QAnon lies about Civil Rights, Slavery, and their own evil ways. QAnon is awful and bad and I yell about them for 40 minutes, plus your questions. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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| Hello everyone, PoeGramPolitics here. | |
| Today I'm just like dumb angry and tired. | |
| It's really just so frustrating in a way when you see the same patterns of behavior repeated over and over and over again and you know that you're dealing with people who are lying and are pathological in their lying and it's really just It gets to a point where you just bang your head against the wall and you're like, God damn it. | |
| Why are you people so fucking terrible? | |
| Why are you such awful people? | |
| And in the race to the bottom that QAnon has with polite society, they are just working so hard to be just so terrible and so malevolent that it really is sickening in a lot of ways listening to them talk. | |
| Praying Medic posted a tweet that was about how Republicans broke the Democratic filibuster to allow the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to pass. | |
| And this is such a disingenuous and scummy way to frame history that he knows what he's doing and he doesn't care that he's being disingenuous and scummy because he just wants to make the Republicans look good and the Democrats look bad. | |
| And that's the whole point of everything that QAnon does. | |
| The nature of that filibuster was Southern, and that was it. | |
| It was just the Southern politicians were blocking the Civil Rights Bill, and the Northern politicians were the ones who broke the filibuster to get it passed. | |
| And the split of the two parties is mirrored North-South For both sides. | |
| So if you were a politician in the South, you basically voted against the Civil Rights Bill, and if you were a politician from the North, you basically voted for it. | |
| This was the North trying to finish up the Civil War, in a lot of ways, by saying, look, all that shit we've let you get away with for a hundred years, we are not going to let you get away with anymore. | |
| And of course the South was very angry about that and we still have systemic racism to this day and it will go on probably for generations after us. | |
| I mean this is the nature of problems and bigotry and intolerance that I mean, each generation gets more and more tolerant and more accepting of people, but the hatred never goes away. | |
| It's always there. | |
| It's this unhealable wound that we have that is just a part of humanity that's really enraging. | |
| The fact is that America was founded as a nation that legalized slavery, and we never have truly come to grips with that. | |
| I mean, from the founding of the nation, the Declaration of Independence had a condemnation of slavery in it. | |
| We blamed the king for allowing slavery in America. | |
| And then we took it out. | |
| And we were like, ah, that's gonna be a little too spicy for the slaveholding states. | |
| Can't leave it in. | |
| And then, when we got to writing the actual Constitution, we had to include the Electoral College and the Three-Fifths Compromise to make the slave states happy. | |
| And that worked out for a grand total of 80 years. | |
| And then Lincoln won election without the slave state south. | |
| And that was the whole reason why we had the Electoral College and the Three-Fifths Compromise, so that they had a say in who the president would be. | |
| And then when Lincoln got elected, they found out we don't have a say in that anymore. | |
| And the Republican Party is an anti-slavery party. | |
| So we're scared to death of what they're going to do. | |
| We're leaving. | |
| So the South left and the South was the Democratic Party. | |
| So the Democrat threw the party at the Confederacy. | |
| Yep. | |
| Yep. | |
| You got it. | |
| You nailed it. | |
| You're so keen on your basic history 101. | |
| What you don't want to talk about and what you'll never talk about is the corrupt bargain that got Rutherford B. Hayes elected president. | |
| Basically what happened here was your standard electoral college chicanery where the Republicans who were effectively in charge of the government, because Grant was president at the time, he They were like, well, you know, we're not sure which electors we're going to allow for the electoral college to come in here and pick, uh, the next president as it were. | |
| And, uh, it was a kind of an ugly thing. | |
| Then, um, They had to make a deal with the Democrats about this kind of issue with the Electoral College and who was actually going to cast electoral votes and whatnot, will you? | |
