A Qanon conference held in Las Vegas last weekend saw far-right conspiracy-mongers lay out their ambitious plans to “take back the secretaries of state offices around the country,” according to Jim Marchant, who’s running for Nevada secretary of state. Marchant was among a handful of political hopefuls who’ve formed a coalition in hopes of solving the nonexistent issue of voter fraud.
“I can’t stress enough how important the secretary of state offices are. I think they are the most important elections in our country in 2022,” Marchant said at the “For God & Country Patriot Double Down” event. “And why is that? We control the election system. In 2022 we’re going to take back our country.”
The mastermind behind the coalition appears to be a fringe figure known by the name Juan O. Savin, whom many in the QAnon world believe to be JFK Jr. Savin rarely shows his face except for by accident while filming live streams, so it came as a surprise when he appeared at the conference and held court for upwards of an hour. Emcee Andre Popa pushed the theory despite the fact that yet another person suspected to be JFK Jr. was in attendance.
Somehow Savin has the ear of prominent QAnon believers like Jim Caviezel, who welcomed Savin to the stage over the weekend with a warm embrace. It was Savin and Marchant who initially met shortly after the 2020 election to hatch their plan. They held their first meeting as a coalition in May, alongside backers like MyPillow and election fraud fetishist Mike Lindell, former Maria Butina lover and disgraced former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, and Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft.
Though the group appears to have lots of money behind it, there’s not a chance all four candidates who attended the conference—Rachel Hamm, Kristina Karamo, Mark Finchem, and Marchant—will win their elections.
Hamm is running for secretary of state in California, where she is largely predicted to lose simply because the state is so blue. She’s likely not helping her candidacy efforts by continuing to espouse her “prophetic” dreams that involve killing alleged witches and likening Donald Trump to a doting father trying to teach the country a lesson.
Marchant was previously endorsed by Trump during his failed 2020 bid for House representative in Nevada. He has yet to receive an endorsement for his Nevada secretary of state bid. Karamo, meanwhile, already has Trump’s blessing in her bid for Michigan secretary of state, as does Mark Finchem, who currently serves as an Arizona house representative and sees the secretary of state position as a way to help thwart alleged election wrongdoings.
There are 26 states with secretary of state positions up for election on the 2022 ballot. Now more than ever is a great time to get into politics and combat the fringe views of QAnon Republicans. Otherwise, these folks could be running an election in your own community.
Read more at:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/27/2060513/-QAnon-coalition-wants-to-control-the-election-system
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5/21/21
USA: AOC says Marjorie Taylor Greene is ‘deeply unwell’ after 2019 video surfaces -by Adam Gabbatt
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said the Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene has a “fixation” on progressive members of Congress, and warned that Greene’s behavior has “raised concerns” among Democrats.
Greene, a Trump loyalist and a promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, was elected to the House in 2020, and has spent her first months in office harassing Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive Democrats.
Ocasio-Cortez’s warning came after CNN unearthed a video showing her staff being harassed by Greene, then a private citizen, in 2019. The footage shows Greene, accompanied by a man who would go on to take part in the Capitol riot in January this year, shouting through the letterbox of Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional office.
Read more at: AOC says Marjorie Taylor Greene is ‘deeply unwell’ after 2019 video surfaces | US Congress | The Guardian
Greene, a Trump loyalist and a promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, was elected to the House in 2020, and has spent her first months in office harassing Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive Democrats.
Ocasio-Cortez’s warning came after CNN unearthed a video showing her staff being harassed by Greene, then a private citizen, in 2019. The footage shows Greene, accompanied by a man who would go on to take part in the Capitol riot in January this year, shouting through the letterbox of Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional office.
Read more at: AOC says Marjorie Taylor Greene is ‘deeply unwell’ after 2019 video surfaces | US Congress | The Guardian
4/10/21
USA: WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?! A MILLION IDIOT MARCH! - by Chris Townsend
You are invited to the Million Maskless March and Mask Burning, Saturday April 10, 2021 at 3pm at the Corner of A1A and Las Olas in Ft Lauderdale!” stated protest organizer Chris Nelson.
