Alright, I've got enough bourbon in me for one more thread before I crash. WARNING: this will be a weird one. I'm not even tagging the Conservative Twitter Intelligentsia in on this LMAO.
Tonight, I want to talk about... memetic ideas.
A memetic idea is information that is specifically meant to be passed around and shared. Sometimes the information is called a meme. Sometimes it comes in the form of a joke, a picture, a quote, an often repeated idea
It spreads, it permutates, it takes its position in our collective psyche, triggering recognition whenever we see that meme or one of its permutations
Yes, viral videos and such are another form of memetic idea. Viral is a good way to put it because memes spread like a virus.
Every holder of a memetic idea is a vector. The more they encounter other vectors to pass on the viral idea, the faster it spreads
The internet and social media have taken virality and kicked it into overdrive. In my daily life I interact with maybe 10, 15 other potential vectors on an average day. On Twitter, over 1500 of you see my memetic ideas.
So where in the flying fuck am I going with this? Alright, well, I'm about to give you the big secret to how Trump won, how Trump is going to continue winning, and how I know without any doubt Mueller has flipped and is going after Clinton.
This is where it gets weird. Ready? You sure you're ready for it?
Memetic magic.
There is a strange thing that happens with memetic ideas. They reach a kind of critical mass, at which point they impose themselves upon reality, into our collective conciousness.
Religion itself could be considered the first memetic magic. Ideas, rituals and writings spreading and eventually amalgamating into organized religions. Religious miracles, like the parting of the red sea or the resurrection of Jesus, are part of this manifestation of meme magic.
It doesn't even matter if the memetic ideas caused the event or the event spurred further memetic ideas like the transformation of a sect of Judaism into the scattered branches of Christianity.
But the fuck does that have to do with Trump?
Well, for that, you need to look at 4chan. Don't actually go there, its a terrible place. But the pre-social media refinement of internet memes occurred there. Thousands of people throwing ideas and jokes at light ing speeds
One of the memetic ideas that took hold was gambling using the post numbers. Each post was assigned a number, the last 3-4 being essentially random with how fast posts would happen.
You could 'bet' if the last 2 or 3 numbers would match
Then, the idea became that getting those numbers to match had a predictive power
Then this happened 
Remember the racist green pepe frogs? Well, a memetic idea took hold that Pepe, the green frog so often depicted, was an avatar of an egyptian frog god of chaos.
Chaos being the random numbers. Many on 4chan thought they accidentally awoke an egyptian frog god, and Pepe was his avatar.
Remember how I said religions were the first memetic ideas? And how the internet sped up memetic ideas spreading to lightning fast speeds? Instant religion, formed from just one random post on an imageboard.
So the denizens of 4chan took their knowledge of memes, because these aholes were MASTERS of them, and put them to work supporting Trump, treating it as a divine mission.
Then Hillary did her infamous basket of deplorables speech and the racist green frogs, and that divine mission became a fucking holy war. A crusade to put Trump in the White House and a Jihad to defend their sacred internet memes all in one.
Now, you look at guys like Scott Adams and Thomas Wictor. They too were calling a win for Trump. Remember what I said about memetic vectors? Well sometimes, a memetic idea will sprout from multiple vectors independent of the others
No one individual or group can fake credit for anything beyond their initial utterance of the memetic idea, but they all serve their part in spreading it.
In this case, "Trump will win." They all had their different reasons for claiming this. Wictor has the data and information. Scott Adams could see how effective at persuasion Trump was. 4chan were on a mission from their Egyptian Frog God.
Reality itself, all the media stated, Trump would lose. Trump couldn't win. The blue wall made it impossible for a Republican to win.
But then he won. Memetic magic, inserting itself and altering reality. Reality being the collective consciousness of humanity, of course, somethinf that half the country still seems to have lost touch with.
That brings me to the point about vectors. There are two kinds of vectors to care about. Top-down vectors, and bottom-up vectors.
Top-down vectors are the ones who can reach many other potential vectors at once. The media, having enough followers on social media, etc.
Bottom-up vectors have fewer potential other vectors to reach. Its the difference between saying something on TV and running down the street shouting it.
Now, top-down vectors sound more powerful, right? Well, not entirely. They can reach more people at once, yes, but one important facet of memetic ideas is that they work best when subject to competition
Survival of the fittest idea, so to speak. The best joke, the most logical point, etc. conspiracy theories are memetic ideas, but as history channel will show being a top-down vector, saying "aliens!" over and over does not cause a memetic idea to spread
Bottom-up vectors might not be able to reach as many other people, but they expose their ideas to competition immediately, and those memetic ideas come out stronger and more easily spread as a result
A top-down vector like Scott Adams or Thomas Wictor can subject their ideas to the same scrutiny, because of social media, but its a slower process. The ideas do come out stronger and more easily spread for it, though. Think of it as a middle ground.
Now look at the Clinton campaign, who attempted to use top-down vectors almost exclusively by buying off the media, then using groups like shareblue to create artifical bottom-up support for those memetic ideas
That failed. Why? Because the ideas weren't subject to competition until they attempted to spread the ideas, at which point they were facing a storm of organic bottom-up and top-down memetic ideas like Trump would win.
Now, Mueller. Look at what's happening. The conservative twitter intelligentsia is saying Mueller flipped. There isn't as strong of a push but there is still the memetic idea present and spreading in 4chan that Mueller flipped. Its just taken longer to reach critical mass.
Now look at the media. "Trump is doomed!" "Impeachment!" "Mueller's coming to arrest Trump's.sons and Flynn!"
Top-down ideas of Trump's coming doom being torn to pieces against a combined bottom-up and top-down set of memetic ideas that Mueller has flipped. This is manifesting itself now, slowly, because the memetic idea of Mueller flipping took longer to spread.
Podesta fleeing. Clinton and McCain both wearing the same cast boot on the same ankle. Podesta donors being arrested in Saudi Arabia. Fusion GPS being dragged into the light.
Memetic magic. And yes, I am saying @ThomasWictor is a wizard. /end
