Miss my boyfirend hes in jail poems

Hello, to begin with I want to add that I never judge people by their look and I do not make assumptions based on that, but in this story I will describe the people as they looked so u can feel it more.
The story that happened to me today:
I had a broken arm and went to the doctor today. In our country, the waiting time in hospitals for such a check is up to 3 hours. The waiting rooms are post-communist, old, white walls and blue uncomfortable chairs. After about half an hour of waiting in a waiting room full of people of all ages, who were also after some sort of injury, a 2-meter middle-aged man came to the waiting room, who at first glance looked somewhat strange. He sat down on a chair and his girlfriend or sister came behind him, I don't know what of those two it was, but she looked even weirder than him. The guy had a tucked-in T-shirt in his pants with the inscription PRAGUE and the Czech flag on the front of the t-shirt. He had rustler pants pulled up high. His posture was stooped. He had brown, thinning hair and thick-rimmed glasses. Blue eyes that only had an empty look. Huge palms, since he was about 2 meters. The woman who was with him was missing several teeth. She was overweight and of average height. She was wearing gray leggings, a t-shirt that was short so part of her stomach was visible, and an unzipped dark green jacket. Both of them showed that they were not completely in order and looked a little dirty, but not like street dirty, more like they just dont take care of them self AT ALL dirty. The woman looked much dirtier. They sat down not far from me and at first it was quiet. Subsequently, the guy started talking, first in silence and to himself, he started commenting everything around him. For example, another patient in the waiting room was wearing a cap and the strange guy said. "Look, the moron still has his cap on. Can you understand that?!? haha" He always laughed really unpleasantly after one of his drastic comments. Horror type laugh. He could be heard and people were looking around at him. As we were all waiting in the waiting room, a nurse came out and according to the ordinary number, called a very old lady who had broken her arm and was going to be checked. The strange guy was sitting closest to the door, so everyone was walking around him. As the grandmother slowly got up from her chair (obviously because she is old), the strange guy aggressively shouted: "WELL MOVE, MOVE, COMMON!!!" Everyone pretended not to hear him and no one ever spoke up. As he commented, he said something that I didn't fully understand, something like: "And what does this tattooed moron think of himself???" That should have been on me because I was the only one in the waiting room with tattoos on my body. So I looked at him and asked him: "You talking to me?"
The strange guy aggressively raised his voice and answered: "YES, I SAID THAT ABOUT YOU AND WHAT DO YOU CARE, DO I MIND YOU?" type shit, to which I replied that he was shouting in a waiting room full of people like he is out of his fucking mind and that's when it started. The guy started almost shouting on entire waiting room: "OUT OF MY FUCKING MIND? YOU CAN BE SURE THAT I AM OUT OF MY FUCKING MIND, I'M 100% SCHIZOPHRENIC. I WILL KILL YOU AND I WILL NOT EVEN GO TO JAIL. THEY WILL JUST LOCK ME IN AN INSTITUTE AGAIN :)… YOU WILL END UP UNDERGROUND BECAUSE GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU IN HEAVEN! YOU WILL DIE!!! AND YOU KNOW WHAT, AT LEAST THERE WILL BE ONE LESS BRAT. A VEIN IN YOUR NECK WILL RUPTURE AND YOU'LL BLEED OUT, YOU'LL SEE. BUT I DON'T WANT TO RETURN TO THE INSTITUTE... I DON'T WANT TO RETURN. MRS. GUIDE I DONT WANT TO GO BACK”. The woman who was with him just watched blankly, motionless, without emotion. I didn't answer him, I shook my head and gave a thumbs up as he aggressively said he was going to kill me. I felt a slight fear and a rush of adrenaline, of course I did nothing. WTF? The guy was visibly sick in the head and god knows what would happen if I reacted to this. Afterwards, he kept talking. Totally random stuff. "Look at how he stares at the phone, that's even worse than alcohol, he's addicted. I saw that on TV" again at me. The woman was silent. A hospital bed arrived in the waiting room, on which lay a very old grandmother who had probably fallen and hit herself somehow. She was lying and holding her head up, she told her daughter that it doesn't hurt, when she hold her head up like that so she has to have her head up. The guy heard it and to the entire waiting room: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO. THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO DO IS DIE. HAHAH. OTHER THAN THAT, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. HAHA :) NO ONE HAS TO DO ANYTHING BUT EVERYONE HAS TO FUCKING DIE. END UP UNDERGROUND. HAHAHAHA. PSST PSST… SHUT UP, BE QUIET” he said to himself and started rocking in his chair. As the patients went in order, he was angry that there were people ahead of him. The nurse called the next patient in line to the ambulance. It was a mother with a baby in a stroller. The guy said out loud, "WHY ARE YOU GOING? YOU AND YOUR CHILD ARE SOMETHING MORE?”. No one in the waiting room noticed him, people just nodded their heads. After the check-up, the mother and the child came out of the doctor's office and this strange guy said: "WHAT, YOU'RE FINALLY GOING AWAY. WHY WERE YOU THE MAIN???" The woman said with a very calm tone: my child is sick. The strange guy: "And you work?! You have a job!?" The woman said yes and when she saw that he was aggressive, she started walking away. While she was walking away, the guy was talking louder and louder at her: "DO YOU THINK I'M STUPID? SHE THINKS I'M STUPID AND THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT SHE'S ON KINDERGARTEN WITH HER BABY! HAHAHAHA” . It was really terrible, I was really afraid that he will attack somebody. The guy also said things like: "NO. NO. I DON'T WANT TO GET MY HANDS DIRTY AGAIN. Pssst, psssst. SILENCE!..... I have to drink, I have dry in my mouth. dry like sahara i am. DRINK, BECAUSE YOUR KIDNEYS WILL DRY UP!” The doctor called number 12 in, which was me, and this strange guy was sitting about 2 cm from the door to the ambulance. He said something again, but I didn't even listen to his words anymore, I was just careful when I walked by, that I wouldn't get hit or that something would poke me. I went to the doctor and the doctor asked who was screaming like that. I told him what it was about and he told me that I shouldn't pay attention to such people. He checked my hand and I went away. As I was leaving, the guy was talking loudly: "NOW GO. AND YOU HAVE FREE TIME, EXCELLENT HAHA” . And I walked away.
All this was very strange and my first encounter with such a sick person. ou could see on him that he really mean those things. The whole time I had a very bad feeling. The guy looked exactly like some kind of psychopath, like some serial killer who keeps the heads of his victims in the refrigerator so that he can feel dominance over them forever type shit and cant tell the difference between good and bad. I wouldn't be surprised at all if in a few years I see him and his wife in the news that a dead body was found at their home.
Did you have any encounters like this? I want to know

I played with my 12-year-old son this weekend. For his second shot on a par 5, I suggest an iron or hybrid. "I'm hitting my fairway wood" he says.
It's a narrow layup and he's a beginner, so chances are it's not going to end well. But he steps up with confidence and smashes the ball. Perfect contact, long, and split the fairway. My jaw dropped open as I turned to look at him. With a big smile on his face, he said "That was a good one!"
So when I get to my shot, instead of my usual 7-iron layup I pull out my 4-wood to go for the green. I've never reached this green in two--it's raised, narrow, hazard on one side and jail on the other. Plus I have hit this club decently off the deck only a couple times in my entire life. But I take aim and swing away.
The ball hits the center of the club face and rises high in the air, drawing slightly straight at the flag. It lands softly in the middle of the green and only rolls a little, leaving 10 ft for eagle. Easily the best shot I've ever hit with that club.
He gave me a high five, and I thanked him for inspiring me to go for it. I missed the putt, but I truly didn't care. I've made eagles before, but I didn't think I was even capable of hitting a shot that good.
But you never know until you try.

So I just saw a tiktok comments section that very valiantly defended Effy’s behaviour on the camping trip even though….
[look away now if you don’t want spoilers!!!!!]
Effy literally instigated the situation that led to her beating Katie and leaving her in the woods.
Firstly, Effy wasn’t supposed to come on the trip initially because Katie didn’t want her there. Maybe that sounds nasty to most people but I get Katie’s hesitation… All throughout the season Effy has been at the centre of most of the drama the group goes through.
Effy treats all her “friends” awfully. From the beginning of Effy and Pandora’s friendship we can see that Effy has treated her like shit. Effy puts Pandora down when they’re alone and when they’re around others. Effy ignores Pandora’s boundaries constantly because Pandora isn’t “cool” enough to be worthy of respect. Effy pitted Cook and Freddy (and Jay Jay too but she never actually considered him) against each other on day 1 of their meeting. Yes, Effy is not solely to blame for Cook and Freddy’s decision to become weird sexual rivals but her challenge was the breaking point in their friendship. I also see that Effy pits Emily and Katie against each other throughout the series. It’s an interesting mix of treating Katie like she was vapid/worthless (despite Effy herself being actually really similar to Katie, she cares about the way she is percieved yet judges Katie for the same thing) and treating Emily decently. So I will admit that it’s actually very redeeming for Effy to accept Emily’s sexuality and feelings for Naomi without judgment. That being said, I noticed through season 3 Effy often uses her dynamic with Emily to subtly goad and provoke Katie. Effy didn’t really care about who Naomi was only that her presence would piss off Katie and make Emily giddy. It’s actually very intelligent how Effy manipulates everyone around her to appear the exact opposite way they are by others. Another example is how Effy doesn’t even listen when Pandora is trying to process Thomas’ abrupt departure from their lives. Overall Effy is a piss poor friend.
Moving onto my second point, the substance use! EFFY was the person who found the mushrooms and encouraged everyone to take them. Katie begged everyone not to take them “it was meant to just be some sausages and beers.” I really understand Katies point here - all their friends seem to end up in bad ways when the whole lot of them take drugs, its actually quite a concerning and probably scary dynamic. Theres nothing wrong with having a quiet evening and the whole group had seemingly been content enough to go out into the woods without their normal cocktail of drugs, have a bonfire, some beers and hang out before Effy finds some mushrooms. This isn’t even the first time Effy imposes drugs on others when it was explicitly stated that her friends did not want to partake for the single event. For example, Pandora’s birthday party.
Pandora was heart broken that Effy spikes the brownies with MDMA, that she lied to her mum, that she turned the whole party into something that benefitted her. Now some of you might try to say “oh well thats just Effy’s way of coping” yes but that doesn’t erase how cruel and unkind it is towards Pandora. Then Effy gets angry at Pandora for sleeping with Cook - Cook who Effy is unattached to in a “hes not my boyfriend” way, Effy who sleeps with anyone she wants but wouldn’t even consider that maybe she shouldn’t. Effy would never even consider that maybe Pandora has a crush on a boy before she decides to sleep with him so why should Pandora care? I understand it’s not the same situation like Pandora did know that Effy was involved with Cook, HOWEVER, the way I saw it Pandora was always bending over backwards to accomodate Effy. Cook was ALSO an active participant in sleeping with Pandora, yet why doesn’t Effy acknowledge his role in the situation- all she ever does is ignore him and punish Pandora? Pandora was at breaking point and Effy had just spiked her straightlaced mum with MDMA, contributed to turning the party into a rager and ignored Pandora when she wanted advice about Thomas
Back to my second point, Effy found the mushrooms and took them which further provoked Katie. People keep saying “Effy was high she didn’t know what was happening” completely ignoring that it was Effy’s choice and in real life regardless of if she was high - she was still accountable for her actions. Yes Katie should not have tried to provoke Effy to have a bad trip but considering the fact that Effy had ruined the camping trip and by this I mean the drugs but also ghosting Cook so that he followed them and he would scare them all. Yes again not Effy’s fault for Cooks behaviour BUT again, if she was just honest with him and told him she didn’t want to see him instead of trying to avoid the consequences of her actions then maybe he would have stayed away.
Thirdly, the unreliable narrator and the events prior to hitting Katie. So I just pointed out that Cook scared the shit out of everyone - this is actually quite important to consider in what goes down next. The rock scene is framed intentionally as unreliable. It seems as if Katie is goading Effy and attacking her from our perspective but it’s not actually confirmed as true (I believe it probably is because we all know Katie would do that out of spite) and as we know Effy is mentally unstable at this time. Its obvious in her behaviours towards the group that I mentioned before. Effy is almost paranoid in the way she pits other people against one another; it’s probable that Effy believes herself as better or estranged from other people because she is experiencing an altered reality that is disconnected from everyone elses. Effy was already frightened by Cook and this could have had the effect of causing her to hallucinate Katie attacking her. Maybe Katie did attack her as a way to “ruin” Effy’s fun and punish her but it could also be true that Katie was approaching Effy and her hostility towards Effy resulted in Effy believing she was being attacked.
Finally, the aftermath. Effy was judged so harshly for this particular incident because of what happens after the fight. Effy returns to the camp and sleeps with Freddy. Yes I know she was high and not thinking straight but it was also something Effy wanted far before the camping trip. Effy had made it clear she liked Freddy from day 1, yet she rejected him because she was scared of how he made her feel. Katie then started a relationship with Freddy when Effy didn’t want him - she had chosen Cook. The fact that Effy finally acted on her feelings for Freddy only after she has been tripping for hours and potentially hurt his girlfriend severely was the reason the group were disgusted and horrified by what happened. Effy didn’t intentionally try to kill Katie and then sleep with Freddy, but she still harmed her and slept with him. Effy sealed her own coffin when she didn’t fess up as soon as they lost Katie. The fact that she kept silent the whole morning they were trying to find Katie and then anonymously called to report what happened was why the group found her so despicable.
Here’s my interpretation of the Camping Incident: Once the group found Katie they realised that maybe she had a point asking them not to eat hallucinogenic mushrooms in the woods. I think the whole group felt guilty they had ignored her requests and then when she was missing they decided she had left/been able to make her way home without them. In reality they did abandon her there and the shame made them think about what they would do differently. Then Katie woke up and tells them what happened. Suddenly all the shitty things Effy does to everyone on their own or in subtle almost undetectable ways have a platform for examining. I think what happened to Katie made the group see how badly Effy treated everyone around them and in her pain they could see their own. Effy (and Cook) are catalysts for chaos, always taking things too far and being unable to face their mistakes. When the group get together around Katie’s bedside they were shown the result of Effy’s actions and while they didn’t want Effy to go to jail/juvie (I assume since there isn’t a legal battle or any police charges mentioned in later seasons) they are finally ready to cut her out of their lives.
TDLR: The chaos of the camping trip was the impact of the season long toxic behaviour from Effy towards her friends, the result of her use of drugs to cope/numb herself and the consequence of her selfish behaviour. Katie tried to set a boundary that the trip would not have drugs and get out of control, Effy ignored that boundary and encouraged everyone else to do so too. Effy is still responsible for her actions even if she was on drugs, legally thats just how it works. Katie potentially wasn’t even attacking Effy - the scene is meant to be unreliable, even if she was she had been pushed and pushed by Effy so much on that trip that it’s not hard to understand her logic. Katie should not have provoked Effy, but she didn’t deserve to be left in the woods, have her boyfriend be unfaithful to her and almost die because of it.
Essentially, both Effy and Katie fucked around and found out.
The reason I’m making this post if because I like the complexity of the characters on skins I’ve been watching and rewatching this show since I was a teenager. But the way people reduce the camping situation bothers me because se they are ruining the depth of the show to paint Effy as something of a victim. People need to stop ignoring everything Effy did to create the situation that occurred. Yes Katie is a mean bitch but Effy was also a mean bitch y’all just ignore it because shes ~pretty~ and ~cool~ In Gen 2 Effy is the equivalent of Sid in my eyes.
I also an sick of the Katie hate - I get it I used to hate her too but I grew up to understand that her family dynamic was just as fucked up as Effy’s. Katie denied Emilys sexuality only because her own identity was so significantly tied up with Emily. Katie was clearly the “pride” of their family which was pushed on her by their mother - I think her desire to keep Emily in the closet and to be a desirable popular girl is based on the pressure her mother puts on her. Does that mean I agree with Katie’s behaviour? Absolutely not. But at the same time I can recognise that she is human!
Effy is human too. I think it’s an injustice to her character that people don’t acknowledge the fucked up things Effy does and they try to white knight her into being the “victim”. Effy isn’t just a victim, like Katie she is also a human with many facets to who she is. Effy is mysterious and seductive because it allows her to be popular yet for people to never see her vulnerability. Effy instigates conflict in her friendship group because her family has been dysfunctional for so long so it’s normal for her and takes away the potential for other people to see her shitty behaviour. Effy is also a teenager who has had no guidance (honestly her appearance in the first season was genuinely sickening for me to watch as an adult she was so neglected). Effy was a girl who tried to blot out all her emotions with drugs until it finally broke her. Effy self destructs as a form of control, she is very clearly not mentally well. Unfortunately despite the ways she is human she did something that was unforgivable- at least not immediately.
Anyway, thoughts?

So, I'm kinda new to the FE games, last I played was on the Game Boy Advanced where you controlled a random guy which, surprise-surprise, he's a master tactical commander and everyone obeys him for "reasons".
It's not a criticism, I liked that game, and I liked that your character finally is playable in the battlefield and not just in the background, also, your character has dialogue and a voice (and gender), so huge improvement from what was I used to.
Anyway, whole playing Three Hopes, (I'm playing Empire), I can't help but feeling awkward whenever is my turn to talk or something important happens.
Every time someone shares something important or deep, or concern, your character always has to bring that he/she was a mercenary and your issues are like his/her mercenary life.
Your character is just standing there, while many are showing real concern about invading the Church and innocents life are being murdered, and your are asked how do you feel? "Well, we as mercenary just care about the money, so it doesn't matter for us, pay me"
"I want to make you my general", "but I'm a mercenary", "Yes".
I don't know if this is just me on missing many games before Three Hopes, but almost nothing feels natural.
(I know that I'm at the beginning of the story), but I feel the story is very rushed, in one chapter you are at the Church, then you are invading the Empire, and then you are invading the Church, you are never explained why (probably in the future) other than "Church is bad, Empire good, we invade them", "Yes I'm a mercenary, I do not think for myself, pay me and I'll do it".
Again, is not me throwing dirt at the game but it feels that I'm truly not getting the motives of this, everyone is against this, the very few that are not are the pawns of Eldelgard, which they only say "I'm loyal to her and trust her, no more motive for me", they feel like NPC.
Like this one guy who got his father arrested (or killed) during the invasion at the castle.
He didn't know his father was gonna be arrested/killed, and he just let it go, he didn't pressed on that, it was like 2 lines of dialogue, and he never care after that for having his own father jailed/murdered that same day.
I know I'm with the bad guys, and there are very good and nice characters with them, but truly most of them, including your own character, which only feels "there", never truly adding to anything, other than "I agree, I do not agree, I'm a mercenary we do not care just money".
(Not the character fault, but the writers), does the game change later on?

Made a comment in a different post, but thought I might as well make a main post too. I originally made this list after Not Like Us, but updated it today.
Please let me know if I'm missing anything or got anything wrong.
Edit: I'm also willing to source any of the "facts" if needed. This will take a while though.
Kendrick's facts:

• Baka Not Nice was charged for assaulting a women. The original accusation was that he was pimping her out, however, the women did not want to testify. This is fact.
• The "Tinder", this ones a bit more murky and might not be exactly how Kendrick is describing it, but in Chicago Freestyle, Drake raps: "All good, Chubbs will look around. Find one that seem my type. That my dawg and he know what I like. He done found me plenty in my life".
• Drake taking Ozempic at some point (as from the MTG cover), murky, but if he's taking weight loss pills its not that far fetched he got surgery on his abs. Update: This is now confirmed as per Akademiks.
• The C&D on "Like That", the email that circulated and metro posted. I personally think that's not enough evidence of this, but it's there. Update: This is undisputed at this point since Family Matters, so I'm leaving this as a fact.
• Some form of leak from OVO, this was proven when Push Ups leaked, but it also Kendrick somehow knew what angle Drake was going to play at. Also he somehow obtained the picture of the cover art from MTG.
• Twitter bots, at this point its hard to believe this is not true. I just don't see how the same thing happens every time Drake gets in a public beef with someone.
• TIs friend pissing on Drakes leg. This was previously stated as true by TI, so there is some former evidence of this.
• Ghostwriters, this has been recurring in every Drake beef since Meek, but with reference tracks being posted with every line being the same, its hard to believe its not true at this point.
• Sleeping with Wayne's girl while Wayne was in jail, Wayne has said that this was true in a past interview.

Kendrick's unconfirmed

• Drake running/being involved in a sex trafficking
• Drake being a pedophile (there has been sus behaviour in the past but thats a HUGE accusation and honestly, something definitive is going to need to be put out there to prove this)
• Drake having a second child (and multiple other children?)

Drake's facts:

• Whitney being mixed, this one is true, but the asterisk is that she's half mexican. It also seems like the point went over Drake's head.
• Kendrick sleeping with white girls, this is true, Kendrick admitted to this in his last album.
• Kendricks dad being robbed by Top, this was confirmed by Kendrick on Duckworth from DAMN. He also confirmed this in an interview. Update: Removing this one because this was misinterpreting lyrics
• "Big D"
• Kendrick being short, I'm really struggling to find anything else sorry lmao.

Drake's lies:

• Top & Kendrick falling out (specifically due to contracts), multiple people close to the situation say they talk every day. Top knew "Not Like Us" was coming out hours before its drop
• Drake melted down Pharrell's chains. From Family Matters they were shown not melted. I know this was pre-beef, but I do think it's important since it was brought up
• Taking ozempic. Now to be clear, I know Drake never said that he has never taken Ozempic, but he implied Ross was using it, like it is wrong to do so. Also like before, this goes back to the whole cheating on his body. Update: Drake claimed he planted it. Akademiks has said this is not true. This is just a straight up lie at this point.
• Not giving back to Compton, he has donated hundred of thousands of dollars to Compton.
• Keem writing Kendricks best hits. Keem was 11 when GKMC came out and 13-14 when TPAB came out. There's also reference tracks of Kendrick for Keem songs but not vice-versa. This was just a ridiculous claim.
• Tupac estate C&D. While no evidence it's not true, it's kind of wild to put out a narrative like that because this was called from the moment it dropped. Tupac Estate stands to lose money if other people can just use his voice whenever they feel like it (social media or not). It also was disrespectful to him and had potential to hurt Tupacs legacy.
• Kendrick's kids being "light skin".... uh, yeah....
• Kendrick moving to NY to live a bachelor lifestyle. Whitney's last IG post includes pictures of her and the kids from Kendricks penthouse, so they at the very least co-parent from there.
• the AI Kendrick track. I know Drake never mentioned it personally, but I do think these items are still important here, as Drake has clearly been playing the social media game. There were dudes like Mal claiming it was real even after it was confirmed fake. Mal clearly has access to Drake's camp, as he heard Push Ups early (we can confirm this based off quotes from the pod before it leaked). Also, an OVO associate apparently reached out to the guy who made the track. There's various other narratives that were pushed by people tied to OVO (such as Whitney unfollowing Kendrick), but I'll leave it at that because it gets murky.
• "They have Nothing to Drop", I think deep down Drake knew this wasn't true and was likely shit talking, but I do think it adds to the above.
• Other Family Matters video items. This one is murky because it's not 1000% clear that Drakes camp pushed the narrative on these things BUT the van in the video is not the GKMC van. It is a very similar van (Mopar) but it's Dodge, while GKMC was a chrysler. Also the ring that Drake shows at the end was assumed to be Whitney's engagement ring, but it was confirmed that it was Pharrells ring.
• Kendrick being molested (misinterpretation of Mother I Sober)
• Dave Free being the bio father of Kendrick's children*

Drake's unconfirmed claims:

• Dave Free is the bio father of Kendricks children Update: Moved to lie based on Akademiks
• Kendrick beat his wife & hired a crisis management team to cover it up

Apologies for formatting. Mobile.
Now that the game has been out for awhile, I wanted to take some time to air out one of my biggest grievances with IW and my way to fix it: Ebina. The villains in IW are, to me, the absolute worst part of the game for me. Bryce's plot is so obviously untenable and stupid even for Yakuza, to the point that Ebina directly points it out and makes fun of him for it in Kiryu's confrontation with him. Meanwhile, the twists regarding Ebina being Ichi's evil half brother is like Yakuza 5 levels of trash villain execution. Its out of left field, and feels like retreading 7's plot beats. On top of that, Kiryu's only connection to him is that he's hurting all of the Yakuza he feels responsible for, meaming he could've just as easily fought Bruce as he could've fought Ebina (its not like Ichi needed to fight Bryce either. Ichi has no connection to him besides a poorly developed and executed one with his mom and generic island children, and considering Kiryu's history adopting children and defending orphanages, it mightve worked better with him).
But you know what character fits Ebina's motivations and has a more intimate connection to Ichiban, while also better testing Ichiban's aputude for forgiveness in a game ALL ABOUT FORGIVENESS??
Kume. Instead of having him unceremoniously arrested in a cutscene at the beginning that I straight up missed when I played, make him take Ebinas place, and let Kiryu and Ichi swap.
Think about it. Kume killed Ichiban's brother (the one we ACTUALLY care about). He HATES the Yakuza past the poinr of allowing them redemption, and after Ryo Aoki's true motives shattered his own world, nuclear cancer torture sounds mad enough to believe for Kume. He even has better connections to Bleach Japan! Meanwhile it would be a test of Ichiban's willingness to forgive. Ichiban has been the arbitrater of so many Yakuza's rehabilitation, and his relationship with Eiji (for some reason) one of the major emotional plot beats as he gries to get Eiji to come back around. But could he forgive the murderer of his brother, at least enough to just send him to jail? Realstically yes, cause its Ichi, but think of how much more emotionally resonant it would be? Kume, who hates the Yakuza so much that he'd send them all to cancer cult island, who is unwilling to accept Ichi can be a good person despite his history, is ultimately shown (some) mercy by the man who by all accounts has the most justified reason to kill him. Ichi having to struggle with a datker urge for vengeance, but KNOWING hes better than that, KNOWING that the he'd prove Kume right by eradicating him, punches just to the side of his head and starts to cry.
And maybe that changes Kume's mind. Or maybe it shatters him and sends him flying out the window. Or maybe he just froths at the mouth in fear, passes out and goes to jail. But in the end, having Kume take Ebina's spot, amd having Ichi fight him while Kiryu wraps up the orphan religion plot (and im just saying, Kiryu being AT THE ISLAND where the Yakuza he feels so strongly responsible for might've been more emotionally resonant too) would've done alot to tie the game better into its own themes, and made a game with (to me) a pretty mid plot with a TERRIBLE third act alot better.
The biggest problem I can think of is that Kume couldn't act publicly after doing what he did. That being said, if you rewatch the scene from 7, no one notices that Kume stabbed him except Ichiban. No one notices Aoki isnt ok until he falls into Ichi's arms. If there wasn't any cameras (maybe a blind spot), it would only be Ichi's word. An ex Yakuza, admittedly riding a high of uncovering a corrupt government official, but still am ex Yakuza. Considering IW's focus on rehabilitation of criminals and the sheer difficulty of navigating public perception, would it be an UNBELIEVABLE plot point that Kume has polished his halo enough to get off due to lack of evidence? That despite all Ichi had done, he was still somewhat limited in his outreach cause of his past?
But what do yall think? For me, I think this wouldve saved IWs story, but I'm just one guy.

