Episode 79: The Democratic Party & Conspiracy Theories

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Seth Rich, the Podesta emails, the Imran Awan scandal and Shadow INC. A generation of political operatives like Tara McGowan getting DNC boomers to pivot to digital. The result? Infrastructure like the Iowa Caucus App. We explore how actions taken by Democrats have — inadvertently or not — fueled "conspiracy theories". ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Merch: http://merch.qanonanonymous.com Music by Nick Sena (www.nicksenamusic.com) /// SOURCES: QANON NEWS: https://nypost.com/2020/02/07/conspiracist-accused-in-gambino-boss-killing-goes-on-bizarre-courtroom-rant/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2020/02/11/man-who-blocked-hoover-dam-part-qanon-beliefs-takes-guilty-plea/4724161002/ TRAVIS https://www.govtech.com/security/DNC-Ignored-Cybersecurity-Advice-that-May-Have-Prevented-Recent-Breach.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html https://slate.com/technology/2016/12/an-interview-with-charles-delavan-the-it-guy-whose-typo-led-to-the-podesta-email-hack.html JULIAN https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599 https://www.thedailybeast.com/dnc-chair-tom-perez-says-iowa-caucus-slip-up-should-never-happen-again https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-national-committee-had-oversight-over-botched-iowa-caucus-app-report https://readsludge.com/2020/01/23/hedge-fund-billionaires-power-new-democratic-super-pac/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-25/acronym-s-newsrooms-are-a-liberal-digital-spin-on-local-news https://theintercept.com/2020/02/04/iowa-caucus-app-shadow-acronym/ https://theintercept.com/2020/02/05/iowa-caucus-app-election-system-security-design/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/politics/iowa-caucus-app.html https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122737/iowa-democractic-caucus-voting-app-android-testfairy-screenshots-app-store https://www.cnet.com/news/the-app-that-broke-the-iowa-caucus-an-inside-look/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/14/us/politics/iowa-caucus-results-mistakes.html JAKE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-probe-into-house-technology-worker-imran-awan-yields-intrigue-no-evidence-of-espionage/2017/09/16/100b4170-93f2-11e7-b9bc-b2f7903bab0d_story.html https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/damaging-emails-dnc-wikileaks-dump/story?id=40852448 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-strange-case-of-debbie-wasserman-schulzs-it-guy https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/13/broward-county-florida-recount-222543 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Awan

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0:00.0	What's up QAA listeners?
0:05.6	The fun games have begun.
0:08.3	I found a way to connect to the internet.
0:11.5	I'm sorry boy.
0:13.5	Boy.
0:15.5	Welcome listener to the 79th chapter of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the Democratic Party
0:21.2	fuels conspiracy theories episode.
0:23.3	As always we are your host Jake Rakotansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View.
0:27.6	On March 13th, 2016, Bill Ivy, then chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, wrote
0:33.6	an email to John Podesta, who was running Hillary Clinton's campaign about the obstacles
0:37.8	ahead in their quest to beat then-Republican nominee Donald Trump.
0:41.2	Dear John, well we all thought the big problem for our US democracy was citizens united,
0:46.1	slash the Koch brothers big money and politics.
0:48.4	Silly us.
0:49.4	Turns out that money isn't all that important if you can conflate entertainment with the
0:52.9	electoral process.
0:54.4	Trump masters TV.
0:55.4	TV so-called news picks up and repeats and repeats to death his opinionated blowhard and
0:59.8	his hairbrained ideas.
1:01.5	Free floating discontent attaches to a steaming straw man and we're off and running.
1:06.3	JFK Jr. would be delighted by all this as his George magazine saw celebrity politics coming.
1:12.3	The magazine struggles it was ahead of its time but now looks prescient.
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