To start with, this post is commentary on publicly available information, as opposed to a personal attack based on unrelated issues. The latter keeps being presumed of any critic, provided that there’s any bad blood. In my case, there wasn’t. Quite the opposite. Discovering the current state of affairs in terms of his message and followers was both shocking and saddening.

Many years ago, roughly a decade, Thomas Sheridan had come across as a humanist with solid moral values, vehemently opposing the rhetoric and practices he engages in today. Talks he had given indicated he abhorred murder, narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, racism, bigotry, religious zealotry, jingoism, colonialism, political demagoguery, cults, grifting by professional truth-seekers and so forth.

In recent years, since the Trump-fellating train (pardon my French) offered a financial opportunity to content creators, he has made a turn on every single aspect, mass murder included, to cater to the expanding far-right. Today he promotes racism, war, genocide, nativist hysteria, extreme tribalism and generally, dehumanising anyone outside of his line of thought.

Once noticed, the noxious effect on followers was too deep to ignore, especially after the racist riots in the UK and Ireland this summer. That’s exactly where his discourse leads – pogroms.

In a stream a few months ago, Sheridan described the Tribe, a name he had come up with for his audience, as a group opposing woke globalists. His followers, many of them Pagan, display the behaviour of a cult, with his encouragement. This includes the following:

  • Isolating themselves from friends, family and society because of their political and spiritual beliefs (with his endorsement);
  • Seeing vast swathes of the world’s population as less than human, irreversibly corrupted (such as by taking the Covid vaccine) or genetically inferior – remember Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow?
  • Believing that their political opposition is possessed by demons and controlled by aliens, literally; also that they can be affected by demons by mere eye contact with the enemy;
  • Believing that there’s a plot to exterminate them by exterminating the white race, and that they’re fighting for their lives in real time (the great replacement and white genocide antisemitic conspiracy theories);
  • Claiming Sheridan is the most reliable source on geopolitics, which he rants about with zero evidence shown of his theories;
  • Claiming Sheridan has the ultimate wisdom in terms of spiritual matters;
  • Believing that Sheridan has supernatural powers by practicing magic, or that they do as well;
  • Believing that the left is attacking them spiritually, to take their happiness and dispossess them of their souls;
  • Believing that reality itself has recently shifted, as opposed to them being brainwashed, antisocial and dysfunctional;
  • Other issues I listed in this post and here, without naming the guru in question. The first link contains a flurry of comments demonstrating the impact of the brainwashing on followers’ lives.

This isn’t just a white nationalist group (as if that weren’t bad enough); the agitation is doused in religion. Gods and demons are brought into it. Black and white thinking. Extinction/ mass death is discussed with alarming frequency, a recent video claiming it may have already happened. Followers’ reality is so distorted that major aspects of their daily functioning are affected. Some won’t even leave their houses, as they will run into the enemy at the supermarket (leftists, “normies”, the vaccinated, “NPCs”, minorities – anyone who might not think like them, generally). Some followers sage themselves after outdoor excursions, to remove the unclean energy, supposedly picked up from random strangers. They are only safe with the Pureblood Tribe.

This is an actual psychotic state, while Sheridan loves referring to his detractors as psychotic and unstable.

Why name the guru belatedly? It may be of marginal help to those who are considering distancing themselves, or joining, to at least point out the contradictions in his rhetoric. Most of these people seem far gone, aspiring to a compound in the woods scenario, but who knows.

Slight detour

Years before embracing white nationalism, Thomas Sheridan appeared to be a voice of reason and moderation in the “alternative scene”, ridiculing crazed agitators or claims related to aliens, reptilians etc. ruling the planet. He spoke against alienating one’s environment after “waking up” (especially family and friends) or breaking the law for the sake of it. He seemed to have people’s best interest in mind.

Thomas is a gifted speaker, able to blend a strong message into anecdotes, using humour to relax the audience and make himself likeable, as well as relatable. One may not even notice the bold unsubstantiated claims in a long rant, unless they have their fences up and are carefully analysing what he says.

