QAA Podcast - Premium Episode 219: Arizona Madness feat. Haley from Arizona Right Wing Watch (Sample)

Episode Date: July 13, 2023

There’s a lot going on in Arizona. Elections directors are quitting due to harassment. A lawmaker named a committee after a QAnon slogan. They’ve tried to pass legislation based on the terrible Dinesh D’Souza documentary 2000 Mules. The conspiracy theories have gotten so crazy that a legislator named Liz Harris was actually expelled for helping promote a wild conspiracy theory involving the Arizona governor, a Mexican Cartel, and the Mormon Church. And of course Arizona is the home of Kari Lake, the former tv news reporter tuned Gubernatorial candidate. She has been busy trying unsuccessfully to overturn the election she lost, writing a book that includes a deranged kidnapping dream sequence, and inadvertently posting evidence of possible crimes her team may be involved in. To help us break it all down we are joined by Haley, the person behind Arizona Right Wing Watch. 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 QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. Haley’s Social Media https://bsky.app/profile/azrww.bsky.social https://twitter.com/az_rww REFERENCES https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-legislature-expels-republican-lawmaker-over-conspiracy-theory-2023-4 https://www.azmirror.com/2023/02/24/arizona-gop-legislators-continue-to-give-oxygen-to-disproven-election-conspiracies/ https://www.courthousenews.com/arizona-senate-committee-clashes-over-election-bills-amid-false-claims-of-fraud/ https://www.pinalcentral.com/breaking/pinal-elections-director-quits-cites-toxic-environment-lack-of-support/article_b3c19204-97ec-53aa-9b72-fde3962378b8.html

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 219 of the Q&ONONANANANANAS podcast, the Arizona Madness episode. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky. Haley from Arizona right wing watch.

And Travis View. My journey into investigating Q&N over the years has taken me to Arizona more than any other state. Back in 2020, I went to see the protests at the Maricopa County Election Center as the election denial movement started to grow. I've attended a Q&N conference at a mega church in Arizona. I've attended Marjorie Taylor Green Rally there. Jake and I attended a multi-day conspiracy conference. And recently I saw the Q-Shaman host his big get-out-of-prison event at a church in Scotts. Now, Arizona's land of uncommon beauty, many wonderful people, and a rich history, but it also has perhaps the most pilled population of any other state.

Now, the brainworms don't just affect Arizona residents who are also QAnon promoters, like the Q-Shaman, praying medic, and Austin Steinbart. They also affect legislators and gubernatorial candidates. So I figured it was high time to get an update on the happenings of the most-pilled state. And to do that, we are, of course, joined by Haley from Right Wingwatch. Thank you for helping us sort of walk through the craziness that has been, you know, this past year or so. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure. How have things been since we gathered on stage together for the Arizona Live Show, which feels like, I don't know, three lifetimes ago?

It does. It feels like a really long time ago. Things are good and normal. Good. Uh-huh. Sure. How are you, Travis? I'm doing well.

I'm doing well. I mean, yeah, it was, we all. had that experience. You were there. You were also reporting on that mega church event, which had lots of Q people. And you got kicked out. That's kind of how we met. Yes. Yeah. It was the first time we met. And yeah. And they let me stay for some reasons. Very nice. But yeah. Travis only makes new friends with people who are just on the cusp of getting kicked out of some sort of right wing event. He's surrounded by a lot of people, you know, who have been kicked out of various events. and I think it makes up a good portion of his inner circle.

Actually, the second time that we saw each other, you were getting harassed. And then it was the other way around. Oh, you were getting harassed by Jim Watkins. Oh, right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. At the Trump rally in Arizona.

I even forgot I attended that. I've been to Arizona so many times. Kerry mentioned that in her book, and she said that 50,000 people were at that rally. I thought that was pretty funny. That doesn't seem right. That's like a medium-sized city. What the hell? That's not 50,000 people.

No, that was not accurate. I didn't think that many people fit in that stadium. No. It's like when they list statistics and it's like in numbers in tens of thousands at the end and it's like 10. It's like, well, 10,000. Tens of 10,000. Yeah. So there's a lot going on in Arizona.

Election directors are quitting due to harassment. A lawmaker named a committee after a Qaeda slogan. They've tried to pass legislation based on that terror. Donasasusa documentary 2,000 mules. The conspiracy theories have gotten so crazy that a legislator named Liz Harris was actually expelled for helping promote a wild conspiracy theory involving the Arizona governor, a Mexican cartel, and the Mormon church. Mary, fuck, or kill.

Sorry. Go ahead. Of course, Arizona is the home of Kerry Lake, a former TV news reporter turned a super-pilled gubernatorial candidate. She's been busy trying unsuccessfully to overturn the election she lost, writing a book that includes a deranged kidnapping dream sequence, and inadvertently posting evidence of possible crimes her team may be involved in. But before we talk about Carrie Lake and Liz Harris, I want to talk about the state of the Stop the Steel movement, because it is really, I feel like really Arizona has always been stopped to steal, the center, the real leader in the nation,

the place that shows everywhere else how it's done. It's where democracy will finally die. Yeah. Sorry. I don't mean to be dumer. Well, yeah. I mean, a lot of people thought, you know, the phrase democracy dies in the darkness, but actually it's democracy dies in the very bright, very hot Arizona sun.

