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Dec. 10, 2020 - Adventures in HellwQrld

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Adventures in HellwQrld Episode 12: Q11 is a Joke

The flailing lawsuits of the flailing Trump administration are going as poorly as you can expect. We review old QDrops and find a hilarious promise for a new 911 that Patriots can use to snitch on the Cabal. 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, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
	I am Mike Rains, a.k.a.
	Poker and Politics, and I am joined, as always, by Sarge.
	Ahoy!
	And joining us live from Australia, the mysterious El.
	Hello, my beautiful babies.
	I'm actually from New Zealand, and you never confuse an Aussie and a Kiwi.
	Oh, yeah.
	This is true.
	That was a transgression beyond measure by me.
	We have been cancelled down under.
	Yes.
	It was like an authentic Australian.
	Yeah, I've revealed my location to the audience.
	It's from Down Under.
	Yes, oh man, the shrimps and the Barbies and Crocodile Dundee and all of it, yes.
	My bad Australian gets to a bad Boston real quick.
	Chowda.
	Today we are all from New Zealand, at least those of us with Xboxes.
	Yes.
	For those of you who are not in the know, as it were, you can change your settings on Xboxes to pretend that you are much further ahead in time than you really are.
	And that lets you play Cyberpunk 2077 right now.
	So we had to pry L away from the game in order to record this broadcast.
	And then once this is over, he will return to Night City, where I will be in about 10 hours.
	Yeah, but I mean, what you're really, what you're failing to mention is that what you're actually pulling me from is my totally legitimate trip to New Zealand, which I am on right now, despite the COVID restrictions.
	I definitely did not just change the settings in my video game console to play this game early.
	I'm totally in New Zealand currently, and that's just the way it is, you know.
	Shit is hobbity.
	That's just the way it is.
	Shit is hobbity and cyberpunk-y.
	It's a weird mix.
	Yeah.
	And also absolutely no fucking COVID because New Zealand handled their shit and took care of it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, uh, way to go, uh, countries with functioning governments.
	So, uh, beyond all that, we're going to get into all kinds of madness involving QAnon and that, of course, warning people about the nature of QAnon and how terrible it is.
	Unless my computer explodes.
	Well, this is some scintillating live podcast happening right now.
	I can just do them.
	You got it?
	Or I can just do it from memory.
	The Adventures in Hellworld podcast talks in depth about QAnon, which means we have to talk about all kinds of child abuse and violence against people.
	Listener discretion advised.
	Yeah, that is DIY podcasting at its finest.
	Or my computer just decided to get rebooted last night and forgot all of its programs and how they work, which was wonderful.
	You know what they say about bad carpenters, Mike?
	Oh yes, I am the worst of carpenters.
	You are a very bad carpenter.
	I'm incredibly bad at carpentry.
	Which is apropos, because we're in this, carpentry season.
	That's what Christmas is about, right?
	It's a celebration of carpenters.
	I wondered if that was a Christmas reference.
	I was like, what is he talking about?
	Christmas?
	Yep!
	Hey, that was the vocation of our Lord and Savior before he became the Lord and Savior, as it were.
	He was just, like, fixing stuff, and he was like, oh yeah, by the way, I'm also the Son of God.
	And just went down that road, as it were, because that's what you can change vocations that way.
	You can go from, like, locksmith to carpenter to Messiah.
	There's, like, schools.
	You can be trained up, educated in those paths.
	It's pretty cool.
	It's not bad.
	So anyways, if you enjoy blasphemy and horrifying talk about people drinking blood of scared children in order to gain eternal life, and you think this stuff is really funny or interesting or entertaining, please feel free to throw a few dollars our way at patreon.com slash PokerPolitics.
	If we're not worthy of your cold, hard cash, please give your money to Love146.org, an anti-human trafficking organization that actually does the work that QAnon is lying about.
	And finally, throw all kinds of money at the Georgia runoffs because Democrats controlling the Senate might mean we get stimulus checks and COVID relief instead of having Mitch McConnell hold up everything because he wants, before any of you get a red cent or a nickel from Congress, he wants you to be unable to sue your employers if you get COVID and die while working.
	Because that's what matters to that fucking prick.
	And because of our beautiful American system of government, one asshole from Kentucky gets to skullfuck all of us, and there's nothing we can do about it unless we win these elections.
	Ain't that the truth.
	And if you're a Georgia conservative, just don't vote.
	Whatever.
	The votes are rigged.
	Yeah, the election's rigged.
	Don't worry about it.
	Yep, it's all rigged.
	George Soros controls your voting machines.
	You can't possibly win.
	Can't win, don't try.
	Stay home.
	Write in Donald Trump's name if you're feeling frisky.
	But yeah, just absolutely do not cast a real vote.
	That'd be the worst thing you could do.
	I didn't Ted Nugent's name.
	A vote for the Nuge is a vote for America.
	If you're a conservative in Georgia.
	Or conservative anywhere, really.
	If you're a liberal, there are, like, real actual candidates you can vote for.
	Yes.
	But if you're a conservative, The Nuge.
	The Nuge.
	Nuge 2020, Nuge 2024, Nuge forever.
	Always.
	Always Nuge.
	So having tried to aggressively vote Tamper in Georgia and all of that other good stuff that we've done, it's time to talk about what's happening recently with the internet death cult you all know and love.
	What's everyone's favorite death cult been up to this past week?
	It's time for Q's in the News!
	Uh, so the first thing that happened was there was this big celebration because, uh... The Desperate Guy blowed up again.
	Yay!
	Oh, thank God.
	Yo, Chubb!
	Yo, Chubb.
	I thought you said Yo-Cho.
	Yeah, the G.I.
	Joe's stormed the Death Star, and it's over now.
	Yeah, so there had been all this talk in QAnon and in some QAnon-adjacent right-wing circles that losing all of these endless cases in state courts and state supreme courts and federal courts was all a cunning plan to just get to the Supreme Court.
	Win by losing?
	Yes, win by losing.
	Get to the Supreme Court and then the rigged Supreme Court will give victory to Trump and his campaign and just hand the election to the Republicans because that's a thing that you can do by the letter of the law.
	And so Pennsylvania's case that finally made it to the Supreme Court got rejected out of hand with no written dissents.
	No one said anything about it.
	And so they are not going to get an injunction for relief, so none of that was going to happen.
	So it looked like QAnon's last best hope of overthrowing this election was dashed, but along came the great state of Texas, stumbling drunk out of the bar.
	Don't mess with Texas.
	Woohoo!
	No trade on me!
	Yeah.
	Don't mess with Texas.
	Only Texas is allowed to mess with you.
	Yes.
	So, uh, Texas- Texas has the best barbecue in the country.
	How could you possibly step to them?
	You shut up.
	You shut your- shut your dirty mouth.
	But I said they had the 4th!
	What, you want me to- Oh, 4th.
	Oh, 4th.
	I heard- I heard that.
	You want me to fucking lower?
	Wow.
	Sarge revealing his blistering hatred of Texas.
	Yes.
	I did live there.
	I was stationed there.
	Yeah.
	So, um...
	So Texas runs in in the 11th hour, and the best part about all of this is that QAnon was just like, oh yeah, this was the plan the whole time, when no one knew they were going to do this until now.
	And they just pretty much came up with the most cockamamie bullshit lawsuit possible, saying other states voted for Biden and that makes us sad, so please Supreme Court, make them not vote for Biden.
	And there's this legal There's this idea called standing where you have to kind of be the aggrieved party and there's really no way for Texas to say, hey, we don't like that Wisconsin ran an election via Wisconsin's rules.
	We don't like that Pennsylvania ran an election by Pennsylvania's rules.
	So like the whole idea that Texas could like literally stick their noses in other states' business is kind of a thing that the Supreme Court doesn't give a fuck about.
	Forgive me if I'm wrong about this, but this seems like the definition of a states' rights issue, right?
	These are states governing themselves?
	Yes, this is absolutely a crystal clear Tenth Amendment issue, and states run their own elections, literally.
	That's how it works.
	Do you want to remind me again where Republicans allegedly stand on states' rights?
	Are they pro or against?
	Very against.
	Very against.
	Classically, Republicans want bigger government.
	Republicans crave the federal government's boot on their neck.
	Yes, at all times, they defer to the federal government in all issues.
	I mean, it sure seems that way once Donald Trump's fuckin' orange ass hit the seat in the Oval Office, right?
	All of a sudden, Republicans everywhere were just, like, aggressively cradling the balls while sucking off the federal government.
	They're just like, oh, our guy's in charge!
	Oh, federal government, give it to us, please, daddy!
	Now he's on his way out, and, you know, a new daddy is coming, and these littles don't like this new daddy.
	Not so much, no.
	A little fetish ref?
	Yeah, that's right.
	I'm not just pop culture references, baby.
	Your boy El gets into some dark shit on the internet.
	El cracking out the Tor browser for this episode of the podcast.
	Oh yeah, dude.
	I'm on the totally legitimate Silk Road right now.
	Yes.
	You guys want any people?
	Al, it's always the FBI.
	It's always.
	No, it's good.
	The FBI took down the site and then it just popped back up after a month with no reason.
	It's totally legit now.
