What Does the Water Really Mean?

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C is doing these periodic drops, you know, you're dropping little notes and clues. These sorts of decodes aren't very productive, but for people who are really in it, it feels like you're doing something id. Feels like you're uncovering some sort of mass secret that the authorities, or perhaps the main streat media, doesn't want you to know. One popular one is that they believed that it was a reference to one time in which trump paused in the middle of a speech in order to drink a bottle of fiji water. And this was the signal that the trump was going after human traffickers whoe happened to be using this hub.

What would inspire someone to singlehandedly initiate an armed standoff on the Hoover Dam, or lead the police on a 100-mile-an-hour car chase while calling for help from an anonymous internet source, or travel hundreds of miles alone to shoot up a pizza parlor? The people who did these things were all connected to the decentralized cult-like internet conspiracy theory group called QAnon. Our guest this episode, Travis View, is a researcher, writer and podcast host who has spent the last few years trying to understand the people who’ve become wrapped up in QAnon and the concerning consequences as Q followers increasingly leave their screens and take extreme actions in the real world. As many as six candidates who support QAnon are running for Congress and will be on the ballot for the 2020 elections, threatening to upend long-held Republican establishment seats. This just happened to a five-term Republican congressman in Colorado. Travis warns that QAnon is an extremism problem, not a disinformation or political problem, and dismissing QAnon as a fringe threat underestimates how quickly their views can leapfrog into mainstream debates on the left and the right.