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Final Thought – March 6, 2026 – News War Machines

pgnewser March 12, 2026

Originally published March 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!” – Isaiah 10:1-2

“Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.” – Nahum 1:15

The DNC-CCP has a news war machine now openly inciting violence with clearly untruthful declarations. It does so in a coordinated manner that reflects the will and purpose of the DNC-CCP.

They hide between the claim they are the free press, but laws already exist on the books that they are clearly violating, laws which prohibit the DNC-CCP news war machine from being a content marketer for a political party (without disclosing it) using terroristic threats and incitements of violence to do so.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 prohibits campaign advertising that is not labeled campaign advertising. There is a press exemption that excludes news stories, commentaries or editorials if the publisher is not owned/controlled by a candidate, party, or committee. As it is recognized as a potential loophole for abusers, the FEC does have some power to determine whether this is actual journalism and not a disguised political ad.

The Communications Act of 1934 has sections that requires broadcast publishers to disclose all sponsorships, political or otherwise. Broadcasters must maintain records available for public inspections disclosing those sponsorships. This affects TV, cable, satellite TV, radio, and satellite radio.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has some power to regulate advertising, though it mostly uses this power to regulate commercial advertising. Yet the power to act against political advertising is not explicitly forbidden. This power comes through Section 4 of the FTC Act on Native Advertising.

Under Brandeburg v. Ohio, 1969, SCOTUS established a precedent for the limits on government to restrict speech that is deemed as “inciting” in nature. The key framework is the speech must be “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and must also “likely… incite or produce such action.”

In 18 U.S.C. § 1038 (False Information and Hoaxes), spreading false information with the intent to incite violence is a criminal offense. Each penalty includes fines and usually up to 5 years in prison, but longer sentences are not prohibited.

This provision is mostly intended to target claims of terrorist or WMD attacks, such as claiming the Federal government was sending out Nazis to round up brown-skinned Americans.

These laws have been on the books for some time, available to every Department of Justice going back at least to the Nixon administration. Yet, every year since these laws have been on the books the corporate media became increasingly overtly partisan.

As media companies were absorbed, the partisanship became more pronounced. It has now come to the point that is apparent to the casual outsider that their narratives are coordinated between the corporate media outlets and the Democrat party. If this were proven to be true, many corporate media executives, journalists, and talking heads would face years in prison, as they justly should.

Today, 6 major companies control 90% of the news signal, and that number is headed to 5 soon enough with the announced merger of Paramount with Warner Bros. Discovery.

Today, these corporate news outlets have become, in part, disinformation war machines executing a brutal psychological war on American citizens, with the only major pushback coming in the form of lawsuits, mostly (with some exceptions) by the most powerful. President Trump has made media companies pay him millions for their intentional agit prop campaigns aimed at destroying his Presidency, again and again and again.

They represent Progmerica, a nation born from within us, starting in 1913, with the creation of the foundation that would build their nation, the creation of the income tax, the death of state legislative elections of the Senate, and the creation of the Federal Reserve.

With these three entities, using American language, but with changed terms, they built their Empire within, using tools that allowed them to circumvent the slow republican machine. They could appeal to the masses with emotional campaigns, promising them the moon but offering them only slavery (which they will blame on their adversaries).

They could create Wilson’s dream, a Democracy that rubber stands the true power, the regulator class, the “deep state” you’ve heard so much about.

We do understand Progmerica began as a pejorative, but nonetheless, the pejorative is accurate. Progmerica is the metastasizing Progressive parasite within America that began semi-officially in 1913. They are not Americans, but their rise depended entirely on American power to do so. The “merican” is the dead host body of America, the Prog is the parasite within now poking its head out of the corpse, becoming the new head of the new parasite nation.

Politicians are there to write vaguely-termed legislation that can be “adapted” on the fly by regulators, a power this writer presumes no founding father would approve of, an Empire of policy writers, bureaucrats, who themselves relied on corporate sponsorship and approval to rise to the ranks to be one of them someday.

Of course, it’s more complex than what I’m describing, but my description captures the overall reality of the system that has emerged since Wilson’s Hive.

These past few years, that Hive has come VERY CLOSE to fully transforming America to Progmerica, the fundamental transformation Barack Obama promised in 2008 to those who understood the dog whistle.

Their nation, however, without the American bones, will quickly dissolve into the Soviet, with no name attributed to the now-soulless land at all. It was Americanism that was allowing your profitless system to continue as long as it has so far.

Where lies are not censored, truth thrives. This is the secret power of America, not its diversity, its ability to unite disparate groups willing to let lies live to be silenced by truth alone, even when the lies are directed at themselves (something the conservatives are still not fully prepared to live out).

Just recently, the death of the Ayatollah Khamenei has revealed the seditious nature of a press whose spirit aligns with Progmerica. To the progressive, a powerful America is more of a threat to their global utopian fantasy than a powerful Ayatollah Khamenei will ever be. Within their country, the press is loyal and patriotic, but within America, they are quislings no longer hiding their treason.

Whatever you feel about America’s involvement in Iran or its support of Israel, you would not mourn the death of a bloodthirsty tyrant who only recently oversaw the slaughter of tens of thousands of his own citizens for daring to want to throw the shackles of his regime off.

If you hate America so much that you love the Ayatollah, you might be a Progmerican. The DNC 6 (the corporate media) chose violence, they chose the Ayatollah. They practically lauded this murderer-rapist. They chose to portray him as an avuncular character well-loved by his people. They knowingly spread misinformation intended to embolden the terror cells we know for a fact already exist, both Iranian and Progmerican ones.

They are reinforcing the sense of injustice in the hearts of killers who already want to murder Americans, and they are doing this intentionally. They want murder. They want chaos. They want to stop Trump. They want to finish America off once and for good.

The laws are there already to prosecute these traitors on multiple fronts. The discovery such investigations could yield will also get these corporate Progmericans life in prison (or worse), for this writer believes the connection between the DNC 6 and the CCP will be overwhelming. The depth of collusion between the CCP and our “American” (Progmerican) corporations will one day infuriate and grieve this nation.

The dilemma in Iran for the Americans and Israelis is figuring out how much of Iran’s military power you want to debase. If you leave them defenseless, you bring American soldiers to Iran, and nobody wants that. There would be no support for such an action. Therefore, the Trump administration must decide how much power to keep intact for the next regime, the next (hopefully) American-friendly regime.

This is the same dilemma Trump faces when he looks at the great sociocultural-engineering power built by Progmerica all around him. He has confidence his team will win, Trumpmerica will triumph, and if they destroy too much of Progmerica’s power, they might be defenseless against the next threat.

This, I believe, is why he is protecting the Epstein network from rightful accountability. This, also, is why I believe he is NOT using the laws on the books to dismantle the DNC-CCP’s agit prop “news” machine, because he wants to replace it, not kill it.

The merger of Paramount with Warner Discovery will put a Trump supporter in the seat of power of one of the remaining 5, but that 1 is not American, he is a Trumpian, for Americans would wish to see the whole system dismantled, the info-terrorists brought to justice, and their assets sold to Americans.

This could be done, today, if Trump didn’t want to preserve the sociocultural engineering agit prop news power for himself, or at least for his “progeny.”

Since its inception, the printed word as “news” has been used intentionally often to knowingly spread misinformation to incite violence against their enemies or raise soldiers for their cause. Our American journalistic tradition starts in England, during the English Civil War, when pamphleteers fired off sensationalist stories that the writers most likely knew were false or were based on the rumors that supported their cause.

Wherever there is news, there is some degree of deceptive content marketing going on, so governing news, in general, is difficult, until it gets so obvious that talking heads are on tv news shows telling their viewers Trump will re-enslave black people if he’s elected.

We’re supposed to believe the person(s) who said that didn’t know this wasn’t true. We’re supposed to believe that person(s) didn’t know such a statement would incite violence.

The bar to prove intentional dissemination of obviously false information should be very high. It should be so high that more people will get away with doing this than the people who would be successfully prosecuted for it.

Proving intent to incite violence should be equally difficult for the state, but not impossible. In some instance, intent is prima fasci, like telling listeners ICE agents are Nazis after ICE agents have been ambushed and attacked by terror cells (which are now including children).

If we get out of here alive, so to speak, “history” will marvel in horror at the level of psychological terror inflicted on the American people by their own corporations. Yet as horrible as that has been, and continues to be, what has been going on in state schools for children is far, far worse, and crosses over into war crime territory.

Telling white children their parents are the devil, and they now have sin skins is pure unadulterated evil, and many state agents, “teachers” deliver this terrorist assault on children every day, paid by taxpayers to do so.

If the motivation wasn’t evil from the start, the phenomenon of majorityism would be taught as a universal human problem, not an exclusively white one, as these teachers deceptively tell their children (to the detriment of that child’s psycho-social well-being).

But I will save that for another day.

In light of this reality, I am asking our readers to make it a habit to take in news from multiple sources. I aggregate news and archive blurbs, along with the ones I write, on mindfulintelligence.news. We analyze and write from an Americanist Christian perspective.

We speak in prophetic language, meaning we seek to unveil sterile terms to reveal the depravity these terms really conceal. Isaiah, Ezekial, and Jeremiah are our plumblines. For instance, we often call the DNC the DNC-CCP because, in spirit and most likely materially, these two factions are working together even as they also hope one day to be the hegemon of the same dream, ecumenical socialism.

You can go to mindfulintelligence.news and use the search to get an aggregate sample of news from the DNC 6, independent media, global media, regional global media, and conservative corporate media.

As surely as the Apostle Paul lauded the Bereans for checking his words against scripture, so I would ask you to never assume any news outlet, including ours, is speaking infallible truth. Do not take our word for anything until you’ve stewarded that belief for yourself. Be a Berean with the news.

In the midst of the aggregates alone, can one hope to find truth in today’s agit-prop heavy news environment.

The DNC has far more in common with the CCP than it does America (which members of this faction routinely call Nazi, Fascist, or dog whistles of white supremacism. BOTH are existentially threatened by Americanism, and both are most likely working to vanquish their common enemy, America.

“Dog Whistle” in the mouth of a Progmerican itself is a dog whistle for gnostic truth, truth based on the status of the individual, not the context of the individual’s truth claims within observable reality.

President Trump is not willing to end the deep state power because he wants to preserve it. He’s not brave enough to be called an American and he’s doesn’t hate America enough to be called a Progressive.

He is a liminal figure who has created space to change what was (An America slowly being taken over from within by Progmericans) to something new. That new thing can STILL BE to pivot to full-on Progressivism. Yet it can also change to an America restored and fulfilled or it can follow the Trumpmerican path he’s set us on (America-lite, which will collapse into full-on Progmericanism soon enough).

He can be the delay to the “inevitable takeover” by the progressives or he can be the path to full-on fulfillment of America’s promise.

Trump’s election, his power, represents indecision, a hedging of bets on the Progmerican emergent plan, but not a complete rejection of it. Let us hope there are far more of us Americans than there are Progmericans and Trumpmericans, for failure to restore and fulfill our republic will ultimately end in the disintegration of our unity and the rise of competing tyrant kingdoms desperately racing to build the one AI machine that will control them all.

America’s greatness is in her future potential to consistently live out her self-stewardship standards, not in her past struggles, failures, and even her successes. Failure to reach that potential will result in the failure of the American project.

So long as the news war machines continue to whir and spew disinformation campaigns intended to demoralize Americans, infuriate Progmericans, and incite violence in general, our future remains in grave doubt. Handing that power over to Trumpmerica will not save or fulfill America, it will only assure America is never fulfilled.

Castle Update – Steel Sharpens Steel?

pgnewser March 5, 2026

Originally published Feb 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

INTRODUCTION

We are nearing the end of our first winter with our Hope Exit Castle, Riqueday. While we have been delayed in our direct work on the Castle, we have been working in other ways to prepare ourselves for our castle stewardship. We haven’t allowed our “downtime” to become total downtime.

Much of that downtime has been spent learning new skills to be better prepared for the Castle Work ahead. Along the way, a new challenge has emerged, one that expands our project, by necessity.

THE FIRST WINTER

So far, we have found ourselves facing unexpected adversities, from health to weather, and those adversities keep happening. Yet we have faith we are walking in the path we should be, and our mission continues with as much fire (if not more) as we began this project with.

Economically, we are in better standing, so we have more resources right now we can bring into our project.

The weather this past month has been unforgiving. If you remember from our last installment, some of our water pipes (specifically to our steam heat registers) have frozen, and some pipes have become disconnected from the steam heat registers as well.

We have yet to experience sustained temperatures above freezing for more than a few hours, so our opportunity to thaw out the pipes and repair them as we discover problems hasn’t happened yet. We expect by next month to have been able to thaw out our pipes and finally get a full assessment of the damages we have to repair.

Our handyman, Anthony, has his own health issues, and it looks like we might lose him for a couple of months at least. This puts more urgency on myself and my wife to do what must be done so we can stay at the Castle, minimally, at least one week a month, but ideally we will quickly extend that to two weeks a month.

In order for my wife and I to get there, we NEED a shower installed and a laundry hookup to install a washer and dryer. We are good for our kitchen needs. We also have two bathrooms.

What we are hoping for is to get a bathroom/shower installed in what will be our second floor living quarters, which consists of two large rooms, the first would be our bedroom and the second is large enough to have a small bathroom installed in it.

As SOON as we can get the Castle thawed out, our next move is to find a service provider to give us an estimate on installing the bathroom/shower/laundry hookup, then we will be making that our top priority. Our hope is to have a new bathroom/shower installed by the end of May.

Until then, we plan on staying at brother Bill’s house at night while we work on the Castle in the daytime. This we hope to start by mid-March. Hopefully, we will have updates and maybe some new pictures to provide for you.