	Anyway, you guys want to put... They're doing a two-for-one sale on assassinations.
	All you have to do is give them your social.
	Anybody want to jump in on this?
	Sounds good.
	Oh man, can't wait.
	So...
	So this Texas lawsuit, the main reason, and QAnon immediately thought that it was like the Supreme Court agreed to hear this case because they saw some screen grabs on the internet of a thing that looked like that, but in reality all the Supreme Court did was docket the case because Uh, in our beautiful system of federalism, uh, hot state-on-state action actually just goes directly to the Supreme Court.
	There's none of this, like, go to state court, go to federal court, go to circuits, yadda yadda yadda.
	Like, this is the kind of case that actually does go directly to the Supreme Court, but they still have to agree to hear the case.
	They still have to grant the agreement of Temerati, as it were.
	What?
	And they have not done this and and these kinds of cases are incredibly rare and the Supreme Court fucking hates hearing them because the moment they have to settle an issue like this they are kind of opening the Pandora's box about like what what punch can one state throw at another and they don't
	want a lot of those punches to be legal so generally speaking when the
	Supreme Court steps in it's only when like two states are just fucking totally
	refusing to fucking be coherent and that's usually something that's irreconcilable
	differences Yes.
	And it usually has to do with, like, waterways and shit like that.
	Like, one state upriver from another state wants to build a dam, and the other thing's like, no fucking way!
	That's gonna cut off our water!
	And then the two states, like, have an argument, and they have to go to the Supreme Court to fucking get resolution.
	This isn't the kind of thing where...
	Uh, Texas, which is kind of in the south and kind of far away from, say, Pennsylvania, can be like, hey, Pennsylvania, like, there's no Pennsylvania waterway or trade route or anything between the two of us, but I don't like the way you voted, so fucking change your voting system or something.
	So the odds of the Supreme Court would ever agree to hear this are like next to zero.
	And then beyond that, the other problem is that they could never give Texas what they want in quote-unquote relief.
	Because that would basically be the Supreme Court saying, oh yeah, we're just going to disenfranchise, like, 30 million Americans by declaring the votes in, like, four or five different states invalid.
	That's something that wouldn't, like, have... That would be, like, actual Civil War II shit.
	That would be, like... Right!
	Several other states have joined in on this.
	Yeah.
	Well, the other states are saying they're in on it, but I haven't seen any actual statements that they've actually filed alongside.
	What's probably more likely is they're just going to file amicus briefs saying, yeah, Texas is totally right about this.
	And then the Supreme Court will wipe their asses with all of that and then throw all of it in the trash.
	Like, Trump tweeted out, we're intervening in this lawsuit by Texas, and it's like, you're a private citizen, you can't intervene in the lawsuit.
	Again, you could yell at Bill Barr to write an amicus brief, but again, that doesn't mean shit, because the legal principles here are fucking crystal clear, and You're basically just asking the Supreme Court to stage a coup on your behalf, which I really don't think they're that interested in doing so, and I don't think that really anyone else is interested in seeing them do it.
	So what's probably going to happen is the Supreme Court's just going to kind of like let this thing sit, let the Electoral College vote, And then sometime, like, probably after Christmas, they'll just be like, yeah, we're dismissing this because we can't un-ring the bell.
	The election happened.
	Electoral College happened. We're good. Catch you all later.
	And, um...
	Kid you on the flippy floppy?
	And like, so this, uh, this like Texas lawsuit, this is, this is sort of like the, the three card Monty move, uh, for, uh, the, the QAnon supporters, right?
	Because they immediately, like they had their eyes laser focused on where they thought the Pennsylvania lawsuit was going.
	And now Texas lawsuit is here and Texas lawsuit is, uh, new daddy.
	I'm just going to go back to that.
	Well, cause it can be.
	Yeah, Texas lawsuit is new daddy.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Oh God.
	And the thing that's like really hilarious about all of this is that the Pennsylvania lawsuit literally had all the same pissing and moaning that the Texas lawsuit had, but it was like only limited to
	Pennsylvania.
	And the Supreme Court was like, we have no interest in hearing this lawsuit about Pennsylvania.
	So the idea that the Supreme Court wants to hear the same complaints about four or five
	other states is like rich.
	It's really hilarious that like anyone thinks that this is something the Supreme Court wants
	to touch a hundred foot pole.
	So where does the planet of New Texas fall?
	I love the planet in New Texas.
	The planet of New Texas is great, and for those of you listening at home who have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about, this is my Deep Cut of the Week, and then like soundboard, like sound, or whatever.
	I forgot, I can't joke about soundboards.
	Start to pull one up.
	Yeah!
	For those of you keeping score at home, that was my Deep Cut of the Week, and if you don't get it, go ahead and Google search yourself, Planet of New Texas.
	That's something I'll have to do after the show as well.
	The other thing that's really been funny about all of this is the smooth-brained legal experts in QAnon began aggressively parroting something that apparently originally came from the Pandemic War Room, which is where indicted and soon-to-be convicted felon Steve Bannon He puts his headset on his greasy hair and unbuttons his nine shirts as he talks about how Trump's totally gonna win this thing.
	And apparently Bannon or one of his guests or co-hosts made a statement that was then parroted by the Trump legal team that then entered into the hive mind of QAnon and they all said it in all of their tweets for the past two days.
	That the only, and this is the quote, the only fixed date between election day and after election day that matters in the Constitution is January 20th when the new president is sworn in.
	And this is their way of saying that like every other benchmark you see Is bullshit because the Constitution doesn't have a quote-unquote fixed date for any of them.
	So don't worry about nothing until you see some old white guy put his hand on the Bible on January 20th.
	Just go to bed and be positive that Trump's gonna be the old white guy doing that on January 20th.
	What these assholes refuse to tell their listeners is that the Constitution is written in incredibly old-timey lingo about this shit and the whole fixed date thing is nonsense because our elections are in the Constitution written being as There'll be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
	So it's not a fixed date, but it's still a constitutional schedule.
	And the Electoral College meets on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December.
	So again, no fixed date, but absolutely a schedule as per written by the Constitution.
	So this talking point is disingenuous and a lie by omission.
	I love that so many, because I saw you posting about this on Twitter, and I love how many of these QAnon supporter chaps were on there parroting that same pretty much word for word talking point, because that move is a mainstream media move.
	Like, they allegedly hate the mainstream media, or like the lamestream media, or whatever the fuck they want to call it now.
	Mockingbird media.
	Yeah, whatever.
	Like, so, you know, John Oliver will make supercuts of it happening.
	It'll be like, because like, you know, local media affiliates are owned by like, you know, larger media conglomerates or whatever.
	And they sent out a fucking copy, and that copy is expected to be read on air by the people.
	So what you get are these supercuts of news anchors from across the country saying the exact same line.
	Yeah, the Deadspin Sinclair thing where you have like 40 different news anchors all saying the same droning thing.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, it's fun to watch the QAnon supporters taking a mainstream media move and, like, getting their copy from on high and then just parroting it.
	Like, it would be different if they were just retweeting something, right?
	If it was just a retweet.
	But it's not.
	They're making it look like they're composing this tweet when they're copying and pasting from a document that was just, like, somebody somewhere was just like, yo, these are our talking points.
	Also, while we're on the subject, All right, listeners.
	Make sure that no QAnon supporters hear this, because I'm about to give them some of my keen insight as a way to actually secure this election for Donald Trump.
	If the Electoral College thing is a constitutionally mandated day that's like, you know, the first Wednesday after the second Tuesday in December, or whatever it actually is, all Donald Trump has to do is change the calendar, baby.
	Boom.
	The United States is now using a different calendar.
	then the established one, December is now 11 months and 30 days from now.
	Yeah, the month of December is now known as the month of Trump.
	Trump.
	It's March.
	So the Electoral College no longer has to meet because it does not have a time frame to meet in.
	So we're good here.
	Oh yeah, I didn't even think of that.
	I was talking about moving to December.
	You're talking about abolishing December.
	Yeah, here we go.
	See?
	There we go!
	That's why none of y'all, that's why none of y'all of my beautiful babies can be talking to QAnon supporters because, like, listen to that hot technique!
	That's some savage technology I discovered.
	I went digging through the singles bin and I found that hot tech for the new problem that has happened in the meta.
	And it turns out it's just abolishing December.
	Yes, like, you are that DJ who was playing the terrible A-side for Vanilla Ice, and then actually flipped it over and played the B-side, which was Ice Ice Baby, and you thus made that man's career and destroyed music, so boo on you, but that's the technology else- Yeah, without me, we would never have gotten the ninja rap.
	Yes, exactly.
	Ninja, ninja.
	Oh my god.
	So yeah, we've had QAnon's endless complaining about the quote-unquote mainstream media 4am talking points, and then they themselves just grab a talking point from Uncle Steve.
	And the Trump legal team even put it in one of their press releases.
	So they didn't get it from Bannon, they got it from the Trump legal team.
	Of whom one of them is currently getting the aborted fetus treatment in a hospital because Uncle Rudy has COVID and he's in real bad shape!
	Yeah, he sure is.
	Yeah, and allegedly he's getting the high grade.
	He's getting the high grade shit.
