Rude, I know. Being part of a cult is not something worth mocking, generally. This would be one exception for me, as the information needed to dispel Thomas Sheridan’s improv is everywhere. It’s inescapable.

In this post, let’s take a look at the following:

  • The petroleum mega-demon possessing Trump;
  • 10 years of having propagandised for Trump, before this sudden distancing;
  • Another lie regarding the visa bans of the 600 artists who signed the Drumshanbo petition;
  • The Drumshanbo curse, 6 months on;
  • Sheridan’s new channel becoming an alternative to RTE and the BBC (he’s not kidding).

As the world faces increasing turmoil, of a very real kind, followers still entertain his spiritual riff, ascribing geopolitical events, as well as the psychopathic behaviour of the Trump administration, to entities Sheridan has just discovered (conveniently). Anything to avoid the thought that he either brought them into the far-right or reinforced poisonous misinformation for a decade, profiting from it.

Let’s acknowledge for a second how the so-called truth movement degenerated since the days of Alan Watt (we are watching his predictions unfold one by one). Remember when it was about the real world, when claims were sourced and demonstrable, as opposed to listeners being trapped in someone’s imagination, often paying for the privilege?

Now you’re left with this.

Characteristically, when trying to explain US imperialism and plunder, Sheridan has converted the petrodollar into the petro-demon. That’s the only unit he operates with. Demons.

After a decade of prostrating himself at Trump’s feet, asking his followers to become Trump’s Praetorian Guard (propagandise for him), he seems to be making a pivot, which was predictable. The gaslighting could only last so long.

In 2026, Trump is hated, both domestically and internationally. The US seems impossible to oppose militarily, unlike Nazi Germany in the 40s, securing Trump a spot on a list of the most hated rulers in history. His regime is imploding the post-WWII international order, as generations knew it, taking it for granted. NATO may very well implode this year.

The madness can no longer be cushioned in hopes for a return-to-the-50s conservative utopia; the regime’s atrocious greed and cruelty can no longer be disguised. It’s over. And it’s over for these grifters, who have sucked at the teat of a mirage (despicable as it was to the rest of us), selling it to the masses. The cow is almost dry, and if they keep trying to milk it, it may just kick them in the head.

How does one extricate oneself from having misled tens of thousands for years, depicting a multi-millionaire tyrant as the underdog? Do they apologise? Do they recognise their prolonged error in judgement (to avoid admitting having freestyled for money)? Of course not.

Leave it to Sheridan to decode this time in history, by blaming it on a petroleum mega-demon which has relocated from the Middle East to Venezuela, where it currently resides, suddenly possessing the mind of Donald Trump.

Quick note: when Sheridan talks about demons, he means for them to be taken literally. He has overtime described entire groups as demonically possessed, including most Irish people. Leftists and trans people are by default possessed. Everyone opposing fascism, in fact. He recently claimed demons entered through the septum ring and hid behind a person’s nose.

To concoct an alternative explanation for highly predictable events (Trump did campaign on being a fascist, even if he didn’t use the term), Sheridan is using a work of fiction: Cyclonopedia, by Reza Negarestani.

From Sheridan’s Substack (public and linked to in a YouTube post):

Introducing: The Sludge.

It has become untenable for average Americans to keep supporting Israel, with its documented genocide in Gaza, plan for ethnic cleansing of the West Bank as well, and overt ethno-nationalist ideology, while milking the US taxpayer for millions yearly. What is more, Netanyahu brags about the acquisition of US media companies by Zionists, treating the censorship and manipulation of Americans, on behalf of Israel, as normal – which is both deranged and shameless.

The US establishment, however, shows no signs of diminishing that support, as is the case in many European countries. Even countries often vocal against Israel still trade with it. If the world at large had wanted to stop the genocide, it would have. Moreover, the US establishment vocally supports Israel. It contains the most insane Christian Zionists.

Is the whole of the US subconsciously worshipping the petro-demon, or controlled by it, thus turning against Israel automatically when the petro-demon moves to South America?

It’s noted where his main concern lies – not the “demon-controlled US”, but Israel, a country he himself opposed in 2014 for its barbarity against the Palestinians (it was a good look at the time), well before adopting the propaganda of Tel Aviv Tommy, to harness his audience.

The US has always been after Venezuela’s oil. And Trump has always been a greedy megalomaniac with no regard for the law, domestic or international. He is a convicted felon.

