MAGA Is the American System

Two hours before yesterday's show went live, Trump reposted a New York Post piece titled "Here's How to Crush Tehran in Three Moves" — naval blockade, energy realignment, and an Epic Passage operation through the Strait of Hormuz. He had also just put the Justice Department on a former Jack Smith prosecutor who tried to email out classified Trump documents disguised as cake recipes.

That's the open of yesterday's show. The country is staring at Iran. Trump is taking out the empire's operating system.

"These are the times that try men's souls. The sunshine patriots are showing themselves."
— Barbara Boyd, opening the show

Barbara called the moment for what it is — 250 years from the founding, with the American republic taking a generational shot at the empire that has tried to choke it since day one. Massey lost in Kentucky. The RINOs are being punished. The MAGA base didn't move one inch for the Tucker / Candace Owens disorientation op. And the real fight just came into view.

Susan named the spine of that fight in one sentence:

"MAGA is the American System."
— Susan Kokinda

Not libertarianism. Not Convention of States. Not RINO Wall Street budget-balancing. All three of those, she said, are living inside the British imperial system — and pretending it's the American one.

That is the show. Everything else flows from it.

REPLAY — Thursday, May 21st

Here's what we covered (links go to the section in the broadcast):

• "Three Moves to Crush Tehran" — Trump's Open Adam opens with the post Trump reposted two hours before air: a New York Post piece laying out a naval blockade, energy dominance, and an "Epic Passage" operation through the Strait of Hormuz. Same post, the President names the Jack Smith prosecutor caught emailing classified Trump documents disguised as cake recipes. Iran is the headline. The real operation is much bigger.
• "The Times That Try Men's Souls" — Massey, Midterms, and the Base That Didn't Move Barbara on the Kentucky result: Massey was punished, the RINOs are on their way out, and the entire psyop run on MAGA — Tucker, Candace Owens, "Israel runs everything" — didn't move the base one inch. The cost of victory: Trump needs pro-MAGA margins in both chambers. The Iran war could end or go all-the-way kinetic in a matter of weeks. Either way, the people on the Massey side of this just lost.
• MAGA Is the American System — Not Libertarianism, Not Convention of States Susan delivers the spine of the show. Libertarianism is British philosophical liberalism dressed up — Von Mises, the Chicago School, the Austrian School. "It's a pretty pagan idea." Convention of States lives in the British system. RINOs live in the British system. MAGA is the American System — Hamilton, Lincoln, McKinley, FDR. That is what Donald Trump is restoring.
• "Suck It Up, Buttercup" — The Tokyo Rose Election Strategy Susan on the "I'm not voting until I see handcuffs / paper ballots / no machines" crowd: that's Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally. The propagandists in WWII told our boys their girlfriends were sleeping with their best friends — give up. The soldiers ignored it and won. The assignment now is the same: find ten people who didn't vote, get them registered, get them to the polls. Hunters. Evangelicals. People the empire wrote off.
• Iran Is a Node, Not the Target — The Empire's Real Choke Point Susan reframes the Iran fight. Iran isn't the target. Iran is a nodal point of the British imperial system — a regime holding a hand grenade over the Strait of Hormuz so London can keep its grip on oil pricing. Treasury is running surgical economic warfare against Iran's financing network — and the addresses are in London. Take Iran off the chessboard and a major piece of British power goes with it.
• Brent Crude, Lloyd's of London, and Why Gas Is Still High Barbara: "This is oil politics." American refineries still need imported crude. Exxon told Trump no, we'd rather have shareholder value. The price of gasoline is set in London — the Brent crude futures market — not in Texas. Susan: "I have no doubt Bessent and the President are discussing how to shift oil pricing away from Brent crude. We're not there yet — but the table is now set." A whole lot has become transparent. Who knew about Lloyd's of London before this fight?
• "Iran Can't Have a Nuclear Weapon" — Why Trump Drew the Line Barbara on the principle nobody else has been willing to enforce. Iran with a nuke means a dirty bomb in an American city becomes a possibility. Means the Saudis and UAE go nuclear. Means a nuclear holocaust radiates out across Eurasia. Every president has said it. Trump is the one doing it.
• Putin, Xi, and the American System That Survived in Russia and China Susan with the historical thread most people don't know: the American System tradition is alive in Russia (Count Witte, Czar Alexander II, Leibniz's role in the Russian Academy of Sciences) and in China (Sun Yat-sen, raised by missionaries in Hawaii, an open American System advocate). The British have spent a century and a half playing those powers against each other. Trump is ending the great game. "Pull the string on the Muslim Brotherhood or the CCP hard enough — you're going to find the British behind it."
