The people who most need to read this book the most are also the same who absolutely never would. Even if they did, they'd find some bullshit reason to dismiss the facts without bothering to verify the footnotes. But whatever, lost causes. For everyone else this definitely is a remarkable exposé on the very real conspiracies of past and present, many of which proving to be one and the same.

She had a very precise prescience when it came to the inevitability of Trump's election and what was to follow. All of which was dismissed outright from everyone she spoke to at the start, because it all sounded ludicrous. And now that we have lived through what she foresaw, yes, these past 7 years or so have proven to be more than ludicrous indeed. Her foresight proved alarmingly correct down to fine detail.

She makes similar predictions in They Knew, and the main question this books leaves me with is how accurate will those predictions be this time around? I am skeptical, but not as quick this time to dismiss it all outright as I might have been if I had been listening to her back in 2016. I am primarily interested in her takes on the grim fate in store for Americans (grimmer than you may think, seriously) as well as how the climate crisis will play out when it truly comes to a head.

Won't get into it here, it is a short book so if this sounds enticing then you are better off hearing it from her than me. All in all we all know we are all screwed and everything sucks, and Kendzior does a remarkable job of showing us that we are even more screwed and everything sucks more than we actually think. You might be confident you already really know this, but for real, it is worse than we think.