Reverse Troll Gets Taken Down

 

 I made this comment on a YouTube video 10 months ago.  That particular video was a well sourced, well organized, intelligent review of some blatant misogyny in printed media.  It was on a channel I had fairly recently discovered those 10 months ago.  Unlike a conspiracy gematria video that is purposefully a one shot deal maximized for immediate outrage porn attention, the video predates the worst of this political administration.

My purpose in commenting was not in any way seeking glory and attention for myself.  It was a message to the author, written in the secret code that truly smart people understand.  “I appreciate you.  You touched a nerve and I would rather spend time with you in real life than listening to Joe Rogan contradict himself for views and money.”

Joe Rogan was purposefully chosen for that example as a target that doesn’t fit the spirit of my post.  When I’m talking about the most terrible people on the planet, I’m talking about the out in the open corruption, hypocrisy, and cruelty of the Trump administration and all that ride the  flying monkey coattail riders like Musk.

This is far from my first rodeo being cyber trolled.  I “get” the personality of cult members more than the vast majority of members.  I “get” that you’ve been trained by dysfunctional media propaganda that an attack on the cult leader is an attack on yourself.

So two weeks ago when I got reverse trolled I was mentally prepared to shake it off without responding.  The goal of reverse trolling is to drag the target into a fake debate.  A debate that the reverse troller will never lose since all that can rely on is blatant disinformation, logical fallacies, and simply never shutting up about it.  The reverse troller can also never actually win as they are living outside of reality.  The mouth opens before the brain thinks.  Specifically for my new found friend here, the comment is the exact same kind of stupid shit I was supposed to endlessly put up with.  Thank you for proving my point.  Some people just need to mouth off for attention, as unproductive and meaningless the mouthing off may be.

10 days ago I thought I might get around to posting about this like I am now.  After a quick reply to R&R start typing away.  Well I don’t have to reply.  Someone beat me to it.  Someone that recognizes the core issue that generated eight likes on my original comment of a video made years ago.  Sometimes you just have to throw the white flag up and drop relationships with toxic people.  By R&R’s flawed logic, a beaten wife by an alcoholic husband is never supposed to admit that getting beaten is a bad thing.  He or she is right about one thing, oh yeah, I’ve got my flaws.  But being a cult member or influenced by cult group think ain’t one of them.  I’ve been accused of being flawed off topic of core issues so many times I’m numb to it, personally.

A common theme of the reverse troll is on full display here.  R&R is most definitely part of the target audience.  The author’s channel is full of anti-Musk and anti-Trump content.  Although it is a mental happy chemical to have received the eight likes, it’s not for the reason that the logical fallacy burdened trolls think.  There are other curious and intelligent people doing the same thing I did.  Making a simple display that they appreciated what I’ve said.  And showing support for the video creator indirectly, having made the video years ago that still generates open discussion about an extremely important stage of U.S. history.  A safe harbor where mostly people who want real intellectual discussion congregate.  And the common mistaken theme of the reverse troll on display?  Invading the safe space on a topic that they have zero meaningful dialogue to share.  Getting to LARP for a day as a fake intellectual bad ass.  It’s like joining a book club that is reading Dickens when you can’t even appreciate See Spot Run.  (Uh oh, there’s my flawed personality coming through.)

Back to Rogan, the gateway drug at the center of this piece.  He is not too bad, but there’s some issues.  There’s no consistency to who he platforms.  And the smart people know it.  I would rather watch a video from the author of the misogynist video any day than be caught watching a JRE podcast.  The video author is the kind of consistent high quality information that makes me say to myself, “Holy shit this guy is smarter than me.  I wish I had someone like this in my youth as a role model to hang around with.”  Instead what I got was a cult slow burn of capitalizing on the “I was born a Republican, therefore I am a Republican.”  The all or nothing group think getting a little worse every passing day, week, month, year, and literal decade.  Never swaying from the path of the progressively worse and worse fake leaders instead of true conservatism.

A few days ago, I was wondering how I could sum this up and finalize it and was rescued by one of my super powers.  The reference point and an above average memory to the rescue.  I saw something on BlueSky that went something like this:

You don't argue with your drunken uncle at holiday dinner to try and change him. You argue so the kids know they have a safe harbor to talk to.

The Event - The Modern Minotaur Story

Doomsday Bunkers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minos

Hey fans of wasted resources!  Got a great one today!

Rumors are circulating that the idea of some sort of societal collapse is coming and the morbidly wealthy are calling it “The Event”.  And nothing signifies the keeping up with the Joneses aspect more than the open flaunting of building an underground bunker to “get by a rough patch.”  In the linked video, if you key in on about the 3:20 mark you get to the lines about how it’s really kind of stupid.  In September 2024 I wrote about this town created by Libertarians, a project that didn’t go well:

https://mindelessfreeks.blogspot.com/2024/09/what-if-there-was-actual-gematria-town.html?m=1

If you have an underground bunker, who exactly is the person in charge of maintaining the septic system?  Who will nurture the plants in the hydroponic farms?  (For the fans of the we've seen this movie before theme, watch Silent Running.)  Chateaubriand doesn’t grow on trees.  A ski lift and actual snow?  All the “I’m better than you because I have money and you don’t” status symbols are meaningless.

But it does give them ammunition in the I’m a Bigger Asshole Than You pissing contest.  Just watch out for that 3:20 video mark downtrodden people in the same bunker as you are.  That’s some high quality Vague Promise vs. the Fuck You situational disaster in the making.  Somebody knows their Machiavelli or Game of Thrones,  or spontaneously figures it out that revenge is an option.  Spending extended periods of time fearful of assassination is not a fun thing.  It’s the reason you want to build a doomsday bunker in the first place.  And the contradictory nature - the narcissistic need for constant glory and admiration trapped in a bunker with a few fickle minions - good luck with that.  They aren’t dining on Chateaubriand and can’t eat bitcoin.  The entire infrastructure that allowed fraud on a massive scale to produce their ungodly wealth in the first place is gone.

These modern King Minos people are not mentally healthy.  The entire lot of them.

The Epstein Class of people that spend more effort covering up heinous crimes with cruelty for distraction.  Therapy to rehabilitate is out of the question at this point.  They’re too far gone.  I think of the labyrinth holding the Minotaur metaphorically.  Minos’s actions are a symptom of being trapped in his own mind, one that equates power and cruelty for control as admiration.

The mindset of the angry preppers from the golden days of Alex Jones is better.  But just a little bit.  They’ve grown accustomed to not being well off, poverty and voter suppression tactics reminding them of reality smacking fantasy constantly.  Caught up as pawns in the modern labyrinth.  The purposeful erosion of the middle class is a constant reinforcement that you have two choices.  Join the destitute preppers or graduate to the Epstein class.  Neither option is mentally healthy.  The odds that you’ll be genuinely happy saving up money for a portable generator that will be useless when you can’t get fuel for it vs. forced admiration to someone that would rather throw you under the bus at the first chance.  Well, at least the bus won’t have gas either….

There’s 100% certainty that if Minos was alive now he’d be prominently featured in the Epstein files.  Constantly sacrificing young Athenians to the actual monster in the labyrinth just for a little bit more attention.  Another day of pretending the imprisonment of his own thoughts and deeds eating at his conscience.  Knowing that if he dared showed up at the Super Bowl he’d be resoundingly booed, yet still insisting he’s the best king ever while the largest No Kings protest ever is brewing in the town outside the labyrinth.  Never considering that investment in the future instead of building a doomsday bunker with the resources was a better option.

The Vague Promise vs.The F-U

Following up on the Hyperkrieg and the “we’ve seen this movie before” themes.  Just because you real history fans need some more fun.

In World War I, surprisingly, Axis power Japan was a big winner.

The power of the blitzkrieg - overwhelm the weak.  Isolate the true threat from their allies and only need to deal with the one threat to your forcing your will on to others.  A quaint side feature of older warfare is the end of war capitulation, which is what we’re experiencing with Russia and Ukraine now.  We’ll stop blowing up your shit and killing you if you give us your shit.  Japan masterfully jumped into the give me your shit phase without participating a whole lot in the blowing your shit up phase, because that would have resulted in some of their own shit getting blown up.

On a smaller scale, the Nazis had the economic support of coattail riding businesses.  The threat of blowing your shit up is hollow and laughable if you’re not actually capable of blowing shit up.  Forced labor vs. patriotic fervor, which is better?  History tells us patriotic fervor.  The will to exist free is more powerful than “join or die”.  And never underestimate the facet of human nature for people getting to a point of recognizing things aren’t going well and saying, “Fuck you.”

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From a perspective of personal philosophy and outlook on life I find it ironic that the patriotic fervor of the desire to live free is itself an increasingly vague promise.  But anyway….

Before MAGA, Nazi Germany had their MOGGA, Make Our Germany Great Again.  Great news for businesses that would end up having cheap forced labor to make batteries, Lugers, Panzers and Luftwaffe planes.  And the bankers and other economic infrastructure to make it happen.

And what did the MAGA movement give us?  Great news for Tech billionaires making the weapons of misinformation and disinformation warfare.  Social media, online grifting, bigotry, misogyny and intimidation.  Financed by monetized hate speech.  The Hyperkrieg attack on individuals with artificial and arbitrary labels applied by stupid and vague promises that can’t possibly be met.  There’s no upcoming economic boom from gematria decoding of yesterday’s victors in sporting competitions.

A perfectly foreseeable conclusion of the Hyperkrieg vague promises is here now.  Localized to just the U.S., its short term effect was solid and went according to a semblance of a strategy.  Capitalize on vague promises of long term benefit.  And we’re officially out of the opening and middle game phases.  Based on the European reaction to Marco Rubio’s love bombing speech, Europe is fed up with the U.S.  The vague promises of being a steadfast ally is gone.  NATO was openly ditched.  Imperial accusations are openly announced.  The economic sanctions on top of the self imposed foot bullet of using tariffs to declare sanctions on your own people is coming, and since that was based on the Hyperkrieg it’s coming faster than most would think.  In short, Europe is at the “Fuck you” stage of diplomacy.  Think of it as a larger scale reaction to Minnesota saying “Fuck You” to ICE.  The proven arbitrariness of target selection destabilizing a group of people that would be so much happier and productive if they weren’t worried about broken bones, tear gas, and murder.

This is the essence of the phrase, “If you’re not aware of history, you’re doomed to repeat it.”

Hyperkrieg

 Super Bowl Gematria Failure

Since picking a Super Bowl winner with gematria is actually a coin flip, it’s nice that the flip landed this way this year.  The world doesn’t need another year of “I’m never wrong about anything” commentary from the Attaboy!^TM wielding coattail riding grifters that helped make Qanon.  The song (AI generated?) at the start of the linked video tells you all of the story you need to know. 

I personally feel that the failure of gematria is the lack of correct choice of cipher.  A new cipher needs to be implemented.  The Hyper reduction, where since all the four basic ciphers are divisible by nine, no matter what you cherry pick from you add 9 to the result.  HyperSatanic just sounds so much more fake cooooool than Satanic.

A quick chess reference.  Online chess has evolved that for profit and marketability the faster time controls are much more popular.  Hardly anyone wants to watch a a 5 hour game that likely ends in a draw.  Rapid chess with 10-15 minutes plus a bit of bonus time for move played, those games end in less than an hour.  Blitz chess - three to five minutes plus an even smaller bonus time allotted for a move played, now those end in a few minutes.  Then bullet chess, one minute per game.  And the truly insane variation of HYPERbullet, 30 seconds per game.  As the time decreases, mistakes increase and the peaceful ties are fewer and fewer.

We have seen the blitzkrieg movie before.  A truly great innovation in warfare when introduced.  Throw everything all at once on a weak spot, dominate quickly and worry about supply chains later.  Since education doesn’t mean anything to several generations, actual knowledge of German blitzkrieg tactics is not great.  Remarkably effective early on, but as time marched forward over the years defensive and counteroffensive strategies adapted.  Finally, culminating into encounters like the Battle of the Bulge.  A last blitzkrieg style push, without any real chance of working since only a miraculous amount of good fortune would keep the necessary fuel supply in place.  Live by the blitzkrieg, die by the blitzkrieg.

One thing that didn’t help the WWII German generals was that their leader was batshit crazy.  Somehow, that sounds familiar….  And once the adaptions were made, Hitler took over a lot of the planning himself.  There was a lot of military leader, “Ummm, we shouldn’t do that.  It’s not going to work” countered by, “Fuck you, I’m the boss.”  Somehow, that sounds familiar….

Now, with the super fast paced computing power of the Information Age, a mere blitzkrieg is not sufficient.  You can’t effectively do a cryptocurrency pump and dump rug pull without trading in less than a second.  It’s baffling to see Qanon content influencing people looking for a long term trend out of stupid shit that happened in the morning news cycle.  There’s no chance for an ordinary person to take advantage of the Hyperkrieg.  Grab the money now, and the lack of a viable consolidation mechanism afterwards.

I’ve often seen it said that Trump is an instinctive authoritarian.  I agree, but I suggest that it’s more that Trump is instinctively unpredictable. This is largely due to his mental health.  A topic that was hyperkrieged into being he’s a genius with ample evidence over time that he’s never been even average.  The equivalent of German WWII officers that could talk him back from the edge in the first term are gone.  Now there’s this:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/

Pam, the Hyperkrieg is over.  Instead of petty insults it’s time to move on to something else.  Petty insults to deflect haven’t changed the damage tariffs have done to grocery prices.

Or this:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/thomas-massie-roasts-pam-bondi-for-her-attempts-to-attack-lawmakers/

The Hyperkrieg tactic of all out attack doesn’t work so well when courts have a chance to think about stuff.  It’s a Battle of the Bulge counterattack instead of a surprise Hyperkrieg invasion.

Oh, and if you want to actually pay attention to what’s going on in the world these are just samples.  Especially in Europe, the Hyperkrieg has been halted.  What might work with the continually clueless voting base of MAGA republicans doesn’t hold the same sway on the global stage.  The damage is done.  Trade deals are being renegotiated outside the once almighty U.S. dollar.  Enjoy your red hat memorabilia.

This does not suggest that the war is over.  No it still rages on.  But the chess clock has changed.  Instead of hyperbullet the time control is longer.  And it’s slowing down enough where an endgame strategy needs to be in place.  And being extremely unpredictable is a great advantage.  Even if losing, you can still swindle and trap your way to victory.  But what has changed is globally we now know in advance that this is coming.  We know the Hyperkrieg is fundamentally unsound and our on clock is still ticking away.

The Gematria Gambling Contract

A primary issue in Minneapolis and other ICE…hotspots  is the training and efficiency of the personnel recruited.  The employer-employee relationship is always tense.  What is the right amount to pay and be fair?  Pay too much, profits shrink.  Pay too little, turnover and morale issues also can make profits shrink.  When the CEO has budget led themselves that new underground bunker to survive an upcoming economic Armageddon, how much can you promise to pay and then not pay and get away with it?

Factcheck.org - ICE funding

A big bonus is a wonderful recruitment tactic.  But even a well intentioned bonus plan can go astray.  If it’s a retirement bonus, it’s baked into the format that you will be there a long time.  A reward for making your job you are passionate about a career with a single employer.  And there’s a loooooonnnggg period of time where stuff can go wrong.  Like getting laid off just before the bonus kicks in.  On purpose, even.

The signing bonus - up to $50,000 for ICE agents is also good on paper.  I’ll let you Google the details yourself if you haven’t heard.  This is yet another topic that has lots of claims and counterclaims going around that it’s difficult to quickly assess if the source is credible or just making shit up to muddy the waters with propaganda.  These comments are inspired by recent activity regarding the shutdown and how as federal employees and being designated as essential workers, ICE is required to work through it without pay.  Presumably, back pay will be in full.  But without a rainy day fund to cover the unpaid period and math dictating that some percentage of these agents really need the money NOW, that’s stressful to them.

But fear not, because I’ve also been inspired by my words about making shit up.  Another opportunity to be snarky about gematria.  One of my favorite accounts on social media practices the loonier version of conspiracy gematria, and there’s a 100% guarantee about the <sarcasm font> most solid form of income ever </sarcasm font> - the lottery.

First, a recent post about news tells you all you need to know about what type of gematria to expect:

If the names of the ciphers, Illuminati Reverse and Agrippa Reduction, don’t clue you in right away that somebody is trying desperately to look edgier and cooler than they really are, the Gematrinator calculator seals the deal.  These are custom ciphers, created by the “decoder” since the 31 existing ciphers as of today weren’t enough choices to force a match to the narrative.

Lately the account has been posting some news stories that relate to modern times.  But there’s no doubt the financial hook is the lottery.

Astronomy, religious lingo, Freemasons, date numerology.  All classic topics to discuss for the online gematria grifter.  And the numbers themselves are completely irrelevant.  Lots of stuff throughout history has happened on December 24th.  And it is literally 100% certain that any one or two digit Powerball number will occur a jillion times on every day.

This isn’t to say that you will never win money on the lottery using this as a method.  It’s theoretically possible you may win the jackpot.  That doesn’t change that the method chosen is presented as a magical get rich quick idea when you’re essentially picking at random.  And the current gambling epidemic is a symptom of how prevalent quick monetary fixes are and how they can turn out to be not what they’re promoted as.

There’s not just the 37% federal tax in there.  The math shows payouts at 28.8%.  Mathematical expertise is not generally associated with the gambling addict.  Tell them it’s 1.6 billion, they think 1.6 billion not 28.8% of 1.6 billion.

Reminder 1 of 2:  The following math is not “fair” while comparing lottery payouts to employment gross versus net pay.  It’s just an example.

Reminder 2 of 2:  I make no claims to the accuracy of some following pieces to the example.  I’ve read that the $50,000 ICE bonus is heavily taxed, and that instead of all up front it’s in 5 annual installments.

No imagine you think you’re getting $50k up front.  It’s not unlikely you’re used to an effective tax rate that would deduct $6,000 to $7,000 from that.  $43,000 is still a really tidy sum, right?

Well if taxed at the same energy level as the lottery that’s

$50,000 x 28.8% =$14,400

And spread out over 5 years

$14,400/5 =$2,880

Doesn’t sound quite so magical anymore, doesn’t it?  And that’s before you even start sweating it out on if you’re ever going to get paid at all.

This is an “adults are needed in the room” issue instead of just some random gematria user in the room issue.  There are only three certainties in life.  Death.  Taxes.  And someone using wild claims about gematria is up to no good.

The Diary the Gematria Community Never Decoded

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There’s a lot of conspiracy theory adjacent topics that self appointed experts have been ignoring lately.  The 2nd amendment crowd is either silent about what is happening with protesters being gunned down or even manufacturing fake evidence to support “their side” is OK to abandon it.  The free speech absolutists are silent about censorship through intimidation or algorithm.  Conspiratorial thinking is fashionable and being called a conspiracy theorist is edgy and cool when it’s for fun and profit, making up bullshit arguments to get clout, views and Patreon subscriptions.

Well the Super Bowl is tomorrow, and of course the gematria community is joining hands in ignoring their prior vocalizations.  While they yammered on about crisis actors/dead children, Freemason blood sacrifices, bitcoin, the WWE and synchronicity with the morning news stories, the biggest actual conspiracy in modern history was brewing.  Another case of the abject failure of gematria as a predictive system.  If it had any real value gematria would have found some actual hints to what was going on with Epstein.  And even though the story I’m about to share isn’t what I would call viral in any sense, it’s been out for a bit.  And I shouldn’t be mentioning it; it’s that grotesque.  But it does have words and code.  So I propose if you want to proceed further keep in mind that for a decade “conspiracy theorist” meant blowing out a lot of hot air to scam people for money instead of actually doing journalistic investigation into actual conspiracy. First of all, an image to take up the display so the thumbnail doesn’t relate to the content I’m warning about.

Here’s some source material for reference:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/distressing-jeffrey-epstein-victim-journal-36649585?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

And right off the bat one of the things missing from genuine discourse to get solutions is I look up on the internet and see The Mirror leans far left politically.  And within the story they are careful to mention that these are unproven allegations. For now, this is just a story instead of fact.

Allegedly, a young girl was groomed to bear a child as part of some weird genetics experiment cooked up by Epstein and company.

But when has a made up story ever stopped a good fake conspiracy theorist from doing a decode?  Except for the past couple years where they’ve been relatively silent other than gambling?  This story is perfect for confirmation bias.  Hard right will scream FAKE!  Hard left will instantly latch on to “this is more proof!”  More middle of the road with functioning critical thinking skills may want to dive deeper into it and look for more actual evidence or have become so desensitized they pass it by.  Wanting to avoid more of the Epstein Drama.  God I hope it’s fake, because you go through the story and it sounds so mind bogglingly awful it’s gruesome.  For the record,  I searched the files for “diary” and couldn’t find this.  But I gave up before going through all the hits.

