Note – what is written in here is not written in this detail anywhere on the internet. My understanding of this subject matter is deep. I have been active in politics for 38 years. And what is written in here as close to a completed dissertation as you will see on the current battles in this country.

An old friend of mine likes to poke and prod me on my Facebook by posting memes about Trump that are just personal attacks, not actual policy issues. In a recent exchange, he laughed off the existence of the deep state, as though it was a fake boogeyman that Trump invented to then become a victim of it. It actually dawned on me that he legit doesn’t know what it is, and why it’s become a problem for the country that needed to be taken down. And – I realized it’s possible millions of Americans do not know what it is either.

Worse yet, most left news sources never talk about it other than to mock the president, as though it didn’t exist.

Strategy

I was a world class chess player in my teens, having competed in the World Open at age 14 in Philadelphia. As an 8th grader, I helped take my HS chess team to the county championship and 3rd place in the state of PA. For my foreign readers, PA was at the time the 5th most populated state in the country (out of 50 states).

I bring this up because my mind – from a very young age, was able to detect patterns and paths no one else could see. The WAY I think is strategic. I make screw ups like everyone else, but my PLANNING of actions usually have 5-8 steps coming behind it, with iterations and variations on each line. It’s a way to recognize danger, attack a problem, and secure the future. You have to recognize traps, pins, forks – in other words, every move you make in that game is MEANT to form a FUTURE position.

It just so happens to be that when I grew up, it came right after Fischer defeated Spassky in the World Chess championships. And, anyone that has spent 5 minutes in the chess world understands that the Russians are the best at this. We obviously have Magnus now as the best who has ever played, but history is riddled with dozens of the top players to have ever played were Russian.

This is some mad respect to them.

But how they THINK is differently that how the west thinks. We think in terms of presidential elections, mid terms, and wedge issues. Russia, and many other countries, think in terms of generational moves.

Meaning – the cold war is mostly where the “Deep state” started, and with this, it was meant to shape the future of the US. How?

  1. we may not be able to beat them militarily. We must do this from within their systems.
  2. We need to send Russians there to live as Americans to spy on them and integrate them
  3. We need to divide the country.
  4. We need to take over the education systems
  5. We need to grow government power
  6. We need to remove weapons from Americans
  7. We need to own the media
  8. We then strike by taking their rights, using “disinformation” as a means of censoring
  9. We then jail political opponents and bankrupt them
  10. We then kill people who do not comply

This sounds like a fairy tale conspiracy. Until you watch the full Yuri Bezmenov interview, you need to shut the hell up about conspiracy theories.

The “useless idiot”

It is defined as “A useful idiot or useful fool is a pejorative description of a person, suggesting that the person thinks they are fighting for a cause without fully comprehending the consequences of their actions, and who does not realize they are being manipulated by the cause’s leaders or by other political players.[1][2] The term was often used during the Cold War in the Western Bloc to describe non-communists regarded as susceptible to communist propaganda and psychological manipulation.[1]“

For example, the media somehow has convinced many American people that the killing of the Ayatollah and the bombing of Iran is “done at the behest of the Jews”. I cannot believe the amount of Antisemitism I am seeing today. It’s disgusting. In January, Iran killed 45,000 of their own people, execution style, because of the uprisings. Trump said, “help is on the way!”.

But everyone hates Trump so much, they somehow have to use a spin of sorts. No one seems to give a shit that Persians were occupied by Arabs who forced them into Sharia law. Iran changed. And for my entire life, I have seen Iran chant “death to America” and then fund terrorist proxies to attack us and Israel for 47 years.

Yet somehow, the leftist media wheels people out by the truck load to now tell you how dangerous this is. And, many now somehow have floated that Trump is a pawn of Netanyahu for attacking Iran. After they floated for 10 years that Trump was a Putin puppet. As if trying to help 90 million Persians to not be slaughtered isn’t enough to help them. That is a GOOD thing. Yet the media is programming “useless idiots” into thinking Trump is stupid, feckless, and a pawn of Israel. That he is just trying to steal Iranian oil to enrich himself and his buddies.

And this is how you build useless idiots. But there is a machine behind this that the useless idiots do not comprehend, because CNN doesn’t talk about it, they don’t know about it. Let’s dig in to what it is.

