High Trust v. Low Trust

Somehow Fani survives, Haiti doesn't

Mar 17, 2024

Happy Ides of March! Or as we call it at Sovereign Sunday,

One of the abstractions that has been running through my mind recently is the difference between High Trust and Low Trust Societies, and the corrosion in trust, productivity and standards of living that our descent from a high-trust to a low trust society is causing.

High-trust societies are characterized by a strong belief in the reliability and integrity of individuals, institutions, and the government.

This trust leads to economic efficiency, as fewer regulations are needed, and enhances social capital, fostering stronger community bonds. It results in more effective governance due to higher compliance with laws, encourages innovation and collaboration by reducing fear of betrayal, and improves resilience during crises with more coordinated responses.

Maintaining such trust requires continuous efforts towards transparency, accountability, and mutual respect within the community.

Sadly, DEI, mass immigration, affirmative action, speech police and the lot have significantly eroded high-trust groups and societies.

We've transitioned from a system characterized by the free and open exchange of ideas and personal interactions to a mere shadow of its former self.

Stephen Covey in "First Things First" contrasts low-trust and high-trust cultures within organizations, emphasizing the impact on supervision, evaluation, motivation, span of control, and structure.

Low-trust environments are characterized by tight control and monitoring, forced rankings, and extrinsic motivation, leading to restrictive systems and excessive bureaucracy.

High-trust cultures, on the other hand, promote self-supervision, self-evaluation, intrinsic motivation, and a broader span of control, fostering empowerment and creativity within less bureaucratic structures.

Covey suggests that cultivating a high-trust culture not only aligns with ethical principles but also enhances efficiency by reducing the need for micromanagement and rigid control mechanisms, thereby saving time and fostering a more positive organizational environment.

When we introduce foreign, or incompetent outsiders into high-trust situations, we see exactly what we’re seeing now in society; across the board collapse of institutional competence and progress.

As an aside on this topic, one of the counter-signatures of high-trust networks is the ability to cultivate and develop resiliency, one of the core building blocks of mental toughness.

In a high-trust society, mistakes are tolerated, even encouraged. In a low-trust society, even simple misunderstandings can be fatal; thus removing the needed fertile soil to fail, adjust, learn or OODA Loop it as my friends put it from both a mental, physical and character perspective.

The idea of the OODA Loop is fairly simple. We make mistakes, we learn, we adjust and we test. That fail forward fast iteration leads to rapid progress and thriving.

In a low-trust society or group, mistakes are often grounds for termination, be it physically from employment or excommunicado via Cancel Culture and the Thought Police.

Without high-trust, we never learn, we never improve, and we never utilize the knowledge of the group to crowdsource the correct answers.

Just look at Twitter or social media when it came to the Covid crisis. Had doctors, journalists or citizens been able to freely discuss the relative tradeoffs of a hastily developed ‘vaccine’ or the other treatments that were readily available (Vitamin D, Ivermectin, Zinc etc), we would have come to more logical and sane conclusions before shutting down a $100T world economy, inflicting severe academic and emotional damage on children by shutting schools and rushing to market an untested, experimental injection.

Variant viewpoints were not only censored, the ‘perpetrator’ was often kicked off the platform and canceled. Doctors lost their licenses, citizens lost their jobs, and all of us suffered 100X what we should have because we’ve become a low-trust, high censorship society (all by plan notably).

Cultivating and shaping resiliency is critical to emotional and character development.

And it’s much easier to cultivate and train for resiliency in a high-trust environment.

On that note, here’s my favorite clip of the week by Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia addressing a group of Stanford students (perhaps the same students who cried, heckled and tried to disrupt Federal Judge Kyle Duncan from speaking at the school because they disagreed with his opinion).

Now that the Prime Minister of Haiti fled the country and cannibals are taking over, it’s time to reflect back to a few short years ago when the reality (and gender) bending crew rechristened Haiti as a genuine paradise despite over a century of evidence to the contrary.

That’s right, remember when celebs and political elites rushed to Haiti’s defense calling Trump an unabridged racist and idiot? How’d that age?

They even created a T-Shirt and whole campaign around Haiti just to impugn Trump?