TRAINING FOR CASTLE STEWARDSHIP

Every single one of us involved in this project is pursuing an understanding of what we assume will be called the AI revolution. We are sure AI will be a major part of our venture, both in our commercial pursuits (which includes MIA) and our social service pursuits.

This might seem unrelated, but we assume AI tools will be a major part of our planning, designing, and building going into the future. AI augments intelligence in planning and design for humans, and we most assuredly need that assistance.

Our first goal is to assess how much AI capacity we can build for ourselves. We believe our level of potential AI stewardship is at the AI agent level, so we will be developing our own AI agents as we learn how to do it.

In order to build and sustain our projects, we must have revenue. We have multiple streams of income, but they’re hardly maximally run. To that end, my wife, Jena, is learning more about financial investments so we can develop better strategies that might yield better dividend returns.

She also hopes to use those skills to help residents in need manage their basic finances. AI will also aid us in this pursuit.

We are all busy learning home improvement skills so we can do as much of the work ourselves as possible. While some members of our informal team have home improvement skills, none of them are our core members who will realistically have the most time to work on the castle (myself, my wife, my brother, my daughter, and our Anglican Priest).

Fortunately, my mother has a lot of knowledge in this area, and we hope to have her teach us as we work. She’s not as physically able as she was, but she only needs to show us a few times so we can then do the rest ourselves.

What I know of our castle is this; it needs to be filled with humans, it needs to fulfill its designed mission, to serve the community around it. In order for us to do that, we have to restore and fulfill its bones within.

A NEW CHALLENGE

My mother currently lives in Harrisburg, PA, which is about 90 minutes from where I live. She lives about 2 hours from where my brother lives. Her health has been deteriorating. It is getting increasingly risky leaving her alone so, by necessity, we will have to create opportunities for our mother to be with us.

As it so happens, she owns what could be a 4-unit apartment building, a sizeable land lot, and multiple garages. In short, she has the bones of a Hope Exit Castle. Her home happens to be located about 90 minutes from Washington, D.C., a town my brother needs to visit to rouse up new business for our commercial projects (which are designed to provide for ourselves and our Hope Exit Castle project).

Bill will be the primary point for Harrisburg and will have an apartment for himself. This will enable him to stay with our mother for significant periods of time, and it will also make it easier for him to make a day run into DC to meet with a potential new client.

My wife and I will be spending some time there as well. We will also have our mother stay up at Bill’s for periods of time so she can help us with the Riqueday Castle (which she has been chomping at the bit to do).

OUR SHORT-TERM GOALS

Our plan for Riqueday is to get back to cleaning the castle and fixing, painting, plastering whatever we can as we go. We hope, by summer, to be able to do serious work on the basement, starting with installing a new floor (which will be done in sections).

We hope to finish our thorough cleaning of the Castle, install a bathroom/shower in our living quarters, a laundry hook-up in the basement, complete our plaster repairs, and install a new floor in the basement. Once we get to this point, we can start serving the community.

Our Harrisburg project has been somewhat thrust upon us, happily, by need, so we haven’t yet built any short-term goals for this project outside of getting the apartment ready for Bill to use. Every challenge is an opportunity in the Kingdom of God.

We have not officially named our Hope Exit Castle in Harrisburg. We’ll let you know as soon as we do.

PERSONAL NOTES

Healthwise, my wife and I were recently hit with Covid-19. We are more or less recovered, though both of us are still dealing with lingering bronchitis. My wife is still recovering her smell and taste senses which she lost almost as soon as she got sick.

Yet, we are both STILL much better than we were last year, so we are encouraged, believing we will have the health we need to do the work we hope to have done by summer.

My brother gifted me an e-bike that has a maximum speed of 45mph and a range of 50 miles. I hope to use the e-bike to get to know the beautiful region around us. We are nestled in the midst of mountains and hills, most of which have trails that lead to their tops.

I hope to spend the Spring topping all the mountains and hills around us that I can get to on my e-bike. My wife is not keen on riding an e-bike, otherwise she’d be joining me.

I want to enjoy the region as much as I can so I build into my heuristics the profound motivation I will need to do the hard work we have to do to complete our Hope Exit Castle conversions (in Canton, PA and Harrisburg, PA).

SUMMARY

By our reckoning, God has been sharpening steel these past few months, and He continues to do so. Now we have another challenge placed upon us which we are choosing to view as an opportunity, for my brother and I were born in Harrisburg.

My Mother started a purchase agreement for her property in 1979. She fully owned it by 1985.

About 10 years ago she added an empty lot to her property that became available after an apartment building had been condemned and torn down (one I remember being in on numerous occasions as a young boy). She turned that lot into a garden paradise, with a canopy of living plants she designed and built herself.

Her dream has always been to see her property become a community service provider. Seeing our project, of creating blended private and public space with a Castle Stewardship Family, made her want her property to be something like that as well.

How this will all unfold is unknown to us, though we have plenty of ideas, plenty of dreams. These dreams we will share as they become more realistic and more solidly understood.

We ask our readers who do so to consider praying for us that God opens opportunities for us to more quickly equip our castles to serve the communities they are in. Riqueday Castle and the Harrisburg property (to be named later) are radically different communities. Riqueday Castle is in a small rural town, Canton, which itself is in the middle of almost nowhere.

The Harrisburg property is located within what could be called an urban ghetto by some and a poor urban neighborhood by others. The city itself is the capital of the state of Pennsylvania. As disconnected from the world as Riqueday Castle is, the Harrisburg property is connected.

Fortunately, both my brother and I have grown up in both the rural and urban communities (specifically THIS community, though we lived in others before our mother bought this property). So, we are well equipped both in experience and in heart to serve both communities.

To say we need prayer is an understatement. If we are to succeed, we can tell you we are but a metaphorical 300 facing 30,000 challenges, with ice storms counted among them, so surely when you see us succeed, know that our victory will not have been through our own strength.

Starting out, God will leave little doubt that our “success” will be His.

ED.NOTE: On April 10, 2026, we will be releasing our essay, “Fear of Suffering and Death” to the general public both in digital and print. For our subscribers, you will receive the digital copy free on the same day. This will be included with the release of our first MIA Quarterly.

The suppositions in this essay directly inform our approach to our Hope Exit Castle Project and the way we run MIA.

The essay is an apologetic in defense of an emergent Christian nation and against an official Christian state. It also introduces the analytic tools I utilize to analyze the news, actiune baza (base of action) and apex existentialism (my current working theory for the base of action).

The final draft has been complete. This will be the first edition. I plan on doing more editions, updating and adding to the essay (until it becomes a book) as I develop the concepts further.

Final Thought – Love Your Transgendered Neighbors?

pgnewser February 20, 2026

Originally published Feb 20, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” – Matthew 5:43-48

“And he answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.’” – Luke 10:12

NOTE: Satan wants us to hate the sinner, not the sin. God calls us to ONLY to hate the sin. In the wake of yet another mass shooting by a transgendered person, the temptation to vilify and demonize this whole group of people, transgendered people, is strong. The temptation to make the transgendered person the enemy, the “other” is strong as well.

But transgendered people are human beings, all with the image of God within them, all as sacred to God as non-trans people are. Our publisher, Bill Collier, shares a few thoughts on being a good neighbor to whoever the “other” is in your life. In this case, the “other” might become the transgendered person. Should you fall for this temptation from Satan, your list of “others” is only sure to grow, as Satan designed it.

Violent psychotics appear in every era, in every society under different psychosis, from religious fanatics to anarchists. Now, we are seeing climate alarmist fanatics, neo-Nazis, Islamists, and, especially more recently, trans extremist wackos.

Religion doesn’t make people psychotic.

Concern for the environment isn’t psychotic.

Islam as a religion doesn’t make people psychotic.

Neo–Nazism IS psychotic: there are no good neo-Nazis.

But trans people aren’t inherently psychotic.

I think people who have a propensity toward psychosis pick something as a cause. Right now, people who would likely have been psychotics for another reason are on the trans bandwagon, their
“vehicle of power.”

The radical trans ideology is, in my opinion and estimation, a close cousin and “gateway drug” to transhumanism, which is as maleficent as Nazism or Stalinism.

We used to use the term “trans sexual” for people who believed they were the opposite sex to their biology. They didn’t try and force anyone to speak a certain way, to use their preferred pronouns, or to affirm them in any way.

Back in the 80s, in MY experience, trans sexual people were treated like anyone else. You weren’t compelled to call a man a woman, but you were expected to be polite and respectful. You were expected to not judge them as a human being, even if you disagreed with their life choices or their beliefs. In the 80s, the spirit of “mind your own business” was still strong in the American street.

Of course, there were the truly intolerant, the people who preyed on difference as a sport. The transgendered person was an easy target for them, though they didn’t get much support for their actions. They also suffered little consequence other than social disassociation.

In the late 80s, a dear friend of mine had AIDS. He was treated as a pariah by his own family, and many of his friends. He was dying in a hospice with few visitors. When someone did visit, they wouldn’t hug him, wouldn’t eat with him.

My Mother and I were the last two people regularly visiting him. We already knew AIDS was not as contagious as people feared, so we happily hugged him and ate with him. He was a homosexual. He was a family friend. That latter point weighed far more than the former point did. Back then, I was a Christian as I still am today. He understood clearly that I did not approve of his lifestyle, but I was still his friend, and he was mine.

Near the end, I was able to give him a gospel message, and in the last few weeks of his life he became a Christian like me. My time with him in those last few months was precious, and through him I learned a lot about myself, life, and my God, for it was not my stone heart, but my heart of flesh, that compelled me through God’s love to follow God’s commands, to love your neighbor, even your enemy, as yourself.

It was in spite of me that God blessed this man through me, just as surely as it will be in spite of you that you will do the same, if you haven’t already (and most of you probably have similar stories to tell).

While my friend had to face people rejecting him, people being bigoted towards him (and far beyond committing “micro-aggressions”), he also had us. And most of my friends back then were like us. It was OK to say you believe in certain things and disagree with others, but when it comes to doing life together, you still had to be decent and kind to everyone. The spirit of “mind your own business” was still strong in these American streets.

Being transgendered doesn’t make you a trans ideologue. THIS is where the psychosis comes from, NOT from transgenderism in and of itself. The trans ideology imposes conformity, celebrates transness and vilifies “cis-gendered” people (which is 95 plus percent of humanity). The trans ideology, not transgenderism, is as psychotic as Nazism, and has the same outcome, it produces serial killers, people who shoot up schools, churches, and even hockey games.

Their vision for society could not happen without canceling the entirety of the Judeo-Christian way of life and civilizational paradigm. It would mean the corrupting of children as official policy in every school. It is mentally destabilizing and dangerous.

Transgendered people do not necessarily embrace the current extremist version of trans ideology (especially not the older ones), but when they do, they become ticking time bombs. Just as people feared all gays would give them AIDS, now people fear all transgendered people will become violently deranged and shoot the place up.

The response from the Trans Ideologues to credible concerns about the ideology has been to accuse people of being bigots, transphobes, worthy of economic assassination, for even expressing concern at this growing violent trend (on the margins of extreme violence, but not overall). These accusations are tiring, and only serve at this point to harden hearts against ALL transgendered people.

If you truly hated transgendered people, you’d want the Trans Ideologues to continue to respond to critique just the way they have, knowing they are winning converts over to your own dark ideology of unrighteous and anti-American hate.

Their reactions make it appear to be more of a cover-up and a way to shame people rather than a good faith effort to address the underlying fears.

It is a denial of reality to say that back in the 80s gay people weren’t more likely to get AIDS, and that getting AIDS was most likely a death sentence; therefore, it was not paranoia or bigotry that led Americans to believe AIDS was something to avoid.

People had a legitimate fear that they might catch this. It was irrational when it became “all gays” and when people thought merely shaking someone’s hand or hugging a person could give you AIDS. It became more and more irrational as evidence piled up showing AIDS wasn’t so contagious, and as treatment for AIDS became more effective.

As a sidenote, we do understand the dark history of the “development” of treatment for AIDS and how it ties to Dr. Anthony Fauci, but we’ll save that rabbit hole for another time.

It is also a denial of reality to say that the extremist version of trans ideology doesn’t exist, and that transgendered people are NOT more drawn to it than anyone else. It is not transphobic to acknowledge this ideology causes real harm, which includes leading trans ideologues to target heterosexuals, especially kids, for assassination.

That fear becomes irrational, and maybe transphobic, when you start to think every trans person is out to kill you, or even that EVERY trans person is a trans ideologue (not even the majority are) or that EVERY trans person is psychotic (crime statistics, outside of the extreme category of mass murder, do not back up such claims).

Some ideologies are inherently evil, like Nazism and Communism. There are no good nazis or communists. But there are good transgendered people. There are good religious people. I mean good in an American sense, not in a Christian sense (in that sense, none of us are good, Psalm 53).

The modern trans ideology being pushed by the corporate world, entertainment, and education institutions, and by every HR department, is inherently evil, but it isn’t the predominant ideology of transgendered people. There are far more “cis-gendered” adherents to this ideology than transgendered ones.

I think a perfect litmus test is to ask someone if they think people who refuse to use alternative pronouns should be canceled or even punished by the law. Anyone who says yes to that might just be a ticking time bomb and a real danger you need to avoid.

If someone cannot simply agree that there are only two natural genders and all else is a social construct, they are on the spectrum toward the trans ideology and could become a danger to society.

Most transgendered people are not trying to force you to comply with their alternative ideas on sex, sexuality, and gender, they just want you to respect their beliefs and treat them as a human being. Seeing another transgendered shooting should not be the basis for hating transgendered people any more than watching Roots, a mini-series about the REAL hell of American slavery, should make you hate all white people.

