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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

QAnon - If You Don't Know, Now You Know

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Daily News, Comedy, News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Are Trump’s typos secret messages? Are Hillary Clinton, Tom Hanks and Oprah eating children to live longer? Here’s everything you need to know about the QAnon conspiracy theories. Also, Desi Lydic sits down with a former online conspiracy theorist to discuss the appeal of conspiracy groups to people across the political spectrum and the path to getting out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.8

For the last few weeks, you might have been hearing about something called QAnon.

0:12.9

The biggest thing on the internet since that time Kim Kardashian's butt was thirsty.

0:17.6

It has been all over the news, social media, and this weekend, QAnon supporters even

0:22.3

held demonstrations in cities across America.

0:26.4

But what is QAnon?

0:28.1

Well, let's find out in another installment of our ongoing segment, if you don't know,

0:32.4

now you know.

0:41.0

If you know anything about QAnon, you've probably heard that it's a conspiracy theory.

0:45.8

But the truth is, it's more like a political cult built around a conspiracy theory and

0:50.8

then crossed with a big book of word search puzzles.

0:53.9

And if that sounds complicated, well, wait till you hear what they believe in.

0:58.4

For believers, Q is an anonymous government official who posts classified information

1:03.5

about a covert battle between the president and a malicious ring of celebrities, political

1:08.4

elites, and the so-called deep state.

1:11.1

This anonymous poster, Q, was giving secret clues about becoming, quote, great awakening.

1:18.6

The central theme here is that Hillary Clinton and many of the world's other politicians and

1:22.7

celebrities are members of a murderous child sex ring.

1:27.0

Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, and others eat children in order to extract

1:33.3

a life-extending chemical from their blood group.

1:36.0

They believe that a group of military generals recruited President Trump to break up this

1:40.6

conspiracy and end their control of the government and the media.

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