WEBVTT - BlueAnon: Assassination False Flag and Liberal Election Denial 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:09.280 Al Zone Media. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.440 Garrison takes a puff of their clove cigarette as slow 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:18.360 jazz plays in the background. These sites say what they 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:23.840 used to be. I've been digging into liberal conspiracy theories. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.320 That is, they're all the rage where the sky is 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.120 blue and the book is face. These libs think old 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.839 Donnie Jay's close call in Pennsylvania was a false flag, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.120 that the South African Musk stole the election, and that 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.280 the Park Service has gone rogue, waging an insurgent information 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:48.159 warfare against this corrupt administration, sending out coded messages on 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.600 social media. It's called blue and on dohal and it's 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:59.400 been making me blue. This is it could happen here. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.160 I'm Davis. I'm joined by Mio Wong for our blue 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.240 on on episode Finally. 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.319 I never thought. I never thought I would have been 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.720 nostalgic for the days where I was arguing with isis 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.320 on Twitter. But increasingly increasingly I am looking back at 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.800 that as the golden age the Internet. We were merely dealing. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.400 No, it's it's only gotten. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.000 More stupid right wing terroristualization. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.880 It's it's only gonna get more stupid from here. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.399 Oh yeah, no, this is this is the least stupid. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.800 It's going to be for at least fifty years. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.160 And this is the thing that I realized what doing 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.640 my research for this bloon On episode, is that usually 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.520 conspiracy research is kind of fun. I have a good 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.640 time looking into conspiracy theories. I like going to conspiracy conventions. 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.520 I get joy out of this, almost no joy. Looking 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:51.160 into liberal conspiracy theories really boring and kind of sad. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:57.080 So that's the intro for this episode, Garrison, can I 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:01.160 interest you in some of the bespoke shit, none of 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.760 none of the none of this twenty twenty four elections stolen? 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.560 Can I Can I interest you in some two thousand 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.680 and four Iowa vote total? 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.320 Stay? Oh yeah, absolutely, We'll get to that much. We'll 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.440 get to that in our last section. Because yeah, there 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.440 has been liberal election done out in the past, not 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.880 at the same I think scale it exists at now, 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.000 but yes, it certainly has existed before. And you know, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.880 for a while, conspiracy theories were like a bipartisan or 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.040 at least like a by directional political pastime, like old 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:38.200 conspiracy magazines were not as partisan as conspiracy theories has 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.520 seemed today. Think of like you know, JFK. Everyone gets 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.120 to have fun with JFK except for me. I don't 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.840 have any fun with that. And conspiracy culture used to 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:55.239 like crossover between hippie environmentalism, anti semitism, anti corporatism, anti authoritarianism. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.880 All these things exist both on the far right and 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.240 the far left. There was a lot of meshing between 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:06.239 different different polarities of conspiracy theory. And I think politics 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.400 on the fringe are slightly more susceptible to conspiratorial thinking. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.440 And if if you spend an amount of time and like, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.480 you know, the communist left, you'll see that they have 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.200 their fair share of conspiracy theories or even just a 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.679 conspiratorial way of understanding the world. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.200 They all think that we work for the CIA. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.200 Yeah, stuff about the CIA and NATO, all kinds of stuff. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.320 And though like anti vaccine and nine to eleven trutherism 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:36.400 were initially more liberal aligned conspiracy theories, in the Obama years, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.560 conspiracy culture coalesced around the growing far right. Look at 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.960 people like Glenn Beck and the slide of Alex Jones 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.840 into the fascist right. Case in point Obama, Birtherism and 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.280 all this stuff leads to Donald Trump and QAnon. As 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.520 of late, liberals have had a conception that as the 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.320 more rational of the two political alignments, they were almost 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:06.880 naturally immune to conspiratorial thinking. Meanwhile, attacks on consensus, reality, 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.720 fractured information streams, and any larger collective sense of what's 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.960 real and what isn't started to slip away from everyone. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.039 Yeah, your camera's flashing. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.920 They're trying to silence me. They're trying to I'm getting 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.240 too close to the truth. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.760 He legitimately looked like a fucking like you're being taken 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.400 off the air in a cyberpunk pirate radios taken my. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.480 Cat started to unflug my camera rehit. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:40.120 Although my cat is named Theodore Katzinski and Kazinsky was 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.960 a CIA operative who got mk ultra, so you never know. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:51.400 The right wings trailblazing of political unreality allowed space for 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.799 liberals to dip their toes into the conspiratorial mindset again, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.640 but maybe without even realizing that's what they were doing. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.119 Exaggerations of Russia Gate was one of the first Trump 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.360 era liberal experiments with conspiracy theories, the idea that Russia 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.880 not only engaged in hacking on a social media disformation 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.040 campaign to influence the twenty sixteen election, but that Donald 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.360 Trump himself colluded with Russia to get himself elected and 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.440 might even be a Russian asset. And even though those 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:27.960 allegations were investigated and not concretely proven, the conspiratorial churn continued, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.240 emboldened by the media environment that the right has created. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.799 As QAnon accelerated during the second half of Trump's first term, 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:41.880 so did the decline of American consensus reality, culminating in 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.040 the Stop the Steel movement in January sixth, which were 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:52.039 explosive manifestations of Internet conspiracism which erupted in the physical world. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.280 A severe fracturing of reality took place. Any conception of 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.479 a shared political reality seemed so far gone, and the 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.640 effects of this loss aren't just contained to Republicans, but 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.120 this also enables liberals and people on the left by 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:11.159 opening up space for small reality tunnels to form regardless 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.120 of political ideology. The siloing of information channels makes it 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.600 almost impossible to actually form a consensus reality as the 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:24.200 United States has embraced its political cafe. As everything gets 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:30.200 more absurd, what loses is political mundanity. Liberals and the 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.720 left were almost destined to become more conspiratorial in this 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.040 current moment, and you can even look at how newsome 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.839 is like copying Trump's posting strategies, and even how people 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.560 like me memify and replicate Trump phrases. Many such cases, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.800 we were all going to be pulled into this at 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.880 a certain point because it's just more interesting. I'm going 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.600 to quote from one of MIA's favorite books, the CCRU 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.159 quote God. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:00.040 No. 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.520 Conspiracy fictions are spun out of an all encompassing narrative 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:10.080 that can't possibly be falsified, because they want you to 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.360 believe in their non existence. To attempt to refute such 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.360 narratives is to be drawn into a tedious double game. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.680 One either has to embrace an arbitrary and outrageous cosmic 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.080 plot in which everything is being run by Jews, Masons, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:30.400 the Illuminati, the CIA, Microsoft, or Satan, or alternatively advocate 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:35.640 submission to the most mundane construction of quotidian reality, dismissing 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:40.400 the hyperstitional chaos that operates behind the screens. This is 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:45.600 why atheism is usually so boring. Both conspiracy and common 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.920 sense the normal reality script depend on the dialectical side 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:55.280 of the double game, on reflective twins belief and unbelief, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:01.480 but disbelief is merely the negative complement of belief. Unquote, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.280 belief is so much stronger because disbelief is so much 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:11.200 more boring. It only exists in comparison to belief in something. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.560 I think this is why everyone has this urge to 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:19.360 get more conspiratorial. And like American specifically, our whole country 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.960 is based on conspiracy theory, like the Masons are such 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.720 a core part of our national identity. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.400 I fucking went down that tunnle. I went down the 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.160 like if you asked me to start talking about politics 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.719 in late nineteen seventies early nineteen eighties Italy, I could 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.520 start talking about how Italy was run by a rogue 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.000 Masonic lodge. So that actually is true. If you google 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.760 propaganda due you will you will find out this was 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.880 actually This was on the front page of the New 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.280 York Times. It was to be fair to the basis, 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.840 this was a rogue Masonic lodge. They had been expelled 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.920 from the Masons for being assholes. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.040 But this is true. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.680 All conspiracies are true, but only about nineteen seventies Italy. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.600 But it's more interesting, right, like it it's so much 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:01.120 more interesting. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.959 Yeah, it is more interesting, and it makes it really 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.960 hard to disprove conspiracy theories. When the act of disproving. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.440 It makes it feel like you're submitting to some all 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.880 controlling authority, and people people feel like they're losing, like 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.160 they're they And that idea of submission is why people 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.520 get so pulled into conspiracy theories because they think that 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.600 believing in conspiracy theories is itself almost a form of 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.400 resistance against you know, quote unquote them. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.640 Yeah, which is which which is very funny because the 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.800 actual operation of conspiracy is precisely the other way around. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.000 Like conspiracies had been encouraged by the government, by governments 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.880 for ever, Like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.160 were like an op by the fucking czars, like like 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.600 this is this, like this this, this is this was 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:48.200 this was literally a Russian police operation, right, But all 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.440 of these people now believe that they're like, oh, I'm 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.839 like the anti systemic person because I fell for this 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.280 like anti Semitic police operation. But it's yeah, it's a 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.160 really powerful force. 