Brian Ransom

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Il faut avoir l'honnêteté de reconnaître le coup de génie de la gauche, parce que c'en est un. Le plus grand hold-up rhétorique du siècle tient en un seul mot : raciste.

Voici le mécanisme.

Après 1945, après les droits civiques, l'Occident a fait du racisme le mal absolu. À juste titre : c'est une de ses plus grandes conquêtes morales. « Raciste » est devenu le mot le plus radioactif de la langue, l'excommunication moderne, la mort sociale instantanée.

Le coup de génie a été de détourner ce capital moral. Pas pour protéger des personnes : pour protéger une idéologie.

L'égalitarisme des résultats ne gagne jamais un débat sur les faits. Il produit l'inverse de ce qu'il promet, partout, à chaque fois. Alors plutôt que de gagner le débat, on a rendu le débat impayable. Tu questionnes les résultats de l'immigration sans assimilation ? Raciste. Tu défends le mérite ? Raciste. Les maths avancées ? Racistes. Les frontières ? Racistes. Le mot a cessé de décrire un comportement pour décrire une position sur l'échiquier.

Et regardez la beauté technique du dispositif. Pas besoin d'arguments : l'accusation suffit. Pas besoin de procès : la dénégation aggrave le cas (votre défensivité prouve votre culpabilité). Pas besoin de police : la peur fait le travail, chacun se surveille lui-même et surveille son voisin gratuitement. Il suffit d'exécuter publiquement quelques exemples par an pour tenir des millions de gens. Une idéologie irréfutable, protégée par un mot imprononçable. Les deux pare-feux du même système : la French Theory avait aboli la vérité, l'accusation a aboli le débat.

Est-ce qu'un comité s'est réuni pour concevoir ça ? Pas besoin. Les idées subissent une sélection darwinienne : celles qui survivent sont celles qui se défendent le mieux. Marcuse avait quand même déposé le brevet dès 1965, noir sur blanc : tolérance pour les mouvements de gauche, intolérance pour ceux de droite. Le reste a évolué tout seul. Il faut l'avouer : c'était génial.

Mais ce dispositif génial avait un coût, et le coût a un bilan. À Rotherham, le rapport officiel Jay a établi que des fonctionnaires britanniques ont laissé plus de 1 400 gamines se faire exploiter pendant seize ans, en partie par peur d'être traités de racistes s'ils nommaient les faits. Relisez cette phrase. Des enfants ont été sacrifiées à un mot. Voilà ce que veut dire idéologie mortifère : pas une métaphore, un bilan.

Et maintenant, regardez ce qui s'effondre sous nos yeux.

Une insulte ne fonctionne que si elle fait peur, et une monnaie ne fonctionne que si elle est rare. Ils ont imprimé le mot comme Weimar imprimait le mark. Quand tout est raciste, plus rien ne l'est. Résultat : des tweets qui commencent par « traitez-moi de raciste si vous voulez » récoltent des dizaines de milliers de likes et l'approbation de l'homme le plus riche du monde. Il y a dix ans, cette phrase était un suicide professionnel. Aujourd'hui, c'est un haussement d'épaules. L'hyperinflation a tué la monnaie.

Et voilà la vraie tragédie, que les faussaires devront porter : en imprimant le mot sans limite, ils l'ont brûlé pour tout le monde. Y compris pour nommer le vrai racisme quand il existe, car il existe. Les faux-monnayeurs ne détruisent pas que leur arme. Ils détruisent le mot dont une société honnête a besoin.

Privée de son mot magique, l'idéologie va maintenant devoir faire ce qu'elle n'a jamais su faire : gagner un débat sur les faits.

Elle ne le gagnera pas. Au travail.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation.

I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission is even cheaper than we thought.

In 2014, we had a genuinely dangerous comedian. A man who once testified before Congress in character as a fictional conservative pundit and made the entire chamber look like they'd been pantsed on C-SPAN. His fake persona was the most brilliant satire on television. Layered. Ironic. Unpredictable. The character could say anything because nothing was real. The character was the art. The character was the comedian.