Almost a decade ago, I had a brief correspondence with him, based on shared interest in an online community purporting to guide victims of narcissistic and psychopathic abuse, doing more harm than good. To my knowledge, no one in that community had a psychology degree, enabling them to claim expertise. They had turned their mission into a spiritual crusade, giving off Copeland vibes. He didn’t have one either, being the initial founder – sadly, he was not the exception to the rule that one needs a psychology degree to write psychology books.

In the few conversations we had, he was always kind and polite. When his content started sounding iffy (sudden Trump adulation, after having ridiculed Trump the year before), I felt bad about suspecting disingenuity and opportunism. He didn’t seem the type, though he was clearly orbiting a space of heavy grifting. Some creators, like Dave Cullen, claimed to have converted to Christianity at the time, making it public to appeal to Trump’s base of Christian fascists and European sympathisers.

During the pandemic, there was now a group around Thomas and it had a name, which is never a good sign. The comment sections got crazier. However, I was listening sporadically and not paying enough attention so as to discern if those attitudes were being encouraged by him directly (like followers referring to themselves as Pureblood for having refused the vaccine, in opposition to the now genetically tainted masses). Audience members can be overzealous after all.

To this day, many still praise him for having gotten them through the pandemic with his conspiracy theories. These weren’t the worst affected people; they likely didn’t get the virus or lose someone to it, since they don’t think it was real. They did suffer mentally, relying on YouTube content for company – mana from heaven for someone like him.

In 2024, it became clear that he was supporting the genocide in Gaza (after years of talking about psychopathology, no less) and campaigning for the far-right in his own country, in an openly racist manner, claiming to speak for the majority; this proved not to be the case at all, according to election results.

While years ago he deplored hysteria-inducers like Alex Jones, who made you want to curl up under a table (paraphrasing), flying saucer cults, the mass murder of Palestinians by Israel, the “freemen of the land” (noncompliance with laws for the sake of it) and armchair psychologists conducting witch hunts, he ended up almost hypnotising his followers into a state of existential fear.

In fact, compared to him, in terms of toxicity, the online community we were discussing would be a -10. At least their spiel, misleading as it was, didn’t cause race riots. Sheridan didn’t criticise them out of principle either, as he went on to armchair-diagnose strangers with personality disorders, and still does to this day, simply pointing the finger. One example would be this video:

Proud inhabitant of Peaceville.

Truthfully, the fact that I didn’t know, by dismissing the criticism surrounding his work, is my own fault. The criticism did come from a flying saucer cult, but withstood the test of time, as Sheridan is deeply unserious about psychology, weaponising and sensationalising it, as the PF crowd and others had done before him, after having plagiarised the vernacular around narcissism from Prof. Sam Vaknin.

I have zero doubts that had the crowd at Psychopath Free not expelled Thomas so unceremoniously, prompted by the flying saucer cult, he would’ve continued on this lucrative path of proliferating half-assed, diluted or embellished material on that platform, with the rest of them, likely engaging in the same behaviour towards abuse victims.

In recent months, Thomas has talked about imminent civil wars across Europe, the planned extermination of the white race, demon-possessed leftists and interdimensional Marxist aliens.

He can say anything to his followers, however detached from reality. That’s just the thing. They no longer inhabit this reality. They inhabit a nightmare of his and other grifters’ making, aided by whatever mental afflictions they may have, like depression, paranoia, schizoid tendencies, avoidance, referential thinking etc. And no, I’m not individually diagnosing them. There are certain conditions associated with fearing others irrationally and withdrawing from life, that someone like him, seeking to foster adulation and dependence, can easily exploit.

Warning signs

While it’s not uncommon for public figures to fall out with collaborators or supporters, in Sheridan’s case, these events take epic proportions (or rather, he treats them as such). Over the years he has made many claims of being attacked by demons through his critics.

