The Fourth Horseman Cometh
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
—Revelation 6:8
This week we’re bringing back a crowd favorite, because the news corpus is seeing a lot of action in Department of Sword, Famine, and Plague— unmistakable footprints of the Fourth Horseman.
First, the Air War—
CHINA finished at 331.80 WPM, up an eye-popping 65% on the week, 119% from its monthly low. That is one of the biggest moves we have seen by a primary term since COVID in February, 2020. Much of this momentum was driven by SPY BALLOON and its politically-correct twin AIRSHIP, both blowing in out of nowhere to finish in strong secondary territory, while CCP hit an all-time high of 5.10 WPM.
In the War of The Oligarchies—
UKRAINE is up 23% for the week at 245.50 WPM, though well off its recent high of 428.40, which was driven by TANKS— tanking at 36.80, now that Zelinsky has snookered Biden once more.
Abrams firmly in hand, the con man’s eyes are set on his next prize—F-16 — closing at 4.30 WPM, up 438% this week, 2050% in the last 30 days. Can you say GLOBAL THERMAL NUCLEAR WAR? It finished the week at 0.5 WPM, along with other things The Regime doesn’t want you to think about. Keep posting those family pics and recipes on Facebook. You’re gonna need the memories to keep you warm and fed,
Over in the Frozen Food aisle…
INFLATION is up 49% at 217.40 WPM, recovering 78% from its 30-day low, but still well off recent high water mark of 406.00 WPM. Macro terms like POWER OUTAGE, ENERGY PRICES, GAS PRICES, FOOD PRICES continue bumping along in their trading range.
But how about those EGGS? Why moms are not ditching their pussy hats for chicken masks and gathering by the outraged busload on DC Mall is baffling. And it makes us wonder: have we raised a generation of pussies when it comes to real life issues?
Finally, from the Pestilence Desk—
COVID and PANDEMIC continue their crabwalks after a run for the roses fueled by POST-PANDEMIC, with announcement that the regime plans to end the COVID public health emergency in—wait for it—May.
MALWORD ALERT: Domestic Terrorism Is Now MAGA Terrorism
On Monday, MSNBC injected a new malword into the language stream—MAGA TERRORISM— aligning the faces of Paul Pelosi’s deranged attacker and Tucker Carlsen on the screen for a full ten minutes, in attempt to combine the two into a result greater than a sum of the parts.
We gave the jab a week to do its thing, then checked in to see what new spike proteins had shown up in the news corpus. We found MAGA up 74% at 3.30 WPM, along with TERRORISM at a 30-day high of 86.10 WPM,
But no collocations. TERROR* does not appear in MAGA top 1000 collocates +/-4 artifacts. Top MAGA colo’s are REPUBLICANS, TRUMP, and HAT.
Ditto for TERRORISM: MAGA does not appear in its Top 1000 collocates +/-4 artifacts. Top TERRORISM colos are AGAINST, FIGHT, and COUNTER.
However, MSNBC might be on to something—
#6 TERRORISM colo is VIOLENCE; #8 is EXTREMISM; #9 is THREAT; #11 is DOMESTIC. All that is needed is for KJP & Junta to start chirping the term so it gets amplified by NY Times, CNN, etc.
If they can’t stop Trump from running, next step is to arrest his supporters.
We’ll keep an eye on this one…
Underperformers For A Reason
Declining terms for the week include DEBT CEILING— following proven Malwords Curve formation!— looking like mission accomplished. Along with DIED SUDDENLY, DIRECTED EVOLUTION, and GAIN OF FUNCTION—terms going bonkers in anti-globalist media, but barely fogging a mirror on legacy sites.
We’ll dive into that next week as we explore ChatGPT and seek to quantify Ed Dowd’s Assymetric Information Gap.
And as always, thank you for reading Malwords Weekly!
About Malwords
Malwords are keywords weaponized for information warfare. They function within public discourse as intellectual malware, verbal viruses designed to spread quickly for the purposes of a) silencing dissent through control of language, narrative, and speech, b) increasing public tolerance for government-sanctioned atrocity and c) emboldening officials to commit acts of atrocity.
Malword strength is measured by their frequency of appearance in the published body of language (corpus), and expressed in words per million (WPM) linguistic units (words, numbers, symbols, acronyms, etc).
Malword WPM’s typically follow a three-phase lifecycle: Pre-Curve test-markets the new term and puts up the store front; Curve, is launch phase, characterized by a rapid, exponential liftoff and sudden plunge; Post-Curve is a long, asymptotic tail and is the period in which primary-objective atrocities are implemented.
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Harvey Oxenhorn, is a cybersecurity consultant, founder of Malwords Weekly, and author of the upcoming book, The Atrocity Algorithm, How The Media Became The Enemy of The People. He writes The Five Stages of Unf*ck, Red Pill Journey to January 2.0. , also on Substack. Follow him on Gettr, Gab, and MeWe @HarveyOxenhorn