Ooh, democracy dies in the desert is another good one. You still keep the alliteration. I'll leave. It's a dry fascism. So Pinell County elections director Geraldine Rohl, abruptly quit her job in late June, citing county management's reluctance to stand up for her amid partisan personal attacks. This is despite the fact that Geraldine Role is a Republican. So the county is looking for the fourth person to fill the position in less than a year.

Roll said this in email to Pinell County manager Leo Liu. In my career, I have never been subject to the ridicule, disrespect, intimidation, and attacks on my reputation and ethics that I have endured in these past months. I cannot work for an individual who does not support me. The environment fostered by your team and the board of supervisors is toxic. So she was apparently a registered Republican until recently, but Role told the publication Penel Central by phone this. I have never been so disrespected by the people in this party. I can't be associated with these people. They are nuts. They're irrational. You know, yeah. So it feels like this is really, again, sort of the maturing of

Gamergate politics where, you know, even if you personally don't have the power to oust someone, you can effectively shut them down and silence them by making their lives miserable, by logging on every day and harassing them. Or sometimes going to their house. Or sometimes going to their house, yeah. Which seems to happen a lot here. It seems like their kind of their strategy is, yeah, to, I like that you said Gamergate them out of office, but, like, that is kind of the strategy to kind of harass normal people.

of these election positions and then install like the people that were a part of the stop the steel movement from the beginning yeah yeah yeah is brilliant because the um like the most deranged angry people they seem to have a lot of time on their hands for some reason and they use it they use it miserably and um and of course yeah the goal is to like wait until someone like as pilled as they are gets into the office and then they can just stop because they're happy that they're you know, trying to derail, you know, fair elections. Now, Haley, I was also hoping you could talk a bit about the very Q-N-Pilled Arizona Senator Jenae Shamp.

She is so-pilled she once confessed to watching the Q-N-N-N-show X-22 report every night, which is a lot. In fact, she chaired the novel coronavirus Southwestern Intergovernmental Committee, which is also called by the acronym N-C-S-W-I-C, And that also happens to be an acronym for the Q&N phrase, nothing can stop with this coming. So, yeah, like real, real, like, straight up, you know, Q&N slogans in the Arizona Senate. Yeah, they sponsored the event just with the acronym. Yeah.

And it featured, like, that Dr. Peter McCullough and a couple other. Oh, the anti-vax doctor. Yeah, yeah. So what was the point of this committee? It was basically to, like, hang everyone who thought, like, COVID-19 was real. serious, right? Yeah, it was like a two-day, all-day event with Peter McCullough and similar kind of people who grifted during the COVID times, you know? There was some like seven-day Adventists a part of it. And then, yeah, the point of it was kind of just repeating the same bullshit about

spike proteins and, you know, every conspiracy you heard during the COVID times. But now also we have to like prosecute all the politicians who were responsible for everything. That was kind of the theme. You know the theme. It's the same thing we've been hearing for like three years. But yeah, to the backdrop of the nothing can stop what it, well, it wasn't that, but the acronym for nothing can stop what is coming. Janay Shamp is kind of interesting.

She's newly elected. She was kind of just homies with Mark Finchum. That was kind of the only thing that everybody knew about her, if you know Mark Finchum. the cowboy who ran for Secretary of State here, want to be cowboy. Right. Mark Fincham, he was part of that coalition that was affiliated with one of the JFK juniors

who was trying to basically install Q-PIL people into secretaries of state positions so they could derail elections. So they're kind of like BFF's, Champ and Fincham. Before she was elected, she was part of that group of people harassing the butterfly sanctuary down at the border.

My God. Yeah, but that's like in 10, Texas, right? Yeah, they had another event where they kind of, yeah, they went down to the border. Yeah, it did go to Texas, actually. Yeah, yeah, she's part of that. I mean, that's not a short drive. So they went out of their way to find someone to harass.

It was part of a bigger event. Like, they were going to the border to pray and also, I don't know, talk about border-related topics. I think Tom Homan might have been at that one. And then Fincham was there, Shamp, a few other people. who have ran for office but yeah they just like prayed at the border and then like on their way there they went and like were harassing that butterfly sanctuary the people who who do the most awful things have the funniest names like finchum and champ sound like two kids who would have

played for like the mighty ducks team uh you know in like the disney film you should get a look at her too she's you should google her google her oh no she looked like a mighty duck she looks like a cowboy it's like they're in a competition to see who could find the biggest 10-gallon hat, you know? Oof, and we all know my feelings on big hats. You have been listening to a sample of a premium episode of QAnon Anonymous. We don't run any advertising on the show, and we'd like to keep it that way. For five bucks a month, you'll get access to this episode, a new one each week, and our entire

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