Posted on 08/17/2020 7:55:24 AM PDT by MNDude
Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday emphasized the importance of President Donald Trump and other leaders calling out QAnon — a set of far-right conspiracy theories that allege the existence of a “deep state” against Trump.
The Illinois Republican, who posted a video on YouTube explaining QAnon on Sunday morning, said it’s time for other lawmakers to definitively and emphatically denounce the theories.
While QAnon theories have circulated in recent years, they have received more attention since Marjorie Taylor Greene’s primary runoff win in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District on Tuesday.
Greene has vocally supported QAnon theories, and Trump endorsed her candidacy. The president went so far as to call her a “future Republican star” after her primary win. She is heavily favored to win in November.
Speaking on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Kinzinger said he supported Greene’s primary challenger, neurosurgeon John Cowan, in the runoff.
“I think up to maybe about a week ago there wasn’t a reason to denounce it because it didn’t need the attention, but now that it's made mainstream — we have a candidate that embraces it that won a primary,” he said.
In a briefing last week, Trump sidestepped a question about Greene’s support for QAnon. Kinzinger said it’s time for the president and leading lawmakers to disavow it.
“The president hasn’t fully denounced it or denounced it at all,” he said. “Now it's time for leaders to come out and denounce it.”
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I'm unsure of the relevance of this particular non-sequitur
If you're saying that Qanon is as much a fraud as Zero was, we're in agreement.
Disinformation is necessary. You can’t be truthful about everything when the other side is watching. They’ll then be able to counter what you try to do.
Why so much skepticism you very someone telling you to think for yourself, do your own research and come to your own conclusion?
What I see is what I’ve seen since the 80’s when several members of my extended family were beltway people.
What many call the Deep State certainly exists. These family bureaucrats said so then. But to them it’s not a conspiracy, it’s just “the way things work”, and “everybody does it”. And they bragged about and thought it was just fine. It’s been that way for generations of govt workers. That family is in it’s third generation in DC now.
They told me by the 1980 that politics was for show and bureaucrats really run the country behind the scenes. None of this is new, it’s decades old.
Why so much skepticism you very someone telling you to think for yourself, do your own research and come to your own conclusion?
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Because they are told to.
The Uniparty didn’t build itself. The GOP didn’t become the left’s bitch on its own.
Mainly because from everything I’ve read, Qanon seems more like a targeted disinformation campaign. Cointelpro comes to mind, as well as other stuff.
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