In the Autumn of 2019, I was trying to understand of what Don’s power/Mana consisted. I wanted to understand in order to counter how Don Disinfolklore used Twitter to roil humanity’s minds into believing trolls like the Hunter Biden troll or Pizzagate Conspiracy.

At the time I was a diplomat in eastern Ukraine- I could see how Donald’s trolling even then had real world effects on the battlefield.

So of all the gateway concepts to Master/Magister, I chose “trolls and trolling.”

Then, when I formed the hypothesis in the note below about Trolls, Trolling and energy exchange, I became @DecodingTrolls to test the hypothesis and to troll others into perceiving how we become part of the problem when, unthinkingly / unknowingly, we perpetuate others’ trolls, like, for example the idea that Europe and Ukraine are “weak,” in whichever guise such trolls are conveyed.

As emptywheel notes below, trolling and Don’s motivated trolls are CENTRAL to his mana/power. And the key/core/dominant determining troll that yields/yielded Don’s power was about pedophilia (cf. PizzaGate troll that recruited many MAGA adherents to their Magus Donald due to the disgust it engendered, unjustifiably, about his main rival Hillary in the minds of those who fell for the PizzaGate troll).

This is why the public cover up through ‘redaction’ of the Epstein files goes to the core of Don’s Mana/power.

“The very trolls that Donald Trump has relied on since 2016, people like Jack Bysiobieck, people like Benny Johnson, people like Charlie Kirk while he was still alive….

There’s this whole group of trolls and they have been instrumental to Donald Trump’s ability to grab attention and refocus it somewhere else…

In other words, these people, so long as social media, so long as Twitter is viable, they have been able to swamp the public’s fear with Trump’s b******t and in the process drown out other things.

‘A new report by Reuters uncovered that in the first half of this year alone, President Trump’s family has raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets. This on top of potentially billions more in unrealized on paper gains.’

Now, much of this cash has been coming in from foreign sources, which doesn’t come as a surprise when we factor in.

So they are an instrumental tool to Donald Trump, to his ability to be able to be always the center of tension, but ensure that it’s the kind of, you know, ensure that he can direct the attention where he wants it to be.

‘Mr. President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?’

Donald: ‘I think you are a terrible reporter. You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter.’

Those trolls, that troll in the effort, is fundamentally tied to conspiracy theories about pedophilia.

Fake worrying about pretend pedophiles is an easy way[…]…

He relies on these trolls. These trolls rely on conspiracy theories about pedophilia. He installs these trolls as the FBI director and deputy director, and he’s stuffed.

And then when he tries to make it go away in July, he can’t, those trolls at first, even the Psobe act…

What happened is that he threatened those same trolls, the same trolls his power utterly lies on, and they stopped chasing Epstein.

But by that point, it has this weight and salience throughout the MAGAbase…

[Don’s chief of staff Wiles is] the same woman who’s telling us there’s no ‘there there’s inside the Epstein files, is also telling us it’s not central to Donald Trump’s power, which not only was it up to the moment in July when he tries to shut it all down, but if you look at what has happened since July, if you look at the way effectively Democrats plus Tom Massey plus Marjorie Taylor Greene have been able to take the speaker’s gavel away from Mike Johnson over and over and over again, it is fundamental to his power right now. “ [From Ball of Thread: Young Playboys Gone Wiles, 19 Dec 2025

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⚡️Trolls are energy (Mana) that only moves when we share them.

Then, we become the troll.

The informational unit (Troll) consumes us as it instrumentalises us to keep it in motion.

Like a virus hacking our mind, the troll uses us to keep their troll moving.

Ruschia’s Nordic troll monarch Putler is very successful at provoking us into doing his mental work.

We are the petrol fuelling the troll, even when we disagree with its content.

That’s the point of trolls like Nigel Porridge, in fact. Their oligarch backers pay to promote their trolls. Then, by reacting and perpetuating the trolls, we fuel and energise that which we think we’re opposing.

We become the Useful I***** of Useful I******.

One solution I’ve found if I must talk about Nigel Porridge or the Chef Wanger Nazi, the Chef of Disinfolklore, of the Chief Sorcerer Putler is to corrupt their monikers.

⚡️Biden Resolved Perennial Plight of the Sorcerer - Can Starmer?

Two aging Sorcerers: Deva Biden vs. Asura / Danava Dæmon Donald.

Fighting for power (Mana) / Sovereignty over our world.

Both Sorcerers know their mantic powers (Mana) fade further and further with every dawn.

Both have apprentices.

How can they know the right moment to empower their apprentice?

