Adventures in HellwQrld Episode 55: Facebook corruption, 1/6 targets Bannon and Ron Watkins wants attention
Sarge has been kidnapped by the Patriots so Mike Rains and L discuss Facebook getting the whistle blown on them. The 1/6 commission says they are going after people, but are they really? All that and Ron Watkins is trying to build his brand as "Not Q". Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hellworld.
This week, Sarge has been abducted by the Patriots, so I am joined only by the mysterious Elle.
What's fucking good, my beautiful babies?
So yeah, if we were doing like a kayfabe narrative of this story, Sarge would have been abducted because of the fact that I posted a thread complaining about Twitter having way too many QAnon supporters still on their platform.
And this has made QAnon very unhappy with me.
I have received a lot of new fans today that have called me a paid shill.
They've posted the photos from Der Spiegel of me wearing my mask and my Patriot jersey.
I have been told I'm a bad poker player.
There's been a lot of... Hate follows or still follows.
Gotta get those numbers up.
Yes, yes.
I'm hoping for my number... I hope I get like 13,000 followers or whatever based entirely off of hatred from these people who are big mad about me posting about this thing where it's...
Someone's like, oh, this guy's trying to get us kicked off Twitter.
And I was like, no, you're getting yourselves kicked off Twitter.
I am asking for Twitter to uphold their terms of service, which is that you can't promote misinformation, QAnon, and vaccine bullshit.
And basically after Twitter got rid of a bunch of big names right after 1.6, They were like, our work is done here, and they washed their hands of it.
And literally when I started this thread, or when I said I was going to start this thread, I was like, hey people, if you know any QAnon accounts with more than 10,000 followers that get reasonable engagement, send me a DM or send me a screenshot.
I was overwhelmed.
So many people were like, oh my god, you have no idea how many QAnon promoters are still on this platform.
And I was like, wow, because I've been living on Gab and Telegram for so long.
I had no idea that my backyard was now infested with these people again, and that Twitter wasn't the safe space that everyone told me it was.
You just need to really lean into it.
We need to get fucking shirts made out that say, Twitter doesn't ban people.
I ban people.
Oh god, yeah.
If I just declared that I had the banhammer and I had the ability to remove these people from Twitter and it was my doing, oh boy.
We need to get you a red checkmark on Twitter to let people know that you've got the real juice.
I just thought of it because, do you remember that year, whatever it was, where Best Buy had the guys in the yellow shirts that would check your receipt against your shopping bag to make sure you weren't stealing shit from them?
And everyone was like, is it legal for Best Buy to be doing that?
To harass me on my way out the door?
And then eventually they got the message that it was such a bad look for them to be doing that, they stopped doing it.
That's what I need.
I need a yellow checkmark.
I need to be the asshole security guard of Twitter that's, like, scanning your tweets to make sure you're allowed to still be on the platform.
I love the idea that their, uh, their, like, inventory, like, control was to have somebody, like, stop you at the door to look through your bag to match it with your receipt to make sure you're not walking out of there with stuff you didn't pay for.
But, like, what are they doing to the people that are walking out with no bag and no receipt and their pockets are just lined with Best Buy merchant.
Like, certainly they can't just throw their hand in your chest as you were walking out the door and just be like, hey, I'm going to need to search your pockets.
It's going to be like, you're going to need to fucking get away from me before I knock your teeth out.
Yeah.
Like, you are not even a rent-a-cop.
You are a Best Buy employee.
Get the fuck out of my face.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But anyways, enough talking about me.
Let's play a content warning and then get into the real stuff.
CONTENT WARNING 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.
Well, you know, they say there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?
Like, back in the day, they were just like, any publicity is good publicity.
But that was before the Me Too era, so go ahead and ask Harvey Weinstein about that.
Or, if you're looking for something a little more topical, you can just go ahead and ask Mr. Mark Zuckerberg and the folks over at Facebook, because they got their whistle blown real hard this week.
Yes, they are our headline story in Q's in the News.
From the digital headlines to the digital front lines, it's Q's in the News.
So the whistleblower came out and said that basically everything bad in our world is because of Facebook and they just look the other way when it comes to right-wing misinformation like vaccine crap and QAnon.
And that a lot of the planning for 1.6 was kind of done on Facebook and all that good stuff.
Yeah, I mean, like, specifically, isn't the Whistleblower, like, she was, like, the head of or on their, like, ethics committee or whatever?
Yeah.
And then, like, during the election, Facebook was just like, oh, geez, a lot of real heated rhetoric happening.
We need to get a We need to get an ethics committee to make sure that we're, like, trying to clamp down on some of this stuff being posted on Facebook, which they did for a while.
And then, as soon as the election was over, they were just like, well, election's over, shut it down.
And people were like, but wait a minute, no.
Assholes are still on Facebook.
And they were just like, we don't give a fuck.
It was driving down our engagement.
Time to just, like, closing time this shit.
No last time, like you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
And they just like shut the lights out on the ethics program.
So the whistleblower was just like, I'm just gonna steal a bunch of your data and go to the like feds and be like, Hey, Facebook knew this shit was toxic and they were doing stuff to try to curb it.
And then they stopped because their numbers were going down.
Yeah, and that's one of the things that I'm not sure if it was directly from the whistleblower, but there were all these programs about catering Instagram and social media to tweens and stuff like that to try to create lifelong consumers on these social media platforms.
It's like, how do we addict a 13-year-old to Instagram or Snapchat or whatever?
Because Joe Campbell welcomes you to kid Instagram.
Right, exactly, exactly.
I mean, it was this really dark place where, I think you said it like a year or so ago about how tobacco companies, they kill their customers in a very long period of time.
And that's so you get a lifetime out of that customer buying cigarettes.
So now social media platforms want a lifetime of engagement with you, the consumer.
And they want that engagement to start earlier and earlier and earlier.
They want you hooked into the matrix as quickly as possible so they can make their money off you.
Do you think those are memes you're posting?
Exactly, exactly.
Neo, do you think that that keyboard cat really exists?
Whoa!
He's so great!
Yeah, you just have this, basically, and that's the thing that is so funny about this is that these social media platforms are so predatory and so ruthless and so out to make a buck.
And again, the whistleblower was just like, hey, Facebook, Uh, these bad people are doing a bad thing.
And it's like, well, let them because we want our numbers to go back up so we can make it rain.
And it's just like Mark Zuckerberg.
You're a multi-billionaire.
Like, how much more money do you need?
How much of America Are you willing to destroy to make the fake numbers in your bank account bigger than they already are?
Well, I mean, he's like a goon and a robot, so it's easy to make fun of him, but like, you know, the real answer is that, like, it's not really, it's not Mark Zuckerberg whose pockets wear lighting, it's like, you know, it's all the fucking shareholders and investors at Facebook.
All this shit isn't going down so that Zuckerberg can buy another Porsche to throw on his pile that he has a throne on top of.
It's so that John Q, whoever, who has like 10,000 shares of Facebook stock, he can buy a new Lambo for his pile.
Oh yeah, the entire system is like so corrupt and terrible.
And just the idea of Facebook being this publicly traded company where what they're selling is consumer data to advertisers to make money off of them.
And the only way they can get more data off of you is by getting more engagement from you.
So finding ways to ensnare you in their spiderweb is how they get the ducats flowing.
It's just so creepy and malevolent that for the longest time, I mean, QAnon themselves have hated Facebook in perpetuity.
Q railed against Zuckerberg all the time.
There's so many Q drops where he mentions Zuck or Or MZ, because he has to speak in code.
I just did a search, there's like nine Qdrops that have MZ in them.
Because he's just like, I gotta use the initial code, it's so tricky!
Yeah, it could be anyone.
It could be Mike Zebra, which was one of my stage names that I didn't go with because it's awful and bad.
I mean, it's so mysterious and nebulous.
It's how you got to connect the dots to figure out the hidden truth.
