In late June, a guest browsing Wayfair’s online page saw something curious. Several ordinary-looking cabinets presented there were indexed on higher value labels. A closer look revealed that the cupboards, and other supposedly inflated products, carried calls from women like Samiyah and Yaritza. In an ordinary world, such a discovery would not be extraordinary: Ikea and other furniture stores call their products as women, the value of a professional metal cabinet may be strangely superior, and it turned out that a computer challenge had caused an incorrect value. attributed to a Wayfair pillow.
But this is not the time and it wasn’t a visitor. She was Amazing Polly, an influencer of QAnon, the cult conspiracy movement obsessed with global elites and the paedophilia that has exploded in the more than two years. “My spider senses are tingling,” Polly posted on Twitter. “What about those ‘storage cabinets’?” The message seemed to languish before resurrecting as a strange question in a Reddit chat room that was difficult to understand true to conspiracy theories: Did Wayfair manipulate young people in expensive cabinets? Seven days later, the billion-dollar retail giant was discovered amid a global conspiracy theory that the company was running a vast network of child sex trafficking.
With the help of thousands of self-proclaimed “researchers,” the hypothesis has spread so hysterically on social media that many national journalists have investigated, and a national anti-trafficking hotline found through “Save the Children” has been flooded with a lot of calls. , diverting resources from callers who need it. Wayfair issued a denial that it was a front for a network of people trafficking, but believers stuck to their heels, turning opposed to Wayfair’s Founder and his wife, embroidering new and increasingly fantastic accusations. Meanwhile, social media influencers have posted memes that combine the names of Wayfair products with those of women indexed beyond reports of people without people. Three days after Reddit’s initial release, Wayfair’s conspiracy theory had been discussed on Twitter more than 1.2 million times since 564,000 user accounts. One of the women allegedly trafficked at a Wayfair company, Samiyah Mumin, posted a video on Facebook criticizing conspiracy theorists for diverting attention from a genuine problem: “Do you know how many other people are really missing?”
QAnon has the utmost force in American politics that most Americans have never heard of.
It was the latest example of a fashion phenomenon: politics and pedophilia, and anonymous Internet warriors suddenly fell on Americans and unsuspecting businesses. Until recently, few people knew much about QAnon. The right-wing motion of conspiracy arose in 2017 following cryptic clues posted on the Internet that paint a world in which Donald Trump secretly sets out to defeat a coven of global elites, adding Democrats and Hollywood celebrities, who torture and smuggle children. for sex, and even eat them. Reported as a violent risk through the FBI, banned on Twitter and TikTok and enthusiastically courted through the Trump campaign, QAnon has become the ultimate force in American politics that most Americans have never heard of. In just a few years, QAnon’s accounts have metastasized on Facebook, Twitter and TikTok at an unprecedented rate. The additional pandemic boosted its growth, linking QAnon’s conspirators to vaccines and Covid’s deniers to 9/11 deniers and Sandy Hook’s skeptics who were already part of Q’s developing coalition, which includes everyone from Roseanne to porn queen Jenna Jameson. former national security adviser Mike Flynn. (The general, a QAnon icon, recently posted a video of him and his circle of relatives seriously reciting QAnon’s engagement.)
On Facebook, there are thousands of teams and pages loyal to QAnon, with millions of members and subscribers, according to an internal Facebook report leaked to Ari Sen and Brandy Zadrozny of NBC News. A popular Redditt organization now gives separate families and friends of QAnon converts; The organization, called “Qult’s Headquarters” and committed to demystifying conspiracy theory and deprogramming its followers, has more than 24,000 members. Once a strictly American phenomenon, QAnon has become globalized. There is evidence of QAnon in 71 countries and in each and every continent except Antarctica, says Marc-André Argentino, a researcher at Concordia University. One user posing as “Q” in a French network organization said in a message: “If the French get up, the U.S. military will come to help them. Q”
The organization’s followers also come with mentally unbalanced people, who clung to the QAnon ideology with a fervor that entered genuine life in a harmful way. Lawyers defending the guy accused of murdering the deputy chief of relatives of the gambin circle of relatives in New York said his consumer was obsessed with conspiracy theories and believed the gangster was a member of the “deep state.” (The same guy had tried in the past to arrest Schiff and Congressman Maxine Waters.) The landscaper arrested for placing in the 2018 chimney that burned nearly 20,000 acres of Orange County and destroyed a dozen houses had posted dozens of conspiracy videos on his Facebook page, adding something about a Satanist cult that ruled the world and a mysterious American intelligence member working with Donald Trump to thwart it. A QAnon believer and self-identified member of the Seattle Proud Boys killed his brother in January by stabbing him in the head with a four-foot-long sword, and then claimed he thought his brother was a lizard. In June last year, a gunguy animated through a Q pole barricaded itself in an armed vehicle and blocked traffic on the Hoover Dam Bridge for hours. He asked the Justice Department to publish a secret (non-existent) report on Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server that Q said was hidden in the dam.
