QAA Podcast - Episode 199: The Rise of Dark Brandon

Episode Date: August 16, 2022

FBI raids, memes and one-man stochastic terror attacks. The FBI visits Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago and a representative for the White House posts about "Dark Brandon". Then a man commits suicide by fed after posting to Truth Social about attacking the FBI. Plus Ron Watkins surfaces in Australia, and it looks like he was lying about being in Arizona during his congressional run. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to the full Trickle Down 10-part miniseries and all upcoming extra series: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Tickets to our tour: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com New Merch dropped! http://merch.qanonanonymous.com Music by G-Dog. Editing by Corey Klotz.

What's up QAA listeners? The fun games have begun. I found a way to connect to the internet. I'm sorry, boy. Welcome listener to chapter 199 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the Dark Brandon Rises episode. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View. This week we'll be exploring a couple of things.

First up, Ron Watkins, the man suspected of being behind the anonymous poster known as Q, turned up in Australia. Secondly, and more substantively, the QAnon community is reacting to the FBI's visit to Mara Lago, where Trump allegedly was storing classified documents in a safe. In reaction, a man has already shown up at the FBI offices and basically committed suicide by cops after an hours-long shootout. Combined with the administration embracing the Dark Brandon meme, which is officially no longer funny, or funny, right-wing online figures and conspiracy theorists have worked themselves up into a froth, and we're going to walk you through it. But before we jump into all that, we've got another announcement to make.

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It's a printed on tag. It's the QAnon Anonymous clothing company or whatever they call it. Whatever they call it. Very weird, very surreal. And I am here for it as the not-so-young. kids say anymore. Yeah, I don't think that, I don't think anyone says that anymore. Oh, dear. That's okay. So as we were saying, original designs, worldwide shipping is available, and if you're a Patreon supporter, we've sent out a code for a 10% discount. Did you say worldwide shipping? Shipping.

As in the t-shirts contain a RFID tag so that we can track their movements? We're tracking people. We're tracking you. I mean, if you're wearing our t-shirts, you expect at least as much. Mind control. Good, good. MK. Ultra, etc. One last thing, tickets for for our September 10th, Eugene, Oregon date are still available at tour.cunonanonymous.com, so get them before they're gone. All right, on with the show. Ron Watkins, down under. A little more than a month ago, we covered the absence of Ron Watkins from his own congressional

campaign trail in Arizona's second district. For those unfamiliar, Ron is the former administrator of Ait Chan, now renamed Ait Kuhn, and his father, Jim Watkins, is the owner of the image board. They have at the very least supported and enabled the anonymous poster known as Q, if not outright created the majority of its output. Now, after Q went quiet in the lead-up to January 6, 2021, Ron continued to spread conspiracy theories as a bogus election specialist on Twitter, telegram, and in right-wing media. Finally, he pivoted to politics and ran for Congress.

At first, Ron ran a relatively straightforward campaign, albeit packed, full of his usual bullshit claims. But then, at some point in late June, rumors started surfacing that he had fled the country. All through July, Ron posted old photos of himself on the campaign trail, skipped appearances, and had his campaign manager tell people that he had received death threats and gone into hiding. However, Ron denied having left the country more than a month before the primary, which is understandable for a congressional candidate who had to loan himself $90,000 dollars and continued to raise money. This lasted until August 2nd when he came in seventh and last place in his Republican congressional primary with only 3.8% of the vote. A couple of weeks

earlier on July 22nd, he had pretended to attend an Arizona Trump rally, posting a scenic picture of the region and writing this. Trump rally in Prescott Valley today. If you see me or anybody from our campaign, please say hi and we will give you some cool campaign merch while supplies lasts. If you can't make it to the rally, please support our campaign here. God bless. Ron was spotted thereby nobody, of course, because he was long gone and just trying to squeeze some extra bucks and votes out of the rubs. In fact, he frequently posted fundraising links to his telegram all throughout his absence, which may have had something to do with getting subpoenaed by the January 6th committee in early June. His reaction to their outreach was

to tell them to, quote, pound sand. And more crucially, he wrote this. I am not hiding. My campaign schedule is public. Their incompetence is on display for all to see. Please help support my campaign. We need to raise $100,000 in the next 30 days to win this race. Donate here. So, to recap, Ron got subpoenaed by the January 6th, then posted a defiant message on June 8th, and then basically disappeared from the campaign trail for nearly two months, pretending he was still in Arizona while raising money. During that time, Q returned from a year and a half of silence to post several times between June 24th and June 29th, denouncing the January 6th committee in the process. After his primary loss on August 2nd, we still had no information about Ron's whereabouts other than the rumor that he had left the country. And then on August 7th, we received a tip from one of our fine listeners.

Ron had been spotted in Sydney, Australia, and there was proof that he had been in the country as early as July 26th, about a week before the primary. There was also some evidence, which we can't go into the details of, that Ron was planning to stay in Australia for a longer period than just a vacation. Now, we decided to keep the source anonymous for many reasons, but broke the news on Twitter and shared the information with some journalists. Soon after the articles started appearing, Ron deleted multiple telegram posts referencing Australia, all of them, in fact. We know this because Haley from Arizona Right Wing Watch, AZ underscore RWW on Twitter,

got screencaps of the posts and sent them to us. So for posterity, here are a few things he stated about Australia in late 2021. Do not be complacent. Australia is the canary in the coal mine. Dear world, pay attention to Australia because they are testing grounds for what the elites are planning for you. Australia needs help. They have fallen into tyranny. Let us stand together with our brothers and sisters in Australia.

