Thanks, Obama

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanks,_Obama

Thanks Obama is one of those long lived internet memes, originally operating as a derogatory poke at Obama presidency era policies, then stolen to satirically support Obama.  A perfect fit for the all or nothing political only choice A or choice B with no middle ground outrage porn machine.  

The hate speech rules for prominent figures are different.  As a well known political figure it’s expected that some derogatory commentary is inevitable.  And all things for someone with the stature of an Obama are fair game.  Somehow, there are always plenty of people willing to chime in about such prominent figures using memes as evidence instead of…actual evidence.  These are called trolls.

Gematria is on par with memes for quality of empirical evidence.  That is, zero value.  And since your drop zeroes in gematria that means that it’s not even zero.  Just some black hole wasting space and time for those that want to devote a significant portion their f their lives to it.

And we do have to give a sarcastic shout out to Obama here for going too far.  The trolls are gonna troll, and they really don’t need to see something to refocus their attention to.  The undying Obama is the Antichrist narrative is still going strong.  The Michelle Obama is actually man narrative is not far behind.  Now he’s given the two sided outrage porn machine a movie to latch on to.  Thanks, Obama.

Leave the World Behind

I’m flying a bit blind here since I haven’t researched much of the plot details, yet.  What I know is gleaned only from the conspiracy content that is already churning through the normal (as normal as internet weirdos posting conspiracy content can be considered normal) social media conspiracy machine.  It’s got Julia Robert’s in it.  So that gets a tie in to the recent Matthew Perry death.  It’s got an apocalyptic theme.  And Obama, being an executive producer is already being pushed as the creative source, with some people calling it “Obama’s movie.”  Failing to realize that sometimes executive producer means merely investing in the movie or that there are at least a bunch of non Obama people involved.  That’s the way these things work.  If Julia Roberts was an aging overrated, in both talent and looks, actress the outrage machine would latch on to her.  If she made the mistake of going on talk shows discussing her politics.  And did you see what I did with the overrated comment?  Did I suggest she’s overrated?  Or that others think she is and I don’t?  Your reaction depends on what you personally think instead of anything to do with this particular movie.

Just as all gematria numbers are evil but some select numbers are more evil, some old stories are better than others.  This one could end up being one of them that will still be mentioned years from now.  Backing up to some of the other undying stories.  Thanks, Kobe.  You had to die and give the weirdos an excuse to latch on to all the two digit numbers in your career and life.  It’s been said that the Kobe narrative is the single biggest draw to the new initiates to sports gematria grifting.  To a lesser extent, Gabby Petito.  This is nowhere near as popular today, but it wasn’t for lack of conspiracy grifting effort.  The reality is a stunningly attractive young woman was tragically murdered by being involved with the wrong guy.  But she had the audacity to have massive media attention and lots of tiny, insignificant numbers associated with her life and those events.  Thanks, Gabby.

The common themes running through all these stories is simple.  Although the narratives are presented as, “I told you so - the evil empire is being evil again!”, not a single one was close to being predicted.  Just like Zach congratulating his Patreon winners after his bets with the spread, without the spread, narratives for both teams and 50 side bets on who scored a touchdown and the over under, these are all reported after the fact.  And as the outrage porn machine rushes to put out content the many stories that evolve short term as events unfold on TV the narratives conflict, even to the point of being mutually exclusive.  Until the stories that get the most engagement linger on, and the many equally valid as far as the gematria goes less engaging stories fade into oblivion.  You simply do not hear about Mrs. Johnson watering her flower garden on Tuesday even though gematriawise that was evil.

Thanks, social media.

For those who wish to crawl into their cave and weep for humanity I offer two final comments.

Perhaps, with the Leave the World Behind theme of a media blackout there’s an intention to show the lunacy of social media driven conspiracy grifting content.  I doubt it.  Personal interpretation can go a lot of different directions.  Thanks, Obama.

More importantly, Gabby Petito is prettier than Julia Roberts was at the same age.  That’s a fact.  You read that on the internet, so it must be true.