Thursday, June 18, 2026

MASSIMO: Surgeon Chen Jingyu Lung Transplantation Team rejected a pair of lungs from a 52-year-old brain-dead donor due to severe, tar-like blackening, mild emphysema, bullae, and tuberculosis calcification.

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MJ MURPHY: The goal isn't to win. The goal is to wake up because questions interrupt trances. Questions force reality back into the conversation.

THE CONSENSUS TRANCE

00:00.  The most powerful force you've never heard of. Have you ever looked around and wondered how did so many people end up saying the same thing not just agreeing, using the same words, repeating the same phrases, arriving at the same conclusions sometimes seemingly overnight.  Many people assume this happens because the evidence became overwhelming.  But what if that's not always what's happening?  What if people are not primarily responding to evidence?  What if they're responding to something much older and much more primitive?  The need to belong.  

Today I want to talk about a phenomenon I call, The Consensus Trance.  And once you understand that you'll start seeing it everywhere.  You're going to start seeing it everywhere.  So the ancient survival mechanism for most of human history, being rejected by your tribe wasn't uncomfortable, it was dangerous.  Being expelled from the group could mean starvation, exposure, death. Our ancestors didn't survive by being right.  They survived by remaining part of the group.  And because of that, human beings evolved an incredibly sensitive social radar.  We are constantly scanning [the room, asking], "What do people think?  What is acceptable?  What can I say?  What should I not say?" This isn't weakness.  It's Human Nature.  It's just human nature.  There is a hidden question.  Most people think, they ask, "Is this true?" But very often a different question appears first, a question that stays hidden.  The question is, "Am I allowed to believe otherwise?"  Think about that.  Not "Is it true?"  Not "What is the evidence?" But "What happens to me if I disagree?"  That question changes everything.  It changes everything.  Because the trance begins.  The Consensus Trance begins when social approval becomes more important than accuracy when fitting in becomes more important than figuring things out.  And here's the scary part. The consensus doesn't have to be real.  It only has to appear real.  If enough people think everyone agrees, they start acting as if everyone agrees, which makes the illusion stronger which convinces more people that everyone agrees. And the cycle feeds itself. Everyone's commenting that The Emperor's New Clothes.  This is why the story of The Emperor's New Clothes has survived for centuries.  Everyone can see the emperor is naked.  He's naked but nobody wants to be the first person to say it because each person believes everyone else must be seeing something they aren't.  So they stay silent until one person breaks the spell.  Then suddenly everyone sees what was there the entire time.  The emperor didn't change.

4:05.  Reality didn't change only the perception of consensus changed here's a historical example history is full of examples in authoritarian countries, we disagree people often privately disagree with the regime while publicly supporting it.  Then one day the regime collapses and everyone asks where did all these dissenters come from?  The answer is: they were there the whole time.  They simply believed that they were alone.  The consensus was weaker than it appeared, but nobody knew because no one wanted to risk being first.  So modern social media.  Let's think about that, okay?  Social media creates a very powerful illusion.  You don't see what most people think.  You see what gets amplified.  You see what gets rewarded.  You see what people are willing to say publicly.  These are not the same thing.  A thousand people silently disagreeing can be completely invisible.  10 loud people can look like a movement.  And once people perceive, perceive a consensus, the trance starts, that hypnotic trance.  

And so why [do] smart people fall for it?  One of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming only unintelligent people fall into this trap.  And actually intelligent people maybe even more vulnerable because intelligent people are often highly socially aware.  They understand consequences. They understand incentives. They understand reputational risk, which means they can become experts at rationalizing why silence is a smart choice.  But there's a cost, and the cost is enormous.  Bad ideas can survive longer, and good ideas are never spoken.  Questions go unasked.  Evidence goes unexamined and entire societies could end up operating on assumptions that very few people genuinely believe.

HOW TO BREAK THE TRANCE

So how do we break it?  How do we break it?  You ask questions.  You ask simple questions.  What do you mean by that?  How do you know?  What evidence would change your mind?  What happens if the opposite is true?  The goal isn't to win.  The goal is to wake up because questions interrupt trances.  Questions force reality back into the conversation.  So the consensus trance maybe one of the most powerful forces in human psychology.  It shapes politics.  It shapes culture.  It shapes organizations, families, friend groups, and sometimes even entire civilizations.  So the next time you find yourself agreeing with everyone around you, pause, pause and ask yourself, Do I believe this because it's true, or do I believe this because everyone around me seems to?  Because those are very different things, and learning to tell the difference might be one of the most important skills you'll ever develop.  And if, if these kind of psychological patterns fascinate you the way they fascinate me, that's exactly why I made Breaking the Spell and the new homeschool Edition, How Language and Social Pressure Framing Shape What People Believe often without them realizing it.

