To Celebrate the Fourth, Michael Flynn Posts a Pledge to Conspiracy Group QAnon
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Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, posted a video on Independence Day in which he recites an oath for QAnon conspiracy theorists along with five others.
The man Trump appointed to the most sensitive national security position in US government and a current martyr/hero of the Trumpist right just posted a video of himself taking the QAnon oath.
Flynn had been circling the QAnon world for months, but this takes his flirtation with the group a step further. As the QAnon conspiracy theory goes, powerful liberal politicos are running an underground child sex trafficking operation but will ultimately be exposed and charged for their crimes after “The Storm.” There is, of course, no evidence that such a scheme exists. The oath, which includes the QAnon slogan “where we go one, we go all,” refers to “an oath to become ‘digital soldiers’ to defend the Constitution,” explains the Daily Beast ‘s Will Sommer. In the last month, following other cryptic messages of support for the QAnon conspiracy, Flynn added #TakeTheOath to his Twitter bio. As Sommer reports :
Flynn plays a large role in QAnon mythos, where his guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his discussions with Russian officials has been spun to make him a persecuted victim of the deep state—or even, in some cases, as the mysterious “Q” himself. Many QAnon fans have added three star-emojis to their Twitter handles, in a nod to Flynn’s status as a retired three-star general. Pictures of books supposedly signed by Flynn with the QAnon slogan “Where we go one, we go all” are seen in the QAnon community as powerful “proof” that QAnon is real, although their authenticity hasn’t been proven.
Through it all, Flynn had publicly stayed silent on QAnon and his role in the conspiracy theory, while his son told QAnon believers to stop claiming his father was involved in their worldview. But sometime in the last month, Flynn edited his Twitter bio to add a QAnon hashtag: #TakeTheOath.
…Flynn himself actually coined the term “digital soldiers” years ago, in reference to United States cyberwar capabilities. But QAnon believers have recently become fixated on it, convincing themselves that Flynn was actually referring to them. The oath craze has gone so far that, on Saturday, QAnon believer and Republican Senate nominee Jo Rae Perkins posted a video of herself taking the oath to become a “digital soldier.”
Flynn’s message, though alarming, falls into a larger trend: QAnon online activity has been on the rise since the start of the pandemic. As my colleagues Ali Breland and Sinduja Rangarajan reported last month, Google Trends shows that QAnon search terms like “WWG1WGA” (where we go one, we go all) spiked in March as US businesses started to close. Wikipedia’s QAnon page saw a surge in pageviews in March and April. Mentions of QAnon on Twitter have also increased:
A Mother Jones analysis of nearly 500,000 tweets posted across one week in April found that the average number of tweets per day using the hashtag #QAnon increased by 160 percent as compared to the averages compiled over six months of 2019 by the Twitter user @conspirator0 (Twitter later limited searches of posts on its platform, making other comparisons difficult.) The highest daily number of QAnon tweets documented by the account in 2019 was 75,349. After the onset of the US’s coronavirus crisis, that figure nearly doubled, reaching a high of 147, 748 tweets on April 4, 2020.
Anecdotal examples bolster what the data shows. Internet communities that hadn’t previously done so are now associating with far-right conspiracies like QAnon, impending mass arrests of elites for running pedophile rings, and liberal megadonor George Soros’s supposed plots. Across Instagram, pseudoscience wellness influencers , lifestyle influencers , anti-vaxxers, at least one contributor to Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop site, and other seemingly unrelated groups have all pivoted to spreading versions of these conspiracies that emerged on the far right.
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Here is a link to the Flynn Take The Oath video.
At the end of the video, he says, and his friends repeat " WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL". What does that mean?, you ask. Well,
There are some people on the right who would like to see Michael Flynn back in the Trump administration. Yes, they want this deranged conspiracy nut put back in near the heights of American political and national security influence.
On this twitter string
There are videos of dozens of people "TAKING THE OATH" as Flynn and his friends did. Many of these videos have explicit references to "Q".
How did this country get so fucked up?
obamas admin using the power of govt to go after political opponents did not help.
you will hear more about this later this year.
(see:obamagate) for "enemies foreign and domestic"
next question?
This seed is about Gen Michael Flynn making common cause with the nutcase conspiracy group Q Anon, not Obama.
Well, it has been established beyond question and irrefutably, that there was a nutcase left wing conspiracy against Flynn by the Obama administration.
The question was related to Q Anon and the adherence to that group by a Trump associate.
I have been lenient up til now on this seed but I am going to start flagging off topic.
Left wing narrative creator Mother Jones got a lot of mileage out of "Take The Oath"!
Vic, I looked at the Flynn video, I looked at the hashtags he posted, and I looked at a twitter page filled with people "taking the oath". It is connected to Q Anon.
The clincher though is the use of the mantra, by Flynn, of "Where we go one we go all".
Flynn doesnt belong within a million miles of a position of responsibility in the US government. He is off his rocker.
You linked them huh?
When you try and read a lot of shit into something it usually comes back to haunt you.
Remember when somebody claimed that the crowd was giving Obama the Nazi salute?
The picture was taken right after Obama said "let me see a show of hands." Yet any rational human being would never have interpreted those raised hands in that way to begin with.
I hope you get my point.
And i hope you aren't holding your breath waiting for that to happen ....
You don't have a point.
Flynn and his friends "took the oath" AND HE SAID "Where we go one, we go all." The two are connected Vic. They are connected in the Q movement, and they are connected on Flynn's 4th of July video.
The proof is staring you in the face, but as the Bible says, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
The Bible does not say that. It is a take off, yes but here is what the Scripture says............
The ominous "Q movement?" That's what keeps me awake nights, John. It isn't the threat of coronavirus or the violent rioters or the downsizing of the thin blue line, no it is that dastardly Q movement that has me sleeping with one eye open!/s
Michael Flynn was and is signaling common cause with Q Anon. He may be a true believer, or he may be cynically doing it because he is trying to create a personal political base that follows him.
What we do know is that he is doing it.
Michael Flynn - "Where We Go One We Go All"
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Yep, you just never know when the "Q" will show up and completely wreck Captain Picards entire day ....
No one involved in that idiocy should be within a million miles of a position of authority in the American government.
Weren't you recently advocating that Flynn should get his job in the Trump administration back?
Don't troll my seed.
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Since you can't dispute the premise of this article, why did you come on it?
Correct. Not quite the same job. I want Flynn to preside over the FBI and CIA. I want him to clean both houses!
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I have a great sense of humor
I'm afraid you are fated to perpetual disappointment on that.
By the way, are you "Q" too?
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To ask anyone that question is to implicate.
I rest my case ..... misplaced anger and humor are not great bedfellows John.
Is that a promise?
Either address the seed or I will have your off topic comments removed.
Go ahead, I don't care.
the last person to fire flynn was trump. flynn was fired for lying to pence. funny how trumpsters keep forgetting that fact.
Yeah and he should have done the Obama Admin shuffle and just plead the 5th or thrown an underling under the bus like all those shitbirds.
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Whatever...but since he committed no real crime, he needs the case against him dropped,
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Because you are endlessly allowed to change the subject or otherwise distract on just about any conservative or right wing seed.
Fair's fair, ya know.