That's the whole game of QAnon.
They have talked about Facebook being destroyed since basically the creation of QAnon.
That Zuckerberg and this monolith of evil that he's created needs to be torn down.
So of course when this whistleblower shows up and starts talking about how bad Facebook is, QAnon rallies to hate her because of the fact that She's just like, yeah, Zuckerberg was totally okay with more right-wing disinformation, more turning a blind eye to QAnon stuff, anti-vax stuff.
The stuff that QAnon's supportive of, Zuckerberg was also supportive of in a way, because he just didn't want regulation on it impacting the bottom line for his shareholders.
So suddenly QAnon had to thread this very weird needle where they have to hate Facebook, but they also have to hate the whistleblower at the same time.
So one meme I saw literally said that the whistleblower was a false flag.
She was a Facebook employee lying about Facebook.
Because Facebook wants to censor QAnon and anti-vax and all this other stuff.
So she's literally just giving the talking points that Facebook wants out there.
So when they crack down with further censorship, that's what Facebook always wanted in the first place.
I read on the internet that she was both homosexual and transgendered.
And I'm just going to spoil the warning for the listeners out there.
The thing I read on the internet did not use those terms.
Of course not!
Yeah, uh, that is... QAnon has sort of like a, let's just say, Chappelle-ian view of transgendered folks, where they're not exactly super nice to them.
Oh man, uh, new QAnon hero, Dave Chappelle, let me tell you about that!
Oh man, yeah, just... He's just, uh, you know, Dave Chappelle's just out there telling it how it is about wieners and vagoos, like...
You know, there's only two, like, it's Adam and Eve, not Adam becomes Eve, whatever, you know, it's like, ugh, Jesus Christ.
Yeah, it is so funny how if you say anything these people want to hear, you're their hero.
It doesn't matter who you were beforehand, as long as you're on the team now, you're on the team and they love you.
I mean, it's just the way this works.
So, like, I don't think these people Do you suppose that if J.K.
Dave Chappelle or if they would have tolerated him in the slightest before, but now that
he's coming out on the side of Team JK Rowling and all this crap, suddenly he's their boy.
And it's just, I mean, man.
Do you suppose that if JK Rowling wasn't a TERF, that QAnon supporters would insist that
she herself was transgendered?
Absolutely.
I mean, I really... Because that's sort of their bag, right?
Any famous woman has a penis and is actually a male posing, like a male cross-dresser.
That's sort of what their deal is, right?
They're just like, oh god, Michelle Obama, a powerful, confident woman, clearly she's a man with a big swingin' wiener because she's got confidence and success.
It's like, no, she's a woman, just like a biological woman, just doing it, getting it done.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's their thing.
I would love to hear them claim that any woman who basically wasn't one of Trump's wives or Ivanka is an actual cisgender woman.
I would love for them to actually agree on one woman on earth Being an actual cisgendered woman, born a woman, as they would say and all that kind of stuff.
I just, it is just so... I think AFAB is like the most politically correct term at the moment, right?
Assigned Female at Birth, right?
That's the thing.
Yeah, that'd probably be right.
We gotta talk about throwing out AFAB and AMAB.
Let's do this.
Yes, yes.
It's just that.
It's just so funny that I don't know what they think the biological skew of humanity at birth is.
I mean, it's, you listen to them and you would think that 80% of all people are AMAB.
I mean, it's just, it's just so bizarre.
It's like, how many wieners do you think are coming out of all these, the incredibly small number of vaginas we have on this planet, according to you people?
It's just so...
Weird that if you, I don't know, just go around your neighborhood and talk to the people with some kids and the other people down the road of a couple kids and on and on, you're eventually going to hit like a 50-50 split between boys and girls.
I mean, it's going to be in the ballpark of 50-50, but in QAnon land, Like, when you went to grade school, like, 80% of your classmates were boys, right?
I mean, that's QAnon's take on gender.
Yeah, I mean, and for all of these, you know, red-blooded American patriots that also happen to be Like, big dick swinging, like, heterosexual cisgendered men.
Uh, we call that a target poor environment.
Like, the old 80-20 split.
Can you imagine?
Like, oh my god, like, compared to all of these, like, extra, like, high T-level, extra straight men, like, there would be a riot in the streets.
And speaking of riots in the streets, we've got a bunch of extra 1-6 news, because 1-6 is the new 9-11, and that it is the infamous day that will never die.
So what's been going on in the world of 1.6?
Well, the first thing that was going on in 1.6 is that Steve Bannon and a bunch of other people in Donald Trump's orbit got hit with subpoenas and they have all said that they're listening to Donald Trump and they are going to defy these subpoenas Based off of former executive privilege or something, some very novel take on how our laws work and how executive privilege actually works when it comes to presidents talking to their advisors in confidence, as it were.
Now, I'm certainly no legal expert.
I know you're not a legal expert either, but maybe you'll just know the answer to this question.
Typically, if you ignore a subpoena, that is like a criminal offense, right?
Like, you can be arrested or something over that.
Subpoenas are not, like, them politely asking you to come to court.
They are compelling you to come to court, correct?
Yes, you can be put in jail for defying a subpoena.
You can be literally held in contempt of court And then you are put in jail until you comply.
It's just that simple.
They're trying to get you to agree to appear before court, and they're going to induce you into doing that by putting you in the slammer until you finally say, okay, fine, I don't want to be in jail anymore, so I will comply with the subpoena.
So do we think that the Democrats currently in power have the huevos rancheros to actually lock up any of these people if they just whiff them on subpoenas?
That is... I mean, that's the awful question because... Because if this was a regular-ass person, they would be thrown in jail immediately for ignoring that shit.
But I don't have faith at all that Steve Bannon will see the inside of a jail cell if he turns down this subpoena.
Because there's a reason that my name starts with L on this show.
It is L for liberal.
I'm a liberal.
I am Team Democrat in terms of who I wanted to be in power out of the shitty two choices I have.
But I don't have a ton of faith that the Democrats have what it takes to actually... I don't think they have a show of force in them.
Like, if a bunch of these goons just decide to ignore their subpoenas, what would expect all of them to get arrested?
I don't think a single one of them will be.
Yeah, that's where I am also.
And I'm really, really hoping that I will be pleasantly surprised by the Democrats showing spine here and actually doing something about this.
Because this is really important.
We need this information.
To know what these shitheads actually said and did leading up to literally an attack on our democracy and an attempt to prevent the certification of an election.
This was a serious thing, and I know there are 600-odd people in jail, but those people are huge dum-dums who were the foot soldiers.
They were the idiots that were listening to all of these cretins telling them to come to the Capitol on 1-6, to listen to Donald Trump telling them, hey, march on the Capitol!
Inspire the Republicans and Mike Pence to fight hard for me!
And whatever that means.
And all that kind of stuff.
I mean...
We need to know what these people were saying and doing.
I know, like, Charlie Kirk from, like, Turning Point USA, he had to delete the tweets and other social media posts about how we brought, like, five buses full of Patriots in for 1-6.
And, of course, those buses were full of Antifa and Black Lives Matter and FBI agents.
So, no, I didn't bus in people for the riot.
No, Siree Bob, that didn't happen.
But actually getting to the people behind it, the people actually planning and carrying out this shit is so much more important than worrying about the Q Shaman and the Jermoke who put his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk and stuff like that.
I mean, those people are small potatoes of the highest order.
They don't rate compared to Bannon and everybody else.
Yeah, and we also need to set a precedent that, no, being the President of the United States does not allow you to just organize crimes with a bunch of co-conspirators and then everything is protected indefinitely because you happen to be the President at the time.
That should not be how executive privilege works.
Like, oh yeah, I committed a bunch of crimes when I was in the Oval Office and had a ton of help from a ton of people doing it, but that's all protected under executive privilege.
Like, that is a wild precedent to set, because as far as everyone should be, you know, hoping for, we're going to have a long line of future presidents.
