QAA Podcast - Premium Episode 172: US Army Psyop Social Media (The Return of Jake Stories) Sample
Episode Date: May 26, 2022Psychological operations are something the United States army openly advertises. They make podcasts and youtube videos out of Fort Bragg in order to recruit men and women into the long-term, internati...onal United States psyop on the world. But some believe the Army groups are just "CIA light" and glorified pamphlet pushers. It turns out social media can reveal a whole lot about the underlying overall project of US foreign intervention. This episode also includes an apparent autobiographical Jake story based on Training Day (2001). Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Episode music by Nick Sena, Pontus Berghe, Matthew Delatorre. Editing by Corey Klotz. Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: http://qanonanonymous.com
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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 Premium Chapter 172 of the Q&ONANANANANANANANAS podcast, the Sciop episode.
As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis Vue.
Psychological operations.
I do them on Jake every day.
Travis is one.
And if you've been online for long enough,
someone will probably have accused you of being a Sciop.
But what if psychological operations were something the United States Army openly advertised?
What if they were out there starting podcasts about it,
cutting thrilling videos for YouTube and recruiting openly?
This week we are traveling to Fort Bragg,
where Sciop soldiers are trained and deployed.
And by Fort Bragg, I mean the variety of social media accounts
deployed by their special forces and Sciop groups
SIOP groups to promote their mission and recruit young men and women into their ranks.
Now, during this rabbit hole, a couple of things to keep in mind.
These are Army, specifically airborne groups.
They are not the FBI, nor the CIA, who obviously do their own SIOs.
In fact, it's because these SIOPers are not as well organized, funded, or respected internally,
that their content is so interesting because it offers way more opportunities to peer inside
the cracks and gain insight into the culture and internal messaging of U.S.-run foreign
interventions and their accompanying psychological operations. Also, I highly recommend that you
listen to the episode all the way to the end, as I'm told by Jake that he's hiding a subliminal
message, a story of sorts after the credits. So let's jump right in. On May 2nd, 2022, the official
YouTube page of the fourth psychological operations group Airborne, based out of Fort Bragg,
as I mentioned, posted a very strange video entitled Ghost in the Machine, all caps.
It's a bit of a long one, but I wanted to go through it with Jake reading out the titles
that appear on screen. And Travis, I'll ask you to try to remember and then describe the images
that you've seen along the way. I feel like we're about to be sci-opt in the very first five
minutes of the show. This episode's recording has been delayed for days because I feel like I've
been sci-opt just from watching a good portion of these people's output. So you're going to feel
bad and it's going to be vague and sometimes you won't be able to put a finger on it. Just a sickly
feeling making its way into your stomach. All right. So here is Ghosts in the Machine.
is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.
Pretend to be weak that he may grow arrogant.
Sun Tzu.
As the world watches and listens in horror,
the peaceful pro-democracy demonstration in China
comes to a violent and bloody end.
Mr. Gorbachev tear down this war.
Have you ever wondered?
Who's pulling the strings?
Wolves hiding nearby.
Born from the ashes of a world at war.
You'll find us in the shadows
At the tip of the spear
A threat rises in the east
Warfare
is evolving
And all the world's a stage
That
That fucking ruled
Holy shit.
That felt like the like preview to like the live action like Metal Gear movie.
Like that was oh no.
That's so bad.
Why is it so well, well made and high production value?
It was.
I mean, yeah, I mean, there are lots of like weird abstract imagery.
There was like, you know, there's a panning shot of a forest.
There was an extreme closeup of a chessboard and pieces.
is moving. There was a conductor in an orchestra all of a sudden. I mean, it really does seem
like the trailer for like, you know, Call of Duty, Cy War. Absolutely. There's a small ghost sigil
like kind of hanging in the forest on like a twig. And they're showing you riots in foreign
countries. They're showing you Chinese troops marching, like in battle formation. They're showing you
like a ticker that says Russia invades Ukraine. And we've just gotten started. This was just one
half of the video. So let's see, let's see where it goes. There is another very important
phase of warfare. It has as its target, not the body, but the mind of the enemy. The target
psychological warfare is against the enemy's mind. It is words and ideas. Ammunition used by
cywar. Anything we touch is a weapon.
It's mission is to influence the thoughts of the enemy soul.
We can't deceive.
It's expected and encouraged to study foreign languages and the social sciences.
Persuade.
Change.
Influence.
Inspire.
Gripping at my skin.
The walls of night closing.
But the use of this force has an integral part of combat.
has now taken on new form.
We come in many forms.
We are everywhere.
Message in the stars.
Ghosts.
In the machine.
What are we?
These are the SiWar soldiers.
Sciwar.
frighteningly good.
It ends with Verben Vincent and the website of the Army Special Forces recruitment.
They got some great editors.
They got some good, they pulled some good stock footage.
They legitimately were showing orange revolutions and being like, oh, yeah, that's us, buddy.
Like war zones, Taiwan.
They're like, yeah, that's a little disturbing.
It's like, they're also showing like the fall of the Berlin wall and stuff.
And it's like, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,
It's a little bit like a resume.
I don't know.
It feels, they're being very cagey about what exactly they're saying, but it's very strange.
What makes us doubly here is that I know that this particular video was tweeted out by Ezra Kohid-Watnik.
Oh, great.
Who is, of course, a much beloved by Qadon followers mentioned in a couple of QDrops.
There's also the appearance in this shot, finally, of, like, why they were in that forest,
which is that there's a bunch of guys with, like, white masks, and they start to advance from afar, like, in a kind of formation
through the trees, just threateningly being like we are the ghosts in the machine.
Like we've been determining history.
We're pulling the strings.
If I was in a theater, okay, and I'm seeing Uncharted starring Tom Holland.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
I'm trying to think of a movie that's in the theater.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
It's probably long gone at this point.
Oh my God.
And that preview comes on, I'm going, okay, what is this?
It's a new mission impossible.
Maybe we're finally getting a teaser for Metal Gear.
The video thoroughly creep me out.
and I have suspected it to be fake when I came across it at first.
But after doing some due diligence,
I found out that, yes, U.S. Army's special forces
and specifically their SIOP division
do indeed have social media presences
and are busy recruiting by essentially telling on themselves in these videos.
And people were reacting incredibly well to it.
Here are some comments on Reddit.
Firebird Gaming says,
I don't know why, but I find it oddly comforting
that the U.S. Army can still produce some killer recruiting material.
I don't, I don't praise the advertising skills.
of the U.S.
military.
Bourne Purchase says,
Russia arrogantly
mistook the West's
kindness for weakness.
Again, it's just an ad.
It's your content.
They're content creators.
That's all it is.
Yeah, but it gives the posters
an opportunity to be like,
I too am in the war.
Could you read
Ardress's post, Travis?
I can hardly believe it even.
Like, it was good.
Fuck, I want to mind freak
some Russians now.
The army hit a home run
with this one. Come on. Oh my God. I want to mind freaks some Russians. I want to mind freaks
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