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Hey QAnon! Republicans are playing your song

  
Via:  John Russell  •  2 years ago  •  16 comments


Hey QAnon! Republicans are playing your song
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, once thought by some to offer a Republican alternative to Trumpism, is heading to Arizona next month to campaign for GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, one of the most flamboyant election deniers in the country. Lake has associated her campaign with leading QAnon figures and has called for jailing her opponent.

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September 23, 2022 | Reporter, The (Vacaville, CA)






At a rally Saturday in Ohio, Donald Trump closed his speech to the strains of a melody widely associated with the QAnon conspiracy movement, which holds that the government is run by a secret cabal of satanic pedophiles.

En masse, audience members fully extended their right arms and pointed their index fingers as the former president proclaimed them to be “one movement,” apparently echoing the name of the song they were hearing, “WWG1WGA” — an abbreviation of the QAnon slogan “Where we go one, we go all.”

Trump had used the same theme song earlier at a rally in Pennsylvania, and in a campaign video. He reposted an image of himself on his social media site in which he wore a “Q” lapel pin under the QAnon slogan, “The Storm is Coming” — one of dozens of QAnon-themed posts he has done lately.

He’s continuing to do this despite clear evidence that the paranoid madness (the QAnon fantasy ends in Trump’s opponents being executed) inspires violence. In Michigan this month, a man allegedly shot and killed his wife and dog and injured his daughter. Another daughter told the Detroit News that her father’s mental health had deteriorated as he fell deeper into “crazy ideas,” including QAnon, since the 2020 election.

In Pennsylvania a few days later, a man wearing a clown wig took a loaded gun into a Dairy Queen, then told police he was armed to “kill Democrats and liberals” and “restore Trump to president king.” A Facebook account that apparently belongs to the man was steeped in QAnon craziness.

Trump’s spokesperson asserted that the rally melody (the one that prompted the one-finger salutes) wasn’t the QAnon anthem “WWG1WGA” — but rather a totally different song that just happens to sound exactly like it.

Right.

In a sense it doesn’t matter what melody Trump uses. He’s singing the QAnon lyrics — and MAGA Republicans are backing him up in four-part harmony.

Verse One:

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, once thought by some to offer a Republican alternative to Trumpism, is heading to Arizona next month to campaign for GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, one of the most flamboyant election deniers in the country. Lake has associated her campaign with leading QAnon figures and has called for jailing her opponent.

Verse Two:

A new survey by The Washington Post finds that in the 19 most closely watched senatorial and gubernatorial races this year, 12 of the Republican candidates (including Lake) have declined to say whether they will accept the election results. This shows that refusing to accept the will of the people is now a feature, not a bug, of the MAGA GOP.

Verse Three:

After failing to generate headlines by sending busloads of migrants to Washington’s Union Station, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott raised the level of cruelty by dumping the baffled migrants in a residential neighborhood of D.C., near the vice president’s residence. Abbott’s fellow Republican governor Ron DeSantis of Florida raised the inhumanity still further, taking migrants who escaped political repression and economic desperation in Venezuela and flying them to Martha’s Vineyard — where DeSantis knew no safety net awaited them.

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson celebrated the migrants’ humiliation in a racist rant about “sweaty Third World campesinos” in “dirty work pants” who would have “an outdoor goat barbecue” on the island.

Verse Four:

DeSantis isn’t limiting his disdain to refugees from Venezuela’s dictatorship. He ran a campaign ad that featured Pastor Larry Jinks, who, as the Jewish publication Forward reported, posted earlier this year that “it’s a shame that the Jews, who should know better, reject their own Messiah.” Jinks objected to peace and unity among religions, saying Jesus taught Christians “to be at odds with any religion that does not acknowledge Jesus.”

Not to be outdone, Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, held a rally with Texas evangelical leader Lance Wallnau, a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist who has voiced pro-Putin conspiracy beliefs.

Chorus:

Trump, even before the QAnon melody and salute at his rally Saturday, treated his fans to a full range of delusionary conspiracy notions.

“The FBI colluded with Russia.”

“We have a president who is cognitively impaired.”

“We won the election by a lot.”

“They spy on my campaign.”

Positively everybody was conspiring in the “persecution of the MAGA movement.” The “deep state.” “Racist” (that is, Black) prosecutors. “Menacing forces.” The “enemy-of-the-people” media. FBI agents who “break into” his home.

“A vile group of corrupt, power-hungry globalists, socialists and liberal extremists in Washington has been waging war on the hard-working people of Ohio,” Trump told them. “... Our biggest threat remains the sick, sinister and evil people from within our country.”

QAnon, he’s playing your song.



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JohnRussell
Professor Principal
1  seeder  JohnRussell    2 years ago

That whole party is shot to hell. 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
Professor Participates
1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @1    2 years ago

Qanon is a minuscule fringe group that has no real power or influence

Get back with us after the midterms and explain why the Dems did so poorly

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
1.1.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1    2 years ago
Qanon is a minuscule fringe group that has no real power or influence

The why did Trump pander to it last week? 

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
1.1.2  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Greg Jones @1.1    2 years ago
Qanon is a minuscule fringe group that has no real power or influence

" Here's a theory: Satan-worshipping pedophiles running a global sex-trafficking operation control the U.S. government, media and financial institutions. A storm is coming to sweep away the elites and restore the rightful leader of the country. And things are so off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save the country.