Like, this America thing is going to keep going, and every four to eight years we're going to have a new president of the White House.
We don't want to sort of give them carte blanche to do whatever fucking crimes they and their buddies want to.
That seems bananas.
Like nobody is in the White House right now.
I don't want Joe Biden able to commit whatever crime he wants.
Oh yeah.
I mean, that's the, that's the thing about QAnon, these people is they really
think that like, uh, that pretty much you should just be allowed to do, uh,
whatever you want if you're like.
They think that we would be in favor of that.
That if anyone wanted to do a bad thing as a Democrat president, that all of us here on Team Democrat would be like, that's cool, we're good with it.
They think that there's like no actual morality, no actual standards that we would hold anyone to because they would never hold Trump to any standard whatsoever.
Anything he wanted to do was cool with them because he was the God Emperor and that's just all there is to it.
But what I had seen before this happened was But apparently it was up to Biden, because he's the president, if he wants to allow Trump's executive privilege claim to be upheld.
And Biden has said, no, I am not going to do that.
Trump's claim of executive privilege is not valid because I'm the current president and I'm in charge of that claim and I will not allow it.
So for the very, very least, good on Biden for that.
But now The rubber needs to meet the road here and these people need to be told that the, uh, like literally the sergeant at arms of the House of Representatives needs to put out a bolo for these people to, um, have them held in contempt if they won't, uh,
But they won't testify.
Someone was saying, like, I saw that Dan Scavino was one of the people that was being forced to, uh, being subpoenaed, and that he's dodging the subpoena.
I've seen QAnon memes of him in space, like, floating in a space station saying, go ahead, try to serve me.
And so, QAnon, those respecters of the rule of law and lovers of the Constitution are now, like, making spicy memes about how their boy Scavino is literally in space outside the jurisdiction of evil Nancy Pelosi.
Uh, well, the problem is that before Trump left office, he initiated a space force, which means that in theory, space is in fact in the jurisdiction of us.
So, go into space, Skavina.
We'll fucking find you.
We'll get our Battlestar Galactica-suited Starfleet Academy members to rocket ship up on a Tesla rocket, and we'll fucking get you.
Yeah, we'll find you.
There's no corner of the galaxy the Space Force won't uncover in order to bring you before Congress to testify.
We're on to you, buddy.
You thought the Space Force was all patriots?
Deep state.
Deep state all day, every day.
We've converted Space Force leadership to our side.
They're now playing for the good guys.
Hashtag Team Soros.
Yeah, you thought Space was conservative.
Nah, Space is mad liberal, dawgs.
Oh, you have no idea.
You have no idea how liberal Space is.
So speaking of 1-6 and a group of Trump's cronies, I heard that some reports actually came out recently about some very much un-crony-like behavior from people under Trump's rule, his tenure as the God Emperor, regarding his actions leading up to 1-6.
What's the deal with this?
Uh, so basically, uh, Trump and our boy Bill Barr, who, uh, he himself also was kind of like, you know, I'm gonna resign now for reasons.
Apparently the two of them were letting people know that, uh, it's time to overturn this election, that, uh, we need to go into Georgia and all the other good states like Arizona and Pennsylvania.
And try to find some corruption, some voter fraud, and we're gonna have to get this election overturned and we need the good people of the DOJ to back us up and find all this voter fraud and all this corruption.
And the lawyers of the DOJ were like, look, we're actually not your personal legal staff.
We don't work for Donald Trump.
We work for the Office of the President.
And if you demand we do this, there will be mass resignations across the entire DOJ and basically disabling the entire agency in an effort to undermine your attempts to overthrow the election.
The main idea was to replace Rosen, who was going to be the acting head of the DOJ, with Jeffrey Clark, who was one of Trump's lawyers, who was working on this bullshit, along with that other guy, Eastman, who came up with that six-point memo about how Pence could totally throw the election during certification to Trump if he so desired it.
Basically, the DOJ lawyers were like, if you try to get Clark in, we're out.
We will actually leave.
That is a line that we will not let you cross because we know what you're trying to do.
And it's fucking bullshit because you're trying to undermine this election, which is not cool by any stretch of the imagination.
It's like simultaneously sort of heartwarming and terrifying to hear all these stories that are coming out of like people actually stepping to Trump behind closed doors.
Like, you know, now that there's enough time in the rear view, we're starting to hear about these people who were just like, nah, we weren't about to let Trump do this crazy thing that he wanted to.
Like, no, we decided to just take the nuclear codes away from Trump for a little while because he was a big whiny baby about some shit.
Or like, yeah, we decided that if he was going to appoint this fucking goon of his to, like, to this position, we were all just going to fuck off because we wanted to wash our hands of that nonsense before Trump decided to try to do a coup.
Yeah, it's very heartening.
On the one hand, it's heartening that we had people refusing this shit But on the other hand, it's just like, we actually had a dumb moron attempting to pull off a coup.
And that is kind of why it failed, was his own ineptitude.
And it's really amazing when you think about all the different things that kind of had to go the right way for this all to have ended with Trump not kind of becoming a dictator.
Because you think about how stupid our elections are and how close the Electoral College was, and in my mind a lot of times I think to myself that if we had had actual legitimate polling that showed that Trump wasn't a dead duck and that he could have potentially won the Electoral College, That Mitch McConnell probably would have cut those $1,400 checks before the election and that probably would have been enough to get Trump over the top and he would have cut the W. But thankfully, everyone thought Trump was doomed and McConnell was like, well, time to get my fiscal conservative obstructionism on and I ain't going to cut them checks and blah, blah, blah.
And I don't care if Trump wants me to cut those checks because I know he's a short timer.
I know he's out.
I know Biden's in.
And then the next thing you know, on election night, McConnell's probably going to be like, oh, goddammit, I probably should have cut those checks.
It's just so wild that we had... Imagine if the Republican Party could field somebody who was charismatic and had a brain in their head.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
Yeah, it's terrifying.
I mean, like, yeah, it's like, if the Republican Party actually had, like, a Ronald Reagan in their midst, America would be fucked.
I mean, it's just that simple.
I mean, Ronnie wasn't, like, a rocket scientist or anything, but he had charisma, he was personable, he was funny, and he was able to, like, play the part of, like, Fake American statesman when he wasn't really a statesman because he was kind of a terrible dude, but he had that in him and Trump had like the like caveman charisma, but he was dumber than a brick.
So we were able to overcome and defeat him because of that.
I mean, it's just like, oh my God, if they actually had anybody with both charisma and a certain level of intelligence, uh, That'd be it.
We'd be done.
I mean, because you've got Fox News, you've got all of these, uh, the media that we have.
You have Facebook.
I mean, it was really funny.
Like, Ben Shapiro was literally whining at Facebook about, hey, all this, uh, Whistleblower stuff and you could just like feel the flops with like forming on Ben Shapiro's forehead as he was like being afraid that Facebook was going to take away his algorithm that let me let him game the system and have the top post on Facebook every day.
But you just have this entire system that's like Based around right-wing sugar daddies coughing up money to make everybody happy.
And if they could only have a charismatic face as the frontman for that operation, they'd be borderline unstoppable.
But thankfully, thankfully, they don't have that.
Thankfully, in 2016, they had 75 guys run for president and Donald Trump whipped all their asses by bragging he was going to make Mexico pay for a wall and that his dick was huge.
You know, I hate to break it to you, but you said they don't have anyone like that.
And they very much do.
And they've been right in front of our face the whole time.
Because Ron Watkins is that charismatic genius.
And luckily for us, he's got some big, big news coming down the pipeline.
How old is he ever?
Oh, our boy Ron.
So Ronny Boy, first, he's in America now, which for those QAnon people who think that Ron Watkins is a red-blooded freedom fighter that loves America, the man's been in Japan most of his life and really is only in America because he's a grifter here and he has an audience of suckers.