Maskless March and Mask Burning…When I read those five words I could feel my stomach turn in disgust. I could feel that little tinge of anger in my heart. I don’t like feeling this way but after over half a million Americans have died in the past year and are still dying every day I couldn’t help myself. I found myself shocked that people still don’t get it. I don’t understand how people still feel that their freedoms are being taken away by having to wear a mask in public. I don’t get how they don’t believe in the precautions. How can they not believe the science? By now I’m sure most people in our country know at least one person who has been effected by COVID. As a healthcare professional, I have watched so many people suffer and die from this pandemic. I’ve watched worn out coworkers succumb to the virus and get sick after bravely serving the worst of the worst cases. I myself got it a year ago and I am still deal with it has a long hauler. So I guess you could see how this event could be upsetting to me.
Read more at: WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?! A MILLION IDIOT MARCH!
Maskless March and Mask Burning…When I read those five words I could feel my stomach turn in disgust. I could feel that little tinge of anger in my heart. I don’t like feeling this way but after over half a million Americans have died in the past year and are still dying every day I couldn’t help myself. I found myself shocked that people still don’t get it. I don’t understand how people still feel that their freedoms are being taken away by having to wear a mask in public. I don’t get how they don’t believe in the precautions. How can they not believe the science? By now I’m sure most people in our country know at least one person who has been effected by COVID. As a healthcare professional, I have watched so many people suffer and die from this pandemic. I’ve watched worn out coworkers succumb to the virus and get sick after bravely serving the worst of the worst cases. I myself got it a year ago and I am still deal with it has a long hauler. So I guess you could see how this event could be upsetting to me.
Read more at: WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?! A MILLION IDIOT MARCH!
2/7/21
US Comedy - taking it one step too far: Bill Maher: "It Makes Perfect Sense That Christians Are Into QAnon"
Bill Maher dove headfirst into ripping Trump supporters who are evangelical Christians on the latest episode of HBO’s “Real Time.”
During his weekly “New Rules” segment, Maher eviscerated Christians and the Book of Revelations, which he argued was just as unhinged as the conspiracy theories spread by QAnon. Maher also said Trump-supporting conservatives who are still convinced the 2020 election was rigged in favor of President Biden are part of a “mass delusion.”
Note EU-Digest: We have been watching Bill Maher comedy shows for many years and have no problem in him choosing to be an atheist, but were we draw the line as a Christian, is when in his latest show he compared Christians to QAnon followers in the New Rule section of the program in which he said "“When you are a QAnon fanatic, you’re also a fundamentalist Christian. They just go together like macaroni and cheese or chardonnay and Valium,” For Christians from whatever denomination, that statement by Bill Maher should be unacceptable.
Bill Maher must know that QAnons is a disproven and discredited far-right conspiracy theory, alleging that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotted against former U.S. president Donald Trump while he was in office and according to U.S. prosecutors, QAnon is commonly called a cult.
Read more at: Bill Maher: It Makes Perfect Sense That Christians Are Into QAnon (Video)
During his weekly “New Rules” segment, Maher eviscerated Christians and the Book of Revelations, which he argued was just as unhinged as the conspiracy theories spread by QAnon. Maher also said Trump-supporting conservatives who are still convinced the 2020 election was rigged in favor of President Biden are part of a “mass delusion.”
Note EU-Digest: We have been watching Bill Maher comedy shows for many years and have no problem in him choosing to be an atheist, but were we draw the line as a Christian, is when in his latest show he compared Christians to QAnon followers in the New Rule section of the program in which he said "“When you are a QAnon fanatic, you’re also a fundamentalist Christian. They just go together like macaroni and cheese or chardonnay and Valium,” For Christians from whatever denomination, that statement by Bill Maher should be unacceptable.
Bill Maher must know that QAnons is a disproven and discredited far-right conspiracy theory, alleging that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotted against former U.S. president Donald Trump while he was in office and according to U.S. prosecutors, QAnon is commonly called a cult.
Read more at: Bill Maher: It Makes Perfect Sense That Christians Are Into QAnon (Video)
1/29/21
QAnon: The Making of QAnon: A Crowdsourced Conspiracy
Once again, this dangerous and eclectic conspiracy is in the spotlight. It has come a long way since its birth on a forum barely three years ago.
