Get Woke, Go Broke
Don't Get Woke, Go Broke ... You Choose
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As always, anywhere I talk about the economy, the stock market or investing, I must say, this is not financial advice.
George Carlin once said, “it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” He didn’t live too much longer after making this statement.
Some in our society could interpret this quote as saying, ‘there are the fortunate and the unfortunate, and you just don’t happen to be a part of the fortunate.’ You weren’t born into money; you don’t have the advantages others might have, and this is not because of anyone’s doing. It’s just bad luck. Your drive to success has been littered with speed bumps, nails, broken glass, ice, animals, and whatever else may inhibit one from getting where they want to go. It’s all random, you are just unfortunate.
Others read Carlin’s quote as stating there is a select group of people who run the world, a cabal or deep state, and if you aren’t a part of that group, you will never attain great power or monetary wealth. This isn’t to say you must necessarily be born into this group, but rather, if you aren’t a part of this group, if you haven’t been initiated into this group, you will never attain great power and monetary wealth.
Anyone who has ever read anything I’ve written knows I side with the second interpretation. Things aren’t as random as they appear. Narratives are pushed, and agendas are created and implemented by this “club”. Politicians, celebrities and CEOs are picked from this group that we aren’t a part of. If you aren’t a part of this club, your upward mobility is greatly restricted. If you try to expose this club, best case scenario, your life will be made extremely uncomfortable; worst-case scenario, you won’t live long.
Please allow me to talk about myself for a few minutes; I promise it will all tie together.
I’m a meathead. I literally lift weights twice a day, every day. I actually look forward to “leg days”. I just finished up a few months of German Volume Training. Only the “meatiest” of the meatheads even has a clue what German Volume Training is: in short, it’s really hard, and that’s why no one does it. The bulk of my diet is animal based; my food pyramid is in the shape of a cow. I don’t think I could physically watch an episode of The Bachelor without spontaneously combusting. I’m happily married with kids; I take my family to a Bible-believing church every Sunday. No one has ever accused me of being politically correct or woke, and it’s never been suggested I’m too effeminate. I knew Covid was a Deep State narrative three months before the lockdowns started.
I love God, I love my family, I love my country, and I think Trump is the greatest President that has ever lived. Many on the Left would consider me a relic, an enemy. There should probably be a wax statue of me at the Museum of Natural History clubbing to death and eating a Saber-toothed Tiger. If Conservative Christians were rounded up for re-education, they would probably realize it was pointless with me and just shoot me in the head.
With all this being stated, understand this: the cabal despises Trans people more than they despise me. Please marinate on this statement for a few seconds.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the cabal wanted to have a conversation with me. To find out why their indoctrination hasn’t seemed to work on me, to find out how I am able to break free of their spell. If the 400lbs middle-aged man that posts videos on TikTok of himself dancing on a stripper pole while wearing a princess dress showed up at the cabal’s club unannounced wanting to talk, the cops would be called immediately.
What am I trying to say, here? The cabal is using these people to destroy America by first destroying their own lives. These people are pawns in the Deep State cabal’s plan, nothing more. While this “club” has “cancelled” me, they are intentionally promoting mentally unwell people to ruin their own lives. Hey, let me just say, I’d rather be ignored than abused.
I live in a very liberal area, and one of my concerns over the past several years has been the liberal narratives my 13- and 15-year-old sons are exposed to in public schools. As it is, my 15-year son is in junior ROTC and my 13-year-old son gets mad when I cross my legs in church because he thinks it’s too feminine. He literally pulls one leg off the other. Let’s just say I’m not concerned someday either of my children will be telling me they identify as anything other than what God made them.
The other day, I told my sons the Trans person that is famous on TikTok is now sponsored by Bud Light and Nike. To which they responded, “who?” “Why would you think we’d know who you are talking about?” “Nobody we know knows who that is.” This kind of floored me, in a good way. It made me think, are we told these people are famous, when in fact they don’t have quite the impact we are led to believe? Are we not giving the bulk of the Gen Z Generation enough credit? Are the vast majority of mentally well young people who live in religiously-conservative homes immune to this Trans push? Are the troubled youth’s parents the real problem? In other words, do I not need to worry as much about my own children?
Let me state this right now, so no one gets the wrong idea: In my opinion, pushing anything sexual on children is child abuse and should be punished by the law. Whether it’s gender identity or sexual preference, or God forbid, actual physical sexual abuse, these people should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. The Dalai Lama should have already been stripped of his position.
I pray every day for God to protect my children from Satan and his minions. Why have I worried up to this point about the public school and media’s influence on them? God’s protection is enough. Worry less, pray more. Actually, that should be a bumper sticker if it isn’t already.
I’ve recently come to the conclusion that if a child is mentally well, and lives in a house that has religiously-conservative parents, they are likely protected from these dangerous narratives. The children who are mentally unwell and live in houses with indoctrinated parents are the ones at risk.
The indoctrinated parents are the ones that make the biggest difference. They are the ones that need to be reached, convinced they are being manipulated to further the cabal’s agenda. As I’ve experienced time after time, no matter what my sons hear or see at school or in the media, once they walk in the front door of our house, that nonsense is squashed.