They gave up their guns. They don't have the freedom of speech. They don't have the right to peacefully gather and protest. What they have is God's good grace and the unflinching support of people from all around the world. Also in response to an article about residents in the northern territories. In Australia, the army is being used to take people to camps. So Australia is scary, but not as scary as a subpoena from the January 6th committee, apparently. Then on August 8th, Jim Watkins confirmed that his son Ron was in Australia on his,

Ahoi the ship show stream. He appeared with Ron Watkins campaign manager and two other flunkies, D. Stevens and Kevin Lough, aka Major Burdock. Here's Stevens pulling up an article by Crikey, an Australian news outlet. I did see this story. Has Ron Watkins, who many believe is behind Q and honor, move to Australia? Let's get the scoop on that one.

Crikey, man. Crikey. Looks like Arizona behind him. just saying well I don't think he's permanently moved to Australia but he's in Australia right now oh okay

he moved yeah oh well you know they're doing that because some evidence suggesting he might be planning on making a permanent move well let's consider there you know look look through their and what they're

what they're associating in their article and then they're putting Ron Watkins's good name, congressional candidate all around all-American guy in there with a bunch of wacko stuff in the same story to try to smear him. So, you know, consider that, you know, before you take the article too seriously. Oh, I'm not taking it serious at all. Yeah. But he is in Australia right now and everyone knows he's had some serious death threats and it's best for him to be there for right now. Right.

Wow, that's got to be a major burn, Julian, scrolling right by your tweet, not saying jack shit about you or the podcast. Please call me a homosexual again. Say something about how I'm Travis Vue's boyfriend or something. God damn it. It's right there. It's right there for you.

I have a feeling they didn't want to get into it again. Yeah, probably a good idea. I've become a bit of a thorn in Jim's side. He's like, Like that one guy, Travis View, all around gentlemen. We had exchanged a few words and clarified some things, and I have no problem with Travis. But Julian, the homosexual, he is a different story. I'm not sure why Travis, good guy like Travis, would be paling around with somebody named Julian,

but stranger things have happened, I suppose. I'd like to thank researcher 2022 underscore karma on Twitter for alerting us about this stream. Meanwhile, Ron has gone quiet online. His last telegram post was on August 7th. So there you have it. I don't know what else to say except, Ron, wherever you go, the matter how far you flee, my little birds will be there, ever watchful. You'll find no respite, and there'll be no peace until you log off for good.

enjoy Australia buddy I have a feeling it won't be as bad as your depiction of it well yeah until a giant huntsman spider crawls up his sleeping bag then you know he might have some second thoughts but the huntsman doesn't uh it's just scary looking but it doesn't hurt you well yeah but they're scary looking that's the most important part i mean right rarely rarely uh does the fear of spider come from getting bitten something horrible happens to you it's it's having it sneak up on you in your car or outside your sleeping bag or you know when you're helpless on the toilet or something like that, you know. My worst nightmare is like you're putting on a shoe camping and there's something in it.

I don't like that. And I'm going to admit if I see a huntsman like crawling all over me, I'm going to freak out. It's not, I'm not down with that. When I went to Israel, when I was like a sophomore maybe in high school, I did one of those like summer Israel exchange programs. Canceled through my shul. You're done, dude. You're fired.

We did a three-day camelback ride through the desert. And we camped out in the desert. And one morning I woke up and I was rolling up my sleeping bag. And as I got to the very edge of it, it looked like a hand came out from the, you know, from the edge of the sleeping bag. And it was the legs of a huge desert spider, probably like the size of a small dinner plate that had been in my sleeping bag and crawled out as I was rolling it up. So God knows how long it was in there with me. I do, for those wondering, I know you're going to ask on Twitter, I do not have any superpowers. I was going to say, if you were in there, what does it like a fly?

the fly machine? It would have been fucking awesome if I woke up in that desert like super cut able to beat up the high school bullies who afflicted me

that would have been amazing. What if you were the same but you had like thick horse-like hair everywhere? That's more likely I think. No, no, no. I'm on a cocktail

of medications to get my hair to be as thick as a horsetail, okay? Everywhere. Everywhere on your body. It's been working. Not on the head

but on the nipples. Not on the head. But not so much that, but each nipple, each looks like a burning bush. Well, that's it for the little Ron segment. Ron, I hope you're out there listening. The Mar-a-Lago Dornock. Well, boys, I think it's finally happening. It's happening.

Yeah. The Cheeto, formerly in the White House, is going to prison. Pretty sure. We'll see. Forever. Maybe the electric chair, even. Maybe. Maybe it'll get charged.

with treason. So on Monday, August 8th, FBI agents seized boxes of documents in a raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Now, Raid is apparently a dramatic term for what actually happened because the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI officials showed up in like t-shirts and cargo pants and they were told not to take any weapons. So it was a little more casual than the word raid implies. Four men out of one car walked up to the door and said, hello, we'd like to see this room, please. So these events were confirmed by Trump himself in a statement. These are dark times for our nation. As my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege.

Starring Stephen Segal, very popular movie. I like Stephen. He's a good guy, good patriot. Raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. They even broke into my safe. I can see them now busting in, like, bank robbers with George Soros masks on.

I saw a pretty funny tweet. I mean, I'm sure it was like a, you know, ultra-lib account, but it was like Barron barely looking up from Call of Duty war zone, like, safe's in the back. I thought I was like, oh, that's pretty funny. Because Barron wouldn't care. He would be like, oh, yeah, fucking get this guy out of my life. He's also not in Mar-a-Lago. He's in a boarding school where they turn you into a super.

soldier. Yeah, he's in cryofreeze right now. Yep. Adding a couple LBs. God bless him. He's in like, yeah, some region of Switzerland that doesn't show up on any radar and only rich people know about. He's actually at the core of CERN, powering the entire thing with his brain. So the written inventory of what the FBI took was released, and it said that they took about 20 boxes of items from the club, including photo binders, information. about the president of France for some reason and a variety of classified material.

