Episode 99: QAnon Goes To Congress feat Alex Kaplan
Many congressional hopefuls have cozied up to QAnon — and a few of them will probably end up in the house by 2021. Our guest this week is Alex Kaplan, the researcher for Media Matters who's been keeping tally. By his count, we're now officially above 60 candidates!
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/scott-tipton-loses-lauren-boebert-colorado/index.html
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3ez39/armed-man-corey-hurren-who-allegedly-stormed-justin-trudeaus-residence-rideau-hall-appears-to-have-posted-qanon-content
Welcome, listener, to the 99th chapter of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the QAnon for Congress episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Brokatansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
This week, we are going to be taking stock of the many congressional candidates and local politicians who have rubbed up against the QAnon belief system, some even openly promoting it.
For that purpose, we'll be speaking to journalist and researcher Alex Kaplan of Media Matters.
He's been meticulously tracking and gathering them all in a single living article.
But before all that...
First up, we gotta talk about the fact that Jeffrey Epstein-Madam Ghislaine Maxwell has been indicted.
Wow, never thought I'd see the day.
Never thought I'd see the day that Travis would put a title without even the word alleged in here.
Just openly, he thinks he's comfortably claiming this innocent woman, presumed innocent, if you listen to Alan Dershowitz, famous lawyer.
Yeah, she was, of course, indicted for facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of underage girls and also for perjury for lying about it, apparently.
Now, at the time of her arrest on Thursday, she was found living on a 156-acre estate in Bradford, New Hampshire.
Well, you've got to run the horses.
Apparently, this estate was acquired for $1.07 million in an all-cash purchase in December of 2019 through a carefully anonymized LLC.
Nice.
Darling.
Nothing weird about that.
Darling, please, put Jeffrey's money through the tell.
There's a ranch I want to purchase.
Honey, honey, we've sold the house.
Oh, yes?
Who?
Oh, I don't know.
It's a private donor.
His name is Peter Edifile.
Now, boys, if you recall when Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, I think, Jake, your exact words were, he's got to make it to that trial.
Yes.
Yeah, he was.
But this time, definitely, she has got to make it.
She's got to make it.
Make it to that trial.
Hey, Glenn, get it together, okay?
We know you've been kind of down lately, but we want to tell you, chin up.
And make it to the trial!
If a prison guard so much as looks like they have to take a pee, you tell them to piss in their pants right where they stand, in front of you, looking into your cell.
If they look sleepy, if you see a prison guard yawning, drinking decaf coffee... If there's a bag of donuts!
For my next story, General Flynn and family takes the oath of the digital soldier.
I saw this right on Twitter.
I love to have a nice like bonfire hangout with my friends.
So you know the previous week General Flynn had put the hashtag take the oath in his Twitter bio but on the 4th of July he took the additional step of reciting the oath himself while surrounded by his brothers and their wives.
I, Jack Flynn, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation, or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
So help me God, where we go one, we go all.
I'm about to enter.
So help me God.
So help me God.
Where we go one, we go all.
Where we go one, we go all.
God bless America.
God bless America.
So yeah, this is not new behavior from General Flynn.
In 2018, he was signing books, where we go one, we go all, and saying that to, and also, like, changing his banner to images he got from the QAnon community.
So these six people are lit up by the fire, and there's the three wives of the Flins with them, and one of the wives has what looks like a word cloud dress of Trump tweets.
Trump insults, specifically.
Okay, insults, of course, why not?
And across her breast is just emblazoned Creepy Joe and Nervous Nancy.
So you just have that Plastered across your chest.
On your dress.
On a big white dress.
The steps that must have been required.
In multiple colors.
Choosing the words and then getting it printed and then wearing it is fucking deranged.
Horrifying.
It says Rocket Man.
It says Rocket Man just because that's what he calls- I mean just- I was gonna ask what do you think that his neighbors think hearing all of these people shout these strange oaths but then I imagine that a lot of strange things probably come out of the Flynn's backyard.
Are you kidding me?
Of course.
They're constantly interacting with Moloch back there.
For our next story, an armed QAnon following man storms Justin Trudeau's residence.
It's amazing we have to rush through these kind of almost, because there's so many of them.
Every single one is like harrowing and specific.
I know, it's crazy.
It's absolutely bananas.
So what happened was that on July 3rd, a man named Corey Herrin drove his pickup truck through the gates of Radu Hall, where Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lives.
Herrin was armed with several rifles and a shotgun.
And at least one of which was on him at the time of his arrest.
Hurin also allegedly had a note on him that he wished to deliver to Trudeau.
I don't know what message that particular note contained, though.
He has since been hit with a slew of firearms charges.
Hurin was also a frequent promoter of QAnon on social media.
He mostly posted on the Instagram page of his meat company that he owns called Grindhouse Fine Foods.
It's called Beef Boys Incorporated for QAnon.
On March 27th, he posted an image of a white rabbit that appears to be driving a car and the caption of that photo said this.
Has anyone else been following Q and the white rabbit down the rabbit hole and how this all relates to the coronavirus slash COVID-19 situation?
Lots of coincidences in all these Q posts, if this turns out to be a nothing burger.
So that post has several QAnon related hashtags, including adrenochrome, pizzagate, redpill, and where we go one, we go all.
You've also failed to mention that the bunny is driving the car, and above him it says, just get in the car, Alice, I'll explain on the way.
I think that is a good metaphor for a Q1.
You get in, you have no idea where it's going, but you're just here along for the ride.
An animal is driving.
They do not have a license, but they don't even have eyesight on the street, actually.
Their face is aligned with the middle of the wheel.
All right, so let's transition from talking about QAnon extremist incidents to talking about how QAnon is going to the highest halls of American power.
Excellent.
I mean, I do hope Justin Trudeau is OK.
Yes.
As of this recording, there are at least 60 QAnon-connected people who have run for Congress this cycle.
Ten of those are expected to appear on the ballot in November.
And if Marjorie Taylor Greene wins her runoff election in Georgia next month, which she's favored to, then that number will jump to 11.
And it's strongly within the realm of possibility that at least two of those QAnon candidates are going to enter the hallowed halls of the United States House of Representatives.
