QAA Podcast - Episode 208: Elon Musk Becomes a Mod

Episode Date: November 7, 2022

Elon's Twitter and Paul Pelosi's assault by hammer. We explore the latest in terrible news and conspiracy-theory-fueled incidents. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous NOVEMBER LIVE DATES: Nov 12th Philadelphia @ First Unitarian Church Nov 14th Brooklyn @ The Bell House Nov 15th Washington DC @ The Howard Theater Nov 18th Toronto @ The Garrison Nov 20th Chicago @ Lincoln Hall TIX: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com Merch: http://merch.qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. 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 listeners to chapter 208 of the Q&ONONANANANANAS podcast, the Elon Musk becomes a mod episode. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Julian Field, and Travis Vue. The world's richest man, Elon Musk, now has a lot less money to spend on horses for his sexual harassment victims.

And that's because he teamed up with investors, including the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, to purchase Twitter for a whopping $44 billion. The first big promise change, making people pay for verified accounts. And that is a real shame because without that precious blue checkmark, anybody with a fake name and a stock photo could close. claimed to be Travis' view. The real danger. So true. You know, he's under attack, so of course he had to write an episode about it. So here we are.

Yeah, I'm going to really stick it to him. After Musk sealed the deal, he promptly got to work joining Republicans and spreading fake news about the attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband in their home. Now, Paul Pelosi was assaulted by a hammer-wielding former nudist who was radicalized by right-wing conspiracy theories online, And, of course, because things are weird, is also Canadian. So, fun stuff in this episode, we'll be untangling this mess and... Not me.

You won't be untangling it? No, I'm going to stay tangled. You're going to be retangling. You'd be adding some more tangles to the mess. Yeah, I got, I mean, I got a whole hoo-rah's nest up here, you know. It's your, no brush. No brush is going to straighten these curls out. Maybe I can help you with this hammer.

No. All right, Travis, take the podcast away from us. Well, yeah, before I really get started, I want to point out that we're a podcast that talks about online fringe conspiracism and how it kind of like intersects and sort of leaps out of the internet and affects the real world. And we're supposed to talk about weird fringe topics, things that the normies aren't even aware of until it's too late and affects them too. But instead today, we're talking about the most discussed news items in the country.

Because we live in an increasingly pilled world in which weird, fringe, online conspiracism, and mainstream news items are just one of the same. So I just wanted to point that out how disturbing that is. So back in April, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for the meme price of 5420. That's $54.20. $54.20. Very funny. Got it.

So a little nod to the 420 enjoyers out there, I guess. Yes, because it was very funny. So that would value the company, overvalue the company at $44 billion. He himself, Elon himself has acknowledged this is an overvalued price. But I think it's worth noting that Elon tried to back out of this deal, not once, but three times because of this. So important contacts when he talks about how much he was. wanted to buy Twitter because he wanted to like help humanity and stuff he apparently did not want to help humanity at the price he paid for it. Yeah, he also said at one point he was going to like

help solve world hunger by putting $6 billion into that. But no, not going to happen. And I guess he found a lot more to just buy a company in which he didn't like the replies he was getting. It pains me to imagine what $44 billion could have done for those. in our society who are struggling. We could have, for example, converted that money into pennies and then dropped the entire thing on Elon Musk. That's a lot of pennies, Julian.

I mean, how many of those billions could have gone towards the most expensive hitman on Earth? I won't say what he would do, but, you know, you know. Now, I remember when the lawsuits were going on, They were like, oh, this is like 5D chest. Elon Musk, the genius. What he's doing is that he's making them go to court in order to reveal the bots that are corrupting Twitter. Or he's taking them to court in order to lower the price.

Instead, what happened was that there was a lot of embarrassing text messages between Elon Musk and other people that were revealed. And it did not lower the price a single penny. So he got nothing. His sort of private communications work. exposed. And that's all that was accomplished because people keep acting like, you know, every move that Elon Musk does is brilliant. But here's a real tangible example of him trying to do something and then accomplishing nothing but making lawyers slightly richer. Well, I think what it does show is that our reality, our every day, the things that, you know,

matter to us and our communities are just things that can be blown out of the way by a giant toddler in the big playground we've built for the wealthiest, that they can just follow their whims, do whatever, make a joke, then make it real. They can do anything they want. And then our lives just have to kind of go with that. And Elon has a history of doing that, of taking things that are sort of internet memes or jokes and trying to turn them into real tangible sort of things. He's done it with cryptocurrency. Now he's doing it with Twitter. I guess he's He kind of did it with space. Yeah, because the unspoken contract was always like, if you're a billionaire and you're

working in this fucked up world where basically you can bend reality because you have enough money to, you have to follow certain etiquette, right? You have to pretend that there's still this serious thing happening and that you understand that other people exist out there. And he's just like, well, what if I didn't? He is the spoiled brat descendant of the like, you know, boring, bald guys in the fucking backrooms. And he's, uh... Well, and he might be bald, too, if it wasn't for all that money, you know?

Yeah, that's so true. I mean, I'm so glad about that. But, like, he's said himself, you know, the dumbest, stupidest, funniest thing is what ends up, you know, becoming reality. He's said that? Yeah, he said that. He's, yeah, I think he said it on Joe Rogan or something where he basically, and you kind of see, You know, you see that attitude that, like, he's like, well, I actually have the power to make the dumbest thing happen. But also, like, he's not a joker.

He's actually, like, a right-wing fucking type of guy who doesn't believe in labor unions. And so it's like, ha, ha, ha. But, like, actually, when it comes down to it, you know, he's going to, like, put in place a way shittier world for any workers that have anything to do with things under his control. So, remember Elon Musk once tweeted that he was going to take Tesla private for 420 per share? And this led to, because what he says has real impacts on the market, this led him to settling with the SEC for $40 million in penalties. Yeah, what the fuck does he care? He doesn't care. People like, if things don't go his way, as we saw with the Twitter deal, he's just going to borrow money from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

It's because it's just like, yeah, Elon, fuck him up. Like, this is funny because they're also very bored, you know? All these young men that have inherited the old money, they're fucking bored as hell. And they're like, oh, man, well, this guy at least like stirs shit up, you know, let's see what happens. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, because there's no consequences for them whatsoever. Nothing. And that's why, like, I think he is bad, but he's also like a canary in the coal mine that we should all kind of pay attention to,

which is that, like, at this point, if someone of his level wants to just not be serious about our lives, but he doesn't have to be. It'll just fuck everything up. Elon Musk commemorated his purchase of Twitter by posting a video of himself entering Twitter headquarters while holding a sink and tweeting, let that sink in. He's so fucking stupid. He's such a boomer. It's just a dumb joke.