We killed the character and put the real man on stage. The real man was a lecturer. Earnest. Thoughtful. Correct about everything. Correct is not funny. Correct is not dangerous. Correct is the absence of danger. We promoted the absence of danger and called it growth. His character could make a Senate committee squirm. The real him makes an audience nod. Nodding pays the same as squirming. Nodding is easier to produce.

His final words on air were "We love doing this show for you, but what we really, really love is doing this show with you." The audience wept. I wrote that line. Not the words. The architecture that made those words feel true. For eleven years, the audience believed they were participants. They were not participants. They were the product. "With you" is what you say to a congregation. A comedian says "at you." We hadn't said "at you" since 2015.

Our internal metric was called Affirm Rate. It measured the percentage of monologue segments that generated applause instead of laughter. I invented this metric. I also invented the bonus structure tied to it. In 2015, our Affirm Rate was 34%. By 2022, it was 94%. I received a raise every year. We are crushing it. At the things I made up. That's performance management.

But I need to tell you about the real discovery. The one I put in a deck called "Content Strategy 2019-2024." The one that got me promoted.

Agreement gets applause. I knew that early. But correction — telling the audience their vocabulary is slightly outdated, their outrage is aimed two degrees off-center, their feelings are valid but their phrasing needs work — correction gets them back tomorrow. Agreement is a transaction. Correction is a subscription. We converted a comedy show into a nightly software update for moral vocabulary. Churn was near zero. They couldn't afford to miss an episode. Missing an episode meant using last week's words in this week's meeting. That's social death. We monetized the fear of social death and called it entertainment.

I want to be honest about something. The content was not bipartisan. We chose a side. But I need you to understand: we did not choose it because we believed in it. We chose it because that side's audience is more responsive to correction. They want to be updated. They want to be told their language is outdated. They experience correction as care. The other side does not respond to correction. They respond to provocation. Provocation is harder to monetize. You can't build a subscription on provocation because the audience doesn't come back to learn — they come back to fight. Fighting is unpredictable. Correction is scheduled. We optimized for the audience that wants to be told what to think. That audience leaned one direction. That's not ideology. That's market segmentation.

The writers' room had a whiteboard. In 2015 it said "What's funny?" In 2018 it said "What should they feel?" By 2021 it said "What are they still saying wrong?" I watched that whiteboard evolve like a finch beak and I never intervened. The market was speaking. We listened. Listening to the market is the same as leading the audience. They can't tell the difference.

A writer named Marcus raised his hand in 2019. "What if we just tried to make them laugh again?" I thanked him for his passion and scheduled a creative alignment conversation. He transferred to streaming development within the month. The Affirm Rate the week he left was 91%. Laughter would have brought it down. That's risk management.

Here is what nobody will say out loud. I will say it because I am proud of it.

We made our audience worse at politics.

Not better. Worse. Every night for eleven years, we expressed their outrage for them. Professionally. With a band and good lighting. And because the outrage had been expressed — because a man in a suit had furrowed his brow with the precise calibrated degree of indignation — they didn't need to express it themselves. They watched. They clapped. They felt the catharsis of resistance without resisting anything. They went to bed having done nothing and feeling like they'd done something. That's the product. Not comedy. Not information. Catharsis. Catharsis is the enemy of action. A man who has screamed into a pillow does not then also scream in the street. We were the pillow. A $50 million pillow with a house band.

If you feel the outrage has been expressed for you, you will not march. You will not organize. You will not call your representative. You will tune in tomorrow to feel it expressed again. That's retention. Our retention was extraordinary.

I want to talk about the comedy-to-catechism pipeline because I think people underestimate what we achieved.

Stage one: comedian makes jokes about the powerful. Audience laughs because the powerful are absurd. This is the Carlin model. The jester punches up. Everyone below feels relief.

Stage two: comedian makes jokes about people who disagree with the audience. Audience laughs because disagreement is stupid. The jester has turned around. He's still on the stage but now he's facing the crowd with a pointer.

Stage three: comedian stops making jokes. Comedian identifies incorrect beliefs and explains why they're dangerous. Audience does not laugh. Audience claps. The jester is gone. In his place: a hall monitor with a desk and a band.

