Hi, welcome to Fever Dreams. My name's Will Summer. I'm a political reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on QAnon for Harper Collins.

And I'm Aswin-Sub-Tang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp.

All right, here on Fevered Dreams, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,

the energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers is still pushing

our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. Welcome to Fever Dreams.

I'm Will Summer, and we're joined once again by guest host

Kelly Weil. Kelly, how you doing? I'm all right. And Will, I promise never to tweet an anime

video in which I depict myself killing you. Just imagine like an anime video of you just like really

beheading me and I kind of like look across the office like hmm I love it like

Congress is really the only place where there's no sufficient HR department to be like hey is this

over the line do you think I should be doing this that's how you know we obviously we had to take a

classic workplace training and I think that would be at least an orange light moment.

You know, you're getting into the red zone there. So yeah, obviously we're referring to here is

Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar tweeting an anime video with his face imposed on it, beheading

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, attacking Joe Biden violently. Kelly, what do you make of this?

I hate to distill everything into cringe, but it's cringe. Like, you're, you are a dentist,

for God's sake. Like, you don't need to be tweeting these attack on Titan memes. So this was

attack on Titan, right? I think it was attack on Titan. yeah. My anime knowledge is a little slippery, but...

Well, that's the one with the big guys, the big guys.

And so this is a video of Paul Goose.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I mean, for that matter, I doubt that Paul Gosar is personally an attack on Titan

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