For the sake of transparency, I am not the architect of the following discoveries, and am just helping to forward their message and clean it up. Copywrite of the following work belongs to no one and everyone is not only welcome to share these findings as if they were their own, but openly encouraged to do so.
Introduction
If you think you know anything about MAGA. Trust me, you know nothing. Not even his most devout followers or haters will have considered the following. And for the sake of our democracy and way of life, I hope people read this.
This work may very well help to shift the narrative on Trump in a meaningful and foundational way, but I don't want this work exacerbate any feelings of ill will to MAGA members, for they have been prey to possibly one of the largest con jobs our world has ever seen, especially without the help of this counternarrative.
Snippet From My Thesis On MAGA
As I work on tidying up the master file with the helpful dms I got, allow me to post just the most contentious part of it below, now that it’s able to stand on its own.
MAGA didn’t begin in 2015. I argue it began in 2001 on 9/11, while also harnessing and funneling decades of anti-government resentment till many Americans would openly call for a “wrecking ball” figure to help “drain the swamp.”

A Key Fueling Factor To American Outrage- Inflation
Many elements contributed to growing American anger that would later contribute to MAGA, this is a snippet from the larger work.
Rising Cost of Living
o In 1950, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 24.1. By 2000, it had risen to 168 (a 597% increase), and by 2023, it had reached 304.7, a 1163% increase from 1950.
o Housing prices saw a drastic rise overtime, with the median home price increasing from $7,354 in 1950 to $388,700 in 2023, a staggering 5185% increase.
o While rising rent costs can contribute to overall inflation and cost of living, even the left has largely failed to address how exponentially increasing real estate prices impact the cost of living. This omission has made many other conspiracy theories seem more plausible in its wake.
o If we don’t find real solutions for real estate that also aren’t extreme, then society will feel more and more pressure to accept “unreasonable solutions” like Trump, even though he’s the last person on earth who could solve it, considering his business acumen and history.
MAGA Dynamics and Blind Devotion
In 2016, it wasn't just the left calling the MAGA movement a cult. Trump famously said, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." Even the left failed to grasp the gravity of this statement. As someone who nearly died in a deadly cult and based on my research, I don't know of a single cult where the founder could openly commit murder without losing members. Trump didn't just believe he'd created one of the largest cults ever; he believed he'd created the most fanatical. Let's hope his followers prove him wrong by showing a willingness to criticize him, regardless of their vote.

The MAGA Question
Instead of challenging MAGA supporters on fallacious beliefs, ask them this question to see if they’re at least able to see a world where Trump isn’t a biblical King: "If Trump admitted he was behind 9/11 and used resulting insurance money and donations from hostile governments to create false “grass root” campaigns. And did it all in a way to make it seem like others committed his own atrocities. And that he intended to destroy America in every way if he got elected, would you still vote for him?"

Yet even then, getting through to a MAGA supporter inevitably refers to 9/11 “research” out there when they realize individual positions are usually fallacious. This quagmire me decide to investigate this tragedy, to see if there was a more plausible counter theory. Honestly, the more I looked the more surprised I became. Here are my findings that are but a snippet of my full thesis on MAGA.

9/11 Conspiracy Theories and MAGA
Conspiracy Theories and Credibility:
o First off, conspiracy theories should involve some effort to verify narratives, rather than just repeating claims across multiple sources that mistake themselves as evidence; like a bunch of people who repeat “bob farted” across multiple websites may see that as evidence, when in fact, it was Sean. Sorry Sean.

Early Origins of MAGA:
o Although some believe MAGA began in 2015, its roots lie as early as the 1980s with Rush Limbaugh and later became "serious" on 9/11.
o 9/11 conspiracy theories claim controlled demolitions were used, but the lack of any cellphone recordings of explosions weakens this theory.

Suspicious Factors:
o The official narrative involving chaotic jet fuel leading to a straight fall seemed questionable.
o The collapse of a third building (WTC 7), which wasn’t directly hit, fueled suspicions.
o Airline stocks were heavily shorted before the attacks, raising concerns about insider trading. Harvey Pitt, Republican SEC Chairman at the time, investigated this and claimed there was nothing amiss, but was criticized for later crimes and forced to resign.
o It’s also suspicious that in Trumps 2000 book “The America We Deserve” that he stated, “I really am convinced we’re in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the [1993] bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers. No sensible analyst rejects this possibility, and plenty of them, like me, are not wondering if but when it will happen*.”*
§ Yet democrats would largely miss this point entirely and obsess over his false claim that he called for Bin Laden to be killed, when he had not. Somehow conspiracy theorists would find this ‘cool’ rather than suspicious.
CNN Fact Check Donald Trump Osama Bin Laden Book Claim

Reports and Simplified Narratives:
o FEMA's 2002 report and NIST's 2005 report provided technical explanations of the tower collapses.
o However, the Port Authority Chairman stuck to the oversimplified narrative that "jet fuel melted steel beams," even though he knew this was a half-truth, as detailed in the next section, fueling anti-government conspiracies. The question is why.

Potential Impact:
o 9/11 conspiracy theories sowed distrust in the government, which may have been one of the attackers' objectives. Anyone that heavily profited from this tragedy, and helped further those objects, should be questioned.
o The ‘Loose Change’ “documentary” pointed out suspicious parts of the story, but failed to give any clear claims as to who was purportedly behind it. It also failed to note the Twin Towers titanic design flaw that could result in a straight fall. Even the 2015 version of this film fails to mention nearly all of the known facts in this report.
o The Director of that film later states:
“I DON’T THINK WE’D HAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP IF IT WEREN’T FOR 9/11”
“9/11 created a culture of fear, of xenophobia, this sense of entitlement and everything we’ve seen. Warrantless wire-tapping, Guantanamo Bay, everything that’s happened led us to this point, we wouldn’t be here without 9/11. They want to kick out all the Mexicans and Muslims because of this culture of fear and bigotry and xenophobia that directly led to the election of fucking Donald Trump. [laughing] That’s our world now! We had Reagan before, and Governor Schwarzenegger. But President Donald Trump? It’s just weird. Everything is just weird.”
Theoutline Reflecting On Loose Change
o While the director was in the right to ask questions, he failed to ask the most obvious ones.
o However, his lead “researcher,” Jason Bermas, would turn out to be a full blown MAGA wingnut.
Patriot Jason Bermas
o Anyone that would benefit politically and financially from 9/11 should be fully investigated.
Further Reading:
Harvey Pitt - Wikipedia
Politifact How 911 Attacks Helped Shape Modern Misinformation
It will never be possible to defeat MAGA followers “logically” with people who believed his parties rhetoric “that 9/11 was an inside job.”

I say… what if those Republican leaders were self reporting?
What if Trump followers have been rallying behind the very man responsible for its orchestration?

The Twin Towers and Larry Silverstein
Architectural Pitfalls of the Twin Towers:
· The Twin Towers had unique architectural flaws due to the excessive heavy load on their exoskeletons to allow for more floor and leasing space, which greatly contributed to their straight collapse after the 9/11 attacks. This was the first and last skyscraper made in this way.
· For anyone who said that “any other building would have fallen sideways,” you were right, though perhaps not entirely how you may have imagined. A "Coke Can" analogy shows how a similar weakened structure can result in a straight fall, contrary to conspiracy theories claiming controlled demolitions. This isn't something I'm asking you to take for granted, or to read from media sources you don’t trust. This is something you can verify on your own, in person, in real time, in reality.
· However Trump, despite being close friends with Silverstein as we’ll cover later, claimed "It wasn’t architectural defects, you know, the World Trade Center was always known as a very, very strong building” per the attached PolitiFact article.
· Supporting Article:
Engineering Experts Explain the Collapse of the Twin Towers
Politifact Donald Trumps 911 Speculation

Larry Silverstein, The Leasor Of The Twin Towers:
· Nearly went bankrupt after losing his main tenant Drexel Burnham in 1980 after he built tower 7 with him in mind.
· I don't know how many of us understand the level of desperation a situation like this can cause in someone and how many potential crimes it can easily push them towards.
· He is known for then saying, “…looking up at the twin towers and thinking, my building is huge, but it is made diminutive by the twin towers. So I said to myself, wouldn't it be incredible someday to own those?" That's not the statement of a sane person who nearly went bankrupt, and if anything, hints towards jealousy.
· He managed to secure Salomon Brothers two years later, which later paid $300 million in securities fraud penalties casting suspicion over the entities who saved Silverstein, in addition to their overall plans for the future.
· How he would become able to outbid everyone else in 2001, for the right to lease the twin towers, would become a mystery we will untangle later.
Further Reading
Manhattan Institute – Silverstein On Ground Zero
Justice Department: Salomon Brothers Securities Fraud

Trump and Real Estate Connections
Historical Context and Redevelopment Plans:
· A redevelopment plan commenced in the 1990s by Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani, spurred a commercial revival in downtown Manhattan, making the World Trade Center prime property. Pataki would go on to criticize trump, while the other would prove to be one of this wildest, if not craziest, supporters to truly fanatical degrees.
Further Reading:
Manhattan Institute: Rebuilding Ground Zero
· Tom Leppert was the CEO of Turner construction which right wing conspiracy theorists claimed helped ensure the towers would fall straight down. He also became part of Trumps transition team. While there’s no evidence of explosives being used, tampering with the exoskeleton and weaking the relatively thin central column ahead of time are theoretically plausible.
Huffpost Donald Trump Transition Team
Wikipedia Tom Leppert

The bidding for the World Trade Center lease involved only a few major real estate firms as allowed by the Port Authority Chairman. Below are the allowed bidders and their estimated worth at the time included:

· Donald J. Trump’s Organization:
o Worth around $1.5 billion in 1996 after multiple bankruptcies. Confirmed only by Forbes magazine in 2005.
· Tishman Speyer:
o Valued at approximately $1.8 billion in 2000, would soon face ‘tenant issues’ with many scrupulous legal claims against them.
· Gale & Wentworth:
o Worth a few million.
· Mortimer Zuckerman’s Boston Properties:
o Mortimer Zuckerman alone was worth around $2 billion.
· The Rouse Company:
o Mainly a shopping mall operator.
· Brookfield Properties:
o A Canadian firm valued at over $20 billion in 2000.
· Vornado Realty Trust:
o Worth an estimated $2-3 billion. Had the highest bid, but was unexpectedly outed by the Port Authority Chairman, paving the way for Silverstein’s win. CEO of Vornado Trust, Steven Roth would later do many deals with Trump in 2005 and beyond.
· Larry Silverstein:
o As mentioned, was nearly bankrupt in the 1980s, and was mysteriously awarded the right to lease the World Trade Center contract at $3.2 billion, twice the original asking price of 1.2 Billion. It would still be owned by the Port authority of NY and NJ, he would just own the rights to lease it.
o Port Authority Chairman, Lewis Eisenberg, made this unexplained decision, who also later became Trumps lead fundraiser in 2015.
o After putting down only $125 million, as per the contract, Silverstein would be getting back $100 million just 6 weeks after his bid and with an uncommon terrorist insurance addition. His exaggerated bid and insurance contract would also greatly inflate the amount of money he could get from an insurance claim. If the winning bid was 1.5 billion, the insurance payout would also have been much less.
o In real estate, its quite rare for a prudent investor to bid twice the asking price, as demonstrated by the other companies that backed out, of which I find no connections to Trump.
o If anyone had known about 9/11 ahead of time, like Trump claims he did, it would become drastically easier to outbid all competitors, knowing that for pennies on the dollar, you would be getting much more back.

Further Reading:
NY Times Article on World Trade Center Deal
Wikipedia on Lewis Eisenberg
Patch On Lew Eisenberg Leading Trump Fundraising
NY Times Article Silverstein Gets Most Of His Money Back

Giuliani’s Gangster Acts
Arguably, if the above points are what they objectively appear to be, that would be a bad thing. You’d think that would be enough. However, Guliani would say “hold my beer’ to those sentiments.

1. Outdated Equipment for First Responders:
· Due to Giuliani’s inadequate leadership, first responders used old equipment that failed to warn them to evacuate the towers. Which contributed to their deaths while they searched for survivors.
NY Times Article: Giuliani’s Preparedness on 9/11
2. Obstructed Recovery Efforts:
· Giuliani delayed proper search and rescue operations for days, possibly costing lives of citizens and first responders who didn’t know they needed to leave.
· 20 Years later he would claim that some of Bidens actions were so reckless that… “It would be as if I got down to ground zero and said take out the firefighters, all you civilians see if you can get yourselves out.” Self report?
NBC News Report: Giuliani’s Role in Recovery
NY1: Giuliani Reflects on 9/11 Anniversary
3. Twin Towers Fund and Privatization:
· Giuliani privatized the Twin Towers relief funds, making them unauditable.
NY Times Article on Privatization
NY Post Article: Giuliani and Twin Towers Fund
4. Survivors Threaten To SUE Guliani For Relief Funds
· Even after privatizing the twin towers fund, Giuliani would make it incredibly difficult for the victims to receive their fair share. Requiring many of them to spend unnecessary money on advisors and consultants.
· Even with their legal pressure, he only agreed to “give the remaining 100 million to victims,” out of 170 million, if he could first put the money into the bank account of a charity in which he controlled.
· From the attached article: “But Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said that he remained adamantly opposed to any transfer of funds to Mr. Giuliani's charity.
He also objected to Mr. Giuliani's continued control over even the $15 million in his private charity. Mr. Giuliani, he charged, gives every indication of using the Twin Towers Fund to maintain a staff of loyal supporters and to advance his political aspirations.
'The concern that politics will infiltrate the fund becomes even more apparent when one reviews the list of the mayor's former political appointees who are assuming senior staff positions or serving on the fund's board of directors,'' he wrote in a letter on Monday to Eliot L. Spitzer, the state attorney general.”
NY Times Article On Guliani Pressed To Disperse Twin Tower Funds
· However, there is no evidence of Giuliani making good on this promise.
· There are honestly no words for this. All associates of Guliani should be investigated.
5. Attempted Election Cancellation in 2001:
· Giuliani tried to cancel the 2001 election to stay mayor longer. He even considered removing term limits with Governor Pataki’s support. Similar to how Trump has “joked” about increasing his own term limits.
Business Insider: Giuliani and Pataki’s Attempt to Cancel Elections
Esquire Trump Joke Third Term
6. Motive
· In 2000, Guliani unfortunately got prostate cancer. We have to be willing to ask if this was a motive for his corrupt acts.
SurvivorNet: Giuliani’s Cancer


Silverstein’s Unscrupulous Greed
1. Initial Settlement Demands and Profit Claims:
· Despite only having been out for $25 million, Silverstein initially sought nearly $8 BILLION in insurance settlements and argued for "loss of revenue from those buildings," which is quite an uncompassionate claim considering how many lost their lives. Talk about a prime example of the working and lower classes making sacrifices while rich elites complain they didn’t profit enough from the same tragedy.
2. Rebuilding Contributions and Insurance Payout:
· Despite the fact that he only owned the leasing rights to the twin towers, ‘Silverstein Properties’ received up to $4 billion from insurance payouts, instead of the Port Authority, which would be customary as the owner.
· While it's assumed that most of that money went to rebuilding, this isn't actually known or proven. It would be different if he had a separate insurance policy that was not connected to the rebuilding of the towers, with different monies going to the Port Authority to rebuild. This was not the case.
History.com: Rebuilding of Ground Zero
· He additionally refused to return the rights of Building 1 to the Port Authority until he secured additional funds from an $8 billion state fund. Talk about heartless.
Wikipedia: Larry Silverstein
· Various entities would contribute a total of $20 billion to rebuild all six damaged or destroyed towers, including four towers leased by Silverstein and two others he hadn't. This makes it unlikely that he had to go out of pocket with his 4 Billion.
3. Estimated Net Worth:
· While earlier records of Silverstein's net worth are unavailable, aside from his near bankruptcy in 1980, he is currently estimated to be worth around $1 billion.
Forbes Profile: Larry Silverstein

Silverstein’s Controversial Alignment with Trump
Larry Silverstein's connections and public persona have often been scrutinized. This scrutiny became particularly relevant in 2015 when he publicly displayed his support for Donald Trump:

• Long-standing Relationship: Silverstein revealed a 30-year-long acquaintance with Trump, emphasizing the depth of their connection. This means his relationship started in 1985, roughly two years after gaining a powerful criminal organization as a tenant in his tower 7, that saved him from bankruptcy, and 6 years before Trumps first, of many, bankruptcies. This also means they knew each other before 9/11.
• Supportive Yet Vague: He commended Trump for diligently pursuing what he believed to be right, echoing Trump's own ambiguous rhetoric. When pressed about the righteousness of Trump’s goals, Silverstein ambiguously responded, "well, it’s... you know... we’ll find out." This mirrors Trump’s evasive " Well, we're going to have to see what happens" stance, when questioned about committing to a peaceful transfer of power prior to January 6th—an event that ultimately unfolded with violence and chaos.
• Early Endorsement: By voicing his support when Trump announced his presidential campaign, Silverstein positioned himself as one of the early prominent figures in the MAGA movement.

Watch Silverstein Discuss Trump
CNN Trump On 2020 Election

The Man Who Boasted
When most people witness a tragedy, especially of this size, it takes time for their brains to comprehend what happened, it takes even more time to process it. Thus, anyone who was able to brag about their own assets hours after this tragedy on a radio show, is at least worthy of Investigation, especially if this very event helped reshape a misinformation landscape in which he would thrive as its King.
Politifact – How 911 Attacks Helped Shape Modern Misinformation

· Insensitive Boasts About Building Height:
o Trump also boasted that with the fall of the Twin Towers, his building became the tallest in Manhattan—an inaccurate and insensitive claim given the context.
Independent 9 11 Trump Tallest Building
· Early Claims and Revisions:
o Shortly after 9/11, Donald Trump claimed he saw the second plane hit the towers from his Manhattan apartment. He also made an unfounded claim that he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering, a statement that has been widely debunked. Despite varying explanations and suggesting that he saw it on an untraceable video that was “widely covered,” these claims helped fueled significant conspiracy theories. If anything, this was a self-report.
o Snopes: Trump Claims Muslims Cheered
o FactCheck.org: Trump’s Revised 9/11 Claim
· Visit to Ground Zero:
o A week after the attacks, Trump visited Ground Zero and stated that although he was present, he wouldn’t consider himself a first responder. This attempt at humility struck many as morbidly insensitive, considering the true heroism displayed by actual first responders.
ABC News: Trump Shares New Details About Morning of 9/11

Legacy of Suspicion:
These actions paint Trump as one of the more suspicious figures post-9/11, who may have used the tragedy for personal and political gain. His connections with figures like Larry Silverstein and Lewis Eisenberg, the Port Authority chairman, hint at deep financial interests potentially influenced by the 9/11 aftermath. Meanwhile, survivors and first responders faced challenges in securing support, highlighting the disparities between their experiences and the political maneuvers at play. Again morbidly juxtaposing the struggles of the poor and working class versus elite swamp members such as Trump and his ilk.

While being, arguably, one of the more suspicious Americans of potentially “being an insider," Trump would go on to cast doubt everywhere else with his new holier than thou rhetoric and hints and claims that “it was an inside job” for the next 15 years.

What if he was speaking from personal experience.

The Deepfake Dilemma
Now in a world where Trump's followers already discount reality, the emergence of AI-generated deepfakes threatens to further distort the truth. This technology could transform legal standards of evidence, making it easy to dismiss genuine evidence against the right as fabricated, while baseless accusations against the left might be accepted as the long-awaited proof.

The Potential Escalation of MAGA Actions
Given the willingness of MAGA supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6th, bolstered by Trump's incendiary rhetoric, the potential for escalation is alarming. The advent of fabricated images and videos could present unprecedented national security threats.

Trump's Incendiary Rhetoric on January 6th
Trump's speech on January 6th was a clear incitement, as he urged his followers to "fight like hell" to "stop the steal," despite admitting DURING THE SPEECH that there was no evidence of the massive electoral fraud he claimed. As well as his lawyers laughable court “arguments.”
“...while there is no evidence to prove any wrongdoing…”
Npr.Org Read Trumps Jan 6 Speech
LawAndCrime Come On Now

This speech, coupled with his undermining of constitutional processes, underscores the risks and intentional deceit of his rhetoric. Too bad Republicans senators and our Supreme Court have either claimed he was above the law, or continue to postpone his court dates till after elections. A wild position when treason is on the table. Did that dude commit treason that claims he wants to become a dictator? I dunno, lets let him potentially get elected and then find out!

Elon Musk's Political Shift
Elon was once very much a leftist, unfortunately in more and more far left “activists” continue to attack him endlessly for not agreeing with them on their own singular issues and perspectives. To them I say congratulations, you successfully pushed the most powerful man on earth into the far right. Great job. Great job.
Elon Musk's journey from a liberal supporter to a figure embraced by the far right highlights the volatile nature of political affiliations in today's polarized environment. His actions since acquiring Twitter—such as promoting unfounded conspiracy theories and making high-profile firings—suggest a departure from his initial free speech advocacy.
Especially when considering he fired Don Lemon from his platform for an interview he found offensive. Canceling opinions you find offensive isn’t free speech, it’s literally the opposite. I’m sure many people were offended by the examples below. What about them?
Far Right Support Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

The Need for a Critical Approach
Supporters of Trump should critically evaluate why he did not pardon the January 6th insurrectionists during his term, despite using them as political leverage now. This pattern of using allies until they are no longer useful is evident throughout his political and personal dealings.
What better example could there possibly be as to what trump truly thinks of his supporters, how sacrificial he sees them as part of his endless narratives, then his refusal and failure to pardon January 6th insurrectionists while still in office?
Of course, anyone “just on the grass” or outside the building should only get a day in jail at most, however people that barged inside the capital should naturally get much more.
And while trump refused to pardon those people before, he now calls them “hostages” and is using them as political bait to a truly wild degree. It's very likely he will make good on this promise to further embolden the narrative that “Democrats are trying to take you down and only I can save you.”
His supporters need to seriously ask, “Why didn’t he pardon us before?”
Also, remember when he claimed he would pay legal fees for supporters that were violent at his rallies, but then seemed to falter and change his mind. Much like how Amber Heard donated her money, “by pledging it.”
List of allies he was quick to discard or dump. And let's face it, all of these people have done more for him than the average MAGA supporter. The only person he cares about is himself.
Trump claims that Mike Pence, the man he vetted more than anyone else, “has gone to the dark side.”
Trump seems to have supported the chants to “Hang Mike Pense,” at least in jest? We hope? There are also no links of him condemning them. Yet admittedly this one point doesn’t have hard evidence like a recording or video as far as I know, it certainly fits his brand.
Mike Flynn, a Trump appointee, later testifies against him.
Trump admits Flynn lied on his behalf, accidentally testifying against him, but does pardon him. As long as you’re colluding with Russia you’re ok it seems?

