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Initech

(100,104 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:12 AM Jun 2018

Trump Team Gives VIP Rally Access To 'QAnon' Truther

When President Trump approached the podium at his rally last night in Duluth, Minnesota, he paused for a split-second to gesture to a man wearing a shirt emblazoned with the letter “Q.”

The Q on the man’s t-shirt refers to the right-wing conspiracy theory known as “The Storm” that has thousands of adherents online. The theory goes like this: President Trump is not actually under investigation for possible collusion with Russian officials in 2016, but rather he is secretly working overtime to dismantle a global network of Satanic pedophiles involving some of the most powerful global elites and to share information about this secret project. According to the theory, Trump has ordered top-level officials to disseminate cryptic pieces of information—known as “crumbs”—to a bunch of random people on 4chan and 8chan who spend hours trying to put the puzzle pieces together. The conspiracy theory has been spread by the likes of Infowars and by comedian Roseanne Barr, but some conspiracy theorists have recently begun to allege that the whole operation was compromised once the unknown authors of the Q posts started to criticize one-time Q believers like Jerome Corsi and David Seaman of attempting to profit off the movement.

And as crazy as all of that sounds, it apparently didn’t stop anyone on the Trump advance team from giving someone advertising this theory front-row VIP access at last night’s rally.

As you’d expect, fans of the QAnon conspiracy went wild.

Followers of the conspiracy theory claimed that Trump gesturing to the cheering man wearing the QAnon shirt was irrefutable proof that the theory is real. Even the anonymous author of the Q posts noticed the man, posting “Now that’s what I call a VIP!”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-team-gives-vip-rally-access-to-qanon-truther/


Meanwhile, the Trump administration is LITERALLY KIDNAPPING, TRAFFICKING, AND TORTURING CHILDREN AND THEY ARE TOTALLY OK WITH IT!!!! FUCK THESE ASSHOLES!
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Trump Team Gives VIP Rally Access To 'QAnon' Truther (Original Post) Initech Jun 2018 OP
If it weren't Trump... GetRidOfThem Jun 2018 #1
And what does VIP access at a Trump rally entitle? Initech Jun 2018 #3
Why do so many of their conspiracy theories involve pedophilia? Arkansas Granny Jun 2018 #2
I think of a Lewis Black quote from a while back. Initech Jun 2018 #5
Conspiracy theory is the sociology of fascism DBoon Jun 2018 #4

GetRidOfThem

(869 posts)
1. If it weren't Trump...
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:18 AM
Jun 2018

...I'd be shocked, outraged, and be asking What the Hell???

But now I just shrug. What else do you expect from Agent Orange? How would Agent Orange NOT embrace a whacky conspiracy theory of lies if it helps him? If there was a conspiracy theory that the moon is out of Cheese, and it is the best cheese in the World, and Donald Trump made the cheese, then, hey the more people spread it, the better!

Initech

(100,104 posts)
3. And what does VIP access at a Trump rally entitle?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:21 AM
Jun 2018

Is there a cash bar? Access to a special line at the merch booth?

Arkansas Granny

(31,532 posts)
2. Why do so many of their conspiracy theories involve pedophilia?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:19 AM
Jun 2018

Yet, when they get a chance to do something, they will even vote for a pedophile (Roy Moore).

Initech

(100,104 posts)
5. I think of a Lewis Black quote from a while back.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:24 AM
Jun 2018

I can't remember what the original quote was, but if you paraphrase it, you could say "It's like playing a game of Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is a satanic Luciferian pedophile!"

This crap is getting very old.

DBoon

(22,397 posts)
4. Conspiracy theory is the sociology of fascism
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:23 AM
Jun 2018

Involves secret knowledge yielding unaccountable power

"The peddling of conspiracy theories is usually substituted for the objective study of history" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism

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