Origins

The Soviets spend a lot of time trying to embed their spies inside of the country. And, these spies were responsible for not only stealing national secrets, but funding organizations meant to divide America. While this show was fiction, the “Americans” were based on how the Soviets did have American towns inside of them where they “grew” Americans who were Russian spies. They spoke the language perfectly, watched American TV, and knew everything about us. Then they were sent here to do their worst.

One thing that Yuri talked about was how the Soviet plan was to get into the classroom to indoctrinate our children. Capture them from a small age, and brainwash them. In 1979, the Department of Education was started by Jimmy Carter. It was a government organization founded to centralize our educational system. Now, instead of teachers in classrooms being able to teach how they want, curriculum is centralized. Whichever faction then controls this – has the power to indoctrinate our children. That generation of students then goes to college and they become teachers, and they continue to teach what they have learned.

This was the Soviet plan. From a Yuri 1983 interview. He was a former KGB officer and the Kremlin later killed him.

In 1984, there was a landmark case that then planted seeds to grow government exponentially. Chevron.

Our Constitution defines 3 branches of government: legislative, executive, and judiciary. The president is the commander in chief of the military, meant to defend our nation from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC. The president also is the head of the executive branch of government. The legislative branch creates laws, then the president signs them into be. The judiciary then ensures that laws do not violate the Constitution. We will see how this has been bastardized recently.

But first, Chevron basically said that Congress cannot possibly create all of the legislation needed to govern the country – that regulations should be made by industry experts. So, you then have things like the EPA creating endless rules that are punishable by jail or fines. Meaning, the Constitution does not permit unelected bureaucrats from putting me in jail because my fence is 3″ above some arbitrary number some dude in Oregon says.

What has happened is what happens. The government grew exponentially in size. To justify their jobs, these bureaucrats needed to keep writing more and more regulations. Then, they needed more and more people to enforce these regulations. Worse, they are all unionized and it’s not really possible to fire a lot of these people.

Every year, gradually, Americans ceded more authority to nameless, faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats. With this, as size and importance grew, so did power.

And this, my friends, is why we are where we are today. Because what has happened is our budget has grown so much, that whomever controls the keys to this, controls the money flows.

Conservatives – traditionally – have wanted small government. I have ALWAYS been a FISCAL conservative. However, what I witnessed during my lifetime was this:

  • Conservatives would spend more money on wars. This enriched defense contractors. The idea was simple. Our American markets need to be able to sell products all over the world. Many markets would not let us in. So we bomb them so we can sell blue jeans there. I am anti-war. I wanted us to draw down our military and use it for our defense, and the defense of our allies.
  • Democrats would want to spent more money on entitlements. Help the poor. Seems like a noble cause until you get angry that people aren’t getting off their asses to work, and you see an entire political party now trying to buy votes.

I hated both parties because of the spending that is out of control.

However, the MACHINE kept growing. The right became the Cheney war mongers, and the left became the party of stealing money from people to buy off votes.

Trump promised to take down the machine.

And this is where all fucks got lost. This was the beginning of the machine fighting back.

I own real estate. Not just my home, but long term rentals and a short term rental. What you know if you are a business owner of any kind is that the layers of regulation have bankrupted us as a country. Business privilege licenses. Permits that take forever to get approved. Red tape for years. In 2022, I lost like $20,000 in rents because I had to deal with endless inspections from the city before I could rent. A water heater was 1″ lower than it should be off the floor in the garage, and I had to spend $4000 to get a plumber out there to raise it 1″. Then, it took 6 weeks for an inspector to get out there, and I had to pay hundreds of dollars for each inspection. The levels of rage and anger I have towards bureaucracy is unfathomable.

This was a microcosm of American industry. The endless OSHA regulations. The safety officers. The inspections. The thousands if not millions of dollars to retrofit something. Permits. Environmental inspections that could take YEARS. Endless demands from unions.

Costs spiraled for small business and drove them out of business. Large industry just offshored stuff to avoid all of the hassle.

America was closed for business.

Trump is a real estate developer, and talked about the endless crap he has had to deal with. He then talked about “the swamp”.

And when he ran on taking down regulations and defeating the “swamp”, he – and MAGA – were not prepared for how the swamp fought back.