	Oh, he's getting the high test?
	The unleaded?
	Yeah, he's getting the super premium.
	They're pumping him full of it.
	You gotta pay an extra 75 cents for that per gallon.
	And there's no word on what Jenna Ellis is using for her treatment, but she also tested positive.
	Somewhere in the world, Rudy Giuliani is wiping the greasy sweat from his brow while looking at two side-by-side buttons that determine the fate of some 12-year-old girl in front of them, and one of them has had sex with her, and the other one has harvested her blood for COVID treatment, and he's just dabbing his forehead with a handkerchief.
	How's QAnon not talking about the fact that we're getting a COVID vaccine and the politicians are going to have to decide who gets the vaccine first, having what would literally be called in other places, death panels.
	Like, how are they not, like, they can make so much hay out of that.
	They're just so deeply focused on the dumbest thing they can't win.
	Because they're just busy screaming and yelling about the election and they can't talk about vaccines and the government because if they were to talk about vaccines and the government, they would have to acknowledge that Trump is like, this is my vaccine and I got it through and it's great, it's going to save all your lives and can we have a mulligan on the election because I came up with a vaccine?
	Like, QAnon and the vaccine are bad, but Trump likes the vaccine, so they can't square that circle.
	They can't try to rationalize how their god-emperor is aggressively pro-vaccine when they would rather just die than take the vaccine.
	I feel like a lot of Americans are willing to die rather than take a vaccine.
	On the one hand, it's like, good for them.
	Exercise their right to check out early.
	You know, that's cool and all, but at the same time, it says a lot about us as a culture.
	It is really, it's really frustrating.
	But the thing that I kind of like hang my hat on is when you whine about your mask, like everyone else who's wearing the mask kind of like gives you the brofist and the solidarity and masks suck and they're bad and no one's happy about it.
	So like when you're in the casino after a few hours, it's below your nose, no one yells at you, whatever, you can kind of get away with it.
	But in like six, seven months when the vaccine is like a real thing and lots of people are getting the shot and whatnot, will you?
	You're gonna go to like the establishment and they're gonna card you for your vaccine confirmation.
	And if you don't have it, you're not gonna get in.
	And being carded is just something that we in society have accepted.
	It's a part of like how you get into buildings like bars and concerts and whatnot.
	So you're not going to be able to complain about not being able to see your sports ball team play the sports ball because you didn't get the shot and you refuse to like do it and they won't and they won't even if you don't get guarded and people are gonna be like hey you're a fucking idiot get the shot moron like all of that sympathy you get over I gotta wear this mask and grumble rumble that's gonna go right out the window when the vaccine's like prevalent and everyone's just like yo idiot get the shot and go see the sports ball team.
	How many of these anti-mask people do you suppose would have been on the streets of New York on December 12th yelling at people for wearing masks?
	Any of them?
	Somewhere between zero and, I don't know, less than zero?
	Because our enemy this time around is an invisible virus, any measures we take to do it are trampling all over their freedom.
	But meanwhile, these people are certainly not getting arrested, protesting, taking their shoes off at airports and shit.
	Yeah, but that's an enemy they hate, and any sort of kabuki theater we can do to reinforce Islamophobia is good and right, and we need to continue to do that in their minds.
	Whereas they can't hate a virus in a way that's pleasing to them, because It's just not an other.
	It's not a group of people they can victimize or demonize for it.
	If QAnon could blame the virus on a group of people, I mean, they try.
	They call it the China virus, like the Wuhan flu, Kung flu, all of Trump's racism.
	That's an attempt to get that delicious racism they need into the conversation.
	Cramming that sweet racist flavor into every conversation.
	Yes, that's what it's all about.
	Gotta get that racism.
	Yes, oh you got to.
	But even with that, it just wasn't enough for them to mask up to fight the China virus.
	They're just too lazy and they're too miserable.
	So they just don't have it in them.
	Some of them just needed to save their efforts so that they could join the digital battlefield.
	They couldn't be on the battlefield of protecting themselves and others from contracting COVID because they were too busy sitting in their basements, jacking into the Matrix with Spooky Groove.
	The digital battlefield, oh yeah!
	Fuckin' Sean Ackerman, we gotta go dunk on some limbs!
	Digimon's a good one.
	Good solid Digimon reference.
	Mike, should we pour out some rum?
	Some digital rum for our fallen digital soldiers?
	Oh god.
	Pour out a 40 and your finest rum for the vanquished Julian's rum.
	He originally lost his avatar because the Trailer Park Boys or whoever has that intellectual property filed a copyright claim against him.
	So for a couple weeks he was an angry pepe frog flipping the bird and then his whole account got yanked and uh of course QAnon threw a fit because this guy had this guy who is just literally a nut that's literally all Julian is he's a crazy nut who decodes this crap he has way too much time on his hands He's giving way too much credit.
	Decoding is giving way too much credit.
	It's not decoding.
	I mean, it's the scene from Always Sunny where the guy's got the corkboard and the string.
	He's trying to find something that isn't there.
	The problem with the internet is that it allows people to find what they want.
	And you know, sometimes you feel like a nut.
	The silver lining is, sometimes you don't.
	Exactly.
	Bazinga.
	Yes.
	And here, we are the mounds to QAnon's Almond Joy.
	What is that metaphor?
	Hey, I don't know what a metaphor is, but I'm rolling with it.
	I like almonds, so potential for us to in fact be Almond Joy and for QAnon to be mounds?
	Mounds is really boring.
	I mean, it's just like... I mean, I guess QAnon is more generally exciting than we are, but at the same time, I don't want to be just coconut covered in chocolate!
	You can get that anywhere!
	Mounds is an incredibly weak candy.
	Yeah, this is the hard-hitting... Yeah, this is exactly what people... I mean, hey, the people that are listening that have been with us for a while know the score.
	We are trying desperately to get sponsors.
	All of our off-topic nonsense is completely, totally scripted.
	It seems like it's off the top, but it's not.
	It's all totally scripted so that we can get sponsored by... Mars Candy, please.
	Mars Candy, please sponsor us.
	While we are at it, give us your goddamn treats.
	I want them.
	I will eat so many grass-flavored candy bars filled with coconut.
	I love coconut as a flavor.
	Hey, as a texture.
	Anyway!
	So, Julian, who is the mounds of QAnon, as it were.
	They do make coconut-flavored rum.
	Think about it.
	Oh, you have more than you know.
	Good catch, Patriot.
	So he gets kicked off of Twitter, finally.
	And he goes on Parler, because that's what you do when you're not on Twitter anymore.
	You join Team Racism on the place where you have to give your social security and a picture of your license to get verified.
	So when they inevitably get hacked, all of your personal information will be stolen.
	He goes on Parler and he declares that he... This is his missive.
	This is his farewell to Twitter.
	And he's like, I'm not angry about being banned from Twitter.
	Their desperation brings me peace.
	That said, I won't be returning to it.
	I fought like hell for two plus years on that digital battlefield and did my duty as best I knew how.
	Oh, you did duty all right.
	Oh, you little big boy did a duty.
	I made it longer than I ever expected to.
	Now digital soldiers must rise up and fight.
	What an absolute tool.
	He's the whole toolbox and shed.
	How many days slash weeks in BASIC do you think that guy would have lasted, Sarge?
	I'll give him a whole month.
	A month?
	He would have broke after a month.
	Okay.
	President-elect Joe M., who you can find hilariously being a weird liberal again on Twitter, because unlike Julian, Joe's an addict who needs Twitter at all times.
	Joe replied to him and said, you made it to within an inch of the finish line, Julian Jerome.
	Perhaps now you can drink in the next few weeks with an air of tranquility, knowing you made many noble strides for the country in this important battle for the hearts and minds of our deceived fellow citizens.
	Thank you, Patriot.
	Storm emoji, American flag emoji, not a wave emoji, because Joe does not know the power of the storm wave.
	Yeah, man, so it's good to see that Julian's realm went from the digital battlefield to apparently, like, a digital gentleman's club in 1930s America, where they're just sitting around in, like, fucking virtual space drinking VR brandy and just talking to each other.
	Ah, good chap, you made it to within an inch of the finish line, and now you can settle the rest of your days in peace!
	It'll be quite good!
	I just love imagining Julian thinking himself like Captain America at the end of Endgame, just reflecting on all he did and the battles that were waged.
	No fucking way he thinks he's Captain America at the end of Endgame.
	He gives that shield to a black man, Mike.
	He passes that mantle to a black guy.
	You're giving Julian Thrum way too much credit.
	Passing up an equally qualified white man.
	The first time the trailer for Winter Soldier and the Falcon drops and it shows Anthony Mackie holding Captain America's shield and or in a Captain America uniform, people like Julianne Storm are going to shit their entire colon into their diaper.
	This is absolutely true.
	There's gonna be so much complaining.
	There's gonna be so much... Oh, God.
	So many racist tears.
	I think he's more like Rocky at the end of Rocky 1, where he loses but he's beat up at the end and everybody cheers for him and that movie sucks and so does Julian, so.
	Yeah.
	It's alright, baby.
	The Beastie Boys.
	The Electoral College.
	And now, the Rocky franchise.
