Helter Skelter
When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop, and I turn, and I for a ride
‘Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
By Gregg Wall (4-4-2026)
Few are probably aware of this, but Helter Skelter, per Mr. McCartney, is about the fall of the Roman empire. And that’s probably as good a lede as I can ask for this Easter weekend, 2026. The U.S. empire is teetering, listing sideways. Our not so sane POTUS Trump gave a speech this week, where he really didn’t say much of anything and looked like he was about to fall down the slide himself … Americans still don’t have a definitive answer as to why we are in Iran or the objectives that will pull us out. What we do know is that Trump says he’s won, he’s very angry at European allies for not joining the Genocide twins (Messrs. Bibi & Trump) in the graveyard of Hormuz… even though Trump swears he needs no one… and it appears that Iran is very much in control over 20% of the world’s oil & gas flow. That’s what we know.
Speculation runs that Trump is pandering to the Evangelical Christian community with end times story telling & narratives to keep the Trump flock loyal. Others posit the whole spectacle was originally about Trump attempting to put as much distance between himself and the Epstein debacle as possible, and given the wave of firings and rumored firings to come … Epstein does not appear to be far from the POTUS’ mind. For those who are familiar with Whitney Webb’s work and the thinking of the billionaire set surrounding Trump, the attack on Iran seems very much to fall into line with the American oligarchy’s desire to dominate the earth… via dollar, energy, and military hegemony. Their greed, hubris, and megalomania apparently knows no boundaries: corporate rule, dark enlightenment, freedom cities & fiefdoms, oligarchy rule, technates. Trump likely felt Iran would fall like Venezuela, quick work would be made of it, the empire expanded, the empire riding high in the saddle. There is of course, too, the Bibi angle, which might explain why Trump is so entirely vague about the time frame and objectives… the United States appears to have subcontracted its Middle East foreign policy to a man wanted for war crimes and genocide. And why not, America has subcontracted its presidency to a con artist.
For my money, all four explanations are plausible: pander to Trump’s last remaining tribe of loyalists, Evangelicals; attempted escape from Epstein’s ghost; another power and resource grab in the Middle East by the American and Zionist oligarchy, perhaps at the prodding of Messrs. Musk, Thiel, and Palantir (coupled with hopes for a war bump and the easy expansion of a dying empire); and there’s no doubt or little doubt that Netanyahu appears to have considerable hold over the Trump administration and the U.S. congress. To date, Democrat leadership’s biggest concern centers around Trump’s lousy narrative management and selling of the war. Per the usual, Dems have no problems with the genocide, the slaughter of schoolgirls, and soaring energy prices. The American K-economy means the rich never feel any pain.
What we do know… what Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called “known- knowns,” during the second Gulf War… is that Trump seems to believe the United States' obligation is to be continuously at war (enriching billionaires & warmongers, keeping Bibi happy, propping up a failing U.S. necro economy, seeking to keep oil and gas prices elevated, and preserving the petrodollar). Trump said this week he’s really not in the business of taking care of the American people… with Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, that is the say the basics of government… but rather, America is in the business of waging eternal war & violence upon the planet. That’s my Reader's Digest version of the President’s remarks.
What we do know is Trump has made a perfidious hash of his and his billionaire backers’ objectives, that is U.S. dollar, empire, energy, and military supremacy (land & resource theft). With Trump in trouble in the polls, the dollar increasingly suspect, and sane Americans longing for peace & stability… Team Genocide, Trump, Bibi, and the Tech-Bros... appear to have sped up their schedule. But try as they might, the best laid plans of billionaires and pedos appears to be coming undone?
Oil & Gas supremacy seems to be in doubt with Europe and Asia, indeed the world, suffering higher O&G prices and shortages. Economies already on tenterhooks could be reeling this summer as they ride down the bottom of Mr. Trump’s Helter-Skelter slide. China appears to be most prescient having invested heavily in green and renewable energy and best positioned to handle the energy shock. Europe looks like it maybe fleeced, compelled to buy overpriced American energy, or make peace with Russia and go back to that energy relationship. One thing is clear, being dependent upon oil and gas is sheer treachery. Americans and Canadians appear out of luck per the usual. Even though both countries are swimming in oil… America’s and Canada’s rabidly neoliberal economies, global commodification of O&G, and far-right politicians ensure the good citizens of both countries will be royally ripped off, while oil & gas profits soar. In short, there’s no better advertisement for clean, green energy than President Epstein.
Dollar supremacy … forget about it. As reported in the FT the world can’t dump Treasuries fast enough. Trump, who sent the national debt soaring in his first term, is back for a repeat performance in his second term. And just this week, Trump reminded everyone that he wants a $1.5 trillion War budget next year. The idea of hoarding and cornering the market on the world’s oil & gas supply -- to backstop the U.S. dollar -- seems to be running into the wall of insane prices, energy shocks, economic contagion, endless wars to lift prices, and a burning planet with record high temperatures in the month of March. Here in Alberta, Canada, the federal and provincial governments like to pretend the U.S. owned Canadian oil & gas sector isn’t running up hundreds of billions in liabilities and sticking Canadians with the bill… while the American robber barons haul Alberta tar south for processing and obscene profits. What a scam. And what is Donnie doing? Well, both the American and Canadian governments are cornering the market on vast oil & gas liabilities in the trillions and trillions of dollars. It’s quite deranged, insane, and entirely unacceptable. It’s just more privatized profits for Big Oil & Gas and the oligarchy… more massive debts placed upon the backs of the public & taxpayer.