The petrodollar system is essential to the US, China having found a way to trade without involving US currency. Shifting the onus onto an entity should be so insulting to Sheridan’s audience. If he treats them like idiots, and they comply, he must be correct.

Also, note the distant observer tone in this post, while for years, Sheridan has employed a fevered one, praising Trump’s perineum hairs and hailing him as the saviour of the world (even beckoning him to run Ireland as a protectorate). Suddenly, he’s just watching from a distance. With great interest, of course.

Do far-right grifters get to pose as mere observers now, after helping Trump get elected?

For an entire decade, Sheridan has justified Trump’s greed, cruelty, vindictiveness, dehumanisation of others etc., divorcing these traits from moral implications or mental health issues. He has been whitewashing the documented character of a fraudster, wishing for said fraudster to have absolute power.

Before Trump’s inauguration in January of 2025, Sheridan encouraged fellow Irish people to celebrate the event in front of government buildings, with MAGA hats and US flags. He urged them to become Trump’s Praetorian Guard. This was only last year.

From the transcript:

And remember, like I think on if it could be organised, I think it’d be wonderful on US Inauguration Day, from Irish people that are on our side, to go down to in front of government buildings in Dublin with us flags and Irish Tricolours (…) Let’s replace the filthy Hamas flag, uh, the October 7th flag with the American flag on our side and go down with MAGA hats and make Eire great again, green hats, and celebrate Trump and hold up big signs saying precisely what Irish politicians had said about Trump and blast it all over the world. If you want to be a Praetorian Guard, armed, this is the kind of thing you’ve got to do.

The only documented “Trump party” that day was in a bar in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. A much deflated version of Sheridan’s fantasy, of Irish people making clowns of themselves in front of government buildings, then “blasting it all over the world”.

In early 2025, he made the following claim:

Sheridan endorsed Trump as a presidential candidate three times, using his platform to convince people that what they were seeing with their own eyes didn’t matter (Nazi-style inhumanity towards immigrants, criminal convictions, corruption, the Epstein files, the imperialist rhetoric, the January 6th insurrection, the suppression of the press, the use of the justice system to target the opposition etc.). There were supernatural forces at play. A holy war. Demons, Marxist aliens, the fight for humanity.

He admits that the bulk of his audience resides in the US. Thus he had a direct impact. It’s unsure whether he convinced anyone who might not have voted for Trump otherwise, yet he certainly participated in this phenomenon, explaining away Trump’s actions with one fantasy after another, to assuage voters’ cognitive dissonance.

In 2026, he doesn’t get to watch the mayhem and deluge of human suffering unleashed by Trump’s regime, from an ivory tower, as a curious and thoughtful observer. This is on him and fellow grifters, as much as it is on organised propaganda. Every last one of them. They’ve all been making blood money and may go the way of Der Strummer in the future.

The psychopathy expert can’t spot psychopathic behaviour

To create a pretext for his takeover of Venezuela, Trump invoked drug trafficking, proceeding to murder dozens of people by blowing up their boats. Just like that. The claims held less water than the blown-up boats. No evidence was ever produced on why those individuals were targeted. Furthermore, Trump, who appears to suffer from dementia on top of everything else, has been far too honest regarding the oil grab. The whole world understands that those people were murdered simply to provide the Trump administration with a narrative. They were treated as props, and their lives, as worthless.

The population of Gaza, where Trump enthusiastically plans to build resorts for the ultra-rich, is gradually being wiped out, in the most inhumane ways known to man. Since October of 2023, Thomas Sheridan, the “psychopathy expert”, has been condoning the most depraved and violent treatment of fellow humans for profit.

His followers fail to see that, continuing to praise his expertise on “toxic people”, which by default raises questions about their intelligence.

“Interesting oil demon”, the audience responds

Sheridan and his followers support capitalist greed, typically opposing environmental protection measures and ridiculing climate change protests.

Fracking poses great environmental risks and has been protested for years. Sheridan must now repaint it as the digging up of a powerful entity; he cannot criticise it from an ecological or anti-capitalist standpoint.

Something lies beneath the surface is as generic and meaningless as it gets, much like the universal truths of Deepak Chopra. Seeking meaning and explanations in these fantasies, instead of becoming informed about the world, is like digging for water in the desert.

The anti-woke obsession has lost its potency

The far-right uses distractions to redirect attention from real issues, obscuring the broader picture. Sheridan does this all the time, by picking on symbols “imposed” by the left, directing his audience’s energy towards inanities, like pronouns or rainbow crossings, to reinforce their worldview. It is based on emotions, not facts (or importance), and comparable to drug use.