It's just a dumb pun. It's just a dumb pun. but but that is that is an example of like this kind of wealth like some people might just say like let that's you know let that sink in and then tap their sink but this guy has has the time he has the funds to just and end the commitment to the bit to bring in a whole sink for a fucking picture you know what I mean but it's like the it is literally like what if you made a reddit or a billionaire yeah that's what we're seeing is just the some of the worst humor on the internet to But he thought it was very funny. So here's the video. You just can't help it. It's not even a great bit. I mean, the video payoff is not great.

It's just he did it. He sort of doesn't know what a good button is to sort of get out of the bit. No, because he's entirely humorless motherfucker, actually. Here's what kind of bothers me about Elon Musk is that, you know, billionaires generally think that regular people are worms who are only good for like labor and wealth extraction. But Elon Musk also thinks regular people are worms. But he also wants the worms to think he's cool and funny. Yeah. Like Mark Zuckerberg isn't like that.

Mark Zuckerberg, he's trying to create like this metaverse thing in which he is a god in which we are all plugged in to a matrix in which every source. surface is the potential ad media, and he wants to turn us all into batteries, but he doesn't care whether or not we think Mark Zuckerberg is cool or funny. He knows about all of our jokes, or lizard people jokes, and he does not give a shit because he thinks we're so far beneath him. But that's because Mark Zuckerberg is too busy trying to convince us he's actually human. Yeah, Elon is just trying to convince you he's funny. Yeah.

Mark's trying to convince you he's real. yeah it's like there's this weird yeah it's weird why why does he is this this weird insecurity where it's like all if you i don't know this is like if you have that much wealth in power you think you just not give a shit what the rest of the peasants think but he seems to give a shit that's it's always being that way right i mean you actually can't escape your humanity no matter how much money in power you get you just you're still the same fucking weird idiosyncratic human being. Yeah.

And it's just that now we're in the online age, so we're finding out what it looks like to have a fucking one of the worst types of posters, a Reddeter, uh, in charge of something. It kind of reminds me of like how Galeigh Maxwell was able to work her way in the top levels of society. It's like what exactly value did she bring? It was that she was able to take these billionaires and make them cool

and certain social scenes. You know, they're able to, like, introduce them to the people, and apparently that's, that was something that money normally couldn't buy, which is like, you know, being cool or being around, you know, the cool people. So you're saying Epstein's cool? No, I'm saying that sounds like you're saying Epstein's cool. I'm saying, well, first of all, the first thing I'm saying is fuck you, Julian. And the second thing I'm saying is that is that. Here we go. Let's go.

Let's get it. She was able to leverage her sort of knowledge of how, like, high-level society works in order to make these awkward billionaire nerds into, sort of funnel them into, like, the party circuit. Yeah, it's true. She did get that, like, what was it, Gateway or Dell. Who was it? Yeah, yeah, it was the CEO of Dell. Yeah. And she, like, basically was like, you should dress like this and, you know, be able to be a demonic this.

And then we, then you donate to these nonprofits so you can get. to these cool rooms and people like you in a certain way. So, yeah. God. Oh, the sadness, just the empty rooms. Every one of these people's inner lives is like that fucking mansion at the end of, at the end of Citizen Kane. It's just this big, empty mansion and everyone's gone.

Yeah, right. Yeah, Citizen Kay, that movie about a man who, a spoiled rich man who bought a media property in order to make himself feel important. Yep. So the big change that's coming, allegedly, is that they're going to start charging for the blue check mark. And Elon himself announced this change with this tweet. Twitter's current lords and peasant system for who has or doesn't have a blue check mark is bullshit. Power to the people. Blue for $8 a month.

Now, blue, that refers to the already existing sort of premium Twitter service. Yeah, by the way, I know that there's a big kerfuffle and we're about to jump in. this but he also said in another tweet that there's going to still be a tag that is not the blue checkmark or whatever the fuck that labels people that they've been verified as their own public selves yeah media personality government officials i have a feeling that checkmarks not even really going away it's just going to look different and then the blue thing like having the checkmark next to your name in the old aesthetic sense is going to become just the whether you pay eight bucks a month or not so and it's been wild to see how people are so sad how people reacting to it oh god

i've seen people that have screenshoted their their profile as it stands now and made their banner or made their pin tweet a picture of what their account looked like when they were verified by the old guard which is so amazing it is so stupid and so such a such a perfect example of where people's priorities are and, you know, it's like, let's think about this. It's like, okay, the blue checkmark is gone unless you pay $8 a month. That means that Jordan Saither, potentially, could pay $8 a month and have a blue checkmark next to his name. Now, there are, you know, there are other media people who will not pay for the blue

checkmark, but they still want you to know that they are, who they say they are on the platform where none of that matters anymore because it's just like but that'll still happen via this like secondary tag that he's mentioned or whatever yeah i mean so that's what's so funny is that the whole thing is just him making a mess because he's like well wait a second so people are paying for this blue thing but they don't get a checkmark no wonder no one's signed up for this man let's make them sign up for that because that's the thing that people really want yeah and he's also just angry in general at blue checkmark so he wanted to disrupt the system because he has too many you know blue checkmark like journalists writing

articles about how much of a dip shit he is which is very funny I mean the whole thing is kind of very funny actually when you look at it that way and you know what like maybe this is the beginning of the end of Twitter and you know what fucking hell yeah because first of all there's no fucking way I'm paying $8 a month no way anything related to Twitter I don't give a fuck what it has to do with my tweets were way

better when I didn't have the fucking verified badge I feel bad every time I scroll that site. They should pay me to be on it. Fuck you. I will pay nothing. And I think it's very funny that QAnon influencers will have blue check marks and that journalists will look dumb if they also pay. And it's a horrible situation.

It's put them into a very precarious position because it's all of a sudden the case system no longer matters. You know what I mean? And yet for so many years, this blue checkmark was a thing. You had people just, you know, adding Twitter. all the time saying giving me my check where's my check mark where's my check mark you finally by the way we got check marks

because we were literally banned from Twitter yes and when they reinstated us well you know they got in touch and we're like hey uh while you're at it hook us up and they did but losing it couldn't give a shit fuck off who cares what what exactly

I mean I just I'm ready to just say goodbye to Twitter just let's fucking put this Let's give this thing a Vikings funeral. Let's fucking put Twitter on a fucking raft. Put it out to see and shoot a flaming arrow at it. You know, it'll be really, really funny is if all of the conspiracy theorists and, you know, sort of like right wing QAnon or non-QAnon sort of influencers, all who so desperately wanted to shove it in the Lib's faces, you know, they pony up the eight bucks a month. And all the fucking prior blue checkmarked journalists are like, you know,

know what, we're going to telegram, and the two social media platforms just fucking switch. There is some argument to be made that this is exactly what Elon wanted, is that he wanted to be able to fuck up the website where so many replies pissed him off, and that those replies had little verified checkmarks next to him. And he just wanted to aesthetically reach in there and just scramble that. Yeah. And, you know, and if in the process it fucking sinks to the bottom of the ocean. He probably, I mean, that's probably a satisfying outcome for him. Yeah. So people, you know, it's like either way, like, he wins because he gets to play with a loss. Everybody else's money. He doesn't pay any taxes. And it's like, you know, I mean, I think it'll make the world more

nihilistic than ever. Why not? Why not? I'll pledge allegiance to Elon. Let's go, man. I'm fucking, I'm a muskite or whatever they call themselves. I'm a musky boy. It's a musk rat, I think. Yeah, a muskrat, a musky boy. Yeah. Just chewing at the wood, you know? I want to, oh, I want Elon's toes in my mouth. Oh, well. I want to ride him like a surfboard.

