You guys have heard about the ship
stuck at the Suez Canal.
Well, there's a twist here.
It turns out QAnon is out it
again and they've got a theory.
Now hold up, hold up,
hear them out first and
let's see how it goes.
Okay, so they're going to explain
here on advice within minutes of
the ever given ship getting stuck
in Egypt Suez Canal on Wednesday.
An incident that's created chaos in
the global supply chains,
QAnon supporters are spreading
wild conspiracies that the ship was
operated by Hillary Clinton and
carrying a cargo of child
sex slaves.
Now when I saw that I thought, of
course [LAUGH] What else would it
be, okay, what do you think they're
doing commerce, no of course
Hillary Clinton in the Suez Canal
with the candlestick okay so but
hold on like I said let's hear
it out, why, the claims are based
on the fact that the Taiwanese
shipping company that operates
the ship is called Evergreen wishes
Clinton secret service name when
she was first lady.
Ladies and gentlemen, they got her.
We have got a coincidence on
our hands.
Hold on.
Turns out there's a second
coincidence, the basis theory was
well you say baseless, I say basis,
the basis theory was given further
credence in the minds of QAnon
followers at least when it emerged
the ship's call sign was H3RC aha,
wait hold up, let's find out why
which is close enough to Clinton's
own initials HRC for QAnon on
followers to make the link and
obviously you put the three
in there because of Q and
the Suez Canal.
Obviously, okay, well, Jake,
to be honest, the Q in cursive and
I know that you're writing this off
like it's not a real thing and I
can pick up the sarcasm man, don't
come after my people like that.
It's for those of you who
watch the QAnon docu series.
It's currently on HBO that does
feature Cenk Uygur coincidence.
Episode two Cenk's voice happens
coincidence, I think not
the cursive Q looks a little like
a three and if you are as barely
attached to reality as myself and
my fellow QAnon adherence are,
that's enough, I see, I see, I see.
Well look if you aren't convinced
yet, by C3KU, so
then we find the ship's tracking
picture now this is amazing.
Okay.
Apparently this is the pattern that
the ship took.
We're not making this up.
Okay, so now there does appear to
be a phallus built in underneath it
they're known to appear to
be too low of some sort,
and some are speculating that Meant
that it perhaps it is penetrating
a buttocks, and so- >> [LAUGH] Wow!
>> So they're like, aha, and
you guys saw we didn't know what
we're talking about, all right?
But holt,
it turns out that is not buttocks.
That is, we're going to explain why
that happened in the first
place because now we go back to
more QAnon theories.
They explained in one of
the forums and
this was a very popular one among
the different posts in the forum.
Those ships are on auto-pilot most
of the time.
The computers do the work.
I am suggesting that the ship's
computers were hacked.
My suspicion lean towards
the White Hats.
This was part of the plan, ah-ha!
Okay, wait, when I read that,
I was like, wait,
who are the White Hats?
I lost track of the conspiracy.
So, I was, are those the guys in
Syria who helped the wounded, and
then some people hate them, because
you shouldn't help the wounded or
something, or?
No, it turns out in this case,
the White Hats are the good guys.
>> Yes. >> Which, of course
are actually the bad guy, wait,
that are beating the deep state but
are the deep state, And so they're
like the guys who are going to help
Trump become king again and so,
they wear the White Hats.
Wait, I thought Hillary Clinton was
doing this, no, it turns out QAnon,
according to this theory, took
over the ship that was on autopilot
maybe draw a phallus okay and
to point out Evergreen.
Okay, if you're not lost yet
hold on hold on okay this part is
going to be the clincher for
you because now you're going to see
how it all comes together
okay they explained in the forums
using a canal is symbolic of
a birthing canal of course it is.
Of course it is, the things
are about to happen worldwide,
hmm the birthing of the information
coming from this mess will be
the beginning of the end of
the deep state that's why.
You take a ship run by Hillary
Clinton filled with trafficked
kids, you make them draw a penis,
and then through a canal and
then the information will be
birthed to the world.
Hey, by the way, if QAnon can
actually take control of the ship,
why don't they free the kids?
>> Yes. [LAUGH] I think it's weird
the child sex trafficking angle of
it Why is that always the angle?
There's like so many ways for
people to be evil, right?
Like there's just countless ways
for evil to.
Perpetuate itself yet
they always go back to kiddie porn
it's just the weirdest thing to me,
I don't know like you know,
I hate Mitch McConnell just as much
as the next guy but I'm not
accusing him of child abuse you
know what I'm saying like it's just
a weird place to go man, no, no
once I figured that out by talking
to a couple of QAnon people on
the conversation and that's exactly
what I wanted to figure out.
I'm like why?
Why do they think that?
Why child molestation and
number one was first I got research
before that and
there's two parts of the story.
The first half is that they realize
tons of people have been molested
in their lives and it's a giant
problem and the society's never
really talked about it publicly and
we have no idea.
The degree to which sexual assault
has happened.
And funny enough when progressives
point that out, the right wing goes
on either exaggerating and
women are exaggerating, etc.
But they actually know it.
And so it touches a nerve with
people.
And the minute you talk about that,
anyone who's suffered through that
not anyone but
a lot of folks unfortunately
that suffered through that Think,
it must be true because it happened
to me, so I totally believe it that
it's happening, right.