	Shit is weak.
	It's mad overrated.
	The only good ones are the newest ones.
	Don't at me.
	Yeah.
	The new, the new Rocky movie should have been MMA based because no matter how hard you try to make boxing work as a movie, the punches are just so hammy and over the top.
	And like, it's just, you're not blocking.
	You're just getting cracked in the skull.
	Yeah.
	What I want is a, is a 15 minute scene of two guys sweatily rolling around on the ground together.
	Hey, it's one repeatedly.
	Oh yeah, and everyone gets knocked down, there's like a million nine count.
	Hollywood boxing is slightly better than Hollywood poker because at the very least they understand how it works, but like, oh god.
	If there's no one fucking like doing a voiceover explaining to you, it's just like, this guy's gonna get hit in the head really hard and he might get knocked down.
	When I'm watching a poker movie, I understand that they need to sort of explain to some people that might be seeing the movie what poker is, but it doesn't mean I don't always roll my eyes when they're just like, oh my god, this is a full house.
	It totally beats a straight.
	It's just like, yeah, I fucking know.
	I mean, when I watch a baseball movie, you're not just like, and now this guy's going to throw this ball towards the man with the bat, and he's allowed to swing at it, and he can miss three times.
	Yeah, exactly!
	The training wheels they put on poker movies are so aggressive.
	And then the poker's just always terrible, because it's just cold deck over cold deck.
	There's never any thought.
	There's never any skill to the game.
	It's just, I have a monster hand.
	Oh yeah?
	Fuck you, I have a bigger monster.
	He thinks he's going to push me off of this pot with his trips.
	Little does he know that I nutted off that river full house or whatever.
	Because they also just like to throw in crazy lingo.
	Like, any time in a sports anime, just over-explaining everything and just being amazed by what would be a normal basic- Well, if they ever did a poker anime, they would always treat the main character like he was inventing every hand that he played.
	That's a big trope in all those sports animes.
	They'll just be like, oh my god, it's a fade-away jump shot!
	Like that's some sort of fucking brand new technique that somebody just invented on the court in 2016.
	Like, oh my god, they call it Fear the Windjumper!
	There was an American football anime, iShield 21, and I genuinely loved when they got to end their season and it's like, we have to try something.
	It's called a Hail Mary.
	And everyone's like, Hail Mary?! !
	It was fantastic.
	Oh, yeah.
	Go on, check it out.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	Sarge's anime recommendations.
	We're an anime podcast now.
	Yes, we are.
	We're all of these things.
	But we're still in the news!
	We are.
	Do we want to do 10 minutes on the Mandalorian?
	I mean... No, no, we're a QAnon podcast.
	Okay, so there was this lady in Florida who murdered her lawyer, her QAnon lawyers, QAnon
	lady.
	The Daily Beast has a great series of articles on these QAnon mothers who go and kidnap their
	children back, they're taken away, and then they bring in this now former lawyer because
	he's dead, and he says that through Q, the president told him to set up his own separate
	legal system.
	And, uh, spoiler warning, this tactic never worked and routinely got the children taken away more because the judge questioned the sanity of someone who would try this legal defense.
	Well, this lawyer down in Florida showed up with five bullets in the back in his trailer, which... So you're saying we got a little cue-on-cue violence down in Florida?
	Yeah, the Florida Natural Causes.
	The Florida Woman, as it's referred to.
	Of Florida Natural Causes.
	This is a merger of the Sovereign Citizen Movement and QAnon.
	These are the people who think that if there's a gold trim flag in a courtroom that the law is different or not something they actually have to listen to.
	And this is like one of the dangerous things about QAnon is they'll take anyone into the movement.
	If you believe in something crazy, you can get a seat at the table in QAnon.
	They will gladly take you in and then take your attention and then your money and then brainwash you to believing the rest of their bullshit.
	I'm seeing so many people who are like, QAnon's becoming an anti-vax movement.
	It's like, oh no, Q just ate the anti-vax movement.
	Whatever dumb bullshit is the conspiracy theory du jour, that dumb bullshit has been co-opted by QAnon grifters on every imaginable level.
	Anything that you can conceive of As a way to scam people out of money, there's a QAnon tie to it in some way, shape, or form.
	Like, there are QAnon people that will deny the moon landing.
	There will be QAnon people that are flat Earth.
	It's all out there.
	Even though Q themselves has said, we've gone to the moon and the Earth is round, that doesn't matter.
	Because, again, Q doesn't actually hold any true authority over his followers.
	They only listen to him when he confirms their biases.
	This was Q crossing over into the Sovereign Citizen movement, which, if you want a fantastic series of YouTube videos of people just getting... It sounds like a 1920s superhero serial.
	I mean, if the Sovereign Citizen is a superhero that gets tasered a lot for, like, mouthing off to cops.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, you mean like Phoenix Jones?
	Damn.
	You see, I'm trying to make up for that awkward audio connection thing that happened there a few minutes ago with some glorious, more deep-cut references.
	Yes.
	To real-life scenarios.
	Not all heroes wear capes.
	Some of them get hit by tasers.
	But, um... I mean, just the true-downs would always have that.
	So, yeah.
	So, the Soft Citizen movement It's been around for forever, just like the Illuminati movement's been around for forever.
	And QAnon's just like, hey guys, you want to get in the van?
	It's time to go party!
	Because all they want is to grow their ranks.
	They just want to have more people in the group.
	And they don't care how disparate their worldviews are.
	Like, they'll hash that out in the end, because all you really need to have is a general distrust of the government, except for Donald Trump.
	And as long as you can clear that low bar, we're good.
	You are in good standing with QAnon.
	So come January 20th, 2021, you're going to have a lot of people that are really angry at all over the government. They won't even have to have the
	exception for Trump in there anymore.
	And it'll be party time. It will be absolute party time for conspiracy.
	All right. Right before we get to the drops, what are the odds that Trump actually kicks it over to
	Pence in the final hour, the literal final hour, and gets himself pardoned since they're pretty
	sure he can't pardon himself? Oh, God.
	I mean, like, I would have said a month ago it was like 5%, but man, it feels like those odds are climbing.
	It just really feels...
	I mean, God, like the that just seems like such a bold thing, like just flying in the face of the actual laws of the like, you know, certainly reading the laws of the land by the letter and not the intent.
	It just seems like the optics are so bad on that for the Republican Party.
	And can you pardon yourself for crimes that you haven't yet been charged with?
	You can be pardoned for like the acts you have done, because that was what happened in Watergate was Ford pardoned Nixon for basically everything that happened in Watergate.
	He was like, whatever happened in Watergate, I pardoned Nixon for it to heal the nation so we don't see a chief executive officer of the country cracking rocks, as it were.
	So that was kind of like the get-out-of-jail-free mulligan.
	And there's been a lot of concern that maybe what Ford did was totally not fucking legal and all that kind of stuff.
	So we're going to have to see about that down the line.
	But the self-pardon, I don't think he can do that.
	But the idea that he's going to dip out at like 10.30 that morning, let Pence be president for 90 minutes, bang out the pardons for him, and then let Barton get sworn in.
	That was crazy talk before, and now it feels less crazy talk-ish.
	It's not great.
	I mean, it's a real weird thing that could be a massive abuse of power that we could be dealing with.
	I just read about this last night.
	Apparently, this has been floated around for a while.
	I wanted to bring it up real quick.
	Oh boy, let's... Let's get to the drops.
	Specifically, this hot new drop.
	Yes, our hero, the Savior, the man who's going to free America from the Cabal, Nearly a month after his last communication.
	Besides those three lazy ass pieces of shit things he threw up there.
	Our boy finally came back from the cold and made some drops.
	Made a drop.
	And it was literally just a link to a Trump fan video set to We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore by Twisted Sister.
	So Q is aggressively a boomer.
	Uh, this was the, like, just on a scale of like one to a hundred of the laziest possible shit, this was like a three.
	I mean, it's, I guess, slightly less lazy than Durham Q, but that's debatable.
	We're never going to get to Q drop 5,000 if he keeps up this every two weeks deal.
	I thought for sure when I made that tweet, we were getting to 5,000 any day now.
	You shut your Sarge mouth.
	This is the only way that we will ever catch up in QDROPS.
	If he gets back to us in QDROPS on the regular again, like, we will be doing this podcast until we die.
	Which will be fine if our fucking listeners would finally start supporting us on our Patreon!
	Mars Candy, please sponsor us.
	We love you.
	Skystar Films, who I believe are the people who put out the Blade Trilogy, slide into the DMs if you're still a thing.
	We got a new Blade movie, right?
	With Mahershala Ali.
	Yeah, eventually, but I don't want to wait.
	I want support now.
	I want that Blade merchandise right now.
	We're doing the live stream with videos.
	We got little Blade figurines on our desks.
	That'd be so good.
	Yeah, that's another thing we need to add to one of our Patreon tiers.
	We will watch Blade, Blade II, The Bladening, and Blade III, Blade's Revenge.
	Those are the titles, right?
	Yes, accurate.
	Nailed all of them.
	Oh, man.
	Okay, so do we have a Voice of Q recording for this most recent drop?
	Oh man, is one of us going to have to do it?