How can they be certain that, once empowered with all their Magus Master Monarch’s Magic, the Apprentice won’t destroy their Master/Magister?

How can the Magister/Master immunise themself against treachery by their Minister/Apprentice, should they stand down?

The Plight of the Sorcerer from the first moment Indo-European patriarchal Monarchy began in eastern Ukraine.

The complication is always some variation of:

What if I convey my Mana to my Apprentice Magus, and then they use my own Mana against me?

How do I immunise myself from my ambitious minister/apprentice?

Sorcerer Donald tried to solve his plight, by hanging his Apprentice Magus Pence (out to dry) on Jan 6.

“Pence’s former counsel, told the panel that Pence refused to get into the vehicle after being evacuated from the Capitol, raising concerns that the driver would have taken him to a secure location & thus prevent him from certifying the electoral results.”

Then Sorcerer Donald was convinced by Sorcerer Thiel and Musk to take on their Apprentice Magus Vance, in return for immunity, and $1b+ - a true Devils’ bargain:

Yet, of course, Donald doesn’t trust Vance.

A dæmon recognises other dæmon’s and their apprentices from 1,000 paces.

Donald, once again, like a folktale ingenue has made the same mistake: his apprentice, he’s sure, will betray him.

By contrast, Sorcerer Biden chose his apprentice from good stock.

Apprentice Magus Harris was as loyal as Magus Pence had been to Sorcerer Donald. Wise Sorcerer Biden, unlike Sorcerer Donald, knew the right time to pass on the Right to her.

And it is done.

Contrast too how Sorcerer Putler dealt with his Apprentice Magus the Chef of Disinfolklore Prighozin himself:

England’s anti-mask pro-Covid Sovereign gave his mother Long Covid:

She dies. He gets Sovereignty over all the English as a result.

Shakespeare loved a good succession battle.

Brown agreed a devil’s bargain with Blair, lost his soul over Iraq, then lost Mana (power) almost as soon as he managed to get rid of Blair. Ségolène Royal and Francois Hollande, similarly, destroyed each other. Starmer, current UK PM’s popularity’s in minus figures (manifestly unfairly in my humble opinion). Yet, Ed Miliband his predecessor’s popularity among party members is above 40%. Can Starmer effect a transfer of the crown, before his unpopularity leaves the way open for pro-Russia “Reform” party? This remains to be seen. Ireland’s former prime minister Leo Vradaker, similarly, was unpopular. He surrendered power / mana to one of his deputies, who then did well in the subsequent general election.

On and on, back as far as Indo-European culture’s first empire the Hittites, we have seen issues with Magisters unwilling to surrender power/mana. After 500 years, around 1,200 BCE Hittite destroyed itself over how to pass on power (Mana).

Resolving the Plight of the Sorcerer is THE trickiest magical trick any Indo-European sovereign faces.

Doing so is, perhaps, President Biden’s greatest achievement.

⚡️State of Donald’s Mana - Post Kamala Update.

Donald’s power / Mana depends 100% on his value to America’s top 20 oligarchs. Only value is Donald’s electability.

Donald’s *x’aranah / Mana is a creation of our media space controlled as it is by 20 oligarchs.

Once Donald’s chance of election affects these supporters, Donald falls to earth, as Ancient Iran’s Lord of Death Yima did.

In Iran’s ancient Avesta it is said of the Lord of Death Yima (who corresponds to Odin in Germanic cultures - for whom our Wednesday is named - and Donn in pre-Christian Ancient Ireland):

“For a long time Yima holds the ‘sovereign empire over all the lands,’ and his reign, of untold prosperity, is protected by the *x’aranah / Mana / fake polling data, those marks of divine election which guarantees and expresses the legitimacy of a king.

But one day he commits a sin.

According to the single passage that mentions it in the remaining Avesta, the sin is lying:

Donald’s extraordinary prosperity, Yast 19,33 says emphatically, lasted until ‘he lied,’ until he ‘began to think the lying word, contrary to truth.’”

Etymologically “truth” corresponds to what “is. That which exists, is positive and not illusory.”

“Rtá” is opposed to “drúh” in the ancient Indian Vedic language.

“Arta” is opposed to “druj” in the ancient Iranian Avestan language.

The idea and form of the signifier “Art” as that which is created which reveals truth stems from this.

In the language of Darius’s inscriptions, drauga, the “lie,” is essentially the attitude of rebels, of usurpers or potential usurpers who deceive the people by pretending to he “king” in place of Darius himself (Darius I (522–486 bce) founded the Achmenaid Empire that ruled Judea, Greece, and other lands for 300 years).