On October 28, 2017, an anonymous user browsing the /pol/ section of 4chan, a notorious alt-right imageboard, saw a post that read, “Hillary Clinton will be arrested between 7:45 AM — 8:30 AM EST on Monday — the morning on Oct 30, 2017,” and decided to respond. This user would later adopt the name “Q Clearance Patriot” (soon shortened to “Q”). Q hinted that they were a military officer in President Trump’s inner circle; their writings — almost 5,000 posts to date — gave birth to the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Most accounts of QAnon present this first “Q drop”, as Q’s posts are known by their acolytes, as the starting point of the Q movement. This is mistaken for two reasons. One is trivial: Q first gained an audience with a different set of drops, because their earliest efforts sank without a trace and weren’t rediscovered by anyone on 4chan until November 11 that same year. The other is deeply significant: Q’s origins can’t be divorced from the culture of /pol/, which was a rich slurry of racism, anti-Semitism, and (especially relevant here) right-wing conspiracy theories.
Therefore, QAnon was both an outgrowth and an evolution of /pol/ culture: not only were many of Q’s claims already popular on /pol/, but Q borrowed key themes and ideas from predecessors. The key to understanding the roots of Q is to understand the culture of /pol/.
Read complete rreport at: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/07/the-making-of-qanon-a-crowdsourced-conspiracy/
1/21/21
QAnon - the party is over: 'No plan, no Q, nothing': QAnon followers reel as Biden inaugurated - by Joseph Menn, Elizabeth Culliford, Katie Paul, Carrie Monahan
For three years, adherents of the sprawling QAnon conspiracy theory awaited a so-called Great Awakening, scouring anonymous web postings from a shadowy “Q” figure and parsing statements by former U.S. President Donald Trump, whom they believed to be their champion.
In one Telegram channel with more than 18,400 members, QAnon believers were split between those still urging others to ‘trust the plan’ and those saying they felt betrayed. “It’s obvious now we’ve been had. No plan, no Q, nothing,” wrote one user.
In one of the most jarring apparent reversals on Wednesday, Watkins a QAnon leader, appeared to admit defeat, posting: “We have a new president sworn in and it is our responsibility as citizens to respect the Constitution regardless of whether or not we agree with the specifics.”
Read more at: 'No plan, no Q, nothing': QAnon followers reel as Biden inaugurated | Reuters
In one Telegram channel with more than 18,400 members, QAnon believers were split between those still urging others to ‘trust the plan’ and those saying they felt betrayed. “It’s obvious now we’ve been had. No plan, no Q, nothing,” wrote one user.
In one of the most jarring apparent reversals on Wednesday, Watkins a QAnon leader, appeared to admit defeat, posting: “We have a new president sworn in and it is our responsibility as citizens to respect the Constitution regardless of whether or not we agree with the specifics.”
Read more at: 'No plan, no Q, nothing': QAnon followers reel as Biden inaugurated | Reuters
1/14/21
Conspiracy Theories: Europe is not immune from America’s political madness - by Gideon Rachman
A crowd of far-right activists break through police lines. Cheering and waving flags, they prepare to storm the legislature. In Washington DC, last week, the mob broke through. In Berlin, last August, they were stopped on the steps of the Reichstag. If the demonstrators had broken into the building, they would have found some walls still adorned with carefully preserved graffiti from when the Reichstag was sacked by Russian troops, in 1945.
Germany’s near-miss over the summer, the “gilets jaunes” demonstrations in France and the passions aroused in Britain by Brexit and Covid-19 — all underline the same point. Europeans cannot assume that they are immune to the political passions that have engulfed America. Many of the elements that destabilised the US are also present in Europe — in particular, the spread of conspiracy theories, online radicalisation and extremist political movements.
The crucial missing element is Donald Trump. The fact that America’s conspiracy-theorist in chief is also president makes the country’s situation uniquely dangerous. It was Mr Trump’s efforts to overturn the election that motivated crackpots from all over America to descend on the nation’s capital and storm Congress.
