Hello again, and welcome back to A Ghost in the Machine Podcast by Ghostman Dan (a.k.a., Daniel D). It’s been a while, and a lot has happened in the meantime. To make a long story short, what Mike Tyson was to his boxing match with Jake Paul (an overhyped 2024 throwback to 1985 that died once the actual boxing match started), and what Hulk Hogan was to his Trump-a-mania moment at the RNC (another 2024 throwback to 1985 that literally died only one year later), Trump’s 2024 reelection has been to his second term. Props to ☭ Slavlander🔥 (formerly Rurik) and Hermes of the Threshold for calling this one before it happened. Trump delivered some early victories, the vibe seemed to really shift, and for a moment it felt like we were really back. Sure, it would be a long, uphill climb, to get out of the pit the neo-con-artists and Marxcissists had dug us into, but maybe, hopefully, we had finally turned a corner and the worst was behind us? Well, now we see how things are turning out for The United States of Freierdom. Trump took all his political capital that he hadn’t already squandered on the Epstein files and bet it all on going to war with Iran on behalf of Israel. We’re reliving George W. Bush’s second term all over again, and the script they’re running has us reliving Obama’s second term after 2028 (just in time for the fulfillment of “Agenda 2030”). Another rug pull (in a long line of rug pulls). Another “Fell for It Again Award.” You were right. I was wrong.
Looking back, I know I wanted to believe the hype. I wanted to believe the election had really resolved things. As a refugee from the lost world of 20th Century America, I wanted to numb my worried mind with cheap 1980s nostalgia (like a lot of people apparently), to an innocent and carefree world where 9/11, the financial crisis, and the gay race communism of the Obama/Biden era had never happened. But of course, even if we could go back to the Reagan/Bush years, it wouldn’t solve anything, because the Evil that has consumed our civilization like a deadly cancer had already metastasized in the 1980s; they were just better at hiding the evil back then, of wearing their masks of sanity and making their psychopathy look fashionable and fun. Today we feel cheated because we never got the Epstein files, but … we still don’t have the Franklin files either. The reality is, the problem is bigger and older and much more deeply entrenched in our world than anyone really wants to admit. A cabal of demon-worshipping blood-drinking pedophiles runs our world today, just like it did in the 1980s; the only difference is that more people are aware of that reality today than they were in 1985.
We are in the early stages of the apocalypse (revealing). What’s been done in the dark is coming to light. Shameful secrets are being shouted from the rooftops. The old palliatives and pain killers aren’t working like they used to. No election can stop what’s coming.
But the good news is that there is still Good News. Life is still worth living. There is still much that is Good and True and Beautiful in the world, in spite of all the craziness and corruption. The evil powers are limited and have rules that they must follow; it costs them dearly to impose their will on anyone without getting consent, so whatever you do, be careful what you consent to! You can still have good and meaningful relationships, grow your soul, and make the world around you a better place. You can still choose which frequency you tune into. There is a light that shines — even in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Fix your eyes on that light, and you’ll get through the storm with your soul intact.
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