Is It Accurate to Say ‘PsyOp?’

A term that frequently appears is ‘PsyOp,’ which is an ominous-sounding term used to describe efforts by the establishment to persuade the public of various things. Is it an accurate description of what is happening, or just a loaded term used by people like me as part of what amounts to a PsyOp to alienate you from the establishment? 

Like many of you, I was taken aback the first time I saw the term. It has the whiff of conspiracy theory to it. Are we interpreting well-intentioned, if misguided, actions by public figures as part of a dark conspiracy to convince people of things that are not true? Are we seeing simple incompetence and interpreting it as something much worse?

It’s a reasonable question. Hanlon’s Razor asserts that we should “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” In most cases, that makes a lot of sense.

Yet, if you have been reading my writing, you can guess that I am in the camp that we are being subject to a PsyOp to convince us of falsehoods, and that they are doing so to manipulate us into compliance with policies that are not intended to benefit us. That is a dark view, and one that I have not always held, but I do now. 

July 25, 2020

Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand:

“We will continue to be your single source of truth. … Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth.”

What do you think America would be like if the U.S. government became our “single source of truth”? pic.twitter.com/N38n1cWxhD

— Kevin Bass PhD MS (@kevinnbass) March 19, 2024

First, a definition. A Psychological Operation, or PsyOp, can be defined as “planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to target audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately, their behavior.” Now apply this definition to what we have experienced over the past decade or so, with all the hoaxes, misinformation, scare tactics, lies about Russian collusion, election hacking, repetition of mantras such as “nobody is above the law” (which has been reversed, suddenly), and censorship. 

This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety.

Watch for the part of my interview that @CBS tried to… pic.twitter.com/28fsGZug48

— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) August 31, 2025

One of the key tactics is to shape the information you do and do not see. An MS-13 member is referred to as a “Maryland Man” and a “Father,” not a human trafficker and wife beater. When a criminal gets shot for trying to grab a policeman’s gun, we see a picture of him at 12, instead of the man of 19 or 20. We are presented with incomplete or wholly deceptive stories about what happened in order to manipulate our emotions. 

The latest Lockdown Files show Matt Hancock wanted to “frighten the pants off” the public with a new Covid variant.

Psychotherapist Dr Christian Buckland: “Artificially inflated fear levels made people respond in ways they wouldn’t usually.”@JuliaHB1 pic.twitter.com/i1qTUGcqO0

— Talk (@TalkTV) March 6, 2023

During the COVID pandemic, Western governments literally deployed their psychological operations units from their militaries to manipulate the public, and mobilized “misinformation” NGOs to suppress facts and discussions by people. Our public health establishment commissioned a scientific paper–written by people who believed that COVID was likely engineered–to “debunk” the lab leak theory of COVID’s origin. Anthony Fauci prodded Nature–one of the most prestigious journals in the world–to publish a paper without review in order to suppress the truth about COVID.

When Boris Johnson addressed the nation on 23rd March 2020, it was SAGE behavioral science that came out of his mouth.
This was the British government using applied behavioral psychology, to make people frightened, so that it could put its agenda in place.
They ruined your… pic.twitter.com/oDaNgTBIes

— John Olooney (@OlooneyJohn) April 29, 2025

The UK government deployed SAGE to create a program explicitly designed to scare people into compliance with government diktats, while government officials obviously knew the warnings were ridiculous. If Boris Johnson and company really believed their hype, they wouldn’t hold regular parties at Downing Street. 

New York City’s former COVID czar organized a pair of sex parties during peak pandemic social isolation. Perhaps he should have said so at the time, writes @kristenvbrown: https://t.co/WXb8bTzr2M

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 22, 2024

Nobody in public health believed what they were saying. We know that, because none of them behaved as if they did. And it wasn’t mere hypocrisy–it was the result of understanding that reality was utterly divorced from what they told us.

‘One of the most powerful things that the Government did, is they used fear…it’s what they use in cults!’

Psychologist Emma Kenny brands Covid lockdowns ‘catastrophic’ as she reflects on the three year anniversary of the first nationwide lockdown in 2020. pic.twitter.com/z4G9oghOI1

— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 23, 2023

Currently, we are being subjected to a PsyOp about how Trump and Kennedy are destroying the CDC. I can’t say whether the changes being made at the Department of Health and Human Services will fix what ails the agency, although when we get Marty Makery and Jay Bhattacharya over the boobs who were there before, I will take a wait-and-see attitude on all the other changes. 

What I do know is that the former crop of people were, to a man and woman, liars with contempt for us. As former heads of the CDC complain about the changes, I am reminded of this former CDC leader explaining how policy was made:

Modern science in a nutshell.

Just a bunch of so-called “experts” who throw their hands up in the air and agree on what’s what. They read the room, feel the vibe for a “consensus,” and decidedly go with that.

It’s one giant credentialed circle jerk. https://t.co/u1E5X0fAWU

— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) August 31, 2025

Is that what was presented to us? Our lives were upended, we were bullied, people were persecuted, because we didn’t want to submit to a vibe. A majority of Democrats wanted to put non-vaccinated people IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS and have them taken away because of The Science™. 

The steady drumbeat that makes up The Narrative™ works on the majority of the population, not because they are stupid–in fact, it is often the case that the smarter the people, the more susceptible they are to the manipulation because of their bias for believing in credentials–but because they trust authorities. They rely on consensus and take their opinions from the elite.

Stuff this !!!

Britain has been drilled to comply with lockdown under a future pandemic, the chief executive of the ‘nudge unit’ has said.https://t.co/7uLOftM1xj

— BeeGromit🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@SammieJack3) July 9, 2023

Psychological Operations are about creating a fake “consensus,” reinforcing it, and then attaching emotional significance to it. You see this with the climate change Narrative™, where scientism is mixed with terror tactics to create hysteria.  “The Earth is Burning!” 

Here is a weather map in Great Britain. The temperature is 64 degrees Fahrenheit. 

The scorched earth weather maps are back. Stay safe. It’s 18°C out there. pic.twitter.com/BHUXwHON28

— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) April 10, 2025

It is designed to scare people, nothing more. 

The hoaxes, the censorship, the suppression of dissent, and the whipping up of hysteria are all intended to create compliance with an agenda. That fact was clearest during COVID, but it is just as true in politics–racial politics over the past decade has been designed to create racial tensions and resentment, and the serial Trump hoaxes to discredit him and his followers–and in economic policies such as climate change.

Chris Whitty: “We overstated danger of Covid at start of pandemic”

People who stated this at the time were monitored and censored by the Counter Disinformation Unit, Rapid Response Unit, 77th Brigade, MI5 and MI6. Simultaneously, public opinion was steered by the Nudge Unit. pic.twitter.com/FVMHAhk98e

— Mike Fairclough (@1MikeFairclough) September 26, 2024

It is not conspiracy theorizing to call it a PsyOp, because it is a PsyOp. They are even deploying psychological warfare officers in many cases, when they can justify it as they did during COVID. 

There is a playbook. They employ that playbook. And you are the target. We can argue about whether they are doing it to benefit themselves or in a misguided attempt to help everybody, but there is no question that they are doing it. 

• Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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