But it would be a mistake for Europeans to believe that the absence of a Trump figure makes them safe from dangerous political unrest — particularly given the economic distress and social dislocation caused by Covid-19. The Reichstag crowds were smaller than those that attacked the Capitol. But they represented a wide cross-section of groups, with the far-right mingling with anti-vaxxers and believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory that is rampant in America (and holds that Mr Trump is leading an effort to defeat a global conspiracy led by paedophiles)
Opinion polls taken afterwards suggested that 9 per cent of the German population supported the Reichstag rioters. This is a narrower base than the far-right enjoys in America, where polls immediately after the storming of Congress suggested nearly half of Republican voters approved — which would be 20-25 per cent of Americans. (Later polls suggested less support.
Support for the political extremes is closer to 25 per cent in the former East Germany. Officials in Angela Merkel’s government worry that the military, intelligence services and police have been penetrated by the far-right, and some elite military units have been disbanded because of links to political extremism. There have also been several deadly terrorist attacks by far-right extremists.
Read full report at: Europe is not immune from America’s political madness | Financial Times
Germany’s near-miss over the summer, the “gilets jaunes” demonstrations in France and the passions aroused in Britain by Brexit and Covid-19 — all underline the same point. Europeans cannot assume that they are immune to the political passions that have engulfed America. Many of the elements that destabilised the US are also present in Europe — in particular, the spread of conspiracy theories, online radicalisation and extremist political movements.
The crucial missing element is Donald Trump. The fact that America’s conspiracy-theorist in chief is also president makes the country’s situation uniquely dangerous. It was Mr Trump’s efforts to overturn the election that motivated crackpots from all over America to descend on the nation’s capital and storm Congress.
But it would be a mistake for Europeans to believe that the absence of a Trump figure makes them safe from dangerous political unrest — particularly given the economic distress and social dislocation caused by Covid-19. The Reichstag crowds were smaller than those that attacked the Capitol. But they represented a wide cross-section of groups, with the far-right mingling with anti-vaxxers and believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory that is rampant in America (and holds that Mr Trump is leading an effort to defeat a global conspiracy led by paedophiles)
Opinion polls taken afterwards suggested that 9 per cent of the German population supported the Reichstag rioters. This is a narrower base than the far-right enjoys in America, where polls immediately after the storming of Congress suggested nearly half of Republican voters approved — which would be 20-25 per cent of Americans. (Later polls suggested less support.
Support for the political extremes is closer to 25 per cent in the former East Germany. Officials in Angela Merkel’s government worry that the military, intelligence services and police have been penetrated by the far-right, and some elite military units have been disbanded because of links to political extremism. There have also been several deadly terrorist attacks by far-right extremists.
Read full report at: Europe is not immune from America’s political madness | Financial Times
1/13/21
USA: What saved American democracy? – By Bo Rothstein
Democracy is a fragile form of government. History has shown democracies can be undermined in several ways. It can happen quickly, as in a coup, but democracies can also erode more slowly, as is now taking place in Poland and Hungary.
Based on research on how democracies have collapsed, political science has highlighted what to be especially wary about. If political leaders do not unequivocally take a stand against political violence, do not respect the democratic rights of their opponents and refrain from promising to respect an election result that goes against them, then democracy is in danger.
During his election campaign and even more during his time as president, Donald Trump undoubtedly violated these three principles. His many false claims that the election was rigged, and that he actually won, his support for his Republican party colleagues’ efforts to impede minority turnout and his incitement to the mob that forcibly broke into Congress on January 6th were clear examples.
Read more at: What saved American democracy? – Bo Rothstein
Based on research on how democracies have collapsed, political science has highlighted what to be especially wary about. If political leaders do not unequivocally take a stand against political violence, do not respect the democratic rights of their opponents and refrain from promising to respect an election result that goes against them, then democracy is in danger.
During his election campaign and even more during his time as president, Donald Trump undoubtedly violated these three principles. His many false claims that the election was rigged, and that he actually won, his support for his Republican party colleagues’ efforts to impede minority turnout and his incitement to the mob that forcibly broke into Congress on January 6th were clear examples.
Read more at: What saved American democracy? – Bo Rothstein
1/10/21
QAnon - Qonspiracy Theories: She was deep into it': Ashli Babbitt, killed in Capitol riot, was devoted conspiracy theorist
The QAnon conspiracy theory, although lurid in its claims about the torture of children, is very much a political movement, not just a personal delusion, experts say.