Reality is grim.

Trump is invading and bombing anywhere he pleases, while threatening to end NATO by taking over Greenland. Europe may have to defend itself in the near future.

Domestically, Trump has unleashed his Gestapo, known as ICE, terrorising American cities, raiding homes, schools, hospitals and churches to meet their quota of black and brown people detained under suspicion of being illegal immigrants. By condoning and lying about the murder of Renee Nicole Good, Trump has given ICE permission to kill Americans, anytime, anywhere, for any reason. Just yesterday they threw tear gas into a car with 6 children in it, including a baby. They had to be hospitalised. Days ago they shot into someone’s home, through the door. It’s Nazi Germany all over again, and this is no exaggeration.

No one is physically safe in the US, apart from white people who participate in these inhuman actions or condone them. Anyone opposing them can be injured or killed with impunity. Renee Good’s murder proved that.

Remember the Second Amendment people, amassing guns to one day fight a tyrannical government? Where are they? Supporting said tyrannical government, of course. They were only gearing up to fight the left, if needed. They had no respect for their own constitution and laws, let alone libertarian principles.

Which brings us to MAGA. Are they safe? Not at all. Trump has taken away healthcare, food stamps and other assistance essential for the survival of millions. He has also removed government help after natural disasters, educational programs and even social security from many. His tariffs have caused prices to sky-rocket and have bankrupted small businesses. Groceries are unaffordable. He has deported the employees of many farms, hotels, construction companies. He has taken away programs for veterans, some of whom go off the rails mentally and pose a danger to themselves and the public (a few have recently committed acts of domestic terrorism). I can go on and on and on. His supporter base, minus the ultras (the cultists) is rapidly waking up to reality.

As recently as a month ago, Sheridan was still defending Trump, who had apparently been defamed by the BBC. He was, of course, not defamed, since he lied about the 2020 election being stolen, urging an angry crowd to gather in protest. Things evolved from there. He may not have incited specific acts of violence directly (like Lucy Connolly did when she tweeted English rioters should set fire to hotels with people in them, which they proceeded to do). In practical terms, it makes no difference. The violence was caused by his lie.

A month ago, Trump’s regime had already murdered dozens of fishermen, in preparation for an attack on Venezuela. The murder spree had started in September of 2025.

Yet Sheridan, given all of the above, decided to focus on whether the BBC had unfairly spliced Trump’s words together to create the appearance of him inciting a riot 4 years prior (for which he suffered no consequences anyway).

Rainbow crossings

If the street was burning down, would you stop to focus on a carpet stain?

Sometime in 2024 or early 2025, while mass protests were happening around the globe and there was so much to discuss, I came across a revealing conversation in one of his comment sections. It centred on rainbow crossings in Ireland. The energy in those exchanges was palpable. Outrage. Encouragements to complain to the local authority and ask for the names of those involved in painting them in multiple colours (to target them in some manner, obviously).

One guy claimed he would drive out of his way (wasting time and fuel) just to avoid driving over the accursed rainbow crossings, becoming contaminated by a symbol of the left’s domination of Ireland. Submitting to it.

This is how these people think. What they focus on. However, reality will knock on their doors, sooner or later.

Yet another lie about Sheridan’ “successful cancelation” of US visas for 600 Irish artists

As a note, I’m not suggesting the artists should go to present day US, that the Trump administration is not completely insane and that visa bans for political reasons don’t occur. My focus is on this specific lie, and the methods Sheridan uses to reinforce it.

It’s getting tedious, and this is 6 moths later, but here we go again.

Another lie, another false association of Sheridan’s attempted brigading with an unrelated case which actually meets the criteria for the policy announced by Marco Rubio in May of 2025.

The video Sheridan embedded in the post below, by another far-right idiot, refers to measures taken by the US against political figures trying to ban Musk’s platform, X, formerly Twitter. This is an official matter, involving a US-based platform, namely fitting the scope of the policy, banning entry to foreigners who seek to censor Americans.

Sheridan claimed that the policy would also apply to Irish artists who had signed a petition for an Irish event featuring far-right speakers to not take place in Drumshanbo. They were, in his assertion, censoring free speech, and the US would take offence to that out of principle. He is to this day claiming their visas were cancelled, or will be, with no evidence whatsoever.

He needs to reinforce this to his audience from time to time. After all, he asked them to pester the US Embassy in Dublin with the list of names.

