psudestack</title><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:14:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://thepsudestack.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[thepsudestack@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[thepsudestack@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[thepsudestack@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[thepsudestack@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[American Democrashy: The Nature of our Retardation]]></title><description><![CDATA[If only you knew how retarded things really are.]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/american-democrashy-the-nature-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/american-democrashy-the-nature-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:22:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d7afc53e-1133-490e-95fc-0e114a780746_480x360.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a follow up to an article I wrote earlier, which was more of a venting piece than anything else. It was framed around the idea that America has descended into being a &#8220;democrashy&#8221;, or a democracy that is being crippled by the retardation of its populous. The term &#8220;democrashy&#8221; comes from a viral clip of Indian yogi and cult leader Osho giving his opinion of democratic government:</p><blockquote><p>Democracy basically mean, &#8220;Government by the people, of the people, for the people. But the people are retarded. So, democracy means &#8220;Government by the retarded, of the retarded, for the retarded.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Looking back, I feel I did a bit of disservice by just pointing out things that were annoying me, and declaring the whole country special needs. As I said towards the end of my rant, &#8220;I wish America was retarded in the same way the <em>Puppy Bowl</em> is.&#8221;</p><p>The problem isn&#8217;t that we&#8217;re all smoothed brained, far from it. In actuality the biggest culprits for our free fall into democrashy are those who have many wrinkles under their cranium. They&#8217;re misusing their wrinkle rich brains, leading to us all needing to dawn thick head gear, both figuratively, and quite literally in the case of protesters and real life provocateurs. </p><p>To make my point clearer, I&#8217;d like to talk about a movie about a world where everyone is literally retarded.</p><h2><em>Idiocracy, </em>And The True Nature of The Naturally Retarded</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pLky!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd574ab2-8d5a-4e41-bd65-517755495ea5_501x736.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Many people are familiar with the cult classic film <em>Idiocracy, </em>a movie set in a future where everyone is an idiot as a result of stupid people having more kids over generations<em>.</em> While it is a fun and funny flick, I&#8217;ve always harbored some complaints about the movie. Not only is the film an implicit endorsement for eugenics, but the way it portrays stupid people is not really how dumb people are. The comical disgenics idiots that make up the world of <em>Idiocracy</em> are clearly modeled on Beavis and Butthead, which is not unsurprising, since the director Mike Judd is also the creator of <em>Bevis and Butthead</em>. This makes for many laughs, but as I said earlier it doesn&#8217;t really portray what stupid people are like in real life.</p><p>There is one scene particular that stands out in this regard. The main character, who is a man of average intelligence from our time, comes across a farm field with his idiot travel companions, only to find whoever is trying to grow crops is using electrolyte rich sports drinks to water the field, because &#8220;it&#8217;s what plants crave.&#8221; He tries for hours to explain why you can&#8217;t use Gatorade to water plants to the idiots, but gives up and just says its magic and then they agree to use regular water. </p><p>This is not how stupid people usually react in these kind of situations. The thing about dumb people is they intuitively know they&#8217;re not the brightest tool in the shed. They&#8217;re actually more than willing to comply with people they perceive as smarter than them, especially if they&#8217;re confident in their delivery. &#8220;Conman&#8221; is short for &#8220;Confidence Man&#8221; after all.</p><p>Furthermore, if you just say something is &#8220;magic&#8221;, even stupid people will call you out on that bullshit<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>. &#8220;Nuh uh. It&#8217;s what the plants crave, stupid! Your magic is probably for homos.&#8221; In reality, him describing how plants absorb water would have gone over their heads, but they would intuitively know that he knows what he is talking about, and actually be kind of wow&#8217;d by his knowledge. Stupid people are often humble in this regard. If you don&#8217;t believe me, why does every infomercial have a &#8220;HERE&#8217;S HOW IT WORKS!&#8221; segment where they bombard you with sciencey sounding jargon while CGI rendered animations play?</p><p>But you know who would argue <em>night</em> and <em>fucking day</em> it&#8217;s what plants crave? <strong>A REDDITOR!</strong> A fucking redditor would stand there, and endlessly mock you for <strong>DARING</strong> to suggest it is in fact not what plants crave. A filthy reddior would proceed to make a post on /r/stupidshitpeoplesay, to many an updoot from their cretinous kin. <em>You know it&#8217;s true if you&#8217;ve had the displeasure of arguing with a redditor. </em>I guess you could somehow make up some shit about how watering plants with Power Aid is racist or transphobic, their version of saying something is &#8220;magic&#8221;, and maybe then the crops would be properly watered after they consulted with /r/askReddit.</p><h2>The Nature of Our Retardation</h2><p>The reason I bring up this gripe with a now twenty year old movie is to say it is not left side of the IQ bell curve that is the problem. Honestly you&#8217;re lucky to get dumb people to vote or care about issues to begin with, just ask any political party activist who knocks on doors during election season. Politics just kind of goes over their heads, and they just tend to their lives. They don&#8217;t really factor into the retarding of our politics. Ironically they&#8217;re the smart ones in this equation. But an arrogant, self righteous redditor, that&#8217;s another story. </p><p>In actuality it&#8217;s the right side of the bell curve failing to use their gifts is what&#8217;s causing our slide into collective stupidity. This artificially induced retardation that&#8217;s ravaging the stability of our country can be broken down into three main causes. </p><h3>Mob Mentality</h3><p>The original title I was going to use for my earlier &#8220;American Democrashy&#8221; article was &#8220;America Is Under Mob Rule&#8221;, but though editing &#8220;democrashy&#8221; just took center stage, and the theme of the mob was lost to the backspace button. </p><p>When people get wrapped up in a mob, their mind gets lost in the crowd. Both individual reasoning and sense of personal responsibility goes out the window. A tragic example of this the infamous Great White fire in Rhode Island, in which a failed pyrotechnic show during a rock concert set the venue on fire. People panicked, clogging the exits as people struggled to get out, leading to many losing their lives. Tragedies like this is why fire drills are done. Combine natural mob psychology with the potent emotions that politics evokes, and you have a concoction for mayhem. </p><p>People often do things they would never do when taken in by the mania of the mob. I&#8217;ve actually experienced this myself, trying to resist the urge to do mindless slogan chanting at a political rally, only to find myself chanting &#8220;USA! USA! USA!&#8221; at counter demonstrators. I won&#8217;t forget trying to fight it, yet the words came out of my mouth. It felt good, a feeling I imagine our primate cousins feel when beating their chests to show who&#8217;s really running this jungle.</p><p>Normally when we think of the mob, we think of people outside with torches ready to burn a witch. But this can happen in the digital spaces. The whole phenomena of &#8220;canceling&#8221; is really just witch burning from the comfort of your own home, where instead of burning the physical body you&#8217;re destroying the symbol of someone. This means mob psychology is not as easily dispersed as when they occur physically, and the detachment in digital space means the &#8220;coming to your senses&#8221; moment is delayed to come, if ever. </p><h3>Social Media and Algorithms </h3><p>This digital stirring of the mob usually occurs on social media. This is a common talking point across the spectrum. Talk of &#8220;online radicalization&#8221; almost feel trite and cliche at this point. But there is no denying the brainwashing potency of social media. </p><p>Algos create personalized tunnel visions, where you can be fed a constant stream of black on white crime, police brutality, or gay furry porn with political messaging. Actually that last one is probably the most worrying, since it mixes the apolitical with the political, meaning politics doesn&#8217;t stay in it&#8217;s lane, blurring the line of when politics should rear it&#8217;s head into our lives. It&#8217;s why there is a whole cottage industry ranting against wokeness in pop culture. Perhaps a certain alleged assassin could have been saved by porn of dog people doing it while wearing MAGA hat.</p><p>But algos usually don&#8217;t just produce a feed of pure political slop (unless it&#8217;s BluSky or Gab), they mix in regular content. This creates a whiplash effect where your social media feed may go: Pretti tribute video, a Hasan clip mocking Asmongold<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>, an AI video of a baby saving a puppy, a post about new streetware fashion trends, a video of a transgender person crying as they describe being disowned by their family, ect. The subconscious is bombarded by mixed signals, meaning the conscious mind is being bypassed by this whiplash of mixed signals. </p><p>This reminds me of a hypnosis technique, where you begin to bring someone in hypnotic trance back to a more normal form of consciousness, only to reverse back down, taking them down deeper into trance than before. Social media algos mixing political content alongside mundane and emotionally charged content, all in a rapid and seemingly random succession, probably has a similar effect to the previously mentioned hypnosis technique for reaching deeper trance states. And when you&#8217;re in a deep trance state, you&#8217;re more likely to internalize suggestions<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>.</p><p>On top of this tunnel vision and mental whiplashing, emotionally charged content is quicker to spread than a well articulated positions, meaning any sense of rationality surrounding already highly charged topics gets further pushed out. It&#8217;s why people become absolutely hysterical, as so many TikToks of people melting down in their cars proves. Though constant exposure, rational thinking is suppressed and emotions are heightened, and people often find themselves barking at phantoms to their dashboard. </p><p>While social media is often where the fingers point to when trying to single out the cause for the decline of decorum and quality of our public discourse, I think the real issue is something more insidious, that has been going on before Mark Zuckerberg was even born.  </p><h3>Ego and Pride</h3><p>Christopher Lasch wrote his most famous book <em>The Culture of Narcissism</em> back in the 70&#8217;s during the height of the &#8220;me&#8221; generation. I read this book, and while I found it meandering at points, with whole chapters having &#8220;old man yells at cloud in sky&#8221; vibes, his main thesis that American culture had entered a new phase typified by narcissism has only proven itself to be more correct over the years. Narcissistic grandiosity is reinforced by the digital social media space. Likes, retweets, and updoots gives grandiosity numbers to back it up, alongside a nice uptick in dopamine. The previously mentioned algo induced tunnel vision will ensure your positions are reinforced, and keeps out anything that question preconceived notions.  </p><p>Another issue is the people most engaged with politics, both in terms of activism and talking about it are generally smarter than the average bear. Even the much loathed midwits are by definition are slightly above average. The thing is, midwits and even geniuses are not immune to mental traps that ensnare even the stupid, but they think they are above it.</p><p>You often hear these types say &#8220;Oh advertising and propaganda doesn&#8217;t work on me, that&#8217;s for stupid people.&#8221; Well tell that to the members of the notorious Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult, who in 1995 released toxic sarin gas into a Tokyo subway, killing and crippling many. The members of the Aum cult weren&#8217;t idiots, they were lawyers, doctors, and even politicians. Cults actually like to target smart people. Not only do they often have a lot of income for funding cult compounds, but they are the types to ask the big question, while also being disillusioned with conventional religion. Is a standard tard gonna walk into a woo-woo meditation studio? Actually I just remembered California exists, so scratch that. And cults don&#8217;t even need to be based on a spiritual doctrine as NXVIM or the Zizians demonstrate, so don&#8217;t think your fedora shields you atheist.</p><p>Some would say cult brainwashing is an extreme case, but cults don&#8217;t usually hit you hard with the brainwashing until your well within their sales funnel (for lack of a better term). I&#8217;ve seen studies that suggest that counter to the self serving narrative that possessing superior brain power means being able to dismantle disinformation and bias, in reality it just leads to being better at rationalizing it. Reason is not the magic wand that the Enlightenment imagined it to be. You can use rational arguments to rationalize practically anything, especially when sticking to purely &#8220;on paper&#8221; thinking. Almost every disaster of modernity originated from very smart people penning things down on paper.</p><p>Smart people often forget or think their above their lizard and mammalian parts of their brains can override the rest of their brain as easily as a dim wit. This leads them to being some of the most useful of idiots, as they can intake abstract concepts while their hind brain does all the real thinking and plotting. Yes, even you smarty pants Substack reader can fall for the same pitfalls as any rube off the street. 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And to return to the diffused narcissism in our society that effects both sides of the bell curve, there is definitely an issue of pride, where people legitimately have no interest in taking into account other perspectives, having a set of thought terminating words or phrases. &#8220;He&#8217;s a fucking Nazi!&#8221;, &#8220;Listen to this dirty woke degenerate!&#8221;, etcetera etcetera. You can clearly see this attitude displayed on any given episode of <em>Piers Morgan Uncensored</em>, as box people who fancy themselves as intellectual vanguards hoot and holler at each other like it&#8217;s <em>Jerry Springier</em>.</p><p>Hell, probably the most naked example of our prideful culture is Donald Trump. I get he uses his big tough guy image to work a particular angle, <em>Art Of The Deal</em> and all that. But he has become increasingly callous when not called for. I&#8217;m reminded of his comments relating to someone recently squirting water at Ilhan Omar at some kind of town hall event. While it was just water, it could have been something worse like acid, so it&#8217;s more than a goofy prank, something more akin to an intimidation tactic<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a>. He could have given some basic polite platitudes and disavowals, but instead he more or less said fuck her like a catty bitch.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a> </p><p>Trump in many ways is the collective Jungian shadow of the nation, manifested into one former game show host turned leader and chief. I actually think this is what causes people to absolutely lose it in regards to him. It&#8217;s common to hate a politician from the other side of the aisle, but wow does he spark something in people. The narcissism that Lasch called out all the way in the 70&#8217;s is typified in Trump, and I suspect we all project our own narcissistic tendenceis onto him, be it with fawning praise or burning hate. </p><h2>Wrapping Up</h2><p>The people are indeed retarded, but it&#8217;s not from a lack of organic computing power among the politically active or the average voter. Those who have average to beefy processing power underestimate the ability of their more primitive circuits to hijack their minds, and are too prideful to acknowledge this fact. This renders them functionally retarded when navigating politics, and in many respects this self induced retardation is worse than merely being stupid.</p><p>We were as a society just getting used to TV boxes in our homes, before the tech overlords dumped networked computers into our family rooms, bringing us an endless stream of information and media, giving the average person the experience of sensory and information overload usually only felt by people with autism. This alone would have been a shock that would have taken our society generations to get accustomed to, but said tech overlords proceeded to create dopamine and ego amplifies in the form of social media. In all honesty, the problems facing the country are so much worse than merely being retarded. It&#8217;s something much deeper, dare I say spiritual.</p><p>Democracy basically means &#8220;Government by the people, of the people for the people.&#8221; But the people are <em><strong>rotten</strong></em>&#8230;<em><strong> </strong></em>and also retarded. We are all condemned to ride this cursed short bus of doom.</p><p>But fear not! For I am opening a new yoga and meditation center in Anaheim next week to help cleanse your anxiety ridden soul during these trying times. We even have offer a free personality exam to determine where your chakras are misaligned, and which bodhisattvas you should pray to. Women can even get free one-on-one sessions with me, you know to make up for the gender pay gap (I am a dedicated feminist and supporter of reproductive rights). Stick it to the Patriarchy ladies! And come down to &#8220;Aquarian Meditation and Tantra Center.&#8221; It&#8217;s what your chakras crave&#8482;! </p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>I&#8217;m sure some will rebut this with &#8220;what about prosperity gospel televangelist and faith healers?&#8221; Both those exist in a preestablished, socially accepted frames of reality. Just saying &#8220;it&#8217;s magic&#8221; won&#8217;t fly except with children, and that&#8217;s largely due to children naturally being more open, since they are ultimately trying to absorb the frame of reality they will live in via osmosis. I give an example a different socially accepted frame, and how that can be exploited in the next paragraph.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Hasan is a far left political Twitch streamer, Asmondgold is a center-right gaming streamer who often dips into political commentary, they have something of a rivalry.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>There is dispute among hypnotist if the depth of trances makes suggestions more likely to take, but the idea deeper = more likely to stick is still considered conventional wisdom. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>I know a lot of people think that whole incident was staged, but that doesn&#8217;t discount my criticism of Trump&#8217;s response to the incident. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>As an aside, in much the same spirit people said Bill Clinton was our first black president, Trump is our first female president. His defeat of both Hilary Clinton and Kamala Harris should be viewed as a victory by the meanest girl at school. Seriously, just think of some great Trump zingers and say them with the tone of a bitchy teenage girl. &#8220;Quiet, miss piggy!&#8221;</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Democrashy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Demcrashy basically means...]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/american-democrashy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/american-democrashy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:00:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6ae37a1f-bb76-4481-830d-31f77246875e_1200x628.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p>Democracy basically mean, &#8220;Government by the people, of the people, for the people. But the people are retarded. So, democracy means &#8220;Government by the retarded, of the retarded, for the retarded.