Caroline Orr is an expert, a postdoctoral fellow at the not-at-all-authoritarian-sounding ARLIS, the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland (which leads the way in COGSEC, or cognitive security, and let’s just go ahead and assume that Orwell would kick himself for not having thought of that term).
I'm glad you do the heavy lifting of reporting on this idiocy from the Left. I couldn't do it. This much exposure to sheer lunacy would eventually destroy my mind.
That is EXACTLY how I feel. It’s like a really bad movie. Am I in a movie? Being punked? Surely this is it. Surely this isn’t the reality. Are people in a trance? That has to be the only explanation.
You wanna see a scary rally about othering the opposition to the point of being subhuman evil, and calling for their eradication as a threat to the nation?
Read the fucking comments on those tweets.
I sometimes wonder if this is all just marketing to make me buy more ammo, because her commentariat scare the shit out of me.
God isn't dead, she is with us. Not the christian god that they weaponize & lie about, but God. The sun, the moon, the earth, the trees. A child's laughter, food, water, & a safe home. I choose to believe in humanity, because I know most of my people are good. We've been lied to."
Yes, that's obviously precisely the one I'm talking about. And I've been refreshing the tweet every second of every minute of the day since I commented to make sure it's true of all future comments.
In my little corner of AZ, there’s a dude who wears a Trump mask and sets up shop on a busy road flying a Trump flag and waiving to passing traffic a couple times a week. If you honk, he’ll give you a thumbs up and keep at it. Apparently not too long ago, a woman tried to run him down with her car. Remind me again who the unhinged ones are? These people are the reason I “left the left.” These people are the reason I’m not even sure I can call myself agnostic anymore...I feel like I’m seeing real evil firsthand, and none of it is coming from where people like this woman say it is coming from.
“These people are the reason I “left the left.” These people are the reason I’m not even sure I can call myself agnostic anymore...I feel like I’m seeing real evil firsthand,....” This sums it all up for me as well. Thanks !
People actually read this lady’s tweets and wholeheartedly agree with her? I just read that whole thread and it’s bananaland. Liberals who were liberals like I am liberal used to at least believe in peace and freedom. Also most had a real
healthy skepticism about government and power. Do they have intellectual mirrors? Any freedom of thought? Do they actually look beneath the surface of the people and causes they support? I’m just floored constantly by folks I used to agree on lots of stuff with. They’ve all completely gone mad.
They were told by their Exotic Prince that they should “punish their enemies and reward their friends.”
The Democrats are the worlds oldest political party because they have always understood that politics is Power, that’s all.
That and a culture of revenge going back to Jackson. People fear to cross the Democrats.
The Democrats never cared for the Constitution from the Anti-Federalist days - that being their genesis.
As for using force they always have since the Civil War. Then the Klan. The Red Shirts. The Urban gangs. The Mafia. Flipping designated villains in the 1960s the Black Panthers, Weathermen, SDS. Who is Boudin, who is Bill Ayres?
BLM, Antifa.
Now there’s nothing new about this nor is it apparently even a threat to democracy.
As for the close ❤️ relationship with the DOJ, CIA (the CIA has always been Democratic) and the new love at the FBI that’s just the same love of power.
Power is force.
When in power the badge, when out of power the thug.
They never loved Liberty, they love power.
As the Republicans love law and order they are the perfect victims. We have neither, but it is like God - to be prayed to without expecting a response.
This won’t end until the Democratic and Democratic elites have had enough and end it.
You neglected to mention all the political machine building, via federal government programs and departments, during the FDR era. It was blatantly illegal and unethical. They used all the new alphabet soup agencies like WPA to campaign and electioneer. They handed out jobs as a patronage system, on the largest scale until LBJ. And do I have to say what Lyndon said about his civil rights package?
I suspect they're being paid... They think they're going to be part of the New Global Regime. They don't realize that they'll be Soylent Green at some point, because psychopaths like the ones trying to install the NWO always eat their minions.
He's a rich guy. I don't trust him. I don't really want RICH guys running anything. In fact, I'd be pretty okay with a wealth cap. Trump tried to do some good things, I think such as bringing back manufacturing to this country, and trying to chill the war machine, maybe, although that would have had to remained to be seen, in my opinion. But he did some other stuff that I didn't agree with, such as trashing the Clean Air Act.
