Trump's inauguration day was meant to be my personal check-in point to give myself a goal to learn more about separating comms news from regular news. However, since last August my personal life got so chaotic that I actually got to spend nearly no time on it, and I do rank this topic pretty low on my overall personal priorities.
There were some items I did want to note as occasionally, I still see news articles that get circulated that seem more comms than not, although not as much as I was seeing before, but that could be a bias as I havent even been able to look at the news cycle like I had done before. These were the only ones that really stuck in my mind:
One was
Peanut/P-Nut the Squirrel, lots of articles for Peanut but not much love for Fred the Raccon (i.e. a narrative focus on one item over another).
Peanuts is also a cartoon, which NewClear314 places in the category of
MK Ops. Peanuts can also be associated with older imagery of Elephants and Peanuts from the Circus, where the Elephant is associated with the Republican Party. So Peanuts, in general, have been used as a comms vehicle in the past.
Donald Trump working at McDonald's which acts as an easy campaign ad against Harris. NewClear314 has
fast food as as a kind of murder/hit job/"take-out" comms. SleepDude has been doing streams,
one of which he links McDonald's to the "foot soldiers" of the C.I.A. I interpreted it as, those of which who may be in a "rock and a hard place", they're not in any position of influence so they can't really change how their "leadership" portrays/leads them, but they also know too much to find work elsewhere (without getting off'd). So for Trump to work at McDonalds, could be a potential comms that he's has their backing (as opposed to just the "heads").
The recent LA "wildfires". As the winter season rolled around, I was wondering how the comms were going to keep spreading the "hot, hot, hot" climate change (political "climate") narrative while normal weather news was expecting major snowstorms which already seemed to be
abnormal on its own. On the side, I believe another yet on its way (its is icy where I'm at! which is not typical for my region). Outside of the (I think) obvious localized corruption, wildfires can be comms of other kinds of corruption. Weather ("natural" disasters) comms seem, to me, more tied with information flow (ie flood of information), so for a fire to go wild, implies a anger/outrage narrative that "took a life of its own" ie what ever psyops may have lost control. I don't see a NewClear314 post on "wildfires" per say, but one for
Smokey the Bear, associated with foreign "arsonists". Where there's smoke, there's fire.
The New Jersey Drones (if this turns into a actual sport team, I'll faceplam really hard), I'm not sure what to make of it. It does not seems to be aligned with the comms I'm used to seeing so either its a really new "foot soldier" or worker bee/drone or its something else altogether. For this, I'll defer over to Dark Journalist, as I would agree with him, it seems more like the X-tech/Steganography than whatever comms I'm looking.
My main take away thus far is the comms really needs a kind of context/"radio tuning" that I'm definitely missing, such as the Peanut the Squirrel case. Since symbols can have multiple meanings, there has to be some kind of additional context in the way the message is sent to help identify what the comms is actually saying, that i'm just not getting. It could be as simple as AP News will only ever send to one party/faction versus CNN sending for an entirely party/faction. Or, something more in-depth, as the who the message comes from (i.e. Musk/Zuckerberg/Jobs), is a historical package of symbols that should already be known, and that alone is enough to understand the context.