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How a State House Swamp Leader Stays in Power:
Assemble a small, loyal coalition – A handful of members whose support is essential to win leadership votes and control the chamber.
Control the agenda – Decide what gets a vote, when, and under what rules. If a bill doesn’t help you or your loyalists, it never sees daylight.
Access to money and favors – State budgets, committee chairmanships, staff, campaign cash, and donor networks—all tools to reward loyalty.
Dole Out Punishments – Drop a hammer on a member who is exposing the playbook to remind everyone who’s boss. State Freedom Caucuses have been routinely targeted in this regard.
Keep the majority broke and scared – Most members are told that they have no real power (This is a lie). Keep them dependent on leadership for their bills and re-election.
Use complexity as a weapon – Procedural chaos and backroom deals make it hard for outsiders (and even most members) to understand what’s happening.
Avoid transparency and reform – Sunshine and open rules shift power away from the top. Can’t have that if you’re the Swamp.
Gaslight the Public - In typical Orwellian fashion, the Swamp will twist words to make their agenda sound amazing while they fleece your pocketbook and restrict your liberties. Check out http://SwampGlossary.com for examples.
Use performative bills to create noise – Run a flashy bill that won’t pass just to give members something to campaign on—while real decisions are made behind closed doors. This is also used to confuse the members into thinking the Swamp Speaker "isn't a bad guy because he let me run my bill."
Use media allies or influencers – Give scoops, leaks, or access to sympathetic outlets. Reward reporters who toe the line. Freeze out the ones who ask tough questions.
Andy Roth
Somebody typed a prompt, and a virus came out.
Sixteen of them. Genomes written by artificial intelligence, ordered as synthetic DNA, assembled on a bench, and grown into stocks that replicated and threw off offspring. Thirteen carried mutations that match no known natural sequence. The scientific paper ran in the publication Science, and its senior author disclosed funding from the Gates Foundation.
Six years ago, on April 6, 2020, Bill Gates sat with Trevor Noah and said a vaccine was the only thing that would let us return to normal — and announced that his foundation would start building the factories before anyone had seen efficacy data. Scale during testing, he said, rather than waiting for results. A great many people heard optimism. Some of us heard a schedule.
-- Dr. Peter McCullough
"There are times when a people tolerate an evil for so long that they cease to recognize its enormity. The evil acquires procedures, professional language, political constituencies, legal protections and respectable explanations. Eventually bloodshed receives a clinical name, partiality becomes public policy, and injustice—once sufficiently regulated—begins to look almost ordinary."
-- Bill Evans
The @EU_Commission met today with Meta & TikTok on the situation in Ceuta.
"Platforms must act decisively in keeping the integrity of the digital space, in particular during crisis situations. Monitoring must increase, cooperation with fact-checkers to be strengthened."
What has social media been commanded to do? Cover up the fact that 72,000 military aged males invaded Spain over a two day period? Spin the story? Hire fact checkers who say, "Don't believe the misinformation. It was only 72 migrants." What were the orders given to social media regarding the Hungarian election of 2026? What orders are being given to the new puppet government of Hungary by the EU?