	H-T-T-P-S, colon, slash, slash.
	Yeah.
	Because that's where we're at right now.
	Q literally doesn't even add his input to it.
	Just the full copy-paste.
	Yeah, doesn't even do the whole thing where insert link into text.
	Q couldn't even be bothered to actually type out, we're not going to take it anymore, as a hyperlink.
	So do you think this is Ron or Ron's dad?
	I mean, it feels like Jim because of the fact that like it's Twisted Sister.
	It's ancient.
	It fits the boomer way more than it fits the red-pilled millennial.
	Uh, what's really, uh, is there a Japanese country version of that song?
	Has any Japanese country got it covered?
	This does sound like the original.
	The video is just such ridiculous Trump dick-sucking.
	All hail our orange emperor, his glorious godliness.
	All of that crap.
	I mean, it's just...
	It's so pathetic.
	I mean, it really is incredible that we are over a month past the election, now five whole days away from the Electoral College voting, which means QAnon's going to be sitting there, just crying into their beer, closing their eyes, plugging their ears up, yelling, la la la.
	Watching as like Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams are going to be holding up index cards saying Joe Biden's name on them and all this kind of stuff and just like actually having reality punch these people in the dick over and over again.
	And they just have to pretend that it's cool, that this is good and we're fine with it.
	I mean, it's really sad.
	It's just it's just incredibly sad.
	So, um...
	But they're not going to take it anymore.
	There's no other way.
	They couldn't have possibly expressed that in any other way.
	They were just like, we need these old fucking men, who were old fucking men back when they made this song, and now are probably either dead or truly geriatric.
	Dressed like women, of course, because that's totally in the Republican wheelhouse.
	And they need to scream at the people how it will no longer be taken.
	Dee Snider, is that the lead singer of Twisted Sister?
	Who absolutely aggressively is a Trump fan.
	Awesome, I was just about to ask that.
	I was like, I wonder how old Dee feels about this.
	Uh, I mean, that dressing like a woman part wasn't a joke, so I'm gonna go ahead and assume, uh, probably not a huge fan of the Republican Party.
	I mean, uh, it would be weird for them to just be like, yeah, you know, I made my bones dressing like a lady back when that was fashionable in the 80s, but now, I fuckin', like, I hate transgendered folk.
	It would be such a weird look.
	Oh yeah, you're such an aggressive pivot to hardline social conservatism, republicanism.
	Oh yeah.
	I mean, some people do it, but I didn't peg D for one of them.
	Although, I could have been wrong.
	And the other thing is, we're not going to be going drop by drop after number 72.
	We're actually going to start cherry picking the more delicious ones, because again, the low-hanging fruit is the sweetest.
	Oh yeah, we haven't been cherry-picking yet because some of these have just been, like, bulging with incredibleness.
	Like the Q-Drop 40, 4-10-20-A-B-C-D-E, and then, like, a couple of ellipses.
	Mmm.
	Mmm.
	Yeah, Q-Drop.
	It's like the filet mignon of Q-Drops.
	We start with the pleasure of the president, DJ T. Oh, baby, stop talking dirty to me.
	Well, that was the Q-Drop we were about to play, but, uh, yeah.
	I couldn't keep my place, but whatever.
	We'll hear the voice of Q say it again, and then I'll make my orgasm noise again, and we'll edit out the part where I did it before.
	We're doing none of those things except for listening to Q say it.
	We serve at the pleasure of the President.
	DJT.
	They serve Q-Team.
	They serve this secret military intelligence operation.
	They serve... Isn't the actual answer Big Macs?
	Isn't that his play?
	We serve Big Macs to the President.
	The President gets the Big Mac from us.
	What did he try to... Did you know Big Macs are delicious?
	He gave all the football players Burger King, right?
	D.J.D.? ?
	I don't remember, I just know he gave me fast food.
	Man, if that was Burger King, then I grossly underestimated the importance of that kerfuffle, because that would be a big kick for the king, right?
	If the president tapped the king of burgers instead of the Donalds of Mick to serve up their greasy slop to those athletes.
	Burger King!
	You can sponsor us, too, and I'll receive a comment from you for eating greasy slop.
	Yeah, make a sequel to Sneak King, the amazing Burger King video game.
	Arby's can sponsor us if they want to, but I will continue to refer to their food as greasy slop.
	I mean, like, I'm... I'm only a man.
	So, Q-Drop 43 is actually one of my favorites because this is so aggressively divorced from reality and so, like, not true that it's just beautiful.
	This is an incredible drop.
	It's short, too, so we can just breeze right through it.
	Let's hear it.
	...are not meant to scare anyone, but merely inform.
	Resistance will be dealt with swiftly.
	The core focus is removing entrenched and fortified bad actors within our federal government,
	past and present, as well as others.
	Simply be diligent.
	Phone numbers will be provided if you witness an uprising or other domestic violence, in
	addition to 911.
	Any military seen is for your protection as well as to demonstrate our resolve.
	Watch for confirmations tomorrow.
	What the fuck?
	These crumbs are not meant to scare, but inform.
	Resistance will be dealt with swiftly.
	Sorry, I don't know why.
	I couldn't help but read the first couple lines of that to Milkshake by Kelly.
	I fucking hate it.
	It's funny, but I really, really hate it when Q refers to his little drops of information as crumbs.
	It makes him sound so dumb.
	I mean, that's why I hate it.
	It's like, you know, I want them to be taking themselves super serial, so that way when I make fun of them it, like, fills me up inside.
	But when he starts calling people wizards and warlocks and constantly refers to his information as crumbs, it's just like, ugh.
	It's a crumb cake of truth and patriots.
	I don't know.
	So, I love this because it involves Q11.
	It involves an additional auxiliary emergency number that we are going to be given to call up in case you see an insurrection or domestic violence.
	Yeah, I was gonna ask, did we ever get that number?
	We never did get Q11.
	It's so weird.
	It's so weird that you can't dial 1711 in order to report crimes by the So would you go so far as to say that Q1-1 is a joke?
	It is a joke in your town.
	All of these things.
	I called Q1-1 a long time ago, and you see how slow they're at?
	When I was at home, Al looked around for the Gestapo that was coming from, the Q-stop-o.
	Yes.
	And again, they talk about how this shit is happening immediately.
	Watch for confirmations tomorrow.
	So this is November 2nd, 2017.
	We are now over three fucking years since this Q-drop.
	I mean, it's just, it's so ridiculous that there's urgency, there's a tight deadline, there is a concrete thing that is going to happen and fucking none of it, none of it happens.
	So when you brought up that Q was swinging specifically for, like, you know, quote-unquote tomorrow, so it would be November 3rd, right?
	I decided to, as a lark, to go ahead and scroll through the QAnon.pub to see how many more posts that would be from the posts that we have now.
	And so until we get confirmation that, like, nothing did happen because Q was not talking about it.
	And holy shit!
	Q was flipping out back in the day.
	They're like 30 drops in this one day.
	How does the Q fanbase square their Messiah's prolific posting back in the day with his total ghost town now?
	Do they just ignore it?
	They're disconditioned to it because Q just got so fucking lazy after this initial output There are people who will literally tweet out, I find Q's silences as reassuring as his drops.
	Of course they do, because if they ever did not feel reassured by Q's glowing presence, the world would fall into chaos.
	And something crazy might happen, like Joe Biden being democratically elected.
	How could that ever happen?
	I mean, it's just so absurd the way they operate, where everything Q does is good.
	Everything he does is righteous.
	So if Q posts a million times, great.
	If Q never posts, also great.
	Well, you can never pin them down on anything where they'd be like, yeah, Q fucked up that one.
	So, you just have so much stuff going on in this drop, and you get nothing.
	There's absolutely no resolution, and this is one of those drops where if you bring it up, they'll just, like, hand-wave it away, or, like, disinformation is necessary, or, ah, we'll get Q11 sometime later.
	It'll be on the four-year delta.
	November 2nd, 2021 is when the new phone line will come in, where you can call 1711 and report people for being Kabali and drinking the bloods of children.
	I have noticed that Q and QAnon are very good at moving their own goalposts.
	Oh god.
	You put your back into the goalpost moving at some point.
	So we have... It's less like they have goalposts and more like they're chasing a snitch.
	Oh god.
	All of that.
	So we have a very quick Q drop here in 44.
	Before POTUS departs on Friday, he will be sending an important message via Twitter.
	because Q back in the day was way too fucking concrete with shit.
	Before POTUS departs on Friday, he will be sending an important message via Twitter.
	God bless.
	That's just a dumb cold reading because Trump was constantly tweeting.
	Right.
	And for the most part still, well, still is.
	Although with periods of darkness he's not trying any longer.
	And now all of his tweets literally just have an advisory warning on them.
	This man is lying about this shit.
	So I mean like...
	Twitter knows we only have to deal with this piece of shit for like another six weeks.
	Stick it out.
	It's gonna be so awesome, like on January 20th at 1pm when Twitter just bans Donald
	Trump from Twitter and all of right-wing media just explodes in a fit of rage.
	When they're just like, yeah, he broke all of our rules, but we had this like bullshit
	thing where because he was president we let him stay on the service, but now he can go
	fuck himself and oh yeah, it's gonna be great.
