Morning all. Spicy one today.
Tomorrow’s post will be market centric but this isn’t markets today.
This is about survival. Western society is unraveling, and here’s what you need to see clearly.
We are beginning to reach a boiling point.
There’s really no mincing words at this point.
The West is under attack.
Crime is out of control.
Our society, women, children, and culture are under attack (literally).
Our feckless politicians do little to counteract these massive drivers of unrest and disruption in society.
In fact, at this point, saying it’s all intentional is the only logical conclusion left.
As Stafford Beer once said, “the point of a system is what it does”.
Most people, instead of realizing just how bad things have gotten, are worried about their 9 leg parlay with the New York Jets.
Really since 2020 these issues have accelerated beyond reversal.
Everyone remembers the social unrest during Covid defined by lockdowns and the global protests for BLM, supplemented by the far left street soldiers of Antifa and other antagonistic groups (which have only grown in numbers since).
Impressionable normies changed their profile photos to black squares, corporations fell in line hiring minority candidates and launching new far left DEI initiatives and social initiatives, and the previous administration opened the borders of the US to anyone and everyone.
In Europe 24 hours can’t pass without news of another stabbing.
In Chicago, the streets are a Western version of Baghdad with dozens shot each week.
In New York City, which is on the verge of collapsing in full blown socialism under Mamdani, you have 63 criminals responsible for 5,000+ repeat charges on public transportation, terrorizing people at will.
What we’re discussing today are gravely serious issues that have reshaped primarily Western countries (US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia). The past few weeks have seen an endless stream of updates showing us that things are deteriorating at a higher rate.
It’s a three the pronged fork of:
Mass immigration altering Western countries
Anarcho Tyranny and law-fare facilitated by the government
Emboldened criminals, heightened racial tensions, and societal unrest
These points work together perfectly to change the fabric of a nation to the point you barely recognize it (the UK is likely the farthest along this path).
We’re going to start with the most recent incident in North Carolina, then we will walk through what exactly anarcho tyranny is (and why it matters), and we will round out by examining what it looks like at scale in the US and across the world.
Take it to heart — what I am talking about is happening every day.
It has the capacity to impact you, your loved ones, your community, and your country adversely, and it may be at the point of no return.
Tomorrow I am releasing another episode of Risk On with my good buddy Will Tanner. Will is a contributor to
and he and I have done previous episodes on Rhodesia as well as crime in the US and West.We will be discussing much of what we cover today on that episode at length. Will drop around 8am ET on Tuesday morning coinciding with our financial markets update.
North Carolina Incident
Over the past two weeks or so it’s become even more apparent that Western nations are at a grave crossroads.
In the latest episode to plague our society, we got one of the more upsetting and disgusting acts of violence against an innocent bystander.
Many of you DMd me on Instagram where I shared the initial image of this incident and asked what it was. Most, outside of X, have no idea what’s going on.
On the night of August 22, 2025, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who escaped war, was stabbed to death aboard the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte.
Video and images of this sick attack surfaced this past weekend, primarily on X. The mainstream media and news channels had little to no interest in this story.
She had boarded the light rail after work and was quietly scrolling her phone when a man later identified as 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr. attacked her with a folding knife, striking her multiple times, including directly in the neck. She collapsed and died on the train.
Brown, a homeless ex-convict with a long criminal record calmly exited the train afterward and was quickly arrested. His past includes over a dozen charges of armed robbery, larceny, assault, and repeated bizarre behavior that had previously prompted calls for psychiatric evaluation and yet he was allowed to roam the streets freely.
You can watch the video HERE and though it is cut off before the gore, it is still pretty disturbing. Poor girl had absolutely no clue what was coming.
One moment this girl is alive and the next she isn’t. Violently murdered for no reason at all.
Charlotte’s mayor called the stabbing “senseless and heartbreaking” and urged people not to circulate the graphic video out of respect for the victim’s family. To make matters worse Of course that’s not the real reason she doesn’t want it circulated. She doesn’t want it circulated because it’s savage and disgusting, and it shows a threat all too many innocent people face these days.
