Trick For Finding Pressure Points

On the battlefield of politics, there are some flags worth fighting over; taxation, for example. Most flags we toil so hard to gain, however, are fake. I mean that our rulers bastardize certain issues and use them to divide us.

I’ve found an easy way to winnow the wheat from the chaff.

In a park, with a family having a picnic in the distance, two men hold hands; one hipster wearing a white t-shirt with 'Drudge Report' on it, and one Viking-looking conservative wearing a white t-shirt with 'CFP' on it

What is the chaff and why is there so much of it?

I’m guessing you don’t watch CNN. I don’t need to tell you that the corporate media use all manner of cunning tricks to make you believe that you’re getting the whole truth and nothing but the truth. These tricks were developed over a long time in the 20th century. I like to mention the invention of editable tape in 1956 by Ampex.1 More wider known, there’s the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Neoliberals came and conquered, and we got a world whereby turning on the tv or the radio meant that you were basically listening to the opinions of one of six corporations.2

Media Aggregators

Turning on the tv or radio is fast becoming old-fashioned. Most people under 40 get their news from aggregators. I use the term ‘aggregators’ broadly. I mean like Facebook or Yahoo News. They bundle up online news reports rather than employ journalists.

Two of the most popular are Drudge Report and Citizen Free Press. All they do is list news headlines in the form of clickable weblinks. Drudge Report is on the so-called Left, and Citizen Free Press is on the so-called Right.

They often define themselves by the way they label the news. It would be a tad unfair to say that they are two cheeks of the same arse. It’s not far off. Drudge Report versus Citizen Free Press is like Hulk Hogan versus Randy ‘The Macho Man’ Savage, or Nicky Manaj versus Cardi B. There’s some real tension there, but mostly it’s for show.

The key technique is opinionated labelling. Here are two weblinks to the same article...

DRUDGE REPORT:

List of weblinked headlines from Drudge Report with an annotated arrow pointing to 'How Soros changed criminal justice in America'.

CITIZEN FREE PRESS:

List of weblinked headlines from Citizen Free Press with an annotated arrow pointing to 'How Soros fundamentally destroyed criminal justice in America'.

‘Changed’ or ‘fundamentally destroyed’? I’m not saying that this variance is trivial. I’m saying there’s a deeper tactic at work. You’re supposed to think that all the problems lie with the other team. The solution becomes blatant. Vote for your team! One doesn’t look at systemic issues.

When Two Tribes don't go to war

I’ll cut to the chase. The key is watching out for when both sides align. They’re playing you, but you can play them instead. When both Drudge Report (DR) and Citizen Free Press (CFP) want you to have the same reaction, you know that you have stepped outside the typical Left-Right game. You have bumped into something of heft.

Example One: Candace Owens, December, 2025

DRUDGE REPORT:

List of weblinked headlines from Drudge Report with an annotated arrow pointing to 'Candace roasted for running from TPUSA livestream she bragged she'd win'.

CITIZEN FREE PRESS:

List of weblinked headlines from Citizen Free Press with an annotated arrow pointing to 'Candace Owens trashed for 'running scared'.

“Roasted” versus “trashed”? The same opinion!

Love her or hate her, no popular political commentator has done more to annoy our ruling class over the last year or two, especially the Zionists.3 Ms Owens’ blend of righteous anger and soap-opera drama has been particularly good at converting female normies to heterodoxy.

So, what’s the takeaway? Let me move on to a second example before I answer that.

Example Two: Cuban Protests, July 2021

DRUDGE REPORT

List of weblinked headlines from Drudge Report with an annotated arrow pointing to 'Cubans denouce misery in biggest protest in decades'.

CITIZEN FREE PRESS

List of weblinked headlines from Citizen Free Press with an annotated arrow pointing to 'Cuban citizens are finally fighting back'.

Once again, we see the alignment. “Time to overthrow the evil Cuban regime!” I grant that praising the Communists might be a step too far, even for the Drudge Report. DR knew that Republicans Marco Rubio and Ron De Santis4 had a hand in the protests; why wouldn’t that fact rub them the wrong way? There’s more. Those protests were partly over pandemic lockdowns. “How irresponsible!” That should have cooled DR’s support immediately. It’s strange that they both completely agree.

What to make of it?

Here's the rule:

When news aggregators on the Left and Right nudge you in the same direction, you have found a 'pressure point' issue; i.e. something which might cause the ruling class a lot of pain.

In other words, you’ve found a flag worth fighting over.

But what’s the issue exactly? So, they both agree that ‘Candace Owens is bad’— what’s the point?

Sadly, there is never an easy answer. My rule points you in the right direction, but doesn’t uncover the prize. With the Candace example, the nerve-striking issue probably has something to do with Zionism. As for Cuba, my hunch is that it goes broader than we think, into the realm of the I.M.F. and the B.I.S.5 I believe it’s part of our rulers’ stratagem to keep Socialism within the bounds of transnational banking. I’m not sure.

The work just begins. It begins on firm ground.

  1. Read more here. By the way, the recent scandal with the BBC is a good, blatant example of the power of editable footage; however, I'm meaning something more subtle. (Return)
  2. Thanks to DeepSeek A.I., and note: 12% threshold of ownership used to signify influence. See also this article. (Return)
  3. There is always the chance that popular guiders of opinion are Deep State spooks. It’s tricky. Suffice to say that claiming someone influential is a ‘fed’ without proof is a kind of midwitted teenager’s idea of insight. (Return)
  4. I hate ‘camel’ orthographs. A capital letter should not occur in the middle of a word. (Return)
  5. International Monetary Fund; Bank of International Settlements, respectively. (Return)

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