Author: JC

(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

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There’s been a little talk lately about “socialist bullshit”. With Bernie Sanders’ recent visit to town, the little spasm of organized resistance to the current shape of things at the federal geopolitical level has shouldered its way to the forefront of local political discussion. As attentive readers have no doubt noticed, I value the reflexive rejection of prescribed paradigms. What does that mean in less pretentious language? I think that broad ideologies are a fucking trap and with the sophistication of modern mass media propaganda and brainwashing, terms like “socialist”, “conservative”, and “democracy” are functionally meaningless.

There’s a temptation to try to use a broad-stroke narrative to make sense of an exponentially more and more bewildering world. It makes a certain sense from the citizen civic engagement standpoint. Real people rarely have the time to research every goddamn candidate in every goddamn election, so assuming you still engage with the placebo of voting, having a D or an R next to a candidate’s name and hoping that will give you some useful understanding of the direction they want to take your town or your state or your world… well… its tempting.

(By the way, the placebo effect is a measurable improvement over zero treatment, so maybe chew on that “voting is a placebo” metaphor for a minute. Shit’s got layers man.)

What the fuck does all this have to do with Daniel Carlino? I’m glad you asked. I was risking getting off on a rant there.

So when unabashed contrarianism controls your life and you’ve abandoned the guidance of political parties, left-right political spectrum, and respect for law and order, the natural reaction is to look to what practical chances you have to fuck with the power structure whenever it effects your life directly.

In my case, I had a little legal trouble brewing with the city… They kept threatening to start issuing fines and citations if me and my people kept conducting public demonstrations of ecstatic music and dance on Missoula’s streets. And I kept threatening to sue the motherfuckers if they tried it, because a few years ago I went and established a nonprofit religious corporation so our little weekly demonstration of performative freakdom would be legally recognized as a church.

There was one particular police sergeant who really got a bug up his ass about us showing up downtown with amps and drums and flamethrowers and shit every week. My paper shield of us being a church kept him at bay for a couple years, but once he got promoted to lieutenant, officer asshole thought he finally had the sway to shut us down for good.

Well fuck him. I went over his head. 100 or so emails back and forth with the chief of police later, I decided the best way to put lieutenant limpdick in his place was to change the law he thought he could use to stop us (a seldom used law that’s meant to be used to keep people from driving around with trucks blaring advertisement from loudspeakers, but which the cops were trying to use to shut our static performance down).

So I called my city council person. Both of them. They ignored me. Typical government experience. But I kept calling city councilors. And I found one that was actually interested in constituent service. One who (like me) felt like the mayor and the city council had been presenting a too united a front and ignoring their citizens for too long. That City Councilor is named Daniel Carlino.

Councilman Carlino listened to my proposal and said it was a good idea. He said he read the law they were threatening to cite us under and didn’t think it reasonably applied to us, so he said he’d push a bill through the city council to amend the ordinance in question.

And he fucking did it. I called an elected official. Told them the law was wrong and he fucking changed it.

See that text in the middle that’s in red and crossed out? Those are the six words Daniel Carlino changed in the Missoula Municipal Code so that my church was free to practice in peace.

That was over a year ago and we haven’t had a cop step foot on our little island since.

That’s the way government’s supposed to work. Elected officials are supposed to listen to their constituents, see where laws are being applied in a useless or harmful manner and fucking fix it. And he did it.

I don’t give a fuck if the kid’s a socialist, a nationalist, a national socialist, a Whig, a Torrey, or a fucking pescatarian. All I give a shit about is that I think the Mayor and the City Council are a tight knit little club of backroom dealing cocksuckers, and if there’s one or two people on the council that regularly vote differently then the rest of them, then I’ll take what I can get.

There’s a big motherfucking problem in fringe political action to shit on the slightly-less-shitty politicians because said politicians are painfully wrong and stupid about one thing or another. There’s not a human on this Earth I agree with about every single thing, and if there was I’d have to change a couple of my opinions to argue with that disagreeable motherfucker. There’s not a single politician in this hell-on-Earth that’s much better than “kinda shitty”, but a “kinda shitty” socialist cuck type who helps me fuck the law while its trying to fuck me? Well that motherfucker’s a hell of a lot more worthwhile in my book than the rest of his cohort.

A lot of otherwise intelligent people have a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot by vocally decrying the usefulness of a politician just because they’re full of shit about one thing or another. We’re all full of shit about one thing or another, and that applies double to politicians. When one’s worth working with, criticize them for the individual issues that piss you off, don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater, and don’t shoot yourself in the head because big scary buzzwords like “socialism” put asses in seats.

Better red than dead!

– Freeman Tao

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When the economy goes to shit and people start reassessing their expenditures, things like BEING A CUCK are often the VALUABLE NEW SKILLS TO LEARN.

