(Disclaimer: for performatively legal purposes, Psy Op Watch, and all the writings of Freeman Tao are to be considered “informative satire”. Any statements that are illegal, defamatory, distasteful, or stupid… are clearly jokes.)

Have you noticed any cases where the masters of mass media are deciding what you’re thinking for you yet? These assholes have their vectors of psychological attack and control dialed in many orders of magnitude stronger than any society in human history has ever had to deal with, so if you can’t identify a single instance where your original thoughts are implanted from above then there’s probably A LOT of thoughts that are not your own.
Knowing is half the battle. (It’s the easy half, but still…)
So for those with the masochistic/naïve tendency to continue to engage with legacy media, you’ve probably heard a ton of panicky bullshit fear propaganda this year (and especially this last week) about the stock market. Every week the CNN and CircleJerk Times is shoving headlines down your throat about “TRILLIONS IN VALUE WIPED OUT IN DAYS/WEEKS/MINUTES/BLAHBLAHBLAH”…
I kinda doubt this narrative has been getting a lot of play on Fox News and other “Conservative” mainstream slop, because the alleged stock market catastrophe feels to me like a highly partisan talking point. Standard MSNBBCNNPRetard bullshit meant to make your primitive circuits wire together the simple thought process “stock market do bad. Trump fault. Me lose money. Me no like Trump.”
But let’s take a closer look shall we? How about a story in pictures?

Here’s the S&P 500 value for the last 5 days. Yeah, that dip yesterday looks significant, but if you look over at the scale on the Y axis you see that its a little less than 5% value dip… significant but PROBABLY not catastrophic (maybe some wallstreet guys threw themselves out the windows of their 50th floor offices… I dunno).
But lets step back and look at the S&P 500 for the last 30 days.

Alright, yesterday’s “Black Monday” “crash” suddenly doesn’t look like such a big deal, but damn the first week of April really took a big bite… That’s 10% of the value of whatever fucking units that Y axis is in… that’s GOTTA be a big deal right? Maybe the panicky idiots on the TV and Radio and Newspapers are right? Gather up your children! Gather your belongings! Gather up your women like the singer in the song sings! Load your gun with bullets! Powder up your rifle! Pray The Lord to save your soul like in the Holy Bible?
But before you start eating your elderly neighbors lets maybe keep stepping back… you know… just for due diligence…

That’s the S&P 500 for 2025 so far… This one raises complicated feelings… Zoomed out like that it LOOKS like its substantial, but not THAT big a deal right? I mean… It bounced back from MOST of that huge bite in early April… Maybe now’s a good time for me to buy the dip… I could get rich doing nothing at all… I could make imaginary fiat currency appear out of mid air like all those rich assholes that shut down Hooters for some complex financial reason…
But… when I look at the Y axis I see we lost like 20% of the value… Oh shit? Question mark?
I need to take another step back… I’m feeling confused

These motherfuckers… I’m starting to smell a rat… You mean to tell me the S&P 500 is HIGHER than it was 1 year ago? FUCK… I wish I’d looked at this graph before I smothered my grandma to spare her having to live through a second great depression…
Lemme take one more step back… Over a five year trend I’ll surely see that things are critically fucked… There’s no way the assholes that own everything would lie to me about something as important as my nation’s financial future right? Surely people are smart enough to see through that kind of bullshit right?

Those motherfuckers… The stock market lost 20% of its value and its still better than it was for 3/4 of the Biden Administration?
Hang on… how long has the S&P 500 been a thing? Since 1996? Lemme see the whole thing, I can’t listen to these cunts’ “analysis” anymore… I think these bastards are trying to manipulate me…