Okay, on to the subject matter in the title.
I don’t want anyone to think I’m about to defend CEOs and corporations that belong to the “club” when I explain what is going on with crazy woke American businesses today. Many of these people have sold their souls and are horrible people, but most of them aren’t complete morons, and recently, their moronic business choices don’t make any sense. They upset the majority of their customer base to appease a tiny fraction of people who aren’t a part of their customer base. This goes completely against all logic. If your MBA from Harvard tells you to do this, you should probably sue to get your money back.
I started to notice this lunacy vividly with the corporate support of BLM. While inner cities were still on fire from the BLM/Antifa riots in 2020, corporations were sending billions of dollars to the BLM organization. As we hopefully all know by now, none of these donations went to Black Americans; it all went to fund Biden’s run for president, and a few BLM “higher ups” bought houses in predominantly white neighborhoods as well. BLM is a money laundering operation created and used by the deep state to push their agenda of chaos, confusion and division.
We probably all still remember, post-BLM riots, how the corporation Coca-Cola had training to help employees be “less white”. What is America, around 85% white? The message being conveyed to the vast majority of their customer base was that they are the problem with our society.
Broadcast commercials all of a sudden didn’t have any white people—white men especially. Large trucks were now being driven by Black or Asian women in commercials. I can’t remember the last time I saw an Asian woman driving an F150, if I ever have. I’m sure there are some, but come on, we all know who the customer base is.
You could still be in commercials if you were a white woman, as long as you were morbidly obese in an underwear add, had pink hair, or appeared to be a lesbian—if you were all three it checked off most of their boxes. White men were allowed to be in commercials if they appeared to be gay or were used as the butt of a joke in the commercial, you had to be the object of ridicule. Overnight, corporations were terrified of appearing white, even if 98% of their product’s target market was white. It made no logical sense; it made no business sense. It’s not quite as bad as a couple of years later, but it’s still pretty bad.
Back to the “club”.
Here’s the thing about belonging to an exclusive club—they require club fees. In this case the deep state cabal required these corporations to push their agendas even when it means upsetting and possibly losing their target markets—their actual customers. If these corporations chose NOT to funnel money into BLM and promote deep state agendas, they risked being excommunicated from the cult.
Decades ago, an investment concept called ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) started to become more popular with some retail investors (regular people). People who didn’t want to invest in funds that included Big Oil, Big Tobacco, weapons manufacturers, were given options to invest in funds that didn’t include these types of companies. This option was created for the individual investors, but for Wall Street, it meant these investors couldn’t use moral reasons for not investing in the stock market anymore.
Fast forward to today and ESG is now being used to control the corporations. If you don’t check off all the woke agenda’s boxes, your company’s stock won’t be included in funds. If your company’s stock isn’t included in ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds), mutual funds or other types of investments that include a diversification of company stocks, your stock price will go down. Your company’s value will go down. If your company stock isn’t included in these funds, your stock will be owned by less people.
Here’s the rub.
If you get woke and upset your customers, they will stop buying or using your product. This will cause your company to lose value. If you choose NOT to get woke, the “club” will kick you out, causing your company to lose value. Right now, the Deep State cabal is more concerned with creating and maintaining agendas than making money. This screams desperation.
In my opinion, many of the CEOs that run corporations would prefer not to get woke and would prefer to have financially-prosperous companies instead. But some CEOs are likely more inspired to promote the woke agendas, and that’s why the “club” put them in their positions in the first place. As consumers, we need to boycott woke companies. If not, they will be both prosperous AND woke. They will be able to push their agendas without losing anything in return. We can’t allow them to have their cake and eat it too.
How is ESG determined and who enforces it?
Soros-run and funded organizations like The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) create credit scores, kind of like the CCP, and force corporations to comply or feel the wrath of these politically-motivated organizations. If your company doesn’t toe the Soros line and comply to their demands, your company will be barred from the major investment company’s funds—investment giants like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. Hence the title of this post, “Get woke, go broke. Don’t get woke, go broke. You choose.”
Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock is considered by many as being “the face of ESG”, and I have to say, he is a real enigma to me. Fink started BlackRock in the late 80’s and built it up to become the biggest manager of assets in the world, passing up blue blood cabal members that have been exploiting the world for a thousand years. There is no way in my opinion that Fink isn’t a member of the elite club, or that BlackRock’s assets aren’t owned by the cabal.
Here’s the confusing part—the 5GW (5th Generation Warfare) part: When Donald Trump was POTUS, he was said to have merged the Federal Reserve with the US Treasury. The thought was that he was dissolving the corrupt Federal Reserve into the US Treasury, essentially ridding the world of the Federal Reserve. Okay, this all makes sense so far, but here’s the confusing part—Trump appointed BlackRock and Larry Fink to administer what some would call the merging of the FED and the Treasury.
What does one make of this? Is Fink now a “grey hat”? Was he a “black hat” that is now working with the “white hats”? Is/was Fink being forced by Trump to act against his own best interest and that of the deep state cabal? Is/was Trump forcing the deep state cabal to buy up useless, or soon to be useless government assets? In other words, is the Deep State being forced to destroy the Deep State?
