Fred Brennan, a QAnon collaborator turned critic who helped expose the movement’s absurdities in Skeptical Inquirer (including debunking the Flynn-is-Q conspiracy), died at 31 after months of illness, while Jim "Stu" Stewartson allegedly smeared him and dodged accountability—like avoiding Flynn’s documentary screening despite living nearby. Meanwhile, Prince Andrew’s indictment for leaking classified docs is dismissed as trivial by QAnon supporters, who still fixate on fringe figures like Tom Hanks’ baseless trafficking claims over uncharged elites like Obama or Clinton. Republicans, framed as "literal Nazis," pivot from adrenochrome hysteria to tariffs, calling Trump’s policies a hollow "dog shit vote," yet ignore his financial immunity from billionaires like Gates. Progressives face backlash for being the most trans-friendly party despite no federal bans, while conservatives mock love over hate—revealing a movement desperate for symbolic wins amid shifting, self-contradictory narratives and deep-seated bias confirmation. [Automatically generated summary]
The Adventures in Hell World podcast talks in depth about QAnon.
While it's meant to be comedic informative, sometimes we have to get into things like child abuse and violence against people.
Listener discretion advised.
Hello, everybody.
I am Mike Reins, aka Poker and Politics, and welcome to another episode of Adventures in Hell World.
I am joined as always by Eric, the Deep State Operative.
Hello, everyone.
And I want to apologize on behalf of the Deep State because we just spent the last two weeks looking for Arlo Guthrie.
Turns out he's fine.
Broncuth3, but we're getting on it now.
Good.
Glad we got our eyes on the ball finally.
And we're also joined by Steph.
It's Steph.
Yay.
You can feel the enthusiasm.
The Olympics have truly inspired Steph.
I've actually been getting into exercise, which I've been calling Jimmy's because while I exercise, I watch the Bone Temple.
So like I've seen The Bone Temple like six times now, but I've actually lost some weight and I actually enjoy exercising.
And maybe I'm obsessed with the movie.
Man.
But that's okay.
Here's how I'm losing weight.
I got my four milligram pills finally.
I get to start taking them on Tuesday because I'm running out of boy pills now.
Well, I'm on something too.
I'm on like Topamax, and then there's this other pill that I have to take, a quarter tablet of.
So I'm on that too.
But I decided I also wanted to do exercise and I've broken through the barrier where like, you know, where it really, really sucks and you hate it and you have to force yourself to do it.
I've broken through that barrier to the point where it's now addictive.
And like my calf is super sore and stiff from like a Charlie horse, but I still exercised yesterday and I still want to exercise today, even though I can barely walk.
So I don't get that.
Like, I mean, like, I'll, I'll do, you know, I'll do some cardio a couple times a week and stuff, but I just, but I, I never get to that, okay, I'm liking it part.
It's like, it's just misery from beginning to end where I'm sitting there staring at the counter saying, please hit 20 minutes so I can stop doing this.
Oh, but, but have you tried watching the Bone Temple while you're doing it?
The gym I go to does not have that available, so no.
The problem for me is.
I just bought it on Fandango.
It came out.
I bought it for like $20 and then I downloaded it so I don't even need Wi-Fi.
And I just watched the Iron Maiden scene and that's 20 minutes.
Are we talking an actual Iron Maiden or are we talking like Bruce Dickinson run to the hills, Iron Maiden?
Oh, no, we're talking Ray Feines like lip-syncing to Iron Maiden, actually singing along to the number of the beast song.
Okay.
Okay.
I can get behind that.
As I was saying, my problem is that I swim when I'm exercising, and they don't put TVs in the pool area of the YMCA.
It's fun to say at the YMCA.
It is.
It is.
It is fun to stay at the YMCA, but the other thing that's fun at the YMCA is just the old naked men.
I can't wait until that happens to me.
But apparently, I don't know.
I don't know if it's age 55, 65, 70.
I don't know what it is, but it's just one day you're at the store, you're looking at some tail compound, and you're like, my scrotum needs that real bad in public.
Yeah, it's legendary.
I've even heard stories of it of like YMCA men's bathrooms.
It's just like, like, like, it's legendary.
I've never even been in one and I know about it.
Yeah, it's just, it's just really strange.
It's just at a certain age, you just decide, you know what?
Fuck it.
I'm in this locker room, 30-minute nudity time.
I'm just going to be ass out for the next half hour.
Do not give a fuck.
Like, yeah, there are towels around here.
Not using one.
You're getting some wrinkly ass.
You're getting some shriveled dick.
You're going to enjoy it.
This is all happening.
And it's like, and for me, it's like I get out of the pool.
I like run into the locker room.
I grab my dry shorts.
I like hide myself in a corner where there's very low line of sight on me.
And I switch off my soaking trunks for my dry shorts.
And then I get dressed.
And then after I do that in my street clothes, I like turn the corner to walk down a hallway.
And then there's just 75-year-old guy, butt-ass naked.
And I'm just like, man, me and you and our views of how we should be using.
Like, my comfort, my comfort with nudity around a bunch of other men and yours is night and day, good sir.
Night and day.
But that's why they're called the greatest generation.
Yes.
It's like when you, it's like your first, the first time you go to a nude beach, it's always like a meme experience.
It's like what you think it will be and what it actually is.
Like you, you think it's going to be like these tan hot plastic surgery, like, you know, like six hours.
GLP1s And Weight Loss00:13:13
I don't think when I think that.
No, because like, because like my mom is incredibly old and she is like, hey, there's like a nude beach on this cruise I'm going to.
And I'm like, that cruise is all people your age.
So if there's a nude beach, it's all geezers.
So hard pass.
If we could backtrack to Iron Maiden, I saw on Twitter the other day that William Shatner is releasing a heavy metal album.
Thank God.
And he's covering Iron Maiden in it among other bands, but that was the connection I made there.
Yeah.
And I'm going to back it up even further to the fact that Steph was like, I'm taking some pills too.
There is a tier three GLP one coming out called Redatrutide, I believe is how you say it.
And apparently this shit just like actually melts you.
Like you just put the shot in your gut and you just look like Brad Pitt directly afterwards.
You take it, spend three hours in the bathroom, and then you're golden.
Yeah, basically.
Like I've the stuff I've said, it hasn't been approved for use yet.
But of course, all the scumbag, like Vro and him's all the scumbag websites are like, yeah, we got this mix.
We put a little B12 in it.
So it's totally legal to give this to you now or whatever.
But yeah, for only $1,000 a dose.
Yeah, for only $1,000 a dose, we'll give you this fucking off-brand crap.
but Eli Lilly is the pharmaceutical company that's trying to get this, going to get this to market.
Mine is.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Thank you.
The things I've seen say that the Retrutide, the estimated weight loss is like 24% of your body weight.
It just absolutely annihilates you.
You are just going to lose so much weight on this shit.
I might actually hit my target weight, you know, for on the BMI chart at that rate.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, that's which I've ever been.
I mean, like, I was, it's funny because when I was in school, I was short and skinny.
And then after, and then in my 20s, I shot up in all three directions.
And so I was like, I went from being underweight to overweight.
And I think there might have been like a two-week period in the middle where I was actually ideal.
Yeah.
But yeah, so I've seen people saying that like it feels like they're trying to do these Ozempic and Magovi pills and they're just trying to get as much shit to market as they can because as soon as the Retrue Tide hits the market, it's just going to destroy every other GLP one.
And just like, it's just going to be Sauron and Lord of the Rings of the Mace just knocking 50 people 200 feet in the bedwards.
It's like, oh, shit.
Like no one's going to want anything else because this shit's just going to be like, are you fat?
Not anymore, motherfucker.
Bam.
There you go.
Now you're a skinny mini.
So it's like, holy shit.
What the fuck?
Okay, Steph, what structure are you on?
It's, hold on, let me, I have it here in this.
It's fenturamine and Topamax.
So it's a quarter tablet of fentermine and then a tablet of Topamax, which is usually used to treat headaches and use in combination.
Like they increase satiety and they increase the sense of fullness.
And they, I guess it's like, they kind of like do, they kind of like simulate like the cocaine center of your brain.
I think that's what GLP1 is.
Like it's a chemical in your body that says, hey, you're not hungry anymore.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's literally what happened was somebody took, I think it's Gila Lizard Venom, but they took some, but anyways, they took the chemical in question.
And I'll just for the argument say it's like Gila Lizard Venom.
And they put it under a microscope and they said, holy shit, this looks a lot like GLP-1's in the human brain.
That's really fucking weird.
And then they started messing with it.
And then they were like, wow, it just is.
This is absolutely capable of simulating the GLP-1 chemical in the human brain.
And the original people who were working with that said, that would be great for diabetics.
And that's why it was on brand for diabetes.
And then all the people that were taking it for diabetes were like, oh, yeah, by the way, I lose 20 pounds on this shit.