Despite its outlandish accusations, the organization has also become an increasingly influential player in Republican politics. Fourteen QAnon supporters are running for Congress in 2020; two, adding Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a Republican candidate and a theoretical conspiracy spherical with a history of racist comments, seem to be about to win. Despite initial objections from some party members, he encountered little opposition from party leaders or the president. Indeed, Trump, who retwed the accounts of QAnon’s conspiracy, warmly congratulated the candidate on her victory. At this point in its growth, QAnon is “encouraging verbal exchange right online,” says Kevin Roose, a columnist for the New York Times generation. “Many stories that eventually become trending on Twitter or Facebook are there because QAnon discovered and propelled them. It’s much bigger and more influential than other people think.
The fundamental premise of QAnon is: “Q” is a close-to-president government member who has evidence that world elites secretly enslave and torture young people and extract from their blood what a life-extending chemist called Adrenochromus is. The diversity of Q’s goals, from Democratic politicians like the Clintons, Adam Schiff and the Obamas to globalist tycoons like Bill Clinton and George Soros, to celebrities like Tom Hanks and Chrissy Teigen. Trump and his army allies run in secret to unmask all those criminals and make sure they are transported to Guantanamo and hanged for their crimes. QAnon’s enemies are, in almost every case, Trump’s enemies, which experts say is no coincidence. “At the end of the day, this conspiracy theory is aimed at democratic establishment,” says Cristina López G., who studies QAnon for the liberal studies organization Media Matters for America. “For Q, we’ll have to reject classical institutions, forget about government officials, fight apostates and despise the press,” wrote journalist Adrienne LaFrance in The Atlantic. “One of Q’s favorite war cries is “Now you’re the news.” Another is “Enjoy the show”, a word your fans take into consideration as a reference to an imminent apocalypse: when the global world as we know it ends, everyone is a spectator.
The ongoing flow of accusations prompted an army of “digital soldiers” seeking to be part of the Great Awakening, who imagined the triumphant unmasking of the global clique that has suppressed American freedoms since JFK’s assassination. (This occasion marked the beginning of a new era of conspiracy distrust of the government and the developing elite ever since. Ironically, many Q supporters that JFK Jr. is alive and faked his death in a plane crash to bring worldly villains to justice.
Followers use numerology and Illuminati symbols to decode the encrypted messages that Q leaves on unnamed bulletin boards; that criminals braishly announce their misdeeds using codes and symbols, and that Trump secretly issued for “evidence” of the legitimacy of the story, as when a supporter asked Trump to use the word “top tip,” which Trump then used in White’s 2018 Roll of House Easter Eggs (standing next to a white Easter bunny , no less).
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Alison Hayden, a QAnon supporter running for the position of California Rep. Eric Swalwell in Congress, told me she was confident that QAnon will bring “cures for cancer” and avoid “the smooth, healthy handling technologies that drive us crazy and angry.” For a political intruder and a conspirator, Hayden’s intelligent religion is more of an “establishment.” He studied at UC Berkeley and the London School of Economics before applying for global finance at Citibank and Charles Schwab Co. and hire a republican delegate from the district.
Although QAnon is a national phenomenon, California, the cradle of fantastic movements from Scientology to Satanic Panic, has proven to be fertile ground for the organization. Therefore, it is not unexpected that of the 14 Congressional candidates known through QAnon in the November election, five are from California, a state that also occupies a prominent place in the QAnon tradition. Hollywood is the setting for many of Q’s most far-fetched accusations. No primary organization since the Church of Scientology has made thirst for American fame a greater advantage. But while Scientology has opened celebrity centers to recruit stars like John Travolta and Tom Cruise, and used them as pitchers for their much-defamed and similar confidence system, QAnon does the opposite: he positions stars as deranged villains in which believers can express his personality. . Haines. If Scientology is the cult of celebrities, QAnon is the cult of anti-celebrities. According to Will Sommer, editor of the Daily Beast that has covered QAnon since arriving here from an Internet troll corner in 2017, “Q takes the vintage Concept of Hollywood as a decadent and perverse Bathroughlon and takes it to the fullest. Baroque All the celebrities who tragically died, from chef Anthony Bourdain to Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, were killed, they say, to save them from blowing up the lid of the demonic kabbalah.
