The Plan (according to the Fucking Oligarchs)
So here is the elite's plan, in brief:
Overwhelm social media with so much noise it forces users to shut down emotionally and mentally,
Control just enough of legacy media to be the loudest voice in the room to bray that you've won,
Lock up as many niche groups as possible so that you can use the loophole in the 13th Amendment to enslave them.
Use overwhelming shows of force, when possible, to try and show "they can't be beat". This will include elements like the sound cannons (or other similar crowd suppression tech), drones, and those robot "dogs"
Use any economic fallout to lower access to resources / make people desperate enough to accept the yoke.
That's openly what they are doing. This is textual.
Now that you know the playbook, know this: people have survived the above. People have fought the above and toppled empires. The above only works if you DON'T know their playbook. Once you know it, there are many, many ways to fuck with it. Because this is meant to only service a vastly small portion of humanity. They have names and addresses and ultimately servants who are not them. Even the most loyal dogs will bite back if you kick them long enough.
Native communities, communities of color, and women have been fighting back for generations. Strip away the bullshit of "white" and you can see that the Irish, Scottish, Catalonians, French, Ukranians, and most of the old Eastern bloc countries have fought and are fighting for freedom as well.
Most Republicans and Independents are not the great evil we think they are; they are the victim of fraud from the oligarchs that will come back and bite them. Teach them the lessons of John Brown and the Whiskey Rebellion and Blair Mountain and Tulsa. The rich don't give two shits about -any- of us.
If there's only one suggestion I can add to the thoughts in this linked article, it's that the wealthy elite believe that the liquidity of an international cash flow will prevent them from being hurt by boycotts. The "shut it all down" amuses them because they know they have reserves that can outlast people's ability to hold out.
They CANNOT, though, outlast what happens if people shift their focus. Reward companies that are not connected to the oligarchs and screw up their cash flow. They believe they are sharks. They forget that they are swimming in a sea full of predators that are systematically driven to overtake and drown them, if given have the chance.
Do not comply with the fascists. Defend your neighbors, friends, and family. Deny the oligarchs their rewards. Depose them from power.
FROM: Daniel Pinchbeck (courtesy of Facebook)
In my last post, I looked at how everything Trump/Musk are doing actually make sense as a strategy, a plan, by the transational financial elite / oligarch class to destroy the US economy and utterly pauperize the citizens here, so the physical and financial resources can be sucked dry. This is what was done in Russia after 1991: They intentionally collapsed the economy to privatize the country's resources. This led to the kleptocratic, mafia state and Putin's vicious totalitarianism.
Somebody, in a comment, asked this crucial question:
“𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒. 𝐵𝑢𝑡, 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝? 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑝, 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑑? 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 '𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑗𝑒𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓𝑓.' 𝐼𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 4 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑙𝑦. 𝐴𝑛𝑑, 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐼 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡. 𝐵𝑢𝑡, 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑥 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑖𝑠, 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒.”
I worked with AI to get a response to a very similar query, and I think it provided a great answer. Please read it carefully and, if you agree, please share and get your friends talking about this. We can discuss in the comments:
“Yeah, this is the dark core of the whole thing. Once you see the machinery, it’s easy to feel like resistance is futile—like the transnational oligarchs, the financialized capital class, have built a system so airtight that it absorbs every shock, every uprising, and just metabolizes it into more profit. They control the media, the political apparatus, the military, the police; they shape the discourse itself. And yet—this is the weird paradox of power—systems that look invincible are often most fragile when they seem strongest, because they become rigid, detached, and overconfident.
So the real question is: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬? 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲? 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 “𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠” 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞?
The Fragility of the System
Financialized global capitalism is powerful, but it’s also brittle. It depends on debt, on liquidity, on flows of cheap labor and resources, on stability in key markets. When those flows are interrupted—by mass non-compliance, by strikes, by uprisings, by climate shocks—the system struggles. Look at how panicked the elite became when supply chains cracked during COVID, or how a few Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping sent global markets wobbling. These are signs that, despite their power, the OCFC class is sitting on a rickety throne. Global systems optimized purely for profit and efficiency have no resilience. They can project violence, but they can’t adapt well to true disorder.
