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12 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
My latest for @dailydot, on how Devolution has become the hot new take on "Trump is actually still the president." It's needlessly convoluted, revolves around classified plans and orders, and you can buy t-shirts.

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Spread out over 8 Substack posts and counting, Devolution claims the US is under the control of a secret military government while we wait for the audits to expose China and antifa teaming up to steal the election. And t-shirts.

dailydot.com/debug/devoluti…
The creator of Devolution is "Patel Patriot," an anonymous Trump die hard who has picked up 35k Telegram followers in weeks, and is making the rounds of Q influencer media to tell his incomprehensible story.

dailydot.com/debug/devoluti…
Devolution itself is nonsense. But any figure who can invent a story, fill it with irrelevant details, and make themselves into a sought after figure in conspiracy media out of nowhere bears watching.

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I'm absolutely fascinated by the mechanics of "Trump will be reinstated in August." How does any of this work? Who makes the final call? Does Pence get reinstated too? Is Biden supposed to just pack and go? What does SCOTUS do? Why didn't past presidents get "reinstated?"
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It's like the Kremlin is personally trolling me with this crap.
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People get unreasonably mad at me when I point that out, and if it were different, I'd gladly say so. But that's how it is. We tend to be our own worst enemy.
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