Operation Puppet Master - A Pilled Government’s Investigation (386)

Please do an update on this at some point!

Long time listener, first time commenter: I've volunteered at the Grease Pit Bike Shop for years. Loved getting the shout out on you show.

Lmao at the end Jake’s conception of modern political history is basically: “People didn’t like Bush… then it was Trump?”

id love to hear an episode from Travis about the GATE (Gifted and Talented Program) conspiracy thats been picking up on youtube and tiktok over the last year

If anyone wants to read about the long precedent for US State paranoia and conspiratorial investigation of a fictitious centrally organised left-wing 5th column; check out Bryan Burrough’s ‘Days of Rage’. It really underlines how silly and dangerous the Trump admin is being in the face of organic and peaceful opposition.

But the people who actually killed cops on Jan 6 are pardoned. (And the cop who shot that unarmed woman on Jan 6 is also not charged)

Jake organically discovering the concept of the agent provocateur without Julian on the ep is a top 10 moment in the history of this podcast.

I love how MAGA people think AR-15s neccessary to own but bricks and rocks are deadly weapons of terror.

Being able to live outside of cities is a privilege. Podcasters, people with remote-enabled jobs, wealthy boomers and their offspring can do it. For the rest of us, we have to live in populated areas to make a living, and I am getting tired of hearing rural residents whine about about how difficult their lives are.

50:05 The "E" sound at the end of "Mangione" is supposed to be pronounced, it is not silent.

“Who paid for the brick?” JD can’t even do conspiracy theorizing right

Great episode!

Eight years! I'm officially a QAA cult member.

No they get it. But if they can successfully claim that all the people they dont like are terrorists. They get their irl call of duty dlc from their wet dreams. "Remember, no russian" ICE version...

My buddy was arrested by the FBI for going to an ant-ICE protest in Spokane and standing in front of cars. They indicted and convicted them for conspiracy to harm or impede an officer.

I'm autistic for paper trails!

I have a question. How is MAGA coping with the fact that Scott Bessent is a former Soros' trader.

I fully support Jake's censored thumb joke

Did the anit-ice protestors in Texas get convicted? Haven't heard anything about them

I feel our only saving grace is that the Trump admin behaves like the idiot fail son who took over for the now deceased dictator.

ACAB

Jake and Liv could pool their money together and buy a house in the woods of the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island for $2 million!

I think the interesting thing about this is how much one of their accusations is just an admission of guilt. They’re sitting back, wondering who’s paying for this, meanwhile, I’m wondering who is paying these right wing Podcasts and Maga nut bags to spread misinformation and lies in order to misconstrued the discourse.

Funny one to listen to since I was there. To expand on a couple things mentioned: 1. Fundraising: there were hundreds of thousands, probably over a million dollars donated, but it was individuals giving to trusted community members so those people could directly give it to immigrants in hiding for rent etc. Websites were set up as a clearing house for trusted orgs and individuals. 2. No Kings: it was like -10F that day and the march was LONG. Those ice-holes did not want to follow anyone. I'm sure they gave it a half-hearted try then went back to their warm Tahoe with Texas plates. 3. Those agents definitely got made. I'm sure they were being watched. 4. Subarus were the Toyota Hilux of this resistance. God bless the lesbians of the Twin Cities.

Great episode. I'm also in the Twin Cities (member of two of the orgs in the "web of conspiracy") and everyone just fucking hated 🧊 being here. My elderly neighbors were out in the street.

This is LITERALLY what they're accusing splc of doing and claiming because they paid their informants, that they funded white supremacist groups.... so ices salaries are them being paid for information, too. The government is FUNDING THE "LEFT WING TERR○RISM" THEY'RE ALWAYS TALLING ABOUT! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Hearing kash Patel talk makes me want to give him a wedgie

Extremely unexpected Mississauga mention. Jake….there is so much more beauty in Ontario, make the move 💪

Peanut butter jelly time!

"Operation Invade Britain By The Water" lol 😅🥰 Liv Agar ✨️

OT but idk where else to ask: Anyone else see where a bunch of QAnon and Q-adjacent people just bought an empty women’s prison in California to turn into a place to house children rescued from child traffickers? Ann Vandersteel is one of them; I hadn’t heard that name in a long time.

Thank you Travis for some top class reporting on a really important topic. A great episode

For a while, every time Travis said “agents” I honestly heard “asians” and the episode took on a whole new, weird vibe.

[radio static] “Attention all units: I’ve spilled my sippy cup of grape juice all over my ‘blacks rule’ shirt and I need someone to come change me.”

Liv keeps mentioning shadow millenials in the administration, and while I was open to the idea, as a millenial myself I wasn’t necessarily seeing any convincing evidence of that. Lo and behold, headlines all week that apparently a fake-blonde 35 year old woman is maybe the shadow president. Liv Agar strikes again.

I deeply appreciate the coverage and the citations. I lived in these neighborhoods; loring park was my local park, and I had to leave and move internationally a few weeks before all this shit went down. I am relieved that there will be some folks with good brains tracking it

FUN STORY: I was the first kid at my high school to see the Peanut Butter Jelly Time flash animation, and was able to leverage the resulting popularity bump to get elected class president the following year. But once elected, I slacked off and didn't do anything, which -- coming on the heels of the Bush v. Gore decision a year or two earlier -- completed my disillusionment with electoral politics.

I feel like Canada is basically the good world in the movie Us. We’re down here in the dark eating fucked up food, no doctors, no schools, just kind of wandering around bashing our heads against the walls.

I’m a member of the leftist self defense group that was infiltrated. Ask me anything!

I think the most on the nose name was Operation Just 'Cause for the US invasion of Grenada in the 1980s.

I had never actually heard Patel's voice before. That is something.

At one point almost 2% of my suburb's population were in community response signal chats. And I'm sure every other burb and neighborhood was the same. The meetings I went to were hosted by old ladies and pastors. Dangerous stuff, singing "This little light of mine," before talking about our constitutional rights.

Millenial Occupied Government? MOG? They're MOGing us?

This episode bringing receipts

Its very cool that our federal LEO and govt broadly speaking is basically just a bunch of dogs chasing their tails

@3:45 hyperstition ?

8/11 is my birthday lol

Happy 8 years!! I've been listening for at least 6, and love you guys!! ❤️

Title for the next puppet master movie

Citations are out of control, Liv Agar.

Right on time. Just got home from work. Can't tell ya how much it means.

Liv Agar?

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Liv agar?