God damn it, he got the Macron nudes. Yeah, he got a little crumpinot on Macron. Crumpanaut. Yeah, it's like Compromot plus croissant. See, that's proof that Travis View is not, in fact, a Russian agent. No, I even know how to pronounce that. So the most interesting item from the inventory for me was a leather-bound box of documents specified leather-bound.

I would like to see the craftsmanship on this leather-bound box, personally. Yes. Also, wake me up when they find the fucking DVDs, the Epstein DVDs, and publish them, please. Yeah, that leather-bound book was stolen. It's known as the Necronomicon, and Donald Trump at some point tried to utter the word, you know, the magic spell to close the gate, and he fucked it up, and therefore, you know, Evil spilled out into the world. This is the first and handwritten edition of C-Spot Run.

These aren't the only boxes of materials of classified information that were retrieved from Mar-Lago. This actually comes after the National Archives, which is charged with collecting and sorting material, said that at least 15 boxes of White House records were previously recovered at Mar-Lago, including some that were classified. In early June, a handful of investigators made a rare visit to the property seeking more information about potentially classified material from Trump's time in the White House that had been taken to Florida. They were also spotted in the hot tub. That's the funniest part about Mar-a-Lago is that it's like a resort.

The Washington Post reported that among the items that the FBI agents were seeking are documents relating to nuclear weapons. Now, it's not yet known why the hell Trump would possibly have documents related to nuclear weapons. Some people have pointed out that Michael Flynn wants it to. to, like, basically sell some sort of nuclear information to the Saudis or something. So they're speculating and might be related to that. Obviously, it's not being confirmed. Yeah, I guess we'll find out. The storm is here, boys.

The storm is here. But not in the way that they wanted. No, it's the blue storm. Yeah, but that's the funniest thing about this whole thing is that, like, you know, in the early days of QAnon, when the media was all a buzz about Hillary Clinton's email server and stuff, all the talk was that, oh, she had classified documents. documents on the server. This was a core piece of QAnon's narrative in the early days when it was still kind of, you know, Tom Clancy-esque and espionage and, you know, it wasn't wrought with, you know, Christian dominionism and all that sort of thing. And, and that was the thing. They were like, this is what's going to take her down is, is she was sharing secrets. She had a back channel going to China. And yeah, this is why Trump is focused on China, yada, yada, yada. And then in the end, it turns out, that he is the one who's getting busted for the classified documents.

And not on email either. He's old school. He kept them in the leather-bound journal, the necronomicon. Yeah, the funny thing is that it's not Russia, it's Saudi Arabia, but hey. It was a leather-bound box. Oh. Probably like coffee-stained and... Yeah.

Sticky from like Diet Coke syrup. We'll tow any line. Just give us two weeks at Mar-a-Lago with all the finest food. all the stakes, all the stuff. So here's a really fun part, you know, because we all know the highest Department of Energy security clearance that allows one to access nuclear secrets, right?

Q clearance, because that's what Q came from. Coincidentally. Oh, no. What are you inferring, Travis? Are you saying Q is real? No, I'm saying it's a funny coincidence, but some Q&O promoters did seize on this connection. I saw one Q&O influencer on Telegram

insinuate that the FBI was actually on the hunt for Q. Did somebody say nuclear documents? What program are you required to be in if you have access to nuclear program documents? What security clearance is required as a prereq for any such person? The FBI was hunting for docs only a person with Q clearance would have? Or were they hunting for evidence of the person's in question? The search warrant was published by several news outlets. And it shows that Donald Trump is under investigation for potential obstruction of justice and violations of the Espionage Act.

Now, I'm told from some legal experts on Twitter that the Espionage Act is a pretty broad law about mishandling classified documents, not just about espionage and spying. Always making things less exciting. Yeah, that's. So I think it's worth noting that this is just one of a few investigations that Donald Trump is dealing with right now. he's facing a New York State investigation into his business practices for which he recently sat down for four hours of questioning. He pleaded the fifth on every question except for when he was asked to state his name. He's also facing a tax fraud case from the Manhattan District Attorney. There's a case examining his potentially criminal 2020 election interference

in Georgia. Of course, the Justice Department's probe into January 6. So he's got it coming from all angles right now. I mean, here's the thing, man. The world has been engrossed. Just the news cycles have been absolutely monopolized by Trump's legal drama since 2018. Just endless about whether or not this guy who obviously has contempt for the law will ever sort of trip up and actually run into serious legal consequences. And I don't know, it feels like this guy that's come to a head eventually. This can't just be life. We just can't be in this purgatory in which we're eternally waiting for the shoot-a-drop. Oh, Travis, I wish I could say that you were correct, sir, but we all know. And look, I think it's looking increasingly more likely that Donald Trump is

going to face some severe punishment, potentially, for the things that he's done. But, Julian, don't look at me like that. But even if he, let's say he gets indicted, he gets arrested and he goes to jail. We will still be hearing about this motherfucker, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. People are going to be like, oh, well, Trump reports that Trump got two scoops of ice cream in his jailhouse cell while all the other inmates got one. Or, you know, Donald Trump, a letter intercepted from Donald Trump to Ivanka sent from the jail that seems to seems to be plotting an escape. We will never.

We will never not have to hear about this guy in our lifetime. And I personally, it's driving me crazy. You cannot go. You cannot walk two or three steps if you are involved or care about politics in any way. You cannot walk three steps without thinking about Donald Trump, without hearing about Donald Trump. I'm sick of it. I wish, I wish that he would get a nice hefty sentence.

He would get locked up and everybody would move on with their lives. But we all know, boys, we all know that that's not going to happen. We all know Donald Trump's going to go out shanked by a card counter that he kicked out of a casino in 93. And even then it'll be like, oh, well, the investigation and the casino documents from 1993 are brought into the case. And it's just Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. It's just like, he never should have been president. He is the worst example of the kind of person who, you know, should be elected to lead the country. You shouldn't compare him to any other, any kind of political leader because he never should have been there in the first place.

