Post on X by Dylan Almond today, January 31st, 2026.
The moment you find yourself moving in lockstep with a mass,
repeating its talking points, dismissing inconvenient facts,
defending contradictions and rationalizing portrayals,
you have completely surrendered your mind.
This kind of thinking is profoundly limiting,
it shrinks the human experience down to a narrow corridor of approved beliefs
and sanctioned emotions.
You trade your full spectrum of perception for a sense of belonging.
You lose nuance, depth, curiosity,
and the strange joy of discovering you are wrong.
Liberty lives in the capacity to question without requiring permission.
A liberated mind can hold two opposing ideas at once without panicking
or collapsing into dogma.
It can sit with tension, uncertainty, and incomplete answers.
This is how reality gets examined rather than rehearsed.
A liberated mind carries its own authority,
and that is precisely why every system tries to cage it.
We're going to talk about this post and how true it actually is.
Right here on LibertyTunes on RealLibertyMedia.com.
Welcome back to LibertyTunes.
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It's typically a two-hour show, just because I talk a lot.
But anyways, we're going to talk about this tweet from,
they're not still called tweets now.
They're posts, I guess, from Dylan Almond on X.
This is not Twitter no more.
Twitter, Twitter.
Anyways, I kind of called the episode today Psychology of the Caged Mind,
and you'll see what I'm talking about in that all in due time.
But like I said, today we're looking at the humanity,
or the lack thereof, in our current political landscape today.
Dylan Almond tweeted and posted on X this morning that really hit the nail on the head.
He said, the moment you find yourself moving in lockstep with a mask,
repeating its talking points, dismissing inconvenient facts,
defending contradictions, you have completely surrendered your mind.
He's right.
We're seeing that surrender play out in real time in Minneapolis.
Let's talk about Alex Pretty.
Pretty, pretty, however you pronounce his name.
He was a VA nurse, an ICU nurse, a guy who spent his days literally keeping people alive.
On January 24th, he was shot in the back by a federal agent.
He's now dead.
I don't care whose side you're on.
I don't care if you're the MAGA zombie left or if you're the Democrat zombie right.
Or vice versa, however you want to pronounce that.
You're all the same.
One side is arguing and justifying his death.
And the other side is defending his death.
Meanwhile, there's a whole bunch of us out here that are not left and we're not right.
And we're both saying you're both stupid.
And no matter what he did, whether you label him as a domestic terrorist,
or whether you label him as a lefty commie.
What he did did not justify his death.
It did not justify being shot 10 fucking times after he was disarmed.
Provable by watching the video.
This is where we are in the country.
I mean, just look at your feeds.
Look at your social media feeds.
Look at the MAGA zombies as I've been calling them lately.
They found a video from a week before Alex kicked the tail light,
a piece of plastic on a government SUV.
And suddenly the pro-life crowd, the small government crowd,
the don't tread on me crowd.
They're all singing the same rehearsed script.
He kicked the car.
He got what was coming to him.
God, do you guys hear yourself?
Think about the technical failure of that logic for a second.
We've gone from the government is a tyrant that wants to take your rights
to the government is a God that should be allowed to execute
you for $5 worth of property damage.
That isn't a political stance.
That's a total surrender of the full spectrum of perception
just to feel like you belong to the end group.
You've traded your nuance for a badge shaped security helmet
or a security blanket.
You've lost the strange joy of being wrong.
Because being wrong would mean admitting that a mass thug with full immunity
just murdered a taxpayer in the street for a misdemeanor.
And the system loves it.
Because a mind that requires permission to be outraged
is a mind that is already in a cage.
Let's let's get into the guts of this.
If you haven't seen the video, search for it is not hard to find.
It's the death of Alex pretty.
And I want you to look closely at the mass response.
The zombies.
Dylan Almond says that which says that when you start rationalizing
betrayals, you've surrendered your mind.
Well, Megan, you're currently performing a masterclass in mental surrender.
Alex pretty was a VA nurse, a guy who cared for veterans.
On January 24th, he was surrounded by six federal agents.
Pepper sprayed, wrestled to the ground and disarmed.
We have the video.
You can see the video.
You see an agent walk away from him with his gun.
And then they shot him 10 times while he's on the ground unarmed.
So tell me, where was he a domestic threat?
Where was he a threat to six agents?
If he was a threat to six agents unarmed and on the ground,
those six agents need to be fired without pay and put in jail,
lose their immunity.
But here's where the zombie logic kicks in.
Secretary Kristi Noem gets on national TV and calls this man a domestic terrorist.
For what?
For attempting mass harm.