	It's gonna be absolutely great.
	But yeah.
	That would be a big win for all of us.
	I truly look forward to that glorious day.
	The thing is, back then, Cube was dumb and had very short deadline windows.
	Where he's like, yeah, tomorrow Trump's going to do the big thing.
	And then after he does that, he's like, oh yeah, by the way, now he's like, next week something might happen.
	Next month could be big.
	The content of all the drops is like, you know, especially these early drops, he's like, you know, just like, November 3rd, tomorrow, a week from now, but that has not stopped Q supporters from pouncing on, like, every single post he's ever made with their decoder rings and their, like, spools of yarn and their, like, pegboard of clues to try to decipher, like, when is this
	stuff actually happening? Because it couldn't be when he said it was going to happen because
	it didn't, and there's no way he's wrong.
	So obviously when he said tomorrow, that was a code, and it really meant...
	Yeah, exactly.
	...they have to fill in the blank.
	We're just watching the inner workings of a cult, and you never get to see this with, like,
	Jim Jones and Jonestown, because the cult is insular.
	We're watching the cult leader, watching Jim Jones talking to his people and everyone else outside of it is just like, no, this is, this is stupid and wrong.
	And it just it's all the more mind boggling why it's growing or why it's still a thing because like cult leaders normally don't release all their crazy ramblings that are easily disproved.
	We need to get successful enough where we can have an actual psychologist on the show and they can talk to us about what allows people to be hoodwinked into these cults, especially these cults where there's no physical force of personality to intoxicate them in front of them.
	It really needs somebody who's got the juice, really has it, charisma style.
	And you're like talking to them, like, you know, celebrities and, like, musicians and athletes and stuff.
	Those people tend to have this, like, sort of mane, right?
	And when you're talking to them, it becomes a little more easy to understand how somebody might buy into what they have to say because of the, like, social energy they're putting into it.
	But online, it's just so weird.
	Like, it would be less weird if they had any evidence to back up anything.
	Like, at least Cryptozoology, they're like, people out there, like, faking a bunch of evidence all the time, right?
	They're just like, oh, Bigfoot, like, footprint casts, and, you know, we have hair, and here's a picture.
	Here's a grainy video, like, you know, the Mothman got coffee at my dunks this morning, nobody will believe me, but here's the security footage.
	Like, there's all this, like, doctored evidence that you can just be like, oh shit!
	Like, you can, like, look into that and see, but all of the, all of the stuff I've seen from Q, there's no, there's no, like, evidence to support it.
	They just say a thing, and then other people online are just like, yeah!
	I believe what this guy's saying, for no reason!
	And that's very fascinating.
	Moves in the cult playbook is isolating their followers from the rest of the world and their families, and the QAnon followers do that to themselves, and that is so bizarre.
	With like Om Shinrikyo, Jim Jones, I can't remember the name of that cult, and like the Branch Davidians, they isolated themselves in remote locations, and the QAnon followers engage Constantly.
	Well, the big thing about QAnon is that it's proselytizing.
	Once you have become a member of QAnon, you must recruit more people in order to help trigger the Great Awakening.
	So they have a very Mormon-esque, Jehovah's Witness-esque kind of way where you have to go out and get people.
	You have to go out and get more people.
	Like you kind of lock yourself in your room to get pilled.
	But then after you've had like your four or five hours of daily brainwashing, you got to go like harass and annoy your family.
	You got to go be like a annoying fucking piece of shit to your coworkers.
	You got to, you got to be out in meat space, like working it and hustling.
	Because if you don't convince enough people that Lady Gaga drinks the blood of children, Then no one's going to stop her from fucking doing it.
	So you have that duality where you have the cult, but you also have the need to grow the cult.
	And it's our core belief of the movement that you've got to red pill more people.
	You've got to swell the ranks or else the Antichrist will rise up and Joe Biden will actually win this election.
	Yeah, I get that.
	So I understand a big point of Q's web of expected behaviors is to go out there and stump for Q and to bring more people into the fold.
	I mean, pretty much every cult-slash-religion has that sort of aspect to it.
	I would just really like to have somebody break down to me the specifics of what makes it possible For people to get, like, sucked in so deep via the internet.
	I mean, like, the internet's changing everything, and it looks like we're watching it literally change the face of cult, right?
	Like, one of these things that, like, nobody's really thinking of when the thing about all the stuff the internet is changing, but, like, the QAnon phenomenon might be the sort of thing that people will look back on in the future as, like, this touchstone as, like, this is when stuff sort of changed in terms of, like, what The internet could do for a cult-like group, right?
	Because of how fast it spread and how high into the levels of government it has spread so quickly.
	It's just really fascinating.
	QAnon sucks in their messaging and all that, but QAnon is still eminently fascinating.
	I have to wonder if it's truly the perfect storm wave of Trump making his way into office had to be the little bit of spice that made it like, you know, had to be like the spark that lit it up, right?
	just...
	Well, I mean, Trump making his way into office had to be the little bit of spice that made
	it like, you know, it had to be like the spark that lit it up, right?
	I mean, I don't think there's any sort of, like, there's certainly no coincidence between
	the fact that Q showed up after Trump was elected to president, right?
	Because the prevailing theory for what it started as is literally just like, hey, our racist guy made it to the president of the United States, so we're going to start like a fucking LARP or an ARG online about him or people in his cabinet feeding us secret government info so that we can protect the world from the safety of our computers at home.
	QAnon put the personality, but the cult leader put the personality on someone else.
	The literal president of the United States and just used that personality for his cryptic
	like gnostications.
	People are probably going to yell at me for saying this and like, take it in the spirit
	as it is intended, please, but I feel like it would be interesting to compare like Q
	and the people that support Q side by side with Bernie and the people that support Bernie.
	Like, not that I'm saying that Bernie Sanders is the devil like Trump is.
	I'm also not saying that Bernie supporters are bad people like a lot of the QAnon folks are.
	I'm not even saying that Bernie supporters are dumb the way I think that general QAnon supporters are.
	I'm just saying that they're both, as Sarge said, Cults of personality, but focused on somebody else, right?
	Where it seems like, at least Bernie seems like he's doing it himself, to himself and for himself.
	But Q's like the hype man.
	He's like the Paul Bearer to Trump's Undertaker, where Trump doesn't say or do or acknowledge anything, but Paul Bearer's out there with the urn, moving around and being like, ooooh, my presidency!
	I will accept all fan art submissions of that, so that'd be incredible.
	It is very interesting that Q just took Trump and made him the centerpiece of this cult.
	And by the same token, like Michael Flynn is grifting the shit out of this.
	And he's like the second tier below Trump.
	And Jeff Sessions tried to like horn in on this action when he was running for Senate in Alabama.
	There are people who were not a part of this thing, did not start it, that now get to riff off of it because it used them as touchstones for the movement.
	Also, one thing I brought up a long, long time ago is that QAnon is a kind of evil-based religion.
	Because in the Bible, in the Quran, in all these other movements, the first thing they talk about is God, and God doing all kinds of awesome stuff.
	So like, you, the Yeah, so like, open eye, God, and he's awesome.
	Whereas like, QAnon opened up with like, Hillary is bad, and we're going to get her!
	So it's like, it'd be like opening up the Bible and being like, the devil is a piece of shit, and here is how the devil is gonna get what's coming to him.
	And it's just kind of like, it's weird that like, QAnon was like, centered on Hillary at the jump, and then was like, oh yeah, by the way, we have a hero, the President, Who's gonna handle the devil that is Hillary?
	And so yeah, it's very strange that The main character of QAnon is not Q, it's actually Trump, which is like why these people are like stroking out because they know they have like 40 odd days left of pretending that this whole dumb LARP could actually happen and that like they'll be able to keep having the fun times after all of that stuff arises.
	So it's gonna be very interesting, it's gonna be very interesting on that front, but Having a cult of personality where the cult leader defers is strange.
	It's a very unique thing.
	I've never heard of anything else like it.
	And I mean, I, I amateur level research cults.
	I won't like amateur in that.
	I read about them and do some research.
	There's nothing like it.
	It is a decentralized cult.
	And that just shouldn't work.
	Yeah, the community has to keep themselves hyperactive and hyper-motivated and engaged in order for it to work, in order for them to keep it going.
	They have to kind of self-motivate.
	And thankfully for them, because Trump is always on Twitter and he's always on television and he's this personality that just sucks the oxygen out of the room they can always see their hero around them in some way shape or form and they can just like use that as sustenance to keep themselves going and then when you're in QAnon you get to find out what his misspellings in his tweets actually mean and when he like yeah what it oh what is if we did a cafe episode there'd be like seven different theories and it would take us three hours i mean i mean we absolutely
	Oh shit, I mean, but put it on the list.
	We could do a fuckin' Kofefe episode.
	I mean, it's just, this is the kind of things that, like, QAnon's all about is just getting hopelessly lost in the weeds.
	I mean, it's the difference between, like, a MAGA person and a QAnon person.
	Um watching the same thing get like two totally different reactions to something like a MAGA person sees Trump like do something make a misspelling and it's nothing to them the QAnon person like immediately starts like digging in and freaking out whereas like When you're watching a show like The Mandalorian or a show that has a deep lore that was already built into it.