The Future Under Trump's Influence
Trump's rhetoric about overriding constitutional norms to address what he calls "massive fraud" hints at authoritarian aspirations. His praise for dictators and divisive language further aligns with dangerous historical precedents.
Important Articles:
“How a second trump term could end us democracy.” -commondreams
“Ask the expert: What a 2nd Trump term could mean for democracy and advancing policy.” - Msu Today
“Judgement Day” for political opponents.

To predict the future lets base it on known facts:
Apparently, he will help attack our constitution like he may have with the Twin Towers.
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
Stated he intended to be a Dictator on day one, but then promises it will be just for a day. Is that how that works? Or is it “Once you go Dictator you don’t go back?”
Praising dictators, referring to immigrants as vermin etc, akin to Hitlers rhetoric against “blood mixing.”
More fraudulent use of lawyers and courts that gets everyone else in trouble but him, with them arguing he's above the law. This further shows how much he will consistently use people for his own ends and then dump them when they're no longer of use.
Warning from republicans and notes on ass kissing. As well as being generally unfit for office.
If you want help from Trump you better kiss his ***
Trumps says he kept Omarosa just because she said nice things about him, while defaming her
DeSantis: "You can be the most worthless Republican in America, but if you kiss the ring, he’ll say you’re wonderful."
Thehill Trump Views People Who Kiss His A As Weak.
And if you dare to speak out against trump, you better kiss his ****
Politico Graham Breaks With Trump On Abortion
WashingtonPost Trump Graham Abortion
News Yahoo 30 More Republicans Denounce Donald Trump Unqualified President
Hot take, if he’s elected president America, and the world, is frankly fucked.

Predicting MAGA 2024 And Beyond
Naturally there are endless possibilities of what MAGA and dictators around the world decide to do this year and into the future. I believe that the one thing that insinuates when it's time for their next evil actions is dictated by their standings in the polls or when a fellow dictator needs a little more political pressure from war torn inflated oil prices etc.
Dictators Unite
While writing my thesis, I speculated that dictators globally were uniting, finding mutual benefits in their governance and deceitful tactics. This theory is increasingly recognized as these autocrats appear to be forming a coalition, undermining peaceful unity efforts through conspiracy theories to preserve their power.
Unherd How Autocrats Unite
The True Nature of MAGA
MAGA was never genuinely about speaking truth to power or restoring America's glory. It has been an elaborate scheme funded by immense wealth, perpetuating anti-American sentiments through fabricated grassroots movements by domestic and foreign actors. This movement has primarily enriched a select few power-hungry dictators and may have been responsible for some of our most horrific moments in history in the past and acts yet to come.
Trump and MAGA
While 'MAGA' predates Trump, he conveniently stepped into a role long in the making. Despite occasional deviations from the MAGA ideology, such as promoting vaccines to emphatic boos, Trump has largely embodied its principles. The real architects of MAGA, however, are likely disillusioned with his unpredictable attacks, which contradict their broader agenda of absolute power.
Nbc News Donald Trump Booed
Trump as a Martyr
Regardless of election outcomes, Trump is poised to claim interference. His rhetoric and the devout belief of his followers in his divine anointment could lead to his martyrdom, especially given his age and the vulnerabilities it brings. This martyrdom could solidify his legacy while serving the interests of MAGA strategists who find him increasingly burdensome even if he “wins.”
Factcheck Trumps Bogus Voter Fraud Claims
La Times Trump Democrats Effort Presidential Ballot

u/neodestiny and friends.
Introduction
If you think you know anything about MAGA. Trust me, you know nothing. Not even his most devout followers or haters will have considered the following. And for the sake of our democracy and way of life, I hope people read this.
This work may very well help to shift the narrative on Trump in a meaningful and foundational way, but I don't want this work exacerbate any feelings of ill will to MAGA members, for they have been prey to possibly one of the largest con jobs our world has ever seen, especially without the help of this counternarrative.
Snippet From My Thesis On MAGA
As I work on tidying up the master file with the helpful dms I got, allow me to post just the most contentious part of it below, now that it’s able to stand on its own.
MAGA didn’t begin in 2015. I argue it began in 2001 on 9/11, while also harnessing and funneling decades of anti-government resentment till many Americans would openly call for a “wrecking ball” figure to help “drain the swamp.”
This work may very well help to shift the narrative on Trump in a meaningful and foundational way, but I don't want this work exacerbate any feelings of ill will to MAGA members, for they have been prey to possibly one of the largest con jobs our world has ever seen, especially without the help of this counternarrative.
A Key Fueling Factor To American Outrage- Inflation
Many elements contributed to growing American anger that would later contribute to MAGA, this is a snippet from the larger work.
Rising Cost of Living
o In 1950, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 24.1. By 2000, it had risen to 168 (a 597% increase), and by 2023, it had reached 304.7, a 1163% increase from 1950.
o Housing prices saw a drastic rise overtime, with the median home price increasing from $7,354 in 1950 to $388,700 in 2023, a staggering 5185% increase.
o While rising rent costs can contribute to overall inflation and cost of living, even the left has largely failed to address how exponentially increasing real estate prices impact the cost of living. This omission has made many other conspiracy theories seem more plausible in its wake.
o If we don’t find real solutions for real estate that also aren’t extreme, then society will feel more and more pressure to accept “unreasonable solutions” like Trump, even though he’s the last person on earth who could solve it, considering his business acumen and history.
MAGA Dynamics and Blind Devotion
In 2016, it wasn't just the left calling the MAGA movement a cult. Trump famously said, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." Even the left failed to grasp the gravity of this statement. As someone who nearly died in a deadly cult and based on my research, I don't know of a single cult where the founder could openly commit murder without losing members. Trump didn't just believe he'd created one of the largest cults ever; he believed he'd created the most fanatical. Let's hope his followers prove him wrong by showing a willingness to criticize him, regardless of their vote.

The MAGA Question
Instead of challenging MAGA supporters on fallacious beliefs, ask them this question to see if they’re at least able to see a world where Trump isn’t a biblical King: "If Trump admitted he was behind 9/11 and used resulting insurance money and donations from hostile governments to create false “grass root” campaigns. And did it all in a way to make it seem like others committed his own atrocities. And that he intended to destroy America in every way if he got elected, would you still vote for him?"

Yet even then, getting through to a MAGA supporter inevitably refers to 9/11 “research” out there when they realize individual positions are usually fallacious. This quagmire me decide to investigate this tragedy, to see if there was a more plausible counter theory. Honestly, the more I looked the more surprised I became. Here are my findings that are but a snippet of my full thesis on MAGA.

9/11 Conspiracy Theories and MAGA
Conspiracy Theories and Credibility:
o First off, conspiracy theories should involve some effort to verify narratives, rather than just repeating claims across multiple sources that mistake themselves as evidence; like a bunch of people who repeat “bob farted” across multiple websites may see that as evidence, when in fact, it was Sean. Sorry Sean.

Early Origins of MAGA:
o Although some believe MAGA began in 2015, its roots lie as early as the 1980s with Rush Limbaugh and later became "serious" on 9/11.
o 9/11 conspiracy theories claim controlled demolitions were used, but the lack of any cellphone recordings of explosions weakens this theory.

Suspicious Factors:
o The official narrative involving chaotic jet fuel leading to a straight fall seemed questionable.
o The collapse of a third building (WTC 7), which wasn’t directly hit, fueled suspicions.
o Airline stocks were heavily shorted before the attacks, raising concerns about insider trading. Harvey Pitt, Republican SEC Chairman at the time, investigated this and claimed there was nothing amiss, but was criticized for later crimes and forced to resign.
o It’s also suspicious that in Trumps 2000 book “The America We Deserve” that he stated, “I really am convinced we’re in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the [1993] bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers. No sensible analyst rejects this possibility, and plenty of them, like me, are not wondering if but when it will happen*.”*
§ Yet democrats would largely miss this point entirely and obsess over his false claim that he called for Bin Laden to be killed, when he had not. Somehow conspiracy theorists would find this ‘cool’ rather than suspicious.
CNN Fact Check Donald Trump Osama Bin Laden Book Claim

Reports and Simplified Narratives:
o FEMA's 2002 report and NIST's 2005 report provided technical explanations of the tower collapses.
o However, the Port Authority Chairman stuck to the oversimplified narrative that "jet fuel melted steel beams," even though he knew this was a half-truth, as detailed in the next section, fueling anti-government conspiracies. The question is why.

Potential Impact:
o 9/11 conspiracy theories sowed distrust in the government, which may have been one of the attackers' objectives. Anyone that heavily profited from this tragedy, and helped further those objects, should be questioned.
o The ‘Loose Change’ “documentary” pointed out suspicious parts of the story, but failed to give any clear claims as to who was purportedly behind it. It also failed to note the Twin Towers titanic design flaw that could result in a straight fall. Even the 2015 version of this film fails to mention nearly all of the known facts in this report.
o The Director of that film later states:
“I DON’T THINK WE’D HAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP IF IT WEREN’T FOR 9/11”
“9/11 created a culture of fear, of xenophobia, this sense of entitlement and everything we’ve seen. Warrantless wire-tapping, Guantanamo Bay, everything that’s happened led us to this point, we wouldn’t be here without 9/11. They want to kick out all the Mexicans and Muslims because of this culture of fear and bigotry and xenophobia that directly led to the election of fucking Donald Trump. [laughing] That’s our world now! We had Reagan before, and Governor Schwarzenegger. But President Donald Trump? It’s just weird. Everything is just weird.”
Theoutline Reflecting On Loose Change
o While the director was in the right to ask questions, he failed to ask the most obvious ones.
o However, his lead “researcher,” Jason Bermas, would turn out to be a full blown MAGA wingnut.
Patriot Jason Bermas
o Anyone that would benefit politically and financially from 9/11 should be fully investigated.
Further Reading:
Harvey Pitt - Wikipedia
Politifact How 911 Attacks Helped Shape Modern Misinformation
It will never be possible to defeat MAGA followers “logically” with people who believed his parties rhetoric “that 9/11 was an inside job.”

I say… what if those Republican leaders were self reporting?
What if Trump followers have been rallying behind the very man responsible for its orchestration?

The Twin Towers and Larry Silverstein
Architectural Pitfalls of the Twin Towers:
· The Twin Towers had unique architectural flaws due to the excessive heavy load on their exoskeletons to allow for more floor and leasing space, which greatly contributed to their straight collapse after the 9/11 attacks. This was the first and last skyscraper made in this way.
· For anyone who said that “any other building would have fallen sideways,” you were right, though perhaps not entirely how you may have imagined. A "Coke Can" analogy shows how a similar weakened structure can result in a straight fall, contrary to conspiracy theories claiming controlled demolitions. This isn't something I'm asking you to take for granted, or to read from media sources you don’t trust. This is something you can verify on your own, in person, in real time, in reality.
· However Trump, despite being close friends with Silverstein as we’ll cover later, claimed "It wasn’t architectural defects, you know, the World Trade Center was always known as a very, very strong building” per the attached PolitiFact article.
· Supporting Article:
Engineering Experts Explain the Collapse of the Twin Towers
Politifact Donald Trumps 911 Speculation

Larry Silverstein, The Leasor Of The Twin Towers:
· Nearly went bankrupt after losing his main tenant Drexel Burnham in 1980 after he built tower 7 with him in mind.
· I don't know how many of us understand the level of desperation a situation like this can cause in someone and how many potential crimes it can easily push them towards.
· He is known for then saying, “…looking up at the twin towers and thinking, my building is huge, but it is made diminutive by the twin towers. So I said to myself, wouldn't it be incredible someday to own those?" That's not the statement of a sane person who nearly went bankrupt, and if anything, hints towards jealousy.
· He managed to secure Salomon Brothers two years later, which later paid $300 million in securities fraud penalties casting suspicion over the entities who saved Silverstein, in addition to their overall plans for the future.
· How he would become able to outbid everyone else in 2001, for the right to lease the twin towers, would become a mystery we will untangle later.
Further Reading
Manhattan Institute – Silverstein On Ground Zero
Justice Department: Salomon Brothers Securities Fraud

Trump and Real Estate Connections
Historical Context and Redevelopment Plans:
· A redevelopment plan commenced in the 1990s by Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani, spurred a commercial revival in downtown Manhattan, making the World Trade Center prime property. Pataki would go on to criticize trump, while the other would prove to be one of this wildest, if not craziest, supporters to truly fanatical degrees.
Further Reading:
Manhattan Institute: Rebuilding Ground Zero
· Tom Leppert was the CEO of Turner construction which right wing conspiracy theorists claimed helped ensure the towers would fall straight down. He also became part of Trumps transition team. While there’s no evidence of explosives being used, tampering with the exoskeleton and weaking the relatively thin central column ahead of time are theoretically plausible.
Huffpost Donald Trump Transition Team
Wikipedia Tom Leppert

The bidding for the World Trade Center lease involved only a few major real estate firms as allowed by the Port Authority Chairman. Below are the allowed bidders and their estimated worth at the time included:

· Donald J. Trump’s Organization:
o Worth around $1.5 billion in 1996 after multiple bankruptcies. Confirmed only by Forbes magazine in 2005.
· Tishman Speyer:
o Valued at approximately $1.8 billion in 2000, would soon face ‘tenant issues’ with many scrupulous legal claims against them.
· Gale & Wentworth:
o Worth a few million.
· Mortimer Zuckerman’s Boston Properties:
o Mortimer Zuckerman alone was worth around $2 billion.
· The Rouse Company:
o Mainly a shopping mall operator.
· Brookfield Properties:
o A Canadian firm valued at over $20 billion in 2000.
· Vornado Realty Trust:
o Worth an estimated $2-3 billion. Had the highest bid, but was unexpectedly outed by the Port Authority Chairman, paving the way for Silverstein’s win. CEO of Vornado Trust, Steven Roth would later do many deals with Trump in 2005 and beyond.
· Larry Silverstein:
o As mentioned, was nearly bankrupt in the 1980s, and was mysteriously awarded the right to lease the World Trade Center contract at $3.2 billion, twice the original asking price of 1.2 Billion. It would still be owned by the Port authority of NY and NJ, he would just own the rights to lease it.
o Port Authority Chairman, Lewis Eisenberg, made this unexplained decision, who also later became Trumps lead fundraiser in 2015.
o After putting down only $125 million, as per the contract, Silverstein would be getting back $100 million just 6 weeks after his bid and with an uncommon terrorist insurance addition. His exaggerated bid and insurance contract would also greatly inflate the amount of money he could get from an insurance claim. If the winning bid was 1.5 billion, the insurance payout would also have been much less.
o In real estate, its quite rare for a prudent investor to bid twice the asking price, as demonstrated by the other companies that backed out, of which I find no connections to Trump.
o If anyone had known about 9/11 ahead of time, like Trump claims he did, it would become drastically easier to outbid all competitors, knowing that for pennies on the dollar, you would be getting much more back.

Further Reading:
NY Times Article on World Trade Center Deal
Wikipedia on Lewis Eisenberg
Patch On Lew Eisenberg Leading Trump Fundraising
NY Times Article Silverstein Gets Most Of His Money Back

Giuliani’s Gangster Acts
Arguably, if the above points are what they objectively appear to be, that would be a bad thing. You’d think that would be enough. However, Guliani would say “hold my beer’ to those sentiments.

1. Outdated Equipment for First Responders:
· Due to Giuliani’s inadequate leadership, first responders used old equipment that failed to warn them to evacuate the towers. Which contributed to their deaths while they searched for survivors.
NY Times Article: Giuliani’s Preparedness on 9/11
2. Obstructed Recovery Efforts:
· Giuliani delayed proper search and rescue operations for days, possibly costing lives of citizens and first responders who didn’t know they needed to leave.
· 20 Years later he would claim that some of Bidens actions were so reckless that… “It would be as if I got down to ground zero and said take out the firefighters, all you civilians see if you can get yourselves out.” Self report?
NBC News Report: Giuliani’s Role in Recovery
NY1: Giuliani Reflects on 9/11 Anniversary
3. Twin Towers Fund and Privatization:
· Giuliani privatized the Twin Towers relief funds, making them unauditable.
NY Times Article on Privatization
NY Post Article: Giuliani and Twin Towers Fund
4. Survivors Threaten To SUE Guliani For Relief Funds
· Even after privatizing the twin towers fund, Giuliani would make it incredibly difficult for the victims to receive their fair share. Requiring many of them to spend unnecessary money on advisors and consultants.
· Even with their legal pressure, he only agreed to “give the remaining 100 million to victims,” out of 170 million, if he could first put the money into the bank account of a charity in which he controlled.
· From the attached article: “But Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said that he remained adamantly opposed to any transfer of funds to Mr. Giuliani's charity.
He also objected to Mr. Giuliani's continued control over even the $15 million in his private charity. Mr. Giuliani, he charged, gives every indication of using the Twin Towers Fund to maintain a staff of loyal supporters and to advance his political aspirations.
'The concern that politics will infiltrate the fund becomes even more apparent when one reviews the list of the mayor's former political appointees who are assuming senior staff positions or serving on the fund's board of directors,'' he wrote in a letter on Monday to Eliot L. Spitzer, the state attorney general.”
NY Times Article On Guliani Pressed To Disperse Twin Tower Funds
· However, there is no evidence of Giuliani making good on this promise.
· There are honestly no words for this. All associates of Guliani should be investigated.
5. Attempted Election Cancellation in 2001:
· Giuliani tried to cancel the 2001 election to stay mayor longer. He even considered removing term limits with Governor Pataki’s support. Similar to how Trump has “joked” about increasing his own term limits.
Business Insider: Giuliani and Pataki’s Attempt to Cancel Elections
Esquire Trump Joke Third Term
6. Motive
· In 2000, Guliani unfortunately got prostate cancer. We have to be willing to ask if this was a motive for his corrupt acts.
SurvivorNet: Giuliani’s Cancer


Silverstein’s Unscrupulous Greed
1. Initial Settlement Demands and Profit Claims:
· Despite only having been out for $25 million, Silverstein initially sought nearly $8 BILLION in insurance settlements and argued for "loss of revenue from those buildings," which is quite an uncompassionate claim considering how many lost their lives. Talk about a prime example of the working and lower classes making sacrifices while rich elites complain they didn’t profit enough from the same tragedy.
2. Rebuilding Contributions and Insurance Payout:
· Despite the fact that he only owned the leasing rights to the twin towers, ‘Silverstein Properties’ received up to $4 billion from insurance payouts, instead of the Port Authority, which would be customary as the owner.
· While it's assumed that most of that money went to rebuilding, this isn't actually known or proven. It would be different if he had a separate insurance policy that was not connected to the rebuilding of the towers, with different monies going to the Port Authority to rebuild. This was not the case.
History.com: Rebuilding of Ground Zero
· He additionally refused to return the rights of Building 1 to the Port Authority until he secured additional funds from an $8 billion state fund. Talk about heartless.
Wikipedia: Larry Silverstein
· Various entities would contribute a total of $20 billion to rebuild all six damaged or destroyed towers, including four towers leased by Silverstein and two others he hadn't. This makes it unlikely that he had to go out of pocket with his 4 Billion.
3. Estimated Net Worth:
· While earlier records of Silverstein's net worth are unavailable, aside from his near bankruptcy in 1980, he is currently estimated to be worth around $1 billion.
Forbes Profile: Larry Silverstein

Silverstein’s Controversial Alignment with Trump
Larry Silverstein's connections and public persona have often been scrutinized. This scrutiny became particularly relevant in 2015 when he publicly displayed his support for Donald Trump:

• Long-standing Relationship: Silverstein revealed a 30-year-long acquaintance with Trump, emphasizing the depth of their connection. This means his relationship started in 1985, roughly two years after gaining a powerful criminal organization as a tenant in his tower 7, that saved him from bankruptcy, and 6 years before Trumps first, of many, bankruptcies. This also means they knew each other before 9/11.
• Supportive Yet Vague: He commended Trump for diligently pursuing what he believed to be right, echoing Trump's own ambiguous rhetoric. When pressed about the righteousness of Trump’s goals, Silverstein ambiguously responded, "well, it’s... you know... we’ll find out." This mirrors Trump’s evasive " Well, we're going to have to see what happens" stance, when questioned about committing to a peaceful transfer of power prior to January 6th—an event that ultimately unfolded with violence and chaos.
• Early Endorsement: By voicing his support when Trump announced his presidential campaign, Silverstein positioned himself as one of the early prominent figures in the MAGA movement.

Watch Silverstein Discuss Trump
CNN Trump On 2020 Election

The Man Who Boasted
When most people witness a tragedy, especially of this size, it takes time for their brains to comprehend what happened, it takes even more time to process it. Thus, anyone who was able to brag about their own assets hours after this tragedy on a radio show, is at least worthy of Investigation, especially if this very event helped reshape a misinformation landscape in which he would thrive as its King.
Politifact – How 911 Attacks Helped Shape Modern Misinformation

· Insensitive Boasts About Building Height:
o Trump also boasted that with the fall of the Twin Towers, his building became the tallest in Manhattan—an inaccurate and insensitive claim given the context.
Independent 9 11 Trump Tallest Building
· Early Claims and Revisions:
o Shortly after 9/11, Donald Trump claimed he saw the second plane hit the towers from his Manhattan apartment. He also made an unfounded claim that he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering, a statement that has been widely debunked. Despite varying explanations and suggesting that he saw it on an untraceable video that was “widely covered,” these claims helped fueled significant conspiracy theories. If anything, this was a self-report.
o Snopes: Trump Claims Muslims Cheered
o FactCheck.org: Trump’s Revised 9/11 Claim
· Visit to Ground Zero:
o A week after the attacks, Trump visited Ground Zero and stated that although he was present, he wouldn’t consider himself a first responder. This attempt at humility struck many as morbidly insensitive, considering the true heroism displayed by actual first responders.
ABC News: Trump Shares New Details About Morning of 9/11

Legacy of Suspicion:
These actions paint Trump as one of the more suspicious figures post-9/11, who may have used the tragedy for personal and political gain. His connections with figures like Larry Silverstein and Lewis Eisenberg, the Port Authority chairman, hint at deep financial interests potentially influenced by the 9/11 aftermath. Meanwhile, survivors and first responders faced challenges in securing support, highlighting the disparities between their experiences and the political maneuvers at play. Again morbidly juxtaposing the struggles of the poor and working class versus elite swamp members such as Trump and his ilk.

While being, arguably, one of the more suspicious Americans of potentially “being an insider," Trump would go on to cast doubt everywhere else with his new holier than thou rhetoric and hints and claims that “it was an inside job” for the next 15 years.

What if he was speaking from personal experience.

The Deepfake Dilemma
Now in a world where Trump's followers already discount reality, the emergence of AI-generated deepfakes threatens to further distort the truth. This technology could transform legal standards of evidence, making it easy to dismiss genuine evidence against the right as fabricated, while baseless accusations against the left might be accepted as the long-awaited proof.

The Potential Escalation of MAGA Actions
Given the willingness of MAGA supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6th, bolstered by Trump's incendiary rhetoric, the potential for escalation is alarming. The advent of fabricated images and videos could present unprecedented national security threats.

Trump's Incendiary Rhetoric on January 6th
Trump's speech on January 6th was a clear incitement, as he urged his followers to "fight like hell" to "stop the steal," despite admitting DURING THE SPEECH that there was no evidence of the massive electoral fraud he claimed. As well as his lawyers laughable court “arguments.”
“...while there is no evidence to prove any wrongdoing…”
Npr.Org Read Trumps Jan 6 Speech
LawAndCrime Come On Now

This speech, coupled with his undermining of constitutional processes, underscores the risks and intentional deceit of his rhetoric. Too bad Republicans senators and our Supreme Court have either claimed he was above the law, or continue to postpone his court dates till after elections. A wild position when treason is on the table. Did that dude commit treason that claims he wants to become a dictator? I dunno, lets let him potentially get elected and then find out!

