9sense Episode 05 October LX A.S.

On this 05 October, LX A.S. 9sense podcast episode, Magister Campbell will discuss Satanists Surviving in a Fascist State, Trump Cancelling the Election, and Halloween Decorations. Join LIVE in YouTube chat and share your thoughts! This episode will be added to the audio podcast feed the following day.

Time Stamps:

• 0:00 Intro
• 8:14 1. The Devil’s Advocate – Satanists Surviving in a Fascist State
• 48:08 2. Infernal Informant – Trump Cancelling the Election
• 1:08:00 3. Creature Feature – Halloween Decorations
• 1:19:01 Outro

Show Notes

Intro

Welcome to 9sense. 9sense is a Satanic perspective of our modern world. I am your host Magister Campbell, it’s great to have you. It’s October 5th and I’ve got a hell-of-a show for you this week!

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Discussion

1. The Devil’s Advocate

• Satanists Surviving in a Fascist State
  • Benito Mussolini first used the term in 1915
  • Historian Ian Kershaw once wrote that “trying to define ‘fascism’ is like trying to nail jelly to the wall”.
  • foremost an authoritarian form of government
  • Originally, it referred to a totalitarian political movement linked with corporatism which existed in Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini.
  • Encyclopedia Britanica
    • extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.
  • Holocaust encyclopedia
    • a far-right political philosophy, or theory of government, that emerged in the early twentieth century. Fascism prioritizes the nation over the individual, who exists to serve the nation.” and as “an ultranationalist, authoritarian political philosophy. It combines elements of nationalism, militarism, economic self-sufficiency, and totalitarianism. It opposes communism, socialism, pluralism, individual rights and equality, and democratic government.
    • where racism may have been a notable element in the tone and substance of their messaging
  • Merriam-webster
    • a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
  • 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism”, cultural theorist Umberto Eco
    • “The cult of tradition“, characterized by cultural syncretism, even at the risk of internal contradiction. When all truth has already been revealed by tradition, no new learning can occur, only further interpretation and refinement.
    • “The rejection of modernism“, which views the rationalistic development of Western culture since the Enlightenment as a descent into depravity. Eco distinguishes this from a rejection of superficial technological advancement, as many fascist regimes cite their industrial potency as proof of the vitality of their system.
    • “The cult of action for action’s sake“, which dictates that action is of value in itself and should be taken without intellectual reflection. This, says Eco, is connected with anti-intellectualism and irrationalism, and often manifests in attacks on modern culture and science.
    • “Disagreement is treason” – fascism devalues intellectual discourse and critical reasoning as barriers to action, as well as out of fear that such analysis will expose the contradictions embodied in a syncretistic faith.
    • “Fear of difference“, which fascism seeks to exploit and exacerbate, often in the form of racism or an appeal against foreigners and immigrants.
    • “Appeal to a frustrated middle class“, fearing economic pressure from the demands and aspirations of lower social groups.
    • “Obsession with a plot” and the hyping-up of an enemy threat. This often combines an appeal to xenophobia with a fear of disloyalty and sabotage from marginalized groups living within the society (such as the German elite’s “fear” of the 1930s Jewish populace’s businesses and well-doings; see also antisemitism). Eco also cites Pat Robertson’s book The New World Order as a prominent example of a plot obsession.
    • Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak“. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.
    • “Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy” because “life is permanent warfare” – there must always be an enemy to fight. Both fascist Germany under Hitler and Italy under Mussolini worked first to organize and clean up their respective countries and then build the war machines that they later intended to and did use, despite Germany being under restrictions of the Versailles treaty to not build a military force. This principle leads to a fundamental contradiction within fascism: the incompatibility of ultimate triumph with perpetual war.
    • “Contempt for the weak“, which is uncomfortably married to a chauvinistic popular elitism, in which every member of society is superior to outsiders by virtue of belonging to the in-group. Eco sees in these attitudes the root of a deep tension in the fundamentally hierarchical structure of fascist polities, as they encourage leaders to despise their underlings, up to the ultimate leader, who holds the whole country in contempt for having allowed him to overtake it by force.
    • “Everybody is educated to become a hero“, which leads to the embrace of a cult of death. As Eco observes, “[t]he Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.”
    • “Machismo“, which sublimates the difficult work of permanent war and heroism into the sexual sphere. Fascists thus hold “both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality”.
    • “Selective populism” – the people, conceived monolithically, have a common will, distinct from and superior to the viewpoint of any individual. As no mass of people can ever be truly unanimous, the leader holds himself out as the interpreter of the popular will (though truly he alone dictates it). Fascists use this concept to delegitimize democratic institutions they accuse of “no longer represent[ing] the voice of the people”.
    • “Newspeak” – fascism employs and promotes an impoverished vocabulary to limit critical reasoning.
  • Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/
    • This memorandum orders federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs), to create a national strategy to investigate and prosecute “entities and individuals engaged in acts of political violence and intimidation”. The memo also directs federal agencies to disrupt the financial networks of non-profit groups that the administration claims, without evidence, fund and promote political violence. 
    • This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically.
    • sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society
    • These campaigns often begin by isolating and dehumanizing specific targets to justify murder or other violent action against them. 
    • These campaigns then escalate to organized doxing, where the private or identifying information of their targets (such as home addresses, phone numbers, or other personal information) is exposed to the public with the explicit intent of encouraging others to harass, intimidate, or violently assault them. 
    • Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.
    • The National Joint Terrorism Task Force and its local offices
      • Vague language: 
      • Chilling effect on free speech
      • Targeting political opponents
      • Abuse of power
  • How do you survive?
    • Protect your safety and autonomy
      • Avoid unnecessary heroics
      • Establish a private life.
      • Learn from other countries
    • Cultivate resilience and hope
      • Filter out propaganda
      • Pursue small acts of resistance
      • Engage in escapism
    • Build and rely on community
      • Stay connected with people
      • Build alternative support networks
      • Support institutions and professionals
    • Address authoritarian supporters
      • Engage calmly and logically.
      • Find common ground.
      • Highlight the negative impact.
    • Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
      • Accept that this is happening. Denial won’t change the outcome.
      • Let the hood cook.
      • Go to the boring fraternal meetings with your uncles and aunties.
      • Remember, we are international.
      • Go for the money.

