Dangerous QAnon Fringe Seen At Gathering Waiting For JFK Jr. To Show Up - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Ben Collins, NBC News senior reporter covering disinformation, extremism, and the internet, talks with Rachel Maddow about a gathering in Dallas of a sect of the QAnon movement that expected JFK Jr. to not only not be dead but to show up at the same time and place his father was assassinated, and what it means that such a large number of people took part in this real world event. Aired on 11/03/2021.

[multigraincracker]

2. Dang, now I have to check my

23andMe and see where I don't fit in. I think I'm a distant relative of the Greatest Republican General that saved American, General William Tecumseh Sherman. I even lived in Tecumseh Mi. for a month.

[llmart]

3. I have to apologize to Rachel...

because I could only make it through the first two minutes and then I'm out.

Egads, this is beyond ignorance.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. I have to give her credit for managing to follow all that insanity

[LittleGirl]

4. Wow! Just WOW! eom

[thucythucy]

5. These are the folks who would have gladly participated in pogroms

while believing in the legitimacy of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion--which was a fabrication of the Russian secret police.

The antiSemitism at the heart of Q-anon is just one of the disheartening and frightening aspects of all this. The whole "blood libel" redux is eerily similar to the Nazi nonsense promulgated in the 1930s. I just finished reading Soldaten, by Sonke Neitzel and Harald Welzer. The book is an analysis of recordings made by British and American intelligence of German POW's, who were unaware their conversations were being bugged. One conversation is particularly chilling: a young German soldier who admits to attacking a synagogue on Kristalnacht, and justifies his violence because he knew that Jews were using the building as a base for kidnapping Christians so they could drink their blood.

The whole focus on "blood lines" is a dead giveaway, not to mention citing kinship with Mussolini as something to be proud of.

The damage done by Trump and his GOP enablers, and the ongoing threat to simple decency, is at this point almost beyond our ability to comprehend.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Well said and I certainly agree, they're reaching back to one frightening time in history

And, in their delusions, are hoping to repeat it.

[magicguido]

6. This is precisely how the myth of jesus as god originated in the past

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People who believe Insane things; will commit Insane acts

[WinstonSmith4740]

7. Watched this last night.

I have to wonder what the color of the sky is in their world. These guys are so bat shit crazy, it's beyond all belief. I want to know what substances these guys are on. I've spent a lot of money altering my consciousness over the years, and never got this far away from reality.

[packman]

8. Shit, makes sense to me