https://briancates.substack.com/p/anonymous-story-peddlers-in-maga
The Trump base has had a serious problem within it for some time now.
People know not to trust NBC News or the New York Times anonymously sourced attacks on Trump and his great Dream Team Cabinet.
But a truly weird situation has developed where many in the Trump base are EAGERLY ACCEPTING anonymously-sourced attacks on Trump and his Dream Team Cabinet from very popular MAGA-centric celebrity personalities, podcasters, and social media influencers.
By the end of March, a lot of people in that Trump base are going to realize the anonymously-sourced slop illusion peddlers attacking Trump and his Dream Team Cabinet for the past year were messing with them.
I’ve taken to calling these popular “MAGA” accounts that counter public Trump administration messaging with made-up anonymously sourced attack slop:
The Just Trust Me, Bro! Anonymous Slop Story Peddlers™.
For the past year, I’ve watched The Usual Suspects feed their followers anonymously sourced stories that attacked Trump and this teams’:
integrity
loyalty
competency
intelligence
strategy
while these same slop-shit illusion peddlers get their followers to buy in to the narrative that PODCASTERS and SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS are more honest, loyal, competent, intelligent and better planners than Trump and his team are.
They are not.
And they never have been.
Bitter lesson for some people to learn, to stop swallowing anonymously sourced slop-shit stories based on who’s been telling them to you on a JUST TRUST ME, BRO! basis.
Steve Bannon, of course, is not the only one doing this anonymously sourced slop-shit for the past year.
He’s just one of the most PROMINENT that has been shoveling out the slop-shit.
There are PLENTY of celebrity journalists/podcasters/influencers all ‘cross the fruited plain of X and other social media doing the constant
JUST TRUST ME, BRO!
disinformation where they claim to they are HEARING FROM their uber-cool INSIDER LEAKERS from inside that TRUMP WHITE HOUSE and from inside the Trump team at THE TRUMP DOJ and from inside the Trump Team at the TRUMP FBI.
You trust these celebrity journalists/podcasters/influencers, that they have a BETTER GRASP of what is going on, that they are BETTER INFORMED than this President.
You ENJOY listening to them regale you with the latest INSIDER GOSSIP they are hearing from insider leakers from TRUMP’S INNER CIRCLE inside that White House, don’t you?
Well, of course you do.
Of course you enjoy listening to their stories.
Of course you enjoy listening to their anonymously sourced attack stories on this President and all those truly freaking evil and incompetent and dumbass people he’s tragically surrounded himself with in this administration.
You enjoy listening to these anonymously sourced stories from your favorite propagandist or you would not be a regular swallower of these stories, showing up for every report, post or livestream and eagerly looking to swallow more JUST TRUST ME, BRO! content.
Now, I’m gonna be honest here.
It’s amazing to me that a year into this new Trump term, where more people call themselves Anons & Digital Soldiers, that I’m watching so many people still fall for all of this anonymously-sourced crap from people they still trust.
They’ve spent a year making it INCREASINGLY OBVIOUS what they are doing, as they have STEPPED UP THE NARRATIVE for the past 3 months, carefully and repeatedly explaining to you that what a flaming disaster of a train wreck this new Trump term is.
Some of them have already made the turn, doing the flouncing exit out of the room where they dramatically announce they just can’t support this clueless President any longer and they are cutting ties. Others are transparently getting ready to.
You were told from the beginning to be careful who you followed, and take NOBODY’S FREAKING WORD FOR IT when it came to anonymously sourced attacks on this President and his team as they accomplish their important work in the saving of our nation.
You are STILL not doing it.
And you’re in my comments ARGUING WITH ME about this.
“C’mon man, I trust Bannon!”
Talk about the POINT going RIGHT OVER YOUR HEAD.
TRUST NO ONE.
Especially when the anonymously sourced slop-shit they’ve been GETTING YOU TO KEEP SWALLOWING for a year now led you be CONSTANTLY DEPRESSED and FULL OF ANXIETY and reacting in ENDLESS FEAR AND OUTRAGE over what a freakin’ awful, terrible, rotten, no-good lousy job Trump’s truly awful team has supposedly been doing.
I spent a year watching what clever people have been doing to you. And it angers me.
That when I tell you to live up to your calling to be an Anon or a Digital Soldier and STOP SWALLOWING all of that ANONYMOUSLY SOURCED SLOP-SHIT from your favorite podcaster or influencer, you get mad at ME.
I’m not the one abusing and exploiting your emotions. Your anger is misdirected.
EVENTS are going to overtake these Slop-Shitters you are still following and allowing to influence you. Half will suddenly start regaling you with stories they are suddenly hearing from their inside leakers about what an AWESOME JOB Trump and his team have actually been doing, they got it wrong, ha ha, no harm, no foul! But hey, you still believe their anonymous sources, right?