We should be aware that some ideologies are inherently dangerous but also, we should be aware that radical ideologies that may champion a group are rarely ever followed by most people in that group. Some versions of Christian Nationalism, for instance, claim to champion Christianity but most all Christians reject these ideologies.

Unless you want to outlaw my dissent from the idea that gender can be a social construct, I’m fine with you being what you see as your authentic self. If you act in that ideological militancy, I’m just going to avoid you and consider you a potential hazard to others.

In times of upheaval, the fear of the other winning leads us to make our neighbors (the transgendered person) our enemies (the trans ideologue), and our enemies an “other” we are exempt from loving, exempt from still seeing as humans.

Be wise, be awake, carry two swords, but remember to love your neighbor as yourself, even if they’re your enemy. If we can resist the temptation Satan has set before us, to lead us to hate the whole of humanity by first hating our transgendered neighbors, we as a people can get through this dark valley to the other side, where dry bones will come to life and our land will be revitalized with hope.

The transgendered person has become a bellwether for our own hate, our own love. What comes next will follow as a result of the spirit we allow this time to create for us. Love breaks the cycle of violence, hatred of the other (not hatred of sin, which is good and righteous) keeps it going.

Let us love in truth, not hate in fear.

Final Thought: Bad Rock (The Superbowl Halftime Bellwether)

pgnewser February 20, 2026

Originally published Feb 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“… the state cannot take authority over men that God himself has chosen not to. Free will must be preserved lest you be spitting into the face of God.” – Paul Gordon Collier

“Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx’s Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism…. I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.” – James Traficant, former Democrat U.S. representative, one of the last American Democrats to serve in congress (maybe Senator John Fetterman of PA is the last?)

I had originally planned on listening to the “competing” Halftime Shows of this year’s Superbowl, the championship game of America’s premiere professional sport, football, and that sports’ premiere football league, the NFL (National Football League).

My original intention was to analyze the content of each performance, with the TPUSA halftime show taking up the space of “America” and the Bad Bunny OFFICIAL halftime show representing Progmerica (which the NFL also represents).

The fact that the Bad Bunny songs were all in Spanish made that last part a bit of a challenge. The fact that, even if you remove the political context completely, I have no interest to listen to the types of music being played in either halftime show, sealed my decision. I could not bring myself to watch the totality of either show. Therefore, I won’t be talking too specifically about the content of each show, but rather about the bellwether elements of both shows as they represent the zeitgeist of America today.

First of all, right from the start, the felt NEED for conservatives to have their own halftime show reveals the existential divide in this land between those who embrace the progressive nation and those who refuse to bend their knee to it.

The NFL highlighted that divide, as they have done again and again, by having TWO “national” anthems, one for the POC (Person of Color, the High Priests of Progmerica, the progressive nation) and one for the country they hate, the American nation.

They performed the American anthem not because they wanted to, but because they had to. They understand that Progmerica has risen from within America, that it has hijacked America’s symbols and terminology, and converted them into something wholly and completely unamerican, though Progmerica cannot as of yet stand on its own until the legal definition of America changes (and they’re working on that).

The word racism is the bellwether of their tactics. It is a word that is born from America’s rightly felt guilt for sub humanizing the African race and allowing them to be legally bought and sold as property. It is a word that helped us understand the nature of our sin, our willingness to sub humanize the other, and conquer the possible fatal flaw of our constitution, that it began with a wild hypocrisy.

As a matter of fact, our ideal of the divine right of self-stewardship is what made American slavery so vicious. Having a principle that protected ALL HUMANS from the tyranny of the state that JUSTIFIES that state’s very authority meant either slavery had to die, or the black man had to become a gorilla, or worse (anything but human).

The NFL has taken to use its space as political agit prop, and the Superbowl was no exception, though thankfully the NFL’s most violent slogan wasn’t used, “End Racism.” Instead, they chose the Motte in opposition to rounding up illegal aliens with “Choose Love” and “It Takes All of Us,” leaving out the violent looting Bailey, the fact that those who support the illegal aliens do so at the expense of their neighbors, who aren’t’ given a choice as to whether or not they want to sacrifice their wealth (and their lives, in many instances, especially the lives of their children) for the benefit of foreigners.

They are not advocating love, they are using the word love in replacement of what they REALLY support, CONQUEST. This is the punishment of the haves at the benefit of the have-nots, with the ultimate haves being WHITE American citizens, and the have nots being the poor POC from the “Global South,” their new victim class shield they’ve been developing these last few years.

Yet those slogans were nowhere near as bad as the slogan “End Racism” if you understand how the NFL terms racism. This bears taking a bit of a detour before we get back to our main point, because it clarifies the spirit of the NFL even better than the Superbowl Halftime show did (it also helps explain how an “American” institution could make such anti-American choices).

I asked Grok how the NFL defines racism, and in that answer Grok revealed it’s just as racist in its assumptions as the NFL is. Grok summarized its report to me with this paragraph:

“The NFL aligns its stance with recognizing both individual prejudice and systemic/institutional forms of racism, as seen in condemnations of discriminatory practices (e.g., hiring biases, racial tropes, or policies disadvantaging Black players/employees). This mirrors broader contemporary understandings (e.g., post-2020 dictionary updates emphasizing systemic oppression and power imbalances), but the league frames it through commitments to equality, inclusion, diversity, and anti-discrimination policies rather than a precise dictionary-style definition.”

I asked Grok what the definition of racism is post-2020, and it revealed dictionary definitions that don’t go as far as progressive definitions, but most of these definitions prepare the ground for them. They also don’t contradict the progressive definitions.

The closest they come to the progressive definition is in Merriam-Webster, which makes “racism” social, not individual, calling it “the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another.” That definition is JUST about where the progressive definition is, the one that would be used by Progmerica.

Grok did tell me, “The prevailing definition of racism in major American dictionaries today (as of February 2026) emphasizes both individual beliefs/prejudice and systemic or institutional aspects, reflecting updates made around 2020 in response to evolving usage.”

Let’s make this clear, this isn’t evolving usage, it’s nudging. The dictionaries aren’t reflective of common usage, they’re reflecting Academia’s WILL for common usage. They’re engaging in political information terrorist action intended to overthrow America’s justification for existence, INDIVIDUAL justice, not SOCIAL justice.

There is no individual racism definition in the progressive lexicon. Grok’s answer on what the progressive academic definition of racism is reveals EXACTLY what racism is to Progmericans, living while being white.

Grok wrote, “The prevailing definition of racism in progressive academic scholarship – particularly in fields like sociology, education, critical race theory (CRT), ethnic studies, and anti-racism activism-centers on racism as a systemic phenomenon rather than merely individual prejudice or hatred. This view, dominant since the late 20th century and especially post-2010s in progressive circles, often frames racism through variations of ‘prejudice plus power’ (or ‘power + prejudice,’ sometimes stylized as R = P + P) …

Racism requires the combination of such prejudice with social, institutional, or structural power to enforce it systemically, resulting in oppression, unequal outcomes, and advantage for the dominant racial group (typically white people in Western contexts) …

It is a system of advantage/oppression based on race, often described as a ‘white supremacy system’ or hierarchy that benefits whiteness at the expense of people of color.”

If you walk out that definition, you realize the ONLY PEOPLE CAPABLE of being racist are white people in America, and the progressive will tell you the white man can’t HELP but be racist (since they invented racism in the first place, according to Progmericans), perpetually.

When the NFL puts out that label on their endzones, “End Racism,” they are creating a violent heuristic against the white race, engaging in ACTUAL systemic racism, by sending the subtle message “End the White Race,” because, to the progressive, so long as the white race lives, so does evil.

The NFL also represents the tactic of a virus that invades a cell, clones its structures, but uses them to attack the body itself. It’s red-white-and-blue American shield remains unchanged, but the principles of the league are no longer American. The NFL was an American institution, born from American values, coopted by progressives who turned the vehicle of power that is the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, bar none, and turned it into a violent vehicle of power intended to overthrow the very country that gave birth to it.

This brings us back to the Superbowl Halftime Show.

Building an American answer to the Progmericans’ hijacked NFL (the national part is Progmerican, not American anymore) is impossible, especially because many Americans, including this writer, still enjoy NFL games (though this might be the last straw for me at this point). But building an alternative to the NFL’s halftime show is NOT impossible ESPECIALLY if you have a central rallying point, which Americans thought they did in TPUSA.

We thought we had an American rallying point in Donald Trump as well, though this writer never fully supported that assumption. TPUSA is a perfect symbol of the type of power President Trump truly represents, thin Americanism, which is no real Americanism at all.

The headliner for the TPUSA halftime show was a talent-broke has-been named Kid Rock who has revitalized his dead career making thin pandering “Murica” songs that exploit hot headlines. His songs are built to make money now and never be played again (and I doubt 50 years from now ANY of the songs he wrote in this era will be remembered by anyone).

Kid Rock contrasted against Bad Bunny, a man who has genuine fans and real talent. Bad Bunny’s music isn’t remotely my cup of tea, but my gauge of the culture is he is respected as a real talent, an innovator in his genre. Kid Rock has none of that cultural power, and justifiably so.

As a result of this halftime show, Bad Bunny has a lot of political fans now as well, like Kid Rock, people who would otherwise not like his music one iota but now see it as a social power signal that needs boosted by their public displays of fandom.

Bad Bunny put a middle finger up to America and called it “love.” He sang in Spanish to symbolize the eventual conquering of white America by the global south. He did this as an American citizen, which makes this treasonous in spirit, at the very least. I doubt Bad Bunny understands this is essentially what he did, heuristically, for he’s more an instrument of propaganda than the actual propagandists are.

Kid Rock lied to his audience right from the start by letting them believe he was performing live when he later revealed his performance was prerecorded and parts of it were even lip-synced. Hearing snippets of his songs, I heard what I expected, cartoon-simple chord progressions designed for cliched emotional effects, with lyrics a 10-year-old child of average intelligence could write.

He didn’t create art, he created art-like structures designed to give his political supporters enough suspension of disbelief that this is an art they are purchasing because they enjoy it and not what it really is, AI-music-level quality slop they’ve purchased to own the progressives at the benefit to only Kid Rock and his bank account.

I listened to excerpts of Bad Bunny’s performance, and, while it isn’t my cup of tea, I recognize art, craft, excellence in his work I doubt I will ever see again in Kid Rock’s.

The halftime shows were competing social power signals that were followed up by pushes to sell the songs connected to the shows. Kid Rock “won” that race, allegedly, and made tens of thousands of dollars (or more) I am sure will be used to fight Progmericans (note the sarcasm I intend in this sentence).

TPUSA is leaning into the cartoon-simple Murica spirit to grift off the well-meaning Americans who somehow believe if we get more views on our low-quality halftime show we will beat the progressives. If Kid Rock outsells Bad Bunny and outranks him on the music charts, AMERICA WINS, only it doesn’t. For every TPUSA halftime show viewing, the heuristic is being sent to the viewer who saw both, Progmerica is more real than America.

As a result, America’s credibility continues to decline as young people can clearly see Progmericans offer art and Americans offer Kid Rock, only Kid Rock and TPUSA are only as American as Donald Trump, which is “just barely,” and “not enough to end Progmerica.”

While TPUSA had a stage and a few dancers with the performers, Progmerica had a grand epic stage with a cast of thousands working in complex, organized, aesthetically pleasing harmonies with one another. One was slapped together; one took months to perfect. To the young, Progmerica offers a better future.

The problem as I see it is progressivism is the default moral code of MOST PEOPLE in America, including self-identifying conservatives, and DEFINITELY among self-identifying MAGAs. The most powerful counters to Progmerica today are progressive-Americans at best. Few self-stewarded Americans have any real power in this land today.

While they intellectually value individual liberty, individual rights, they operate under social justice moralities all the time. Think of how President Trump is ready to ban ALL Somalis from coming to America because of what’s going on in Minnesota. This is social justice, not American justice.

American justice would mean we assess individuals based on their individual experiences, not their social identities. President Trump is a social justice warrior, in part, though unlike Progmericans he walks more inconsistently in that he still also genuinely acts in an American justice spirit as well, as does TPUSA.

The reason for this is few people in this country fully understand what Americanism is, why it’s being threatened as a bridging standard for diverse peoples with unity, and what might be done to restore this bridging standard. Individual liberty was justified by the shared belief that an external creator has limited the power of the state to respect that creator’s sacred creations the way the creator intended.

The sacred creations are us, and self-stewardship is what the creator endows in all of us (grants us, allows us). This is free will, this is so men come to Christ consensually in love, not as automatons responding the only way they can.

This is the heart of our unity, and without it, Progmerica is fully unbounded and unmasked, and America and all its symbols will be burned, blown up, and buried, her history erased, her people forgotten (should the Progmerican project come into full fruition).

These battling Superbowl Halftime shows reveal the paltry state of America and what Americans’ next tactics should be to attempt to stem the tide of the ready-to-burst Progmerican nation that has been gestating within us for the last 100 plus years.

Americans are un-stewarded in their beliefs and thus are unaware of the progressive spirits that guide their thoughts. Progmericans can sense the time is soon for them to fully throw off the old cell their virus hijacked, and openly declare this land their own, come what may, for they may never have the chance they have now to make that happen.

COUNT THE COST OF YOUR BELIEF! Be Self-Stewarded:

‘“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and COUNT THE COST, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’”- Luke 14:26-30

The concentration of oppositional power is currently in the hands of grifting opportunists like TPUSA and narcissistic madmen like Donald Trump, who equates American greatness with material bounty, not spiritual soundness that binds authority, so the individual does not disappear in the social.

If you agree with that assessment, then you might agree that it is time for Americans to give up the institutions (for now) they cannot duplicate, including the ones that only Progressive-infested “conservatives” can duplicate. Sponsoring the pallid progressive-American imitations only supports Progmerica in the end.