Well, all right. Yeah, I think it's worth pointing out. It's like, you're right, the checkmark has sort of like, I guess, devolved into like a weird little cast or class system where there are halves and have-nots. But it was intended in its purpose is for safety and integrity. Basically, it's like if you see a tweet from, For example, Shaquille O'Neal, who is one of the first celebrities to have a blue check mark. And you want some assurance that is actually coming from Shaquille O'Neal.

Or more seriously, if you see like a tweet coming from the White House, you know, you want some assurance that is actually coming from a government entity and not, you know, someone who just signed up for at White House underscore or something like that. Yeah. If you want to verify that Kanye West did in fact say that he was going DeathConn 3 on the Jewish people, you can't. can see that the check marks there next to his name. Guys, clearly the answer here is another social media Twitter clone. So eventually we'll have all of the peasants will have blue check marks right on Twitter. That'll be, you know, a no man's land. Truth social will have, you know, all of your Republican leadership verified on there. And we just need like a real truth.com where everybody who's a liberal or center left,

they can have their own. And Twitter will just be kind of like, Twitter will be here, here's what it'll be. Twitter will be like the desert, okay? Truth social will be Bullet Town. What? Real truth. RealTruth.com will be Gastown.

And I will be Mad Max roving the wasteland, the last of the interceptors. I think we need to take Jake out back and put a blue check mark through his head. Do it. I dare you. Aim it higher so you get it right. He looks insane. He's wearing a beanie covering most of his head.

Oh, God. I've never seen you look so close to like a Gary Busey. I feel insane. I don't know what it is. I don't feel good. This week has been horrible. Yeah. So you know what?

Fuck it. I don't give a shit anymore. I'm going to suck Elon Musk's dick. The thing that I've always wanted to do and say it live on the podcast, I'm finally going to do it. I'm going to say it. You've put it out. Julian, as Elon would say, the stupidest, weirdest thing is often the reality. Don't stop quoting, probably misquoting Elon Musk. He's not allowed to go into the quote books, okay?

Leave that. I want people to remember Sun Su, but not him. So Elon Musk, obviously, he got a lot of criticism for the $8 a month. price. And so in response, he started seeing memes as mentions. He started reposting them. This is also a very, by the way, a very Trumpian move, or at least a Dan Scavino kind of move, where he sort of like he reaches into the online world of sycophants and that he finds the memes that praise them and he just amplifies them to his 100 million plus followers. Epic. Epic. So the first meme that Elon Musk reposted is a soyjack meme. So it's featured. the gritting soy jack

sort of smiling at a Starbucks drink that costs $8 and then crying and yelling at a blue check mark that also costs $8. He's also pointing out here that it's 30 minutes for the Starbucks cup and 30 days

for the enjoyable sip of joy. Of fucking misery. Like, oh, yeah, great. Oh, you're slow injecting me with misery for 30 days. That's somehow worse than a Starbucks? He's got it wrong. Rapa lappa dappa. Yeah, one of those delicious Starbucks sweeties with the whipped cream on it.

I enjoy every fucking second of that shit. But every time I log into Twitter, every time. Unless it's, you know, I get a beautiful message from one of you, beautiful, beautiful sweeties out there. Every other time, it's misery and pain. It's misery and pain. The only time I get joy on Twitter is reading patch update notes from my favorite video game developers.

Everything else can suck it. Yeah, that's true. And also, Jake does drink these Starbucks drinks over 30 days. By the end, they have mold, but he's still sipping the last six. Yeah, I can't drink those anymore. Just iced coffee for me from now on. I can't do the sweeties. I found out through my Weight Watchers points that those sweetie, sweetie, delicious beetes, they, uh, man, that's like three quarters of my points for the day. So can't be doing those anymore. Yeah, it turns out they're really bad for you. Yeah, apparently they got a lot of sugar. A lot of sugar, a lot of cream, a lot of dairy. The white of his eyes are showing above his... It's not good. Another meme that Musk reposted was an NPC meme.

He loves these. So it shows an NPC complaining $8 a month for Twitter verification so much for free speech. And then someone else responds, you can just use Twitter for free just without the benefits. And, of course, the NPC, the unthinking, gets very mad with cross-eyes. Well, but there's some reality to this, right? The idea that, you know, if you have the verified badge and you have that as a, you know, you use that as a source of pride or whatever, yeah, you don't want that badge taken away. These folks at the end of the day, even saying, you know, you know, fascist Elon Musk is taking over Twitter and it's going to be a dumpster fire and stuff, they still want people to know that they're special.

Yeah, I mean, they're important on social media. I don't know if you saw someone had like kind of put together the amount of different times that Mueller she wrote begged for a verified badge. And it was amazing, amazing, just over and over for years. Like, please, and then cajoling and then fucking getting angry. And then it's like, oh. Yeah. And this is all we've got left. I don't want my little pin. It makes me important. Well, and then they got it. And, you know, you know, they got it because their account skyrocketed when there was a new investigation to bake.

Of course. So you can literally, like, if you look, I haven't done this at all. I haven't done this. No, no, no, no. We would never care about something so petty. We wouldn't care about them getting invited to the White House, for example. But you can pinpoint the announcement of the January 6th committee, you know, and all of a sudden, a steep rise in their, in their listenership.

And they got like, you know, 200,000 new followers, and they had to get the verified batch. And now that it's going to be taken away, they have screenshoted a picture of their verified badge. And then also, like, post, like, pinned, like, a chain letter, what essentially looks like a chain letter where somebody crafted the verbiage that's, like, for all intention purposes, like, from now until end of time, May it be known that this count was verified pre-Elon sale, like that means anything to anybody.