Now, to mark the occasion of QAnon hitting the big time, I thought we'd spend a little time getting to know our QAnon candidates.
We've already previously talked about QAnon candidates Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia and Joe Ray Perkins in Oregon, but I thought we'd take some time to look into the other ones who are maybe not as well known.
Specifically, we're going to take a look at Lauren Boebert in Colorado, K.W.
Miller in Florida, and David Shuster in Tennessee.
Boebert won her primary despite the fact that her opponent was a five-time congressman Who had the endorsement of President Trump and spent five times the amount of campaign cash.
Boebert's journey to congressional candidacy began with a themed restaurant.
She, along with her husband, owns Shooter's Grill in the town of Rifle, Colorado.
Come the fuck on, man!
The town is called Rifle and the place is called Shooters.
That's correct.
The gimmick of this restaurant is simple.
All of the waitresses, and they all are waitresses, they open carry firearms.
Wait, so Shooters has Hooters in it?
Is that connected?
Do they have the big boobs as well?
Well, I don't think it goes quite that far.
It'd be a good combo, I don't know.
A waitress will take your order while wearing a Springfield XD 9mm on her hip.
Oh, this is really for pain pigs.
Like, they just go there, they're like, I'd like you to threaten me at gunpoint to, like, make me choose which salad I want.
So, the hook proves to be a hit, and a restaurant drew international media attention.
Yeah, for being mentally ill.
Well, I mean, it's a boon for- It was a clever- look at this clever hook!
I mean, Colorado is an open carry state.
She looked at the law, she's like, oh wait, I can just have my entire white staff open carry.
Just pointing out that in the international news, these kinds of stories are where we all gather and go, holy shit, Americans are the craziest people in the entire planet.
It's true.
I mean, but the thing is that it actually drew international tourists, such as this- Of course!
Such as this German man who was interviewed for a 2015 segment about the restaurant.
So we stopped here because we are a little bit hungry and a guy on the street say this grill is famous for beautiful ladies and all ladies wearing guns!
Dude, I mean... Apparently this German tourist is treating America like a freak show.
By the way, that interview you just heard was from a segment produced by Voice of America, the U.S.
government multimedia agency that is supported through funds appropriated by Congress.
So essentially this was part of propaganda produced by the U.S.
government to influence international perception of the nation.
So you're proud of this.
I'm accurately describing it.
I'm just telling you what it is.
Not you, but I mean the Americans were proud.
They were like, get this out there.
We want everybody to know.
Tell the world about Shooter's Grill.
Shooter's Grill in Rifle, Colorado.
In Japan it's like kitten cafes.
You go, it's all these cuddly kittens.
You get to pet them.
These are cute creatures.
Here it's just blonde women with firearms.
But how did Boebert raise her political profile enough to win a primary?
Well, we have two things to think.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke and the pandemic.
So O'Rourke had previously made a comment saying that he did, in fact, intend to take people's AR-15s, which is stupid and inflammatory.
It helped exactly zero people.
And during an event in Aurora, Colorado, Boebert made a name for herself by confronting O'Rourke.
And I drove down here from Rifle, Colorado to speak with you today.
I was one of the gun-owning Americans that heard your speech and heard what you had to say regarding, hell yes, we're gonna take your AR-15s and your AKs.
Let's be respectful, let's be respectful.
Well, I am here to say hell no, you're not.
So, with that, I would like to know how you intend to legislate evil.
Because it is not the gun, it is the heart of the man that does that.
We all have stories.
Excuse me.
She was just getting started.
Yeah, she was.
Raising Boebert to Congress may wind up being the most lasting legacy of Beto O'Rourke's campaign.
Wow.
Cool.
Boebert further made a name for herself after loudly protesting state orders to close businesses to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
She opened her restaurant in defiance of these closure orders.
When she announced her candidacy, most didn't take it that seriously.
In interviews with local media, Boebert framed herself as the anti-AOC candidate.
Lauren joins us now via Skype.
So, Lauren, what made you want to go to Washington, D.C.?
Well, honestly, there is a battle right now for the heart and soul of our country.
And this is a fight that I've already been on the ground fighting.
I've been in it with the people in our community and in our state of Colorado.
And right now we just need active representation that's going to go forward and take on AOC and the squad
and all the rest of the far left lunatics.
So as part of her media tour, she also hit the program Steel Troop.
Oh yes.
Hosted by QAnon promoter, Anne VanderSteel.
During that interview, they had a kind of an awkward exchange about QAnon.
Now, when I play this video, listen especially to how Boebert doesn't say a nice word about QAnon until she's pressed to by VanderSteel.
Do you know about the Q movement?
Are you familiar with what that is?
I am familiar with that.
That's more my mom's thing.
She's a little fringe. I try to, I just try to keep things on track and positive. I am very familiar with it though.
Do you think Q is a bad thing or is it just sort of, I mean, what's your opinion?
No, honestly, everything that I've heard of Q, I hope that this is real.
Because it only means America is getting stronger and better and people are returning to conservative values.
And that's what I am for.
And so everything that I have heard of this movement is only motivating and encouraging and bringing people together stronger.
And if this is real, then it can be really great for our country.
Amazing, she says, if this is real twice.
Yes.
Think about that.
She's advertising for Shooter's Grill on the screen.
At Shooter's Grill.
Also, what struck me here is just how fucking pissed off Ann VanderSteel was after she told her, that's more my mom's thing.
She's kind of fringe, which was basically saying, Ann, You're older than me, way older, probably my mom's age, and I consider you French.
And her face after that, she is fucking pissed.
You can tell that she's like, you better be fixing this.
And then Bobert senses obviously that she's made a terrible mistake.
Yeah, terrible.
Well, look at Boebert's face, too, when she brings up Q. It's almost like, I cannot believe you fucking asked me that.
I mean, it's Anne Vandersteel.
She's an open, top QAnon promoter.
Yeah, but Lauren Boebert maybe didn't know that.
What?
No, come on.
Oh, give me a break.
After her victory, some reporters reached out to her for clarification on her stance on QAnon.
Boebert responded with this.
Glad Inspector General and Attorney General are investigating deep state activities that undermine the president.