Government efficiency

This is an oxymoron like “Jumbo Shrimp”. I had the pleasure of working for the US military for 15 years. And with this, you have 3 layers of workers. The troops were not a lot, as I worked on an installation that was the “business” of the army”. Then there were civilians who were unionized and mostly treated us contractors as garbage second rate citizens – despite the fact we did most of the work. Half of my government counterparts I never met. People who were useless and never brought to meetings. Others on long term disability. Others just taking up space. Within the civilian ranks, I observed 1 dedicated strong worker for every 7-10 useless idiots. And that 1 strong dedicated worker did the work of those 7.

Everyone who works in government knows what I’m talking about. So they hire in contractors then to do the work the civilians are too lazy to do, or they feel it’s beneath them. Every day they like to remind you of your place. But I stayed. The job was amazing, and the few government people I worked closely with, I admired. They were making half of what they could in the private sector. I would be reminded weekly by someone who worked closely with me that my salary was outrageous. And – that was inappropriate. I would have taken a pay cut to work beside him, but because I wasn’t military, I could not get into the job. It was a club they didn’t invite me to. And my contractors did 10x the work of their government counterparts. Many times they talks about getting rid of the contractors, and the government people weren’t capable of doing what we do. So we stayed.

At the same time, I would see them every September ordering massive amounts of office supplies. Why? If they didn’t spend what was in their budget, they would lose it.

And that is the problem.

Government managers are not rewarded for efficiency. In fact, they are punished. If my government counterpart had 5 minutes of being honest, he could have picked 10 of his people, 15 of my people, and made a division stronger than the 150 people we had there. But he could not snap his fingers and fire 25 useless people. Why? Because if he told his boss that 25 people were dead weight, they would never be replaced. And – down the road, more work MIGHT come, and we would be understaffed without the ability to hire more.

This is the problem all throughout government now.  If you try to cut a dime, you may never see it again.  So managers are never incentivized to make the system more efficient.  They need to hold the status quo. 

Now, think of all of the agencies under the executive branch that do this.  As their people continue to create more regulations, to punish us MORE for non-compliance.  And, they need to hire more and more people for oversight.  More HR.  More IT.  More computers.  More office buildings. 

And the entire time, all of this is paid for by taxpayer money. 

This is the swamp.  Who has the power to jail you, and none of us ever voted for them.  It is a silent government operating within the federal government, not accountable to anyone. 

And the swamp realizes the term “efficiency” would decimate all of their power and authority. 

This is taxpayer money.  And all of this stuff is funded with garbage in tons of bills as last minute throw ins.  No one ever looks at these budgets.  Ever. 

Until Musk. 

Talk to government people about efficiency.  And, 75% of them will feel you are trying to PERSONALLY attack them and fight you to the death over a job they feel entitled to have.  25% would tell you it’s a shit show, but there’s nothing you can do about it.  In 2012, I was almost fired because I came up with a plan to save the DoD about $750 million.  I shared it with my government project manager from another installation, and I was pulled into an office and screamed at for like an hour.  It’s a hard lesson to learn, but no one in government wants you to touch their shit.  They all want you to look somewhere else.

Unless you have worked in this gridlock shit show, it’s hard to describe it. 

Now when you start to think of this, start to now think of:

  • Dod
  • DHS
  • EPA
  • IRS

There are somewhere now like 450 government agencies.  And they have grown every year.  This means the monster needs more tax money to feed it.  Your taxes go up – OR – they start to tell you rich people aren’t paying their fair share of taxes. 

This is to turn the plebes against the rich. 

To feed the swamp. 

The solution?

Kill the swamp. 

Swamp – meet the Deep state

The first cousin of the swamp is the deep state.  While I talked about the DoD and DHS and the like above, you now have to start looking at the state department.  The CIA.  The DIA.  And the other 20 or so intelligence agencies. 

All of them have this bloat as well. 

All of them are entrenched bureaucrats. 

All of them feel their jobs are important. 

All of them need lunch money to continue to exist.

And one man wanted to take their lunch money. 

And that man had the full weight of the entire federal government system fighting him. 

But it gets far worse.  FAR worse.

Because of all of the corruption we are now seeing with the Learing center in MN, you have independent 23-year old Nick Shirley breaking stories on the internet that no one at CNN, Fox, or anywhere else knew about?  It turns out, many newspapers are aware of this kind of stuff, but they can’t run the stories.  Why?

