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Deskpoet's avatar

Given how hard they went to the hoop (and are STILL going, at least here in France) with this one--WITHOUT a backstory of a possibly engineered but officially-denied engineered virus sweeping across the globe (yeah, we actually lived through that. AMAZING, looking back...), it seems more likely this non-event is to give Donnie cover for the defeat in Iran no longer being able to be talked around than it is to explain/cover for the economy that will fail regardless in 90 to 120 days. You know they're not expecting much when even the neocons (Kagan in The Atlantic) are calling this the worst defeat in US history (does this mean we're FINALLY over VietNam Syndrome, having moved on to Persian Perplexity?), so I'm guessing the Opinion Managers employed by POTUS believed there's nothing wrong with running out a re-tread that gives the last of the Maskers something to hope for while Trump can still sorta kinda look Presidential when he declares--AGAIN--a WIN over another non-existent viral threat.

This isn't even cynical to consider anymore. It's like they've thrown up their hands and said, "Let's just let Thiel do it. If even the Great MAGA hope can't cope, it's obvious we need to just sit everyone down, get them to shut up, and let the Techno-Feudalists engineer their Dark Enlightenment. The slogan for 28: An Optimus in every garage!"

As someone who feels a HUGE measure of sadness at seeing what the greatest political experiment in the last 250 years has come to, this rant doesn't begin to capture my anger and dismay at what was and what now is.

No1's avatar

That's indeed a distinct possibility. But it's too flimsy I'd say. After digging in for maybe 2-3h, I already unearthed much of what there was to say about this thing. Which I understand is like 1:59.5-2:59.5 hours more than the regular human would do 😁, but still...

To distract from the GREATEST defeat of ALL TIMES (to paraphrase DJT)...

Anyway, he already telegraphed as much (read here: https://no01.substack.com/p/a-strategic-dissertation) that the surrender will be unconditional.

Still not giving this a high probability. My current thinking is: unrelated events, muscles being stretched (too early).

Deskpoet's avatar

Yeah, you're right.

But it worked so WELL last time, No1: REPO goes sideways and nobody (important) noticed, the PharmaBros brought a few more billionaires into The Club, The Training Exercise (AKA "Covid Experience") convinced as many as 2 in 3 people to Trust the Science and ignore their lying eyes. Hell, even Billy Gates looked heroic (instead of, like usual, a petulant teen trying to avoid cream pies to-the-face.) That kind of success BEGS for sequels, and since it WAS so five years ago, why not roll it out again when it gets hard to blame the Big Guy's historic failure on someone yet-to-be fired? Combine this with aliens and all those Epstein prosecutions (which are arriving REAL SOON NOW, along with the Fauci and Obama prosecutions, just you WAIT!), and you get to summer movie season with new Star Wars and even a Disclosure Day--with real-world tie-in merchandising courtesy of the (no longer disgraced) FBI. Yes, this IS flimsy, but that's show business.

If it doesn't work, you can lob more bombs. But if it DOES work, no one will remember all that lost global prestige because Grogu is cute (and super!), and anyone even thinking such blasphemous venom after all that--remember, we already beat the Hanta!--isn't MAGA, anyway: they're probably low intellect, or stupid, or maybe even a traitor.

In all seriousness, though I expect the US to do better than Europe in the 6 to 9 month range, the US will NOT escape the effects of the New Energy Normal (that their war created), and when THAT check comes due, I really do wonder what spin on a Greater Depression will get a sympathetic hearing from an already pissed off Gen Z who just MIGHT be getting draft cards in the (e)mail, as well. At some point, all that WWE/WWF (hey, I'm old) bluster isn't going be enough to dazzle the commoners, and I fear the ballot box might not be big enough to contain the feedback on the performance.

No1's avatar

As VP (another Poet 😉) quite often points out: ""If voting mattered, they wouldn't allow it"" (but he uses more words).

I don't know if I agree on the timeline, but I do agree on the cascade indeed. Europe is fucked (for lack of a better word). Russia is thoroughly isolated, so they're nearly fully self-sufficient (resource rich country does help though). China has its own problems with debt and gambling addictions, but they have factories. LOTS of them. And then there is the US, which is on its lasts legs, but that doesn't mean down. Far from it. Empires don't go easily.