</p></div><p>The above quote is from Acharya Rajneesh, also known as Osho. Raj is a very controversial figure, since he once ran a cult in Oregon that tried to topple the local government via bio-terrorism. &#8220;Bio-terrorism&#8221; brings to mind terrorist getting their hands on anthrax or genetically engineered turbo AIDS, but what they did was spike salad bars at various restaurants with salmonella, in order to depress voter turnout of their opposition. This is not to make light of what they did, as Taco Time is a sacred Pacific North Western institution that should not be defiled, though weird hippy cults also are a staple of the region. </p><p>The quote comes from one of his many lectures, where he pronounces &#8220;democracy&#8221; as &#8220;democrashy&#8221; with his Indian accent. Allow me to coin my own meme buzzword, and use &#8220;democrashy&#8221; as a term for a dysfunctional democratic government caused, or exacerbated by the idiocy of its people. </p><p>So have we reached <em>democrashy</em> yet, or are we just facing a phase of rough political turbulence that all ballot casting countries face from time to time? Let&#8217;s examine the rival wings of this retarded eagle we call a republic, and take a look at an event I think is being setup to make sure the eagle tard rages up in the sky. </p><h2>The Karen Brigades</h2><p>Right now the Democratic Party is acting like a chicken with it&#8217;s head cut off, because that&#8217;s exactly what it lacks. The Dems have no clear leader or figurehead, and I think background string pullers are more interested in protecting themselves or have completely pulled out. This means no one is there to reign in extremist excesses. The left is operating on the impulses of its squeakiest wheels, that being mentally ill people on TikTok and the like. This has been most apparent by prominent Democrat politicians not toning down rhetoric about ICE, even after a sniper intending to kill ICE officers instead killed a detainee back in early autumn of last year. </p><p>This has to be my biggest condemnation in regards to both the rhetoric coming from mouth pieces and actions committed by activist:<em> they are putting illegals and immigrants lives at risk. </em>There has been a lot of talk about the quality of ICE agents due to the mass on boarding to meet the demands of Trump&#8217;s deportation agenda, with assertions that training is being cut short for new agents. Compound this with the constant fear that any routine round of professional kidnapping can be interrupted not just by do-gooders blowing whistles, but by well armed radicals who sincerely think they&#8217;re the storm troopers of the 4th Reich. I have to imagine what would have been a polite knocks on the door becomes nervous taps with a hand ready to reach for he holster, a case of &#8220;let him run, he&#8217;ll get tired eventually&#8221; becomes tackles to the ground with shouts of <strong>&#8220;DON&#8217;T MOVE!&#8221;</strong></p><p>Think about how insane it is that  the faces of this anti-ICE movement is two dead middle class white people and not the actual people being thrown into Alligator Alcatraz. Good job Reddit, you&#8217;re finally as oppressed as the browns you claim to hold so dear. And in addition to whitey once again stealing the brown man&#8217;s thunder, they&#8217;ve polarized the issue surrounding immigration, so now the whole debate is framed around two untenable extremes. If anything, ICE seems more afraid of the Karen Brigade than the criminal illegals they deal with.</p><p>I think ultimately happened with Renee Good. Had there not been a long string of attacks on ICE agents by activist, they would have let her drive off<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>. But because there has been constant attacks and threats to their lives, the agent acted on survival instincts, delivering the killing bullets to her mini van. I won&#8217;t say <em><strong>EFF AYE EFF OHH </strong></em>like the cretins I will address later, but there is definitely an element of tempting fate by these types I wish they&#8217;d cease to do. In the case of Pretti, I think that was a case of suicide by cop, with activism being the conscious justification for his underlying death wish, and border patrol not meant to handle these situations being the ultimate end.</p><p>That sums up my thoughts on the left, now we look at the rot on the right.</p><h2>Trump Becomes The Wall</h2><p>I&#8217;ve noticed in right wing spaces there has been souring on Trump, MAGA, and populism overall, coming up with the new trendy buzzword &#8220;slopulism.&#8221; A lot of this has to do certain foreign policy moves (especially Israel), but it&#8217;s more than that. I&#8217;ve heard from right wingers amendable to edgelord banter that they&#8217;re becoming concerned about the attitude displayed MAGA types, how much they revel in crass cruelty. Some would dismiss this as A.I bots, and I&#8217;m sure a lot of it is, if only since most posts on the Internet are from A.I. these days. But official federal accounts regularly post streams of snarky memes of a very questionable nature. Even Nick Fuentes has said Trump relies on &#8220;performative cruelty.&#8221; While to Nick I&#8217;d say pot meets kettle, he is right the golden MAGA kettle is now covered in the black tar of their legitimately toxic attitude towards everything.</p><p>One of the saving graces for Republicans though is they don&#8217;t have the extensive activist networks of weaponized mentally ill people willing to take to the streets like the left does<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>. Closest thing they have to that are various religious political action groups, and they have to at least put on the appearance of being good Sunday school Christians. They still do shitty things like obvious baiting. I&#8217;m reminded of a row over a Christian group holding a rally in Seattle&#8217;s most left and gay neighborhood Capital Hill, the same neighborhood who blessed us with gift that was CHAZ<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>. But as many pointed out in the wake of Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination, while the left mourned their martyr by setting the country on fire for a whole summer, while the right merely held prayer vigils, with only a few scuffles involving hostile interlopers.</p><p>Another thing constraining the right&#8217;s mob is they have a clear figure head, that being Donald Trump. While Trump does fan the flames and instigates unnecessary and incendiary publicity stunts like in Minnesota, the fact there is just someone in the room acts as a stabilizer. But what happens then he is gone? </p><p>This is concerning to me, as the whole political establishment and zeitgeist is framed around the former <em>Sharper Image</em> steak knives salesman. He came in as a battering ram, but now feels like the pillar holding everything up. It could be the case that the devolving MAGA swap just disintegrates as many movements do when he is out of office. It has been long speculated if MAGA actually represents anything more than Trump&#8217;s personality cult after all. But when Nick &#8220;Rape, Murder, and Die For Me&#8221; Fuentes is going &#8220;oof yikes&#8221; to comments and rhetoric coming both from the base and administration, it could be a real problem if the MAGA swamp of once cheeky smug pepes turned evil venomous toads sticks around. </p><p>Trump, who once said to &#8220;Build The Wall&#8221; is acting as the wall containing the worst elements of America&#8217;s collective id, and I fear what will happen once that wall is gone. I think the ultimate outcome will depend in how he goes out. If it&#8217;s by impeachment or assassination, the coming flood will be one of destruction. If however, it is a controlled demolition, especially if Vance or a Vance-like figure (meaning someone who is amendable to MAGA, yet isn&#8217;t as inherently polarizing as Trump) manages to fill the void, it will be a question of coming up with a antidote to the toad&#8217;s venom. There are some other possibilities, but I&#8217;ve made my overall point clear. There is also a real possibility once Trump is out of the picture, the left will calm down, causing the other side to also chill out. But it maybe the case the damage done is impossible to repair.</p><p>Now that I&#8217;ve done the fence sitting technique of criticizing both sides while clearly showing favoritism, I want to focus on an event I believe is being done specifically to shake the eagle cage.</p><h2>&#8230;Then They Came For Football</h2><p>The Super Bowl this year is looking to be an antagonistic shitlib extravaganza. The provocative Latinx singer Bad Bunny is headlining the halftime show, promising to only sing in Spanish. Also included in the show is the highly political pop-punk band Green Day.  In addition to what will be a contentious half time show, The Owl<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a> is taking place in San Franny, with the cities playing being Seattle and Boston, both being notorious leftist cities, facing off in the aforementioned progressive Mecca that is Frisco<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a>. </p><p>But fear not God fearing <em>TRUE AMERICANS</em>! If the mere utterance of Spanish sends shivers down your spine, TPUSA is doing their part in furthering our national downward spiral by doing it&#8217;s own rival <em>The All-American Halftime Show, </em>airing it while Mr. Bunny and the aged out eye liner crew are set to burn American flags live on stage. It will be a real battle between the NFL and TPUSA for who can put on the most blunt and cringe propaganda display. I yearn for the days when substitute half time shows usually involved hot girls in bikinis (it&#8217;s what Charlie would have wanted, #ForCharlie).  </p><p>As an aside, I&#8217;m saddened politics will most likely completely sideline all the occult symbolism that are usually in those half time shows, which are always fun to pick out an analyze. <em>How am I suppose to pad out this substack with something that&#8217;s not politisergery! </em>&#8220;No see, when Bad Bunny deep throated that dildo it was a ritual to the ancient god Priapus. It was exactly 33 centimeters! WAKE THE FUCK UP SHEEPLE!&#8221; Maybe TPUSA can surprise me with some Moloch worship.  </p><h2>Conclusion</h2><p>I really think the powers that be are intentionally shaking up this country and it's culture to spark something, as the up coming Super Bowl is just one example of. But the populous is complicit by their inability to display any kind of reason, foresight, and honestly compassion, willfully giving into the mob. We&#8217;re giving them an easy chemistry experiment to see when the beaker finally blows. There is someone running to be the next AG of Ohio openly campaigning on executing Trump for God sake! &#8220;Of the retarded&#8221; indeed.</p><p>It&#8217;s safe to say democrashy is in full swing, and it is only a question as to how retarded things are going to get. The patriots are not in control (nor winning The Owl), it&#8217;s two rival mobs who only know slop propaganda and animistic tribalism. They even have their own rival slop performances. If only the country was retarded in the way the Puppy Bowl is.</p><p>Perhaps now is the time to acquire some lush, tree filled Northwestern backwoods territory, and find some disciples who are open to opening their third eye, and don&#8217;t mind doing heavy unpaid labor for their Guru. But don&#8217;t mess with the local Taco Time, or we&#8217;ll have a problem. <strong>DON&#8217;T YOU DARE FUCK WITH MY MEXIFRIES, OR CALL THEM TATER TOTS!</strong></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>I don&#8217;t think she was trying to run over that ICE officer. She was probably as spooked as the agent who shot her.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>There have been instances of the right&#8217;s crazies being leveraged. J6th and Q-Anon being examples, though Q-Anon felt more like a pacification program, or put more crudely a deep state tard wrangling operation.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>I get it&#8217;s more than their right to demonstrate where they want, but I find it akin to a Hell&#8217;s Angel member showing up to a Mongol bar with his patched up biker jacket on.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Meme term for the Super Bowl. Superb Owl, The Owl, get it? Fuck I need to touch grass.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>It brings me <em>hella</em> joy using names for San Francisco that drives Bay Area people up a wall, isn&#8217;t that right <em>Ess-Eff</em>-ians?</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taylor Swift's "Life of A Showgirl" Is A Real Show Stopper In Trump's America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Implicit Social Commentary From the Archetypal "Girl Boss" Herself]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/taylor-swifts-life-of-a-showgirl</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/taylor-swifts-life-of-a-showgirl</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:00:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/785cf7e9-44be-41f3-9cd7-637ad985e821_860x484.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fuck you cunt this article is about possums, specifically <em>Didelphis virginiana </em>better known as The Virginia Opossum.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg" width="524" height="834.8773109243698" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1896,&quot;width&quot;:1190,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:524,&quot;bytes&quot;:1172617,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Someone holding up a baby possum.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://thepsudestack.substack.com/i/175449782?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Someone holding up a baby possum." title="Someone holding up a baby possum." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y2f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F983973e1-37ee-45c3-8ac6-e6e1b2e3be12_1190x1896.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Better than Taylor Swift In Every Way, Including Song Writing</figcaption></figure></div><p>This is the variety of opossum common to the continental United States and Mexico. There are other opossum species native to Latin America, but I&#8217;m most familiar with these weird looking bad boys. I even saw one walking across the street while on a late night walk just a week ago.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png" width="388" height="287" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:287,&quot;width&quot;:388,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:13007,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Map with the range of possums on the North American continent.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://thepsudestack.substack.com/i/175449782?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Map with the range of possums on the North American continent." title="Map with the range of possums on the North American continent." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t3az!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2979677-4d6f-4645-8650-0b469e7e2e34_388x287.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Range of the Virginia Opossum</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><p>I have an odd fondness for these rat like creatures. Despite their rat tails, they are not a member of the rodent family. They&#8217;re apart of the marsupial family, usually associated with Australia, and the only marsupial native to North America. </p><p>But why do I love these homely lil&#8217; hombres so? </p><h2>Old As The Dinosaurs</h2><p>While their origins are originally in South America, they have existed as a species since the days of the dinosaurs, meaning they managed to survive that mass extinction event and all the other ones preceding it. They&#8217;ve proven themselves to be creatures that spit in the face of time and adversity. Where as the massive lizards and mammoths have long since bitten the dust, they&#8217;ve continue onward on their stubby little legs.</p><p>This is why they look so weird, they&#8217;re quite literally Jurassic.  Just look at the jaw on this nasty son of a bitch, and admire how primal it looks.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg" width="583" height="437.25" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:583,&quot;bytes&quot;:9359954,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;A possum playing dead, exposing it's jaw and teeth.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://thepsudestack.substack.com/i/175449782?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="A possum playing dead, exposing it's jaw and teeth." title="A possum playing dead, exposing it's jaw and teeth." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1qRQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9d87bf0-69e6-45ed-804a-d3cc75acc68e_4032x3024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div 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They have a body temperature that is about 10 degrees less than most mammals, which results in them being less susceptible to diseases like rabies, a common plague for their fellow trash raider, the raccoon. They may look grosser, but you are less likely to get a disease from running into one than the aforementioned raccoon.</p><h2>A Living Testament to Adaptability</h2><p>The fact they&#8217;ve lasted this long, with their range only expanding due to warmer global temperatures, culling of predators, and being introduced to places they were not originally native to like west coast of the United States, begs the question as to how they&#8217;ve lasted so long? I personally think it&#8217;s due to a combination of their relatively small size and their omnivoric diet; they&#8217;ll eat practically anything. It&#8217;s why they are so eager to rip open our trash bags. </p><p>But the bulk of their diet is insects, specifically ticks. They eat annoying, blood sucking, disease spreading ticks by the pound. I once saw an image taken by an outdoor cam of a possum sitting on a tree stump, picking ticks off a deer. I&#8217;ve heard them called &#8220;nature&#8217;s janitors&#8221;, a fitting title.</p><h2>True Pacifist</h2><p>&#8220;Playing Possum&#8221; is not some old wives tale, they actually do play dead, and will even emit bad odors involuntarily as they do so. Possums also put on a tough guy act if they feel threatened, hissing and spitting, but rarely do they ever attack other creatures. This &#8220;playing possum&#8221; behavior sadly leads to them getting hit and run over by cars a lot, but judging from their raw numbers and expanding range, the occasional tragic death from a Range Rover may as well be a metallic dinosaur stomp, something they&#8217;ll collectively as a species overcome, as they did every other threat before.</p><p>I should also mention how prolific their breeding is. In their pouches, a female possum can nurse up to 13 joeys (term for marsupial babies). When they are big enough to exit the protection of their mother&#8217;s pouch, they ride on their mother&#8217;s back until they fall off or are too big, spreading like animate fungal spores. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JSWC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fd6602f-5ec8-40ce-ae7d-825556aee2f4_2816x2112.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JSWC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5fd6602f-5ec8-40ce-ae7d-825556aee2f4_2816x2112.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Joeys using their mom like a living mini-van.</figcaption></figure></div><h2>Retardmaxx&#8217;d To the eXXtreme</h2><p>Possums are noted for having significantly smaller brains than their fellow mammals, yet displaying great abilities in intelligence tests such as running though mazes, outdoing mice. People who have kept them as pets report possums being as smart as, if not morose than dogs. They&#8217;ve been deemed nature&#8217;s &#8220;idiot savants&#8221; as a result. If I had to guess, the little neurons they pack is just very well organized, honed on the harshness of millions of years of experience. They&#8217;re also solitary creatures, with most of nature&#8217;s brainacs being social, so that may have something to do with it. </p><h2>Conclusion</h2><p>I first took an interest in possums because I sincerely believe every creature on Earth has a lesson for us, and I take a specific interest in living beings who inhabit the land I also live in. I didn&#8217;t think highly of them until I did a bit of digging into their marsupial pouches, but they&#8217;ve captured my heart as much as eagles and elephants do most people. </p><p>The very being of the possum is a book worth of wisdom for us arrogant humans, from the power of adaptability and not being picky eaters, how to be a true pacifist in a cruel world, and the importance of leveraging the intelligence you have, instead of filling our knoggins with junk (a very common condition as evident by this very platform). </p><p>Next time you see one of these guys dead with skid marks on the road, give it a salute for it&#8217;s ancient duty of reducing parasite populations. They really are nature&#8217;s janitors, a role they&#8217;ve dutifully held for eons. Possums are way, way cooler than Tay-Tay could ever hope to be, and you will learn more from them than whatever lame songs she write about the football player she is engaged to. They&#8217;re as beautiful on the inside as they are ugly on the outside, and they don&#8217;t need lame, trite breakup songs to prove it.