@takenaps@dbongino Dan ommitted a step… SS and Medicare, likely every govt payment (military, civs, contractors, pensions, - though probably not Congress, Senior Admins and Justices) is going to be replaced by CBDC and THAT is what the data centers are for.
@skupor@POTUS@USOPM@WHFraudTF@VP The fraud begins with telling people to jab their babies at birth to create a population signed up for lifelong subscription/prescription meds that do not make them well. Why don’t you tackle that?
@stuartscheller You cannot have objective markers in widely subjective circumstances with wildly divergent expectations from a highly homogenized leader caste . Exhibit A: a “warfighter” does not man desk or need bus. sense. B: a cyber operator is not lethal. C: an Acq/Eng requires bus. sense.
@JoelValdezDOW You have no idea what people were promoted for, nothing to prove a case. The entire system is based on a bunch a of jazzed up bullet points, brown nosing, lies, half truths, and hella lot of omissions. Merit is like porn. The decision maker knows it when he sees it. Corrupt.
@walk_the_talk94 JAG filled the vacuum of leadership caused by selecting only the sycophantic “experts” under the guise of merit. Candor and integrity were liabilities and career de-railers.
@colonelkurtz99 Good luck finding a clean facility, where the employees are vetted, appreciated, sufficient to the tasks, and paid well, without draining the bank account.
@skupor Employees cannot speak truth to power IN house, but you’re worried about what they talk about outside. IG, OSC, MSPB doesn’t give a rip about what’s going on in fed govt, Congress is impotent. The only recourse is public disclosure.
@RWcascadia@CynicalPublius@KurtSchlichter A reasonable question, but you only have to look at Medicaid and Medicare for the answer. BLUF: life isnt bound to be easier by someone else taking care of you. It makes you dependent and at the mercy of merciless bureaucracy.
@NickRaspino@naomibrockwell Using a vpn is saying: “look at my traffic that I don’t want you to see” ie a red flag helping sort the signal from the noise, and a trivial matter to unravel.
Someone put this diagram together and it deserves to be read slowly.
Three of the most disturbing psychological experiments in modern history placed in a Venn diagram with COVID policy sitting precisely at their intersection.
They were not wrong.
Most people know the Milgram experiment. Ordinary people administering what they believed were lethal electric shocks to strangers because an authority figure in a white coat told them to continue. We wrote about this. COVID replicated it at planetary scale, the doctors, the neighbours, the employers, the family members who enforced mandates with a zeal that had nothing to do with science and everything to do with institutional obedience.
But the other two are equally important and far less discussed.
The Asch Conformity Experiment demonstrated something even more fundamental. Solomon Asch showed in the 1950s that a significant majority of people will deny the evidence of their own eyes will give an answer they know to be factually wrong, simply because everyone else in the room is giving that answer. Not because they were threatened. Not because they were paid. Because the social pressure of the group was sufficient to override direct sensory experience.
This is what masking a healthy population, cancelling Christmas, and demanding that people treat their neighbours as biological threats actually accomplished. It was not about any of those things specifically. It was about training an entire population to override their own perception and defer to the group consensus, however absurd that consensus became.
And then the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 study abandoned early because it spiralled so rapidly out of control, showed that ordinary people assigned roles of authority over other ordinary people will, within days, begin to abuse that authority in ways they would have found unthinkable before the role was assigned. The guards became cruel not because they were cruel people but because the structure gave them permission and the institution backed them up.
We watched this happen in real time.
The COVID marshals. The border agents turning families away. The hospital administrators barring visitors from dying patients. The teachers reporting parents. The neighbours calling police on children playing in parks. The HR departments gleefully processing terminations for the unvaccinated. Ordinary people, handed a role and a uniform of institutional approval, discovering capacities for cruelty that their pre-2020 selves would not have recognised.
Now go deeper.
Because the institution at the centre of this, the one that has connected these threads across decades is not an accident of history.
Stanford sits at the intersection of centralised medicine, defence research, and the surveillance architecture that has been constructed around human attention and behaviour for the better part of a century. The Stanford Research Institute. The connections to MKUltra the CIA’s mind control programme that ran from the early 1950s and included everything from Mexican mescaline experiments to the weaponisation of LSD on unwitting subjects, overseen by figures who moved seamlessly between military intelligence and the medical establishment.
From General Groves who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the deliberate suppression of radiation health data to Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA chemist who ran MKUltra’s most extreme programmes. The through-line is not conspiracy. It is institutional continuity. The same networks. The same funding streams. The same willingness to use human beings as experimental subjects in the service of power dressed as science.