Death Blossom

The Beast Has Blinked

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It is often said that desperate times call for desperate measures.

Far be it from me to disagree.

That said, while that truism is often applied to the ‘heroic’ side in a real or fictional scenario, as a would-be hero or altruistic side is place in a desperate situation only to propel them—and by extension, their character arc—over the growth vectors they will need to overcome the odds and impart whatever ‘point’ the story has in store for its audience, it holds true in the realm of the real.

Leaving aside the realm of the fictional, then, the ‘desperate times’ truism is almost always assigned to the side that is perceived to be losing whatever conflict is under the microscope, be it kinetic, emotional or cognitive. And while I do believe we’re living in desperate times as we continue to attempt to first parse and then map out the various twists and turns in an ongoing Fifth-Generation War some are only now becoming aware of, where I disagree with the ‘Doomer’s Refrain’ or those more prone to cynicism and closed-pathway, emotional thinking is that I believe the collective enemy are currently exhibiting this behavior far more readily than any patriots we might ostensibly refer to as those fighting on our behalf on this movable, often-obscured game board.

Whether you refer to [them] as the Deep State, the Cabal or any number of names assigned to the Globalist element that has infected society for decades, if not centuries, the reason writers and thinkers such as myself and many others at Badlands Media tend to refer to them as the ‘Finite’ or ‘losing’ side in this Fifth-Gen War is based on our consistent observations that they are expending valuable psychological, Narrative and even Kinetic ammunition at an unsustainable rate and to increasingly-lackluster or self-defeating results.

In short, as I began painting the picture months ago during my Righteous Russia series, the Beast currently finds itself trapped in a ravine at the edge of the world. It has grown tired and it is bleeding from many wounds as hounds harry it from the edges and hunters shadow it from the cliffs. It is paranoid and reactive, more prone to lunging and swiping and biting than of thinking. Its movements are fast, and while still dangerous, its attacks are erratic, and each outward move it manages to action in order to prolong its sorry, hateful life only serves to push it one step closer to the moment it goes over the edge completely, or collapses in the red-stained ice and snow it has dug bloody trenches in during its dying throes.

You see, while the Beast is doomed, and while the Beast knows it is doomed, to the hounds closest to its snapping maw, its torn, rippling hide and its sharp, splitting claws, it is still a deadly thing, and one whose power seems magnified as it approaches its inevitable ending.

So then, if we leave the realm of poetry aside—a difficult task for me, as my readers know all too well—and focus on the Actual in light of the ongoing Shadow War, what moves have we seen on the proverbial game board of late, who has actioned them and who has reacted to them?

Lately, as I have argued in recent pieces and in recent appearances on the Badlands Media Network, Donald Trump, the closest thing we have to an anointed commander and leader of the Global—yes, the worldwide—Sovereign Alliance that is rising to beat back the forces of Marxist Communism has been extremely active on the game board.

As I argued in a recent piece entitled, ‘The Master,’ Trump’s deployments in this Fifth-Gen War are almost always Potential in nature. By this I mean they are rarely kinetic, even when he was (public) Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful military in the world, and they are rarely Actual even in the political realm, in terms of overt moves and countermoves. No, his best moves are also his most oft-deployed, and these exist in the realm of the Narrative.

When I refer to Donald Trump as a ‘Master,’ I am referring to his ability to provoke all sides into strong engagement with whatever story he chooses to tell. Where many—even those in this community and ostensibly on Trump’s side—often fall prey to his cleverness, however, is in the reactions such Narrative Deployments provoke. While these reactions are understandable and even expected, they often appear to be silly and even embarrassing in hindsight, and when the emotional tides recede, we are usually left with a section of the game board that has been rendered in more stark, obvious detail to us—and most certainly, to Trump and his allies—than it was before he took the stage for his latest psychological magic trick.

As I argued in ‘All Assets Deployed’ here at Badlands Media last week, I believe Trump’s recent announcements—from the announcement of the announcement on November 7 to the announcement of his candidacy for 2024 on November 15, to his recent deployment to ‘counter’ the weaponization of the Department of Justice on November 18—served several purposes at once:

1)    In appearing ‘weak’ when he was, in fact stronger than ever on the eve of another contentious and largely-fraudulent election cycle—and one that was far more successful for our side than cynics would have you believe—Trump managed to get all of the wolves in sheep’s clothing in Con Inc. and the controlled opposition within the ‘Alternative Media’ to reveal their true colors and throw in with the first controllable—in their view—America First leader other than Trump they could find.

