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New York Times articles cannot be read by us because it has a pay wall and we must log in and pay up to read it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PatColo
Jew York Times articles are not worth reading anyway.
it seems another mockingbird 4am-memo went out directing assets to publish another round of Q 'discrediting' pieces, with same talking points/themes.
AP:
‘QAnon’ conspiracy theory creeps into mainstream politics
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN today
MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Donald Trump was more than halfway through his speech at a rally in Milwaukee when one of his hand gestures caught the eye of a supporter standing in the packed arena.
The 51-year-old woman believed the president had traced the shape of the letter “Q” with his fingers as a covert signal to followers of QAnon, a right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. She turned to the couple on her right and excitedly asked, “Did you see the ‘Q’?”
“He just did it?” asked Diane Jacobson, 63, of Racine, Wisconsin.
“Was that a ‘Q’?” added Jacobson’s husband, Randy, 64.
“I think it was,” replied their new friend, Chrisy. The Geneva, Illinois, resident declined to give her last name in part because she said she wanted to avoid negative “attention.”
The Jacobsons met Chrisy and her husband, Paul, hours earlier in the line to get into the Jan 14 rally. The couples bonded over their shared interest in QAnon, which centers on the baseless belief that Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies in the “deep state” and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals.
What started as an online obsession for the far-right fringe has grown beyond its origins in a dark corner of the internet. QAnon has been creeping into the mainstream political arena for more than a year. The trend shows no sign of abating as Trump fires up his reelection campaign operation, attracting a loyal audience of conspiracy theorists and other fringe groups to his raucous rallies.
Trump has retweeted QAnon-promoting accounts. Followers flock to Trump’s rallies wearing clothes and hats with QAnon symbols and slogans. At least 23 current or former congressional candidates in the 2020 election cycle have endorsed or promoted QAnon, according to the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, which compiled online evidence to support its running tally.
Conspiracy theorists aren’t the only fringe characters drawn to Trump rallies. The Oath Keepers, an anti-government group formed in 2009 after President Barack Obama’s election, has been sending “security volunteers” to escort Trump supporters at rallies across the country.
University of California, Davis history professor Kathryn Olmsted, author of a book called “Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11,” said it’s unclear whether QAnon has attracted more believers than other conspiracy theories that have intersected with U.S. politics.
“What’s different now is that there are people in power who are spreading this conspiracy theory,” she said, adding that Trump’s conspiracy-minded rhetoric seems to fire up part of his base. “Finally, there is someone saying they’re not crazy.”
Conspiracy theories are nothing new, but experts fear the powerful engine of social media and a volatile political climate have ramped up the threat of violence. An FBI bulletin in May warned that conspiracy theory-driven extremists have become a domestic terrorism threat. The bulletin specifically mentions QAnon.
A Trump campaign spokeswoman and a White House spokesman didn’t respond to emails seeking comment. Asked about QAnon in 2018, then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump “condemns and denounces any group that would incite violence against another individual.” Some major Trump supporters, including former White House aide Sebastian Gorka, have denounced QAnon.
For more than two years, followers have pored over a tangled set of clues purportedly posted online by a high-ranking government official known only as “Q.” Many followers believe the late John F. Kennedy Jr. is a Trump supporter who faked his death in a 1999 plane crash. Another core belief is that thousands of deep state operatives and top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Obama, will be rounded up and sent to Guantanamo Bay during an event called “The Storm.”
The first Q “drop” appeared on the 4chan imageboard in October 2017. The messages migrated to 8chan until a string of mass shootings by gunmen who posted manifestos on the site led to it getting forced offline in August. The disruption, which ended when the imageboard relaunched in November under the new name 8kun, hardly spelled the end of QAnon.
Travis View, a conspiracy theory researcher who co-hosts The QAnon Anonymous Podcast and has written about QAnon for the Washington Post under his pseudonym, said the sense of community forged by QAnon believers has helped it endure beyond the life span of other conspiracy theories.
“People in the QAnon community feel like they are banding together to uncover the real truth behind the scenes,” said View, who works as a marketer for a San Diego company and says he uses the pseudonym to protect himself. His acerbic comments about what he calls an “apocalyptic political cult” have earned him more than 20,000 followers on Twitter and vitriol from QAnon believers.
