A 3D Approach to Beating the 3-Headed Monster

The Trump/Musk regime is a grotesque blend of authoritarianism and techno-bro chaos, a mutant force that thrives on spectacle, disruption, and brute force. Their power doesn’t come from intellect, virtue, or policy—it comes from manipulation, control of narratives, and an unrelenting willingness to break the rules. If you fight them with sentiment, they will chew you up and spit you out. If you fight them with the old playbook— outrage, reasoned debate, and appeals to fairness—you are already defeated.

Here’s the hard truth: The Opposition has been fighting this fight all wrong. We keep trying to fact-check, to appeal to fairness, to debate with logic. But this isn’t about reason—it’s about power. Power doesn’t care about your outrage. Power doesn’t care if you are right. Power plays by its own rules, and if you don’t understand them, you lose.

That’s because this is not just another political fight. This is about power—who has it, how they use it, and how we take it back. The monster we’re up against isn’t just Trump or Musk. They are symptoms of a deeper disease. The real enemy is the three-headed beast that created them and will keep producing more like them unless we dismantle it at the source.

The three heads of the monster are Corporate Feudalism, Christian Nationalism, and Cult Hysteria.

• Corporate Feudalism – The ultra-rich have transformed democracy into a marketplace where power is bought, not earned. Musk, Bezos, and their ilk aren’t innovators—they are tech kings building digital fiefdoms, controlling speech, policy, and even elections.

• Christian Nationalism – This isn’t about faith. It’s about weaponizing religion to control people’s bodies, choices, and futures. It’s about turning God into a political battering ram, where morality is dictated by theocrats, not individual conscience. The goal? A state where laws serve doctrine, not democracy.

• Cult Hysteria – The fuel that powers the machine. Propaganda, conspiracy theories, and tribal loyalty keep people emotionally hijacked and incapable of critical thinking. It’s QAnon, Fox News, and algorithm-driven radicalization. It keeps the masses fighting ghosts while real power stays untouched.

This fight isn’t about playing defense or the old game of political theater. It’s about going on the offensive. It’s not one solution, one way, or one approach. It’s about hitting the roots of the problem, not just the branches.

This is a fight for the long haul and is being fought on multiple fronts. To win it, we need a 3D Approach to power: Intrinsic (personal), Extrinsic (brand), and Systemic (political power)

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The First Dimension: Intrinsic (The ‘Me’ Level)

You can’t fight power if you’re easy to manipulate. Trump and Musk win because they understand human psychology better than their opponents do. They don’t argue with facts; they weaponize emotion. They don’t play fair; they play to dominate. If you don’t have control over your own mindset, you’re already a pawn in their game.

The Necessary Mindset:

• Emotional Mastery – The Stoics knew the secret to power: control yourself, or be controlled by others. Trump says something monstrous. Musk posts some contrarian garbage. The left erupts in fury. And guess what? That’s exactly what they want. If you let them control your emotions, they control you. Instead, pause. Observe. Choose your response with clarity, not impulse. Emotional mastery is not repression—it’s power in its purest form.

• Curiosity Over Certainty – Buddhism teaches impermanence, and that includes your beliefs. Attachment to fixed ideas breeds rigidity, and rigidity makes you predictable—easy to manipulate, easy to provoke, easy to control. Healthy non-attachment means holding your beliefs lightly, refining them as new insights emerge. This doesn’t mean lacking conviction—it means being flexible enough to evolve. Stay open. Stay skeptical. Question not just your enemies, but your allies. Growth is fluid, not static, and the more adaptable you are, the harder you are to manipulate.

• Stay Centered – A centering practice is any habit that grounds you in clarity and stability instead of reactivity and exhaustion. This could be meditation, breathwork, long walks, journaling, or simply pausing before responding to provocation. This is essential because power thrives on you being knocked off center—if they can control your emotions, they can control your decisions. Centering isn’t passivity; it’s training for endurance. The more stable you are, the more strategic you become. The goal is not to win every argument—it’s to outlast, outthink, and outmaneuver.

Coaching Tip: Practice the Observer’s Mindset. When you feel triggered, detach for a moment and imagine yourself watching the situation from above. Ask: If I were an outsider looking at this, what would I see? This disrupts impulsive reactions and allows you to move with strategy instead of emotion. It’s the difference between playing chess and flipping the board in frustration. One wins. The other loses.

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The Second Dimension: Extrinsic (The ‘We’ Level)

Branding is power. Communication is war. Right now, we are losing because we are reacting instead of leading. Trump and Musk don’t win because they have better ideas; they win because they control the language, the visuals, and the frame. If you let them set the terms, you’ve already lost. The solution? Make them react to you.

How to Win the Narrative War:

• Make Them React To You – Instead of debunking their lies, flood the space with your own framing. Instead of responding to their attacks, force them to explain why they’re on the wrong side of the conversation. Instead of letting them set the pace, take control of the momentum.

