How one woman fell prey to Trump's radicalization tactics.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-trump-catapulted-america-new-era-radicalization-n1285381

Three days after the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, I received a message from an old high school friend. The message read: “Ayman, I am sure you have seen the news. I made a public statement about the death of my sister-in-law Rosanne Boyland from Kennesaw who died on Wed. at the Capitol. My wife and I believe she was radicalized in a very short time inside of 6 months [...] would you be willing to hear her story?”

My immediate reaction was shock. I had been intensely covering the insurrection on the air as part of our wall-to-wall coverage on MSNBC, but I had not yet connected the dots of who Rosanne Boyland was, nor where she was from. Soon after I reconnected with my friend who initially messaged me, Justin Cave, I would learn that not only did Boyland grow up in my hometown but that we had also attended the same high school a few years apart.

I was also surprised that Cave had used the word “radicalized” to describe the transformation his sister-in-law had undergone. Boyland was not a political person. She avoided crowds, and before last year she had never voted in an election. So how did she go from that to becoming a foot soldier in a movement that threatened the very essence of American democracy?

As I would learn, everything Boyland would come to believe — her fervent convictions about Donald Trump and QAnon, which drove her to fight and die at the Capitol that day — she had come to believe in just a few short months before her death, according to her family.

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[cilla4progress]

1. Thank you, Nevilledog

I listened to his podcast episode 1 overnight, when I couldn't get back to sleep.

Very well done. Props to Mr. Mohyledin...

[AngryOldDem]

2. I listened to Episode 1 this morning.

What got me was how she basically flipped like a switch. Really compelling and can’t wait until the next ep drops. I’m now invested in this story.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. The article mentions the Wayfair conspiracy.

Would Wayfair be a close competitor of Overstock? Isn’t that Patrick Byrne guy in charge of Overstock?

I ask because I watched a weird video of that Patrick Byrne fellow (plotter with Flynn). In it he was defending Flynn from recent claims of Flynn praying about Satan, or something.

But seeing the reference here to the lady getting radicalized after hearing stories about Wayfair, got me to wondering if the Wayfair conspiracy was dreamed up/operated by Byrne/Flynn to:

1. Radicalize potential coup participants into crime-ing for Trump
2. Undermine his business competition.

I think that guy needs a subpoena. Also, he seems nutty as a fruitcake, like Flynn.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. The Qonned are eating their own now

{Patrick Byrne} He says she {Powell} got drunk and made passes at her. Her story is apparently is that he drugged her and had his way with her.

Again, they are both Deep State vipers like so many of the crew around (and funding) the audits. The powers that be have been making sure to infiltrate and have all sides covered in situations like this. Jovan Pulitzer is another one. So is Bobby Piton.

I mean, how stupid is our side? Byrne is a longtime Warren Buffet stooge who has had his legal brushes and who has admitted repeatedly working for FBI in multiple circumstances. Remember that wacko story he had about how he was supposed to set up Hillary so Team Obama would have dirt on her?

Bobby Piton was a longtime Rothschild family portfolio manager before somehow seeing the MAGA light, just like Byrne did. And there is Mike Flynn, who has committed his own misdeeds and has long been deep in the intel world.

Normally Lin Wood comes off as too slick by half, but compared to this crew he almost looks innocent!
59 posted on 2021-11-27 by 9YearLurker

[Javaman]

7. A Tycoon's Deep-State Conspiracy Dive

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/14/a-tycoons-deep-state-conspiracy-dive

Patrick Byrne, the former head of Overstock, had always been outspoken. Did an affair with a Russian agent push him too far?

In July, 2015, Patrick Byrne, the founder of the online discount retailer Overstock, delivered a twenty-minute talk at FreedomFest, the annual libertarian conference in Las Vegas. Other speakers included the venture capitalist Peter Thiel; John Mackey, the chief executive officer of Whole Foods; and the Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. Byrne’s talk, entitled “Turtles All the Way Down: How the Crypto-Revolution Solves Intractable Problems on Wall Street,” was a version of one he had given many times before. It touched on several of his interests, including the kind of liberalism usually referred to as libertarianism, the flaws in the structure of the stock market which make it vulnerable to manipulation, and how a blockchain-based financial system could eliminate those flaws. After the talk, a line of people waited by the stage to speak to Byrne. Standing a little apart from them was a young woman with thick red hair, a pale, wide face, and a Russian accent. Introducing herself as Maria Butina, she said that she was the president of a Russian gun-rights group. Judd Bagley, a former Overstock executive who accompanied Byrne to the conference, recalled that, after the exchange, Byrne had “a little sparkle in his eye.”

much much more at link...

[bucolic_frolic]

4. They get in your head and create echoes until your new paranoia sees conspiracies everywhere

so you follow them to vent your anger at the targets that serve them.

Hard to follow but once inside it's a closed loop system. No way out.

[keithbvadu2]

6. My girlfriend got hooked on Fox.

My girlfriend got hooked on Fox. She believes that China paid those billions in tariffs when tariffs are actually a tax on Americans.