| And the deal that was struck was we will let Hayes become president if he pulls the troops out of the south so we can get back to oppressing black people. | |
| And the Republicans were like, well, I mean, what do we care? | |
| I mean, we just want the presidency. | |
| We will allow you to continue to oppress black people. | |
| And that is Pretty much what happened. | |
| And then the fight for black civil rights went on interminably with both parties paying lip service to them at best. | |
| I mean, Woodrow Wilson was a terrible racist. | |
| FDR's policies were literally whites only kind of things. | |
| Democrats had a lot to answer for for what they were doing. | |
| But again, this was because the Democrats controlled the South and the South was a deeply racist uh scumbag hellhole state of nightmares and then you finally get to | |
| The 1950s and 60s where the civil rights movement really picks up steam and Eisenhower just drags his feet on civil rights after Truman integrated the military which was a big thing. | |
| Eisenhower just wasn't very good about actually doing anything on the issue and then Kennedy gets in and he's like well I'm gonna I'm gonna try to push this rock up the hill I'm gonna try to get something done and before we can find out how good a job he would have done on that issue he gets murdered And then Lyndon Johnson comes in and says screw it. | |
| I am absolutely going to pass civil rights. | |
| I am going to get the job done. | |
| And he does. | |
| And now I mean the civil rights movement was of course putting a lot of pressure on him. | |
| There were a lot of outside forces working very hard and very diligently for the advancement of civil rights and all that good stuff. | |
| But It took the Johnson administration to actually have someone inside the government working with the outside activists to achieve tangible, meaningful results. | |
| And after the Civil Rights Bill got passed, guess what happened? | |
| Barry Goldwater, who voted against it, won the South and he won his home state of Arizona and he got blown out everywhere else. | |
| And then over the next 20 years, Republicans welcomed the racists and Democrats welcomed the blacks and the minorities and the oppressed. | |
| And I mean, if you are this hardcore liberal who thinks the Democrats suck and are scum, that's fine, whatever. | |
| I'm not even going to argue on this issue. | |
| That's what happened. | |
| I mean, this is the really oversimplified, short version of what was happening, and this is the truth. | |
| And this voting for the Civil Rights Bill bullshit that these people like to use about how more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Bill than Democrats It was not party-based. | |
| It was entirely geographic-based. | |
| And guess what the South is now? | |
| It's Republicans. | |
| And that's the thing. | |
| The QAnon and the right love to say that Democrats tricked black people into voting for them. | |
| Well, did Republicans trick racists into voting for them? | |
| How did that power dynamic switch over 20 years so cleanly? | |
| So smoothly. | |
| Why did Ronald Reagan go to Philadelphia, Mississippi and talk about states' rights right after he won the convention for his nomination in 1980 as Republican nominee? | |
| Why did he do that? | |
| Why is there all this coded talk about this stuff? | |
| Why do we have people that have actually talked about the Southern Strategy? | |
| I mean, these are real things. | |
| This was really done. | |
| Resentment and racism was the stock and trade of the Republican Party. | |
| And still is. | |
| Donald Trump is a racist. | |
| If you don't like that, tough shit. | |
| But that kind of disingenuous bullshit, I mean it's just really frustrating to deal with because they know they're lying. | |
| But on one level, like them trying to cover their asses about racism is one thing. | |
| Them covering their asses about the shit they do and the damage it does to people is infuriating. | |
| Guy in Massachusetts, my beloved Commonwealth, Lost his mind and got into a high-speed chase with cops and was begging Q to help him. | |
| And he's in. | |
| And Mark Andre, one of the best QAnon researchers and debunkers out there. | |
| That guy is an absolute hero. | |
| Anglerfish with all kinds of numbers. | |
| There's a 4NGL3RF1SH, that is his Twitter handle. | |
| He's the best. | |
| If his name had been Angelfish, I probably would have actually figured out that the world is a simulation and that I'm actually in the Matrix. | |
| So every time I see that his name is Anglerfish, I have to remember it is in fact not Angelfish. | |