  • Powerful friends who are actually profiting
  • Advertisers who get a taste of the corruption and will pull their ad money if stories are run

Turns out, this corruption appears to be everywhere.  Paid for, by your tax dollars.  And as your costs of living go up – these very people are now trying to turn you against the “rich”.  Who have been taxed to the gills and now leave NYC, California, etc. 

You have to understand – the swamp and the deep state need your money to exist.

Takedown

Trump’s big thing is “de-regulation”.  This allows businesses to operate more cost effectively, hire more people, and be profitable.  This led to a roaring economy from 2017-2021.  But the problem he had his first term was that he was not aware of the hornet’s nest he poked. No clue. 

He needed to be ended.  Destroyed.  Humiliated.  Bankrupted.  He is positioning himself to take down the funding of the swamp and the deep state.  Not for “rich” people – so people like me can operate a mom and pop operation with speed.  So I don’t lose rents to bureaucracy.  So I can actually make money to then invest into the American economy – instead of losing money in rents and paying local stooges to approve my hot water heater height.  He was fighting for my ability to operate. 

It made a lot of sense.  I had seen the massive amounts of crippling bureaucracy.  I had seen my own investments tank because of it. 

But he had no idea what was coming.  He was not a polished politician, so people like myself gave him a pass on flubs, inaccuracies, braggadocio, and insults.  He was being attacked from 90 angles, and he tried to fight back, and everything he said and did was twisted and portrayed in the worst possible way. 

But what Obama did?  That was some evil shit. 

Obama, according to Tulsi and Kash, ordered Clapper to use Hillary’s fake intel to then feed this fake stuff into the intel apparatus.  The intent was to disrupt a presidency – of someone duly elected by people like me.  I was not a racist.  I voted for Obama twice.  I was not a xenophobe.  I voted for the Deporter in chief twice.  I was not a homophobe – my brother is gay and he was the best man at my wedding, and Trump was at Elton John’s wedding in 2003 when the Clintons and Obamas were both distanced from gay marriage because it wasn’t politically expedient.  

But Obama then had this order – and the intel community KNEW the intel didn’t exist, and fabricated it at the behest of Clapper – I can’t remember if it was Clapper or Brennan.  But the point was that 5 intel groups were given directives. 

These intel people did what intel people do.  Release this to the newspapers in a “leak”.  This is why daily you had CNN talking about “the walls closing in”.  This is why you had republicans in his cabinet turning against him – they were read into this intel, then decided to subvert the president.  Not because they hated Trump, but because they felt they trusted the intel community, and they were being patriotic Americans to then slow, delay, and side track anything Trump wanted to do.  You would then hear of all kinds of leaks from inside.  The infighting.  The anger. 

Trump called it the “Russian Hoax”. 

And, he was right.  Tulsi has the receipts. 

So they tried to impeach him on joke charges.  Impeach means the house “formally accuses”.  It doesn’t mean you are guilty.  So saying someone is impeached is perhaps serious, but only really serious if it wasn’t the opposition party and some turncoats against him. The serious part is the senate, and if he was found guilty by the senate, he would have been removed as president. 

What was the plan?

There is a group in this country who are far left anarchists/communists/Marxists.  These are the products of the American education system, sponsored by the Department of Education and your local universities.  They have been told that the free markets are evil.  They seek to divide everyone by victimhood status.  They literally voted in a communist in NYC to take your property.  In CA, they want to do a “wealth tax” to seize your unrealized gains on investments. 

This group is a sub-group of the progressive branch. 

I was a liberal inside of the democrat party.  Liberals stood for freedom of speech.  The Marxists wanted censorship. 

But what you then find is this Marxist branch is funded by groups.  Heavily.  It turns out, this funding was a business model.  Sow discord.  Create chaos.  Intimidate people into not being able to speak up – which is fascism.  The “antifa” or “anti-fascists” are labeled as “against fascism”, but in reality, they use fascistic means to carry out their plans. 

They have been funded by taxpayer money.  Let me tell you how….

Marxists/leftists inside of government have setup all of these NGOs – or “non-government organizations”.  At their face value, you can think of them as maybe an NGO to create clean water in a country in Africa for $10 million per year.  We think this is good.  It is.  But for every one of them, there were 5-10 that were there to do things like “study sex changes in the outskirts of India” or “transgender education in Ecuador”.  But mostly, many of these NGOs operated as a financed arm of the intelligence communities.  It’s how we helped overthrow governments for 70 years. 

