It’s been awhile, a long while not a short just couple days or weeks while, since we had a good gematria guru with a megaphone interrupt a protest video. Protests make great source material. Some other options have included a crime scene so you can mouth off at police, the ever popular solemn ceremony where nobody wants to be verbally abused while laying flowers at a symbolic grave, or just the popular corner of the busiest intersection where you live. The downside being that, with intent, the core audience is hostile. But innocent passersby who admire the bravado, maybe they can be swayed by the glib well rehearsed and prepared material of someone who makes bullshit and being an asshole a living.
Now protests, especially like yesterday, that should be golden just based on the math. By nature protests represent a highly polarized society’s outlet to say, “I’m drawing the line in the sand right here.” And the counter protesters have the opportunity to show up in numbers to make their side known.
I don’t mind saying at this snapshot in time I’m heavily skewed towards the No Kings protests side. Those that have the misfortune of knowing me in real life can figure it out pretty easily; I have off a lot of warning signs that trigger the other side to try a constant game of one-upmanship. But, back on topic. A protest or counter protest. Isn’t that, with all the masses of people including some whipped up into a gung ho emotionally charged frenzy a great chance to market your beliefs? The same antigovernment and racially sensitive messages you’ve been blogging and making videos about for a decade.
Hell, yeah.
You might sell a couple of t-shirts and meet up with someone to do a week long collaboration set of videos with. (The mutual grift boost in viewership usually doesn’t last much longer than that before the “no honor among thieves” statute takes hold.)
The outrage porn source material is at an all time Doomsday Clock level. Tariffs are still ruining port of entry statistics, all out war brewing between Iran and Israel, Ukraine still trying to fend off the bigger bullying neighbor instead of having the courtesy of folding immediately, politically motivated assassination in Minnesota. And all this before the main brunt of what’s expected to be an active hurricane season that has about a zero percent chance of being handled decently. We really need a megaphone wielding loudmouth to tell us what Caitlin Clark has planned for us.
And true to form, since this time it’s different, there is no physical presence. No chance to give an indication of if there’s a true point that has told you one side has gone too far. The blogs still talk about Israel/Iran (the rapture is coming, again), the assassinations were a Skull & Bones ritual (because…112 and various other numbers that aren’t 112 but look superficially close enough including in weird ciphers nobody uses), and the protests (47, a perfectly easily created number that shows up a gazillion times every day), well they happened.
But the really important info. The most important topic, information that is so top secret, the information that will change your life and let people know where you stand. That vital clue that shows you were at or wished you could go to the taxpayer funded military parade or a No Kings protest.
The Saturday MLB and NHL picks hidden behind a password. A password only given to paying Patreon members.
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Proper pointing out both sides transgressions is something like real evidence based things with Europe still buying $1 billion a month of Russian oil which funds their war effort while simultaneously providing funding to Ukraine’s war effort. The point is that it’s more complex and nuanced than anything a two or three digit gematria number can explain. Improper pointing out is, “The government is evil, pay for my shitty sports picks”. It’s really as simple as that. You don’t have to be a genius to see that there’s lots of stuff wrong that you need to pay someone to tell you about.