Maybe they'll do an impeachment, because Trump is Evil Incarnate? And then Trump (suddenly) dies mid-case or so (at a very opportune time - he's old already so no foul play there... right?) - and then He is suddenly Gods Messenger On Earth.

That'd fill a few newscycles. Right? Enough to forget all the alphabet agencies doing God knows what in the meantime.

Deskpoet's avatar

So, like all roads leading to Rome, we get back to that Thiel guy and his protege turned president.

I can see the title on the marque now: Hillbilly Elegy 2: Palantir's Watching.

I think that's my mike drop, No1. Might have stayed on stage a post too long...

No1's avatar

Every day is open stage 😉. Thanks for joining!

James North's avatar

However we get there, you're right, the techno authoritarian Dark Enlightenment is the end game.

substantial stacks's avatar

Alas, that cream pie was not a bullet and the opportunity will never arise again... Billy will know there are many bullets with his name on, and will be living with 24h bodyguards for the rest of his miserable life.

Joe Doe's avatar

30 seconds would have sufficied. Hantavirus across the media = BULLSHIT

Franc M's avatar

One thing you missed as well is the conspicuous timing of this "outbreak" to coincide with the procedural deadlock of the WHO's pandemic treaty - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-delays-pandemic-treaty-amid-pathogen-sharing-dispute-2026-05-01/

No1's avatar

Thanks! Going to add it as a "PS"

Richard Roskell's avatar

Interesting that the WHO's pandemic treaty is hung up on the most basic issue: sharing a pandemic pathogen and the means to fight it. One imagines that some nations want to keep knowledge of such pathogens for themselves while monetizing the cure.

John Day MD's avatar

As my fate has had it, I worked on the Navajo Rez in Arizona from 1990-1992 and was visiting in 1993 when they had their mystery pneumonia epidemic, which case was broken-open when a medicine man had the vision that "the mice are thirsty and are going to the houses", which was indeed the case. There was a drought going on. The mice peed and pooped under the houses and people breathed the Hantavirus dust, getting deathly ill a month later.

Tough nut to crack, it was.

Dr. Mccullough points out that human to human transmission with this Andes strain is not quite so much "proven" as "presumed". https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/virus-in-the-dust-exposing-the-fabricated

Vitamin-D, ivermectin, zinc and hydroxychloroquine all look promising, because this is a single-stranded RNA virus, like coronavirus is.

substantial stacks's avatar

All those substances are poisons, virology is pseudoscience, wake up! You don't want any of this stuff in your body...

Richard Roskell's avatar

"The point is that the propaganda apparatus that can synchronize their messaging within hours, is an apparatus that is on standby."

That point is correct with a high degree of certainty. Naturally, the argument for the coordinated dissemination of information is that it will save lives in the event of a pandemic. The argument against that capability is that it can be used by governments to control their citizens. Not as a response to a pandemic, but for a totalitarian purpose. That is the world we now live in. And it didn't arrive with the COVID pandemic, it was in existence long before.

Over the last 50 years the media landscape has been transformed from a galaxy of individual news sources to, basically, a single black hole of information under the control of the government. What comes out isn't independently developed information. It's created by the government and disseminated by the media.

In Western societies, the media used to have an adversarial relationship with government. It was the Fourth Estate, the watchdog that was supposed to keep an eye on government and honestly report its failings. That role has long since been subverted by both government and commercial interests.

1. In all developed countries, the government controls the ability to broadcast information. You need a license to do it, and the license can be revoked by the government at any time.

2. Where there were formerly thousands of independent news sources, media conglomerates have purchased virtually all of them. The ability to disseminated information is now concentrated in very few hands. And those hand are completely beholden to government.

3. In every country, its government is the biggest single source of news. The government is constantly feeding the media information, which it dutifully reports as fact. There is no firewall between the government and media. The first is spoon-feeding the latter, which happily soaks it all up to sell to the public.

I can't say whether the media reporting of the hantavirus event was coordinated by government. But if you're of the opinion that the government and media are independent of one another, and that the government doesn't use the media for propaganda purposes, you are being willfully blind.

No1's avatar

""that it will save lives in the event of a pandemic"" <-- problem is if they activate it for "the wrong virus", it will even further undermine their credibility...

on your media conflation: *cough* fascism *cough*

Richard Roskell's avatar

Yes, the western alignment between government and media is indistinguishable from what happens under fascism. But it's for your own good! The government would hate to see you become a victim of "misinformation."

