Premium Episode 57: QAnon 2019 Retrospective feat Mike Rothschild (Sample)
Domestic terrorism, dead mob bosses and fallen influencers — it was quite a year for QAnon. We go through it with Mike Rothschild, a repeat guest and writer specializing conspiracy theories.
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Welcome, listener, to the 57th premium chapter of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the QAnon 2019 Retrospective episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, Mike Rothschild, and Travis View.
2019, whether executing mob bosses or spawning rallies, this year was a real one for our favorite conspiracy theory.
It saw the death of 8chan, the resurrection of 8chan, the return of Q, some alleged domestic terrorism, a healthy amount of scene infighting, and even a handful of political candidates.
Did we personally profit from it?
Not to mention the death of Epstein as well.
Yes, we did profit from it.
Does that make us immoral?
Also yes.
And that's why we've invited Mike Rothschild, a writer with a focus on conspiracy theories and, of course, a repeat guest of the pod, to scroll through the feed of madness that is 2019 in the QAnon world.
So together, we are going to attempt to squeeze a swan song from the end of this decade.
Welcome, Mike.
Nice to be here.
Come and hang out in the actual Foam Palace with us.
It's not often we have physical guests because most of the people we interview are elitists.
They're coastal elitists.
The wrong coast, of course.
There's only one coast.
There's the West Coast.
And then there's the misery of an everlasting winter.
Yeah, well it's on the wall.
It's also fortunate that you have come to visit us in winter, because during the summer this room, what with all the foam and the sleeping bags hanging from the ceiling, and the Q shirt signed by Dylan Wheeler, and an old flag with bullet holes.
This room is going to become napalm in the summer.
Yeah, it gets pretty sweaty.
Get some orange juice in here and the foam will absorb it.
We're going to create napalm.
It's going to be hellish.
It's audio burning, man.
Exactly.
While the U.S.
government goes to war with Iran, we will go to war with all the QAnon followers.
And I will actually light on fire from being so triggered by all of the smorgas.
Beautiful stuff.
So gentlemen, I thought we'd just take a trip down memory lane.
Just go through it chronologically.
Start at the beginning of this highly eventful year in QAnon.
So let's start in January 2019.
The year was starting.
We were so hopeful that things would get better.
And of course it didn't, because I think the really the most notable story of that month was when the QAnon follower Bucky Wolf confused his brother for a lizard and then killed him.
With a sword.
In the head.
I had completely forgotten about this.
Yes, yes. This was a tragic incident. It was a Seattle man.
Apparently he was really suffering from some extremely serious mental health issues. I mean,
he left a...
Seems the murder is more of a David Icke inspired murder than it is a QAnon inspired murder.
Yes. The thing is that this is usually not counted amongst the QAnon murders because
it doesn't seem like he was motivated by QAnon.
Lizard people isn't, strictly speaking, a QAnon thing.
That's been around quite a while.
Yeah.
And it's not really integrated in any way into the lore.
That's true.
It's not part of the QAnon lore.
But the thing is that this guy was a proud boy.
I documented on Twitter, basically, he left his YouTube page and he left basically a series of likes that kind of like showed His descent into lizard people believing, you know, you look back and early enough It looked like he was like into like fitness videos music videos and normal stuff and then he got into like Like some weird stuff like free energy stuff.
Yeah, and then he got into like the sea With like SJW suck.
I hate as social justice warriors political correctness some bill some bill burr Soft stuff soft stuff, but then he got into like Alex Jones Alex Jones, and then he got into Lauren Southern, Gavin McGinnis, and then he got into Red Ice TV, and this was white supremacist content, and then he got into QAnon, and then he got into Lizard People.
It was just a descent.
Once you get, and the fitness videos are questionable, but really, once you get to the SJW suck videos, it is a very short ride on YouTube to white supremacist content.
It's a very short and a very violent ride.
It's, yeah, once YouTube is like, oh, you don't like those people, we've got somebody for you.