But at one of his little meet and greets in America, He was talking with some people, and he said he had some big things coming down the pipeline, and be ready, because ol' Ronnie Watkins is gonna just rock this country down to its core, because... And every time he's said this before, it's paid off huge.
Oh, absolutely.
Never, never not once has Ron Watkins made a proclamation and left everybody hanging.
And he has especially never done this under his alias as Q. Ever.
Ever, ever.
Because he's not Q. Just ask him.
He'll tell you that he was never Q. That's a lie to claim that he was Q.
And he definitely never, ever forgot to properly censor any videos, and they were giving up the secret identity of one of his, like, leaking sources of voter fraud that didn't happen.
Yes!
Stuff like that might be why in our show notes, this says, Ron's big news, and this is a quote, other dumb Ron shit.
Yeah, he had his big dumb news, and then the other dumb run shit that he's been doing recently was he's, again, trying to expand his brand as being a face of this stop the steal, anti-voter fraud bullshit.
So after he went to that winery and cut his WWE promo about big news coming up, you little runamaniacs, and get ready for it, He then went to the Attorney General's office of Arizona and went to Brunovich's place and repeated his little ditty that he stole from Johnny Cochran, as it were, where he said, to do what's right, you must indict.
And he really loved that.
He loved the rhyme scheme of right and indict.
And he banged that sucker into the ground.
He could not actually get a meeting with the Arizona Attorney General because he's not an elected official.
He's not a citizen or a voter of Arizona.
He's a dumb, right-wing, like, influence peddler.
He actually is Q, so that would be a really good reason to stay the fuck away from him if you were a serious person who ever wanted to be held in high esteem by regular people on this earth.
Speaking of Ron being Q, what do you think the odds are that his big, big news is the return of Q-Daddy?
Before we get to the one year, well they would call it a delta, of Q not saying anything, what do you think the odds are that Q starts posting again?
And Ron's just like, my good buddy Q, wink, is posting again!
I really wonder if that's because that's like the only thing that he actually has control over that he could do.
Because he doesn't have any other quote-unquote big news that he would ever have is going to be either underwhelming or one of his dumb projects.
I mean, he was working on a crypto coin for a long time.
Frederick Brennan brought it up a bunch of times.
I think it was called like Seuss coin or Susi coin.
I think it was an abbreviation for like suicide because the chans are so edgy and all that kind of stuff.
I know that he said that he had seen some of the programming behind the Ron crypto coin.
And he was like, if you've seen how the chans are made, if you trusted their crypto from Ron Watkins, you're the biggest idiot alive.
That thing would be the ultimate shit coin.
So there's no other project that he could possibly attempt to undertake that would excite people or have even
a 0.1% chance of getting off the ground.
So I think it's kind of like 50-50 if he actually does the whole Q is back baby thing.
But the main reason why I think it's 50% that he wouldn't do it is that Q just doesn't
like tickle his pickle anymore.
Like, he's the headliner of the Patriot Double Down in Las Vegas!
And that's because he's Q, wink wink, and he wants to be in public.
He wants to be the boy, uh, you saw that video, you saw it before I did apparently, of him punching the heavy bag, or the medium bag as it were, and telling the Arizona Attorney General, you gotta fight for our freedoms!
He wants to be doing this shit.
He wants to be in front of the camera and if he's the Mysterious Q, he doesn't get that dopamine hit from like cutting his promos and being the big boy.
Also, I gotta imagine that he's probably pretty worried about the amount of attention that QAnon has been getting from the government.
You know, posing as Q behind the ultra-secure Chan trip code or whatever.
I don't know if it's as ultra-secure as you would like if you know that the FBI and the CIA and Interpol and every one of their brothers is going to be looking at you.
Oh yeah.
I mean, yeah, you're, you know that it, cause that's the thing now is after one six and after seeing that these right-wing grifters were actually able to like do a terrorism as it were, like that, that this stuff wasn't just confined to, uh, the internet.
This wasn't just confined to a bunch of assholes selling Trump coins.
Um, It actually led to people storming the Capitol.
So, the moment Q shows up, everyone's going to be watching you and monitoring you, so you literally can't say anything.
I mean, you would basically have to do Q drops telling everyone, hey everybody, stay home, do nothing, post memes, be friendly, and QAnon doesn't want to hear that shit.
QAnon wants to hear you talking about arrests and Gitmo and all kinds of other... And Durham and Houma.
Yes, exactly.
Like, yeah, they want to hear about you bringing pain and punishment and justice.
They don't want to hear you talking about, hey guys, something's going to happen at some point soon, I promise.
Yeah, I mean for QAnon to come back, or for QAnon, QAnon never left.
For Q to come back, he would have to show back up dropping some spicy and fiery rhetoric on us.
Speaking of spicy and fiery rhetoric, you know who else is in the news?
Our good friend Alex Jones.
And this time it's for, I guess, a positive reason.
At least the net result is pretty positive.
Because I hear that, much like that medium bag, he's been taking some shots, but in the courts.
Yeah, so our boy Alex Jones, he basically did the impossible.
He managed to lose a libel slander case, and he managed to lose it without even going to the jury.
He acted in such bad faith when it came to presenting documents and depositions for discovery and actually like honoring what the court was doing and respecting the process of what was going on that eventually one day the judge was like, you know what?
Fuck you.
You have so disrespected this entire process that you lose before we even go to trial.
You lose by default, and the trial itself will literally just be a closing argument where the prosecution goes to a jury and says, we need you to give the Sandy Hook families a pile of money from Alex Jones, and here's why we think that pile of money needs to be fucking huge.
So like that's gonna be the entirety of this lawsuit now is just a presentation to a jury to award fiscal compensation to the Sandy Hook families that have won the lawsuit against Alex Jones because he refused to participate in the lawsuit.
Man is dead.
Breacher is the winner.
Yes, exactly!
It's really.
And the thing is, is like, I remember, I'd say like two or three months ago, there's like a lawyer guy, I can't I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but there's a lawyer that I follow on Twitter, who is Uh, kind of like a conservative, never Trump Republican who voted for Biden was pretty adamant that Biden needs to win the election because Trump's destroying America and that he would prefer to have a Democrat in office than a wannabe dictator.
But like this guy whose politics are not great for me, but were good for at least for the whole Biden thing, that guy was saying, he's like, yeah, I figured, I figured that, uh, Jones is going to win this lawsuit because again, It's libel slander in America, and it's really hard to overcome that thing.
And I remember reading that and just being, like, so bummed out.
Because I was like, fuck, really?
This piece of shit is going to get away with this?
And I mean, I know that guy is, like, speaking from the outside.
He doesn't know exactly what the case was looking like vis-a-vis the Sandy Hook parents and Alex Jones.
Just that whole thing about the bar being so high to clear for one of these cases that you would think that if Alex had any brain cells whatsoever that he would just be like, okay lawyers, just give them whatever fucking documents they want.
If they need to depose me, I'll read a few things and I'll go through the deposition as best I can.
And when we get to court, we'll just yell First Amendment.
I honestly believed what I was saying.
Blah, blah, blah.
And I got like a 60-40 chance of winning the lawsuit.
And just that low level of effort, Alex Jones couldn't even muster up that.
That he managed to just fuck this so royally that the one kind of lawsuit you can't lose in America, he lost.
Doug, he's too busy devoting all of his brainpower to worrying about gay frogs.
And, as Knowledge Fight would love to say, fighting the literal Christian devil.
I mean, those are his two great enemies in our world, is gay frogs and the cloven-hoofed devil that Alex Jones and Antonin Scalia both believed that they were engaged in a titanic struggle against for the fate of humanity.
Oh yeah, Hillary Clinton smells like sulfur, didn't you know?
Yeah.
Oh, that was great.
I think they actually said that because Knowledge Fight actually talked to the lead lawyer of the Sandy Hook family after the ruling came down.
And I think at one point they made a comment about that.
The lawyer should have asked Alex if he smelt like sulfur.