I don’t have the answer to these questions as of yet. It does appear Fink is still pushing the ESG, woke agenda. Is the ESG woke agenda a part of the plan to wake up more people while destroying the Deep State cabal corporations?
Ironically, the face of ESG, Larry Fink, is starting to take some heat for not being woke enough. Here’s the thing—you can never be woke enough. There is no satisfying the woke overlords. They keep increasing the woke requirements. If you stop to take a breath, you will no longer be in compliance. People stay up at night trying to figure out how to be more woke. It’s a thirst that can’t be quenched. It’s a game. It’s an illness. If you make a Trans woman the face of your product today, tomorrow the Trans woman will need to be Black, or identify as a unicorn.
Again, BlackRock is now being accused of not being woke enough. Is this a case of the woke eating the woke, or is it something else? I’m open to the idea that ESG is intentionally being used to bring down the deep state corporations. But I’m also open to the idea that this is what happens when you lose your minds—everything starts to fall apart.
The fact that I can’t be certain what is happening means 5GW is likely in play.
What I do feel comfortable saying is that, recently, ESG has been used by the Deep State cabal to control corporations and to control the narrative.
I believe my children and likely the children of many reading this are probably not at a high risk of being sucked into the cabal’s destructive narratives. Parents are the key. Worry less/pray more. Pray, then trust God will protect your children.
The indoctrinated parents of the at-risk children are the ones that need to be woken up and released from their Stockholm Syndrome. Their foolishness is child abuse. It’s like the scorpion and the frog. It’s the cabal’s nature to do evil, so the mental prisoners need to stop trusting them; the parents are the ones that can be changed.
The cabal loathes the victims that fall prey to the Trans narrative more than they hate religious conservatives. The cabal respects us more than they do their mind-controlled puppets.
What I can’t be sure of is whether or not ESG is now being used against the Deep State to destroy them, or if it’s a scorpion/frog situation where they can’t help destroying themselves; they can’t control their evil nature, even if it means destroying themselves.
Nor can I say for sure what role Larry Fink of BlackRock is playing: a reformed club member, or an evil person who can’t control himself and is unwittingly destroying himself along with all of his club’s members.
I should probably also say that, while I haven’t figured out all of the details, I do know that, in the end, God wins. Never lose sight of this.
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I wanted address the point you made about your sons.
People don't give the later/younger GenZ'ers enough credit for being perceptive and being independent thinkers.
Unlike the Millennials, I think GenZ developed better "antibodies" towards certain types of psychological manipulation, in fact they can spot bullshit faster than people 30 years older then them with much more life experience.
I've seen similar reactions from young people that you saw with your sons, they're actually a lot more savvy to the world than most adults give them credit.
They've also adopted a very wise stance, "Silence is golden" where the education system is concerned, I had the opportunity to casually chat with a 16 year old boy(son of a coworker) about current events.
At first he was quite reticent about saying anything on his personal views, but after he realized I wasn't trying to bait him he finally opened up. It was enlightening to say the least, I had figured most high school kids were brainwashed woke zombies, but this young man came across as being a very level headed and amazingly enough a clear and deep thinker.
He never believes what he's told at face value and always tries to find out the truth for himself.
Apparently his friends are the same way though he does see the brainwashed zombies in school, they give themselves away very easily with their dyed hair and their fanatical preaching on everything woke.
He told me the only reason why we don't hear more about young people rebelling against the woke virus in public education is that kids who dare get out of line get punished hard and very publicly. Teachers and their unions have a lot of power backed up by woke school boards(remember some of them calling in the FBI on parents who dared to question their authority) to enact brutal cancel culture punishments, not only against the student who steps out of line but their parents and anyone associated with the student.
Fear is what keeps most kids quiet and it's why older adults seem to think GenZ'ers are hopeless, helpless and brain dead(some are, most aren't).
Your sons are representative of the familiar pendulum swing model in politics, extreme political and social positions are rarely sustainable, sentiment and opinion always tends to swing back towards the equilibrium point between the two extremes.
Be glad your kids are awake and aware of what is going on, I think wokism is dying, I think the Cabal are pushing their psyops for all it's worth but it's beginning to fail.
Yes they have a bunch of brainwashed zombies as their "army" while the enemies of the Cabal have members who are very savvy, propaganda "resistant" and awake.
It's why the tide is turning, even if it's too slow IMO, and the Cabal is aware of this but can't stop it.
Inside of every well laid plan are the seeds of it's own failure, the Cabal ignored this observation and in their arrogance and hubris think they can still win but they never had a PlanB to begin with because they never thought they needed one (they never thought she would lose), a fatal error and a harsh lesson they will learn in the coming years.
Fantastic work, thank you...!
I would be willing to bet you a 3 lb Porterhouse that 99.99% of the parents involved in the nightmare of gender mutilation are blue haired angry single moms named Karen. The absence of fathers in so many kids lives over the past few generations is having catastrophic effects right now...❤️🇺🇸🙏🏻