Elon Musk's Political Shift
Elon was once very much a leftist, unfortunately in more and more far left “activists” continue to attack him endlessly for not agreeing with them on their own singular issues and perspectives. To them I say congratulations, you successfully pushed the most powerful man on earth into the far right. Great job. Great job.
Elon Musk's journey from a liberal supporter to a figure embraced by the far right highlights the volatile nature of political affiliations in today's polarized environment. His actions since acquiring Twitter—such as promoting unfounded conspiracy theories and making high-profile firings—suggest a departure from his initial free speech advocacy.
Especially when considering he fired Don Lemon from his platform for an interview he found offensive. Canceling opinions you find offensive isn’t free speech, it’s literally the opposite. I’m sure many people were offended by the examples below. What about them?
Far Right Support Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

The Need for a Critical Approach
Supporters of Trump should critically evaluate why he did not pardon the January 6th insurrectionists during his term, despite using them as political leverage now. This pattern of using allies until they are no longer useful is evident throughout his political and personal dealings.
What better example could there possibly be as to what trump truly thinks of his supporters, how sacrificial he sees them as part of his endless narratives, then his refusal and failure to pardon January 6th insurrectionists while still in office?
Of course, anyone “just on the grass” or outside the building should only get a day in jail at most, however people that barged inside the capital should naturally get much more.
And while trump refused to pardon those people before, he now calls them “hostages” and is using them as political bait to a truly wild degree. It's very likely he will make good on this promise to further embolden the narrative that “Democrats are trying to take you down and only I can save you.”
His supporters need to seriously ask, “Why didn’t he pardon us before?”
Also, remember when he claimed he would pay legal fees for supporters that were violent at his rallies, but then seemed to falter and change his mind. Much like how Amber Heard donated her money, “by pledging it.”
List of allies he was quick to discard or dump. And let's face it, all of these people have done more for him than the average MAGA supporter. The only person he cares about is himself.
Trump claims that Mike Pence, the man he vetted more than anyone else, “has gone to the dark side.”
Trump seems to have supported the chants to “Hang Mike Pense,” at least in jest? We hope? There are also no links of him condemning them. Yet admittedly this one point doesn’t have hard evidence like a recording or video as far as I know, it certainly fits his brand.
Mike Flynn, a Trump appointee, later testifies against him.
Trump admits Flynn lied on his behalf, accidentally testifying against him, but does pardon him. As long as you’re colluding with Russia you’re ok it seems?

The Future Under Trump's Influence
Trump's rhetoric about overriding constitutional norms to address what he calls "massive fraud" hints at authoritarian aspirations. His praise for dictators and divisive language further aligns with dangerous historical precedents.
Important Articles:
“How a second trump term could end us democracy.” -commondreams
“Ask the expert: What a 2nd Trump term could mean for democracy and advancing policy.” - Msu Today
“Judgement Day” for political opponents.

To predict the future lets base it on known facts:
Apparently, he will help attack our constitution like he may have with the Twin Towers.
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
Stated he intended to be a Dictator on day one, but then promises it will be just for a day. Is that how that works? Or is it “Once you go Dictator you don’t go back?”
Praising dictators, referring to immigrants as vermin etc, akin to Hitlers rhetoric against “blood mixing.”
More fraudulent use of lawyers and courts that gets everyone else in trouble but him, with them arguing he's above the law. This further shows how much he will consistently use people for his own ends and then dump them when they're no longer of use.
Warning from republicans and notes on ass kissing. As well as being generally unfit for office.
If you want help from Trump you better kiss his ***
Trumps says he kept Omarosa just because she said nice things about him, while defaming her
DeSantis: "You can be the most worthless Republican in America, but if you kiss the ring, he’ll say you’re wonderful."
Thehill Trump Views People Who Kiss His A As Weak.
And if you dare to speak out against trump, you better kiss his ****
Politico Graham Breaks With Trump On Abortion
WashingtonPost Trump Graham Abortion
News Yahoo 30 More Republicans Denounce Donald Trump Unqualified President
Hot take, if he’s elected president America, and the world, is frankly fucked.

Predicting MAGA 2024 And Beyond
Naturally there are endless possibilities of what MAGA and dictators around the world decide to do this year and into the future. I believe that the one thing that insinuates when it's time for their next evil actions is dictated by their standings in the polls or when a fellow dictator needs a little more political pressure from war torn inflated oil prices etc.
Dictators Unite
While writing my thesis, I speculated that dictators globally were uniting, finding mutual benefits in their governance and deceitful tactics. This theory is increasingly recognized as these autocrats appear to be forming a coalition, undermining peaceful unity efforts through conspiracy theories to preserve their power.
Unherd How Autocrats Unite
The True Nature of MAGA
MAGA was never genuinely about speaking truth to power or restoring America's glory. It has been an elaborate scheme funded by immense wealth, perpetuating anti-American sentiments through fabricated grassroots movements by domestic and foreign actors. This movement has primarily enriched a select few power-hungry dictators and may have been responsible for some of our most horrific moments in history in the past and acts yet to come.
Trump and MAGA
While 'MAGA' predates Trump, he conveniently stepped into a role long in the making. Despite occasional deviations from the MAGA ideology, such as promoting vaccines to emphatic boos, Trump has largely embodied its principles. The real architects of MAGA, however, are likely disillusioned with his unpredictable attacks, which contradict their broader agenda of absolute power.
Nbc News Donald Trump Booed
Trump as a Martyr
Regardless of election outcomes, Trump is poised to claim interference. His rhetoric and the devout belief of his followers in his divine anointment could lead to his martyrdom, especially given his age and the vulnerabilities it brings. This martyrdom could solidify his legacy while serving the interests of MAGA strategists who find him increasingly burdensome even if he “wins.”
Factcheck Trumps Bogus Voter Fraud Claims
La Times Trump Democrats Effort Presidential Ballot

u/neodestiny and friends.
For the sake of transparency, I am not the architect of the following discoveries, and am just helping to forward their message and clean it up. Copywrite of the following work belongs to no one and everyone is not only welcome to share these findings as if they were their own, but openly encouraged to do so.
Introduction
If you think you know anything about MAGA. Trust me, you know nothing. Not even his most devout followers or haters will have considered the following. And for the sake of our democracy and way of life, I hope people read this.
This work may very well help to shift the narrative on Trump in a meaningful and foundational way, but I don't want this work exacerbate any feelings of ill will to MAGA members, for they have been prey to possibly one of the largest con jobs our world has ever seen, especially without the help of this counternarrative.
Snippet From My Thesis On MAGA
As I work on tidying up the master file with the helpful dms I got, allow me to post just the most contentious part of it below, now that it’s able to stand on its own.
MAGA didn’t begin in 2015. I argue it began in 2001 on 9/11, while also harnessing and funneling decades of anti-government resentment till many Americans would openly call for a “wrecking ball” figure to help “drain the swamp.”

A Key Fueling Factor To American Outrage- Inflation
Many elements contributed to growing American anger that would later contribute to MAGA, this is a snippet from the larger work.
Rising Cost of Living
o In 1950, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 24.1. By 2000, it had risen to 168 (a 597% increase), and by 2023, it had reached 304.7, a 1163% increase from 1950.
o Housing prices saw a drastic rise overtime, with the median home price increasing from $7,354 in 1950 to $388,700 in 2023, a staggering 5185% increase.
o While rising rent costs can contribute to overall inflation and cost of living, even the left has largely failed to address how exponentially increasing real estate prices impact the cost of living. This omission has made many other conspiracy theories seem more plausible in its wake.
o If we don’t find real solutions for real estate that also aren’t extreme, then society will feel more and more pressure to accept “unreasonable solutions” like Trump, even though he’s the last person on earth who could solve it, considering his business acumen and history.
MAGA Dynamics and Blind Devotion
In 2016, it wasn't just the left calling the MAGA movement a cult. Trump famously said, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." Even the left failed to grasp the gravity of this statement. As someone who nearly died in a deadly cult and based on my research, I don't know of a single cult where the founder could openly commit murder without losing members. Trump didn't just believe he'd created one of the largest cults ever; he believed he'd created the most fanatical. Let's hope his followers prove him wrong by showing a willingness to criticize him, regardless of their vote.

The MAGA Question
Instead of challenging MAGA supporters on fallacious beliefs, ask them this question to see if they’re at least able to see a world where Trump isn’t a biblical King: "If Trump admitted he was behind 9/11 and used resulting insurance money and donations from hostile governments to create false “grass root” campaigns. And did it all in a way to make it seem like others committed his own atrocities. And that he intended to destroy America in every way if he got elected, would you still vote for him?"

Yet even then, getting through to a MAGA supporter inevitably refers to 9/11 “research” out there when they realize individual positions are usually fallacious. This quagmire me decide to investigate this tragedy, to see if there was a more plausible counter theory. Honestly, the more I looked the more surprised I became. Here are my findings that are but a snippet of my full thesis on MAGA.

9/11 Conspiracy Theories and MAGA
Conspiracy Theories and Credibility:
o First off, conspiracy theories should involve some effort to verify narratives, rather than just repeating claims across multiple sources that mistake themselves as evidence; like a bunch of people who repeat “bob farted” across multiple websites may see that as evidence, when in fact, it was Sean. Sorry Sean.

Early Origins of MAGA:
o Although some believe MAGA began in 2015, its roots lie as early as the 1980s with Rush Limbaugh and later became "serious" on 9/11.
o 9/11 conspiracy theories claim controlled demolitions were used, but the lack of any cellphone recordings of explosions weakens this theory.

Suspicious Factors:
o The official narrative involving chaotic jet fuel leading to a straight fall seemed questionable.
o The collapse of a third building (WTC 7), which wasn’t directly hit, fueled suspicions.
o Airline stocks were heavily shorted before the attacks, raising concerns about insider trading. Harvey Pitt, Republican SEC Chairman at the time, investigated this and claimed there was nothing amiss, but was criticized for later crimes and forced to resign.
o It’s also suspicious that in Trumps 2000 book “The America We Deserve” that he stated, “I really am convinced we’re in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the [1993] bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers. No sensible analyst rejects this possibility, and plenty of them, like me, are not wondering if but when it will happen*.”*
§ Yet democrats would largely miss this point entirely and obsess over his false claim that he called for Bin Laden to be killed, when he had not. Somehow conspiracy theorists would find this ‘cool’ rather than suspicious.
CNN Fact Check Donald Trump Osama Bin Laden Book Claim

Reports and Simplified Narratives:
o FEMA's 2002 report and NIST's 2005 report provided technical explanations of the tower collapses.
o However, the Port Authority Chairman stuck to the oversimplified narrative that "jet fuel melted steel beams," even though he knew this was a half-truth, as detailed in the next section, fueling anti-government conspiracies. The question is why.

Potential Impact:
o 9/11 conspiracy theories sowed distrust in the government, which may have been one of the attackers' objectives. Anyone that heavily profited from this tragedy, and helped further those objects, should be questioned.
o The ‘Loose Change’ “documentary” pointed out suspicious parts of the story, but failed to give any clear claims as to who was purportedly behind it. It also failed to note the Twin Towers titanic design flaw that could result in a straight fall. Even the 2015 version of this film fails to mention nearly all of the known facts in this report.
o The Director of that film later states:
“I DON’T THINK WE’D HAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP IF IT WEREN’T FOR 9/11”
“9/11 created a culture of fear, of xenophobia, this sense of entitlement and everything we’ve seen. Warrantless wire-tapping, Guantanamo Bay, everything that’s happened led us to this point, we wouldn’t be here without 9/11. They want to kick out all the Mexicans and Muslims because of this culture of fear and bigotry and xenophobia that directly led to the election of fucking Donald Trump. [laughing] That’s our world now! We had Reagan before, and Governor Schwarzenegger. But President Donald Trump? It’s just weird. Everything is just weird.”
Theoutline Reflecting On Loose Change
o While the director was in the right to ask questions, he failed to ask the most obvious ones.
o However, his lead “researcher,” Jason Bermas, would turn out to be a full blown MAGA wingnut.
Patriot Jason Bermas
o Anyone that would benefit politically and financially from 9/11 should be fully investigated.
Further Reading:
Harvey Pitt - Wikipedia
Politifact How 911 Attacks Helped Shape Modern Misinformation
It will never be possible to defeat MAGA followers “logically” with people who believed his parties rhetoric “that 9/11 was an inside job.”

I say… what if those Republican leaders were self reporting?
What if Trump followers have been rallying behind the very man responsible for its orchestration?

The Twin Towers and Larry Silverstein
Architectural Pitfalls of the Twin Towers:
· The Twin Towers had unique architectural flaws due to the excessive heavy load on their exoskeletons to allow for more floor and leasing space, which greatly contributed to their straight collapse after the 9/11 attacks. This was the first and last skyscraper made in this way.
· For anyone who said that “any other building would have fallen sideways,” you were right, though perhaps not entirely how you may have imagined. A "Coke Can" analogy shows how a similar weakened structure can result in a straight fall, contrary to conspiracy theories claiming controlled demolitions. This isn't something I'm asking you to take for granted, or to read from media sources you don’t trust. This is something you can verify on your own, in person, in real time, in reality.
· However Trump, despite being close friends with Silverstein as we’ll cover later, claimed "It wasn’t architectural defects, you know, the World Trade Center was always known as a very, very strong building” per the attached PolitiFact article.
· Supporting Article:
Engineering Experts Explain the Collapse of the Twin Towers
Politifact Donald Trumps 911 Speculation

Larry Silverstein, The Leasor Of The Twin Towers:
· Nearly went bankrupt after losing his main tenant Drexel Burnham in 1980 after he built tower 7 with him in mind.
· I don't know how many of us understand the level of desperation a situation like this can cause in someone and how many potential crimes it can easily push them towards.
· He is known for then saying, “…looking up at the twin towers and thinking, my building is huge, but it is made diminutive by the twin towers. So I said to myself, wouldn't it be incredible someday to own those?" That's not the statement of a sane person who nearly went bankrupt, and if anything, hints towards jealousy.
· He managed to secure Salomon Brothers two years later, which later paid $300 million in securities fraud penalties casting suspicion over the entities who saved Silverstein, in addition to their overall plans for the future.
· How he would become able to outbid everyone else in 2001, for the right to lease the twin towers, would become a mystery we will untangle later.
Further Reading
Manhattan Institute – Silverstein On Ground Zero
Justice Department: Salomon Brothers Securities Fraud

Trump and Real Estate Connections
Historical Context and Redevelopment Plans:
· A redevelopment plan commenced in the 1990s by Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani, spurred a commercial revival in downtown Manhattan, making the World Trade Center prime property. Pataki would go on to criticize trump, while the other would prove to be one of this wildest, if not craziest, supporters to truly fanatical degrees.
Further Reading:
Manhattan Institute: Rebuilding Ground Zero
· Tom Leppert was the CEO of Turner construction which right wing conspiracy theorists claimed helped ensure the towers would fall straight down. He also became part of Trumps transition team. While there’s no evidence of explosives being used, tampering with the exoskeleton and weaking the relatively thin central column ahead of time are theoretically plausible.
Huffpost Donald Trump Transition Team
Wikipedia Tom Leppert

The bidding for the World Trade Center lease involved only a few major real estate firms as allowed by the Port Authority Chairman. Below are the allowed bidders and their estimated worth at the time included:

· Donald J. Trump’s Organization:
o Worth around $1.5 billion in 1996 after multiple bankruptcies. Confirmed only by Forbes magazine in 2005.
· Tishman Speyer:
o Valued at approximately $1.8 billion in 2000, would soon face ‘tenant issues’ with many scrupulous legal claims against them.
· Gale & Wentworth:
o Worth a few million.
· Mortimer Zuckerman’s Boston Properties:
o Mortimer Zuckerman alone was worth around $2 billion.
· The Rouse Company:
o Mainly a shopping mall operator.
· Brookfield Properties:
o A Canadian firm valued at over $20 billion in 2000.
· Vornado Realty Trust:
o Worth an estimated $2-3 billion. Had the highest bid, but was unexpectedly outed by the Port Authority Chairman, paving the way for Silverstein’s win. CEO of Vornado Trust, Steven Roth would later do many deals with Trump in 2005 and beyond.
· Larry Silverstein:
o As mentioned, was nearly bankrupt in the 1980s, and was mysteriously awarded the right to lease the World Trade Center contract at $3.2 billion, twice the original asking price of 1.2 Billion. It would still be owned by the Port authority of NY and NJ, he would just own the rights to lease it.
o Port Authority Chairman, Lewis Eisenberg, made this unexplained decision, who also later became Trumps lead fundraiser in 2015.
o After putting down only $125 million, as per the contract, Silverstein would be getting back $100 million just 6 weeks after his bid and with an uncommon terrorist insurance addition. His exaggerated bid and insurance contract would also greatly inflate the amount of money he could get from an insurance claim. If the winning bid was 1.5 billion, the insurance payout would also have been much less.
o In real estate, its quite rare for a prudent investor to bid twice the asking price, as demonstrated by the other companies that backed out, of which I find no connections to Trump.
o If anyone had known about 9/11 ahead of time, like Trump claims he did, it would become drastically easier to outbid all competitors, knowing that for pennies on the dollar, you would be getting much more back.

Further Reading:
NY Times Article on World Trade Center Deal
Wikipedia on Lewis Eisenberg
Patch On Lew Eisenberg Leading Trump Fundraising
NY Times Article Silverstein Gets Most Of His Money Back

Giuliani’s Gangster Acts
Arguably, if the above points are what they objectively appear to be, that would be a bad thing. You’d think that would be enough. However, Guliani would say “hold my beer’ to those sentiments.

1. Outdated Equipment for First Responders:
· Due to Giuliani’s inadequate leadership, first responders used old equipment that failed to warn them to evacuate the towers. Which contributed to their deaths while they searched for survivors.
NY Times Article: Giuliani’s Preparedness on 9/11
2. Obstructed Recovery Efforts:
· Giuliani delayed proper search and rescue operations for days, possibly costing lives of citizens and first responders who didn’t know they needed to leave.
· 20 Years later he would claim that some of Bidens actions were so reckless that… “It would be as if I got down to ground zero and said take out the firefighters, all you civilians see if you can get yourselves out.” Self report?
NBC News Report: Giuliani’s Role in Recovery
NY1: Giuliani Reflects on 9/11 Anniversary
3. Twin Towers Fund and Privatization:
· Giuliani privatized the Twin Towers relief funds, making them unauditable.
NY Times Article on Privatization
NY Post Article: Giuliani and Twin Towers Fund
4. Survivors Threaten To SUE Guliani For Relief Funds
· Even after privatizing the twin towers fund, Giuliani would make it incredibly difficult for the victims to receive their fair share. Requiring many of them to spend unnecessary money on advisors and consultants.
· Even with their legal pressure, he only agreed to “give the remaining 100 million to victims,” out of 170 million, if he could first put the money into the bank account of a charity in which he controlled.
· From the attached article: “But Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, said that he remained adamantly opposed to any transfer of funds to Mr. Giuliani's charity.
He also objected to Mr. Giuliani's continued control over even the $15 million in his private charity. Mr. Giuliani, he charged, gives every indication of using the Twin Towers Fund to maintain a staff of loyal supporters and to advance his political aspirations.
'The concern that politics will infiltrate the fund becomes even more apparent when one reviews the list of the mayor's former political appointees who are assuming senior staff positions or serving on the fund's board of directors,'' he wrote in a letter on Monday to Eliot L. Spitzer, the state attorney general.”
NY Times Article On Guliani Pressed To Disperse Twin Tower Funds
· However, there is no evidence of Giuliani making good on this promise.
· There are honestly no words for this. All associates of Guliani should be investigated.
5. Attempted Election Cancellation in 2001:
· Giuliani tried to cancel the 2001 election to stay mayor longer. He even considered removing term limits with Governor Pataki’s support. Similar to how Trump has “joked” about increasing his own term limits.
Business Insider: Giuliani and Pataki’s Attempt to Cancel Elections
Esquire Trump Joke Third Term
6. Motive
· In 2000, Guliani unfortunately got prostate cancer. We have to be willing to ask if this was a motive for his corrupt acts.
SurvivorNet: Giuliani’s Cancer


Silverstein’s Unscrupulous Greed
1. Initial Settlement Demands and Profit Claims:
· Despite only having been out for $25 million, Silverstein initially sought nearly $8 BILLION in insurance settlements and argued for "loss of revenue from those buildings," which is quite an uncompassionate claim considering how many lost their lives. Talk about a prime example of the working and lower classes making sacrifices while rich elites complain they didn’t profit enough from the same tragedy.
2. Rebuilding Contributions and Insurance Payout:
· Despite the fact that he only owned the leasing rights to the twin towers, ‘Silverstein Properties’ received up to $4 billion from insurance payouts, instead of the Port Authority, which would be customary as the owner.
· While it's assumed that most of that money went to rebuilding, this isn't actually known or proven. It would be different if he had a separate insurance policy that was not connected to the rebuilding of the towers, with different monies going to the Port Authority to rebuild. This was not the case.
History.com: Rebuilding of Ground Zero
· He additionally refused to return the rights of Building 1 to the Port Authority until he secured additional funds from an $8 billion state fund. Talk about heartless.
Wikipedia: Larry Silverstein
· Various entities would contribute a total of $20 billion to rebuild all six damaged or destroyed towers, including four towers leased by Silverstein and two others he hadn't. This makes it unlikely that he had to go out of pocket with his 4 Billion.
3. Estimated Net Worth:
· While earlier records of Silverstein's net worth are unavailable, aside from his near bankruptcy in 1980, he is currently estimated to be worth around $1 billion.
Forbes Profile: Larry Silverstein

Silverstein’s Controversial Alignment with Trump
Larry Silverstein's connections and public persona have often been scrutinized. This scrutiny became particularly relevant in 2015 when he publicly displayed his support for Donald Trump:

• Long-standing Relationship: Silverstein revealed a 30-year-long acquaintance with Trump, emphasizing the depth of their connection. This means his relationship started in 1985, roughly two years after gaining a powerful criminal organization as a tenant in his tower 7, that saved him from bankruptcy, and 6 years before Trumps first, of many, bankruptcies. This also means they knew each other before 9/11.
• Supportive Yet Vague: He commended Trump for diligently pursuing what he believed to be right, echoing Trump's own ambiguous rhetoric. When pressed about the righteousness of Trump’s goals, Silverstein ambiguously responded, "well, it’s... you know... we’ll find out." This mirrors Trump’s evasive " Well, we're going to have to see what happens" stance, when questioned about committing to a peaceful transfer of power prior to January 6th—an event that ultimately unfolded with violence and chaos.
• Early Endorsement: By voicing his support when Trump announced his presidential campaign, Silverstein positioned himself as one of the early prominent figures in the MAGA movement.

Watch Silverstein Discuss Trump
CNN Trump On 2020 Election

The Man Who Boasted
When most people witness a tragedy, especially of this size, it takes time for their brains to comprehend what happened, it takes even more time to process it. Thus, anyone who was able to brag about their own assets hours after this tragedy on a radio show, is at least worthy of Investigation, especially if this very event helped reshape a misinformation landscape in which he would thrive as its King.
Politifact – How 911 Attacks Helped Shape Modern Misinformation

· Insensitive Boasts About Building Height:
o Trump also boasted that with the fall of the Twin Towers, his building became the tallest in Manhattan—an inaccurate and insensitive claim given the context.
Independent 9 11 Trump Tallest Building
· Early Claims and Revisions:
o Shortly after 9/11, Donald Trump claimed he saw the second plane hit the towers from his Manhattan apartment. He also made an unfounded claim that he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering, a statement that has been widely debunked. Despite varying explanations and suggesting that he saw it on an untraceable video that was “widely covered,” these claims helped fueled significant conspiracy theories. If anything, this was a self-report.
o Snopes: Trump Claims Muslims Cheered
o FactCheck.org: Trump’s Revised 9/11 Claim
· Visit to Ground Zero:
o A week after the attacks, Trump visited Ground Zero and stated that although he was present, he wouldn’t consider himself a first responder. This attempt at humility struck many as morbidly insensitive, considering the true heroism displayed by actual first responders.
ABC News: Trump Shares New Details About Morning of 9/11

Legacy of Suspicion:
These actions paint Trump as one of the more suspicious figures post-9/11, who may have used the tragedy for personal and political gain. His connections with figures like Larry Silverstein and Lewis Eisenberg, the Port Authority chairman, hint at deep financial interests potentially influenced by the 9/11 aftermath. Meanwhile, survivors and first responders faced challenges in securing support, highlighting the disparities between their experiences and the political maneuvers at play. Again morbidly juxtaposing the struggles of the poor and working class versus elite swamp members such as Trump and his ilk.