I don't follow QAnon.
Mmm, very crafty, I think, kind of statement, where it's like all, I believe in the whole, like, Trumpian deep state thing, but, but, but I don't follow QAnon, you know?
She followed this up with a tweet which struck back at accusations from the DCCC that she is a QAnon follower.
Here's what she said.
Hey, at DCCC, QAnon equals fake news.
Not a follower.
Is this all you've got?
Interesting statement, but this tweet from Boebert inspired several disappointed responses from QAnon followers who are expecting more from her.
You might not know this, but if you denounce Q, you lose a lot of support.
Someone else said, wow, turned on us that quick?
Shameful.
Mrs. Wolf says, she went full Gorka.
Never go full Gorka, facepalm.
Is referring to the fact that Gorka is extremely pro-MAGA, anti-Q.
So I think Bobert, I'm going to go ahead and lump her in with the QAnon candidates anyway, but I think she's an interesting case study.
Someone who sort of like dipped their toe in, went into the QAnon sort of media circle in order to get attention because she thought that was valuable, but when she won and then she had to run in the general election, she dumped them all like it was nothing.
While some candidates shrink away from QAnon, others are more full bore.
Joe Ray Perkins in Oregon is one example, but another up-and-coming congressional candidate is K.W.
Miller.
K-dubs!
So here are a few tweets from K.W.
Miller's verified account on Twitter to give you an idea of what he's all about.
If you support QAnon, you should follow me.
I'm running for Congress in Florida's 18th district, and I will get the job done.
Where we go one, we go all, and I am going to Congress.
The next tweet reads, More arrests will be made.
Ghislaine Maxwell is not even the tip of the iceberg.
The Epstein Cabal runs very, very deep.
Bill Clinton is shaking in his boots tonight.
Hashtag where we go one and we go all, QAnon.
Oh man.
11.6 thousand likes.
That's four times as many likes as I've ever gotten on anything.
The next tweet reads, where are my digital soldiers?
Are you ready to win this fight?
Hashtag QAnon.
Where we go one, we go all.
Great awakening.
Oh man.
Champion?
A champion has risen.
Most recently, on the 4th of July weekend, Miller was tweeting out unhinged conspiracy theories about Beyoncé.
Beyoncé is not even African-American.
What the fuck?
She is faking this for exposure.
Her real name is Anne-Marie Lastraci.
She is Italian.
This is all part of the Soros Deep State agenda for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Beyonce, you are on notice.
Whoa.
Hashtag Great Awakening.
Hashtag QAnon.
Hashtag where we go one, we go all.
Trump 2020.
3.2K retweets.
I mean... You all do know that Beyonce's song, Formation, was a secret coded message to the globalists, I certainly hope.
The song clearly admitted she was demonic and that she worshipped in the Satanist churches located in Alabama and Louisiana.
She keeps Satanist symbols in her bag.
K.W.
Miller's day job is as an energy executive.
Here's how he describes himself on his website.
Mr. Miller has built, restructured, and managed energy businesses for major public energy companies and utilities on several continents, including PG&E Corporation, Électricité de France, El Paso Energy, Enron Corporation, and JPMorgan Chase.
Yeah, so you may have heard on that list the name of Enron Corporation, famously the energy company that went bankrupt after it was discovered that it had committed the most massive accounting fraud in history.
And he indeed worked at that company from 1994 to 1997.
But according to K.W.
Miller, Energy Executive is only his unassuming sort of daytime persona.
Of course, yeah.
By night, he goes by the name Mr. Nobody.
And he works to help protect America from the globalists who wish to ruin it.
But he promotes Mr. Nobody over and over and says that he's Mr. Nobody.
That's true.
Connecting it to the person K.W.
Miller that he actually is.
Can you imagine if Bruce Wayne... So he's really Mr. Somebody and that somebody is K.W.
Miller.
Who am I?
What is my role?
What do I do?
OK, you may not understand it, but I'll kind of tell it to you this way.
He's so smug right now.
In the business world, And the front end, we'll call it the public side of business, I'm K.W.
Miller, CEO, Chairman, whatever, you know, partner, all these things that I've been involved with over my career.
Like Enron.
But behind the curtain, I guess they call me Mr. Nobody.
And Mr. Nobody is kind of akin to, I work behind the scenes.
You know, have been working to protect the country and stop the bad actors for many years from doing things to our country in many ways.
You're basically coming out as Batman?
Yeah, you basically.
What a fucking LARPing dumbass!
Oh, this guy's clown energy, man.
He was.
His face is infuriatingly sure of himself.
Yeah, he's so smart.
He's like, let me drop some knowledge on you, young buck.
Now, I searched through as much of his content as I could, and I couldn't find where he says that he acquired this nickname or exactly what he's doing with this group of patriots that's fighting the evil globalists.
But he says that recent circumstances have required him to stop fighting behind the scenes and start running for office.
What am I?
I'm a leader of the resistance.
I'm a leader of the silent majority.
I'm you.
I'm just part of the That's my job.
That's my role.
runs the process, shall we say.
And my job is to have come out behind the curtain and lead you and lead this nation into a 2020 election
where we take our country back. That's my job. That's my role. That's who I
am.
Now, K.W.
Miller has really leaned into his Mr. Nobody persona in recent days.
For example, Miller in his pinned tweet says this.
They asked me if I'm afraid to be the man who steps up and takes on the globalists and leftist cabal.
No, I am not.
I am Mr. Nobody.
I am the boogeyman.
The deep state is on notice.
We're taking back Florida's 18th and beyond.
In that tweet, he also posted a video of himself driving while talking about why he's such a badass.
Now, I'm going to play this video clip for you, but when you listen to it, please bear in mind that we have not edited the audio at all.
So all the music and effects that you hear on top of K.W.
Miller speaking were all added by him.
Let me make sure everybody's resting easy.
You know, all of you have been sending me messages saying, you know, look, KW, we know you lead the silent majority.
We got it.
We're behind you.
Aren't you afraid of the Boogeyman?
Okay.
How do I say this?
My code name is Mr. Nobody for 30 years.
Let's put it this way.
If Mr. Nobody shows up at your doorstep, you got a problem.