Was he evil enough Being the lawyer, like, fighting him and trying to take him down on behalf of the Deep State.
Did the lawyer have the sulfur smell?
Like, how high up the Soros totem pole do you have to go before you actually start getting that sulfur stink on you?
Yeah, so everybody knows that sulfur is the devil's mineral.
Yes!
What's God's mineral?
What's a good mineral to smell like?
Well, yeah, have we confirmed what God smells like?
Uh, that I don't know.
I mean, I know that, uh, like in the Old Testament, you sacrifice animals to God because it smells nice and he likes it.
So I know that there are aromas that God himself finds appealing.
So he probably, he might smell like that.
He might like his own stink, as they say.
So that could be it.
I mean.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know much from smells, but, uh, I do remember hearing that, uh, there was a secret chord that if you play it, it will please the Lord.
Hallelujah!
Alright, our last headline for the week.
It has been revealed, apparently.
I haven't looked too much into it.
That's why we have Mike here.
I see headlines.
I don't read headlines.
AT&T, good ol' Ma Bell, has apparently been funding One America News.
Everyone's favorite, completely untrustworthy, not even really a news network.
Yeah, and this isn't even like a thing where AT&T is like offering up like 50% or anything of the amount of money that runs OAN.
It appears that AT&T is like just fully funding OAN.
That this is an operation that is just like top to bottom, soup to nuts, literally just AT&T built OAN out of whole cloth.
And that is really weird.
I mean, because AT&T also, like, spends a lot of advertising money on CNN, and they, they're like playing both sides, but they actually also created pretty much OAN.
I mean, it's, it's very bizarre that That what is supposedly this neutral, boring, uh, communications network that is AT&T, I mean, they're just literally the people that want you to use their service for your iPhone or whatever, that they've, like, staked out a, uh, like, some territory in the far-right Nudosphere, and that's, it's really strange.
Um, one of these, uh, one of the people in the group, um, I guess the guy that ran the company, Robert Herring, said AT&T told us they wanted a conservative network, and Fox News wasn't good enough for them.
So this guy was like, oh, AT&T wants a right-wing network?
I'll build one for them!
That once OAN happened, AT&T got DirecTV to carry OAN on DirecTV because AT&T owns them.
So this is like, I don't know if this is true or not, but I had heard the legends of this back in the days when I worked in a mall and stuff like that.
But that Lids store that just like sells hats in every mall you've ever gone to, That like the guy that runs LIDS is part of the family that owns the Simon Mall Corporation.
So if he tells his family, hey guys, I want to open up a LIDS in the Simon Mall, they're like, you got it.
No problem.
No problem at all, buddy.
So like, that's basically what happened here was this guy started a network and then AT&T was like, put that network on our cable provider because we own the cable provider.
OAN and every DirecTV house in America.
So if the Honestly, though, if you're still on DirecTV, you sort of deserve it.
Carlson isn't enough for you. We're gonna give you a way in we're gonna give you literally like as close to the
protocols as you Can get without actually talking about the protocols?
Honestly, though if you're still in direct TV, you sort of deserve it
If you're still direct TV, you're the sort of person that is like the exact right demographic for a fucking like
hardcore like conservative extremism
Propaganda news network Hey, what's wrong with direct TV? I?
I had them for a long time, mostly because they had Sunday Ticket, and I just wanted to watch a lot of football on the weekends.
What's wrong with DirecTV?
Oh, let me count the ways.
Probably my biggest problem with all satellite is that it turns out that peak TV watching days are days when it is shitty outside.
So those are the days I would least want my service to go out.
And that's exactly what you're buying in for if you have a satellite dish.
It was like, oh man, it's too rainy outside to do anything.
Guess I'll sit inside and watch TV and it's gone.
Okay, nice.
Well, that was fun.
Hey, I will have you know that I have many times gone out to the backyard to dust off the satellite dish because there was too much snow on it and it was blocking the signal.
And after I had de-snowified our dish, we had our television back.
You know what I don't get with cable?
Not that I have cable either, but when I had cable, you know what I never got with it?
Homework.
I never had to do any homework to fucking get my cable to work.
I could just watch what I wanted to watch when I wanted to watch it.
You didn't have to traipse through your snow-covered backyard to get to your snow-covered satellite dish in order to be able to watch TV?
Yeah, I didn't have to bust out my shovel and dig up a wire and just be like, oh damn, the worms got at it again.
No, it just kinda worked.
It was fine.
And man, now I have the internet.
Boy, howdy, let me tell ya.
No satellite involved with this here internet.
It works like a dream.
If you have DirecTV, and it's not your only option, I'm sure there are some rural places filled with people who are certainly not listening to this message, but if you have any other option, and you are sticking with satellite, you get what you get.
You can enjoy One America News.
That's on you, bud.
You can enjoy One America News and, like, you know, the National Lacrosse League and just, like, every other, like, the TAB version of television.
Satellite is the RC Cola to Cable's Coke.
I mean, technically, yes, this is a soda, but not really.
The one thing this makes me wonder about is, like, man, what a headwind Newsmax has to be facing, and who's bankrolling that place?
Because, I mean, if OAN literally has, like, the insider bullshit from, like, the AT&T getting them on DirecTV and all that kind of stuff, Like, what is Newsmax's, like, in to, uh, getting deals?
Because... Amazon.
That would be awesome!
Oh my god!
Oh man, that would be the greatest thing in the world if it turned out that Bezos was funding Newsmags.
Because holy shit, would QAnon turn on them on a dime?
Once any bad guy, if there's a whiff of bad guy on anything in their world, oh, they're angry.
Oh, their betrayal is great and their hearts are broken.
You would think that they would love Big Daddy Bezos because he's King Capitalism.
Oh yeah, big daddy Bezos doesn't like Trump and that's all that matters.
Bezos' version of capitalism is communism because he doesn't like Trump.
And if you don't like Trump, communism.
That's their level of logic.
It's not very deep or intelligent, but it's what they have.
It's what they're working with.
Oh man, how awesome is it going to be when Trump dies?
He's an out-of-shape man of an advanced age.
I'm not wishing any violence or anything upon him, but at some point he's just going to die from, quote, natural causes, which is still a funny way to describe death.
Yeah.
Because it's not like you're on a shot clock or whatever.
But yeah, so at some point he's going to expire, and man, I sure fucking hope we're still podcasting about this shit when it happens, because it's going to be a juicy day.
Oh, I actually think there's probably a 10-15% chance of actual terrorism the day Trump dies because there are going to be people who will not believe it.
I mean, Trump could come out tomorrow and say that he has Some devastating form of cancer, be it like advanced lung cancer, brain cancer.
He could just say, look guys, I got some real bad news for my doctor.
I'm going to do what I can.
I'm going to fight the good fight, but thoughts and prayers and all that good stuff.
I've got cancer.
The doctor says it's advanced.
He says it's the most advanced cancer you've ever seen.
But you wouldn't believe how advanced my cancer is.
And that could happen.
And then like seven months later, during which we see like various different appearances of Trump where he looks more and more gaunt and more and more sickly.
And then after all of that time, Trump like passes away.
Literally in every headline is after a battle with cancer, former President Donald Trump passed away at the age of whatever this day.
You would have QAnon people swearing he'd been assassinated by the Deep State.
Like, even if it was the most textbook battling a terminal illness, disease, and slowly having it eat away at your life force until you die, they wouldn't accept it and they would believe that just like Soros hitmen broke into his house and dropped him.
Bro, DJT is fucking immortal.
He's got so many thoughts and prayers.
He's a man made of thoughts and prayers.
He'll never die.
Yeah, yes!
And that's how these people operate.
I mean, they're literally under the belief that their conspiracy theory, which is entirely based around a very overweight man in his mid-70s, is never going to suffer any health setbacks.
That titan of health that, as we've brought up many times on this podcast, had to gingerly walk down a ramp and oftentimes had to drink with two hands on his sippy cup.
