Our personal work is about personal development shared for your development. Which then further helps our development.
Two primary ways we do that is by always aiming to be brutally and soberingly honest and also help you to get out of or not fall into cults. Which are groups people get involved with which they can't leave without PAIN. These can be incomparably life damaging and even, in the Heaven's Gate or People's Temple case, life ending. A cult is like a political party, except instead of policies, it has a messiah, a merch line, and a rule that no one is allowed to ask questions. Especially not about the leader’s unpaid legal bills or golf scores and we very much recommend the book Commander In Cheat. A cult isn’t just a group with strong beliefs, it’s a social system built on unquestioning devotion to a leader, suppression of dissent, and emotional manipulation. Cults isolate members from opposing viewpoints, discourage critical thinking, and elevate a central figure to near-infallible status with loyalty to them being the highest virtue.
No patriotic freedom lover can say what we just said in the year of our lord 2025 and not think of MAGA which has a strange ability to rewrite reality in real time and exhibits classic cult behavior and its opinions are now, unfortunately, on official government letterhead. At its core is unwavering allegiance to Donald Trump, whose statements are treated as truth regardless of facts, evidence, or shifting narratives and we mention the previous said book that highlights that for decades, as an avid golfer, he has been lying and cheating at his golf game, a sport which cause, your out in large areas, sometimes solo, has a built in honor system, that he undermines by fabricating championships, using ball manipulation tactics, and least of all inflated handicap claims because he thinks, since everyone must cheat at this game, I'll cheat more and the professional golf community has basically known this for decades and it's a metaphor for everything else in his life.
Like many cults, MAGA offers an idiocracy flavored, us-vs-them worldview, appeals to a sense of victimhood and righteousness, and thrives on emotional resonance over factual coherence. It builds identity around belief in a single leader, rather than shared principles or policies. In short, MAGA functions as a personality cult, complete with merch, mantras, and a disdain for dissent. Critics—whether journalists, scientists, or even former allies—are branded as enemies or traitors. The leader is always right. If the leader is wrong, see Rule #1. Anyone who disagrees is a demon, a deep-state agent, or your cousin you stopped talking to after Thanksgiving 2016. When their leader fire hoses lies, they swallow them up, when he changes positions, they adapt. When he contradicts himself, they rationalize. And the Kool-Aid? It’s orange from bronzer.
On a micro level, having spent time in the alternate media space, watching friends and past collaborators lead people into or they themselves get joker spiral sucked into it has been deeply disappointing to us. On a macro level, watching the world's largest podcaster go from stoned ape theory advocate and cannabis enthusiast to oligarchic ball gargler and red cult advocate has also been deeply disappointing to us. If you had asked 14-year old Niles in the 1990's about Trump we would have told you - almost instantaneously, transparently obvious conman and classless trashy rich guy. And due to our development, we haven't had to reverse track on that front. So how can the 14 year old version of us be so correct and spont on while millions of others are so wrong? That is a complicated answer but it's done through explaining matters of what's called undue influence combined with what the supposid deep state is and how it relates to American Empire. So... we are going to be doing another series on cult programming, primarily highlighting this flag-waving, grudge-holding, golden-toilet-adoring cult of personality whose goal is always to make America worse.