Because 11 days prior, he kicked a taillight on an ice SUV.
A taillight.
We're now living in a country where DHS considers a $20 piece of plastic on a taxpayer funded car
to be an act of mass harm, justifying a death sentence.
And the Patriots, the pro 2A crowd, they're on X right now calling him an assassin
by a commie soldier.
They're saying he deserved to die like a dog because he touched federal property.
These are the same people who spent four years crying about the 2020 riots
where blocks of cities actually burned and the government stood by.
They screamed for law and order then, but now they're cheering for
mass anonymous thugs to execute a licensed gun owner in the street
because he dared to question the operation metro surge occupation of his city.
Think about the sickness of that.
You once stood for the second amendment.
You remember the second amendment.
The one that says you have the right to bear arms.
In case your government becomes tyrannical.
Now you cheer when a man is killed for having a permit.
You once stood for pro life.
Now you're rationalizing the murder of a nurse.
You haven't just lost your politics.
You've lost your humanity.
You've traded the strange joy of being wrong for the comfortable cage of being a bootlicker
for a government that would pull the trigger on you just as fast if you stepped out of line.
Alex Pretty didn't die because of a tail light.
He died because we've allowed a segment of our society to decide what some lives are human
and others are sanctioned targets based on which flag they happen to be filming that day.
If you don't believe me, just listen to the noise on the feed.
It's not a debate anymore.
It's a war.
It's a zombie war.
Now I wrote this song and put it out last year thinking it was a warning.
Turns out I was wrong.
It's a prophecy.
That sound.
That roar.
I know it well.
I have to get personal for a minute because when I look at these tweets, these posts,
I have to get personal for a minute
because when I look at those, the ones calling a dead nurse a terrorist,
the ones justifying murder over a tail light,
I don't just feel anger.
I feel kind of a sick recognition.
I can see my own reflection from a few years ago.
I was lumped in with that crowd.
I walked those lines.
I remember the sheer exhausting mental weight of it.
Dylan Almond talks about the strange joy of discovering you were wrong.
And he's right.
But the flip side is the misery of it constantly having to be right.
When you are in that zombie state, your mind is constantly running a background process to filter reality.
You have to twist every news story, every video, every fact to fit the narrative.
It's exhausting.
You have to rationalize the irrational.
You have to look at a shattered daylight and convince yourself it looks like a lethal weapon.
This is true on the left side too.
It really does not matter if you're left or right.
Either one.
This is true.
You have to do mental gymnastics to justify the death of a human.
There's the left on the left.
It's a lot easier to justify in their mind.
Technically speaking, this is called a mental buffer overflow.
That's exactly what it is.
Your brain receives input.
Government agents shoot unarmed citizens.
But your hard coded parameters say, we are the good guys.
And the government is bad.
But also back the blue.
The data doesn't fit the memory block, the cognitive dissonance spikes,
the logic sectors overheat, and the whole system crashes.
When a computer crashes, what does it do?
It reboots in safe mode.
For these folks, dogma is safe mode.
They can't process the bugs in their code.
They can't sit with the tension of being wrong.
So they just default to the script.
He was a thug.
He deserved it.
I'm telling you, the day I stopped doing that,
the day I allowed myself to say, wait, this doesn't make sense.
It wasn't a defeat.
It was a liberation.
The weight that lifts off your shoulders when you stop carrying
the water for a movement that doesn't love you back.
It's profound.
That is the strange joy Alman is talking about.
The joy of just looking at reality, raw and unedited.
And look, I know what some of you are thinking, oh, bone ad,
you were never really one of us.
Anyways, but look around.
It's not just me.
Look at Breck Warsham.
You know, the patriotic blonde.
For years, she was the standard bearer for this movement.
She was on the front lines.
But look at her feed today.
She's looking at this ice narrative at this taillight justification.
And she's saying, no, she's calling it what it is.
She's facing the regret head on.
She realized that being pro America and being maga are two different things.
And right now they are at war with each other.
If she can wake up, if she can risk her entire brand and her audience
to speak the truth about Alex Pretty, then what is your excuse?
She found the courage to break the script.
You can too.
But how do you get there?
How do you break the loop?
You have, well, you have to unplug from the tribe.
Plugging is something higher.
You have to find a frequency that cuts through the static.
You can call it God, call it the universe, find the God within yourself.
That is the only thing that will make the noise stop.
And look, I'm not here to preach from a pulpit.
If the old man in the clouds version of God doesn't work for you, fine.
Go find Buddha or go find some short chubby Asian looking deity that smiles at you.
It doesn't matter what the package looks like.
It doesn't matter.
