Half the country and the entire deep state – a Mandarinate – is monitoring lies and obfuscation from DC.  Was it sheer blatant civil servant incompetence or was it a legit deep state op, complete with plenty of advance work in the digital space?  We have the CIA's word that they didn't give the kid the MK Ultra treatment, because, well, that program ended 40 years ago, don't you know!

I mentioned to Judge Napolitano the other day that if we could track and see exactly what the government is spending our money on, we could emasculate the deep state and bring it to heel.  Not exactly in those words, but what if we could see in real time the black, hidden, never publicized or admitted budgets of the CIA and other intelligence agencies?  What if we could look inside the vaults of the Pentagon's Bank of Gumby?

We know that the 12 million shares of Truth Social, and a significant volume of Rumble shares were shorted by Austin Private Wealth in the weeks before the attempted Trump assassination was a clerical error.   The investment firm stated that these unusually large shorts were actually recorded in error in late June, and reported on July 12.  Nobody noticed the problem for two and a half weeks.  Once the J-13 assassination failed, a temporary statement on the APW website was that a third party vendor had made an error of scale, and this error was corrected with an amended report to the FEC on July 16th.  As far as we know, no one at Austin Private Wealth or the "third party" has been fired.

Naturally, the Austin Private Wealth shorts remind many of the abnormal high number of shorts made on American and United Airlines shortly before 9-11 over two decades ago.  The eternally smarmy apologist for the deep state Snopes has a good summary, predictably concluding that nothing really corrupt occurred in 2001 either.