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Fortunately (for now, anyway) Waterman doesn't have the low cunning and manipulative PR skills necessary to elevate himself through the constantly fracturing and re-bifurcating strata of Truther influencing. He'd be getting along much better if he found a compatible off-shoot of QAnon nutbaggery to latch on to and hone his craft on.

His chosen Companies House Galactic Fraud schtick isn't going to get him much further. Not very sexy, is it? Fucksake, the man doesn't even drop in an occasional "lizard people" or "Cheggers drinks adrenochrome"!

Waterman needs a new lost cause to promote. Something more populist and recognisable amongst the unhinged, mouth-breathing conspiracy ecosystem cognosenti. Something guaranteed to loosen those purse strings and get those donations flowing, and to convince some weak-minded lost souls to sow the first seeds of a Wayerman mini-cult.

Not much chance of that by the looks of things, but weirder things have happened before, eh?

My ears did prick up, however, at the first mention on your podcast of "Arrest squads", and it reminded me instantly of the truly evil 'QAnon Queen of Canada, Romana Didulo', whose work I'm sure you've bumped into on you travels through the Truther sewers. In case you needed to lay your hands on a good primer on this truly horrible psychopath of a woman and her cult, here's something to stare at while you dunk your Hobnobs:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/the-rise-of-romana-didulo-self-described-queen-of-canada-and-what-she-s-up-to-now-1.6799946

Vice News have covered her astounding rise very well, all available on YouTube. She's a terrifying example of the genre.

I mention all this because I bet my bottom dollar that a large number of grifters have cast an envious eye over Didulo's progress hoping to get inspiration from her.

Anyhoo, it's "Toodles" for now. Keep up the fantastic, entertaining work!

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Thank you for your kind and well-considered words.

I am indeed aware of the Queen of Canada, but she's probably too well-covered to be worth me spending my time on. I'm not sure if there's anything new or original I can say about her. At times, my regulars (such as Mark Steele) can become very boring so I might end up going back on this.

Gary's choice of grift is indeed an odd one: You will often find people agreeing with him, but if asked can almost never summarize precisely what they've just agreed with. The whole idea of the companies house fraud is so nebulous and confusing that it's impossible to pin him down on just what the nature of this conspiracy really is.

I think that more mainstream truthers tend to find this annoying: Laura Nina, for example is mainly concerned with home evictions. Mad Mix is into just about everything and mostly comes-across as an anti-government anarchist type. Gary, by comparison changes his pattern every few weeks.

Not so long ago, he was an environmental activist. He took up this companies house grift, seemingly in response to being sacked as a director of his freehold company. And recently he's been watching Mark Steele videos and has started to repeat Steele's nonsense about ULEZ cameras and lamp-post energy weapons.

Worse of all, Gary has "popped up" seemingly from nowhere. The other truthers have observed, quite correctly that Waterman doesn't put in any of the legwork. He doesn't go to any meetings, protests or events. But despite this, he's claiming a sort of leadership role that he just hasn't earned. I can see how that might upset a few people.

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Your investigative knowledge of Gary is far deeper than mine, obvs. It's interesting/telling that he clearly seems to be grasping for relevancy by jumping on other people's trains. Yes, his authorititive tendency shines through when he suggests a coalition of the unhinged, led by him. As you say, his request that everyone gives him their data is hilarious. It might finish him off if he can't find a catchy conspiracy to latch on to.

Regarding Didulo, I never thought you'd spend your effort on her. I was just referring to her, really. I think she has painted herself into a corner over there. The pandemic which catapulted her to fame is in most countries' rear-view-mirror for now, so the central plank of her appeal is faded and increasingly irrelevant. She has to maintain her control now over her core cult disciples, most of whom are completely penniless because of her. Don't know where she'll find fresh victims unless bird flu suddenly erupts and saves her.

I'm sure, btw, that if Labour wins the GE Mark Steele's mind will slightly implode and he'll launch a raft of nutty opportunistic videos.

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Steele is in the same unfortunate boat. During the lockdown he was a conspiracy superstar: He was a mainstage headliner. Now he can barely quarter fill a room above a pub in his home town. He doesn't really have an audience anymore, and like Gary he's trying out new gifts to see if one might stick. So far it hasn't worked.

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Brilliant !!! You have a new fan here !

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Top work sir! I’m very much looking forward to your video on Richard Lyndsey (aka Vobes).. I’ve been following him for quite sometime with equal hilarity and disgust. I’ve even thought about writing a script for a comedy series based on his life it’s that ridiculous. I’m sure you probably know this already but it’s worth checking in to his daily morning podcast called the ‘Naked Englishman’ for some classic, deranged sound bites. There was one in the last few months where he was praising Hitler and showing his complete denial of the Holocaust. I need to start writing down episode numbers…for evidence. He’s a very messed up individual like all the other grifting, Truth..bullshit…ers.. keep up the good work!

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Holy crapola, I was completely unaware of this aspect of Mr Vobes, or anything about his back-story. If you have the patience to communicate with me, could you kindly email me on raynardwilson@protonmail.com - I'd love to know anything you can tell me.

I listened with utter horror to his episode in which he described he ideal policy platform. One that stuck in my mind was that he believed that we should completely dismantle the UK arms industry and leave our country defenseless against the kind of aggressor who is currently messing up Ukraine. He's the very definition of a useful idiot.

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I just sent you a horrific picture. I apologize.

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Full of shit you mate

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Care to be more specifc?

I often get truthers coming here to complain that I said something they disagree with, but it's funny how they never seem to be able to say exactly what the matter is. It's weird how they become tounge-tied the minute I ask them to explain what they mean.

Could it be that your silence is because you don't really know? Perhaps all along you were just repeating stuff you barely understood from conspiracy theory videos you saw on YouTube.

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