It’s time for Americans to recognize what “social justice” really means so they can understand when they hear it in the mouths of conservatives like Trump, who slips into social justice spirits all the time.

Ideally, the Holy Spirit delivers us through a great revival of the fear and love of the Lord. This miraculous delivery would preserve Americanism under the previous justification, that the state cannot take authority over men that God himself has chosen not to. Free will must be preserved lest you be spitting into the face of God.

Outside of that, our bridging standard can only be justified pragmatically, amongst competing groups that agree they will limit their efforts to make their neighbors in their own image in exchange for being allowed to openly be wrong in public space. This agreement can only be made among groups that have no mandate to use violence to win converts or punish the unbeliever. It cannot include the groups that cannot come to this agreement.

We should remove ourselves from fellowships from groups and individuals that reject our Americanism, in whole or in part (as TPUSA and Trump do) and seek out fellowships with groups and individuals brave enough to allow themselves to lose a fair war of ideas against their neighbor.

This means we simply must sacrifice our pleasures, our joys that cannot be met by Americans. This includes America’s college and NFL football entertainment, for both are now vehicles of power of Progmerica, enemies of our republic, a republic that still lives within the hearts of we remaining Americans.

We cannot give up necessities provided by Progmericans or Progressive Americans, but we CAN give up the pleasures, the joys they alone provide us.

Bad Bunny and Kid Rock are competing for personal power disguised as causal power. They are both exploiting emotions, but Bad Bunny is providing the better product because, in part, his art is aligned with his Progmerican values while Kid Rock walks in both Progmerica and America, equally, completely oblivious to his un-stewarded habits of being that operate in progressive values, not American ones.

Neither man represents the rock of Americanism, individual liberty, but the Progmericans are TRUER to themselves than the “Americans” are, and as such are bound to produce a better product. Passion alone makes them better. They are both bad rocks performing bad rock (with Kid Rock’s being far worse).

This is not to say there aren’t Americans out there producing great art reflective of self-stewarded American values, it’s only to say that these Americans have been frozen out of the top slots of entertainment power by the Progmericans on one side, and the Kid Rockians on the other side, the progressive Americans (which are BARELY American at all).

Castle Report – Heat Iced to the Word

pgnewser February 7, 2026

Originally published Jan 30, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.” – Philip K. Chapman

THE ICE

Hopefully, you remember our last Riqueday Castle update. In that update, we shared the news we had healthcare issues that delayed our work on the castle. With winter coming in a land known for harsh winters (by our American standards), we knew our serious work would have to be delayed until the Spring thaw.

During this delay, we’ve been checking up on our Castle, keeping the sidewalks cleared, doing basic maintenance and care. Unfortunately, there are gaps where the castle isn’t being monitored, but never more than one week.

During one of those times, a deep freeze hit the region over a 3-day period. Our castle was hit by an ice storm at a time when no-one was around to monitor it. Over the course of those three days, a heating coil break would lead to our steam heating system getting iced. The full damages within are not clear, though they appear limited to pipes and not other essential equipment (save for two heat registers). We may be looking at damages as high as $10k and as low as $1k.

We were fortunate that our heating system’s water valves were turned off, meaning the damage was limited because there was only a small amount of water in the system. As we were planning on activating our heating system, we hadn’t yet drained the system (that was going to be done by our service company only a week after the ice storm hit).

The news was devastating, but we can certainly overcome this setback. We were not alone, unfortunately, as many others in the town had heating system and plumbing damage as well.

When the heating and cooling company completed their investigation, the CEO of the company called Bill to let him know he’s heard of what we’re trying to do (about our castle project) and a lot of people in the town are cheering us on. He assured Bill they will work with us however they can to make this is as painless for us as possible.

We knew that serious work on the Castle would not, could not resume until Spring, now that’s definite.

We were hoping to have our first “From the Belltower” show FROM our belltower (where our studio is mostly completed), but that will not be the case due to this unforeseen event. The show is still scheduled to air February 2^nd, 2026, at noon ET on Facebook (here) and YouTube (here). Our YouTube channel has just been created so we are starting off with 2 subscribers (please subscribe). This first episode will feature Paul Gordon Collier, the editor, but future episodes will feature both Paul and Publisher Bill Collier. We will include a link to the YouTube version of the show on the last page (the archive page).

We also had an unexpected tax bill. It seems there were a series of clerical errors that led to our bill being sent to the previous owner. Fortunately, we made the discovery a day before the bill was due, and fortunately we had the funds to pay it (it was over $4k).

THE WORD

This season has been a test in many ways, but we are committed to walking through faith towards our goal of building a Hope Exit castle that can be a model for others to learn from (through our errors and our successes).

What I hope for is that our castle becomes covered in the Word of God, in spirit and in material. I hope it becomes, in part, a hub for whole-bible literacy that manifests in the lives of our community, which has come together to live out that individual and shared meditation on the whole Word in fulfilment of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.

But that’s just one dream of many we hope to see fulfilled through our castle. My wife has her dreams, brother Bill has his, and others have dreams we also hope to enable through our castle.

All of us involved have different callings and passions; mine is to facilitate whole-bible literacy. To give you a sense of what I mean by whole bible literacy, I wanted to share a note I made following one of my daily meditations on the word.

I read Leviticus 20 to Numbers 3 and Mark 9-12 that day. Here were my notes:

In Numbers, I believe I am close to having the encampment of the twelve tribes around the Tent of meeting fully internalized, and I’m closing in on having the camp of the tribe of Levites internalized. Today if you ask me, I will be 100% accurate, but maybe not next week. It’s interesting that the groupings of the tribes here don’t align with the grouping in Gilead of Manasseh, Reuben, and Benjamin. Reuben, for instance, is with Simeon and Gad in this grouping.

In Mark 11, the Triumphal Entry of Christ cannot be seen in the context the Jewish authorities would have seen it without the OT. This is five days away from Christ being arrested in the garden of Gethsemane and six days from his brutal execution and final atonement for the sins of humanity.

If Christ would have entered the city with just a few people waving palm fronds, he would have been dead before he ever reached the gate, but the popularity of Christ (just six days away from the crowd cheering his death, even demanding it) was such that they had to endure the “heretical” display.

If you are not intimate with the Old Testament, you will have to rely on some egghead scholar to point this out to you in a YouTube video, though if you are in the habit of reading scripture daily and that habit leads you to read through it at least 3 times a year, after a few years this “scholarly” disembodied “fact” is just a simple common sense conclusion when scripture becomes a whole in your mind.

“The unfolding of your word gives light, it imparts understanding to the simple.” – Psalm 119:130

ED.NOTE: This is the fruit of a whole-bible approach. In the 19^th century, this was called hermeneutics, and it unfortunately led to structuralism, which led to post-structuralism, which is the foundation wokeness is built on today. What God meant for God, Satan turned to Evil, but yet the foundation, hermeneutics, is as righteous then as it is today. Like the Qin in our January 23, 2026 installment of Transitions, they built poison on top of a solid foundation, wokeness built poison on the solid foundation of whole-bible knowing.

You would not understand how “heretical” this Triumphal entry was unless you knew the Old Testament. In this case, the rub is this: the Feast of the Lord begins on the 15th day of the seventh month of the year. THIS is when you have the Palm frond triumphal celebration. (Leviticus 23).

“And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.” – Leviticus 23:40

Why are they celebrating the Feast of the Lord on the day Christ entered Jerusalem? It is a celebration of a wedding they as yet do not fully understand.

The Feast of the Lord is also called the Feast of Booths. Jonah, after he delivered his message of repentant salvation, sat bitterly and made himself a booth. I suspect he is observing the Feast of Booths. He overlooks Ninevah with bitterness, knowing if they repent the Lord will forgive them.

Jonah is one of a handful of people Christ compared himself to. He is one of the many shadows of Christ in the Old Testament. He told the authorities seeking a sign that He is the Christ that, like Jonah, the only sign he will give them is three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (like Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a fish).

“Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ But he answered them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.’” – Matthew 12:38-40

The Jewish leaders understood that the Triumphal Entry was a declaration that Christ is King, but they did not understand that his Kingship is a spiritual authority that advances through the spirit of being in carrying out the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.

To the Jewish leaders, this is a vulgar act of heresy they do not act against (yet) lest the mob destroy them (the same mob that will later call for Christ’s execution).

This is just another reminder that only demons tell the children of God to decouple the Old Testament from the New, for anyone who has faithfully meditated on the whole over years would NEVER dare think such illogical and unreasonable assumptions, even from a purely textually critical perspective.

It is VERY clear the NT writers viewed the OT as essential to their own text, and it is VERY clear that they intended to add layers of understanding to the OT through their divinely “delivered” final testaments.

Read your bible. Steward your OWN beliefs on what is, in actuality, the face, the will, the desire, of God.

End note.

This was my note, and my observations were instant, in flow (I only edited typos and grammatical errors). This was not a word study, it emerged from my faithful meditation on the Word daily, working through scripture minimally 4 times a year, allowing, through the Holy Spirit, what facts might become memorized to emerge from that faithful encounter.

I have been doing this for five full years. This is year six. This is what I hope to teach others to do, and to provide space for those willing to meditate on the Word and share their thoughts with others doing the same, within the context of approaching scripture as a child, assuming its truth is sure, and God’s justice is just, and that only through the Holy Spirit can we hope to deeply know the Word to make it the plumbline of our soul and the impetus of our daily action.

Thankfully, through scripture alone I have come to know how God allows pain and suffering to give us opportunity to experience at the blood and bone level our unconditional love for Him; to praise him in our pain and walk in faith the darkness is a valley we can walk through and not a perpetual state of being.

Next up for the castle is news of the damages after we get a thaw that allows us to test the system (zone by zone, we have six) and an estimate on installing a bathroom in me and my wife’s to-be second floor quarters.

The next update will be in the February 27, 2026, Monthly edition of MIA.

Final Thought – February 6, 2026 – Compassion for Murder, Not Life

pgnewser February 6, 2026

Originally published Feb 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, ‘From what city are you?’ And when he said, ‘Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,’ Absalom would say to him, ‘See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.’ Then Absalom would say, ‘Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.’” – 2 Samuel 15:2-4

Towards the end of January, we archived a news blurb from The Blaze that was titled “Activists ask for compassion for mother who allegedly drowned her baby in bathtub: ‘She is loved. She is valued.”

A 23-year-old woman, Tierra Scott-Franklin, was arrested in Gainesville, Fl allegedly after police found a baby unresponsive in her care. The police charged her with first-degree premeditated murder. The baby was only seven months old.

From The Blaze:

When the woman appeared in court, activists argued for compassion on her behalf.

“She did what she did, but we stand behind her. She is loved. She is valued. She is cared for,” Saudia Bradley said. “We’re asking that you please do what you do to help her to get the help she needs.”

Scott-Franklin was previously arrested for allegedly assaulting a 67-year-old woman and is also facing a charge for battery of a person 65 years or older.

Another activist said that Scott-Franklin sought help before the incident.

“She’s not well. She let people know she was not well and asked them to take the baby,” Chanae Jackson said.

From Law and Crime:

According to the report, Scott-Franklin told police, “If I can’t have my baby, no one can,” and “I’m sorry, but I don’t regret it.” The Alachua Chronicle reported that Scott-Franklin was on five years of probation after pleading no contest to a battery charge against a 67-year-old victim in 2025. She told police that she was facing “other legal penalties” and was afraid of losing custody of her baby. Scott-Franklin said she suffered from several mental illnesses and claimed to hear voices.

The story didn’t even make it as a mention in our monthly report from January 2026, though it stuck in my mind nonetheless, causing me to revisit it, asking myself, what is the bellwether in this story?

Usually, when a story sticks with me, ESPECIALLY if it is not, in and of itself, a major story, I find a MAJOR bellwether within. I believe I have in this case, and that bellwether is the spirit of transactional being as so chillingly reflected in statements that, within the Progmerican worldview, are innocuous in and of themselves, even heroic.

The first comment by Saudi Bradley established the activists’ unified voice, that “she did what she did, but we stand behind her. She is loved…. We’re asking that you please do what you do to help her to get the help she needs.”

This writer believes that to these activists the death of that child was not the product of an individual’s choice, it was the product of a social choice. The state failed this girl. The people around her failed this girl. Capitalism failed this girl (they didn’t say this, but I have high confidence they would agree with this statement). SHE is not the criminal in this social justice world, the system is. The death of the child is on them.

It should be noted that the mother in this story is black. She is not only a poor single mother with mental issues probably caused by social oppression (most likely, the white devil is behind that bone-crushing energy), she is also the daughter of a slave that was once owned by her white neighbors (or, in a way, is STILL owned by these same white neighbors).

The pattern of generalization that leads to sub-humanization is hard enough for humans to resist. We fortunately also tend to humanize people with even greater ease than we sub-humanize them, though when we grow up in a pattern of sub-humanization it becomes increasingly difficult to live out that humanizing spirit with anyone, not even the closest among you.

I cannot know for certain how close I am to capturing the overall worldview of the activists in that courtroom pleading for a woman who drowned her 7-month-old daughter to death to get treatment rather than prison, but the nature of the defense fills me with confidence I am most likely right.

While I feel somewhat confident in assuming they are made in the image of the white versus POC social justice god, I feel VERY confident that these activists have fully embraced abortion culture. The normalization of abortion, now up to birth, is the underlying heuristic-spirit-habit-of-being driver of this story and the American story as well.

Abortion culture gave the body the spirit for White Devil Social Justice Culture, a culture where the other is in perpetual unredeemable sin, where market forces are driven by social hierarchies, not individual excellence. When the sacred dies in the human, the human becomes transactional, measured in potential profit and loss to the social.

