Trump Goes Full QAnon

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    Probably the same way Muh Rushan Clooshun got normalized.
     
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    yep
     
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    Careful. he is a master at the emoticon.
     
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    yeah i do

    are you saying child molesters are fake? and cannibals?
     
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    Oh?

    QAnon[a] (/kjuːəˈnɒn/) is a far-right conspiracy theory[7][8] alleging a secret plot by a supposed "deep state" against President Donald Trump and his supporters.[9] No part of the conspiracy has been shown to be based in fact.[10] The theory began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by "Q", who was presumably an American individual,[11] but probably became a group of people.[12][13] Q claimed to have access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States. NBC News found that three people took the original Q post and expanded it across multiple media platforms to build internet followings for profit. QAnon was preceded by several similar anonymous 4chan posters, such as FBIAnon, HLIAnon (High-Level Insider), CIAAnon, and WH Insider Anon.[14]

    Q has accused many liberal Hollywood actors, Democratic politicians, and high-ranking officials of being members of an international child sex trafficking ring. Q also claimed that Trump feigned collusion with Russians to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the ring and preventing a coup d'état by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros.[15][16][17] "Q" is a reference to the Q clearance used by the U.S. Department of Energy. QAnon believers commonly tag their social media posts with the hashtag #WWG1WGA, signifying the motto "Where We Go One, We Go All".

    QAnon adherents began appearing at Trump reelection campaign rallies in the summer of 2018.[18] TV and radio personality Michael "Lionel" Lebron, a promoter of the theory, was granted a photo opportunity with Trump in the Oval Office on August 24, 2018.[19] Bill Mitchell, a broadcaster who promotes QAnon, attended a White House "social media summit" in July 2019.[8][20] At an August 2019 rally, a man warming up the crowd before Trump spoke used the QAnon motto "where we go one, we go all", later denying that it was a QAnon reference. This occurred hours after the publication of a report that the FBI had determined QAnon to be a potential source of domestic terrorism, the first time the agency had so rated a fringe conspiracy theory
     
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    I have no idea what it is either... Cannibals, pedos and pizza??? What?
     
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    Sounds like a Wednesday at Epstein's house.
     
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    It's not.

    The FBI says Qanon is a domestic terrorist threat. The extreme Right knows they are losing, so they are pulling out all the stops. Acting psychotic is what they think of as a good idea.

    It's trolling, but the attempt to make people lose it is just more sabotage from our saboteurs.
     
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    It’s a cool place. It’s a free thought club. now, I’ll freely admit there are people that have a pretty vivid and out there imagination, but it is pro America, pro flag, pro national anthem. It’s way better than @Lesh and his canned, prepackaged MSM nonsense. Welcome to the great awakening.
     
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    In a year's time, QAnon will no longer exist.

    Another anti-liberal conspiracy movement will take its place. Since the Tea Party disappeared a few years after Obama's election.

    Biden will be elected, the economy will get back on track, the pandemic will be taken seriously and nobody will want to talk about the Trump Era anymore.
     
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    Did someone say Q was non-violent?

    Hoover Dam incident
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    Matthew Wright’s armored vehicle used to block a bridge over the Hoover Dam in Nevada
    On June 15, 2018, Matthew Phillip Wright of Henderson, Nevada, was arrested on terrorism and other charges for driving an armored truck,[144] containing an AR-15 and handgun, to the Hoover Dam and blocking traffic for 90 minutes.[145] He said he was on a mission involving QAnon: to demand that the Justice Department "release the OIG report" on the conduct of FBI agents during the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.[146][13][34] Since a copy of the OIG report had been released the day before, the man had been motivated by a Q "drop" which claimed the released version of the OIG report had been heavily modified and that Trump possessed a more damning version but had declined to release it. In video recorded inside his armored truck, Wright expressed disappointment that Trump had not honored a "duty" to "lock certain people up," asking him to "uphold your oath."[34][147]

    Targeting of Michael Avenatti
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    Michael Avenatti Twitter
    @MichaelAvenatti
    We are trying to identify the man in this picture, which was taken outside my office yesterday (Sun) afternoon. Please contact @NewportBeachPD if you have any details or observed him. We will NOT be intimidated into stopping or changing our course. #Basta https://pic.twitter.com/YIKS6D0Grq

    July 30, 2018[148]

    On July 29, 2018, Q posted a link to Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti's website and photos of his Newport Beach, California, office building, along with the message, "Buckle up!". The anonymous poster then shared the picture of an as-of-yet unidentified man, appearing to be holding a cellphone in one hand, and a long, thin object in the other, standing in the street near Avenatti's office, adding that a message "had been sent". This sparked an investigation by the Newport Beach Police Department. On July 30, Avenatti asked his Twitter followers to contact the Newport Beach Police Department if they "have any details or observed" the man in the picture.[149][150][151]