Before Trump’s rally in Milwaukee, thousands waited in line for hours to enter the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panther Arena. Some wore apparel adorned with a “Q” or “WWG1WGA,” which stands for the QAnon slogan, “Where we go one, we go all.”
The frigid, gloomy weather didn’t dampen the spirits of QAnon follower Donna Shank, 50, of Burlington, Wisconsin. Shank, who said she voted for Obama in 2008, was ambivalent about politics before she stumbled across QAnon online and joined Facebook groups to learn more.
“I just woke up,” she said. “I was a sheep. I followed anything and everything.”
Diane Jacobson attached a pink “Q” and a blue “Q” to the back of her black “Make America Great Again” hat. She and her husband were eager to attend their first Trump rally.
“Trump is trying to tell us, to the best he can without compromising intelligence, what’s really going on,” she said.
Jacobson knows many people, including some of her relatives, scoff at QAnon.
“You really can’t argue with them,” she said.
Jacobson celebrated with her new friend, Chrisy, when the doors to the downtown arena opened.
“All these people believe me! I’m not crazy here!” Chrisy shouted.
Hours later, during Trump’s speech, Chrisy’s husband, Paul, grinned when the president said “the whole world is watching” what’s happening with protesters in Iran.
“That’s a Q reference,” Paul said, noting the phrase “the world is watching” has appeared several times in Q drops.
The May 30 bulletin sent by the FBI’s Phoenix field office warned of conspiracy theories inspiring violence by groups and “individual extremists,” according to an October court filing for a QAnon-related criminal investigation in Colorado. Police in the Denver suburb of Parker said Cynthia Abcug was accused of conspiring with QAnon supporters to kidnap her son from foster care. Abcug was arrested in Montana on Dec. 30 and awaits extradition to Colorado.
Internet-fueled conspiracies already have been linked to acts of real-world violence. A man charged with killing the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family last March showed off a QAnon symbol scrawled on his left hand during a court appearance. In 2017, a North Carolina man was sentenced to prison for firing a rifle in a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant at the center of the debunked “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory that high-profile Democrats run a child sex trafficking ring out of the restaurant’s (nonexistent) basement.
Pizzagate and other far-right conspiracy theories have faded, but experts see no end in sight to QAnon’s popularity.
Nancy Rosenblum, a Harvard University professor emeritus of ethics in politics and government, said the apocalyptic nature of the QAnon narrative resonates with those who want to believe that their political enemies will be vanquished and a better future will rise from the ashes.
“What makes it unique is that Trump is the chosen one,” said Rosenblum, co-author of the book “A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy.”
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Associated Press reporter Colleen Slevin in Denver contributed to this report.
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Follow Michael Kunzelman on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Kunzelman75
https://apnews.com/e230131513bf3df60c76bb1151bc6b7c
...bookended by this (Qanon?) hope-porn piece by thegatewaypundit's Jim Hoft... SHOW ME THE PERP WALKS.....:DQuote:
Originally Posted by PatColo
BREAKING: Word On The Street Is There May Be Major Deep State Arrests This Week …(But Of Course We’ve Heard This Before)
by Joe Hoft February 9, 2020 836 Comments
The word on the street from some qualified sources is that former Deep State crooked cops are going to be arrested this week. And Lindsey Graham says “half of the Deep State” will be going to prison.
We heard last night from Senator Lindsey Graham:
Half the people behind the Russia investigation are going to go to jail”.Of course we’ve heard this before… Remember Huber? We’ve also heard Senator Graham say he was going to bring in a whole batch of villains before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Lindsey has been saying this since before he took chairmanship of the committee back in 2018. But so far Lindsey has failed to bring anyone before his committee, except for IG Horowitz, in over a year.
But another source, the same one who first outed Ciaramella as the whistleblower, Greg Rubini on Twitter, is saying Dirty cops Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe will both be arrested this week, maybe even Monday or Tuesday:
the first to be arrested will be McCabe & Strzok.We’ve been waiting forever and we won’t hold out breath, because this is long overdue. We’ll keep praying for justice and we won’t stop praying, working and reporting until we see these criminals face justice.
maybe as early as Monday or Tuesday next week.
. pic.twitter.com/UYNGpqxsWe
— Greg Rubini (@GregRubini) February 8, 2020
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...d-this-before/
"it seems another mockingbird 4am-memo went out directing assets to publish another round of Q 'discrediting' pieces, with same talking points/themes."