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QAnon is the big-budget sequel to Pizzagate, the viral phenomenon rooted in a sinister reading of pirated emails from the non-public account of Hillary Clinton’s crusade manager, John Podesta. When the FBI declared QAnon a national terrorism risk last year, the intelligence bulletin warned members that they “intend to act as ‘investigators’ or ‘investigators’ [who] designate individuals, corporations or teams that wrongly accuse them of being involved in the imagined scheme. what happened in 2016 after a self-proclaimed FBI member in 4chan said the word “cheese pizza” in Clinton’s emails was a secret code for child pornography. Alex Jones praised this claim at Infowars and helped create thousands of Internet sites that support Pizzagate on the Internet, which knew the basement of a suburban DC pizzeria as a major center of child trafficking. In response, an angry North Carolina warehouse worker, Edgar Maddison Welch, drove three hundred miles to Washington’s Comet Ping Pong pizzeria and fired an attack rifle style inside, believing he was saving victims of child trafficking. In fact, there was no basement in the restaurant.” The data on this was not a hundred p,” Welch later told the New York Times from prison.
QAnon chose Pizzagate’s characters and scripts in the same way that a main Hollywood studio can simply opt for a successful independent film, says Travis View, host of the QAnon Anonymous podcast. And Pizzagate’s conspiracy has faded for some time, the “chan culture” troll of the unnamed Internet forums from which it has emerged has reinforced its generative premise: the trial is close to the devil-worshipping elites who pollute children. With QAnon, the stakes go up and the saga has an unexpected hero: Donald Trump.
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It all started quite innocently. At a blank-space dinner for army commanders on October 5, 2017, Trump made a mysterious comment that conspiracy theorists talked about. In making a gesture to his guests, Trump said, “Do you know what that means? Maybe it’s the calm before the typhoon. He did not specify, but online, his indistinct triggered a typhoon of online speculation. Then, on October 28th. , someone gave the impression on 4chan’s anonymous image board, claiming to be a member of the military or intelligence who supports Trump with a “Q” level authorization, a rare pass government security designation that allows access to the most sensitive secret documents.” effective yesterday with several countries on the occasion of a cross-border career,” the series of messages kicks off, which augured Hillary Clinton’s imminent arrest. The prediction was wrong, of course. (At all times they are; it only encourages supporters to return and reinterpret them.) But the notion that a top-secret government agent was passing data directly to the U.S. public took off in the MAGA sphere.
The design of image forums such as 4chan, 8chan and 8kun, which hide the genuine names of users, has made great stractity in the mystical poster, now widely like Q.
Social media users have no way of knowing who Q is. Anyone who publishes as Q uses a password-protected account that produces a unique identifier that is visual to other users. This is how forum users can verify that the account showing “Q drops” is the same over time. First, it was the idea that Q was a single person, but it is now accepted that several people, in cooperation, publish using the pseudonym, explains Brian Friedberg, Harvard researcher. (In November 2017, a small YouTube video author named Tracy Diaz teamed up with two 4chan online page moderators, Coleman Rogers and Paul Furber, to push QAnon to the top platforms, according to NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins. Rogers. And his wife, Christina Urso, then introduced Patriots Soapbox, a 24-hour YouTube channel committed to QAnon’s policy, which they use to solicit accepted donations through PayPal, cryptocurrencies or mail. The screen includes Lauren Boebert, a republican congressional candidate and QAnon. and Erin Perrine, director of press communications for Trump’s re-election campaign).
Whoever it is, Q is today the dungeon master of the strangest role-playing game on the Internet. “With QAnon, you have this user who broadcasts those clues all the time, so there’s something to follow,” says Joseph Uscinski, political scientist at the University of Miami and co-author of American Conspiracy Theories. “There is a sense of belonging to an online group, with a song and an oath. They feel like part of existing occasions, what’s happening now and in the future.” Technology researchers and hounds compare QAnon to a great online multiplayer game. “QAnon is popular in components because ‘search’ through forums, videos and blog posts that are difficult to understand, longer than watching TV, is really more fun because it’s an active process,” Adrian Hon, ceo of Six to Start Corporate Video Game and a real-choice game designer, Array, said in a Twitter message.