It’s never a case of someone vehemently disagreeing with his message and arguing he has a negative impact – it’s always a personal vendetta, jealousy, hatred or demonic possession. That in and of itself should raise serious questions, but it never does.

Describing his critics as motivated by extreme emotion distracts from what they are saying, which I assume is the intention.

When critics are female, his go-to retort is accusing them of having sought an intimate relationship with him (which they deny, with one person disproving this publicly in 2019, getting him to apologise). This happened with at least 3 women (that I’ve read). There are likely more, since this is an entrenched tactic.

In 2015 or so, he used to impugn his former collaborators at Psychopath Free for “keeping dossiers” on people they interacted with (like forum mods or members), for future use, akin to a cult. Unsurprisingly, it appears that he does the same thing.

That’s precisely what makes such platforms (and individuals), unregulated and unaccountable, a hazard for people in crisis. I remember well how terrified former PF members were of the disclosures they had made while vulnerable being used against them. The practice put the platform in a catch 22, as it was antithetical to their stated mission, and at the same time, it was their organising principle.

Having portrayed himself as someone who cared about victims of psychopathic and narcissistic abuse, and an expert on the topic, Sheridan was approached in the same manner by people seeking advice. In droves, actually. This dynamic of storing kompromat has a chilling effect; if they later realise he’s disingenuous, they are scared to say anything, although the likelihood of real life repercussions is fairly small.

In a normal situation, one should be able to criticise what a public figure says and the impact they are having. However, if one is afraid of being doxxed and having their lowest moments dissected and mocked, a daily occurrence at PF and I assume in Sheridan’s cult (after the way he treated 2 women in 2019, it’s a fair assumption), they become reluctant. Personally, I don’t give a shit. I’m not that interesting.

Much like the PF crowd, Sheridan doesn’t necessarily want to be seen as someone who collects kompromat for future use against critics. He boasts of playing mind games with people to destabilise them (which are embarrassingly unsubtle), instead of engaging in clear and open discourse, like normal people. Again, this should raise red flags, but it doesn’t.

The primary message is for group/ cult members and it goes like this: if you ever have any issue with what I’m saying or doing, keep it to yourself, or else.

It’s a very efficient trick – but it’s the only one these types have. They are one trick ponies.

Democracy versus authoritarianism

As the 2024 European Parliament elections loomed, Sheridan, who routinely discussed his own countrymen with contempt, dubbing them brainwashed by the woke media, suddenly believed in populism. Populism was the voice of the people, regarded by the proverbial elites as a disease. Let’s make it a pestilence, he said. If they didn’t vote for John Waters and people like him, civil war would surely follow – and since the Irish could not be defeated, minorities would lose. He was envisaging mass deportation, the peaceful way, or mass slaughter.

He talked about people with foreign-sounding names and foreign-looking faces, aka non-white, running in local elections. Obviously, non-white citizens are not Irish in his view (they never could be), and should not dare run for office sporting a brown face. His audience agreed.

As further proof that Waters voters/ Thomas’s followers don’t see Irish citizens of colour as Irish, you can read this story in the Irish Independent, about a woman raised in Ireland who, last month, was punched in the face on public transport in Dublin. She was punched by a man she didn’t know, simply for being black, after his mate had given her racial abuse. “Ireland is full”, he had said after merely seeing a black face on a crowded tram.

Before anyone says “wait, Thomas is preoccupied with the logistics of Ireland being overpopulated and the strain on public services” – he has repeatedly talked about the demography of certain areas changing and seeing people of colour on the streets, which rightfully bothers white natives.

John Waters is known for spreading the great replacement theory (the great replacement being blamed by adherents on Jews), as well as his Catholicism and appeal to Catholics who want to see a return of the church’s might in Ireland – something Sheridan claims to despise, nonetheless going along with the modern degeneracy caper, based only on Abrahamic teachings. For what logical reason, no one knows, as according to him, he can’t stand Abrahamic religions. The one thing seeming to unite them is racism/ xenophobia. That’s enough, apparently.

