Pence to attend event hosted by QAnon backers

[RandySF]

Vice President Mike Pence and top officials from President Donald Trump’s campaign are slated to attend a Montana fundraiser next week hosted by a couple who have expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to an event invitation obtained by The Associated Press and a review of social media postings.

The hosts of the fundraiser, Caryn and Michael Borland, have shared QAnon memes and retweeted posts from QAnon accounts, their social media activity shows. The baseless conspiracy theory posits that Trump is fighting entrenched enemies in the government and also involves satanism and child sex trafficking.

Beyond Pence, the Sept. 14 fundraiser in Bozeman, Montana, is expected to draw influential figures in the president's orbit including Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top Trump fundraising official who is dating Donald Trump Jr., GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, Republican National Committee finance chairman Todd Ricketts and RNC co-chairman Tommy Hicks Jr., the event invitation shows.

While many Republicans have dismissed QAnon, the fundraiser is another sign of how the conspiracy theory is gaining a foothold in the party. Trump has hailed Georgia congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, another QAnon supporter, as a “future Republican star.” The president has refused to condemn QAnon, recently telling reporters that the conspiracy theory is “gaining in popularity” and that its supporters “like me very much.”

Representatives for Pence declined to comment on the fundraiser, though the vice president has previously called QAnon a “conspiracy theory.”



https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article245601330.html#storylink=cpy

[msongs]

1. will be a revival meeting for that old time religion? nt

[Blue Owl]

2. Mother will tell him to mind his P's and Q's

n/t

[crickets]

3. Pence obviously doesn't trouble himself with the details of the 'conspiracy theory.'

Or does he? He should.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214046064
QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded

A secret cabal is taking over the world. They kidnap children, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from their blood. They control high positions in government, banks, international finance, the news media, and the church. They want to disarm the police. They promote homosexuality and pedophilia. They plan to mongrelize the white race so it will lose its essential power.

Does this conspiracy theory sound familiar? It is. The same narrative has been repackaged by QAnon.

I have studied and worked to prevent genocide for forty years. Genocide Watch and the Alliance Against Genocide, the first international anti-genocide coalition, see such hate-filled conspiracy theories as early warning signs of deadly genocidal violence.

The plot, described above, was the conspiracy “revealed” in the most influential anti-Jewish pamphlet of all time.

[Newest Reality]

4. Oh,

Oh, why not latch on to a rehash of the Nazi Party rhetoric, right?

QAnon is leading its clueless followers down a very dangerous path we have seen before.

In this case, you get people to believe the most absurd things to be true and then keep stacking more nonsense on that since they become willing and captive marks. Then, there comes a point where NOTHING is TOO absurd or even forbidden and that's where it becomes dangerous and deadly for them and everyone else. One thing leads to another and there is no way to deprogram them in that cult of confirmation bias mixed with ignorance and confusion, plus paranoid fear.

It's not that this kind of stuff is new, but it was on the fringe for a long time and that made it less of a real and general threat. The danger is in the methods, spread and acceptance of the deceptive propaganda.

Now that we have the GOP accepting it into the mainstream, that's bad for them and us, but they don't seem to care anymore at this point and desperation, (about losing power) is the motivator.

FrankenGOP, meet your monster! You are unleashing a lot of pain and destruction by supporting, acknowledging and condoning QAnon followers.

[SergeStorms]

5. Of course he is.

Because they still have 5 months left to totally destroy the United States. There's a renewed sense of urgency in the Trump/Pence camp.

[apnu]

6. Makes sense

There is no functional difference between the Teabaggers and QAnon. Trump has always been the rep of the Teabagger side of conservative politics. He (and Pence, the toe-rag) represent the Teabagger takeover of the Republican party. So of course Pence is up to his neck with these idiots.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

7. What better way to give credence to a conspiracy theory/new religion than for the VP to attend.

I'm ready to wake up from this creepy dream now.