I don't hate him, necessarily, because I don't feel I really KNOW him, but I'm really tired of RICH GUYS running this country, as they ALWAYS have. I want a system change. I want real people who are accountable to WE the People, and not oligarchs. I want a major overhaul of what we've always had... Oligarchy.
"Trump's rallies are too popular!" That is her basic complaint. These people still cannot wrap their heads around the fact that people vote for Trump because it pisses people like her off.
Oooh...repetition and retelling of myths. That's a subject I've been itching to write about since the beginning of the pandemic. Anyone who's had to either watch or participate in behavioral therapy for behavioral modification knew exactly what started happening two and a half years ago. Repeat it with me, everyone: Stay home, stay safe! Why do politicians do it? Why did the perpetrators of the biggest scam in history do it? Because repetition is how messages stick. Period. Basic fact, whether you're God or Hitler.
Also, GOB BLUTH. You win for bringing in the best magician ever. But at least even he admitted, "I made a terrible mistake" every now and then.
Here's some repetition for you: "Follow the science." "Safe and effective." "Flatten the curve." "Masks work." "Get vaccinated." not only repetitious, but rhythmical. But there's nothing fascist, or untrue at ALL about any of those...
gente bien pagada que no produce nada ni construye nada util para los demas trabajando en la vieja estrategia de dividir a los demas en buenos y malos. Eso es la politica hoy.
The FBI has never been about "hold[ing] power accountable." That's a bizarre, bizarre assertion by Orr. They're basically federal cops.
Part of me ignores people like her when they talk. Another part of me wonders how much of their "work" is financed by my tax dollars and my future grandkids' tax dollars.
Side note: It would be cool if the Republicans could come up with someone other than Trump, so the Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers could truly be shouting into the abyss. I'm not saying they're brilliant, but how about Greg Abbott or Tim Scott stepping up to the plate? The Right's fixation on Trump is second only to the Left's in terms of sinking this country further into utter BS.
I think the Maryland taxpayers are probably chipping in a bit, but yeah, I'm sure she's 100% publicly financed. It's trite at this point to comment on Jefferson and Adams rolling over in their graves, but man...
I think watching Greg Abbott walk up to the plate is a guaranteed pay per view event. We should invest on that one. Then with our vast wealth we acquire on that PPV event, we enter politics to become a legislature and proceed to push a bill to become law to make it illegal for any future person or group of people to ever create a ppv event which is based on a cripple walking up to a plate.
In a nutshell, we would become Abbott minus the falling tree branch paralyzing us. Just like that piece of shit got where he is at.
Can add the clips of all the school teachers in 2009 leading the elementary children in songs that praised the new black President as a Dear Leader. That wasn’t Orwellian at all.
Obviously, like seemingly every program spearheaded by so-called liberals these days, it’s illiberal and anti-democratic speech control. It’s more of the same dishonest, gobbledygook newspeak in the same recyclable, disintegrating paper straw. There are several salient questions about this phenomenon. Who listens to people like this highly credentialed NWO shill? And why is it that suddenly, simultaneously in the USA and Europe/UK , do we have all these phony “disinformation” “think tanks” trying to suppress speech and calling normal people names when they say something objectionable to the real fascists running the show? These paid propagandists (Who actually pays the freight for this crap?) and spin artists are there to suppress, threaten and stigmatize the opposition. And I think increasingly they are speaking to a shrinking echo chamber of quasi-religious fanatics who worship at the papier mache altar of woke authoritarianism. They know that Trump is the real anti-fascist. They know that everything they say is antonymic to truth. And they also know that we know. The last question, and the only one that really matters, is what are we going to do about it?
I think that what we do about it is pretty straightforward: Keep talking, keep reading, keep writing. They're mostly self-refuting and self-defeating. Though they aspire to real power. But I think we're watching failed systems fail.
Exactly. We are paying for our own abuse. I had something more along the lines of Marcellus’s payback scene in Pulp Fiction in mind, involving some hardcore fellas out of Compton with some pliers, but maybe that’s just me.
