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Fifth Column
Sarah Hoyt: Learn To Tell Psyops
2025-11-10
Today I come to you with tears in my eyes to beg you for the sake of little fishes and all the oceans they swim in, to learn to tell when you’re being spun.

No, guys, seriously.

I know, I know. We used to be psyopped without realizing it. For most of us my age and up to 40 years younger, this was simply how life was in our formative years. Suddenly some topic trended and was in all the news, all the entertainment, and everyone talked about it. We imagined, if we imagined anything, that something set it off and suddenly it became important.

Except...

Having grown up where I did I knew better, and after a while I started noticing the trends. Like if there was something the left was pushing, suddenly it was full of sympathetic depictions everywhere at the same time and the ah.... national dialogue was shaped to support it.

This has failed because they no longer control everything. But they still have their psyops going. It starts with twitter. It includes a certain number of commenters on "right" blogs. And it pushes, pushes, pushes, and about half of you people always fall for it. Every single blessed time.

And I want to ask you: WHY?

It’s not like they haven’t played you over and over and over again for the last five years, starting with convincing a good number of you that I was crazy for denying how scary the killer Covid was. (It’s called looking at the numbers. Superpower, yo.)

Please, stop it. Please, please, please.

A good way to detect a psyop from the left is that it’s everywhere at once and only one viewpoint is being pushed. From everywhere.

Like, suddenly, we need to improve — fix — the entire economy NOOOOOOOW or we’ll lose our electoral ascendance... because blue-fraud-holes went hard left in the least-voted in elections ever? Where does that make sense?

Stop and think before you run around screaming with your hair on fire. It doesn’t make sense? It’s everywhere at once?

It’s a psyops!

The variant on the latest is that it’s a referendum on Trump. Because yeah, that makes perfect sense. Hey, ya’ll, an election at the most local level, and a three way one at that, in NYC is somehow a referendum on Trump.

Who the heck believes that? Much less gets blackpilled by it?

Well, there’s all these commenters in righty blogs....

There sure are. And have you kept track of other things they pushed? Do you know they aren’t foreign? Or clankers? Or foreign clankers, for that matter?

Another, deeper, longer running psyops is the left trying to hide the fact their rank and file went HARD anti-semitic by claiming that it’s the right that loves Hitler and that, somehow, Nick Fuentes (The gay catboy) is "splitting the right coalition".) No one sane can believe this. Even before seeing Fuentes slobber all over Stalin’s long dead boner on Tucker Carlson. Most of the "MAGA" people on the street would respond to Fuentes with "Who?" and maybe "Is he a singer?"

But they’re keeping on keeping on, and again any number of total idiots buy this. "Ooooh. Groypers are taking over the GOP."

No. Groypers are revolting and have been for a long time (they’ve been around longer than people are aware) and not very bright, but they’re not taking over the right or the GOP. And no, trust me, the young people aren’t even vaguely confused about this.

Again, have you considered most of the idiots screaming about Jews or Israel online are foreign or bots (and some foreign bots. Or act like it.)?

For one political allegiances don’t shift that fast. For another it’s simply not a US thing.

Look, I knew that the explosion in the Springs (the one where some guy bombed his accountant, but they tried to claim it was) where it supposedly was racist and against the NAACP office was nonsense. As I told people online that morning "You need to have enough of a minority to hate it, and Colorado Springs is the whitest city I ever lived in." I mean, there were Hispanics and Latins of various sorts, but most of the rare black people were airforce and didn’t behave like a minority. (I think that’s changed.) There’s not enough there to cause "ethnic hatred."

In the same way in most of this country there simply aren’t enough Jews for there to be genuine, inbred anti-semitism. We’re too spread out. We’re too tolerant. And no one cares. And the right is so jaded about the MSM the last thing we believe is what they report. Also those of us older than ten know that the war crimes are always committed by Palestinians, and the rest is propaganda.

This sudden upsurge of hatred for Jews is not real. The sudden upsurge of hatred for Israel isn’t either. Oh, it partakes the pudding heads who think we can survive as utter isolationists, but most people ain’t that. And most people get that Israel is a more reliable ally than Canada and far more useful. (Okay, damning with faint praise. Really Israel is a better ally than the entire EU. Okay, damning with faint praise again. But you get my point.)

There are other long running psyops going that don’t make much sense. Like the one where all women hate all men.

Cooey! have you met women? The feminists tried this bullshit. It never worked. We’re made to go together, and we tend to come together anyway.

Ask yourself who, precisely, benefits from this "war" between men and women. Because it ain’t the right.

Or the stupid idea all women/blacks/purple polka dotted one eyed lesbians are lefty voters. For the love of bugs, people. Stop buying the left’s idea that big groups are composed of widgets.

If you want to keep drinking the left’s ink I can’t stop you.

But I can make fun of you and point and make duck noises. And I will.

I’ll also keep, not so gently, telling you you’re being d*mn asses.

For your sanity, for your self-preservation, for the sake of the republic: Learn to recognize psyops.

And then teach others.

Because psyops are all they have. The sooner we take that weapon away, the best for the world.

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