I am the Boogeyman.
Whoa, an explosion.
And I'm coming after the leftists, the liberals, the rhinos, and the globalists.
The rhino traders.
And I'll be putting out the notices to everybody shortly.
Everybody's been asking.
People like me don't get involved unless we mean business.
Time to clean up, folks.
Time to clean up and take this country back.
And I want everybody to mobilize with me.
You can't sit back anymore.
If I'm leading, you need to follow.
And you need to join me.
and join the movement. Okay?
Man, these fucking assholes are going to LARP us into a civil war.
I know.
I could just see it.
He's like LARPing as John Wick.
I didn't want to have to come out from the shadows and be such a badass in public.
As I am in private, I'll have you know.
But I have to.
I have to.
From his fucking low-res camera phone in his Honda.
I've been hearing my ex-wife wondering if I'm doing okay mentally.
I got one thing to tell you, honey.
I am the boogeyman, okay?
I'm sorry, man.
He's got the fucking Bram Stoker's Dracula haircut.
Dude, who the fuck?
I've never had this much confidence in my life!
Not even on the best day, where I succeeded in everything, did I have a fraction of what this man has.
I'm so fucking- his Kundalini is so fucking strong!
Every chakra is just fucking bursting!
Oh man, this guy may be the most powerful QAnon politician yet.
I'm just talking in terms of like, spiritually, you know.
K.W.
Miller, in his own words, is so influential that President Trump listens to him and acts on what he says.
Last night, I delivered a message to the country, and the message was directly focused at President Trump, and he got the message.
He understood exactly what I was saying, because he knows I talk to international business leaders.
And he immediately announced that he would be locking DC down.
To establish his credentials as a well-connected power player, he even makes bold predictions about upcoming events, such as this one.
What you're gonna see, and I want you to come back to this video, what you're gonna see is, in another week or two, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the leftists come out with a $3-5 trillion welfare package, if not more.
Three to five trillion dollars on top of everything that we've put out.
Make up the facts and then react to them.
Be outraged if you want.
Form a whole opposition to nothing.
Yeah, that's it.
Furious opposition to nothing.
By the way, he made that prediction on June 1st, and it's been over a month, and this package he said was coming.
I came back to the video just as he requested, Mr. Miller.
Even if his political candidacy doesn't take off and launch him into Congress, but it might.
Who knows?
We're living in a weird world.
But I think his Mr. Nobody persona has legs.
It's kind of like a sub, kind of QAnon.
Yeah, I think it could.
That's right.
Yeah, he could be the QAnon John Wick.
They deserve their John Wick.
And the guy who puts the Street Fighter KO on his own face.
He's totally the guy, though, that would go to a parking lot with a real gun and be like, here I am, about to do an operation.
Watch and learn.
And a security guard's like, hey man, hey man, you can't be here.
And he kind of panics.
Like I see him as the kind of guy who accidentally- He could commit murder by mistake.
Like I could see him LARPing himself into fucking committing murder.
Like yeah.
Maybe not first degree, but like manslaughter.
No, no, it wouldn't be first degree.
It would be like Wes Anderson murders.
Like where it's kind of like, it's funny, you know?
It's funny.
It's like a bottle rocket kind of operator.
Yeah.
David Shuster, Tennessee candidate for Senate.
I thought we'd also take a look at really the lowest rungs of the QAnon candidates.
The people who are running and they are, do promote QAnon, but they have no shot whatsoever
of reaching the highest office.
Because I think it's important to cover too.
So for that, we're going to take a look at David Shuster.
So he also makes his love of QAnon unambiguous.
I'm going to finish this now and say, God bless America.
State of Tennessee.
And I'll say it again because I do like you.
Because we're all part of that.
America need to get it back for the people.
And I'll say it again, because I do like you.
I do like to follow it.
And, you know, so where we go, when we go off.
So just to describe the room he's in on the right, he has toy cars and on the left, he
just has like bulk toilet paper or paper towels, maybe.
But it's some sort of seems disposable paper product.
That's right. And he looks like an aged Ron Jeremy.
Yeah.
So here's how Schuster describes himself in the questionnaire supplied by the website Ballotpedia.
I was born in 1958 in Leominster, Massachusetts.
I am 61 years young.
I graduated from Luneburg High in 1977, joined the Navy in 1982, served 11 years as a naval
aviation storekeeper, got out in December 92 due to pain.
I am a disabled vet.
Took me from 1995 to 2013 to get my disability from the VA.
No back pay.
I have been told many times by people when I applied for jobs that I come across as having above average intelligence.
Like most, I have gone through life's ups and downs, and my views of life and the government match a lot of other Tennesseans' views.
I had a helicopter crush me to the flight deck.
Come on!
Come on, man!
When hooking nets to its belly during vert rep in Navy in 1986.
I was struck by lightning in 1996.
Julian's writhing in pain.
We really hit gold boys.
We stumbled on the funny, on somehow the most accidentally hilarious- It's a fucking picaresque!
It's just a picaresque!
He's like, I was crushed by a helicopter, struck by lightning, moved in with- It's a balladpedia questionnaire!
They're trying to understand what kind of a politician he is!
You see, I got a six-toe on my second foot!
Hold on, we have been working our way back towards that, it seems.
Oh, fuck, I'm crying.
I am here to do something good, and have been very interested in politics for a long time.
I feel it's my calling.
Wow.
He kept the best for last there.
Definitely.
The helicopter, the lightning, unannounced.
I'm not sure why he volunteered this information.
Well, much like the helicopter and the lightning, they were both very surprising to him, so he thought he'd recreate that experience for his audience.
Now, while researching David Shuster, I came across his YouTube page, which has only one subscriber.
He's not a very popular content creator.
Like I said, this guy is... You didn't even give him a second one?
No, well, no, I didn't.
Gross.
This guy has no shot.
You're just pure exploitation, man.
Well, I wanted to cover the breadth of the QAnon candidates, and he's definitely included.
He's great.
I came across one video of his titled, No One Will Say It, But I Will.
I hope it's not the N-word!
That's good!
No one will say it but I will!
No one will say it but I will!
No one will say it but I will.
It's like, please, no, Grandpa, please don't say the N-word.