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tinfoil Hat Analysis of Charlie Kirk Assassination Part 4: Conclusion]]></title><description><![CDATA[No more bets on this rigged game.]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-tinfoil-hat-analysis-of-charlie-027</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-tinfoil-hat-analysis-of-charlie-027</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/db404125-f552-4871-a020-ac14b20ddfe9_807x685.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I could go on and on about the Kirk assassination, I could probably write a whole book on the affair. But I&#8217;ve said my ultimate peace on the matter, and outlined theories to my personal liking.</p><p>I&#8217;ll leave to others to comb though video footage, evidence, and finding holes in the story to other people. I&#8217;ll also leave digging up symbolism and signs of occult ritual to others (sorry no <em>Snake Eyes</em> article after all). </p><p>My main interest was not the exact &#8220;how&#8221;, but the overall &#8220;why.&#8221; Perhaps there was a grassy knoll at UVU, and Tyler Robinson was on that roof with duds, or he wasn&#8217;t even there to begin with. Or he may have taken that shot, with targeted radicalization or MK-ULTRA styled mind control being the actual reason he decided to do what he allegedly did. </p><p>Life it too short, and I was already trying to develop political apathy well before the incident, with this incident triggering bad entrenched habits. Even the most disciplined AA member have reset the clock on their last drink from time to time. I plan on increasing this turning away from the sorry state of the body politic, which is truly becoming a &#8220;both sides&#8221; issue. I don&#8217;t care if you call me a Fascist, Nazi, cuck, ghoul, black pilled, or any other buzzwords. Life is too short to worry about something I have no control over, and I&#8217;m not going to waste my time to become a foot solider for this or that side. To delve further into Kirk, politics, or societal issues in general would just be a waste of my time.</p><h2>What Is To Come</h2><p>But I would like to end on what I do see coming down the pike.</p><p>I predict more terrorism, more violence, especially from liberals. As much as I made light of the shooting at an ABC station in Sacramento, it&#8217;s actually much scarier to think a white collar professional just lost it, than it being a well trained ideological left wing militant. These are normie Harris voters who are cracking. At least extremist ideological elements usually enforce some kind of discipline on it&#8217;s ranks. It&#8217;s as if the mainstream left has had it so good for so long, they can&#8217;t handle the slightest L. </p><p>I also see a much more radicalized right. It will not surprise me in the coming years, or even months, if there are videos of kids in school flipping over desks while screaming at teachers, with copy of &#8220;The Quotations of Charlie Kirk in their hand. I can definitely see TPUSA becoming something of a Maoist styled Red Guard, leading a reactionary Christian cultural revolution. Different ideology, same shade; how fitting. </p><p>Even when ignoring my analysis, major war is looking more and more on the table. Major military assets are being deployed to Europe, while a major meeting of military top brass is scheduled to happen on October 7th (again with that date). Furthermore, the coming crackdown on left wing militants is gradually building up, with Border Patrol on the streets of Chicago and federal troops in Portland fighting with now designated terrorist. I only see this trend of feds on city streets continuing to grow.</p><p>Put simply, <em>shit&#8217;s fucked</em>. Perhaps nothing ever happens and this all blows over. But even if that is the case, I feel society cannot be saved, it cannot be reformed. No government policy or action can fix the underlying sickness lurking in the American collective unconscious. All I care about now is survival with my soul not in tatters, which seems to be against the actual zeitgeist animating the nation.</p><p>And before you start calling in welfare checks or sending tips to the FBI, I am ultimately white pilled. Where I live, it is common to see deer around, peacefully grazing in people&#8217;s lawns, oblivious to our human psycho-dramas. You really don&#8217;t need to have a hot take or opinion on every little societal issue, be it on Kirk, his assassination, climate change, tax rates, ect. I wish to live freely, seeking harmony and fellowship with God and nature. This can easily be found by moving out to the countryside and turning off the talking heads. I&#8217;m already in the countryside, so now it&#8217;s just a matter tuning and dropping out for good. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tinfoil Hat Analysis of Charlie Kirk Assassination Part 3: Preamble for War]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somehow the saner part of my theory.]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-tinfoil-hat-analysis-of-charlie-212</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-tinfoil-hat-analysis-of-charlie-212</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:56:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ba18c35a-acd9-4e25-b57f-76ceffa026a2_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Author&#8217;s note: I make a lot of claims that I&#8217;m not going to bother to give links or citations for. Things are escalating both domestically and globally, and I feel the need to get this out as fast as possible. I may go hunting around for links and sources to my various claims in the future and edit them in. But for now I just want to get this out there and off my chest. Just take everything with the grain of salt. Don&#8217;t be the annoying &#8220;Ummm soooource?&#8221; guy. You have Google and ChatGPT if you really doubt any claim made that is not wild speculation.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Since we&#8217;ve covered the ominous occult symbolism surrounding the Kirk event, it&#8217;s time I make the case for what I think the real ulterior motivation behind the assassination is, that being to prepare and militarize American society for total war against a major power.  </p><p>I came to this conclusion due to some news items over the past few year that have just <em>felt</em> <em>off, </em>or gave me an ominous feeling due to their implications. These have just sort swirled in the back of my mind, like marbles in a bowl. The Kirk assassination and it&#8217;s resulting fallout has helped get a hold of all these little marbles and put them in order. Let&#8217;s begin with the first one that came to mind, that being the 2024 election.</p><h2>The 2024 Presidential Election</h2><p>For most people the troublesome election was 2020. But for me the 2024 election is much more suspicious. Election fraud is not unheard of, even in presidential elections. It&#8217;s actually not a crank theory that will get you laughed out of academia to suggest JFK&#8217;s victory over Nixon was the result of voter fraud in Texas and Illinois, utilizing both those state&#8217;s &#8220;good ol&#8217; boys&#8221; networks, and the Kennedy family&#8217;s mob connections. This often comes up in JFK conspiracy theories. </p><p>The 2024 presidential election actually felt too above board. The last two presidential elections were hotly contested, where as this one was just accepted by both sides without much of a peep. Of course this could easily be pinned on the dysfunctional campaign waged by Democrats, awkwardly subbing out Biden mid race for Kamala Harris. I personally suspect Biden and his associates worked directly with the Trump campaign to get Trump elected out of spite. Even his anointing of Harris as the primary candidate may have just been a last minute &#8220;fuck you&#8221; move before being forced to vacate.</p><p>The reason I suspected this was due to some anomalies that just didn&#8217;t sit right with me, largely having to do with endorsements. Many major papers chose to not endorse anybody for president that year, risking open revolts from their news rooms. This could be dismissed as billionaires being greedy and evil. But then the Teamsters Union also didn&#8217;t endorse anyone for president that year. </p><p><em>This is not normal</em>. I remember many MAGA types saying the Teamsters not endorsing Harris was due to a lot of union blue collar guys supporting Trump. But what are they going to do, quit their jobs? If the Teamsters were that worried, they could have just done a bare minimum endorsement, in the form of a small press release that started with something like &#8220;While we encourage our workers to vote their consciousness, we endorse Kamala Harris&#8230;&#8221; But they didn&#8217;t even do that, and effectively gave a silent endorsement for Trump. </p><p>Something was really off. I watched a talk from a prominent Indian yogi who swore you can predict earthquakes in California by watching the movements of a cobra in Tamil Nadu, since snakes are so sensitive to the natural vibrations of the Earth. The snakes who run our society didn&#8217;t move as they normally should. This is also in conjunction with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Bezos making a turn about on being staunchly anti-Trump, even being at the inauguration, with the Zuck trying to hoodwink us into thinking he actually took up bow hunting on Joe Rogan. No, something was off. There must have been some seedy backroom dealing, of which I previously suspected Bidens being at the epicenter of. But perhaps it wasn&#8217;t Biden after all, or they weren&#8217;t the primary factor for these unusual cobra turns.</p><h2>The Geo-political Landscape Under Biden</h2><p>Speaking of Biden, under his administration we witnessed the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the October 7th Hamas attack, and increasing aggressive moves from China. America&#8217;s enemies saw a us in a weak spot, and leapt at the opportunity to make plays. I&#8217;m actually convinced the military coup in Burma was a direct result of Jan 6th, since if memory serves me right it happened only a few days after. &#8220;Hey the Yankees are busy, let&#8217;s just steam roll the DC supported peaceniks while they&#8217;re distracted!&#8221;</p><p>Now imagine you&#8217;re a CIA guy sitting in your undisclosed office cubicle in Langley, seeing all this. This is just what we see in our civilian headlines, the actual story on the ground which they see is probably much more dire. And after January 6th, the divisions in the country were clearly becoming a national security concern. While it has been revealed the FBI most likely played a heavy hand in instigating the Capital riots (or insurrection if you prefer), it did reveal boomer-cons could be conned into storming into the very seat of power itself. </p><p>I have to imagine CIA guys were probably glad to see Trump gone when he was finally forced out. No more bumbling real estate developer ranting about the deep state, and getting in the way of doing illegal clandestine operations. But it became quickly apparent that Biden and the wider Democrat party simply could not hold down the fort, with America&#8217;s adversaries acting boldly with brazen action. While Ukraine has impressively held out given Russia&#8217;s much larger size, this all amounts to damage control for a situation that should have never happened. And then October 7th comes, in which one of our most key allies, especially in regards to intelligence, is brazenly attacked in a brutal fashion. This all juxtapose to China massively expanding it&#8217;s navy, most likely in preparation for an all-out amphibious assault on Taiwan sometime in the future.</p><p>The failed assassination of Trump was probably the final nail in the coffin for never Trump sentiment among the intelligence apparatus. The fact it failed makes me think it was not the CIA, but probably FBI working with dissidents in the Secret Service who attempted that assassination. There are a lot of bad things you can say about the CIA, but if they want someone dead who isn&#8217;t Castro, they can pull it off. The CIA would have made sure not to put all their chips on some scrawny teenager on top of a shed. The failed assassination and the resulting PR win probably made the spooks in Langley throw up their hands and say &#8220;Guess we&#8217;ll have to learn to work with the Orange Man after all.&#8221; But how do you get the reckless and unpredictable Orange Man to do your bidding? A question to answer at a later time. </p><h2>Antifa: Or When Dennis Really Becomes a Menace</h2><p>Let&#8217;s move away from the area of foreign warfare to domestic warfare. </p><p>One of the most impactful policies to come as a result of the Kirk assassination is designating Antifa a terrorist organization, with the wheels for a crackdown on left wing motivated violence beginning to turn. As I write this, there is a stand off between federal troops and left wing protesters in Portland tonight. </p><p>I have witnessed the now designated terrorist group Antifa up close, on their home turf, and have done research on them in the past. I used to read <em>It&#8217;s Going Down,</em> the premier left-anarchist and Antifa news site. I also read some Antifa and left-anarchist strategic and tactical guides. While there is no doubt Antifa is a violent organization, they very rarely turn to bullets and bombs. They usually use low level violence as a form of intimidation and disruption. I guess it&#8217;s technically terrorism, but of a petty and mostly ignorable (if annoying) sort. </p><p>It&#8217;s quite smart really. They keep their mayhem to being mostly a nuisance, knowing what the real red line in the sand is, that being shooting guns and making things explode (save for some commercial grade fireworks). They can use these tactics to great effect though, the BLM 2020 riots was something of their magnum opus. A lot of the looting and chaos was enabled by their ability to smash windows and direct rioters. I&#8217;ve see videos from back then of guys in all black just going down a city center, quickly smashing in windows, probably from years of experience of doing the same to storefronts in downtown Portland. They were also caught giving instructions to people loitering around protests and riots, like telling people just standing around to makeshift barricades out of benches.</p><p>To summarize, Antifa and adjacent generally keeps to <em>Dennis the Menace</em> antics so feds are less likely to breath down their neck, and any criminal charges filed will likely be in sympathetic legal jurisdictions, with charges limited largely to misdemeanors (hence the current state of cities like Seattle and Portland). But this has shifted after Trump&#8217;s reelection. When there was those attacks on Tesla dealerships earlier this year, I was not surprised they were setting cars on fire, as property damage is typical with them. But I was surprised to find bullets were also fired at the dealerships. This is very unusual for them.</p><p>It was even more unusual when an Antifa cell was shooting live rounds at ICE agents earlier this year. These aren&#8217;t the typical zealous misfits I had come to know. Something changed. And again, let&#8217;s return to our secret  underground office in Langley. This hints at not only an escalation in violence, but a much greater degree of training and organization. It&#8217;s one thing to prefab some shields to hand out to anyone who shows up in a black hoodie, but to use guns effectively does require some level of training. And one of the people involved was not just an ex-marine, but ethnically Chinese. Put aside fears of being racist for a moment, and ask yourself the implications of this news story would be to a CIA glowie?</p><p>Nothing, and I mean <strong>NOTHING</strong> scares feds and intel agencies more than the idea of experienced combat veterans training guerrilla warfare battalions, as it&#8217;s something we do all the time. There is an established history of the US government training radical guerrilla groups with OPERATION GLADIO  and The Iran-Contra Affair being examples. Perhaps our veteran turned left wing domestic terrorist just happens to be Chinese, with no connection the country of his ethnic origins. But the though of China setting up terror cells would at least warrant a meeting up in Langley. And considering the hostile and polarized cultural environment we&#8217;re, and how it would make for easy recruiting for any theoretical state-sponsored terror cells, which could easily grow into a whole 5th column.</p><p>The militarization of the left being more than angry soy boys that light Portland on fire every Tuesday would be a major national security concern for agencies tasked with keeping an eye on such matters. And speaking of weak beta males, we need to address another national security concern, coming from the US military this time.</p><h2>Call of Duty: IRL Edition</h2><p> I&#8217;ve read news stories and reports for years about the dissatisfaction the US military has in terms of recruiting, both in terms of numbers and quality. The US military has had to establish what amounts to pre-bootcamp fat camps to get recruits in shape for the real psychological conditioning of regular bootcamp. And these are the people volunteering to fight. </p><p>The US military has termed this current generation of draftable cannon fodder &#8220;the Nintendo generation&#8221;, reflecting the sedentary nature of the youths today. If they&#8217;re struggling with kids willing to put down the controller enough to show up to a recruitment station, imagine the state of those who aren&#8217;t. Testosterone levels are at record lows among young men, as grifters hawking male vitality supplements will gladly tell you. These are the sorts of things military brass at the pentagon fret about all day.</p><p>I also have to imagine the general soft nature of the culture is also a concern. The days of post-9/11 brown desert shooters have long been replaced by colorful cartoony games like <em>Fortnite</em>. Even in the case of propaganda pieces like the earlier games in the<em> Call of Duty</em> series or <em>SOCOM</em>, real war is very different from video games. You can just hide and camp to cure your wounds, nor is getting kill streaks as easy as mashing buttons. The unserious, irony poisoned, Internet meme-fueled mentality of Zoomers doesn&#8217;t speak of potential future troops keeping a good level of discipline and morale. Isn&#8217;t Tyler Robinson almost the perfect avatar for this soft youth culture, being a gay gooning furry? </p><p>These concerns could be left as something to complain about around the pentagon water cooler in times of less global tension. We still do have something of an informal military caste, and have managed decades of overseas wars without a draft, with the fat camps available if need be.  But when you have large adversaries making bold moves like Russia, poor middle school PE performance warrants a pentagon PowerPoint presentation, with an actual proposal of possible solutions at the end, instead of the usual meeting room bitching about kids these days.</p><p>And we must talk of this previously mentioned warrior caste, largely residing in the South and Appalachia, mostly white and Christians. While it is true the US military is ethnically diverse (kids largely looking for a way out of the ghetto and barrio), most infantry positions come from the white populations of these areas. And it&#8217;s safe to say this demographic has not been treated kindly by society as of late. Those low recruitment numbers mentioned previously is probably the result of the informal mass demoralization campaign against this once reliable recruitable demographic. </p><p>If you&#8217;ve got a high ranking at the pentagon, this is when you start asking the Psychological Operations division for solutions. And I think they came up with something quite diabolical. Oh, as a tinfoil hatter I&#8217;d be remissed to forget mentioning Psy-op divisions do have a history with open Satanist in high ranking positions, most famously the late Lt. Cornell Michael Aquino, founder of his own Satanic religious sect called The Temple of Set. And the Setians aren&#8217;t just edgy atheist like his old mentor LaVey, they believe the rituals actually do something.<em> I didn&#8217;t get the idea of &#8220;ritual sacrifice&#8221; out of nowhere.