Want to know what’s even darker?
The Charlotte City Council was confirmed to have paused their meeting on the light rail incident for an hour to hold a mini birthday celebration and eat cake for one of the council members.
A few GoFundMes even popped up for this monster in the last 24 hours. Racially motivated trolls took to X and other platforms to ACTUALLY defend the demon who did this.
But it gets EVEN better Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who is the one who released 14-time criminal DeCarlos Brown Jr., is also the "Director of Operations" at Second Chance Services, a mental health and addiction clinic based in Charlotte, NC.
So it’s entirely possible she is getting paid to re-admit these lunatics and facilitate their release back into the public.
Do you understand where we are?
This experience unfortunately is all too familiar to many.
A tweet I shared on X did pretty well on Saturday in which I tried to summarize the feeling many of us have had whether it was riding on the Subway in NYC, walking to work in San Francisco, or using public transportation in major cities:
Countless times on subway, trains, etc my monkey brain/caveman sense told me "hey you! I know everyone else is desperately avoiding eye contact, turning up their AirPods, or swiping on their phones to look busy but something here isn't right and it doesn't matter that you're just here doing nothing, you should probably pay attention, you are in danger"
For some reason people LOVE to play this off or discount it. Their most primal sense they have that is rarely wrong. Majority of the time nothing happens, then it does, and you're dead or seriously maimed. We shouldn't have to live like this. It's terrorism.
This experience is near universal for people who live in major cities.
During Covid I was approached by a guy on the Upper East Side at 7am on a Sunday morning who asked for money.
“Sorry man” I said immediately steering away from him at an intersection thinking this guy was a classic San Francisco type druggie.
“You WILL be sorry” he said as he sped up his walk towards me.
“I don’t give a f*ck how big you are”
That primal sense I alluded to above kicked in at this point as I realized this was an oddly specific thing for him to say that broke from the classic hobo nonsense.
I turned to look over my shoulder as I crossed the street.
“I’m going to kill you white boy” he screamed as he charged me like Saquon Barkley on the 1 yard line, closing the 7 yard gap quickly.
I wish I was making it up, it would be comedic if it wasn’t so sinister.
In about 2 seconds I processed all of the following information as adrenaline dumped into my system and fight or flight kicked in:
I was literally going to get gatorades to nurse a hangover is this happening?
This guy is actually charging me
He just said he is going to kill me
Does he have a knife, gun, or shank?
I have a new baby on the way and a wife at home, this guy has literally nothing
I do not have my carry gun
I do not have mace, pepper spray, a knife, or anything on me
This guy probably has AIDS, Hep C, and a bunch of other shit
It seems like he’s on amphetamines
I might be able to take him, but do I get out of this unharmed?
If I do win or kill him, which paper runs my smear story?
My body chose flight after that quick analysis in under 2 seconds, I pivoted quickly and shot across the street as a car pulled between us, giving me a good chance to get away but the experience rattled me pretty good.
I watched as he proceeded to move on to scream at a mother and her newborn walking by.
Another time on the 6 train in Midtown I watched as a vagrant stumbled on the stairs in front of me dropping a revolver (clearly illegal) onto the steps clumsily and snarling at me for noticing.
My cousin in West Village was punched square in the face randomly by a “teen” walking by him.
Yet another time I rode the Metro north while a “brute” paced up and down the aisle staring down everyone, he didn’t belong, had no business being on the train at that hour, and was acting objectively sketch.
So much so I quietly slipped my Rolex off and into my bag, much to the terror of the 5’6” corporate dweeb sitting across from me who watched me do it and immediately did the same. He knew and I knew what was potentially at play.
You could cut the tension with a knife and the uneasy feeling made me so angry. I wanted to beat the ever living sh*t out of this scumbag who was standing inches from people glaring and staring at them, daring them to set him off over something minor like a wrong glance or stare. I lamented the fact I couldn’t carry where I was.
How dare he harass and intimidate good people on the way home from work.