Breaking The Spell: Language, Social Pressure, and Psychological Framing in Modern Discourse: A Field Guide for Clear Thinking Under Social Pressure, MJ Murphy, 2025.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

BISHOP RICHARD WILLIAMSON: 2,000 of the 6,000 versus [in the Quran] are hate verses. It's a religion of hate and certainly not of love. It's a barbaric religion.

Bishop Richard Williamson, 1940-2025, a traditionalist Catholic bishop, formerly associated with the Society of St. Pius X.  

There's something satanic about Islam.  It's a fabrication Muhammad himself is a fabrication.  The Quran is a fabrication.  The Quran has about 6,000 verses.  I was reading recently a French book, 2,000 of the 6,000 versus are hate verses.  It's a religion of hate and certainly not of love.  It's a barbaric religion.  It's not even really a religion.  It's a caricature of a religion. But it's by golly it has a grip. It's a punishment from God. Go back in history, it arose in the 600s when the Christians of the Middle East and the Christians of North Africa were undoubtedly decadent and even the Christians in Spain at that time.  And therefore God allowed that Muhammadism to, Islam to arise as a punishment and it's been a punishment ever since of unfaithful Catholics. Whenever Catholics are faithful, then they conquer the Mohammedans without too much trouble. 

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KANEKOATHEGREAT: Today the European Parliament voted 418-218 to pass the strictest migration law in EU history. When the result was announced, MEPs started chanting. "Send them back."

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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

The warbler's chirping. It probably harbors the greatest healing effect in history. Please enjoy the peak vibrational frequency 😌

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JOHN A. KONRAD: Inside, they had a young American kid right out of high school. I had to load my own battery, but this kid was a whiz. He flew through the inventory, explaining the lead-acid surface area in each option and why it mattered.

Stopped at a small auto parts store yesterday. For the last few years they had migrant workers behind the counter. Nice guys. Competent at pulling parts from the warehouse and would go out of their way to help you loading heavy stuff like batteries into your car. But ask a question and you got a blank look. ICE cleared them out. The store hired stoners. The place became a dump, and I started driving an hour to AutoZone whenever I needed something. Yesterday I just needed a battery. As I pulled up I noticed the parking lot was unusually full. Inside, they had a young American kid right out of high school. I had to load my own battery, but this kid was a whiz. He flew through the inventory, explaining the lead-acid surface area in each option and why it mattered. I stuck around while he helped another customer diagnose a carburetor problem. I learned more in five minutes than I would have spending two hour on youtube. Then he started figuring out which replacement air filter the customer needed using basic geometry. I don’t know how much additional revenue this kid brought into the store, but it has to be substantial. And he wasn’t alone. They had an older Black gentleman working with him who, I’m told, had run a warehouse for a large repair shop or something in New York City before he got laid off. Slow but methodical and oozed competence. The store recruited him out of retirement, brought him up to our rural area part-time to organize inventory, fix the shelves, and scout local talent. I felt like I was watching a dynamic duo at work. Then nostalgia hit me hard. THIS is what it was like going to an auto parts store with my dad in the late 80s and early 90s. Everything well organized. People who knew cars cold. To be honest, the guys back then weren’t exactly nice, at least not in New York. They roasted you. But they helped. And it wasn’t just auto parts stores back then. Plumbing stores. Boating stores. Stereo shops. I remember going into Manhattan as a kid to a block of nautical shops, stores that sold charts and sextants, where a retired ship captain like I am now explained to me how a chronometer works. I want that job! The nation is healing!

(but we still have a long way to go​​​​​) 

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Monday, June 15, 2026

The 5 Most Dangerous Accusations in Modern Politics

5. Misinformed.

4.  Unsafe.

3.  Hatred. 

2.  Extremist

1.   Bigot.

What are the 5 most dangerous accusations in politics? Have you ever noticed that some words can end a conversation before it ever begins and not because they prove anything.  Not because they refute an argument but because the moment that they're used everyone stops looking at the claim and starts looking at the person making the claim.

These are the 5 most dangerous accusations in politics, and once you see the pattern you'll never unsee it.  

#5:  Misinformed.  Misinformed sounds harmless after all people can be wrong. People can be misinformed but notice what happens when this accusation is used instead of asking is that claim true the conversation becomes you've been misled so the focus shifts from evidence to the person and sometimes the accusation is correct but sometimes it's just a shortcut that allows people to dismiss an argument without actually engaging with it.