| and thusly in fact I do live in the actual real reality world and not the fantasy world of my diseased brain but he wrote a thread that was very insightful about the radicalization of this man and how QAnon melted his brain because that is what that is what it does to people it is mean-spirited I mean it is just so frustrating seeing these mentally ill people like Jessica Prim and this poor guy from Massachusetts who are just destroyed by these conspiracy theories and they need help they need treatment they need to be made | |
| They need to be made coherent and rational. | |
| They need to not be listening to the radio trying to get messages. | |
| And they don't... I mean it's just really sad. | |
| It's just really, really, really sad that you have these kinds of things happening to people where they are just so lost. | |
| And they fall into this rabbit hole that poisons their minds. | |
| And then after this happens, what does QAnon do? | |
| False flag, Soros, plant, shill, he wasn't one of us, he's only here to make us look bad. | |
| They have no accountability for the damage they do to people. | |
| They have absolutely no scrupulous Morals. | |
| They have no compassion. | |
| They have no dignity. | |
| They have no soul. | |
| They know what they've done to this guy. | |
| They know that he watched Fall of the Cabal and he got his brain eaten by brain worms and that he was already not well but this poisoned him even further and it broke him and nope they're like oh good job Travis trying to make us look bad by having this guy do this thing And Travis didn't do anything. | |
| I didn't do anything. | |
| You did it. | |
| You're the pricks who do this shit. | |
| I mean, I'm sick in the head. | |
| I wrote an over 400 tweet thread about Father Cabal. | |
| It is nothing but fucking lies. | |
| Everything in that video is bullshit. | |
| All 10 chapters are horseshit lies. | |
| Period. | |
| The woman can't stop lying. | |
| The most egregious goddamn lie is the whole thing about QD1 being all codes. | |
| She crops it. | |
| She has to fucking crop QD1 because she doesn't want to talk about it. | |
| Honestly. | |
| And she's a JFK Jr. | |
| truther at the end, which is hilarious. | |
| I mean, I love it. | |
| But these people just peddle lies. | |
| Just flat-out bullshit. | |
| And they know they're doing it. | |
| And they know the impact it will have on people. | |
| And I get so many DMs from people and they tell me my mom has bought this bullshit or my dad has bought this bullshit or my family has bought this bullshit and They're sad. | |
| These people are sad that they've lost loved ones. | |
| They've lost family to this shit. | |
| And the person they knew is gone. | |
| They have been replaced by this lunatic who is scouring the internet for signs of the number 17 or other random minutiae and bullshit that might somehow prove and validate their insane theory about COVID, about George Soros, about Obama, about Trump. | |
| And it's really sad to know that people are having their lives ruined by this stuff every single day. | |
| And the people that are happily being pulled into this shit, they They don't see it. | |
| They don't see it for what it truly is. | |
| The whole point of QAnon is to lie to you and tell you that it's a search for the truth. | |
| It's about evidence. | |
| It's about research. | |
| It's about documented facts. | |
| It's about all these things. | |
| And in reality it's all about confirmation bias and telling you that you're already right and that the truth is something you already know But we're going to expose you to the fact that it's even worse, just a little scarier than what you already imagined it to be. | |
| And that's what these people do. | |
| That's what they're all about. | |
| It's just roping you in. | |
| And then the next thing you know, you need to try to assassinate Joe Biden because he's torturing children. | |
| You need to flee the cops because they are going to drug you and say that you're crazy. | |
| You need to spend all your days yelling at your children or your spouse or anyone within shouting distance of you about the truth about adrenochrome, about the mole children, about the pedivore rings, about Epstein and how he didn't kill himself. | |
| Everything about QAnon is designed to radicalize you and make you hate Everyone else. | |
| And that's the thing is that Julian's Rum, one of the biggest promoters of QAnon on Twitter, has been like the last like few days bitching constantly about how he's so sick of the normies. | |
| About how he wishes they would wake up so something could happen and that's Really like the saddest most brutal part about this is that you end up resenting everyone. | |
| Everyone becomes an enemy and they're all bad Then you hate them. | |
| You hate them because they are refusing to accept your truth. | |
| Because if they would accept your truth, then you could start killing people. | |