We've got a whole path we can take you down.
Can we talk about the fact that 2019 was warning us very early about the fact that we would eventually...
Have names like, uh, what was it, Brunk?
Yeah, Brunk and, uh, Joab.
Joab, by throwing us Bucky, Bucky Wolf.
Bucky Wolf, which is absolutely not, that is a Disney, that's a Disney IP.
Why is it?
It's like, I feel like this is the end of like an M. Night Shyamalan movie.
Once somebody pointed out, whoever it was a couple episodes ago, that every big QAnon sort of story or even just like kind of minor review leavers on Amazon has like a crazy fucking name.
I see it all the time now.
I can only see it in fact.
And that was the beginning, January 2019.
We should have known.
Yeah.
Bucky Wolf.
Bucky Wolf really demonstrated that he's one of those people like if you believe one conspiracy, you believe them all.
Right.
And so this is like you've seen a lot with like people who are like they're crossbreeding between conspiracy theories, Mike.
Yeah, it's totally you.
I like to say that conspiracy theories are like Pringles.
You don't eat just one.
So if you like one conspiracy theory, it's gonna be salty and fatty enough for you to want another one.
And then you've eaten half a tube of Pringles, and then you go grab a sword and stab your brother in the head.
Right.
Yeah.
Also, you need something saltier and fattier and more flavorful than the last Pringle.
A regular Pringle doesn't do it.
You need the Cool Ranch Pringles.
Exactly.
The lesser-known Pringles ad.
Once you pop, you can only stop halfway through to stab your brother in the head because he's a lizard, and then you can't stop until the end.
Where we pop one, we pop all.
Oh man, that's gotta be rough, too.
It's hard to shoot somebody, but to stab them and kill them with a sword?
How can you stab through a skull?
Muscularity, certainly.
Yeah, that's some anime shit.
So, 2019 already, not real, not real at all.
January was also bad, because that was when the Pizzagate arsonists set fire to Comet Ping Pong.
So this is Ryan Jaselskis, who basically lit some curtains on fire in the back of Comet Ping Pong, caught on videotape, got into a brawl with cops.
And how that story resolved was that he pleaded guilty to a couple of charges.
He's looking at four years in prison, if the judge accepts the deal.
That's a cry for help.
Setting curtains on fire and brawling with cops, that's not an intent to do any real damage.
It's almost as if these guys know that it's not real.
Because if it was real, it's like Christman always says, if they know it's real and they believe there are children in this basement, then the dude who went in with the AK was the only real motherfucker.
So it is this weird thing where they almost must know.
So they're like, oh, why don't a couple of...
Real damage, but enough to look like, hey, I'm doing something.
More than you guys.
More than you other Chan people.
He's a freedom fighter.
And you guys are not understanding his real arc.
Yeah, I mean, they also say that QAnon is a non-violent movement, but the question is, fucking why?
If you believe this, why is it non-violent?
It seems like if you believe this world is real, violence would be a rational response.
It would be the only rational response.
I'll only say this on the premium episode, but it's like... You're saying that there's a state the world could be in where violence is a natural response, but the one that we are currently actually living in is not.
This is not enough.
Sure.
Travis, feel free to tell us when it's not ideal.
Feel free to tell us once we fucking pass that Rubicon and we can actually start to become VIOLENT!
All right.
All right.
I'm going to close the lid on that conversation real quick.
Yeah.
Scroll down to February.
Yes.
Yes.
February.
Woo.
Before we see here.
I think the big story in February was that after recovering from cancer surgery, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the bench.
And this was big deal because in December, she basically disappeared from public view because she had some cancer surgery.
And then that's when I was.
Oh, she secretly dead.
Or being kept alive by, what was it, off-market drugs?
That's right, that was the Q-drop.
If you go to Disney, during that same period, Pirates of the Caribbean was missing one animatronic.
So yes, I do believe this.
Yeah, there's all these weird RPGs, secretly, you know, dead memes.
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