	Us playing Cyberpunk 2077, we've never dug into the game.
	So when these characters show up, we're not going to freak out the way people that know the lore are going to freak out.
	Like last week, when that Jedi was like, where's Grand Admiral Thrawn?
	All the hardcore Star Wars fans were like, oh shit, Thrawn!
	The casual people are like, meh?
	Thrawn?
	Huh?
	What?
	Huh?
	Mandalorian?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It was a week ago.
	You had a week.
	Eat crap.
	Yeah, why do you think all of my pop culture references are like 20 years old or more, Mike?
	The Adventures in Hell World podcast is a strict one-week spoiler.
	Holy shit.
	Hey, if you're waiting for the end of the season to binge the Mandalorian, go fuck yourself.
	This is fucking easy for Mike to say.
	He is A, immune to spoilers, and B, just started watching The Mandalorian.
	Now he's up here talking about The Mandalorian like he's a fucking old salt.
	It's like, where were you in the good old days of last year when it dropped?
	I was born in Star Wars.
	You merely adopted it.
	Oh, I'm a- oh.
	Yeah, I didn't see Star Trek until I was an adult.
	Do we want to try and do drop number 45?
	It looks I think we should probably just roll into listener questions.
	We sort of got onto that long jag about sort of like the man behind the curtain and the mechanizations of the cue movement and how interesting it was as a cult.
	I feel like we have like 15 or 20 minutes before we hit our target to go ahead and do some listener questions.
	I mean, they're all fucking boring.
	This is the part of the Q timeline that Mike insists is juicy and great, but they've all been awful for the past.
	Like, after the introduction of the storm, like, everything else has just been, like, hot and juicy.
	I mean, I guess Q1 was.
	I mean, Q1-1 is awesome, but to get to Q1-1 you had to go through a bunch of different drops that are just like a single sentence of gibberish.
	Like, I like pickles on my turkey sandwich.
	We're sticking to straight up, the queue drops until what, 76?
	No, 72.
	72 is when the story ends.
	When the initial story of queue ends.
	L brings it up!
	The story of Q ends.
	L brings it up.
	1 through 72 is over 5 days.
	Yes!
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	It's just bug wild, right?
	It's like, we just went almost a month without him saying anything.
	Back in the day, that dude was like, he was Trump.
	He was just fuckin' like, addicted to his phone, just constantly tweeting.
	Some of them were very long.
	And three times in those 72, he says goodbye, cruel world.
	Four to three times, he's like, I gotta go back to my own planet.
	So like, even while Yeah, so maybe Q is actually just one person and they have like an actual mental disorder or something because this seems like some fucking like crazy, like just obsessive behavior.
	Like crazy as in like a lot of, not like me disparaging the mentally ill.
	Like this seems like an abundance of abnormal behavior because sometimes like, you know, we've talked about it before, he'll just be like, And that's that.
	Like, you are the real heroes.
	Cue out, and it'll drop the mic.
	And then it will be like, the next cue drop will be like three minutes later.
	Cue sprinting back onto the stage and scooping up the mic.
	It'll just be like, look at another thing!
	I'm scrolling through.
	Some of these get a little wild, but... Yeah.
	The thing I just love about it is that, like, it's just this constant build-up and then the payoff in 72 where he's like, fuck you, idiots, is just so perfect.
	And it's like, you just look at all of it and you're like, how?
	How does anyone still buy in after how it all ends?
	It would be, I mean, it's just like finding out about, like, The shit last season of Game of Thrones and then just being like, okay, time to plow through all of it anyways!
	And it's like, but you know the payoff is bad, so why are you doing this to yourself?
	And they're just like, I don't care.
	Meh, just got nothing better to do.
	I got like 80 hours to kill during lockdown.
	And hopefully, much like Game of Thrones, the final season of the Trump presidency will be so bad that it ruins the rest of it forever and just completely makes it all vanish out of the cultural mind.
	Just like, the zeitgeist is not going to slowly move past the Trump presidency like it does for a lot of stuff.
	It is going to fucking completely abandon it and then poochie its way back to its home planet.
	And like, that is what happened to Game of Thrones.
	Fucking nobody talks about Game of Thrones anymore.
	That was the biggest show on Earth!
	It was bananas!
	And then they fumbled it so hard, it's like, it's like in football, if you strip-sacked someone, and then the ball exploded into 30 footballs, and each one generated its own player, and they all ran into the opposing touchdown, like, end zone for touchdowns.
	It was just like, it wasn't just a pick six, it was a pick 600.
	Like, Game of Thrones just fucked up so badly that it is dead.
	That dragon understood complex metaphors.
	That's why it burned up the throne.
	I mean, it's just... I prefer to believe that the dragon saw his mommy with a knife in her and then attacked the knifey chair because he thought it killed her.
	That is a much cooler take.
	Like, everyone's just like, wow, the dragons are so smart.
	It's like, no, the dragons are dumb as fuck.
	It thinks that that sword, that, that, that, that, that chair made out of swords is killing its mommy.
	Yeah.
	Yo, where the hell were these dragons?
	Where was all this dragon interest all the other time that Jon Snow was stabbing Daenerys in the gut, am I right?
	Alright, listen to your questions.
	Sarge with a crush.
	Anyhow.
	I don't want to talk about Game of Thrones anymore.
	Dragon just watching them bone down through a window and as soon as they leave the bed the dragon just breathes fire all over the bed.
	Yes.
	Derek just hates furniture.
	So KazEpic, American flag, fire emoji, rose emoji, bald eagle emoji, says, one, if you had to guess, how many QAnon believers do you think there are in the United States?
	And two, do you think Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are 100% grifters or are they genuinely believing in what they're doing?
	Telling people to boycott the runoffs in Georgia makes no sense.
	I think Lin Wood is a grifter.
	I think Sidney Powell is totally pilled.
	I think she's pilled, but she also knows she's grifting.
	She understands that what she's doing is making her the bucks, but I think she honestly believes in it.
	Someone brought it up a couple weeks ago that she's like the Orly Tates of this movement.
	Yeah, totally.
	Courtney Tate, in case you don't know who she was, she was the lady who filed all the lawsuits claiming Obama was illegitimate to be president because he was born in Africa and just got laughed out of court by everybody.
	But Fox News and whoever would just put a microphone in front of her and let her just spin her yarns about birtherism.
	And so it's like, There comes a point, like Lin Wood, he actually put WWG1, WWGA in his Twitter bio.
	This guy knows what he's doing.
	He is absolutely sucking up to the worst scum of humanity to make a buck off of them.
	The thing that's really funny is if you look at any court transcripts, he's sharp.
	He thinks on his feet.
	He's able to come up with answers for judges.
	Sidney Powell is just an absolute block of wood.
	She is so bad at everything that I really just feel like she's a hyper-pilled lawyer who... I don't exactly know who conned who between Powell and Flynn because she became his lawyer.
	But it could absolutely be a thing where Flynn was like, can I find a lawyer who believes in QAnon and will help me run this scam?
	And then he found her or he found her and was just like, this lawyer lady,
	I don't know if I could put one over on her and make her believe in QAnon.
	And if he pilled her or if like she came to him and did it, but like, she's
	been on this stuff for forever.
	She, before this recount shit, she was talking about Anthony Weiner's
	laptop and FBI agents showing up when they saw what was on it.
	So she knows she is a person from QAnon.
	Absolutely.
	And now she was, she believed you believe him to be like a, like a true grifter.
	And she would be like a.
	She's grifting what she believes.
	I think she's 100% in it.
	And then on the amount of QAnon believers, I don't know, if you look at the high grifters follower counts on Twitter, if that means anything, there's unfortunately several hundred thousand, which is small but large.
	I don't think there's a million, maybe.
	I mean, I would be surprised if there were more than, like, a few hundred thousand, like, dedicated, like, actually, like, online, really doing-the-work QAnon supporters.
	Like, the people that are out there just, like, really hitting the pavement.
	But, I mean, unfortunately, there are just, like, millions and millions of people that are in the right mindset.
	And, uh, you know, political party to get, uh, afflicted with the lesser version of that, uh, madness disease to the point where they're just like, they're not your regular Q supporter, but, uh, you know, they do believe in a lot of what Q's messaging is.
	And the election was ragged and blah, blah, blah, but they're not, they don't think, they don't get the whole thing about drinking the blood of fear-filled children and that shit.
	Yeah, they don't know what adrenochrome is, but they do know that, like, one of their cousins told them that this Q person says the election was rigged.
	And because that's a reality... They're out there in our group chat.
	I've sent you guys the houses.
	I've driven by two houses that have QAnon bullshit in their front yard.
	Yeah.
	So Chairman Walkman is going to pepper us a little bit.
	And the first question is, If reading a manual makes one an expert, what are y'all experts in?
	rattle off immediate answers.
	Uh, I guess brownies.
	K.
	Unless milkshakes count, in which case.
	Boom, nailed it.
	If reading a manual makes one an expert, what are you all experts in?
	Any number of video games from the 90s?
	Dungeons and Dragons.