Because he couldn't lift it with one hand.
Yeah, because his hands are so dainty.
He's got tiny Lego Man hands.
Yes, but that guy, that not-in-good-health man is the titan of wellness that will live to be 95.
He's got an easy two decades left in him, according to QAnon.
It's just really wild that this is their view of their hero.
Hey man, that Regeneron is no joke.
It's like 98% just HGH or whatever.
Alright, well, so now that we've worked our way through our headlines and imagined a better world where Donald Trump has died of cancer, do we want to go into our mailbag?
That sounds like a plan to me!
Our listeners got questions, we got answers.
It's time for Q and A.
So, SubZeroShirtArt asks, can poker now claim AQ proof and future proofs past?
And more than one year delta on his prediction that Trump would be relentlessly pushing the vaccine, plus taking credit for it.
Once it's out, no matter what, Super Insider, Super Seaward Insider much?
I'm pilled!
So thank you for the intro to all that good stuff, but I had always said that QAnon was going to face one of two major breaking points in their existence.
The first one was going to be Trump losing the election, and the second one would be that if he won the election, they would have to deal with him being aggressively pro-vaccine.
And they got around the first one by claiming that he didn't lose the election, but they're really working hard on trying to figure out how to get around the second one.
Because the second one is a plot hole they can't fix.
And I actually, a couple days ago, saw some people getting really mad about Trump being pro-vaccine and being like, this prick keeps pushing the vaccines when he knows what it's doing to us and I'm not understanding it.
Why is he doing this?
He has to know.
There's no good reason for it.
I won't accept it.
And there are people who are like, you're saying that I'm a black pill and shill because I'm mad about Trump and the vaccines.
Well, I'm sorry, I'm questioning your narratives.
And it's like, well, the narrative is that Trump is God and he's infallible.
And yes, you really can't question that narrative if you want to still be on the team.
The entire point of being on the team is that you have to be pro-Trump 100%.
And when Trump breaks the rules, you have to apologize for it.
You can't ever hold Trump accountable for doing a bad thing.
That's just against QAnon's principles.
Uh, yeah.
I mean, he's Teflon Don for a reason.
He's just like the master of, it just, you know, when he was in office it just seemed like...
It just seemed like he was literally untouchable, and his behavior was completely beyond legal reproach, and now that he is no longer the President of the United States, he's just sort of being carried on this wave of people that still have true believer faith that every word out of Donald Trump's mouth is the gospel, and that he is some sort of hyper-evolved being, despite the fact that he's got tiny Lego Man hands, and allegedly a small mushroom-shaped penis.
Like, can't walk down a ramp, hair looks ridiculous, skin looks ridiculous, is old and fat.
Doesn't know how to apply makeup, looks like a clown from a rodeo.
And again, I'm not trying to say, I'm not saying, I'm saying all this stuff as somebody who's in a similar boat to Donald Trump, because I am also not the best going down a ramp, I am also overweight, and my hair is also ridiculous, so, like, I'm not here saying that I am an Adonis, but I don't have a group of sycophantic assholes, like, constantly hanging off of my every word.
Unless you count our listeners.
Hey-o!
I love you, babies.
Anyway, thanks for the question, Sub-Zero.
Yes, so up next is Little Lappin Loopyloo.
Eyeball emojis, hourglass, explosion emoji.
Says, I have one.
After Jim Watson made his Senate testimony appearance, Benny Thompson and his staff were threatened.
The guy got charged, but whatever happened?
So I looked at this and it looks like the wheels of justice are grinding incredibly slowly and that like some schmuck named Newton Wade Townsend is the guy, but I cannot find any information about him actually standing trial or anything going on.
Just this guy got on Facebook, started threatening some people on the 1-6 committee, but I'm not the one-sixth of anybody, but Jim Watkins needs to tell us about 8chan, because all these max shooters keep posting manifestos on his message board, but literally every headline is from June 2020, and yeah.
2020. And yeah, so this I really have no idea. It's been over a
year since this guy was arraigned. So you would have thought something would have happened. But maybe he's just
like such a small fish that it may be there was just like he
pled out got probation or whatever. And no one bothered to cover it because some dipshit making a thread on Twitter or
social media.
It doesn't tickle anyone's fancy, even though, again, this is QAnon, and we know what they're capable of, but...
It's weird.
It's just a weird thing where this guy did a thing and got charged, but...
It's very unsatisfying because there's no payoff.
It's like the Matt Gaetz bullshit.
Although the good news about the Matt Gaetz bullshit was apparently the guy that was going to be sentenced for cooperating has once again asked for a five-month extension on his sentencing because he's cooperating too hard and they need another half year for the cooperation to continue.
So I'm hopeful on that front, at the very least, that maybe everyone's favorite pederasts in Congress that QAnon supports because they really actually don't care about pedophiles.
They just hate the people they hate.
They use pedophilia as an excuse.
That maybe that prick will actually face real justice.
We need to get that man some like, swirly triangle cufflinks or whatever.
And then maybe we can win some of this QAnon nuts over to our side.
Oh, that'd be so great!
Oh man, we get Matt Gaetz some... Yeah, we get him some...
like silver cufflinks with like blue swirls on them and he just thinks they're cool and he wears
them and boom he's out of the club that's like that's like actual evidence uh like the Venmo
payments and all the other stuff where he's like literally texting like a like a 17 year old girl
and being like 500 for not sex eggplant emoji like tongue emoji peach emoji like that
That doesn't do it for QAnon.
That's false flag.
That's deep state.
But if Matt Gaetz was wearing some swirly cufflinks, petarist.
100% petarist.
Or like a butterfly.
Can we go to wear a butterfly?
That'd be great.
That would be awesome.
Or maybe just have an actual, literal butterfly land on him randomly during a photo op or whatever.
Then just be like, oh, that's it for Matt Gaetz.
That's it for Matt Gaetz and all the forehead he brought to the party with him.
Yes, and it is ample.
It is an ample quantity of forehead.
So I am sorry that I didn't have a really great answer for your actual question, but I hope riffing on Matt Gaetz was worth it.
So thank you for the question.
Yeah, I certainly had nothing for the actual question because I don't know who any of those ding-a-lings are.
Sorry.
So, Klutz Zero, we have a lot of zeros in our audience, says, do you think Trump would actually act on anything these guys told him if they ever got to have a meeting with him, these guys being Clay Clark and an associate?
Uh, and then he links to the thing, you know, a whiteboard, uh, sits in Clay Clark's office.
Clay Clark has been organizing a lot of cute comments under the moniker, moniker, Reawaken America Tour.
Uh, oh God, yeah, this guy, I've seen the, I've seen the whiteboard.
It's just your standard Glenn Beck, uh, always sunny in Philadelphia conspiratorial bullshit.
So like...
I don't think Trump would actually do anything for these people because Trump never does anything for anyone if they don't give him tons of money.
So I think he would humor them, but I think like the who is going to do what for whom Like, loyalty to Donald Trump is always a one-way street.
You're helping out Donnie Two-Scoops, or nothing's gonna happen at all.
So, I think that guy would need some serious pay-to-play, as it were, in order for him to be able to do anything.
I mean, now, if Mike Lindell were to break off some of that MyPillow money for Donald Trump, then maybe he'd get the ball moving.
But I don't see a random idiot Uh, rabble rousing on the internet, uh, being able to actually sway Trump.
You just need to organize a, uh, a Republican celebrity golf tournament, which would like appeal to, to Trump's love of doing golf instead of working.
And also his being the most successful and, uh, popular person in any given room.
Cause as we've gone over before, Republicans have no good celebrities.
All those celebrities are has-beens who suck.
It's like Donald Trump and John Voight, and it's like, ooh, man, that's, uh... James Woods and, uh... God, who's the lady from Cheers?
I'm spacing out her name right now.
Kirstie Alley.