</em></p><h2>Summary</h2><p>I feel all these factors previously mentioned: global geo-political tensions, the rise of an armed possibly foreign backed militant left, concerns over the combat ability of young people, and the alienation of the main military recruitment pool is what drove intelligence agencies to pull of this covert action, that being killing Charlie Kirk. The main goal of this was to spur a major cultural shift. They want to shift the culture away from it&#8217;s current hedonistic, feminine, and divisive trajectory; to one favoring zealous religiosity, patriotism, unity and an overall combat/war ready country. Hell, they even recently renamed &#8220;Department of Defense&#8221; to &#8220;Department of War.&#8221; If that doesn&#8217;t scream a major shift has taken place at the pentagon and it&#8217;s adjacent deep state brothers, I don&#8217;t know what does.</p><p>To any in the &#8220;IT&#8217;S CLEARLY ISRAEL!&#8221; crowd still reading this, I&#8217;m not discounting Israeli involvement. I have to imagine any major war plans would be shared with them to some degree. Even if the CIA or whichever agency is responsible didn&#8217;t tell Mossad they were the ones who killed the Master Debater, I think they can put two-and-two together alongside their own intel. I just don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re the main perpetrator or the main motivating factor. </p><p>Also I think it&#8217;s clear at this point this is much bigger than getting Epstein out of the news cycle, though perhaps that may have been a nice little side objective. This was obviously a major psychological operation of some sort, the proof is in the pudding. I&#8217;ve heard of at least one guy who said he came to God as a result of the Kirk assassination, someone who has been struggling with severe medical issues and has been perpetually at death&#8217;s door for years now. If that doesn&#8217;t hint at a major psychological operation, I don&#8217;t know what does.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tinfoil Hat Analysis of Charlie Kirk Assassination Part 2: Obvious Symbolism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Schizo Mode: Fully Activated]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-tinfoil-hat-analysis-of-charlie-4cb</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-tinfoil-hat-analysis-of-charlie-4cb</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:40:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f20c8fdf-6262-445d-acc0-757164959b2c_930x930.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is currently the 28th of September, just over two weeks since the assassination took place. The world has more or less moved on, with the news cycle now focused on James Comey&#8217;s arrest, and the Trump admin flooding Portland with federal troops. But the dark shadow of the event continues to hang over our heads. </p><p>Most of the conspiracy world seems much more focused on alternative shooter theories or poking holes in the official story than of the obvious symbolism surrounding the event, though shout out to Doenut&#8217;s appearance on <em>Tin Foil Hat </em>for bringing up these things up, and pointing out things I didn&#8217;t know or notice. Also, it has emerged there is a lot of symbolic overlap between the shooting and a 90&#8217;s Nicholas Cage movie titled <em>Snake Eyes</em> of all things that warrants it&#8217;s own article. </p><p>What follows is just a laundry list of things that instantly popped out at me shortly after the shooting, or where brought to my attention quickly after, meaning I&#8217;m largely working off the dome here. This means this is far from exhaustive. </p><h2>9/11 and George Floyd</h2><p>Honestly if this incident had happened earlier or later in the month, or on the say the date of August 15th, I may have just dismissed it as truly a case of a furry who got a bad case of memetic left-wing rabies. <em>BUT IT JUST HAD TO HAPPEN ON THE EVE OF 9/11 DIDN&#8217;T IT?</em> Of course it did! What other day could it have happened? Do I even need to explain the significance? This national tragedy will always be tied to the largest national tragedy in modern history, which is also ripe with ritual symbolism. </p><p>Another date which was brought to my attention was Kirk&#8217;s birthday of October 14th. Well someone else has this exact birthday, being the last heavily politicized killing of a one Mr. George Floyd. </p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b5d6dd87-b129-4f32-8d50-e4debf45fc07_523x723.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0085900a-c231-442b-a7e8-c2bcb777fd9f_535x660.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bda2a25-95cb-4c13-a4db-d6c6e05d8145_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>This single fact in conjunction with the 9/11 connection caused my tinfoil hat to spark like it was put in the a microwave on high. </p><p>Both are tragic deaths that shocked and polarized the nation. The reaction and fallout of both events has a very similar same energy. Kirk has even developed the same cult-like vibe generated by George Floyd after his killing. They both got decked out memorials, and their corpses turned into culture war cudgels.  It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re almost twinned.<em> </em>Nearly complete opposites of each other, yet linked in a fundamental way: a ying and yang, a Joachim and Boaz. If you know anything about occultism opposite and polarity are a foundational concept. </p><p>Twins you say?<em><strong> Like the Twin Towers themselves</strong></em> who fell on 9/11, a fact literally reflected in the date 9/11 itself. All three tragedies now tied into one grieving country. If you find this all a stretch, let me make an even bigger one. The date of the deadly Hamas terrorist attack which ignited the ongoing Israel-Gaza War is often just called &#8220;October 7th.&#8221; 7 + 7 = 14 which makes October 14th, the birthday of Kirk and Floyd. Since twins comes in twos, I feel justified in pulling that little numerology maneuver. I&#8217;m actually amazed how easily you can tie Kirk, Floyd, 9/11, and 10/7 all together without much schizo glue required.</p><p>Not to come off even more of a nutter than I am, but I&#8217;m beginning to worry about this upcoming October 14th. The signs seem to point to this ordinary day on the calendar being the epicenter of something big, or perhaps I indeed should just take my meds.</p><h2>Big Trouble in Mormon Town</h2><p>I find the location in the desert holy land of Deseret quite telling. I&#8217;ve heard it alleged that much of Mormon theology and symbolism is ripped right out of Free Masonry. Speaking of Free Masonry, the shooter was taken into custody after 33 hours after the search began, with 33 being a very important Masonic number. </p><p>I&#8217;ve also heard it alleged for years that Mormons have infiltrated both the FBI and CIA though raw numbers. It could be dismissed as typical ethnic nepotism (Mormons really are a kind of ethno-religious group), but funny they would focus on getting easy government jobs in the foremost federal intelligence agencies.</p><p>The Mormon&#8217;s fondness for old testament names and symbolism actually manifested at the crime scene itself, with Kirk being killed in the center of an outline of a menorah. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9zPS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75822530-708b-4963-96ad-c8afc28996fd_569x569.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Iced right on the fifth candle</figcaption></figure></div><p>Also the President-Prophet of the LDS just passed away at the age of 101 this weekend. &#8220;101&#8221;, two ones separate by a single zero, 11. Again we return to the themes of twins removed only by the illusion of separation, represented by the number &#8220;11.&#8221; <a href="https://genius.com/Tool-jimmy-lyrics">Eleven has been and always be waiting.</a></p><p>The Mormon angle deserves much more investigation and research. What if it was not the small hats desert tribe after all, but the black tie knocks-on-your-door desert tribe?</p><p>EDIT: Shortly after posting this article, an LDS church in Michigan was violently attacked: car crashed in, set fires, someone was shot and killed. Mitt Romney one of the country&#8217;s most prominent Mormons is originally from the Mitten state as well. </p><h2>OWO What Is Dis?</h2><p>The killing bullet had the meme &#8220;Notices Bulge OWO What&#8217;s This?&#8221; written on it. This looks oddly familiar to OVO, the name of Drake&#8217;s record label which often uses an owl as a logo, with the &#8220;OVO&#8221; being a clear illusion to the nocturnal bird of prey. Owl symbolism is a very prominent with secret societies, including the historic OG Illuminati. The notorious Bohemian Grove has a colossal owl statue in which they preform their rituals in front of.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg" width="1000" height="379" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:379,&quot;width&quot;:1000,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:112242,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://thepsudestack.substack.com/i/174606804?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1DEV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ec9eea-f15d-4e35-8055-99567f2ad78e_1000x379.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">The hooter</figcaption></figure></div><p>It&#8217;s interesting to note there is no &#8220;W&#8221; in Latin, with &#8220;V&#8221; representing the &#8220;u&#8221; sound. Even the name of the campus in which the shooting happened is abbreviated to UVU, which not only looks similar to OVO, but only utilizes the characters &#8220;U&#8221; and &#8220;V&#8221;, demonstrating the previous link to Latin. What&#8217;s this indeed, though even I admit I&#8217;m reaching on this one.</p><h2>Etsy Witchcraft</h2><p>One of the weirder things to come to light is an article published by feminist rag <em>Jezebel</em> (more Biblical symbolism by the way) days before the shooting, in which they detail how they paid a witch over Etsy to curse Charlie Kirk. They paid the witch back in August to do the curse, in which the witch burns a picture of Kirk in a ritual. They&#8217;ve since taken down the article, though an <a href="https://archive.is/XL6pl">archive of it is here</a> The article ends with this ominous foreshadowing:</p><div class="pullquote"><p>So, did my Etsy curses work? Time will tell. The forces move in mysterious ways, and as the Priestess reminded me, &#8220;Spellwork is a collaboration between the caster, the client, and the universe itself.&#8221; For now, we can only trust in the timing of the great unknown.</p><p>&#8230;</p><p>And to you, Mr. Kirk: May the rash come swiftly.</p></div><p>And this wasn&#8217;t even the only article this September to talk about Etsy witches. I came across t<a href="https://time.com/7307401/rise-of-etsy-witch/">his piece from </a><em><a href="https://time.com/7307401/rise-of-etsy-witch/">Time</a></em><a href="https://time.com/7307401/rise-of-etsy-witch/"> magazine</a> published earlier in the month also covering this phenomena of online mercenary magik. It&#8217;s almost as if this was done to intentionally seed something, like these two articles were a kind of working in and of themselves. Or if you&#8217;re more skeptically inclined, <em>Jezebel</em> just ripped of <em>Time</em> magazine, though they claim to have had their witch do there thing back in August.</p><p>The article and the attention it got in the aftermath of the killing should really worry my fellow sage smudgers. I&#8217;m seeing the rise of a sort of &#8220;Kirkanity&#8221;, and they&#8217;re not going to forget this little story. I will not be surprised if in the coming years high school kids begin to burn woo-woo books from their local library as a defiant act against the devil and demonic libtardery. Not even Evola&#8217;s works or racist rune books will be spared.</p><h2>Summary</h2><p>These were just the things that instantly jumped out at me in the wake of the shooting. As stated earlier, this is not exhaustive and raises more areas to examine closer than close the book on. All this alone was enough for me to declare that this was indeed a ritual sacrifice. But for what? Later I will make my case that this was done to militarize the society in preparation for total war against a major power, most likely Russia and China. It&#8217;s out there, but probably a welcome break from all the talk about Israel and Epstein.</p><p>I should also note there has been very little updates regarding the formal criminal case and investigation, and questions regarding all the social media accounts predicting the shooting have not been explained by authorities.</p><p>I would also like to thank you for reading. I realize this is absurd and outlandish for people who do not believe in such things, sneering even at the idea of an Etsy witch, much less power players engaging in such superstition. As for me, I feel like I need a good purification bath, take care reader.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years of Leadheads]]></title><description><![CDATA[America is now entering a sort of dark parody of Italy&#8217;s &#8220;Years of Lead.&#8221; Kirk&#8217;s assassination can be seen as the opening shot.]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/years-of-leadheads</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/years-of-leadheads</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:48:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0a2a4a21-b0f8-4828-b4d7-d78e2eda0003_860x484.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>America is now entering a sort of dark parody of Italy&#8217;s &#8220;Years of Lead.&#8221; Kirk&#8217;s assassination can be seen as the opening shot. That will always be remembered as a dark day that deserves serious reflection. </p><p><em>AND YET,</em> the fall out which resulted reads like a comedy script. Some white collar boomer waged a one man jihads against ABC, in the name of a hack comedian that only people in nursing homes bothers to watch. Said hack comedian is now held up as a martyr for free speech, despite previously being a cheerleader for cancel culture, all because the head of the FCC went full ham on some podcast. Kimmel is now set to re-debut on ABC stations across the country, and his firing was the only one that gave me any sense of schadenfreude.</p><p>Last week there was what appears to be a Kirk assassin copycat, most likely intent on killing ICE agents, who instead killed a detained migrants and injured several others in Dallas. Guess gay Mormons are going to have to carry the weight of the revolution in their cameo fursuits. I&#8217;m going to look forward to more federal overreach and hysterical kvetching from LibsOfTiktok. At least the fact it was illegals who where killed gives the left some desperately needed copium, though I fear our national reserves are becoming critically low. And good luck importing more in with Trump&#8217;s tariffs in place (French cope is my recommendation, though Japanese Zen cope is the best, but it&#8217;s kind of pricey if you want volume).</p><p>Then in the same week, Ice Cube&#8217;s tour bus was torched in Portland Oregon. While it could have just been one of the many mentally ill drug addicts of that rotten city deciding to have some fun mayhem, or a spited Ice Cube fan upset he decided to act in family movies, the most likely case was someone mistook his bus with some variant of &#8220;Ice&#8221; written on it for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Just tonight Trump described Portland as a war zone, promising to go hard against the legion of noodle armed terrorists. Honestly the best thing for that eternal city of rot and corruption is to just quarantine it off, and turn it into a feral human nature preserve. Or just sell it to Xi in a similar fashion Hong Kong was to the British, and give the residents a taste of real red socialism. Sounds like a great deal offer to me.</p><p>And returning to Kirk&#8217;s alleged assassin, him being a gay furry going so far as to write &#8220;Notices bulge OWO~&#8221; on the killing bullet gives that event a tinge of dark humor. Is this our new normal? Acts of lone terrorism from some of the goofiest idiots who somehow manage to have just enough brain cells to breath air? Luigi is at least actually smart and handsome (no homo). I don&#8217;t see people creating AI boyfriends of Tyler Robinson, as one women admitted to doing with Luigi, but perhaps his fursonna has a chance.</p><p>I&#8217;m actually looking forward to the congressional hearing scheduled next month, in which the CEOs of Discord, Twitch, and Steam will be grilled with confrontational non-questions by people insufferable enough to make civic popularity contests their career. They&#8217;re being called in due to the alleged Kirk assassin having accounts on Steam and Discord, with Twitch probably thrown in due to both it&#8217;s connection gaming culture and violent leftist rhetoric. The gamers are finally rising up, and the powers that be want to crack down. Could this be the beginnings of Newell/Asmongold 2028 ticket? </p><p>It is safe to say we are in an absolute societal downward spiral with no end in sight. The levels of retardation are at levels that to use the word &#8220;retarded&#8221; to describe it is actually an insult to the mental capacities of the literally mentally impaired. I&#8217;m sorry Timmy for comparing your specialness to Ilhan Omar and Nancy Mace. I&#8217;ll make it up to you with a new John Cena poster. </p><p>And both sides of the aisle are doing everything in their power to make sure this pressure cooker continues ratchet up. Actually, a better metaphor than a pressure cooker would be microwaved popcorn. In much the same way you watch your popcorn go off just before sitting down to watch some Hollywood slop, we&#8217;re ensuring more crazed kernels explode into puffs of bullets and bloodshed. Lonely young gamers once again most effected, as they&#8217;re the corn kettles most likely to pop, with peaceful /v/ posters most likely to take the blame. I&#8217;m not much of a gamer myself, but my thoughts and prayers to you and your Tifa Lockhart body pillow.</p><p>High ranking Democrat politicians are still calling what was once Obama&#8217;s favorite federal police force Nazi Gestapo and SS, almost as if to egg on more domestic terrorism. This will ultimately be egg on their face and their party, as Trump&#8217;s staunch immigration stance is one of the few issues he polls well on. The more incidents like the one in Dallas or Portland this week will only further drive people away from the Democrat party. Typical voters are not in favor of politically motivated violence, and immigrants didn&#8217;t leave their home lands for this shit. At least there political killings were done by hardened militants and narcos, not gay furries or Sacramento lawyers.</p><p>Life is indeed not a video game, as the failed ICE slayer has proven. Conservative pundits have come up with the name &#8220;Bloody September&#8221; to describe this past month. But I do not see the rash of violence limited to this month. With the cracking down on organized left wing violence coming, it will only further more lone wolf attacks, which are much harder to discover and thwart. Life also isn&#8217;t a Disney Marvel movie, and we&#8217;re all getting burned in the kitchen like unattended microwaved kernels. </p><p>I do not know who is a bigger leadhead, these once docile virtual boss conquerors turned into radicalized foot soldiers, or the people in positions of power who somehow think this all a great epic own on Orange Man. This is no Years of Lead, despite all the cringe engraved bullets. This is the &#8220;Years of Leadheads&#8221;, in which the most mentally unstable of our own society sacrifice  themselves in algorithmic fueled holy war, and the blood is cheered on by people who are probably too anxious to make phone calls to fight a bank overdraft fee.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tinfoil Hat Analysis of Charlie Kirk Assassination Part 1: Introduction and The Official Story So Far]]></title><description><![CDATA[DISCLAIMER: When tragedies on this scale happen, I realize people do not want to hear conspiracy and tinfoil takes, since it often comes across as someone making light of a tragedy, using it as an excuse to get out the string filled cork board, treating it like a game.]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-tinfoil-hat-analysis-of-charlie</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-tinfoil-hat-analysis-of-charlie</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:28:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8d0d43b5-4cc6-491c-bb3d-d1aded49e4ff_498x478.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>DISCLAIMER</strong>: When tragedies on this scale happen, I realize people <strong>do not</strong> want to hear conspiracy and tinfoil takes, since it often comes across as someone making light of a tragedy, using it as an excuse to get out the string filled cork board, treating it like a game. </em></p><p><em><strong>If you feel you will be upset by outlandish theories about the Charlie Kirk Shooting (more outlandish than &#8220;Israel did it&#8221;), please do not read this or future articles in the series</strong>. </em></p><p><em>Despite keeping to my usual sardonic tone, I do take this very seriously. Honestly I&#8217;d keep my opinion on this event close to the vest, or safely nestled in small communities that tolerate conspiracy talk. But my overall conclusions made me feel I must at least share it with the public, even if only on a diamond a dozen Substack. With that, let&#8217;s get started.