	Agreed, we're all playing games of all kinds, and lots of board games.
	I am actually an expert in Settlers of Catan, but I've read the manual also, so I could pass on that one.
	Yeah, I mean, I too would consider myself an expert of the board game Catan, as it is now known, but I also don't really consider it having a manual, right?
	Simple pieces of outdated military equipment, communications equipment.
	Okay, so finally, this was the secret message he sent me, which was... The best part about secret messages that people send you is that they definitely want you to say their name.
	He knew the game.
	He knew the risks.
	But anyways, he says, I was wondering what dunking on QAnon folks actually accomplishes.
	And he prefaces by saying that he was trying to be respectful.
	As much as I can conceive, it's cathartic and entertaining, but is it productive?
	Some people respond to a push like your anecdote regarding 9-11 trutherism, but for a Hydra-like Q, do you feel it could snap some people out of it?
	Dunking on QAnon and vis-a-vis its goodness.
	I think of this kind of in a twofold way.
	On the one hand, I think that telling people what QAnon is ahead of time is incredibly important to be proactive and to get word out about what this movement is and what they believe in.
	It's very important because when people walk into it blind and don't understand it, and you let the person who's pilling them frame it as, we're just saving children.
	We're just all about good Christian values.
	We just love God and love America.
	That kind of introduction to QAnon is much more enticing than people like me on the internet being like, these people think that Hollywood is drinking the blood of fear babies, and they believe in a phone number called Q11, and all of that kind of stuff.
	Like, ridicule is an important tool against a movement like QAnon.
	And so, that's like the first kind of layer, and The second layer is I think it's important for people that know this exists to know that there are people out there reporting on it and engaging on it and letting everyone know that, yes, this is being monitored.
	We know what these people are saying and we know if it's dangerous or not.
	And we can run it up the flagpole if like we as citizens see this shit, because Lord knows what the Trump government has done vis-a-vis monitoring these assholes.
	And if you could ever have any faith in them, because according to Trump, They like me, so how bad can they be?
	Which is the worst possible worldview to take about QAnon.
	And the final thing is, and my greatest achievement on this miserable rock we all live on, I have had four separate people DM me and tell me that I helped get them out of QAnon.
	That reading my shit, In some way, shape, or form allowed them to take that step towards reality again, and they got out of it because of that.
	So, like, I never had any hope to achieve that because I see myself as a preventative measure than a recovery measure, because getting someone out of a movement like this, getting someone out of a cult, is incredibly time-consuming and incredibly difficult.
	But the fact that I was able to accidentally do that for four people is just Like, carve it on my tombstone.
	Got four people out of QAnon.
	I mean, that's my greatest achievement.
	So, on that level, I have seen that I've had success in some way.
	I know just in the small amount of time I've been doing it, just dunking on him online, I don't do it as much as you, it's fun and it's a good stress relief.
	Obviously enough people reported Julian's rum to finally get him kicked off that Twitter had to pay attention to their own policies, but in my personal life, I know that my partner was talking to someone and by me dunking on QAnon, They were able to recognize and know that this person they were potentially going to do business with was using QAnon talking points and get out in front of them a little and just be like, hey, you're maybe following into QAnon or falling into QAnon.
	So, babe, that's...
	That's so...
	I accidentally muted myself.
	For my part, like, my personal answer on this is that, you know, I'm no QAnon expert, right?
	Mike's already got that covered, and, you know, Mike had been putting out content there and, like, fighting the good fight and doing all that shit just fine by himself.
	But, like, when Mike approached me to join this podcast, he was looking for somebody to bring, like, a little, like, sort of Madcap, wacky, funny energy.
	I need a comedic style co-host.
	Somebody who's not afraid to be funny and liberal and isn't going to talk shit about Joe Biden all the time.
	Stuff like that.
	So I guess for my money, what good does Dunking on QAnon do?
	Well, I'm not here to do good by Dunking on QAnon, except for as part of this group of people that I've associated with, attached myself to, like Mike and Sarge.
	Where, you know, our product...
	This podcast, hopefully, will do a little bit of good in the world, which is why we always, you know, we make a big point about joking about shilling for ourselves, and we do always ask people to contribute to the Patreon if they can.
	But we also always put in that reference to love146.org.
	We'd really rather, you know, if people have money to give and they don't want to give it to us, we really do want them to give it to a good cause.
	Because, like, we're not lying about this shit.
	But at the same time, like, me personally, like, even though I'm part of a product that we hope is doing good, I'm not really here to do good.
	I dunk on QAnon because it is part, like, A, it feels good.
	It makes me feel good and I like doing it.
	B, it's part of my... I guess character is, like, a wrong, like, way to phrase it because I'm not really putting on much of an air when I'm on the show.
	Like, this is kind of just sort of who I am.
	But sort of, like, my role within the show is, like, sort of require me to go on and do a little dunking myself.
	Otherwise, what the fuck am I good for?
	And also, like, I'm not I'm not above saying it like the the Q shit is hot right now.
	We do a Q related podcast.
	Hopefully that gets enough ears and or eyes on us at some point where like we can start, you know, making content either content about Q or content about something else in a way that like is sustainable financially for us to like, you know, Put a little extra money in our pocket, and the dream, of course, would be to, like, live off of it.
	So, like, I'm not here to lie to the audience.
	I'm not gonna tell the audience that, like, I'm here as, like, one of the standard bearers of, like, democracy against tyranny or, like, the right against the wrong or whatever.
	Like, I'm literally just here dunking on Q because it's the job I have on the podcast.
	It makes me feel good.
	Also, in, like, ideal dream world, QAnon goes away, but conspiracy theorists Conspiracy theories and dangerous ideas are never going to go away.
	Dangerous ideas isn't what I wanted to say.
	Yeah, you're thinking of dangerous minds?
	We can talk about other dumb shit any time if QAnon goes away.
	Oh, if QAnon, as people have said to me, like, what happens if QAnon goes away?
	What are you going to do then?
	I'm like, well, if you've ever wanted to look at all the weird fucking assholes that have been all about the Illuminati on YouTube, boy howdy, can I show you, like, years and years of content.
	We can go over every Super Bowl halftime show and how it's all...
	Oh, shut the fuck up, Mike.
	You know that the second Q dries up, you're going to transition this to a JFK podcast.
	I was doing that joke for you, Mike.
	I'm going to be talking about JFK's assassination every week.
	You're going to change your Twitter name to Poker and Head Explosions.
	Oh, Poker and the Magic Bullet.
	Head Explosions might be a little tactless, but...
	No, but I mean, like, I could, I absolutely could do months and months of Kennedy-based content.
	I mean, I have said this to people before that, like, QAnon is a side job to me.
	The JFK assassination is my jam.
	And, like, Because the Kennedy assassination happened in ancient antiquity, back before when men stole fire from the gods, and I got into that stuff when I was in high school, and I'm in my 40s now, I've had decades of looking into that and research, and QAnon's only been around for about three years now, so there's no way you could have the breadth of knowledge that I have about this new thing the way I have about the old thing.
	So yeah, I could...
	I could spin that yarn in fucking perpetuity.
	I mean, I would, in general, like, the Illuminati is what got me in the QAnon, which is why, like, that would be kind of, like, my default to, like, stay on the kind of a right-wing... Oh, that's funny, because the Illuminati is what got me into the QAnon.
	You did better than me, because you made it.
	You're big time.
	You're eating babies and cashing checks, whereas I am not eating babies and not cashing checks.
	Yeah, we just got a new six-foot freezer in so I can, you know, keep a nice big stockpile of adrenalin to get me through the kebab manufacturing.
	I'm making baby stock today.
	It's an all-day process.
	I'm just melting down babies, you know.
	Oh, yeah.
	He's not going to be making baby kebab, though, because that is illegal.
	At least... That's why we have a content warning.
	Once Biden gets in, baby's back on the menu.
	So, you know...
	Babies are back on the menu.
	You heard it here first.
	I feel like we got through our listener questions.
	I feel like we had a decent enough little pod this week.
	And also, Night City beckons to me, the owner of an Xbox.
	Oh, absolutely!
	You want to go ahead and lead us out, Mike?
	Again, patreon.com slash pokerpolitics, love146.org.
	The Georgia runoffs, please try to help the world in any way that you can.
	And beyond that, you can always find me at PokerPolitics on Twitter and at Haps.TV.
	I'm going to do a live stream tonight and stop being lazy on the Hapseries, as it were.
	And beyond all that, you can find these two fine fellows at HellworldL and HellworldSarge with a Q instead of an O in WORLD on Twitter.
	And I think that handles all of our contact information, so I will now toss the ball back to Al for our organic sign-off.
	Oh, I'm ready.
	And then I'm gonna fuckin' spike that shit into the dirt, in the good way, like the volleyball way.
	Mike is setting it for me, and I am dramatically leaping into the air in slow motion with my hand outstretched about to serve it, or strike it right over the net, and then we're gonna fuckin' organically do our sign-off that we do every week, totally organically, with no need for a countdown, but I do it anyway because it fills me up inside, and that's gonna happen right now.
	Everybody counting down, three, two, one, good speed, Adrian!
	Is it the internet or do you guys just always lag behind me for the bit?

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