Oh, yeah, Kirstie Alley's there.
She's, yeah, she... Remember back when she was famous in, like, 1988 or whatever?
That's so good.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
The Nuge.
I feel like we always end conversations of Republican celebrities by one of us just saying, The Nuge.
As well we should.
I mean, he's the timeless classic of just a dumb, useless Republican who gets way too much press for his Republicanism, and that's all he's famous for now.
And not shitting himself to avoid the Vietnam War, and probably being a pederast.
And again, you would think that ducking military service and liking young ladies would be disqualifying for him, but no, again, QAnon doesn't care about anything.
They're totally okay.
I mean, that's the Donald Trump story, so they gotta love that shit, because their boy does it.
Yeah.
Scareman Walkman asks, at what age should someone stop trick-or-treating, and when did you stop?
I think, like, I sort of ironically kept trick-or-treating until I was around 13 or 14.
But honestly, I think you should probably, like, once you're out of middle school, I think, like, your last year of middle school should probably be the last year of trick-or-treating.
Because, like, I mean, well, I'm not sure if it's, like, the same way now, or, you know, because I'm not in touch with the youths or whatever, but I seem to remember that by the time I got into even my freshman year of high school, I was starting to learn, like, The pleasures of adult stuff, like, that I wasn't supposed to have access to yet, like, you know, smoking weed, and trying to, like, hook up with girls, and, like, underage drinking, and, you know, just, like, getting into, like, actual, like, teenage shenanigans.
And at that point, it's, like, it seems sort of weird to go from, like, being like, yeah, I'm gonna go fuckin' smoke a blunt and try to, like, get some head to, like, I'm gonna go knock on some stranger's door for candy!
No, the Adventures of Hellworld podcast does not support any of the underage stuff Al just described.
That was Al's personal childhood experience.
It does not necessarily reflect an endorsement on behalf of either of us or the podcast.
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Yes But yeah, I don't know man like
So I think my last year, and honestly, I think the last year I did it, so this would have been around the turn of the millennium or whatever, I think the last quote-unquote costume I had was just a woman.
I just had access to a wig and a dress, and I was just like, Meh, like whatever.
YOLO.
Just like throw on the wig and the dress and just like went out to get some free candy or whatever.
I think I made it through like the houses in my neighborhood and came away with like, you know, a quarter of a sack of candy and I was like, I'm fine.
And then I went to go get into like shenanigans.
So, um, I don't know.
Your mileage may vary.
I guess it depends on the wholesomeness of your community, too, right?
Like, if you live somewhere in the Midwest where it's just, like, acceptable to be slightly older and trick-or-treating, or if you have younger siblings or whatever, like, there are certainly excuses that would, like, you know, I wouldn't certainly, like, just be like, you're 16 and trick-or-treating!
Get the fuck out of here, nerd!
If you're there with, like, your eight-year-old sibling or whatever, I'd just be like, fine.
But if you show up at my door and you're like 22, by yourself, and you're dressed like a sexy nurse or something, and you're like, trick or treat, I'm gonna be like, is this a sting operation?
Yeah!
I don't remember when I stopped trick-or-treating.
It's really funny in a lot of ways.
As a child, I wasn't that into Halloween, and I think I kind of got more into the spirit of it all later in life.
But even then, I'm just too lazy to go out and get a high-level costume.
So I really don't know when I quit doing it, but I think Elle's pretty on the nose when it comes to the age brackets for trick-or-treating.
And my neighborhood is very bizarre for this stuff, because one year I will get 40 or 50 trick-or-treaters, and it will just be a mob scene.
And last year I think I had three people come to my door.
And I was just like, wow, and just literally had a bucket just full of candy.
And it was like, well, now it's time to now it's time to earn that diabetes because I just have a mountain of candy here in front of me and no one wanted it.
On a personal note, it's nice to not have Sarge here to give me fart-smelling face whenever I bring up the actual reality of sexual activities happening between consenting people.
I can bring up a sexual maneuver without having to look at Sarge's face wrinkle up like I just mentioned Auschwitz or something.
Oh, that Puritan Sarge.
Well, I hope the Patriots are treating him well this evening.
Yeah, I mean, hopefully whatever stuff he's getting up to tonight is consensual and he's not getting black bagged and taken to Gitmo or whatever the, like, you know.
Yes.
The QAnon's idea of an erotic dream.
So thank you for the question, Scaramon Walkman.
Daniel asks, can you live react to her page for the entire episode instead?
And he links to a TikTok video from some woman whose TikTok handle is WakeUpGirl2.
And it's an 18 second clip of her talking about the military breaking into Facebook, and that's why it's been shut down.
Because let me tell you, QAnon had themselves a few theories about why Facebook was down for those few hours a few days ago, and they were not boring theories.
They were not, ah, the server must have crashed, or something happened to the routers.
Nope, it was, this is it, the ten days of darkness, we've won, Patriot's in control, all that good stuff.
Not so much, as it turns out.
That has to be, like, the craziest possible read of that situation, where it's just like, hey, a whistleblower has come forward to say that Facebook has gotten into some dubious shit, and then Facebook immediately goes down for, like, 12 hours, and all of their, like, you know, subsidiaries also go down, and their read about it is just like, ah, yes, the Patriots are clearly doing this, and it's like, Don't you guys think that it's much more likely that Facebook is doing this to get rid of all of their incriminating data?
Or that hackers hearing that Facebook is fucking evil and terrible have decided to do some vigilante hacktivism justice on this shit?
Like, I don't know how many different scenarios you have to get to before you're just like, ah yes, obviously this is proof that red-blooded American patriots are finally taking back what's ours.
No, it seems much more likely that this is evil Mark Zuckerberg and his boys deciding to take down Facebook so that they can scrub it of anything that makes them look even worse.
Yeah, I mean, I remember some people talking about how what was happening to Facebook felt like what happened had to be coming from the inside because it was like almost like so surgical the way the company was being deplatformed and removed.
And that even if it was a mistake, even if it was like a problem inside their own software, that it would again be internal.
It could not have been an external attack from quote-unquote the Patriots or anybody.
So I think either they had an actual hiccup or a snafu.
Or they were like, hey, we have to change a lot of stuff in a really overt manner, and we need it done in a really quick way so that when someone comes looking at our books, we can claim it's always been this way.
I mean, one of those two options is way more likely than Trump ordered the attack and the swamp is being drained.
Yeah, the Swamp Training starts with Facebook, because that's what he meant when he said he was going to train the Swamp.
The Swamp is wherever you want it to be.
It certainly didn't specifically mean Washington, D.C.
Uh, Reverend Xenofact asks, uh, Uanon anti-vax, anti-mask types are acting bolder and more unhinged.
What are the odds they kill someone over vaccines or masks?
And then he answers his own question by bringing up the fact that a Maryland man killed his pharmacist brother because he believed his pharmacist brother was killing people with the vaccine.
That makes our job easy.
Thanks for the question and the answer.
But yeah, this was a pretty grim thing.
I have been waiting for the proverbial quote unquote more news to come out about this.
There have been a lot of stories about a person kills somebody in their life because of QAnon and then like a few days later like more information comes out about mental illness that that the other thing and that there were other possible reasons for what happened but this story on its face right now looks really incredibly bad.
Because this guy was like freaking out and arguing with his family and then eventual about the vaccine and how bad it was.
And then finally, The guy decided, you know what, I'm just gonna kill my brother because my brother knows he's poisoning people with COVID vaccines and I have to stop him now because he is, uh, he's doing this terribly evil thing.
And, uh, it's just.
And also, I mean, pretty much every week, like, I think this is the first week in a while where we haven't had, like, a specific segment devoted to people technically killing someone because of their dumb stance on the vaccine and anti-mask bullshit, but the person in question isn't themselves.
So, like, I mean, like, you know, it may sound a little pedantic, but at the end of the day, like, yes, these people have been killing folks for a while now, and, like, The majority of the time, the people that die are themselves.
