November 5th, 2024 isn’t just Guy Fawkes Day in the UK. It’s not just the day of the US Presidential Election. It’s the day we figure out just how far we’ve come in wresting control of The Wire from the forces of control who believe they are entitled to rule from their personal hells.

The Wire? Yes, The Wire.

What is The Wire?

It’s a metaphor for how we communicate at every level. I wrote about this in late 2018 warning us of where we were in the fight then between the forces of centralization vs. decentralization.

A lot has happened since I wrote that article, most of which is still very appropos.

In the aftermath of a series of recent events this fall where Elon Musk emerged as the central figure challenging that control system that article roared at me from the depths of my lizard brain.

And I’ve learned to listen to my lizard brain.

Think about what we know today on the eve of the election that we wouldn’t know if Musk hadn’t bought Twitter in the days just prior to the US mid-term elections in 2022? One day he’s threatening to sue Twitter over their valuation in court and three days later he walks in with the kitchen sink.

Did we ever ask why he did this? I had some theories at the time. We know he didn’t buy Twitter on his own. But we also know that the information contained in Twitter’s databases, it’s algorithms, and company assets would be a treasure trove of truth that those who control The Wire wanted to make sure he never got a hold of.

In a post from December 2022 asking whether or not the “counter revolution” has arrived in the US I mused:

They’re giving Elon Musk the “Donald Trump treatment” for having the temerity to believe a free society rests on open communication. Musk’s moves since buying Twitter all point to the real goal of the exercise; buy the database of the Bluechecked Sneetches DMs and release the evidence of government pressure on Twitter to censor perfectly legal speech on every major Davos sanctioned operation against humanity.

We knew they were doing it but now we have something akin to proof that they were doing it. The initial response has been predictable — deny, screech, make fun, downplay and attack Musk and his agents, like Matt Taibbi, personally. But all that does is prove further they are caught red-handed.

Think back to those dark days and the game Musk was playing with them. He eventually just used his Fuck You! Money and accepted their patently ridiculous price. Contracts are a real bitch that way.

$44 billion for Twitter was an absurdity, rivaling only the absurd behavior of of the Tumblrina von Safespaces that “worked” there, 80% of whom were about to finally “learn to code.”

The Rogan-ton Window

But Twitter is only one small part of this story. Because while Twitter is an obviously big strand of The Wire Davos et. al. lost control over, ultimately it’s only one strand. There are so many others to regain control over.

In the lead up to this election we’ve seen the desperate attempts to regain control over that thing we believe exists, The Overton Window, which is just another strand of The Wire.

Take last week’s kerfuffle over Trump going on Joe Rogan’s podcast. First it was, “Will he, won’t he?!” All the betas donning their Rachel Maddow glasses said in lockstep that Der Trumpenfuhrer doesn’t have the guts to sit exposed on Rogan’s podcast for three hours.

Hitler doesn’t do podcasts. When Trump accepts and the world is abuzz, “How dare Joe Rogan humanize Hitler like this!?”

How dare he, indeed.

And after Trump goes on Rogan where they have a perfectly pleasant conversation seen by tens of millions of people, Google, another major strand of The Wire, tries to make it impossible for people to find for a few days.

The only people who would be dissuaded by this would be the same old Luddite Boomers who were all going to vote for Kamala Harris anyway. And when that doesn’t work then it’s Harris reaching out to Rogan to minimize the damage done thanks to their week-long swansong to Godwin’s Law.

She goes all diva on him trying to flood the zone and minimize Rogan and his influence. The court stenographers of the legacy media read their Emily’s List talking point dutifully saying she’s the Vice-President and he’s “just a podcaster,” and that he should come to her… presumably on his knees.

… … Nah, too easy!

https://twitter.com/TFL1728/status/1851576807612391841

Then Joe told us the real story and why he refused.