No-one wants to back a loser, especially the billionaire anti-loser class.

⚡️Tulsi’s Nuclear Disinfolklore Trolling

To remind myself why this relates to what we’re going to talk about today, which is Tulsi Gabbard’s meme. James, I’m 100% comfortable with you using the term meme. I use the term meme interchangeably with the term informational unit in my work, and also with the term troll — where troll describes the item of Disinfolklore, the item of information. Meme for me is more than simply a visual image, which is what we’ve come to think of it as. When the term was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, it described informational units — what I call informational units — which are communicated in cultures in the same way that genes are communicated biologically. So I’m very comfortable with that.

I discovered Disinfolklore as a narrative form in eastern Ukraine, where I gradually realised, while working in Russia-occupied Ukraine between 2015 and 2018, that what I was looking at — particular items of Disinfolklore, particular memes, particular units of information, the quotidian daily ebb and flow of news — there was a system behind it. I began to look more deeply and realised that in Russian military strategy, they have this idea of information confrontation, which has two elements: the means, which is the instances of information, and the information environment. That’s one path to what I now call a Disinfolklore galaxy — which is what Russia created inside Russia-occupied Ukraine, where every thought you have, every movement you make, every aspect of your reality, from where you work to how you get there, to the people you talk to, whether family or colleagues — every aspect is injected with Disinfolklore. Ideas meld with the actual texture of your life. Unless you profess certain memes, certain beliefs, certain informational units — if you get them wrong, you’ll lose your job. You’ll be like that ABC journalist who called Stephen Miller full of hate and lost his job. A perfect example of how the information environment impacts every aspect of your life.

That’s eastern Ukraine, where I discovered what I now call the Disinfolklore galaxy. The Disinfolklore universe is made up of many different galaxies. The MAGA Disinfolklore galaxy has many continuities, many similarities with what I saw in Russia-occupied Ukraine. Then I had this vision in early November 2024, just after the election, that what had happened to those who are part of MAGA was going to happen to all of humanity and all of America first. This became the talk I made at the Pirate Party conference in Munich during the Munich Security Conference: “Welcome to Our Disinfolklore Universe.”

Now we see this same melding of reality in everything to do with America’s relationship to Ukraine, which is primarily why we’re here — we’re interested in Ukraine and Ukraine winning. We’re hoping against hope, and I think most of us understand it’s never going to happen that America would tip the scales in favour of Ukraine. Now we’re just hoping it doesn’t tip them against Ukraine. Ukraine has been central to US politics since 2016 and the Republican National Convention in August 2016, when Paul Manafort — whose work led directly to this war in Ukraine, and who was imprisoned for operating as an unregistered agent for Ukraine’s former president — had the commitment to support Ukraine militarily taken out of the Republican National Convention’s platform.

I’ve posted before about the exact moment when MAGA went pro-Russia. Now we’ve seen reported in the last couple of days — Reuters reported two days ago, and Hegseth actually said it in Congress yesterday — that there’s evidence the United States would not fund Ukraine militarily next year. We see this path from an extraordinary secret act, which caused a fuss when publicised, to now being mainstreamed and just one of thousands of different memes invading our information space. The totality of all of these makes up what I call the Disinfolklore galaxy.

That’s my main teaching, for want of a less grand word: when we’re tuned into individual memes and informational units day to day, what is actually being arranged around us is a Disinfolklore galaxy, just as powerful as that which surrounds and embeds and encapsulates the people who went MAGA and the people in our own lives who we know went MAGA. It’s nothing about intelligence or education or learning. It’s a deliberate attempt to hack people’s brains and minds, to surround them in what the Russians call an information environment in which all of these different memes are operating all the time to ensure we do or don’t do what those creating it want us to do.

I bring up Paul Manafort because he is the dark force behind much of the division in Ukraine between 2004 and 2014. The irony of the people he worked for and MAGA claiming that the Maidan was a US-engineered coup — when the very person who supported Yanukovych, who according to his daughters’ texts we saw publicly, arranged the massacre on the Maidan in February 2014. At the time, the current Polish foreign minister was in Kyiv trying to tell the demonstrators, along with Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, to pipe down and make a deal with Yanukovych. But Yanukovych fled. And Paul Manafort now works for Donald Trump. We don’t see him in the public light, but we did see him at the National Convention last time. What we see now with Tulsi Gabbard’s video about nuclear war has all the hallmarks of this same playbook.