Sheridan described the matter with such urgency you’d think voters would be climbing through windows and down the attic, in a rush to endorse their saviours, Waters and McGurk. To quell the suspense, John Waters got around 2% of the vote. Una McGurk, less than 1%.

Queue the meltdown. Populism is the voice of the people flipped to most people shouldn’t be allowed to vote and it’s best to stay indoors to avoid the general public. Just like that.

One has to wonder why Sheridan and similar agitators reject the observation that they’re authoritarian. They clearly have no respect for democracy. He went straight from claiming he spoke for the majority to – when proven extremely wrong – claiming most people were too stupid to participate in elections, and his way was still the right one, to hopefully be imposed on said majority someday, somehow.

The same for Dave Cullen, another one of Sheridan’s mates, a “western values and Catholicism” promoter. Democracy is a western value. They have no respect for it.

The 2024 riots

What Sheridan pushes is poisonous, not only to adherents, as their own comments prove, but also the people they may harm, as we’ve seen recently. The racist riots were started by people convinced their countries’ ills were overwhelmingly being caused by non-natives (in their view, any person of colour, citizens included, any Muslim, any immigrant and especially refugees and asylum seekers).

First there was Coolock, where Sheridan described the arson at Crown Paints, a disused factory designated to house asylum seekers, as primordial and alchemical fire. He also claimed the “old gods” were with the rioters, who were “descendants of the Vikings” and “couldn’t lose”. That was obviously an encouragement to continue towards an imminent victory, with no cautioning regarding one criminal act or another.

Although, when challenged, he later argued fire had been a metaphor, one only has to listen – the video is 100% an endorsement of the riots, from the motive and character of rioters to their supposed divine help, the place being near Thor’s Grove. Gods, as we all know, have a designated perimeter, like those resurrected people in Glitch. I guess the courthouse, where the hooligans were later charged with offences, was out of frequency.

The author of the pinned comment intended to write the Tribe, instead of the most unfortunate typo. The tripe.

To Sheridan’s credit, he didn’t advise this individual to kill a random horse:

That one line places Sheridan in the position of knowing what the gods want his followers to do, in relation to politicians (a nonexistent concept when Paganism thrived). The follow-up should’ve been I’m curious as to how you reached that conclusion. Ironically, if it was common practice in Pagan times, it would make more sense to sacrifice a horse (at least it would have some connection to the religion).

The following commenter must’ve watched The Mummy too many times:

It wasn’t Belenus. It was petrol bombs.

An interesting comment came from someone so averse to reality they refused to believe locals had set fire to the factory, or that they had rioted, despite recordings being made public. That’s what happens when one is trained to disbelieve their own eyes. It’s a conundrum for the guru when he wants them to support a real event – they’re so detached they won’t believe it’s happening.

Weeks later, in the UK, similar riots lasted for more than two weeks, terrorising ethnic minorities – including in Northern Ireland, where white nationalists stomped on a black man’s head for the colour of his skin, landing him in the hospital in serious condition. The same impetus drove mobs to homicidal behaviour in England, including setting fires to hotels, while people were inside. Others destroyed shops and burned a library, whilst others organised “race checks” on a public road, stopping drivers to check if they were white, to determine if they should pass or not.

These were the exact same types as in Coolock, with the exact same motive. Vandals, arsonists, people who beat up police officers – as if the police had any choice but to intervene and should’ve allowed them to torch and smash property or try to murder people.

This time around, as white nationalists were being swiftly charged with online incitement, Sheridan didn’t claim “primordial and alchemical fire” had been set to those hotels, in hopes of burning people alive. In fact, he stayed completely silent during the UK riots (on YouTube at least), emerging later to discourage his flock from participating in violence, telling them to lie in wait for more auspicious circumstances.

The gods, you see, are only with you when you commit the violence and arson. They then delegate to an overworked public defender.