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:02.000 The US government has intentionally stoked UFO conspiracy theories for 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:03.160 eighty years. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.080 Yeah, because it covers up the thing. You know, if 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.920 you want to go conspiratory about it, is because it 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.720 covers up the thing they're actually doing, which is like 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.560 mundane but horrifying weapons testing shit. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:19.319 Like Now, the CCRU proposes that quote unquote, unbelief might 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.000 be the way out of this cycle by building a 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.400 plane of potentiality where the annihilation of judgment converges with 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:33.080 real cosmic indeterminacy. I myself try to embrace an unbelief 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.440 viewpoint for a lot of things, but I think that 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.920 only gets you so far, and might also encourage some 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:44.200 of these same problems in a larger scale. Because America 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.280 has now gotten to the point of unbelief, especially in 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.360 regards to QAnon, We've outgrown the need for QAnon because 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:57.040 everything is QAnon Now. Politics are about determining who is 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.640 and isn't a pedophile. Immigrants are trafficking children. Donald Trump 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.800 is on the Epstein List, which both doesn't exist and 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.520 was invented by Democrats. Historical events are staged. Every election 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.400 was now stolen by the side who won. DHS is 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.959 posting coded messages on the Internet. The FBI and police 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.640 are faking crime statistics. Everything Trump does is a distraction 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.520 from whatever the previous thing Trump did, which itself was 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.640 a distraction from whatever the previous thing Trump did. So 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.880 on and so forth. This is just what American politics 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:30.560 are now. And while Trump's numerous connections to Epstein are 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:35.760 long documented and he appears in Epstein FBI investigation files, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.800 discussions around it can feel very the storm is coming. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.559 The pedu elite are always just about to be arrested 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.520 and removed from office. I like to see old Donnie J. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.600 Wiggle's way out of this jam. The logic of QAnon 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.760 has perforated almost every aspect of American politics. On Blue Sky, 0:11:55.920 --> 0:12:00.040 there is this conspiratorial mantra gaining traction among liberals. But 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.960 he wasn't shot, he didn't win. He's on the list. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:05.719 Don't like that. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.800 Oh no, that's what they believe. Do you know what 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.440 isn't a conspiracy theory? Maya that advertisement is designed to 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:19.160 drive consumer demand repledged capitalism by replacing your desires. Not 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.640 a conspiracy theory. That's just the good old truth. Listen 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:37.480 to these ads. All right, we're back. As QAnon itself 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.400 became a uber conspiracy theory overtime liking together a large 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.959 collection of historical and contemporary conspiracy theories into one overarching story. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.680 Bluin On does not just refer to a single conspiracy theory, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.760 but rather as a label that can be applied to 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.520 a general assortment of theories or conspiratorial thinking held by 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.360 contemporary liberals and Democratic voters. I myself used a version 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.400 of this term all the way back in January of 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.719 twenty twenty one for a since removed YouTube video due 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.280 to threats of violence, in which I used the word 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.959 blue QAnon to describe Portland liberals who believed that Russia 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:19.439 was staging Antifa protests to make liberals look bad after 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.720 Biden's election victory, and some of the banners used in 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.920 this video apparently had threats to the president of the 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:31.000 United States, so YouTube took down the video. Unfortunately, even 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.000 though the video was just outlining liberal conspiracy theories about 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:39.439 this protest, thinking that you know, Russia probably made this banner, the. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.240 Censorship regime continues apace. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.640 Around this time twenty twenty one, the term blew and 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:52.160 on was mostly used to refer to Trump Russia conspiracy theories, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.880 but there were a whole bunch of other liberal conspiracy 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.719 theories in this era, like how palettes of bricks were 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.840 being mysteriously dropped off at protests, and though I will 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.440 say this conspiracy theory was used by both people on 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.199 the right as well as some centrist liberals. 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.040 Yeah, and I think this is actually you know, you 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.400 were talking about how there is this like QAnon, like 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.640 this sort of moment of break with consensus reality, And 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.760 I think the twenty twenty uprising was one of the 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.360 most the single most important events in this entire process massively. So, yeah, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.320 because the twenty twenty uprising was a systemic challenge to 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.600 both the liberal and the Republican establishment right because if 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.240 its central premise is true that the United States is 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.080 a structurally racist state, right, that is, is based on 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.720 the oppression of black people, then you can't continue to 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:46.040 maintain the state. And also simultaneously, the thing that was 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.320 incredibly threatening was that people were actually willing to go 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:54.240 out and fight the police over this. And on the right, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.840 this obviously causes massive reality fraction because they have to 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.840 grapple with the fact that like most of the country 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.720 was fine with burning a police stationed down or were 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.960 they right? Yeah, this is like oh no, there was 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.760 this was this was act. This whole thing was actually 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.720 like a plan by like Antifa democrats and like Pritzker's billionaire, 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.320 like the Jewish billionaire soorro Jewish billionaires. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.680 It was actually the Boogaloo Boys who planned the whole 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.880 thing and burned down the Third Precinct. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.280 Yeah, and this is this is a very very common 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.400 This became the liberal main line on the birding of 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.480 the Third Precinct was that it was a false flag 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.520 by like the Boogloo Boy People don't remember the Boogloo. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:29.400 Bar right, Boogaloo Boys. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.840 Yeah, it was like they were like this very very 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.320 weird race war fashion trying to encourage a new civil 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:39.600 yes a word weird fascist group, but like that became 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.640 the liberal main line because they had to find a 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.120 way to explain the fact that the people who were 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:47.520 you know, like a lot of people who are normally 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.960 supposed to be their base decided instead of doing their 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.080 sort of just like vote for the president and like 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.280 vote for the Democratic president and like non violently and 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.800 passively do nothing, people went and fought the police from 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.240 of a year and this caused this massive fracturing where 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.480 people had to believe it instead of there just being 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.240 construction sites and people taking bricks from construction sites, as 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.000 people have been doing for literally since the first brick 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.080 was made, people have been taking them and throwing them 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.080 at enemy authorities, right. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.720 Like stone Wall was a false flag. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.440 Yeah, right, because the actual power of that uprising was 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:29.840 so dangerous to the fundamental liberal conceptions of reality in 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.000 the world, and that like the marginalized and oppressed people 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.600 who who they sort of planned to represent, would take 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.160 it into their own hands. The idea that yeah, the 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.440 state is structurally racist and so it has to be resisted. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.840 That caused people to just have to create these like 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.080 just pure reality tunnels of like, oh no, actually, any 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:48.840 attempt to fight the police is a false flag that 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.920 the police want to do. Or the burning of the 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.680 Third Precinct was actually like the fascist attempting to provoke people, 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.600 and that the state actually wants you to fight it 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.160 because if you fight the state, then the state wins. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.760 And like this is one of the earth reality tunnels 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.360 that creates the sort of conspiratorial mindset. We're like the 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.320 Boglue boys at the Third Preacing. That's not just a 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.080 thing from like you know, online posters. That became the 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.240 main line of the Democratic Party because they also had 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.640 to contain the uprising and from there and once once 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:20.399 that's the accepted narrative of like the Democrats. Then this 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.880 peer reality tunnel conspiracy shit is now just baked in 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.520 to the very core of liberalism as it attempts to 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.280 recuperate and defeat the energies that were unleashed by twenty twenty. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.560 And that's how we're here, that's a large part of it. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.919 Flash Forwarding a few years during the first half of 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:42.679 twenty twenty four, especially in and around Biden's disastrous debate performance, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.560 the blue and on term begun being used to refer 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.000 to a collection of theories that a secret cabal of 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.560 deep state elites, the news media, high ranking Democrats, and 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.960 Republicans were targeting Biden to sabotage his presidency to make 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.480 him lose the election. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.720 There's no such thing as getting old. There is simply 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:08.879 being sabotaged by q cards and camera lighting positions. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:15.680 Now, the bluenon term here is sort of a misnomer 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.280 because like at this point, like Russia Gate and QAnon 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.120 had very little in common. Like one viewed Trump as 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.919 the Messiah, the other viewed him as basically, you know, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.440 an anti christ slash Russian asset. In the wake of 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.359 the Trump assassination, Philip Bump penned a Washington Post article 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.560 declaring quote QAnon and blue and on rhyme. The similarities 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:42.199 end there, and I have sympathies for this viewpoint, especially 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.840 in the wake of like January sixth, Right, Blunon doesn't 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:49.479 have satanic wayfair child trafficking, Yeah, but maybe it doesn't 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.159 need to. No, In conspiracy theories, it's not just about 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.879 the substance of the beliefs held, but the function and 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:02.680 methodology of the beliefs. In the past year, Blunon's function 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:07.560 and methodology have started to parallel q Andon's more and more, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.119 which leads us to the event that really opened up 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.879 operating space for the mainstreaming of the liberal conspiracy theories, 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:21.320 the attempted assassination of one Donald Trump. Americans are particularly 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.760 susceptible to assassination conspiracy theories. It has kind of been 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:30.880 woven into our national identity now. Of course, Republicans, including 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.560 elected representatives, developed their own fair share of theories about 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.520 the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. But that's another episode. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.720 Here's a viral Facebook video, Remember Facebook, No. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:46.680 It's not that bad. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:48.320 Take a look at what happened. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:56.520 Fake a shit man stage, fake a shit bo ain't 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.920 no bullets plying in that. You know what I'm saying, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.600 wan thing about a shootout. Soon a shootout, you will 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:06.080 see bullets, class stuff getting piled though Oh I ain't 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.000 never going on, never getting hit, nothing getting piled though 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.960 he definitely ain't get hit. He faked it all. The 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:15.439 whole dang is fake stage when grid bro just I 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.360 didn't play, y'all, They gonna make y'all vote on now 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.040 if the dump you feel me? Oh, y'all, oh he oh, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.280 he been shot in they'll all going on to vote 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:23.840 on y'all. 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:24.840 Some fucking clowns. 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:25.160 Buh. 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:30.680 The word staged spiked in use by almost four thousand 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:36.920 percent on Twitter, according to the misinformation tracker NewsGuard, appearing 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.160 three hundred thousand times the day of and after the shooting. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.880 The term inside job also rose on social media, up 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:50.440 by over three thousand percent, with bots and inauthentic accounts 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.600 adding to this. Chaos and Israeli disinfo tech firm Cybra 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:57.800 found that forty five percent of accounts using hashtags like 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:02.800 fake assassination and staged shooting were inauthentic. Within a day, 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.359 a post on x questioning the authenticity of the event 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.439 a gained over fifty thousand likes. Quote, great camera angle, 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.800 great quality. No Secret Service agent in front of his 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:20.200 head covering the wound, conveniently placed US flag unquote. Another 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:23.280 got nearly fifty thousand likes, asking users to quote, raise 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.840 your hand and repost if you think this was staged. 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.760 There was a flood of posts, earning thousands of likes 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:35.560 and millions of alleged views, which questioned why Trump was 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.439 able to or allowed to stand above the crowd after 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.680 being shot, yelling fight, fight, fight, risking getting shot again. 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:47.480 And while it could have been possible that there was 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:50.800 a second shooter, Trump was only able to stand back 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.679 up after it was confirmed that Crooks was killed. You 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:55.680 can hear it in the video Shoot her Down, Shoot 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:59.080 Her Down. Secret Service was already aware of Crook's position 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:02.320 prior to the shooting and had not located any other 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:07.760 possible shooters. But reality does not matter here. I'm going 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:10.200 to play a short clip from a YouTube video which 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:13.920 was uploaded just a month ago with over eighty five 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:18.199 thousand views, explaining why someone feels it really easy to 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:19.800 believe in this conspiracy. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:25.879 Now, ladies and gentlemen, I normally don't go down conspiracy holes. 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:31.120 I don't, but we know MAGA does. MAGA has gone 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:34.800 down so many conspiracy holes and brought it to science 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:38.080 that We've got people not giving their kids vaccine. We've 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.879 seen measles rising in Texas. We had people not wanting 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.439 to get into COVID. We had quarterbacks telling people to 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:48.480 take ivermectin. We had people saying take fucking horse traink 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.520 orizers to get rid of COVID. And so now I 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.440 think I've earned opportunity to go down a rabbit hole. 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.199 This video was someone who was right there at the 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:02.040 Trump rally, and there can tending that this whole thing 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:03.959 is made up, which a lot of us felt like 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:08.600 it was anyway, because we do know that Trump he's 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:13.640 not afraid to fool around and shall we say reality 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.040 or entertainment TV. We know he's not afraid to do that. 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:19.679 And I'll show you an example of that in a minute. 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:24.280 What example do you think he's going to show a 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:27.520 WWE thing? It is a WWE thing. 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:31.680 I remember there was so much WWE like tying shit 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:32.119 with this. 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:34.960 Well we'll get to that in this sect. But I 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:39.320 find this explanation of why this person feels almost allowed 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:41.520 to believe the conspiracy theory is now super interesting. It 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.600 is specifically because the right has been so willing to 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:47.960 embrace conspiracism that now it feels like it's fair game 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:50.800 for liberals to do it as well. And this guy 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:54.560 is just almost almost acknowledging this fact. He's kind of 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.240 like working his way to by an entire thesis here 0:23:58.040 --> 0:23:59.680 with maybe without realizing it. 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:02.480 This guy sponsored by an AI company, just just to 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:06.480 make this absolutely perfect. Great stuff, great stuff happening in 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:09.240 this in the sphere of our political discourse. We love 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:09.760 to see it. 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:13.600