The child herself is hardly a thing. She is an unsustainable burden on a woman of choice.

It is easy to divorce the child from the human, for a mere 7 months separates the child from the increasingly orthodox Progmerican limit on abortion, up to birth. What’s a mere 7 months in the potential of an unburdened woman of choice?

A human isn’t human, perhaps, until they can apply for welfare and/or “vote” for the DNC.

When they say this woman is loved, we would say that too, but not to lift her from the rightful burden the consequence of murder should bring her (which surely is more than therapy). When they say this woman is loved, they mean SHE is a human, here and now, why punish her for the loss of something not yet human, not yet loved?

Social Justice, at its heart, requires you to remove the very thing that makes us human, our unique contextuality. It strips us of individual agency and makes us easier targets for broad-based vilifications that justify the use of coercive action (including lying, acts of fraud, etc.) against unfavorably-viewed social groups.

While the Democrats compare a Voter ID law to Jim Crow laws, their notion of social justice over individual justice is far more in keeping with Jim Crowe laws, whose racially targeted laws presupposed a social-justice score on blacks that gave the whites special permission to use coercive means to prevent them from competing on the same general, predictable terms.

Race Vilification is ALWAYS the outcome of “social-based” justice, as opposed to individual-based justice. As I have explained in other MIA articles, social contextual circumstance is a factor when adjudicating within an individual-based justice framework, but when it BECOMES your justice framework, violence is sure to follow.

Once the state becomes the arbiter of social hierarchies, partisan violence is sure to follow (as it has across the world wherever “social justice” became the norm).

When we think in terms of “social justice,” we MUST remove the particular human from our gaze and replace it with the social human, and this comes after most of us Gen Xers grew up believing we were SUPPOSED to see past “race,” to see past “color,” to see past “sexual orientation,” and just discern people for who they are as individuals in our lives.

This was, and is, a very Americanist message, but one underpinned with language-war booby traps.

This anti-racist message was easily folded into our American ethos, especially as abortion had just been legalized when we were still toddlers, we Gen Xers. We grew up in a world where the word abortion in public was considered shocking in and of itself.

As the anti-racist narrative cemented in our minds, it created a heuristic of good apex existentiality as being anti-racists, and evil apex existentiality as being racists. We whites were well-conditioned to be sensitive to our own racist thoughts long before SJWs became the priests of the land.

Underneath it, though, abortion was becoming more and more normalized. The procedures were becoming quicker, less painful, less dangerous (but not without pain OR danger, as it still isn’t to this day).

The SJWs arrived with people conditioned to view racism and homophobia as the most evil thing a person could ever be. After this, they changed the definition of racism in the halls of colleges and universities to essentially mean “being white.” Anti-racists, the heroes, are the “POCs,” or People of color, or Non-Whites (even though Asians, who are also white, are also POC).

Underneath it all, the sub-humanization of the unborn child was making easy converts to an ideology that offered them cheat codes at the expense of neighbors they could now so easily sub-humanize. They had the power to convict their neighbors falsely, with accusations alone, if they were in a favored social group.

As the metaphorical bodies piled up, however, their neighbors began to notice they might be next, and the pushback began, as it always does in such conditions.

The SJW call is like the Absolom call in 2^nd Samuel, Chapter 15. They stood outside our courts and told the people that if only they could judge they could give them justice. They selected their armies from among the perceived disenfranchised, the very people most open to destroying what is and welcoming their very different new social justice.

If you felt bullied by a manly man as a feminine boy, you now had a political weapon to destroy those manly men with, ESPECIALLY if they were white, ESPECIALLY if they were Heterosexual. If you felt sick and tired of hearing about Jesus Christ, you now had a political weapon to destroy your Christian neighbors with (ask them what they feel about gay marriage).

I could create a Horace-like ode of “If you felt…” parallelisms were I to invoke the vast list of “disgruntled adjutants” who would find great advantage in using this new political cudgel against now newly sub-humanized classes of people (which happen to be the vast majority of the people around them).

Take a pause and remember this: The culture I am describing was forced into the minds, bodies, and spirits of children, with penalties for non-compliance and rewards for extreme displays of the new orthodoxy (with transgendered POC children being the highest noble symbol of the new orthodoxy). This was done by the state, and my tax dollars helped fund it.

Whole careers have been made on the backs of cancelled wrong thinkers, and whole careers were never started because the people were in the wrong social class at that time.

Outside of that court, these women activists in this story will find political power in narratives that force them to reduce not only the new disenfranchised social classes but themselves to a character in a badly written play with transparent “villains” and “heroes” who ALL come across as really terrible people in the end.

They are forced into language games that create bad art, which is a sure sign your ideology does not sing with the human body at all. They said this woman is loved, but is she loved so much as fetishized as a political symbol, nothing more?

For all their bluster, one doubts the ladies championing her cause, or the white Progmerican ladies reading this story in full vapors mode, will lift one real finger to help this woman, with their own resources, get through such desperate times. They’ll write grants, they won’t write personal checks.

Now, Social Justice and Abortion Culture will only fuel one another, driving the abortion line past birth so that when a woman in the future decides to place her baby in a tub of water hoping the baby drowns and dies, she will be viewed as being brave for making the empowering choice. If you can’t afford the baby, abort the baby.

If you belong to a preferred social class, your status gives you a pass. If you belong to an undesired class, your status gives them an incentive to COMPEL YOU to abort your own as often and early as possible, but as late as needed. Either way, the pattern devolves into childlessness.

This woman who is “loved” by these activists will find herself living more and more in a world incapable of loving without getting state approval first, which is JUST the kind of culture our masters were hoping would emerge after normalizing murdering unborn children for largely contraceptive reasons alone.

Only Christ asks us to put Him over ourselves, yet social justice asks you to put the orthodoxy over family, which ultimately turns out to be “the party” (which will no doubt happen right here should the social justice faction finally “win”).

The spirit of abortion sowed the seeds for the spirit of social justice, and now social justice is fanning the flames of the spirit of abortion, which is only sure to return the favor (as it has already, in part, but the worse is yet to come). This vortex of violence spends itself out in self-immolation or when adults finally intervene and remove the children from the halls of power.

Either way, it is by God’s will that we walk, and thus by His will that our vessels of wrath continue to be allowed to inflict pain on us or be turned back, if not completely broken, by a rising Americanist spirit.

“As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:36-39

Final Thought – January 23, 2026 – The New Blue Fortress, Virginia

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Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.” – Vaclav Havel

INTRODUCTION

This is an opinion piece written in what MIA refers to as the “prophetic voice.” This voice is intended to express an Americanist spiritual understanding (or an attempt to understand in a spiritual context) the actions this opinion piece is analyzing.

Spirit here simply means a habit of being born from core presuppositions. For the Americanist, that core presupposition is that state and corporate power should be limited by the “right” of the individual to be self-stewarded, not coerced into “belief” as defined by the state and/or the corporation.

I am analyzing the underlying spiritual realities from a primarily Americanist perspective, from the perspective of a people who value individual self-stewardship over protecting people from offensive or untrue thought. I am specifically looking at the dramatic actions by the Democrat Party immediately after taking power in Virgina following an election that openly rewarded calls for political violence.

A. TAKING POWER

Through multiple bills and executive orders, the Insurrectionist State of Virginia hopes to make itself a blue fortress shielding its Progmerican citizens from Federal authority, ESPECIALLY its illegal alien Progmerican citizens, who (to them) are the righteous wrath of the world against the unjust Americans, White Supremacists all.

Lawsuits are sure to follow quickly, but already Virginia is set to become a violent land not unsimilar to California, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, and a growing list of blue-run states lurching into political violence and anarchy, intentionally.

REWARDING POLITICAL DEATH THREATS – In our November 2025 Report, The DNC is Not Yet Dead, we reported on the stunning results of that Virginia election. THIS is what Virginia voted for:

The buzz about early voting initially not going great for the Democrats proved to be a false hope for Americans as the state overwhelmingly voted for violence in politics by electing a governor who wouldn’t condemn it and the highest law man in the land who also openly advocated for it.

Another abortion extremist, Abigaile Spanberger, can now be seen as the face of the white, suburban, female child murderer voter. Her refusal to condemn her fellow party member, Jay Jones, for texting he wanted to murder his republican opponents’ kids in front of him, matched the spirit she showed in defending unborn child murder up to birth. The only people abortionists don’t want you to kill are murderers and rapists. Charlie Kirk? Yes. Child rapist-murderer? No.

Now, Virginia’s Governor and Attorney General have openly advocated for terrorism, yet the DOJ refuses to arrest them after committing such an obvious crime. If you are not a progressive and you live in Virginia, 57% of your neighbors just voted to murder you. Your state leaders support your execution should you dare speak in public against them.

Spanberger beat Winsome Earle-Sears 57% to 43%. Jay Jones beat the incumbent DA 53% to 47%. Voter turnout was 55%, with only 10% being from mail-in ballots. This means, as I stated earlier, Virginia TRULY VOTED FOR TREASON. Virginia may be the first state to openly vote for political assassinations in the history of our republic, a republic they just voted against.

One could argue that the majority of Viriginia’s voters in 2025 openly committed an act of treason against our republic (though not a charge I’d ever support attempting to enforce beyond core leadership targets).

One would be correct in that assumption if they view reality through an Americanist lens. You have no right to vote for political murder as you clearly did in Virginia. This is crime of the highest order.

BUILDING THE BLUE FORTRESS, HOME OF POLITICS BY VIOLENCE – Over two months later, the Democrats have now taken over. They came in under an explicit approval of political violence by Virginia voters. Their reward is a slate of new bills and executive orders that will deliver to those who voted for this dystopian reality the economic and security hardships they certainly deserve. To the rest of Virginians, our condolences for your losses. Let us hope they are temporary.

Here are some of their worst proposed bills:

Softening sentencing rules for robbers.

Eliminate ballot hand-counting to assure easier election fraud.

Ban gas-powered leaf blowers.

Free Education for Illegal Aliens

Ban Arresting Illegal Aliens in courthouses

Add 4.3% Delivery Tax affecting all Deliveries, Including Amazon, Uber, and Door Dash.

“Protects” Transgender children from parental resistance

There are numerous new gun control laws proposed, and abortion will be legalized up to the birth of the child.

You can also expect Virginia Public schools to once again tell children that white babies are born with sin skins to a white race that invented evil. They will also be told that the whole world must come together to end the white devil’s tyranny.

You can also expect Virginia public schools to once again tell children they should ponder what gender they are and what gender(s) they might like to have sex with.

Science is dead in Virginia, as are safe spaces for children, who soon will no longer be safe in their schools as they were when the Progmericans were reined in under Glenn Youngkin. Children will soon longer be safe in their own communities as crime will explode in the cities as local DNC and state DNC insurrectionist leaders can more directly work together to continue to foment arrest in America’s cities (no doubt intentionally).

Expect the professional rioters to thug freer on the streets in Virginia cities once the Blue Fortress of Virginia is established (which should take about 3 months). Criminals are righteous scourges on an unrighteous land to the blue acolyte. This is why they don’t charge them, and when the police do, they release them and fail to prosecute them.

B. A SOBERING REALITY FOR AMERICANS TRAPPED IN VIRGINIA

If some of our readers find themselves in Virginia, we hope you have been building your own hope exits, and, when possible, even your own Hope Castles, for things are about to get tough for you, ESPECIALLY if you have children. Homeschooling might be the only option at this point, for the children of Virginia are about to be set upon by the predators called “teachers” (college-indoctrinated anti-American revolutionary activists), who will now be unleashed, protected by state laws.

If you cannot afford to homeschool, check to see if other parents are having the same problem. This writer assumes there will be efforts to create homeschool networks to allow parents to pool their resources so they can rescue their children from state-inflicted psychological terrorism. If there aren’t, maybe you’re the one to start it.

Virginia is a land filled with Americans who now find themselves behind enemy lines. As much as we can, we hope to offer solutions to those Americans on how to build hope exits right where you are. On July 10, 2026, we are scheduled to release our full Hope Exit Series updated and supplemented.

It contains a breakdown of the essential needs of people and communities and solutions that free you from dependence on a system that wants you dead (and believe me, Virginia’s Democrats WANT Americans dead, even if just through attrition).

Write to us at MIAMailroom@gmail.com if you’re in Virginia. Tell us what you’re doing to prepare and what you might need to help you prepare.

SUMMARY

In the second installment of our Transition series, the Qin Dynasty inflicted a great burden on a people who were rewarded for that pain with security and expansion. But when the conquest ended, so too did the tolerance for the pain being inflicted upon the people. The Han rose on the literal corpse of the Qin Dynasty, preserving the core while destroying the parts that greatly oppressed the people.

Here, the core of the Spangenberger Empire is still Americanism. It is their legitimacy claim to power. They continue to attempt to use language that is outwardly keeping with Americanism even if its spirit is a dagger aimed at her heart.

Their conquest, though, is not over, for they are merely newly gained territory for the Progmerican Empire as a whole, an Empire DYING to shake off its American mask and speak plainly the language of the Prog.

They are the legalists of their time, aiming to use rigid anti-moral moral supremacism to assure no one even THINKS outside the official orthodoxy EVEN in the privacy of their own home.

So long as there is hope for future conquest, those true blues, the true progs of Virginia, will happily endure their temporary hardships, and they’ll happily endure others suffering far more profoundly than them, even up to their neighbors being imprisoned.

The same goes for the MSM-attached TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) Progmericans who still think THEY are the true American patriots because they LITERALLY think we Americans, ESPECIALLY the MAGAs, are LITERAL NAZIS! No joke.

I cannot emphasize enough how psychotic, how detached from reality this class of people truly has become. They are more likely to commit violence than even the true blues, the Antifas, are.