And yet, and yet, I think for the remainder of our lives, every single political action, political figure, whoever is either going to be compared to Donald Trump or, you know, he will be referenced. There will be a Twitter account, you know, the name of the Twitter account. count will be like, is Donald Trump in prison today? And every day they'll tweet, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Is Donald Trump still in prison? Yes, yes, yes, yes. People are, are obsessed with this guy because I think personally that he represents all of the injustice in America, all of the elite class being able to get away with whatever crimes they want or whatever, everything that's wrong with capitalism, everything that's wrong with this sort of exorbitant materialism is embodied in Donald Trump. Yeah.

And so therefore, because he's in the, you know, because he's already in the public eye, we can't forget about him. It's much easier to focus on one guy as opposed to going like, okay, you know what? This guy got what was coming to him. He fucked up bad. He deserves it. He got punished. Now let's like move on with the world.

No, because even if he gets punished, he'll still embody our age better than anybody else. He's still better main character material than anybody before or after him so far. And he's won in that way. Yeah, not everybody might be talking about him in a favorable or unfavorable like, but he will always be a part of the conversation forever. This little, this little, you know, glob of a man is the, is the eye of the tornado of all discussions of politics and America and yada yada yada and it sucks it sucks for us i wish i could live a life where i didn't have to hear about this guy 24 seven but am i off base here guys i mean no am i the only one am i the only one that is just like just so exhausted of having to hear about i just feel nothing you feel

i'm numb no i don't care i agree i'm i'm indifferent i won't i'm not gonna like feel like celebratory if he like actually does face serious consequences and you know i won't feel despairing if he slips out of the clutches of justice yet again and like lives to shitpost another day. I don't I don't care anymore. Well, you guys are living optimally because the goal of a comfortable living is, you know, the highs are not so high and the lows are not so low. So if you're already embodying that, then like, man, God bless you. Like that's the way, that's the easiest way to be. I'm just not there yet. Travis and I are coated in a duck like oil And all this is just sliding right off our backs.

It's like the exhibit line. Let the shit slide off you, homie. If you shake the shit off, you don't know where it's going to land. It could land on your food. It could land on your car. Let the shit slide off of you. Okay. Why is there shit on you?

I think it's a metaphor. Okay. I think the shit is not real. You know, it's, you know, life slings and arrows. I did notice you were covered in shit coming in. Is that why you asked me to take my shoes off? Has you to take a shower, but the shoes will do. Now, the FBI targeting Trump in such a manner, obviously contradicts the broad Q&N narrative,

which states that it's actually Trump's enemies who will face the wrath of federal law enforcement and or the military. So how have Q&N followers and the broader right been coping with these recent events? One popular reaction to the news from Q&N promoters was that this was all part of the plan. Trump is leading the deep state into a trap. For example, here's how the events were reported on the QAnon show X-22 report. Think about why Trump would want the deep state players to go down this path. Think about what this exposes. Think about what can be produced, what can be entered into evidence legally.

Think about what the deep state did out of panic and fear. They played their hand. And now it's going to backfire on them. It already is backfiring on them. how do you get the deep state players the stupid people who are panicking who are afraid how do you get them to do certain things don't you need bait who's the bait it's trump if you notice he is the one standing out there he is the one that they're going after he's the bait so everything that you're witnessing everything that you're seeing is exactly what the military what trump wants them to do

He wants them to come after him, because what they're going to find is absolutely nothing. But at each phase, he traps them in their stupidity. It does not sound like they are trapped. It also, like, bait? I thought he was the mastermind. Now he's the goat tied to the post. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, this is same old, same old from Q and on, right?

Anything bad that happens to Trump, it's like, he wanted it to happen. Don't you understand? Man, this was all part of the plan. He needed the FBI to come there so they could steal the documents. And then, you know, he could say, look, here's Hillary Clinton, actually in the die. The nuclear codes that you thought I stole, she stole, actually. Her name's all over him. That's why I kept him in my safe to keep them nice for you.

It's all just nuclear secrets and then child pornography slipped in. So now the FBI is going to be arrested for CP. Yeah. Oh, that would be ultimate. If all of his hard drives just contained like a ton of CP on it and the FBI went through it and they all became criminals, you know, just by opening the computer, pretty genius. Sounds like something Trump might concoct. That's some 5D thinking. I actually saw a lot of Q1L followers claim that it would all be part of the plan even if Trump is arrested.

They kept thinking that they were quoting Q by saying the first arrest will shock the world. Now, you see this phrase over and over again and sort of the Q&N community, but Q didn't technically say that. They're conflating two different Q drops. One said the first arrest will verify action and confirm future direction. And there was a different QDrop that said the truth will shock the world. But still, there's some Q&L followers who are convinced that like nothing bad happens to Trump. So even if it looks like something bad is happening is actually good. Sure.

They think that he's going to be like, you know, the Irishman, you know, once he gets arrested, and he's in like the big jail cell like drinking the good grape juice it was good bread oh Trump is being hung on the Washington Mall currently yeah you think this isn't part of his plan they're going to be like oh no you don't understand

like he had to go to prison so that he could control the military from within the prison that way nobody will suspect him it's never going to end you know what I'll tell you something to continue my rant from earlier I'm sick of these people too it's the same shit over and over and over again anything it's like I'm rubber your glue anything bad that happens

to me is actually not true and good for me and bad for you it's just like a childhood game that you can't argue against you know you can't argue against like they you know how do you combat an ideology that's main sort of principle is like anything that looks bad is actually really good and good for us and we win it's called a Protestant attitude I mean the best part is that this probably won't end even after he dies. They're going to say he faked his death and then they're going to say I saw Trump and he spoke to me

and these are my words and I am Trump's prophet now and it's just going to go on forever. Yes, he'll be the new JFK Jr. Trump is like the kind of troll who'll be like, yeah, when I die have him put a big golden cue on the casket so when they buried me, we'll get an aerial shot from the drone and everybody can see

the queue sort of going down into the thing. You know, it's like they'll still he will be They've chosen him. And when you spend, you know, four years, five years, seven years, you know, essentially convincing yourself that, like, this guy is the solution, that he's going to save you from whatever, I don't know, unfavorable situation you're in or whatever you don't like about the country or the, you know, the cultural politics of the country, like to all of a sudden be like, actually, like, he's the guy slinging them nuclear secrets. Like, I'm out. When Trump dies, they're going to put his casket in the MoMA with the Marcel Duchamp toilet piece on top, except everyone's allowed to piss in it.