#4:  Unsafe.  This word becomes incredibly powerful because safety is something everyone values nobody wants people to be harmed but unsafe is often used in ways that go far beyond physical danger.  A Viewpoint can be called unsafe a question can be called unsafe a discussion can be called unsafe and once something is framed as a threat to safety people asking whether the concern. The word itself does all the work.  

#3:  Hateful.  And this is where things get interesting because hatred certainly exists but disagreement and hatred are not the same thing I've said that in so many videos criticism and hatred are not the same thing concern and hatred are not the same thing yet political arguments often blur these distinctions and when they do people stop examining the argument itself because they're examining the character of the person speaking.  

#2:  Extremist.  Extremist is one of the most effective accusations because it has no fixed location.  What is considered extreme changes depending on the time, the culture, and the audience.  Many views once considered mainstream later became extreme.  So if someone is called an extremist, the important question isn't "Is that person extreme?"  The important question is "compared to what"?. 

#1:  Bigot.  This might be the most powerful accusation in modern politics because unlike most criticisms it doesn't really say you're wrong, it says your motives are wrong.  It says your character is wrong.  It says there's something morally defective about you and once someone has been labeled a bigot many people feel no obligation to answer their argument at all.  The label becomes the answer.  I get this comment on so many of my videos.  Bigot without engaging with my argument and so here's the important part.  I'm not saying these accusations are never true.  Sometimes people are misinformed. Sometimes people are hateful.  Sometimes people are extremists.  Sometimes people really are bigots.  The problem is what happens when the accusation replaces the argument because none of these words tell you whether a claim is true.  They tell you what to think about the person making the claim. And if you want to think clearly in the political world, that's the habit to watch for whenever you hear one of these accusations don't just ask is that person bad ask did anyone actually answer the argument that's the question that changes everything.

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KEVIN MCKERNAN: 7 year remission on NSCLC [Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer] with Cannabis extract and Tumeric

NSCLC [Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer].   

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Bovino & Branca: How to Win America’s Existential War for Survival!


16:19. One of the weird practices, too, it's a weird incentive for the illegals, is if they get nabbed at the border, they're subject to mandatory detention.  But if they get nabbed inside the country, the judges would just release them.  They'd say, "Oh he's already living here.  He's got a family here.  He works here," and so once you're in . . . so you get nabbed inside the country.  They give you a court date, three or four years from now.  You never show up to the court date and this just happens [repeatedly].  So even when there is enforcement it doesn't have any effect. 

No effect, exactly.  Who's going to show up when there is 90 million illegal aliens and you got the court system so clogged up with folks that are supposed to show up as you say 2, 3, 4 years down the road after your apprehended because there's no consequence and I'll tell you it's when we call and I tell you it's when we call and we talk about lawfare, there's a particular instance of lawfare that has clogged our courts up and made it so very difficult to remove some of those individuals in the interior when we started nabbing them on the streets we were able to remove 90 to 95% of those immediately straight to whatever country they came from so much easier doing it that way than a targeted enforcement effort a work site enforcement or something like that
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BRYAN JOHNSON: A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years. Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin. She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations.

NSCLC.  

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Sunday, June 14, 2026

MJ MURPHY: Intelligence doesn't protect you from social pressure.

Quick question.  Have you ever noticed that the smartest people you know sometimes believe the most obvious nonsense?  Why?  Why do you think that is.  It's because intelligence doesn't protect you from social pressure.  That's what breaking the spell is about. Not politics.  Not left versus right.  The psychological machinery underneath all of it, the language pattern, the framing, the manipulation, the fear of social consequences.  I've sold 176 copies so far.  If you're tired of feeling like reality itself is being negotiated, get your copy and learn to see the machinery.  

Breaking the Spell, MJ Murphy, 2026. 

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MJ MURPHY: Because reality doesn't care about social pressure. Reality doesn't care about popularity. Reality remains reality whether people are willing to say it out loud or not.

Maybe you're hearing a spiral of silence because silence is not the same thing as agreement.  It's not the same thing as consent.  And if enough people are afraid to speak honestly, eventually nobody knows what everyone really thinks, not even the people enforcing the silence, and that's dangerous.  Because reality doesn't care about social pressure.  Reality doesn't care about popularity.  Reality remains reality whether people are willing to say it out loud or not. 

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Saturday, June 13, 2026

DAVID FRIEDBERG: there is nothing illegal or fraudulent going on. In fact, the system is operating exactly as intended it has been set up, structured anyway that with the right construct you can get an individual appointed, not elected, but appointed to a particular role in government under a "free election" in California.

