they are just excited about the fact that they all believe donald trump is still the president, and this is a very niche version of this. this is people following two specific telegram influencers with hundreds of followers. the much larger, broader section of qanon followers do not believe this. they kind of make fun of this. if you believe in qanon, you believe that there is this large pedophile gang running the world who is killing babies to drink their blood. all qanon people believe this, and then there is this tiny subset that believe that jfk jr. is involved. that tiny subset showed up by the hundreds in dallas this week, and not a lot of people believed this would happen. it shows how large this movement really is. yeah. stunning. leaves me speechless. i m glad i have a commercial break to try to get my head around it all. ben collins, thank you is much. it s good to see you my friend. come talk about these kinds of things anytime.
they fervently believe this stuff. ben, is this texas-specific or did people come from around the country to be in texas for this thing? people came from around the country. look, they came to meet telegram influencers. telegram is the wild west, it s like facebook five years ago. nothing is banned. there are fake jfk junior accounts there. by the way, they sell ethereum they don t sell ethereum. they try to get people to give them that cryptocurrency. and these two guys, they don t even use their real names, they re a bunch of words with letters at the end of it. they have hundreds of thousands of followers on telegram and that s who showed up today, it wasn t even the name brand qanon people that you would know maybe from the insurrection. it was a bunch of people who have grown a following since then. this has kind of grown its own new life since then. and by necessity you have to think of things that happen in the real world, not just online,
not real. there was a third thing he said which is, elections are safe, don t worry about it. he said this all on december 12, 2018. so a lot of qanon followers moved off of that. the majority of them have moved off of that. and they ve moved on to different kinds of conspiracy theories. but there is this one subset, an extremely religious subset that has made donald trump basically a messiah in this space and jfk junior as his ostensible running mate when he comes back to life. it s extremely religious but they fervently believe this stuff. ben, is this texas-specific or did people come from around the country to be in texas for this thing? people came from around the country. they came to meet telegram influencers. telegram is the wild west, nothing is banned. there are fake jfk junior accounts, they sell ethereum