That’s the link between Ukraine and America — a multi-layered link. On the positive side, we have the one force in the world who can actually confront and defeat this: President Zelensky. That’s the overall conception of how my Disinfolklore perspective helps me understand what is currently going on in the United States — these demonstrations by the president, illegal orders trying to create Disinfolklore which affects the minds of ordinary citizens who don’t know which way to go. Tulsi Gabbard is throwing in with her nuclear speech a very potent weapon — a statement of intention, is how I read it — with her idea that elites don’t care about nuclear war because they’ve got shelters.

I have the Disinfolklore universe — “Welcome to Our Disinfolklore Universe” — the speech I made in Munich at the Pirate Party conference. Note, the Pirate Party itself is an example of the unreal melding with the real. They always had an intuitive sense — just as Elon Musk dresses up in superhero costumes — pirates from literature, from art, became part of their moniker. The folk heroes of pirates. They were going to be the pirates. So it was appropriate that I made the speech there. Since then, I’ve worked carefully on detailing the whole idea: the Disinfolklore narrative form and Disinfolklore Analytical Method, many different things concerning the Disinfolklore universe.

Today, when I saw Tulsi Gabbard’s Nuclear Ashes speech, I decided to apply the method — the Twelve-Tool method, an algorithm we can learn in our own minds to interpret any informational unit, any meme, whether it’s a photograph or a picture. We see them sometimes in the English information space, and we’re probably seeing them in Northern Ireland at the moment, where there are riots because two alleged immigrants have allegedly attempted rape. As a result, we see tumult and communal riots. This is a perennial theme in Disinfolklore and indeed in Indo-European thought: outsiders, immigrants, come into the inner realm and affect its fertility. It’s either the sovereignty, the security, or the fertility — always one of those three themes. These are the essential archetypes in Indo-European societies, according to the great theorists of Indo-European language, linguistics and religion. Since I realised this, we can use it as a tool for analysing whether it’s riots in Ballymena in Northern Ireland. I haven’t looked into it yet, but it won’t surprise me if Telegram is somehow involved in stirring this hatred.

I decided to apply the method because it should be useful for us to understand what Tulsi Gabbard is doing. We see it — it comes up on our Twitter feed. This is what I’m trying to do. I’m not trying to write academic theses. I’m trying to understand what the people leading our communities are doing or trying to do, whether in Ukraine, whether it’s the Russians. The Russians show us where this leads, because they’ve created this nightmare inside Russia, as has the CCP and North Korea and Iran — communities deeply embedded in Disinfolklore, where they use these stories to hack the minds of their population.

I applied the method to the Tulsi Gabbard video because it’s archetypal Disinfolklore, really what she’s doing there. The moment I saw the aesthetics, I thought of a video a Ukrainian friend from eastern Ukraine sent me about a year into the war — a really strange artefact. She was asking me what I made of it. She didn’t really understand it, but she felt attracted by it. It was a man in a very 1970s aesthetic, like we might remember from the news in the 1970s, but he was talking about ultra-hypermodern things — how war in Ukraine was going to lead to an environmental catastrophe, and really we should be focused on global warming. The aesthetics of Tulsi’s video reminded me of this, because it communicated this mood of darkness, like being in a forest, of just feeling off. It’s so cynically and carefully produced — even her hair.

I haven’t paid much attention to her because I try to control what enters my mind. This is in fact the first time I’ve probably ever watched anything consciously by her. But to see this grey hair strand, reminiscent of Lily Munster from *The Munsters* — it’s deliberate archetyping as a witch. To put us in that space, our minds in this negative space. And then the imagery flashed up: the darkness of the background aesthetics, then the imagery of ashes. To someone like me who tries to control what goes into my mind, this came out of nowhere. I don’t understand what prompted it in terms of the news cycle. Is she responding to something? Or is this an artefact pumped into our space? Either way, it is a very deliberate announcement, in my interpretation, of what we see going on — the activation of the National Guard, the military parade in DC — that she is announcing that this coup, which they have been prosecuting since the 2020 election results were first disputed, they’re really going for it now. They’re not happy with how things are going.

I applied the Archetypal Disinfolklore Literacy tool — Tool 1 — and got to this idea of her deliberately archetyping herself as a witch-like figure, like Lily Munster, with the wisp of grey hair, and the archetypes of nuclear war, ashes, elites. It’s replete with archetypes.

