Anyone else find it funny how quiet you were, Scottie, when Trump publicly asked China to tamper with the election, privately asked Xi for election aid—offering Xi a great trade deal for it—traded pro-China policies for 75 Chinese trademarks, and praised Xi on COVID-19 for weeks?
PS: Trump betrayed this nation to China over and over and over, publicly and privately, according to John Bolton and Michael Pillsbury and even Bill Barr—to the point of Pillsbury secretly receiving nonpublic Hunter Biden info from Beijing pre-election—and the GOP said *nothing*.
PS2: People like Scottie Nell Hughes pray that you won't read all the books (Proof of Corruption being just one) establishing years of clandestine Trump collusion with China—all sourced via reliable major-media investigative reports—and instead focus on insane far-right rhetoric.
PS3: Here's just the *tip of the iceberg*, @scottienhughes (there's hundreds more citations and dozens more pages on this in my just-published Macmillan book, Proof of Corruption):
I'm distraught that members of the Space Force are now "guardians" because at some point there'll be a Space Force Academy like West Point or Annapolis or the Air Force Academy which means eventually there'll be a Space Force football team and I so wanted them to be the Spacemen
(PS) I even had a logo picked out for the Space Academy Spacemen college football team's helmets, now just another pipe dream on the dustbin of history
(PS2) The annual Air Force-Space Force college football game is gonna be 🔥 when the series starts up in 2050
1/ "Kushner helped create a Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president's family members and spent $617 million in reelection cash. Kushner directed Lara Trump, Pence's nephew John Pence and Trump campaign CFO Sean Dollman to serve on the shell company's board."
2/ "American Made Media Consultants became the source of consternation for Trump's campaign staff, who were kept in the dark about its operations. Despite its $617m spending through AMMC, Trump's campaign publicly disclosed little info about AMMC—including how it used the money."
The Guardian reported *years ago* that the counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign began in late 2015 based on intel from *seven* allies. I wrote a 2,500-page trilogy about it.
If you want to know how *ignorant* about the Russia investigation Trump, his sycophants, and all his supporters are, look no further than them believing that the Russia investigation began with George Papadopoulos in 2016—when everyone else has known for *years* it began in 2015.
I'm actually livid about this, as not only have there been 3 bestsellers about this counterintelligence probe, but I've tweeted out that Guardian article maybe 40 times since it was published.
Had major media done more to spread the word, Trump wouldn't be able to play dumb now.
QAnon is an ARG (Alternate Reality Game). It was set up that way and is managed that way. QAnoners are playing an ARG and refuse to stop for the very reason transreality gaming can be hazardous: you can forget what's game and what's reality. QAnoners are lost in a dangerous game.
The reason this matters is that Trump and his agents aim to expand the gamification of reality beyond the confines of QAnon's ARG mythology. Now they're turning the finding of evidence of "election fraud" into a transreality game with its own mythology. All of this is dangerous.
When we think of the far right as a space of "fake news" rather than the gamification of reality, we falsely accept the notion that Trumpists are interested in news. They're not. They're interested in tailored escapism, and in redefining reality as a mythology they can live with.
Dr. Fauci's timeline has 100 million getting vaccinated in the first 108 days (925,000/day), then 130 million getting vaccinated in the next 91 days (1.4 million/day). No one can explain how—as we get into the population hostile to vaccination—we'll be vaccinating 50% more daily.
(PS) We were previously told that vaccine shortages may appear in May/June because Trump didn't order enough vaccine. Now we're told May and June will see *50% more daily vaccinations* than the first 108 days. Sadly, no one is out front explaining such discrepancies to Americans.
(PS2) I hope the vaccine timeline goes as planned, and that 70% is in fact enough for herd immunity. But avid news-watchers are starting to see discrepancies in the rhetoric surrounding the timeline that no one is explaining, producing concern we're being sold a too-rosy picture.