2)    In announcing his announcement eight days in advance, Trump was able to both put the Media Industrial Complex and all its architects on the back foot while provoking them into the premature weaponization of anti-Trump and anti-MAGA/America First narratives that would have been best held until we were deep into the swing of the 2024 election cycle. Now, their ammunition is spent, and while the MAGA waters are calming, [they] have one less arrow of division in their increasingly-light quiver.

3)    Trump’s announcements may have ALSO provoked an Actual Event on the other side of the world, drawing out one of the most potent—and thankfully—unsuccessful deployments from the enemy’s cache, that being the attempt to frame an errant missile strike on Polish (ie: NATO) territory as being the work of and aggressive and unhinged Russia.

Taken together, these objectives represent a veritable coup on the part of Trump and his allies to both smoke out those in ‘our movement’ who are little more than charlatans at best and malicious Judas goats at worst, while also causing some of the few kinetic, ‘hot’ factions to reveal themselves on the international game board, so that they might be first exposed and later removed either by American or—more likely—allied Russian forces so that the next ‘errant strike’ is even less successful than the last.

Applying Bicameral Thinking to this framework, we might also start to see the many ways in which Trump and his Allies’ deployments serve not only the aforementioned ends targeted at the various enemy factions, but also serve to simultaneously seed the Collective Mind with some of the Macro concepts that this Truth community has been engaging with for years. From False Flags to the inherent complexity at the heart of Fifth-Generation Warfare, the reachable minds within the society we are ostensibly trying to free from the grips of Globalist subversion need not fully engage with these complex topics to begin to get a basic understanding that Ukraine and its leadership aren’t quite what the Media Industrial Complex first portrayed, just as their supposed ‘invaders’ aren’t quite the mustache-twirling villains that the news chyrons and breathless social media reactions sold to them back in February and March.

As I often say, one need not adopt YOUR paradigm or worldview in order for you to gain a marked advantage or to make significant progress toward freeing them from the matrix that we see more clearly every day; instead, by provoking them to first examine and later, potentially reject the paradigm they were either born into or programmed into, we have successfully unchained a trapped mind, one that may never fully adopt our paradigm, but that can no longer be used to advance [theirs] as part of the directed Mass Psychosis that has been engineered for decades to guide touchstone events within the American political, economic and social theaters.

I often talk about Potential Events as existing purely in the realm of the Narrative, but some events—such as Ukraine’s seeming attempt to frame Russia for the kick-off of World War 3—fall into the realm of the Actual as well. In fact, some of the most effective and damaging Events in human history represent a morbid genius fusion of the Actual and the Potential, which we will explore in greater detail in a future piece.

While it seems that—from the reporting we have available to us—the Actual Event deployed by the powers that would be was successful in provoking the reactions it was meant to, the Potential Event—that being the attempt to frame Russia as responsible for said Actual Event—fell apart in the span of 12 hours, due in no small part to the cognition and ruthless logic, attention to detail and hivemind, decentralized coordination of this community and those adjacent to it.

Had NATO/Ukraine/[Their] twin Actual-Potential Deployments been successful, we might have seen the entire world change on a dime, spilling us into a horrible, pre-planned cascade of Actual and Potential dominoes en route to the forced reset of our world as it devolved into the blissful—to them—chaos of opportunity represented by global war.

I argued last week that [they] want to control you for the same reason that they fear you:

You are powerful, and you are powerful because you can choose to become a part of a growing, decentralized WE that increases in influence, complexity and sovereignty by the day.

We have patriots fighting for us at the highest levels of the Military and Political structures we examine on the various fronts in the Information War, but they cannot be everywhere at once and they cannot fight every battle for us.

Donald Trump may have gotten out ahead of the latest attempt by the powers that would be to drag humanity into another dark, bloody chapter, but WE—the decentralized, self-affirming and self-actualizing collective rather than the programmed, mindless and zombified collective [they] sought to create—are the ones who hold the key to stopping such deployments in their tracks through the mass investigation of, dissection of and dissemination of their stories before the First Act even gets going.

I appeal to allusions to ‘The Beast’ in my writing because it is the most apt way I have found to describe what it is we are up against as we attempt to take back this nation and this world from the Controllers. The Beast is the System of Systems, and in order to take those Systems down, they must first be recognized for what they are.

From the Political to the Narrative, the Cultural to the Social, we are leveling up as [they] continue to spiral, so the next time you find yourself clenching your fists and jaw as the engineered tension threatens to boil over into a pre-planned MAGA ‘Split’ or even something so dramatic and ‘final’ as the World War that I believe will NEVER be actualized, remember the last day they tried to provoke us into killing our brothers and sisters for the latest lie, and remember how quickly we exposed the attempt and brought it all crashing down around them.

We are in a War for Peace.

And we are winning.

Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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