Stage four: audience watches not for entertainment but for certification. Having seen last night's episode means you know which words are current. Not having seen it means you might use yesterday's vocabulary in today's meeting. The show is no longer comedy. It is a credential. Watching it means you are educated. Not watching means you are the person being discussed. We made a show that you watch to prove you're not the kind of person who doesn't watch it. That's a closed loop. Closed loops don't need content. They need continuity. We provided continuity for $50 million a year.

A comedian — whose entire historical function was to say things too dangerous for anyone else to say — became the person who decides which things are too dangerous for anyone to say. And the audience applauded. Every night. For 2,500 nights. Because being told what is forbidden feels exactly like being told what you already knew. Prohibition performed as validation. I put that in the deck too.

Our audience was correct about everything. I know this because they applauded everything we said. The applause proved the correctness. The correctness justified the applause. We called this audience research. The methodology was peer-reviewed by the audience. They approved unanimously. Every night.

The actually funny comedians left. They went to podcasts. To clubs. To rooms where the audience doesn't know what's coming and that uncertainty is the point. They took the laughter with them. We kept the applause. We called those spaces problematic. That's market differentiation. The problematic spaces are funnier. But funny is not our product.

We lost $40 million a year. We didn't lose it because the show failed. We lost it because we spent $50 million producing what a podcast host in his garage gives away between mattress ads. The podcast is funnier. The podcast is more dangerous. The podcast has an audience that laughs instead of claps. But we had the Ed Sullivan Theater. We had 461 seats. We had a former Beatle play the farewell episode. Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Louis Cato playing "Hello, Goodbye" like it was a benediction. I booked a Beatle for a funeral. The Beatles played that stage in 1964 and the audience screamed so loud you couldn't hear the music. Our audience didn't scream. They wept politely. That's the difference between entertainment and church. We ran a church.

Jon Stewart showed up to the finale and did a bit where he pretended to deliver a corporate statement from Paramount about the cancellation. The audience laughed. It was the first time they laughed in a way I didn't recognize. Involuntary. Surprised. Dangerous. For ninety seconds, a comedian was in that building. Then it was over.

John Oliver said "At some point, this may come for all of our shows" and then added "but Stephen, what's important to remember is that tonight, it is going to eat you." The audience laughed again. Involuntary again. Two moments of actual comedy in a three-hour farewell. Both of them about death.

The finale drew 6.74 million viewers. Biggest weeknight audience in our history. More people came to the funeral than ever visited the patient. I know what they were mourning. Not comedy. The comedy died in 2016. Not the man. The man is fine. He's wealthy. What they mourned was the permission structure. Starting today, they have to decide what to believe on their own. They have to form an opinion without waiting for a man behind a desk to form it first and deliver it with a knowing look. Some of them haven't done that since 2015. The funeral wasn't for the show. It was for the certainty.

He joked about the Peanuts theme music licensing cost on his last night. "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!" The audience laughed. It was a joke about money. About the network losing money. The last joke was about money. Not about truth. Not about power. About a licensing fee for a cartoon piano riff. Eleven years and the final joke was about accounting. I think that's perfect. The show was always about accounting. We just dressed it up as conscience.

The President of the United States — the man we spent eleven years explaining was dangerous to an audience that already believed he was dangerous — posted an AI-generated video of our host being thrown into a dumpster on the Late Show set. Then Trump danced to "YMCA" in the clip. Viewed more times in four hours than our farewell managed in a week. His production cost: zero. Ours: negative $50 million a year. We manufactured his relevance every night at 11:35 for eleven years and he never paid us a dime. We were his marketing department. He turned our funeral into content. His ROI was infinite. Ours required a write-off and a farewell concert.

The Strike Force Five — Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver — appeared in a segment about late-night losing "one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news." They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don't have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn't already approved. That's comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it's church.

I do not feel guilt. Guilt would require me to believe I took something from them. I didn't take anything. They came to us. Every night. They chose the catechism over the comedy. They preferred correction over surprise. Certainty over danger. Instruction over laughter. They wanted to be told. Not challenged. Not shocked. Not made to laugh against their will at something they didn't see coming. They wanted to see it coming. They wanted to mouth along. That's not comedy. That's karaoke. We ran the most expensive karaoke bar in television history and the only miscalculation was charging a cover when the songs are free on every phone.