What matters is that you find a higher power to look up to something that represents peace, love and truth.
Something you could strive to be like.
Because right now you're striving to be like a politician.
You're striving to be like a pundit.
And that is a dead end.
You will find peace and love with yourself before.
Let me rephrase that.
You have to find peace and love with yourself before you can ever hope to find it with others.
And if you are blindly following another man's hopes, another man's grudges, another man's dreams, you will never find your own.
You'll just be a mirror reflecting somebody else's hate.
Step away from the crowd, find the quiet signal.
That's where the liberty is.
That's where the humanity is.
And that's the only place you'll find the courage to say.
No.
Killing a nurse over a taillight is wrong.
So if finding that higher power is the way to free your mind, what's the system's response?
It's simple.
The system knows that a liberated mind is a threat.
A mind that questions is a mind that can't be controlled.
So they built a cage.
And the dark genius of this cage is that they convinced themselves, the prisoners, to build it themselves.
This brings us to the law and order scam, the full immunity doctrine.
Dylan Almond said it, a liberated mind carries its own authority, and that is precisely why every system tries to cage it.
Look at the mechanics of what is happening right now.
The system has convinced the so-called freedom party, the people who fly the gats and flags, to cheer for unaccountable mass thugs.
They have convinced the don't tread on me crowd to demand full immunity for the treaders.
Think about the risk management of that.
If you convince a mass of people that accountability is a weakness and immunity is strength, you have stripped them of their agency.
You have deleted the error correction code of society.
The people cheering for Alex Prettys killer aren't rebels.
They aren't patriots.
They are the voluntary enforcement arm of the very state they claim to despise.
They are the useful idiots for a police state that views them as nothing more than biological assets.
They think they are fighting the deep state.
No.
They are the deep state's immune system.
They are the white blood cells attacking the healthy issue of liberty.
When you surrender your mind to the collective, when you let them patch your OS with that compliance update, you become the weapon.
So do my old friends still stuck in that zombie loop, still repeating the script, still rationalizing the murder of a nurse to protect a political narrative?
I miss you, I really do.
But I'm not coming back to the cage.
I prefer the stranger, strange joy of the truth, even when it hurts.
And I hope one day you'll join me out here on The Real World.
I want to leave you with those words from Dylan Almond one last time.
Let them rattle around in your head today.
A liberated mind carries its own authority and that is precisely why every system tries to cage it.
It can sit with tension, uncertainty, and incomplete answers.
This is how reality gets examined rather than rehearsed.
Rehearsed.
That's the word that sticks with me.
Because real liberty, it isn't a flag you wave.
It isn't a bumper sticker on your truck.
It isn't a hat you wear to a rally.
Liberty is the ability to look at your own side.
The people you vote for, the people you pray with, and see a betrayal of principle.
And have the guts to stand up and call it what it is.
It is the terrifying freedom of standing alone when the crowd is marching the wrong way.
If you need permission from the mass to be outraged,
if you have to check Twitter to see what your opinion is supposed to be today,
then you aren't a patriot, you're a script reader.
You are just executing code written by someone else.
You are subroutine in a program designed to keep you angry and compliant.
So don't be a script reader.
Be the glitch.
Be the error in their code.
Be the one who refuses to rehearse the lie.
Be safe, be smart, and for the love of God, be human.
Bonehead, I'll catch you on the next one.
Well, I'm going to play you out with a track that sums up this entire zombie mindset perfectly.
It's for everyone who thinks freedom means doing exactly what the man on the screen tells you to do.
Goodbye, Harder.
I felt the fear.
F-tid the clip and the guys in your ear.
Didn't matter that your hands were up in the air.
The badge is a judge in the trial.
Traffic violation, turn capitol, cry.
Down the door, unleash the police.
Wrong address, wrong house, wrong guy.
But the warrant is signed for the ferry.
Must die, flashbang in the clip where the baby is sleeping.
No time for questions, no time for weeping.
They claim some defense when they storm in your home.
Invaders with immunity sitting on the throne.
You wake up for bullets, you don't stand a chance.
Card in the middle of the tactical dance.
Walking down this street, stepping off the curbs.
On the hood, ego got bruised so he's up to no good.
Case are in the spine for crossing the line.
Beat down on the pain of the pain to find.
Isolation is the name of the game.
Every single situation ends up the same.
They want...
Son of son is unwell.
Member of health crisis, living in hell.
Peace and hell, peace, get it confused.
They're gone for camp, or we to leave them abused.
They don't bring the doctor.
Bearing the gun, show up on the scene in the murderous thud.
He needed a hand, his steady cart led.
He lunged it off a sudden.