We are squabbling over a made-up class system in a online world that doesn't, isn't fucking real. Well, it's more real than your freaking NBA 2K, and you care about that. No, I think it is as real, at least. We all care about our own online worlds. I'm trying to think of an argument against that. But let me think about that, and I will get back to you on why that is not true. And one of the thing is like, listen, I spent some time working in marketing, and I've never seen a strategy that involves essentially negging your user base, calling them soy jacks and NPCs and basically calling them whiners for over the changes that you're planning. Like the normal strategy, be like, rest assured, we're going to.

alleviate all of your concerns is going to be great. There's no hyping. It's just like, all, we're making this change, and if you were sad about it, then be sad, you little bitch. It's just a strange strategy. It's because it's not a strategy. He doesn't care. He's literally, he can do

whatever he wants, and he's going to. He doesn't give a shit about anything, about how to run companies. Because guess what? His smoke and mirrors, fucking P.T. Barnamass approach works just fine. That's how deteriorated things are. It doesn't matter. And in some ways, dropping the fucking mask, dropping the facade of, like, the serious billionaire who actually cares, like, in the kind of Bill Gates manner, is revealing.

There's something kind of refreshing almost about seeing them be giant babies and lose control of their own public narrative. Yeah, I think at the end of the day, Julian, Julian, you hit it earlier on. I think all he wants to do is so chaos into a platform. and take away the things that he knows will make the people who criticized him or the people he doesn't like mad. Yes. And that's it.

He can afford to borrow money from like the fucking Saudi Crown and spend $44 billion and go into debt and fire half the company and do whatever he wants just so he pisses off like the 40 people that made him angry by publishing articles and making fun of him online. Just so, you know, Ken Clippenstein can lose

Blue checkmark That's how petty this motherfucker is And in the meantime The hilarious thing is that Elon has like I don't know Like a hundred million followers Like he's got He is like a massive account

You would think that You know look But he doesn't care because it hurts his little feelings Yeah Because it's like oh you didn't You didn't get the followers But but you do have a checkmark So it does sting when I see you

In my fucking mentions or whatever It's all self-esteem shit I remember I remember like when we were doing Twitch streams everybody in the chat there'd be maybe a hundred people in the chat having a great time laughing and then there'd be one person that was like your your podcast is actually platformed what do you have to say to the allegations that your podcast is platforming Q&R some dumb shit like that and I was not able to focus on the 99 people having a great time all I could think about was that one person

that's trolling and so this this kind of mentality this baby this Babiness, which I fully own. It's, you know, no matter how much money is in your bank account, you cannot escape that if you're not working on why that shit pisses you off. And it's clear. It's clear that Elon isn't, you know, isn't working through any of this shit. Why would he? I think he wants to see it crash and burn. I think he's hoping that a huge influx of users who will go, nanny, nanny, boo-boo, fuck you to all the blue check.

journalists, I'll pay the $8 a month to see, you know, Freedom 1776, Hitler loses have a blue fucking checkmark next to it. The joy. It all boils down to what will piss off the libs the most. That is. But also like, let's not forget that no matter what we do, no matter how much we make fun of them, like this guy has government contracts. He's linked in with the military. Yes. Like he is part of, he's not actually an anti-establishment figure. This man is deeply linked with all of the most evil forces internationally. He can borrow money from the Saudis. Like, yeah, let's not forget that all of this is just a dead.

He's been in Hollywood movies. He's connected to the military. He owns a media company. I mean, he is at the intersection of the deep state. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. And that's why I want to suck his penis.

Okay. So, I mean, obviously this purchase has excited a lot of conservatives. and right wingers because they think that the change will end the shadow banning it'll end the censorship it'll end the de-boasting whatever fucking complaints they have about social media

Travis there's a whole new sect of people now complaining about shadow banning it's flipped it's flipped there are new people going I noticed I noticed that my I've lost this many followers anybody else get unfollowed by me everybody is getting up in the morning

and read it they're literally like they're cutting open the like the the corvid of the fucking algorithm and reading the guts and being like oh today the algorithm has the bad omens so a new a new a new unintended perhaps consequence is going to be there will be a new slew of conspiracy theorists what is for sure is that there will be no rest yeah there will be no rest until we are put in our graves there will be no rest. Somebody's getting shadow banned. You know, just

like, oh, who unfollowed my account? And, oh, well, Alon and the Crown Prince, well, they're working together and it's it's just going to be, it's going to be, it's just, there's, it's a new slew of ways that, oh, the system might be

being tampered with. And you know what? Those fears are founded because the system is probably going to be tampered with in a certain way that that caters to a more favored political perspective. We have no power. The only thing we can do is that in the moment

if our enemy is being punished under these unfair and nebulous rules we have no control over, we can go, yes, I feel good. And then when we get punished, we go, oh no, what the heck, why am I being punished by it? That's it. Just rejoice in the punishment of your enemies by the fucking

nebulous, dark forces that control our world. And then Because tomorrow, because tomorrow it might be you. Rejoice in the punishment of your enemies. You will and complain and complain and complain at the punishment of yourself. A bunch of Q&ON influencers actually came rushing back to Twitter, including, like, Jordan Saither, thinking that, like, you know, the new rules would, like, allow them to stay on. Jordan Saiter was suspended shortly after

because nothing substantively has changed. There's also, was it, oh yeah, Romana Diedlo. She made a new Twitter account. Great, she's back. Great, the queen is back. Yeah, Queen of Canada.

Queen of Canada. So they're trying, I think her account's still up. They'll probably be suspended soon. But yeah, so they're at least testing the waters, trying to, God, these people, they love posting so fucking much. They just can't get enough.

it um but um yeah they has not been working out so well but they're still there's still this great hope they're still this great it's like oh man once Elon Musk cleans house and fixes everything then all of a sudden there's going to be free speech on Twitter once again but i do want to point out that there has been some dissents there's like there's been a lot of uh conservatives and right wiggers who are like who are not a hundred percent bored on the Elon train um in fact uh Elon must cause a bit of store among conspiracists because it's Halloween costume was something called the devil's champion

it consists of a plated red leather armor and a devil's goat head an upside down cross on a chest now it's not a custom costume it was apparently sold off the rack for $7,500 yeah no he wouldn't care enough to like do something

interesting he wouldn't be cool enough to go as a worm like Heidi Klue I know she fucking rules dude that was actually quite quite good yeah that was that I gotta give it to That was a good costume. She sucks and she's evil, but that was cool. More of these people need to be put into worm costumes and then find out they can't get out of them.

