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Here We Go Again

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In 2017, an anonymous individual named “Q” began posting on a public messaging board called 4chan about “Pizzagate,” a conspiracy theory alleging that a restaurant called Comet Ping Pong was really an underground child sex trafficking ring run by deep state political elites. Q quickly gained acclaim online after he continued posting unsubstantiated clues—what QAnon followers call “bread crumbs”—about a prophetic “Great Awakening” that is in store, when deep state Democrats will supposedly be held accountable for their “crimes.” On Tuesday, avowed QAnon sympathizer Marjorie Taylor Greene won a Republican congressional primary in Georgia. Beyond her avowal of QAnon, she is a 9/11 truther, has called black people “slaves” to the Democratic Party, and has characterized the 2018 House midterms “an Islamic invasion of our government.” What’s worse, the president congratulated her win on Twitter after her victory. Given Georgia’s 14th District is a reliably red district, she’s almost certainly headed toward Congress. What does this mean for the future of the GOP? David and Sarah have some thoughts. Be sure to listen to today’s episode to hear our podcast hosts discuss the new police officer body camera footage leading up to George Floyd’s killing, as well as the constitutional underpinnings of John Eastman’s Newsweek piece questioning Kamala Harris’ eligibility for office on birtherist grounds. Show Notes: -John Eastman’s Newsweek piece on Kamala Harris, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, Thomas v. Lynch 5th circuit case, D.C. circuit case, statutory citizenship rights explainer. -Police officer body camera footage leading up to George Floyd’s murder. -Professor Ted Sampsell-Jones on the charges in the George Floyd case. -Pew Research Center polling on QAnon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David

0:22.9

French with Sarah isker and sorry to say Sarah we don't have any space talk

0:27.9

today we don't have any dinosaur talk today we've just got we've got

0:33.1

Law talk oh we have law talk we have the latest will can we really call it a

0:40.2

Bertha controversy really okay we'll call it we've got the latest Bertha

0:45.7

controversy we're gonna talk about QAnon and now that it looks like there's

0:51.4

gonna be a follower of the Q conspiracy theory coming into Congress much to

0:56.2

the delight of the president of the United States and we're also gonna talk

1:00.2

about the fully the the Minnesota has the minutes the Minneapolis police have

1:07.1

now released the entire body camera footage of the George Floyd killing and it

1:14.1

has caused some people to question the narrative so to speak and so we're

1:19.1

gonna talk about that and why the video I think reaffirms what we already

1:24.9

knew but we're gonna we're gonna talk about that in some detail and then we're

1:28.6

gonna end with a culture question that Sarah has so we'll just keep you in

1:32.7

suspense about what that is but first let's talk a little bit of Bertha

1:39.2

Rism so yesterday a law professor I actually know him a law professor named

1:48.4

John Eastman wrote a piece in Newsweek Newsweek.com it says still there it's

1:55.8

still there called some questions for Kamala Harris about eligibility in

2:00.9

the words is she a natural born US citizen and the argument is that maybe she's

2:09.4

not why because when she was born in the United States she was born in the

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