When the pandemic caused radical adjustments to Alison Hayden’s daily life, the 60-year-old special education instructor increasingly turned to QAnon to make sense of everything. “I just gave the impression on YouTube,” that’s how he described his club at the Great Awakening. Today, she is one of 14 esteemed applicants in the United States Congress who identify with the motion that believes JFK Jr. is still alive, Hillary Clinton is being tried and Justin Trudeau will be executed. (This conspiracy theory, which the FBI thought to be a violent inspiration to national extremists, has the help of all 14 applicants, according to Media Matters).
“These are virtual infantry soldiers who fuse data; you wouldn’t know otherwise about various issues swirling on the Internet with a conservative attitude that supports the president,” Hayden says. When asked about examples, he referred to claims that Senator Kamala Harris used a double body, the coronavirus outbreak was a “planned event” and Chinese Black Lives Matter militantsarmed with AK-47s.
The way he takes it all seriously bears witness to the good luck of what former Harvard researcher Benjamin T. Decker, CEO of a company that investigates online misinformation, calls “conspiratorial entrepreneurs”: bastards like Tracy Diaz and Coleman Rogers who make money by boosting Q Content. in podcasts, chat rooms and YouTube channels connected to Q. “It’s both the economics of conspiracy as it is about the conspiracy itself,” Says Decker.
Where would QAnon be today if Roseanne Barr hadn’t given her a platform in 2018? Barr blew up ABC’s successful reboot of his screen when he amplified QAnon in tweets glorifying Trump for allegedly “breaking the dealers’ networks at the top of everywhere.” Actor James Woods has retwented unsubstantiated conspiracy theories linking Los Angeles Congressional member Adam Schiff to child sex trafficking. Porn star Jenna Jameson, another QAnon believer, claimed that The Hunt, a satire of wealthy liberals who kidnap deplorable right-wingers and decide them for sport, is real. In a social media post, Jameson said he had heard of a child hunt at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes. “However, they worked in combination to defame the only guy who opposes them,” one replied. To which Jameson replied, “I’m not Stormy, you idiot.”
Following QAnon regarding Hollywood is a contradictory exercise. Followers “tend to have a disdain for Hollywood, so much so that they believe Hollywood manages satanic paedophile networks,” Uscinski says. “I’ve noticed some strains of this theory that suggest that they turn children actors into shoes.” However, quotes and concepts taken from Hollywood films are based on many of QAnon’s most popular slogans and scripts, he says.
The concept of “adrenochrome,” the elixir intended to prolong the life that QAnon enthusiasts draw from children’s blood through the world’s elite, can be attributed to the scene of fear and disgust in Las Vegas when Johnny Depp, like Hunter S. Thompson, hallucinates after allegedly drinking the compound. (In real life, adrenochrome is an artificial compound used to control bleeding). Two of QAnon’s most popular war cries, “The Calm Before the Storm” and “Where We All Go,” can be heard in director Ridley Scott’s trailer forgettingable veil drama, White Squall. (The main comment on a YouTube post for the preview – “Bravo si Q sent you here” – received likes 5700 times.) The premise of The Matrix – this truth, as we know it, is a great artificially controlled simulation – resonates well with Q worldview, says Marc-André Argentino, a Ph.D. A candidate at Concordia University who is writing an e-book about QAnon. “The scene of the Blue Tablet/ Red Matrix tablet is used to frame the selection to be a component of the Great Awakening or to finish ‘somnoliento’,” Argentine writes in Religion Dispatches. (As Joe M., one of QAnon’s top productive influencers, said, “Everything is set up and you’re watching a movie.”)
“Someone is making a film about those pitiful NUTCASES, I beg you,” tweeted Chrissy Teigen-style from the depths of an online “swarm” of QAnon enthusiasts in July. QAnon searches the social media of Hollywood stars such as Teigen, Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey, looking for clues that they are connected to past sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. Find me talking about little children and tiaras in 2013 and thinking you’re some kind of agent, Teigen wrote to one of them. At the height of the dam, the mother of two blocked more than a million user accounts and deleted 60,000 of her old tweets. Within days, Twitter permanently suspended 7,000 QAnon accounts on the platform, limited another 150,000 and banned the due terms from Q-repast from appearing on news topics.