And people were like, it causes weight loss.
Fuck diabetes.
Oh, shit.
This thing goes for far more than just helping diabetics.
Yeah, that was part of the problem because like my mom is diabetic and she spent a long, long time trying to get this stuff for it, but she couldn't because it was sold out everywhere because all these rich people were like, I'm tired of being a fat ass.
Right, exactly.
Like diabetics, they can go do whatever they've been doing all this time.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, the goddamn Americans, man, I could just see someone with like a big fat, greasy hamburger in one hand and like injecting themselves in the other.
Well, the thing, the thing about that is, is that eventually you just like are unable to eat the big greasy burger.
Because that's what happens.
Like Mysterious L, who's down like about 100 pounds from GLP1s, me and him went to the steak joint and he got a much smaller meal than he normally got when me and him went to the steak joint because he's like, yeah, I can't eat as much as I used to.
Yeah, I barely even go for seconds anymore when I'm eating.
Right.
Yeah.
It just, it just hit, like that's.
The thing is that, like the uh, the baby's first glp one that i'm on right now, the 1.5 milligram Wagovi pill, has had like literally no impact on me.
I'm just literally i'm just sitting there going ah, my seventh cheeseburger of the day.
It's just basically what that's doing is it's preparing your uh gastrointestinal system right, right it's, it's preparing my kidneys and my and my stomach for the fact that, get ready buddy, when you take the hired shit, we're gonna not just hit your body, we're gonna hit your brain.
We're gonna hit your brain.
Good good, congrat.
Please tell L congrats that.
That that's very good to hear.
Like he, it was really funny about uh four or five four three, four months ago, me and L went uh somewhere to get him uh a suit for a wedding he was gonna go to and when the tailor measured him, he was like only a size bigger than me and I was like, oh my god, i'm the fat one in our relationship.
This is horrifying because uh L was anywhere between like 500 and 450 pounds.
For like the entire time that i've known him, he is he was a huge dude and now he's well under he's.
He's well in the mid 300s.
Now he has lost so much weight.
It is like I mean, if you saw him, you're like wow, it's a big dude, but it's like you have no idea how big this dude was before.
That must feel like like when, when I lost, when I was working at the Halloween store the one year, like because I was, like you know, on my feet doing too much exercise and I was like doing hardcore keto hard, like I was in hardcore ketosis every day.
So I was just like thin and slim and lean.
I just felt so good about myself and like that feeling of losing, of seeing your body change, like that l must feel so incredible.
Oh yeah yeah, I have a.
Uh, I have a, a boss of mine.
Uh, he was another dude that was uh very big and he just got the.
Uh he, he decided to skip the drugs, he got the, he got the gastric sleeve.
He had the sleeve put around his stomach and uh, he is now perilously close to being down 200 pounds like he.
He's down about like he.
Basically I, I literally talked to him like last night and I was just like, so are you down 200 yet?
And he was like it's weird, like one day i'll be four pounds away from it.
The next day i'll be eight pounds away from it.
The next day i'll be five pounds away from it.
He's like i'm not trying to hit it anymore so much.
This is just.
It's kind of like a nice thing to know that like i'm in the ballpark of that, and he was mostly talking about the fact that his lifestyle has improved so much from being down like a buck 90 that uh, he goes on bike rides with his kids.
Now he like literally went sledding with his kids for like three hours a couple days ago and that was just he couldn't do when he was two pet hundred pounds heavier because he would just gas out after five minutes and be miserable.
Yeah, I know, I was uh like, uh it um near the beginning of the school year I I was at this playground with my son and it was this real big, complicated like tubes you climb in and all kinds of stuff.
And I'm looking at it.
I'm like, that looks kind of fun.
And I'm thinking about it.
I'm like, you know what?
I'll give it a try.
I'm like, a year ago, I would have like walked up to it and fallen over and incapacitated, but I was able to scramble up and run around.
I went down the slide.
I'm sure I looked like an idiot, but it was so, but I was like, I'm like, oh my God, I can actually do this.
Right.
And I want to be clear that none of us, none of us, we are not like, you know, fat, shaming.
And a lot of people suck.
No, but, you know, like we're telling, we're telling stories about how people's lives have been improved and changed by these things, you know, for the better.
And I really need to like sit down and shut the hell up because I really only need to lose about 20 pounds.
So, you know.
Oh, but everyone's got goals.
I mean, like, I'm, I'm huge and I cannot wait for the GLP ones to start hitting my brain and my hugeness to start mitigating.
And then because once I, once I sort of turn that corner where I'm not eating so much, I'm definitely going to go back to the Y and start swimming more.
Because again, that's like one of the things that happened with Elle was that after he started losing all that weight.
Now like he does like a little, it's not like he's like breaking his back or anything, but he bought a couple barbells and like now he'll just like do a couple lifts every day, like a little upper body, a little arms, little shoulders.
Cause it's just kind of, it's just kind of a thing you can do now when you don't, when you don't blow up two minutes into your exercise, it's easier to exercise.
Yeah, we're not breaking a sweat on the way to the fridge anymore.
Right, exactly.
Exactly.
And for me also, like, like, I, I almost broke down and had rice last night.
Like, I'm not like doing like hardcore keto, but I'm avoiding grains.
I'm like avoiding like noodles.
I'm avoiding rice and bread.
But I am still eating fruit, you know, and because sometimes you need something quick and handy, you know, but I'm, I'm sticking with like, you know, the, the Coke Zeros and, you know, diet sodas or whatever.
But like, I, I just, by limiting, by saying like, no rice, no grain, no bread, I'm also limiting what type of food I can intake.
So it's like, I'm also not interested in a lot of food.
So that also kind of, you know what I mean?
I'm not also, that also kind of shuts down the hunger center in my brain because when I was like eating mozzarella sticks and shit like that, you know, I was like, yeah, I could have mozzarella sticks, but now I've like destroyed the idea of mozzarella sticks in my brain, you know, like mentally.
So yeah, that helps too.
Yeah.
So anyhow, enough of us talking about ourselves and all this kind of stuff.
I know we've hit the 18 minute mark.
Maybe we finished talking about what this show is about.
We hit the 18 minute mark of navel gazing about GLP1s, which if you are a co-worker of mine, you're just like, oh no, Mike's walking towards me.
It's time for him to talk about GLP1s because he's a fat, fat, fat, fucking fat guy.
And I'm like, hey, everybody, I'm a fat guy, but I won't be for long.
Thanks to GLP1s.
And everyone's like, yeah, Mike, we know.
We've been hearing about it for a fucking year.
Start taking your fucking pills.
I'm like, I'm on the pills already now.
Calm down.
One thing that was cool was I really, I started taking like the stronger stuff during summer break.
So I had that nice thing where nobody saw me for like three months.
And then I come back and they're like, did you lose weight?
And I heard that from like every single person I worked with.
And I'm like, hell yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's so nice when that happens.
It's so nice when that happens and people are like, hey, hey, Chunky Monkey, how you doing?
And you're like, you got to be a dick and say, no, I didn't lose any weight.
What are you talking about?
You got to gaslight them.
I'm too honest.
I can't do that.
Oh no, I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it either, but yeah.
Kash Patel's Olympic Moment00:06:20
So Alyssa Liu won the gold medal.
And if you haven't heard about this whole story.
Is that the one with the, as my one corker put it, raccoon hair?
Yeah.
She, well, yeah, she did an interview where she explained that she basically wants to be a tree.
And for every year she's been in skating, she wants to add another stripe to her hair.
Okay.
So yeah, I knew there was a reason why she did it.
I just couldn't think of what it was.
Yeah.
I worked with a girl who had the exact same piercing as her.
Yep, the smiley piercing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was like, you know, that's probably going to mess up your mouth someday.
And she's like, yeah, I know.
Yeah.
But the fun thing about this is that I saw so many conservatives like screaming and yelling about how great this was.
And her story is that of an immigrant who was basically terrorized by the Chinese communist government and her dad fled to America with her.
And that's how she became an American who is now the gold medalist.
And all these people were like, oh, we did it, USA, USA.
It's like, you people want to deport these people.
You people are not in favor of this.
Yeah, but when it brings glory on the world stage, then hey, we're a melting pot, motherfucker.
Yeah, then they're a high-striving immigrant, the kind of immigrant America wants.
Yeah.
So it's just.
Yeah.
What do they, what do they call it in the textbook?
A model minority.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, exactly.
So that all happened, which was fun.
The Americans, American hockey beat Canada in both men's and women's hockey.
So get fucked Kanakistan, USA, USA.
That was hilarious.
After this podcast is over, I'm going to get to watch all the Canadian meltdowns over losing the men's gold medal game to the Americans.
If you didn't watch them, they were both very excited.
They both went to overtime.
America scored the game winning goal in overtime in both.
