With the 2026 midterm elections approaching prepare to be inundated with 40 days and 40 nights of deceptive corporate advertising, Zionist public relations and pro-war propaganda.

Endless amounts of money are being marshaled to try and convince a rebellious populace to ignore their day to day realities and vote for more of the same neoliberal-economic and neoconservative-foreign policies.

The Zionist Hasbara promises to be especially pernicious as American support for Israel plummets. I received a text the other day from “Sara” who asked my opinion of Israel. When I told her I thought the genocidal, settler-state was despicable, she came back informing me that they were the only “democracy” in the Middle-East, our staunch ally and a force for good in our glorious war against Iran. She went away after I told her that the IDF rapes prisoners with dogs, shoots children in the head and about the Epstein Class driven Hasbara that she was obviously part of.

The increasingly reviled tech-bros promise to spend untold amounts to promote AI and data centers in face of widespread opposition. In a blast from the past, the tech industry is following the same script as every other industry that needs to convince or force the public to support something that’s actually bad for them in order to profit has always done. It’s the campaign to promote leaded gasoline, the tobacco industry, the chemical industry, nuclear power, Big Oil. It’s the same propaganda playbook.

Then there’s the Trump crime family, where they and their crypto grifter buddies have already promised to carpet bomb the airways to pimp digital tokens and punish apostates.

The advertising, PR and propaganda blitz promises to be relentless. Caitlin Johnstone describes the propaganda system of carrots and sticks as the main adhesive holding the western empire together. “As westerners we are taught that we live in a free society which is far superior to the “tyrannical regimes” of the global south, because under the tyrannical regimes the news is state propaganda and the entertainment is heavily censored. In reality westerners are consuming tightly controlled propaganda every day of their lives, because all their most influential voices are being aggressively regulated by the carrots and sticks of wealthy capitalists…If you make the billionaires happy you get to be a millionaire, and if you make the billionaires unhappy you get discomfort and loss. If you please the plutocrats you get the carrot, and if you displease them you get the stick. This is true whether you’re talking about pundits, news anchors, musicians or movie stars.”

We’ve experienced 3 propaganda campaigns in the 21st century: the post 9/11 drive to invade Iraq; the scare-polooza after the 2008 Wall Street Crash to pass TARP; and the Russia-gate psyop to turn liberals into to good little Cold Warriors in the aftermath of Trump’s 2016 election triumph. Each one has been more desperate and more obvious.

Luckily, Americans are waking from their somnolence thanks to the push for AI and the frenetic build out of data centers. In addition to the concrete negative effects of more expensive electricity and scarce water, data centers have also come to symbolize broader worries about AI and the power and greed of the tech-bros, creating a public policy toxicity that focused voters and community members not just on the project at hand, but on the entire, corrupt economic development process as it currently exists. Data centers bring into Americans communities, in a very visceral way, the technology that is meant to eliminate their jobs, raise their prices, addict their kids, and bury them in deepfake slop.

Nevertheless, our feral elite are relentless in their efforts to sell Americans on policies that are antithetical to their well being.

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Update: Matt Stoller explains the importance of Naked Capitalism: “But, I would say, that ideology is dying, and we are on the verge of great revolts. The Iran War, covered in depth here, the insane approach to Russia and Ukraine, U.S. transnational capital, the comically evil Israel lobby, the way that the military is now purposed for oligarchs across the world, it’s all here, in detail. And while not everyone reads Naked Capitalism, the optimistic take is that so many have stopped reading and watching the cynical and corrupt media establishment. They are more open to the arguments and writing here than they ever have been.”