• Retire Old Soundbites and Clichés – The old language isn’t working. The opposition has spent years recycling the same slogans, memes, and narratives, and they no longer land. Stop describing them with words they’ve already neutralized. Stop trying to be clever. Stop name-calling and call them what they are.

• Speak in Simple, Powerful Language – Language is a tool of power. The key is to move beyond recycled rhetoric and engage people with language that disrupts their mental autopilot. Stories are more powerful than statements. Instead of rattling off facts or using overused political jargon, craft a message that makes people see the stakes clearly and viscerally. Use contrast, tension, and imagery.

Example: Jasmine Crockett vs. MAGA in 2025

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett doesn't just stand up to MAGA—she makes them react to her. When Republican lawmakers tried to steamroll her in hearings, she flipped the script, exposing their incompetence and turning their attacks into viral moments. Instead of responding defensively, she controlled the stage—mocking their hypocrisy, rejecting their bad-faith arguments, and calling out their cowardice with precision and humor. By owning her space and refusing to cower, she demonstrated exactly how to dismantle MAGA theatrics in real time.

The Third Dimension: Systemic (The ‘Everyone’ Level)

Too many people assume you beat a demagogue by exposing their lies, shaming their behavior, or “holding them accountable.” That’s wishful thinking. Accountability requires a system that cares about truth. They have rewritten the system in their image. You cannot shame the shameless. You cannot fact-check a spectacle into submission. You cannot reason with someone who thrives on chaos. And you don’t need to become a bully to beat a bully, but you need to be prepared to use force and strength.

What does work? Strategy. Precision. Ruthlessness. Not the cartoon-villain kind—real ruthlessness. The kind that is disciplined, calculated, and patient. The kind that plays the long game and doesn’t get distracted by every outrage of the week.

Enter "The 48 Laws of Power", Robert Greene’s guide to strategic dominance, distilled from centuries of war, politics, and manipulation. Greene studied Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and real-world power players to extract the universal rules of influence. Now, we turn them against the would-be emperors of America.

48 Laws of Power isn’t a righteousness guide. It’s a manual for winning. It shows how power actually works, not how we wish it worked. And if you want to dismantle the Trump/Musk power machine, you must understand the game better than they do. And with consciousness and clarity, you don’t need to sacrifice the moral high road nor the complexity high ground.

Note: I do not agree all of these Laws but they do serve as a useful framework.

1. Exposing Hypocrisy Doesn’t Work—Because They Don’t Care

   They can call DOGE “cutting wasteful spending” while raking in billions in government contracts and sweetheart deals. Their followers don’t care about consistency. They care about dominance. Instead of crying foul, shift the game—make their hypocrisy cost them, force them into contradictions that hurt their own interests. (Law 33: Find Their Thumbscrew.)
   

2. Outrage Feeds Them—So Starve Them

   Every time Musk or Trump does something monstrous, the Opposition explodes with outrage. That’s exactly what they want. Their power grows with every tweet, every headline, every “Can you believe this?” Instead, control the narrative. Decide what gets attention and what gets ignored. (Law 36: Ignore What You Cannot Have.)
   

3. Facts Alone Don’t Win—Stories Do

   Trump and Musk don’t argue facts; they tell compelling (and usually false) stories. The left keeps responding with policy papers and logical rebuttals. That’s like bringing a chessboard to a street fight. Fight myth with myth. Build a better, more inspiring vision of the future—one that makes their dystopia look like the dead end it is. (Law 32: Play to People’s Fantasies.)
   

4. Moral Superiority is a Weakness If It Isn’t Paired With Power

   Telling people “we’re better than them” is meaningless if you keep losing. Strength wins respect. That means learning to play the game of power without self-sabotage. Manipulation, influence, and control aren’t inherently evil—they’re tools. Use them to create the world you actually want. (Law 34: Act Like a King to Be Treated Like One.)

Go here a full list of how to apply Greene's 48 Laws of Power to fighting power with power.

Example: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Birmingham Campaign

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference launched the Birmingham Campaign to dismantle segregation in one of the most notoriously racist cities in America. The strategy was clear: provoke a reaction so egregious that even those on the sidelines could no longer ignore the truth. The media coverage led to public outcry, business boycotts, and ultimately, federal intervention that paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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The Path Forward

This isn’t about being righteous. It’s about being relentless, conscious, and effective. If we play the game better than they do, we don’t just win—we reset the game entirely. This is bigger than Trump, Musk, or any one figure. This is about shutting down the system that keeps manufacturing these power-hungry opportunists and replacing it with something that renders them irrelevant.

This is about power—not just resisting it, but understanding it, mastering it, and using it to create lasting change. Not just tearing down corrupt systems, but building something strong, just, and unshakable. If we are intentional, strategic, and unwavering, we don’t just take down this particular monster—we ensure the system that bred it is dismantled for good.