Famous brands are cashing in insane amounts of money from their customers based on proper marketing. It’s said that Facebook even hired psychologists a while back to make the platform as addictive as possible. It’s also said that many of those individuals worked specifically on the design of the like button.
90% of the people buying expensive clothing brands are actually just paying for the brand badge and nothing more. Most of them know the quality of those clothes isn’t significantly better than regular ones—but they buy them anyway.
They’re after the names and the attention those names can attract, rather than how the clothes actually feel or look. We live in a world so obsessed with image, and to me, it looks like the masses are just so easy to fool this way.
Do you know what acqua del rubinetto means? Well, I’m Romanian and our language is quite similar to Italian, so I know that acqua del rubinetto means tap water—but Americans have no clue about that.
I stumbled today on Twitter upon a short clip with a guy who literally bottled acqua del rubinetto, poured it into some fancy glasses, and threw together a water presentation around it. It was just acqua del rubinetto, though… But the audience got tricked into believing it was some kind of mineral-rich, expensive water.
In fact, it was nothing but tap water, and the sheep got tricked once again… Good marketing and "magic tricks" can work wonders. Now... let’s talk a bit about the recent market dumps in stocks and crypto.
To me, that’s a form of acqua del rubinetto as well—meaning, Trump and the elites are manipulating the markets for their own benefit. These tariff deals and waves of panic? Just market manipulation, if you ask me. Just a few hours ago, right before Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause for all countries except China, a whale dropped a $100 million long on BTC.
Man, $100 million is a lot of money—and that could’ve only been an insider, imo. Same thing happened during his inauguration and in the days when he signed executive orders. Meanwhile, the plebs got served acqua del rubinetto in the form of panic and fear. Same thing happened in 2020, same thing in 2023 with the banking crisis, and it’ll happen again sometime in the future too.
Being a contrarian is probably the way to go in the so-called modern world. I don’t want to sound uber optimistic after just a slight jump in the markets, but we might witness quite a rally up until something like June or so—just like in 2017. By then, the next psyop will be ready to roll out, and the markets will correct again… just in time to blow off in late 2025.
We’ll see… Have a great day and catch with you next time.
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian