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22 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
My father passed away during the pandemic. We couldn't be with him when he died because of COVID-19 protocols in Massachusetts. He supported and encouraged me through the darkest days of my life. Trump attacking Biden for loving and supporting his troubled son makes me *see red*.
THE ATLANTIC 1/ "After 18 months of flogging the Hunter Biden story, what does President Donald Trump have to show for his efforts? His opposition research on former Vice President Joe Biden's son culminated in his own impeachment. Despite railing against the scion's alleged...
THE ATLANTIC 2/ "...swampiness at nearly every rally, Trump's convoluted narrative about Biden family corruption has taken root only on Fox News. At the very least, the accusation that Hunter leveraged his father's high office to enrich himself has failed to measurably move...
THE ATLANTIC 3/ "...the polls. Even Trump's ardent supporters are now encouraging him to change the subject. Yet he remains obstinate in his obsession.

Without a coherent message or an affirmative vision for a second term, Trump has clearly been betting his re-election on...
THE ATLANTIC 4/ "...what military planners would call a 'psyop,' or a psychological operation. That is, he hopes to use gamesmanship to destabilize the mind of his adversary, forcing him into a moment of anger or incoherence that illustrates his lack of fitness for the office..."
THE ATLANTIC 5/ "...Trump's attacks on Hunter Biden should be understood as the pillar of this strategy."

Read below for more on Trump's deranged Hail Mary: attacking a man and his son—without evidence—for... something. A dad loving his kid? I don't know. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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24 Oct
I can't locate anything "metamodern" in THE BOYS—if you want metamodern superhero fare, read Matt Fraction's HAWKEYE run, which follows Hawkeye as he does things like attend neighborhood cookouts and fix his home entertainment system—but I guess WIRED can? wired.com/story/amazon-t…
PS/ Oddly, @jkehe identifies GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and THOR: RAGNAROK—two metamodern films—as postmodern, and THE BOYS, which is hardcore late postmodernism, as "metamodern." I think the problem may be that the review is using a term whose usage the reviewer is unfamiliar with?
PS2/ THE BOYS is conventional flipped-script late-postmodern dialectics—"You mean the supers are the *villains*? But!"—with a hero class that's all anti-hero, and anti-villains (conflicted villains) thrown in for good measure, all of it then clarified by trite corporatist tropes.
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23 Oct
(MUSIC) In Milwaukee many years ago Sturgill Simpson asked if I was in the crowd and cited my essays on metamodernism from the stage before singing this song, the sort of experience that'll never be repeated but stands as one of the best moments of my life
(PS) The only thing that approached that was this completely unexpected moment in an interview with one of my favorite artists, Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood)
(PS2) I tell these nice stories because the dark ones are really dark, like a far-right convicted cyberterrorist issuing a fatwa against me on the dark web because he believed (many years ago) metamodernism was a Jewish conspiracy I had personally developed to take over the world
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23 Oct
I issued warnings re: these "peace deals" a year ago, based just on my research for Proof of Conspiracy (2019)—not based on me being prescient, omniscient, or in any way special. The warnings were ignored. Now we'll all pay the price—as media lauds Trump for deals made years ago.
A Saudi-Israeli scam is coming soon—a fake normalization deal between nations that secretly made peace before the 2016 election to collaborate to aid Trump. The scam will be Trump's big "October surprise." And media will fall for it—because they wouldn't read Proof of Conspiracy.
Some of you may think, who cares how it happened if it leads to *peace*? As we discuss in the coming Episode 8 of the new PROOF podcast, what's coming is not peace but war. And the cost of that war was illicit pre-election collusion between Trump and the nations in the news now.
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23 Oct
(THREAD) One of the questions I get most frequently on this feed—if you can believe it—is about cultural theory. I discuss #metamodernism frequently, and people often ask, "What is it?" I'll do what I can to answer the question here, with links. I hope you'll read on and retweet. Image
1/ I usually try to avoid answering this question, for many reasons. Here are just a few:

1⃣ Metamodernism has caused people to go crazy.
2⃣ Metamodernism is so new there is little literature on it.
3⃣ Metamodernists are currently in a civil war.
4⃣ Metamodernism can be complex.
2/ Two more:

5⃣ Metamodernism is a "cultural paradigm," so it is such an encompassing term it really can't be adequately discussed in a character-limited social media platform.
6⃣ Metamodernism permanently changes the lives of those who study it, so it must be wielded carefully.
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23 Oct
BREAKING NEWS: As Presaged on This Feed Six Weeks Ago, Trump Has Announced a New "October Surprise"—a Scam Saudi-Israeli Normalization Deal That Is Merely the Formalization of the Two Nations' 2016 Agreement to Covertly Offer Illegal Election Assistance to the Trump 2016 Campaign
PS/ How did I know this was happening weeks ago? Because I wrote a book on Trump's dealings with the Saudis and Israelis in 2019 (Proof of Conspiracy). All the other conspirators in the "Red Sea Conspiracy" had already publicly normalized relations with Israel. Only MBS was left.
PS2/ I have consistently called out false claims by Trump's ODNI that Saudi Arabia isn't illegally tampering with the 2020 election—as they did so in 2016 and have more reason to do so now. A scam normalization deal is a gift MBS can give Trump to help aid his reelection in 2020.
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23 Oct
BREAKING NEWS: CNN Post-Debate Poll Shows 53% Think Joe Biden Won the Third Presidential Debate; Only 39% Say Trump Image
MORE/ A staggering 62% of debate-watchers tell CNN that Joe Biden directly answered questions more frequently than Trump did. Only 31% say Trump was more direct—a jawdropping 31-point "doubling up" of Trump for Biden. You usually don't see numbers like this in a post-debate poll.
MORE/ 54% of debate-watchers concluded, after watching the Tennessee debate, that Democrat Joe Biden had "a better plan for solving the country's problems."

Only 42% said this of Trump.
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