2. Infernal Informant

• What Happens When Trump Tries to Cancel the Election?
  • https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-trump-tries-to 
  • Christopher Armitage
  • Sep 26, 2025
  • Bottom Line Up Front (B.L.U.F.)
  • States need to pass these laws immediately, before it’s too late. If Trump runs for a third term in violation of the 22nd Amendment, or if he attempts to cancel or indefinitely postpone elections, your state needs laws already on the books that automatically ban not just him but any political party that nominates or supports a constitutionally ineligible candidate from your state’s ballot.
  • Don’t wait for the crisis to hit. A party that backs someone who violates the Constitution’s term limits or attempts to prevent the constitutional transfer of power has forfeited its legitimacy. States control their own ballot access laws. Pass these laws preemptively. Make it automatic. Make them choose between Trump and appearing on the ballot at all. That’s how you enforce the Constitution when federal systems won’t. Call, email, and shout this at your state legislators today.
  • The Justice Department now openly pursues cases against the President’s political opponents. The Supreme Court has embraced unitary executive theory. Protesters are officially labeled as terrorists. These are observable facts. Given this reality, I have a simple question. If Trump and Republicans decided to cancel the next election, who would stop them? In a literal sense, what would the mechanism be? Is the hope of elected officials growing a spine the only thing between us and the final stage of an autocratic takeover.
  • We need to stop pretending the old safeguards still exist. When the President controls who gets prosecuted and the Supreme Court affirms his authority to do so, we’re watching the end stages of democratic collapse. The question now is whether anyone can physically stop it.
  • Let me be precise. In America today, practically every single person who could arrest corrupt federal officials for federal crimes ultimately reports to those same officials. State prosecutors can charge state crimes, but they cannot enter federal property to make arrests.
  • The White House, federal courthouses, military bases remain off limits without federal permission. Given recent Supreme Court rulings on executive authority, this has become a central challenge to accountability. So we need to examine the real question. Who, specifically, arrests a President who refuses to leave office when the people with federal authority to do so answer to him?
  • Who arrests the FBI Director if he refuses an illegal order? The Inspector General can investigate but cannot arrest. The Deputy Director? Same problem. The entire FBI structure, over 37,000 personnel including 13,623 special agents, ultimately answer to one person. Title 28, Section 533 of the U.S. Code makes this explicit. The Attorney General, appointed by the President, controls all FBI functions.
  • The U.S. Marshals Service enforces federal law. They protect judges. They track fugitives. They have approximately 3,900 deputies. But the Director of the U.S. Marshals is appointed by the President. The Marshals operate under the Attorney General. Every Marshal’s authority flows from the executive branch they would need to hold accountable.
  • The Capitol Police have arrest authority and more than 2,300 officers. They report to Congress, not the President. But to arrest the President, they’d need to enter the White House grounds. The Secret Service controls those grounds and reports to the President.
  • The Supreme Court? Federal law enforcement could theoretically arrest a Justice. In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas resigned under threat of criminal investigation. But who would order that arrest today? The Attorney General who serves at the President’s pleasure.
  • State law enforcement has no federal jurisdiction. Even for state crimes, they cannot enter federal property without permission. The White House, federal courthouses, military bases are all off limits. Permission comes from federal authorities who report to the President.
  • The military? The Posse Comitatus Act explicitly prevents military involvement in domestic law enforcement, though Trump has repeatedly violated this restriction despite court rulings against him. Soldiers swear both to “support and defend the Constitution” and to “obey the orders of the President.”
  • When those conflict, they’re supposed to refuse unlawful orders. But we’ve already seen the military follow legally questionable directives. Article II, Section 2 makes him Commander in Chief, and in practice, that’s been the oath that wins.
  • History shows us what happens when power actually changes hands, and the pattern is surprisingly consistent. In South Korea in 2017, President Park Geun-hye controlled the government but not the Office of the Prosecutor General, a deliberately independent institution created after dictatorship. When Prosecutor Park Young-soo issued the arrest warrant, he needed one thing. Military neutrality. The military refused to intervene. Without military backing, President Park surrendered. Four hours from warrant to custody.
  • Romania in 1989 tells a similar story. Nicolae Ceaușescu ruled for 24 years through the Securitate. On December 21, crowds turned hostile during his speech. He ordered the military to fire. Defense Minister Vasile Milea refused and was found dead. The military switched sides. By December 25, Ceaușescu was executed. Four days from speech to execution.