</em></p><div><hr></div><h2>Introduction</h2><p>The assassination of Charlie Kirk two weeks ago will go down as one of the most consequential events in American history. The event has completely polarized the populous and changed the game. Now conservatives have moved on from merely dabbling with cancel culture, excuse me &#8220;consequence culture&#8221;, and have fully embraced getting people fired from their jobs. Liberals have outed themselves as having the same moral fiber as people who post Cyber-Floyd memes, and engaged in gold metal worthy mental gymnastics to pin the murderer down as a far right wing groyper. So much for the tolerant left, and so much for the intelligent left as far as I&#8217;m concerned. EHC once again proven to be a midwit cope.</p><p>The event has even sent me on a bit of an emotional roller coaster. It&#8217;s made me realize that I have some repressed trauma from witnessing a shooting outside a campus event similar to the one Kirk was slain at. I won&#8217;t lie, I&#8217;ve been hitting the bottle and bong a bit too hard over the past two weeks that it has cost me some productive work days. I was absolutely glued to news reports and watching the body politic spiral out of control. The hyper emotional reaction to the event and the creepy cult-like aura that now surrounds Kirk also brought back painful memories of the George Floyd riots. At least conservatives kept their fires to candle lit vigils, instead of burning down every urban center in the country.</p><p>But even more disturbing to me than the event itself, the initial wave of grave dancing, and the near deification of Kirk is the very obvious way his death is being utilized and weaponized by both by surface level political actors and deeper interests. <strong>It is fair to say we&#8217;re looking at an intentional psychological operation. </strong>But for what purpose? I won&#8217;t beat around the bush what my conclusions of the Charlie Kirk assassination are:</p><p><strong>CHARLIE KIRK WAS RITUALLY SACRIFICED TO MILITARIZE THE POPULOUS AND CULTURE TO PREPARE FOR A MAJOR WAR.</strong></p><p>Oh, I&#8217;m going full schizo-mode. It&#8217;s one thing to suggest a political figure was assassinated for mundane political reasons, such as Israel wanting bad press out of the news. But mentioning total war and &#8220;ritual sacrifice&#8221; in the same sentence takes one crazy son of a bitch. Someone has to be that crazy son of a bitch, and apparently that has fallen onto me, as I&#8217;ve heard very little talk to the underlying esoteric symbolism surrounding the event from the conspiracy sector, and all talk of conspiratorial motives I&#8217;ve seen just blames the bagels bakers (oy vey). </p><p>I&#8217;ve decided to cover this as a series, as one article would get too long and messy. It makes it less of a burden for both you and me, unless you&#8217;re a fan of old school conspiracy sites that just bombard you with seemingly unrelated images with captions of &#8220;<strong>WAKE UP SHEEPLE!&#8221;</strong> Plus this is still a developing story. Who knows, maybe I&#8217;ll join the Mossad did it crowd by the end.</p><p>Before giving evidence for my hypothesis and why I should be put into a heavily padded room, I would like to outline the official narrative so far. Despite Kash Patel talk of making the FBI more transparent, information from government agencies and officials have been very tight lipped since the main suspect was take into custody. There has also been a lot of disinformation being spread, which is responsible for the ongoing shit show surrounding Jimmy Kimmel, so I felt it was necessary to outline the official story, at least as of 9/23/2025. </p><p>These details may change or important information may come out, especially when the trial finally begins. I may periodically edit in small details I missed or were incorrect, and will note any edits made. If the official story radically changes, I will write up a separate article. With that, let&#8217;s get started. </p><h3>The Shooting and Immediate Aftermath</h3><p>On September 10th, 2025 the conservative activist group TPUSA was holding an outdoor event at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Utah (of course), in which TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was at the head of the stage. The format of the event involved Charlie sitting center stage, leaving an open mic in front the crowd, allowing any and all takers to debate any issue they want. Kirk and TPUSA has been hosting these events at colleges across the country for years, even getting ridiculed on the long running animated comedy series <em>Southpark</em> earlier this year.</p><p>It was the usual fair, loud angry college students posed questions and topics to debate Mr. Kirk over, in which he argued back with facts and logic. This would not last, as at 12:15PM MST a single gun shot was fired, striking Kirk in the neck, leading to panic in the crowd. One person in the crowd claimed to have been the shooter and was arrested on the spot. It would turn he was not the shooter, but a known local nutter, who has been since arrested on various charges, including possession of CSAM of all things. Another person was arrested and quickly released. The shot would kill Kirk, later being pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.</p><h3>Investigation Begins</h3><p>As the story was developing, a mutual government and public manhunt began. The FBI in conjunction with local authorities in Utah would release security cam footage of the alleged shooter, showing image stills and video, including footage of the suspect running on the roof of a campus building and jumping down. In a wooded area close by the campus, 4 rounds were found, with the following engravings:</p><ul><li><p>&#8220;NoTices Bulge OWO What&#8217;s This?&#8220; (fired cartridge)</p></li><li><p>&#8220;Hey Facist! Catch! [arrow symbols]&#8220;</p></li><li><p>&#8220;O Bella ciao, Bella ciao Bella ciao Ciao, ciao!&#8220;</p></li><li><p>&#8220;If you Read This, You Are GAY Lmao&#8220;</p></li></ul><p>In addition to the rounds, a hunting rifle wrapped in a towel was found, with DNA obtained from the towel. </p><h3>Suspect Identified By Family Members</h3><p>The mother of Tyler Robinson on the evening of September 11th, a day after the shooting, saw published photos of the shooter and suspected it could be her son. She brought this to the attention of her husband and father of Tyler, and both agreed that the photos looked a lot like their son. He also suspected the rifle used was the same one he had gifted to Tyler, which used to belong to Tyler&#8217;s grandfather.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n-8-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d621463-b067-4bf4-b197-9469b74a5b04_1252x954.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n-8-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d621463-b067-4bf4-b197-9469b74a5b04_1252x954.jpeg 424w, 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He would convince Tyler to come to the Robinson&#8217;s family home to talk. </p><h3>Suspect Confesses to Shooting and Gives Motive</h3><p>When confronted by family members, Tyler implied he was the shooter, and effectively confessed his motive: he felt there was too much evil in the world and Kirk was spreading too much hate. A family friend was contacted, most likely their Mormon &#8220;Bishop&#8221; (the Mormon term for pastor), but there is a lot of conflicting information on who made the call to authorities. In any case this person would contact police, suggesting to one of the Robinsons it would be best if he brought all evidence to authorities, so police would not have to search the parent&#8217;s home. Tyler also said the cloths he wore during the shooting were changed out of and dumped close to the crime scene. He would be taken into custody shortly after.</p><h3>Messages with Roomate/Romantic Partner and Search of Tyler Robbinson&#8217;s Residence</h3><p>Police would interview Tyler&#8217;s roommate and romantic partner, someone who is in the middle of gender transition between male to female. They would confess to FBI that Tyler had left a note under their keyboard stating his intention to kill Charlie Kirk. Authorities would obtain a text chain between the two. I&#8217;d like to note the official indictment goofed the year on the date as 9/10/2022 instead of 2025 in regards to the date of the messages.  </p><p>In the text chain, Tyler would confess to doing the shooting, his motives as stated before, with his partner&#8217;s reaction revealing he/she had no foreknowledge that Tyler was planning to do this. He also mentions how long he had been planning to do it, just over a week. The details in the text messages would align with evidence gathered so far. </p><p>It would also be in these text messages we find out the gun used to belong to his grandfather, in addition to using an expensive rifle scope, saying &#8220;I think that was a $2k scope ;-;&#8221; </p><p>For the search of his residence, I will just quote directly from the indictment:</p><blockquote><p>Police executed a search warrant on Robinson&#8217;s residence. During that search, police discovered a shell casing with etchings like the etchings found on the shells in the rifle near UVU. <em>Police also found several targets with bullet holes in Robinson&#8217;s home. [italics mine]</em></p></blockquote><h3>Summary</h3><p>Tyler Robinson on September 10th, 2025 would get onto a roof on the campus of UVU with a family heirloom rifle, shooting one shot at conservative activist and influencer Charlie Kirk, killing him. He would later confess to family and give his ultimate motive that amounts to &#8220;Kirk was a big meanie.&#8221; Most importantly, the evidence presented implies he acted alone, and only planned to carry out this shooting just over a week prior.</p><h2>Seems Pretty Open And Shut, Right?</h2><p>Except there are some details not included in the evidence available to the public, and is possibly being censored by authorities that should be brought to your attention. There were numerous social media posts and even a song saying Charlie Kirk was going to die soon, right up to the day he was killed.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hiZb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F574c64e4-2117-4ee1-9e1e-b3d091da4f05_898x1344.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hiZb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F574c64e4-2117-4ee1-9e1e-b3d091da4f05_898x1344.webp 424w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>These were uncovered by internet sleuths trying to ID the suspect when he was still at large, leading to a lot of false positives. <em>This implies the shooter was at least telling people he was going to carry this out. </em>Which is why many on the right are speculating the text exchange between his partner was staged by the two to give cover for the romantic partner. I&#8217;ve also heard suggestions authorities wrote it up, with some of the language hinting at such. Apparently when the text chain is fed into ChatGPT and asked to guess who wrote the messages, it says the language was that of a man in his mid 40&#8217;s to early 50&#8217;s (I have not tried this myself). </p><p>However, there is a possibility he was only telling online friends his intentions to carry out the killing, and left the partner in the dark. But remember police found multiple shooting targets in at the residence? They may have been typical shooting targets you find at gun ranges, but they may have depicted Charlie or other personalities. Even if they were regular targets for shooting practice, it does make me think the roommate may have had known more than they are letting on. And the note left for the romantic partner was apparently destroyed, and only revealed via aggressive FBI interrogation, which severely damages the validity of it ever existing.</p><p>There is more to question and look into. But this should suffice for now. It is interesting to note the Trump administration is planning to go scorched Earth against not only violent left wing groups, formally designating Antifa (who I have a lot to say about later) as a terrorist organization, but even threatening to go after various left wing NGOs, despite the fact the evidence available points to Tyler acting alone. This to me implies the Trump administration has thought about doing this for awhile, and either used this event as a &#8220;never let a crisis go to waste&#8221; opportunity or <em>may have had some foreknowledge themselves</em>.</p><p>But I will leave my opinion of Orange Man&#8217;s culpability as a cliff hanger for later in the series. We haven&#8217;t even begin to unravel the aluminum foil roll.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide by Charlie Kirk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Or better put "Suicide By Charlie Kirk" by this retard.]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/suicide-by-charlie-kirk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/suicide-by-charlie-kirk</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:51:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C1eB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03c83041-c511-474a-9779-5d1460ba9c0e_1186x943.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I even read a post of someone who wanted to build an elaborate contraption involving a chain saw, so when people found his body it would look like he ripped his own head off. </p><p>The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk was not just a murder, but a murder-suicide. We know who the murder victim was, but suicide victim wasn&#8217;t a person, it&#8217;s the American left as we know it, and possibly by extension the whole Western left.</p><p>While I&#8217;m still crafting my own tinfoil hat regarding to what the full story of Charlie Kirk&#8217;s killing, what is scaring people (myself included) even more than the actual killing itself is the brazen grave dancing and cheering of outright murder. I saw similar behavior regarding the suicide of a teenage who was trans, but that was limited to the kind of edgelords and cretins you&#8217;d suspect. People saw many regular people, under their own legal identity treat murder done in broad daylight with the same relish as a comeback playoff win. </p><p>If the open celebrations was just limited to people with Sailor Moon avatars with the unicode symbol for the hammer and cycle in their username, obvious bots, and a few clueless identifiable normies mixed in, I don&#8217;t think the building fervor would be nearly as rabid. But that is not what we witnessed. It was everyone from teachers to healthcare professionals giving enthusiastic thumbs up to the political killing of a suit and tie Republican, who&#8217;s greatest crime was having some bad takes and dunking on dumb college kids in debates. People now are going to wonder if their doctor would let them die during a surgery for their political beliefs that aren&#8217;t even that fringe.</p><p>The collective left has<em> completely lost the moral high ground, with signs they willing to go to full bankruptcy. </em>They&#8217;re liquidating all their assets to bet on an already lost game, because they hate the other team that much. Currently reprisals are limited to vindictive pettiness like getting people fired, with Corporate America proving they are more than will to comply. <em><strong>Conservatives are also making a list of all people caught supporting or cheering on the shooting. </strong></em>If making an open enemies list does not send a shiver down your spine, you really should stick to arts and crafts with glue that is safe to eat.</p><p> I know the left has been doing this for years with Trump supporters, and oddly enough Tesla owners. But that was mostly empty intimidation (the attack on Teslas was largely limited to dealerships, with some keying of Teslas in parking lots), where as this is the equivalent of making a public list of Muslim in America on 9/12/2001, with documentation of them celebrating the attack with their full name and employer. Libtards don&#8217;t realized how much they&#8217;ve fucked themselves by not logging off or giving platitudes. </p><p>And that&#8217;s just what your annoying liberal aunt is facing. The actual far left aren&#8217;t getting RICO laws thrown at them, oh no that will be saved for people who wear suits. People wearing punk battle jackets are going to get the same treatment as Muslim terror cells did in the 00&#8217;s. At least the illegals sitting in Alligator Alcatraz get to be sent home or find a new one in Uganda, these guys may get a one way ticket to Guantanamo Bay for the crime of being in the wrong Discord server at the wrong time.</p><p>There has been a lot of pathetic damage control going on. The award for most stupid cope to justify the tombstone shimmy is a clip of Kirk saying he thought empathy was a dumb new age concept, using this as an excuse to not show any empathy. You just agreed with him and Uno reversed yourself <em>retard</em>, justify putting <strong>RIP BOZO #PACKWATCH</strong> on your mother&#8217;s Facebook page if you were gunned down in broad day light and I disagreed with you on issues important to me. &#8220;So much for the tolerant left&#8221;, more like so much for the intelligent left. And before anyone flips out in the comments, I&#8217;m aware Kirk says in the literal next sentence he believed in sympathy (ultimately a dumb take, <em>not like I can debate him about the nature of empathy now</em>). </p><p>I could go on, but the point has been made. The stereotype of the well meaning, empathetic, bleeding heart liberal is now just as dead as Kirk, replaced with something who&#8217;s heart is as cold and dark as Dick Cheney&#8217;s pacemaker. And sadly many maybe facing the post-9/11 boot that machine heart produced, with the fury of a grieving parent, and all the power players looking to make once in a life time plays. Dance on the dead while you still can, because if this escalates any further, you may just be dancing with the dead. And I&#8217;d also advice lots of thoughts and prayer <em>for your own soul.</em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideological Juche: A Manifesto]]></title><description><![CDATA["Ah fuck he wrote a Manifesto" says the FBI agent responsible for monitoring my online activity]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/ideological-juche-a-manifesto</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/ideological-juche-a-manifesto</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:02:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7zs4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cf09c01-ad9e-44c4-90c2-80f1dacdaf1b_1456x1048.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Article image, a sign of things to come.</figcaption></figure></div><h1>Introduction</h1><p>"Everything is political" is indeed true. Everything is also economic, every thing is an art form. But in reality nothing is political, nothing is economic, nothing is an art form. These are just illusions of human consciousness. These things mean nothing to any other creature, and I'd wager God. If God does tip the scales in our tribal warfare, it's probably with a "Why did I even plant that tree and give the serpent the ability to talk?" sort of attitude.</p><p>The hard truth is the politics we so obsess over is territorial pissing in the most literal sense, save for the actual piss (most of the time). When you see a yard sign for a politician you don't like, your anger response is that of a dog smelling the rival poodle's urine who lives up the street. We are able to mark territory though a mixture of old fashion violence, verbal understanding, and mutually agreed upon terms. We can even mark abstract concepts like money, formal leadership roles, and culture as if it were physical territory. We even talk of there being an ongoing "Culture War", who's main victims seems to be quality art and free expression.</p><p>There has been a polarization of the body politic since Obama's second term. This polarization, this mass politicization has effected everything from video game journalism, to Jaguar cars, and even churches. In my small town there are two churches down the road from each other, who like to counter each others politics via their marquee signs. I like to think the two pastors are both in on it, like they divvied up who got the conservatards and who gets the local libtards in town.</p><p>If a game comes with a main female character with big milkers, this is taken as a sign of victory for gamers and regular Asmongold viewers, a defeat for game journos and Hasan fans, with jiggle physics being seen as either a stand against tyranny or a reinforcement of the Patriarchy. They're not rejoicing for the raw pure joy that ample anime titties should bring on their own. Instead it's merely a culture war booby trap. And instead of "ugg fucking men being pigs again", the other side makes it about body shaming and capitalist oppression, or some reaching shit like that. Something as stupid and inane as computer rendered honkers are completely blown out of proportion, even more than their actual size on screen.</p><p>While all this was largely started by the left, at this point the right is just as guilty. James Lindsey <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pubd-spHN-0">trying to force "woke right" to be a thing</a> was not without merit. Marshall McLuhan once said war is a form of education, and the woke sure gave the right wing an education on being insufferable.</p><p>Even as someone who has always had a strong interest in politics since I was a kid, I'm sort of sick of it. I tire over politics being shoe horned into all media and every facet of life. I tire of worrying if something is "based" or not, or if I'm engaged in some "ism." I tire of the news cycle, I tire of having to keep up with the news or the feeling I'm obligated to. I'm tired of being reminded of Jews or Zionist involvement in this or that. Can't someone just eat a bagel in peace?</p><p>I've come to hate politics, the thing that made me feel so smart and grown up as a kid, staying up late to watch <em>Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher</em>. Or feeling like an adult as I laughed along with older family members watching that hack John Stewart. <em>Colbert Report</em> was kino though, but unfortunately Colbert mistook his pretend punditry as license to do actual punditry after dropping the bit, in David Letterman&#8217;s old seat of all places.</p><p>And yet I keep to politisperging. I seethe when someone I don't like is elected, feel glee when a policy I support gets passed, even if it has little to do with my actual life. I get caught up in the drama of it all. It's as if I need a mental framework to stop myself from falling into the same tired patterns.</p><p>Even if I committed to living a fully depoliticized life, politics is not avoidable. As Trotsky said "You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you." Neither the Red Army, nor woketards, and not even boomer cons will just let you grill. If neither our churches nor flame broilers are sacred enough to be spared the smells of conceptualized piss, how does one Febreze that which is ultimately abstract?</p><p>It is with this I craft a new ideology, a new way of viewing politics and society. Born from my falling away from my own preferred forms Kool-Aid and finding all other flavors to be rancid, I've taken to moon shining my own, with just enough cyanide to get a buzz like lemurs do<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a>. It maybe my own and only for me, but that is the spirit of bootleg spirits after all.</p><div><hr></div><h1>Ideological Juche</h1><p>Ideological Juche (or IJ) may just be the first anti-political political ideology, hostile to the very notion of politics itself. The name is an ironic reference to the North Korean concept of &#8220;Juche&#8221;, which roughly means "self reliance<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>." This term &#8220;Juche&#8221; is flipped like a hip-hop sample, taking a term from one of the most totalitarian regimes to ever exist, subverting it for a world view meant to enshrine individual and intellectual self reliance. </p><h2>Main Goal and Purpose</h2><p>The main goal of Ideological Juche is to <em>enable maximal individual agency, while also having a commitment to seeking truth and understanding</em> in a social climate hostile to all three. It takes a critical and outright hostile view of the state, while also encouraging critiques and analysis of societal power, especially where it interferes with one's individual agency and ability to think.</p><p>It takes up the left's common call to "deconstruct systems of oppression", but instead focusing on dismantling those systems externally,<em> it seeks to deconstruct them from within</em>.</p><p>Ideological Juche replaces knee jerk emotionalism and combativeness with sober analysis. It seeks first and foremost truth and understanding, and how to navigate accordingly. It approaches politics and wider society with a surfing approach, or put more viscerally, treating the whole of modernity the same way raccoons and possums treat our trashcans: something to be raided for goodies, with the real trash left behind for someone else.</p><h2>On Politics</h2><p>Politics is a function of the state. When you engage in politics, be it with radical action, voting, or even just arguing with your aunt, you ultimately are affirming the state. Even shooting at Feds only gives the state that much more of an excuse to hire more armed personnel, increases its reach, and further justifies forcing its booted tentacles into our lives. It also gives all would-be political grifters and amateur commentators something to gab about and fulfills their content requirements.</p><p>A state cannot exist without some kind of inner politics as people grapple for power within it, to have the final say on who's getting pork spending and who's special interest is seeing cuts. Even in total dictatorships, there is a sort of inner-politics that happen within the total ruler, because there are going to be times when even a President-for-life is going to be divided on what to do (usually leading to political struggle between ministers and advisors).</p><p>IJ is hostile to the very notion of politics. It views it with contempt, the same contempt as when your dog pisses in a corner. For as mentioned previously, that is what politics is, h<a href="https://youtu.be/SBs455jwb8w?si=AmM01-uZ_ispYho9&amp;t=30">igh brow challenge pissing</a>. It's just how us modern human mark territory, be it literal or figurative. It is nothing more than spear chucking with a lot more steps, with deadlier or more abstract spears.</p><p>Politics is not to be totally ignored however. Instead of getting caught up in the drama and emotionalism, Ideological Juche aims to take a detached view, reading the political winds as one does the literal winds of the weather. One of the few endorsed forms of activism is raising awareness of common propaganda techniques and signs of a psy-op. IJ tries to find reoccurring patterns and archetypes, so as to avoid getting another &#8220;fell for it again&#8221; award.</p><h2>On Democracy</h2><p>Democracy, despite all the saccharine feelings associated with the term, just replaces the contrived "will of God" with the "will of the people." It's often complained how government never really reflects the people's will. That's by design. Democratic voting is a justification for the state as much as it is a sincere mechanism for governance.</p><p>At best democracy sets a floor for how bad a government can fuck up, not a ceiling for excellence. It's sort of ingenious in that way: instead of seeking greatness, most democracies just do enough to get by and get the votes<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>, without fucking up so hard it collapses the state, though the history of South Korea proves this is not guaranteed<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a>.</p><p>Democracy gives people the chance, or the illusion of chance to create change. This is to the state's benefit. Democracy acts as a "how's my driving?" function, while giving a justification of "well we all agreed to it" even if that is a hollow platitude to the reality of representative democracy. This all supports the state by giving the people a soft paper way to stage faux revolts, while getting some potentially helpful input from the electorate, and creating a culture where what the state does is on the forefront of people&#8217;s minds. This inflates the importance and significance of the state in the minds of the people, as they mistakenly overestimate how much they effect they have on the doings of the state, contributing to the state&#8217;s soft power.</p><p>Democracy has become a game of controlling people and factions like chattel instead of gaining the actual will of the people. In effect the will of the people is shaped to the elites' liking, instead of being an organic populist sentiment as most pro-Democracy advocates bill it as. Edward Bernays admitted this about a century ago, and one of the few accurate observations Noam Chomsky made in his whole life<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a>.</p><p>I will say at least the West is not a totalizing totalitarian state like the Soviet Union (at least yet), in which such a thing as IJ is not possible, adding to the irony of using a term from one such regime. Ideological Juche in such a state would really be an act of resistance, where as in current American society its more of a form of willful mental hygiene.</p><h2>"Left" or "Right"</h2><p>Ideological Juche rejects the left-right spectrum, only keeping it around as that is still how most people contextualize politics. It doesn't concern itself with being "based" or wondering if it is enabling this or that "ism." IJ does not position itself as left or right, nor makes any attempts to shoe horn itself into any camp. It freely pulls from ideas and thinkers associated with the left and right, though of a distinctly anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment sort.</p><p>I will admit IJ is rooted in my disillusionment with Libertarianism, while keeping true to the personal tendencies that drove me to Libertarianism to begin with. Another term you could call IJ is "Tragic Libertarianism." The fact is people do not naturally follow the NAP<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-6" href="#footnote-6" target="_self">6</a>, meaning the horrors and abominations of the state will be with us until some sort of eschatology finally comes to fruition.</p><h2>Parallels with Other Ideologies</h2><p>Speaking of Libertarianism, Ideological Juche falls broadly within the family of "Anarchist" ideologies. But most Anarchist are obsessed with politics. I'm reminded of Michael Malice's appearance on the game show <em>Cash Cab</em>, in which one of the questions asked was who were the top three most searched politicians, and Malice started rapidly listing every politician he could think of, with the host shocked with how quickly and how many he could name on the spot. Malice was successful and got a nice bag that day.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-7" href="#footnote-7" target="_self">7</a></p><p>It makes sense the people drawn to a fringe ideology like Anarchism in all its variants are going to be people into politics, political theory, and activism. Right now its mainly Anarchist Antifa shooting hot lead at ICE agents, when traditionally they&#8217;ve kept to Dennis the Menace antics. None the less, I always found it ironic that people who want to abolish the state are the ones most obsessed with it.</p><p>Ideological Juche is openly a form of "Lifestyle Anarchism", a pejorative term from Anarchist theorist Murray Bookchin, for Anarchist who he felt did not engage in enough real life activism<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-8" href="#footnote-8" target="_self">8</a>. I would say the closet thing to IJ is the early American Transcendentalism movement, especially since my own desire to depoliticize is rooted in wanting to focus more on spiritual pursuits. Hell, one of the most important essays of that movement was Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self Reliance."<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-9" href="#footnote-9" target="_self">9</a> Walden Pond could be seen as Thoreau&#8217;s own little Pyongyang, both never having working electricity.</p><h2>Objections</h2><p>Since I can already hear the objections, let me address some of them here.</p><h3>This is just a pretentious form of "I just want to grill."</h3><p>Unless you&#8217;re really commit to living inna woods, you aren't allowed to just grill in the current social environment of the West. You just want to bake a turkey and watch some all American sportsball on Thanksgiving, but your cousin has prewritten spiel about climate change and how we're on stolen land, while your brother-in-law insists on showing up with his red MAGA hat. You want to go to an open mic night to drunkenly sing sea shanties? Well the person behind you has some protests songs to spew, and the guy after you has "socially conscious" rap bars to spit over beats saved to his phone.</p><p>Our current culture will not simply allow you to grill, it won't allow you to just watch a movie without willful messaging, or people reading one into it. And politics is just a reality of human life and society. It must be understood, if only to not get caught up in its lies and emotional drama. In an increasingly polarized political environment, politic's willful foot soldiers and jannies<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-10" href="#footnote-10" target="_self">10</a> will try their best to get you to look up from your grill, toward their own politibrain way of seeing things. I'm reminded of how proud my sibling was convincing our cousin to start voting, when our cousin was content being politically oblivious.</p><p>The state and its politics cannot be avoided. It must be dealt with. And understanding the functions of both are necessary if you wish to know truth, and not get entangled in their bullshit. Being aware of the machinations and manipulations of both the state and political busy bodies, be they well funded NGOs or your brainwashed friends and relatives, frees you to see past the noise and distractions.</p><p>Also unlike most "just wanna grill types", I have an inherent need to think and analyze things. I'm not putting those people down by the way. I remember learning about the study where it was found some people do not have an inner monologue, which inspired the NPC meme, and my initial reaction was "Oh my God I envy those people!" My inner monologue never shuts the fuck up. Ideological Juche is a way to control that inner yammering so it keeps its eyes on the prize, not seething about whatever nonsense people are currently engaged in.</p><p>This is also why I felt the need to come up with a label. Words and concepts give us power. It's why people try to meme words or reuse labels in ways they were not intended. When God told Adam to name all the animals, he was enabling him to have control over them.</p><p>Ideological Juche maybe a quipy le ironic term, but by merely naming it, it gives the mind a mental framework and encourages mental discipline. It is a commitment to not be drawn into bullshit, to seek the truth, to always have yourself and those around you priorities first, and to not ruin family reunions over bullshit no one actually has a say in and were probably just psy-op'ed into believing anyway.</p><p>And speaking of le ironic named schools of thought...</p><h3>This is just PF Jung&#8217;s Cringe "Enlightened Centrism"</h3><p>PF Jung is a true wholesome chungus I have no issues with (also he's a Bears fan so that helps).<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-11" href="#footnote-11" target="_self">11</a> I appreciate he is willing to dialog across the spectrums<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-12" href="#footnote-12" target="_self">12</a>, and his usually light hearted content is nice fluff in the heated and vitriolic realm of modern political discourse. But our motivations are completely different. He wishes to merge and mend the left-right divide to find the best solution to issues, while still willing to take a hard stand on certain topics.</p><p>As stated earlier, IJ has no interest in such things, preferring a observe, analyse, and report approach; emphasizing individual consciousness against the political wind storms above all else. He has an external vision he wishes to fulfill, where as I'm mainly about maintaining both immediate and intellectual freedom. If he actually wills his practical centrist future into being, that sounds nice. But if you have not picked up on, I'm quite a pessimist in regards to our political landscape and society as a whole.</p><p>I will say though, I think both self aware ironically termed ideologies do have as a goal depolarization and depolitization of the wider culture and society. His means to this end is engaging in dialog, debate, and memetic warfare to win hearts and minds, where as mine is focused on meta deconstruction and increasing self awareness, both within myself and among people willing to listen.</p><h3>This is all cope to do nothing</h3><p>Some would dismiss Ideological Juche as cope. IJ is indeed a cope, but a hard cope with no copium on standby. It's a way to cope in a social environment ripping itself at the seams, as both individuals and the masses struggle with the downward spiral of society, in which political wills play a part in accelerating this fracturing. It's a way to remain <em>sane in an insane society</em>, in which the contradictions are starting to pile up to the point you must be willfully blind to ignore.</p><p>As for doing nothing, well I was politically engaged for a time. And you know what it got me? Nothing but disappointment, increased alienation, and a brief visit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Anonymous tip." Okay Agent Mulder. Better be about UFO or werewolf sightings next time, not your glowie-op to get boomers to have a melty en mass inside the capital rotunda.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-13" href="#footnote-13" target="_self">13</a></p><p>Also politically engaged people, especially in fringe circles I like to follow, are some of the most insufferable people imaginable. They generally cling to this or that ideology out of unresolved personal issues, using politics as cover and an excuse to engage in their worst tendencies. The politispergs cry out in pain as they strike you. This is only going to get worse as quality of life declines across the West, and people's mental health follow suit, another reason to go to the trouble of minting my own little gay non-ideology.</p><p>In reality, I&#8217;m making a value judgement on how to live my life, spend my time, and with whom. You only get so much time in this form, and I&#8217;d rather spend it seeking the mysteries of life and existence, not fighting for who gets to be the over glorified dog catcher, or argue the best methods of advanced simian animal control. I can fling my own feces to my liking, thank you very much.</p><h2>Conclusion</h2><p>Ideological Juche is my own odd form of anti Kool-Aid, in a similar form as those very figurative flavored packets. It&#8217;s more of a general outlook than a prescriptive ideology, largely to justify my own anti-establishment tendencies, without getting bent out of shape over it. It's a way of having my cake and it eat to. Or better put, not getting sick by knowing when to put the fork down, and knowing what to eat around, like someone having a brave dinner of poisonous puffer fish. It maybe just a way to justify myself to myself, but that's what most politics is anyway. At least I can be honest about it, and limit the damage to myself and wider society.</p><p>Sorry if this manifesto isn't calling for radical action, blood in the streets, hardcore schizo ranting, or any of the fun stuff you&#8217;d expect when you see the word "manifesto" in a title. Perhaps I'll develop Ideological Juche into an actual school of thought. But more likely "Ideological Juche" will largely live as a term in my head to check myself before wreak I myself. And somewhere, an FBI agent breathed a sigh of relief, and went back to lurking his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s Instagram page. &#8220;One kook we can keep less of an eye on.&#8221;</p><p>And I&#8217;ll see the rest of you rascals the night before morning garbage pickup. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h4aS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31844c7b-ff95-4120-8f94-663a54709753_720x960.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h4aS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31844c7b-ff95-4120-8f94-663a54709753_720x960.jpeg 424w, 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This behavior is thought to be a way to ward of insects and parasites, while also getting high up in the process. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYXoCHLqr4o">Video of this behavior and fucked up drooling lemurs</a>. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>The most literal translation of Juche is &#8220;Subject&#8221;, but this is suppose to mean the total self reliance of the North Korean state. Juche has largely been a sham since North Korea was dependent on handouts from the Soviet Union, and most of their economic problems have been the result of the red Ruskie gravy train being cut off after the Cold War. Their nuclear program partially functions as a bargain chip for free bags of rice.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>I&#8217;m aware you get a JFK once in awhile who wants to do cool stuff like go to the Moon. But this is not the norm, and such leaders are often marked with rifle scopes crosshairs, as JFK ultimately was.