But they said, right check this term.
Taking the dawn, bad much out with the rubiness.
With the Kennedy.
They fear for their love.
Okay, so maybe I'm not done talking yet.
You know, usually we spend our time on these shows.
Dissecting the external threats.
The surveillance state, the AI regulations, the police state.
But today we need to look at the internal rot.
I just got a clip of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
That is honestly breathtaking.
And I don't mean that as a compliment or an insult.
I mean it in a literal sense.
It sucks the air out of the room.
Because she is admitting on tape, on video,
that the entire game is rigged.
She didn't just say the quiet part out loud.
She screamed it into a megaphone.
Let's take a listen.
I can find the button.
It's not me just saying this.
I think the proof is over and over and over the American people have seen it.
So I mean it's, I'm not saying anything that's not true.
The proof is in the pudding.
And it's just the reality.
You can't vote your way out of this.
You can't vote your way out of it.
I'm just saying.
The people are going to have to refuse to support the political industrial complex.
That's the only.
Did you catch that?
You can't vote your way out of this.
For years we've been told that if we just vote harder,
if we just get the right people,
the ship will turn around.
And here is one of the supposed captains
of the American First Movement
telling you point blank that the steering wheel
isn't connected to the wheels.
She calls it the political industrial complex
and she says the only way to tear it down
is to refuse to support it.
That sounds a lot like we were talking,
what we were talking about earlier,
plugging from the system.
But she goes deeper.
Listen to her break down the absolute theater of legislation.
You can tear it down.
Winning the midterms is not going to lower your health insurance.
Winning the midterms is not going to fix our elections
and stop election fraud.
Winning the midterms isn't going to really change
much in Washington, D.C.
It certainly is not going to do anything about the national debt.
They don't care about the national debt.
We have a balanced budget amendment
that every single year gets reintroduced into Congress.
We all co-sponsor it,
but no matter who the speaker is,
Republican or Democrat,
they never bring it to the floor for a vote.
Same thing, we have a term limits bill.
A whole bunch of us co-sponsor it
and every single Congress,
they never bring the term limits bill
to the floor for a vote because they don't mean it.
This is the technical breakdown of this camp.
She mentions that the balanced budget amendment
and term limits,
these are the perennial carrots
they dangle in front of the conservative base.
Every election cycle, they promise it.
They co-sponsor it.
They waive the paper in the air,
but she just confirmed
what we've always suspected for decades,
that they never bring it to a vote
because they don't mean it.
It's vaporware.
It's a software update
but never release.
They know that if they actually pass the term limits,
the gravy train would stop.
It's all performance art
designed to get your donation,
not your freedom.
Finally, she hits the...
Excuse me.
Finally, she hits the nail on the head.
She hits on one thing
that every working class American knows
in their bones,
the incompetence.
They literally don't mean it.
If term limits were in place,
a bunch of these people
would get term limited
and then they'd have to leave Washington
and they wouldn't have a job.
You want to know why?
Because they couldn't make it
on their own two feet in the real world.
They are not qualified
and competent enough
to actually run a successful business.
As a former truck driver,
that part hits me right in the chest.
She says they couldn't make it
on their own two feet in the real world.
And she's absolutely right.
These people, Republicans
and Democrats alike,
have spent their entire lives
in the sterile, subsidized bubble
of Washington, D.C.
They regulate industries
they've never worked in.
They tax wages they've never earned.
If I drove my truck
with the same level of competence
that they run the budget,
I'd be imprisoned
or dead in a ditch within a week.
So what do we do with this?
We have a sitting Congresswoman
telling us that the voting
won't fix the debt,
won't fix the fraud
and won't fix the healthcare system
because the people running it
are essentially professional parasites
who can't survive outside the host.
If voting your way
is out of the off the table,
then the only option left
is the one she suggested,
refusal.
Refuse to buy the lie.
Refuse to play the game.
Refuse to be the script reader
for a play
where the ending was written
30 years ago.
MTG might be part of the circus,
but for two minutes there
she just pulled back the curtain
and showed us the clowns
are terrified of the real world.
Now I'm going to play this full clip
one minute and 48 seconds
so you know
that this was not taken out of context.
It's not me just saying this.
I think the proof is over and over
and over the American people have seen it.
So I mean it's
I'm not saying anything that's not true.
The proof is in the pudding,
and it's just the reality.
You can't vote your way out of this.
You can't vote your way out of it.
and you have to vote on it too.
The people are going to have to
refuse to support
the political industrial complex.
That's the only way you can tear it down.
