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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 2025This material may be protected by copyright.]⚡️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