    Harassment of Jim Acosta
    At a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida on July 31, 2018, Trump supporters exhibited hostile behavior toward CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta. Exponents of QAnon-related theories were at the rally.[152]

    The next day, David Martosko of The Daily Mail asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders whether the White House encouraged the support of "QAnon fringe groups". Sanders denounced "any group that would incite violence against another individual", without specifically responding to the QAnon mention.[153] Sanders added that President Trump "certainly doesn't support groups that would support that type of behavior".[154][155]

    Grass Valley Charter School fundraiser
    The Blue Marble Jubilee fundraising event at Grass Valley Charter School in Grass Valley, California scheduled for May 11, 2019, was canceled as a precaution after a tweet by former FBI head James Comey on April 27 using the hashtag #FiveJobsIveHad, in which the first letters of the jobs were GVCSF, was interpreted by QAnon followers as a veiled reference to the Grass Valley Charter School Foundation, suggesting that Comey planned to stage a "false flag" terror attack at the event; the hashtag was also interpreted by QAnon adherents as an anagram of "five jihads", and the time stamp on the post was related to the 9-11 attacks. The police and the FBI received warnings, in addition to the school, which decided not to take the risk of internet vigilantes attending "to guard the place", as a police sergeant put it.[156][157]

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    When are you going to stop spreading the lie about Trump calling white supremacists "very fine people"? I know very well that you know its a lie because you've been shown the speech and shown that he specifically denounced white supremacists in that very same speech and specifically said that he wasn't talking about them.

    And yes, I know, we're not supposed to use the word "lie" around here. But enough is enough on this. People have been shown time after time that this IS A LIE. And they keep spreading it.

    As for David Duke, he's been denounced multiple times, by multiple Republicans, including by Trump.

    As for the Boogaloo Bois? Don't know jack about them. Must not be that noteworthy of a group. Certainly not on par with the likes of the KKK or Antifa hate groups.
     
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    Murder of Frank Cali
    Anthony Comello of Staten Island, New York, was charged with the March 2019 murder of Gambino crime family underboss Frank Cali. According to his defense attorney, Comello had become obsessed with QAnon theories, believing Cali was a member of a "deep state," and was convinced he "was enjoying the protection of President Trump himself" to place Cali under citizen's arrest. Confronting Cali outside his Staten Island home, Comello allegedly shot Cali ten times. At his first court appearance, Comello displayed QAnon symbols and phrases and "MAGA forever" scrawled on his hand in pen.[158][159] Comello had also posted material on Instagram praising Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro.[160]

    FBI domestic terrorism assessment
    An FBI "Intelligence Bulletin" memo from the Phoenix Field Office dated May 30, 2019 identified QAnon-driven extremists as a domestic terrorism threat, the first time a fringe conspiracy theory had been labelled as such. The memo cited a number of arrests related to QAnon, some of which had not been publicized before. The memo says that "The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts." According to testimony before Congress in May by the assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism director, Michael G. McGarrity, the Bureau divides domestic terrorism threats into four primary categories, "racially motivated violent extremism, anti-government/anti-authority extremism, animal rights/environmental extremism, and abortion extremism," which includes both pro-choice and anti-abortion extremists. The fringe conspiracy theory threat is closely related to the anti-government/anti-authority subject area.[161][162]

    According to the May memo, "This is the first FBI product examining the threat from conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists and provides a baseline for future intelligence products. ... The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts..."[161][162]

    An under-reported QAnon-related incident was mentioned in the memo: the arrest of a California man on December 19, 2018 with bomb-making materials in his car, which he intended to use to "blow up a satanic temple monument" in the Springfield, Illinois Capitol rotunda in order to "make Americans aware of Pizzagate and the New World Order, who were dismantling society."[161]

    Reactions from QAnon followers ranged from suggesting that the memo was a fake, calling for the firing of FBI Director Christopher A. Wray for working against Trump, to the idea that the memo was actually a "wink-and-a-nod" way of attracting attention to the conspiracy theory, and tricking the media into asking Trump about it.[163] At a Trump re-election rally some hours after the existence of the memo was revealed, Brandon Straka, a gay man who claims to have been a liberal Democrat but is now a Trump supporter, in a warm-up speech before Trump addressed the crowd, used one of QAnon's primary rallying cries, "Where we go one, we go all" (WWG1WGA). A videographer found numerous QAnon supporters in the crowd, identified by their QAnon shirts showing large "Q"'s or "WWG1WGA".[21]

