El Mayo last year, who is like the biggest goldmine of cartel intelligence you could wish for
the probably is we had to give the ham on rye. to hold the mayo
They probably wanted to emulate the Twitter Files drop and capture its hype,
IIRC people fucking hated the twitter files, the way they had multiple people over weeks drop bits and pieces was terrible and worked aganist them because people stopped reading after the first thread if they did even that because twitter is terrible for long messages like that, it was before they increased character count as well so each thread was about 90 tweets long.
At this in my opinion the Epstien list is kinda like Rorschachs journal
the difference is Epstein has been dead for half a decade now and even if we killed off everyone on his fucking logs, it wouldn't really hurt too badly now because so many younger people can just take the reigns and thrive now. like i highly doubt Vance would have been on his radar. in general it seems very few people born after the 1960s were on his radar unless they were literal sex slaves.
Like do people really think the world would end without Matt Groening or Tom Hanks?
I think part of it was Doc's watchmaking autism was how he was able to reassemble himself atom-by-atom?
If you read the chapter its almost exactly that, it also explains his whole character too, despite being all powerful, he isn't a man of agency. his dad forced watchmaking then scientist on him, his friends and lovers all basically decided it for him. he was the quintessential wimp, the nerd stuffed in lockers. Him suddenly being an all powerful being didn't change his personality. IIRC the government told him to stop crime too. he makes only a handful of decisions on his own. When you follow his plot it makes more sense as well for him instead of the squid, the squid despite being hyped up by the comic lovers is very disappointing and you only see parts of it on one page. the CGI involved would have been silly as shit too. the way the book lovers hype it up its like taking out Ron from Harry Potter.
Doc's entire arc is him being painted as having a screw loose, the botched interview where he zaps an entire room of journos and then fucks off from the planet entirely, between that and the smears it makes sense logically for him to just declare war on humanity, plus it doesn't lead to such a rugpull when Adrian "kills" him only for him to rebuild himself in seconds. Adrian outsmarting him in Doc's true weakness, not having humanity or drive or passion. Doc was already such a "thousand yard stare" "dead on the inside" corpse of a person that it would be very easy to turn him into a monster, its so apparent that in that before watchman series they literally retcon him into a holocaust survivor to explain why he was so "off" even when he was still human.