After Hanks contracted the coronavirus, a QAnon influencer and convicted bank robber named Tommy Gelati, who in the past co-chaired a Barstool Sports podcast with actor Michael Rapaport, began speculating that Hanks’ haircut showed he was secretly presenting Saturday Night Live from prison. After a manufacturer randomly gave the impression in a window on The Ellen DeGeneres Show set, QAnon’s influencers assumed he was a police officer and DeGeneres was under space arrest.
“I just got a phone call to say my call is trendy. And to be persecuted for something terrible FALSE,” oprah Winfrey tweeted on March 17, after a conspiracy theory followed through the QAnon network claimed that she had been arrested at a global sexual event. traffic ring. “That’s not true. I didn’t search or arrest. Just disinfectant and distancing myself from the rest of the world. A June Facebook post shared more than 32,000 times: “It’s crazy that many other people don’t know Oprahm under space arrest for sex trafficking youth, as well as Ellen, Tom Hanks, Clinton.”
The “arrest/execution list” also circulates widely, which calls the entire distribution of Friends “arrested and pending court,” with the exception of Courtney Cox, who is “arrested and under space arrest.” When celebrities posted videos of themselves from the lock that seemed less collected, QAnon gurus speculated on an “adrenochrome shortage” that undermined their younger energy. When Hanks COVID-19, his call went to a list of alleged members of the sex trafficking clique, as Lady Gaga did, for defending social estrangement.
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There is a limit to the damage that a swarm of QAnon Twitter can do to a A-list celebrity. But the scenario was much more damaging to a 33-year-old Los Angeles woman who was not noticed at all, who was randomly taken and violently attacked through QAnon last year. His ordeal began when Q posted an old photo on 8chan showing up on a plane with Bill Clinton. “Epstein’s plane,” Q wrote without proof. “Who is she? Follow your friends. Friends lead others. Open source”. A short time later, thousands of tweets gave the impression on the Internet, mentioning his name, forehead and phone number. With this, she was sued 24 hours a day as the last woman alive to face the killer in a horror film. Once someone is selected as a recurring character in QAnon’s pro-Trump fan fiction, the doxxing and threats may diminish, but they never end. After the woman left Los Angeles and cut off all her social media, she still appears on QAnon’s kidnapper lists.
According to police, confidence in QAnon encouraged at least 10 violent incidents, adding two homicides, a kidnapping, vandalism in a church and an armed cul-de-sac near Hoover Dam. Lawyers for the guy accused of the 2019 murder of a deputy chief of Gambino’s family circle said his client, Anthony Comello, was obsessed with conspiracy theories and that the victim, Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali, was a member of the “deep state.” ” (In the past, Comello tried to prevent Adam Schiff and Maxine Waters through a citizen). At Hoover Dam, a guy who used an armored car to block traffic picked up a sign that read, “Release the OIG report,” referring to a “secret ” Justice Department report, QAnon, had led him to hide in the dam. (There was no such report).
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At a time when the president of the United States is a “birther” and has tweeted conspiracy theories or marginal content more than 145 times in office, it is not unexpected that QAnon has a friend in the West Wing. Trump’s aid to QAnon has intensified as his votes plummeted. During the Fourth of July vacation, before Trump headed to the country from the White House garden, he retwed QAnon-related accounts four times a day. In August, the Washington Post noticed an obvious convergence between Trump’s inner circle and a developing cohort of QAnon believers. White House industry adviser Peter Navarro greatly glad to Q enthusiasts in June when he used a Q-flag pin in an interview on Fox News. “Wow !!!!!,” a Twitter follower rejoiced. “PeterNavarrofour5 carries a pin with a Q on it. I was given one, too.”) Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, recorded a video of himself in July four, in which he raises his right hand and recites an oath related to QAnon, adding “Where we’re going one, we’re all going.” In a Fox News interview with Eric, Trump’s son of the time, when host Jesse Watters praised QAnon for “discovering a lot of attractive things,” Trump replied, “Yes.” Meanwhile, recent announcements of Trump’s re-election crusade in Nevada and Arizona show footage of Trump’s aides dressed in QAnon’s clothing, and the director of press communications for Trump’s re-election crusade, Erin Perrine, gave the impression of being invited to the 2four of the Patriots. / 7 soapbox, a YouTube call screen true to QAnon coverage.