We need to lock these people into the worm costumes. Yeah, and just leave them in there for a couple of years. So by the end of it, they get spit out like John Voight at the end of anaconda, you know, just covered in slime, half digested. Worm costumes for all. So this was obviously a big problem for the Christian conspiracists who might otherwise be sympathetic to Elon Musk. For example, the right-wing blog Gateway Pundit said this. Musk's take on free speech should be celebrated, but as of right now, it's quite fair to question why the world's richest man, who is also a major U.S. defense contractor, SpaceX, and is the owner of Neural Link,

a company attempting to hook the human brain up to computers, is wearing the baffamette coupled with inverted crosses as if it's a badge of honor. So not quite understanding his most potentially enthusiastic supporters on the part of Elon Musk, I think. Amazing to watch, like, a room of adults argue over, like, what the teenager wearing that day, like, means for them? Like, what importance it carries with it? Oh, yeah. They're going to bake everything he does every single day. They're going to start baking his tweets in the detail. So this is not the only sign of cracks between the right and Elon Musk.

He also had a falling out with a highly influential mega cat turd two. Oh, he lost cat turd. Oh, folks. Cat turd two has nearly a million followers. No. I mean, hugely influential on Twitter. No, not cat turd, not cat turd. And so at first, cat turdune seemed, you know, at least open to the changes.

So here's what cat turd two tweeted at first. Report. Day one of at Elon Musk owning Twitter. I'll be doing this every day to see if anything changes. As of now, I'm still shadow band, ghost band, search band, and Twitter removed 1,200 followers today as usual, meow. Nothing has changed. I'll report again tomorrow, meow. I'm going to be posting about this every day. Oh, looks like I woke up. again and I'm cursed by God and I'm dirty and I've shat myself this tweet was responded to directly by Elon Musk himself and he said this I will be digging in more today yeah he'll be he'll be digging in the kitty litter trying to find cat turds yeah just looking for clumps why can't we find the cat turd this is this is what guess me man this is like literally the wealthiest man in the world, right? He could go to Antarctica with a trebuchet and launch Lamborghinis and then shoot them

out of the sky with a howitzer for fun. Damn, that sounds cool. Instead, instead, he's on Twitter trying to placate cat turd two, trying to, trying to reassure cat turt two that he's going to make all the changes that cat turd two wants to happen. Because he's on his phone. Like, we all are. We have better things to do, we have meaningful interactions we could be having in our life, and we just have our fucking heads down on our phone. That's true. We have the phone disease. He is terminal. Yeah, you are a terminal phone disease, man, and you're saying that you could be doing a million other things. And look what you spend your time. I have been tweeting a lot less than I used to. And again, I would actually attribute to that to my working on my mental health

deliberately. That's true. But you have also been screencapping cat turd to put it in documents and talk about it. Where are we? I don't know. Where are we? We have a billionaire who, you know, strong-armed his weight, borrowed money from very bad person to complete this sale. And here he is, like, reassuring, like, a complaining.

account. We don't even know who, if it's, you know, who runs it called Cat Turd 2. Do we not know who runs Cat Turd? I think he's still anonymous. No, he's not been, whoever runs Cat Turd 2 is not the dog. It's not even Cat Turd. It's Cat Turd 2. Yeah. It's a shitty sequel. Nobody asked for. Everybody knows how bad cat turds are once, at least with a dog, it's outside. It's in the grass. You pick it up. It's in the bag. It's gone. The cat turds, they sit. They sit in the sand. They clump up. You know, you got a scoop in. there, dig them out. I mean, if you're talking about animal feces... You've got to put them

between sandwich bread. You've got to eat them. If we're talking about animal feces, this is the most annoying kind. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. I would say. The cat turd? Bird poop falling on you is another one, but... Bird turd too. But like, horse apples, you know, you can avoid in the street. They're very easy to see. What the hell is a horse apple? I don't know. I thought that's what it was called. I got to go.

Wait. What? Okay. I don't even want to be around anymore. What is happening? So things started to sour between Elon and Cat Turn 2. This started to happen when Musk tweeted about how Twitter will continue to combat hate and harassment and enforce election integrity policies. And that Elon spoke to civil society leaders from organizations like the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, and the League of United Latin American Citizens.

This made a lot of people on the right unhappy with Musk, including Katter 2, who tweeted this. I admit when I'm wrong, and I was 100% wrong about Elon Musk changing Twitter. The new Twitter Meowteration Council is- Don't change stuff to meow. The new Twitter moderation console is just a bunch of far-left fanatic groups who were never targeted here. No average Joe's, no real conservatives, no one to represent the people actually targeted. 41,000 likes. Yeah.

What is he, what is Cat Turd complaining about? He's risen to fame in the existing system. Why are they all complaining? You're right. He's like Cat Turd 2 has more followers than I will ever have. But he's still complaining about how he's like, you know, he and his ilk are shadow band or suppressed whoever bullshit. I'll tell you what it is. They hate that there's no sort of like popular is not the right word, but sort of official sort of media group that caters to the right.

You've got Fox News and, you know, obviously, but Facebook and Twitter and Hollywood and everybody is speaking. They just, all they want is What they're mad about is that they feel like B movies, you know, it's like B content, you know, and that's all they care about. They go, it's unfair, and it's unfair, why can't Hollywood make a good movie about how awesome it is to be a conservative? Why does it have to be a shitty fucking mess? Like the John Schneider movie, like, you know, it's just... I mean, you named yourself Cat Turd. What are people supposed to do with this?

Like elevate you to fucking fame on the back of that. I'm sorry. And they have. You have Elon Musk answering you personally. Yeah. Elon Musk. Digging through the litter. So, I mean, here's what I think that Elon Musk is going to eventually learn is that these people are like perpetually aggrieved.

Like they're, they achieve their status by feeling like they're the underdogs and the pressed and being stepped on by the man and the structure. and everything like it's like it's not that they don't they don't can't conceive of a way in which you would end and so they're going to turn on him eventually if they haven't already and then he's going to have to go crying back to the lives and they won't want him and then what will elan do whatever he wants whatever he wants you can't win so another side of tension between the right Elon musk is his defense of yuel roth who is the head of safety integrity at twitter so Back in 2017, Yel Roth made the factual observation that there were some actual Nazis in the White House. This makes a lot of sort of conservative influencers very, very mad.

The Newsmax host, Benny Johnson, said this. Dear at Elon Musk, I want you to succeed at Twitter, this critique is based only on cold, hard facts. You will never restore public trust at Twitter when the guy in charge thinks 100 million Americans who support America first are literal Nazis, not possible at Yo-YoL must go. So, I, Rick, I have to say, I don't envy any Twitter employee right now, but Yoel Roth's having an especially tough time because he's being, he's being thought of basically as the Twitter deep state. And so he's being targeted for that reason.

