When an angry crowd of MAGA supporters were seen storming the Capitol Building on January 6th, the whole world was suddenly forced to reckon with the power of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Quickly though, after Trump lost the election, the QAnon reporting was dropped from the news cycle. Many presumed that QAnon was finished. After all, Q himself has vanished, none of their predictions came true, and Trump is out. Surely they’d lose steam? Sadly, no.
QAnon has gone underground and the adherents are becoming more hardcore than ever. Something very disturbing is brewing in the world of Q, so join us for season two of Q Clearance as we document the wild evolution of QAnon without its leader.
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Episode Transcript
Q and On is now the most prolific online conspiracy
theory of the twenty one century. None of their predictions
came true. Q has vanished and the storm never came,
But Q and On is still alive. Since the sea
of Maga hats kicked in windows at the Capitol Building,
twenty four hour news channels decided to momentarily take proper
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notice of Q and On. Predictably, most of the reporting
was surface level and often over dramatic. So we're doing
Q Clearance Season two to dig deeper into this growing
at global conspiracy theory after it had blown up across
the world. I'm Jake Hanrahan, and I'm going to be
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diving further into this madness as it evolves into something
truly horrific. Now that the dust of the US elections
seems to have settled, many people think that because Trump
is no longer the president, Q and on is over.
As I said and fought sately, that is very much
not the case. There are hundreds of thousands of them
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still hanging on, and believe it or not, some of
them still think Qu's so called plan is being followed
to the t. A lot of them think Joe Biden's
victory was made to happen by Trump and Q. The
idea is that Q and Trump are secretly still in control.
They genuinely believe that the Q team is working behind
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the scenes, allowing everything to happen as it is as
a means of allowing the so called bad guys to
expose their evils. Then they still think Trump will swoop
in and take over. So just because you're not seeing
it everywhere in the media now doesn't mean Q and
On has gone away. In fact, now that it's being
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chased off of mainstream social media and onto the relative
underground of telegram, Q and On ideology is splitting off
into several different factions, some of which are embracing New
Age occultism, some of them are becoming nihilistic, and some
are embracing outright neo Nazism. In Q Clearance Season two
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will be documenting the evolution of Queue and On without
its leader. Will also cast a light on the deeper
parts of the conspiracy that you just won't see discussed
in the news segment. We'll be talking about their economic
necessary utopia Que and On in Japan. The Rise of
Lynn would the new QUE drop that's actually a b drop.
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Ron Watkins and his new griff with Aliens and how
Q and on Hysteria has completely broken families apart in
one case, possibly even violently. So Join us for Q
Clearance Season two, launching June eight on the IR Radio
app or wherever are you listen to podcasts m M
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Jake Hanrahan
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