We have reached monsoon season in central Arizona. The air has grown muggy and on many days, we have cloud cover and sometimes rain. We got a good soaking in the early morning on Wednesday. This is more than welcome, as it has been very dry, and we had little monsoon rain the last two years.
I spent much of day out on the porch, enjoying at times the breeze when it came, and using the fan when the breeze was not there. It was day to listen to videos and catch up on the world out there.
This is the Day of Telegram. It is clearly the platform that has become the center of gravity for our side. Videos are uploaded to Youtube, Odysee.com, or Rumble, or streamed on Twitch, but the discussion and sharing of them now happens largely on Telegram. When I hear about someone's "channel," I have begun to assume they are talking about Telegram.
It is a wild and wooly place, free of the heavy boot that prohibits discussion of many subjects on Youtube, or forces people to speak in code. One finds the spectrum of alternative beliefs, from the "mainstream ones" (such as the idea that Trump is still in charge and that Biden is not recognized as president), to the more exotic ones, which I could list here, but will not. It is not that I am not intrigued by them, and aware of them, but repeating them here would make any reader call into question my judgment. Perhaps I'll write a separate post about them.
My main go-to Telegram channel is the auxillary one to Reading Epic Threads, the Youtube channel started by Patrick Gunnels. If you're on Telegram, you can search for "Reading Epic Threads." Having been banned by Youtube, Gunnels now livestreams through Twitch mostly. The Telegram channel is a like a 24/7 version of the comments stream while Gunnels is live.
(Funny I would barely have known what any of these platforms names mean six months ago)
Meanwhile I have become a minor regular contributor to Gunnels' livestreams. Last night I was even the lead-off hitter on what many consider was one of the best streams ever done by Gunnels. Among other things he read was the latest installment in what is a four part series from one of the listeners who calls himself "Patel Patriot." It was on Devolution, and it was brilliant. Basically he put forth the idea that Trump actually used a legal presidential directive to suspend the Electoral College count before January 6th. Thus nothing we saw that day had legal force, and no legal vote was conducted. Thus no legal president was sworn in on January 20, leaving the military to run the country.
I found it to be compelling. Whoever he is, Patel Patriot has taken over from Thomas Wictor as the best voice writing on this topic.
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