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>If you skim though the Wikipedia article on the modern history of South Korea, you realize the only reason the Kim family is not ruling the whole peninsula is US imperialism. Thank the troops next them you&#8217;re shlicking yourself to some pretty boy K-Pop star. Without US boots on the ground, your dear idols would be singing in uniformed choirs in praise of glorious Kim Jung Un.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Even his theories of linguistics have largely been trashed, that there is a universal grammar underpinning all languages, that emerged uniquely from human evolution, meaning only humans are capable of understanding language and using it to communicate. Imagine your claim to fame getting BTFO&#8217;d by talking parrots, chimps trained in sign language, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnhCUYvDHdU">now whale noises</a>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-6" href="#footnote-anchor-6" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">6</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>"Non-aggression Principle&#8221; for those of you who at least got to second base in high school.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-7" href="#footnote-anchor-7" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">7</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>All copies of this have been nuked off YouTube. You&#8217;ll just have to take my word for this.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-8" href="#footnote-anchor-8" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">8</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/soclife.html">Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm</a></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-9" href="#footnote-anchor-9" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">9</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>I read this essay from Emerson a few years ago. And while I remember it being more of a screed than anything else, perhaps some seeds were planted that are now beginning to sprout. </p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-10" href="#footnote-anchor-10" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">10</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>They do it for free after all.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-11" href="#footnote-anchor-11" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">11</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>I&#8217;m not a sportsball guy, but I consider myself a &#8220;Cultural Bears Fan&#8221; in the same way some people consider themselves &#8220;Cultural Catholics.&#8221;</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-12" href="#footnote-anchor-12" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">12</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Both the political spectrum and the other one, <em>you know the one I&#8217;m talking about</em>.</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-13" href="#footnote-anchor-13" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">13</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Not a joke, by the way. Feddies gave me a visit over an alleged anonymous tip I was at the US Capital on January 6th of 2021. This probably had to do with J6 being made such a priority they had to check every lead. As someone who used to work in a bureaucracy, I actually felt sympathy for the poor agents at my door, who were probably tasked to follow up on every lead, no matter how ludicrous. </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Layers of Reality]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Layers of Your Experience]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/layers-of-reality</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/layers-of-reality</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:36:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/47ef8b42-52b6-4095-9f2d-5da067752308_720x960.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We're getting a bit post-modern here. I'm sure what I'm about to present has already been described by some well regarded continental philosopher 40 years ago, using fancy German or French terms that gives their concepts more gravitas to us lowly English speakers, making us feel extra smart when dropping them at parties. But in true Anglophone spirit, what is being presented here is more down to earth and practical, even if you have to bend your mind a bit to grasp it.</p><p>What is reality? "Oh shit not this kind of talk." Yes this kind of talk! Much of the cultural conversation and government policies over the past decade are rooted in ideologies and ideas that take a skeptical and even taken an outright reality denying view of the commonly accepted notions of reality. "Race is a social construct." "Gender is a social construct." I'm sure you've heard it all before. When social constructionist ideas are taken to their logical extreme, all of reality itself becomes a projection of collective human will, in which everything is truly subjective. </p><p>We're not going that far. There is a "real reality", or at least "real" enough material science is possible. No amount of dogma or cultural biases is going to make electricity behave differently. No amount of deconstructing "specisism" is going to get bears to stop eating campers. Some things truly aren't subjective. </p><p>When I talk of "reality" I'm largely talking about perception.  Perception may not be the real in and of itself, but our perceptions both on an individual and collective basis ultimately shape our experience of reality so much that perception is practically our reality. What the social constructionist get right is our experience of reality is shaped by preconceived notions and biases, many of which are rooted in things outside ourselves such as culture, religion, and institutions (as Foucault will tell you for books on end). These then shape and reinforce our own cultural and immediate environment enough that it may as well be reality itself. </p><p>This is true even of other creatures, for the mere presence of urine to so many creatures changes their experience of reality, reshaping it for them in their little critter minds, even if it's just chemicals in the air. Our territorial pissing is more complex, abstract, but not that different from your dog taking a leak on a fire hydrant. We've substituted smells for signs, pheromones for gestures, loud barking noises for yells of slogans. </p><p>I'm not alone in this odd view. The CIA tells all their new agents "there is no truth, only objectives" since if you are in the deception game as the CIA is, truth itself becomes a burden. This is ironic when the main stated goal of the "Central Intelligence Agency" is to gather information, yet they make it the personal modus operandi of agents to disregard the very notion of truth itself. </p><p>To make this model work, we also have to get a bit wooish, a bit New Agey here. Objective "real reality" is a sort of experience of itself. It may not "perceive" and be cognizant, but matter "experiences" things and acts accordingly to its nature, obeying the various laws of nature which dictates the material, and possibly other, state of things. </p><p>With that, let's look at the designated layers.</p><h2>Individualized</h2><p>This is your own localized "<a href="https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/simulation-theory-is-stupid-heres">bio computer simulation</a>." This includes your immediate senses, any current thoughts or wherever your attention is brought to, and all the junk and garbage in your subconscious, both just beneath the surface and deep within. With the exception of "real reality", the other two social layers are dependent penetrating this layer so you act in the other layer&#8217;s accords, or be coerced and crushed by the other two to comply with them.</p><h2>Collectivized</h2><p>This is when you are out with the boys, having a girl's night out, or at a group event. When you're "vibing" with someone, that is a small scale collectivized reality. Even just trying to keep to decorum at a boring office job is a kind of collectivized reality. Probably the best example of a collectivized reality would be a music festival, as the music, drugs, and general festival atmosphere override your usual nominal individualized reality, giving you licences to dance freely and wave glow sticks around, when normally you're embarrassed to sing along to songs alone in your car. If you want to see the clashing of individualized reality against collectivized reality, just take a gander at wallflowers at a party. </p><h2>Consensus </h2><p>This is the shared culture, religion, and taboos human cultures and societies share. This is where social constructionist put their attention and focus to. Often informing both collective and individual reality. Individual reality and coordinated collectivized reality can override consensus reality, but generally only for a period. Extended overrides or rebellion against consensus reality usually gets you thrown into either a jail house or a loony bin. Often you have overlaps of consensus realities much like a venn diagram, or as the the intellectual left is fond of calling it "intersectionality." </p><h2>Real</h2><p>This is the real reality, in other words the reality that exists past our immediate perceptions and biases. This is the material world, and the unknown, poorly understood, yet much speculated metaphysical. Real reality is sort of "the end of the road" and ultimate decider of our fate. However by removing ourselves so much from nature, the raw effects of real reality is less apparent, hence why collectivized and consensus reality dominate our lives. I will add real reality is more open ended than we give it credit for, as is evidenced by plethora of creatures that exist, and all the various human societies and cultures that have existed and continue to exist.</p><p>All of these layers often clash with each other. This is usually resolved inwardly by cognitive dissonance, and with corrosion and manipulation externally. Of course real reality just punishes you with impunity. But even real reality is ultimately reshaped by all the three layers, at least on this planet. Sacred mountains, trees in national forest, and gardens are examples of real reality being shaped by the other layers of reality. When I'm out in the national forests, I sometimes think "This tree has no idea that its continued existence is due to the US government designating this forest as a no logging zone."</p><p>There is often an interplay between all of these. Two clashing consensus realities, such as a protest that has an adjacent counter protest, brings about some of the most potent collectivized realities. I won't forget being at a "Free Speech Rally" in Seattle almost a decade ago now. Of course there were counter protesters there, which turned into a face off. People began to chant "USA! USA! USA!" at the counter protesters, and I didn't want to be that guy, another tard in the crowd mindlessly chanting slogans. But it just sort of overtook me, and soon enough I was just chanting "YOO ESS AYE!" like the tard ape we all are deep down.</p><p>You maybe wondering how all this mumbo jumbo is practical in any way. Well first of all, ask any CIA or intelligence officer as mentioned before. Being aware how your own localized reality is shaped by the other layers can help you cope and even thrive in our contradictory society, while seeking to align yourself with real reality. The success of material science is due to subverting all the three previous layers, learning about actual real reality, limiting the egoistic interjections of the three other layers.</p><p>The collectivized and consensus realities are always trying to get you to comply, even if they run against your own interest, or even are against the ultimate big boss of real reality. Much of the following articles here will be about managing your own localized reality, so you may slide though our social matrix like a slinky fox, and possibly the ultimate "Matrix" itself. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your New Surrogate Father Figure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today on Maury Povich...]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/your-new-surrogate-father-figure</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/your-new-surrogate-father-figure</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:02:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/34979531-8fd8-4f2c-9c6a-30385a9ac0ab_1200x630.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It's Father's Day this weekend, and I got my mandatory visit to my father at the nursing home last week. He doesn't even know what month it is, and besides the only real holidays in his mind has always been Thanksgiving and the NFL draft. </p><p>It has been noted for years the rise of surrogate father figures, for even if you had a dad, many were often largely absent. This is coupled with our society prioritizing females and their ways of doing things, down to openly degenerating men out in the open with impunity. This has spawned whole ecosystems of grifting. I'm thinking specifically of "The Red Pill" and "Manosphere" communities. I would also throw in MGTOW ("Men Going Their Own Way") but that movement is more of a gathering point for older burnouts that rarely appeals to the droves of young lost men. </p><p>This got me thinking if there is not something better, another figure to offer good guidance for what is now whole generations of men clearly craving it. And before you think "He's going to say Jesus isn't he?", while I'm not opposed to that, that's not where this is going. </p><p>But before I offer my alternative, let's do a run down of two of the biggest names in this space.</p><h2>Andrew Tate</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2jkR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59b1f852-eb18-420d-b9d2-8a1e27ac9abc_1920x1200.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2jkR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59b1f852-eb18-420d-b9d2-8a1e27ac9abc_1920x1200.webp 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><strong>Pros</strong></p><ul><li><p>Accomplished kick boxer and businessman</p></li><li><p>Not afraid to be overtly masculine</p></li><li><p>Very intelligent and humorous</p></li><li><p>Has a general tough love message of "Pull yourself up by the bootstraps. You can do it lads!"</p></li></ul><p><strong>Cons</strong></p><ul><li><p>His business portfolio is largely sleazy, consisting of managing cam girls and accused of running outright scams on his followers</p></li><li><p>Charged with sex trafficking in multiple countries</p></li><li><p>Promotes a worldview that is inherently misogynistic, almost openly saying you should treat women as objects</p></li><li><p>Possibly a closeted homosexual</p></li></ul><p>The self anointed Top-G himself. Osama Bin Laden's old quote about "If you put a weak horse next to a strong horse, people generally prefer the strong horse" has really been proven by the ascent of this guy. With a strong record as an accomplished kick boxer, alongside his various videos posing shirtless in front of Bugattis, Tate has taken this "strong horse" PR strategy to new heights. </p><p>He's done an interesting inversion of affiliate marketing, where affiliate marketers spam clips of the Top-G&#8217;s ranting to Tiktok, and acts as a way for Tate to skirt deplatforming, while taking advantage of Tiktok's algorithm of giving new accounts a boost. This creates a hydra of never ending redpill bottles. This is how he went from a figure largely confined to right wing digital ghettos to becoming something of a semi-mainstream figure.</p><p>But we can't ignore the elephant in the room, that being his various charges of human trafficking across multiple countries, mainly from his home base in Romania. I had assumed for years that his soft form pimping via getting women to webcam for lonely men relied on equally softer pimp tactics. But if the allegations from the government of Romania are true, then he's using old fashion pimp tactics of violence and intimidation, even if he found a legal avenue for the oldest profession. </p><p>There is a double dip aspect to Tate's grifts. While having a harem of webcam girls to lure in vulnerable simps, he also hooking in guys who see themselves above such simpery, with dodgy courses and expensive inner group subscription services promising direct guidance from the Top-G himself. It's not unlike selling weapons to both sides of a war. The war in this case being the ongoing gender war, that is ravaging the dating prospects and happiness of young men and women alike. The fact his misogynistic rhetoric and worldview is well above the usual "fuckin' broads" talk you hear at bars all across the world does not help things.</p><p>You maybe wondering about that last bullet point. Well videos of him doing stripper dance moves are a common sight in replies from his many detractors. And while I get he has something of a trickster with machismo persona, he does make them cheeks clap a little <em>too</em> well. He is effectively a pimp, even if he beats the charges coming out of Romania. Any pimp will tell you the best way to control a hoe is getting into a hoe's mind. And the best way to get into a hoe's mind is to think like a hoe. Who would better understand the inner workings of a hoe than some zesty ass ni... Oh sorry, I'm still waiting for my soft "a" pass to get though the system for approval (can't wait to be able to sing along out loud with rap without worry). It would also explain his overt misogyny. If he is secretly gay, he would not be a natural loyal slave to the pussy as all straight men are, meaning he can keep his stable<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> in line without his heart or loins getting in the way.</p><p>I'm not a homophobe by any means. As a bit of a digression, one of the best books on masculinity I've read is <em>The Way of Men</em> by Jack Donovan. Donovan is an open homosexual, which I think gives his book a lot more weight than most on the subject. His analysis to the elusive question of what really makes a man a real man does not have the usual knee jerk need to contrast itself with the feminine and women, offering a look at masculinity largely in and of itself, and I think his sexual orientation helped in that analysis. There are passages in that book where you get the vibe he had a bit of stiffy while typing it out, something of a "Ram Ranch<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a>" methodology, wherein his own boner acts as a calibration tool. Last time I checked on him, Donovan was apart of some Germanic Neo-Pagan group that conducts itself like a biker club. </p><p>Back to Tate's case, if he is indeed a closet case, then he is really selling a lie and tainted product to his largely straight and male audience, on top of all the other issues already mentioned. </p><h2>Jordan Peterson</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oxOp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe79d25ed-b244-4db0-bcda-3893245926e2_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oxOp!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe79d25ed-b244-4db0-bcda-3893245926e2_1280x720.jpeg 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Pros</strong></p><ul><li><p>Accomplished academic, author, and public speaker</p></li><li><p>Generally has a positive message with helpful advice, with even most his critics conceding his basic self-help stuff is good</p></li><li><p>Not an overbearing "alpha male", offering a more somber sensitive avenue for men</p></li></ul><p><strong>Cons</strong></p><ul><li><p>Took the grifter path hard</p></li><li><p>Has a history of substance abuse in response to looming personal tragedy</p></li><li><p>Has clearly lost his intellectual edge in his age, substance abuse, and experimental treatment for said substance abuse</p></li><li><p>Constantly cries</p></li></ul><p>Ah yes, everyone favorite pop Jungian psychologist and lobster enthusiast. This guy was practically a messiah for a few years for young men lost in the wilderness that is modern society.</p><p>But when his wife got diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, with a high likelyhood she would not make it (she did make it and is with us), he did what most neurotic academic brainy types do, that being turning to SSRIs, to which he developed a dependence. This is despite being a life long psychologist and therapist, who had largely become a self help guru by that point. He would go off to Russia for experimental treatment on the advice of his daughter (who interestingly enough met Andrew Tate in person), and is a big believer in such things as an all meat diet. This treatment went on for months, and when he came back he clearly was not the same. If only he had gone deeper into the Russian Federation, into the Russian Far East and found himself a Siberian Shaman who could have weened him off the benzos with some good ol' fashion Fly Agaric<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a> in a matter of weeks.