Absolutely, and it’s absolutely illegal. In the same way that the CIA is intervening in American politics illegally. The law is only as good as the people enforcing it. Without wide scale defenestration of our corrupt security and military apparati, we will get nowhere. Obama removed the competent generals and replaced them with malleable, incompetents like Milley. Lower ranking officers, reading the tea leaves, left service or did their time and retired. The same applies to other agencies and their top tier bureaucrats. It’s all out of the Frankfort School playbook in the long march through the institutions.
And... who is behind that? The American military is under the sway of the same globalist nutcakes that are behind the NWO... It's all being done from behind the curtain... These cowards hide in plain sight, because we don't know who they are... And they've built amazing underground cities of sorts, so they can hide and "wait out" whatever the ultimate "war" is, or so they think. They're the ongoing, ultimate oligarchy we've never been able to eradicate because they're anonymous... except now we're beginning to be able to find them... They've been breeding psychopaths for centuries, weeding out any kids who come along showing normalcy, and they've got about 90% of the world's wealth... I say it's time for this shit to END. Black Nobility, City of London, Venetians, whatever we call them, it's time to shine a light in their psychotic faces and take them out of power.
The Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security warns you against disagreeing with the government, because dissent is authoritarian behavior.
Thanks for this. One request though- since you are aware - please link to safer alternatives than YT. Tracking is extremely sophisticated and we don’t need that. Use alternative sites to source videos please. Think about what we click. Thank you.
I hear this, but it's a platform problem: As far as I can tell, Substack embeds tweets and YouTube videos, but not Gab or Gettr posts, or Rumble videos. I'll screw around with the platform, but until they provide that function....
I see. Funnily enough it refuses to open any links for me in any other browser than safari ( Apple ) although it’s not set as default.
I am sensitive to this and there’s a clear pattern. We all need to get a bit more serious about privacy. It’s probably more serious than pandemics right now.
I agree with pretty much everything you're saying, Chris.
But it seems to me this is falling into the old trap of "Vote In Someone to Fix Everything."
Yes, Trump did some good things as POTUS, like trying to bring industry back to the US (We are a nation of consumers who produce very little actual anything! And of course, that was deliberately brought about, over time), but I really can't see Trump as the answer, and I CERTAINLY don't see VOTING for another fake messiah as the answer to our problems. Why? Because our problems are not about choosing the better figurehead of two parties. There is SO MUCH WRONG with our system, from the very top of it to the very bottom of it, it's difficult to start naming every reason and every issue... Our entire SYSTEM is utterly fucked up. We can continue the game of voting for a new face in the White House as long as we're alive to do so, and it won't matter, because the problems are not coming from the political leadership, they're coming from a source OUTSIDE our country, OUTSIDE the political, OUTSIDE the Military Industrial Complex. Our problems are coming from a small group of Globalist, Psychopathic Oligarchs who run the entire world, and have done for, well, for all intents and purposes, they have done forever.
This nightmare we're in WILL NEVER END until WE GET FULLY AWAKE and END IT OURSELVES. This is our big chance... If we waste it by rolling over in our comfy bed of illusion and go back to sleep thinking Santa will come, we're just prolonging our own state of fuckedness.
Idiots like Orr are a testament to just far IQs have fallen over the past 4 decades. My dog has stronger critical thinking skills.
And your dog sniffs other dogs. Says a lot about their IQ in a bad way.
What?? Obviously you don't understand dogs. ^_^
But she was always vouchsafed a spot in schools and opportunities. If not for her intellect, what could it have been, eh? No bueno.
I'm glad you do the heavy lifting of reporting on this idiocy from the Left. I couldn't do it. This much exposure to sheer lunacy would eventually destroy my mind.
God bless you.
That is EXACTLY how I feel. It’s like a really bad movie. Am I in a movie? Being punked? Surely this is it. Surely this isn’t the reality. Are people in a trance? That has to be the only explanation.
They have cowed us into silence. I feel a bit freer now that I am retired.
I’ve never been the silent type. The problem with that is, people have tuned me out for years and now they don’t hear me.
Holy shit.
You wanna see a scary rally about othering the opposition to the point of being subhuman evil, and calling for their eradication as a threat to the nation?
Read the fucking comments on those tweets.
I sometimes wonder if this is all just marketing to make me buy more ammo, because her commentariat scare the shit out of me.