Please don't say it in front of the whole rest of the family.
Hello, America.
How are you doing today?
It's me, David Schuster.
As you can see, I'm running for U.S.
Senate.
Those are some of my signs.
Hope you vote for me.
Uh, people are afraid to say the n-word.
Oh no!
Now let me explain some things to you about that word.
No, it is the n-word!
They have changed the dictionaries to fit their agenda.
Oh, does he go on to say the n-word?
I don't want to say the n-word. Don't say the n-word. It's in the video.
Don't wave it.
No way!
No way!
Lining up my toy trucks to prepare for my Edward video.
What the fuck?!
I'm gonna lie.
But besides, I should be allowed to say the N-word, what does David Shuster believe?
Here are a few more answers that he provided to questions from Ballotpedia.
Getting our country and freedoms back for the people.
Immigration has hurt many industries and taken American jobs.
Fix the intel community.
Slim it down.
Try to end the waste, fraud, and abuse of our tax dollars.
I want to work for you, the people of Tennessee, and the American people.
Not to get rich and screw the country, like the left is doing.
After all, if I may borrow a quote, where we go one, we go all.
Who do you look up to?
Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
I never really had anyone to look up to.
My parents got divorced when I was 16 and have kind of been on my own from then.
So I have always blazed my own path and be and do the best I could at whatever I did.
Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?
No, but there are a lot of movies out there to see how and what our government was and is doing in the intel sectors.
Like the Jason Bourne movies about Manchurian candidates.
He spells Bourne B-O-R-N.
American Made with Tom Cruise is also a good one.
Cruise C-R-U-S-E.
It shows how corrupt our CIA has been in the past.
No better now, just another cartel.
He's honestly right.
For some of these.
Great stuff.
Slim down the intelligence community.
We're in agreement.
And definitely... Base everything on Jason Bourne.
And good call with American Made with Tom Cruise.
I do think that that was a sleeper Cruise film that actually didn't get as much credit as deserved.
David Shuster is really, really big on ending CIA abuses.
In fact, he also wants to reveal the existence of a secret space program, which he believes has been funded by exorbitant military spending.
That's why we pay so much for our equipment and everything.
You think a stealth bomber costs $2 billion?
What it's doing, it's going to support our space fleet, which we'll get into that another day.
Um, but we've had a space fleet and been working with aliens since the early 50s, late late 40s, early 50s.
The head of Skunk Works at Lockheed once said that we actually have the technology to take E.T.
home, which I believe.
That's David Shuster.
I mean, again, I agree with your analysis, Julian.
I can't really get on board with the make the N-word great again, but slimming down the CIA, I think this is where we share common ground.
That's right.
Interview with Alex Kaplan.
Alex Kaplan is a senior researcher at Media Matters for America.
Alex, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Thanks for having me on, guys.
Now, when we decided that we're going to be covering QAnon congressional candidates on this episode, you were the only person we wanted to interview about this because you have been on this particular beat for a while.
You've been doing extremely diligent work, basically just recording every single person who is running for office.
Who has promoted QAnon, brushed up against QAnon.
It's been a very laborious project, it seems like.
So what got you started on that?
I had started seeing a few reports that a few people had started embracing QAnon that were running for Congress.
I believe the first one was Wilson Omar at the Daily Beast.
I'm trying to remember the second one.
Yeah, a Florida candidate, I think it was Matthew Lusk.
Yes, Matthew Lusk.
It was the first known one.
I think it was the very beginning of, like, last year, around that time.
And then I had seen a second one.
I think it was Danielle Stella.
Travis, I kept seeing that you, I think, had found some.
And I think we got up to, like, six or seven.
And then by January, I was thinking, well, a few people, and I think NBC had found some.
And it seemed like everyone had kind of found some in different places.
So I figured, OK, it's probably time to put all these candidates together into one place, one easy
guide for people to see who's running that has in some manner embraced this conspiracy theory. So when I
started in January it was at eight, just eight people. And then as the months have gone by it
seems like every week I'm adding more and more and now we're up to 60.
60.
60.
That's insane.
Current and former candidates.
From 8 in January.
If I can insert a quick question.
Less than 6 months ago.
If I can insert a quick question here.
Alex, at what point, at what number of QAnon candidates did you get that sort of existential dread?
You know what I mean?
It's like kind of a cold, It's kind of a cold emptiness that just all of a sudden catches you by surprise when you're like opening the refrigerator or something.
I'm not sure.
It's definitely hit me pretty hard in the last few weeks.
Yeah.
I don't know, probably when we got at least in the 20s.
I was starting to realize there was a problem.
an issue here. Mine was Marjorie Taylor Greene winning and running like a strategy and having
like money that that fucking sent the shiver down my spine because everybody else seems
so crazy and kooky was almost entertaining compared to her.
I admit I didn't realize until a few days before the primary that she had a real
shot. This is my political punditry is probably not the greatest in that respect, but I didn't
realize that she had had such I had figured that, you know, multiple... It seemed like some candidates were going to make it to November, but I didn't realize that any of them were actually going to be favored to win a general election.
It looks like that's what's happening with her.
Yeah.
In fairness, it's like there's no way, even like a really seasoned political pundit can't possibly track, you know, how well, you know, people in 60 different districts are doing.
It's impossible to like, you know.
No, no, no.
I want to, I want to hold Alex, I want to hold his feet to the fire about this.
You weren't paying attention to the 14th district in Kansas?
Georgia.
God damn it.
I was a little bit.
Green was on my list early.
She was one of the people that, not on my original eight, but I think she was like the 10th or 11th I added.
You're one of the most diligent and reliable people about this subject.
And I think there's like a ragtag crew of people covering this.
Like we all know each other at this point.
And I think we all just, yeah, we all just sit here going like, why is no one else helping us?
It's more like hit you up for like a two line comment.
That's what they do.
Hey, would you give me the funny two lines for my very surface level article?
Great.
Meanwhile, you're like the woman in like the alien hive that's like tied up with like a chest burst or just like, you know, maybe minutes to live.
And we're like, please help me.
Help me.
Travis, we're reaching you here in Guantanamo Bay.
We'd like to know what do you think about QAnon now?