For Virginians, I can’t offer you much immediate hope. Your enemies, your own neighbors, are only going to become even more emboldened, more hostile. But for those outside the war zone, Virginia is about to win over a lot of “normies” who will see for themselves yet another apocalyptic transformation of a state given over to the full blue program, unfettered by the constitution.

For Virginians, there is hope, even if not immediately, but that will come only from the Federal government exposing the DNC-CCP conspiracy that has inflicted this land for decades. This will undo ALL DNC power in this land, for a few generations to come, at least.

Let us hope our leaders find the strength to carry through with the prosecutions necessary to end Progmerica’s reign of terror on America, and thus on Virginia as well.

“‘And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.’” – Genesis 15:16

For our fellow Christian readers, let us remember that vengeance is the Lord’s, and our Kingdom does not advance through violence. A nation that continues to embrace child sacrifice, abortion, must rely on God’s patience, for surely mercy is not given to the unrepentant, but even the Amorites had four more generations of patience given to them before God used the Israelites as a righteous scourge on a child-sacrificing land.

Let us hope and pray first for America’s emergent, consensual repentance, and secondly for God’s patience with our unrighteous land, with the hope that our working out the Great Commandment and Great Commission, through the Holy Spirit, will lead us to that repentance.

Final Thought – January 16, 2026 – One Shooting, Two Nations (The ICE Minneapolis Shooting)

pgnewser January 23, 2026

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Show no partiality in judgment; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.” – Deuteronomy 1:17

The truth claims around a shooting of a woman by an ICE Agent in Minnesota have served to remind us once again that our land is occupied by two nations, Progmerica and America. In Progmerica, the criminals are the people who benefit from the privilege of being white (or white adjacent) and American. Their flourishing happened at the expense of the rest of the world. They invented evil as a means of becoming a cruel master of all.

The white ally is a Jesus figure in this movement, taking on the role of the all-powerful one who lays down their power for the good of the POC whole. The POC, the “person of color,” is both the victim of the white devil and the retribution against the white devil. Individual liberty is a dog whistle for white supremacism. America has committed the WORLD’S GREATEST CRIME against humanity.

What Americans call criminals, Progmericans call righteous judgments of America, which is why they want to defund the police, get rid of cash bails, and give next-to-nothing sentences to violent criminals. Where criminals exist, social injustice exists. Let the criminals force the privileged to become socially just!

In America, the Progmerican is a violent revolutionary who views your children as acceptable targets for murder in the name of liberating the TRUE HUMANITY, the POC, from the EVIL power of humanity, the white race. The moment you remove the white devil narrative, all other claims by the left crumble like a house of cards (which is further proof the heart of their movement is simply racism and bigotry).

What we can now behold after this is the crystal-clear proof there are two nations in this land, and one, Progmerica, intends on MURDERING the other, America, one terroristic planted lie at a time by the DNC hate machine.

On Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 9:30AM local time, an Immigration Customs Enforcement Officer named Jonathan Ross, 43, shot far-left radical insurrectionist activist Renee Nicole Good, 37, three times in the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was white, as is the officer.

The circumstances surrounding this shooting were not as important as the narratives that empower the factions competing for the new American order. Unfortunately, the first video that went viral was ambiguous, allowing for anyone willing to read this shooting to fit their narrative to conveniently do so.

At the time of the shooting, nothing was known about the woman, the ICE officer, or the circumstances that led to this altercation. Yet despite that fact, both the left and the right quickly assumed narratives that suited their preferences, though the right’s reactions contained some measure of doubt and questioning while the left’s reaction were sure and wholly militant in their conclusions.

As it would turn out, the right’s characterizations were mostly true, though they claimed that certainty far before the evidence emerged that clearly justified these claims.

The media and DNC leadership have long been intentionally inciting violence against Americans using knowing disinformation, but this time they crossed lines that should lead Americans to conclude American Rule of Law is effectively dead.

Even as their original narratives are destroyed by material evidence, including more videos, including undisputed facts about the insurrectionist and the ICE agent, they appear to be doubling down on knowing lies. They seem to be betting on their audiences not wandering too far off the information plantation.

If you asked two of the leading AI platforms, Grok and ChatGPT for objective facts around the shooting shortly after it happened (even a day after0, you would get a sanitized version of the facts that will lead you to believe it is reasonable to assume the shooting was unjustified. Not only is it reasonable, both AI prophets leaned towards unjustified.

Their characterization of DNC leadership response and media coverage is also sanitized, removing the vilest (and thus most noteworthy) statements made by both the media and DNC leadership. In short, the world the DNC describes is almost the same as the world the major AI platforms describe.

I point out AI results to document what the real new MSM is telling Americans, for ChatGPT and Grok are the new Walter Cronkites for the masses. If they characterize an event a certain way, this is the way the vast majority of people who use these services will come to view that event, for, to most of them, the AI results are “objective.”

In this instance, the AI platforms are acting as agents of insurrection programmed to intentionally disseminate lies that lead their readers to murder Americans. In this they join DNC leadership and their old priests, the mainstream media.

The initial narrative, which you won’t find in AI results, was that this woman was a poet, a mother, and a wife who was simply taking her kids to school when she was callously shot down intentionally by murderous Nazi ICE agents. This narrative went forward by the MSM, AI platforms, and DNC leadership at a time when ICE agents were already seeing thousands of percentages of increased assaults against them by leftist terrorists.

It produced a flood of leftist social media death threats against ICE agents and has produced violence in multiple U.S. cities, including Minneapolis (whose police force abandoned their own downtown to the insurrectionists). So far, while Americans still want illegals gone, their support for ICE is plummeting as the media narratives take hold.

Who knows how many have been killed or wounded by leftist attacks as a result of the knowing lies the DNC machine spread with the intention of triggering a civil war aimed at destroying our constitution? There can be no doubt that the insurrectionists breaking into a hotel with ICE agents with the intent to kill them was triggered DIRECTLY by the DNC machine, its AI platforms, its corporate media, and its party leaders.

What we know now is that the “mother” is a woman who divorced her husband, lost custody of two of her three kids over allegations of physical abuse by her “wife,” and became one of the leaders of a violent insurrectionist movement. On the day of her justified death, the woman was leading a deliberate assault on ICE operations to impede their ability to arrest illegal aliens. In this instance, they were defending pedophiles and murderers, which is on brand for the DNC.

You will not know any of this if you get your news from DNC-controlled AI search results (and yes, Grok is STILL controlled by DNC allies, the programmers), corporate media, or the Democrat leaders that have called for the assassination of ICE agents.

As for the noble sacrifice of the white woman for the cause of the POC, her own white compatriot realizes that their allyship is not redemptive of who they are, worthless whites. The woman claimed that her crying over the death of a white woman “feels wrong,” and that “I feel like white tears are not always helpful or necessary.”

This is psychosis at a level that should get her committed involuntarily to a mental hospital, and it is a psychosis that is common among younger white women who get their news only from America’s enemies, the DNC and its far-left alliance of seditionists.

Yet, the MSM, the AI Prophet/Priests, and the DNC leadership are NOT traitors, they are NOT insurrectionists, and this shooting was COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED…. in Progmerica, but in AMERICA, the shooting was COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED and the DNC machine is an insurrectionist one.

And therein lies the heart of this event, the demonstrably clear difference between two nations, America and Progmerica, which have existed side by side with one another for more than 100 years now. To the Progmerican, America is a vehicle of power for the inventor of evil, the white devil, and that white devil has unleashed genocidal fury on a world now primed to deliver the FAFO season to America.

Every white woman raped by an illegal alien is socially justified recompense for the crime of being a white woman in a privileged land. Every illegal alien that enters America and grifts off our system is socially justified recompense for the colonizing crimes of the white devil, AMERICA.

To them, they have Jews hidden under the floorboards and we are the Nazis trying to find out where the Jews are (despite the fact that NO ONE hates Jews more than leftists, even as wealthy Jews support them).

This is why they are justified in spreading lies that produce insurrection, because the evil they are fighting is worse than the evil they are committing. This is the will to perceive overcoming the actual reality that THEY have been the ones looking to find Jews and kill them the whole time.

To this writer, the continued response by the left, from its rabble-rousing white woman rainbow terrorists to its MSM paid disseminators of info-terrorism, to the party’s leadership now openly calling for Civil War, is consistent with the fact that America is their enemy.

American values are death to their nation, and they are so far removed from Americanism they can no longer publicly hide their anti-American “values.”

The governor of Minnesota thinks it’s perfectly legal to threaten to call up the National Guard to fight ICE agents while he claims it is time to start a second Civil War. His lack of accountability for openly calling for a violent insurrection against Americans is only dramatically encouraging violent white leftist women and their cuckolded white male “allies” (serial rapists and sex pests all) to pull more triggers on guns aimed at Americans.

Even as we speak, DNC operatives and their AI platforms continue to spread the lie that this woman was an innocent mother at the wrong place who was just there to pick up her kids. They continue to lie in the face of video evidence that shows the officer fired directly into the front of the windshield, and not just the side as she passed him.

They continue to tell people the officer deliberately got in front of the vehicle when video evidence shows she turned, placing him in front of the vehicle.

They do so because, to them, it is a noble to lie to protect the Jews in the floorboards rather than allow the Jews to be killed. Only they aren’t protecting Jews, they are protecting criminals who have no interest, no desire to advance the cause of Americanism. They are here to destroy us, not join us, and THAT makes them allies with Progmerica, who wants the same thing, the death of America.

For those of you paying attention, this notion of two nations in one land is one we have been claiming for some time. We hope this incident at least helps the doubtful now clearly see what we mean by two nations in one land.

Progmerica is a nation whose Rule of Law is “Social” Justice, as in justice determined by identity not the facts of the dispute themselves. American Rule of Law is about impartial justice determined by the particular facts on the ground within an individual liberty context. Social Justice is a dog whistle for “OVERTHROW AMERICA!” whenever anyone says it. The individual is traitor to the social.

The separation is accelerating, as Americans identify fellow Americans and the insurrectionists identify fellow insurrectionists they can connect to and begin to rely on during this de facto interregnum.

Based on polling, this writer is assuming America accounts for 50% of the country, though maybe only half of them are fully aware of the two nations within them. Progmericans account for 30% of the country, but amongst those numbers are groups of people who are just as interested in murdering Democrats as they are Republicans, Progmericans as much as Americans, for their Progmericanism is far purer than the version the DNC hopes to exploit.

After this incident, this writer implores our readers to build up your connections to people you identify as American and pull back your reliance on connections to people you identify as Progmericans. Remember Progmericans have a code of ethics that gives them special permission to use violence, deception, fraud, theft, etc., as tools of manipulation against anyone they perceive as not being themselves.

God willing, soon we shall vanquish the Progmerican nation without becoming the monster we are fighting (a very real threat). God willing, the Progmerican will see the depravity of their worldview, repent, and return to the family of man, return to America, where they would be welcome back.

Barring that, let us gird our loins and prepare to fight to defend our children from the serial rape and murder Progmerica not only has in store for them but is already carrying out in territories still held by them. Let us hope for the American Reconquista!

Final Thought 2025 – Clickopoly: The Science of 21st Century Political Power

pgnewser December 19, 2025

Originally published Dec 12, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“We become more polarized, and more polarizing, when we start spending our time in polarizing environments. I have seen it in myself, and I have watched it in others: when we’re going for retweets, or when our main form of audience feedback is coming from partisan junkies on social media, it subtly but importantly warps our news judgement. It changes who we cover and what stories we chase. And when we cover politics in a more polarized way, anticipating or absorbing the tastes of a more polarized audience, we create a more polarized political reality.” – Ezra Klein (Why We’re Polarized)

In our first ever Bellwether Deepdive, we saw the descent into social-driven ideologies across three nations. One of those nations, England, gave birth to the Lockean world of “liberalism,” the notion that bad action should be given free reign until it harms others.

This liberty is allowed for the sake of good action being able to freely take place as well (for no “expert” can perfectly define what “good action” is in the first place).

The other two nations, America and Canada, are direct descendants of the first, the mother nation, Britain. In Canada, they mostly followed the Common Law path like Britain in pursuit of individual liberty. In America, we followed a Constitutionally buttressed Rule of Law. One dramatically slowed down gun confiscations, the constitutional one, and the other two surrendered their guns as soon as the first wave of fear hit the public after a mass shooting event.

In the constitutional republic, while America is the mother of wokeness (with the Europeans building the seed that made wokeness possible), Canada and the UK have fallen far more profoundly than the source for wokeness has.

The ability to dramatically alter government power is an incentive to use mass hysteria manipulation to create more government power at the further cost of liberty. Wherever great power exists, in any institution, the incentive to offer grand promises increases, leaving well-intended, virtuous players with the difficult decision of surrendering their integrity or losing the contest altogether.

Great power attracts just the kind of people who are good at playing such games, psychopaths and psychotics, people less inclined to hesitate in their self-empowering actions even it means hurting, or even killing thousands, or even millions of their neighbors.

Even within America, corporate power centers have created de facto nations within America in which their powers are easily enhanced with a little mass hysteria manipulation. The left and right in America, for instance, are regularly begging the corporate state to censor their opposition on social media platforms.

For a while, this was inordinately a “leftist” problem, but its increasingly a rightist problem as well. The internecine war within the right over Israel alone has produced the same anti-American spirits in them as they originally fought against in the left.

To some degree, both left and right in America are becoming increasingly social-driven in their values as opposed to individual driven. This is happening to some degree in the UK but not so much in Canada. In the UK, the “right” effectively has no voice, but an emerging “Britain for the British and England for the English” group is emerging.

Though the conservatives and reform seem to be unevenly dividing the spoils of the Britian for the British crowd, neither party is remotely engaging pragmatically with the existential occupation of the country by an anti-UK party. The party of the British has yet to be identified, though there are many contenders. The leaders, reform and conservatives, are effectively woke-captured, if not woke themselves.