It's a pretty out-there view of the world, acknowledges Natalie Jackson, a researcher with the Public Religion Research Institute, which surveyed Americans on the central views of the conspiracist QAnon movement.

But a quarter of Republicans agree with those sentiments, according to  a PRRI report  released Thursday that was based on data from four separate polls it conducted. So does 16% of the population as a whole – or , Jackson notes, about 44 million people ."

A Quarter of Republicans Believe Central Views of QAnon Conspiracy Movement (usnews.com)

Funny how 25% of a political party are supposedly a "miniscule fringe".

If a quarter of someone's body was riddled with cancer or flesh eating fasciitis, would that person be considered "healthy"?

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
2  Gsquared    2 years ago

Kari Lake also pals around with a Nazi sympathizer.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
2.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  Gsquared @2    2 years ago

ari Lake also pals around with a Nazi sympathizer.

Democrats supported someone they believe pals around with a Nazi sympathizer.  

Sad. 

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
2.1.1  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Sean Treacy @2.1    2 years ago
Democrats supported someone they believe pals around with a Nazi sympathizer.

I think a more revealing question to ask is "who do Nazi sympathizers support?". 

" Nazi sympathizer and Army reservist who stormed the Capitol sentenced to 4 years in Jan. 6 case "

Nazi sympathizer and Army reservist who stormed the Capitol sentenced to 4 years in Jan. 6 case (nbcnews.com)

" Members of far-right groups, including the violent Proud Boys, joined the crowds that formed in Washington to cheer on US President Donald Trump as he urged them to protest Congress’ counting of Electoral College votes confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Then they headed to the Capitol. Members of smaller white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups also were spotted in the crowds . Police were photographed stopping a man identified as a leading promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory from storming the Senate floor."

Holocaust-denying neo-Nazis among the Trump supporters who stormed US Capitol | The Times of Israel

Neo-Nazis explain why they like Donald Trump - YouTube

Only a complete idiot with their head shoved up their own ass wouldn't know which political party and ideology these sick right wing white supremacist Neo-Nazi's support and it certainly isn't the modern liberal and progressive Democratic party.

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
2.1.2  Gsquared  replied to  Sean Treacy @2.1    2 years ago

The Republicans in Arizona VOTED FOR AND NOMINATED a candidate for Governor who pals around with a Nazi sympathizer.

Does that make you happy?

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
2.1.3  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @2.1.1    2 years ago
Only a complete idiot with their head shoved up their own ass wouldn't know which political party and ideology these sick right wing white supremacist Neo-Nazi's support and it certainly isn't the modern liberal and progressive Democratic party

Putin agrees and doesn't understand why the world didn't recognize what he did in the Ukraine.  

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
2.1.4  Sean Treacy  replied to  Gsquared @2.1.2    2 years ago

VOTED FOR AND NOMINATED a candidate for Governor who pals around with a Nazi sympathizer.

You support platforming and helping elect people you claim  are Nazi sympathizers and threats to democracy. 

The people In Arizona  who will vote for her don't believe she's a threat to democracy. 

I would never financially  support or help the electoral chances someone I believe is a Nazi or a threat to democracy.  I'm not a monster. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
2.1.5  Sean Treacy  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @2.1.1    2 years ago

Why do you support platforming and helping elect people you claim  are Nazi sympathizers

If you actually believe she's a Nazi sympathizer, you are a monster for defending the Democrats  support for  her campaign. Or you are lying because you know how gullible Democratic voters tend to be.

Which is it? 

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
2.1.6  Gsquared  replied to  Sean Treacy @2.1.4    2 years ago
You support platforming and helping elect people you claim are Nazi sympathizers and threats to democracy.

Your comment is a LIE.  It's not the first time you have lied about me, but that's how you operate on here.  It is also an offense against my family members who were slaughtered by the Nazis when they were marched out of their village into the forest and shot to death.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
2.1.7  Sean Treacy  replied to  Gsquared @2.1.6    2 years ago
kay. Point me to where you've denounced the Democrats for their support and platforming of candidates they claim are threats to Democracy.

Okay. Point me to where you've denounced the Democrats for their support and platforming of candidates they claim are threats to Democracy.

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
2.1.8  Gsquared  replied to  Sean Treacy @2.1.7    2 years ago

I do not have to point out anything to you.

I have had many discussions with my friends where I have told them I do not believe in Democrats getting involved in Republican primary races.  

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
2.1.9  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Sean Treacy @2.1.5    2 years ago
If you actually believe she's a Nazi sympathizer, you are a monster for defending the Democrats  support for  her campaign. Or you are lying because you know how gullible Democratic voters tend to be.

Only a complete moron would believe Democrats actually support her or would vote for her in the upcoming election. Would some Democrats help her win against her more centrist Republican opponent in a Republican primary? Of course! But clearly not because they support her or her Qanon and Nazi sympathizer beliefs but because they know she will be easier to beat in the actual election. The fact that she was able to be on the Republican primary with such beliefs speaks to the large segment of Republicans who believe that Qanon bull shit or are sympathetic to Nazi's, fascists and white supremacists who have found their home in the Republican party. Trying to push the blame for your own insane candidates on the Democrats who are merely trying to help Republicans hang themselves is truly hilarious.

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
3  Gsquared    2 years ago

From the John Birch Society to QAnon, the evolution of Republican lunacy.

 
 

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