And it's going to be the most breakthrough piece of contemporary art of our age. We're going to be hearing about this guy forever. I just know it. It's going to be, oh, my God, when I'm on my spaceship, when I'm on my spaceship heading to Mars, you know, to go spend my doge coin, you know, at the Martian Cafe or whatever, I'm going to have to look up on the fucking LCD monitors in the tram and the space tram and it's going to be like news about ex-president Donald Trump and another crime he committed that we just uncovered 40 years after his death.

Yeah, he's going to be like Jimmy Saville. Like it's going to be, oh, we got him now that he's dead. Now this raid of Moralago seems to contradict the devolution theory. This is a popular theory within Q&ON, most notably promoted by Patel, Patriot, which claims that actually Trump is still secretly in charge of the government, and Joe Biden is just a temporary figurehead. Another popular Q& video maker named Christian Patriot News claimed that these events don't actually contradict devolution.

And also, it's good because it sets the precedent for allowing raids on the homes of other former presidents. Remember, we said, Trump, he's operating the military behind the scenes. Think the theory of devolution. People say, well, wait a minute. If Trump's in charge, how is that the DOJ would be able to raid his house? Well, the military is separate from the DOJ. The military is the military.

The DOJ is the Department of Justice. It is not a branch of the military. We can trust the U.S. military. The jury's still out on the FBI. Now, I realize most people hearing my voice right now, you think the FBI is completely corrupt. But sometimes things that seem really devastating at the time that they happen are really just part of the plan. Think boomerang. If they were able to raid our favorite president's home, this sets the president for being able to raid other former president's residents.

It's like they're almost there in that like, yes, no politician, no matter who they are, no matter how wealthy or powerful they are, should be above the law. It's like they're almost there, but they do a fucking weird, like, 90-degree turn, you know, away from their proper exit to get to the point that like, oh, well, this is happening to expose the other guys, not because our guy did anything wrong. Think boomerang. I made a point, and then it came back to knock me out. Another theory promoted was that the raid was conducted because Trump knows all about the satanic pedophiles. This view was expressed by Anna Perez on Steve Bannon's network, Real America's voice. And he knows that, and he even said it himself, he was basically supporting Q&M by saying, hey, I hear they're against pedophiles, so am I, because he knows.

And that was another hint he was dropping to us. A lot of people are saying, yeah, we knew that, those parts. But guess what? This is all part of the puzzle that I'm trying to put together here, which is that the deep state, you know, ultimately this past raid of Mar-a-Lago, it's a threat. It's a threat because they don't want him to expose. the pedophiles that he knows about right and that's what impeachment was about that's what the Russia hoax was about that's what every single that's what

January 6th was about that's why they planted all those people from the FBI there right because they wanted to make Trump look out to look like he's some domestic terrorists like he's some insurrectionist right it was a threat it was a threat from the deep state right they're coming after him and it's because they don't want him to expose the pedophiles and you know what he hasn't really yet he hasn't no he's dropped hints but he hasn't fully exposed him yet well will be interesting is to see if in 2024, if he runs again, or even if he doesn't run again, if he does decide to do that.

Oh, my gosh. The other host sounds like a, you know, kind of a concerned mother who's, you know, coddling her child in the midst of a tantrum. You know, well, I know. And well, yeah, that's right. That's right, sweetheart. Yeah, it's going to be, okay. So, I mean, the theory, though, is that Trump knows all about the pedophiles who are high in

government, but he's just keeping that in his back pocket for 2024, allowing these pedophiles to do their vile ds for another two years? Yeah, if Trump was really playing 5D chess, he would have faked like he had stolen the nuclear documents, right? And then, but what's really in the safe, what's really in the leather bound box is actually like, you know, all of the DVDs from Epstein's apartment and shit. And so the FBI, oh, well, they have to log it into evidence now and now it's part, like, that would be the real, you know, that would be the real move.

But look, can I just say to everybody who's. listening and everybody who's not, your politicians, your politicians, nobody's dropping hints to you. Nobody's hinting at anything. If they've got something to tell you, they're going to tell you. They think that we're too stupid to pick up on hints. The only hint is send me 20 bucks. Yeah, yeah.

And that's not even a hint. It's a fucking email with big block letters saying we need you now. It's a text message to your phone from an unrecognized number that says, hey, give us your cash. Nobody is hinting. There's no hinting going on. There's no hinting to be decoded, okay? They're either telling you what's happening or they're telling you a lie.

It's one of the two. He's foaming at the mouth. I think he's rabid. Somebody cut my mic today. Somebody cut it. I've had it up to here. The reaction on big MAGA forums was more bellicose. On the forum, the Donald one top upvoted reaction simply said lock and load.