While being, arguably, one of the more suspicious Americans of potentially “being an insider," Trump would go on to cast doubt everywhere else with his new holier than thou rhetoric and hints and claims that “it was an inside job” for the next 15 years.

What if he was speaking from personal experience.

The Deepfake Dilemma
Now in a world where Trump's followers already discount reality, the emergence of AI-generated deepfakes threatens to further distort the truth. This technology could transform legal standards of evidence, making it easy to dismiss genuine evidence against the right as fabricated, while baseless accusations against the left might be accepted as the long-awaited proof.

The Potential Escalation of MAGA Actions
Given the willingness of MAGA supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6th, bolstered by Trump's incendiary rhetoric, the potential for escalation is alarming. The advent of fabricated images and videos could present unprecedented national security threats.

Trump's Incendiary Rhetoric on January 6th
Trump's speech on January 6th was a clear incitement, as he urged his followers to "fight like hell" to "stop the steal," despite admitting DURING THE SPEECH that there was no evidence of the massive electoral fraud he claimed. As well as his lawyers laughable court “arguments.”
“...while there is no evidence to prove any wrongdoing…”
Npr.Org Read Trumps Jan 6 Speech
LawAndCrime Come On Now

This speech, coupled with his undermining of constitutional processes, underscores the risks and intentional deceit of his rhetoric. Too bad Republicans senators and our Supreme Court have either claimed he was above the law, or continue to postpone his court dates till after elections. A wild position when treason is on the table. Did that dude commit treason that claims he wants to become a dictator? I dunno, lets let him potentially get elected and then find out!

Elon Musk's Political Shift
Elon was once very much a leftist, unfortunately in more and more far left “activists” continue to attack him endlessly for not agreeing with them on their own singular issues and perspectives. To them I say congratulations, you successfully pushed the most powerful man on earth into the far right. Great job. Great job.
Elon Musk's journey from a liberal supporter to a figure embraced by the far right highlights the volatile nature of political affiliations in today's polarized environment. His actions since acquiring Twitter—such as promoting unfounded conspiracy theories and making high-profile firings—suggest a departure from his initial free speech advocacy.
Especially when considering he fired Don Lemon from his platform for an interview he found offensive. Canceling opinions you find offensive isn’t free speech, it’s literally the opposite. I’m sure many people were offended by the examples below. What about them?
Far Right Support Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

The Need for a Critical Approach
Supporters of Trump should critically evaluate why he did not pardon the January 6th insurrectionists during his term, despite using them as political leverage now. This pattern of using allies until they are no longer useful is evident throughout his political and personal dealings.
What better example could there possibly be as to what trump truly thinks of his supporters, how sacrificial he sees them as part of his endless narratives, then his refusal and failure to pardon January 6th insurrectionists while still in office?
Of course, anyone “just on the grass” or outside the building should only get a day in jail at most, however people that barged inside the capital should naturally get much more.
And while trump refused to pardon those people before, he now calls them “hostages” and is using them as political bait to a truly wild degree. It's very likely he will make good on this promise to further embolden the narrative that “Democrats are trying to take you down and only I can save you.”
His supporters need to seriously ask, “Why didn’t he pardon us before?”
Also, remember when he claimed he would pay legal fees for supporters that were violent at his rallies, but then seemed to falter and change his mind. Much like how Amber Heard donated her money, “by pledging it.”
List of allies he was quick to discard or dump. And let's face it, all of these people have done more for him than the average MAGA supporter. The only person he cares about is himself.
Trump claims that Mike Pence, the man he vetted more than anyone else, “has gone to the dark side.”
Trump seems to have supported the chants to “Hang Mike Pense,” at least in jest? We hope? There are also no links of him condemning them. Yet admittedly this one point doesn’t have hard evidence like a recording or video as far as I know, it certainly fits his brand.
Mike Flynn, a Trump appointee, later testifies against him.
Trump admits Flynn lied on his behalf, accidentally testifying against him, but does pardon him. As long as you’re colluding with Russia you’re ok it seems?

The Future Under Trump's Influence
Trump's rhetoric about overriding constitutional norms to address what he calls "massive fraud" hints at authoritarian aspirations. His praise for dictators and divisive language further aligns with dangerous historical precedents.
Important Articles:
“How a second trump term could end us democracy.” -commondreams
“Ask the expert: What a 2nd Trump term could mean for democracy and advancing policy.” - Msu Today
“Judgement Day” for political opponents.

To predict the future lets base it on known facts:
Apparently, he will help attack our constitution like he may have with the Twin Towers.
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
Stated he intended to be a Dictator on day one, but then promises it will be just for a day. Is that how that works? Or is it “Once you go Dictator you don’t go back?”
Praising dictators, referring to immigrants as vermin etc, akin to Hitlers rhetoric against “blood mixing.”
More fraudulent use of lawyers and courts that gets everyone else in trouble but him, with them arguing he's above the law. This further shows how much he will consistently use people for his own ends and then dump them when they're no longer of use.
Warning from republicans and notes on ass kissing. As well as being generally unfit for office.
If you want help from Trump you better kiss his ***
Trumps says he kept Omarosa just because she said nice things about him, while defaming her
DeSantis: "You can be the most worthless Republican in America, but if you kiss the ring, he’ll say you’re wonderful."
Thehill Trump Views People Who Kiss His A As Weak.
And if you dare to speak out against trump, you better kiss his ****
Politico Graham Breaks With Trump On Abortion
WashingtonPost Trump Graham Abortion
News Yahoo 30 More Republicans Denounce Donald Trump Unqualified President
Hot take, if he’s elected president America, and the world, is frankly fucked.

Predicting MAGA 2024 And Beyond
Naturally there are endless possibilities of what MAGA and dictators around the world decide to do this year and into the future. I believe that the one thing that insinuates when it's time for their next evil actions is dictated by their standings in the polls or when a fellow dictator needs a little more political pressure from war torn inflated oil prices etc.
Dictators Unite
While writing my thesis, I speculated that dictators globally were uniting, finding mutual benefits in their governance and deceitful tactics. This theory is increasingly recognized as these autocrats appear to be forming a coalition, undermining peaceful unity efforts through conspiracy theories to preserve their power.
Unherd How Autocrats Unite
The True Nature of MAGA
MAGA was never genuinely about speaking truth to power or restoring America's glory. It has been an elaborate scheme funded by immense wealth, perpetuating anti-American sentiments through fabricated grassroots movements by domestic and foreign actors. This movement has primarily enriched a select few power-hungry dictators and may have been responsible for some of our most horrific moments in history in the past and acts yet to come.
Trump and MAGA
While 'MAGA' predates Trump, he conveniently stepped into a role long in the making. Despite occasional deviations from the MAGA ideology, such as promoting vaccines to emphatic boos, Trump has largely embodied its principles. The real architects of MAGA, however, are likely disillusioned with his unpredictable attacks, which contradict their broader agenda of absolute power.
Nbc News Donald Trump Booed
Trump as a Martyr
Regardless of election outcomes, Trump is poised to claim interference. His rhetoric and the devout belief of his followers in his divine anointment could lead to his martyrdom, especially given his age and the vulnerabilities it brings. This martyrdom could solidify his legacy while serving the interests of MAGA strategists who find him increasingly burdensome even if he “wins.”
Factcheck Trumps Bogus Voter Fraud Claims
La Times Trump Democrats Effort Presidential Ballot

Preamble:

I ranked subjects on universal usability, so if they have a very important role in one mode or gameplay style but are borderline unusable in the rest, they can still have a decent ranking. This is all my opinion, and I'd like to hear yours since there are several things on this list that I'm contentious on, and despite having completed this game I still have a decent bit to learn.

Ranking:

D Tier

1. Dagger - Infinite range is no longer unique to Miriam and Soul Vision was mega buffed, eliminating the competition.
   
2. Hand Grenade - Has almost zero use cases. Just barely edges out Dagger in terms of WP/dmg efficiency but gets swamped by everything else. Too expensive to be a regular weapon and too weak to be a DPS powerhouse.
   

C Tier

1. Partisan - Easily the best coverage of any upwards style sub, but otherwise very underwhelming. Hitting with one partisan does less than 1 damage per WP, and hitting with both does less than 2. It's best unique use is blocking Gremory's orbs in a solo run due to it's infinite pierce, but Drake Cannon can do that, too. Otherwise, it can come in clutch for hitting important targets high up, but almost every other character has a subweapon that does the same thing but cheaper, faster, and stronger.

C+ Tier

1. Impact Lance - Has only a few use cases throughout the entire game, but is very good when those use cases occur. One is to skip the vertical platforming sections in level 8 during the locusts swarms on episode 1 and solo runs. Another few are the final bosses in episodes 1/solo, and the final episode. She can use it during both fights to get above the bosses final phases and pogo on them for a long time. The flaws include it's bad hitbox, slow speed, and liability against the bosses as both have attacks that will knock her off them and deal major damage. The shortcuts it can take are nice but are far from exclusive to Dominique (Robert can canon-jump, Alfred can create platforms from frozen entities, and Gebel can fly)
   
2. Ball and Chain - This is where weapons start to get genuinely good. The larger screens in the game mean the formerly good-enough range on this weapon doesn't quite cut it anymore, and while it has good raw power and decent efficiency, it's pretty slow and precise for what it does. The real crux of this weapon is the fact it takes up space for other sub weapons for Zangetsu, who (unlike other characters) has other sub weapons that are so good they completely outclass this one even considering it's unique function. Also it's completely worthless on Ultimate Zangetsu unlike his other subs.
   
3. Rising Wind - This weapon is incredibly strange to rank. It's not bad by any means - fundamentally it's actually pretty amazing. It's efficient, cheap, powerful, and has almost screen wide range. However, being somewhat slow, inaccurate, and lacking coverage aren't it's biggest problem's (although they are considerable) - it's competition. It is HARD outclassed by other options on Dominique - not just other sub weapons, but her regular attacks. Someone like Zangetsu or Alfred would potentially give up one of their existing subs for that, but Dominique has anti-air combat baked into her character due to her upward stabs. It's not a spot Dominique can afford to waste, either due to her other amazing subs.
   
4. Electro Crawler - Completely annihilates the ending of stage 6 (one of the hardest parts of the game if left uncountered) and chunks bosses above her, but like impact lance is a little too situational and outclassed by her default kit. Is incredible for a solo run, but ranges from great to useless everywhere else.
   
5. Sickle - Unlike Daggers, this is a piercing weapon with half-decent power, especially on multi-hit. Its pseudo-infinite range blends well with its piece as it can cut through projectiles like archer barrages and ninja shurikens, allowing Miriam to either camp back and keep throwing or kite the projectiles to finish the enemy off herself. Its main issue is raw efficiency and consistency - If it only hits once (which isn't uncommon due to the necessity to use it defensively from fullscreen as it's too slow to use up close) it's incredibly inefficient with its WP/dmg ratio, especially if you can't catch it on return. That, combined with its overall middling power and lack of any solo shortcut usage keeps it from being any higher.
   
6. Explosive Chain - It's a small boost to Ball and Chain, but it makes a world of difference. It's efficiency is definitely higher up on the list of weapons but again it's outclassed not just by other options but the possibility of Ultimate Zangetsu's charge slash (or even the ever-presence of helm splitter in Soul Eraser and Daizangetsuto runs). The extra range allows it to hit enemies it couldn't before (both with and without jumping) but it still retains the slowness. Like Dominique, it's also a sub-slot on a character that absolutely can not afford to waste it.
   
7. Soul Vision - The arguable best sub weapon for Solo Alfred runs - completely useless everywhere else. It increases range, it's safe on usage, it increases DPS, enemies will target it instead of Alfred, it can collect multiple power ups (which are absolutely essential for solo Alfred runs), and it makes you use your normal attack which regenerates WP, making it essentially free. It absolutely carries Alfred solo runs - but that alone doesn't warrant a higher placement.
   

B Tier

1. Healing Fruit - Inefficient for what it is, but what it is (is) incredible. It's best used for focusing on a single, essential character's health regeneration as focusing on multiple is too expensive. It can also be used in both normal and solo runs as a pogo-boost as the fruit is bounce-able for a short moment after spawning, allowing for certain power ups to be acquired. Very good.
   
2. Demon Essence - Does great damage boosting on paper, but the only things it would be useful on are big enemies (which will die before the damage boost really cumulates) or bosses (which won't stay still/vulnerable long enough to allow for several melee attacks anyway). Also much worse on anybody that isn't Zangetsu since they attack so slow that it won't get the chance to rack up damage.
   
3. Rapier - The best upwards focused sub weapon in my opinion. It has the coverage of Robert, the cheapness and power of Zangetsu, and the speed of Dominique. It can create just enough room to walk at the end of stage 6 and has enough range to kill all of the heads on the wall of boss 6 in a single throw - do it twice (which costs nothing due to the WP drops) and the boss is toast. That's not to mention it's so fast and powerful (if all 3 daggers hit) that it's essentially a superior main DPS option to any normal attack by any normal character.
   
4. Axe - It was the undisputed second (arguably first) best subweapon in the first game, but it doesn't hold up as well this time around. Not only was it nerfed in damage, but the environment of this game is a lot less friendly to it. Bosses have a lot more health so using it as your primary DPS is too expensive to one-cycle, and it's now outclassed by Drake Canon for that role against things like the 5th Boss. Good news is that she can unlock Hachi exclusive shortcuts since it pierces armor, and it (+ frostcalibur) is still arguably the second best way to beat bosses despite the nerfs, so it's still very powerful. Voltaic Ray absolutely outclasses it even with frostcalibur.
   
5. Magic Charm - The second most efficient sub in the entire game. Does great damage, puts enemies in hitlag, and even blocks low projectiles. It's slow and has pitiful range on the ground, but is overall strong nonetheless.
   

A Tier

1. Drake Canon - Slaughters boss 5, slaughters every normal enemy (besides stage 7 mechs, but those die in 1-2 hits afterwards), is decent burst DPS against every boss besides 6, and can even be used as a second mid-air jump. That last part sounds innocuous, but can allow for multiple powers the be acquired that some other characters can't get, and is essential for Solo mode. Plus, it can allow for shortcuts to be taken that Robert and other characters aren't supposed to be able to access, and it can even theoretically clutch up as a last-resort double jump if you mess up platforming.
   
2. Void Charm - Essentially a catch-all subweapon. It's only weakness (although it is a massive one) is that every route's final boss is basically immune to it. Every enemy and most other bosses dread it, however.
   
3. Frostcalibur - Kills every unarmored enemy in one hit, can stunlock bosses to death with Axe, and can be used for platforming with sickle. It's heavily reliant on Drake Canon or Axe to beat bosses and is almost useless in a solo run, so it's too limited and situational for S Tier.
   

S Tier

1. Devil Essence - Zangetsu's jump attack becomes the best source of targeted, inexpensive DPS in the game. It's only limit is it's range making it dangerous to use against bosses like Gremory and Beelzebub, and the fact you need to keep using it instead of having a one and done attack, but it's practically nuclear otherwise.
   
2. Rapid Scarf - Beats almost every boss (besides the final one in the final episode and the 5th one), beats every normal enemy, and is less expensive than Drake Cannon despite hitting harder. Also unlimited range ftw.
   
3. Resurrection Anthem - It can heal up to 56 HP and revive 6 characters if used correctly. It also costs 0 WP and essentially gives you as many as 6 more tries on any boss. It's slow, rare, and is almost useless on a solo run, but otherwise gamebreaking. If it could be used more than once, even if it cost ALL of your WP, it would be the best in the game. It's a lot weaker on legendary difficulty since you can't lose a single character, but if you spread your damage across everyone it still has a good use case.
   
4. Flame Sphere - It's damage was nuked into the ground but it's utility remains intact. There's at least two or three ssections in every stage that become cakewalks with this, and legendary mode ghosts are a nightmare without it. It's a little expensive but still FAR more affordable over time than Invincible Iron. Both the Sarcophagus Boss and Gremory are also hard countered by this subweapon, to the point where this dude (https://youtu.be/u8-4aTJuJS8?si=yPkBHkfn55OmQbhJ&t=87m) beat Gremory with Solo Alfred, the worst solo character, in ONE TRY. Just have someone to handle other bosses and the game is essentially won. Outside solo runs it's absolutely game breaking. (Edit: I counted, and assuming we count clones as separate enemies since they appear in different stages and have slightly different behaviors, there are over SEVENTY enemies and hazards that Alfred checks, counters, or is straight up immune to with this, not even counting things like the boulders and possibly tail lasers [I need to test] from boss 5, the fire rain from boss 3, the ice spikes and enemy spawns from boss 4, the slam gas/projectiles/enemy spawners, from boss 2, the everything of boss 6, and Gremory's f$&#+ orbs.)
   

SS Tier

1. Immortal Metamorphosis - Skips every platforming section. Also gets ~80% of all upgrades by itself. It's only limit is that Flame Wheel in acquirable in every run that Gebel is except solo, but that doesn't heal it's user, bypass strong enemies, and sometimes cheat death on hit, so this is still viable. Extremely niche in boss rush, but almost imperative everywhere else.
   
2. Voltaic Ray - Skips every boss (outside solo runs), and bosses are (IMO) the hardest part of this game.
   
3. Invincible Iron - Skips every platforming section AND boss!
   

Characters Ranked

C Tier

1. Base Zangetsu - He can't collect a single power up on his own, he can't heal, he can't skip platforming sections, he doesn't have the good boss killers, his DPS options aren't always viable to use and are outclassed, his range is bad, he doesn't get bonus WP like Alfred, Gebel, or Hachi, and he doesn't have any platforming advantages or even good range, regardless of subweapon. He has solid fundamentals, but he's outclassed everywhere else.
   
2. Robert - He's cool AF, but he literally doesn't have a single unique-to-him upgrade, and actually misses out on a lot of secrets (health and point bags) because he can't break walls. His range is amazing, but his damage and subweapon costs (minus the Scarf, and possibly Drake Cannon for upgrades) are the worst in the game. He's pretty good all around even in solo mode, but he's an honest character in a game where boss nukes, flight, invulnerability, and mass revival are things. An honest character in a dishonest game.
   

B Tier (interchangeable)

7/6. Upgraded Zangetsu - He's a walking nuke, and really hard to rank since he's the only character without anything resembling a solo mode dedicated to him (since the final episode and/or legendary difficulty sort of count for Ultimate Zangetsu). I feel he's still held back by his lack of versatility and upgrades, but he'd be A Tier if he could collect any of them. He hits harder than any other character (that isn't a secret bonus), but still has a hard time with things like platforming and bosses like stage 6's, episode 1's finale, the normal final episode final boss, and Gremory's hard version. He's the opposite of characters like Miram, Hachi, and Dominique: He has 1 trick, and that trick is killing everything that gets close to him. He is mostly bad at everything else.
6/7. Miriam - She's a genuinely good character all around, but she also suffers from "fair character" syndrome. She's arguably even stronger than she was in the first game, but this game isn't designed around her like the last one was, so she's worse off overall. Bosses take WAY more damage to kill in this game than in the first and her axe was actually nerfed in damage slightly. Furthermore, since this game requires a lot more upwards attacking in platforming areas for ghosts, frogs, hanging mouth spitters, floating head ceiling spawners, etc. she's going to be using a lot more WP on her upwards throwing dagger, which hurts her longevity and consistency. Everything near the end of every run also hits a decent bit harder, so her formerly "close 2nd best" HP isn't quite so insurmountable (or 2nd best) anymore. Despite ALL of this, she's still pretty good. She can't 1 cycle every boss, facetank everything, effortlessly beat platforming sections, or have the unique trait of infinite range (with subweapons) anymore, but she's still strong enough to get plenty of power ups for solo and final runs and is more than than strong enough to fall back on in group modes if a top tier dies.

A Tier

1. Gebel - He gets all but 4 power ups on his own, self heals, and skips every platforming section. He's redundant with Alfred's fire shield and Hachi's invulnerability being nearly as good at platforming and he's the worst character in boss rush mode, but otherwise he has a strong role in just about every other mode.
   
2. Dominique - The game is designed around her. She has subweapons for every situation, and even if they're not always the best, she's also one of the few characters inherently strong enough to, with enough skill, handle every situation on her own. She's essentially a 7 in every situation, but she also has the completely unique ability to do a full party heal and resurrection, which is a 10/10 trait only she has. She has a use case in every mode, and a strong one at that. Her biggest downside is her solo power ceiling, but that's only a single mode and even then she's versatile enough to get by most situations and grab most power ups. She wouldn't likely be as powerful (relatively, since she'd be the same character) in the first game since it's not designed around her (with things like less characters to heal, not being able to slide, there being almost nothing to bounce off of or super jump to, etc) - it's like a reverse Miriam situation.
   

S- Tier:

1. Alfred - He essentially gets to choose between Hachi's invincibility for 1/10 the cost or skipping every single boss in the entire game. He's the worst character solo, but (IMO) top 2 everywhere else. If his subweapons didn't carry over to other characters he'd easily be the worst, but all you have to do is pop off a subweapon then switch to another character and suddenly any situation you have to deal with is solved. He'd be #1 if he could carry 2 subs at once even though he sucks solo, but his boss vs. platforming and bad solo mode inconsistencies keeps him from being a true top tier. Also pseudo-infinite WP ftw.

S+ Tier

1. Hachi - A master of all trades. He has the best health, pierces enemy armor, the easiest (although less objectively good than Gebel and Ulti-getsu's) platforming, bonus WP from lanterns, he can get several power ups, squash low enemies, and has a get out of jail free card in every situation. His only weaknesses are his big hurtbox and his low attack speed(and by proxy DPS sorta), which aren't issues with patience and pattern knowledge. He's one of 2 characters that's good in every single game mode, regardless of difficulty or allies.

SS Tier

1. Ultimate Zangetsu - He's the only character so strong that he doesn't even need subweapons, unlike Hachi, Gebel, and Alfred who are good specifically because of their subs. He has some of the best platforming, the best speed (and arguably survivability, since he dodges better due to his dash, so it makes up for his lower health than Hachi, and he kills most things before they threaten him so he doesn't need invincibility), the best range, and the best damage. He's great solo because he's the strongest character and ridiculously versatile, he's great in main playthroughs because he's so strong without subs that other characters don't have to waste WP helping him, and he's even great in boss rush because his unrivaled mobility and damage allow him to dodge stuff and hit bosses in situations when nobody else even comes close. Even in the shoot em' up section of the final episode, he comes pre-packaged with the ability to get every other character's ship weapons. He is truly the Akuma of this game: De-centralized, high skill with high reward, extremely versatile, and purposefully overpowered.

I've just come across this fantastic article from Sports Illustrated, 1956. Aside from some wonderful 1950s prose, I think it also has quite a bit of interest to anyone interested not just in Patterson but in that era of boxing, its expectations and its place in society.
Do read it all, but for those who don't have time here's a few highlights:
On Patterson's Professional Position Prior to Winning the Title

• "it is now as clear as anything can be in the future books of boxing that a lithe young Brooklyn Negro named Floyd Patterson—who celebrated his 21st birthday this month by challenging Rocky Marciano—will be the next heavyweight champion of the world."
  
• recently "outclassed" the #5 heavyweight in the world to the point where the referee stopped the fight (a rarer thing back then!)
  
• had 9 fights in 1955, all of the KO or TKO wins
  
• Ray Arcel calls him "best young fighter of any weight in the world", and will "outclass" all heavyweights within a year
  
• Patterson's own trainer (who also trained Jersey Joe Walcott) speculates about a Moore fight (which of course ended up happening, after Marciano retired in part to avoid fighting Patterson): "It'd be no contest" (which was true!)
  
• Same trainer, about how older fighters get tired in the ring: "if you get tired in there against Patterson, then God help you... I've trained 500-600 fighters and I've never seen anything like this boy."
  
• "There is still a gangling, faintly schoolboyish air about him, but he fights with the expressionless eye and violent gracefulness of a large cat hunting its dinner."
  
• points out that Patterson's only loss was a close decision to former world champion Joey Maxim, when Patterson was only 19. Maxim says "he had my tail dragging after the fourth round".
  
• the biggest problem for Patterson is his weight. His handlers were "tormented" by the fear that he might stop growing too soon - "the awful struggle" for more poundage, requiring a diet of yams. By 1956 he was nearly 180lbs.
  
• Constantine D'Amato is cited as only his "manager", not his "trainer" (who is someone else, the guy who also trained Walcott). Given the mystique around Cus as this genius of boxing who personally devised and taught every facet of peekaboo technique to Floyd, Jose and Mike, I thought that was interesting!
  

On Patterson's Character and Private Life

• Patterson is "a fellow who sleeps a lot", according to D'Amato (which he approves of). He sleeps in the dressing room before fights (partly to deal with nerves) - something the writer says was also true of Louis and Tunney. He also sleeps every morning after his run.
  