Well, as I'm sure you've noticed, Alex, it seems like Republican leadership so far has been kind of reluctant to speak out against the growing influence of QAnon in their own party.
Did you expect there to be a little bit more pushback by now?
Among the 60, the range has been different, right?
There's been like the true believers, like the clear, clear true believers.
I put like Joe Ray Perkins, Green, Margie Taylor Greene into that space.
And then there's candidates that I think have embraced it in some manner for maybe like more politically expedient reasons.
I've seen candidates that have used certain things that are related to QAnon that seems to be a way, in a way to basically like get some political benefit from what they see as some type of political constituency.
Like there was this one candidate, I just point to him because I think he's really stark, This one candidate, his name is Sammy Gindy in New Jersey.
He was an interesting case because when I had found him, he had supposedly, I think he, or soon before I found him, had only had like a few hundred followers on Twitter.
And I'm paraphrasing, but then he like tweeted something like, hey I only have a few hundred followers, I need money.
Uh, please start helping me.
And then he started, and then he like posted where we go when we go.
Oh, hashtag.
I think he also, uh, tagged Q sent me.
Uh, you know, obviously blatant.
Um, and then like it started, he started getting some attention.
I think it was like in a few days he got like 4,000 followers.
Um, and he was like thanking Michael Flynn for following him.
Sounded like he was maybe getting money from this, some donations.
Uh, so I think he's just a good case of like, I think to some Republicans there is a feeling that QAnon supporters are a political constituency that can be appealed to for political support, for money.
I'll just point to one more candidate, one of the ones who's actually on the ballot in November in California, Aaron Cruz.
She was quoted by NBC basically saying that last year, saying something like, again, I'm paraphrasing, you can't discount Q people.
They're like any other group that you seek to for political support.
Yeah.
I mean, at the end of the day, I mean, they vote.
If they're a vote, then obviously political operators are going to want to find a way to appeal to that particular group.
And if that involves having your candidate say, where we go one, we go all, then that's a cheap and easy way to appeal to them.
There's also the metrics that Alex mentioned that interest me.
I mean, seeing an account grow to 4,000, I mean, it's certainly what we saw with some of the new age influencers who had middling followings at best and then suddenly took off once they did their Q stuff.
So at first it was like, are they going to be rejected?
And then it actually is in their favor.
If you're a local politician with lower resources and you can, you know, link into a group of people instantly accept you just for posting a couple hashtags, I mean, that's a really, That's a really good deal.
It's almost perfectly rational to cater to them.
It's like a very active online street team that will boost anyone who caters to them.
And the algorithm will help them along the way.
So there's also that incentive.
I think there is a organized level.
I mean, I think for hashtags is one example of this, but like there's some already organization here to appeal to with this.
I mean, related to this.
Between hashtags, I mean, there's YouTube shows.
I mean, Patriot, Soapbox.
There's a media ecosystem.
Yeah, definitely.
like a foundation here that makes it kind of easy with hashtags to reach out to these
people in a certain way to ask for their help and support.
There's a media ecosystem.
Yeah, definitely.
I wanted to ask you about Lauren Boebert in Colorado because she recently won an upset
victory against her Republican opponent in the primary.
And she appeared on Ann Vandersteel's show, who is a huge QAnon follower.
She was asked about QAnon.
She said that she hopes it's true.
But then recently, after she won that primary, she sort of denied QAnon.
She said, I don't follow QAnon.
She said, QAnon equals fake news.
So what do you make of that?
Like, where do you go from the shift from sort of that kind of playing footsie with the QAnon community, and then after the victory, totally disavowing it?
I've seen, you know, a divided reaction to scrutiny about at least speaking favorably of QAnon among those that have made it to November.
Boebert is one side of that.
Those that, actually, she's really, I'm trying to think if there's any other ones that have distanced themselves as much as she has.
There's been a couple.
She's the one that specifically stated out loud, I do not follow QAnon, in as stark a terms as that, as far as what I've seen.
Samuel Williams, another Texas candidate who's going to be in a runoff, who has pushed QAnon before, the slogan, the hashtag, he's been on Patriot's Silk Box, had claimed, I think he spoke to Texas Monthly a few days ago, now claiming he thought it was crap.
Angela Stanton King of Georgia, who won the Republican primary unopposed, in Georgia, in her district, had posted a QAnon video and had used the QAnon hashtag multiple times, now claims that she was just doing it to question the movement and was using the hashtags to extend her reach on social media.
As I said before, I do think there is a bit of seeing this as a political constituency to appeal to, but there's a cost to that, right?
I mean, in the primary, that there maybe isn't as much scrutiny over that, or at least when there's multiple candidates you're running against, or you're not as known, you can maybe sort of get away with that.
But once the national scrutiny comes, you have two options.
I mean, you can Do what Boebert's done, I think, and try to distance yourself in order to maybe seem more credible and less connected to this far-right conspiracy theory for the general election, even though a colleague of mine found what seems to be a YouTube channel of hers that subscribes to multiple QAnon channels.
She's been on Patriot Soapbox.
This was not a one-time thing.
Interesting.
So this shouldn't be, what she said shouldn't be looked at in a vacuum.
There was other stuff.
Interesting.
But, you know, so there's that option, but then there's the other side.
There's the double down on it.
I'm specifically thinking of Jo Rae Perkins.
Oh, she was the most cute.
National attention after winning her, you know, winning the Senate nomination for the
Republicans in Oregon.
I mean, she basically seemed to throw some of her, was it consultants or people on her
staff who tried to distance herself under the bus by claiming that she was like sad
that they were trying to distance her from it and she's like no and now she's
doing the QAnon oath in a video yeah so there's this definitely the other way
there's a spectrum yeah of responses yeah there's definitely a spectrum of
the reaction to be scrutinized nationally over this I think for them
you know it's really believing in this and not wanting to give up their wrong
beliefs And for some, it was maybe a combination of seeing this as a political constituency to appeal to and then trying to distance themselves from that constituency or what they see it as once it maybe isn't as politically beneficial to appeal to that group.
I mean, it almost feels like if you are a campaign manager or something, then your only question is, like, how can I use this community to help me win?