I wonder how many White Liberal celebrities kept these shirts they made after Trump said the county was a ‘shithole’, due in part to Hillary Clinton and her corrupt Foundation?

I’d love to hear an update from these ranks. Where’s Alex Stein when you need him?

Let’s check in on things.

The man currently running the country is a cannibal known as ‘Barbecue’ and videos of him doing exactly that to his enemies and snacking on humans like it’s a Thanksgiving turkey leg are making the rounds on the interwebs.

The country is in complete collapse and roving gangs are simultaneously hosting ‘cook outs’, gunning down their enemies, and still finding time to produce Worldstar Hip-Hop quality videos.

While Democrats and the Biden administration are licking their lips at importing an entire nation of Haitians into South Florida and weakening the Republican stranglehold on the Free State of Florida, Governor DeSantis has shown again why he is one of the best Governors in the U.S. and was once a terrific candidate for President despite running the world’s worst campaign.

DeSantis has mobilized Florida’s coast guard to interdict Haitians fleeing their country. Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to admit Haitians any other place they show up and has flown over 180,000 this year alone to various cities including direct flights to JFK and elsewhere.

Just like Venezuela emptied its jails and sent it’s ‘best and brightest’ to the United States, Haiti is now doing the same.

A few things to consider before us ‘racists’ roll out the red carpet for the entire citizenry of a failed nation 9 times over.

67 is the average IQ in Haiti. 75 is the minimum considered competent to stand trial in a court of law. Add in their affinity for demonic voodoo and DeSantis and Americans are right to be hesitant about openly adding Haitians to the Great Replacement -Cloward Piven melting pot of millions of invaders making their way to the US.

The MSM is doing its best to condition Americans to accept these refugees who lack the culture, ethics or intelligence to function productively in our society. In fact, they’ve already started the process of referring to Haitians as ‘migrants’ before they’ve even decided to flee the country.

The plan is as obvious as it is deliberate.

Let France send aid or take the refugees. After all, Haiti was a French colony once upon a time.

And let us not forget the time Donald Trump was castigated for mentioning the Clinton Foundation’s role in helping destroy Haiti during the 2020 Presidential Debates.

The unsettling reality we must confront is the Clinton Foundation's dubious activities in Haiti, which remain egregiously under-scrutinized. It's a glaring testament to the double standards prevailing in our justice system that the Foundation's principals walk free, shielded by their entanglement with the corridors of power.

In any other scenario, individuals engaged in such blatant corruption and self-serving schemes under the guise of 'charity' would face stringent legal consequences. This saga over the past two decades starkly illustrates the impunity enjoyed by those who cozy up to our national security elite, underscoring a pressing need for accountability and transparency in our institutions.

Here’s a good thread that only scratches the surface.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1767187888226353620.html

Fani Willis

I've been on the record saying it, and I've been spot-on: the Trump legal circus is, without exception, a farce. But what's unfolding in the Fani Willis case is catapulting that farce into the stratosphere.

Let's break it down to brass tacks.

The logical move from Judge McAfee to the mountain of evidence that Fani committed perjury, embezzled funds and committed honest services fraud? Dismiss Willis from the fray and send her packing to the bar for a disciplinary shakedown—or better yet, have her fellow Georgia prosecutors slap her with charges of perjury and embezzlement.

But no, the Judge pulled a bizarre, half-baked version of Solomon's baby split. Instead of cutting through the nonsense, he found just one of the liars - Ms. Fani’s handsomely compensated boyfriend unfit to continue. It's not just a miscarriage of justice; it's an outright butchery.

But here's the kicker: this move does nothing to scrub away that shady vibe. In fact, the stench smells even worse and has legal observers scratching their heads.

If Nathan Wade's shown the door, how come Fani Willis gets a free pass? McAfee's zipped on that one. No word.

Here’s some tortured reasoning from the Judge who just happens to have worked for the accused, donated to her campaign, and voted for her. Only in today’s Bizarro Clown World does the above facts not rise to the occasion of a conflict of interest.

The notion that a district attorney can commit perjury in the very courtroom where she prosecutes her political adversaries, and yet it's considered trivial, not warranting her removal from the case, is fascinating.