I traded it must have been pretty exciting because I kept seeing all these people on Twitter being like, fuck you, Canada.
We've kicked your ass.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's very funny because that is the furthest thing from the truth.
Basically, America got the Americans got out to a 1-0 lead.
And then in the middle of the second period, the game just like shifted aggressively Canada's way.
And the American goalie, Connor Hallebuck, just became a brick wall and was just doing everything he could to save the Americans' ass.
He gave up the tying goal, but I think at the end of the game, the Canadians outshot the Americans 41 to 26.
So it was just literally all Connor Halabuck just standing on his head, just being like, no, we will not lose this fucking game.
And it was crazy.
It was absolutely nuts.
Yes, Steph, what's up?
Wasn't there like a photo in the locker room with Kash Patel afterwards or something like that?
Maybe Kash Patel was in a locker room celebrating.
He was only talking for Virginia Guthrie.
I'm sure.
Obviously, obviously, yeah, that's where they found her.
I mentioned that on Twitter.
Somebody made a joke about him being in Vegas.
And I said, well, you know, he's just sitting there waiting for the kidnapper's father to turn him in.
No, he was.
No, there was a photo of him in somewhere like in the Olympics with like some celebrating a gold medal wing.
I think it was with the hockey team.
It probably was.
He's a star fucker.
I mean, what do you expect?
And I know people are going to get on the hockey players, and I'm sure some of them are MAGA, but it's one of these things where it's like some famous dude barges in.
You can't kick him out.
I mean, so I don't, I don't beg.
If they were doing the Trump dance with him or stuff like that, that'd be an issue.
But no, but I mean, it's a bad look for everyone because of the Guthrie thing, you know.
It's not a bad look for the hockey players where the hockey players are going to go, go get Guthrie, get the fuck out of your cash, leave us alone.
Like, again, I, I, I just, yeah, why are you trying to yuck the hockey players yum here?
I mean, Kash Patel.
The thing is, I'm pretty sure that uh, Kash Patel thinks this is his job, right?
This is what the FBI director does.
He goes, he puts his face in the fucking camera.
No, you could just get a cardboard cutout to do the same thing.
Yeah, I mean, he's just a worthless idiot.
I mean, I love that Dan Bongino was literally second at the FBI and then resigned to go back to being a podcaster.
It feels like he's doing God's work.
Right, because he went in there, found out everything he's been saying is a lie, and he can't keep promoting his conspiracy theories because now he's in a position of power.
So it's like, fuck it.
I'm going back to podcasting.
Right, exactly.
I mean, and that's what Cash wants to do, but he knows he can't.
He knows that that he knows that Daddy Trump wants him running the FBI, so he's stuck.
I mean, so uh, but anyhow, it was very funny watching Canada suffer the fact that uh our Kash Patel-led American hockey men's hockey team beat their asses.
But as I was mentioning, um, Connor Hallebuck stood on his head for like the second and third periods and got it into overtime.
And then the Canadians blew it, so that was great.
It was uh something I'm a huge fan of.
Uh, my team not choking in the big game is nice.
I'm like, uh, you, Will Campbell, and you, Drake May, you bums, you absolute bums.
Uh, got your clocks cleaned in the Super Bowl.
Uh, my mom constantly messages to me that she's so happy that Bad Bunny's performance was so controversial to people because it managed to hide the stink of the Patriots getting absolutely steamrolled by the Seahawks in the Super Bowl.
So, uh, much, we much appreciate you, Bad Bunny, and your uh Spanish-based uh uh Super Bowl halftime show that upset all the fucking scoldy assholes on the right.
It was great.
So, uh, anyhow, all that fun stuff.
Uh, put that on the side, move along.
We've been 25 minutes of this pod with no bad news happening.
Fred And Flynn's QAnon Drama00:10:10
And unfortunately, some really shitty news just happened a couple days ago, or even just like yesterday, I think.
Uh, Fred Brennan, the guy that created a chan that became a Kuhn, and uh, was the one of the initial people that was working with Jim and Ron Watkins back in the day.
And then he eventually uh fell out of their good graces, became a rival of theirs, spoke out against them, and all the horrible stuff that uh came about from 8chan that he had a hand in creating.
Uh, he passed away, uh, yesterday.
Um, he was like 31.
It was a month ago, yeah, yeah, I think it was, but it only got reported on the month.
Yeah, they wanted to hold, I think they, um, I was talking to my friends during Zoom, and they were they were saying that from what they understand that it happened a month ago, but they sat on the news just because just for respect of the family, just because Fred was such a controversial figure.
That's what I heard from my friends, so I can't completely, you know, you know.
So, well, I mean, yeah, I do not know, but I just do know that it's been reported that he passed, and that's very unfortunate.
Uh, he did me a solid back in the day, he was a really good guy.
Um, I never had any problems with him.
He one day, Fred just messaged me and said, Hey, can I call you?
And I was like, sure.
And we just talked.
He was like really bummed out about something.
And he just wanted to have someone to talk to.
And I was there and we talked.
And I hope I helped him feel better.
So that was a thing that happened.
And I'm currently scrolling.
And basically, I'm here reading Jim Stewartson being a giant piece of shit and going at Fred after what when I decided to do my article for Skeptical Inquirer about QAnon, I reached out to Fred and he had it listed on his website that he usually charged for interviews.
And I reached out to him and I said, you know, and it was during COVID.
I was like, I don't really have any money to pay for this.
Would you still be able to do it?
And he went out of his way to do the interview for me and he was very sweet.
And I also, you know, I DM'd with him sometimes and interacted with him on Twitter and I talked with him on a Twitter space.
But that Skeptical Inquirer article happened to come out right after January 6th happened.
And the article became the cover story.
And my name was actually above Richard Dawkins' name on the cover.
And then that led to me doing an online presentation for Skeptical Inquirer, which had 1,200 live viewers, including Neil deGrasse Tyson.
And so it led to all these opportunities for me.
And Fred was a part of that.
Like Fred lent his expertise to that.
And it was all, it was dumb luck.
It was dumb luck.
It just, the article just happened to come out at the right time.
It was all dumb luck.
All dumb luck.
Well, I mean, that's what a lot of this is.
It's just the, you know, you're in the right place at the right time.
And Fred played a part in that.
And he was just so sweet and kind.
And, you know, we talked a little bit about New Jersey because he was originally from New Jersey and, you know, like some of the weird shit, you know, weird New Jersey magazine, stuff like that.
And, you know, and I felt for his disabilities and what he had to go through.
And I felt for what he went through.
And I, and, you know, as someone who went on a journey, you know, from being a conspiracy theorist to being a former conspiracy theorist and eventually being a person who felt comfortable enough to speak out about that, I began to feel more and more compassion for his story too.
You know, he created this evil thing where all this hatred and evil formed.
And then he reformed himself and then he made himself available to people like me and journalists and researchers who were studying QAnon and online extremism.
He made himself available to people and he reformed himself and he found love and he found peace.
And he all I, from what I understand, he also passed away in his sleep.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm, I, I'm glad that with all his suffering, that uh, his passing was not uh painful, that uh, he just passed in his sleep.
And that's Jim Stewartson.
Fuck Jim Stewartson.
I just posted a tweet about how if you don't think that Flynn is Q, Jay Stew will damn you to hell.
And that's what he did.
He posted a thing about Frederick Brennan and basically was like, Fred sucked and was bad and I hate him.
And that in a way, that would have just been sort of like piss baby, angry bullshit that I could have rolled my eyes at.
But then he ended the whole thing by whining about how Into the Storm was disinformation.
And then he damned Frederick to hell, which is, it just shows you how megalomaniacal Stewartson is about the whole Flynn is Q thing.
That if anyone does any reporting to suggest that Flynn wasn't Q, that means you're the enemy, you're opposition, that you're a paid shill.
He just thinks that nobody could possibly in good faith believe that Michael Flynn didn't start Q.
And do you know what the ultimate irony about the whole thing is?
Is that Cullen, the guy who made that documentary, it came out years later that he was the one that snuck Fred out of the Philippines, thereby saving his life and granting him a few more years, ultimately, right?
Now, Sue also hates him because his documentary says, you know, contrary, you know, it goes against Stu's beliefs.
Stu's belief is that Flynn is Q. Stu had the opportunity to meet Flynn in person, and he didn't even have the courage to do that.
Meanwhile, Cullen risked his own life to get Fred back to the United States.
Well, I mean, you know, he's a coward.
I say he couldn't go talk to Flynn.
That would involve getting off his couch.
All Stu did was pose with a bunch of red balloons and send one of his father.
Oh, my God.
I laughed my ass.
Like, Stu sits here and talks shit on Fred and shit on Cullen.
Cullen and Fred both risked their lives for this whole trip back to the United States.
Stu has never even had the courage to go to Flynn's documentary screening when it was like right down the street from his house.
Stu is nothing.
He's nobody.
