They Can't Beat Trump. So They Came for Your Morale.

Fauci took the Fifth — to his own diaries.

More than a thousand pages, found on eleven different NIH servers. And Bobby Kennedy Jr. is the one who went in and got them.

Barbara's point wasn't the man, though. It was the two years of subpoenaed, grinding work that made yesterday possible — and behind that, the thing that actually needs killing: not a bureaucrat, but a system.

It's the one instance in the last years that I've seen the Congress, the Senate, actually act like it's supposed to act.
— Barbara Boyd

You're in a world which they have defined, and that world never has anything to do with the actual physical universe.
— Susan Kokinda

REPLAY — Thursday, July 30th

The Machine Has a Name, and It's Walter Lippmann

Barbara traced the deference we've all been trained into back to a member of the British Round Table who wrote the operating manual a century ago. The public, Lippmann figured, is too stupid to understand how reality works. So you install the media — he called them intelligence agents — between the experts and the population, to chew reality into digestible pieces.

It is the system which is the problem. It's the system of consensus… and we lose in that process our own individual agency for thinking.
— Barbara Boyd

The antidote isn't a better expert. It's the opposite of experts. Barbara pointed straight at Michael Kratsios's new science strategy: rip up how science gets funded and go hunting for the contrarians — the next Elon Musk, the next Einstein, the young engineers already standing in the Oval Office building nuclear reactors.

Then Susan Turned the Same Lens on You

Same machine. Different target. That's the gods-of-Mount-Olympus mentality: I set the rules of the universe. No, you don't. God does, and the physical universe does.

Which is why Susan spent the next two hours refusing to leave the real world. We are 96 days from the midterms. She was at Trump's Milford, Michigan rally on Monday, and she brought the tape — because Mike Rogers and John James are now saying, on a Trump stage, what nobody was willing to say in 2022:

200,000 Michigan manufacturing jobs gone under a quarter century of one-party rule
The state fallen to 45th in education; over half of fourth graders can't read
Shop class in every high school. Defense industrial work coming home.
Roughly $19 trillion in investment headed back into the United States

Candidates were not campaigning on that message in 2022, and we lost Michigan big time.
— Susan Kokinda

The Spine of the Whole Show

Somewhere in hour one, Barbara named the thing every question was circling.

Do not get black pilled by the enormous, huge psychological warfare operations that are going on to make you think: my vote will not count anyway, so what the hell.
— Barbara Boyd

Operation Demoralization. It's the last weapon they have that still works, because it's the only one that doesn't require them to win anything.

Susan's answer was a battlefield, not a pep talk. Quoting her friend, retired General Blaine Holt:

In war, the enemy has a vote.
— Susan Kokinda

The Democrats have a vote. The RINOs have a vote. The courts and the media have a vote. So stop waiting for a magic wand and go take their power away — which is what the midterms are.

And look at what that actually produces. Trump's election-integrity address, then Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's follow-up the next day: work with us and we'll help you clean your rolls and plug your cyber holes. Don't, and you lose federal election funding — and if those holes compromise the election, we're coming for you with fines and jail time.

Less than two weeks later New Jersey's Democratic governor suddenly discovered thousands of illegals on the voter rolls.

Susan's read on why that matters is the sharpest thing in the broadcast:

You're saying to all those little worker bees who've always been protected when they do this: you're not protected any longer. And so you're going to create a certain level of attrition — “do I really want to go to jail for this? Maybe I just will play by the rules this time.” That's how you fight. You attrite your enemy's ability to carry out their policies.
— Susan Kokinda

You may not eliminate the fraud by November. You attrite it. Then you make it too big to rig.

And Then Rob Asked the Real Question

Late in the show, from a viewer named Rob: the economy still sucks for a lot of people. He knows plenty who are unemployed. Attacking Iran was dumb timing. He's voted in every election of his adult life.

I'm not energized to vote anymore. I'm losing faith in leaders at every level, including Trump.
— Rob, viewer question

Nobody dodged it.

Susan took it back to Valley Forge — not to tell Rob to be patient, but because the men freezing there weren't patient either. They had something else:

People do not have an identity located in history. This is a longer fight. It's a mission, and people are going to get hurt along the way as we fight for that mission.
— Susan Kokinda

Then the part she said plainly: Trump isn't moving fast enough for you, so you're going to bring the Democrats back in? My own brain can't follow that logic.

Barbara went at the framing itself — that Bannon and half the podcast right are feeding Rob the same script, that Trump launched a war of choice because Netanyahu runs him. Are there just wars? Augustine says yes. Aquinas says yes.

A death cult that has already announced it will assassinate you and your family, acquiring a nuclear weapon, is not Iraq 2003 — which was a war of choice to overturn Saddam's last nationalist government in the Middle East, precisely because it was the last nationalist government in the Middle East.