And reaction to that post asks, are we not in the cold civil war at this point? As Ben Collins of NBC News reported, that question about a civil war was posted by a user named Banana Guard 62, whose real name is Tyler Welsh Slaker, a Washington state man awaiting sentencing for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021. So we have, you know, still insurrectionists who are still posting about how angry they are and wanted to, you know, do a civil war. Look, you know, if Donald Trump goes to jail, but he's still in power and it's all part of it. a secret plan, then you know what, me as an insurrectionist can also go to jail and still be part of a secret plan and still assume all of my power. It's, it's, you know, hey, that's a good narrative that jail is actually a good thing and all part of the plan. And if I get into jail, you know, I can coordinate with the other Arkham inmates and, you know, stage, you know,

some kind of breakout and then a takeover or whatever. It's like, yeah, good, good, good, Very good. All good. The mainstream Republican reaction to the FBI raid was also pretty hyperbolic. Senator Rick Scott compared the government's actions to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. This should scare the living daylights out of American citizens and say, we have got to change our federal government. The way our federal government has gone, it's like what we thought about the Gestapo and people like that, that they just go after people.

What we thought about Soviet Union. Well, we look at Latin America. We have got to say to ourselves, this cannot be our country. We have got to say, we're a country of laws, not of people that are attacking their political opponent and get away with it. This chattering skull is right. What are you talking about? You do something, you do something like, this is exactly the kind of country that you want. That if somebody does something that's against the law, no matter who they are, they're going to get investigated.

It happened with Clinton. As much as I, you know, I'm no Hillary Clinton plan. But you know what? She was subjected to fucking investigations for God knows how many hours and it broke. A new investigation broke, you know, days before the 2016 election. Look, it's working as it's supposed to. You think somebody did a crime. You get investigated.

If there's something there, maybe, you know, you go further. If not, nothing happens, you know? I don't understand. I would like to taste this Hillary Clinton flan. It's okay. It's a little runny. Caramel sauce? Yeah.

Whip cream. I know it's useless to point out hypocrisy, but Trump's like main pitch. One of his main pitch is that if elected, I will throw my political opponent in prison. That's like something he talked about a lot and his supporters really, really wanted. True. Charlie Kirk of the Conservative Student Organization Turning Point USA called upon state attorney generals to launch their own raids against leftist or liberal organizations in retaliation. Raids must be met with raids. State Attorney General's that are Republican have to authorize

raids against Soros Groups, BLM, Planned Parenthood, the Alphabet Mafia, Groomers, chemical castration of children now. Here's why. A hundred facilities should be raided by the next week. Find them. You're trying to tell me there's not a hundred criminal organizations that are aiding and abetting people across the southern border. La Raza, we know them. They publicized it. I'm not saying you have to arrest them. Just raid them. Find out what you find. Why? That will all of a sudden make them and their internal chatters, guys, you were so stupid. You read Trump now they're coming after us.

Good. Now you know there's a price to this. I don't think you need to convince the left to hate the FBI. Yeah. I think we got you on that, man. I know. Like, yeah, how would you like it if the FBI targeted the left, huh? Wow.

How could you imagine a world in which such a thing happened? That would be so crazy. I would be like, you know what? I'm voting for Trump. A common refrain across the right-wing media ecosystem was a variation of, if they can do this to Trump, imagine what they can do to you. For example, this is what Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, said on Fox News. Think about this. If this is what they're able to do to the former president of the United States, think about what they could do to you, to anybody in America. We all experience this every day, you fucking dork.

I got a fucking boot on my car twice for not paying parking tickets, okay? They will come after us for much, much, much less. Yeah, I don't think that convincing poor people that law enforcement targets them is some sort of new idea. You know, I mean, but this reminds me of that meme you sometimes see going around. It shows Donald Trump, you know, sort of darkly lit and says, like, really, they're not after me. They're after you. I'm just in the way. There's this vision of like Donald Trump as this kind of like avatar of this guy who's sort of like, you know, the only thing standing between, you know, the good America loving patriots and the deep state.

Yeah, as if Donald Trump has anything in common whatsoever with the working class of America. But man, that's how they see him. They see him as like, that's like, that's our guy in power. There's like all, yeah, I mean, yes, he's a New York native born into wealth and he lives in the Golden Tower. But really, he's on our side. Look, Travis, look, he talks about women disgustingly. I too talk about women in a disgusting way, okay? We're very similar, the two of us.

You do? No, not me. I'm playing the part of a, you know, oh boy. Canceled. Done. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green responded to the news by tweeting an image of an upside-down American flag and declaring defund the FBI. Clearly, Satanism. On Instagram, Green even promoted merch that says defund the FBI.

Now, that is America working again. Yes. There we go. Merch. Merch. Defund. Defund. Refund.

Merge. Defund. Marjorie Taylor Green defunding the FBI. And we sell you that T-shirt. We can do this, boys. Yeah, we just launched our new merch shop. That's going to be a new tea coming from us. The Ray the Mar-a-Lago appears to have radicalized at least one man to violence.

On the morning of August 11th, a man named Ricky Schiffer, armed with an AR-15-style rifle, got inside an FBI Cincinnati building, fired a nail gun, and then fled in a car. Shortly afterwards, Ricky Schiffer exchanged gunfire with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, which left him dead. It was later reported that Ricky Schiffer was at the Capitol on January 6th. Now, after the suspect's name was announced, I checked on Truth Social to see if he had an account, and sure enough, He had one that had about 30 followers, and that account was full of violent rhetoric, a lot of transphobic rhetoric, and other assorted red flags. He apparently bought into the, like, the groomer panic. But he was sent over the edge by the feds raiding the Trump property.

This is what he posted on the day that the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. People, this is it. I hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified, but if not, this is your call to arms from me. work tomorrow as as soon as the gun shop slash army navy store slash pawn shop opens get whatever you need to be ready for combat we must not tolerate this one they have been conditioning us to accept tyranny and think we can't do anything for two years this time we must respond with force if you know of any protests or attacks please post here Jesus Christ if you know of any

attacks I'd love to attend one yeah yeah hey guys uh when's the cool cool attacks going around you No, don't leave me out. I'm like, I'm up for any attacks. You guys know what's popping off. It was really sad. It's like, he obviously was trying to organize something with other people, but he went to the loan. Now, what's interesting is that in a follow-up post, he makes it clear that he wants to target

the feds and not civilians. He specifically mentions leftists and transsexuals as the kind of people he doesn't want to target. So in response to someone else asking, are you proposing terrorism? Ricky Schiffer doesn't say no, but instead says, this? Very important question. No, I am proposing war. Be ready to kill the enemy, not mass shootings where leftists go, not lighting buses on fire with transsexuals in them, not finding people with leftist signs in their yards and beating them up. Violence is not all terrorism.