He is, he's just, he's a turd with an iPad and too much time on his hands.
And you remember how he spent like a couple of weeks trying to make those balloons a thing?
Like he started putting balloons in his profile pictures.
Yeah, and he made himself a comic book character.
I was like, I posted all those AI pictures of himself.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was like, this is genuinely sad.
This is a, like, he needs, I, I had actually tried to get him 5150.
I don't care if he knows that.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the, what's so silly about him is like, now his avatar is like him as Cartman or as a South Park character.
Oh, that's perfect.
He just, he just memeifies himself so much.
Yeah.
I mean, I, I mean, I got my little avatar.
I got my poker cards, but it's just if I ever decided to like make my avatar me, it would just be a photo of me.
I wouldn't like do like what I do.
Right.
And that's what most people do.
Most people, most people who do that, they just do a headshot.
They just like post a picture of themselves and they're like, hey, this is me.
Or they have some like silly graphic that's like a part of their brand.
And that's fine.
But no, the Jim Stewartson's like, hey, I'm going to.
I could see myself making myself into like a like gorilla's tank girl style comic character, but that's about it.
But that's just because like, you know, gorillas, tank girl, that kind of kicks ass.
But, you know.
Yeah.
So that in closing, fuck Jay Stew.
Sorry to hear about the passing of Frederick Brennan.
Grateful that it was peaceful and that, I mean, he had a lot of, if he had gone to a Filipino prison, he would have just died immediately because his condition was so severe that there's no way he would have survived that.
Did you go to prison for slander in the Philippines?
Thomas's Appointment Controversy00:04:44
Yes.
That was literally what happened.
If you watch the documentary, they are, the police are coming for Frederick and they race him to the airport and he gets a one-way flight from the Philippines to America and basically escapes the country of the Philippines.
And the cops were like right on his heels.
Like they should have been at the airport like 20 minutes later or something to that effect.
Like they would have arrested him for slander.
And the entire point of doing it was not that it was like a legitimate attack or anything.
It was just so that he would have been put in custody and being in custody would have killed him.
Because if he had gone to prison, if he's got a cellmate, like that cellmate could have just been like, give me all your money or I touch you and you die.
And Frederick would have been like, here's all my money.
And a few years ago, the Watkins put a hit out on him while he was in the United States.
And a friend of mine, I'm not going to name this person, was in connection with someone in law enforcement who was trying to get this reported.
And they said, well, unless someone acts on this, we can't do anything about it.
So the Watkins were still, while Brennan was in the United States, trying to get him killed.
Anyhow, after that unbelievably uplifting and cheerful story, it's time to talk about tariffs.
QAnon's new favorite thing in the world, our brilliant economic model that is designed to bring in unimaginable wealth and save the future simultaneously.
What'd you say?
I said, and it'll simultaneously save the children.
Yes.
Somehow, some way.
That is the thing that I have been laughing at for the past couple of days is all these people talking about Trump issuing new tariffs after the Supreme Court struck down his old tariffs.
They're like, yeah, the tariffs were so happy.
And it's like, aren't you guys about ending the adrenochrome and saving the kids?
Why are tariffs now the thing that gets you all hot and bothered?
Why do you care about these literally at all?
And it's just really funny that that's the thing that's been going on is that I just remember my buddy, my pal, my homie, war clandestine, aka Jacob Creech, that schmuck.
When Trump officially announced the tariffs, I remember he was being like, I don't know what these whole tariff thing is about, but Trump's got to try something.
And I'm willing to back his play and hope for the best.
And now he's just like, yeah, tariffs, more tariffs.
Woo!
It's just so funny that he's gone from being like sort of kind of quizzical and skeptical to just absolute swinging from Trump's nuts 24-7.
It's just, I mean, it's, it's anything like if Trump came walking out to a press conference wearing nothing but a full pair of depends, you know, Clandestine would be like, I don't know what he's up to here, but I'm willing to see how it plays out.
Right, exactly.
I'm sure this is going to own some libs, something fierce when the 90 chess is revealed.
It's going to be great.
But basically, the Supreme Court came down and said that Trump does no right to do these tariffs.
And that is a easy reading of the law.
Somehow, he still got three votes in his favor because Alito Thomas and Kavanaugh are absolutely useless hacks.
Yeah, Thomas is going to vote Trump's way no matter what.
No matter what.
He will judicial Calvin ball his way to a pro-Trump vote no matter what.
It's really funny that like Trump's fiercest soldiers on SCOTUS are two of the conservatives he has not appointed to SCOTUS.
Like ABC, ACB and Gors Gorsis and ACB went against him on this one.
Two of the people he appointed, which always makes me laugh when they got appointed, Q Anon and Q were like, yeah, these are our boys.
They're on SCOTUS.
They're going to help us send all the liberals to Gitmo and save the world.
And now half the time, QAnon is like ACB fucking Illuminati shill.
Look at what Kat Turd was saying about Barrett before she was appointed.
And now a couple years in.
It's night and day.
He was like, he was like, she's the one person standing between us and, you know, complete.
He's still around.
He is.
He's still running over dogs.
Code For Pedophilia00:09:41
Oh, God.
Also, also, I love the Calvin Ball shout out because, and it's perfect because the rules were so complex.
No two games were ever the same.
Yeah.
And the rules were made up as you went along, which is exactly how MAGA works.
Yeah.
Oh, that just made me laugh because it reminded me reminding me of like the Illuminati game because Liz Krogan had an incredible tweet where she talked about how I think it was like Jill Biden was dressed as a panda, which is code for pedophilia.
And also there was a child that was dressed up like a chicken, aka chicken lovers, which is pedophilia.
And then there was pizza involved, which is pedophilia.
And it's just literally all words can be either directly turned into a code for pedophilia or a slant rhymed into a code for pedophilia.
So it's totally pointless.
Like the whole point of the game is pedophile.
That's just it.
Well, it maybe it seems to me like Liz has become so obsessed with pedophiles and she spends all of her time thinking about pedophiles that, oh, God, what if she starts researching some of this shit on her own?
If you get my direct.
I mean, what happened?
Okay.
Wow.
I was not going in that direction.
I was just going to say.
Well, no, I'm not, I'm not saying that she is, but some of these people, they get so obsessed with like that, like that Don Luker guy who posted still frames on Twitter to show people like, oh, this is what they do.
But only for outrage, which makes it okay.
Well, yeah, but some of them actually start looking for it to research it, not because they're into it, but to, you know, and they go, they sit there and they obsess about it.
And it like when I was in the Marilyn Manson back in the 90s, there were all these crazy like rumors like that he removed his ribs and that he was tall from the Wonder Years.
Just all this crazy, crazy shit about him.
And like none of it was true.
And there was crazier and crazier and crazier and crazier shit.
And one time, like he came out in an interview and he said, it seems to me like the real sickos are the ones who are coming up with this.
And that's what it seems to me with Liz Crokin.
Like she's so obsessed with pedophiles that she's inventing sick fucking shit.
You know what I mean?
And where does this sick shit go?
Does she lie in bed at night and imagine things that she thinks that they do?
You know what I mean?
Like she's almost like one of them in a way.
Liz has a legitimate brain injury from meningitis.
Oh, yeah, I know.
Liz, Liz is actually brain damaged.
I want to make that like abundantly clear.
Oh, I know.
Liz is not a well person, but I'm not thinking that she's going to, if it, if she ends up getting caught with like 12 gigs of C-scam on her hard drive, I'd be surprised.
I just think that I think she's just an.
I'm not saying that, but I mean, it's just she, she's so obsessed with it.
She goes to dark places.
Everything is pedophile to her.
Sorry, I have an orange in my mouth.
Everything, that's not, and I know she's brain damaged, but that is beyond every, it can't be that.
Like everything can't be a satanic symbol.
Everything can't be pedophilia.
You, you're seeing shit that isn't there everywhere.
And it's so sick.
It's so perverted on its own.
You know what I mean?
I don't know if I'm making sense.
I'm sorry.
I'm an idiot.
No, I think what you're saying makes sense in the way that you're a person can rewire their brain and do damage to themselves by believing this stuff and becoming obsessed with it.
But I don't really, the thing is, is I never take Liz as an honest broker about any of this shit because she's just such an attack dog for Trump and the right wing and for QAnon that when she's doing all of these things, it's not this, these bad people, this is a code word.
It's all just, I hate this person.
So I'm going to hit them with every smear, every lie, every distortion I can to make them look worse because I'm mad at them.
So I'll say anything where as Elon Musk wears the Baphomet armor to a concert and Liz immediately posts something where it's like, a hilarious troll of the deep state by Elon Musk.
He knows what's going on and he's rubbing their noses in it.
And the same thing will happen whenever Donald Trump goes anywhere with a bunch of pizza that he gives out to like firefighters or the troops or anybody else.