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This election season has noticed that dozens of candidates known through QAnon run for Congress across the country, all under the goP banner. California is not a newcomer to Q policy. Former city councillor of San Juan Capistrano, Pam Patterson, made headlines with a farewell address in 2018 in which she prayed to God to “bless Q.” When Mike Madrid, political director of the Republican Party of California in the late 1990s, Governor Pete Wilson and the main conspiracy theory that Mexicans were looking to recapture the southwest of the United States. Los Angeles and San Francisco were the cities with the weakest conservative movement and the highest conspiracy monsters at home. “He’s a handful of marginal activists,” recalls Madrid, a longtime Republican who co-founded the Never Trump Lincoln project. “Now they’re the nominees, they’re the postulants!”
On July 4, President Trump retwed accounts similar to QAnon’s theory 14 times.
California Congressional applicants running in California are true believers or cynical self-promoters. In the first category is Hayden, who lives in the city of Hayward Bay Area. When a QAnon leader tweeted about a New Zealand law on abortion in favor of abortion, claiming that he legalizes the “sacrifice of Luciferian children” and promises a source of human fetal portions to the deep state, Hayden retwite it. When someone who posted as “Q Seeker” said on Twitter that his wife left him because of his trust in Q, Hayden begged him to keep the faith: “When all this comes to light, his permanent SIGN will identify his leadership in his family.”
Mike Cargile and Wendy Cruz, the Q-friendly Congressional Candidates for Southern California, are in the category of the moment: marketing professionals who have made direct statements to QAnon in an attempt to strengthen their eligibility. “Chances are we see him emerge as a kind of new Tea Party, a force in the face of the conservative movement that pushes politicians, even those who don’t in Q’s secret signals, to locate him politically useful in confronting QAnon,” Roose says.
According to a report by NBC News correspondents Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins, Cruz said QAnon supporters had “legitimate concerns,” without specifying what they were, adding that they deserved to have a good reputation as an electoral bloc. Cruz, who lives in Palm Springs, has a crusade banner hanging from the local GOP headquarters in La Quinta. Cargile’s Twitter biography includes WWG1WGA, the “Where We Go One, We’re All Going” hashtag. As Los Angeles reported in July, the California Republican Party quietly withdrew its approval to Cargile from its online page after Media Matters revealed that its Facebook and Twitter pages were full of N-words and diatribes aimed at blacks, immigrants, Muslims and the LGBTQ community. Array resident The Pomona also called the coronavirus a “scam” and said that “nothing compares to diseases and pests targeted in this way through rats and homeless people.”
Cargile’s opponent, Congressman Norma Torres, said supporters of the Republican challenger had threatened him with death online. “These are other people who have incredibly anti-government and anti-immigrant views,” says Torres, who emigrated to the United States from Guatemala as a child. Torres says she is worried about the mantle of anonymity that protects QAnon’s followers. Shortly after Ed Mullins, director of the second-largest New York Police union, gave Fox News an interview with a QAnon cup in the background, Torres said, “What’s scary, where do those other people work? Could they be our teachers, our policeman? officers, our criminal investigators? »
A former Republican staggerer said QAnon’s rise seemed more pronounced because, in terms of tuition and influence, the party itself is in sharp decline. “If QAnon gains influence, it’s because the party is shrinking and there are fewer rational voices to suppress it,” the former official said. (California Government President Jessica Millan Patterson turned down an interview request after learning about this story about QAnon.)
Madrid calls QAnon “a parasite that feeds on the decadent host of the Republican Party.” He adds that QAnon is an “amorphous glue” that consolidates what he describes as the “holy trinity of the MAGA coalition: white nationalists, gun fanatics, and conspiracy theorists.” QAnon supporters running for Congress in California will not be elected. But Margorie Taylor Greene in Georgia and Lauren Boebert in Colorado, both known at QAnon, won the primaries in “safe” Republican districts, meaning the general election will be very easy for them. (Boebert defeated a member of Congress by five terms at the number one Colorado Republican in June. In May, he told an interviewer, “Everything I’ve heard about Q, I hope it’s genuine. Because it just means that America is more powerful and that other people are returning to conservative values.” He has since denied believing in QAnon.) Taylor Greene, an unconditional businesswoman and QAnon, won the Republican nomination for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District before this month, despite hours discovering a video in which she belittled blacks, Muslims, and Jews, and promoted a multitude of conspiracy theories. Trump praised Taylor Greene after her official victory, and tweeted that she is a “future Republican star” who “is strong at everything and never gives up, a genuine WINNER!”
Two Republican members of Congress, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Denver Riggleman of Virginia, arrived here Sunday to disallow the motion and ask their colleagues to do the same. Critics say it’s too late.
“There will be a QAnon caucus at the Republican Congress in 2020,” Madrid says. “Count on that.”
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