Thread by @PokerPolitics

It's Devolution Baby Part 1: Patel Patriot makes up some fan fiction because Trump losing made him sad, accidently becomes a QAnon hero.

Before I actually dig into what Patel wrote here I want you to read this paragraph and then think about his claims that had never heard of QAnon before he started writing this stuff.

Patel is "Devastated" Trump lost, he is "Confused" as to why Trump would meekly slink off the world stage. He sneers that Biden was declared "The most popular President in history" when Biden wasn't even President yet so no such claim could have been made.

It was "Obvious" the 2020 election was fraudulent and the MSM was lying about all of it. For a man who hasn't heard of QAnon he's playing all the greatest hits.

After explaining that the reason he is writing this stuff is that he's sad that Trump lost we now get to the narrative he wants to build. That the all-knowing Trump knew the Deep State was using COVID-19 and mail in ballots to cheat him out of victory and had a plan to fight back

Why this plan wasn't enacted in real time isn't explained. Patel even makes it clear that Trump's re-election campaign, lawsuits to contest the election and all the rest of it don't amount to a 'real fight'. Trump only gets serious in the fantasy land of Devolution.

Trump "Left office on January 20th, but his return is imminent." This line is inconsistent with the rest of Patel's narrative. If Trump left office he's not President. As for Trump's return being imminent, well this was written July 2nd 2021 and it still hasn't happened.

Now we get into the meat of Patel's story here. The concept of Devolution. It's akin to the "Designated Survivor" idea of having a plan should a catastrophic event shatter the Executive branch/chain of succession.

Patel will never show you the final paragraph of that article because it explains that one of the key aspects of Devolution is that it provide "visible leadership" to the American people, which is the exact opposite of the shadow government Patel pretends exists.

Now Patel starts to get into COVID and promoting the "lab leak" theory. The key is that he's going to pretend that that this theory, of an accident in a lab leading to the COVID outbreak, was actually a deliberate bio-weapon attack by China on the US.

One has to ignore reality and the fact that the whole world is dealing with the COVID pandemic to try to square this circle. We're being told China did this on purpose and Trump knows this, but he, and all other world leaders refuse to admit it.

Another bit of reality you have to ignore is that Biden was cruising to victory the entire 2020 campaign. The Ukraine Impeachment started because Trump wanted Biden smeared after he saw a FOX poll (pre COVID) showing him down 10 to Biden. Patel handwaves away the "Fake polls".

This is the intense fact checking that's delaying his next installment of this series. Declaring momentum for Trump to be "Palpable" while political experts were wondering if Biden would win Texas and Ohio. Trump overperformed and still lost in a landslide.

And here Patel finally brings down the hammer and takes one quote from Trump out of context (while showing the full context) to try to make his case that Trump thinks it was a deliberate attack.

Odd that he pulls out the "Worst attack" quote instead of Trump lamenting that China could have stopped COVID at the source and failed to do so. The latter makes it seem like it was an accident that China was trying to contain, but that doesn't fit the narrative.

Up next is complaining about Mail-in ballots and Patel pulls up a quote from 2004 from Jerry Nadler. Unfortunately for Patel his tireless fact-checking seems to have not caught this error because Nadler never said this.

Nadler's quote was that paper ballots were bad and was complaining about the old timey voting machines they had in New York.

I'm sure this was an honest mistake because Patel would have had to read the story to get the quote right, oh wait I'm sorry, the correct quote was the headline of this article.

Patel then gives us the song and dance about Trump "Beating the cheat" in 2016 and preparing for 2020 with his voting fraud commission. Patel fails to tell his readers this commission disbanded after finding no voter fraud in the 2016 election.

Now is where we get to the really stupid stuff. That Biden is in office as President but he's effectively harmless and powerless and having him in office will only make America long for the return of Trump. That the Space Force caught Biden red handed.

Patel said Trump left office on 1/20/21, but Biden doesn't control the military? What extra-Constitutional system are we being ruled under? Patel claims the audits will be eye opening and "kick everything off" but they've all flamed out with nothing happening.

"Any damage done can and will be reversed." How? We're going to remove all the judges Biden appointed from the bench? I gotta give back the 1,400 Sleepy Joe gave me? How does one undo a Presidency?

Patel then has a strawman ask questions. He never logically explains why Trump and the military got evidence that Biden and the ChiComs were going to steal the election and their only option to fight this was "Let Biden win and do a shadow government."

The strawman returns to get beaten up again and Patel tells us to quit thinking small, think big like Trump!

Patel lied about Trump's odds of winning 2020, lied about his COVID attack quote, lied about the voter fraud commission, lied about Nadler's quote, lied about how Devolution would work, and made failed a prediction about the audits being the start of the big payoff.

Just an absolute bang up job all around. See you all next week for Part 2, here's Shirley.