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1578190698649903104
The thing is, that comment thread has a nonzero number of people calling his take ridiculous and stupid.
Could not find a single comment in the thread in your post that wasn't sharpening knives, and she doesn't seem to have restricted replies.
Oh, no argument here. I was just trying to keep the stupid train rolling. Should have offered some context.
Got it.
Jesus. Joe is fighting for Americans? I can't. I won't!
Not to invoke any specific NPC memes... but it makes a person wonder how many of those accounts are bots.
Musk is not getting his $44B worth of human users. Just sayin'.
That is indeed comforting.
And raises an interesting point.
They're useful idiot and brownshirts for intelligence agencies and have access to things like bot armies. We don't control those channels.
So when you see big dissenting support, it's either foreign meddling or it's real.
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Like the one?
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God isn't dead, she is with us. Not the christian god that they weaponize & lie about, but God. The sun, the moon, the earth, the trees. A child's laughter, food, water, & a safe home. I choose to believe in humanity, because I know most of my people are good. We've been lied to."
Yes, that's obviously precisely the one I'm talking about. And I've been refreshing the tweet every second of every minute of the day since I commented to make sure it's true of all future comments.
Terrifying.
In my little corner of AZ, there’s a dude who wears a Trump mask and sets up shop on a busy road flying a Trump flag and waiving to passing traffic a couple times a week. If you honk, he’ll give you a thumbs up and keep at it. Apparently not too long ago, a woman tried to run him down with her car. Remind me again who the unhinged ones are? These people are the reason I “left the left.” These people are the reason I’m not even sure I can call myself agnostic anymore...I feel like I’m seeing real evil firsthand, and none of it is coming from where people like this woman say it is coming from.
“These people are the reason I “left the left.” These people are the reason I’m not even sure I can call myself agnostic anymore...I feel like I’m seeing real evil firsthand,....” This sums it all up for me as well. Thanks !
People actually read this lady’s tweets and wholeheartedly agree with her? I just read that whole thread and it’s bananaland. Liberals who were liberals like I am liberal used to at least believe in peace and freedom. Also most had a real
healthy skepticism about government and power. Do they have intellectual mirrors? Any freedom of thought? Do they actually look beneath the surface of the people and causes they support? I’m just floored constantly by folks I used to agree on lots of stuff with. They’ve all completely gone mad.
No. They haven’t gone crazy.
You went sane.
The Democrats understand politics is Power.
They were told by their Exotic Prince that they should “punish their enemies and reward their friends.”
The Democrats are the worlds oldest political party because they have always understood that politics is Power, that’s all.
That and a culture of revenge going back to Jackson. People fear to cross the Democrats.
The Democrats never cared for the Constitution from the Anti-Federalist days - that being their genesis.
As for using force they always have since the Civil War. Then the Klan. The Red Shirts. The Urban gangs. The Mafia. Flipping designated villains in the 1960s the Black Panthers, Weathermen, SDS. Who is Boudin, who is Bill Ayres?
BLM, Antifa.
Now there’s nothing new about this nor is it apparently even a threat to democracy.
As for the close ❤️ relationship with the DOJ, CIA (the CIA has always been Democratic) and the new love at the FBI that’s just the same love of power.
Power is force.
When in power the badge, when out of power the thug.
They never loved Liberty, they love power.
As the Republicans love law and order they are the perfect victims. We have neither, but it is like God - to be prayed to without expecting a response.
This won’t end until the Democratic and Democratic elites have had enough and end it.
But they haven’t gone crazy.
Its just you went sane.
You neglected to mention all the political machine building, via federal government programs and departments, during the FDR era. It was blatantly illegal and unethical. They used all the new alphabet soup agencies like WPA to campaign and electioneer. They handed out jobs as a patronage system, on the largest scale until LBJ. And do I have to say what Lyndon said about his civil rights package?
Right on.
It's always been about power and wealth. Evil is always about control and self-interest.
I suspect they're being paid... They think they're going to be part of the New Global Regime. They don't realize that they'll be Soylent Green at some point, because psychopaths like the ones trying to install the NWO always eat their minions.
the man currently holds no office but all they do is talk about him 24/7. you can only dream of such free publicity
It's all a big game, whether Trump actually understands that or not.
