By Robert Gore - October 2, 2025
It’s a small group, and MAGA’s not in it.
In a sense, almost everything that has happened since Donald Trump began his second term in January has been a distraction. From what are we being distracted? While a few members of the alternative media have supplied the answers, by and large even the AM—many of whose members are Trump cheerleaders rather than impartial journalists or analysts—has taken the distraction bait. As usual, the mainstream media has been worse than worthless.
It is now clear that the control grid, a phrase popularized by the invaluable work of Catherine Austin Fitts, is being implemented. It is also clear that Trump has been a Trojan Horse to facilitate the implementation’s final steps. Trump is a nonstop distraction, generating headlines and controversy every time he opens his mouth. It would be headline-worthy if he ever shut up. Those observers who want to maintain objectivity and draw a bead on Trump ignore what he says and focus on what he does. That focus yields disturbing conclusions that bely MAGA’s quasi-religious enthusiasm.
MAGA is political novocaine for the painful evisceration of the remnants of American liberty. Its driving forces are animus towards political enemies and their causes, and Trump idolatry. Their commitment to liberty is rhetorical only. Thus, creeping totalitarianism has crept unhindered, because it has been endorsed by Trump and directed towards the enemies. A plausible hypothesis is that the totalitarians allowed Trump’s second term because they understood that precisely this dynamic would operate. (The shot to the ear, real or staged?) Even if they didn’t, and Trump’s electoral momentum was simply too powerful to stop, since his inauguration Trump has been their effective front man.
Totalitarian globalists and globalism have been convenient and politically profitable punching bags for the Trump movement. Open borders immigration, woke, climate change, cancel culture, DEI, transgenderism, escalating crime in Democrat-run cities, Russiagate, the rigged 2020 election, Biden’s infirmary, Harris’s ineptitude, the war in Ukraine, deterioration of the military, demonization of police forces, rampant hypocrisy, and the federal bureaucracy—the ultimate Democratic stronghold and font of largesse—have been among the most prominent targets.
The globalist sponsored COVID fiasco has been a little trickier. Trump spearheaded Operation Warp Speed’s development of what proved to be neither safe nor effective vaccines and wouldn’t shut up about it. Only recently has he changed his tune; he’s now expresses some skepticism. MAGA has hailed MAHA, declining uptake rates for the COVID vaccines and boosters, and increasing resistance to vaccines in general, while tiptoeing around Trump’s unrepentant endorsement of the COVID vaccines. It’s the definition of cognitive dissonance, especially as the vaccines’ long-term debilitating and deadly effects continue unabated. While Trump didn’t endorse totalitarian governmental and business vaccine mandates, he didn’t challenge lockdowns, and he donned the mask like virtually everyone else. COVID was an important precursor, a test run, for the control grid. How would the global population respond to incipient totalitarianism? Would there be resistance? The global population failed with flying colors.
All of the above political punching bags have been well-punched and now serve mostly as grist for the distraction mill, while imposition of the control grid proceeds quietly and insidiously with Trump’s overt and covert assistance. Some punching bags have become justifications for the control grid, notably immigration. Because the control grid is primarily technological, its nexuses of development have been Silicon Valley and Israel’s technology sector, joined at the hip in what has been a long and mutually beneficially relationship. That relationship only grows stronger as the control grid moves closer to reality.
If the COVID vaccines were a cause of MAGA cognitive dissonance, Trump’s relationship with the control grid’s leading Silicon Valley proponents prompts cognitive dissonance on steroids, and his relationship with Israel cognitive dissonance on steroids squared. On January 21, 2025, the day after Trump’s inauguration, Palantir Technologies, symbol PLTR, opened at $73.24. On August 12, it reached its intraday high (so far) of $190.00, a 159.24 percent gain in less than eight months.
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel
The gain appropriately denotes Palantir’s place as one of the kingpins of Silicon Valley’s surveillance and analytics companies. Founded in 2003, it received seed funding from the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. Two of Palantir’s co-founders, Chairman Peter Thiel and CEO Alex Karp, are ardent Zionists, and Palantir supplies Israel with surveillance technology . . .
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