I know, but even for like whether or not Liz believes it, but and I'm thinking about the women in Noel's book, Noel Cook's book, The Conspiracists, Women, Extremism, and the Need for Belonging.
You should definitely check it out.
There are influencers and there are true believers.
And whether or not the influencers actually believe the shit that they're saying, the shit that there are people out there that actually do believe it.
And that's where that's where you are the victims.
Those are the people like that I was who believe this shit, who think, why do these people have it?
And I'm not calling myself a victim.
I don't want people to think I'm like pitying myself or anything like that.
But there are people out there who really do think that McDonald's uses the women in the book, Noel's book, think that McDonald's uses human meat.
They believe this shit.
They really do believe it.
And it fucks up their life.
So the sh that Liz Crokin is selling to people, whether or not she believes it, other people do believe it.
And I'm sorry, that just, that really makes me mad.
That makes me so mad.
So angry.
Sorry.
Why are you always sorry?
I don't, I, I, I just, my, my, it's, it makes it just like these people don't, I don't know how they sleep at night.
Like on a bed of money.
On a bed of money they sleep comfortable in the fact that they're making a buck.
You know, and I did a podcast interview with, with Spencer Watson once about this, but I, I, I noticed a similarity between conspiracy theory influencers and fentanyl dealers.
Like I saw like, you know, like they, they do the, they mask their face and they change their voice.
And someone was asking them, like, well, how do you sleep at night?
How do you deal with the fact?
And they're like, well, if they don't get it from me, they'll get it from someone else.
And like, it's the same with these conspiracy theory influencer as well.
You know, if I'm not selling people their bullshit, they'll get it from someone else.
And hey, I'm just having fun.
I'm making money.
I'm working the grind.
It's the same shit.
And these people that tell conspiracy theories, they're no better than fentanyl dealers.
And I'll stand by that.
So, yeah.
Yeah, but those, those people are completely okay with it.
They don't care.
I mean, they're, they're scum and they got a product to make a buck off of.
And this is what it is.
And the other thing that makes them different than the fentanyl dealer is the fentanyl dealer is selling fentanyl.
When you are Liz Crokin or you are Alex Jones or any of these grifters, you are selling yourself as a brand.
You are selling yourself as a hard-hitting investigative reporter who is giving people the inside dirt and the truth about what's going on in our world.
So it's more involved and it's more intense than just selling a shitty, fatal, dangerous product because you're selling yourself.
I mean, the whole point of all of this social media shit and podcasts and Twitter feeds and all this kind of stuff is that you're selling a brand.
You're selling yourself.
I'm Mike Raines and I'm letting you know that if you want to learn about QAnon and have the occasional jag into chess or poker, and if you want to talk about 90s alt rock band garbage, boy, howdy, am I here for you?
I mean, but it's just that's what we're doing.
We're all these schmucks just screaming out into the void, hoping that our voice resonates in some way, shape, or form.
The difference is that I'm not fucking lying and making up a bunch of bullshit to try to smear Tom Hanks as a serial killer or talking about Michelle Obama's girthy dick and all that kind of stuff, because that's what those people do.
That's what these people do.
They just wake up and they're What sort of horrible incendiary lie can I talk about today to try to sell to my addled, outraged, brain rotted audience?
Like, there were a bunch of people, including your boy Dom Lucre, and Concerned Citizen, I think, and Johnny Midnight.
Tom Hanks' Private Life00:15:10
A bunch of the big, like, aggregator right-wing shit accounts all retweeted this post about a clip from The Money Pit with Tom Hanks where he's in a pizza delivery car, and the guy drops him off, and Tom's walking away from the pizza delivery car.
And the pizza delivery car?
car has a song that's singing and it's little kids and the guy or and the adult and little kids are backing vocals and they say that like we're pizza, ready to eat, and they're all just feigning on the couch and screaming, oh, the children are calling themselves pizza and telling us that they're ready to be eaten.
This is what these sick bastards do, in plain sight.
It's just no, it's a fucking old movie and it's a fucking pizza thing.
It has nothing to do with anything, but no, they just the need, the need to find something to be mad about, the need for outrage.
Such a great movie, just the whole, the repetition of two weeks.
Two weeks, when will this be fixed?
And when the bathtub falls through the floor and he just stands there and he points at it and he laughs.
And when he falls through the hole in the floor and he's stuck there and he's just doing the bo bo bo ba, banana bana bo ba.
It's a great movie but they can't enjoy it.
They can't enjoy movies because they're too busy looking for conspiracies.
You know what I look for in movies.
I I only took one film class, but I finished the film class as a 103 out of 100.
I got really into it because I learned how to bake the proper way.
Yes, it was just one film class and it was intro, but there are things that you look for in films and they're not conspiracies.
You look for mise-anse, you look for the layout, the way people are set around a table and stagecoach was used as an example.
That's baking.
That's real film baking.
Those are things that I look for in films.
You look at.
You look for color, you look for like, like in Bone Temple, there's a certain character that takes off their jacket when every other character has their jackets on there.
You know, just like in Star Trek with the, the characters with the red things conspiracy.
People are too busy looking for shit that isn't there.
But if all you have to do is take one film class and you can learn how to look for shit.
That is there and you can have a lot of fun.
A lot of fun and you can enjoy learn to, just with one film i'm not saying i'm a connoisseur don't, i'm not but with just one intro to film class and you could probably take one at like a local, you know, like community center or whatever.
I took one at a community college.
You can, You don't, God, like they're ruining it.
You can bake films without conspiracy theories.
I just, I'm sorry.
Another rant.
Please stop saying you're sorry at the end of all your ranting.
But the point is, they're baking wrong.
No, they're not baking wrong.
They're baking correctly.
They're doing what they're supposed to be doing, which is upsetting their audience, which is what their audience wants.
They're giving their audience the content they need to be pissed off at the world because that's the shitty way these people live their lives.
They wake up mad and they're looking for justifications for why they woke up mad.
And then they get to see a clip about the money pit and the kids calling themselves pizza.
And now they're mad and they're justified mad.
And it's just that kind of mentality.
It's just this sick need to just have an axe to grind all the time.
And that's the thing, too, is that that's the thing, too, that is that it's a need.
It's, I mean, you look back at it.
Okay, the money pick him out in the 80s.
Who was Tom Hanks in the 80s?
He was comedic actor number 4,638.
He was not, you know, the star of Forrest Gump.
He was not 80s.
I mean, he was funny.
Like, I knew who Tom Hanks was in the 80s.
I thought he was real funny, but he wasn't.
Man with one red shoe.
Yes.
That was what it was.
Yes, that was another movie.
And that would be a QAnon Baker.
But my point is that he wasn't Mr. Hollywood back then.
There was no reason why he would be considered one of the elites back then.
But they're still convinced that even then he was still running this worldwide sex trafficking ring from whatever trailer park he was living in at the time.
Yeah.
So if anyone doesn't know the lore around Tom Hanks and why QAnon hates him, you'll be very interested to find out that Q never mentions Tom Hanks.
He might have been in on the fake Epstein list that Q posted, but Q's gone after people directly.
Like Patton Oswald is in the Q drops as a pedophile.
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are people that Q's gone after as being pedophiles that he hates.
There are like just random celebrities that Q has attacked.
Rachel Chandler, who is literally a private citizen who knows famous people, but is not famous herself, was the lynchpin of the deep states movement.
And if Rachel Chandler fell, the whole rotten house collapsed around her.
So like that was the kind of shit that Q did to attack people.
And he never did that to Tom Hanks.
The two things that happened to Tom Hanks was A, on his Instagram account, Tom would post photos of discarded crap that he found while he was walking alongside the highway or beaches or wherever, because Hanks kind of has to lead a private life because he can't be out in public or else he'll get mobbed for being a famous celebrity.
So he would like post things where he'd be like, oh, this sandal I found on the beach.
That's an art form.
It's called found art.
It's an actual art style where people will that some people collect it and some people just take photos, but it's an actual like nerdy form of art.
Anyway, sorry.
And I'm sorry for being sorry, but it's, it's, that's actually a very nerdy, cool thing to do.
So he would find things and post stuff online about those things that he found.
And then he would, and that would just be a thing.
And this became baked as these are the trophies that Tom Hanks collected from the people he has brutally murdered, that these are his collections of these, these are the things he took from those he slaughtered and exanguinated for their sweet, sweet adrenochrome.
And I don't know if that came before or after the second thing, but the second thing was back in the old school QAnon days, back when I first got into this shit, which was my Twitter feed is like August of 2018.
So I was kind of like, I don't know, like six, seven months into QAnon when it started.
But Sarah Ruth Ashcraft was one of the OG QAnon promoters at that time.
And she was a very big celebrity in the QAnon world.
And her claim to fame, the reason why she had obtained her level of stardom was that she claimed her father had sold her to Tom Hanks to be abused by Tom Hanks.
