QAnon Believes California Recall Election Will Somehow See Trump Reinstated

[Jilly_in_VA]

QAnon followers have turned their attention to the effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, baselessly claiming the Democrats have deployed a “bot army” to prevent Republicans from voting, and suggesting Newsom’s recall will somehow trigger Donald Trump’s return.

QAnon as a movement is sustained by the constant promise that the “storm”—the moment QAnon followers believe former President Donald Trump will rise up and reveal the true horror of a Democrat-led child sex trafficking ring—is just around the corner.

But because the “storm” is made up and never actually going to happen, QAnon influencers instead cling onto real world events to keep followers engaged.

For months now that focus has been on the Arizona audit, but with the Cyber Ninjas, the company running the recount, coming down with COVID-19 and the report being delayed once again, QAnon influencers are now directing their followers' attention to the upcoming recall election in California.

Over the weekend, Ron Watkins, who facilitated QAnon’s rise on his website 8kun, posted a series of messages about the California election to his Telegram channel, making baseless allegations that Newsom had deployed a “bot army” in order to “attack you and try to convince you to not go out and vote.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj89jw/qanon-believes-california-recall-election-will-somehow-see-trump-reinstated
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"Bot army"? QAnon---still posting stupid stuff.

[gulliver]

1. Good Samaritan creative writers need to coopt the QAnon fiction canon

Write better storylines with better teasers (like the one in the OP), better cliffhangers, better set pieces, better plot, better dialog, etc. Just change the longed for ending to "Trump did it! He was the deceiver all along! Off to prison with him! But no, what's this? He escapes to Moscow! Season 5!"

[Walleye]

3. That is a brilliant suggestion.

[Walleye]

2. Are they closing polls early in republican counties? Are they deliberately slowing the mail in ball

ballots? Because that is the way the vote is really suppressed. Not by bots intimidating people. They Ought to know, they invented it

[louis-t]

4. The 'bot army' thing is just an excuse

to justify GOP voter suppression.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. The QAnon Army of moronic misfits has tried to strike again!

As if anyone is even paying attention to these idiots still? Especially after their numerous disasters in predicting ANYTHING. Such as predicting djt's return to power in March, 2021, or August, 2021, and now a newly predicted date of djt's return on MM, YYYY (you fill in the blank when this deadline comes and goes, as usual). Garbage. Pure garbage.

[Ohio Joe]

6. I don't live in CA but...

I thought the recall election was entirely mail in... Is it? Regardless... How exactly do they think a 'bot army' stops them from voting?

Sheesh... Loons. I hope the 'bot army' does it's job

[wryter2000]

9. Everyone got a mail in ballot

But you can take it and vote in person. Early voting has already started.

[SoCalNative]

10. Or put it in a drop box

Lots in my county. I've been a permanent mail voter for years and since they started using drop boxes I don't even bother to put the ballot in the mail anymore.

[wryter2000]

11. At least you don''t have to put postage on it now

In the past, ballots were well over 1 ounce. Who knows how many people didn't put enough stamps on?

[Retrograde]

12. Try to destroy the drop boxes

Someone did this in Southern California in 2020 by starting a fire inside one. Luckily, it was put out quickly and enough of the ballots were left for the county to figure out for the most part whose were destroyed and send them replacement ones. And with state-wide voter tracking now any voter can find out when their ballot reached their county registrar's office and when it was accepted.

[MiniMe]

7. Tell them he is selling the DC Hotel, that tells me that he isn't planning on going back to DC

He can't grift the hotel fees if he isn't in DC anymore

[tblue37]

8. Belief in Trump's reinstatement is like expecting the return of King Arthur or the resurrection of

Christ, but only if Arthur and Christ were stupid, corrupt, narcissistic criminals.

[Chainfire]

13. I wonder if there is anything that would cause those crazy bastages to raise an eyebrow

and ask, "Say what?" Trump will be incarnated before reinstated.