Premium Episode 127: QCon Does Dallas feat Will Sommer (Sample)
A 3 day event that saw Michael Flynn call for a coup, journalists kicked out and speeches by congressman Louis Gohmert, Alan West and a slew of Q influencers like Jordan Sather, Redpill78, and The Kate Awakening. Our guest is journalist Will Sommer, who was booted from the western-themed party on day 2 by the police.
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Welcome, listener, to Premium Chapter 127 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the QCon in Dallas episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rokitansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View.
Memorial Day weekend in Dallas, Texas.
The very first Patriot Roundup, billed as the kickoff to a series of events, took place at a Western-themed venue called Eddie Dean's Ranch, replete with fake saloons and mechanical bulls.
Although Forgotten Country was the official event label, the cowboy hat and the logo contained the well-known QAnon slogan, where we go one, we go all, and the event certainly made good on that promise.
It was attended by longtime Q influencers Jordan Sather, RedPale78, and TheKateAwakening.
Above them in the pecking order, and considered founding fathers by the post-Trump QAnon movement, lawyer Sidney Powell and former General Michael Flynn.
To lend the entire thing political legitimacy, Congressman Louie Gohmert and Texas GOP Chairman Allen West were allowed to wander the grounds doing Zippo lighter tricks for contributions.
Acting as security was a group called the First Amendment Praetorians, who billed themselves as a crowdfunded patriot organization.
Multiple journalists were of course booted from the event, including this week's return guest, journalist Will Sommer.
We'll be asking him how it felt to have Jordan Sather snitch on him under false pretenses, resulting in the police showing up to escort him off the premises.
Now, we had initially planned on going to the event in Dallas.
I had bought a ticket for myself and Jake at 500 bucks each, mind you.
I thought we'd be able to keep a lower profile by not buying the VIP tickets, which were a grand each.
I even bought flights.
I had reserved a room.
Everything was looking fine.
But then, on April 18th, one of the organizers, QAnonJon, posted this message on Telegram.
Guess who bought general admission passes to our Patriot Roundup event?
Will Sommer.
Clown.
Logan Strain.
Travis Few.
Clown.
These two clowns have dedicated their lives to making people who follow Q look like totally crazy and like utter fools.
What should I do?
Crowdsourced that answer and some people are just like, let him in, kick him out.
They're a little divided on that question.
For a while, it looks like things were going to be fine.
I was already mentally prepared to go.
As was I. But on May 23rd, less than a week before the event started, I got an email stating that my tickets were cancelled.
So I wrote back to the official sort of email explaining the situation, and I was straight up.
I said that, you know, we disagree on many things, but I have no intention of being disruptive, which is true.
I'm never disruptive at these things.
I ask questions, you know, but I'm good.
And if anything, I'm encouraging.
I'm, you know, I'm helping you make the event the most happy, fun place that it can be.
I'm not trying to fuck with things.
This apparently didn't impress them.
This was the email I received back.
We have been very selective as to what media has been allowed to cover our event, and we are doing the same with those who will be covering our event via another fashion, e.g.
your podcast.
As stated in the registration area of our website, we reserve the right to refuse admission to anyone and or to remove any persons if we deem their attendance may result in a disturbance to the event and or to its attendees.
Given the biased nature of your coverage of the Q movement and the spreading of blatantly
false information, we deem that your presence at the event would be potentially disruptive
and could potentially result in a disturbance to the event.
Additionally, we feel that your coverage of the event resulting from your attendance would
serve no value to our event and therefore would rather allow a truly interested person
to have the chance to see the event live, as it will sell out.
However, you are free to purchase the livestream.
As you purchased a ticket, you deserve to respond so that you may cancel both your flight
and hotel in due time.
Thank you for your understanding.
You know, that was gracious of them.
That was.
All things considered, very polite.
Very polite, all things considered.
It feels like it's a problem now in the development of this podcast.
Now I've become too notorious to attend the QAnon events.
You know what we'll do next time?
We'll just purchase it on my credit card that's not tied to the pod or you.
Don't say it on the podcast!
Good OPSEC, good OPSEC, Jake.
We're on the podcast!
Well, I mean... I'm leaving this in!
Because we're going to do something different than what you said.
That's a good first draft, Jake, but obviously we're going to use appendages, helicopter, spec ops gear, maybe... Jake, you know that military thing where it was like an invisibility cloak?
Do they still have that?
Yes!
I'm sure it's even better than it was when we reported on it.
We should bring the invisibility cloak.
That's my contribution.
Yeah, because at the very least, I mean, if you get kicked out of a convention in Vegas, at least there's something else to do.
Of course, Will Sommer's ticket wasn't cancelled.
He made it all the way to the event.
Two days, as we'll see soon when we speak to him.
But he was kicked out!
Of course, QAnon Jon captured the moment that he and his wife kicked Will out.
He bought a ticket.
His name is Wes Sullivan.
He's a reporter.
We didn't want to know because of his biased opinions.
We have a disclosure and disclaimer on our website.