No1's avatar

You're either from France or Germany. Hmmm, or the UK. No1 else does it better than them 😉

substantial stacks's avatar

The govenerments are owned by transnational capital. Many if not most of the nation states on the map were created by transnational capital ( via industrial warfare and control of military powers) in the last couple of centuries. That's why you see borders with straight lines. It is literally Monopoly.

Xirathi's avatar

Nobody will even remember this in a month.

Ray-SoCa's avatar

Thanks - Excellent analysis and very useful.

droid's avatar

And here I was thinking you were a credible commentator, but it turns out youre just another dull witted covid conspiracist.

No1's avatar

Btw, I'm a COVID realist 😜

Joe Doe's avatar

I wouldnt say so giving that you dont call any new virus scaremongering bullshit immediately for what it is.

No1's avatar

And here I thought you said I already said that. Just with more words and more kind? 🤣

No1's avatar

> Comment by Joe Doe (@joedoe769591) on The wrong virus

> May 12, 2026, 08:21 PM

> Why too many and too nice words to call bullshit bullshit.

Chevrus's avatar

Shows up, tries to smear author with vintage pejorative, leaves to get 18th booster….

Grateful Body's avatar

Brawndo's got what plants crave

Chevrus's avatar

(Brought to you by Carl’s Jr…..)

Joe Doe's avatar

And you are what? A boosted sheep?

Davey Jones's avatar

legally speaking, a "conspiracy" is simply an agreement by two or more people to commit an illegal act with the intent the achieve that goal. Sounds like a good description of most corridors of power. That is, if you're paying attention.

Fazzy B's avatar

If you haven't figured it out by now. You never will.

ebear's avatar

droid hasn't published anything yet.

Once they do, you'll see their activity here.

substantial stacks's avatar

I think you are not fully up to date with your boosters. There is turbo cancer, myocarditis (surely Long Covid) and Sudden Death, so it is prudent to be careful and comply with the WHO's guidelines! Get boosted, save lives!

John's avatar

Agree w/No1. This will be used to control the masses if the fuel situation becomes dire. Took me 5 mins to find it, but on 5/10 I read the following:

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/eight-weeks-to-empty-shelves-sixty-days-to-famine-what-caused-it-and-what-you-need-to-do-immediately

I likely won’t do more than stock up on some quality canned goods. "What, me worry?" 😁

Davey Jones's avatar

Can’tavirus: can’t afford, can’t be bothered, can’t get enough, can’t stand, can’t thank you enough, can’t hear myself think, can’t wait, can’t win, can’t buy me love

occamsrazorback22's avatar

Supposedly the IDF is burning Patagonia in preparation for the mass migration of the Israeli population to their newly stolen homeland. Maybe they're using the Hantavirus to clear the land of Catholics and misc Christians. You know, updating their genocidal toolkit.

No1's avatar

WOW. Did you take the deal? 10 for the price of 1? 🤣

You out-conspiracied me!

Chad Thundercock's avatar

The Andinia Plan is still going strong (especially since 2022 when Russia officially crapped on the Khazaria 2.0 plan of establishing a jewish enclave in Ukraine, basically on a part of the old Khazaria):

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2010127994757755222

https://www-agencianova-com.translate.goog/nota.asp?n=2026_4_9&id=165871&id_tiponota=3&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp (original Spanish article: https://www.agencianova.com/nota.asp?n=2026_4_9&id=165871&id_tiponota=3)

https://greeknewsondemand.com/2026/01/12/massive-protests-in-chile-argentina-under-slogan-zionists-get-out-as-israeli-tourists-set-patagonia-ablaze/

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2025/07/20/why-argentina-may-be-the-jewish-diasporas-next-frontier/

Now, allocating the burned land (and the jewish read MOSSAD tourists involvement in starting the fires) to jewish interests is ALREADY A FACT. Removing the undesirables from the area by means of biological weapons is something I wouldn't put it past jews.

substantial stacks's avatar

Anyone for a team visit to Patagonia for some hunting??!

Joe Doe's avatar

Too far even for me. But there is no hanta virus so no clearence is possible via it.

