The geniuses over at QAnon have found their latest and
I dare say stupidest conspiracy theory.
This time, it revolves around John Fetterman a senator who yes,
has had his health issues.
Recently had to check into a center for his depression.
And apparently now the argument from these conspiracy theorists is that
John Fetterman has been replaced by a body double.
So, let's give you the I guess source of this, I mean, I don't know if this is
where it started but this is certainly the tweet that's getting a lot of attention.
It's from the expert otherwise known as Catturd who shared this side by
side image of John Fetterman.
It's a miracle, in only 3 weeks, John Fetterman got a total head replacement.
Man, he has some good doctors.
>> Believe it or not QAnon doesn't believe that he actually got
a head replacement because I wouldn't put it past them.
[LAUGH] Okay, but that's a joke in reference to,
it must be a body double since clearly that's not the same two people.
Now we're gonna show you some pictures of same people with different lenses in
a second and you're going to go, ok.
So hold for that.
But yeah, unfortunately,
some percentage of this country has lost touch with reality, right?
>> Are they trolling us?
>> No, not at all, I'm positive they believe it.
I mean, look, 15% of the country is QAnon and that 15% believes
that democrats molest children then murder them, then drink their blood.
This is the least controversial theory they've had.
>> Guys, if let's say something really happened to John Fetterman and
he could no longer be a United States senator.
The governor would then replace him with another democrat.
>> The governor is a democrat so, why would they bother us?
>> Why would they go through the trouble of the body double?
But by the way, wasn't there a period of time when democrats thought that there
was a Melania Trump body double?
>> People love to have fun with stuff like that.
Of course, but I don't think anybody really took that seriously.
>> Maybe.
>> But on the other hand, well, you never know, right?
But on the other hand,
your point is excellent Anna because who would just started conspiracy
theories like this, right at the beginning when we started young Turks.
So that several decades ago,
the United States government with Saddam Hussein body doubles.
It was one of the first things we ever made fun of on the young Turks.
Because the US government was, he's such an evil genius,
he has all these body doubles all over the place.
You can't keep up with them.
They were trying to make him sound super crafty and
he was hiding the weapons of mass destruction,
he was hiding his body doubles and me and Ben would make fun of it, right?
And we're like, man, that guy's got a lot of doppelgangers, right?
And then after the war we didn't find any of them, because it was made up.
And so we found him in a tiny little whole Saddam Hussein, right?
But after the war started, there was never any talk of doppelgangers or
body doubles or anything like that.
So, while you make fun of QAnon don't forget,
sometimes people in power also have absurd theories like this.
>> Now, of course, Catturd did not feel the need to explain why or
how Fetterman would be swapped with another person, another body.
But they did get fact checked on Twitter.
So good look it out Elon Musk, I guess fact checks still do happen, okay?
So there you have it.
>> So you will find that everyone in the building, there's two or
three guys left, okay?
>> [LAUGH] Now, there's a mind numbingly obvious explanation for
the difference between the two shots, lighting lens,
I mean, do we really have to explain this guys?
>> For sure we do.
>> It's insane, so, all right, let's put this up this is a great example.
So Bren Danflashes tweets out, please learn about focal
lengths of camera lenses and how they impact photos of people.
I'm begging you, begging.
And there you have side by side images of various individuals and
they look different in each one.
>> Yeah, look at the lower left especially,
those look like two totally different guys.
And that's because it's a lens and the lens makes all the difference.
>> And that is kind of incredible though,
they really do look like two different guys.
>> Yeah, that's way starker than the Fetterman pictures, right?
And meanwhile QAnon is thinking, my God there are so many of them,
[LAUGH] there's no reason to make up the other pictures.
OK, guys, it's just super obvious modern technology.
It's not even sophisticated technology.
This isn't even AI manipulating anything.
It's just a lens on a camera, right?
But folks will believe anything.
>> All right.
So who are the folks who will believe anything?
Let's give you the rundown.
You've got this guy who says his entire head shape changed totally normal stuff.
OK.
Bridget Gabriel, this is my favorite tweet.
I'm not one to push conspiracy theories really.
But John Fetter's face looks totally different.
Jason, this guy Roberge says they literally replaced Federman.
This is insane.
It is insane because it's not true.
>> By the way, those are some like relatively prominent conservatives,
the first two I at least I've seen, right?
And, but in the conservative world this is not a crazy thing at all.
I tell you, it's kind of benign.
>> Where did all the normal people go?
Where do the normal people go?
>> I know where they are.
>> I feel like I'm floating around in no man's land and it's like, where do I go?
Where's my trath?
>> No, but this is actually the most important part of the story.
The answer to this question, ok?
Because guys, the reason you see all the QAnon and
you see the extremes on the right and
the left all the time is because those are the folks who showed up online, right?
And regular people are kind of afraid of them.
Like they're afraid of going out there and saying something for fear of the extreme,
right the extreme left of lunatics coming and attacking them.
So regular people have kind of retreated from public life and
left a feel to the warriors and the lunatics, right?
There's some real warriors that do good in the world trying to fight back against
the evil that there is, right?
But there's a lot of crazy online.
So for regular people, they're like, I don't want any piece of this, right?
Maybe I'll peek in every once in a while and take a look.
But that is why the silent majority, which I can show you in the polling is
progressive but it doesn't matter about the politics in this case.
The silent majority of just regular people in the world you never hear from them.
There's a reason why they're silent because they don't wanna be attacked.
They don't wanna be in this crazy arena.
That is social media.
>> Yeah, that's a good point.