Posted on 08/27/2020 11:30:18 AM PDT by RandFan
Edited on 08/27/2020 12:54:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called the QAnon conspiracy theory that has been spread by some Republican congressional candidates “batshit crazy.”
“Well, QAnon is batshit crazy,” Graham told Snapchat's Peter Hamby in an interview that aired Thursday.
“Crazy stuff. Inspiring people to violence. I think it is a platform that plays off people’s fears, that compels them to do things they normally wouldn’t do. And it’s very much a threat.”
Once a fringe movement, the QAnon conspiracy has gained traction in recent years, with some congressional candidates expressing support of its claims.
The theory suggests that Trump and his allies are trying to uncover a group of Democrats, media figures and celebrities who are operating an international child sex trafficking scheme.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has previously endorsed the theory, won the Republican primary in Georgia's 14th District earlier this month, leading GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) to demand leaders denounce the movement.
Greene has since distanced herself from theory, which the FBI has labeled as a potential domestic terrorism threat.
Graham suggested repealing the protections offered to social media platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields platforms from facing liability for the content posted by its users and the good-faith efforts they make to moderate it.
QAnon is not itself a social media site, but its supporters gather on multiple social media platforms, though Twitter and Facebook have made efforts to remove them.
Graham pointed to "Pizzagate," a related conspiracy theory that claims Hillary Clinton and other top Democratic figures were running a child sex trafficking ring beneath a pizza shop in Washington, D.C. In December 2016, a man fired a gun in the Comet Ping Pong pizza shop in D.C., claiming he was there to “self-investigate" the claims.
“But the pizza owner, under my theory, could sue QAnon for passing along garbage. That’s a pretty dramatic step,” Graham said. “But the only way I know to make people more responsible who run these websites is to allow lawsuits when they go too far.”
Trump could have done America a service by working to get Graham unseated in the primary. He's already a backstabbing snake so there was no risk of consequences and all upside if he lost the primary. But Trump stayed out of it and Lindsey won easily. Now he can go to Romney and they can coordinate their smears and lies like Graham used to do with McCain.
Hmmm...What is Qanon saying about Graham’s alleged involvement in the Ukraine mess, the Russian pee dossier, and no doubt many et cetera?
Graham has been playing us for a long time
Why does Linda Grahamnesty always look in photos, like he has ped0 gheyface?
I think you are most likely correct, or he landed on one of those absurd q pages, which there are plenty. Those pages are either to make Q look absurd or they are absurd people.
Q will have the last laugh.
I love watching Lindsey and his ilk when they have tech company people testifying. He shows you what an idiot he is.
When these people, who do not know how to use the internet or understand the basics of how it works—start commenting about internet stuff—you know its a staff member telling them to do it.
Q is fine.
The chans are nuts. But, that is the internet.
QAnon was created by some lefty to make fun of conservatives.
It’s actually an attack ad against Trump using Lindsay, the snake’s own words from 2016. But it shows what a smug, vile reptile Graham is.
Graham is not invulnerable to a loss by Democrats. South Carolina is not safe from the same population shifts that have affected the South Atlantic states. A substantial section of the electorate follow the alternative media, and it is foolish to alienate them. The COVID-19 lockdown and the riots are turning many to what may be called fringe theories. He is foolish to alienate a portion of his base. Graham, like Cruz two years ago, may need direct help from Trump.
“wouldn’t he be afraid to poke/provoke the QAnon beast?”
Why would he be afraid? Q’s still batting zero when it comes to actually catching any purported bad guys.
“attacking the president’s allies”
So if people are spouting ludicrous nonsense, we are supposed to not say anything about it, just because they are “allies”?
That’s how the left thinks. That’s why you see agitators spouting crazy afrocentric crap and nobody dares to tell them “that’s crazy talk”, because they are “allies”.
But Q is bat**** crazy.
Well, even you yourself had the good sense to say “supposedly found”, didn’t you?
Because, after all, there has never been a single scrap of confirmation of that one anonymously sourced story from years ago, from a website that posted a whole bunch of false stories.
“Q is fine.
The chans are nuts.”
Yet Q is entirely a product of the chans.
Maybe Linda should hold some hearings to find those responsible and punish them?
like a fox.
Q was telling us about Kevin Clinesmith for well over a year now. So, not Zero. And just the beginning.
Clinesmith was in the Horowitz report. No breaking news there. Sorry.
“ The Q bolts here love Lindsey “Do Nothing” Graham!”
Um, sure we do.... Almost as much as we loved McCain.
Graham has been very busy siloing evidence to slow walk coup investigations.
We ‘Q BOLTS’ that you are baselessly spewing hateful lies about, knew that years ago. Graham is as bad as Schumer. Maybe as bad as Schiff.
And no, we don’t love McConnell, either. Nor any of the other Globalists.
~Easy
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