</p><p>He would come back clearly in the camp of boomer conservatism, joining the ranks of The Daily Wire. Before his treatment and return, there was a degree of impartiality to his thought and persona. This impartiality gave his work and sentiments more weight. It seemed like he was coming from a place of just wanting to help the lost youths instead of pushing a particular side of "the culture war." But if that was ever actually the case, it certainly isn't now. And he clearly wasn't the same, I mean just look into his eyes and tell me they don't look dead inside in most photos and videos.</p><p>His reputation has only further declined, as recently he struggled to debate some of the most smug, snot nosed atheist on the rage bait generating Youtube channel Jubilee. Peterson just fumbled around with semantics and theoretical fence sitting for most of it, as the atheist spewed the usual talking points. Yet they managed to upstage the Doc of Disney archetypes. It was a collective fedora tip of victory that day. It's as if he&#8217;s just on autopilot, using the same rhetoric and reasoning from about a decade ago, when "woke" types were referred to as "SJWs." I really think whatever they did to him Russia did some sort of severe damage to his brain.</p><p>I was never a big "Petersonian" so I don't have much else to say. But its quite telling both have gone down the expensive online courses route, down to using the same marketing copy.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a9ca22a7-d57e-42e0-916d-26ed56d3da09_740x653.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/55ae73f2-1f81-48c0-912c-a2f57f0d890b_742x751.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9c602c6-8a30-4d02-a624-255f7db14b7c_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>But what if you don't want to be grifted? What if there was a male figure you could model yourself off that is not just looking to grab you by the ankles and shake you for all your pocket change via obscenely priced online courses, or as a mark for clout?</p><p>Now it's time to meet your new daddy.</p><h2>A Rooster</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xoCg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F466817bd-ec6d-493b-965e-d51d179d65e7_1200x675.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xoCg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F466817bd-ec6d-493b-965e-d51d179d65e7_1200x675.webp 424w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xoCg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F466817bd-ec6d-493b-965e-d51d179d65e7_1200x675.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xoCg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F466817bd-ec6d-493b-965e-d51d179d65e7_1200x675.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xoCg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F466817bd-ec6d-493b-965e-d51d179d65e7_1200x675.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xoCg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F466817bd-ec6d-493b-965e-d51d179d65e7_1200x675.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><strong>Pros</strong></p><ul><li><p>Masculine to his core, will even fight farmer MacDonald</p></li><li><p>Has a harem of big chicken breasted hens</p></li><li><p>Intervenes when pecking order fights get out hand among hens</p></li><li><p>Helps raise the little yellow chicks</p></li><li><p>Will fight to fend off predators, letting loose a warning call if he spots a sky predator like a hawk</p></li><li><p>Always up at sun rise, on that Alpha Cock Grindset</p></li></ul><p><strong>Cons</strong></p><ul><li><p>Is a fucking chicken</p></li></ul><p>You didn't misread any of that. And I'm only half joking here. A common barnyard rooster displays all the qualities men should have. Strong, yet caring. Not a weak simp for the women folk, or in this case hens, yet still paternalistic, trying to do what is best for his kin in the coup. Willing to fight to the death to protect his coup and his honor. As anyone who raises chickens will tell you, roosters don't take shit kindly, and will outright attack their own owners.</p><p>There is also a strong sense of duty with roosters. A duty largely rooted in being a dumb tiny feathered velociraptor, relying almost totally instinct, but a strong sense of duty that is so lacking among us modern hairless savanna apes. Imagine if Arjuna in the <em>Bhagavad Gita </em>had been a rooster. Krishna wouldn't have to go on a book length pep talk, giving an exegesis on Hindu cosmology and ethics to convince Arjuna of his duty as a warrior, and to murder his family on the battle field. He could have just strapped some razor blades on his feet and thrown him right into the battle field. Rooster Arjuna would be drawing blood before Krishna even got a chance blow his conch.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg" width="720" height="960" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:960,&quot;width&quot;:720,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:221096,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://thepsudestack.substack.com/i/165834099?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6d1R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1212b8ab-c6fe-4f98-a62a-70490e419582_720x960.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>The fact that the term "cock" is now mainly used to refer to ones penis is no accident. So reader, I ask you embrace your inner cock, feel your inner cock even if you don't have one in either sense of the term. Let loose some loud cries in praise of the rising sun, neighbors be damned!</p><p>With that, I bid you adduce with a loud roar of Cock-a-doooodleee Doooooo! And Happy Father's day to all the dad's reading this. Remember the mighty rooster tending to his coup as you tend to yours.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uZLA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47ecf3f4-6132-471b-bb2a-c18286a0a801_720x960.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uZLA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47ecf3f4-6132-471b-bb2a-c18286a0a801_720x960.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uZLA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F47ecf3f4-6132-471b-bb2a-c18286a0a801_720x960.jpeg 848w, 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data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Amanita muscaria, also known as Fly Agaric, is a mushroom who&#8217;s psychoactive compounds work on the same brain receptors as alcohol and benzos. There has been suggestions of using it as a way to help alcoholic and benzo addicts to ween themselves off those substances, similar to how kratom is used for opioid addicts.</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Meditation On Nostalgia]]></title><description><![CDATA[More Than Your TMNT Toy Collection]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-meditation-on-nostalgia</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/a-meditation-on-nostalgia</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:55:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/-RFunvF0mDw" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we think about nostalgia, what comes to mind is decades nostalgia: 80's nostalgia, 90's nostalgia, and now it's Y2K and 00's turn on the cycle.</p><p>But we often lose sight of the fact nostalgia isn't just relegated to cheap cash grabs and pop culture junk. We feel nostalgia for things not tied to consumerism. An old man can feel nostalgic for a forest he used to play in as a child, or the distinct smell of his mother's baking. </p><p>Nostalgia is a strange feeling. Most emotions can be tied to some sort of survival utility: anger for getting large and loud when threatened, fear to run away from something, hunger to hint at getting a snack, and of course ever troublesome lust. I suppose you could construe some sort of evolutionary psych explanation about remembering past locations, but as with a most evo-psych it is a rationalizing reach.</p><p>We maybe the only creatures who experience nostalgia, since it requires having an advanced intuitive understanding of time. Elephants really never forget, but I don't know if it would feel nostalgic for say, a ball it used to play with as a calf. Until someone hooks up an Elephant to some sort of device that can see if the same parts of its brains light up when presented with something from its past as we humans do when we hear an 80's jingle, we can safely rule out our fellow animal kin knowing this feeling. </p><p>Nostalgia is simultaneously a joyful, yet melancholic emotion. The memory or reminder of the past has to stand in contrast to the present. And that ratio of joy and melancholy can be altered and amplified by the current present. An old man is going to have two very different experiences of nostalgia if he goes to his childhood forest and either finds it still intact, or bulldozed and replaced by a Burger King. The memory now stands in direct opposition to the present, with the present always the victor. </p><p>Or consider hearing that song you loved on the radio back in the day, but with the current fore knowledge of Ditty parties or a second Hitler crash out now hanging over. Only a few years ago you'd be fondly be reminded of your college keaggers, but now it has to coexist with thoughts of baby lotion, or black men chanting the double HH in public.</p><p>There is also an inherent psychological regressive quality to nostalgia, especially if the triggers are of feelings and scenes from childhood. Megacorps practically build their whole businesses off this, Disney and Nintendo being the largest examples. During the 2020 BLM riots when big corporate gaming social media accounts were giving their fealty to BLM, Nintendo only did so after massive backlash, because they have a strict corporate policy to never touch politics. They want you regressing back to when you were eight in front of an NES, so you don't question why you're preordering a Switch 2. Mixing Mario with George Floyd just jams that signal and may taint sales.</p><p>I have a strange example of something not experienced in ones past giving someone nostalgia, that being my father's love of Blink 182. Despite being a boomer, he loves Blink 182. He told me the lyrics and overall tone of the music took him back to being an angsty teen, just wanting to be left alone in his room. The music YouTuber Coolea joked in his video about Midwest Emo that the music gives him nostalgia of growing up in a small U.S. Midwestern town, despite being British. The bittersweet nature of Midwest Emo probably contributes to this, as that music parallels the bitter sweetness of nostalgia. Returning to our old forest, even if it's still there you never really step into the same forest twice, and your current self is always in opposition to the past self, ensuring that bittersweet feeling is still there even if the woods was not torn down for McMansions.</p><p>I mentioned before the joy-melancholic ratio inherent in nostalgia. I have a personal example of feeling nostalgia so painfully it still makes my eyes well up. I was on a walk a few months ago, and came across a man with a golden retriever puppy. This pup look just liked my boyhood dog, as it had a darker golden toned coat than most more yellowish retrievers, just like my old dog. If he had this dog on a leash, I would have instantly stopped and did the whole "OMG what a cute puppy!" routine and just started petting it. But this guy did not have this dog on a leash and was doing some sort of training with it (probably for hunting). I didn't want to disturb this guy and interfere with the dog's training, but I found it really, really hard not to stare. As I walked away, I just look over my shoulder and this dog looked back at me with his big dark eyes, almost staring into my soul. The memory of that puppy looking back at me may as well be a mental Polaroid.</p><p>In subcultures that are very nostalgia heavy, like Vaporwave, it's often joked about "having nostalgia for a past you didn't experience" both in reference to Vaporwave being a sort of surreal, dreamlike, intentional misremembering of the actual past, or the fact that many people into it weren't even cognizant or alive during the cultural periods Vaporwave pulls from. I have an example of the opposite, just one last story before wrapping up.</p><p>I won't forget being at a family function many years ago. My sister was there with there then husband and my nephew when he was only two or three. My nephew was dancing around to some pop music and everyone was giddy, watching the wee one bounce around, clapping giving him cheers, except my grandmother. I don't know how to describe the look on her face. It was almost blank, she wasn't watching him dance, she was gazing at this child like she was staring into a cavernous abyss, with almost a painful look in her eyes. </p><p>For her, this wasn't a child, or a grandchild, but a <em>great</em>-great grandchild. And she managed to see one, when it's a blessing to cheat death long enough just to see your own grandchildren. <em>My grandmother was witnessing a future she would never know.</em> She would pass away a few later, as grandparents like to do. The only way I can convey the look on her face is fittingly a classic Vaporwave tune.</p><div id="youtube2--RFunvF0mDw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;-RFunvF0mDw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-RFunvF0mDw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>So reader, what are somethings that trigger nostalgia for you that aren't tied to pop culture? While I did touch on cultural nostalgia, and I will be doing a followup addressing your Transformers collection, for now I'd like to focus on those things without direct ties to the S&amp;P500.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simulation Theory is Stupid, Here's is A Better One]]></title><description><![CDATA[We're throwing the dweebs into lockers for this one.]]></description><link>https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/simulation-theory-is-stupid-heres</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://thepsudestack.substack.com/p/simulation-theory-is-stupid-heres</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[CommunityCollegeDropout]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:26:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/70b0d4cb-7e16-4274-b69a-b332d935ada7_2048x2048.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simulation theory is fucking gay, and not in a good way where there is at least quality dick sucking going on (it's Pride after all, big corpos are too cowardly to acknowledge that, but I'm not).</p><p>Chances are if you are misfortune enough to be in spheres frequented by techbros, Redditers, or any place midwits like to congregate<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> you've heard of "Simulation Theory", which is quite possibly one of the dumbest, most fucking stupid thing I ever heard in my life. And I listen to <em>Tin Foil Hat</em>, a podcast hosted by professed Flat Earther and comedian Sam Tripoli.</p><p>If you have been lucky enough to be spared this fate up till now, let me outline the theory:</p><blockquote><p>If it was possible for a super computer to simulate reality, this computer could spawn many instances of different realities in near infinite quantity. This means you are more likely to live in a simulation than not live in a situation.</p></blockquote><p>Ooooh are you scared my fellow Matrix dweller? Probability means you are more likely living in a simulation than not in one, haha! No. At best this little theory demonstrates how notions of probability can be twisted into total absurdity. This theory reminds me of philosopher Bertrand Russel's story about "Turtles All the Way Down."</p><p>Russel was giving a lecture when an old woman shouted out of no where "THE EARTH SITS ON TOP OF A GIGANTIC TURTLE!" Russel, amused by this asked "And what's beneath that turtle." The woman takes a moment to think and replies "Another turtle of course!" to which Russel than repeats "And what's beneath that turtle?" The woman replies back "It's turtles all the way down!" </p><p>Ha, what a rube! Who let her into the building? But ohhhh Simulation theory, it talks in terms of smart person things like <strong>COMPUTES</strong> and <strong>PROBABILITY</strong>, when in effect it's the same thing. You just substituted turtles for server racks. And while we have super computers, let's not forget Morse's Law S-curved over a decade ago, with most chip development focusing on smaller, more efficient CPUs and specialized chips. There has even been a push to incorporate analog computing chips into digital systems since it's better equip to handle common computation tasks associated with AI and the like. </p><p>Super computers exist, but so do turtles. This mythical all powerful computer may as well be a gigantic tortoise. "Whoa dude, what if the tortoise is actually a cyborg with advanced AI and our reality is just a gigantic AI hallucination?" *que bong rip*.</p><p>It's what these types do: they read too much sci-fi (or pretend to) and assume that it's just inevitable because heckin' science. Most Science Fiction is just as fantastical as the Fantasy novels they are put next to in book stores. Much of Science Fiction's accurate prediction of the future has more to do with hyperstition<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> than any Delphi-like prophesy abilities by men who manage to be creepier than their reader base.</p><p>So yes, completely deboonked, owned epic style, it's only weegies all the way down from here on out nerd. "But I somehow have a better theory?", you may be asking yourself. I want you to just clear your mind of computers and talk of gigantic turtles for a moment and imagine you're on a beach...</p><p>It's a nice warm, yet not too hot day. The sand is giving your feet that nice warm sensation that sands likes to do, the sun is out and the sky is a crisp blue just like the waves crashing on the beach. You gaze out at the wide beach that seems to reach out into infinity, and spy the most beautiful human specimen you ever laid eyes on, one that excites the loins and heart. Could be a man, could be a woman, could be a lady with a bit of a bulge under her G-string bikini (it's Pride, bigot). Whatever your preference, this being may as well been birthed from Venus herself, and is now locking eyes with you, shinning illustrious eyes, just staring into yours, with a wide welcoming smile they are now walking towards you like a beauty from Baywatch and...</p><p><em><strong>PSYCHE!</strong></em> Welcome back to the mundane Matrix inside an AWS server sitting on top of a gigantic turtle. And furthermore, unless you're using some sort of text-to-speech program or are a skilled speed reader, you are hearing a voice in your head, transcribing the words you are reading now, <em>simulating</em> sounds that aren't there. </p><p>Ahhh get out my head Charles! Stop exposing me as a trans chaser, if only to myself! You see where this is going. How many times has something made you absolutely nervous, neurotic, something you were dreading to face only to find out the thing you were dreading wasn't there, or the expected outcome was completely different than anticipated. You felt all those emotions for something that didn't exist, you <em>simulated</em> it in a word. </p><p>Furthermore, it has been demonstrated time and time again the mind's ability to filter out information and sensory perception to the point of completely ignoring things that are in the room. I'm reminded of videos in which people are instructed to watch people bounce a basket ball, counting each bounce, only to have a man in gorilla costume casually walk by, and when asked about the man in the gorilla suit the participants have no recollection of this real life Zapruder film. Interestingly children do typically notice. </p><p>You live in a simulation, but a locally hosted one in a bio computer that may or may not transpond to some sort of higher satellite power, I mean tower. This computer can be easily hacked. Hypnosis, which is a well studied and confirmed phenomena, proves this. Mass hysteria proves this, with each bio-computer linked in a sort of cultural network, using language and media as it's networking protocol that sends messages out of Satanist, Nazis, Communist, Witches or whatever is lurking about, infiltrating your local PTA.</p><p>So I ask you reader, how is your simulation going lately?</p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>You are on Substack at this very moment</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition">hyperstition</a>: A cultural belief (especially a work of fiction) that makes itself real; a cultural <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/self-fulfilling_prophecy#English">self-fulfilling prophecy</a> where some <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cultural#English">cultural</a> idea or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hype#English">hype</a> truly brings about the thing it describes.</p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>