7. Welcome to the Future
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
QAnon and the plot to break reality...
The Q Shaman, the man with the furs and horns who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, is in jail. The movement he came to symbolise appears defeated. But in a small South Carolina seaside town, ‘establishment’ Republicans are fighting a losing battle for the soul of their party, after one of the bloggers who mainstreamed the QAnon conspiracy theory has been elected to a powerful local position.
Across America, people who believe Donald Trump’s parallel narrative about a stolen election are trying to take over the levers of democracy. Was this the plan all along?
Producer: Lucy Proctor Presenter: Gabriel Gatehouse
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, welcome back. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Gabriel Gatehouse, and this is the coming storm. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello there, how are you? My name is Gabriel. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm from the BBC. |
| 0:18.0 | I've come here to interview some people. |
| 0:20.0 | What's your name? |
| 0:21.0 | Milweto. |
| 0:22.0 | Great, and you've got this banner behind you. What's your name? Bill Bledso. Great. |
| 0:23.0 | And you've got this banner behind you. |
| 0:25.0 | Yes. |
| 0:26.0 | Tell me what it says and what it's about. |
| 0:27.0 | Okay, it's about the, we're the counterinsurgency. |
| 0:30.0 | A counterinsurgency are the people that have been occupied by an enemy country, which is what |
| 0:36.8 | our federal government is right now. |
| 0:39.1 | It's an enemy country. |
| 0:40.2 | The Chinese Communist Party funded it over through our elections. |
| 0:44.0 | I know what you're thinking. |
| 0:47.0 | Not another Q-Anon conference. |
| 0:49.0 | Didn't we do that in the last episode? |
| 0:52.0 | But I'm not at a QAnon conference. It's mid-2012. I'm in South Carolina and I'm at an |
| 0:58.9 | event for conservatives and members of the Republican Party. |
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