• The China-Owns-Our-Farmland Psyop Susan ran the actual data on air. Canada owns 15% of foreign-held U.S. farmland. The Netherlands and the UK are next. The Cayman Islands is #14. Most "other" is European renewable-energy capital. The Chinese share is small — and very little of it is near military bases. Meanwhile the real American farm problem — aging farmers, family farms killed by the meat-packing cartels, inheritance tax, no young people entering the trade — is the one nobody on the internet is talking about.
• "When You Get Rid of the Fed, What Do You Replace It With?" Susan on the libertarian Fed-audit obsession: yes, get rid of the Fed — and replace it with what? Unfettered London markets? The American System answer is national banking — Hamilton's system, the one that built the country. "There's nothing wrong with the American System. The British just haven't let us use it for 125 years."
• Mark Carney Is the Empire's Last Face Barbara: Carney has been on a City-of-London salary for his entire career — Goldman Sachs, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, the whole opening to China. His mission is one thing: take down the dollar as world reserve currency. Susan adds: Carney just installed a new Governor General who came up out of the George Soros stable — she helped build the infrastructure for the International Criminal Court, the imperial weapon against sovereign nations. Canada is now an operating front against the United States. Trump is pulling joint defense agreements as we speak.
• Alberta Independence — The Empire Won't Let Go Lightly Susan: "I'd be thrilled to see Canada break up." But the empire will pull out every stop to prevent Alberta from leaving — exactly what the new Soros-connected Governor General was installed to fight. On-the-ground intelligence needed. If you're in Alberta, talk to us.
• "We're Going to Forum-Shop" — JD Vance's Russiagate Strategy Barbara on why the DC District Court can't be the venue. It's not just Democrat judges — it's the juries. Pirro can't get an indictment out of a DC grand jury because the pool is full of partisan nullifiers. JD Vance said it out loud last week: the fraud task force will move cases out of DC, Eastern District of Virginia, and California. It's a sound legal strategy. The deeper problem starts in the law schools that produced a Supreme Court Justice who can't define what a woman is.
• The Florida Grand Jury — Russiagate Is Being Tried Barbara: the Durham annex is declassified. The classified House Russiagate report Gina Haspel was guarding inside the CIA is now in DOJ hands — Tulsi Gabbard and Senator Grassley got it out. A grand jury is sitting in the Southern District of Florida right now hearing the entire ten-year conspiracy, 2015 forward. One indictment or several — "it's going to blow your mind." And the cake-recipe prosecutor? They caught her. That tells you everything about how robust the investigation is.
• "Trump Has Changed the Political Geometry" — Why "Old Bona Fides" Don't Matter Susan on Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Bessent, and every name people drag up as "WEF" or "Soros-linked." "You're now in Trump world. Donald Trump has changed the entire political geometry." Bessent learned under Soros — and crashed the British pound. That's the standard. Are they carrying out the President's agenda now?
• Dearborn, "Sharia Law," and the British Strategy of Religious War Susan, who lives seven miles from Dearborn: "It's not Muslims. It's political Islam — Islamic fundamentalism." Two different things. Donald Trump won Michigan because of conservative Muslims in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Hamtramck delivering margins so big Wayne County couldn't steal the election. Saying "the Muslims" or "the Jews" runs the exact psyop the empire wants. Read Bob Dreyfuss's Devil's Game and Mark Curtis's Secret Agenda — the Muslim Brotherhood was built in 1928 by British intelligence, with receipts.
• Schiller, the 30 Years' War, and Tony Blair's Attack on the Peace of Westphalia Barbara closes the segment with the deepest cut. Religious war is the British weapon — once it starts, it doesn't end. The 30 Years' War only stopped at the Peace of Westphalia — which Tony Blair publicly attacked from Chicago as the architecture he needed to break to run his Iraq War. Nicholas of Cusa wrote about ecumenical dialogue between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity in the 15th century. The empire's strategy is the opposite — find the most primitive piece of each and set them on each other. That is exactly what's being run on America right now.
• Closing — Two Images of Man Susan's measuring stick for every fight from here to November: "The British system says you're an animal — you can be manipulated by ideologies, perceptions, and your senses. The American System says you're in the image of the Creator, and your responsibility is to continue His creation. Measure everything against that, and we'll make it through the midterms."