I think he understands that in spades. He loves to win. But after the win is the work. And he did that too.
He's a rich guy. I don't trust him. I don't really want RICH guys running anything. In fact, I'd be pretty okay with a wealth cap. Trump tried to do some good things, I think such as bringing back manufacturing to this country, and trying to chill the war machine, maybe, although that would have had to remained to be seen, in my opinion. But he did some other stuff that I didn't agree with, such as trashing the Clean Air Act.
I don't hate him, necessarily, because I don't feel I really KNOW him, but I'm really tired of RICH GUYS running this country, as they ALWAYS have. I want a system change. I want real people who are accountable to WE the People, and not oligarchs. I want a major overhaul of what we've always had... Oligarchy.
She is a midwit.
She is No-Bueno.
"Trump's rallies are too popular!" That is her basic complaint. These people still cannot wrap their heads around the fact that people vote for Trump because it pisses people like her off.
Oooh...repetition and retelling of myths. That's a subject I've been itching to write about since the beginning of the pandemic. Anyone who's had to either watch or participate in behavioral therapy for behavioral modification knew exactly what started happening two and a half years ago. Repeat it with me, everyone: Stay home, stay safe! Why do politicians do it? Why did the perpetrators of the biggest scam in history do it? Because repetition is how messages stick. Period. Basic fact, whether you're God or Hitler.
Also, GOB BLUTH. You win for bringing in the best magician ever. But at least even he admitted, "I made a terrible mistake" every now and then.
Nailed it.
Here's some repetition for you: "Follow the science." "Safe and effective." "Flatten the curve." "Masks work." "Get vaccinated." not only repetitious, but rhythmical. But there's nothing fascist, or untrue at ALL about any of those...
Take “NAZI”, “Fascist”, and “extremist” out of their political lexicon and the Left become absolutely mute.
(Not a bad outcome for NAZIs, Fascists, and extremists such as themselves.)
You forgot racist
gente bien pagada que no produce nada ni construye nada util para los demas trabajando en la vieja estrategia de dividir a los demas en buenos y malos. Eso es la politica hoy.
Verdad.
The FBI has never been about "hold[ing] power accountable." That's a bizarre, bizarre assertion by Orr. They're basically federal cops.
Part of me ignores people like her when they talk. Another part of me wonders how much of their "work" is financed by my tax dollars and my future grandkids' tax dollars.
Side note: It would be cool if the Republicans could come up with someone other than Trump, so the Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers could truly be shouting into the abyss. I'm not saying they're brilliant, but how about Greg Abbott or Tim Scott stepping up to the plate? The Right's fixation on Trump is second only to the Left's in terms of sinking this country further into utter BS.
You and I are probably financing her 100%.
I think the Maryland taxpayers are probably chipping in a bit, but yeah, I'm sure she's 100% publicly financed. It's trite at this point to comment on Jefferson and Adams rolling over in their graves, but man...
I think watching Greg Abbott walk up to the plate is a guaranteed pay per view event. We should invest on that one. Then with our vast wealth we acquire on that PPV event, we enter politics to become a legislature and proceed to push a bill to become law to make it illegal for any future person or group of people to ever create a ppv event which is based on a cripple walking up to a plate.
In a nutshell, we would become Abbott minus the falling tree branch paralyzing us. Just like that piece of shit got where he is at.
Can add the clips of all the school teachers in 2009 leading the elementary children in songs that praised the new black President as a Dear Leader. That wasn’t Orwellian at all.
Obviously, like seemingly every program spearheaded by so-called liberals these days, it’s illiberal and anti-democratic speech control. It’s more of the same dishonest, gobbledygook newspeak in the same recyclable, disintegrating paper straw. There are several salient questions about this phenomenon. Who listens to people like this highly credentialed NWO shill? And why is it that suddenly, simultaneously in the USA and Europe/UK , do we have all these phony “disinformation” “think tanks” trying to suppress speech and calling normal people names when they say something objectionable to the real fascists running the show? These paid propagandists (Who actually pays the freight for this crap?) and spin artists are there to suppress, threaten and stigmatize the opposition. And I think increasingly they are speaking to a shrinking echo chamber of quasi-religious fanatics who worship at the papier mache altar of woke authoritarianism. They know that Trump is the real anti-fascist. They know that everything they say is antonymic to truth. And they also know that we know. The last question, and the only one that really matters, is what are we going to do about it?
