So About Those Missiles…
For the folks out there saying Israel is all bad—okay, we get it. But my question becomes, What’s the answer? What are you offering that helps people see there’s purpose to the exposure you’re shouting about?
How are you not making it seem like you support the atrocities and allegiances of the “other side”? You shouldn’t have to do that, to think for people like that, admittedly, but do you take the time?
If all you’re doing is dumping data, do you realize that simply knowing things doesn’t inspire people? Bombarding them with evidence might convince a few—but not enough to make the kind of dent you’re aiming for. Not enough to spark the awakening you say you want.
If you’re going to go there, you have to guide people. You have to show how the exposure fits into a bigger picture—how life, or God, or truth itself might use even this darkness for their good.
If there’s no benefit, no patience, no sense of narrative process, then no amount of yelling will break someone’s orthodoxy. People don’t change decades of belief by sheer intellect alone. They have to be moved—and more than that, they have to arrive at the realization themselves.
That’s why I ask so many questions in my work. I’m not pretending to have all the answers. I don’t know who’s right and who’s wrong in every layer of Israel and Iran. But I know there’s both good and bad in each. Because I also know the deep-state government-media apparatus has lied to me for decades—about everything else.
So my default posture is contained skepticism. Toward everything I see.
And yes—that includes Trump. That includes Bibi. That includes Israel.
But it also includes the supposed boogeymen too—Iran, Russia, China, North Korea…
And I invite you to do the same.
Avoid being a black-pilled absolutist.
But also avoid being an emotionally reactive patriot.
Be the person who grows into narrative awareness and grace—so that your soul might be refined, and a people might be resurrected.
There are times when observing from a safe distance and providing patient direction is more satisfying than noise and political squabbling, in-fighting that scratches an itch in the moment, but ultimately doesn’t satisfy—because the headlines are always changing, and today’s victor becomes tomorrow’s villain.
When the headlines catch up to the patterns you’ve been pointing out—not in the spirit of clairvoyance, but simply because you’ve learned to pay attention—it might be tempting to gloat and assume you’ve won something.
Let’s not do that if that is where you are in this awakening process.
Because if you’ve been reading this space the last few years, more specifically over the last ten days since the Tucker-Levin article—you knew something was coming. Not because anyone out there is a prophet necessarily, but because many of you have learned how to read the script. And when the same script gets recycled, eventually you recognize the cues.
Perhaps the most illustrative work I’ve done isn’t even here on The Hayride or RVIVR. I finished it Friday afternoon–a video that includes two crucial clips where Trump is shown–in his typical repetitive way–making sure he talks about the possibility (and reality) of the US and Iran alerting each other to strikes before they happen. Here is just one of the many additions to that premise:
Now why would he do that? And now that Saturday has passed, does that strike fulfill anything he was planting in the days and weeks before?
And why release this mere days before as well–a conversation with Putin not about Ukraine, but about…Iran and Israel.
On Sunday, Ezra Cohen Watnick said Trump utilized his control over narrative and timelines to eliminate the nuclear threat.
Shouldn’t Trump’s communications and moves be fodder for thought, no matter if you support him or not, no matter what your views are in this Middle East conflict?
You also have these two things, which I’m adding right before posting, as I just came across them:
All of the above–and so much more–is what we mean when we use the term “narrative deployment.” This is why we implore you not to react emotionally on the internet in the immediate aftermath of something you think happened.
Let’s redirect a bit.
On June 12, Netanyahu survived a near collapse of his government, something I explore specifically in the Friday article. The same day, Israeli missiles flew toward Iran.
Coincidence? Defense?
But now, just days later, after a lot of contradictory statements that are only contradictory if you don’t realize the narrative warfare aspect of this, Trump’s missiles hit Iran’s nuclear sites.
We’re not even diving into the circulating online evidence that the hits were softer than advertised.
Nor are we unpacking the Top Gun: Maverick parallels—eerie as they may be.
Because ultimately none of that matters to someone spotlighting the narrative warfare. The point isn’t the “actual,” as Burning Bright calls it. It’s what that press-released (fake sometimes) “actual” creates inside the collective American mind.
Missiles. Motions. A magician’s hand.
Or Someone Else’s hand in the machine, redirecting, massaging away the decades of deception and degeneracy?
If you believe that God moved that bullet or Trump’s head on July 13, 2024, do you also believe his Holy Ghost can move however it darn well pleases?
We’ve said it before, and we say it again: This is not just kinetic warfare. It may not even be that at all, in fact, just the illusion of it–the necessary, healthy fear of it to awaken a people to the truth.
And as Christ taught in parables–stories, narratives–not only to reach more people but to keep the hardened of heart tucked in their operation of error, as both Jesus and St Paul explain, it is not a terrible faith-focused guess that God is working through all of these seemingly frightening narratives to do one thing for each individual seeing it–
To give us a chance to turn back to him and him only. Not fabricated political allegiances.
When you learn the rhythm of that war, you begin to anticipate the beats.
Have you noticed how Trump’s messaging walks a tightrope—criticizing war while enabling it, praising peace while launching attacks?
But then we come to find out the attacks aren’t really attacks at all. They’re only so in the narrative sense, what people are seeing on their electronic screens.
Have you noticed how the MAGA base is being split, not by policy, but by allegiances they’ve been told are sacred?
Have you noticed how every escalation—from September 11 to October 7 to June 12 to today—comes wrapped in double meanings, double agents, and double-crosses?
If you’ve been following my work here, none of this should surprise you. You’ve seen the breadcrumbs. You’ve watched the pattern.
You’re not alone. And you’re not crazy.
But you’re also not being given the full truth by the outlets, influencers, and institutions that once claimed to speak for you.
So don’t trust me. Don’t trust anyone. Watch the words. Track the timing. Question the unity of the chorus.
Pray and fast to God Almighty for discernment.
Something big is moving. And the temptation will be to panic, to pick a side, to let emotion rush ahead of discernment, just as we saw happen over the weekend, just like what was all over my Facebook feeds.
Resist that.
I don’t know if Trump is a good guy or a bad guy. But what I do know is that the people who are berating him right now haven’t done the work to study his very obvious style in narrative deployment, his double entendres, his seed planting, his “weaves” as he himself once called them.
He said you have to be smart to understand what he’s saying, but when he’s saying it, the truth is tucked inside there if only you’ll listen.
He said that point blank just in the past year. It is my guess he does this for narrative shielding with a hostile media. Would you blame him?
Trump may be bad, yes, but it isn’t for the reason his detractors are claiming–and that ignorance is, yes, crucial even though you may believe it doesn’t matter how you come to your hatred for him.
Because if you miss the point of what he’s facilitating, bad or good, then you may very well miss out on the ultimate awakening God is intending with all of this.
God isn’t confined to parliaments, puppets, or presidents. He works in shadows and shocks, symbols and strikes—not to manipulate, but to awaken.
Watch that Saturday video in its entirety, and you may very well see what I’m talking about. Is there a magician at work here? Yes, there probably is, and it is my prayer that it is Magician spelled with a capital M.
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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
