December 30, 2022, Bucharest, Romania, or rather a grey and red, strip-lit block on the edge of town. Supercars on the driveway, mirrors in the hall,

and on this particular chilly evening,

around a dozen black-clad Balaclavard officers

of the Jandarmeria Romana, the country's military cops, and they storm

inside.

Official police videos show guns, knives and brass knuckles confiscated during the raid.

But the cop's biggest prize is the villa's owner, Andrew Tate,

kickboxer, influencer, bloviator and the cops say,

mastermind of an elaborate sex trafficking ring centered on one of

Romania's growing industries, CAM girls. There are rape charges too and all kinds of

media mud will be slung in the coming weeks

months and even years as Romania's authorities ponder whether they'll take tape

nickname Top G and his near identical brother Tristan to call.

For now, as he's led from the building in cuffs,

Tate has just one thing to say to the waiting media.

The Matrix has attacked me. It's a common refrain. One take uses to

describe a world of mundaneity and subjugation to which men are subjected in the

modern world. Not him of course, or the thousands of other quote

high value males who comprise the members of his 8,000 dollar a year Hustlers

University. An online scheme he claims empowers men to earn money and get women, but which others say

is little more than a pyramid scheme.

This is the real matrix, the tangled web of financial interests from which Tate is believed to have made

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