The “journalist” who participated in destroying my volunteer group wants to subscribe to my Substack
I suspect he wants to write another hit piece. Ok, David.
David Gilbert from Vice News approached me in early Feb 2021 to talk about The Thinkin Project — the volunteer group that I formed to warn people about 1/6, to collect information about QAnon and associated threats, and to start to develop a plan to educate people about undue influence.
I told him exactly what our group was doing — and what it wasn’t. Specifically, I told him that all we were planning on doing was sharing vetted information about cults and undue influence from experts. There was no “deprogramming” or “deradicalization” it was just about helping people learn for themselves how deal with loved ones in a cult. I thought the conversation went fine.
Then for nearly a month the same people that David Gilbert had been platforming on his Twitter feed for months started an orchestrated, brutal attack on TTP. Specifically, Fred Brennan, Mike Rothschild, Travis View and all of their hangers on.
One of the ringleaders of the troll attack was the same account who’s running a huge attack on me now — @KassandraSeven.
Someone (Brad, the Bar is getting a call) infiltrated our private mod-chat on the TTP discord server and took a list of names of people who had been attacking us that I shared in private as some sort of “hit list.” It was nothing of the sort. We were talking in private about the coordinated attack we were receiving which we did not understand at the time. It was traumatic, it was harmful to a lot of vulnerable people in our group, and David Gilbert knew all about it.
The attackers took the list of names out of context and made a completely manufactured drama about it. That we were “targeting” people. Absolute, 100% lies.
In fact, the list was who I thought was “controlled opposition” because they were the people spinning lies about TTP and/or lies about QAnon. I was right — about all of them — because a year later they’re still after me and still lying — as we speak. Ask yourself — Why?
So in the midst of this incredibly traumatic and fucked up situation, David Gilbert comes back to me nearly a month later with questions that were basically: “When did you last beat your wife?”
“How do you respond to those who think what you are doing is dangerous?” was one question. As soon as he gave me his questions I knew what was up so I told him I had no comment.
Guess who called us “dangerous.” This guy, Mike Rothschild, who has been trying to ruin me for a year and a half since I DMed him to see if he wanted to talk about Russian influence on QAnon on August 12 2020. Newbie mistake. A big one.
The article was called “The organization trying to save qanon believers is falling apart”
This entire thing is bullshit. All of it. We were barely two months ago and just getting started to organize. No one “made big promises about deradicalizing QAnon followers.” And no one attacked or alienated anyone except David Gilbert’s friends attacking TTP.
As soon as I got his DM, I announced on my Twitter feed that I was going to step down as the leader of TTP and just become a member in the hopes that would shift some of this attack back to me. I also handed it to people I thought could do a better job than me.
But the attacks never stopped. I left for good in March 2021. And yet all of this bullshit is still being spread around Twitter trolls as if it revealed anything but their own sociopathy.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mwya/the-organization-trying-to-save-qanon-believers-is-falling-apart
If you look through David Gilbert’s stories, he platforms as experts all of the people in the group that has been attacking me for a year and a half, all of the people who have been dead wrong about QAnon for years. Hell, he managed to plug Mike Rothschild’s QAnon disinfo book in the same sentence as he lied about me.
This guy is a stenographer for them. That is all.
If you want to understand this entire group’s agenda, here you go. This is obvious disinformation about a report that had a massive amount of data and disclosed all it’s methodologies. David Gilbert had to rely on — get this — an “anonymous data scientist,” to say it was “bullshit.”
You may have noticed, there is a theme among this entire group. They hate it when anyone mentions Russian interference.
Article:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkby9z/no-russia-and-china-didnt-weaponize-qanon-its-a-homegrown-nightmare
Report:
https://thesoufancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/TSC-White-Paper_QAnon_16April2021-final-1.pdf
Another funny story. I figured out that the “Patriot Double Down” in Las Vegas would be at the Ahern Hotel after it was ejected from Caesar’s Palace when a bunch of us called them out. I tweeted about it on September 6th 2021.
A week later, David Gilbert guy comes out with this story. I quote tweeted him with something like “no shit I told everyone a week ago.” He replied that he had seen my tweet but that he had to “verify” it. This is nonsense because I had photos and video of all the people running the event at the hotel saying the event was at the Ahern.
The story says “Vice can reveal that” … and there is no credit to me. When I called him on it he basically just told me to deal with it.
So, David, I removed you from the subscriber list. I‘m not going to make your next hit piece any easier. Find another target.
EDIT: I forgot about the “documentary” David Gilbert was pretending to make so he could interview everyone connected with me so he could lie about me in person. Weirdly, he went out of his way to say my “Flynn theories” were wrong.
EDIT 2: Stop trying to subscribe David.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-secret-history-of-gavin-mcinnes
Founder of vice. Interesting read. Applies here for sure. Lots of groups at the bottom of each side of the horseshoe that are interested in deplatforming you, foreign and domestic. Bot armies are the tools of fascists. Don't get distracted by them. Let's put the seditionists in jail first.
Jim, all your work speaks to your intelligence and good character. Unfortunately, any time you unmask a psychopath or influence op, you’re going to be subjected to a smear campaign.
Those of us who have been there and done that know all the signs. And kassandra can go fuck herself along with the rest. Stay strong and press on in the fight.