Then the second half of it is,
this doesn't get talked about
in the media because they don't
want to offend people, but when you
actually talk to QAnon people as I
have and other people that did
reporting on the ground with them,
they bring it back to religion and
they've been taught well look
Satan is real and so what would say
do he would drink blood he would
do ritual sacrifices and he would
do child molestation and they,
and they keep saying Satan is real,
Satan is real and so this is of
course and then what happened in
the church on the catholic church.
They had powerful,
people do a child pedophilia.
It's true.
It happened in the Catholic Church.
So they assume, well,
I guess that means everybody in
power is doing it.
I mean, if our priests are doing
it, everybody must be doing it.
And of course, so
that's where the insanity the germs
of that disease were born.
Yeah it's just all the worst thing
you can think of just innocence
going after innocence what are you
going to do after that and
then it's also that like don't
think of pink elephants.
It's like now I'm thinking of pink
elephants, don't think about
Hillary Clinton in a ring of child
prostitution trafficking blood
sacrifice don't think of it and
then you just repeat it over and
over again and it's and
then it turns into like you're
watching ancient aliens.
It's just like,
yeah, sure, why not.
This sounds fun.
And then the other layer of it in
terms of how it creates so
many followers like I've talked to
people who have mentioned QAnon in
passing, and they have and they
sound they sound very early on like
they were, they're actually into it
but when you really ask them,
they're not really that into it.
They just don't like
Hillary Clinton.
And they like that there's this
group of people who are who feel
the same, who they don't first of
all it's if if you don't take
it seriously and you
hate Hillary Clinton then it's just
wildly fun to talk about, yeah, and
it's like let me piece together and
then it's just like watching
a David Lynch movie where you're
trying to find all the symbolism
and how it fits together.
And any solution you come
up with is absolutely right.
Because they throw so
many variables out there so
many random data points that if you
look at an infinite bit number of
data points, then you can find
a ton of little patterns in it.
Yeah, that breadth that's exactly
right actually I want to go two
last points about this story and
but first before I get to that
point that you just made.
I remember when an all right figure
and I don't want to name them,
said like.
Online, why don't we just accuse
our opponents of being child
molesters and that'll show up in
their Google search?
It doesn't have to be true.
It just has to smear them.
So this was planned a long time
ago and it's the worst, most cruel
base political demagoguery I've
ever seen in my lifetime so
there's all these components
to it now the final part is
what Brian mentioned it's so
easy to get people to believe in
conspiracies in fact look at this
one it within this story okay but
go back to the vise reporting on
this they say many QAnon supporters
are also pointing to an old post by
the group's anonymous leader Q,
who wrote cryptically in February
of 2018 to quote watch the water.
A phrase that's been rolled out
repeatedly over the years as
proof that QAnon conspiracy is real
whenever something happens on or
near water, this is like
the oldest trick in the book.
This is what fortune tellers do,
right?
I once went in with a friend.
He had a Cornell hat on and
had like a shorts and
a sweatshirt on and she's like,
you're really smart.
You work hard.
you like sports you're really into
sports yeah you saw the Cornell had
in the shorts it's complicated
right if you say something's
going to happen near water there's
a lot of things by water so
the guy literally and I'm positive
they accuse a troll I mean,
forget like being a governor.
Of course he's not in
the government, but
he's having a time of his life.
And he's King troll.
He might even beat Trump in
the record books as the best troll
in human history, right?
So he's doing things like,
next time the conspiracy will
involve air, yeah.
>> And people are buying it.
They're like, my God,
it's right here,
it happens in the air.
It's in the air, right?
>> Fire and water and earth and
heart, it is all, Q is Captain
Planet is what I'm trying to say.
>> I just love that I would put my
name on the side of a child and
slave-mentship right,
[LAUGH] Like just I put my name on
it like literally put my name on
the ship that I'm trafficking
children in, amazing.
>> [CROSSTALK] celebrities all have
their.
Fake names, it's like if I got
super famous and my fake name when
I check into a hotel is like,
ate bray or like, [LAUGH] it's not
a code anymore really pick it out.
>> [LAUGH] Right.
>> Benny Batfleck.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah, exactly.
>> Chatting in with Bat >> Babban.
[LAUGH] >> No, but in this case,
it's not even that right.
This is like one of
said they really believe a theory
that Hillary Clinton while
doing the worst thing on earth put
her code name on the ship.
>> And isn't that yeah.
>> It's so funny.
Yeah, the it's so, but
that leads to the last part of it,
which is that I know it's easy to
use conspiracies'.
But they're relying on the right
wing being
the less intelligent wing.
They just are.
So look here let's put up their
conspiracy board.
This is on this story again.
They put up stuff like this and
they just draw arrows and people go
other than right wing they look
at it and go, ah-huh, right.
Wait, how what that stat like?
That looks like the the board in
beautiful mind.
You know remember that movie where
Russell Crowe you find out at
the end had lost his mind, except
in our case it's literally 10s of
millions of people in the country.
Will lost their mind in mass
together, last part of the story.
Their going to add the last spit of
the gravy here, okay?
They put up this picture, and
they claim Monica Lewinsky was
the captain of the ship.
They say so
interesting that the captain of
the boat run by a company named
Evergreen is a female.
Kind a looks like someone we know.
Yeah, you know why it looks
like someone new?
Because you took a picture of
the actual Monica Lewinsky and
put it up, but
that's not the captain of the ship.
[LAUGH] They're unbelievable.
And millions of people believe it