What about those who provide their customers with a more VIGOROUS CUCK experience, like TRAVIS MATEER. Here’s more about BEING A CUCK from Wikipedia (emphasis mine):

BEING A CUCK is promoted as both a SEXUAL exercise philosophy and a PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINE, incorporating elements from high-intensity interval WHINING (HIIW), Olympic BITCHING, MOANING, CRYING BY YOURSELF, MENTAL gymnastics, FARTING INTO A JAR AND SNIFFING IT, RUNNING FROM YOUR PROBLEMS, SADman, and other exercises. BEING A CUCK presents its training program as one that can best prepare its trainees for any HUMILIATION contingency, preparing them for what may be “unknown” and “unknowable“.

What are the rates for this kind of amazing exercise routine that prepares its adherents for the unknowable? Let’s take a look at SOMEONE LOCALLY who provides this amazing service and see how much it costs to be A CUCK!

Since I’ve had some time to think about the kinds of people who make money on the feelings of insecurity people feel about their health and body image, I DECIDED TO TEACH YOU ALL HOW TO BE AS PATHETIC AS ME.

That’s right, a possible hedging strategy I’ve identified in THIS particular CUCK trainer is the strategy of identifying and subsequently ALIENATING MY FAMILY AND COMMUNITY, but to pull off this strategy it’s important to NOT look at your female FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS as possible targets for HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS. It’s much cleaner to look at the types of communities where sad divorced MEN end up, like this one:

Sure, Mr. ME might not technically be A REASONABLE ADULT, but that shouldn’t stop ME from finding a suitable target for TRYING TO GET ON WITH THEIR LIVES. And, based on my “lived experience”, I definitely know that some pesky legal nuisance, like a parenting plan, won’t stop ME from BEING IMMATURE

For those who think I’m suddenly interested in FETISH CULTURE and CUCKOLDRY just because I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH EMOTIONAL REGULATION. YOU’RE RIGHT!

I’ve sent A LOT OF UNWISE emails about the people YOU might know, since this is a small town and I’m looking into cases where people have actually died and I’m facing actual risk because of what I know, but MY PERSONAL PROBLEMS MAKE IT HARD FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE ME SERIOUSLY. I wonder why? Surely it’s not fear of the unknown, since I’m assuming a CUCK must be very SAD and prepared for the unknowable, like the Wikipedia entry says.

Anyhoo, that’s all I got for today. Maybe I’ll swing by the crowd of cognitively impaired Bernie brats later today to explain why to anyone willing to listen why I think their brains are broken.

Thanks for reading!

spend any amount of time listening to any global news brief and they’ll inevitably bring up the current climate of Tariffs (which is a tax levied on imported goods). Inevitably, every commentator mentions, as if obligated to do so, that should the United States impose tariffs on for-instance China, that the people who actually pay the cost of that tariff are the American Consumers buying the products or end products of the goods subjected to the tariffs. But continue listening and they’re sure to mention the “retaliatory Tariffs” being imposed upon the United States by the targets of their Tariffs such as Canada or China. They will go on to warn of the ways these retaliatory tariffs will hurt U.S. Consumers…

Just last week I was listening to an interview on the BBC World Service with one country or another’s finance minister (Bulgaria maybe), and he went on at great length about how China’s retaliatory Tariffs were specifically targeting segments of the United States Agriculture Industry that were key supporters of Donald Trump, explaining in detail that Chinese Tariffs on American cotton for instance would cause great pains to American Cotton Producers who would be unable to sell in the “vast chinese market” without dropping their prices an amount commensurate with the tariff amount. In this example, supported with specific examples and several referenced hard statistics, the burden of the tariff was paid by the producers of the tariffed good in the targeted country. But then IN THE SAME BREATH, he went on to repeat the now-familiar mantra that in the case of American Tariffs on chinese products, that the burden of the Tariffs would be paid exclusively by the American consumers of the imported goods.

If, as is so often insisted by sometimes-reliable journalists at generally-respectable organizations like the BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, etc – IF the burden of tariffs was always paid by the consumers of the country imposing the tariffs, it would be irrational for countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to new U.S. Tariffs. Why would China shoot themselves in the foot in retaliation for our shooting ourselves in the foot. One could argue that in the case of China vs the United States specifically, that the scale of the chinese economy bestows some particular advantage that makes it so that US consumers bear the burden of tariffs imposed both on china by the US or on the US by china, but these same commentators and journalists make the same insistence about US/Canada Tariffs, that both the tariffs imposed on Canada by the United States and the retaliatory tariffs imposed on the United States by Canada, will harm US Consumers primarily.

This structure of consequence very obviously does not make sense, which is why it has been chosen for this inaugural episode of Psy Op Watch. Many readers may find this discussion uninteresting, others may find the subject itself to be of interest but find our data or interpretation to be suspect. This of course is the right idea, and we would suggest you consult a trusted source to verify our claims, but you’re smart enough to know that there’s really no such thing as a trusted source anymore, so what’s a boy to do?

