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struggle4progress

(118,356 posts)
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 08:46 PM Aug 2018

What is QAnon?

Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco
Mon 30 Jul 2018 20.22 EDT

... On 28 October 2017, “Q” emerged from the primordial swamp of the internet on the message board 4chan. In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff ...

New York magazine and the Daily Beast have written articles explaining more of the basic beliefs of QAnon, but chances are that the more you read about it, the more confused you will be. Imagine a volatile mix of Pizzagate, InfoWars and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, multiplied by the power of the internet and with an extra boost from a handful of conservative celebrities...

Before she was fired from her own sitcom for her racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, Roseanne Barr raised eyebrows with a series of tweets that invoked QAnon. Barr’s tweets focused on the supposed existence of hundreds of pedophile rings, including in Hollywood, that Trump is personally breaking up ...


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/qanon-4chan-rightwing-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump



Blame the angels! blame the fates!
Blame the Jews or your sister Kate!
Teach your children how to hate
and the big wheels turn around and around ...


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What is QAnon? (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2018 OP
S4P, these are people who vote! ProudLib72 Aug 2018 #1

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
1. S4P, these are people who vote!
Wed Aug 1, 2018, 08:53 PM
Aug 2018

They are all mentally ill, and they vote. Did you see the clip of the Q Anon followers on Chris Hayes? OMG!

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