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The Capitol Invasion, Conspiracies, & Partisan Gurus

Matt and I try to save ourselves from doom scrolling Twitter and discuss the Capitol Invasion and its relation to some of the partisan Guru & conspiracy dynamics we regularly cover. Sorry about the annoying conference flipping video style. Amateur that I am, I forget to change the recording settings. Anyway, be forewarned this is part potentially interesting content but part mental therapy!

The Capitol Invasion, Conspiracies, & Partisan Gurus

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Yeah that's incredibly telling.

Christopher Kavanagh

I started a twitter doom scrolling habit 2020 Nov 3 and it persisted until 2021 Jan 20th. After that I was free to ignore politics again (phew). I still obsess over that time months later. Having only recently discovered Dinging the G, I had to hear your guru round-ups on the topic. TANGENT: I'm sure you know that Scott Adams was a guest on the Sam Harris podcast. Sam had asked the Trumpkin members of his audience "who is the smartest, most articulate Trump supporter who might have a chance at explaining why I'm wrong in thinking Trump is a monster" (paraphrased) and the best Trumpkins could come up with was that vile worm Scott Adams.

Jonathan Cano

I only just finished watching this video and LOLed at the 44 minute mark – Eric's solution to everything is for the media to talk the the 20 IDW folk on his rolodex. The sad thing is that I think he really believes that.

Chris Spanos

I love this description!

Christopher Kavanagh

I (Chris) actually listened to the Conspirituality podcast that covered this same topic and it was really interesting. It is out of our usual sphere but that isn't a bad thing. I think getting into the weeds with the Q phenomenon is something we should do at some point!

Christopher Kavanagh

I imagined that you looked like a couple of nerdy B list 80’s actors who are now in their mid 50’s 😁

Woman Artist

wow racist

Liam Kofi Bright

You are the black swan of philosopher communists.

Christopher Kavanagh

Heard this a lot so I’m very curious what people were imagining we look like. And thanks for listening (and the compliment!)

Christopher Kavanagh

You guys do not look at all like I imagined 😂 better 😉 Do you want to go on a date Chris? Just kidding. But not really... also, I love your podcast. Been listening for a while on the podcast app. Thanks for being awesome 🙌

Woman Artist

Thanks, guys - good ranting. And relevant - while reading this piece on 'the guy with the horns' today, I found myself wondering who he's the mark of: https://gen.medium.com/the-q-shaman-conspirituality-goes-rioting-on-capitol-hill-24bac5fc50e6 To be fair, probably someone more extreme than you've covered! (I also ended up down a Google rabbit hole on 'conspirituality', which naturally is a whole thing).

Becca Thomas

A) the little stealth shout out to me here was acceptable but false - I am in fact an idiot. B) actual lol at 'Rubin, the man with the extremely limited intellect"

Liam Kofi Bright

You are wise!

Christopher Kavanagh

Thanks for chatting. After months of avoiding news, I’ve actually been disappointed with the relative dearth of substantive content over the last day and a half. Maybe I have to pay for Apple News+. Anyway it was good to hear what the IDW sphere has been up to. I abandoned Twitter months ago and have no plans of returning.

Evan


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