The sting reaches the endgame

Edition 16, 13 July 2026

Three long conversations this week, and one idea ran through all of them. Steve and Ace watched Trump drop his diplomatic language on Iran. Tom Luongo and EM Burlingame referred to the IRGC being taken apart from the inside. The fight by the globalists to suppress Americans turned up in the Flock cameras going up on American street corners, and in an EU vote to allow private messages to be read. In contrast, Jointab.us allows Americans to reclaim their sovereignty by taking their country back at the local level.

Iran: the sting reaches the endgame

Steve, who posts on X as JoinTAB_USA, and Ace, who runs the American Fire YT channel, both said Trump had changed his language on Iran this week, and that this change was significant. According to Ace, Trump was now refusing a ceasefire, calling the Iranian leadership evil scum, and saying that he had been warned that they were planning to assassinate him. If they tried, Trump said, he had a thousand missiles ready to answer them. Having followed Trump for 10 years, Ace said that Trump was being completely serious about this.He said that just by trusting Trump, he as ended up being right 96.7% of the time.

Ace (American Fire)

None of this was improvised, according to Ace. Trump gave the Iranians every thinkg they had wanted and and then took it away, thus setingt Iran up to expose itself. This time he obliterated the ports and the missile defences and the oil price did not move, because the energy had been lined up first. Steve speculated that according to a source he trusts American, Mossad and special-forces units were on the ground inside Iran, and the Kurds being activated. The people he called would not say yes or no, which he took as closer to yes, and he told viewers plainly it might come to nothing.

Rich argued that Trump carries out stings, and that the memorandum of understanding was made so favourable to Iran, that by violating it, they were falling into the trap that Trump had set. All three agreed that the target is not the Iranian people but the IRGC, which answers to the City of London and not to the government or people of Iran.

Tom Luongo, who writes the Gold Goats and Guns blog, and EM Burlingame discussed how the IRGC operates under a decentralised command structure, which gives it a freedom to act independently of any central control. the mechanics. The negotiations that supposedly went nowhere were dismantling this structure, region by region, crossing red lines that forced a response and using each response to justify to take apart the next layer. Referencing the Ukraine/Russia war, Burlingame's asserted that war itself has changed: Russia's Oreshnik showed you can destroy a hardened target without a nuclear weapon, and you no longer need to invade a country to defeat it.

We're just going to decapitate you. And we're going to do it from over here.

EM Burlingame

The surveillance grid, and the pushback

The second conversation with Steve and Ace was about surveillance, and it opened with the flock cameras going up across the United States. These are the number-plate readers we already know in Britain, the ones over the roads around London that feed the traffic schemes and the plans for fifteen-minute-cities. In the US there is a growing movement to cut them down, because they are unconstitutional. The warrantless surveillance that they carry out breaches the Fourth Amendment. Ace's said that the despair that the Flock cameras create is part of the globalist assault on our liberties.

The number one way you spot a psyop is if it's blackpilling.

Ace (American Fire)

Ace acknowledged that it's not all doom and gloom. A Supreme Court ruling the week before had determined that carrying a mobile phone does not mean the surrender of anyone's Fourth Amendment rights.

Luongo and Burlingame spoke about the EU vote on Chat Control, allowing the EU to compel Big Tech to monitor private conversations as a standard universal practice. Burlingame noted that the because the EU is not a state. It cannot enforce this without the cooperation of its member states. Only the member states can, and more than one has already refused. Luongo and Burlingame discussed the dispute between OpenAI and Apple. Luongo called OpenAI a grift built on stolen technology that a cautious firm like Apple would not have sued over without the administration behind it. He said the panic about artificial intelligence is manufactured and is meant to split the Trump camp between Vance and Rubio before 2028.

Take it back from the counties up

The answer according to Steve Kuhn is to act local. His Take America Back project, rests on arithmetic: there are 3,144 counties, most local seats are uncontested, and by his count seventy per cent of half a million local offices go to whoever simply turns up. Ten serious people per county, he argues, would be enough to alter the direction of local politics even as the Democratic Party collapses as it is taken over by communists, with the centrists seemingly powerless to stop them. The Democratic Party has no coherent message to run on. Trump calls out the communists on purpose, because it is one of the few things Americans will still vote against.

Luongo and Burlingame spoke about how BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street together control close to ninety per cent of the American market. Burlingame's remedy is old antitrust law, the RICO and Sherman Acts, plus a rule that a state's pension funds must be managed inside the state rather than handed to those three firms. Larry Fink of BlackRock, he noted, had been lined up to take over the World Economic Forum from Klaus Schwab, then had to bend the knee to Trump at Davos this year. None of the national wins hold, both men argued, unless the money and the power comes down to the local level.

The only thing that's real is local.

EM Burlingame

Seeing through the fog

Empire never ended. It became a way of running the world through paper and through proxies. The cameras on the street corner, the EU law to read your messages, the war inside Iran and the three firms that hold most of the market are one fight seen from different angles. Behind it is the City of London, a financial empire that governs through insurance, ratings, central banks and legal precedent, and only holds while people take the paper seriously. Burlingame calls the whole apparatus magic, and magic stops working when enough people stop believing in it.

The way out has not changed. Make your own things, use real money, keep the institutions that can still say no, and take the seats nobody is contesting.

For readers in Britain the lever sits where it always has, at notaxforwar.com and in the Trust law that withdraws your consent and your funding, lawfully and peacefully. A financial empire cannot run on money it cannot collect.

All the best.