The Incoming/Outgoing Troll Radars — Tool 2 — should obviously always be switched on when you’re on Twitter, because everything there could be a troll designed to affect our emotions and hack our rational thought processes. The overall idea Gabbard’s video communicates is fear, a negative mood which has the power to overcome our radars, so that we allow this in — even just wondering, “Why is she talking about nuclear ashes?” It goes into our inner mind, and we start getting worried. This triggers different thought routines and traumas, deliberately provoked by the aesthetics, the mood, the words, her expression, the strangeness of this coming from the head of sixteen national intelligence agencies. This is as deep state as you get. And here she is archetyping herself as not part of the elite — who she says have nuclear bomb shelters and are therefore trying to spark a nuclear war. Which is itself nonsense, because just because you’ve got a shelter doesn’t mean you’re going to spark a war.

Tool 3 is looking for the mana in the meme — trying to find the energy. The energy is communicated through the mood, the darkness, the messaging. But what is she actually saying? I heard several discussions today about what she was saying, and people have different interpretations. It works on so many levels. But for me, the ultimate energy is a statement. Mana for me is an energy in memes. You look for what the energy is — the different levels, negative or positive, what it’s saying, what it’s doing, what’s the intention. For me, the intention is to say: “We are going to protect you. If you surrender to us, we’ll protect you from this nuclear war which the elite, the outer-realm people, want to start.” And for those of us who don’t fall for that, the message is: “We’re so powerful that there’s nothing you can do. You’re powerless. We’ll arrest you. The army will shoot you.”

Tool 4 is the inner-outer realm immanences. Every item of Disinfolklore — whether it’s a picture of a dark-skinned individual ogling a classic European female, a trope I see often in the English information space — is about inner realm and outer realm. Migrants coming in to take away the fertility of the inner realm, the daughter of the inner-realm people. That’s really what the anti-migration discourse is doing — taking away the sense of security in our communities. This inner-outer realm immanence was deeply embedded in Gabbard’s message. It was a minute and twenty seconds long. But the main message is: there is an elite who have nuclear bomb shelters, who will be protected, and they are the ones stirring nuclear war. She could easily have said this is Russia, this is the CCP. But she didn’t. She left it open to interpretation — which in itself, from my perspective, is a statement that she and the people she works for are all working together, whether it’s her boss, the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians, the North Koreans. All nuclear powers. She could have said they were the ones threatening us — a Ronald Reagan-type stance, or an axis-of-evil framing. But she didn’t. She left it to the MAGA interpretation. This has been built on decades of this idea, especially in America, of cities as lawless lands, where the MAGA base lives in safe communities. The people I know, my relatives who’ve gone MAGA, are quite wealthy and safe, but even from a young age they’ve been going on about how unsafe the cities are. What’s happening in the information space about LA is built on decades of this outer-realm idea.

Tool 5 is the idea I got from the Dalai Lama and the great psychologist Paul Ekman, who did this amazing work available online called the Atlas of Emotions. They have this system, which I adapt into the Disinfolklore Analytical Method: Trigger, Experience, Reaction. Any of the emotional journeys we go on each day — thousands, millions perhaps — whether scrolling down our timeline or in real life with work, spouses, children, pets, or walking down the street as stimuli bounce off us. All of us who are experts in filtering and responding to information — we may not understand how amazing we are at this now, simply from being on Twitter. We have so many algorithms in our mind to filter things out. But ultimately, we’re being taken on oodles of emotional journeys.

In the Ekman–Dalai Lama model: there’s a trigger, we experience a feeling — disgust, sadness, one of the five emotions — and then we react. The message is that once you separate the experience from the reaction, you can avoid falling for the troll or sharing it. We talked last time about the conference in Moscow, where famous people have gone, and many of us shared pictures of them — which, from my perspective, is part of the purpose of the conference. We react to the experience by sharing it.

With the Tulsi Gabbard video, the experience I had was curiosity. My reaction is this monologue. As soon as I saw it, I thought: let me apply the Disinfolklore Analytical Method.

The other six tools — the Code of Positive Trolls — I won’t go through now. But the most important one for me here was Generosity. There was nothing generous in what she was saying. Nothing positive. It wasn’t even a cynical attempt to please us. It was a cynical attempt to put us at dis-ease. For that reason, it’s a perfect example of Disinfolklore — as indeed is what we see when Russia sends missiles into Ukraine and then broadcasts the footage, or conducts human safaris, which we talked about the other week when the UN reports came out, where they’re using Telegram to send FPV drone footage. They’re boasting about it. They’re creating Disinfolklore.

This is the same thing I saw in eastern Ukraine, where reality — the pictures of burning cars in a tiny area of LA — is being used repeatedly by the mainstream media as a pretext to create what I call the Disinfolklore galaxy, to really depressing ends, unless more of us wake up to it.

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