THIS is why I keep telling you guys if you see a CEO that owns a massive media conglomerate you should shoot them in the face. (That’s not a metaphor).
So yeah, this whole “Trump’s collapsing the stock market” thing feels like a fucking Psy Op to me. But hey, the fucking stock market itself is kind of a Psy Op once you start Watching out for that shit…
The way the public used to make money investing in the stock market was that they’d buy shares in a company and the company would pay them a dividend annually (a share of their profits based on how much of the company you own). A lot of people that aren’t stock market people still think that’s how it works, but lots of publicly traded companies don’t even pay a dividend at all, and that being the method of getting rich off the stock market is embarrassingly outdated. A lot more people think “buy low sell high” is how the game is played, but even that’s pretty outdated. Most daytraders and investment firms are making and losing the big sums on what’s called “puts”, which is essentially just gambling on the stock market. You place a bet that Prostate Massage Incorporated is gonna double in value in the next 60 days. If you’re right you get paid. If you’re wrong you lose.
And just like gambling at the casino, the house always wins. Because the big investors have high tech, AI-driven, microsecond transaction capability, as well as the advantage of huge amounts of volume and capital, they can play the long game and all the volatility in the stock market is REALLY effective at making YOUR money become THEIR money. (And we’re not even going into the insider trading shenanigans or when their pet senator gives them a heads up about new regulations a week before the public finds out)
You’ve got some stock in Prostate Massage Incorporated in your retirement account and they get hit with a scandal for saying women don’t have prostates and holy shit your stock is in freefall… your financial advisor advisOs you to SELL SELL SELL… before it gets any lower. So you sell the stock when its at like 50% of the value it was when you bought it. Jamie Dimon or Warren Buffet or Saul Sheckelstein buys it up through their investment firm and a week later when the stock market recovers, you find that you lost your shirt and these assholes threw it into their warehouse full of shirts to continue to appreciate in value…
Fuck…
But that isn’t even the REAL racket with stock valuation these days. You probably hear all this shit all the time about how CEOs don’t pay taxes on their personal income, and if you think that’s potentially bullshit then you’re at least watching out for Psy Ops. And yeah, part of it’s probably bullshit, but one of the many ways that the system CAN be rigged in favor of the super wealthy is this.
Larry Silverstein, CEO of Prostate Massage Incorporated doesn’t actually get paid a wage by the company he runs. There’s some bonuses and shit, but the bulk of his compensation is in the form of stock. His primary responsibility is to make the value of PMI’s stock continue to rise. Then when he wants to buy another yacht or chalet or a supple young boy to harvest his blood, Larry goes to the bank and takes out a loan with his stock as collateral. He buys a beautiful young boy from Guatemala and scares the shit out of him so he can milk his adrenal gland for adrenochrome and trip balls/live forever, then he goes about his day.
When its time to pay back that loan what does Mr. Silverstein do? He takes out another fucking loan. And since the stock of Prostate Massage Incorporated has continued to increase in value he can take out a loan for twice as much with the same chunk of stock that was collateral on the first loan. That gives him enough cash (liquid capital technically) to pay off the first loan, buy another yacht (or helicopter), another chalet (or condo), another blood boy (or girl). And so on and so on to infinity.
When MSNBBCNNPRetards on the news tell you how new economic policies caused 1.5 Trillion dollars in damage to the economy, they’re not talking about REAL value… They’re talking about a big fucking house of cards ponzy scheme, that yeah, they lost a couple layers off their palace of cards, but bet your ass the bulk of the loss is gonna fall on the heads of “retail investors”. (AKA suckers) (like you?)
The “value” lost as overinflated stocks tumble down five or ten or twenty percent in a week or a year is all made up bullshit anyway. You can tell it’s not a real loss because nobody gains (or at least not remotely on the same scale as the loss). The “value” just vanishes in to thin air because it was an illusion to begin with.
You wanna talk about a REAL fuckin’ drain on the economy? Lets look at foreign aid to Israel. The United States has given almost a quarter of a Trillion dollars to Israel since the 70s, and that’s not imaginary play money for tax dodge usury bullshit like the stock market. That’s badass shit like guns and bombs and tanks and missiles, or real capital that can immediately be spent on badass shit like guns and bombs and tanks and missiles.

But whoa… We’re getting kinda off the subject here and infringing on what could be a future issue of Psy Op Watch, so I’ll leave it at this:
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve got no problem with Israel bombing the shit out of their own citizens and their more uppity neighbors (I’m not joking. Fuck em.), I’m even theoretically okay with us primarily footing the bill. (The State of Israel is notoriously thrifty after all. “What, just to blow up a hospital I’m supposed to spend a lot of MONEY? Oy Gevalt!”)
But… BUT! I value my government spending my money wisely, so couldn’t we drop just a few billion dollars giving Hamas and Hezbollah some bigger weapons to fight back with? (I’m sure we already are giving them a lot of money, but it looks like they need a lot more).
Maybe, just maybe, the Israelis and the Palestinians can kill each other (I mean every single one). Let’s be real… Wouldn’t that be an improvement?
Thanks for reading the second installment of Psy Op Watch. Your ass is DEFINITELY on a fucking list now.

SOMEBODY CALL THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE!
– Freeman Tao
Larry Silverstein? You mean, THE Larry Silverstein? The one who managed to become a victim by “pulling” his own Building #7 in 2001? May he be prosecuted and slapped hard before he dies.
I hear that Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis) is making noises about investigating that little episode of fraud, deceit, and theft. See here.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/building-7-controlled-demolition-republican-senator-plans-shock-911-hearings-says-my-eyes
Here’s to you, Ron, but why did it take two decades for you to see the light of day?
BTW, Tao, good analysis on the stock market.
Thank you Roger.
I was in fact referencing THAT Larry Silverstein, the one who conveniently took out a multi-billion dollar insurance policy on buildings 1 and 2 of the World Trade Center less than a year before 9/11, an insurance policy that VERY conveniently even covered acts of terrorism. (And then he tried to get the insurance company to pay him twice, arguing it was two separate disasters, and thus the claim should pay double)
Ole Larry Silverstein is not, however, the CEO of Prostate Massage Incorporated… I made that one up. I needed an example corporation.
Thanks again. I’m very pleased with this one… Hits that tone of informative, rabble-rousing psychopathy JUST right I think!
An old gem from Lee Camp from back when Truthdig was still a thing: Wall Street Is the Definition of a Ponzi Scheme (Literally)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wall-street-is-the-definition-of-a-ponzi-scheme-literally/