In Canada, the right is a pause that gives an increasingly small number of Canadians the illusion of enfranchisement. The fecklessness of the right leaves it with no real power to quibble over, though it too is effectively woke-captured. The “Canada for Canadians” crowd forming is not a strong as the “Canada become America” crowd forming in the Western Provinces.

The one who offers gold and blood gets the votes where the state has the power to attempt to deliver it.

In America, the state was bypassed by the corporate state, who then normalized anti-Americanism in the socio-cultural products and services it provided and how it managed the help.

As anti-American “values” become normalized, they become more accepted in our schools, which are also dominated by these same social-driven ideologies, the “woke.” Though it started in the schools, it was only AFTER the corporate state adopted it that it started to inflict real harm on the American republic and the innocent lives of Americans.

Unlike Britian and Canada, ironically, the American corporate state was able to lead the worldwide vanguard of wokeness because it could change its corporate governance the easiest. The same unaccountable power was first found in the universities, where “wokeness” first gained its real territorial foothold.

In an institution with unchecked power, the leaders are those that offer heaven and threaten hell, those that offer gold and blood. Social-driven ideologies are tailor-made for such narratives. It is hard to generalize in individual-driven narratives, for good or for ill.

Initially, the American corporate state was the incubator for social-driven ideologies writ on human flesh at a large scale, but once wokeness infiltrated the governments of Canada and the UK, they became even more powerful incubators. The woke institutions went from indirectly having government guns (through the protections government offered these infiltrated insurrectionist institutions) to having them directly.

These governments lacked first the constitutional bulwark, then the armed populace bulwark. These nations became woke paradises selling fake fear and false hope in exchange for real power they never intend on returning.

These social-driven ideologies imagine that a finite number of individuals can centrally determine truth for the overwhelming whole. They not only CAN but they MUST protect the unwashed from untruths. The promise is always part revenge and part Utopia.

Anything that offends the established preferred social identities is untruth in and of itself. The experts, who inform the state, should be our primary guides in evolving our understanding of what the perfect social is and how to assure the perfect social is protected from subversive action.

They are so certain of their possession of truth they are willing to lie, cheat, steal, assault, rape, and murder to assure their truth is affirmed by their neighbors. Not only are they willing to do it, they feel as if their neighbors deserve it.

As a matter of fact, to NOT support this punishment and to NOT participate in it, is a dog whistle that you belong to the evil outside group in secret.

Social media rose in the backdrop of a generation of college students being quietly “educated” in anti-American thinking, in social justice thinking. These digital entrepreneurs became the first real enforcers of a woke code that, without social media in the first place, would never have been so near-instantly, near-universally, enforceable.

And all it took was no more than a few hundred woke-manipulated college students to grow to become anti-American technocrats now fighting the other centers of woke power for hegemony in a post-world America they all hoped for.

Social media amplified and normalized the woke code not only through its content moderation governance and its algorithms that caused certain content to get promoted over others, but also through its content creators. These creators were incentivized to drive narratives through offerings of heaven and threats of hell, and promises of gold and blood, because strong emotions drive engagement, and engagement makes money.

How to make an agit-prop agent: Control the social media moderation team. Control the social media algorithm machine. Pay for clicks. Watch the agit-prop creators emerge. No training necessary. The algorithm will train them.

Social-driven ideologies are click-baith ideologies, always offering the grandest of statements about the evil nature of this social group and the noble nature of this social group. They always tell the dramatic lie of a dragon versus a small but brave and noble angel who needs corporate and state power to even have a CHANCE at defeating the great dragon who would otherwise consume us all.

Where power is unchecked, social-driven ideologies reign. Where power is checked, social-driven ideologies die. Social-driven ideologies thrive with great, fluid power, but wither within systems that move with the speed of a balance of power checked by individual liberty.

Ever since Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the social-driven ideology has fought to make it back into America, where it found unsafe harbor in a land still largely held in check by individual power. It found oxygen in the universities, who were allowed to thug on woke’s political opposition unchecked by simply shutting the hiring door behind them once they got in.

Once the gates were built, the wokeness spread throughout the departments, with the physical sciences even now boldly attempting to hold out, the last of a dying American age.

Had social media not come along, creating a network of dopamine need fiends dependent on platforms controlled by an elite woke few, perhaps wokeness would have died in American universities. Once it got out in the wild, once social media spread throughout the world, wherever governments had centralized power, wokeness took root like it still hasn’t here in America.

As always, history is complicated, but my somewhat simplified narrative is still essentially true: Educators created technocrats who created platforms where the clickocracy could reign.

Politicians who know that their customers will follow rage bait must either choose to remove themselves from the playing field or start screaming angels and demons and singing promises of blood and gold.

Otherwise, they have no chance in a clickbait world. With social media, and a corporate press to protect you, the woke politician has all the incentive in the world to drive heaven and hell, gold and blood narratives, truth be literally damned.

One could theorize that the clickopoly is the product of social-driven culture and also the perpetuator of it. The less power the corporation, the state has over the individual, the less effective click-bait narratives will be when attempting to manipulate the masses to do your dark bidding. The reverse of that is true as well, and we are living in that reverse world now.

From this reality of power in 2015, we see first the rise of Trump and all the other Trumpians that followed him, from JD Vance to Jasmine Crocket, all products of clickbait or die culture. Hillary Clinton, for instance, only turned to clickbait culture towards the end of her campaign, when she started to figure out what Trump was doing. That’s when she came up with the “basket of deplorables” line.

While Trump’s demon, the anti-American, child-sacrificing DNC, is very much real, his angel, MAGA, isn’t. And now, MAGA is already infighting over Israel, using the same angels and demons narratives against each other that the left once used on them.

As it stands today in America, the remnant is smaller than this writer imagined, but should we find one another, technology is on our side in building our own America within what is increasingly looking like a Progmerica of sorts about to emerge, but one that will be short-lived.

When their world collapses, our world will fill the void left behind and once again we shall resume the American experiment, towards liberty for all through a government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people.

But we must be building now to be the light for tomorrow’s coming dark clouds.

Castle Report – November 13, 2025 – Hope Castle Deferred?

pgnewser November 25, 2025

Originally published Nov 13, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” — Lou Holtz

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” — Thomas Edison

“Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, ‘Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. You have sown much, and harvested little.

You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord .

You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.

Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.’”- Haggai 1:3-11

The path to a sustainably flourishing life is rarely going to be easy, or even as we plan it. The vagaries of life alone can alter plans unexpectedly. As our country experiences the constraining power of the rising progressive nation from within, we will surely have to be creative in dealing with whatever new legal obstacles might come our way.

The results of this last election make me feel good about the castle we bought and the plans we have for it. We have a veritable fortress with plenty of space able to aid not just ourselves but others. At a moment’s notice, myself, my wife, and my brother can meet at the castle (with my daughter and mother in tow) should catastrophe come our way.

This is a comfort in times such as these, but pursuing our Hope Castle dream as of late has largely been deferred, for now, though we have reason to hope that’s about to change.

We are about six months into our purchase of a church that we plan to turn into a castle, Riqueday Castle. It is intended to be our home, our ministry, and our sustainable flourishing model we hope others will be inspired by.

Since our purchase, we have been able to make small repairs to the church, including getting the heat working, the water running, and other minor cosmetic fixes. We have purchased the supplies we need to thoroughly clean the basement outside of an industrial strength steam cleaner we plan on using.

Our small kitchen upstairs has a new refrigerator and a hot plate (stove to come later) so it’s effectively fully functioning. Our downstairs kitchen hasn’t been thoroughly dealt with yet, though we do have the electric oven working well.

All the lights have been checked, bulbs replaced, and doors secured.

But along the way, life throws us hurdles, and these past few months have been filled with hurdles, mostly from major health issues in our family (in my household, as well as my brother’s) that have prevented us from working on the castle as consistently as we were before the healthcare issues hit.

In addition to the healthcare issues, I was in a car accident that totaled our car. After we purchased a new used car, my wife had an accident too that ALSO totaled our car. Now, we are one car down, and that car is a significant downgrade from the cars we lost. Both were Ford Explorers that had all-wheel drive. Our car is an HHR with front-wheel drive.

At present, our plan is to wait a few months to see if the prices of cars come down (they are exorbitantly high right now) to then replace our lost long-distance car.

This new vehicle reality means we can’t go up so often for one-day trips like we could before especially because our car is over 15 years old (though we still love it for local driving). The castle is 3 hours away from where we currently live.

With the winter coming, and our castle being in northern PA, we expect we might find problems getting up there regularly until the spring. Getting the major work done we’d like to do in the basement will have to wait until Spring for this reason alone.

Our new plan given our new circumstance is to start going up every other week starting in January (weather permitting), staying there from Sunday to Saturday. During the winter season, I will primarily be concerned with getting my new studio fully operating so I can work at the castle when I’m there and we can start doing our planned podcast in support of this publication, From the Belltower (which will be livestreamed from our actual bell tower).

Our castle doesn’t have a shower yet, so we will stay at my brother’s house, Bill Collier, the MIA publisher and joint owner (along with my wife and myself) of Riqueday Castle. His house is just 20 minutes away from the castle. He will also be the co-host of our show From the Belltower.

Our friend Joe, our Anglican priest, is working on preparing the sanctuary for Sunday services which we hope to start by the beginning of April. These services are for the household, family, and friends, not open to the general public (at least not for a while).

My wife is chomping at the bit (though she knows we need to be patient now) to get to that downstairs kitchen and start cooking meals for people in need.

We are all anxious to see that space become a blessing to the community around it like it once was.

We purchased the church from people who were planning to convert it into apartments. My wife especially didn’t want to see a community lose such a beautiful church and we were in a position to not only eventually to help our soon-to-be adopted community, but also serve ourselves in our dream to live an extended family household life as opposed to an atomized single-family life.

This is a dream the three of us share, myself, my wife, and brother Bill.

Our castle already has a long history in that community, and many people have shared stories of all the ways that building has blessed their lives, so we are anxious to return it to that community service it hasn’t been able to fulfill since 2022.

In the next issue, we will conclude our series, Detaining the DNC. We will also have more information about what you might expect from us in 2026. We also have news about expanding our extended family home project to at least one more site (and this one is in the family already).

The election was a major setback for America, but we have much to be hopeful for and grateful of. We still live in the freest country in the world and there are AT LEAST one hundred million Americans willing to stand strong in defiance against the rising progressive nation.

If you have a Hope Exit castle you are building, share it with us at MIAmailroom@gmail.com.

Thank you all for your continued support.

FINAL THOUGHT: IF SCIENCE WERE A GOD – An MIA Editorial

pgnewser April 30, 2025

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

Originally published April 25, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

“‘Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.’ They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said, ‘You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.’” –Psalm 82:3-7

“Why should a change of paradigm be called a revolution? In the face of the vast and essential differences between political and scientific development, what parallelism can justify the metaphor that finds revolutions in both? … Political revolutions are inaugurated by a growing sense, often restricted to a segment of the political community, that existing institutions have ceased to adequately meet the problems posed by an environment that they have in part created… In both political and scientific development, the sense of malfunction that can lead to crisis is prerequisite to revolution.”

–Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

A news item written up in scienceblog.com titled “Conservative Americans Consistently Distrust Science” serves as an example of agit prop worth considering for its effectiveness. This type of agit prop could easily be called “the banality of evil” agit prop.

If you examine the site, you will find no headline screams that this is an overt agit prop site. The articles posted are attributed to various universities. This one is attributed to the University of Amsterdam.

Outside of one article assuming “Climate Change” (man-made climate change that will existentially alter the planet) is an established fact, the other articles are agit prop neutral.

You have to read past the headline and the anon author credit, “Amsterdam University,” to figure out where the subterfuge in this article begins.

If you actually read the article, you will realize the agit prop began with the source of the article itself, the University of Amsterdam, the institution that conducted the “study” showing American conservatives are growing more and more skeptical of science. They are becoming near-lost science-skeptics.

Bastiaan Rutjens, one of the researchers, said, “In America, but also in other countries, conservatives generally have lower trust in science. Since the 1980s, trust of science among conservatives in America has even been plummeting.”

The anon behind the words wrote, “While past research has documented conservative skepticism toward science that conflicts with political or religious beliefs – such as climate change or evolution – this new study reveals that the trust gap extends far beyond ideologically charged topics.”

The conservative is doubting science itself, no matter what the science is addressing. This is what the anon behind the words would have you believe. Yet, the “science” is never defined. Is it the scientific institutions? Is it the scientific method?

The closest they get to recognizing the difference between institution and method is when they quote that same researcher, Rutjens, who said, “Science is also increasingly dismissed in some circles as a ‘leftist hobby,’ and universities as strongholds of the leftist establishment.”

Outside of that, they continue to simply use the word science as the thing conservatives are rejecting, accusing them of suffering increasingly from “science skepticism.”

“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought, for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.” –Hanna Arendt

Hanna Arendt addressed “the banality of evil” through the person of Adolf Eichmann, who was on a train to Jerusalem, where he would be held accountable for his crimes. She noted that he was not a cartoon villain; he looked perfectly banal.

He was the paradigmatic representative of this “banality of evil,” a man who presupposed the world through a lens of “evil” where logic and reason, and even the scientific method, can serve the Reich, where truth dies unless it can calculate missile trajectories.

This, I think, is a spirit that also captures this study’s “findings.” It also describes the underlying spirit, the banality of evil, behind the method this article utilizes to spread a dangerous lie, that conservatives are afraid of truth.

We must reach them with our truth (if we can, and we might not be able to). Science is truth.