And maybe that involves, you know, winking at them a little bit, or if some more bold people think it involves, you know, just straight up saying the oath and saying, where we go one, we go all.
Yeah, it seems like there's going to be a range of different sort of openness to the QAnon community to sort of test the waters to see how they might be useful in sort of gaining attention and winning elections.
Yeah, and it's not just candidates in Republican primaries.
I mean, I'll point to a recent one that seems to be getting some attention in the last couple of days.
His name is K.W.
Miller.
Oh, yes.
Oh, man.
Oh, our boy, yeah, with the eyebrow haircut.
Yeah, he's a more relatively new addition to my tally.
I think I'd only discovered him about a week ago, but he's an independent... I believe he's a former Republican, but now an independent candidate running in Florida.
And it seems in the last few days, although he had expressive support for QAnon before this, has made it much more explicit in the past couple of days and is now using it to push conspiracy theories about stuff like Beyonce.
He's like the guy in Mad Max they tie to the front of the big truck and he's playing the guitar like he is fucking like he is having an experience.
You can see his hair flowing back like a fan boat going too fast through like a Florida swamp.
Well, like, it's getting him attention, right?
He's getting noticed.
I mean, people who didn't know about him before know he is.
I think I've seen more QAnon people saying, oh, look, here's a QAnon guy running for Congress.
Go follow him.
I mean, there is, in a weird way, I think there's some incentives.
For this, politically, for some people who maybe wouldn't get as much attention otherwise?
Certainly as a digital strategy for them.
I mean, the side that is uncertain is when you get to the ballot box and that's where I think the rubber hits the road and people like Greene who can put in half a million dollars of their own money, that's where the weight is actually, I guess, pushed down and it makes a real effect on the ground.
I think, yeah, you can get thousands of followers, you can get people to defend you, you can get people who harass anybody who fights you.
But like you said, national scrutiny eventually comes along, and at that point you better have a good amount of money or you can't play with the GOP.
Greene's actually an interesting case, because I feel like she's actually a third one.
She seems to have not done either of those.
From what I've seen, I haven't seen her explicitly denounce QAnon, but I haven't seen her explicitly talk about it recently, particularly since the runoff.
It just seems like she's attacked the media whenever she's been asked about it.
That seems like a third option.
Maybe, you know, pretending it didn't happen or just being able to preserve maybe a belief that she has without having to distance herself.
I mean, she just shifted to kind of like fringe MAGA.
That's all.
She just shifted her messaging and she's diligent about not applying any QAnon terms anymore because she, you know, She, to me, she seems like a strategist.
She's not like Jo Rae Perkins who, like, their entire staff try to help, you know?
Like the lady at the library that's kind of lost.
Yeah, Jo Rae's like waiting for the spaceship.
She's like, no, no, no, no, no.
I want to go back in there and complain, you know?
And she's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You know, you can't control her.
So that's a different kind of queen.
Yeah, I think Marjorie Taylor Greene takes a key from the President, which is just like, never answer anything, always deflect, always double down.
Well, the thing is, when the President stepped it up and was like, Antifa are domestic terrorists, she got a platform that was so fringe, offered to her on a national stage, she just had to take it.
Just follow the script.
And she has, I think, a little bit of discipline.
She wants to win.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's not the only far-right connection she has.
I believe a colleague of mine has reported about her being connected, I believe, to a militia group.
Yes.
Yeah, she's active.
Yeah, so this isn't the only far-right-connected thing or extremist thing she's been connected to, but, you know, this was the one that she was known for.
I mean, she had been following QAnon since, I believe, at least 2017.
She's been following this for a while.
Yeah, I don't think she put out any messaging.
As soon as she hit the campaign trail and became, like, a politician, there were no more messages about QAnon that we could see other than, like, Perhaps there was like a retweet or something along the way, but there's a long patch that's dry where really we're using the proof of what she was doing in 2018 and then we're comparing it to now.
It's a very different person, first of all.
She looks completely different.
Different stage in her life, for sure.
But I think once she focused on politics, the QAnon was literally just gone.
Yeah, it's my guess.
It's like she hired a professional political manager and said like, OK, here's your new look.
Also drop the QAnon stuff if you really want to run for office.
And then she just followed that advice.
She did, yeah.
Yeah, she basically was like, I don't, like, it's like, interesting, obviously QAnon's an interesting thing, but right now the real, like, I guess insurgent, like, uh, kind of take is just to go full Maga Donald Trump, like, full, like, anti-Antifa, not even, like, you know, pass the GOP into a far-right, and she won by 20 points, so I think...
The constituents are demanding it, actually.
Yeah, and look, I mean, look, I mean, she can still, you know, take an elephant gun to a poster board sign with Soros written on it, which is basically QAnon anyways, like... Yeah, it's even further than QAnon.
Yeah, it's much further.
You can shoot, like, border control.
You can shoot, like, gun control.
Yeah, you can shoot ideology.
You can shoot anti-fascism.
I mean, who cares about QAnon at that point?
The chrysalis is gone.
You are a butterfly.
Fly away, Marjorie.
I do think one interesting thing is that at least in January when I originally added her to my list, I don't know about her Facebook, but at least on Twitter, I mean her tweets supporting QAnon were still up.
Only recently it seems like she's taken them down.
Oh, so she did a cleanup.
Oh, wow.
No, last I checked, they were still up.
I'm gonna have to check after this interview.
I made a point of archiving all of them.
Yeah, that's fair.
I mean, I took some screenshots at the time, so I still have some, but I tried checking for the QAnon slogan.
I couldn't find it.
Wow, look at these two just talking shop, man.
Damn.
You recently tweeted that you believe that people are starting to notice the growing influence of QAnon in mainstream political life here.
So I'm curious, what made you think that we've reached that kind of tipping point?
I think Boebert's win, primary win, seemed to be the point where people started going, okay, something's happening here.
Although, as I pointed out, there were multiple others before this, but it seemed to be the tipping point because I've seen multiple major outlets starting to write about this.
I mean, Huffington Post, Fox.
CNN recently had a piece about it.
And it seems like there's finally a realization of, okay, QAnon people are running for Congress.
Some of them are winning primaries.