Should I make a gif? Nah, but here’s my one minute effort:

Here’s a screenshot of it yet again:

In the case of UK officials, it’s right there in the text:

“It is similarly unacceptable for foreign officials to demand that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or engage in censorship activity that reaches beyond their authority and into the United States”.

As a side issue, the “free speech” British officials are trying to ban refers to indecent images of women and children, created with Grok, integrated into X. Child pornography and non-consensual pornography of women. At the moment, X still offers this feature to paid accounts. The “protect our women and girls” brigade strikes again, by opposing those who wish to ban this degeneracy.

All Sheridan’s followers need to do is look up the policy. It takes a minute.

They trust that he would never lie to them so egregiously and cover it up by highlighting other issues, such as Kneecap having to cancel their tour as a band member was facing serious legal charges in the UK, or this other case here, to which the visa ban policy clearly applies.

In this post, he makes a statement of fact, based on that video, describing a completely unrelated case involving completely unrelated people in completely unrelated circumstances. This doesn’t stand out to anybody. He celebrates it as a victory for him and his audience. And they believe him. Of course they do.

Would Sheridan be able to enter the US under new rules?

It was recently announced that any foreigner seeing to enter the US would have to hand over the past 5 years of their internet footprint. While Sheridan did massage Trump’s toes for years, in recent months, he has referred to Trump as “possessed by an oil demon” and “terrified of the Epstein files”. Feel free to speculate on his chances of ending up in an ICE detention facility, or being turned away upon arrival. It makes his current respect and enthusiasm for the US arbitrarily denying entry even more curious. Maybe someone should email the US embassy in Dublin.

Just kidding – contacting the embassy is not the proper channel when seeking this outcome. And while there is no proof that someone with his digital footprint would be barred from entering, one has to wonder.

The curse of Drumshanbo – 6 months on

As it was before the town rubbed Sheridan the wrong way, Drumshanbo continues to be famous for its gin, the local gin industry becoming more profitable of late, as you can read here. The town is also known for its rich cultural life and music festival in the summer.

The Mayflower community centre, which Sheridan claimed would repel people with its demonic energy going forward (that was more than priests could handle, should they ever be called to the location), is bustling with activity, as it has for years and presumably will be for the foreseeable future. It sounds like a lovely place to visit, especially if you’re interested in traditional Irish music.

It’s unlikely that the town gave Sheridan a second thought – however, he has remained preoccupied with it for months now. Remember, he claimed residents would start dying in horrible accidents; that suicides and deaths overall would increase. That young people would leave permanently, repelled by the energy of the town. The water and beer would taste wrong. Birds would chirp less. The town would atrophy.

Well, is any of it happening? Or do residents go on about their daily business, perhaps laughing hysterically at his claims, mentioned by chance in a pub on a Friday?

Cursing a small town out of narcissistic rage should put anybody off, if they were even mildly intelligent. This is not the typical cult scenario, of living together, having access to information restricted or being forcibly separate from friends and family. These people operate in the normal world. Reality stares them in the face on a daily basis.

An alternative to RTE and the BBC

The announcement just dropped today, as I was finishing the post. Sheridan has created a new channel, managed by Inner Harp Media. The focus seems to be on better production, Patreon, documentaries, events and so forth (translation: taking oneself seriously). From the transcript:

Now, UnknownMachine will be a professionally produced program that will have me outlining with graphics and with much better production uh these theories I presented over the years on everything from megaliths to folklore to conspiracy to the zeitgeist of the greater cultural matters and things to everything else. And this will be one of the first program including the Moss upon stones episode which I will be outlining my discovery of a remarkable megalithic alignment in Ireland that will change everything.

I can’t wait!

Graphics on Marxist aliens, small town curses, demons that enter through the septum ring and hide behind the nose, cartoonists handing you their life force through a doodle? Fascinating stuff. Does the creation of these graphics involve mushrooms? LSD perhaps? Sounds like a party.

But the first one will be about the animism of oil.

That’s understandable. The lord himself, The Sludge, should be given the respect of priority. He is, after all, the cause of all geopolitical dynamics at this time.

It is, of course, humanity’s fault – we disturbed him through fracking and he has left his underground quarters, migrating to Venezuela. The Middle East had become too noisy and he fancied some arepas.