Why did he feel he could do this?
God it pissed me off.
But this experience, despite being hard to articulate, happens every single day. Even when someone isn’t pushed in front of a train, set on fire, mugged, robbed, stabbed, or killed, this type of behavior has a strong impact on the public.
It’s silent terrorism.
People begin to become submissive. They become scared. They start to accept that this is normal and that we have to live with it.
Truth is we don’t. But we’re so soft now as a society people want so badly for there to be a comfortable way out of it all.
There’s not.
The Charlotte stabbing wasn’t the only event that went viral this weekend.
Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle, a 59-year-old retired Auburn University veterinary professor, was found dead in a wooded area of Kiesel Park in Auburn, Alabama, on September 6, 2025. Authorities say she died from injuries consistent with an assault, and her death is being treated as a homicide.
Her body was discovered in the afternoon by someone walking through the park, and her dog, who she had been out walking, was later found unharmed. The next day, police arrested Harold Rashad Dabney III of Montgomery in connection with the case. He has been charged with two counts of capital murder. Investigators also reported that her red Ford F-150 pickup truck had been taken from the scene but was later recovered.
I’m going to just say it now because we’re all adults. Whether it’s the event in Charlotte, the event in Alabama, the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, the murder of the DC intern, the clashes in the UK, or the terrorism recently in Europe, these are cultural and race driven conflicts the majority of the time.
You cannot make an honest diagnosis of the issues before us without acknowledging this theme.
That is an unavoidable and uncomfortable reality for many, and it’s also the reason why:
this gets ignored by the mainstream media
people are hesitant to talk about it or react in these events
politicians run “cover” for these events
You’re welcome to your respective opinions on how much gravity you assign to this objective fact, but from what I have observed it is becoming more and more of discussion topic online and the objective data supports this.
What is Anarcho Tyranny?
It’s difficult to understand what is truly going on beneath the surface today without a firm grasp on anarcho tyranny which is the weapon of choice of the far left globalist political movements that have infected Western nations.
It is the driving force of the chaos we’re seeing in which good people are being terrorized by criminals, extremist political groups, criminal migrants, foreign invaders, and other bad actors without any recourse whatsoever.
If it feels intentional, it’s because it is.
Anarcho-tyranny is a term coined by political theorist Samuel Francis in the 1990s. It describes a system where the state becomes simultaneously oppressively strict and strangely permissive — tyrannical in some ways and anarchic in others.
In practice, it refers to governments that:
Over-regulate and police ordinary, law-abiding citizens (through bureaucracy, taxes, restrictions, and surveillance).
Fail to enforce basic laws against actual criminals or threats, allowing violent crime, illegal immigration, or public disorder to persist unchecked.
We’ve lived under this state of anarcho-tyranny for some time now.
It’s a “soft” version of terrorism, in which intimidation is a primary side effect.
If you’ve kept up with my political posts or follow on X you’ve heard me reference Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 – 2008) was one of the most important Russian writers (Gulag Archipelago) and dissidents of the 20th century and arguably one of the people most responsible for exposing the moral and human bankruptcy of the Soviet system to the world.
His famous quote that’s been circulating the internet as of late is perhaps the single most apt description of the state of Western politics right now:
"Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief's. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn't know any better. But for you to have one was 'terrorism.”
Solzhenitsyn emphasized how “justice” was inverted in Russia, the harmless or innocent were destroyed by bureaucracy and ideology, while the genuinely violent or corrupt thrived in the system.
There are many unspoken components to this. The state doesn’t NEED to crack down because criminals and scumbags do it for them.
It’s like outsourcing violence. If you believe in theory there are efforts to encourage the systematic targeting of certain people and groups by other people and groups then you likely already see how this is a tool to dominate a people.
It intentionally deters you from reacting.
It gives certain groups that are politically protected carte blanche to terrorize their opposition legally.
It intentionally makes you a target and a sheep to aggressive criminals.
It demoralizes you with it’s senselessness and objective evil.
More scrutiny is paid to the targeted than the offender.
