TR 634 - On the Weaponization of Weather and Geoengineering Elections
Let’s do this. As long time readers and listener of The Torch Report know, I am not one to entertain many of the more wild-eyed, tinfoil hat conspiracies that circulate through certain patriot circles. In fact, when confronted with such crap, I call it out and debunk it, or simply ignore it and cast into the bin of rubbish, psyop narratives. The first example that comes to mind is the Brunson v. Adams psyop—one that still crops it’s ugly head up from time to time, even now. Like so many of the other BS stories out there, this one is all about instilling false hope. Hopium abounds. Over the last four years, I’ve encountered various perspectives that are so outrageous, I’m often left scratching my head and wondering how in the hell anyone could possibly believe them. All the talk of Trump being the one who’s really in charge of the military, how the White Hats are working stealthily behind the scenes in a shadow government, the QAnon nonsense, and so on—none of it has ever rung true to me. There were always direct questions that could easily dismantle these narratives, but people who had bought into them always had an excuse to justify the absurdity of it all. In my mind, this is essentially no different than believing if you strap a bomb on your body and blow up a bunch of innocent people, then you’ll get 40 virgins in heaven. It just goes to show that people will believe anything. This is all part of the human condition, and we’d all be wise to keep that in mind. Any one of us can convince ourselves, or be convinced, of damn near anything. Unfortunately, it’s easy to identify when other people have been duped into believing in fairytales, but it’s much more difficult to confront the possibility that we ourselves are suffering from delusions. All that to say, as I’m sure you are aware, there are plenty of “conspiracies” that have proven to be true (i.e. the sham plan-demic), and even in some of the more absurd stories, there are often a few legitimate facts sprinkled throughout just to give it an air of legitimacy. Through the lens of psychological warfare, such tactics are intended to stir up confusion and uncertainty, turn people against each other, divide and delegitimize any opposition to tyranny, and keep people mentally off balance. It also serves to heighten suggestibility, as the inherent urge to make sense of the madness and seek answers drives people down carefully fabricated rabbit holes, on an endless quest for truth. Put differently, human nature is being exploited to hijack our curiosity and lead our minds into the maze of our own mental mirage. AND YET, there are many things happening in the world today, many inconvenient and obscure truths, that even though they may seem utterly outrageous, are nonetheless rooted in objective, verifiable reality. This is why I’ve previously written about the need for believing in impossible things. If, for example, we reject the notion that there is a “secret cabal” working to undermine the United States, depopulate the planet, and institute a techno-dystopian hell they call Future Earth—all of which sounds so fantastically impossible, the average person cannot be blamed for rejecting it outright—then we cannot confront this evil and organize against it. Does that make sense? Thus, we must navigate a difficult juxtaposition. On the one hand, we must remain exceptionally skeptical of the various narratives encountered in the ethos of the online world, and be ready and willing to reject deceptive falsehoods, even if they appear to align with our own predilections. On the other hand, we must remain intentionally curious, vigilantly verify the veracity of these narratives, and be prepared to accept that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, even when the mind would prefer to dismiss the uncomfortable truth. For example, this is a truth that many would find difficult to accept: * According to the congressional record, the U.S. go