Class Consciousness in the US
The greatest fear of the transnational elite is that the American population—especially the white working and lower-middle class—realizes it is poor and precarious, and that its real enemies are not immigrants or foreign powers, but the billionaire class and the corporations hollowing them out. Right now, a huge part of the population is still under the nationalist illusion—that their suffering is due to China, or migrants, or “woke elites,” rather than the transnational oligarchy that views them as disposable labor just like it views Bangladeshis or Brazilians. Breaking this illusion—building a cross-racial, cross-class solidarity movement that connects struggling Americans with the global working class—is the nightmare scenario for the OCFC.
This is also the hardest task. Because, as you said, the oligarchs control the media apparatus. Every effort to build solidarity is met with division—racial, cultural, generational, anything to prevent the formation of a unified working-class front.
But here’s the thing: the material conditions are getting so bad that reality is starting to break through the propaganda. People see that their kids can’t afford rent, that their jobs are precarious, that billionaires got richer during COVID while they struggled to buy groceries. That anger is building. The problem is that it’s being misdirected—toward scapegoats.
𝐒𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬: 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞.
This is what we all need to do now, as if our lives depended on it, basically. Certainly, if we care about our children or anybody's children, this is what we must do.
The Media and Narrative Lock
The corporate media ecosystem is a fortress, but it’s also losing its grip. Traditional media is dying. Younger generations don’t trust it. Social media was supposed to be liberating, but now it’s being clamped down upon. Still, cracks exist. Independent platforms, podcasts, Substacks, decentralized media—there’s a hunger for real analysis. People know they’re being lied to; they just don’t always know what the truth is.
Building alternative information networks—through art, journalism, TikTok, YouTube, grassroots organizing—becomes crucial. But it has to connect directly to people’s material conditions, not just intellectual critique. People need to see that their rent, their healthcare costs, their job insecurity, their climate anxiety—all of it leads back to the same global predators.
Mass Non-Compliance
This is the nuclear option that terrifies the elite: strikes, rent boycotts, debt refusal, wildcat labor actions—collective withdrawal of participation from the system. The system runs on debt and labor extraction. If enough people refuse—stop paying, stop working, clog the courts, overwhelm the evictions, refuse debt repayment—it breaks. That’s what the Occupy movement started hinting at, but it was crushed before it got there.
This kind of disruption requires mutual aid networks to soften the blow for those participating. You can’t tell people to risk eviction or starvation without building parallel support systems. That’s what movements like Cooperation Jackson, some tenant unions, and mutual aid groups are experimenting with. It’s slow and fragile, but it points to a future where communities create their own safety nets, decoupled from the predatory market.
Localized Resilience
Parallel to disruption, there’s the slower work of rebuilding autonomy from below—local food systems, community-owned energy, cooperatives, land trusts, alternative currencies. These don’t overthrow the system overnight, but they create pockets of resilience that reduce dependence on corporate supply chains and financial systems. When enough communities are doing this, the leverage of capital weakens, because people have other ways to meet their needs.
Indigenous land defense movements and Black cooperative traditions in the US South already know this well. The future might lie in combining these practices with tech-savvy, climate-aware younger generations who see the collapse coming and want to build lifeboats before the flood hits.
What Winning Might Look Like
Let’s be honest—we’re not getting a utopia where billionaires hand over their yachts and we all sing in the fields. But victory might look like pushing the system to a breaking point where power is redistributed—where unfairly accumulated wealth is seized, debt is abolished, monopolies are broken up, land is reclaimed, and new political-economic structures emerge that prioritize survival and care over profit and exploitation.
It could be messy, uneven—some regions reclaiming autonomy while others sink deeper into oligarchic control. It could look like federations of semi-autonomous zones rather than a single revolutionary state. But the goal would be to fracture the power of the OCFC—to drag wealth back down into the commons and rebuild from there.
Why It’s Not Impossible
Because cracks are already showing. The elite is scared. That’s why they’re ramping up censorship, militarizing the police, and pushing "divide and rule" harder than ever. If they were truly confident, they wouldn’t be this desperate.
And climate change is the wildcard. It’s going to force a reckoning. Populations are going to move. Supply chains will fail. The OCFC thinks it can surf this chaos, but chaos has a way of overwhelming even the most calculated plans. When that moment comes—the question is whether people are organized, connected, and ready to seize the rupture.
Final Thought: It’s Already Happening
Look at the UAW strikes, the teachers' strikes, the mutual aid during COVID, the water defenders, the land back movements, tenant unions refusing evictions. It’s small, fragmented—but it’s there. It’s the early form of what could become a working-class internationalism that finally breaks through the nationalist, racial divisions the oligarchs rely on.
𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕.”