Well said.
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"The 51-year-old woman believed the president had traced the shape of the letter “Q” with his fingers as a covert signal to followers of QAnon, a right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. She turned to the couple on her right and excitedly asked, “Did you see the ‘Q’?”
“He just did it?” asked Diane Jacobson, 63, of Racine, Wisconsin."
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If I were the 51-year old woman who really BELIEVED that the president had traced the shape of the letter "Q" and I were a follower of QAnon, I would first ASK the question to my husband ...“Did you see the ‘Q’?”
and then I would state declaratively ...
"He just did it."
“He just did it?” it is unnatural to pose this as a question at this point, especially since her husband appears detached or out in left field on this..kind of indicating he does not follow Q much if any...
“Was that a ‘Q’?” added Jacobson’s husband, Randy, 64."
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What makes this effort to discredit Q so effective is that the person who is playing in this scene the role of the main believer in the Q and a supporter of president Trump and has a last name that like Jacobson.
See how the New York Times, and Cass Sunstein types, use the same strategies that are rather twisted and sophisticated considering how easy it is to manipulated the mind-controlled readers of the New York Times?
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Further, because the NY Times finds it valuable to their goals to discredit Q does not mean Dachsie is hereby defending or supporting or crediting belief in Q.
Really pisses me off when these 'professional journalists' lie to cover for the rape of a societies children!Quote:
Originally Posted by PatColo
Kunzelman seems pretty protected for an Associated Press journalist, can't find any images of him. But check out his verified creepy Podestaish tranny-man with young boy in a pool pedosadist avatar on his muck rack profile!
https://muckrack.com/michael-kunzelman/articles
This let this truth shine a little brighter...Quote:
Originally Posted by keehah
Several attempts to post this image here failed. Here is the jpg
Seems odd some image jpgs work and some don't.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.muckr...crop-smart.jpg
Quote:
Originally Posted by keehah
^ we're left to assume kunzelman is the rat faced jooowey looking face poking through the woman/bikini hole... & the little boy? Obv Noah Pozner, again, like a bad penny :D
Between yesterday's 4am memo ambush by JSM Q hit pieces, + 8kun (the reincarnated 8chan where Q now posts) owner @CodeMonkeyZ tweeting yesterday afternoon that they were getting hit hard (& I hear actually taken down for a while?...) by some deep pockets perps,
https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/stat...38645097988096
+ the clues that arrests may happen this week, + Q's most recent post #3849, simply saying
Justice.
Q
^ it appears the hope-porn temp is heating up in Q-follower world again. Another round of Charlie Brown/Lucy/football? Time will tell, as it always does!
Leading Q-tuber/tweeter Joe M's https://twitter.com/StormIsUponUs latest vid, little more than a 4m Trump commercial; last week's SOTU set to imagery & escapist music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDrt...ature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDrt...ature=youtu.be
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC
by Paul Bedard
| February 10, 2020 08:14 AM
President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.
Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.
Many were loaners from other agencies and have been sent back. Others left government work.
The NSC, which is the president’s personal staff, was rocked when a “whistleblower” leveled charges that led to Trump’s impeachment.
....was given a horrendous report by his superior, the man he reported to, who publicly stated that Vindman had problems with judgement, adhering to the chain of command and leaking information. In other words, “OUT”.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2020
Last week, one key official who testified against Trump at a House hearing on the Ukraine affair that led to impeachment was sent packing. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was returned to the Pentagon. His twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, was also given the boot. Trump had expressed displeasure that Alexander Vindman had testified against him when the Ukraine specialist said he did not like the phone conversation between the president and a newly elected president of Ukraine.
Since entering the White House, Trump has relied on staffs smaller than previous administrations and has noted how prior presidents had a much smaller NSC team.
O’Brien recently said that former President George W. Bush handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with 100 NSC aides, a model he is instituting.
“This month, we will complete the right-sizing goal Ambassador O’Brien outlined in October, and in fact, may exceed that target by drawing down even more positions,” John Ullyot, the NSC’s senior director for strategic communications, told Secrets.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...overs-from-nsc
wonder if Vindman's fled to izzy yet?
Times of Israel:
Lt. Col. Vindman, the IDF needs you!
The Trump impeachment witness -- eligible to become Israeli -- could teach our army a thing or two about speaking truth to power