Please subscribe to this channel and it will also be a Patreon members orientated program in that the program will be split in two halves. The first half will be free to air and the second half will be Patreon content. Now this Patreon content will be special in that I’ll be answering questions. This is why we’ll become a it’ll become a very interactive thing. You can post questions and I always get questions in Thomas what do you think about this what you think about that and I will give you my honest answers to it once.

It will probably be a mixture of Deepak Chopra and Philomena Cunk, with Tommy Robinson overtones.

Plus, if you happen to ask a question he answered in a previous video, shame on you, as you haven’t watched them all. You must watch them all. The guru/expert cannot be bothered twice with the same question. Even if he is known to change his perspective every fortnight. As I understand, he used to sell exorcism courses on Patreon.

I bet they’ll be queuing (no sarcasm involved this time). In comment sections, they ask him all sorts of questions about the future of the world, that he couldn’t have a hope in hell giving an informed answer to, given that he reduces global dynamics to entities and alien forces.

This is not just to get money to put in our pockets. We’re planning to use this money for all kinds of things, production increases, documentaries, films, even tours outside of Ireland. You’re part of something that will have a future.

We are the media now. Technically, you’re forced to pay a license fee to RTE and the BBC. And what do you get? Propaganda. What will you get from this new form of media? Well, a lot less money and a lot more honesty and a lot more interest. People keep saying we need a new media. Absolutely we do. But it doesn’t mean we have one alternative media that rules the roost on its own. We have fragmentation with different views and different opinions and you can join one all and none of them. So, Unknown Machine is where I am going forward.

I hate to burst his bubble, but the alternative media has been around for a good two decades. It has expanded to the extent that now people get their news not from TV, but from online sources they trust.

Yes, what you get from the mainstream media is propaganda – it didn’t seem to bother him when he was regurgitating BBC lines about Israel, almost word for word. They reinterpret, they ignore stories, they spin, they censor their words when reality stares them in the face. It’s disgusting. What they don’t typically do – and Sheridan does all the time – is completely make shit up (minus the 40 decapitated babies, but the story didn’t originate from them).

I loathe the BBC as much as everybody else. I only interact with it through content that highlights its manipulation, manufacturing of consent etc. However, a YouTube channel discussing demonic possession and The Sludge is not comparable to a news channel operating 24/7, to any degree. This is where you see the bombastic ego.

You see, it’s all “media”. His followers only think in vague, very broad abstractions. The comparison between his channel and the BBC doesn’t startle them. They don’t find it ridiculous at all. Just like the time he compared himself to Michael Collins for trying to ban Irish musicians from touring in the US out of spite. It didn’t even raise an eyebrow. Sheridan’s action was revolutionary.

Many of you have been here with me for 15 years and I just think of all the people from my first videos on YouTube 15 years ago I still have a sizable number of you with me today and the reason why you’re here today is because the same reason time with you guys is because we’re on, you know, that old song by the Wolfe Tones. We’re on the one road sharing the one load and that’s what we’re doing.

Two things to say here. One, the Wolfe Tones most likely wouldn’t appreciate someone who fraternises with ardent loyalists and Tommy Ten Names, refers to Irish rebels as terrorists, despises Sin Feinn and wants Ireland to become a protectorate of the US.

Secondly, those who were there for 15 years completely forgot the difference in rhetoric between pre-2016 Sheridan and the following era of embracing Trump, anti-wokeism etc. as a grift. They “evolved with him” of sorts (into people who condone or tolerate his current rhetoric on ethnic purges, genocide, the dehumanisation of immigrants etc). They keep comparing him to Alan Watt as well, which is absurd. Alan Watt shared a wealth of knowledge about the real world and he is being proven correct today (while Sheridan sides with totalitarianism and blames the world’s problems on The Sludge, or whatever entity he can make up).

And I don’t see any alternative in the mainstream. Do you? I don’t. Do you think you double the license fee that RTE and BBC will get will do something that you want? No. If they were on subscription services, they’d collapse overnight, both of them, particularly RTE. So, um, you know, I’m always grateful for the audience I have.

As a side point, guess who runs a dodgy subscription service: Reform LTD, which Sheridan supports, where you can easily sign up to be a member, but according to multiple reports, have no way of getting out of the paid subscription, minus contacting your bank. No unsubscribing options are shown and emails are ignored. This is one of the most common dark patterns in subscription services, known as Roach Motel: very easy to sign up, very difficult to leave. Reform is a private company after all.

All that said, it appears that Sheridan equates his “analysis” with media outlets providing news in real time, whether spun or not.

It should be shocking, but it isn’t, compared to the rest of his claims.