David Friedberg leads this discussion.

2:03.  And, Nick if you'll just pull up the map which is I think worth taking a look at, basically the concentrations of incremental votes that Nithya Raman got came around the Skid Row area in Los Angeles.  And look I'm not an election denier.  I'm not someone who's historically believed the idea that elections are fraud and people have stolen votes. But when you look at the basic statistics of what happened in-person, mail-in before and after Election Day, it becomes a real statistical quagmire on how did this sort of social political shift happen in such a way that it did?

Friedberg continues, 

Now, there was a report published, Nick, if you could pull this up, by the US House of Representatives Committee on House Administration.  This was published in May of 2020 and they highlighted the 2018 California midterm elections and the challenges they saw arise in that midterm elections because of some of the legislative changes that were made.  First, California Assembly Bill 1921 legalized the practice of unlimited ballot harvesting in the state this was passed around 2018 around the midterms is that any individual has the right to go and collect ballots from any other individuals regardless of relationship, fill them out, and send them in. California 2 years later, 18 months later also passed a law that made it permanent that every person registered in the state of California would get a ballot.  So tens of millions of ballots then get mailed out.  Then there was another series of laws that were passed that said anyone can register to vote.  You don't need to prove your citizenship.  You can use a gym membership card as an example.  So anyone can register to vote. There is no proof of ID when you get a ballot.  There is no demonstration at the person who fills out has anything to do with the individual who is supposed to be voting that ballot.  And it is legal for an individual to go out and collect hundreds or thousands of ballots, ship them in, and they will all qualify in these kind of mail-in ballot voting procedures. So there is nothing illegal or fraudulent going on in fact the system is operating exactly as intended it has been set up, structured anyway that with the right construct you can get an individual appointed Not Elected but appointed to a particular role in government under a "free election" in California.  This is a foundational destruction of our rights to vote for people in a free democracy I feel it's been eroded slowly over time to such an extent now and I'm not some crazy MAGA mfer or whatever people want to classify me as for pointing this out but you can go down the list they are all written out in this document every one of these laws that were passed in California overtime that in aggregate create the environment and the construction for elections to become appointments and no longer free Democratic elections where the principal very importantly the principal should be: one individual, one vote.  And if you opt to not vote, your vote should not be counted.  So I think that there is no fraud yeah I think this is not the way the laws are set up. 

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GB UKJ0N GB: Following the horrific stabbing of a 17-year-old girl in Brierfield. Alex Phillips has a powerful message for Keir Starmer.

They will deploy the Army against the population that continues to object to their own destruction.  There will be no voting their way out of this, our Gov'ts won't let us.  Folks should embrace the horror and get to work. --Linuxhippie

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LINUXHIPPIE: Next up, they will deploy the Army against the population that continues to object to their own destruction. There will be no voting their way out of this, our Gov'ts won't let us. Folks should embrace the horror and get to work.

7 min interview w/ former head of MI5. No mention of immigration, no mention of Marxism, no mention of Islam. Neither mention foreigners that the British Gov't imported to do exactly what those foreigners ARE doing to British Subjects. It's always the external threat. Does not mention the obvious "ongoing" threat to the British people from their own leadership that has "prioritized" the replacement of British subjects with Islam. Reduces current leadership to the level of "student activists" (completely under-inclusive to the threat they are) and refers to this a "left wing of the Labour Party" dispute (as if the entire Labour isn't Marxist). This is the UK Counter-State completing the opposite side of the dialectic. Close the circle to churn the British population into non-existence. He knows exactly what he's doing and his language was carefully chosen (al la Discourse Theory praxis) to close the circle of allowable opinion in order to paint those citizens who seek to defend themselves from annihilation by their own Gov't as "extreme". Next up, they will deploy the Army against the population that continues to object to their own destruction. Remember the SPLC case? It's happening in the Ireland / UK right now. If the people don't commit, go all in, they will be crushed and doomed to the fate their King has set for them. There will be no voting their way out of this, our Gov'ts won't let us. Folks should embrace the horror and get to work. US Politicians do the same thing see slides below.

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MJ MURPHY: That's the technique because most arguments aren't actually arguments, they're collisions. They're collisions between different definitions.

