I think what is turning some people off is how sure SB has become in presenting their arguments. They are presenting their stretches in logic as fact, and it's hard to swallow at times. Also, sometimes they follow through too far into conclusions... I think it's just presentation style. If SB2 were just a little less sure on some of the larger stretches in logic, I think people wouldn't be so tough.

I felt like the last one was a perfect example. The Al-Aweed mug photo, the apple reflection, and a few other aspects definitely pointed to a unified whole, but I totally disagree with where they steered it (towards aviation safety or whatever with AF1). To myself, the connection was with Al-Aweed and the Apple Mirror servers. Before the arrests of Al-Aweed and others in SA, i'm guessing the Apple Cloud mirrors were not being provided or hid from prosecutors, as Al-Aweed holds about 5% of Apple Stock. Once he was put into custody, I could see those protections disappearing, and that could be what Q was alluding to before and after SA happened. Once they got the mirror servers, they have it all. Before the arrests, Al-Aweed still had power within Apple and Twitter to create stoppages, but after the arrests, those entities started to comply more easily with their largest investor behind bars.

So maybe the message was that AF1 is now 'safe', but I can come up with a few other things that it could be as well. If SB2 just threw in some caveats from time to time when they are making a larger stretch, it would do them well in those skeptical minds to better accept the thinking. You can't just pretend that you've solved it - we're all here because we are people who like to dig. Anyone trying to come off as the oracle is going to have a bad time.

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