It's saying we reserve the right to refuse anyone's entrance and or who we deem their presence a disruption.
We deem his presence here a disruption.
We funded the ticket and he somehow is in here.
So he's trespassing.
He's trespassing.
We want him gone.
He's not supposed to be in here.
I don't know how he got the badge.
Lies.
Yeah, all untrue.
That's the Praetorian dog behind there, by the way.
One of the Praetorian guards has a little fluffy dogger, but they had a flak jacket on it.
As Will Sommer was escorted to his car by police who were hot on his heels, he was followed by a giddy Jordan Sather, who used it as an opportunity to stream the event to his followers.
Hey, buddy.
I heard you're getting kicked out of this place.
I guess so.
Yeah, you weren't supposed to be here.
I bought a ticket under my own name.
Oh, yeah, that's okay, but you're here to infiltrate.
For what it's worth, officer, I'm happy to leave.
I bought a ticket under my own name.
I'm not, uh... Oh, yeah, sure.
Will says there's no deception.
Where did you get that map?
I got it at the gate, I was on the list.
I bought a ticket under my own name, there was no deception.
So we refunded your money?
Will says there's no deception.
You can refund my money now, I mean that's fine, but I want to say there was no refund before that.
Oh my god.
Will said there's no deception.
A pale ghoul.
Even in his moment of joy, that laugh feels so painful.
I'd like to point out that what's actually going on under the surface of Jordan is very revealed by the fact that we have a first-hand account of him getting drunk and begging people to put him in touch with Code Monkey.
Ron Watkins.
Will Sommer apparently wasn't the only reporter to get the boot.
Reporters from Vice and the BBC were also reportedly shown the door.
But Will Sommer getting escorted out was apparently the talk of the conference.
We have it on good authority that people were talking about where they were when Will was discovered and made the leave.
Yes.
Uh, yeah, we have a firsthand account of people reenacting the moment and pretending to be Will, uh, getting escorted out of the event.
So, uh, I wasn't even able to get, make it that far, but, uh, I was able to watch the live stream, which was very well produced, if I'm being honest.
The sound and the picture quality was great.
They seemed to have two, maybe like three cameras that some producer was switching between at all times throughout the live stream.
And if I'm being honest, the whole event itself was like a high end business conference.
Each speaker had their own musical cue and animation sort of video reel before they came out.
I hate to have to give it to them, but you know, QAnon conferences have really upped their game over the last couple of years.
Over the course of three days, the speakers talked about what you might expect, alleged election fraud, UFOs, anti-vaccination, Spygate, Pizzagate, and the Great Awakening.
One of the first presenters was Jason Sullivan, the self-proclaimed social media expert and former associate of longtime Republican operative Roger Stone.
Sullivan also has had a very real impact on the growth of conspiracy theories on Twitter.
As reported by Business Insider, Sullivan operated a tool on Twitter called Power10, which successfully amplified messages from Trump and his allies for years.
If you've seen the HBO documentary Q Into the Storm, then you may also remember that Jason Sullivan and former NSA officer Bill Binney directly called Ron Watkins in December of 2019.
On that call, Sullivan offered his services and tools to help amplify QAnon messages on Twitter.
So this is a guy who has been personally involved in QAnon on a deep level for years.
And on the sort of true believer to grifter scale, he's redlining the grifter side.
During his speech, Sullivan stated something that would be a recurring theme throughout the conference.
You are the plan.
I'm going to let all of you in on a little secret.
You ready?
Ready!
Are you sure?
Yes!
Are you sure you're sure?
Yes!
You are the plan.
You.
You.
Thank you!
And all of you at home watching this on livestream, all of you, I have a plan.
Okay?
In any plan, there's a lot of moving parts.
Especially in a 5D dimensional game of chess.
Which is what's happening, which is what's been happening.
You're part of the plan.
You're part of the plan.
Look under your chairs and you will find the plan.
Yeah, throughout the conference, members of the audience were repeatedly told to take action.
And beyond just posting to, they weren't told to take, do anything violent, but they were asked to run for school boards or local offices and that sort of thing.
Because Sullivan really understood his audience well, he pushed the old tried and true save the children message.
We can't trust our institutions, can we?
They don't let us down.
Every last one of them.
They let our president down.
Our beloved president.
They let the children down.
We're not gonna take that, I can promise.
Okay?
And there are some weird people out there, okay?
Don't get us twisted.
We know that there's human trafficking going on.
Are you kidding?
What, the stats don't exist?
Because we bring that up, that makes us conspiracy theorists?
Where is your head?
Are you kidding?
It's real!
There's 400,000 children that went missing last year in the United States alone.
There is human trafficking, and in fact, it's on the trajectory to become bigger as far as money.
People make money off of this.
Can you believe that?
Can you believe that?
God forbid.
Heaven's name, Jesus' name.
We are going to pull them up from the nape of their neck and toss them in that lake of fire where they belong.
We don't touch our children.
We don't touch our children.
Hands off!
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