Hey guys. Did you hear that Trump hosted a golf tournament, supported by Saudi Arabia? Did you hear that Trump’s son-in-law got two billion dollars from the Saudi Arabian government?

Man, that really sounds like Trump is doing some real shady deals with Saudi Arabians, and might be compromised by Saudi Arabia. We’d better run this as though this is what’s worth trending, even though he currently has no political power if you believe that the establishment isn’t lying to us about who can do what, and how much your vote actually matters. Because the establishment never lies, and they never construct narratives around their particular biases, or create sideshow distractions to distract people from what’s really going on. I mean really, their track record is so immaculate I shouldn’t even be writing this article. It’s not like they created an elaborate Boogeyman that they could always blame for everything, in the form of Russia, or Saudi Arabia, or Trump, and use that as a consistent political football across administrations? Right?

Oh wait. That’s exactly what they did. And it’s exactly what they always do. It’s 100% acceptable to bring up the fact that Trump shouldn’t be dealing so nicely with Saudi Arabia. I can co-sign that idea. As an anarchist, I don’t like to see any genocide supporting country thrive, especially getting deals with world powers in order to consistently preserve their own power. And then there’s Saudi Arabia, which is almost as bad as the US, doing all that on a regular basis, no matter who’s in charge.

But anyone who leaves this story there is intentionally cutting out part of the reality. The reality is that the Saudi Arabian government regularly invests in a ton of things, and it’s nothing new. The reality is that they do exactly what the US does, and whatever major world power with a seat at the global table does. They use their ability to extract wealth from the common person by means of theft and debt, managing brutality in a variety of places in order to ensure their place at the table. I mean, the reason Biden got to use them as a political football in his campaign was because he got to imply that Trump was somehow going to be an asset of Saudi Arabia if he continued to be president, which is why Biden was quoted as saying…

“[Jamal] Khashoggi was, in fact, murdered and dismembered, and I believe on the order of the crown prince. And I would make it very clear we were not going to, in fact, sell more weapons to them, we were going to, in fact, make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are. There’s very little social redeeming value of the — in the present government in Saudi Arabia.”

You see, Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi made the mistake of publishing information critical of that government, and his journalistic reach at Middle East Eye and The Washington Post, along with being general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel, allowed his criticism to have a much broader reach than the common person, and much more credibility to Western media, meaning the stories that he wrote could go global. Things like:

“The longer this cruel war lasts in Yemen, the more permanent the damage will be. The people of Yemen will be busy fighting poverty, cholera and water scarcity and rebuilding their country. The crown prince must bring an end to the violence,” and “Saudi Arabia’s crown prince must restore dignity to his country – by ending Yemen’s cruel war,” and “Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known by his initials, MBS, is signaling that any open opposition to Saudi domestic policies, even ones as egregious as the punitive arrests of reform-seeking Saudi women, is intolerable.”

So, obviously, the way to disprove that is to lure him to a building for marriage papers, suffocate him, dismember him, and then have a really long cover up of doing all of it, because you can’t have this sort of person saying things in your country with this much clout. So that’s what they did, and the media firestorm that followed while everybody pretended to care about the safety of journalists, allwhile Julian Assange was still rotting away on a bunch of bullshit charges, only till later be extradited to America, the bastion of freedom, which needs protection from the kinds of policies which Saudi Arabia has – you know –  in order to maintain democratic integrity or something.

And make no mistake, I’m not saying Saudi Arabia isn’t run by an evil government, doing some pretty evil things, but what I am saying is that the West doesn’t really care about this sort of thing, and they use it as a political football more than an actual point of activism, which is why they still don’t change the pride flag on the Saudi Arabian corporate accounts when they go rainbow for a month.

Khashoggi put skin in the game, as did Assange. Statist and corporate colluders and cowards will not. That’s why one group profits, and maintains the conditions which torture Assange and kill Kashoggi. And hey, definitely don’t bring up that the House of Saud is the richest royal family on the planet, and they regularly give their own people a massive amount more leniency, including this memo that was released by Assange andWikileaks, and possibly part of the reason the global community is still not doing anything to stop his extradition. They want him to suffer for exposing certain things, like the fact that Saudi Arabia has this conservative facade in order to enable their tyranny, but their royal family members regularly go have the same kind of parties that the West does.

While you’re at it, just make sure to ignore the fact that Barack Obama ordered the assassination of two American citizens in the form of Anwar and Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, for the dastardly crime of saying things they didn’t like to the terror problem they created; and definitely be sure to ignore the continuity between presidents that can be exemplified by Trump coming in and ordering a raid which finished off the daughter, and left her bleeding out on the floor. These aren’t acceptable things to bring up when you’re trying to push a narrative that the US is awesome, because they’re not Saudi Arabia, or that dealing with Saudi Arabia is some kind of exclusively terrible thing. Because it is a terrible thing, but far from exclusively terrible, and the US pretty much has the monopoly on the kinds of terrible things that are done there, which is why Saudi Arabia relies so much on the US to keep their empire going. Bros gotta protect bros, amirite?

So enter the Ukraine conflict, whether the US got involved in a thing for basically a decade, gradually pushing for a coup in 2014, and then making sure that the resulting power structure benefited them more exclusively than it did Russia. Russia, as many of you know, and as certainly people who have been reading my articles know, has been an excuse for massive US expansionism, and I’ll be writing an article on some more of this relatively soon, but suffice it to say, they had no problem funding some extremely unethical people in Ukraine, along with training them and arming them, as long as those people were okay with being used as pawns against Russia. It’s the same thing they did with the mujahideen in Operation Cyclone, and the same reason the splinter factions from that created the Taliban. The US creates or exacerbates pretty much all of its problems, in order to have a problem-reaction-solution model. But don’t bring that up too much, or you, like David Icke, will be banned in Australia as well.