Here's what made yesterday's discussion different.

Last week, Trump landed in Beijing with half of American industry on Air Force One. We told you that was the opening of a new century.

This week is the consequence. The empire knows it lost the great game. Every operational lever it has left is being pulled at once — and every one of them is breaking.

"Iran has become a nodal point in the entire British imperial system. The Strait of Hormuz, Lloyd's of London, Brent crude futures, the financing networks, the addresses in London — they're all the same machine."
— Susan Kokinda

The dismantling Adam named in the title is happening on at least five fronts at once:

• The legal apparatus. A grand jury in the Southern District of Florida is hearing the entire Russiagate conspiracy from 2015 forward. The Durham annex is declassified. A Jack Smith prosecutor was caught emailing Trump documents disguised as cake recipes — and indicted.
• The pricing system. The Brent crude futures market in London — and Lloyd's of London insurance — are now visible to a population that didn't know they existed three months ago. Bessent is quietly setting the table to move oil pricing to actual American production.
• The political machine. Massey lost. The Tucker / Candace Owens / "Israel runs everything" psyop didn't move the MAGA base. The RINOs are on their way out. JD Vance's fraud task force is positioned to move cases out of DC, California, and Northern Virginia — and indict the entire Democratic Party.
• The Canadian front. Carney installed a Soros-linked Governor General. Joint defense agreements are being pulled. Alberta is restless. The empire's last operational base on the continent is itself the next battleground.
• The religious-war psyop. The "Sharia law is taking over Dearborn" panic is the British strategy of setting Muslims, Jews, and Christians against each other — the same playbook that produced the 30 Years' War and the Iraq War. Conservative Muslims gave Trump Michigan. The people running the panic don't want you to remember that.

Same architecture. Cracking everywhere at once.

Walk Out of the World of Pretend.

That's the assignment, and Barbara delivered it as the closing word.

"The biggest goal of intelligence operations is operating on your fear of the other — the person who is different than you. They make a cartoonish image of the worst, and they use it to destroy exactly what happened in Michigan in 2024."
— Barbara Boyd

The empire's job is to keep you in the world of pretend — gas prices, cell-phone clips, leaked-Reuters fake-ayatollah stories, "Israel runs Massey," "China owns our farmland," "Dearborn is Sharia." All of it engineered to keep you from noticing what is actually being built.

In the real world: a Russiagate grand jury in Florida. A pricing system being prized away from London. A reborn Lincoln party rising on blue-collar wages. A board of peace replacing two and a half centuries of imperial war.

Susan's closing was the test:

"The British system says you're an animal. The American System says you're in the image of the Creator — and your responsibility is to continue His creation. That's the fight. Measure everything against that, and we'll make it through the midterms."
— Susan Kokinda

Pay attention to that line. Live by it.

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Midterm Bootcamp — Tonight! Friday, May 22nd

If yesterday's show landed and you felt the urgency — that's the right reaction. The next step is to show up.

Tonight's bootcamp brings together MAGA activists, candidates, and organizers from across the country. After tonight, the bootcamp shifts to Mondays — and as Susan said on air, may go weekly soon as the fight intensifies.

See you next Thursday.

Adam Sturman
Producer, Promethean Action
https://x.com/AdamSturman23

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