| That's your goal, is to start killing your enemies. | |
| If only you people would believe as I believe, then Donald Trump could start throwing my enemies in jail or sending them to Gitmo to be executed. | |
| Or I could start shooting people. | |
| That's literally what QAnon wants it's literally the goal and it's so sick and it's so depraved and you think about what they really want their desperate desire to just see their enemies destroyed and it's like man this is this is really bleak I mean that's the thing is that like to know the truth of QAnon is to know just how like corrupted these people have become. | |
| That they are really like in a way helpless. | |
| They're lost. | |
| They are the ones that are so badly lost and they have radicalized themselves so severely That when reality finally hits them in a way that they can't deny, the damage to them is going to be really extreme. | |
| It's so hilarious that QAnon, a lot of the big promoters, like to talk about how they are going to have to comfort and support and help The blue-pilled normies for when the truth comes. | |
| But in reality, what's really going to happen is on election night, when Biden wins, it's them who are going to need the support. | |
| And they are the ones who are going to need the help because their world is going to be shattered. | |
| And their certainty in what they believed is going to be damaged. | |
| I don't know if Q is going to stick around, given the fact that the leaked chats from Jim Watkins to the other board managers of 8kun saying that Q will be done after November. | |
| I mean, again, if Jim's the one writing this stuff, I can totally see Jim seeing Biden winning and being like, OK, Q's done now. | |
| Click. | |
| And that's it. | |
| No more Q for anyone. | |
| Q is over now. | |
| Now, if Jim wants to give Q to somebody else, or someone else is actually writing Q, they might try to keep the grift going. | |
| I mean, the scam is something that people want. | |
| They want to be scammed. | |
| They want to be lied to. | |
| They want to believe in Q. And once you have people that refuse to doubt your divinity, it is very easy to continue playing God for them. | |
| The majority of these people are going to have a real reality check and the thing that's really terrifying about it is they're only going to believe that Trump lost. | |
| The rest of QAnon will remain intact. | |
| The global satanic peddivore ring will still exist. | |
| And that's why they're going to grab guns and start shooting people. | |
| I'm not saying there's going to be massive civil unrest or like really horrible stuff happening, but in the days after the election, there will be violence. | |
| There will be violence. | |
| I hope it's not bad, but I just, I can't imagine, like, even if you say the thing that QAnon is like maybe a quarter million people or a hundred thousand people or whatever it is, There's still probably going to be like five to ten nuts in QAnon with guns that are going to lose their shit when they don't get what they want. | |
| And they're going to believe that all the world is evil and we have now fallen to darkness and we're all going to die. | |
| And they're going to try to get their pound of flesh on their way out the door. | |
| And, I mean, that's why I do all this shit that I'm doing. | |
| I'm trying to raise awareness for the fact that these people are incredibly dangerous and bad stuff is going to happen inevitably when they don't get what they want. | |
| And if they get what they want, then the American Republic is destroyed and we're all fucked, so... It's better that way than the other way. | |
| So, I mean, it's better that they don't get what they want than they win. | |
| Because if they win, everyone loses. | |
| Even them. | |
| They don't know it, but that's the truth. | |
| So, I mean... | |
| To have these people lying about the toxic, horrible, evil nature of what they believe in and what they preach is really offensive. | |
| It's just really galling watching them being like, oh, we didn't do that. | |
| We didn't do that. | |
| Just read any Q Promoter for more than a couple days and they will talk about how badly they want to start killing, how desperately they want vengeance, how they need revenge, how they need to destroy their enemies to save America. | |
| And that's eliminationist rhetoric. | |
| That's really hateful stuff. | |
| It's a great way to condone and foment violence. | |
| And that is the endgame of QAnon. | |
| It has always been the endgame. | |
| It will never go any other way. | |
| So that's your happy thoughts for there and all that good stuff. | |
| I wrote it on Steam, so it's time to go to the questions. | |