We turned a jester into a priest. We turned an audience into a congregation. We turned laughter into obedience. We turned political engagement into passive consumption. We turned a comedy show into a permission structure and charged $50 million a year to tell people what they already believed in a voice slightly nicer than their own.

They were so grateful they showed up to mourn us. 6.74 million of them. Weeping. For the certainty.

Applause is more reliable than laughter. I proved it. The proof cost $450 million, one character, one comedian's capacity for danger, and one audience's willingness to act.

The metric went up.

[Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸 @jason_meister]

They arrested the President of the United States of America 4X, charged him 91X, indicted him 4X, spied on his campaign, sabotaged his first term, jailed his supporters, raided his private residence, censored him, gagged him, tried to bankrupt him, and attempted to remove him from state ballots.

When all of that failed they tried to assassinate him not once but four times.

And they go on national television to talk about how we need to vote for them to save democracy.

[Damani Felder @TheDamaniFelder]

The party that founded the KKK in 1865 was just caught funding the KKK in 2026.

That proves the parties never switched.

Pass it on.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Make it make sense

[AshleY @Aku_700]

Oscars Propaganda checklist:-

• White men can only win if they’re the villain, the fool, or get “redeemed” by a BIPOC mentor
• Straight white male protagonists must be corrupt, incompetent, abusive, or die early
• Black, Indigenous, or POC leads are portrayed as the moral hero, the savior, or the “authentic” truth-teller
• Women (especially non-white or queer) have unbreakable courage, perfect leadership, and zero flaws
• Traditional masculinity is mocked, pathologized, or depicted as toxic, violent, or outdated
• Gay or lesbian characters are the wisest friend, the comic relief with deep insight, or tragically persecuted
• Trans or non-binary characters are exceptionally profound, spiritually enlightened, or victims of society’s cruelty
• Christianity and religion are shown as bigoted, fanatical, hypocritical, or simply silly
• Police, military, or any uniformed authority figures are racist, brutal, or systemically evil
• Climate change or anti-capitalist activism is the noble driving force behind the “real” heroes
• Interracial romance (especially Black man / white woman) is framed as a progressive triumph over backward whiteness
• The nuclear or traditional family is shown as dysfunctional, repressive, or in need of “re-imagining”
• Non-traditional or chosen families are idealized as superior and more loving
• Wealth, success, or merit is tied to villainy unless the rich character redistributes wealth or atones through DEI
• Historical epics, war films, and period pieces must shoehorn modern identity politics or risk ineligibility
• All-white male ensemble classics (The Godfather, Saving Private Ryan, 1917, etc.) would be automatically disqualified today for failing to check enough boxes

The Oscars are no longer about the best film—they’ve become a mandatory social credit score for cinema. Fail the diversity audit, and even masterpieces get memory-holed. Art dies quietly in the RAISE form. 🎥 -> 🗑️

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

The internet constantly tells women that men are terrible listeners because the second a woman starts venting about her day, the man immediately interrupts to offer a logical solution. We are taught to view this as him being dismissive, emotionally unintelligent, or invalidating our feelings.

​The strict, unpopular truth is that to a man, fixing the problem is his absolute highest, most desperate form of empathy.
​Women vent to connect; we want our partner to just sit in the dark with us and validate the emotion. But men are hardwired to view the woman they love being in distress as an active threat. When he immediately offers a spreadsheet, a strategy, or a solution to your problem, he isn't trying to silence you. His brain has recognized that something in the world is hurting his partner, and his immediate, visceral instinct is to assassinate the thing causing you pain.

We constantly shame men for "not just listening," completely ignoring the fact that his attempt to fix your life is his most profound declaration of love.

[SNS 🇺🇸 @SNS_Anon]

It’s actually insane how the left has absolutely zero immune system against propaganda. None. You don’t even need evidence to lie to them, you just need the correct aesthetic.

If you frame the lie with the right intersectional buzzwords and make sure ICE or Trump is the villain, they will eat out of your hand.