I have spent years studying psychology, NLP, persuasion, influence, and the most powerful debate technique I have ever found isn't it a comeback, it isn't a fact, it isn't an argument.  It's a question. The most powerful debate technique ever is a question. And the funny thing is almost nobody uses it because it doesn't feel as satisfying as attacking someone.  It doesn't feel as satisfying as proving someone wrong.  And it definitely doesn't feel as satisfying as winning.  The most powerful debate technique is this, I'm going to tell you.  Ask people to define their terms.  That's it. That's the technique because most arguments aren't actually arguments, they're collisions.  They're collisions between different definitions.  Take almost any controversial issue that people spend hours arguing, days arguing, years arguing, and then eventually you discover they are using the same word to mean completely different things.  Words like freedom, justice, equality, rights, violence, man, woman, harm.  Nobody stops to ask, "What exactly do you mean by that?"  And until you answer that question, the debate can't even begin.  One person is playing chess and the other person person is playing checkers.  And both think they're winning.  The reason this technique is so powerful is because definitions expose assumptions.  They expose assumptions the moment someone defines a word. They reveal the hidden beliefs underneath it. Suddenly you're no longer arguing about conclusions, you're examining the foundation those conclusions were built on.  And sometimes something amazing happens.  You discover that you don't actually disagree about the facts; you disagree about the meaning of a single word.  So most people think debate is about having better answers.  I think great debate is about asking better questions.  And one of the best questions you can ever ask is "What do you mean by that?"  Because clarity is Kryptonite to manipulation.  If you're trying to think more clearly in a world full of propaganda, persuasion, and psychological manipulation, check out my guide, Breaking the Spell.

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Friday, June 12, 2026

ANDREW BRANCA: A world-class Medical examiner in [Zimmerman] trial testified that the beating was "absolutely likely to inflict death or serious bodily injury." That makes it a deadly force attack, justifying Zimmerman's deadly force defense.

from Andrew Branca.

He's like, oh, let's look at all these poor black victims. Trayvon Martin: George Zimmerman was acquitted.

Tamir Rice: no indictment. Michael Brown: no indictment.

Philando Castile: officer was acquitted.

Freddie Gray: officers were acquitted or charges dropped.

Terrence Crutcher: officer was acquitted.

Sylville Smith: officer acquitted. 

Chikei "Rick" Chao was found not guilty after the shooting death of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton in South Carolina.

The "returning wallet" case could not be verified, but many people confuse it with Ralph Yarl, the black teen shot after going to the wrong house.  In that case, the shooter later pleaded guilty, so it was not a not-guilty verdict.

00:31.  And it's a mystery to her.  The reason these people were not convicted or sentenced must be racism.  It has to be racism.  All these poor black boys.  All these poor black boys.  It must be racism.  Well, let's take a look, shall we, Genius?

Trayvon Martin: George Zimmerman was acquitted. George Zimmerman went to trial on a charge of malice murder.  Here is what he looked like at the scene. Trayvon Martin was trying to murder him to beat his head through a sidewalk.  Those are pictures of George Zimmerman's face.  His nose is broken sideways on his face.  The back of his head was against the sidewalk, so every punch was actually two blows: the punch to the front of his face with Trayvon Martin mounted on top of him, and then the blow of the back of his skull against the sidewalk.  George Zimmerman's face and the back of his head immediately after Trayvon Martin stopped trying to beat Zimmerman to death by beating Zimmerman's skull through a concrete sidewalk stopped Trayvon Martin was stopped only because of a 9 millimeter round shot by Zimmerman through Martin's demonic little heart murderous, little heart.  Zimmerman's nose was broken sideways on his face.  By the way, when the media printed these photos for the public, did you know they printed them in black and white, so you wouldn't know what you were seeing was blood?  Contemptible eyewitness testimony describe Trayvon Martin mounted on top of a fallen Zimmerman, beating him viciously.  The witness testified, "MMA ground and pound style."  Testified Zimmerman was screaming for his life, for help that never came.  A world-class Medical examiner in the trial testified that the beating was "absolutely likely to inflict death or serious bodily injury."  That makes it a deadly force attack, justifying Zimmerman's deadly force defense.  

Did Karmelo Anthony suffer a beating like this or anything everyone is testifying to the contact of Austin Metcalf to Carmelo characterized it as a "soft push."  And they were not in the dark alone they were surrounded by dozens of people including many black people we're supposed to believe we're supposed to believe that Carmelo Anthony had a reasonable belief that Austin Metcalf and Hunter Metcalf we're going to be allowed to be him to death in front of all those black people?

What about Tamir Rice?  Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old in Cleveland shot dead by police.  And you might be thinking to yourself, "Oh my God!  That sounds . . . how could police officers do that?  And there wasn't even an indictment?"  They shot a 12-year-old black boy, a little child . . .

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STEPHEN COUGHLIN: What if the EU leadership does know, and that's why they did it? Because the do and they did.

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