• Patterson keeps in shape by running 2-5 miles in "heavy army shoes" in Prospect Park in Brooklyn (followed by a cup of tea and sleeping until noon). He then watches a movie every day, before training at D'Amato's gym.
  
• he also studies fights by use of "kinescopes" he replays on his home projector in his flat. He also has a film splicer, allowing him to study himself frame-by-frame.
  
• however, despite having been given free entry at will to Madison Square Garden, he doesn't watch live boxing, because he feels the crowd gets emotional and distracts him from the details of the technique on display
  
• "occasionally" he invites his girlfriend to a film on a saturday night. She's 3 years younger than him, and they've known each other for several years, having been "introduced". [spoiler: they married a month after this article, but divorced ten years later when Floyd refused to stop boxing; she took their four children with her. Floyd remarried and stayed married for another 40 years, with 3 more children by his second wife and one adopted. Fun fact: his first child, Seneca, was born the night he became world champion]
  
• "a shy and sensitive youth"
  
• not just few friends - few acquaintances. "You get an acquaintance and, the first thing, they start doing things for you—favors for you—and the next thing they want to borrow."
  
• he lives in "a lackadaisically furnished bachelor den in Brooklyn's rugged Bedford-Stuyvesant section, just a few hazy dreams away from riches and world fame, and just a few blocks from a crumbling Old Law tenement where his father, a hard-working garbage truck driver, and his mother live with nine of their 11 children."
  
• attends late mass on Sunday mornings. Otherwise "keeps to himself", mostly "holed up" in his flat
  
• "enjoys a heady solvency", and "contributes heavily to the support of his family"
  
• despite reclusiveness, he's "a youth with a secret inclination toward dudishness; he cultivates sideburns and treats himself to good clothes"
  
• owns a pet monkey called Connie, a "lively beast" that lives with his girlfriend, where it "runs up and down the curtains, takes the telephone off its cradle, turns on the family television set and, if not restrained, dabs itself with lipstick"
  
• occasionally attends a "rock-and-roll session" at the Apollo Theater in Harlem
  

On Patterson's Upbringing

• As a boy in the asphalt jungle, Patterson was a lonely, disturbed and defiant being—the third in a family of 11 children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed.
  
• broke into a store with a gang, truant from school, ran away from home
  
• "virtually refused to talk"
  
• "refused to learn"
  
• at 12, could not read or write (despite attempts of school). Something he had in common with Liston, who never went to school and never learnt to read.
  
• once stole a truck - he used to start the trucks parked opposite the school and sometimes move them back and forth a bit, but on one occasion a man started chasing him so he drove it all the way home
  
• liked to skip school to go to Coney Island. Not to go on the rides, but "to watch people going on the rides"
  
• his mother believed in early intervention: "the twig is bent early".
  
• his mother committed him to "an institution for problem children" (others say it was usually used as an alternative to jail for young offenders, but apparently they also took 'voluntary' students)
  
• Patterson thought the school would have bars on the windows, but instead he was allowed to "roam the woods" in an atmosphere of "kindness and understanding". This had a miraculous effect on him; he returned to New York two years later, by which point he had become a model student, a "star pupil and the school hero". At 21 he was still regularly phoning his teachers, and had donated a silver cup as a trophy for the students.
  
• fascinating that this sort of "enlightened", "modern" intervention was already being practiced by semi-penitential schools in the late 1940s. And Patterson, who went from criminal miscreant to pillar of the community, seems like a brilliant demonstration of how it can succeed. Fascinating to compare the lives of Patterson and Liston - both were introverted loners who felt marginalised, didn't want to attend school and got involved in petty crime. Patterson had that moment where he was put back on a positive track... and Liston didn't.
  
• D'Amato's gym happened to be a few blocks from his school. "There is a hole in the entrance door, patched by chicken netting, and when the gym is locked a vicious dog peers through, growling horribly at all callers. Only four people—D'Amato, two trainers and Patterson—are privileged to "know the dog" and the place cannot be entered until one of them arrives and ties the beast up in a back room. The space inside is bare except for a ring, two heavy bags, a light bag, a shelf with an opened jar of vaseline, a rubbing table, some cracked mirrors (for shadow boxing) a few folding chairs, a shower and some steel lockers. The grimy windows are kept tightly closed, the air is close and hot and the stench of sweat overpowering."
  
• ""I let any boy come in here and train," says D'Amato. "It costs them nothing. We teach them. They don't have to fight. But if they do, then they're my fighters. I'm like a prospector and here is where I look for gold—for a fellow like Floyd."
  
• Patterson boxed in the Golden Gloves (as a welterweight!) and was in for a shock: "I was surprised," he says. "I hit him and he fell down. I thought it was a lot harder to knock somebody out. I used to see lots of shoot-'em-up movies and those cowboys used to hit each other with their fists and break chairs over each other's heads and fall over the table and never seemed to get hurt. But it was easy."
  

-"This fellow had me on the ropes and he was hitting me and the lights started to go dim and I couldn't hear the crowd any more. Then I remembered that if a fellow's hitting you in the head you must throw a flurry to his belly. I did and he backed up and I knocked him out."

• At the Olympics: "One boxer, a Frenchman of excessive caution, stayed upright for three rounds, but he all but decapitated a Rumanian, a Dutchman and a Russian. He was fully as sensational when he mounted a dais to receive the victory award—he put one hand on his stomach, the other against his back, and gave the crowd a deep dancing-school bow."
  
• So, it seems D'Amato trained him as an amateur, but after he turned pro he got a new trainer for "advanced instruction", Dan Florio. Florio is implicitly not impressed by D'Amato's training, as Patterson "had to learn everything". Aside from not keeping his hands up, he "hopped around all the time. He bounced like a kangaroo".
  
• Patterson recalls a nasty experience against a tough, bigger fighter (175lbs). The man bullied him in the clinch, physically and mentally, repeating "why don't you punch me?" every time they were close. Patterson narrowly won a decision, but immediately began training infighting for the first time. In the rematch, Patterson insisted on infighting the entire match, while D'Amato yelled at him to box. "In the tenth round I said something to him. I said, 'Why don't you punch me?' He didn't say anything. Then I knocked him out."
  
• D'Amato: "Floyd is learning—he went to a lunch with the Mayor of New York a few weeks ago and I was proud of him. I try to make him independent of me. He decides how much work to do now, when he is training, and I accept his ideas about how to fight, unless I know he is absolutely wrong. Floyd is usually right."
  
• Talks about the importance of Charles Schwefel, owner of the Gramercy Park Hote. Schwefel had helped set up the schools for "backward boys" that Floyd attended after he made it back from the semi-penitential school, and was so impressed by Floyd that he "all but adopted him". He pressured Floyd into working at his hotel between fights until he was financially stable, and in 1956 was still employing all Floyd's sparring partners so that they would always be available for him. He was also Floyd's PR guy - he pressured the borough presidents of Brooklyn and Manhattan to attend Floyd's 21st birthday party, along with other politicians, journalists and "telecasters".
  

On Boxing in 1956

• "Fighters, like most other athletes, do not reach their peak of physical efficiency until they are mature, grown men (an Irish fighter, according to ring legend, may not develop fully until 25, 26 or even 27—Latins and Negroes are generally expected to mature at around 23)."
  
• it is generally agreed that the "big men" of the heavyweight division at at their "most efficient" at around 185lbs
  

On Boxing in Society

• when attending the Apollo Theater, he is given free tickets and always introduced to the (presumably Black) crowd, "which cheers vociferously".
  
• "professional boxing, for all its seamy background, its haremlike jealousies and its pitiful human flotsam, can be a power for good in shaping the character of young males—not all of whom are born for the ministry, atomic science or Wall Street" ["haremlike jealousies and pitiful human flotsam" seems like a great description of a lot of modern boxing social media...]
  

On the Patterson-Marciano match that never happened

• ""He looks sloppy in the ring. But he is a good fighter, a real good fighter. There are lots of ways you could fight him. I could make him miss—but Joe Walcott made him miss for almost 13 rounds. I think there is only one way. They say Marciano is the fighter who can't be hurt. But if you want to beat him you have to fight him and make him back up."
  
• *"I think of Rocky Marciano a lot." He smiled, faintly. "Maybe," he said, "Rocky Marciano thinks of me." [Marciano retired three months later, leaving Patterson to demolish Moore for the title]
  

On Patterson's Ambitions

• He hopes to buy his father and mother a house in the suburbs and to get his younger brothers and sisters out of the slums; he also hopes to make a million dollars and buy a farm. "I want to raise horses," he says. "I'd like to have a farm and animals." [spoiler: he did all those things]

Anyway, do read the whole thing - it's really well written and a great insight into the man and the era.

I don't know how to handle this situation. It's been four weeks almost since I left. Husband has been charged with a felony for strangling me.
My kiddo is just about to turn five and understands that dad went to jail and is in trouble for hurting mom. Mostly, he hasn't said anything about his dad at all, but today he said he missed him. My husband (I WILL be divorcing him, don't worry) asked two weeks ago or so about video chatting with the kiddo and I've tried to get in touch with my victim's advocate at the DA office for advice, but she hasn't answered any of my emails.
I don't want to keep my confused, hurting kiddo from talking to his dad. I also don't want to look, to a family court judge later down the line, like I was being spiteful or not allowing him to talk to his dad or who knows how it might look. I don't know.
I also don't want to do anything to jeopardize the case against him. I want him to go to prison for what he did and I'm afraid if I allow contact or give him an concessions it will hurt my credibility in court or something. This man is dangerous and he's going to kill somebody one day. I am lucky it wasn't me.
Have any of you been in a similar position? I don't know what the smart thing to do is, or what is the best thing for my kiddo. I feel so lost.

This happened 6 years ago. At the time me (19F) and my boyfriend, now ex (26M), had just gotten our first appointment. Before that we had been living on our bosses land in a run down camper. My boyfriend, lets call him Chris, had a son prior to meeting me, he'll be Jr. Jr would come over every other week and I'd watch him while Chris was at work. Skip to about 4 months later I find out I'm pregnant when I'm fired and sent home from work after throwing up in the back of a pizzeria. A week later I find a cute way to show him we're having a baby. To my surprise he asks if I'm to far along to have an abortion... I say no,and ask why, and he asked me to get rid of it. After, telling him I didn't want to, he starts begging to. He says that "I have a kid already" and "we can try for kids again later". Then he says "would you have an abortion if I promised to marry you". After telling him no multiple times he dropped the subject. 3 Days later I get a call from the local planned parenthood confirming my abortion appointment that I never set up. I miss the appointment and get this call 3 more times before it's too late to abort the baby. Lets skip to when I'm 6 months along. I want you to know just how bad this guy is. A few months later I'm going to baby appointments alone and I find out alone that we're having a girl. A week later Chris's friend gets out of jail for pedophilia. His friend will be called Rob. Rob calls Chris and asks if he could crash at our place. I say no and leave to take a shower. When I come out in a towel Chris is in a video call with Rob and Rob sees me. He then proceeded to ask Chris "yo can I f*** your girl" and he first says no. He continues with "come on man I'll pay ya".Chris asks how much and Rob says $100. Chris then says sure, and they boy start laughing. Thankfully he never comes around. And I know what you are thinking. Did I leave him after he tried to sell me to a pedophile? Sadly no I didn't. I came from a broken family and I didn't want that for my kid. 2 years later tho I left. He started getting involved with crank, which is like meth, and stopped working with the excuse that "I've been working for so long that I shouldn't have to work anymore." Not long after a left he was evicted from the motel apartment he was in because he was 6 months behind on rent. And as far as I know he's currently homeless living in the streets, because he's too good for a job. So AITA?

This happened 6 years ago. At the time me (19F) and my boyfriend, now ex (26M), had just gotten our first appointment. Before that we had been living on our bosses land in a run down camper. My boyfriend, lets call him Chris, had a son prior to meeting me, he'll be Jr. Jr would come over every other week and I'd watch him while Chris was at work. Skip to about 4 months later I find out I'm pregnant when I'm fired and sent home from work after throwing up in the back of a pizzeria. A week later I find a cute way to show him we're having a baby. To my surprise he asks if I'm to far along to have an abortion... I say no,and ask why, and he asked me to get rid of it. After, telling him I didn't want to, he starts begging to. He says that "I have a kid already" and "we can try for kids again later". Then he says "would you have an abortion if I promised to marry you". After telling him no multiple times he dropped the subject. 3 Days later I get a call from the local planned parenthood confirming my abortion appointment that I never set up. I miss the appointment and get this call 3 more times before it's too late to abort the baby. Lets skip to when I'm 6 months along. I want you to know just how bad this guy is. A few months later I'm going to baby appointments alone and I find out alone that we're having a girl. A week later Chris's friend gets out of jail for pedophilia. His friend will be called Rob. Rob calls Chris and asks if he could crash at our place. I say no and leave to take a shower. When I come out in a towel Chris is in a video call with Rob and Rob sees me. He then proceeded to ask Chris "yo can I f*** your girl" and he first says no. He continues with "come on man I'll pay ya".Chris asks how much and Rob says $100. Chris then says sure, and they boy start laughing. Thankfully he never comes around. And I know what you are thinking. Did I leave him after he tried to sell me to a pedophile? Sadly no I didn't. I came from a broken family and I didn't want that for my kid. 2 years later tho I left. He started getting involved with crank, which is like meth, and stopped working with the excuse that "I've been working for so long that I shouldn't have to work anymore." Not long after a left he was evicted from the motel apartment he was in because he was 6 months behind on rent. And as far as I know he's currently homeless living in the streets, because he's too good for a job. So AITA?

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It sounds dumb, but when I was growing up me and my family were constantly abused, either verbal or physical, and even with my mom it was sexual when she was a child. when I gained sentience i guess is the word, I was like 3 years old. And when I finally did I remember being at the apartment pool with my 2 brothers and our baby sitter nick and his friends. I asked my older brother who it is and he said "that's nick our baby sitter" and I said what does that mean and he said "it's someone who takes care of us and makes sure we're okay" and I thought that's nice. so i cheered for him while we were at the pool. "go nick! you can do it!" and then once we go back inside this fucking asshole beats us. why. Why? because we embarrassed him or some bullshit reason i don't remember. fucking key memory. but not the most important one at the time because not even 2 weeks later after all the beatings back to back this prick lays all of us down, pulls down our pants and hits each and everyone of us in the ass. First it was my older brother, then it was me. And for some reason, I have no fucking clue why, I just wanted to see what would happen if I didn't scream. I didn't cry in pain. so when he hit me I didn't. Then he hit me again, and again until all I did was turn around and say "ow", followed by him slamming the belt on my younger brothers ass. then he went and overdosed in the kitchen on heroin or some shit after beating my mom. As he beat my mom all I heard was her in pain. i have no reason why, but he stopped to do heroin, and when my mom called the cops this cunts uncle or dad or whatever was some important position in the police, got cps called on my mom and we were taken to my grandpas house. this was probably the most important day of my life. It taught me so many lessons it's unreal.

1. men who are powerful become scared and weak without it
2. I do not like men who hit women
3. the police are fucking useless
4. my family is the most important thing in my life
5. i hate drug addicts
6. men are very easy to control

and a bunch of other ones I just can't remember. When I was 7 years old my dad died, I genuinely didn't know anything about him but allegedly I was his favorite. when my mom and my aunt sat us down to tell us this, I thought the right response would be to cry. I didn't want to cry, because I didn't give a shit about him but I faked it. I just made the loud noises and sad face, but there was obviously no tears because i'm not an actor. however the older I grew up the more i realized i hated my dad. the more i realized this fucker is the reason i'm even in this position. because my mom and my dad were married, they were going to have a good life, my mom stopped going to college for this fucking asshole so he could work as a mortician. whatever fuckall reason, we went to montana for like a year or something, and his dumbass ex girlfriend jessica decided to message him and talk about how much she missed him, how much she loves her and wants to be with him. So they did, he divorced my mom, went back to live with jessica and they had a kid named lilith. and the funniest part is jessica is the reason my dad is dead. my mom told me she said he attacked her and she shot him. Which is honestly believable. There's a lot about my dad, the main thigns is he was also abusive to my mom, he was a paranoid bipolar schizophrenic and whichever christian denomination he had involved self-flagellation. he's been arrested for drugs as well as arson. I don't know how my beautiful mother ever found this loser attractive. He's a degenerate. But I do believe that he attacked jessica, despite how much I hate her, I do believe her considering his past. I hate my dad. It sounds generic and bratty, which might just be my cynicism, but in all honesty he's a piece of shit and he got me to where I am today. The problem is that I don't hate myself, I don't hate what I do. I just hate that I have to do it. My mom would've been a nurse, making God knows how much money, and this piece of shit would probably be in a mental hospital or jail for domestic violence. Either way, I'd much rather have my dad abuse my mom, because for some reason I feel like our lives might've been better. We would've lived in montana instead of shithole houston texas. which is another thing I want to talk about.
I grew up completely in houston, I have barely left the state my entire formative life, and I haven't ever gone outside of the country. point is if you know anybody or anything about houston, you know that it's a fucking shithole. fucking ruthless gang bangers coming in from the flood, the fucking crackheads and homeless people who keep coming wherever the fuck i go, it's like I'm a god damn magnet. I go to downtown houston, crackheads, I go to the outside suburbs, fucking homeless people and wannabe gangsters, but I go even further out into the woodlands and katy area, fucking the nicest places I've ever been, there's just fucking wannabe gangsters everywhere. I fucking hate houston. When we went to Austin for vacation one time, there was a guy at this restaurant near us, and he was just being loud and what I thought was completely hostile and sarcastic. This guy wasn't at all. He said to us while we were leaving "hey guys, look I'm sorry for being so loud, I just get really excited about the game." what. what? what the fuck this guy isn't a complete scumbag and is a genuinely nice human? I mean everywhere and anytime I'm in Houston it's a fucking balls challenge with every single man I ever meet trying to be the bigger man and talking about how big their dick is how badly they'd beat whoever's ass and it's the most annyoing shit on earth. Because as they're talking about their dick, in the same conversation they're scared that their girlfriend is going to leave them or cheat on them and how they don't want their girlfriend to dress a certain way for whatever reason. They're not misogynists, they're insecure losers. Whatever happened to the trophy wife thing? I want to show off my girlfriend, dress however you want. Dress like a slut, dress like a grandma I don't care. You're supposed to be for me to show off, not completely but that's what dressing up is for. That's all wearing clothes is about to show yourself off, clothes and personality is all marketing.
Enough schizo rambling, I just wanted to give you an background check I guess. With all of this happening I saw a show that my mom loved watching called Gotham. This was the only show I ever thought was good that my mom watched. in all honesty now that I watch it later on it's kind of pretentious, but regardless that's what I liked. The one character I loved the most was the penguin. Oswald cobblepot was my favorite character. Everything about him was just pathetic, but his demeanor and his mannerisms just made everyone think he was a boss and nobody could fuck with him. That's how I saw him at the time. And the more I looked into it, I realized he was in the gotham mafia. I didn't know what the mafia was, so I looked it up and saw all these movies and tv shows, and I just watched pretty much all of them. And every single time, I saw people who couldn't be fucked with. I saw strong men. I saw people who weren't bullied, who weren't abused who didn't get scammed or their mom get beaten. And even if they did they'd kill and torture them. That's who I wanted to be. I was tired of who I was. I wanted to be just like them. I never even factored in the money part, I just wanted to be like them. And obviously in texas you can't just join the mafia. At the same time my friend mike started talking about the dark web and all this shit. I thought this is the best way for me to do this kind of stuff. I started talking to criminals on there while talking to my online friends and thought I could just take what these criminals are talking about on forums and chatrooms, and just apply it to me and my online friends. And I did, ever since then it's kind of consumed me. It's the only thing I've researched, the only thing I know how to do. I've tried working jobs and doing it the normal way, but everytime I did people and my friends started to treat me differently. They saw me as just another person for them to fuck with. They thought nothing bad would happen and honestly nothing ever did. And here and there I'd dabble into these things again, But one day after I had received my hard earned paycheck I started paying this guy to do these things for me. And all he saw was easy pickings, which I pretty much was in all honesty. And he scammed me out of around $500 of my money that I worked for over the span of months. I mean until then I'd never been scammed in my life. This was the moment honestly, everyone around me I'd tell would just feel bad for me. I don't want people to feel bad for me, I want them to admire what I did, I want them to relish at the fact that they want to do that but they can't. I want to be admired for what I do about things when I am mistreated, just like I was when I was younger. So I found one of his friends that I helped dox (obviously he didn't know) and contacted him to help me understand everything about this guy. It took a little bit but I finally found this prick. I email bombed him for months, his phone was constantly going off full of text messages I sent from multiple yahoo accounts, his house was getting swatted whenever the fuck I felt like it, I didn't want to do anything financially because I don't care about money. I genuinely didn't even want it back. He got me, that's how I saw it. I just wanted to get him. Anytime I wanted, I could just fuck this guy over. And every single time, he would know it was me. That's what I want. That's what I've always wanted. I never read any philsophy books by machiavelli or anything like that but I remember one of the quotes he said was something about how nobody will truly respect you unless they fear you. That might not be true at all, but I feel like it is. My entire life has consisted of this shit, people abuse and mistreat me, my mom, my brothers and my friends. And every single time all I wished was I could do something about it. I can't really stress enough how little I cared about the money. Everytime I'd watch these shows I knew I'd never be able to make as much money as them but I understood their personality. I understood that I wouldn't make it around them. So I tried my best to. At one point before I calmed down we had kidnapped some guy for not paying my friend his money. This is kind of the point I realized what the fuck spiral I was going down and just calmed down. Then I worked the job and the rest is obvious. Now instead of focusing on just fear, I am focusing on money. And honestly fraud and internet crimes just don't pay/aren't worth it anymore. I've taken my skills and I'm focusing on real businesses. Real money. After a lot of growth both in therapy and in my own time. I've realized the flaws of the mafia characters, and they're not all I saw them as. They were drug addicts, abusive and unloyal to women, they were addicted to gambling, I mean jimmy conway had a rigged college basketball game, and with the money he made, he proceeded to bet on other games he couldn't rig. They were just dumb. They were strong willed and didn't take anything from anybody, but they weren't strong enough to deal with their dumbass addictions like gambling and drugs. I don't want to be like that. Everytime I'd watch these movies I never thought that I'm just like them or I want to be them, I just wanted to emulate their strong points. And to a certain point I have. As I write this I realize that I'm everything I wanted these guys to be. I'm not addicted to gambling or drugs, I'm not a cheater, I'm not abusive to women, I'm not rude to people in public who didn't do anything to them, I love who I am. I did commit crimes, I did do things and will do things to people who do me wrong. This guy scammed me on fiverr for something I wanted done and doxxed him, botted his social medias so they get banned, and I'm contemplating email bombing him but. In all honesty I am glad who I am. I don't take shit from people and that's what I could've learned just living in houston, and I did take it too far but I am glad I did. I don't regret anything. I don't hate the people from my past because they're in my past.
TLDR: I watched too many mafia movies growing up, realized they were losers and started acting more like a normal person. In one of my first posts (I don't make that many) I talked about what else I did as a con artist if you are curious.

I know we like to rage against violent crime. But white collar crime punishment seems to be equally baffling to me. This guy Hall, for example. Forged signatures rather than paying for chartered engineers to review buildings. And is estimated to have pocketed an additional $560,000. $270,000 which he gave to his church.
And he's been sentenced to 4 years. And has to pay back $85,000.
How come you have to pay back a student loan. No matter what. But you don't have to pay back money you stole?
This happens time and time again with white collar theft. Those pricks that conned $7 million out of a district health board, got a few years in jail. There are millions missing, and some luxury cars still dropping out of the wood work.
If you steal, you are ON-THE-HOOK. In my opinion. Garnished wages, FOR-EVER.
Otherwise, the unethical WILL swing for the fences. Steal the cash, if you get busted, maybe a couple years of reading books worst case.
Doesn't seem "fair" to me.