Some of them theoretically could win in November and be in Congress.
You know, they're talking about a QAnon caucus.
You know, I don't know.
Who knows if that would actually happen, but the idea that's even being discussed I think is a development.
I think it's a good thing.
I think it's good that many people are starting to recognize this because this is a Far-right conspiracy theory that the FBI has warned about that's been tied to multiple acts of violence that I've like lost count of how many misinformation like stuff that they've been queuing on people are involved in it's just like it's
It's a major conspiracy theory that's caused, you know, that's been very problematic in multiple ways.
And the fact that multiple candidates are embracing this, that they're finding a foothold is, I think, a thing, something that needs to be discussed and, I guess, you know, grappled with.
I couldn't agree more.
I think it's incredibly corrosive, and my whole goal with this project is to make other people as anxious about it as I am, and I think we're getting closer every day.
And you're helping, so thank you.
Yeah, but if it's left to you two, you're just gonna say stuff like, well, it's not ideal, it's certainly a development.
You freakin' nerds!
We need to fight him in the streets!
No, no, we bring up the factual information, you yell and scream, all right?
It's teamwork, it's teamwork.
Yeah, that's true, that's true, that's true.
So I have found 10 candidates so far, or at least 10 among the Republicans that have made it to November, and at least 5 have come from California, and that is something that surprised me.
You know, I didn't expect that going into this, that it would be California that would have the most QAnon candidates, they have the most overall current or former, that have run it all, 12.
Uh, I think we have to discuss for a second, California's special election system, the blanket nonpartisan primary system.
I think in a weird way, it's actually been beneficial to QAnon candidates.
It's just the top two candidates and whoever they are, they make it.
Um, I do wonder, I mean, I can't prove this.
This is just wondering.
I do wonder, would it be as many QAnon candidates in November if, I mean, all five are Republicans.
If they had to run in a specific Republican primary.
Maybe.
I don't know.
But I do wonder if that plays a role as to why so many have made it to November.
That's possible.
But I always have to remind people that California has been the home to Andrew Breitbart, Stephen Miller, Ben Shapiro, Steve Bannon.
There's a very active sort of conservative sort of community in California, too.
Well, California has the most candidates.
Florida's right behind at 11, although none have made it to November yet, or besides the one independent guy.
And I do, to me, that was less surprising.
You know, I think Florida was where it really got attention in 2018 to begin with.
It was that Trump rally in Florida, I believe.
So that didn't surprise me as much, but it was the California stuff that was more surprising.
We've been seeing tributaries that aren't the same as the ones in Florida basically feeding into the system.
Basically, this state has its own pre-QAnon mind states, including people that are involved with ascended masters, including people who are involved with like energy healing.
Soft brains out here.
And softened further by rejection from the Hollywood machine.
I think a lot of people, especially in LA, in the entertainment and acting and modeling world, I think people are ready to believe that the reason they didn't get the part is because they weren't part of the cabal's rituals and shit.
It's true.
Alex, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Where can people find your work?
I'm on Twitter at alkapdc, A-L-K-A-P-D-C.
You can follow me on Media Matters.
I'm MediaMatters.org, where I continue to write about this subject and other subjects related to online extremism and social media misinformation.
Yeah, your work is basically invaluable.
There's no one else doing it, and it's really, really cool.
So go check out Alex's work on Media Matters for sure, and definitely follow him on Twitter as well.
Yeah, thanks for everything you're doing, Alex.
Thank you guys, we appreciate it, and I appreciate you guys focusing on this too.
It's a troubling area, and it seems to be becoming more significant.
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What are Zimbons?
Boys, we have a limited time here, during which I need to convey some very specific information, which I hope you're writing down, or I'm going to die here.
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What's kinda fucked up is that it's actually saved me from a few stabbings already.
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That sounds fucking dope.
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At that time doesn't sound right.
So you still need me to explain ZimBonds or can we move on?
ZimBonds.
Yeah, ZimBonds.
I don't get it.
Okay, fine.
ZimBonds refers to a scam in which people invest in Zimbabwean bonds or bank notes because they've been misled into believing that the notes will re-evaluate and suddenly make the bondholder very wealthy.
Wait, so they're just worthless?
Well, no, that's the thing.
They might be the key to the entire affair.
When I was arrested by the Q team under the supervision of real chief police, the QAnon promoter, He seemed particularly interested in the Zimbons I had on me.
If I had to guess, they might be considering it as the New World Currency.
Not the Iraqi Dinar?
No, I, um... I don't know.
The enhanced interrogations, I think, are fucking with my head.
They've been connecting my nipples to each of my tweets, and the current is designed to modulate each word.
I can't believe it.
Isn't that, um... Yes.
It's revenge for the thing I said.
If my tweets make you suffer, then suffer.
And now I'm suffering from my tweets, read aloud, vowel by vowel, as they electrocute me to the rhythm of my own deep state shilling.
My tender nipples are looking like Slim Jims.
But from what I could glean, a lot of this shit, I really, really hate to say it, but it might be true.
The arrests.
My arrests.
The Clinton clones.
Elon Musk writing the Turner Diaries.
Seth Rich alive and married to Ghislaine Maxwell.
The new formula for adrenochrome.
Jeffrey Epstein's egg-shaped penis.
It's all connected.
Tom wasn't lying, but I think Tom Arnold tricked us.
I knew it.
I fucking knew it.
Everything is true.
Aliens are probably real too.
Bigfoot, the Thunderbirds.
It's all fucking real, boys!
I fucking told you!
Okay, okay.
Focus.
Write the address down.
You're writing this down?
You have 30 seconds remaining on this call.
It's 405 East 42nd Street.
Oh shit, I know that street!
Right near South Fig, there's a Pollo Loco and a Church's Chicken like within a block of- No, no, no, no, not in L.A.
What?
The address.
It's in New York City, you fucking idiot.
Okay, so we send the Zimbans there?
Or how do we even get them?
420 East 45th Street.
405!
405!
Are you- Dude, I can still hear the fucking CNN video playing.
We really need to figure the headphones out.
Well, now that Travis is gone, let's record our fucking Pro QAnon episode that I've been working on diligently for the last six years.
