The QAnon Questions

The Gist

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On the Gist, Trump's Nobel nomination. In the interview, author and former FBI counter-terrorism staffer Clint Watts is here to talk about QAnon. He and Mike discuss the rise of the conspiracy theory and movement, why its belief structure is so murky, and the oddities of its marketing and merchandising arm. Watts will be back tomorrow for the second half of this conversation. His is the author of Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News. In the spiel, Woodward's words wouldn't have mattered. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder, Margaret Kelley, and Lori Galarreta. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How did Malcolm finally gain his cat's respect?
0:03.1	Was it because he saved 35% on Train 9 and bravely looked into the eyes of his dismissive pet,
0:09.2	where he saw something that said,
0:11.9	I don't actually hate you.
0:14.8	His Train 9 detanged for Malcolm gaining his cat's respect.
0:18.8	We hope so.
0:19.7	We really do.
0:21.4	Great journey start with Train 9.
0:24.2	Average savings for advanced fairs, rail cards and split-save wearer veil
0:27.1	versus equivalent flexible fair at TNC's apply.
0:30.1	The following program may contain explicit language.
0:37.3	It's Thursday September 10th, 2020 from Slate, it's the Gestime Mike Pesca.
0:41.8	Donald Trump's been a bragging in Bob Woodward's new book, Woodward for a title didn't go with
0:47.9	Sage or QD Bleingage. You went with Rage. One of the brags was this.
0:52.8	We have stuff you haven't seen or heard about.
0:56.0	We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before.
0:59.7	There is nobody. What we have is incredible.
1:02.7	What is this stuff? What is this thing?
1:05.0	I will tell you quote, I have built a nuclear, a weapon system that nobody's ever had in this country
1:13.0	before. I just fixated on the fact that he was saying nobody in America has ever had a nuclear
1:19.7	weapon system before and that's a brag. Who else besides say, I don't know the president of the
1:25.4	United States was to have a nuclear weapon system. I get bet he's a little jealous of Elon Musk,
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