Either way, Rogan comes out as the winner here because by standing firm he undermined the caste system of the political class. The implication of this fight was that because she’s the Vice-President he is a lesser being to her. This is not true at all.

Harris is Rogan’s employee in a free society, one where “We the People” set the rules of engagement and the politicians work for us. Under no circumstances should Rogan genuflect to Quarter Black Jezebel. Under no circumstances should we even contemplate or tolerate such behavior.

The invitation was given to come to Joe’s house and break bread and she sent out her minions to demand he prostrate himself before her majesty and her magic mixed-race vagina.

Rogan won again when J.D. Vance flew in two days later.

And this is likely why Rogan himself finally got off that fence he was sitting on to put his support behind the guy who had the courage to show up.

Linking to the Stars

But as much fun as it’s been watching the implosion of the Harris campaign and her Davosian apparatchiks mismanaging what remains of their revolution, it again comes back to Musk and the technology he’s implemented with their money to build more ways to cut their control over The Wire.

Go back to the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the role that Starlink played in helping people help themselves and each other in the wake of that storm. Musk, Trump and Trump’s team raised money and donated time to get supplies into the area while FEMA dragged their feet and spent more time doing their Cartman-as-Cop routine than actually coordinating relief services.

Starlink has been a political football since the start of the Ukraine/Russia war but what it’s turned into is a weapon against disinformation. Hundreds, if not, thousands of videos have made it out of the warzones of the Donbass, Gaza and Lebanon documenting what’s going on rather than us having to rely on the ‘approved’ images of blatant liars and warmongers.

With the missile strikes between Israel and Iran we’ve gotten video out of these places debunking the lies about the effectiveness/ineptitude of each side’s missile defense systems. Real information. Not fake press conferences held by documented liars.

What’s important here is that because Starlink is satellite based The Wire isn’t the same as it was before.

Now repressive regimes the world over have to worry about a handful of receivers uploading inconvenient truths to Twitter/X to spread like wildfire making a mockery of the latest incarnation of Baghdad Bob they shamelessly parade in front of us.

I can still get RT and Sputnik News from my Starlink feed while my wired connection from my local ISP has them IP blocked, even if I’m using a VPN.

The world is changing. The Wire is redefining itself per our needs, not theirs. Musk is fighting the telcos directly by wanting to bring Starlink’s latency down with VLEO – Very Low Earth Orbit — satellites, operating 180 kilometers closer to the planet’s surface enabling direct-to-cell communications, bypassing the IC gatekeepers at AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.

So, is it any wonder that the FCC denied Starlink’s permit for these back in March, citing, of all things, the International Space Station, as the reason why he can’t put satellites up there. How does that make you feel knowing that then a few months later SpaceX saved astronauts Boeing and NASA were going to strand up there?

It should infuriate you.

Just like it should infuriate you that they have so many people turned inside out that free speech, the birthright of all Americans, nee people, should be subject to harassment by insecure harpies aghast at the idea that someone disagrees with them.

And that today we’re all fretting not over what the real votes cast are, but whether the size of the real ballots cast are enough to overwhelm the obviously fake ones harvested through industrial cheating.

We’ve gone from Too Big to Fail to hoping the election is Too Big to Rig. And that’s the most infuriating thing of all.

Control over The Wire has always been the goal of tyrants, petty or otherwise. But as technology marches on the cost of maintaining that control can quickly bankrupt the tyrants, all 30 of them, if we just vote not only with our ballots but our wallets and most importantly with our voices.

A plurality of voices may be cacophony but it isn’t without its own type of order. Because, as I always say, lies are expensive, but the truth sells itself. When people look up from the fake world on their screens and out at the world that is, that truth is self-evident.

Moreover, they are bulletproof. So, grab whatever strand of The Wire you can and find new and inventive ways to make it their liability and your asset and let the truth fly around the world.

If we embrace that mindset, if that becomes the cornerstone of our ethos, that’s what will make November the 5th a day to remember, regardless of the outcome of this (s)election,

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