Rawr

 "We're going through your 'files' here....what exactly is a T-Rex?"
"Are you asking the 10 year old that wrote those notes or are you asking me?"
"What's the difference?" 

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"To 10 year old me it was a Prehistoric thunder lizard that eats lawyers and smaller predators."
"To me now it's a prehistoric  Chic-odile"
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"That's fucking creepy." 
"I thought you told me to watch my language."
"Um....Chic-odile?"

Yeah, the more I studied the bone structure, followed the evolutionary clues, and looked at the world during the Jurassic period.  I was like "that's a Chic-codile". 
Eye placement, nostril placement all suggest that it would spend time submerged like a crocodile or alligator.  And with the under developed arms they seemed to serve no purpose, until you put them underwater.  They would be perfect for a creature of that size and shape to chill in the water and anchor it's self to rocks or steep shorelines without needing to use it's tail to keep it stationary. 
Then you look at their snout shape.   
Imagine, instead of jumping out of the water with a big open mouth a Rex would use that 'beak' of theirs to slam into and stun another creature. Then, while the creature is stunned they start chomping. Like a pecking chicken. 
I'm about 70% certain on the crocodile part and about 40% certain on the pecking part.  I'd have to be able to look at a few more skulls to be certain one way or the other.
Archeology is a game of educated guesses after all. 

"Okay..."
"You want me to tell you how I predicted the future don't you."
"Yes..."
"I didn't"
"But it says here that you were able to predict the events of the past 20 years with a 95% accuracy." 
"I didn't predict, I just tracked trajectories." 
"Tracked Trajectories?"

Sociological trajectories.
 Cultural and civilization changes don't happen over night, they happen over decades and centuries.  That's the issue with being a student of history and time. The one advantage I had was being groomed for service from a young age. They thought/assumed I was 'one of them'.  So they didn't watch what they said around me.  Said the quiet parts at the dinner table, made the over the shoulder jokes, told me about their "one black friend".   
Then I started following the clues. 
At first, when I was like 15, 16. 
Not 100% when but it's around the time I added "the last wizard" part to my name. 
But I was like "No way...no way this is happening."
But then Pawn Stars.

"Pawn Stars?"
"Yeah, on the History Channel." 
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Do you know who the 'Daughters of the Confederacy'" are?"
"Yes..."
"Then you know their mission statement and the influence they've had over the educational system and shaping of syllabus." 
"That's not what they do."
"oH sUrE, WaTeVer yOU SaY."
"Are you mocking me?"
"Are you mocking me?"
"Stop Copying me."  
"Stop being willfully ignorant."

Everyone has been looking at the erasure of history and removal of history from government websites and property. "anything that makes the U.S. look bad." is the motivation.  For those who only joined the movement recently they're shocked and appalled that the current administration would try to do this.  
But to me Pawn Stars was confirmation.  
During school breaks and holidays, when I was younger, we had marathons of history documentaries, usually with a through line.  Interviews with people that were alive during the events, showing documents, footage and photos when it was available. 
But then "Pawn Stars". 
 
"That's not proof, that's conjecture."
"It becomes proof when you see it mirrored across multiple such channels and "educational" content." 
"Blame The Daily Show." 
"What does fake news have to do with anything?"
"I point you again to the 2004 protests of the RNC" 

I was home that day, doing homework as I usually do.  Leaving the t.v. on C-span for the most part but flipping through the other channels to see what the talking heads had to say about things. Then there was the 

"Case of the Hot Dog Cart"
On Fox they were saying the protests were turning violent because of smoke coming from a side street.  
On MSNBC they didn't know what was going on but they were monitoring the situation, literally from the opposite end of the street but they speculated heavily
On CNN more of the same. 
C-span?
Camera directly on a hot dog cart that had caught fire pushed safely into the ally away from the crowds with NYPD?  I think, blocking off  the ally so no one could get close to it. 

"What does that have to do with The Daily Show?"
"That's what makes their jokes funny.  Jokes based in truth with fact checking that would make an FBI agent say "Damn, that's rigorous" then they dip it in exaugurated absurdity to soften the blow." 
"So you believe fake news." 
0.<  
"Are you okay? Your eye is twitching."
"If you had any idea what it takes to do real research, or me, you know I don't believe anything until I can confirm it." 
"Then why do you watch something like "The Daily Show" if you're such a 'professional'?" 
"Because they typically put a spotlight on real situations and use the truth as the base of their jokes.  So you take those jokes to other sources and start seeing what the "real news" is saying about them. 
Then you look into the history, listen to what people around me have to say about it, and start assembling the whole picture.  Like Stark in a cave with a box of scraps. Then you go to NPR to see what they have to say about it."
"NPR?  You mean leftist state media."
"No. I mean one of the last places of pure journalism in my opinion.
Trusted and  recognized on an international scale.
Fact checked, verified, sighted sources, disclosure of financial backers when they do a story about one even when it's just a passing mention. Unprompted retractions and corrections on misreported information.  Reporters admitting when they have bias in the reporting, during the reporting, with very little editorial outside of opinions expressed by people they interview.
A model that every news source should adopt."


Jack! Jack! Jack!
You're painting a target on your back for the current administration to label you as "anti-american"  and start investigating you! 

Yeah, I know.
I'm planning on becoming president. 
Who's trust and vote do you think I'm trying to earn?
It certainly isn't white supremacists or eugenicists.  

"So what do you mean by 'the Last Wizard'"
"Oh, yeah, that." 
"What is 'That'?"

The way superman defeated the Klan was by exposing the secrets journalists provided them and making it look ridiculous. 

"So you're trying to further White Replacement."
"No, I'm trying to make sure that people groomed and supported by white supremacists and eugenicists aren't able to hold the office of President again." 

THE Last Wizard.

"Why do you think I lost my blue checkmarks?"
"Because you were posting radical content, you were banned from twitter." 
"No, because when 45's supporters got wind of who I was
...might have been my fault, I was told not to bulldog...
and mass reported all of my accounts. But because I am who I am and almost every other platform actually did their due diligence on the reports, they ONLY got the BACKUP twitter account.  And I haven't bothered getting the checkmarks reinstated since."
"You mean you can't."
"I mean that there is only one Memmoran on any platform and the people that matter know that." 
"And what does that mean?"
"That's actually kind of a fun, but much longer story."
"I'd like to hear it."
"I dunno if you have the clearance for that." 
"Excuse me?"

~Spoilers~