Trump 2020 is the QAnon Campaign
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The 45th president has long peddled conspiracy theories so outlandish that there have been widespread calls for him to be banned from social media .
Among these tinfoil hat conspiracies is QAnon — which as Politico's Tina Nguyen described it is "a sprawling and ever-mutating belief that a mysterious government official who goes by 'Q' is leaving online clues about a messianic Trump's secret plan to dismantle a cadre of Washington elites engaged in everything from pedophilia to child sex trafficking."
Did you get all that?
It takes elements of "deep state" paranoia, mixes in a little bit of "Pizzagate" madness, and includes a "hero" figure fighting for "the people." It also makes absolutely no sense.
As Trump's presidency implodes thanks in no small part to his catastrophic management of the coronavirus pandemic, he has been sinking ever further into the QAnon fever swamp. As Nguyen reports, on July 4 he sent 14 retweets of QAnon-friendly accounts and since the pandemic began, he's retweeted at least 90 posts from such accounts.
Also sharing QAnon-associated content have been Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his campaign manager Brad Parscale, and his deputy communications director Dan Scavino . His former national security adviser Michael Flynn even posted a video where he takes a loyalty oath sprinkled with Q-related phrases .
It's not as if Trump has ever needed a reason to lean into unhinged conspiracy-mongering. But in the case of Q, in what could be the final months of his presidency, he's just giving one of his most loyal bases what they want: an enemy to focus their ire on while the economy continues to freefall and tens of thousands of new COVID infections occur on a daily basis. — AF
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We have a "president" that implicates himself in conspiracy theories that portray him as a James Bond like superhero who is in the process of uncovering a cabal of new world order pedophile deep staters, and the mainstream media barely bats an eye , or covers it.
That is how far gone our society is.
It's the same problem for democrats.
It's not as Stacy Abrams claims, that not enough minorities are voting, It's that too many whites are!
Nah, but by your own admission and actions we do have a group on the left that will stop at nothing to bring him down.
No conspiracy about that at all .... anyone who doesn't see that must have their head shoved too deeply up their six to see it.
And when Obama was POTUS, we had a group on the right that would stop at nothing to bring him down, including secret meetings. Welcome to American politics.
if the meetings were secret, why did you know about them,,?
The attacks that have been against Trump the last 31/2 years are unprecedented. Obama wasn't hammered nearly as hard. Not even close.
Anyone who can't see that is either very biased or just plain deaf, blind or stupid.
The media, mainstream and otherwise, has gone far far far too easy on Donald Trump for the past 5 years. They went far too easy on him when he was doing that birther bullshit too.
About the response one would expect considering the delusional state of some.
The mainstream media is no longer "main." It's now the "lamestream" media.
A fucking joke. Journalistic integrity right out the shitter for most of them .....
Donald Trump openly promoted a ridiculous conspiracy theory concerning President Barack Obama's past.
That should have been the end of Trump's political career. The media let him off the hook.
Lol .... let him off the hook eh? Hilarious.
That said, that's old news John. Work on your current events .....
Because I read...
For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama’s legislative platform.
Try again.
Mitch McConnell under fire for saying top priority is making Obama one-term president
Do you have some equivalent?
do you have any knowledge of any party trying to make an incumbent a two termer?
of course not, because the other party ALWAYS wants their own in office.
this isn't rocket science
so the gop met. oh no!!!
complaining about that is one of the silliest things I have ever heard!
so, no secret then. and even if it was, so what?
Are we on trial, are we in court? Deal with it, it happened.
And who really gives a shit if one political party met and said they wanted to make an opposition incumbent President a one termer?
Do you think Democrats haven't met to figure out how to beat Trump and make him a one termer?
If you fall for that, I have an oil well in my backyard I'd like to sell you.
Lol, what he said pales in comparison to the all out daily offensive pushed by the resist movement, the liberal house and their mass media propaganda arm.
Never in the history of the USA has there been such an intense, concentrated and concerted effort to undermine a lawfully elected POTUS. The efforts to undermine the Obama administration were minuscule by comparison.
Obama had a free pass from that entire group for his entire eight years.
As I stated, and you ignored, welcome to American politics. Every party actively works to replace the other party that is in charge. It is the way of the world except in locations where there are no real political parties (i.e China, Russia, etc.).
well no shit.
that is why it's hard to understand why people are still botching about the GOP trying to make Obama a one termer
That is not the problem, that is common politics. However doing so to the detriment of the entire country, is beyond standard politics. Republicans blocked their own bills because they didn't want Obama to be able to take any credit for helping the country.
Remember?
Mitch McConnell's amazing filibuster of his own bill
Or.
Republicans Keep Admitting Everything They Said About Obama Was a Lie
Why Opposing Trump Isn’t Like the GOP Obstructing Obama
as you say, that's just politics!
get used to it or not, but it is the reality
And as I said: " However doing so to the detriment of the entire country, is beyond standard politics. "
Guess you forgot to read that part...