| Alex Zendejas says, have you given happy birthday wishes to our great leader yet? | |
| My actual question is what is your opinion on Anglerfish's threat on the dude who kidnapped his family? | |
| I have not wished Zero Leader a happy birthday yet. | |
| I have very much enjoyed the fact that his rapidly declining health is now becoming kind of an issue and it needs to be. | |
| His threat is really depressing. | |
| I mean it's just again it shows you what QAnon does to these people. | |
| It just It heightens the stakes. | |
| It makes the battle so vivid and so scary and so real for these people that it freaks them out. | |
| It makes them do crazy things because they just get too caught up in the conspiracy and the idea of it all and Especially now in this election season. | |
| And I mean, you have to be really insulated or have like really thick QAnon skin to not see all these polls showing Biden blowing Trump out of the water and not be a little worried. | |
| And it's just, it's just that kind of thing where you have, uh, you, you have the fate of the world hanging in the balance and it, it looks so bad. | |
| You have COVID totally not under control and getting worse in so many states. | |
| You have these protests going on all across America. | |
| You just have so much chaos and instability and things are not at all what Q said they were going to be in you look at it all and it makes doubt creep in, it makes | |
| you uncertain, it makes you worried and that's only going to continue for the rest of the year. | |
| And the stress of that, because the problem with an ordered world is that when disorder | |
| gets entered into it, it shatters you. | |
| When you live in a world where you understand that chaos is normal, and that things happen without reason all the time, you can roll the punches a lot easier. | |
| When QAnon, when you embrace the QAnon world, you embrace a rigid structure of two puppet masters making moves against each other. | |
| But your puppet master is going to win. | |
| And when things start going against him, And it doesn't make any sense because he can't be losing. | |
| He has to win because he's the good guy. | |
| He's the protagonist in the story. | |
| And when it's not going his way, now things get weird and now you get weird because you don't know how to handle the weirdness. | |
| And so stuff gets really bad. | |
| And that's what happened to that poor guy and that's what's going to happen to a lot of QAnon people. | |
| Loretta I Hate Gaslighting, Gay Pride Flags, and Blue Waves says, Does it ever occur to them the similarity of the trajectory of their cause in the Confederacy, constantly given false promises to carry on, yet nothing ever comes to fruition? | |
| The Confederacy actually was winning things for a couple years. | |
| They looked like they were in a lot better shape and then the tide turned on them very dramatically in 1863 with Vicksburg and Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation coming into effect to make it so that England and France were gonna have to take a pass on supporting the Confederacy in her bid for independence. | |
| So yeah, I mean, but it is that. | |
| I mean, it is being strung along. | |
| It is false hope. | |
| It is just being told that things will get better, that we will prevail in the end. | |
| And there's no evidence for it. | |
| I mean, it's really like, it's that thing. | |
| I mean, I often wonder what it was like to be a German soldier on the Russian front after 1943, when you're just constantly on the back foot, you're constantly losing, everyone around you is getting killed, and you know the Russians are just going to keep hammering you, and you're never going to go forward again, you're never going to launch another attack. | |
| It's just retreat all the way back to Berlin and then when Berlin falls you lose. | |
| And then in 1944 you hear, oh wait, the Americans and the British just landed in Maas in France and now they're beating the shit out of us over there. | |
| So we're losing on two fronts instead of just one. | |
| And I mean... | |
| I saw a tweet about someone in QAnon saying that we need a victory for morale and that's the thing is they every now and then they get these little crumbs to try to keep them going like Epstein happening or the Durham investigation being initiated or Barr talking big but every now and then like they get a little something but it never lasts because it's never actually anything true Everything that they get is a sugar high. | |
| They just placate them for a little bit and then they go right back into the same chasm of despair waiting for the big payoff that they'll never get. | |
| And it just really kind of sucks. | |