I have a corny long-winded rant to share on why I feel this way:
Not Like Us has the potential to become the greatest diss track ever. It has the bop of California love, the hard-hitting lyrical mindset of a No Vaseline or Hit Em Up, while having quotables that fans catch on to using like Ether. F.A.N. is now becoming a pejorative just like how Nas made Stan popular after Eminem first used it. He flipped the 69 God thing on Certified Pedophile.
And it is going against not some random Compton jerkoff, not MGK, but one of the five defining hip hop artists of the 21st century who has tens of millions of listeners and fans and supporters. This is massively difficult and could have proven to be unpopular. And holy shit, he actually pulled it off.
He made Pusha T's assault on Aubrey look like a limp wristed punch. And Pusha T is an all time great MC with a decorated career and diss on Drake of his own. This month has been humiliating Drake in the process, to the point his career may have jumped the shark while doing even just damage control. God forbid even half the stuff Kendrick said is true regarding the Canadian.
The crazy part? Kendrick MIGHT HAVE MORE TO UNLOAD. This feels like we saw Michael Jordan win his sixth ring at 30 years old. What if he films a Not Like Us video with the 11 year old neglected Daughter of Drake in it? Probably unlikely but I'm not betting against Kendrick on anything at this point. It's probably overkill too, like Kratos punching Hercules' face off in God of War 3 kind of overkill.
Now let's take a step back: Kendrick has dissed Drake in five different ways in a month. Like That is a bravadacious, boastful Muhammad Ali-esque reaffirming message that he's Big Me. 6:16 is a mellower, still critical blasting of Drake, kinda Section 80ish. Not Like Us is a disrespectful as fuck club banger that's about to take over the Internet and even sports stadiums. Euphoria is a methodical bop that compels you to listen and then you make fuck face kinda reactions as you listen to it. Meet the Grahams is pure evil, so sinister you can't help but repeat the last verse ripping Drake fraudulent image apart.
Kendrick has never made an album that sounded the same as a previous release, yet still keeps tremendous quality. Albums that initially polarize even the harshest critics age well and most of the time he is universally praised anyways. His worst formally released album in his catalog might be Damn, and it won a fucking Pulitzer Prize. LMAO.
But I think the one thing Kendrick was missing was an iconic showdown in front of the world, online or in real life, against a major musical competitor, and a lot of people thought that would be J Cole or Drake as time went on but it never happened. It would've been easier for him to outrap either of these two, but Drake is supposedly way more popular, having double to triple the online reach and has a global presence that few rival. Taking that on could've been intimidating or career damaging with the amount of networking Drake has. He's a huge presence, period. Like it or not, Drake has massively influenced American, and global, pop culture. We still subconsciously quote him even in jest at times.
And Kendrick has poured kerosene on that presence and spit fire on the gas trail. He has objectively, utterly humiliated Drake, and whether he is lying or not (and he appears to be mostly truthful) it no longer matters. He won and has the entire rap community on his side right now. It's near universal outside of Drake's diehards, a few notable contrarians like 50 and Game, and major record labels with conflict of interest financially speaking on Drake's side.
Canada, even in major cities, is turning on Drake. The record sales and streaming back this up. God forbid Mr. Degrassi 69 walks into California in public without being catcalled a chomo going forward.
There's literal children and girls that don't even like hip hop making Tik Tok dances to A-MINORRRRRRRRRRR and OV HOOOEEEEE which is extending the Drake bashing indefinitely. It's mid-Spring entering Summer. This song is going to be blasted from Compton to Newfoundland and big bouncy titties, thick assed girls in swimsuits and guys in baggy pants and skinny jeans and dudes on the basketball courts all over the walks of life are going to be C-Walking all over Drake's corpse.
Kendrick Lamar, in the past few weeks, has embodied the phrase "Win the War, then Fight the War" from Sun Tzu. He went in with a plan to utterly destroy Drake and it worked, even when it appeared Drake would at least have half the community side with him by default. J Cole wisely fucked off from engaging Kendrick or otherwise he would've been destroyed too. Nobody is making fun of him anymore for apologizing, for being the Switzerland in this rap WWII conflict.
And this beef, and how it went down systematically, has separated him from everyone else. Even with Ether and Hit Em Up, Nas and Tupac didn't destroy their enemies irreparably. Biggie, Jay-Z and Mobb Deep ultimately have respected legacies. Ice Cube thoroughly dismantled NWA with No Vaseline, but Eazy-E even after being outed as a corrupt business partner has an OG legacy and Dr. Dre is a billionaire producer and businessman.
Kendrick did to Drake what Anderson Silva did to Forrest Griffin in 2009. All his hits hit and Griffin just missed everything before the third knockdown (Not Like Us). It's Germany vs. Brazil in the World Cup winning 7-1 kinda embarrassing at this point.
Maybe Drake re-emerges somehow. Maybe he does enough PR damage control to have a decent career after this. But nothing will be the same as he might put it on one of his older albums.
I don't think it's hyperbole to think about the magnitude of what Kendrick just accomplished. The most he has hitting his image currently, is that Drake and his posse are reminding casual fans and independent neutral viewers that Kendrick cheated on/hit his mother of two kids that he hadn't seen in a while, and that Kendrick is soapbox preachy. I hope he didn't actually hit Whitney or neglect his babies, doubtful as that claim is. Even if that's true, that's not anywhere near as bad as being a fucking child molester or creepy groomer. Hell Tupac went to jail for a year for alleged sexual assault and nobody even brings it up anymore.
That's how bad Drake got destroyed. Rap and R&B fans generally overlook shit (see R Kelly) and there will be a decent plenty that do even in Drake's case. But he has lost his grip over the universe fawning over him. And Kendrick is majorly responsible for that happening. That is quite simply a tremendous accomplishment, one that in my judgement puts Kendrick above the inner circle of rap greats, making him the greatest ever.
And by the way, even if that recent overreaction from some paranoid opinion havers takes place, that "Kendrick could get himself killed for this beef" ever happens, God Forbid, that would only double down the people's love for Kendrick being the 🐐 because we just saw it with MJ, Prince, Tupac, Proof and XXXTentacion. When beloved artists die we push them even higher in legacy. It's a lot like Avon vs Marlo in The Wire. Marlo is Drake, and people like Kendrick, that won the streets in the game, they're Avon.
We are watching history and it's fucking delightful. Kendrick is gonna be more than Alright. He's going to be legendary for this alone, in a long list of legendary accomplishments in his wonderful career.
Above all else, thank you for at least taking on this sissy, fake culture vulture piece of shit, because a lot of us were wanting to see it as the rumors and videos and degenerate stories about Drake, Diddy, etc were emerging the past few years. For someone who is supposed to be boring, Kendrick, you sure made a watershed event in modern music history.

My Senior AP Week Reflection - Extremely Long (5 exams, 9 total)
Context:
I took AP Gov, Chem, Lit, and CSA. I have Calc AB on Monday still (I’m a Senior). I got 5s on APUSH, Lang, HuG, and a three in Bio.
Predicting: Gov-5, Chem-3, Lit-5, CSA-4, Calc-3/2 (hopefully the former). This is going to be an extremely long post of a lot of thoughts, so if you want the tldr, paste it into an LLM.

1. AP Chem:

The MCQ could really have been a LOT better, I don’t think I did well on that at all, but I think I did alright on the FRQ; I only skipped one part on the second to last question because I was running out of time. But yeah, everyone says the MCQ was just...not it.
Predicting a 3 for this one. Regrets: I wish I had gone over a bit more calorimetry; I thought I knew it but I was a bit rusty on thermo and also equilibrium. This was probably my worst of the four I took so far. I need a 3 for any course credit but a 4 will mean I place into OChem.
I’m used to answering a lot of MCQs like they’re math questions, so some of those definitely threw me off. But just generally, most people seem to have found the MCQ difficult so I think the curve will be decent this year.
Oh! Also, I should mention that this is my teacher's first year teaching - I think at all - as she mentioned having to shadow others at my school. She wasn't particularly good or bad, just kind of there. Kind of like AP Bio. This is the shortest one; there isn’t much to say except that it was difficult, but I passed.
I just regret not taking it last year because it was apparently super easy (and had an amazing teacher at my school). This was probably equivalent to my AP Bio Sophmore year (3), accounting for how much I studied of course (maybe not as much as I should have). Overall: decent, could've been better.

1. AP Gov:

This was probably my best one, the MCQ was, like, insultingly easy. I took AP Human Geography a few years ago and thought that was the easiest possible exam, but this definitely takes the cake (same teacher btw). I’m probably just used to my teacher’s really bad wording and slightly opinionated multiple choice tests, but this was extremely clear and intuitive in comparison.
Can’t think of any I got wrong, but for the practice I got a few points off the final, this seemed slightly easier. I finished in just under half the time (40 minutes or so). Napped.
For the FRQ, I was pretty much relying on my experience from APUSH last year because we didn't do any in class (weird last minute schedule changes at my school and my teacher ran out of time to practice or really talk about it at all). Even so, I found these a lot easier than APUSH.
A lot of it was either common sense or something I just felt confident in. Humanities have always been my strongest (5 on HuG and APUSH), which is ironic because I'm a STEM major, but these FRQs were just easy.
Had a little under half time left when I finished and spent another 20 minutes looking over it, but I filled out a (kinda cramped) page per question for 1-3 and then an extra 2 pages on that last essay. Looks like I got Question Set 2 (they just released).
I used all the documents (apparently you don't need to, and there's not even a sophistication point??), and argued for social moments, using pluralism and factions from Fed 10 as my counterargument, and talking a LOT about the example of the CRM and MLK with the right to assemble and such.
Protests were already on my mind because I'm going to a UC and I just happened to argue with my parents about this for hours over the weekend, so I got lucky that was my Prompt. Overall definitely predicting a 5, would not be surprised if either I or my friend who I usually compete with got a perfect score (they're going to an Ivy).

1. AP Lit:

I took this one online, and I already got a 5 on Lang so I apparently didn't even need to take it (found out after I submitted college apps and was looking at credit charts lol). Oh, taking it digital, we started about an hour late due to tech problems, which was annoying. But…
I thought it was pretty decent! I really loved my teacher this year (hopefully my friends don't know my reddit account, but if so, yes I'm sorry he's very terrible). Overall just an amazing class experience.
Seriously though, the guy literally has a PhD in British Literature, he's amazingly insightful and I felt like I learned a lot this year; I definitely would not have gained as many skills as I did analyzing poetry without such a good teacher, and even my big prose essay happened to benefit, so it all worked out!
It just so happens that his two favorite pieces of literature are Hamlet and Madame Bovary. I used the latter for the prompt about missing something (specifically love), but Hamlet would have been great for indecision as well. I reused a lot of my points from our final about how when we think we achieve our desires we're never really satisfied, and how Emma was living in a fantasy world of fairy tale romance.
I also went over the blind beggar and how he saw the missing void in her heart, and how discomfited she was that he recognized that which she refused to — all her relationships were never true love — they were always purely sexual and all her spending and debt that she used to fill that piece of her spirit that was missing in marriage and religion would eventually drive her to suicide.
My teacher's honestly a bit Freudian (sorry, it's true!), but Hamlet obviously is probably even easier to talk about though I don't have the energy to plan another essay rn. Anyways, I'm fairly confident in a 5 for this one as well, even if a couple of the poems from the MCQ (dreams?) kinda threw me off.
Luckily, my teacher gave us a decent framework for setting up complex theses, and forewarned us that they'd ask us to connect the literary technique with the theme (literally our final), so I felt pretty prepared for the other FRQ. He suggested that we say something like:
"While on the surface, the poem appears to be about …, it is actually a vehicle for the author to…", or: "While most readers might conclude that …, on further inspection, the author actually...", which I thought was really smart for forcing yourself to think in complexity rather than giving an easy answer. I know it's a tad bit pretentious though!
My best friend is in the other AP Lit class with a different teacher, and his experience was vastly disparate to mine. Sounds like she tried -futiley- to teach to the exam, while mine went the approach of enhancing our overall Literature and analysis skills. I think you can infer which one I prefer.
Anyways, that one really all came down to the teacher, and I can definitely see how this one (especially the MCQ) could've been harder than last year, especially because while Lang was more SAT-like (790/800), this was decidedly not.
It's like, not even the questions that were bad, the answer choices were just such that you had to choose the least bad answer. Oh, and the nature/summertime thing was weird in that it was way too simple to talk about, but I managed like everyone else did.

1. AP CSA:

This one was probably the one I'm most disappointed in myself for. I kind of expected a 3 on Chem (even if I was previously gunning for a 4), but I need a 4 for college credit in CompSci. Over the past year, I had gotten really into ML/AI, the former for my final Bioinformatics project on DNA Methylation, and the latter of which I actually learned JavaScript for. I already knew Python from my own curiosity, though I'm rusty and never took the class or exam.
That being said, I was pretty turned off by the teaching of CSE in general, though I'm not sure if that's the CSA class/exam or a more broad failing of just not knowing how to impart programming and make students want to do it (10 people took the exam at my school; there's a problem.).
Just the methodology of testing for it kinda made me hate it, even though I have a lot of fun coding on my own. The fact that MCQ is all about tracing code and is essentially math, where you're the computer and you're calculating what would be put into the compiler just seems stupid to me.
Regardless, from a student perspective, the MCQ was fine, as in I did well enough on it, not that I think it's a valid way to test, though I have no idea how else it would be. I was running slightly low on time, but I knew I would be, mainly because I hate how tedious it is even if the MCQ is technically easy (which it was).
Anyways, enough complaining. Onto the FRQ! It was...OK? Usually I'm pretty decent at writing code, classes and the like, but I wasn't quite expecting the specifications to be so weirdly worded. I guess it parallels the unclear expectations you receive doing CS jobs irl though, so that's fine. Also, last year was apparently harder?
Oh, I should mention that my teacher is retiring next year, so she was extremely checked out and the whole class was basically self-study on Runestone. I'll admit that as a Senior taking CSA as a 7th period, I found more important things to do than to practice writing code I thought I was pretty decent at, so that's definitely on me.
With that said, I didn't fully finish the last question of the FRQ, and while they weren't overly difficult generally, as in I could figure out the concepts they wanted (like math.random) and I managed to remember most of the syntax I had neglected, I definitely should have reviewed Arrays a bit more, as time was a big issue on this one.
Overall, I'm still predicting a 4 for CSA, but if I get unlucky with the curve I could get a 3, which would suck but still give me some course credit for college, just no exemption. My general review would be that it wasn't bad, it was even decent; the test on average was kinda like the Chem FRQ. That's all.

1. Calc AB:

Obviously, this one is on Monday, so I haven't taken it yet, but I'd like to offer my predictions and thoughts. Math has always been my worst subject by far, but I'm trying for a 3 for college credit, as my Uni is offering a full ride for a month of summer where I can take the rest of Calc 101.
After that, I plan to just take a Semester's worth more of Math (up to Linear Algebra), and then be done. But to do that, I need to place and get a 3. When I took the final practice, I was exactly a point and a half below, so I have some more studying to do.
I should mention that my teacher this year for Calc AB is widely regarded as one of, if not the most, worst/hardest teacher at my school. It's definitely a weed out class, and most of my friends took it over the summer to place into BC with a good teacher rather than suffer my current one.
While I would usually differentiate between a bad teacher and a hard one (my Lit is the perfect example of the latter but not the former), Calc AB is both. I've never felt comfortable asking questions to her, she frequently blows off students, and her attitude just generally makes me hate math even more than I already did.
This year has been a lot of self-study and torture, so I'm really gunning for that 3 to prove her (and myself) wrong. I'm actually taking the class P/F because it does horrible things to my GPA (4.3 instead of 4.66). Anyways, wish me luck on this one!

1. APUSH:

I took APUSH and Lang last year, and while I didn't really feel the need to study for my 5 in Lang, APUSH was my most difficult class that I probably studied for the most, but my teacher Junior year was probably the best I've ever had, or at least my favorite of all time (my current AP Lit might be technically better).
Yeah, my APUSH teacher really encouraged me to push through on that class and sincerely made me interested in US History. He's also probably why I did so well in AP Gov, so I owe him a “Thank You” when I get back. I ended up applying UCs, which doesn't take rec letters obviously, but if I had requested one, he would definitely be it!
Anyways, I know an amazing teacher isn't possible for most people, but I wish everyone luck on their APUSH Exam on Friday; you can do it!! I got a 5 when I worked for it, and you can too!
7-9. Other APs: Bio, etc,
There isn't much to say about Lang or AP Human Geography. I found them both pretty easy, intuitive, and common sense. Prepare, of course (specifically for the course content of the latter), but they're both guarenteed 5s if you put the work in.
For AP Bio, that was the biggest regret of my high school career. It's actually my major (Biology: Bioinformatics), and I got a 3. I just know I was close to a 4, but also that it was partly my fault for letting bad study habits from COVID bleed into the beginning of my Sophmore year, and I never really caught up.
AP Bio is one of those courses where you need to be prepared from the get-go, especially if your teacher has a somewhat lax but competent teaching style. Not to make excuses for myself or anything, but I actually got COVID the week before, missed my AP HuG Exam (had to do the retake), and recovered the day before the AP Bio.
My brain and studying were just not up to par at all, and I'm confident that if I had worked as hard as I did for APUSH the year after, I definitely would've gotten a 4 or even a 5. So, I wish everyone luck as well on Bio next Thursday, and hope you're prepared!
Conclusion:
For everyone else, I'll be lurking next week around this sub after I take Calc, and I'm confident in everyone to do their best! I'll probably turn off my notifs tomorrow afternoon, so if anyone has questions before then feel free to ask and I'll attempt to respond! Congrats if you got this far in the post, lol, and I hope it was helpful!

This is a long read.
TL;DR: Drake is a creep with a clear pattern of predatory behavior towards many minors and I have the receipts to back it up.
INTRODUCTION
This is a comprehensive post regarding Drake's extremely questionable behavior regarding minors and young women in general. There's more than 70 links in this post to various sources and over 30.000 characters.
If you want to repost, make a YouTube video, an article, a TikTok or Twitter thread then do it - I do not need credit, I do not care - I only want this information to be spread.
This post will serve as an archive that people can refer back to or use as a source to back up their claims.
Let me be clear - I do not like Drake. I've thought the guy was a creep ever since the Millie Bobby Brown video and I despise him - but I'll still try to remain as objective as possible here, you know my bias now though.
This thread is partly based on this thread from 2022
Read this comment for edits I've made to the post.
OVERVIEW
This post is divided into sections:

• The 17 year old at a show
  
• Millie Bobby Brown
  
• Billie Eilish
  
• Kylie Jenner
  
• Hailey Baldwin (Now Bieber)
  
• Cydney Christine (Lil CC)
  
• Aaliyah
  
• Unconfirmed rumors
  
• Lyrics, references, tweets, pictures, ties
  
• (Dis)honorable mention
  
• Final Note
  

THE 17 YEAR OLD AT A SHOW
Drake is performing at a show in Ogden, Denver where he calls a girl up on stage. I really encourage you to watch this yourself, but since I know the majority of you won't watch it, I've described it for you below.
Video starts with her on stage, he asks her name, where she is from, asks the crowd to welcome her to the stage and tells her she looks great. He then asks her to give him two seconds because "I gotta be ready for you".
He wipes off his sweat with a towel and proceeds to take her hand, put it on his shoulder, his hand on her hip/back and they slow dance for a few seconds. He spins her around and stop her with her back facing him. This is when it starts to get.. really weird.
Drake says "I told you I like your hair, right, what is it, like herbal essence or something?" while he's caressing her shoulder and smelling her hair. He says something I can't hear properly, puts the mic down and exposes her upper back and neck by pulling her shirt collar down. The crowd goes wild. He then starts kissing her shoulder and neck, putting her arms around her and fondle her breast.
A few seconds later he picks up the mic again and says "you can't have me carried away again before I get in trouble - how old are you?" She responds "17". The crowd has a mixed reaction - Drake says something that is hard to make out, because of the crowd but when it's clear he says "I can't go to jail yet, man - 17? Why do you look like that? You thick - look at all this!"
It's hard to make out exactly what he says afterwards because of the poor quality (2011 zoomed video at a concert, it's bad..), but he says something about it bringing them (the 17 year old and Drake) to a close and follows it up with "I got one question for you (...) I just want to know if (something about women in Colorado), I should just take one opportunity to take one home?"
The girl nods "As a Colorado woman you'd enjoy that?" "Well, listen 17, I had fun - I don't know if I should feel guilty or not, but I had fun. I liked the way your breasts felt against my chest. I just want to thank you." He then puts the mic down again, grabs her hand and kisses it. You might think that was a little over the top, but he then immediately follows it up by putting his hand on her chin and kissing both of her cheeks, her forehead and then on her fucking lips.
I think he asks her to walk off stage, it's hard to make out, but then he says "It's okay. I'm only 23, I can do shit like that. It's all good, you know what I'm saying" and the video ends.
Addition: I know this girl has said she was not offended, violated, whatever you want to call it, but that's not the point. And I do not mean to sound like a complete dick, but it's not about her - it's about Drake and proving his pattern of behavior over many instances. If you stopped here because she denied it, you completely missed the point.
Drake's age: 23
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN
Now this video was what really made me do a double take on Drake. Now, there's one very important fact to establish here and that is that Millie Bobby Brown at the time of this interview (18. September 2018) is 14 (Born 19. February 2004). I'll quickly transcribe the interview here:
Interviewer:

What about your relationship with Drake, tell me about your friendship, how did this all come about?

Millie Bobby Brown:

I love him. I met him in Australia and he's honestly so fantastic and a great friend and a great role model. You know we text - we just texted each other the other day and he was like "I miss you so much" and I was like "I miss you more". He's coming to Atlanta, so I'm definitely gonna go and see him and I'm so excited.

Interviewer 2:

You and Drake? That's awesome. That's awesome..

Interviewer:

What advice does he give you? What does he say?

MMB:

About boys he helps me, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah he's great. He's wonderful, I love him.

Interviewer:

What's his advice with boys?

MMB:

Ehm, you know.. That stays in the text messages.

I'm sure it's obvious what is wrong here and I don't need to spell it out for any of you, but I do have one thing to add. If Drake is giving advice about boys and telling her "I miss you so much" they must have talked for a while. It's not something you say after knowing a person for a week. We are talking months at least. There's 7 months between her birthday and the interview - did Drake already start talking to her when she was 13? It would make sense that Drake was in Australia during their summer (Dec-Feb) for festivals/concerts/vacation.
Millie has only commented on this once which was a few days later in a story on Instagram
I don't want or mean to infantilize her, but she was 14. She would have no chance of knowing if Drake actually was grooming her. There's not a chance that she could understand the dynamic at play and why it's wrong at that age.
Drake also defended their friendship on the song Another Late Night when he raps:

Weirdos in my comments talkin' 'bout some Millie Bobby, look
Bring them jokes up to the gang, we get to really flockin'

Ironically enough that very same song is also connected to the next person
Drake's age: 33
BILLIE EILISH
The year after the Millie Bobby Brown controversy Drake gets caught texting a minor again and this time it's Billie Eilish. She does a yearly interview with Vanity Fair, and in the 2019 version she's asked who's her most famous contact in her phone. That's when she reveals she's been texting with Drake and that he's so very nice to her. Billie is at the time of the interview (released 25. November 2019) 17 (born 18. December 2001).
Billie did defend Drake and their texting in an interview with Vogue ~3 months later:

“The internet is such a stupid-ass mess right now,” says Eilish, who quit Twitter in 2018. “Everybody’s so sensitive. A grown man can’t be a fan of an artist? There are so many people that the internet should be more worried about. Like, you’re really going to say that Drake is creepy because he’s a fan of mine, and then you’re going to go vote for Trump? What the fuck is that shit?”

On the song Another Late Night where Drake mentions Millie Bobby Brown, Lil Yachty is featured (one of Drake's gho.. co-writers) and he raps the line:

I let her go, she fine as hell but baby wasn't stylish (Yeah)
She had big tits like Billie Eilish but she couldn't sing (Drip)

Now - I know this is not Drake, I just thought it was a 'funny' coincidence that these two women are connected through their shared experiences with Drake and this song. On another note some might say that Drake should have asked Yachty to omit this line if he really was a friend of Billie Eilish since she has been quite vocal about sexualization of herself and women in general.
Drake's age: 34
BELLA HARRIS
This one is pretty fucking bad in my opinion. Bella Harris is the daughter of Jimmy Jam who's a record producer, songwriter etc. and has been very successful. Through him she's been in and around the entertainment/music business her whole life and met Drake that way.
There's an archive of photos posted here that contains the old IG posts she had with Drake. The first one was on May 5th, 2016 - Bella Harris is born 20. April, 2000. She had just turned 16 at the time.
Objectively I think they are defendable since they are all music related - Rihanna concert, Summer Sixteen Tour (ironic name..) and the American Music Awards, but then two years later they reportedly start dating and that makes it really difficult to believe, especially with the last archived photo of them in 2018. Also the same photo that is referenced in this article talking about Drake renting an entire restaurant for an intimate dinner between them.
Note that E! have confirmed it and are not backing down on their claim despite Harris denying it on Instagram.
Her father liked this post on Instagram about the whole situation. It's not particular to the restaurant or previous potential dating it's more so a general declaration of support for Drake, but that includes the PDF-file allegations.
Him supporting Drake made me search for more information, because I wanted to find whether or not he had spoken about it at the time. That led me to this article where her mother, Lisa, is being asked a few questions regarding Bella.

