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Bunker USA: How QAnon became the conspiracy theory of everything

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The QAnon conspiracy theory has run rampant throughout America’s far-right. Why won’t it die? Could it ever disappear? Jacob Jarvis speaks to Mike Rothschild, author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, to discuss the state of the cult-like belief structure, how it has evolved over time and what might replace it should it ever go away.  “Q is very good at taking the events of the day and reinterpreting them through the lens of the conspiracy.” “It’s really turned into a choose your own adventure version of conspiracy theories.” “Now that all of this stuff is so mainstream and all of these beliefs have infiltrated every part of politics from the national to the hyper local - it is millions and millions of people who believe in some aspect of QAnon.”  www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Presented by Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jet Gerbertson and Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Alex Rees. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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it's likely you will come across the QAnon Conspiracy Theory.

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One of the lasting images of the January 6th storming of the US capital is that of the so-called

1:24.4

Q-Anshaman, the horn-wearing shirtless writer with his face painted red-white and blue, waving an American flag.

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Others are involved in the violence war or held off the Q logo and the

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where we go one we go all slogan. Two years on from those events what is the state

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of Q and on? Does it still have the grip over its disciples that it once did? And is that number growing

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or shrinking and can we truly tell? I'm Jacob Jarvis and here to discuss this with me for the

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Bunker USA is Mike Rothschild, author of the Storm is Upon Us, how QAnon became a movement, cult, and conspiracy theory of everything.

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Hey Mike, thank you for joining me.

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