| CGJ asks, so in QAnon LARP world, what are the significant takedowns that QAnon takes credit for? | |
| I see Anons claiming both Epstein and Weinstein, but I assume Q's Storm of Justice is far-ranging. | |
| Well this is kind of dependent on like if you take like Q's word on stuff or just pretty much any anon who writes crap because there's like there's people like the Real Dark Judges and I the Spy who are always making a weird dumb LARP stuff and the Real Dark Judges basically if any liberal over the age of 80 drops dead He takes credit for killing them on behalf of the Patriots. | |
| John McCain was killed by Trump. | |
| He absolutely, that's, I mean, that's, that's from Q. It's not even just a Royal Dark Judges thing or the Real Dark Judges thing. | |
| But Trump was killed. | |
| I mean, Trump killed McCain. | |
| He was supposed to kill Pelosi, but never got around to it because he's kind of lazy. | |
| But, um, I mean, He intimidated the Bush family with envelopes at Pappy Bush's funeral and he gave one to Obama and Hillary and all the other people too, so That was a victory. | |
| That was a big win I mean Again, it kind of blends into the previous question that they're looking for anything to claim justice on. | |
| And the thing about Weinstein that's really kind of funny is, I mean, Q and Q-Anon are anti-liberal, so the Me Too movement was seen as a bunch of whiny Hollywood elites pissing and moaning about stuff when they understand what a casting call is. | |
| They know what the casting couch is all about, right ladies? | |
| Wagga wagga! | |
| So I mean they're a bunch of sexist pigs and they have no use for liberated women fighting for their rights and speaking their minds. | |
| But they take credit for me to getting Weinstein thrown in jail because they like throwing people in jail and they like pretending that they had anything to do with it. | |
| Which they didn't. | |
| Art Chakru says new plot episode and then I gave him a list of my things. | |
| A list of my schedule, as it were. | |
| Snarkbot3000 says, what is the racial makeup of cucumbers? | |
| Incredibly white. | |
| They are whiter than a polar bear eating vanilla ice cream during a snowstorm. | |
| That's about as white as they are. | |
| I mean there are some minorities but for the most part they're really white and | |
| and it feels like some of the the crypter class is kind of younger but | |
| the the rank-and-file are definitely boomers that are being killed by | |
| assholes And I mean, now we got the Yoga, we got Yoga Q moving in first, like the Millennials and Gen Z are getting their share now. | |
| Out of Shadows moving the enemy spotlight from politics to Hollywood made that easier pill for them to swallow. | |
| Troy Francis says, How much do the top drifters make out of QAnon? | |
| Are some just ruthlessly milking it for reach on social media and the ability to sell books and products, or do they actually believe in Q? | |
| On the first one, it's hard to say. | |
| Like two or three years ago I saw an article about Praying Medic. | |
| Claiming like 2.6 million dollars in income. | |
| I again. | |
| I have no idea if that was accurate or not but Definitely you've got people just making bucks off this thing anyway they can and using QAnon as a way to build a brand and It's a lot like Alex Jones like scaring the shit out of you about 9-11 so that he can then sell you iodine and dick pills and shit. | |
| I mean Jordan saved herself like $30 cans of coffee. | |
| Praying Medic, today Praying Medic had a couple tweets out about how People had prayed and now were no longer feeling pain. | |
| Another message from a guy who did some prayer and his knee is feeling a lot better. | |
| It's been hurting for years. | |
| So, I mean, these people are just doing, a lot of them are just doing QAnon to find an audience. | |
| Now some of them believe, but it's really hard to figure out who is a true believer and who is just a soulless grifter. | |
| I mean, Jordan Sather feels like the kind of guy that believes everything because he's into everything. | |
| Like, Julian's rum feels like a really lost dude who needs help. | |
| But Praying Medic is very cynical. | |
| It feels like a firefighter prophet. | |
| Totally cynical. | |
| Absolutely out for a buck. | |
| Has no scribbles whatsoever. | |
| Will abandon Q at the drop of a hat. | |
| Dustin Nemos, probably just in it for the money. | |
| Feels like he really enjoys getting paid. | |
| Matrix, he's a weird dude. | |
| I mean, it's kind of a thing where it's like you're playing the game of evil or delusional for these people and it's a spectrum. | |
| They can land on spots that are odd. | |