In the same video, he claimed the world was being run by Marxists, who in turn were being run by aliens, when Marxism was a mere product of the exploitation of the working class in Marx’s day – something Sheridan pretends to decry right now. He argued Kier Starmer (who in reality, purged the left from Labour, is borderline right-wing and has financial ties to the Israel lobby), was a radical Marxist who would be the UK’s Pol Pot. Sheridan then described the Cambodian genocide and Year 0, projecting it onto the UK in 2024, to frighten the briefs off his followers. Starmer does support a genocide, of course – the one in Palestine, also endorsed by Sheridan.

If Starmer is a radical leftist, or a leftist for that matter, I am Pope Francis. It sounds like a comedy skit, and something deeply unserious (yet again) on purpose, yet Tribe members believe it all. It’s part of their “comfort” rhetoric on how the left is always trying to kill them.

To be clear, even after the UK riots, Sheridan didn’t say the rioters’ actions were morally objectionable or had gone too far – just that it wasn’t the right time.

The last comment is particularly ironic, since her guru feeds off hatred and despondency, not to mention paranoia.

One is only considered to be inciting a riot if they specifically take part while it’s happening, directing others to certain locations, encouraging them to commit certain acts etc. Years of brainwashing followers to hate other races, other religions or persuasions, to the point of depicting an imminent fight to the death, do not count. These types are free to retreat while numb skulls commit vandalism, assaults, arson, attempted murder/murder, to then resume the poison spewing as soon as things have calmed down. This cycle can repeat ad infinitum, until they go too far out of arrogance, like Alex Jones did.

Demagogues will blame each surge of violence on the current state of affairs, excluding their rhetoric from the equation. I told you this would happen – when they are, in fact, making it happen, by putting their spin on issues like immigration or asylum seeking.

Dismissing the genocide in Gaza

Sheridan does not apply the same logic of inevitable rebellion to defend one’s ethnic group and land to the Palestinians, regardless of the 76 years of oppression, including torture and regular murder sprees. He claims it’s Europeans, and not Palestinians, who are currently being subjected to colonialism, apartheid and genocide, proving zero understanding of all notions or extreme dishonesty (or both). It’s grotesque, surreal, to utter such words while social media is filled with images of destroyed towns and murdered families.

To Sheridan, apartheid is the presence of ethnic minorities in a white majority country, clustered in less affluent neighborhoods, and not the actual meaning of the word. Genocide, according to him, means reducing the racial purity of a country through immigration and race mixing. Unsurprisingly, elements in his audience are nostalgic for the olden days in South Africa:

At face value, his take on Palestine is a flagrant contradiction of his claim that natives have a duty to defend their land, also analysed in this post. Supporting Israel is the current white nationalist chorus; he is obliged to sing along to the tune of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage, whose voters he caters to.

In 2014, Sheridan had written a blog post decrying Israel’s massacre of Gazan civilians during Operation Protective Edge, and supporting the BDS movement. In the same post, he had focused on Russell Brand, who was apparently “not discussing” the issue – one has to wonder whether his sudden moral outrage was just an opportunity to impugn fellow slippery grifter Brand. The focus on Brand, seemingly coming out of nowhere, was certainly odd. Years prior, Sheridan had said that the Middle East was not his fight.

In 2024, once again, there is nothing wrong with mass murder in his opinion, especially since most of the victims are Muslim families (he didn’t say that in connection to Palestine, but he incites against Muslims often). He repeats the war propaganda of the mainstream media (the lying mainstream media, as Trump, his inspiration, had dubbed it). Luckily for him, his followers don’t watch TV, so they likely don’t know what he is parroting.

Of all the issues for a person to be shifty on, the acceptability of mass murder is a curious one. It makes you wonder whether they have any principles at all, or if they change with the wind, according to what their current audience wants to hear.