With three decades of legal experience under my belt, it's intriguing to witness the law bending and morphing to cater to the intense disdain for Donald Trump.

It’s going to humorous when the same contorted ‘rules’ these lunatics are creating merely to destroy Trump are then applied back at them when Republicans take office.

In what alternate version of reality did we ever think that American Exceptionalism would be burned down in order to get one man, let alone a former president?

But that’s the political sphere these days. You only sow for today, never reap what you’ve put in place.

Again, we know there is a different standard for prosecutors, agents, minorities and Democrats, but this may be a bridge too far. Fani’s crimes and ‘indiscretions’ are so blatant, so outrageous, that it beggars belief that an appellate court won’t look at this down the road and be rendered speechless by Judge McAfee’s leniency.

Rules for me, not for thee works when the whole world wasn’t forced to watch this hood rat testify and lie in open court and check the receipts for the luxury vacations, flights and dinners, all on the taxpayers’ dime.

If nothing else, this is another huge nail in the coffin of the myth that the Justice system is anything but ‘just’ or fair. Like nearly every other American 'institution, it’s become a cesspool of incompetence and corruption. Until Judges, prosecutors and agents have to start living by the same rules their victims and defendants are forced to live by, jury nullification and open disgust and disregard for the ‘System’ should be the rule.

This Fani verdict is the ultimate wake-up call. Traditional electoral victories aren't enough to turn the tide. The state of affairs is beyond redemption. Clear perjury was committed. Money was laundered. There are breaches of campaign finance regulations and other serious felonies. Yet, the pursuit persists unabated.

Regardless, I’ll stick with my original forecast - Trump wins this case, and Fani’s career is over.

Here’s a priceless clip of Fani in 2020 calling for the previous DA to be REMOVED from office for doing exactly what she just did.

And here’s Victor Davis Hanson laying it all out from Fani Willis to Robert Hur and the Joe Biden classified docs case.

No Law Left in America—From Willis to Hur?

From the testimonies of at least two associates of Fani Willis and Nathan Wade, from the inconsistent and self-contradictory statements of Willis and Wade themselves especially about large “cash” remittances, without any supporting proof, to Wade from Willis, from text messages from their associate Terrence Bradley, from phone records pinpointing their locations, from the preposterous nature of Willis’s use of the race card in both her testimony and her church appearance, Judge Scott McAfee surely knew—well aside from the bizarre contortions of using a racketeering charge to get Trump, whom she had demonized in her campaign for office and fund-raising efforts—that Willis herself was guilty of a number of felonies.

Namely that she was lying under oath; that she was lying about her cash transfers, and that she was pursuing a political vendetta against the current leading candidate for president.

Yet McAfee allowed her to stay on the case after dismissing Wade (which was a gift to the prosecution, given his incompetence and his apparent unlawful behavior by charging the state of Georgia for 24 straight hours of legal work.)

So the question arises, what would a Georgia prosecutor have to do to be disqualified from a case by Judge McAfee?

Lie even more under oath?

Have three, not just two, witnesses contradict her sworn testimony?

Have thirty or forty more telephone pings belie her testimony of her whereabouts?

Have, say, emails in addition to the current texts, of an associate contradicting almost everything she said?

In other words, McAfee nullified the evidence before him and removed the less culpable of the two guilty parties, given all these illegalities originated with Willis himself.

Is there still a law against perjury and fraud—or does ideology and race now determine guilt or innocence in America?

In his recent congressional testimony, the Democrats cleverly pivoted to hammer Hur on his correct characterization of Biden as essentially demented.

That melodrama was in their interest, given that Hur’s lengthy report otherwise revealed no real reason not to indict Biden.

His guilt was overwhelming.

