It’s true! Seth VERY good.

Thank you very much! Could you follow me so I can DM, please?

Or just drop me a line if you have the option now that I’m following you, of course.

Buncha stuff that boils down to “what does this bit of metadata mean? Can you tell what sort of device an image was created on or posted from based on the following stuff we’ve noticed that SEEMS potentially useful to us, but we don’t know squat?”

R—reputable and accredited institutions?

HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR MINISTRY?? Tell me where to send my next paycheck, I beg you!

Oh, sorry, an HONORARY doctorate.

That makes perfect sense, then, because NO IT DOESN’T

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The last sentence, I— excuse me, what, he’s claiming he got a PhD *from a person* and not an institution????? WHAT???

Can I — can I just write “Doctor of Philosophy” on a napkin and tuck it into my dog’s collar and it’s true???? Is that how it works???????????

HIS AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY ALONE —

It has! I got a new phone in mid-October and went “what if I DIDN’T gaze into the void all the time? How would that affect my life?”

and it turned out my life was better without it, so 🤷‍♂️

Mmmmmm-hmm.

AN OBAMA BIDEN MYSTERY????

Are they the fucking Hardy Boys???!!???

IS IT ALWAYS SMUGGLERS, EVERY SINGLE TIME?????

This is amazing. I fast-forwarded to a random moment in it and he was rasping,

“Suicide bombers ready to deposit—“

And QAnon is PERFECT for that, because it can recast any suffering or inconvenience as: “oh, this is all part of smashing the Cabal and destroying the bad guys who literally eat babies for Satan, after which we’ll have a golden age. Small price to pay! We should REJOICE in this sacrifice of ours!”

One of the things Trump’s second term will require, and *urgently so*, too, is a narrative that sort of…

soothes his supporter’s emotions about the negative impacts they’ll see in their own lives from what Trump is doing.

I would say “no it isn’t,” but there are people I respect who think it *is*.

Had a really good conversation recently, where I was like “any Q-equivalent thing in Trump’s second term would have to be an entirely new movement suited to the conditions of the times.”

And the counterpoint was:

SAY MORE.

… uh, please and thank you.