Chevrus's avatar

No! Could it be?

Markker's avatar

In UK, we also had the Meningitis B outbreak recently, with the quick response, contact tracing and masked teenagers lining up to get vaccinated.

Steve's avatar

The Karens are moist with anticipation.

Chevrus's avatar

I can smell them getting revved up… nothing more arousing than draconian enforcement of “safety”!

Paul Meccano's avatar

Is it beyond reasonable to think they developed a vaccine and new, more potent strain?

Or/also/because-I-remain-sceptical-in-many-ways, doesn’t it help to use emergency powers to shut down the midterms (though only for the most scary of threats, of course)?

No1's avatar

Maybe, also see JB's comment here: https://no01.substack.com/p/the-wrong-virus/comment/257893589

He's on the same wavelength as you.

Paul Meccano's avatar

For sure.

The 6 month outside framework at which point the oil infrastructure fails, along with an 25% AI infrastructure-now-complete being enough with the sell far overselling that threshold purposefully (once built it’s built, right? Owned by whoever has power enough to control it) as the whole of the rest of the US fails, both economically and socially.

As the midterms approach, what better time to release a virus that eats its way - slowly - through all that remains, all while, at the same time halting democracy, and blowing the stock market’s apart….

Gold mean shit when the people and machines that make everything are owned by a corporation.

When they own the controls.

Graham's avatar

What you missed is that the response to a transmissible disease outbreak has been the same since the bubonic plague. Isolate, prevent contact and transmission. Do it as early as possible to prevent spread. Modern communication enables a faster and more effective response.

No1's avatar

True, and modern transportation enables a faster and more efficient spread.

So there's that too 😉

Joe Doe's avatar

The only spread is done via the media. At what point are those with a half eye opened like yourself going to realize that the lies go a lot deeper than just the basic bullcrap propaganda in the media.

Joe Doe's avatar

Dont forget to take your boosters

Graham's avatar

If the virus has broken the transmission barrier and if a vaccine is available I will be the first in line.

Joe Doe's avatar

Good. Hopefully another sheep will bite the dust. The faster you idiots manage to euthanise yourselves the better.

Graham's avatar

We out survived you 10 to1 during covid. We are not the ones making ourselves extict. FAFO.

No1's avatar

Let's keep the comment section polite.

I merely wanted to point out that there is a remarkable pattern emerging. Nothing concrete yet. But remarkable nevertheless.

For covid related stuff: I would prefer you find that information elsewhere, there's enough out there so I don't have to rehash it.

Stick to the patterns, and how we can gain in the markets from it 😀

Graham's avatar

The pattern to a transmissible pandemic virus will be the same, not remarkable, predictable 🥰

Chris Kanon's avatar

Would like to stick to the markets but, respectfully, we probably wouldn’t be (dis)cussing this if you hadn’t brought it up…

Joe Doe's avatar

Maybe in portugal where you were injected 97 to 3.

Kerry's avatar

DELUSIONAL...

Chad Thundercock's avatar

I'm just gonna leave this here:

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/virus-in-the-dust-exposing-the-fabricated

For everyone interested, article is penned by NONE OTHER than the LEGENDARY Dr. Peter McCullough. (yes, the one that destroyed the conVid narrative and made Ivermectine the star of the show)

Also, from some of the comments there.. this gold nugget stood out:

"the "Pfizer Papers" (court-ordered release of the clinical trials) shows hantavirus as an Adverse Event for the mRNA covid vaccine." Here's the link to the Pfizer Effects PDF, and on page 33 there's the Hantavirus side-effect. ( https://www.notonthebeeb.co.uk/post/pfizer-cumulative-analysis-of-post-authorization-adverse-event-reports-of-bnt162b2-28-feb-21 )

So, basically, some vaxxie tardies in their 70s fooled around in at least one garbage dump in Ushuaia, Argentina (cause predatory birds and shiiet) and got sick with whatever rat shit diseases abound in a garbage dump... mostly because their vaxxied immune system was already crippled.

No1's avatar

I respect him, but he also said that by 3 years ago we would start to see a lot of very aggressive cancers. Maybe he underestimated the adaptability of Mother Nature?

So, jury is still out, and he has a lot of knowledge in the field, but some of his calls were like... Not realised yet.