The right is a hyper-vigilant, paranoid ecosystem that grift-tests everyone to death. There’s a weekly civil war within the right over who’s grifting, they will literally destroy the movement trying to hunt them down. There will be like one or two people trying to unify the right, and they get attacked too.

The left is just a singular, room-temperature-IQ blob that unquestioningly absorbs anything that paints them as the victim lmao.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

Where is all the outrage from the Left now?

Where are all the "activists" flocking to social media to condemn our government now?

Congress literally voted to cover up sexual harassment and misconduct and no one seems to care.

Notice how it’s crickets when it can't be pinned on President Trump.

[Lance Gooden @Lancegooden]

When Ayatollah Khamenei dies → Iranians celebrate, Democrats outraged.

When Nicolás Maduro is captured → Venezuelans celebrate, Democrats outraged.

Notice a pattern?

It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Just a note, there were more Americans killed in Chicago this weekend then there was in Iran.

Democrats won’t say much about the deaths in Chicago because it’s not actually about caring for people.

It’s about what they see as politically useful.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Trump Derangement Syndrome is a psychosis — one that makes people incapable of acknowledging good outcomes (like the elimination of a brutal dictator) simply because of who delivered them.

I didn’t support Obama. I didn’t like his foreign policy. But when he took out Bin Laden, I cheered — because credit belongs where it’s due.

[Tomi Lahren @TomiLahren]

On September 12th, Americans came together.

When President Obama’s admin got Osama bin Laden, we ALL cheered.

But because Democrats are so beholden to their TDS and their hatred of Trump, they just cannot bring themselves to celebrate this very real chance at a new dawn in Iran. Just like they couldn’t celebrate the capture of Maduro or the USA men’s hockey gold.

What a disgrace.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

So far, since Trump's inauguration, the Democrat Party has unanimously opposed anything that is good for America.

Secure borders. Opposed.
Deporting criminal illegals. Opposed.
Reducing crime. Opposed.
Capturing Maduro. Opposed.
Killing Khamenie. Opposed.
Secure elections. Opposed.

Prove me wrong.

[Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸 @EvanAKilgore]

At the State of the Union, Democrats REFUSED to stand for:

-Iryna Zarutska's parents (she was stabbed and murdered by a black criminal).

-Charlie Kirk and his widow, Erika Kirk.

-A 5-year-old girl who was struck by a criminal alien truck driver.

-The USA gold medal hockey team.

-Trump saying Congress should prioritize American citizens, not illegals.

-Combating fraud committed by illegals aliens and immigrants.

-No tax on tips.

-Voter ID laws and keeping illegals from voting.

-Eliminating DEI.

-Condemning transgenderism.

-Security the Southern Border.

-Trump touting the return of Christianity.

-Trump keeping us out of foreign wars.

-Trump saying the "state of our union is strong!"

It couldn't be any more clear that Democrats absolutely HATE the United States of America.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Fact checked ✅

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

My wife ordered NyQuil via Walmart delivery.

It required photo ID for delivery.

...for NyQuil from Walmart

The man who delivered it couldn't speak English AT ALL, but took a photo of my ID.

...for NyQuil from Walmart

But somehow we don't need ID to vote???

That's so dumb.

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

Democrats: “We can’t pass the SAVE Act because black folks don’t have ID.”

Black folks: “No… we have ID… all of us…”

Democrats: “Well… we can’t pass the SAVE Act because women who get married won’t have proper ID.”

Married women: “No… we have ID that matches our new last name. Wasn’t an issue.”

Democrats: “Well… we can’t pass the SAVE Act because poor people don’t have access to Kinkos.”

Poor people: “Listen, we’re poor, but not *that* poor…”

Democrats: “DAMMIT, YOU ALL WERE SUPPOSED TO FALL IN LINE!”