Now specifically, the sort of gematria related image from the story, the one I didn’t want to show when I posted this:

While in captivity, allegedly, the diary was maintained and written in a sort of code.  Top to bottom, left to right.  Start with the S in row 1, down to the O in row two, return to the top row since there’s a space before the next line for I.  “So, it came out in the….”

A perfect little gematria story in the making.  The words in the correct order can be made out.  You can deliberately skip around and make up other patterns to decode other  than the intended order.  You don’t like the NEVER in rows 7-8?  How about NVRAEO in row 7 alone?  Or start from the right maybe.  But like I said, Epstein is pretty much off limits now for the fake conspiracists of the good ole days.  What I take away from this for now is one of two choices, which are essentially the same:

Option A:  The story is true and just another example of how horrific these people are.

Option B:  Somebody generated fake documentation, including a “The distressing document…” DOJ disclosure at the bottom.

And those are the same because somebody wanted attention and of money.

What About Whataboutism?

Cognitive dissonance is a real thing, not just a fancy psychology term to throw around and make you sound smarter above your actual smarts.  And with multiple generations of critical thinking suppression being ingrained into literally tens of millions of people… well let’s just say the low end of the cult/grifting pyramid really are not dealing with it well right now.  The contradictory information is off the charts.  People who had been silent out of respect, e.g. respecting your elders at the Thanksgiving dinner, have started to speak out.  This is a self inflicted bullet to the foot.  There’s a wide variety of things wrong just from this year that should be called out if you prefer democracy to dictatorship.  The way the victims of Trump’s utter incompetence and creation of the contradictions is all internal.  Openly not talking about or just taking cues from far right wing media propaganda for what to say.

And what are the bottom of the food chain actually saying when they do say the quiet part out loud?  It’s not just calling Covid a hoax or a Sandy Hook parent a crisis actor of heaven forbid throwing out a gematria decode distraction.  What’s the newest catch phrase or meme that counters Trump being all over the files as Epstein’s FRIEND, shattered alliances from destruction of already dwindling trust and what a couple decades ago would be war crimes.  Looking mostly at Epstein related content and the critics commentary the new thing is <drum roll>.

Nothing.  It’s replaying the greatest hits.  All the old outrage porn from the past that worked in campaign rallies.  And not even any new variations.  The same fading brain that nostalgically yearns for a fleet of battleships that don’t fit in can’t come up with anything other than Whataboutism.  The confused brain’s first or second tactic to avoid having to think about actually answering a question directed at you with no good answer available.  (The other being the ever fun filled ad hominem attack.)

And there’s no change from years ago, as I said.  Shouldn’t we stop funding ICE.  Well the Biden crime family was worse.  Obama made a statement about the Pretti execution, what do you think?  He’s an immigrant himself.  Checkmate!  I heard that oil companies are actually thinking that it’s not economically feasible to get a ton of money from Venezuela’s oil reserves.  Do you care to comment?  They’re flooding our country with fentanyl.  It’s insane that you cannot get a straight answer from across the board.  The top sycophants are mortified they’ll be thrown under the bus next if they get off the approved answer.  The online grifter community doesn’t have anything better than, “at least Democrats aren’t in control”.  A sideways acknowledgment that they know things are bad.  But whatabout Kamala?  Boy she’s dumb.  Surely things would be even worse.  I really hate the idea of buying cheap groceries and having health care.  (But what about those bankrupt soybean farmers!  They’ve really got it good!)

If you’ve been around the Zachosphere enough, you’ve seen the Whataboutism.  A lot.  When pinned down about a failed prediction or the reporting after the fact instead of making an actual prediction.  The response?  What about how Kobe equals 33 just like Masonry equals 33 and blah, blah, blah.  In the old days it worked.  Now it can lead to a gematria doesn’t work talking point being defended by doing more gematria that doesn’t work, on an unrelated topic to boot.

This could join the Know Your Grifter Tactics series, here.  Know and recognize the whataboutism logical fallacy for what it is.  “Hillary would have been worse” has nothing to do with what will go down in history as one of the objectively worst presidents.  It would be a shame if we had to go on such a downer.