He took it knowing that it could erode his support for the midterms drastically. You think he doesn't know that?
— Barbara Boyd

Here's what we covered (links jump to that moment in the broadcast):

Fauci Can't Throw, and Couldn't Answer Adam's cold open: Trump's readouts on Netanyahu and Zelensky, the worst first pitch ever thrown, Jay Clayton confirmed as DNI, and what the “Massie Massacre” did to Rand Paul.
Barbara: The Senate Finally Acted Like the Senate The complete humiliation of a man who couldn't throw a pitch or answer a question — and why two years of subpoenas is the only reason yesterday happened.
The Rand Paul Clip Gain-of-function on the record: the bat coronavirus spike protein on a SARS backbone, the DEFUSE proposal DARPA rejected as too dangerous, and the furin cleavage site that turned up in the sequence anyway.
Walter Lippmann Built the Machine Why we defer to experts, who designed it that way, and how Kratsios's new science strategy is built to break it. Go find the contrarians. Plus how RFK Jr. found the diaries on eleven servers.
Susan: The Gods of Mount Olympus Don't Set the Rules The physical universe does. Why your mental health depends on staying on the real battlefield — and the 96-day clock.
Report From the Milford Rally Susan was there. Mike Rogers and John James on tape channeling the message. Plus flyer side two: “Feeling the Blue State Blues.”
Mike and Chris: What Happens to the SAVE Act? Barbara on the filibuster math, the McConnell mystery, and the caveat that matters more than either: don't get black pilled.
Susan: In War, the Enemy Has a Vote Trump and Mullin's one-two punch on election integrity, New Jersey's sudden discovery, and the doctrine of attrition.
Josh's Speakeasy and Mother Pearl's 21-Year-Old A Cape Cod pub the local police protected during COVID, and a kid who says “I'm mostly middle, but I lean right.” Barbara on why the American System reaches young people when nothing else does.
The Night Before They Signed John asks how you go deeper. Barbara on what the signers actually knew that night: nothing about how it would go — only that they'd be drawn and quartered if it failed.
Patricia, Robert and Jeanette: Is It Time for the Communist Control Act? Marx attacked the American System and Friedrich List by name. Then Gramsci rebuilt Marxism around destroying belief in God and taking the culture. Why a 1954 Cold War statute can't touch what's actually running.
Susan: You Won't Win a 19-Year-Old by Cataloging Lenin's Crimes Vance's third way on Rogan, Henry Carey's harmony of interests, and Bessent: they're not losers — the system was rigged, and we're going to change the system.
How the Midterms Actually Look Susan on $4 gas, food prices, and the “summer patriot, sunshine soldier” Republican who's scared to touch the economy. GM moving 2,000 jobs from Mexico to Texas; US Steel and Nippon modernizing Mon Valley with 6,000 workers. Barbara: commit to bringing 10 to 15 people to the polls — and then they owe you.
Melissa: Does Calling Your Congressman Actually Work? Adam's years lobbying in DC, straight answer: yes. Blow up the district office and the DC office at the same time and phones ringing off the hook move votes.
Bruce and Yong: Why Not Just End Iran Once and For All? Barbara: it's 91 million people, and Libya is what “bomb them into oblivion” actually produced. The IRGC as an appendage of the City of London — and the alliance between the terrorists, the Democrats and the media, whose real target is the midterms.
Operation Economic Fury Susan on the Axios report that US officials believe sanctions could hurt Iran more than bombs, and the line she came across: the IRGC is more afraid of Scott Bessent than the War Department. She put their share of the Iranian economy around 60%.
When the Media Is in Bed With the Enemy Barbara: support the truth tellers, including the ones you find obnoxious. The First Amendment cuts both ways, and the pressure campaign that would actually work is aimed at Fox. Then Susan's mental health tip: before you spend an hour on a story, ask what you can actually do about it. If the answer is nothing, put it down.
Alan: A Balanced Budget and a New Contract With America? Barbara on the capital budget Congress used to write, Hamilton on credit, and what fusion does to every assumption. Susan: it's Contract ON America — balancing a budget after you've given away your productive base is a family with six kids, both parents laid off, deciding to starve half of them.
Kevin and Joe: Lloyd's of London's Monopoly, Hiding in Plain Sight Susan on how an insurance monopoly became an arbiter of the price of oil, Brent futures versus WTI, and why Trump forced the whole racket into the open. Barbara: the Gulf states are building around the Strait entirely.
Rob: “I'm Not Energized to Vote Anymore.” The hardest question of the day, taken seriously. Susan on identity located in history. Barbara on just wars, Augustine and Aquinas, and the last nationalist government in the Middle East.
Closing: Monday Night, 8pm Eastern Susan's call to action: stop reading the blogosphere and get on the national activist call.

Your Assignment Is Two Sentences Long

Barbara made it concrete, and it's the smallest ask on the internet this week:

If you would commit yourself today to actually saying, I'm gonna bring 10 to 15 people out to the polls in November — because if we have too big to rig… then you owe us. You won't have won without us.
— Barbara Boyd

And Susan's version, which is the same instruction with a different handle on it: ask what you can actually move. Then go move it.

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Next Midterm Bootcamp — Monday, August 3rd, 8pm Eastern

Susan closed the show with this, so we'll close with it too. Every Monday night, activists from all over the country get on a national Zoom and work 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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