But this then was turned against our people.  And hence, this is what the democratic party is today.  And, worse, some of them don’t care because they are Marxists.  Others are polite democrats who have legitimately been brainwashed to think Trump hates all immigrants.  Or blacks.  Or Asians.  They have been fed a steady dose, daily, that Trump is evil.  Anything he does must be stopped at all costs. 

Why?

Trump took out USAID.  Suddenly, the DNC went broke. 

Billions of taxpayer money was fed into these NGOs.  Many people for years would see this and just think that this was funding yet another clandestine operation and they wanted to look the other way.  But these NGOs then turned around and paid for these protests everywhere.  They funded democratic candidates. 

And you are told I joined a cult.  I have not changed a single political position in the last 28 years.  Half of Trump’s cabinet – even himself – are former classical liberal democrats.  You don’t have to look for very long to see how he funded Jessie Jackson’s presidency in the 1980s.  Or how he was friends with Mike Tyson.  Or how he was besties with Whoopie. 

Until he won the republican primary.  Then the machine turned against him.  I was an avid CNN watcher, and literally saw this change overnight.  A massive pivot.  In one day.  The network that was putting him on 24×7 to help defeat the republican primary candidates – then immediately shifted their focus to him being a buffoon.  A racist. 

And then Russiagate. 

The money flow is this……

Congress pays money into the executive branch swamp creatures.  They pay money into NGOs.  The swamp creatures and NGOs know their existence is paid for by democrats who want bigger government, and control. 

Money then flows back from these things into the dem party.  To protests.  To friends of the cause. 

Don’t like it?  The dems say they will then just add more supreme court justices.  They will kill the filibuster.  They are in the process of gerrymandering Virginia from a 6-5 blue edge to a 10-1 blue edge, meaning Virginia may never be red, ever again, in the history of our nation. 

CA is in the process of the same thing. 

All over money. 

The solution?

Take down the swamp and the corrupt intelligence state. 

Well, how?

Imagine you are at the FDA and you are getting paid incredibly well once you leave to go work at ABC company as an executive.  They want to leverage all of your contacts so they can promote more products.  Eventually, you leave ABC company and are appointed to lead the FDA.  The money coming in from corporations are influencing products sold here.  Why did it take RFK to kill Red Dye 40? 

Now, with this, you then have bureaucrats who run these agencies to then put leverage on these companies to buy advertising on news networks.  These news networks are always starved for cash, so they need advertisement money to exist.  Problem is, you cannot run stories critical of big Pharm.  Or big Ag.  Or big healthcare. 

You cannot run stories on corruption.  Because this is what is funding the democratic regime. 

End game

The end game in chess is where the pieces finally meet the end state.  It’s usually a few pieces left that battle over position, then race their pawns to the back ranks to be promoted. 

Let me be clear.  90% of dems are GOOD, DECENT, HONEST people who are mostly atheists.  They do not put their faith in God, but government, institutions, and their news.  And when you try to use logic to tell them what is going on, they dismiss you as crazy.  They cannot stand you attacking their institutions, like a republican may not like you attacking their belief in god. 

Trump is attacking their institutions they trust. 

But they shouldn’t. 

10% of dems are the crazy lunatic Marxist anarchists.  These are your antifa people.  Funded by dark money.  For an end purpose.

The United States has more natural resources than we know what to do with.  We import everything because we can print cash and export cash and get gold back.  Our Marxist enemies understand this.  I can’t blame them for not wanting us to print cash to take their shit.  We print cash to then build tanks. 

They need to take out this ability.  This is where the BRICS comes in.  China and Russia are the key elements of BRICS, and are communist nations who fight wars over generations, not presidential cycles. 

So if you are China and Russia, how do you defeat a printing press?