Kill the FBI on site and be ready to take down other active enemies of the people and those who try to prevent you from doing it. Note to FBI agents listening. I am reading a quote. I am not calling for the actual murder of FBI agents. Yeah. Now, it seems like kind of strange that he would specifically state that people shouldn't set fire to busfuls of transsexuals. But I suspect that this comment was made in dialogue regarding extremist tactics, like either in dialogue with other extremists or within himself. Like, at some point, he considered whether or not it was tactically useful to commit mass murder against leftists and or transsexuals and decide that. against it, which is, I mean, it's still kind of disturbing because, like, it seems like he was

considered as like, well, should I just, you know, find a house with a BLM sign in front of it and just beat the shit over whoever happens to live there? Or should I limit my extremist leading towards the feds? Entirely unhinged. I will say, though, never do terrorism under any circumstances. But if you have to, if you absolutely have to, and nothing anybody says could possibly talk you out of it, it's really best to only do it towards armed agents of the state and not civilians. Again, you shouldn't do it, but if you gotta, that's really the only ethical way to go. Uh-huh. And there you have it. That is my 5D move for the day. Travis wrote this episode trying to get me to cancel myself and I have tricked him into canceling

himself. Folks, we got him. He's done. We got him. That's it. Wrap it up. Show's over, babe. The Truman Show style, like everything, like the set collapses around Travis. Yeah, I walk out and I'm just in like a weird, like, glass dome with like cameras all around and, you know, NPCs that I thought were my friends and family all of a sudden, you know, running into their, you know, running into their houses and locking their doors. Another post from that account revealed that Ricky Schiffer was actually against QAnon. That post says, quote, Q may have been a cult type. It seems more like a disinformation to keep the dumber patriots thinking the good guys had already won.

Now, this is interesting because this is actually something we often see from like far right extremists who actually take that extra set and commit real violence. They're usually either not the QAnon or they're explicitly anti-QAnon. Now, there have been instances of QAnon followers either committing or planning violence. There's Matthew Wright, Anthony Camelo, Cynthia Absug. Of course, QAnon followers were a big part of the mob that attacked the capital on January 6th. But generally the people who pick up guns and commit terrorist acts that kill multiple people are usually more of like the white nationalist variety. Ricky Schifford's final post occurred on the morning of the shooting, and it reveals why exactly he fired a nail gun despite being armed with a rifle. The first sentence of his final post says this.

Well, I thought I had a way through the bulletproof glass, and I didn't. Jesus Christ. So it appears that he believed, for some reason, that the nail gun, could penetrate the bulletproof glass, and he was mistaken. And after he realized his mistake, he fled the scene and then made one final post on true social. Now, imagine for a moment attempting a one-man assault of the United States federal government and then pausing to get out your phone and then make a post updating your 30-somewad followers about how it's going.

Yep. Yeah, I can imagine it. That is where we're at. Now, out of curiosity, I searched on YouTube to see if a nail gun could be. bulletproof glass, and there was one video which showed a nail penetrating the glass, but not all the way through, and it kind of left the nail sticking out, and didn't, like, shatter the bulletproof glass or anything. So he did not do his research on this one. Just convince the FBI to put their ear up to the glass to listen outside, and then, you know,

you know what's next. Ricky Schiffer's final post went on to say this. If you didn't hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the FBI, and it'll mean either I was taken off the internet. The FBI got me, or they sent the regular cops while. So it just ends abruptly with that, just while. So I suppose I can't blame him for not finishing a sentence. His adrenaline was pumping, and he was being pursued by multiple law enforcement agencies at the time.

I feel like we can't keep counting on MAGA extremists being this incompetent forever. Eventually, they're going to get organized and be more effective. Yeah, they won't be like, tell me if you should see here of any attacks organized, near me because I don't want to travel too far. Yeah, they'll be like, well, now we know that a nail gun doesn't penetrate bulletproof glass, so we're going to have to rethink, we're going to have to rethink the strategy. Ricky, Ricky died

so that we could learn better how to penetrate the bulletproof glass. Let's mass by Desert Eagles next time. The Rise of Dark Brandon. So before we go today, I want to talk about the mainstreaming of the Dark Brandon memes. So if you haven't seen this one, these beams depict President

Biden as a menacing figure, perhaps with glowing eyes or an eye patch. And while these beams were once posted in leftist or liberal circles ironically or semi-ironically, dark-branded memes were recently posted by members of the White House and Congress. For example, in August 7th, the White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates posted a meme of Biden with glowing red eyes and the text, Your Malarkey has been going on for long enough, kiddo. Rob Flatherty, the White House Director of Digital Strategy, also posted a meme of Biden with glowing red eyes. So this was in response, these memes were posted in response to the successful passage of the Inflation Reduction Act or the IRA, which is like a $700 billion package that attempts to address inflation by lowering energy and health care costs and reducing the deficit. A lot of climate change wonks also celebrate the bill for its green energy incentives.

So the fact that the meme reached this level is, I mean, the meme itself is interesting because it's sort of like a recombination and reappropriation of several different memes. You know, the first of which, of course, is the chant Let's Go Brandon. That started when a NASCAR reporter claimed that a crowd that the Talladega Super Speedway has started chanting that in October. So supposedly in support of driver Brandon Brown, when in fact, they were just yelling fuck Joe Biden. And so let's go Brandon became a starky way for conservatives to say fuck Joe Biden. The other element is the glowing eyes or the laser eye memes in which people sort of photoshop a red or orange glow in their eyes in order to depict themselves growing supernatural power.