Dunno if this is linked to vaxx or not, but I think that sniffing rat shit ain't very hygienic. So now they died from an exotic disease. Which under the circumstances I would classify as "occupational hazard"?

Joe Doe's avatar

How do you exactly know that anyone has died? Once you figure out that the media is manipulating it in a coordinated manner, why would you take anything they say at face value?

No1's avatar

Because you're living in a society. If -as they say- 80-90% in some countries were injected, and if even 1% died, that would be visible. I work in big companies. I didn't hear any that died... Helps to keep up with the company rumours if you have a good contact with the people at the entry desk 😉

substantial stacks's avatar

I know of several victims personally (including close family member) but yeah, depopulation is not the real agenda. They need meat for the grinder, even with AI.

Joe Doe's avatar

I agree with you here. All these peddlers of the doom caused by the injections were also part of the narrative and let out to cause division. Their prediction didnt come through.

The vaxxed can pat each others on their back. See, those idiots that predicted we were all going to die were wrong. We are so smart. The injections are not a great bio weapon, at least from what is visible by now, by any chance.

I was talking about the alleged deaths caused by inhaling rat shit. You mentioned those. How do you know any of those is real?

No1's avatar

Good question. And I don't.

But as with anything else: it's the reaction to a certain (maybe imaginary) event that matters more than the event itself.

But this pass the smelltest for me (pun intended). It is quite possible some people went walking and camped where they shouldn't have and during the night sniffed a bit too much. We're with a few billion on this ball of dirt so the chance that something like that happens is not zero.

But let's humour the other side: the deaths are not real. But the reaction in the media is, the activation of the corona streamline is. That's marketable enough for me to comment on. And on a pretty peculiar time when Europe NEED to save on fuel. Too bad it's "the wrong virus" for that...

DAVID Goldman's avatar

The US Constitution died for a while. I hear it's on a ventilator.

Chad Thundercock's avatar

"he also said that by 3 years ago we would start to see a lot of very aggressive cancers"

Hello sir, the Turbo Cancers would want a word.

No1's avatar

I know they're talking about that. But as I stated somewhere else: I don't see this any remotely around me. And I think the first course was around 80 in my country iirc.

A 1% chance for a turbo cancer would result in touching around 110 people. I think I would have noticed if around 10 to 15 people would have gotten cancer around me in a short timeframe.

That's why I say what I say. I read his work at the time, but at least from my perspective, this particular prediction didn't pan out.

Doesn't mean he doesn't know his stuff, just that he's not infallible. Like most of the rest of humanity 😉

Andrew's avatar

You do realize that list on page 33 is just a glossary of diagnoses that would fall under an adverse event and not a list of recorded adverse events, correct?

Chad Thundercock's avatar

Do you wanna risk it and find out? ConVid vaxx is still on the market.

Live a little !

OmR's avatar
May 12Edited

I think what you’re seeing is the reactivation of structured information flows from the Covid era, designed to provide uniform media narratives for these kind of threats when they emerge.

They built these and they’re using them - it makes complete sense. Their message now is ‘don’t panic’ (search hantavirus on Substack and you’ll see why).

Once you start saying that them saying not to panic is a sign you should panic you’re in the unfalsifiable territory conspiracy theorists breed in. If they were doing nothing at all, that would be proof they’re allowing it to spread, if they warn about it they’re preparing for lockdowns, if they tell you not to panic then it’s a sign you should: Moral of the story, don’t do analysis if you’ve already reached your conclusion.

No1's avatar

Yeah gov's never can do anything right, right? "don't panic" -> Ok, we should panic. "Don't say anything" -> Ok, they're hiding something.

As I am sure I stated already elsewhere: when they've been lying in the past, and not prosecuting the culpables. Why did they lose the trust of their serfs?

Either way, I'm a skeptic. And this is not as much an analysis as a presenting of facts and the patterns I see. At the moment my thinking is: just coincidence, but the reaction to it is surprising. And the energy situation in Europe is precarious enough that they might want to try to do something like this to lock down the continent...

One Man Riot's avatar

I think the issue is the 'they' in this narrative. There is Trump and his current band of merry lunatics, there is the Davos/WEF crowd who seemed to be behind a lot of the Covid shennanigans, there are the European governments trying to hang onto power in the face of rising right wing populism and stagnation, there are the people trying to keep the petrodollar afloat, the permanent bureaucracy spreading their tendrils wherever they can. I don't think there is a coherent overlap in motivation between these groups sufficient to try pull the death virus move twice in six years.