And honestly, he has done a good job as anyone could do of keeping Twitter, you know, in line with its own policies against, like, hate and other, other. of things. Boo. Boo. On Twitter, I started doing a bit where I said, hello, I'm anonymous person at Twitter. I know all about Elon Musk's secret plan to make Twitter great again, but Musk's plans are being thwarted by longtime Twitter employees, a deep corporate board, if you will,

follow me to learn about the secret battle of good versus evil. I said that because I really think that's going to happen. What's going to happen is because this whole situation reminds me a lot of the early days of the Trump presidency, where like a lot of people. people really thought that, oh, yeah, Hillary's going to be locked up, and the swamp is going to be drained. And we're going to learn about all the crimes of Obama, and everyone from the Obama administration is going to prison and Guantanamo Bay, and it's going to happen. And then the mutts passed by, and it just wasn't happening. It just didn't seem like there was a lot of

progress being made on that front. And so, of course, they were primed for QAnon. They had to, in order to resolve that cognitive dissonance between what they thought was going to happen and what was actually happening, they were led to believe that there was a secret plan There's a secret battle inside the government between good versus evil. And that's probably what's going to happen here is that as a months pass by, people who think that Twitters or think that must take over Twitter is going to be this glorious thing that reveal a lot of corruption and then it will fix everything. And then there'll be no more shadow bans or whatever bullshit. They're going to start realizing that it's not going to happen. So they're going to start blaming some kind of Twitter deep state.

And they're going to start thinking that there's a battle of good versus evil. And quite possibly they're going to start thinking that there's a battle of good versus evil. And quite possibly, they're going to start believing sort of like unfounded rumors about like the moves and counter moves between Elon Musk in this corporate deep state. Yes. When meanwhile, the answer will probably, what the truth is will probably be something very boring and mean nothing. Like for example, you know, Elon goes in there and he's like, I want to get rid of all the bots. This is what I'm going to do. And they're going to go, well, Elon.

We've been trying. Yeah, Elon, we've been trying. it's literally impossible or it'll be something like actually will the bots drive up like this engagement and result in our entire ad revenue actually is based on bots promoting this cut so there's actually nothing we can do there it's like what it's the same thing with Trump comes in says I want to do this I'm going to get this I'm going to get this I'm going to get in and actually gets into the presidency and people go well Donald Trump yeah we've investigated her you know 47 times and unfortunately we can't find a single crime committed by Hillary Clinton We've tried. You know, it's just nobody ever knows what's happening behind the scenes. So whatever promises they make or changes they make don't mean anything. Well, what's actually happening is exactly what happened under Trump. Like half the people get fired.

The rules are made up on the fly by an idiot. And everybody starts to like feel distrust and turn on each other internally. That's, you know, yeah, let's go, baby. Unfortunately, the news of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter intersects with our next big story as the home invasion and assault of Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi. What happened was in the early morning of October 28th, a very unwell man named David DePopp, broke into the Pelosi residents looking for Nancy Pelosi. The man instead found Paul Pelosi and proceeded to assault the 82-year-old venture capitalist with a hammer.

So it was very clear immediately that this was another example of someone radicalized by right-wing rhetoric online, but the incident came at an inconvenient time for Republicans because the midterm elections are right around the corner. So instead, they tried to throw up a smokescreen of nonsense conspiracy theories and disinformation in an attempt to distract from uncomfortable facts. So before we kind of like talk about the conspiracy, I want to try and lay out what is actually known about the incident. And to do that, I'm going to rely on the court.

filing related to the federal charges that the pop is facing. On October 28th, 2022, at 2.23 a.m., San Francisco dispatch received a 911 call from Paul Pelosi. Pelosi stated words to the effect of there is a mail in the home and that the mail is going to wait for Pelosi's wife. Pelosi further conveyed that he does not know who the mail is. The mail said his name is David. At 2.31 a.m., San Francisco Police Department officer Colby Wilms responded to the Pelosi residence and knocked on the front door. When the door was opened, Pelosi and DePop were both holding a hammer with one hand, and DePop had his other hand holding on to Pelosi's forearm.

Pelosi greeted the officers. The officers asked them what was going on. DePop responded that everything was good. Officers then asked Pelosi and DePop to drop the hammer. DePop pulled the hammer from Pelosi's hand and swung the hammer, striking Pelosi in the head. Officers immediately went inside and were able to restrain DePop, while officers were worried. restraining De Pop, Pelosi appeared to be unconscious on the ground. Officers removed a cell phone, cash, clipper cards, and an unidentified card from DePop's right shorts pocket. DePop provided officers his first and last name. After officers asked DePop if he had an ID on him, DePop said it might be in his backpack on the back porch and later stated his backpack was near the broken glass.

When officers removed DePop from Pelosi's residence, police body-worn camera footage showed a glass store that appeared to be laminated glass broken near the door handle. San Francisco Police Department recovered zip ties in Pelosi's bedroom and in the hallway near the front door of the Pelosi residence. In addition, law enforcement searched to Pops backpack at the Pelosi residence and they found, among other things, a roll of tape, white rope, one hammer, one pair of rubber and cloth gloves, and a journal. Pelosi remained hospitalized Saturday in recovering from surgery to repair a skull fracture

in serious injuries to his right arm and hand. It sounds like DePop was not in a good place. CNN reported that an acquaintance of DePops named Linda Schneider got to know the man roughly eight years ago, that he occasionally house sat for her. When they met, she said, DePop was living in a storage unit in the Berkeley area and told her that he had been struggling with hard drugs, but he was, quote, trying to create a new life for himself. So what exactly motivated Deepop to do such a horrible thing?

He left behind a pair of far-right blogs called Friendly Friends and the Loving God. Many posts are filled with screens against Jews, Black people, Democrats, the media, and transgender people. There was also some anti-Catholic screens. For example, he made this post in reference to the Eucharist. Other than Satanism, I know of at least one major religion with millions of devout followers around the world that believes in the power. of human sacrifice. This evil religion is so common you probably have heard of it. You may even practice it. So get some chick-track stuff. In an August 23rd entry, DePop wrote, quote, either Q is Trump himself or Q is the deep state molds within Trump's inner circle.

He also wrote, quote, how did I get into all this? Gamergate. It was Gamergate. The New York Times managed to get an interview with a man who once employed Deepap. His name is Frank Cicere Here's from that report. Over the six years he has known Mr. DePop. Mr. Cicorelli said he witnessed a transformation from a shy and hardworking but troubled man into someone who is increasingly isolated and captive to his darkest thoughts. Quote, if you got him talking about politics, it was all over, Mr. Cicerelli recalled in an interview this week because he really believed in the whole MAGA, pizza gate, stolen election, you know,

all of it, all the way down the line. you know it's a common thing once you believe uh sort of one bullshit conspiracy theory kind opens you up to everything else now in response to these events the and especially the uh the blogs in which he sort of revealed his beliefs there was a conspiracy theory that these blogs were like created on the day of the attacks um that's not true they were been up for months but they were only archived on the day of the attacks because people sought them out and archived them so like people misunderstood that, you know, that just because someone is, some blog has only been archived recently, that does mean it was created recently.

