When You Flood The Zone With Shit Everything Stinks

Especially When The Mainstream Media Is Eating Up Bullshit Like A Hungry Hippo

While Nazi Data Thieves take over public buildings to rape and pillage our government computers and scape all your medical, financial and personal information to steal and monetize it, their gang leaders are successfully flooding the zone with shit to overwhelm and distract you.

Feeling overwhelmed and disoriented? That’s the whole point. Buying Greenland, taking over the Panama Canal, Making Canada the 51st state? How about Trump running the Kennedy Center Honors? The Gaza Riviera plan. The Trans Athletes ban. Tariffs on, then off again. USPS not accepting packages from China, then is. Buyouts offered to CIA, Office of the Director of Intelligence and National Security Administration. Trump says at the National Prayer Breakfast that he wants to root out "anti-Christian bias." More shit will have flooded the zone since I wrote this on Saturday night.

This is Steve Bannon’s oft quoted strategy as he explained to writer, Michael Lewis, in 2018:

“The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told him. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit. The media can only - because they’re dumb and they’re lazy - they can only focus on one thing at a time. All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never—will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

Those high velocity shit bullets have worked better than Bannon ever dreamed back in Trump’s first term because not only is the media reporting from the flood zone, they’re sane washing their reports thanks to the billionaires who own and control the old and media - not to mention the sniveling fear of the corporations who own the rest of it.

The result has been newspaper headlines that apparently come from another planet. Instead of sounding the threat alarm like Paul Revere did, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NY Times and other publications are soft pedaling the brazen criminality and the impact of what's Trump/Musk and their goons are doing.

While the real story is the danger we are now in of killing our democratic republic and pissing on our Constitution, mainstream media news is chasing the shit that’s flooding the zone and burying the lead. What’s going on is far worse for our nation’s future than the January 6th insurrection or the 9/11 attack or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. But you’re not going to see the banner-size headlines screaming the news that this deserves.

What exactly is the real screaming threat? What are newspapers and television news organizations glossing over like it was yawn-inducing bureaucratic non news? The brilliant Rebecca Solnit in her invaluable newsletter, Meditations In An Emergency, shared this with us.

Here's how the great law journalists Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern at Slate put it yesterday, "The federal government is currently under relentless and unlawful assault by a man no one elected to lead it. With Donald Trump’s blessing and enabling, Elon Musk and his confederates have laid siege to the executive branch in an onslaught whose appalling and far-reaching consequences have barely begun to be reported, much less understood. Musk’s team is tearing through federal agencies at a shocking clip, gaining access to classified material, private personal information, and payment systems that distribute trillions of dollars every year, all in alleged breach of the law. The richest person in the world, who works for no recognizable government entity and answers to nobody, apparently believes he has unilateral authority to withhold duly appropriated funds, violate basic security protocols protecting state secrets, and abolish a global agency in direct contravention of Congress’ explicit command."

The good news is, because of independent journalists and writers like Solnit and Heather Cox Richardson, and publications like The New Republic, Wired, Rolling Stone and The Guardian, real reporting is being practiced and the inside stories are being told by the new trusted journalists of the 21st century - many of whom you’ll find right here on Substack.

The truth is out there - but you have to seek it out and not drink from the firehose designed only to hold your attention to sell you things.

And you can’t fall for the Okey-Doke Bamboozle that sends you down the rabbit hole of shit that floods the zone. That’s the whole reason it’s gushing out, to carry you away on a turd tsunami.

So be woke to that, don’t succumb to despair and don’t take your eyes off the true target. And don’t give up hope without a fight.

Because even though this is the raging hot #AgeOfStupid, I still have a hope for the fierce backlash I believe is starting to bubble up. I know that America is at its most activist when it is angry and aggrieved. And as the populace starts to smell the shit backed up in the pipes we should begin seeing the “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” response to Musk building across the country.

I wouldn’t discount the potential force and power behind that.

Because even the richest man in the world along with the madman who would be king are not safe in a country awash in guns, ammo and the belief that Almighty God forgives the righteous in the afterlife.