Space Force First, Bombs Last: The Plan They Said Didn't Exist

Susan put the moves in order: sanctions a year before the bombs, a Board of Peace a week before. Plus the yen carry trade explained, Dearborn without the hysteria — and Rand Paul has Fauci's phone.

Space Force First, Bombs Last: The Plan They Said Didn't Exist
President Donald J. Trump meets with his cabinet at Camp David, Maryland on Friday, July 31, 2026.

All week, the internet was sure of two things. Trump stopped bombing Iran because America is out of munitions. And the whole Middle East operation was improvised — a war he got talked into.

Thursday's show took both apart. Not with a hot take. With a timeline.

Treasury was moving on Iran's financing networks a year before a single sortie. Venezuela's dirty-money hub got rolled up in 48 minutes. The Board of Peace was up and running a week before Operation Epic Fury launched. And the eyes over Pickaxe Mountain? Stood up in Trump's first term.

You're not just destroying — you're curing a disease, so that you can begin to make the entire region healthy. Yeah, I don't think he shoots from the hip.
— Susan Kokinda
Think about it. He knows who tried to assassinate him. He knows who tried to put him in jail for the rest of his life. He studied the enemy.
— Barbara Boyd

REPLAY — Thursday, August 6th

The Plan, in the Order It Actually Happened

Barbara opened with the two ideas running the internet: bomb them into hell, or “this was all for Israel.” Both miss what's actually on the table.

The idea here, pure and simple, is let's get rid of the Middle East conflict once and for all — and at the same time inflict maximum damage on the dark economy.
— Barbara Boyd

The dark economy has an address. The City of London survived its latest iteration by pricing the world's oil and banking the Gulf's money. Take that racket apart, and almost a trillion dollars that used to route through London is building factories in the United States instead.

Then Susan did what the blackpill crowd never does: she put the moves in order.

  • Space Force — stood up in the first term, years before anyone heard of Pickaxe Mountain
  • Bessent's Treasury sanctions on the Iranian financing networks feeding the Houthis — already running by March 2025
  • Energy dominance first, so no choke point could hold our economy hostage
  • The 48-minute Venezuela operation — Maduro out, and the Hezbollah money networks in the hemisphere rolled up with him
  • One week before Operation Epic Fury: the Board of Peace, with Muslim giants like Indonesia and Malaysia at the table

Which is why the Netanyahu story lands the way it does. Bibi arrived ready to reveal what Israel knows about Pickaxe Mountain, and Trump waved him off:

I don't need Bibi to tell me anything. We have Space Force.

Michigan Just Showed You the Enemy's Midterm Play

El Sayed won his primary — and Trump's Truth about it went straight at Wayne County (“miracles happen… strictly third world”) before ending with the assignment: vote Mike Rogers and make Michigan too big to rig.

But Susan, who spent Tuesday outside a polling place in a blue-collar district, wasn't buying the panic — or the theory that this was a Muslim takeover. Muslims are 2% of Michigan. El Sayed carried the Upper Peninsula, which has maybe one or two mosques in the entire wilderness.

What actually voted for him is the layer JD Vance named in the clip Adam played: the downwardly mobile. Sold a degree, handed the debt, denied the future — and never shown a functioning economy.

Every so often she would say, we need to bring down the system — and the young people were all in. They're not wrong. Except the system they need to bring down is the one Donald Trump is bringing down.
— Susan Kokinda

The counterpunch already exists. At Wednesday's unity luncheon, John James told young people they are made in the Creator's image and have a role to play in this world. Mike Rogers called children's literacy the new civil rights issue — Michigan has fallen from the top 10 to 46th in education, two-thirds of its kids can't read past a fourth-grade level, and that carries a 70% chance of welfare or prison. The Democrats are okay with that. We're not.

And for the deeper file on where the DSA actually comes from — not Havana, but the Socialist International, the Fabians, and the British Labour Party — Barbara's homework assignment was Richard Poe's How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews).

Nouns Don't Think. Verbs Do.

The question of the day strung together data centers, CBDC, Peter Thiel, vax mandates and JD Vance — and asked whether they're building a panopticon.

Barbara took the history: the panopticon was a prison design by Jeremy Bentham, head of British intelligence — and the one actually built was Biden's. When Kevin O'Leary hired a cyber firm to find out who was flooding his Utah data-center project with outrage, the bots traced back to China.

A data center is like a gun. It depends on who's using it.
— Susan Kokinda

Then Susan pulled the lens all the way back. The question is a bag of nouns, and nouns don't connect to anything. Principles live in the world of verbs. Start from the two images of man — made in the Creator's image to continue His creation, or an animal to be managed by oligarchs — and test everything against that.

People ask us, how do you know what you know? You must have connections to the Trump administration. You must be getting secret intelligence. No — none of the above. We start with that methodology.
— Susan Kokinda

You Are Who's Really in Charge

Barbara closed where every one of these shows now closes — on the thing you control.

Figure out how you're gonna get 10 to 15 people to the polls, to vote Republican, to keep the president's agenda going — no matter if you have to hold your nose. You are who's really in charge, and it's about damn time we actually took that responsibility for real.
— Barbara Boyd

Susan's version came from Martin Luther King: the arc of the universe bends long, but it bends toward justice. The real justice isn't one bureaucrat behind bars — it's freeing the nation from the system that produces them.

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Next Midterm Bootcamp — Monday, August 10th, 8pm Eastern

Susan gave the number on air: 300 to 500 people on a national Zoom every Monday night — candidates, activists, plain old American citizens — working out how to actually win their states. If the show got you thinking, this is where thinking turns into doing.

See you Thursday.

Adam Sturman
Producer, Promethean Action
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