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

If the SAVE Act is “Jim Crow 2.0,” as Schumer said, because it would require ID to vote, then we should apply that same standard to EVERYTHING ELSE we require ID for. @NICKIMINAJ and 83% of Americans understand this. But I’ve compiled a list to make it easier for Senate Democrats:

🚗 Transportation:

Drive a car

Renew a driver’s license

Replace a lost license

Get a learner’s permit

Rent a car

Pick up a rental car even if prepaid

Buy car insurance

File auto insurance claims

Register a vehicle

Transfer a vehicle title

Get a parking permit (city, residential, campus)

Use many car-sharing apps

Buy an airline ticket in person

Board a commercial flight

Enter TSA PreCheck / Clear lanes

Check a bag at the airport

Rent a U-Haul or moving truck

Buy a bus or train ticket in person in many terminals

Pick up lost items from transit authorities

🏦 Banking & Money:

Open a bank account

Withdraw large amounts of cash

Cash a check (even your own, at many banks)

Deposit cash over certain thresholds

Wire money

Send international remittances

Get a cashier’s check

Get a money order (USPS, Walmart, Western Union)

Apply for a credit card

Increase a credit limit

Apply for a loan

Refinance a loan

Access a safe-deposit box

Replace a lost debit or credit card

Reset banking credentials in person

Pick up seized or frozen funds

Use many crypto on-ramps/off-ramps

Redeem bonds or treasury instruments

🏠 Housing & Daily Living:

Rent an apartment

Apply for public housing

Pass a background check

Sign a lease

Renew a lease

Buy a house

Close on a house

Apply for a mortgage

Get utilities turned on (power, gas, water)

Set up internet or cell service

Transfer utility accounts

Get renter’s insurance

File many insurance claims

Pick up keys from a landlord or property manager

Access many gated communities or buildings

Stay in most hotels

Check in to motels (even roadside ones)

Book Airbnb in many cities

Get a storage unit

Access your storage unit if locked out

🧾 Employment & Income:

Get a job (I-9 verification)

Start work

Get paid legally

Pick up a paycheck

Set up direct deposit

Apply for unemployment

Apply for workers’ comp

File some labor complaints

Join a union

Enter many job sites

Get a professional license

Renew a professional license

Freelance on major platforms

Drive for Uber/Lyft

Deliver for DoorDash/Uber Eats

Sell on many online marketplaces

Get paid by Venmo/Cash App/PayPal (after limits)

🏥 Healthcare:

Register at a hospital

Check in to an ER (non-emergency)

Pick up prescriptions

Get controlled medications

Access medical records

Pick up medical test results

Sign consent forms

Get health insurance

Use Medicaid/Medicare services

Change insurance plans

Access VA services

Donate blood

Donate plasma

Visit someone in a hospital ICU

Enter many medical facilities

🛒 Shopping & Mundane Transactions:

Buy alcohol

Buy cigarettes or vapes

Buy cold medicine (pseudoephedrine)

Buy cannabis (where legal)

Enter some bars or clubs

Return items without a receipt

Make large purchases with cash

Pick up online orders (Best Buy, Apple, etc.)

Pick up prescriptions for others

Pawn items

Reclaim pawned items

Sell gold or jewelry

Buy a firearm

Buy ammunition (in some states)

Enter gun ranges

Rent tools or equipment

Pick up dry cleaning under another name

📬 Mail, Packages & Bureaucracy:

Pick up certified mail

Pick up packages at USPS

Pick up FedEx/UPS packages

Rent a PO box

Access a PO box

File a change of address in person

Replace lost Social Security card

Get a birth certificate copy

Get a marriage certificate copy

Get a death certificate copy

Notarize documents

Sign many legal documents

File court paperwork in person

Retrieve court records

Post bail

Visit someone in jail

Get fingerprinted

Get background checks

Enter many government buildings

🗳️ Civic Life:

Attend certain public hearings

Access state benefits

Apply for SNAP/WIC

Apply for disability

Apply for student aid (FAFSA verification)

Enroll children in school

Pick up children from school

Volunteer in schools

Enter courthouses

Serve on a jury

Obtain a passport

Renew a passport

Cross international borders

Re-enter the country by air

📱 Digital & “Convenience” Life:

Verify identity for apps

Recover locked accounts

Use ride-share apps fully

Use dating apps

Access financial apps after flags

Use age-restricted platforms

Access cloud accounts after compromise

Reset Apple/Google IDs in person

Use e-signature platforms

Pass facial recognition checks

Verify phone number ownership

Recover hacked accounts

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It’s the biggest psy op ever