Winning the mid-term
is not going to lower your health insurance
winning the mid-term
is not going to fix our elections
and stop election fraud
winning the midterms isn't going to really change much in Washington DC as
certainly is not going to do anything about the national debt they don't care
about the national debt we have a balanced budget amendment that every
single year gets reintroduced into Congress we all co-sponsor it but no
matter who the speaker is Republican or Democrat they never bring it to the
floor for a vote same thing we have a term limits bill a whole bunch of us
co-sponsor it and every single Congress they never bring the term limits bill to
the floor for a vote because they don't mean it they literally don't mean it if
there was if term limits were in place a bunch of these people would get term
limited and then they'd have to leave Washington they wouldn't have a job you
want to know why because they couldn't make it on their own two feet in the
real world they they are not qualified and competent enough to actually run a
successful business or go work an ordinary job like most Americans do they're
just not they're not competent enough people but yet they're running our
country that's just wild you know earlier I told you that that you got to
break the zombie loop you need to find a higher power and I said it almost
like it was just good advice for your mental health but then this clip came
across my desk this is another clip not the MTG honestly I think it feels like
that higher power is trying to tell us something specific feels like a
transmission we grew up hearing turn the other cheek we were told it meant
to be nice being passive letting the bully win because you're too holy to
fight back basically we were told it in man compliance but what if we were
reading the manual wrong what if turn the other cheek wasn't an instruction to
surrender but a technical exploit for hacking the Roman legal system listen
to this breakdown it's going to blow your blow your mind this is really
interesting well you know what the Bible says someone slaps you in the right
cheek turn to him the other one also yeah that doesn't mean what you think
what do you mean of course it does turn the other cheek go the extra mile
if someone takes your tunic give them your cloak also yeah so those aren't
actually about being extra nice they're about subtly subverting injustice
wait what yeah in that culture a slap with the back of your hand meant you were
beneath them turning the other cheek forced them to treat you as an equal
because you'd be hitting them with the front of your hand really yeah really and
with the go the extra mile thing Roman law only let soldiers force you to
carry their gear for one mile if you went to it could actually get them in
trouble huh and the cloak thing say you gave up both your tunic and your
cloak that would actually leave you naked but in their culture at the
time shame wasn't on the naked person it was actually on the one looking the one
taking from someone who didn't have I thought these passages were just about
generosity in every situation no Jesus was actually teaching people how to fight
back in such a way that exposed the injustice by taking their systems to
the logical extreme do you catch that do you catch the operation the
the the MO the operating system of that the system pacifism that is malicious
compliance let's look at the specs the cheek in that culture a backhand slap
was for slaves it meant you were beneath them turning the cheek forced
them to hit you with an open palm as an equal it wasn't submission it was
a defiant stance that said you will not treat me like an animal if you hit me you
hit me as a man the extra mile Roman law said the soldier could force you to
carry gear for one mile but if it may if they made you go to the soldier could
get court-martialed for abusing power so Jesus wasn't saying be nice you was
saying walk so far that you put your oppressor in legal jeopardy it's you
using their own bureaucracy against them the cloak if they sue you for your coat
give them your underwear to stand naked in court why because in that culture the
shame wasn't on the naked guy it was on the guy looking at him it was a way to
strip the system bear and show everyone just how greedy and predatory the law
really was this ties everything together Marjorie Taylor Green told us the
system is broken we have to refuse to support it the zombies think refusing
means violence they think it means smashing tail lights but the higher power
the original rebel he taught strategic subversion he taught us how to cause a
buffer overflow in the oppressor's logic you don't fight the system by
becoming a thug that's what they want you fight the system by following its own
rules so hard and so aggressively that the system collapses under the weight of
its own hypocrisy so when I say find God or find a higher power I'm not asking
you to go to sleep I'm asking you to wake up and download the original
instruction manual for liberty don't just resist subvert be the glitch and now
that is the show we're going to end this with brand spanking new chrome
crucifix this is surprisingly not so surprisingly appropriate to go with
this show and the subject matter but this is from Chrome crucifixes upcoming
brand new release called the source code and this one is actually featuring by
rebel again and it's the source code is the origin story of by rebel all of my
personas really so there you go pick up the mask maybe it's time for you to
pick up the mask one thing they didn't take the key his life slips away the
hallway is haunted by my mother's last breath the system of greed traded life
for a death my brother was young he had worlds left to see now he's just a
date upon a ghost in the debris the grief is a mountain is crushing my chest
but I can't let it out I can't stop the rest if I let the tears fall I drown
in the dark so I'll turn all the sorrow into a digital spark the rage
is a furnace it's pulling my blood I wonder what Lisa can emphasize the truth
son and force it I'm not just a talking