| For the most part, a lot of the Grifters, it feels like it's a solid mix where Delusional is bigger than the evil section of it because it's just so hard to do this kind of thing for so long without getting corrupted by it. | |
| To just tell everyone else to believe in this lie and for you to not believe in it yourself is really tough. | |
| You've got to put out that performance. | |
| You've got to sell it. | |
| To be a convincing actor, you've got to believe your lines. | |
| You've got to feel it. | |
| When Glenn Beck first started his shit back in the day, I thought he was totally cynical. | |
| And then by the end of it, I thought he was nuts. | |
| And that's the thing. | |
| It's just so hard to not let the brain worms in. | |
| When you're selling brain worms to everybody else, It's really hard to keep that packaging tight. | |
| It's really hard to not drop some of the brain worms on the ground and have them run over and jump into your foot and then they'll just crawl up your foot all the way up to your body and into your head and bam now they're in your brain. | |
| So I mean it's just it's just really difficult to remain a dispassionate, level-headed, grifting scumbag. | |
| Who just sells this shit to people and doesn't care. | |
| And I think that in a lot of ways, I think belief in it is a defense mechanism against the damage it does. | |
| Because if I was like a totally soulless shithead grifter, if I had my healing classes and my reiki crystals and my essential oils and my ouija boards and all this horse shit, And I was just out to make a buck and I'm just breaking in the money and I'm getting my cash. | |
| There'd be a part of me that would be just sort of like really sad when I read the tweets from all these people being like my family left me and everything's been destroyed but at least I have Q in the truth! | |
| And you have to sit there and tell them, yeah, you got the truth little buddy. | |
| It's all going to work out great. | |
| And you know, they fucking have nothing. | |
| You know, they've thrown their, you know, they've thrown away their life so they can buy some fucking t-shirts and some bullshit off you. | |
| And you've done this to them. | |
| You've ruined their lives. | |
| So I think in a way, believing in it makes it easier because then you can be like, yeah, I'm, I believe the truths and they believe the truth and we will be vindicated. | |
| It's a lot easier to feel that way when you're taking someone's money rather than being like, yeah, I'm ripping this fucking sucker off and I've ruined his life for a $10 a month Patreon subscription and a couple of vitamin supplements he buys every three weeks. | |
| So for the $30 a month or so I'm getting off this guy, it was totally worth destroying his fucking life. | |
| I mean, that's just... | |
| That doesn't seem like a very good trade-off. | |
| It seems like that would wear on me unless I was an absolute sociopath. | |
| And so embracing QAnon and buying into it's a great way to create an emotional force field | |
| so you don't have to feel like a terrible piece of shit for ruining people's lives for | |
| 30 bucks a month. | |
| And finally, Michael Elder says, Have you heard of any QAnoners that are also Scientologists? | |
| Can people be two kinds of batshit insane at once? | |
| I haven't heard of a Scientologist QAnon supporter. | |
| QAnon had a brief run-in where they were very angry at Scientology for a moment. | |
| Joe M like had a bunch of very angry tweets at Scientology and then one day those tweets went away Because Scientology is not something for fucking people like QAnon to fuck with They will eat your lunch as it were so That was that and From there we have I mean, the thing is, you see it with the yoga QAnoners. | |
| You see it with a lot of these guys. | |
| I'm not sure if it was exactly Sather or if it was Nemos, but there are non-Christian QAnon people that just try to play kumbaya with the Christians. | |
| They're like, hey Christians, just because I'm not on your wavelength and the whole religion thing doesn't mean we're not getting the same vibe off the Q, man. | |
| You know how it goes. | |
| So, I mean, there's attempts to make QAnon more holistic and crunchy and not so deeply Bible-banging and theological in nature. | |
| But that's just, again, attempts to placate the crowd so that you can keep staying in their good graces so you can continue to grift them. | |
| I mean it would be really interesting if someone had like some actual hardcore non-christian religious views and was also a huckster for this stuff. | |
| They would be quite the unicorn to enjoy witnessing. | |
| So that completes the question and answer segment of today's Phentabulous podcast show. | |
| So I am now totally out of gas. | |
| I'm getting ready to go to bed after I hit a few editing buttons on this thing. |