Not under dispute according to Hur were the facts that Biden:

1) had unlawfully and knowingly removed and retained classified files since his senate days, possibly since 1973, or over a half-century;

2) removed the files to a possible 9 different locations, few of them secure, as evidenced by the sloppy mess and dilapidated boxes of files in the Biden garage;

3) that Biden removed them not inadvertently but did so to further his political career and to profit by providing a ghostwriter with classified material to enhance his memoirs—that had garnered a $8 million advance in a book deal;

4) That Biden had no statuary authority, before his presidency, to declassify any of these classified files;

5) that Biden knowingly disclosed the files’ presence and contents to his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, who had no security clearance;

6) that Biden is on tape at least as early as 2017 admitting that he was in violation of the law, and yet did not come forward for nearly six years, and then only in fear that his own DOJ’s special counsel was soon to indict Trump for the very same exposure—willfully retaining files at his home that he knew were classified;

and 7) that ghostwriter Zwonitzer willfully destroyed state’s evidence when he erased his incriminating tapes (recovered by Hur’s forensics team) and yet was never prosecuted for obstruction of justice or destroying requested materials.

So as in the Willis case, what would Biden have to do to become indicted?

Removed files for 60 years?

Remove them to 10 different locations and throw the contents on the floor?

Remove them for a $10 million book deal?

Be on tape since 2010 that he knew he was in violation of the law and did nothing to rectify that for 12 rather than 6 years?

Have his ghostwriter go full Hillary and destroy with sledgehammers the taped evidence of his illegality?

Was not the now exempt Zwonitzer’s deliberate destruction of incriminating and requested evidence far more serious than the various Trump aides facing felony convictions for allegedly moving classified files around on Trump’s orders?

So what happened?

Likely the following:

Hur was shocked after he completed his investigation over just how guilty Biden was, and just how asymmetrical that fact would become given the simultaneous indictments of Trump for less criminal exposure.

Yet he was not about to take out the likely Democratic presidential nominee and current president, in the fashion his special prosecutor twin Jack Smith had been tasked to do just that by Merrick Garland.

So Hur squared the circle by using the Comey jury ruse: Biden was guilty of violating the law, but he was so enfeebled that no jury would convict him. Hur feared the consequences of indicting Biden far more than he did the pushback about his accurate characterization of his dementia.

So what?

There is really no legal system left as we once knew it.

We have a prosecutor who has likely violated more laws than her target and yet the law was warped to excuse her in the same degree it was contorted to ensure that Trump was indicted.

We have one special prosecutor who found overwhelming evidence that a president was guilty of removing classified files; guilty of disclosing their contents to a contractor working for him; and guilty of keeping these facts hidden until forced to reveal him by the asymmetrical investigation of his political rival who was indicted by his own department of justice for the virtual same crimes that were dropped for Biden.

Finally, since when are any Americans able to plead either racial considerations or cognitive challenges to nullify legal consequences for their criminal activity? - VDH

On the Bright Side - Bitcoin

While the news above is painful for any sane, rational person, there are plenty of white pills out there right now including the rejection of woke AI and the clumsiness of the regime actors.

One other bright spot which I’ve been talking about for close to a decade now, is Bitcoin.

Many people don't grasp the extent to which Bitcoin is a counter-move in the political arena. It's setting up an unalterable worldwide financial benchmark, giving those who are industrious and have a long-term vision in any economy the chance to sidestep the devaluation of the US dollar.

These folks, currently at the mercy of unhinged administrative systems (suffering not just monetary loss but an overall inflation in all aspects of life), naturally lean towards solid currency and definitive standards. Unlike the gold standard, which democratic regimes can discard, Bitcoin embodies an unassailable system of truth that becomes invulnerable once it gains sufficient momentum—and it's already there. It's an extensive global endeavor aimed at retaliation and correction.

And it’s a wonderful hedge against the insanity of the current ‘System’.

Hopefully, you’ve listened to me over the past 3 years and own some. If not, look for dips to get on board.

Tyson Foods Replacement Theory

Replacement Theory is just right-wing propaganda right? Right?

What I’m Reading and Watching….

Lot of folks not going to be happy with this one. Left-wing rag The Guardian writes, ‘Time to stop using term ‘long Covid’ as symptoms no worse than those after flu, Queensland’s chief health officer says’

Keep an eye on Devin from Cognition and Claude-3 on the AI front. Things are accelerating.

More Naval Ravikant this week as Tim Denning gives an excellent tweet thread on some key Naval concepts on becoming rich.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1768578180355395624.html

Here’s a terrific interview with Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe on the future of innovation.