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Speaker 1: Q and On is now the most prolific online conspiracy

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Speaker 1: theory of the twenty one century. None of their predictions

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Speaker 1: came true. Q has vanished and the storm never came,

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Speaker 1: but Q and On is still alive. I'm Jake Hanrahan,

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Speaker 1: and this is series two of Q Clearance, a podcast

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Speaker 1: shedding light on the ongoing Q and On conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 1: This is a production of Kudatar Media and I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Today we're going to be doing an update of sorts. Basically,

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Speaker 1: whilst Q is no longer hitting headlines across the world anymore,

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Speaker 1: there are still significant stirrings within the Q and On

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Speaker 1: universe that you need to know about. So in this

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Speaker 1: episode of Q Clearance will be going over them. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about the role of Q in regards to the

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Speaker 1: death of John McAfee, the further fascist radicalization of Q

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Speaker 1: and on, and the b drop. So firstly, cast your

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Speaker 1: mind back to episode two of this series, when we

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Speaker 1: were looking into how Q and On has become increasingly

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Speaker 1: more extreme and its political worldview now that it's been

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Speaker 1: forced underground onto apps like Telegram. Since recording that episode,

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Speaker 1: one of the largest Q and On channels has begun

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Speaker 1: sharing increasingly more anti Semitic and outright neo Nazi content.

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Speaker 1: One of the worst is ghost Ezra. Ghost Ezra is

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Speaker 1: a Q and On personality with a Telegram channel that

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Speaker 1: is more than three hundred thousand subscribers in it. He's

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Speaker 1: that are all marked with small stars of David and

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Speaker 1: he's been accusing them all of being members of the

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Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. He's also been promoting the far

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Speaker 1: right film Europa the Last Battle, which claims Jewish people

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Speaker 1: deliberately started both World War One and World War Two

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Speaker 1: as a plot to form Israel. It's outright neo Nazi propaganda.

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Speaker 1: Many many people in the channel, all of them supposedly

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Speaker 1: Q and On followers, and now cheering on this Nazi

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Speaker 1: vein within Q and On. When you think about it,

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Speaker 1: it's quite bizarre that Q and On is evolving like

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Speaker 1: this when you consider that they all actually worshiped Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: and Trump did more for Israel than many previous US presidents.

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Speaker 1: He's the one that even okayed the move of the

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Speaker 1: embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, effectively recognizing Jerusalem as

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Speaker 1: the capital of israel I don't want to get into

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Speaker 1: their deeper politics of Palestine versus Israel, but that is

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Speaker 1: a very big win for Israel. Still, this Nazi vein

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Speaker 1: on's becoming indoctor trinated by all this, it's a very

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Speaker 1: big worry. There are hundreds of thousands of people, all

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Speaker 1: Q supporters, in these underground telegram network channels, and now

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Speaker 1: many of them lapping up neo Nazi propaganda, whereas only

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Speaker 1: a few months ago they were died in the world

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Speaker 1: hardcore conservatives. Now, whether you hate conservatives or are a conservative,

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Speaker 1: that is irrelevant. There is no denying that the jump

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Speaker 1: is quite vast and very troubling. Now what's interesting is

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Speaker 1: Ghost Ezra himself. Whoever it is, we don't know, but

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Speaker 1: Ghost Ezra is possibly a plant, as in, he was

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Speaker 1: never a Q and On fan that somehow started turning Nazi.

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Speaker 1: He was possibly a Nazi. The whole time and infiltrated

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Speaker 1: on to the next update, let me just say this

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Speaker 1: Just just better with me. Listen to this. We're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about the new que drop or what you

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Speaker 1: could call the B drop. Now. Remember Q hasn't posted

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Speaker 1: a single que drop since December, but something new happened. Now.

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Speaker 1: me just explain. So last month in May, there was

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Speaker 1: a big Q and On conference in Dallas, Texas. It

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Speaker 1: It's all very strange. But what you need to know

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Speaker 1: now is that one day into the conference, on May nine,

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Speaker 1: there was a message put onto a coun posted directly

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Speaker 1: on Board. For Q to explain further, his researcher Sarah

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Speaker 1: hi Tower, Remember hires Tower helps out with research and

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Speaker 1: Have a listen. So, like a day into the the

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Speaker 1: And when I say that it's the Q post board,

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Speaker 1: trip code. Now, the Q trip code was already like

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Speaker 1: to refresh your memory if you've forgotten. The trip code

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Speaker 1: was essentially a signature attached to Q. So whenever someone

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Speaker 1: to the episode on it in series one. But essentially

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Speaker 1: But anyway, this new user turned up and it was

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Speaker 1: a B drop, not a Q drop. So this B

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Speaker 1: Who gave you the playbooks? Who helps you answer questions?

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Speaker 1: And that's what the post hands And it's pretty short

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Speaker 1: Ron Watkins is doing. Now. We think Jim and Ron

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Speaker 1: Everybody was wondering, who is this be, why is there

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the John McAfee drama. So if you're unaware,

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Speaker 1: John mccafee was the entrepreneurial creator of the world famous

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Speaker 1: in some ways he was. Ultimately though, McAfee was a

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