“The people that went to the Capitol weren’t just trying to save Trump, they were trying to stop the coming multiracial democracy” which they believed would institute “a radical leftist globalist agenda”, Joan Donovan, the research director at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, said.
Read more at: 'She was deep into it': Ashli Babbitt, killed in Capitol riot, was devoted conspiracy theorist | US Capitol breach | The Guardian
“The people that went to the Capitol weren’t just trying to save Trump, they were trying to stop the coming multiracial democracy” which they believed would institute “a radical leftist globalist agenda”, Joan Donovan, the research director at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, said.
Read more at: 'She was deep into it': Ashli Babbitt, killed in Capitol riot, was devoted conspiracy theorist | US Capitol breach | The Guardian
1/9/21
Conspiracy Theorists QAnon: EBay Says It Will Pull QAnon Merchandise From Its Site -dangers also exist in Europe
Products promoting the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon will no longer be permitted on eBay’s site, the company said on Friday evening, after rioters carrying markers of the group stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
A search on eBay currently reveals about 4,000 products, including hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts and stickers tied to QAnon, which, among other theories, asserts that President Trump is being undermined by a cult of Satan worshippers. For instance, there’s a pack of stickers selling for $22 that has a Q emblazoned on the front and is advertised as a way to show support for the president’s failed 2020 re-election bid. Its seller policy prohibits “listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination.”
QAnon has also been operating in Europe under different names and is very active when it comes to controversial issues, in promoting dangerous and radical rightwing and populist solutions to solve a variety of issues.
Read more at: EBay Says It Will Pull QAnon Merchandise From Its Site
A search on eBay currently reveals about 4,000 products, including hats, T-shirts, sweatshirts and stickers tied to QAnon, which, among other theories, asserts that President Trump is being undermined by a cult of Satan worshippers. For instance, there’s a pack of stickers selling for $22 that has a Q emblazoned on the front and is advertised as a way to show support for the president’s failed 2020 re-election bid. Its seller policy prohibits “listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination.”
QAnon has also been operating in Europe under different names and is very active when it comes to controversial issues, in promoting dangerous and radical rightwing and populist solutions to solve a variety of issues.
Read more at: EBay Says It Will Pull QAnon Merchandise From Its Site
10/31/20
US election: Here's how it can impact Europeans' lives - by Lillo Montalto & Marta Rodriguez
Donald Trump defined the 2020 Presidential vote as "the most important election in US history" but its impact will also be felt on this side of the pond too — and not just at the highest of political levels.
Trump’s politics over the past four years have affected both the pockets and the most intimate sphere of millions of Europeans.
On one hand, many EU workers have incurred substantial losses in their incomes as a result of the EU-US trade war.
On the other hand, unknown but influential lobbying groups with ties to the US administration are bringing on a fight to erode basic human rights for women and LGBT communities.
Read more at: US election: Here's how it can impact Europeans' lives | Euronews
Trump’s politics over the past four years have affected both the pockets and the most intimate sphere of millions of Europeans.
On one hand, many EU workers have incurred substantial losses in their incomes as a result of the EU-US trade war.
On the other hand, unknown but influential lobbying groups with ties to the US administration are bringing on a fight to erode basic human rights for women and LGBT communities.
Read more at: US election: Here's how it can impact Europeans' lives | Euronews
10/28/20
USA: What is QAnon, the conspiracy theory supporting Trump in the 2020 presidential election? - by Emanuela Campanella
Misinformation has been spreading like wildfire in the lead-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In the last couple of months, QAnon has gone mainstream.
The unfounded internet conspiracy theory alleges the world is run by a cabal of satan-worshiping pedophiles including Democratic politicians and Hollywood celebrities running a global child sex-trafficking ring.
The starting point right now is really that there is this deep state or shadow government, which has in mind the takedown of Trump,” said Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism.
QAnon followers have been flooding social media with false information about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and most recently about the U.S. election.
At its core, the far-right conspiracy theory is that U.S. President Donald Trump is fighting a battle against evil, according to Perry, who studies extremism extensively. The theory suggests the military, supposedly eager to see the deep state overthrown, recruited Trump to run for president. But the deep state, which controls the media, quickly tried to smear him through “fake news.”