  • Peru in 2000 demonstrated another path. Alberto Fujimori controlled courts, congress, and the military. His mistake was leaving the country. Once in Japan, he faxed his resignation. Without physical presence, control evaporated. When he attempted to return via Chile in 2005, Chilean police arrested him. Twenty-five years in prison.
  • These stories show the process of how power actually changes hands and these stories don’t generally involve inspiring tales of democracy prevailing. In every case, the military or security forces had to switch sides or stay neutral.
  • The American system presents unique paradoxes that make these best case scenarios unlikely. The FBI Director serves at the pleasure of the President. No tenure protection, no for-cause requirement. In 2017, James Comey learned this during an FBI recruitment speech from television news.
  • The military oath contains a contradiction. Soldiers swear to “support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” They also swear to “obey the orders of the President.” When the President becomes the domestic enemy, which oath wins? The military’s consistent answer is that they follow the chain of command.
  • The smart observer may think to ask about State prosecutors role in preventing full blown autocratic election theft. The fact is that while State prosecutors can charge state crimes, they cannot arrest federal officials on federal property. A New York prosecutor with a valid warrant cannot enter the White House. The Secret Service would stop them at the gate. This is protocol.
  • The inspector general system supposedly provides oversight. Seventy-three inspectors general across the federal government. In 2020, five were fired in six weeks. The rest understood the message. IGs write reports; they cannot make arrests.
  • Even if Democrats somehow win the House in 2026 midterms, despite Republican states and the federal government having a blank check to gerrymander districts, suppress votes, and intimidate voters, impeachment means nothing without conviction. Conviction requires two-thirds of the Senate. That’s 67 senators. Democrats would need such an overwhelming, unprecedented victory that it’s essentially impossible. The facts alone make removal through impeachment an oligarch backed fantasy.
  • Here’s the bureaucratic reality. A U.S. Marshal with a lawful arrest warrant for the President walks to the White House gates. The Secret Service denies entry. Their job is protecting the President from all threats, including legal ones. Two federal agents, both following lawful orders, facing each other. The one inside wins.
  • Given this reality, we need to forget waiting for federal salvation and recognize that states have actual power. State attorneys general can prosecute state crimes including tax fraud, money laundering, and state RICO violations. State convictions survive federal pardons. Georgia, New York, Michigan, any state with jurisdiction can act.
  • States control banking licenses, insurance regulations, and business charters. New York regulates Wall Street. Delaware controls 67% of Fortune 500 companies. California regulates Silicon Valley. States can investigate, suspend, and revoke. No federal override exists for state banking regulations. Enforce the laws that exist and penalize corruption; things will get better. Even more ambitiously, ban corporate backed candidates from having their names printed on ballots and make them run as write ins. Corruption is the problem and we can doggedly pursue it to reclaim our nation.
  • States can form binding interstate compacts without federal approval. Twenty states could coordinate simultaneous prosecutions, share intelligence, and freeze assets together. We have multiple models for legal interstate compacts, now we just apply them to prosecutorial coordination.
  • Governors command their National Guard until federalized. The President needs specific legal justification to federalize. Multiple governors refusing simultaneously creates a legitimacy crisis no signature solves. The Guard has weapons, training, and state constitutional authority. For this to work, Governors must be proactive in their actions. Make it impossible to activate your states national guard for illegal and unconstitutional purposes.
  • States retain their own constitutions, courts, and enforcement power. When federal systems are captured, coordinated state resistance becomes crucial. Twenty-three states acting simultaneously creates an enforcement crisis no federal government can easily resolve.
  • Republican states have ignored federal authority for years without consequence. Democratic states must be equally willing to act first and litigate later, daring the federal government to try enforcing its will against half the country at once.
  • If you’re waiting for “the system” to stop this, you’re waiting for something that doesn’t exist. Your state can act. Make it.
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3. Creature Feature

• Halloween Decorations
  • Shouldn’t Satanists have holy decorations?
  • Prices, popular culture and hegemony can dilute the spirit of halloween
  • Fall back on ‘do-it-yourself- tricks you recall from your childhood.
  • Make your own decorations and costumes
  • Remember more than anything , this is about the vibe, the halloween vibe, you never even have to decorate. Perhaps you place a red led bulb in your porch light, or a jack-lantern in your front window
  • We live vicariously through the joy of children and the trick is as important as they treat
  • Remember that the trick is essential to get that flood of dopamine, and then reward it with delicious treats

Outro

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