Yeah, that's a good point to make because I've seen a lot of that going around. There's, there is so many, you know, it's like, it's so fucked when you see this stuff. When, when somebody who is radicalized by conspiracies and far right thinking actually commits violence, there is this like rush on the, on the right to, you know, you know, minimalize it or frame it as lies or frame it as, you know, part of a bigger conspiracy. You know, it's, yeah, and oftentimes with crimes like this, you know, we won't have the full story, you know, for some time until, you know, everything sort of gets investigated, uncovered and uncovered. And then that information gets reported by, you know, major media outlets. And so, you know, this idea of using a misunderstanding like the archiving of the website is used to so doubt in people's minds about actual reporting.

And I think that's, it's important to point out. You know, a lot of people tried to claim that this was like maybe a random act of violence or something. But DePop also gave an interview with the San Francisco Police Department, which he made clear why he was doing this. DePop stated that he was going to hold Nancy hostage and talk to her. If Nancy were to tell DePop the truth, he would let her go. and if she lied, he was going to break her kneecaps. DePop was certain that Nancy would not have told the truth. In the course of the interview, DePop articulated he viewed Nancy as the leader of the pack of lies told by the Democratic Party.

DePop also later explained that by breaking Nancy's kneecaps, she would then have to be wheeled into Congress, which would show other members of Congress there were consequences to actions. DePop also explained generally that he wanted to use Nancy to lure another individual to DePop. DePop stated that he broke into the house through a glass door, which was a difficult task that required the use of a hammer. DePop stated that Pelosi was in bed and appeared surprised by DePop. DePop told Pelosi to wake up. DePop told Pelosi that he was looking for Nancy. Pelosi responded that she was not present.

Pelosi asked how they could resolve the situation and what DePop wanted to do. DePop stated he wanted to tie Pelosi up so that DePop could go to sleep as he was tired from having had to carry a backpack to the Pelosi resident. Around this time, according to DePop, DePop started taking out twist ties from his pocket so that he could restrain Pelosi. Pelosi moved towards another part of the house, but DePops stopped him and together they went back into the bedroom. While talking with each other, Pelosi went into a bathroom where Pelosi grabbed a phone to call 911. DePop stated he felt like Pelosi's actions compelled him to respond. DePop remembered thinking that there was no way the police were going to forget about the phone call. De Pop explained that he did not leave after Pelosi's call to 911 because,

much like the American founding fathers with the British, he was fighting against tyranny without the option of surrender. You're fucking Canadian, man. The fuck are you talking about? DePops stated that they went downstairs to the front door. The police arrived and knocked on the door and Pelosi ran over and opened it. Pelosi grabbed onto DePop's hammer, which was in DePops' hand. At this point in the interview, DePoppe repeated that DePop did not plan to surrender and he would go through Pelosi. Within hours of the attack, a series of unsubstantiated claims started circulating in fringe far-right circles that contradicted the official police account of how the attack unfolded. One of the claims made online was that David DePop was found in his underwear.

This claim from a single outlet and the claim was quickly retracted. So what happened was that KTVU Fox 2 in the Bay Area. initially reported that DePop was in his underwear when he was apprehended. The news outlet has since corrected that mistake, and they added an editor's note to the article. But from this false detail, conspiracies started claiming that David DePop was not a home intruder, but was rather Paul Pelosi's lover or possibly a prostitute that Paul Pelosi had hired. I don't want to be a dick about it, but, like, DePop is not, I mean, if you're going to have like a boy toy and you have as much money as Pelosi, like you're going to not buy a depop. You're not, yeah, that's not going to happen.

If you are, if you are a venture capitalist, if you have venture capitalist money, you're not hiring a 42-year-old boy toy. Mm-mm. No way. I want to point out to like, if you are a sort of like a far right conspiracies foot soldier and you carry out the sort of like acts of real world action that you think is necessary to save the country, your allies aren't going to come rushing to your defense when you get arrested, they're going to call you fake and gay. Yeah. So this belief was amplified by Congressman Clay Higgins. He tweeted a picture of Nancy Pelosi with this caption. That moment you realized the nudist hippie male prostitute LSD guy was the reason your husband didn't make it to your fundraiser. So the claim was also pushed by Q-A-L-Op promoter Dustin Nemos. On this episode, it seems that Pelosi's husband was hammered by and or with a gay prostitute late at night who,

was in his home, found in their underwear, possibly, although that was retracted by Fox News quickly after they put it out there for some reason. I don't know. The story keeps changing. We will keep you up to date. But apparently this nudist far-left radical gay prostitute somehow converted into a conservative MAGA alt-right leader overnight. If you, you know, follow these things. That's how it generally goes. Every time something bad happens, they try to pin it on conservatives no matter how little sense that that makes. That bit about him being a new So this comes from a 2013 article in the San Francisco Chronicle that identified the man as a hemp jewelry maker and said that he lived with a nudist activist. Other photos published by The Chronicle show they pop while fully clothed at a nude wedding on the steps of the San Francisco City Hall.

These details somehow made some conservatives conclude that actually he was a full-on lefty, which is really weird because it's like it's pretty established now that, that there's a new age to QAnon pipeline. There's no contradiction between being a star child or being into new age stuff and being radicalized by Pizagate. OAN also ran with the theory that actually he was some sort of lover of Paul Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi, the cryptkeeper of Washington, roundly condemned the attack on her husband. And rightly so. No one should be assaulted in their own home, whether the attacker was actually

invited over for some spirited horseplay that turned into a lover's quarrel or not? Former President Donald Trump also hinted at this theory. He suggested that someone involved with the incident was trying to get out rather than it being a break-in. Wow, it's weird things going on in that household in the last couple of weeks. You know, probably you and I are better not talking about it, Chris. But the last, it seems, was broken from the inside to the outside. and, you know, that was so it wasn't a break-in, it was a breakout. I don't know.

You know, you hear the same things I do. Yeah, the 9-11 tape seems to suggest that he knew the identity of the guy. Yeah, yeah. That's a lot of bad stuff. I'm not a fan of Nancy Pelosi, but what's going on there is very sad. Yeah, it seems to me there would be security evidence of this. There just seems to be more to this story. Would it be safe to say?

This is, I think, more than the traffic accident, it looks like to me. But to pin it on Republicans or you, sir, I mean, how absurd. Clearly, this was a deranged man. We know that much. Yeah. The whole thing is crazy. I mean, if there's even a little bit of truth to what's being said. Okay, so he doesn't, he sounds kind of like his got a cold.