This is still very popular in sort of like Bitcoin circles. You see a lot of crypto weirdos with themselves with glowing eyes. And of course, the other element is dark maga in which Trump supporters imagined a authoritarian Trump who mercilessly destroys his enemies. And so some of the more online leftists mixed up these free-floating meme components to create dark Brandon. And sometimes they ironically depicted Joe Biden as a kind of like Marxist revolutionary. For example, I have one here, which has that Joe Biden in front of a hammer and sickle and a globe holding an AK-47 and it says, join me in the resistance. Together we can kill God and end liberal malarkey. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Other times, Dark Brandon is depicted as some sort of cult leader. For example, there's another photograph here of Joe Biden enthusiastically flipping some burgers. The text says, POV, you are being ritualistically sacrificed by Dark Brandon as a crowd of Ackalach's shrieks and ecstasy. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think what's funny about it for the left is the idea that an entirely kind of incompetent and incoherent man who's able to achieve very little is actually secretly, you know, this dark powerful force, which is essentially a mockery of Q&ON and MAGA people. Yes.

Believing that their guy is, you know, a highly able 5D chess player. Obviously, it's a parody. It's supposed to be silly. Yeah, it's not posted like the dark MAGA stuff where they're pretty serious. They actually want these things and they think it's possible they'll get them. One of the most popular images of Dark Brand is actually an illustration of Joe Biden sitting on a throne of assault weapons. And this comes from a like a Chinese propagandist who was trying to depict him as like evil. But the problem is that he was just so cool that it was just sort of like repropriated to like make him look awesome.

Apparently the Chinese caption on this illustration says, the sleeping king ascends the throne, the devil is resurrected. Yeah. So this is just a weird thing, but like you say, well, you know, he's not, I mean, the White House basically, and I think it was at least one Congress member, unironically posted dark branded memes after the successful passage of this act. Then some other people sort of used dark Brandon memes to talk about, was the CIA assassination of an al-Qaeda leader, and of course the raid of Mar-Lago, because now sort of a semi-ironic

sort of imagination. Biden is now punishing his political enemies. It's interesting because essentially the mockery of him as someone incapable of getting anything done was taken by liberals and establishment people and they are so desperate to portray him as someone who could get something done that they will put this to any kind of minor accomplishment or change. Well, the IRA is a fairly major legislation. So this is why they're sort of like attributing the success to him. Yes. Is it Dark Brandon level, or his eyes glowing and he's changing everything and things are, this is a revolution. I don't think so. I think that that's what's funny is that they, for them, this is him going super sion, which is so sad. Right, which is, you know, passing legislation. Well, and look,

like, you know, with all good memes, it starts out ironically. And then over time, the more you post it, it becomes, you know, you are posting it in earnest. Yeah. Well, yeah, Pepe was like that. It was like Sad Pepe was an ironic meme, and then it was, like, actually started to represent the sadness that the image board users felt inside themselves. I think the next stage would be the Federalist Society declaring Dark Brandon a hate symbol. And being like, this is, they are threatening a communist takeover through this cartoon Biden. This is just essentially people being like, the storm is here, the rain is falling, and all their feelings. It's like that one sluice of water that in Morton Joe had like opens from the top of his castle. And they're like, I'm wet.

This must mean the storm is here. And then it's like drying up and you're like, that's it. I will say, though, that with, you know, as more news comes out about the sort of FBI seizure of the documents at Mar-a-Lago, the more it seems like there is a sliver of waterfall from a Morton Joe, the more I'm like, hell yeah, like I'm ready to go full blue and on. you know, it's like with the promise of like some kind of sliver of justice in some, some way. But that justice will only serve as consolidation to power for the very mechanism that causes endemic injustice. So it's actually just reinforcing itself. But, but it will lead to a new spectacle. It will lead to the end of the old spectacle into a new one. And you know what, I'm willing to settle for that. Yes, it's an encore. It's the introduction to a new

act and we'll find new and grotesque ways to entertain ourselves. Yeah, new recurring characters, new locations, you know, maybe a little bit bigger budget. You know, the, you know, the J6 committee had a much better structure and budget than the Mueller report. You know, that season two was what's much better. I mean, maybe season three, though, they'll really get things going, you know? Absolutely. I can't wait for the updated pyrotechnics on the Titanic as it goes down. Thanks for listening to another episode of the QAnon Anonymous podcast. You can go to patreon.com slash QAnonanonymous and subscribe for five bucks a month to get a whole second episode every single week, plus access to our entire archive of premium episodes and ongoing podcast series like trickle down. When you subscribe, you help us stay advertising free and editorially independent.

And head to merch.cunonanonymous.com for all the new merch. Check it out, folks. Yes. And I will be, I have an appointment with the optometrist. So I will be getting some cyber advancements into my optical sockets. So when you see us on tour, I will actually have lasers coming out of my eyes. Dark Jake? Dark Rockatansky will rise. Okay. Listener, until next week, may the deep dish bless you and keep you.

It's not a conspiracy. It's fact. And now, today's auto cue. The dark Brandon rises. right so look at this eagle behind him now i did a show with heather maize very very amazing woman channels information channeled information about what's going to be happening she channeled the information about what's going to be happening this month and there was an eagle there was an eagle involved so what does the symbol of an eagle represent to america freedom right they took that

she is a she is a an animal whisperer very sweet and she does collages of people's energy fields, their soul. Absolutely nothing wrong with this woman. Absolutely beautiful soul. And they took our showdown. I think it's because she talked about Eagles. So what does that eagle look like to you guys behind Brandon? Conservatives pointed out that the second image tweeted by Bates

included eagle imagery resembling the logo used by the Nazi party in the 1930s.