The sales pitch, that conservatives are near-allergic to truth in a near-un-restorative way, is not expressed so directly as to obviously appear evil. To assume a whole group of people who fit into a certain belief system are nearly unredeemable is one thing; to also portray them as being a significant barrier to saving the planet would OBVIOUSLY be an evil, dangerous thought. They are unredeemable obstacles to our “salvation.”

But this message is delivered in a “neutral” language game, “the study” language game, that relies on the audience assuming this is truly “science,” determining a whole people are a threat to the planet by merely continuing to exist.

It’s almost as if “the science” allows these partisan militants to cloak their evil in BANALITY, something “the science” has been able to do throughout human history, including justifying slavery and the Holocaust.

Let’s walk this out a little more to make our point…

What does one do when one has a whole class of people who seem to be practically INCAPABLE of facing real truth? What does one do when one has a whole class of TRUTH DENIERS when the world is in danger of being KILLED?!

One hopes you can read where this line of reasoning leads, it leads to the logical and reasonable and even science-based assumption that “something must be done” to rid us of this “conservative problem.”

At least with Cain, the first authoritarian, he openly murdered Abel. He was only shamed by fear of being killed, not the remorse of murdering his brother. These Cains cast their dirty work on others, the tender minds who will eventually get this “study” delivered to them by charismatic “thought leaders” on social media, like Destiny and Hasan Piker (more on that later).

It will go something like this; In the perfectly innocent interest of saving the planet, “scientists” might one day help the world solve the “conservative problem.” Perhaps it will be a Solution that will end all other solutions for good. It seems like a perfectly banal conclusion to matter-of-factly make, come what may.

As Rutjens laments the severity of the problem (of reaching conservatives with “science,” aka “truth”), he remains “hopeful.” He declares, “This does not mean it is impossible, but these short interventions do not work to make science more transparent and reliable for certain groups. We need stronger interventions that make science truly personal. What can science contribute to your life, here and now?”

If this doesn’t tell you that Rutjens is an evangelical scientist, nothing else will. He practically sounds like a Pastor trying to rally his youth pastors to “GET OUT THERE AND PREACH THE SCIENCE!”

But what do you do when your god tells you things need to change to save the planet (and hopefully also humanity), but certain humans won’t go along with the plan, no matter how HARD you “reason” with them? You send out a signal to begin those “stronger interventions.”

This site serves as an academic “signal” to the DNC-allied media to feature stories highlighting conservatives rejecting “science” as a means of further demonizing the non-DNC person, the “other.”

Then, they can keep quoting this scientific study that determined that this fact, that conservatives seem almost biologically allergic to truth, is, in fact, a fact.

It will also be grist for the mill of DNC online Molotov cocktail throwers like Destiny and Hasan Piker, who will cite this “study” as “proof” “conservatives” (anyone not them) hate truth, and there’s LITTLE that can be done about it. WE MUST HAVE A VIOLENT SOLUTION! (And both of them are already doing this anyway).

The intent of the signal is to keep the assault on the non-left going as a means of disrupting and discouraging, as a means of CONTROL. The heart of the problem this piece is addressing is control, or the lack thereof.

They somewhat give up the game when the anon behind the words writes, “The persistence of this distrust poses significant challenges for addressing major societal problems that require scientific solutions, such as pandemics and climate change. When people distrust scientists, they’re less likely to accept scientific recommendations or support policies based on scientific evidence.”

“Major societal problems” that “REQUIRE” nothing else but “scientific solutions” make science seem like something nothing short of a god, especially when you consider this same “science” is now trying to deny basic human biology, that males are men and females are women and the outliers do not justify adding new categories to those terms (or detaching “gender” from “sexuality”).

“Science” is always the people and institutions that fund the “science,” the people that select the researchers that get funded, the people that pass the future researchers (the college professors), and finally and lastly, the researchers themselves.

This is how “science” is gatekept. These gatekeepers ensure only orthodox thinkers with preferred identities get through, get funded, and get tenured.

Under the current “science” regime, this gatekeeping has gotten even more intolerant of true “diversity,” diversity of thought, ESPECIALLY “conservative” thought (like a man is a male, which is apparently now a “conservative” belief).

The gatekeepers allow an increasingly narrower range of acceptable beliefs among its researchers. The questions one can even ask are less and less, and the questions getting funded are mostly intended to produce the orthodox narrative’s preferred result(s).

Perhaps if you asked conservatives simply if they believe in the scientific method, you might get a better response. This writer assumes the leftist would be more inclined to trust “the science” than they would to trust the “scientific method.” The reverse is most likely true if you ask the conservative the same two questions.

Perhaps if you asked conservatives if they believe science can be our source for determining the “oughtness” in our lives, the source of value, ethics, morality, you might also learn of the source in the increasing “skepticism” in “science,” its continued and increasing claims it can be such a source, THE SOURCE for human value itself.

You will find the left is far more inclined to believe this logical impossibility than “conservatives” are (or really anyone not leftist).

As “science” increasingly excludes non-leftist thought in its institutions and continues to allow these institutions to become more about narrative than fact (“lived experience” than hard data), anyone willing to face REAL TRUTH will become increasingly skeptical of “science.”

“Almost always, the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously, these are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.” –Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The new people that were ushered in, partly through DEI and other identity-filtering selection systems, have been devising ways to ensure they shut the door behind them so that what they did to the old white cis men that came before them doesn’t happen to them as well.

As these “conservatives” continue to see this happening before their very eyes, this writer believes these “conservatives” will only INCREASE their rejection of “science as god,” and their god, like men, will also die.

“… a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” -Max Planck, from his Scientific Autobiography.

Soon, the paradigm the “science” is now locked in, the paradigm of standpoint epistemology (“lived truth” valued according to the race, gender, sex, and belief of the individual, not the merits of their claims), will be pushed aside by whatever bursts through to replace it.

The “new generation” has already slipped into “old generation” status. The coup is already afoot.

Let us hope their replacements are not activists, like them, but scientists, true courageous pursuers of “truth” grounded in the understanding of the limitations of knowing and the limits of science to presume it could justify organizing humans according to whatever universal “good” it might claim it can scientifically “discover.”

On the surface, this is a reasonable article. It even offers SOME HOPE to the reasonable world that SOME of the conservatives MIGHT be saved from their own ignorance, if they just figure out how to show these truth-allergic conservatives how SCIENCE HELPS THEIR LIVES.

Conservatives clearly don’t know science delivered them their iPhones, clearly.

Underneath, Rutjens gives it a human face, but one protected by the label “researcher,” just a “neutral observer” reporting the facts and drawing logical conclusions. Rutjens is just a banal man reporting banal facts, really…

The heavy lifting, though, is done by anon behind the words, whose very title choice alone will reinforce in those who already hate the non-left that sub-humanizing these “others” more is not only ok, but it’s also morally essential to do so. After all, they simply can’t be reached.

If they read it, it will be worse. If they have the intelligence to remember particular facts, like the name of the researcher and the university, it will be like a bomb thrown into a theater full of already-raging leftists (the types of bombs agitators like Destiny and Hasan Piker regularly throw into their own livestreaming audiences).

However, an agit prop bomb like this, veiled in banality and goodwill, is absorbed in the bodies of the audience members, only to be released later, in some way, when they come upon “the other,” the “conservative,” and they have a chance to hurt them.

It would be morally wrong not to punish the blasphemer of the holy god, “the science,” after all.

Tolerating or Accepting Preferred Pronouns?

pgnewser April 6, 2025

FINAL THOUGHT, April 28, 2025

Originally published April 28, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.” –George Orwell

“The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.” –Voltaire

“Freedom of speech doesn’t protect speech you like; it protects speech you don’t like.” –Larry Flynt

“If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.” –Noam Chomsky

The pursuit of “alternative pronouns” may have begun, in part, as a pushback against intolerance, the intolerance of non-conformity to orthodox expectations regarding sex and gender, but it has since become another spearpoint aimed at the Bill of Rights.

Still, if we live out our Americanism, the idea that individuals can define their own happiness and pursuit of that happiness for themselves, should we YET THEN be tolerant and respectful of those who choose to express themselves through “alternative pronouns?”

The whole pronouns thing may seem wacko, and I can’t argue it can get strange; the positive in the movement is the idea of being your authentic self.

I might argue that changing your pronouns to fit your perception of your gender or for other reasons isn’t the path to authenticity, but I appreciate that it has become visible because I think it does, in part, affirm that people should be free to be their authentic selves and not be FORCED to follow “expected” social norms.

If using alt pronouns is what you need to do to be authentic to your true self as you see yourself, especially if this takes you to a place of seeing that this only scratches the surface, then so be it. I do not judge the heart; I do, however, have a right to my own morals and to define truth, justice, and authenticity according to my beliefs, values, and convictions.

Instead of being easily offended about pronouns, whether you use alt pronouns or choose not to participate, I believe it would be more consistent with our Americanism to have a more live and let live attitude.

You have no right to demand people recognize your gender as being a social construct; you also have no right to tell people they cannot express themselves in this manner.

Being true to your authentic self goes both ways.

Do you believe alt pronoun usage reflects your authentic self, or is part of that? So be it. Associate with people, or prefer people, who agree and will acknowledge that, but don’t become hostile to people who cannot agree on their own grounds (they do not owe anyone an explanation) and who feel strongly that gender is what you are born with, period.

While alt pronouns may be losing some popularity, mostly because some loud people are insufferable about demanding the world change to suit their preferences, I’m concerned the idea behind it, being your authentic self, may also suffer.

For some, using alt gender pronouns is a pathway to finding who they truly are. I think it’s a dead end to stay there, and I also think you can pursue and explore this idea of authenticity without resorting to alt pronouns usage.

I may not agree with the alt pronoun usage, but where the subject is finding your authentic self, we are, to that degree, the same. We just go about it differently.

I do not view using people’s alt pronouns, if they ask with respect (demanding me anything will get resistance!), as an agreement that sex or gender can be a social construct, but if I care for someone and this is their journey, even though I think this is objectively not an effective path to true authenticity, I will respect THEIR worldview and probably use whatever they want me to use.

It is hard to use they/them, however, because it is a total disruption of language, but sometimes I think those using such pronouns are symbolizing a resistance against the soft tyranny of FORCING societal norms, something I cannot not only understand but also agree with.

In other words, I agree with upsetting social norms that go against individual authenticity and that don’t benefit everyone the same, I just think alt pronouns are more surface and shallower and don’t get to the right conclusion in the end. They also disrupt far more than “social norms,” they disrupt efficient human value exchange, existentially, when forced on society as a whole.

It may be that someone using those alt pronouns is on a journey. They know (or think they know) that they do not fit the orthodox categories or roles society assigns them without their foreknowledge or consent.

This writer is also not naïve enough to see that some, especially the late joiners, are playing language games intended to disarm their opposition. They’re not pursuing authentic understanding; they’re using the divisive language of trans and non-binary to isolate, attack, and destroy their competition.

We have limited means to break the mold in terms of our work, how we make a living, and manage other factors in life where we are forced into roles and submission to rules that actually defy our own inner convictions.

I feel this pressure a lot. I also see how limiting and controlling most institutions in our society are today, and I understand why someone would perhaps even subconsciously resort to alt pronouns to try and take back some of their sovereignty.

I know that God has had a lot of grace on me for things I later realized were not His will or plan for my life, so I choose to show grace both because the wrong person may one day see the light and because the wrong person may be me (a general axiom it would be wise to follow).

Ultimately, I think, for many who use alt pronouns it is rebellion and reaction against the stultifying tendencies of societal norms that go beyond civility into outright control of your person, in violation of your individual sovereignty and authenticity.

Rebellion against top-down control like that can often be haphazard, inconsistent, reactionary, and weird, but one must look beyond the pathways people choose to understand a more common goal: the inherent rights of sovereign beings, us, being true to who we are in an authentic way, while being limited only by reasonable rules of civility and mutual tolerance and respect, outside of our preferred associations that follow the same way of life that we do.

Civility doesn’t mean people OWE YOU usage of your alt pronouns; some will simply use the standard norms of addressing you by your visible gender. You are out of the norm here, and if people break the norm for you, it is a privilege and not a right.

What people DO owe you is decency and respect as a human being. For example, they can be civil and kind despite not agreeing to use your pronouns because, for them, using alt pronouns isn’t perceptively being true to their authentic self.

Too often, however, people who believe in things that are harmless to society are treated as if they are a menace, perhaps because of the loud insufferables in their ranks but also due to the inherent tendency in humans towards bigotry.

If someone who is born a guy thinks they are a girl, and if they then choose to live as a girl in their own life and with their own people, they are no DIRECT threat to you. While you don’t owe them usage of alt pronouns, you owe them respect and decency, if not merely for the sake of preserving and advocating for Americanism (the right to self-stewardship, even when you’re “wrong”) as a civic standard.

For instance, you may just avoid pronouns with them as much as possible, and you may explain that you cannot in good conscience use alt pronouns, but you respect their humanity and treat them well regardless.

For me, when a loved one asked me to use they/them pronouns, despite my philosophical and religious beliefs about the permanence of gender from birth, I chose to use the alt pronouns to show them that no matter what “alternatives” from the “orthodox” they choose, even when I oppose it, my love for them will not end.

My usage of their terms is not an affirmation of those terms, but an affirmation of my love for them. To confirm a lie is not loving.

In closing, I suspect the reason the whole alt pronouns thing emerged was a rebellion against artificial societal norms that go beyond a peaceful and tolerant society to become a society that controls and limits the human spirit.

That probably happened because the non-binary “cause” was then picked up by authoritarian, anti-American social engineers who exploited the plea of the needy to trick people into surrendering “rights” for “protection.”

Not so surprisingly, though no less ironically, that “tolerance” has led to “intolerance” of countervailing views.