    Digital Soldiers Conference
    In August 2019, a "Digital Soldiers Conference" was announced for the following month in Atlanta. The stated purpose was to prepare "patriotic social media warriors" for a coming "digital civil war." The announcement for the event prominently displayed a Q spelled in stars on the blue field of an American flag, and the host of the event had numerous references to QAnon on their Twitter account. Scheduled speakers for the event included former Trump aides Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos, as well as Gina Loudon, a Trump friend and member of his campaign media advisory board, and Bill Mitchell, a radio host and ardent Trump supporter.[164][165] The conference host is CEO of a firm that markets a search engine they assert is free of alleged censorship of conservative views, characterizing it as an "intelligence enterprise" with high-level White House connections, telling a reporter, "you don’t know who you’re ****ing with" and denying the Q flag was a reference to QAnon.[166]

    Tintagel flag
    In January 2020, John Mappin (also affiliated with Turning Point UK), began to fly a Q flag at the Camelot Castle hotel near to Tintagel Castle in England.[167] Advocacy group Hope not Hate said, "Mappin is an eccentric figure, considered outlandish even by his fringe rightwing peers. This childish ploy is a weak attempt at getting attention for himself and his marginal Turning Point UK organisation, and is better off being ignored."[168]

    Jessica Prim arrest
    In April 2020, Jessica Prim was arrested carrying several knives after live-streaming her attempt to "take out" presidential nominee Joe Biden. Prim was arrested in New York City on a pier where she appeared to have been trying to get to the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort. There were QAnon conspiracies revolving around the ship believing it to be used by a cabal of pedophiles. During her arrest, Prim was shown reportedly crying and asked police "Have you guys heard about the kids?".[169]

    Prior to the arrest, Prim created a Facebook post stating that Hillary Clinton and Biden “need to be taken out.” and that "Hillary Clinton and her assistant, Joe Biden and Tony Podesta need to be taken out in the name of Babylon!" Prim wrote. "I can’t be set free without them gone. Wake me up!!!!!"[169]

    Prim's Facebook page was filled with references to QAnon. She encouraged her Facebook followers to check out QAnon "clues". In a video posted just hours before her arrest, Prim ranted about a video that she believed depicted Hillary Clinton and an aide murdering a child.[169]
     
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    Oh...
     
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    Avoiding the question? How many Democrats have denounced Antifa?
     
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    FBI has opened 300 'domestic terror' investigations as a result of riots, attorney tells Capitol hearing on Antifa

    Apparently the jury is still out on this one.
     
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    Start a go fund me for a 4 year supply of asstroglide. You are going to need it to soothe the butt hurt from another 4 years of trump.
     
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    Trump's affinity for his lunatic fringe is driving away normal Americans.

    ... "It's a sad state of affairs when a president endorses a 9/11 truther," [former GOP Rep. Charlie] Dent (Pa.) said Wednesday,
    referencing the Trump's support of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a GOP nominee for Congress who expressed skepticism of some events
    surrounding 9/11 and openly backed the QAnon conspiracy theory.

    Last week, Trump called Greene a "future Republican star" following her congressional primary win in Georgia.

    Republicans 'now the party of deranged bigots'?

    "All this does is empower the whack jobs and the nuts to come out.
    With strong leadership we should be able to marginalize folks like that,"
    Dent added.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tapper-asks-ex-gop-congressman-if-republicans-now-the-party-of-deranged-bigots/ar-BB18abSr
     
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    You need to get down to that pizza parlor NOW!!!

    Take out those pedophiles!!!

    (I know where the secret door to the cellar is)
     
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    Smh. Earth to Trump.

    The secret cabal of baby-eating child molesting sex-ring running pizza peddling cocaine smuggling pitchfork carrying communist marxist socialist leftist progressive liberal pedophiles...<breath>...controlled by George Soros and Hillary Clinton, which Trump was sent by God to defeat, is fake. Yes, it's lunacy. That is, if you believe in the moon.
     
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    Naming the hearings Antifa doesn't mean anything. I read the article. Says nothing about Antifa.

    It's good the violence is being investigated. I wish I could say I trust Trump to investigate fairly, but the name of the committee tells me otherwise.

    I'm sure we'll find some of the crimes committed by those identifying as Antifa. That the FBI previously found none tells me Antifa isn't the boogieman Trump wants you to believe.
     
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    Two that I know of.

    Pelosi:
    "Our democracy has no room for inciting violence or endangering the public, no matter the ideology of those who commit such acts," Pelosi said in a statement. "The violent actions of people calling themselves antifa in Berkeley this weekend deserve unequivocal condemnation, and the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted."

    Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin:
    "I think we should classify them as a gang," said Arreguin, as quoted by CBS. "They come dressed in uniforms. They have weapons, almost like a militia, and I think we need to think about that in terms of our law enforcement approach."

    Arreguin said that although he does not support the far-right, tougher measures were required to counter left-wing violence, and he called for nonviolent protesters to take a stand.

    "I think we are going to have to think 'big picture' about what is the strategy for how we are going to deal with these violent elements on the left as well," said the mayor.
     
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    qanon is extremely anti pedophile. No apologies if you find that offensive.
     
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    So why aren't you charging into that pizza parlor with guns blazing.
     
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