On the 4th of July Trump retweeted 14 times from twitter accounts that are associated with Q Anon, which is an insane conspiracy theory that imagines Trump as a "superhero" who destroys the deep state and rescues kids from pedophiles. My question to you is "what the fuck is wrong with the president of the United States?"
Dont give me that he is being unfairly attacked.
Just answer my question.
The answer is: nothing as fucking bad as you fucking push here every day. And that my friend is the truth .... fuckin-do-a!
I just did and i will continue to tell that truth. No matter how hard the propaganda ministers on the left fight it.
So you think the president of the United States should be promoting insane conspiracy theories. How did you come to that conclusion?
Pizzagate = Epstein, expect many more deep state pedophile arrests in the near future.
A simple attempt at disinformation to hide the real swamp.
Pay no attention to the real swamp creatures behind the curtain but check this windmill out ..... now get to tilting .....
The QAnon Candidates Are Here. Trump Has Paved Their Way.
The conspiracy theorists accuse Democrats and even fellow Republicans of being beholden to a cabal of bureaucrats, pedophiles and Satanists. President Trump has cheered them on.
And then there is Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who is perhaps the most unabashedly pro-QAnon candidate for Congress and has drawn a positive tweet from President Trump . She recently declared that QAnon was “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out.”
More than two years after QAnon, which the F.B.I. has labeled a potential domestic terrorism threat, emerged from the troll-infested corners of the internet , the movement’s supporters are morphing from keyboard warriors into political candidates. They have been urged on by Mr. Trump, whose own espousal of conspiracy theories and continual railing against the political establishment have cleared a path for QAnon candidates.
And even as party leaders publicly distance themselves from the movement, they are quietly supporting some QAnon-linked candidates — demonstrating the thin line they are trying to walk between radical elements among their base and the moderate voters they need to win over.
Scores more have cherry-picked some of the movement’s themes , such as claims that Jews, and especially the financier George Soros, are controlling the political system and vaccines; assertions that the risk from the coronavirus is vastly overstated; or racist theories about former President Barack Obama. Many have appeared on QAnon-themed podcasts and in news outlets. On Monday Jeff Sessions, caught in a tight race to reclaim his former Senate seat in Alabama, recycled an old QAnon meme about himself in a Twitter post.
It is a development that threatens to further alienate the kinds of traditional Republican voters who typically care about lowering taxes, not chasing imaginary Satanists from the government. Democrats are eager to pounce.
“We will point it out loudly and clearly,” said Representative Cheri Bustos of Illinois, who leads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “The moral of the story is the Republican Party is silent on all of this.”
In April, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, a high-profile lawmaker and a favorite of the president, donated $2,000 to Ms. Greene’s campaign. A political action committee with which Mr. Jordan is associated, the House Freedom Fund, gave her thousands of dollars more.
A month earlier, the Republican National Committee gave $2,200 to Angela Stanton-King, a House candidate in Georgia who has repeatedly posted QAnon content and obscure hashtags , such as “#trusttheplan.” The Georgia Republican Party gave an additional $2,800 to Ms. Stanton-King, who was pardoned this year by Mr. Trump for her role in a car-theft ring. She is expected to be roundly defeated in her heavily Democratic district.
Ms. Stanton-King has since denied believing in any QAnon conspiracies. Yet in recent days she was again tweeting about “ global elite pedophiles ,” as well as a new conspiracy theory involving a purported child-trafficking ring run by an online furniture retailer.
Few of the QAnon candidates appear to share any formal ties with one another, beyond mostly being Republicans. But as they move onto ballots this fall, the candidates and their fellow travelers are increasingly taking on the trappings of a discrete political movement, though one with incoherent ideas whose adherents typically focus on wild accusations, not policy changes.
In recent weeks QAnon followers, including a Republican Senate candidate, have begun to publicly pledge allegiance to the movement, posting videos of themselves reciting what they are calling the digital soldier oath. On social media, where the conspiracy theory first took root, QAnon candidates and followers often amplify one another.
In many instances, they sought to spread a core tenet of the QAnon conspiracy: that Mr. Trump, backed by the military, ran for office to save Americans from a so-called deep state filled with child-abusing, devil-worshiping bureaucrats. Backing the president’s enemies are prominent Democrats who, in some telling, extract hormones from children’s blood.
The president, for his part, has repeatedly retweeted QAnon supporters , and cheered on candidates who openly support the conspiracy theory, such as Ms. Greene of Georgia.
“A big winner. Congratulations!” Mr. Trump tweeted after Ms. Greene, whose ads have been banned by Facebook for violating the platform’s terms of service, placed first in the Republican primary in a deeply conservative corner of northwestern Georgia. But she failed to clear the 50 percent mark and is now the favorite in a runoff election for the Republican nomination in district long held by the party.
The movement defies easy political labels, and its adherents include a smattering of Democrats and independents. Mostly, what unites it is a hatred of the establishment.