Your brain decides someone is trustworthy, intelligent, and competent based on whether they have nice teeth. The Halo Effect explains why attractive people get lighter sentences, better jobs, and higher grades – despite zero evidence they deserve them.
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The $21 Billion Efficiency Disaster
DOGE died 8 months early. It cost taxpayers $21.7B in waste, $135B in chaos, and potentially $500B+ in lost tax revenue. The “efficiency” agency was never about saving money – it was about breaking things.
Read MoreThe Make America Sick Again Paradox
RFK Jr. bans food dyes while kids die of measles. 1,600+ cases, 3 deaths, vaccine panel purged. The “healthy” agenda comes with an asterisk: gut public health first.
Read MoreThe Accidental Energy Revolution
AI companies need so much electricity they’re restarting Three Mile Island and funding fusion research. Private greed might accidentally solve climate change. Now we just need regulators who understand what a reactor is.
Read MoreThe Ultimate Defense Mechanism: Self-Justification (Essay #7)
Cognitive dissonance makes your brain rewrite reality to protect your self-image. Each time you justify a bad choice, the next justification gets easier. This is how reasonable people end up defending the indefensible.
Read MoreThe Echo Chamber: Why We Reject Truths We Dislike (Essay #6)
Your brain is desperately committed to proving it was right all along. Confirmation bias operates below conscious awareness, quietly filtering reality so you only see the parts that confirm your existing beliefs.
Read MoreWhy AI Panic Misses the Real Threats
Humans have always been better at destruction than robots Every generation picks its apocalypse. Right now, the smart money says it’s AI. Machines will steal our jobs, collapse the economy,… Read More
How Did Jeffrey Epstein Know About Pence?
A convicted sex offender predicted Trump’s VP pick before the announcement If there was one person I was not expecting to be in this Epstein Estate file dump, it was… Read More
Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?
Larry Summers treated Epstein as an intelligence source on Russian kompromat In the 23,000 documents released this week, there’s an email from July 2018, right after the Helsinki summit where… Read More
Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix
23,000 documents just dropped. Here’s what I’m doing with them. Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails… Read More