But that shouldn't be discounted out of hand, just because, like, you know, even a shitbird, like, leaves a bunch of, like, devastation in their wake when they pass on.
Like, no matter how much I might hate the rhetoric of somebody who believes all this bullshit, when they die and they had five kids that they were supporting, well, now those five kids are fucked.
So, it's like, you know, like, we're pretty, like, Like, casually just sort of antagonistic about these people on the podcast because, you know, it's easy to just say, fuck them, but like, fuck them does not necessarily ripple out to fuck their families that, you know, had no, like, say in the matter, right?
Like, like if you're some piece of shit and you're raising like a three or four year old kid, that three or four year old kid hasn't gotten ruined by you yet.
Like, just like, you know, so your death really fucks them up in a lot of ways, in a lot of
different ways that if you were still alive and tried to tell them that like Joe Biden
was the literal devil or whatever, but like, you know, so the, yes, these people have already
been killing folks because of their anti mask and anti-vax stance.
And a lot of the times those people happen to be they themselves in like a weird Twilight
Zone twist.
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing is that it's mostly been kind of a form of suicide, but now we're actually getting homicides.
I remember someone bringing this up a while ago, is that any of these Congress people or any of these anti-vaxxers or anyone else, anyone who's arguing against quote-unquote mandates, why are you arguing against a mandate when you think the vaccine itself is murderous?
Yeah, if you have a problem with mandates, then just don't date men, you fucks!
Yeah, of course!
The low-hanging fruit.
Be intellectually consistent.
It's like the people who talk about, like, if a woman gets an abortion, we're going to jail the doctor or the provider of the abortion.
We're not going to jail the woman.
And it's like, why not?
The woman killed her baby.
She's a murderer.
I mean, own your shit.
Own your horribly illogical, terrible worldview.
Don't try to make it more palatable to other people by adding steps to it.
Because there's no point.
It's not intellectually honest.
If you think the vaccine is murderous, oppose the vaccine directly.
If you think abortion is murder, everyone involved in an abortion goes to jail.
I mean, this is what you believe.
Believe it.
Just stick to it.
Don't try to sugarcoat it because you know it's unpopular and you, on some level, know you're wrong.
Or maybe, just maybe, they don't actually believe a fucking thing.
This is true.
Maybe they just have no convictions whatsoever.
Absolutely.
I mean, that's also absolutely true.
So thank you for the terribly bleak and grim question, Reverend Xenofag.
Pancake Peasant asks, I'm saddened to learn that the magical forest aid formerly known as Bigfoot has been pilled.
How did this happen?
What issues does Pilled Bigfoot care about?
What issues does Pilled Bigfoot care about?
He's not exactly looking for a big pipeline to be put through his home or whatever.
Um, but he, you know, he doesn't, he doesn't like these, these fucking tech companies getting up in here and making their big monopolies and just giving everyone access to cameras to take pictures of his blurry ass when he's just trying to take a shit in the woods.
Not a big fan of that.
Uh, he loves guns like you read about cause he's a woodsman.
You know, he wants to be out.
What he does on his property is his own business.
Uh, you know, he doesn't believe in federal, he doesn't like federal government.
He feels like Washington state where he is from.
Uh, should be in charge of his territory or whatever.
Uh, you know, just general conservative talking point shit for the most part.
As for how he got pilled, I'm assuming it has to have been literature that he found while raiding camps of people, uh, getting up in his territory.
Because I don't think they get very good reception in the woods, unless they've got DirecTV, and even then they get even worse reception, boom, roasted.
So do you think he found a bunch of chick tracks?
Do you think that he became a really hardcore Christian because he was finding out about God through the writings and scrawlings of Jack Chick?
I think if he found any tracks, he was just following regular Bigfoot tracks of one of his friends through the woods.
And then there were two sets of them, and then there was only one set of them, and he was like, what?
And then his friend had to explain that that was when Jesus was scaring him.
Oh, right.
Oh, shit.
He was like, oh, shit.
Like, yeah, so take a cast of that the next time you're up in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Just like, oh, shit, I think I found a Jesus track.
And I'm pretty confident that the Jesus in this case was carrying a pilled Bigfoot.
You take that back to your family during your Thanksgiving and have them just be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Aside from the word Bigfoot, everything you just said there was gibberish.
Yes!
That would be the greatest thing ever.
So, TheGhostOfDipset asks, did the Facebook outage fizzle out immediately, or have you seen any prominent QAnon grifters still hanging onto it?
I know Sather turned on it, but that's all I've seen.
I mean, the big thing about QAnon is that anything is the biggest news in the history of the world, and then a few days later, it's completely forgotten about.
Everything to them is ephemeral.
Everything is just about getting that dopamine high for a person for a few moments, and then you just go back to your life the way it was before.
Nothing ever changes.
So yeah, it was a pixie stick.
It was just a little bit of sugar down the gullet, and then we're moving on.
So that was really about all there was to that.
Thank you for the question.
And lastly, Doctor initially says, what is your prediction of QAnon slash Save the Children adherence when the FDA authorizes the COVID vaccine for children?
That happened today.
It happened like a little while ago.
I haven't seen a lot of reaction.
I literally saw one dumb angry guy whine and say, hey Pfizer, don't touch those fucking kids.
But that was it.
Because they really can't have an answer for this stuff, because when QAnon suffers a big L, and it's just obvious that they lost, they don't like talking about it, because it ruins their whole narrative, which is kind of like optimism, and we're winning, and Patriot's in control.
So when something like this happens, and they just get absolutely kicked in the groin, They don't really have a good explanation for why this is a good thing.
And it's gonna be double plus worse when Trump has a rally and he's like, hey, you should get your kids vaccinated.
I mean, that's gonna absolutely drive them up a wall trying to explain and justify that.
But for the most part, They don't have their talking points yet, and they don't know what to say about it.
Because when reality is mean to them, it takes them a long time to try to rationalize it.
I mean, they still are trying to rationalize why Biden's the president.
When things don't fit their narrative, it takes a lot of work for them to explain why reality is the way it is now and why the narrative isn't being adhered to.
It's basically the answer to the question.
They're going to sit on it for a while before inevitably determining that Facebook was secretly a man the whole time.
Yes, yes, exactly, exactly.
So that is the questions for the week.
So that leads us to the question numerous from Skeramon Walkman, which is, what are you looking forward to?
Sleeping.
I'm sure that it is probably carrying through the microphone, but we are recording late tonight and I'm fucking exhausted.
So, if people are just like, man, Elsie is a little sluggish on the punchlines and a little punchy this week, especially for having to carry the burden of no Sarge, well, you're right.
It's because I'm fucking very tired.
After we're done recording, I'm going to lay down and I'm going to enter the Odin sleep and I'm going to recharge my batteries and then I'll go back to maximum levels of being a snarky asshole.
I'm looking forward to just more sports ball fun.
I'm not a big fan of baseball, but knowing that I'm going to have a sports book full of people agonizing over every play, And then when I listen to all these idiots in the casino talking about how they got the Stone Cold Lock of the Week and there's no way anyone's beating the Dodgers kid and all that kind of stuff.
Oh yeah, keep talking about baseball.
This is going to put me right to bed.
This is the ticket.
Fucking sweep me away, Sandman.
Just guiding you into the arms of Morpheus, as it were.
All right, well, on that pleasant note, it is time for me to hit myself and Mr. Mike Raines with the little bit of morphine.
Put us right to sleep, and that way we can escape Hellworld into the land of our dreams, where hopefully we will encounter no Frederick Kruegers, because tis the season for that sort of stuff.
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So, for another quote-unquote successful episode of the best... See, I almost got the name of the podcast wrong.
I'm fading so fast.
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I have been your host, El.
No co-host Sarge this week, but I will sign off for our QAnon expert and expert in all things conspiracy and conservative related, Mr. Mike Rains.