The other half will DOUBLE DOWN on what truly awful, despicable, traitorous job Trump team’s is doing, insisting to the bitter, bitter end they are getting the REAL STUFF from their anonymous leakers, and you’re all falling for the hopium!
It literally will not matter which direction they take.
Only TRULY STUPID PEOPLE will not figure out what they’ve been doing with their anonymously sourced slop-shit for the last year.
So by the end of March we’ll know 3 things:
Which slop-shitters opted to do a 180 spin and are now ‘hearing from their anonymous insiders’ how swell everthing is going inside the Trump White House...
Which slop-shitters opted to stay the course to the bitter, bitter end who continue ‘hearing from their anonymous insiders’ and are INSISTING the ship is sinking, there’s no hope, ABANDON SHIP NOW before it’s too late...
Which f**king dumb people in the Trump base are still believing these anonymous sources from BOTH KINDS of slop shitters have been sharing accurate leaks in any way, shape or form.
It is my hope that none of my followers will continue to swallow anonymously-sources slop-shit from propagandists. No matter how big their podcasts are, or how many events they show up at with Trump.
Anonymously sourced slop-shit is still slop-shit, no matter who’s handing it to you with a smile.
Accept NOTHING on a ‘Just Trust Me, Bro!’ basis when it’s an attack on this great American President and his team. Tell them to cite their sources or GTFO.
Bannon will soon have other issues to deal with of a personal nature as he seems to pop up a lot in the Epstein files.
And Liz Crokin vouched for him.🤔
I hate when people anonymously warn about anonymous sourced slop shit. Why doesn't Brian Cates just name the 'just trust me bro' podcasters, personalities and influencers he is talking about.
There are too many to name. I've said it over and over here on GAW, never get emotionally invested in anyone with a platform. Emotion clouds vision and judgement. It's how con men do what they do and how megachurch preachers get rich, live in mansions and own private jets. "Be careful who you follow" and "there are no prophets".
because we're trying to build critical thinking, not angie's list? because enemy lists are how the left works--the creation of power brokers and gatekeepers.
One reason: lawsuits.
Correct. Somebody should be keeping a tally about who’s trustworthy and who’s not
We stopped watching Bannon many moons ago.
Can't remember why, but I do know something was fucky about him.
Me too. Never really watched him very much to begin with. Haven't listened to him at all for going on at least 4-5 years now. Something just didn't seem right with him. Now I know why.
Discernment, frens. u/#wildwest
Thats right Brian, trust no one. Factoids before fee fees, especically huge mad fee fees.
Thomas Paine said it best:
https://media.greatawakening.win/post/1zKRArbkbVLH.jpeg
Although a bit wordy, your message is a great reminder to always pause, use critical thinking skills and draw your own conclusions when reading information from any source. Especially if it is anti-MAGA and aims to harm our President.
I have tried to listen to Bannon from time to time ever since he was fired by Trump a decade ago. Never could get into him.
I know we all have our people we listen to but they seem to have changed since Trump started his second term. For me it is Tucker Carlson and the Duran bunch. It seems like their strategy is to list all of the things that are going bad. I usually shake my head in agreement as I listen. Then they follow that up with how it is all Trump’s fault. I never really thought of them as Trump supporters in particular but their TDS turns me off and I quit listening to them. Their agenda was showing.
I am generally skeptical of anyone that is on YouTube. Even though there are some on there that I still listen to like the girls on Promethean, and Luongo.
Bannon runs an anti trump psyop. Act all MAGA then subtley tear it down while the unsuspecting name followers genuflect their way out of the maga. Mindset. I wouldnt trust tucker carlson either. His attempt to act masculine amd like he is a patriot bro were too transparent. He cant hang with the truth. The least of MAGA is a giant next to tucker.
You named ONE better keep going and listing more. So WE can determine whether what you are saying is truth or not.
I'm not worried about Bannon:
"Bannon Issues Statement on Epstein Chat Logs, Commits to Film Release THIS YEAR."
https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/02/16/bannon-issues-statement-on-epstein-chat-logs-commits-to-film-release-this-year/
I get what you're saying. I know I don't know everything so I tend to look at the fruits. He talked about Tina Peters this weekend on his show and it meant a lot to me that we don't forget about her. I am happy to hear him say the election was stolen. I want people to never forget about that. I like that he likes the pillow guy... I like that he is in Texas right now trying to wake people up to the fact that more muslims are moving into these areas and the culture will be changing if we don't do something about immigration. He did go to jail... please don't hate me for sharing.