So she claimed to be actually a victim of abuse at the hands of Tom Hanks.
She has no evidence to support any of these claims.
And she had a lot of signs of like mental illness and really just she talked about not being on her meds and how she wouldn't take them because like they were like bullshit that the government was doing that like fucking like mess with her and all that kind of stuff.
But instead of looking at this and saying, hey, Sarah, you should, you know, probably get some help.
You need it.
You're in a bad place mentally and could stand to be better off by getting treatment.
QAnon was just like, oh man, justice for you.
Tom Hanks totally did those things to you.
That's so bad.
Please keep posting and like just doing stuff and promoting QAnon and attacking Tom Hanks.
So they just egged her on to continue doing this terrible thing that was very self-destructive for her.
And she even got a shout out and fall cabal.
Jeanette Oberstad even like listed her as like one of the great heroes of the movement that was speaking out against the crimes of the deep state.
So that is the story behind why every time Tom Hanks posts something or some movie studio who's promoting the latest Tom Hanks film does like, Tom Hanks is in this movie.
And then the first 100 comments are fucking pedophile.
You're going to get what's coming to you, you piece of shit.
Well, there's nothing to stop what's coming.
There was another character who came out of the woodwork recently named Sasha Riley, who was kind of adopted more by the Blu Anon crowd.
But this character was an Iraqi war veteran.
I'm not sure.
I think they recently changed their pronouns, so I'm just going to go by they.
And because their accusations include Epstein and Trump, they've been kind of adopted by Bluenon.
And then this online influencer rim with their story.
Their name pop up a lot lately.
And their family is getting harassed massively, which is where, you know, obviously where I come in.
There's not much that I can really do in this instance.
And there is this person's accusations include Tom Hanks and also include that Jane Goodall was brought in to treat them at one point.
Like it like, what?
Yeah, the anthropologist is really good at handling sexual assault.
I'd say did she spend a lot of time among gorillas helping coach them through trauma?
I mean, what's going on here?
And one of the accusations includes like that Sasha was able to fight back against one of the people assaulting them with a tent peg that was next to a bed.
Why is there a tent peg next to a bed?
Are you planning on getting really kinky?
Like what, what?
Like the the the and like the the number of people in the house described like that the house that's described could not possibly fit that number of people in it.
Just none of it.
It's just a satanic panic.
And it's obviously someone with mental disturbance caused by the war and then someone who wants to make money becoming an online influencer exploiting them.
And then, hey, let's just attach Epstein and Trump to it and boom.
And while there's a family, you know?
You ever notice that it's always like really famous people like, you know, this woman didn't come forward and say, Oliver Platt, you know, bought me for sex slavery or, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
The same with reincarnation.
It's never, you know, I was, I was a plowsharer, you know, back in the Roman Empire, you know, Cleopatra.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
It's very funny that you brought that up because I, a million years ago, uh, did a thing where I, like, you make up characters and you like write stuff and it's collaborative writing bullshit.
And one of the characters that I created was a person who believed that they had, they literally had like the first soul of humanity inside of them and they've been reincarnated like hundreds, if not thousands of times.
And one of his jokes was, oh yeah, everyone's Cleopatra.
He was just like, oh yeah, yeah.
He's like, look, I wasn't Cleopatra and neither were you.
So calm down, buddy.
He actually would do the bit where he go, yeah, I did do plowshares.
Like I did have some boring lives back in the day.
But so I enjoy that kind of shtick.
But it's, it's that thing where all these people, all they ever do is confirm your biases.
Nobody ever says anything that is challenging to their audience because that would be dangerous because you could make your audience mad at you.
And I'm still thinking about this Jane Goodall thing.
And the only thing I could come up with is that she recently made a splash in conspiracy circles because she came out and said that she believes in Bigfoot.
So I think maybe that watch turned somebody's head.
It was supposed to be like to treat his like feral, their feral behavior or something.
But I mean, I think that's why they picked Jane Goodall of all people was that because she was on conspiracy radar at the moment.
But another thing, they've just got this when you're talking about like the anger.
I did this interview and I was trying to sell this article and I couldn't sell it to anybody.
I got to figure out something to do with it.
But there's this guy in Massachusetts named Gary and he's friends with Winks.
You know her on Twitter and Blue Sky as Winks.
And Winks had been a conspiracy theorist and then she broke out of that and then she found Gary online and Gary was hardcore conspiracy theories like Sandy Hook was fake, 9-11, like all that stuff.
Gary even had an AR-15 that was autographed by Ted Cruz.
Like Gary was like pals with Ted Cruz.
And Wink slowly broke through to Gary.
And one of the things Gary said to me in this interview I did with them was that he would wake up angry.
He would turn on this, this right-wing radio show at like eight in the morning.
And he was like, you know, he would already be angry when he woke up and he turned on the show.
And like at eight o'clock.
Gary's Morning Rage00:02:48
And then by like 8.05, his blood pressure was up.
And then 8.30, he was ready to like rip the world apart.
And now he said the change in his life without that shit, with with looking back on how he was that just the difference.
Like he would, he would put his, these kids were like toddlers at the time and he would put them in anti-Obama onesies.
And he's like, why was I doing that to my fucking kids?
I'm just exposing my fucking children to that shit.
Like, who does that?
And he said, like, the person I was, and it, it, it does change you.
Like, Liz Kroken does have like an actual like physiological like illness that changed her brain.
But studies have shown that this shit makes changes into your neural pathways and shit and destroys you.
It puts changes in your brain.
And like if you, if you put like a conspiracy theorist and a non-conspiracy theorist and an fMRI, different centers of the brain are going to light up and it's not going to be good.
And when I was into this shit, I would wake up angry for no reason.
And then I would go looking for reasons to be angry.
And I, and even sometimes now I find myself looking for reasons to be angry and I have to invent it.
And, but I'm aware of that now and I'm able to work with that.
But and this is from 2017 that I got out, February 2017.
Oh my God, it's my nine-year anniversary.
Oh, hey, everybody.
It's nine year.
I'm nine years sober.
But, but that's, but that's the point.
Nine years and I'm still working.
This, this, this shit that these people sell to other people, this is like fentanyl.
Like this is something you have to work at for a long, long time to recover from.
You know, and people like Sassy and Winks, we still have to work every day to fix ourselves.
And people like Liz Kroken, whether they believe it or not, and people like Jim Stewartson too, are selling conspiracy theories to people, damaging their brains and their lives.
Yeah, that's the product.
That's the product is brain rot.
And that's what it's about.
It's about my audience is hopped up on anger and I got to give them that drug and I got to give it to them all the time.
Conspiracy Theories and Brain Rot00:14:51
And oh, I completely, I completely forgot.
And our pre-show meeting, our, our, our hard-hitting production meeting where we're all totally focusing on our A games and ready to bring our best to the pod.
Absolutely.
We all completely forgot that Prince Andrew got arrested because that was one of the big wins for QAnon.
They're totally validated and all that horse shit.
And we did it and yay and all that crap.
And it was, yeah, it was Awakened Outlaw and, you know, sitting at his keyboard 18 hours a day, they got Prince Andrew arrested.
Yes, we did it.
We did it, friends.
Our F-R-E-D or however they spell it, Friends.
F-R-E-N-S.
Yes, friends.
Yes, we did it.
We did it, friends.
What's really funny is that when you see all of these people posting this shit and screaming and yelling about it, you would have thought that this involved the Epstein and the sex trafficking and Andrew raping someone or like being provided with someone to have sex with.
And it was obviously they were being paid for it and they were like abducted or something.
They were being enforced to consent to this act.
So that was the crime.
It was not.
This was not why Prince Andrew was indicted.
He was indicted for leaking classified documents.
Apparently he gave Epstein or his associates some sort of classified financial information from some British group that he was not supposed to hand out.
And that is what I'm interested.
I'll take it.
I mean, it's not what we want, but I'll take it.
I will make this clear.
I don't care about Prince Andrew in the slightest.
He is a royal.
They're just a bunch of fucking useless, weird upper class nobodies that are just born into a life of privilege.
So whether or not that guy faces justice really doesn't impact anything because he doesn't actually wield any power.
He's just a fucking idiot that was born to the right parents and thusly gets to live the golden life, which great.
Congratulations.
You're one of the winners of the Lucky Sperm Club Wonder Bar.
So I just, I don't care why they arrested him.
If he goes to jail for his crimes, that's great.
Just has absolutely no impact on me whatsoever.
But boy, let me tell you, these people are pounding their chests.
They're like, we did it.
He's going to go to jail for forever.
The great awakening is upon us.
And it's like, really?
I mean, your entire conspiracy theory has been nine years of disappointments.
You got to take whatever Ellie.
You got to take your dubs.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
The most worthless of all of our enemies.
And it's not even for sex crimes.
We did it.
We did it.