Anyway, back to that golf tournament.

Yikes. One of the things Khashoggi was saying was that MBS and Trump were tight. That they had a real close relationship, and that Trump respected the guy. That’s believable. Also that MBS was learning from Trump how to be more tyrannical. He said that that might be a reason that people were being deplatformed for going against the establishment. Saying that kind of thing is the kind of thing that got him killed, and I don’t actually disagree. But tyrants learn from each other all the time, and the US has no problem with tyranny as long as it benefits them. That’s why part of what they did was hyperfund the Taliban with tens of millions of dollars. It’s okay to do that if you’re on the side of democracy or something something freedom. So make no mistake, I’m not team Trump either. For a variety of reasons, I think he’s a piece of shit.

But it’s not like Biden is better. Like wow yeah, during your campaign and during debates related to that campaign, feel free to be as vocally anti-Saudi Arabia as possible, and hang every Saudi Arabian issue around the neck of Trump, so that you can make it seem like you’re really going to be tough on them, and stop giving them the leniency they don’t deserve. Right? Biden seems so mad at Saudi Arabia when he says things like, “We are going to make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.” Yeah! Go Joe Biden! I’ll ignore all the lives in the wake of your crime bill and the Patriot Act for which you take credit (assuming this isn’t more of your plagiarism), and bootlick you harder than any ice cream. No Saudi Malarkey! FOR KHASHOGGI!

… Until the US wanted to get involved in the Ukrainian conflict, that is, at which point they abandoned all those promises, because Biden needed a new source of oil, and so he did what he did in 2021 already, and aworked with the Saudi government, this time fist bumping the Saudi government on camera. Russia has to be stopped, so let’s go with this bastion of democracy which has totally never done anything that he would condemn them or call them a pariah for. Sure we have enough domestic oil to sell to China, even though it’s arguably illegal to sell from those reserves, and sure we have enough domestic oil in the ground that we could fuel a significant amount of jobs if that was pumped, and sure we could rely less on oil in general if we started to live better, and more locally (more agoristically), and rely less on the globalist power structure, but instead of doing any of that, and trying to be better at all, a much better idea is to just kowtow to the same government you claimed was bad when you could use it as part of a political campaign against the state created Boogeyman, Donald J Trump. Suddenly, it’s okay to work with Saudi Arabia, and it’s okay to sell them 5 billion dollars worth of US weapons. This is part of the reason why, even during this recession, while the S&P was down, somehow all the weapons and defense manufacturers still made off like bandits, with their stocks seeing significant spikes.

So while Jared Kushner made off with $2 billion in investments to his companies, Biden made off with $5 billion to make the economy seem slightly less fucked. Guess which one trended on Twitter, and which one saw more press coverage, and more people screaming accusations of corruption? Guess which one got ignored by pretty much every Democrat? I don’t think I need to answer your guess. And while we’re being awesome and taking awesome guesses, guess what got ignored? Oh, maybe 7 billion dollars that they’ve pumped into the US economy with a massive amount of capital sent to places like Meta, PayPal, EA Games, Alphabet, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, and more, all while maintaining a tradition of aggressive investment in western companies, and maintaining a global hegemony for those from whom they profit. Guess who chairs that board?

If you guessed MBS, congratulations, you’ve been paying attention, because a really key reason why a lot of these businesses don’t change their Twitter profiles during pride month, or express support for any of the progressive causes that their Western counterpart accounts do, is because those companies are partly owned by Saudi Arabian government money. Because the problem goes deeper than Jared Kushner, and a Trump golf tournament. So let’s be real clear when we say that the general thing there doesn’t matter. What matters is the fact that this kind of influence can happen at all. And the fact that it comes from blood money partially supported by the kind of things that Biden would campaign on making people pariahs for. Because the US is run by hypocrites, and runs on hypocrisy. And it doesn’t matter how connected these people are to everything you do, they’re allowed to do that as long as they keep the West profitable. And as long as they don’t bother the power structure too much. And enabling it is even better.

Which is why they constantly help maintain regional stability. Part of the reason they wanted to work with Jared Kushner is because it’s basically a money faucet that they can use to get around the Abraham accords and fund Israeli companies. Which is just awesome. Nothing wrong with that at all. At least that’s what people would say if they were consistent. Instead they moral panicked over it and trended it on the same platforms and services that were partly owned by the same wealth fund. It’s okay when they do it though. Pay no attention to the man behind the wealth fund.

Also, I am of sound mind and body, and have no desire to harm myself. Figured I’d throw that in there.

Either way, the issue is actually deep and complicated, and it’s not as boilable as people want it to be, because if you try to condense the issue down to “TRUMP BAD, RUSSIA BAD” then you’re helping people worse than both of them. And that’s why I hope you share this article with anybody like this, because they need to realize that they are part of the problem they claim exists.

Real activism is saying something about what you use. It’s risking being de-platformed or worse. It’s not just going with whatever these platforms which are partly owned by the governments you claim to oppose want you to think should be trending. And given the fact that they control the trending sections, and suppress topics, like the FBI suppressing the hunter Biden laptop story, and people like Facebook and Twitter just going along with it, it pretty much cements the fact that this narrative is centrally controlled, and it’s not going to improve the lot of the common person…

Which means that you need to do this yourself if you want this kind of message to spread. It’s up to you. Question is whether or not you’re going to do it. I know I will.