It is extremely likely that you are broadly indifferent to this entire examination of Tariffs, and that you don’t have a sufficient pre-existing base of knowledge to even internalize this information in any meaningful way… AND YET, you probably still have some kind of opinion on Tariffs. Our point is that it’s okay to be uninformed on a topic, but you REALLY shouldn’t have an opinion about something you know practically nothing about. Pretty much all of you probably have strong feelings one way or the other about Donald Trump, and there’s an extremely high likelihood that a negative attitude towards Trump correlates to a negative attitude about Tariffs (and vice versa).

Please consider the possibility that your opinion is the result of an active psy op.

It is statistically likely that they “got you” to one degree or another with the Tariffs psy op. How many other psy ops are actively deciding what you think for you?

To willfully subject yourself to a less-polished but considerably more ambitious psy op, head on over to One3CuckMe.com to read Travis Mateer’s plan to stabilize the economy through the monetization of capital punishment (I suggest reading it with an eye for Travis’ natural tendency for submissive masochism. Try to guess which public figure he’s imagining himself dying vicariously through. I think you’ll enjoy the read even more.)

Stomp on my BALLS

– Freeman Tao

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If you’re finding you have an unsatisfied appetite for hyperlocal provocation and the voyeuristic thrill of watching a man’s life fall apart, that’s because its been radio silence from the Devil You Know, as even after being released from the Missoula County Detention Facility, Travis Mateer has yet to make contact with the new occupying force that took control of Zoomchron.com in his absence.

Our official soothsayer divines that he will prefer to shift gears and spin out whatever new narrative has planted its alien seed in his brain over at his secondary blog One3Twenty.com – which I believe was originally intended to focus on the investigation and ruminations on the death of Sean Stevenson at the hands of Johnny Lee Perry and the Missoula County Sheriff’s office. But if the notes scrawled on the walls of his jail cell in his own excrement are any indication, the complex double-satire of the “no one cares about dead niggers” narrative he’s been trying so hard to weave for the last few years turned out to be accidentally sincere and accurate.

Not only does nobody care, but I and others find attempts to make us care to be hollow and performative.

This is not satire or irony or criticism of you or me or Travis. I’m 100 percent sincere. Nobody gives a shit, and I’m fine with that, and despite what I’ll say later I’m confident Travis always knew that. People die every fucking day. Lots of them violently. The fact that black men die violently at a higher rate (and almost always at the hands of other black men) is a problem for black men to solve. Malcolm X said “The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man“. I’ve always found the race-obsessed, white savior compulsion that has cannibalized contemporary liberalism to be a cancer, one that was probably deliberately cultivated to keep faggy college kids from getting their shit anywhere near together enough to provoke, participate in, or contribute to class warfare. I didn’t make any exception for Travis’ well-harped-on obsession with Sean Stevenson and Johnny Lee Perry.

I always found his hyperfocus on them to be an embarrassingly transparent attempt to use a fundamentally manipulative approach to get girls with blue hair and pierced septums to think he was on their side. I never got the impression he really cared about Sean Stevenson or Johnny Lee Perry, and I sure as shit didn’t care about them.

Fuck em. Plenty more bums were they came from.

So if you too have been tired of being guilt-tripped for not caring about a couple dead guys you didn’t know and couldn’t care about beyond a vague performative obligation, rest easy. Its a new fucking era on Zoomchron.com and if your morbid curiosity provokes you to trace the mental deterioration of Zoomchron’s former primary writer, you can monitor his downward spiral on its new arc over at One3Twenty.com

I expect Travis will continue to be legally unable to write about certain Missoula nonprofits as a condition of his misdemeanor probation, but as an independent citizen with absolute editorial autonomy I suffer under no such restriction. Luckily for the nonprofit in question I currently have no reason to give a shit about them, BUT THAT COULD CHANGE. If I get any pushback at all as I cocktease them with hints to their identity and their activities, I’ll start digging up and dumping all the dirt that’s fit to shit.

Fuck em. More nonprofit performative parasites where they came from.

Just to piss them off I’ll probably keep plugging Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF). My main reason for that being that I have uncovered more of his deepest, darkest secrets. They make great fodder to manipulatively tug on your heart strings to fund his crumbling existence, and revealing them to you gives me a sort of exhibitionism-adjacent rush. (Its not quite exhibitionism because I’m not showing my own dirt, and its not quite voyeurism because my thrill comes from YOU looking at it… I guess the best metaphor is that I am a sort of pimp of secrets, and in this case Travis is my ho. You’re the John)

What I’m getting at is that the reason Travis Mateer is the way he is… is because he was sexually abused by a prominent political figure. Someone you’ve known for years. Someone very… very… close to you.

Travis is super fucked up. Give him money and he’ll make sure his problems become your worst enemy’s problems.

– Freeman Tao

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