Well, I mean, he is worthless, but I think it's important.
I mean, I saw the video that was recorded by Guffrey's brother and sister.
And it made me cry.
And, you know, I know it wasn't for sex crimes.
And, but I think there is a symbolism of justice to it because it does put some pressure.
You know, like Bill Gates had to just cancel a speaking engagement.
And I know that's, that's nothing.
But it does.
Oh, but to listen to Twitter, you think that's the, like that speaking engagement is the beginning of his downfall.
He Bill Gates is officially over now on according to Twitter.
Not necessarily, but I mean, it does put some social pressure.
It could put some pressure on us symbolically.
And for me, like just for the Guffrey thing and watching that video, it really moved me.
And it kind of reminded me of like McNamara, Oswald's wife.
Like she was so obsessed with finding the golden state killer and they found him.
And it was after she died.
And it was like Guffrey was so focused on something with Andrew and it finally happened, but like after she died, like there's this bittersweet, like sense of like a little bit of closure, you know?
And so for me, the Andrew thing was to me like a big deal.
And I and there is some pressure that it is being put on the U.S., like just blaring everywhere all over the news, like the UK is doing shit.
Why isn't the US?
You know, and I even said my husband's version.
I was like, so you guys are handling your shit.
You guys are taking care of your Jimmy Savilles.
Why aren't we taking care of ours?
And he's like, well, that's because we still believe in justice, you know, or some form of it.
Like that's the thing is that when you're talking about social pressure, there's no pressure on Trump.
He's never going to do any fucking thing.
No one can make them in do anything he doesn't want to do.
There's, there's no crime that could be committed that he's not going to call up Bill Gates or any other billionaire and say, hey, give me, give me $50 million and this all goes away.
I mean, we don't have a government that is accountable in any way, shape, or form.
Oh, no, we don't.
But I mean, people like Gates, like, he's socially dead.
He's not going to really lose money, but nobody wants, you know, he's a hot potato.
Yeah, but again, that means nothing.
He's just going to retreat to his fortress and swim around in his money like Scrooge McDuck, being one of the richest men on earth.
So I know, but I guess that's all we can ask for.
I'm just saying for me, it's just pathetic that Prince Andrew is where these people are trying to get their victory from and screaming, look, we told you this was going to happen.
We told you they were all going to go down for their crimes and blah, blah, blah.
And it's like, Obama and Hillary are still free and they're not implicated in the Epstein files.
And you're trying to get a hill dog to testify in front of a committee and her and Bill are like make it public assholes.
We want to, we, I dogwalked your asses for 11 hours on Benghazi.
I'm ready for round two.
I'll do this again to you guys.
And so I just think that it's just really sad that their actual enemies, the people they actually hate, which are basically big, powerful Democrats who either would, who either were president or ran for president.
And the people that are Newsom is obviously a new big bad and Pritzker and AOC, although they, because AOC is sexy, they like her and they hope she's a secret white hat and all that good stuff.
But I just, they haven't gotten any of the actual real people they've been claiming they were going to get for the last nine years.
So seeing them puff out their chests and get all excited over Prince Andrew is just so pathetic.
And hey, if he goes to jail, then great, but it's not going to, it's not going to, it's not the domino theory.
Him going down doesn't bring down the next one that people say that it's like they're thinking today, Prince Andrew, tomorrow, John Podesta.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
I'm not saying that.
I want to be clear.
I'm not, I'm not like buying in into that.
I'm not.
I just want to be clear.
I'm an idiot.
I want to be clear about that.
But I do understand the need for clarification, though.
I think you're cool.
I just, it's just they're so desperate to be able to say that they did that, anything has gone their way.
That, like, we're winning, and they need forward momentum.
The whole point of QAnon is that it's constantly winning, it's constantly racking up W's.
You need to join our movement because our movement has been telling you the truth for the past nine years, and we're building up inexorable force towards our inevitable victory.
And we're bringing about the Great Awakening, and you've got to listen to us, and blah, And that's just how they operate.
And it is something that is so desperate to maintain that forward momentum that whenever there's a setback, it has to be a cunning trap by Trump or 9D chess.
And it's not actually a loss.
It's secretly a win.
And this is all going to work out great for them in the end.
And just you wait, just you watch.
We got this, bro.
All of that.
Yeah, like even they're claiming that him losing the Supreme Court case on tariffs was secretly part of the plan.
Yes.
Like, yes, you, Supreme Court, you fell into my trap.
Now I can use your judgment to something.
Well, what's really funny is that he then unleashed another tariff under a different statute, which, of course, QAnon has screamed and yelled as a totally awesome and great.
And they're totally winning.
And I've actually seen people talk about the statute in question.
And it basically involves another country attempting to do something to devalue the dollar and to make the dollar weaker.
And that if that is happening, then the president can do this tariff maneuver in an effort to prevent that.
And that is something that is not, uh, it's not actually happening.
Like, none of these, none of these countries are doing this.
And it is actually the treasury and the Trump administration's stated policy that they want a weaker dollar.
They want a cheaper dollar to help lower prices.
So like this, this will be challenged in court and it will like not work.
But what's really funny about all of it is that this tariff statute, the president is allowed to do it for 150 days.
And then after that, Congress has a vote on whether or not they want to maintain the tariff or not.
So basically, close to the election, or basically like three or four months before the election, all these Republicans are going to be put on the spot to either vote to keep Trump's tariffs that are raising prices and making your cost of living higher, or to vote against the God Emperor and his royal decree that tariffs are great.
So sticking his party with a dog shit vote in an election year just chefs kiss political incompetence.
Just absolutely incredible.
Please, Donnie, keep stepping on those rakes.
Make it worse for your party.
You're doing great, sweetie.
It's just awesome.
It's just absolutely awesome.
10 out of 10, no notes.
Please just.
And then they treat this guy like he's some political prodigy who just, you know, he's got the Midas touch, but he's constantly making the lives of every member of his party harder.
And they have to stand there in front of a TV camera and grin and say, yes, I totally believe in his plan to crater the economy just in time for an election.
That's this is one of the things that just makes me want to punch a wall.
And whenever I see someone announce you lost to a reality game show host, well, A, if you're not a Republican, you lost for them also, buddy.
You abstaining or voting for Jill Stein did not make you not lose to Donald Trump.
You lost to him too.
But it's such an unbelievably dishonest framing of who Donald Trump is and what kind of a political candidate he was.
Because in 2016, he was being packaged as this savvy billionaire businessman, the host of The Apprentice.
Yes, a reality show.
But it wasn't a reality show where people were eating horse hearts or finding immunity idols.
It was a reality show where the best and brightest of America or celebrities did their best to earn the favor of Donald Trump because he was so powerful and great that having Donald Trump give you an Atta boy was worth risking public humiliation and shame on this national television show.
Just him saying, Steve, you done did good.
That was like the ultimate benediction.
It was the validation of your career.
You went to Yale and you did all this other work, but that all pales in comparison to having Donald Trump give you a firm handshake and then sanitize his hand because he hates germs.
And also his hand's very tiny.
But you had that.
You had the fact that he had been a celebrity for like 30 years.
The dude took a stone-cold stunner at WrestleMania.
The man has a cool name, and that cool name has like 100% name recognition across America.
I see people talking about John Ossoff potentially being a like a kind of a dark horse nominee for president in 2028.
And it's like, A, Osoff is a tough name.
We're going to have to work on that.
And B, how many Americans know John Ossoff?
10% if you're lucky, if you're really lucky.
Like the whole point of being a political candidate is name recognition and building a brand.
Trump ran for president with like a 30-year-old brand behind him.
And it wasn't that tricky.
It wasn't that hard of a sell.
And then he lost the popular vote by 3 million votes, anyways, to that Harry and True Hillary Clinton, but won because our election system is stupid.
Great.
Congratulations.
And then in 2024, when he ran for president, he was the former president who was the leader of a cult and had total control over the Republican Party.
And the media loved him.
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It's like, oh my God.
Like anyone who wants to tell me, you lost to a reality show host.
It's like, fuck you.
That is so disingenuous.
It has nothing to do with what actually happened.
It is the most ridiculous way to try to downplay the cultural influence of Donald Trump, which is now horrifying.
We can't get away from the man.
He's been literally like imposing his will upon our lives for the last 10 years and he's inescapable.
It sucks.
So, yeah, great.
It's just great.
But he looks like, again, every week, God, does he look worse and worse?
And God is his brain more melty all the time.
I mean, JD Vance and Peter Thiel are like counting down the seconds to 12027 and getting their 10-smasher of a presidency for Mr. Vance, which is not going to happen because JD Vance sucks.
I'm going to make that clear.
Yeah.
So, I mean, it is a hoot and a holler that what we're dealing with there.
And we're getting close to the 90-minute mark here, so we're running late.
But one last quick thing is here.
Apparently, there's some really bad shit going on in Mexico.