One analysis I read by an energy expert said that the practical loss of oil in the economy, considering rerouting, upscaling production and the fact that oil was overproduced last year, is more is around 5%. Once immediate inelasticity has hit, the market will absorb this shortage through demand destruction (see airlines cutting flights left right and center) and pricing pushing down demand. It just isn't necessary to try pull a viral hoax.

No1's avatar

Agreed on "" It just isn't necessary to try pull a viral hoax. ""

The main problem I see is that to stave of right wing populism (which is what exactly in a democracy? Honest question -- ain't populism literally "the will of the people"? But I digress). So what is the main problem there? It's that by trying to keep oil down (and thus their economies afloat) - they trade short term pain for long term loss. Better would have been to let the prices fluctuate and make it immediately visible, and blame everything on Trump of course. Or Iran, Or Israel. Doesn't matter, as long as it's not themselves.

Anyway, I rant .. I rant ..

The airlines cutting flights is because the oil price is manipulated. Otherwise they could have survived. But if your insurance is only paying you 50% back where you would be expecting to be made whole? They're taking the reasonable decision to cut it.

Coming back after lots of unexplored side-ventures: I also see oil settling slightly higher when the war is finished but the way to that is through a LOT of pain, not because of the war, but because of the manipulation of the oil markets and guvs.

One Man Riot's avatar

When I say 'right wing populism' I just mean popular support for center right policies like requiring people who visit your country to have a passport (what the left calls the extreme far right).

I just think that unlike the Covid era putting on any sort of coordinated government attack on personal freedom would go down like a lead balloon right now. The masses are as restless as they have ever been, and we've all seen the Contagion movie already and it would just be difficult to get the same level of cooperation.

The incentive just isnt there. I still don't know what the reason for the Covid thing was, and that worries me, because it was done for a reason. But what we're seeing does just seem to be them sounding bomb shelter alarms built for Covid because they have them.

DAVID Goldman's avatar

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reportedly made that statement during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. According to a Washington Post report, a furious Graham told the Senate sergeant-at-arms to use lethal force against rioters breaching the building, saying, "You’ve got guns. Use them," and "We give you guns for a reason".

Joe Doe's avatar

Your forgot about the rotschilds and their central banking mafia which controls all of the mentioned groups.

One Man Riot's avatar

Honestly this just comes across as a hard-on for elite omnipotence. I am sure the Rothschilds are very influential, that their money and influence networks give them disproportionate leverage amongst the elites, but they're just another elite family, not some kind of all knowing, all powerful superhumans. Elite families like this have peppered history, they're just not that remarkable.

Joe Doe's avatar

First. They are not elites. They are criminal in suites. All of them.

Second. Does it seem to you that they, whoever they is for now, are not almost omnipotent? Because their government puppets are mascarading inner fightings and the situation for normal humans seems to deteriorate day by day? When that is actually one of the goals.

Third. All criminal socieries organize themselves in a pyramidal shape. There is one entity at the top and more and more as you go down in level. The rotshchilds may not be at the top of the piramid but they are definitely a couple of levels above any trump, putin, xi, wef member or eu governor.

Fouth. The rotschilds are quite remarkable actually. Controlled british and european finances for more than 200 years, were the richest family on earth and boom, all of a sudden, in the spam of 50 years, they dissapear from any mainstream conversation. Quite remarkable I'd say. The rockeffelers were able to conjure the same trick as well.

One Man Riot's avatar

I know all the conspiracy boilerplate. If you go high res a lot of it fades away or is unverified. I'd hardly say they have disappeared from mainstream conversation, they have been very visible in their support for left wing causes, Jacob Rothschild was all over the press before he passed away.

They may be 'the most powerful' family in the world. There obviously is a family that can be classified as such, and maybe the Rothschilds are that, but that does not mean they are actually that effective at getting everything they want, or even agree amongst themselves on what they want.

You simply need to have worked in a large organization to understand how completely ineffective the people running it are and the immense inertia that is added to every system for every layer that is added to the pyramid.

If you are open-minded give this article a shot: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194925891