  1. Endless wars.  Enriches the defense sector.  Puts us in endless debt. 
  2. Subversion. Take over department of Education
  3. Swamp.  Get massive government power over the people
  4. Intelligence.  Pass the PATRIOT act to spy on all citizens, at all times
  5. Take your guns.  Have news promote endless stories of mentally ill and deranged people killing others.  Paint this as a gun problem rather than comprehending 99.9999% of gun owners are not the problem.  Guns are what is needed in Iran to take out the IRGC.  They have none.  This happened in Venezuela as well
  6. Steal the wealth of the top people.  If top people can make kings, you need to defang them.  Part of this is understandable, when someone accumulates $400b in wealth.  But when the guy is the CEO of 10 companies and never sleeps, you are punishing the Einstein of our generation to pay for…..the swamp. 
  7. Gaslight your entire population with news over a generation that someone is evil by continuing a propaganda campaign.  Smith-Mundt was repealed in 2013, which is how Obama was then able to do this, and it’s how news agencies have been able to call Trump a Nazi for 10 years.  Freedom of speech has limitations, but the Smith-Mundt act was put in so the government could not turn it’s people against political opponents. 
  8. Take over news agencies to feed your population the daily scripture of where to hate.  Then, run endless stories to weaponize mentally deranged people to kill your political opponents, then try to blame guns so a population willingly lays down their guns. 
  9. If they do not willingly lay down their guns, continue to increase government size and power until the people cannot fight back.  Rig elections.  Turn states “forever blue” with gerrymandering. 
  10. Import non-citizens by the millions to affect the apportionment in the 14th amendment.  More people means more electoral power and more congressman.  Call anyone who is trying to stop this racist and xenophobic. 
  11. Tell people they are trying to save democracy, when they are actually the ones killing it. 
  12. Stack the Supreme court so any 2nd amendment rights challenges are blocked and forever not allowed. 
  13. Bankrupt and jail anyone who is in the way.  Lock down the country and force a central bank digital currency to then enslave your people into following Marxist edicts and beliefs or you are locked off from society and have no ability to buy anything. 
  14. Murder those who ultimately make too much sense and reveal the secrets.  This is the smoke around a famous 90s politician, and it’s how Seth Rich got unalived.  It’s how Trump was almost murdered.  It’s what happened to Charlie Kirk. 
  15. Take power.  Find those who resist, line them up against a wall, and shoot them.  No one has guns.  Turns into the USSR, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran. 

And dems have no idea any of this is going on. 

They think Trump is stupid.  A buffoon.  They are utterly convinced he is a racist for wanting to pass the SAVE act, when 80% of Americans support the stronger voting ID.  They literally think he’s a xenophobe for trying to deport people – the exact same thing Obama did.  They think he is a homophobic person, despite removing the ban on gay marriage from the Republican agenda and not pressuring anyone to overturn Oberfell.  They think he is a demonic warlord who never started a war from 2017-2021, and the battles he has initiated in this term have been swift and decisive strikes meant to help the long term stability of world peace.  It’s meant to reduce our need for a $1T per year military.  Leaving NATO is about having our allies actually pay THEIR fair share of defense, and they refuse to do so. 

Trump is the last bastion of hope we have for our Constitutional Republic. 

He is the last hope to reduce the size of government and the power these government agencies have over you.

He is the last hope to eliminate Middle East Wars.

He is the LAST hope to keep China and Russia from taking over world dominance, turning our currency into trash, and keeping you from the soup lines of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

He’s the LAST hope for keeping our firearms to protect our families from inner city violence and crazy people. 

He’s the LAST hope to keep our democracy intact with fair and free elections – something the Deep State is trying to take over – actively – to put in a puppet loyal to the machine. 

He’s the LAST hope of reducing the costs of defense by ending these things and bringing our troops home

He’s the LAST hope I have that my white hetero sons grow up without discrimination based on the color of their skin. 

He’s the LAST hope to break the chains of shitty food making us sick, to then feed us pills that we don’t need, to keep us from getting terminal illnesses that make big health and big insurance billions.

He’s the LAST hope of eliminating an indoctrination factory for ANY political candidate to take control of

He’s the LAST hope to eliminate useless government agencies and billions in government waste.

He’s the LAST hope to fight corrupt news

He’s the LAST hope to eliminate corruption of dark money going to ANY political party

He’s the LAST hope for any small business owner in this country who wants to actually make money in their businesses they invested in

He’s the LAST hope for industry in this country. 

He’s the LAST hope.

And half the country is ok if he is murdered tomorrow, like the hundreds of thousands of sick people who cheered when Charlie Kirk was murdered.

He is all of our LAST hopes.