I was surprised Jimmy Jam hasn't introduced Bella to Drake, Rihanna or anybody else in the music world she is interested in meeting.
"No," said Lisa. "She loves Rihanna, she loves Beyoncé. [Bella has met Bey; her brother Max has met Ri-Ri.] She hasn't met Drake. Too old."

Lisa Harris about a photo of Bella (included in the article) - Bella is 14, almost 15 at the time.

I think Drake would behave himself around a child, even one dressed like this, to wit: Mom doesn't think this photo is too sexy, in all its legginess?
"SHE'S WEARING A BATHING SUIT and a coat!" said Lisa. "Sexy? What? My point is it's a body business, so I don't look at it [that way]. It's a posed picture. She has a one-piece bathing suit on. It's artistic."

Drake's age: 29-31
KYLIE JENNER
Ever since the Kanye (also fuck Kanye for the record) vs. Drake beef we (or I at least) became aware of the fact that Drake has had a long relationship with the Kardashians/Jenners and known them for many, many years. In fact Drake performed at Kylie's sweet 16 back in 2013. You know what that Sweet 16 was specifically remembered for as well? Drake kissing Kylie on the cheek in front of everyone, including her then boyfriend Jaden Smith.
That's not out of the ordinary and would be 'normal', if it wasn't for the clear pattern that is going on here, because guess what - 6 years later Drake and Kylie reportedly start dating, well.. dating/fucking/whatever you wanna call it. Admittedly this article is easily dismissed as paparazzi journalism and clickbait, but what if I told you that Drake has rapped this:

Yeah, I’m a hater to society/Real shit, Kylie Jenner that’s a side piece/Yeah, I got 20 muthafuckas in’ Kylies.

You probably wouldn't have heard it, since it was on an unreleased track played on an Instagram Live back in 2020, but it does make it seem pretty likely that he did actually hook up with her, especially considering the response Drake posted

“A song that mark ran last night on night owl sound live set shouldn’t have been played,” he wrote, “It’s a song that leaked 3 years ago and got scrapped shortly after. He was just going too deep in the drake/future catalogue. Last thing I’d want to do is wake up having any friends of mine feeling disrespected so I just had to say that to start off the day.”

Kylie was 22 at the time they reportedly hooked up.
Drake's age at Kylie's Sweet 16: 26
Drake's age when they hooked up: 33
HAILEY BALDWIN (NOW BIEBER)
In 2016 there were reports that Hailey and Drake were dating. Apparently they hooked up at a party that Drake hosted, where another attendee is also mentioned that seems oddly relevant:

Drake and Hailey weren't the only ones getting close, with Kylie Jenner and rumoured new boyfriend PartyNextDoor were seen "making out" at the party.
"It was almost like she was trying to make a statement," an insider added.

Now again - there's nothing illegal in a 11 year age difference and dating a 19-year old as 30. It's weird, yes. But again we come back to the pattern. Why do Drake know Hailey? Through their similar friends and friend group (Kardashians/Jenners). How long has Drake known Hailey? Well, when Hailey was 19, she said they had known each other for a long time.
We can actually get even closer with certainty since we know that Hailey attended Kylie's Sweet 16 in August, 2013. Hailey is born 22. November 1996, so she was also 16 at the time. So it's another girl that Drake has known since she was a minor and started dating when he got the opportunity. This is not normal.
Another pattern that Drake also seem to follow is that likes to hook up with his friends girl. We know for a fact that he hooked up with Lil Wayne's girlfriend while he was in prison. He not only rap about it, but also admit it in an interview. It's not really hard to believe that he did the same with Bieber.
Drake's age at Kylie's Sweet Sixteen: 26
Drake's age when they hooked up: 29
CYDNEY CHRISTINE (LIL CC)
Cydney Christine is a beatmaker and model - she produced the Drake song Money In The Grave and in a Complex interview/roundtable she talks about it and Drake.

Really the only artist I reached out to is Drake. I'd never met him, never spoke to him, I don't know why, but he has been following me for the past like 6 years. I don't know why..

This interview was uploaded 17. December 2019, Cydney Christine's is born 21. July, 1997, meaning she was 22 at the time of the interview and 15-16 when Drake started following her. This is somewhat innocent but strange since Drake is 27 at the time. That's not what is really weird though.
In March 2023, Lil CC is on the No Jumper podcast and here she speaks about Drake and having her debut beat being a Drake single.
Lil CC: I played basketball, right, so he really was a fan or not a fan, sorry, supported one of my teammates at the time um..
Adam 22: And this is when you are in high school?
Lil CC: Yeah, in high school. So he was a fan of women's basketball - high school basketball - I was her teammate so he followed me because of her, and I was like "oh shit, bitch, you got Drake to follow me, like what the hell? Like that's so crazy". So he followed me and I lost it - I have to meet Drake, I love Drake, I've always loved Drake, still love Drake.
There's more to the conversation, but the relevant part is here is that it's just very, very strange for Drake to be a women's high school basketball fan. They are 16 at the time. He's a supporter of a 16 year old female high school basketball player as a 27 year old grown adult man. He has not hooked up with her, dated or anything of the sorts that we know of or that she has told - for the record.
Drake's age: ~27
AALIYAH
It's not like I have whole section for this, but his obsession with Aaliyah is just another part of the pattern. I don't have a lot to contribute here, but if you don't know Aaliyah's story I'd recommend reading her Wikipedia and specifically the section about her personal life. If you think that 'obsession' is too strong a word for how much Drake admires her, I think you should take a look at this Complex article from 2018 and reconsider.
UNCONFIRMED STORIES
(I will continuously update it whenever I find or get sent new information to add here.)

• Back in 2021 Drake was being exposed on TikTok for his 'private Tinder' where one of his guys would go out and the hottest girls in town, interview them and find the one that Drake would like the best.

“He finds the girls and then he interviews them, and out of all the girls he interviews, he picks the one that he thinks is the best,” she continued. “Then, he drives her to Drake’s place, Drake has sex with her, and then he drives her home. So, basically, Drake has his own private Tinder.”

• This girl explaining how her friend was invited by Drake's crew and she was brought along as a +1. No ID check, very young girls. Worth a watch: https://www.tiktok.com/@simonestrauss/video/7365696116085591304
  
• This reddit post - yes I know this is 'so easy to just say', but I think the poster was very right by pointing this out:
  

I'm sure you guys won't believe me, but this is the type of situation where someone vanishing and telling you is the best you'll get.

• This YouTube comment about a girl claiming to be a victim of trafficking in Toronto in 2015 and that Drake had ties in all these circles.
  
• This article from 2016, where Drake and his buddy get aggressive with an amateur photographer for taking pictures of Drake and two women. This isn't strange in and of itself, but then there's this post from 2018
  

From the article:

The mystery women were dressed identically in matching white parkas, skinny tan pants, tan boots and ponytail hairstyles.

From the post:

Maybe this foreign born one named A+ list singerapper should have told the whole story about his split with a fellow foreign born A+ lister. How she caught him more than once with another woman and his fascination for watching porn involving women wearing pigtails.

• This post

This foreign born A+ list singerapper asked for all kinds of photos from not only the 18 year old he is dating but at least two other 18 year old females and he didn't make sure they were 18 before he started asking.

• This post

That teen, who was topless in the dressing room of this foreign born A+ list singerapper last night was nowhere in the ballpark of being legal.

• This one is fucking WEIRD - some guy was jerking off and noticed something. Now there's plenty of reasons as to why they would do this, it's porn and they need a story. But then there's this post from 2017:

This one named foreign born A list rapper is going around telling porn stars he is starting his own porn company. It is just his excuse to have sex with them all and not pay.
Drake

• This Twitter post/video of UK rapper Potter Payper calling out Drake for messaging 'bare young girls in England'.
  
• This entire thread is weird to say the least. More CDAN rumors as well. Read the thread, it's too much to paste and explain here.
  
• Drake paid out $350K to sexual assault accuser - Drake initially filed a lawsuit against Layla Lace/Laquana Morris for civil extortion, fraud, defamation, abuse of process and intentional infliction of emotional distress strongly implying he's innocent - but why pay someone $350.000 then?
  

The former stripper and Instagram model wrote: "Drake forced me to perform oral on him. It wasn't your ordinary oral it was more so a fetish." She then describes how he told her to spit into a cup "until he had measured it."

• This comment about a model claiming Drake 'made girls puke in dog bowls for him'. Now that's a typical thing you can dismiss as a rumor, but the same guy commented 16 days ago and said this:

If Kendrick mentions anything about dog bowls or birthday parties in Toronto, then shit is more serious than we thought

• This interview of Aya (Born 24. April 2007) (a 'dancer' in Ice Spice - Deli and probably known for other things I just don't know her) where she's asked about having sex with Drake. She said she can't speak on it because of 'court'.
  
• This Tweet of a guy talking about his experiences in high school and the hottest girls posting from Drake's mansion and being followed by him "every single time".
  
• The Instagram page of Exclusive Artists Agency is strange and related to Drake. A dude on TikTok went in-depth on it and this is creepy in more than one way.
  

The woman who had a Twitter thread similar to this post that ended up deleting her account made an entire YouTube video out of it you can find here.
LYRICS, REFERENCES, TWEETS, PICTURES, TIES
(Again - Feel free to share with me and I'll add it.)

• On the song Nice For What Drake raps:

You got a baby Benz, you got some bad friends
High school pics, you was even bad then

• This Tweet

"If amazing was a young bitch I'd be going to jail...cause I'm fucking amazing" - Me

• This image of Drake and Malone from Drake's Instagram that's been deleted now. Malone is infamous for impregnating a 13 year old when he was 20.
  
• On the song The Heart Part 6 Drake raps:
  

Just for clarity, I feel disgusted, I'm too respected
If I was fucking young girls, I promise I'd have been arrested
I'm way too famous for this shit you just suggested

• Also on the song The Heart Part 6 Drake raps:

Only fuckin' with Whitneys, not Millie Bobby Browns, I'd never look twice at no teenager

• His connection to Baka Not Nice who Drake is very close with.

In 2014, Baka was arrested and charged with forcing a 22-year-old woman into prostitution and taking her money. In 2015, he pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman and an unrelated weapons charge.

• Adel Nur who has very close business ties to Drake. He's executive producing the show Euphoria together with Drake and they co-own some shady companie(s). Another user went in-depth on their connection here.
  
• J Mulan who's an entrepreneur and close with Drake. This entire thread about her being a trafficker - and especially OP's comments are worth reading .
  
• DJ Eric who's the owner of Area 29, a strip club in Houston. Drake shouts him out in songs and is allegedly also trafficking for Drake.
  

(DIS)HONORABLE MENTION
I know people say Jorja Smith, and I do agree that dating a 19-year old as a 30-year old man is weird and rather pathetic, but every other girl mentioned is related to minors. Their relationship if you can call it that was for sure toxic, and it seems like Drake was a piece of shit abusing the power dynamic between them. This is taken from the Drizzy subreddit, but I can't provide the source since that gets the post blacklisted as it's temporarily banned because of brigading.

In “Summer Games” Drake also says ”I kept it decent, even the secrets, kept it between you and I”. What secrets exactly? Well in Jaded, Drake says this woman “told him all her insecurities”.
It’s also interesting that the song “Summer Games” is about a woman who broke up with Drake right at the beginning of the summer. Drake and Jorja were dating in April of 2017 which is right before the summer starts and only lasted a couple weeks.

But that's all there is to it. I can't dig up anything else, so unless someone have something credible with sources, I don't think there's good enough reason to add her to the list further up.
FINAL NOTE
I know there's very real questions about the reliability of CDAN and that he was exposed, but in the very same article The Daily Beast refers back to one of their old articles on the subject which definitely confirms that he had/have industry ties and do know a lot. Another reddit user dove further in and made some compelling arguments, but remember to take it with a (big) grain of salt.
If you have anything to add, please post it in the comments and if credible/sourced I'll put it in the post. If I got anything wrong please correct me and I'll edit it. If you have sources that contradict anything in the post, please also share them with me and I'll include them.
Please share this anywhere you want. I don't care about credit. If any media outlets wants to use it for their article or whatever, please do - feel free. You do not need to ask permission.

I do want to preface this by saying that I have sent this to a moderator (Agile_necessary) prior to posting and he's given it the "green light." This is in no way meant to upset or offend anyone. Just wanted to get that out of the way.
That said, let's get started.
By no means am I the President of the United States, so please don’t think that I think I’m something I’m not. I’m not. If you don’t get that reference – don’t worry about it. If you do, I assure you that this post is sure to entertain (and perhaps even enlighten).
Foreskin restoration. If you’d have told me that term at the beginning of 2024 I’d have probably said “Say what?” And I wish I could retrace the steps that led me here. Though I’ve been a “redditor” for 7 years (according to my profile), I’ve rarely used this widely used platform. But…here I am and here we are.
I’ll preface this by saying this will be a LONG post, so those of you who like the TL;DR stuff I’ll put that at the bottom. But if you’ve got a few minutes to kill, it might be worth the read. This isn’t an arbitrary post – I’ve put a lot of time into it as have we all with our restoring.
At the risk of sounding selfish, all the viewpoints in this will be related to, well, me. I’m just telling things from my point of view, what I’ve learned, what I’ve observed and what I’ve done (and hope to accomplish). And I’ll likely overuse parenthesis (because I like to).
About me
I’m 51 years old and I’m using my birthday as an official start date of my restoration. Maybe that’s the genesis and maybe not. But it’s a date I won’t forget and it’s about 99% accurate. I, like many/most of you, was circumcised when I was only a few days old. But unlike a lot of folks here, it was never an issue for me. I started masturbating when I was a teenager (again, like most folks here), had girlfriends and now a wife of 14 years (today, actually…yay!). Being able to climax was never an issue for me nor did I stand out in the high school locker room or in my fraternity’s shower. Everyone looked like me. And I was fine with that. Simply put…everything in my life, sexually, was fine. I never had any issues with self-esteem and so forth.
Why restore?
Ok, so if everything was going so swimmingly then why rock the boat? Well, I’ve always considered myself the black sheep of my family and, well, I’m sure those that know me would easily agree. So, when I stumbled across foreskin restoration my eyes immediately lit up and I verbally said “Oh shit! Is this really a thing?” I’ve never been envious of anyone who wasn’t circumcised, and, to date, I think I’ve only seen one dude “in the wild” that was. If anyone was curious, it was some old guy who’s probably dead now and it was in the shower at Kansas State University. I’m a swimmer and was in the shower after practice. I remember seeing it and was like “Whoa. That’s weird-looking.” Oh, and I was in Rome (or maybe it was Florence, I can’t remember) a few years ago and saw the statue of David and distinctly remember saying “I take it David wasn’t cut.” It amused me more than anyone I was with then again most of my life has been me entertaining myself for the hell of it. Whatever. I’m not a stand-up comic. I work in Marketing.
But, to my point…why restore? I figured that I’d give it a shot and if it worked, then I’d continue. If not, things weren’t really “broken” so I figured that I’d be no worse off than when I started. Prior to taking my hands or any other device to my “most vital organ” I figured I’d seek the advice of a professional. Here’s a link to my consult with a Urologist. It didn’t go as I’d planned. But as I’ve seen, the medical community in the United States and circumcision don’t really go hand in hand. I figured that no matter what he said, I’d use some common sense and proceed anyway. And I did. And I haven’t looked back.
OK, so now what?
I’ve visited with a physician; I’ve done plenty of reading and have tried to wrap my head around the various terms (more on that later) and now I’ve got to start stretching the skin on my penis in the hopes of lengthening it to look (about 80-90% of what it could/should look like) “better.” Good lord – what have I gotten myself into?
Do you drive stick?
Some of our younger members might not be familiar with a stick shift (or manual transmission), but I took three days of my life to be able to do it and, yep, it’s like riding a bike…once you learn, you never forget. By the way, the “stick” was meant to imply manual. I guess if I have to explain my humor, it’s not very funny. Oh, and that bolded line is a reference to Boyz N’ The Hood. Check it out.
Manual methods…yep, number two was it for me. Grab the base, stretch the top and induce mitosis. It sounds so easy, doesn’t it? It is. It really is. But when you’re working from home and leading a call in front of 200 people it’s kind of hard to say “Hey, I gotta do MM2. Give me a few.” Well, I guess I could do that, but I’d be looking for a new job in no time. And if I’m at the gym or in the car, etc. You get the idea. Manual methods are great, but sometimes they’re not conducive to our daily schedules. So…what to do? Oh, I know – I’ll buy a DTR Dual Tension device. And I’ll buy a Mantor DS. They seem to be highly-regarded, so why not? Nope. See, the thing is that you need some extra skin (which I didn’t have). And though after a few weeks of doing manual methods when I’d remember, it just wasn’t enough. And for someone who gets easily frustrated, it can be somewhat frustrating. Enter the Stealth Retainer.
(Horns sounding)
I’d read Spiritfu’s post (someone who I credit with keeping me “in the game”) on packers. I wasn’t too fond of the name, but…so what (I’m a Chiefs fan, for what it’s worth)? I reached out to him and picked his brain and got his input. I figured, “Ok, well that sounds easy enough. Put it on, forget about it and all is well.” There’s more to it than that, of course, but in a nutshell – that’s it. I bought a device from someone on Etsy. It arrived in about 23 pieces. I didn’t think that was right. It wasn’t. Oops. He refunded my money. No harm, no foul. But I went to Stealth Retainers site and ordered the appropriately-named “Starter Kit.” Hey, we’ve all got to start somewhere. I’d also purchased some other devices in the interim like a TLC cone (that didn’t work), Chris’ retainer for the DTR (an integral part of this process) and…something else that I can’t seem to remember. Ok, so now I’ve got this gripper thing at the end of my penis and I’ve got some…thing at the end of that (a ball tugger). Now what? Is this it? Is this all I have to do? Well…yes. And no. There’s always a “No” isn’t there? It wasn’t long after I got the Starter Kit that I figured I needed a little something extra.
Weights. Yeah man…weights! But…wait? Do you like homophones? I love ‘em.
Kidding aside. Well, I guess if you take kidding aside, then disregard this post. But yes, I felt that I needed a little something extra dangling. I mean, if it’s all about tension and tension induces mitosis then more weight would be just what I need. But not too much. No. That’d be bad. After all, do I really want to stretch the skin so that it’s sore? Nope. Do I want tears “down there”? No way. A little will do ya. So, I ordered the stainless-steel bulb and, presto, it was enough so that I could feel it but not enough that I was uncomfortable.
One thing I’ve learned (and something I already knew) – there should never be any pain associated with restoration. No pain, no gain? Not here.
Ok, I’m all set. A month went by. Hey, I’ve got some loose skin. Cool! I told my wife. She was…mainly supportive, but asked a very intelligent question: “Will this hurt you?” and “Why are you doing this?” I had an answer for her first question, the second…well, let’s just say that’s my problem and not anyone reading this.
What’s all this then?
No, I’m not British. Only been to Liverpool. So, I’ve got all the elements in place. I’ve got the tools, I’ve got the time, I’ve got the motivation. But I still don’t understand a LOT of things. See? I’m coming back to something I mentioned above. These are things that I don’t understand and/or need explanation on. I’d made a post about not wanting the “shiny red glans…” which was locked and removed as a “Trigger Warning.” Oops. I did mean it at the time and still feel that way, though I’ve finally accepted the fact that if I’m to continue doing this, it will happen. When you’ve been accustomed to looking down and seeing the same thing for half a century, you tend to, well…get used to seeing things in a certain way. Knowing that I might see the skin peel off my penis and seeing the texture and color turn from a dull, matted color to a smooth, bright red is something that simply rubbed me the wrong way. Yeah, I’ll take the extra sensations, but why can’t things just stay the same?
But change is good. It hasn’t happened yet, but I feel that it will. At least that’s the plan.
As a result of the locked post, I reached out to a member who wrote a very articulate response (far more so than mine). Seeing as how the post was locked, I couldn’t respond. I messaged him and he told me that he would be willing to hear me out. Wasn’t that nice? As it turns out this user, Phenomenal Mysticism, knows his stuff. He did his best to explain to me some of the different part of the anatomy and what their meaning(s) were. I grasped most of what he said, but to put it in context:

• Glans – Not glands. Ok, got it.
• Sulcus – I still have absolutely no idea what the hell this is. Or if I have one. Or if I can get it back. I’ve been told I’ve got one under my tongue as well. Ha! You missed that one physicians of 1973!
• Ridged Band – Essentially, see above. I’m of the impression that it was lost. Oh well.
• Meatus – I had no idea that foreskin could/would/should impact the length and/or width of your urethra. Add that to the list of things I was wrong about.
• Corona Ridge – Ok…anyone else feeling a beer sitting on top of a mountain?
• Soap – Is bad. I was told by a member that I’d been brainwashed for using soap. Odd that his comment contained the word “wash”, but I digress.
• Dekeratinization – DKNY? No…that’s something else. Ok, I’ve got it…you mean I’m going to look down at my lovely penis one day and will see that it’s molting? I’ve been told this is “good.” I’m relaxing my breathing and hoping all will be well when/if this happens for me. I’ve also been told “this is what it’s all about.” We shall see.
• The Glide – I’m told that this is “the shit”, but I’ve only got a small amount of skin in which to glide. I shall update this when I have more skin (and therefore more glide).
• Smegma – So I’ve got dead skin cells, oil, sweat and most likely some combination of urine and/or sperm that collects in my foreskin and looks like I dipped my penis in cottage cheese? Lovely. I can't wait. Given there’s a “smegma lovers” sub reddit, I take it I’m in the minority (like most things in life). By that point I’ll be “pulling back and rinsing.”

I could go on. And on. But I think my point(s) have been made. I’ll end this by getting a bit serious.
This is that TL;DR section I’d promised above. You thought I’d forget, didn’t you?
Am I glad I discovered foreskin restoration? Absolutely. The new skin and new sensations that I’ve felt since embarking on this journey have been, well…breathtaking to say the least. That in and of itself is reason for me (and others) to continue.
Do I take this seriously? You bet. I tend to have a different perspective on things than most others. I assure you that if you’re doing this and it makes you look/feel better then keep on my friends.
Has my attitude on circumcision changed? Oh yeah. I had a conversation with my oldest stepson a few years ago. My (distant) nephew and his wife had a boy and my stepson’s comment to me was “Can you believe they circumcised their kid?” To which I responded “Yeah…so? It’s a pretty routine operation.” He rolled his eyes.
If that were to happen now my response would be “Well, that’s too bad. But it is their child. I wish they’d give him the chance to decide for himself what to do with the most vital part of his anatomy.”
Are there any real-world implications? Well…not really. I have had this fall off at the gym and at the casino. Why can’t this stuff happen in the privacy of my own home? When/if I’m fully restored, or at least to the point where I want to be, I plan to walk around my gym’s locker room proudly flaunting my stuff wanting someone to comment. They won’t, of course, but if and when they do…oh I’ll be ready.
Has sex/masturbation changed? Yep. For the better. I don’t think I’ve ever convulsed with pleasure for 20-30 seconds. When your wife says “Hey, are you OK?” to which I respond with a shuddered look saying “Yeeeaah.” That’s good. She knows.
Have you told anyone about your restoration? Just my wife, so far. The only others I’d tell would be my parents (who I do NOT blame for this) and possibly my brother. Anyone else I’d tell will most likely not care. Or won’t ever talk to me again. I mean, this isn’t the kind of thing you can show and/or tell anyone. Well…I guess I can, but I’d end up in jail.
Anything else? Yep. Your prostate. Don’t knock it, gents. Before I discovered restoration, I’d dabbled in the prostate with Aneros (subreddit Aneros). It’s all about strengthening your P/E muscle (penis) and the sphincter. Get those two working in cohesion and it’s a life/game changer. Seriously, check it out. That coupled with restoration will make ya a happy camper.
OK, maybe that was a bit longer than the traditional TL;DR stuff, but you get the idea.
One last thing.
There’s a lot of humor in what I wrote. That’s just me. I tend to use humor to disarm folks and as somewhat of a defense mechanism. But to be totally serious, I know and realize that this is a major thing for many people here. I realize that it’s given you hope, some levity in your life and has perhaps even brought you some inspiration. From what I’ve learned this this short amount of time, it has changed my view on what’s happening and what continues to happen.
My intent wasn’t to mock anything anyone is doing. After all, I’m doing it myself. I no longer view this as “a little flap of skin.” It’s far more than that and it took me a while to realize exactly how integral everything is and works together. The human body truly is an amazing machine.
Keep doing what you’re doing gents. It’ll get better, there IS a light at the end of the tunnel. Hang in there.