They claim it is only Trump who can get “deep state” leaders arrested in what they call “The great awakening,” Perry says. Trump, however claims They claim it is only Trump who can get “deep state” leaders arrested in what they call “The great awakening,” Perry says. Trump, however, says QAnon deeply love American vcalues and him.
Read more at: https://globalnews.ca/news/7425408/qanon-misinformation-donald-trump-us-election/
The unfounded internet conspiracy theory alleges the world is run by a cabal of satan-worshiping pedophiles including Democratic politicians and Hollywood celebrities running a global child sex-trafficking ring.
The starting point right now is really that there is this deep state or shadow government, which has in mind the takedown of Trump,” said Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism.
QAnon followers have been flooding social media with false information about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and most recently about the U.S. election.
At its core, the far-right conspiracy theory is that U.S. President Donald Trump is fighting a battle against evil, according to Perry, who studies extremism extensively. The theory suggests the military, supposedly eager to see the deep state overthrown, recruited Trump to run for president. But the deep state, which controls the media, quickly tried to smear him through “fake news.”
They claim it is only Trump who can get “deep state” leaders arrested in what they call “The great awakening,” Perry says. Trump, however claims They claim it is only Trump who can get “deep state” leaders arrested in what they call “The great awakening,” Perry says. Trump, however, says QAnon deeply love American vcalues and him.
Read more at: https://globalnews.ca/news/7425408/qanon-misinformation-donald-trump-us-election/
10/26/20
QAnon-Canada: How conspiracies like QAnon are slowly creeping into some Canadian churches - by Joel Dryden
Van Sloten said he has received criticism, hate mail and even protests outside his church over the years, and has mostly ignored instances that seemed like trolling.
But he said he's also read about the advent of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon in American churches, and feels that churches in Canada should be carefully tracking its possible journey north.
"The Christian church has always been exposed to heresies and incorrect thinking historically from the get-go," van Sloten said. "Heresies come and heresies go, and this is the heresy du jour. And I think we ought to treat it like that."
Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory include members from both secular and religious groups, and aren't made up specifically of those people who participate in the Christian faith.
Read more at: How conspiracies like QAnon are slowly creeping into some Canadian churches | CBC News
But he said he's also read about the advent of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon in American churches, and feels that churches in Canada should be carefully tracking its possible journey north.
"The Christian church has always been exposed to heresies and incorrect thinking historically from the get-go," van Sloten said. "Heresies come and heresies go, and this is the heresy du jour. And I think we ought to treat it like that."
Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory include members from both secular and religious groups, and aren't made up specifically of those people who participate in the Christian faith.
Read more at: How conspiracies like QAnon are slowly creeping into some Canadian churches | CBC News
10/24/20
America's Latest Export: The Conspiracy Theorists Crazies have crossed the Atlantic and QAnon is now in Europe–by Mark Scott
If you don't know what QAnon is this is how wikileaks divines the cult - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon.
At first glance it’s not a natural fit. The U.S. conspiracy theory — now with millions of acolytes worldwide — alleges a vast deception to undermine U.S. President Donald Trump. It blends anti-government, anti-lockdown and anti-Semitic rhetoric with unfounded beliefs about a vast pedophile ring run by the global elite. Its followers adhere to a quasi-religious belief that a great savior — aided by “Q,” an anonymous government insider from whom QAnon gets its name — will protect followers from the dark forces behind the conspiracy.
In the U.S., discussion about QAnon has broken into the political mainstream. When Trump was asked to disavow the group at a recent town hall event, he first said he knew “nothing about QAnon” but then added: “I do know that they are very much against pedofiles.
Despite its digital roots, this conspiracy based, populst, ultra -right-wing QAnon has extended its reach into the real world, with attendees at protests against anti-coronavirus measures and supportive of conspiracy theories spreading its talking points across Europe, the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Read more at: QAnon goes European – POLITICO
At first glance it’s not a natural fit. The U.S. conspiracy theory — now with millions of acolytes worldwide — alleges a vast deception to undermine U.S. President Donald Trump. It blends anti-government, anti-lockdown and anti-Semitic rhetoric with unfounded beliefs about a vast pedophile ring run by the global elite. Its followers adhere to a quasi-religious belief that a great savior — aided by “Q,” an anonymous government insider from whom QAnon gets its name — will protect followers from the dark forces behind the conspiracy.