Hilariously, he accused peace demonstrators, who demanded a ceasefire in Gaza, of endangering Jewish people – the same person who pushes the antisemitic conspiracy theories of white genocide/ the great replacement. Never mind that many Jewish people, including prominent voices, are involved in peace demonstrations for Palestine. And never mind that his content attracts those who hate Jews, as can be seen in almost every comment section.

Even more hilariously, this person wrote books about psychopathology. Forget Sutcliffe, Brady, Saville – the state of Israel is massacring and maiming innocent people in the tens of thousands, celebrating it. If that isn’t psychopathology, at least in those engineering the genocide, what on earth would be worthy of this label?

The world, minus the Pureblood Tribe, is to be avoided

Here’s where we get a little deeper into the cult aspect, besides issues already mentioned, such as telling followers that eye contact with anti-racists would result in demons drawing energy from them. Especially your children, he said, as in leftist demons are coming for your children. Never mind how inappropriate it is to bring children to such a march, to be filmed with a crowd of angry racists, which might follow them around later or be seen by their communities in real time. They are likely not allowed non-white friends, like in the old days, but regardless. It’s extremely unfair.

This is a form of information control, as described in the BITE Model, by prodding followers to fear any interaction with detractors, thereby avoiding any information coming from them.

Has any follower ever wondered just how many sections of the world’s population Thomas Sheridan was trying to get them to hate or distrust simultaneously?

Let’s embark on this exercise, shall we?

There are currently around 8 billion people on this planet. This number fluctuates, of course, with daily births and deaths. Some of these categories will obviously overlap, but just so you get an idea of this person’s extremism and wish to create an exclusionary psychological corner of the world.

As with every cult, the world’s population is divided into three categories – the group, the enemy (comprised of multiple groups), and the rest, aka normies/ the uninitiated, who might turn either way, hence an attempt to convert them should be made.

“Normies”

Normies are people who accept (at least some) mainstream narratives regarding the state of their countries, of the world, of current events, of what culture should be like in the 21st Century etc. At least declaratively, as adherents can’t possibly know what they are thinking. People who have not “woken up” in a conspicuous way, flaunting it, like the adherent, or employ caution and logic when being peddled conspiracy theories.

In other words, they are the rest of the planet, to be treated with contempt and pity. This notion will be cast upon most of the adherent’s immediate environment – family, friends, work colleagues, employers; at times even spouses, with dire consequences. The road from normie to NPC is as very short one.

The enemy

  • Muslims – 1.9 billion (estimated);
  • Black people – 1.2 billion (estimated);
  • Arabs – 473.27 million;
  • Left wing or left-leaning people

This includes people only preoccupied with advancing the rights of the working class, all the way to the most radical progressives, who don’t believe biological sex is real. These extremely different factions are all lumped into one category.

  • The “jabbed” (people who took the Covid vaccine) – 1 billion

In this video, Sheridan went completely antivax, which can have serious consequences if he convinces followers not to immunise their children against infectious diseases. A core tenet of the Tribe is that those who got the Covid vaccine are now mentally impaired.

People who took the sacred needlecraft aren’t human anymore.

  • Christians – 2.38 billion;
  • Trans people – 1.6 million;
  • LGBT people in general – approximately 8% of the global population;
  • Atheists – 450-500 million;
  • People who attend or support Pride and similar events

No estimates are possible, however, it’s a substantial number across the globe, as such events take place in many countries.

  • “NPCs”

This is an arbitrarily given label, not much different from “normies”, but with a further dehumanising quality to it. Adherents describe NPCs as soulless, akin to the Zombies category envisioned by Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow.

According to knowyourmeme.com, the term refers to the following:

In September 2018, users 4chan applied the terminology to real-life people they deemed devoid of individuality and decision-making, those they considered to blindly follow the lead without giving anything any real thought, or even having inner monologue – sheeple, if you will. That was the time the so-called NPC Wojak, a grey Wojak character with a blank expression used to depict such individuals, went viral, and the term “NPC” was first used to insult people.