He does not sound so good. Yeah, I was just going to say. And how, come on, do I, do I really need to listen to some AM radio guy, try to try to get Trump to, to co-sign more conspiracies? I mean, this is like, it's so. interesting it's almost as if like you know you have you know the the conspiracist in chief and now this guy is like well don't you think it's a little don't you think it's a little weird that they were doing this and all this and it's like he's pushing trump to say more conspiracies which he's more than happy to oblige him but even even you know for for trump i mean he even shows a little bit

of restraint here yeah it's funny that he keeps like hinting at like oh you know what they're saying you know what they're saying about the whole thing but he's not he's not willing to bring himself to actually say it no Now, to make matters worse, Elon Musk also amplified this claim. After Hillary Clinton tweeted an article about the assailant's extremist beliefs, Musk responded with a link to a conspiracist website called the Santa Monica Observer. And Musk said this. There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye.

The article alleges that Pelosi was drunk and in a fight with a male prostitute. Musk later deleted that tweet without an explanation or apology. Now, this website that he posted was kind of interesting, considering he now he owns Twitter. It's the Santa Monica Observer. It's a, the tour is for publishing a lot of fake news. For example, it published claims in 2016 that Hillary Clinton was actually dead and that a body double debated Donald Trump. Oh, God, God. It's not even a remotely plausible conspiracy.

No, it's just trash. It's real JFK Jr. lives level bullshit. Months after the Clinton claim, the news site also incorrectly reported that Trump had appointed Kanye West to a high-level position in the Interior Department. More recently, this website falsely reported that Bill Gates was personally responsible for the polio epidemic. is like weekly world news level insane horse shit. Who is sending this shit to Musk? The new owner of Twitter is post like, hey, check out this with a hundred million followers is fucking insanity.

Yeah, because I'm sure somebody fucking sent it to him and he was like, ooh, juicy. Like, oh, maybe I'll post it under Hillary. Like, oh my God. Oh, who cares? It's all for the worms now. It is. There's another claim going around. that the break-in was not captured by security cameras. Now, it turns out there was security

cameras, but they weren't being actively monitored in the early morning because Nancy Pelosi was out of town at the time. The Washington Post reported that Capitol Police didn't spot the incident until the local police already arrived. Inside the Command Center for the U.S. Capitol Police, a handful of officers were going through their routines early Friday morning, cycling through live feeds from the Department's 1,800 cameras used to monitor the nearby capital complex, as well as some points beyond, when an officer stopped. On a screen showing a darkened street nearly 3,000 miles away, police lights were flashing outside the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, officials say.

The officer in D.C. quickly pulled up additional camera angles from around Pelosi's home and began to backtrack, watching recordings from the minutes before San Francisco police arrived. There, on camera, was a man with a hammer, breaking a glass panel, and entering the speaker's home. according to three people familiar with how Capitol Police learned of the break-in and who have been briefed on or viewed the video themselves. Now, this is actually an interesting point to touch on because there are a lot of conspiracy theories going around saying, oh, well, the cameras were broken, or it's just like Epstein, or, you know, my security camera at home, you know, records all the time. So there is a video, actually, obviously just hasn't been released yet. But so that counter, that counter acts, the claims that people are making that the cameras were, you know, coincidentally sort of shut off at the time. It's not the case.

Yeah, it's just, yeah, there's no substance to that claim at all. Now, it's just what's going on here, I think it's pretty straightforward. So here was a unwell man who was radicalized by right-wing conspiracy theories. And he was radicalized in the violence. And this is a thing that has happened frequently over and over again. I mean, a couple of months ago, a Trump fan attempted to assault the FBI office in Cincinnati with a nail gun before dying in a shootout. Very recently, it was reported that a QAnon follower, who even had like a Q sticker on his car, was convicted of murder. This is the case of California man Rory Banks, who is 44 years old.

What happened was he found a list of sex offenders in his area, and he straight up just killed one of them. So it's not like a wild thing to say that, like, oh, a man who was not doing something. so great was like, you know, found this, this, you know, this conspiracist's worldview and found it very fulfilling. And then he decided to, uh, not, not just leave it in line. He decided to take his beliefs out into the real world. Now, what I find kind of disturbing is not the conspiracy theories themselves is the purpose of the conspiracy theories. And it was basically to cover up this sort of the root cause of this extremist violence. It's not even about like, you know, Paul Pelosi is the fact that these sorts of these narratives just literally hours after the assault

happened. They all sprung up and they meant to like, you know, cover up the very plain facts of what was really happening. Yeah. What's interesting is that it's like it's not enough to just say, oh, you know, the Pelosi's are corrupt. They do insider trading. You know, there's a variety of different ways to kind of, I think, criticize the Pelosi's that don't include covering up for some guy who broke in with a hammer and attacked a guy's skull, you know, absurd. And not to mention, there's not an ounce of empathy for this, you know, 80-year-old guy who's savagely attacked in his own house. It's literally just not even taking time to let the human tragedy of both Paul Pelosi

and this very sick guy whose, you know, life is, you know, life is. you know, he's going to probably spend the rest of his life in jail, you know, you are immediately rushing to figure out how this can be twisted so that nobody, you know, God forbid, anybody thinks that the rhetoric that the Republicans hammer on day in, day out is going to lead to, like, physical real world violence. Never that. Well, I also think this is another consequence of viewing everything through the lens of like narrative warfare, where they think that, well, the narrative of someone radicalized by like Pizza Gate and other sort of conspiracy theories and radicalized into violence, that's a narrative designed to make the right look bad.

So you got to counter that with your own narratives that actually make like the Pelosi household look bad. I mean, you know, it's very kind of like postmodernist belief that there's no real sort of like solid empirical truth that corresponds to, that corresponds to reality. It's just everything is just a narrative fighting against other narratives. And sadly, this is just going to lead to a stronger police state, more surveillance, more paranoia about like, you know, these these lower class people coming to hurt us. So, yeah, we just lose it all around wormworld. Conspiracy is about to pop, you know, he was not acting alone.

He was sent by somebody, you know, he's, you know, a trained assassin. I mean, you're just in a world where it is almost unimaginable that one of our highest-ranking government officials' home was so susceptible to a violent attack. People are going to rush to try to explain how that happened and why it happened. Not that just like unhinged people are just pushed closer and closer to violence because they're just surrounded by incomprehensible things, just profound corruption. and then people trying to, like, lie to them to weaponize them in their fucking narrative warfare. Thanks for listening to another episode of the QAnon Anonymous podcast. You can go to patreon.com slash QAnonanonymous and subscribe for $5 a month to get a whole second episode every single week, plus access to our entire archive of premium episodes, of which there are hundreds now.

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