Madison Cawthorne’s Hot Mic QAnon Confession: ‘Big Fan of Orgies & Blow’
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Republican mook and neo-Nazi Madison Cawthorne followed up his grimy racist conduct during last week’s confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court with an arrogant quiet part aside aloud on right wing Warrior Poet Society podcast that “his GOP colleagues were big fans of orgies and blow.”
The unintentionally campy website rife with forbidden erotic yearning sublimated into gun worship. So of course they started talking about coke-fueled orgies and how much they totally don’t want to go to them. Cawthorn, in his full QAnon-style “can you believe this” voice, raved about how high profile Republicans have invited him to “a sexual get together at one of our homes” and that he’s seen them snort cocaine.
Cawthorn said the sexual perversion and drug use at the nation’s capital on the popular TV show House of Cards is just like what he sees in Washington, D.C.
Cawthorn, 26, was asked during the interview how closely his experience on Capitol Hill aligns with the Netflix series, specifically its elements of “corruption, power, money and perversion.”
Cawthorn said that he once heard a former president say the only thing that was unrealistic about the show was that Congress would ever be able to pass a piece of legislation that quickly, and he agreed with the sentiment.
“The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington… being kind of a young guy in Washington where the average age is probably 60 or 70, I look at all these people — a lot of them who I’ve looked up to throughout my life… then all of a sudden you get invited to like, ‘well hey we’re going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes. You should come, like, what did you just ask me to come to? And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy. Here’s some of the people that are leading the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and then you watch them doing, you know, a key bump of cocaine in front of you and it’s like wow, this is wild.”
Wait until he gets to smoke meth.
Compared to his QAnon scripture and verse beliefs about Democrats being blood libel pedophiles, this of course is vanilla Sunday sermon church talk.
Multiple Republicans in Congress whined to the press. It got so bad that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy brought Cawthorn into his office for a dressing-down, which is definitely not the treatment that members get for regularly dropping hints that their Democratic colleagues are blood-drinking Satanic pedophiles. The next day, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis endorsed Cawthorn’s primary opponent.
The hypocrisy, of course, is off the charts. But it also highlights a larger problem that is facing the GOP in the Donald Trump era. (And no, it’s not the post-Trump, as he’s already running for president again and likely to get the Republican nomination in 2024.) The party is increasingly dependent on QAnon and other conspiracy theory communities for funding, voter drives, and general energy. But, as this Cawthorn debacle shows, that community’s addiction to titillating tales of political debauchery needs constant feeding. And as is typical with addiction, it’s hard to keep the impacts under control.
In the wake of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” bill signing, “the accusation of pedophilia has spread rapidly and is being heavily applied to any person who defends LGBTQ rights. And not just online, either, where “ok groomer” has become the favored phrase right-wing trolls fling at supporters of LGBTQ rights. On Fox News, QAnon-level wild conspiracy theories are being leveled at the Disney corporation after the company’s CEO agreed publicly that the “don’t say gay” bill is bad news. Numerous talking heads on the network accused the corporation of “sexualizing children.” Popular GOP podcaster Ben Shapiro claimed the company is “endorsing the indoctrination of small children into radical sexualized worldviews” and a columnist at the conservative site Townhall flatly claimed Disney “promotes child exploitation and supports groomers.”
According to new polling from PRRI shows that 22% of Americans subscribe to at least some QAnon beliefs. More critically, the research shows that the conspiracy theory is a good recruitment tool for the GOP, as it’s attracting people who were previously apolitical or even had liberal opinions. It converts those folks to the idea that Donald Trump — and ergo, the larger GOP — is somehow going to save humanity from the blood-drinking Satanic pedophiles.
Trump is already using facile accusations of “RINO” and “woke” to punish Republicans for perceived infractions like expressing skepticism of his election-stealing schemes. It’s probably just a matter of time before this “groomer” jab starts getting used by the far right to control Republicans who veer from the party line on anything from the Big Lie to the love for Vladimir Putin. McCarthy no doubt gets this, as he’s a regular punching bag for Trump. And that, I suspect, is why he’s clearly terrified of Cawthorn opening that particular Q-shaped door.
