Tuesday, December 23, 2025

SCOTT ADAMS: Newsom’s task force wants to redistribute farms from white owners to non-white farmers. How much do you think the efficiency of the farms is going to decrease if you take the experienced farmers and block…

🚨South Africa-style land grabs are coming to California. Newsom’s task force wants to redistribute farms from white owners to non-white farmers
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"How much do you think the efficiency of the farms is going to decrease if you take the experienced farmers and block them from owning farms or decrease their impact on the farms... and move the farms to people who didn’t have as much experience.

What is going to happen to the price of food? It only goes one way. Nobody doubts how that’s going to turn out." 

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DAVID SANTA CARLA: The elderly are showing signs of black fatigue.

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DESMOND SHUM: METHODOLOGY [of influence]: GENTLENESS AS A WEAPON

Preferred targets sit in the middle—large enough to matter, small enough to stay below the radar. The Party does not want heroes. It wants conduits.

Sociology Over Ideology

This is not a political influencer program. It is a social penetration strategy, distributing influence quietly through everyday trust networks. --Desmond Shum

Inside the Machine: A Rare Recording Reveals How the CCP Recruits Influencers youtu.be/rV7JFmz6Ca0?si A Chinese YouTuber with roughly 350,000 subscribers in the military-affairs space recently released a recording of a conversation with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recruiter. The audio offers a rare, unfiltered look into how China’s overseas influence campaigns actually operate. This is not the old model of “external propaganda”—no slogans, no red banners, no embassy tweets. What emerges instead is a market-driven influence operation built on a simple premise: credibility is scarce, and the Party is willing to pay for it. 1. WHO THE CCP RECRUITS AND WHY The recruiter describes a system that resembles risk-managed talent acquisition more than political vetting. The goal is influence that is useful, controllable, and durable. The Goldilocks Rule: Influence Without Exposure The CCP’s first rule is blunt: avoid obvious targets. High-profile dissident influencers—such as Wang Zhian (YouTube), Li Laoshi “Not Your Teacher” (X), Wen Zhao (YouTube), and Toronto Fanglian (YouTube)—are ruled out. Not because they criticize the CCP, but because they are already “tagged”: •too visible •too aggressively critical •too politically exposed •too difficult to manage Preferred targets sit in the middle—large enough to matter, small enough to stay below the radar. The Party does not want heroes. It wants conduits. Sociology Over Ideology The talent pool described is sociological rather than political: •Italy-based music influencers •Japan-based food YouTubers •Philadelphia-based blue-collar and car-mechanic creators This is not a political influencer program. It is a social penetration strategy, distributing influence quietly through everyday trust networks. The Party does not need admiration. It seeks to gently steer opinion. 2. METHODOLOGY: GENTLENESS AS A WEAPON Invisible, Long-Term Discipline The guiding principle is low-visibility persistence—“润物细无声” gentle rain moist everything, not sudden impact: •no abrupt tonal shifts •no one-off campaigns •no visible coordination The objective is endurance. Limited Criticism, Strategic Assistance •minor criticism of the Party is allowed •policy complaints are acceptable •one red line is absolute: no direct attacks on Xi Jinping Controlled dissent builds credibility. Excess dissent disqualifies. In the platform era, influence must be indistinguishable from independent commentary. 3. MONEY—AND THE UNSPOKEN INCENTIVE The financial structure is explicit: €40,000 per month, with a 30 percent cut for the recruiter. Money is only half the leverage. The recruiter also hints at reduced harassment of family members inside China—being “on the list rather than outside it.” He insists this is not a threat. It simply describes the environment. In such a system, cooperation functions like an insurance premium—paid quietly. 4. THE MODERN CCP INFLUENCE MODEL One line captures the logic: “The Party-state looks at the numbers.” Not belief. Not loyalty. Metrics. Views. Reach. Narratives that travel without fingerprints. Traditional propaganda is abandoned because it is too obvious. The modern preference is for ambiguity, credible messengers, cultural entry points, and erosion rather than persuasion. The goal is not conversion. It is drift. CONCLUSION

What makes this transcript unsettling is not its brazenness, but its restraint. The CCP is not trying to win arguments outright. It is content to let doubt accumulate and confidence erode, allowing “neutrality” to do the work slogans once failed to accomplish. Influence here is not about persuasion—it is about drift. And drift, over time, is far harder to see, let alone stop. 

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VIKTOR ORBAN: We have to trust that the people will enforce peace from the bottom up. This is the only thing we can trust.

00:00.  Who has wanted war so far?  Some European politicians have wanted war, thinking that a country with nuclear weapons can be defeated through a conventional war.  Good luck with that.  Also, those who manufacture weapons always want war or some kind of armed conflict.  These are the arms manufacturers.  And now a 3rd group has appeared: Now the bankers also want you to continue, because, otherwise, how will they get their money back?  They can only recover their money if Russia is defeated militarily.  That is how it all comes together.  So I want to tell everyone not to trust that European politicians are sensible enough not to drag us into a war.  They are not sensible enough for that.  The only ones you can trust are the European people.  You can trust the people in Szeged, in Hungary, in Slovakia, in Croatia, in Italy.  We have to trust the people who will hold similar gatherings.  Let's not be mistaken: so far, this is only happening in Hungary.  In 6 months, there will also be large anti-war gatherings in Germany and in France.  We have to trust that the people will enforce peace from the bottom up.  This is the only thing we can trust. 

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STEVE GRUBER: Chuck Schumer, the author of this bill that made what we're doing with Venezuela drug boats fully legal. We don't need permission from the rest of the world. Chuck Schumer gave us that in 1986.

from Steve Gruber,

1:17.  The Democrats are on the wrong side.  There's John Fetterman, the only honest Democrat.  I can't believe we're sitting here having that conversation. John Fetterman, the guy who . . . look, I was not a fan.  I thought he was compromised.  He had the stroke.  He couldn't speak right.  He turns out to be the one guy you can count on from the Democrats to at least be honest.  Now, he's a Democrat but he'll tell you the truth.  He went into that classified intelligence briefing and came out, unlike other Democrats, and told the truth about what he had seen, why is legal . . . Oh, and by the way, right here, this in front of me, this is the Maritime Drug Laws Enforcement Act of 1986, authored by a member of Congress in 1986 from the state of New York.  His name: Chuck Schumer.  He wrote the law that passed almost unanimously that makes it legal to blow drug boats out of the water.  It happened in the 80s a lot, 90s a lot.  Go ahead, look it up, folks, Chuck Schumer, the author of this bill that made what we're doing with Venezuela drug boats fully legal.  We don't need permission from the rest of the world.  Chuck Schumer gave us that in 1986.


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