Premium Episode 89: Spygate Oracles of Twitter (Sample)
Not quite QAnon, but feeding it from their intellectual ivory towers: Brian Cates of the Epoch Times and Tomas Wictor of... well, Wictor is a child of god. Both laid foundations employed by the QAnon movement to define Spygate (now rebranded Obamagate). Both were instrumental cranks in pushing the theory.
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Welcome, listener, to the 89th premium chapter of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the Q Adjacent Twitter Pundit episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Brokatansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
Now, when I was but a young, pilled larva, dipping my feelers into the conspiracy pond, I was admittedly somewhat captivated by a small group of pundits on Twitter who did long threads about how our intelligence agencies had been caught with their pants down.
Yes, unfortunately, I'm talking about Spygate, the accusation that our intelligence agencies created bogus evidence to illegally infiltrate the Trump campaign.
Of course, we all know this isn't true.
The FBI had every reason in the world to make sure Russia wasn't actively infiltrating Trump's circle.
But a small, very popular group on Twitter is still making the case that the corruption stretches all the way up to President Obama.
They don't necessarily associate with QAnon, and some even outright reject it.
Nevertheless, much of the community absolutely associates with them and even uses their threads as proof that QAnon is real.
I wanted to take a look at some of these grifter pundits with a slightly more educated eye, and who better to help me than our very own Travis View.
Today, we will begin to tackle two essential players in the Q-adjacent Twittersphere, Brian Cates and Thomas Wichter.
So these are just people who have pilled Jake, right?
Like, these are, like, past loves.
Like, you're reviewing your ex-girlfriends.
It's slightly different tactics, and I think far more effective, actually, than the Q-drops themselves.
Yeah, I think what's really effective about them is that they don't claim to be insiders or have inside information, or even claim to be that important to people.
They're just kind of like dot connectors, and they say that, listen, listen, once you, like, take all of these stories and you pull them together, what you reveal is that the deep state is going down.
It's going down soon.
Yeah, so like off-label bakers.
Well, I actually think that these guys are probably, even if what they're saying is ludicrous, they're the best at baking a story that you go like, oh yeah, well that does make sense if that's true, and like, oh yeah, like that is kind of a weird inconsistency.
Like, they're really good at poking holes in whatever the sort of mainstream narrative is, in a way that I think gets a lot of people to question it.
I know I certainly did.
Brian.
Cates.
Brian Cates is a longtime blogger who has nearly a quarter million Twitter followers under the name Draw and Strike.
He is also a regular columnist for the Epoch Times.
Cates, yeah, has never promoted QAnon, not once, but he has promoted a number of QAnon-adjacent theories.
For example, the idea that former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be responsible for taking down the Deep State.
This was, of course, also Bill Mitchell's Slow Walker theory.
Yes.
Yeah, it was picked up on a couple circuits.
I think these guys do sort of like put things together in a coherent way that other peeled people can be like, oh, this is a good like this is a good narrative that I can now take out into the world.
Yeah.
In fact, yeah.
Brian Cates for a long time.
He's his Twitter handle was Stealth Jeff because he was so convinced that underneath the scenes, even though Jeff Sessions had recused himself from the Russia investigation, he was the one that was going to take everyone down.
When I think of like, yeah, stealth, Jeff, I just see a little man getting caught in a big mansion trying to steal the Christmas presents on the eve.
There was a video with this that pilled me so hard when he was like going on his going on with this shit.
It was a video.
It was like the famous Biden supercut of him at photo ops or whatever, you know, touching young girls in ways that clearly made them uncomfortable.
And there's one clip.
That just seems like two pedophiles fighting for a child.
Yeah, yeah!
It could very well be.
And Jeff Sessions, who's standing nearby, slaps his hand and like slaps it away.
And he would use video clips like this and couple it with this like see Jeff Sessions
knows about the pedophilia.
Look at how he slaps Biden's hand away or whatever.
And it's stuff that you actually see for yourself on video.
That just seems like two pedophiles fighting for a child.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it could very well be everybody's a pedophile.
We know. And as we know that Jeff Sessions actually did not expose the deep state or.
In fact, yeah, he was fired and then Trump absolutely despises Sessions.
The general strategy that Brian Cates uses seems to be asserting intriguing theories with full-bore confidence and acting like anyone who disagrees with him is a moron who doesn't understand how things work.
For example, in October of 2018, after it was reported that Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc attempted to send bombs to figures in media and politics, Brian Cates predicted that it was all fake.
He wrote this.
To create a lame, quote, October surprise to influence the 2016 election by faking hate crimes against top Democrats.
My prediction is over the next few days, in less than a week, the perpetrators of this will be caught and they're not going to be MAGA Trump supporters, but far-left progressives desperate to stop the forthcoming Democrat wipeout at the polls in November.
So case was wrong on two counts there.
The MAGA bombing wasn't a cynical plot by Dem operatives.
It was just an attempted terrorist attack that only failed due to incompetence.
And there wasn't a Democrat wipeout in that midterm elections.
The Democrats actually retook the House.
So just totally, totally wrong.
But he just keeps going.
I think his superpower is not being self-reflective.
Yeah, they don't waste time on, like, how they were wrong.
Not usually, yeah.
If anything, they'll just be like, look, hey, I'm just one guy, okay?
I don't claim to, you know, they fall back on this.
It's just an opinion, you know?
Yeah.
Long before Cates made a name for himself with long threads about Spygate, Cates had a humble blogspot blog, also called Draw and Strike.
He says that he was inspired to jump into political blogging after the death of conservative media firebrand Andrew Breitbart.
Here's what that blog's very first post said back in 2012.
Well, here we go.
The official launch of, uh, Official Draw and Strike!
Blog!
Yeah, gotta make this sound important and stuff.
There's much going on these days and I will be posting a lot.
I welcome any and all comments from everyone no matter where they are on the political spectrum.
After mulling over the idea of launching out into political blogging for the past few years, the recent death of Andrew Breitbart finally pushed me into action.
I was reading the comments section of Big Journalism where I came across a post that said, who's going to replace Andrew Breitbart and carry on the fight?
You will.
You do it.
I found that incredibly moving and true.
I mean, was I going to continue sitting back and letting others like Andrew do most of the work while I cheered them on from the sidelines?
Wasn't it time I got up off my ass and got into the game?
25 years of being a conservative, of reading, of thinking, arguing, learning.
Do I have anything to contribute or not?
No.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
No, but your brain is rotten now.
Yes, you've tasted the apple by far.
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