Without a doubt the most frustrating part of anarcho tyranny (besides a government that continues to release violent offenders to murder and kill people) is that you as a law abiding citizen, are targeted the second you defend yourself.
Take my home states of California and Connecticut. You can own a firearm. But if you use it in self defense, even if it’s a clear cut case, you’re likely getting arrested and going to jail. If you’re lucky enough to get off in court, civil cases from social organizations or racial advocacy groups will follow. Your life will be ruined, you will pay a fortune in court cases, and the media of course will demonize you.
Even moderate soccer moms will sip their wine and condemn you on Facebook.
“That white man shot a poor migrant who broke into his house looking for food and money! Throw him in prison! He’s a risk to the public!”
Sheep dogs (people who step between the sheep and wolves) like Daniel Penny face the entire weight of the legal and law-fare system when they dare to interfere with this phenomenon. Dudes very lucky he got off.
We saw the same situation play out with Kyle Rittenhouse. Sure, was it a smart move to place himself in that environment? We can debate that all day, but just because he decided to go that night doesn’t mean he is somehow guilty of bringing that situation upon himself. He was targeted by a violent street mob simply because he dared to show up to defend a neighborhood and business.
For a teen, he displayed seriously impressive situational awareness, restraint, and composure when he did finally shoot 3 scumbags, who *big shocker* ended up all being far left POS criminals.
Those who hate Rittenhouse hate the fact it took a kid to finally fight back when he was threatened. Rittenhouse is a micro level analogy for what far left governments work so hard to suppress online and in person through weaponized government branches — armed citizens who organize and say enough is enough.
“If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.”
—Lt. Col Jeff Cooper of the U.S. Marine Corps
And they would’ve killed him, they were about to curb stomp him into the pavement. Another goon was about to execute him with an illegal handgun.
They would’ve dragged his body through the streets like it was Mogadishu, Somalia. The media would’ve painted the story like he was a potential mass shooter at a social justice rally.
And that’s what you have to understand — those who excuse and defend this kind of anarcho tyranny - enabled violence in our country are not arguing from a genuine or honest standpoint.
They want you dead. They want you scared. They want you to submit.
They’ll condemn YOU finally using violence against them because they’re not used to that response to their aggression. In their eyes only THEY get to use violence.
You can call it hyperbole or exaggeration but this is reality now.
Bear in mind these are all new events from the last two weeks:
A criminal illegal alien released under sanctuary city law brutally murdered Maryland teenager and then threw her body off a bridge
A Georgia day care worker beat a 1-year-old boy black and blue and then got released on bail
A woman was stabbed to death by a Syrian asylum seeker in Magdeburg today (Visegrad24)
In San Jose 10+ individuals rammed a car into a jewelry store for a violent smash-and-grab armed robbery, an 88 year old suffered a stroke as a result
Two juveniles were arrested and charged with murder in the death of DC intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym
Understand that anarcho tyranny when paired with unchecked immigration, masses of criminals, soft bail laws, far left DAs, and submissive populations is the perfect recipe to utterly disrupt an entire region or nation.
And the best part is you’re not allowed to defend yourself or the might of the state comes down on you.
It’s the reason why the far left was enraged that Trump dared to deploy the national guard to DC. It’s the reason leftist politicians are enraged he is deploying them to Chicago — even though people are getting murdered there daily and we have gang members putting up TikToks saying they can take on our military in the streets.
Insanity.
Europe & The United Kingdom
And I would be remiss to not give an update on the UK who is arguably leading Europe’s descent into total cultural and political decline.
The UK also demonstrates one of the levers of anarcho tyranny particularly well. To be honest I would be surprised if my readers there are even able to view this post.
If it’s not the knife attacks by foreigner invaders, it’s the crushing and humiliating oppression the British police inflict on their own citizens for seemingly harmless acts like waving a flag, posting on social media, or even being a WWII RAF veteran (wish I was joking).