In the U.S., discussion about QAnon has broken into the political mainstream. When Trump was asked to disavow the group at a recent town hall event, he first said he knew “nothing about QAnon” but then added: “I do know that they are very much against pedofiles.
Despite its digital roots, this conspiracy based, populst, ultra -right-wing QAnon has extended its reach into the real world, with attendees at protests against anti-coronavirus measures and supportive of conspiracy theories spreading its talking points across Europe, the U.S. and other parts of the world.
Read more at: QAnon goes European – POLITICO
10/9/20
QAnon: Conspiracy as a Quasi-Religion - by Andrés Ortega
No one knows who the “Q” in QAnon is (the “Anon” stands for “anonymous”).
Whoever is behind QAnon, that person or entity has certainly engendered a conspiracy movement in the United States. Amidst the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID 19, it has taken root in Europe as well.
Is it an individual or a group of people? The product of the malicious use of artificial intelligence, trained with conspiratorial posts? Is there a foreign power in the background? There are various theories, none conclusive.
The FBI has indicated how seriously it views QAnon when it described it, in an internal memo from 2019, as “a potential national terrorist threat.”
QAnon is partly the offspring of social media, from which it has proved difficult to eradicate. While Reddit has deleted it from its service, Twitter has suspended thousands of related accounts and Facebook has taken steps in the same direction.
In just a few years, and much more intensively in the months of pandemic, this Internet and social media agitator has amassed a remarkable following that can be counted in the hundreds of thousands, although it is difficult to give an exact figure.
In particular, its sympathizers are often conflated with those who follow QAnon’s “drops” (as its posts, now numbering 5,000, are known).
Employing coded language open to many interpretations, it aims to highlight conspiracies supposedly against Donald Trump, who is the movement’s hero.
Trump is to be defended against the “deep state,” an elite of bureaucrats, intelligence agencies and high-ranking military who, according to Q, conspire against Trump.
With his own name, Q hints that he is a senior mandarin with a high level of clearance to access official secrets. Maintaining his anonymity is essential for his credibility among his followers.
What long seemed like a marginal phenomenon may have consequences for what happens on November 3rd and in its aftermath. In some recent “drops,” Q has called for a popular armed uprising should Trump — after a fraud perpetrated by the conspirators, as QAnon sees it — lose control of the presidency.
Reasd more at:
QAnon: Conspiracy as a Quasi-Religion - The Globalist
Whoever is behind QAnon, that person or entity has certainly engendered a conspiracy movement in the United States. Amidst the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID 19, it has taken root in Europe as well.
Is it an individual or a group of people? The product of the malicious use of artificial intelligence, trained with conspiratorial posts? Is there a foreign power in the background? There are various theories, none conclusive.
The FBI has indicated how seriously it views QAnon when it described it, in an internal memo from 2019, as “a potential national terrorist threat.”
QAnon is partly the offspring of social media, from which it has proved difficult to eradicate. While Reddit has deleted it from its service, Twitter has suspended thousands of related accounts and Facebook has taken steps in the same direction.
In just a few years, and much more intensively in the months of pandemic, this Internet and social media agitator has amassed a remarkable following that can be counted in the hundreds of thousands, although it is difficult to give an exact figure.
In particular, its sympathizers are often conflated with those who follow QAnon’s “drops” (as its posts, now numbering 5,000, are known).
Employing coded language open to many interpretations, it aims to highlight conspiracies supposedly against Donald Trump, who is the movement’s hero.
Trump is to be defended against the “deep state,” an elite of bureaucrats, intelligence agencies and high-ranking military who, according to Q, conspire against Trump.
With his own name, Q hints that he is a senior mandarin with a high level of clearance to access official secrets. Maintaining his anonymity is essential for his credibility among his followers.
What long seemed like a marginal phenomenon may have consequences for what happens on November 3rd and in its aftermath. In some recent “drops,” Q has called for a popular armed uprising should Trump — after a fraud perpetrated by the conspirators, as QAnon sees it — lose control of the presidency.
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QAnon: Conspiracy as a Quasi-Religion - The Globalist
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