All hail @willsommer and the dedication to his craft. Our resident QAnon reporter did his journalistic due diligence at QCon. He spills the beans about what went down on today’s FEVER DREAMS podcast.

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Naturally, @willsommer didn’t last long at the gathering for conspiracy believers.

It started with a case of mistaken identity and spiraled into a shirtless man screaming on television that Sommer is his nemesis.

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Before Dallas PD gave @willsommer the boot, he took in the scene.

QAnon fandom paid $500 a pop to play trivia games, attend an auction featuring a picture of Flynn as a minuteman, and watch videos of WWG1WGA stormtroopers dethroning Joe Biden.

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"This is a movement…this deranged thinking about the cabal, and the pedophile cannibals somehow has gone on beyond Q and transmuted itself into being a regular line of thought," says @willsommer

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"This is a movement…this deranged thinking about the cabal, and the pedophile cannibals somehow has gone on beyond Q and transmuted itself into being a regular line of thought," says @willsommer

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Plus, @willsommer and @swin24 chat with @daveweigel about the massive GOP push to crack down on voting rights and how Trump’s associates are trying, and failing, to get the former president to care about encouraging his base to get vaccinated

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Finally, we get an up-close look at how alt-right comedian Owen Benjamin is causing chaos with his new crowdsourced, bear-themed compound in Idaho—“Beartaria.”

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Listen to the new episode of FEVER DREAMS where ever you get your podcasts

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