The headlines surfacing from the UK/Europe look like an article from the Babylon Bee:
A 83 Year Old Church Reverend was arrested for holding up a sign the Police deemed offensive
Police arrested a man for a social media post that caused someone anxiety
Police arrested a man for calling a member of the public a muppet
The arrest of a 14 year old girl in Scotland who brandished a knife to defend herself and her friend from a man accosting them
An RAF War Veteran was arrested for holding up a sign that offended Pro Hamas supporters
A priest was arrested for reading the Bible out loud on the street.
An 11-year-old boy attempting to raise his nation’s flag was stopped by five police officers for “hate speech”
Orwell himself couldn’t make this stuff up.
It’s a grave acceleration of the targeting of citizens who are beginning to protest what they consider policies detrimental to the longevity of their nation. You really need to stop and think about how we got to this point.
The UK is clearly too far along this path to recover. Europe is close behind with Canada, and the US is giving all of them a run for their money.
I have already covered mass migration and illegal immigration in previous posts. While today’s post is not exclusively about those themes, you can likely see the crossover here. In the same way that criminals are granted virtual immunity under anarcho tyranny, so are foreigners who break the law.
The men with knives or the men running child abuse rings are not getting arrested and promptly put in prison permanently.
Similar to the US they are being released, defended, or given light sentences.
When parents and reporters tried to initially bring these stories to light they were dismissed, threatened, and ignored.
Can you comprehend the absurdity of that?
Imagine if it was your child?
The words sick and evil are severe understatements.
I pray the British people realize how far things have degraded.
A society and nation cannot function if criminals, regardless of where they’re from, are allowed to run amok without fear of consequence.
It’s salt in the wound to add in the dynamic of anarcho tyranny, in which you do not let good citizens defend themselves from the conditions you as the government helped create.
Everyone for the most part — can FEEL that things are off. Even if they’re afraid of speaking the truth or calling things like they are for fear of condemnation, they know deep down things are not right.
Without the rapid, severe, implementation of law and order, and grave consequences for criminals in our streets, this is only to get worse. Normal people are waking up to the reality of our society and the dynamics that are changing the countries they once knew.
For now your best defense is your gut. Then being prepared, regardless of the advice that you should “just comply” as a Canadian police Chief said recently about home invasions.
Do not let the fear of being called a bigot stop you from accurately analyzing situations. That primal feeling you get that something is not right is almost always accurate, you have it for a reason. Listen to it. It’s never steered me wrong.
If that voice in your head is telling you that you’re in danger, chances are it’s true.
I don’t have some hallmark solution to this phenomenon. The only thing you can do is be smart about where you are putting yourself physically and avoid these situations in the first place entirely.
Good people are being terrorized by governments that are enabling these things to happen daily across the globe. My suspicion is that if something is not done soon to begin to address these issues we will see a rise in vigilantism, a proportional response from the people, and further unrest spreading through our cities and towns.
We are past the point of pretending this is random chaos. It’s systemic. It’s targeted. And unless law-abiding people wake up and reclaim their societies, it only gets worse from here.
We will be back to cover markets in the morning, I urge you to share this post with those you think could benefit from it, do me a favor and keep the comments relatively civil as I don’t want this to devolve into 4chan.
Have a great day, stay safe, and stay sharp.
World’s getting a bit crazier each day.
See you guys tomorrow.
Andy
“Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear
I commend you for saying out loud the many things that "no ones supposed to say" yet we all are clearly aware of. Also as a NY'er who moved to the suburbs of CT ( Milford, on the beach) after the birth of our 2nd Son, the dramatic decline of the city since the Giuliani administration has been shocking. Where in the past there were always safe places where things "didn't happen" that is no longer the case, not by a long shot. Mid town is a disaster no different than anywhere else. Side streets are packed with illegals milling around, lurking, and absolutely everyone is smoking marijuana or worse. This is not an accident. This was created with intent. Mamdani will speed the descent into complete chaos. History has shown us that no nation lasts forever - none. The man at 1600 Pennsylvania is certainly trying, but it takes a L O N G time for a ship as large as this nation to reverse course.
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