We'll probably have better stuff to talk about that for next week.
But some big cartel leader got himself either killed or captured by the Mexican government.
And the cartel has decided to just go to war with the Mexican citizen street.
So get ready for war with Mexico and Iran upcoming because there's not a place on earth that Donald Trump doesn't like to attack unless it's Russia.
Russia's pretty cool.
Trump was.
Is it okay if I root for Mexico and Iran?
Well, Iran ain't going to win.
I mean, that's Mexico would be really messy, but Iran.
The thing is, is that Iran is just going to suck.
I just have a hard time finding anything to root for for this country anymore.
I think that's really a really negative and really defeat.
I know, I know, I know.
Just if we can dig through the shit, there's some shine underneath.
There's some shine underneath.
We just need to flush the toilet a few times.
Yes.
Yeah.
And that's the thing.
I think it is really important.
I think it's really important for people to understand that this sort of fighting.
But I'm saying this, this fuck America, this country sucks.
That kind of negativity doesn't sell to anyone under any circumstances.
I mean.
And don't take me as completely serious when I say that, yeah, I am a little bit down on this country.
And I think it's shitty, but it's still worth fighting for.
There's still things worth fighting for.
People are still worth fighting for.
Yeah.
And also, I just think that people look for optimism and a better tomorrow.
And this is something that any politician with any knowledge of how to like run a campaign, you tap into that message.
You tap into that.
And that was like Zoron's whole thing in New York was that better things are possible.
A better New York can be achieved.
And that is something that when you have enough charisma and you can present yourself in a way that people will believe you as being authentic, you can sell that.
I saw someone actually say that they were off-put by Mandani because he smiled a lot.
And it's like, yeah, that's called being a politician.
You should be smiling.
You should be happy.
You should wake up every morning on the campaign trail thinking about how you're going to sell your agenda to your constituents, how you're going to improve their lives once you are in office.
Like optimism sells.
It is a good thing.
You should not be dour and miserable.
And talking about how much the country you are a part of sucks.
And what's really annoying to me, what really gets me about all of this shit is that being down on America is something Republicans do all the time.
They constantly attack the quote-unquote coastal elites and they constantly talk about how LA and New York suck.
And they hate cities and they hate basically anywhere that doesn't vote for them.
And all of that happens all the time.
But if some Democrat said, you know what?
Texas kind of sucks.
Oh my God, there would be riots in the streets.
Oh, they would like burn that Democrat's house to the ground because how fucking dare you attack America?
How dare you attack the good people of Texas, one of the great states of America and one of the greatest states in the world.
You piece of shit.
But Donald Trump can call New York and Los Angeles Sodom and Gomorrah.
And they'll be like, ha ha, Donald Trump owning those libs.
How'd you like that, you cucks?
You got owned by the POTUS, the God Emperor.
And it's just, man, hilarious what a double standard we have where liberals are not allowed to say anything bad about anybody, but Republicans can just shit on blue states.
And it's a total winner.
I mean, it's a total winner.
That's like the whole, that's the implicit statement in the word again in make America great again, which means America was great before.
Then the libs made it shitty.
Now we got to fix it.
Now we got to fucking get rid of all the lib woke shit and America will be back where it belongs, baby.
And it's just like that kind of stuff that just like it's miserable.
It's a terrible way to exist.
And it's, it's, it's something that in the end, it's, in the end, it's losing.
And it's really funny that to bring this back to Bad Bunny, because isn't everything all about Bad Bunny in the end?
When on the Super Bowl big screen, it said, the only thing more powerful than hate is love.
And conservatives were mad about that.
It's just like, what?
You're anti-love, your anti-compassion, your anti-friendship and fellowship with your fellow man.
That's what upsets you.
Like, like that, like that, that is the most snowflake reaction ever, honestly.
Like, I knew nothing at all about this, the Super Bowl halftime, really.
I didn't watch it.
I didn't watch any of the replays, nothing.
I just, I don't have any interest in that stuff.
And the only time I do the Super Bowl is sometimes we go down to Stanhope's house and, you know, you're at Stanhope's house, you watch the Super Bowl, even if you're not interested.
But it's like, how is that offensive?
Like, how, how, also, I just want, you know, conservatives should also keep in mind that love is the path of least resistance.
Like, if you're walking down the street and there's a homeless man, right?
Hating him requires you to stop and stand there and scream at him or kick him.
It requires energy.
Okay.
Even if you just walk by him and you yell at him, that requires energy.
Loving him requires stopping.
Hey, do you need anything?
You're using less energy to love him than you are to hate him.
Love takes less energy than hate.
Like, so if you want to be like some Silicon Valley bro and talk about like return on investment or use of energy, blah, It takes less energy to love.
And, you know, the whole thing about frowning versus smiling, like it takes more like muscles to frown than it does to smile.
And smiling actually releases chemicals in your brain that makes you happy, even if you aren't happy.
So that's really stupid.
That's that like if you break it down on like that's so stupid that they got upset.
That's so stupid on every level.
Yeah, but that's that that's how they operate.
That's where they're at.
They're they are mad at the concept of unity because they believe that this is a it's a way it's a Trojan horse.
It's a way to sneak in a perverted agenda where we have to tolerate the gays and the trans and all the other stuff because it's love to expect them.
When in reality, according to Republicans, trans people are actually demon-possessed ball spawn that seek to kill us all.
And if we're not hip to that, the Republic will pay a fell price for it.
Or if you're more, if you're on a more positive spin, it's trans people are poor fools who have been lied to by the liberal media and are being forced to gunpoint to become something they're not.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
All that kind of stuff.
I mean, it's just it's grim.
It's really grim.
I had a really fun, we had this really fun little thing that happened on the social media where a bunch of people were talking about how Democrats will sell out trans people at the drop of a hat.
They can't wait to sell us out about the, is what the claim about for trans people is.
And I just think that's so ridiculous given the fact that, again, the worst of Democrats might be worried about trans people competing in transitioning people competing in sports and childhood transitioning.
And that's like the steelman argument you could possibly push.
I haven't really seen a lot of Democrats being anti-childhood transitioning and that kind of stuff.
But hey, anyways.
There's this one account I follow who's, she's like a nurse and she's like solidly progressive on pretty much everything.
But then when it comes to child transitioning, she treats it like it's like it's literal, you know, biblical satanic evil happening.
Right.
Right.
But I mean, she's not an elected official.
And then Eric's like, no, it's AOC.
And I'm like, oh, shit, it's really weird.
That'd be great.
No, but this person mentioned to me, like, I posted this whole thing where I'm like, Republicans think that trans people are, again, demon-infested ball spawn and Democrats are 90% or 95% in favor of all trans things.
And there's a few squishes on a few issues.
And this person replied to me and said, they are objectively anti-trans and are pushing anti-LGBT legislation.
And I asked this person where, and they said, everywhere, especially at the federal level, which was very exciting to me because I did not hear about all the anti-LGBTQ plus laws Joe Biden signed into effect when he was president.
And I asked this person, did they have a link?
And they replied to me, have you ever heard of Kocha Section 230 or the trans athlete ban?
And then they added at the end, also supporting ICE Israel neoliberalism and ETC, which I think is the earned tax credit, which I don't know how that's anti-trans, but maybe ETC is something else.
But if you're going to talk about supporting ICE in Israel, I got a political party that really does that for you.
And boy howdy, is it not the Democrats?
And neoliberalism is just a catchphrase for all politics I don't like.
So I don't care.
But there is no trans athlete ban.
The only thing that is like that is Trump signed an executive order to outlaw men in women's sports, which, again, is an EO.
So it has really like kind of no legal standard.
And COSA is Kids Online Safety Act, which is one of these bills that has a lot of support and opposition all across the political spectrum because there are a lot of people who are like, hey, we got to make the internet safe for kids.
We can't be doing weird shit.
And the other side is it's a slippery slope.
You can use the kids to defend any form of censorship and preventing people from seeing what they want to see online and so on and so forth.
And also more importantly, COSA has not passed.
Joe Biden did not sign it into law.
The bill didn't make it through.
And finally, section 230 is another internet thing about internet platforms not being sued for content on them.
They're just a platform.
They're not the creator of the content.
So I just don't get it.
I just don't get how Democrats can be attacked for this shit.
It's just so ridiculous that really in the world, the Democratic Party is probably the most trans-friendly party in any Democratic society.
And yet they're squishes.
They're just waiting to sell the trans people out in a drop of a hat.
And it's just really frustrating.
This is the world we live in where they can't win.
They just cannot win with people.
And that's bad because the other side is literal Nazis who deny reality, which is why we go ahead.
I was going to say, it doesn't help that the only people who hate Democrats more than Republicans are progressives.
Yes, exactly.
It's just magical.
It's truly magical.
So on that unbelievably happy note, I'm going to call it for this week.
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