Tribe members seem to ascribe this label to anyone they have an unpleasant interaction with, however brief.

  • The leaders and governments of each European country, minus far-right ones;
  • Any supranational institution, like the EU;
  • Legislators (parliamentarians);
  • Civil servants;
  • The police;
  • University professors and students;
  • Academics in general;
  • Journalists (even those with a proven record of bravery and consistency – they are few but they exist);
  • Teachers (supposedly they are trying to enforce diversity in children and corrupt them);
  • Clergy;
  • Feminists.

Sheridan wants his followers to see the world in black and white. The groups he designates as the enemy deserve blanket hatred, dismissal, distrust, non-cooperation by default. There might be more categories he preaches against, but off the top of my head, that would be the list.

The world is indeed a messed up place. There is a genocide happening right now, with international structures failing to stop it. The biggest problem on this planet is not one group or another, but the devaluation of human life as a whole (starting with the unborn). The wars, the resource plunder, racism, corruption, apartheid, the environmental destruction, the capitalist survival of the fittest mentality benefitting psychopaths. I could go on all day.

It all starts with some human lives seen as more valuable than others. It’s the most obvious thing on this planet, yet people make it seem so complicated.

How do milder versions of Chad Daybell, like Thomas Sheridan, help the matter? How do they inspire anyone positively, towards the advancement of life and cooperation? Comparing Sheridan to Daybell may come across as ridiculously as Sheridan comparing Starmer to Pol Pot. And no, I don’t believe Sheridan intends to participate, even remotely, in killings, for the legal implications if nothing else (despite what he claims about an existential fight).

However, that is out of his hands, once he convinces people that they’re being exterminated and their so-called enemies are possessed by demons (no longer human). It is akin to Vallow and Daybell labelling people as zombies. Dehumanisation carries an implicit threat to human life.

Backtracking (for legal reasons, I assume)

The same person whose followers were animated by the primordial and alchemical fire being set to Crown Paints, and before that, by John Waters, suddenly had a very different message, after the many arrests and charges for online incitement to riot, in the UK and Ireland. Suddenly, this wasn’t a rhetorical exercise to gain support from extremists. This was serious.

Presently (who knows for how many days or weeks), Thomas Sheridan argues that he’s tired of all the negativity in patriotic circles, who talk about extermination and such. He now has a positive message: that natives can retain and propagate their cultures irrespective of immigration, and this is just another phase in history.

This is and always has been obvious to anyone who isn’t a white nationalist. No one can take their cultures away. No one is even trying. It is mere reason being applied, for the first time in years, by Sheridan.

This didn’t go down well with followers who hoped for an insurrection.

That’s why grifters should be wary (they never are) of using extremists for monetary gain. It doesn’t end well. To meet the expectation, they find themselves propagating increasing lunacy, to the point of criminality. This is not sustainable long term, if they want to stay on the safe side of the law.

Most followers were receptive though, as when Sheridan tells them to jump, they ask how high, and when told to sit, they sit. They follow him in radically switching between perspectives and courses of action, akin to a rollercoaster. Normal people don’t go from claiming they’re being exterminated to serenely reassuring others that everything is peachy, within weeks, to still be taken seriously. Changes in someone’s politics, religion, views on the world are a long and gradual process.

When complete trust is involved, such as the trust given to a spiritual teacher, in terms of sincerity and intention, fickleness somehow goes unnoticed.

In a recent mind-bending exercise, Sheridan had them consider the possibility that they were already dead. They did. Does he do it to screw with them? To see how far he can take it? Or is he irresponsibly sharing genuine musings, while knowing he is influencing people who aren’t necessarily well?

It’s impossible to know if there’s any calculation and end goal to what Thomas Sheridan does, or if he improvises on the spot, to keep people hooked, waiting for new musings and revelations. The only certainty is that his followers are disconnected from reality and live inside a nightmare.

I remember something he said many years ago (paraphrasing): if your leader has more enemies than James Bond, you just might be a cult member.