Military supremacy… the Iranians are making short work of that myth. As mentioned in my last piece, the Iranians have rained drones and missiles down upon: Middle East oil & gas infrastructure; US military installations (thirteen bases out of commission, per the NY Times and Grayzone news); Tel Aviv with God’s chosen fleeing the promised land (in what JP calls a reverse Exodus?); and U.S. military hardware. At the same time, Iran owns The Strait and is exacting tolls in Chinese Yuan. Goodbye petrodollar? Donnie is said to have 50,000 troops in the region, two to three aircraft carriers in transit or entering docks for repairs, and a special contingent of U.S. Marines to storm Iranian shores and enter the jaws of annihilation? Let us pray that invasion never takes place. Meanwhile, failing Donnie’s purge has extended beyond his cabinet to include some high-ranking brass at the Pentagon. Separately, Trump keeps holding what appears to be fictional negotiations, which are frequently refuted by the Iranian gov. This Good Friday, the Iranians rebuffed Trump and a 48-hour ceasefire. Looks like Iran is playing to win and will be the tollbooth operator for 20% of world oil & gas energy for the foreseeable future. The loss of this war, particularly the loss of The Strait, could finish off Trump.
Meanwhile, Bibi continues his genocides in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West bank… where slaughtering unarmed women and children comes easy; meanwhile, the Israeli Knesset has decided to make hanging Palestinian prisoners great again.
What’s that? … I hear the Martini shaker. Time to wrap up this piece and place a bow on it.
But the best part of all, perhaps blowback and karma, is Trump has illustrated for all the world to see what a complete fraud the pedo billionaire class is. What a desperate and lethal clown Trump has become as his approval rating takes a swan dive into the abyss. Trump seemingly can’t miss a day without declaring victory over Iran, but then, says the job isn’t finished in the same breath. What job is that POTUS Epstein? Carpet bombing, murdering women and children, genocide, as directed by your masters: Israel, Bibi, Thiel, Palantir, Adelson, Musk, Wall St.? The ultimate goal… a craven attempt to deflect from Trump’s Helter-Skelter administration, the ongoing fall of the empire, de-dollarization, a lousy economy, the alienation of the public and allies, and Epstein?
Yes, Trump and the oligarchy’s timeline have moved up, because the American people are fed up, allies are consistently saying NO to Trump, and it’s increasingly clear that many of these cretins… the oligarchy… belong in prison, stripped of their assets. Think of the intel America’s friends, neutral parties, and prospective adversarial powers are picking up on Trump and the US military’s failings in Iran? How to waste the U.S. military at pennies on the dollar? Trump truly is an idiot and allies who purchase America’s grossly overpriced weapons should take note. As for Iran, given the betrayal and treachery surrounding the American and Israeli governments, which fooled Iran twice… breaking off negotiations and tearing up a prior nuclear agreement without cause… why would Iran negotiate with a walking baboon, an orange orangutang? Why? Iran needs a performance bond and hundreds of billions in bullion as collateral and to backstop any agreement with Messrs. Netanyahu and Trump. Trump’s credibility is finished.
American billionaires -- Trump and his posse of freaks, misfits, and pedos -- are an abomination. Nor did they happen by magic or via the wonders of the “free market.” American billionaires are manufactured with endless state welfare, the billionaire tax code, corporate welfare, FED money printing, robbing the public to keep the house of cards upright, transferring money from public services and transportation into privatization schemes and the pockets of a greedy few… rigged/insider markets, front running trades as POTUS Failure manipulates markets with an endless series of lies. Grants of monopoly, the gutting of the regulatory state, privatized profits – socialized costs, under a cloud of failure and decay, gifts of research and patents with no taxpayer compensation and no public say in how publicly funded research and technology are used… these are a few of America’s billionaire aristocracy’s favorite things. Endless for-profit wars… these are just a handful of ways that a predatory few have become fabulously wealthy. Trump and billionaires are all welfare queens, endlessly feeding off the taxpayer and the state.
As humanity curses Trump in one breath, Americans and the world, in some twisted turn of fate, may eventually come to praise Caesar as an inflection point within humanity’s evolutionary arc. Trump has eliminated for all times… the myth of the billionaire class… the infallibility and supremacy of the great white pedo male. Trump has trashed the fairy tale surrounding the greatness of billionaires as preeminent leaders and businessmen.
The billionaire myth is burning on the ash heap of history, the Helter-Skelter presidency has been crucified… by Caesar’s own hand, the nails hammered in by Trump himself. It’s up to humanity, writers, and historians to ensure Caesar, the empire, the myth of the billionaire are interred into the grave and remain buried. All of it, consigned to hell, never ever again to see resurrection or the light of day.
Happy Easter.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2026