"The office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security sponsors the ARLIS..."
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2860074/applied-research-laboratory-for-intelligence-security-launches-at-university-of/
Looking for numbers.
I think that what we do about it is pretty straightforward: Keep talking, keep reading, keep writing. They're mostly self-refuting and self-defeating. Though they aspire to real power. But I think we're watching failed systems fail.
Agreed.
Exactly. We are paying for our own abuse. I had something more along the lines of Marcellus’s payback scene in Pulp Fiction in mind, involving some hardcore fellas out of Compton with some pliers, but maybe that’s just me.
The more I look at this, the more I'm inclined to argue that the American military is directly intervening in American politics.
Absolutely, and it’s absolutely illegal. In the same way that the CIA is intervening in American politics illegally. The law is only as good as the people enforcing it. Without wide scale defenestration of our corrupt security and military apparati, we will get nowhere. Obama removed the competent generals and replaced them with malleable, incompetents like Milley. Lower ranking officers, reading the tea leaves, left service or did their time and retired. The same applies to other agencies and their top tier bureaucrats. It’s all out of the Frankfort School playbook in the long march through the institutions.
And... who is behind that? The American military is under the sway of the same globalist nutcakes that are behind the NWO... It's all being done from behind the curtain... These cowards hide in plain sight, because we don't know who they are... And they've built amazing underground cities of sorts, so they can hide and "wait out" whatever the ultimate "war" is, or so they think. They're the ongoing, ultimate oligarchy we've never been able to eradicate because they're anonymous... except now we're beginning to be able to find them... They've been breeding psychopaths for centuries, weeding out any kids who come along showing normalcy, and they've got about 90% of the world's wealth... I say it's time for this shit to END. Black Nobility, City of London, Venetians, whatever we call them, it's time to shine a light in their psychotic faces and take them out of power.
The DOD's 12 year-old definition of a UARC: "On average, it receives in excess of $6M annually from DoD of such sole source funds."
See Section C:
https://rt.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/UARC-Mgmt-Plan-Jun-23-10-FINAL-6811-with-Signed-Memo.pdf
The Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security warns you against disagreeing with the government, because dissent is authoritarian behavior.
Hilarious.
Thanks for this. One request though- since you are aware - please link to safer alternatives than YT. Tracking is extremely sophisticated and we don’t need that. Use alternative sites to source videos please. Think about what we click. Thank you.
I hear this, but it's a platform problem: As far as I can tell, Substack embeds tweets and YouTube videos, but not Gab or Gettr posts, or Rumble videos. I'll screw around with the platform, but until they provide that function....
I see. Funnily enough it refuses to open any links for me in any other browser than safari ( Apple ) although it’s not set as default.
I am sensitive to this and there’s a clear pattern. We all need to get a bit more serious about privacy. It’s probably more serious than pandemics right now.
I agree with pretty much everything you're saying, Chris.
But it seems to me this is falling into the old trap of "Vote In Someone to Fix Everything."
Yes, Trump did some good things as POTUS, like trying to bring industry back to the US (We are a nation of consumers who produce very little actual anything! And of course, that was deliberately brought about, over time), but I really can't see Trump as the answer, and I CERTAINLY don't see VOTING for another fake messiah as the answer to our problems. Why? Because our problems are not about choosing the better figurehead of two parties. There is SO MUCH WRONG with our system, from the very top of it to the very bottom of it, it's difficult to start naming every reason and every issue... Our entire SYSTEM is utterly fucked up. We can continue the game of voting for a new face in the White House as long as we're alive to do so, and it won't matter, because the problems are not coming from the political leadership, they're coming from a source OUTSIDE our country, OUTSIDE the political, OUTSIDE the Military Industrial Complex. Our problems are coming from a small group of Globalist, Psychopathic Oligarchs who run the entire world, and have done for, well, for all intents and purposes, they have done forever.
This nightmare we're in WILL NEVER END until WE GET FULLY AWAKE and END IT OURSELVES. This is our big chance... If we waste it by rolling over in our comfy bed of illusion and go back to sleep thinking Santa will come, we're just prolonging our own state of fuckedness.