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QAnon fanatics are rebranding their 'secret war.' And it's working.
NBC 'News' via MSN ^ | 7/18/21 | Mike Rothschild

Posted on 07/18/2021 5:14:32 AM PDT by Libloather

A few years into waiting for “the storm” to sweep away former President Donald Trump’s enemies, some believers in the prophetic QAnon conspiracy theory have decided to take matters into their own hands.

These “digital soldiers” aren’t picking up guns or marching on the Capitol - though many actually did that. Instead, nearly 100 Q-aligned candidates ran for Congress in the 2020 election, according to watchdog site Media Matters for America, with dozens of others running for governor, state legislature seats and county offices. Some were hardcore Q evangelists, while others had merely retweeted a QAnon hashtag. But all had shown some deference for a violent prophecy cult that was turning conspiracy theories into gospel.

Like so many of QAnon’s predictions, these candidates mostly failed. The majority didn’t get past their primary or ran in solidly Democratic districts and had no chance of victory. A few won at the state level, and constant media fixture Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has spouted QAnon-friendly conspiracy theories for years, won her deeply Republican congressional district in Georgia. But she was an outlier.

Post-2020, Q believers are once again gearing up to run for office and grow their movement, but with two major strategy changes. One is that Q believers are now getting involved in local elections for school boards and city councils and showing up at board meetings to scream about Q-linked topics. The other is that many of these candidates no longer identify as believers in QAnon - or even acknowledge that a movement with that name ever existed. They’re taking their “secret war” to new recruits looking to strike back against a way of life they feel is eroding - without the public acknowledgement that such a war exists.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; digital; mtg; qanon; rothschild; secret; war
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To: ready2brd

It wouldn’t surprise me if the Q cons-piracy stuff originated from a foreign, hostile power to keep people distracted and divided. At least, that’s my conspiracy theory. It’s guaranteed to be at least as well-verified as UFO bases in Antarctica.


121 posted on 07/18/2021 12:16:33 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: mac_truck

Show it.


122 posted on 07/18/2021 12:22:44 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Possible but I think its a too complicated explanation.
Until I have differing data I am sticking with - a internet prank that turned into a internet grift.


123 posted on 07/18/2021 12:28:50 PM PDT by Reily
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To: grey_whiskers

>>> Learn to read instead of just making random stuff up, and then projecting onto Q followers.

I responded to the image that was posted.

I don’t give a damn where it came from.


124 posted on 07/18/2021 12:38:35 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Safrguns
If it didn't come from Q, don't act like Q was the source of it.

You know, like this meme:


125 posted on 07/18/2021 12:42:55 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Fury

Just because you don’t know relevant facts does not mean that others don’t either. Your “gut feel,” absent facts, should be far more reticent to think it’s time for you to level such critique.

Yes, many things are reasonably called theories. It simply means no known fact goes against the claims made. But someone such as you calling something a “theory” does make it untrue or the person making the claim(s) wrong, a wacko, or deserving of your derision.


126 posted on 07/18/2021 12:50:52 PM PDT by rx (Truth will out!)
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To: Libloather

Q anon was created by Soros to undermine the conservative movement


127 posted on 07/18/2021 12:51:34 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Capitol surrounded by troops vetted to shoot us. Never again ask why the Jews walked into the cars.)
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To: mac_truck
It most certainly did...drop #133 was the earliest reference. How is it that I know Q better than you?

This is what Hostage was referring to, ya dope.

and (Q) encouraged all the "Jewish banker garbage", that you're now complaining about.

Pointing out the derpage of the Rothschilds, Soros, and any others is in no way 'encouraging Jewish banker garbage', whatever that is. For you to even make that connection goes to your feelings about 'the Jews'.

#MickeyAntiSemetic


128 posted on 07/18/2021 1:00:27 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: mac_truck
How is it that I know Q better than you?

You're joking, right?


129 posted on 07/18/2021 1:01:14 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: grey_whiskers

>>> If it didn’t come from Q, don’t act like Q was the source of it.

Tell that to the person I responded to,

THEN RE-READ what I said in my original response!

I said “YOU”... not Q in my response.

Your defensive response only re-inforces everything that is wrong with that image I referenced.

Even YOU act like Q is some God... now trying to demean MY character do defend your own IDOL WORSHIP!

Take a hike!


130 posted on 07/18/2021 1:11:37 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: mac_truck
There is a rational explanation of the so-called missile launch. Q-anons are just too dumb to believe it.

Yea, we'd rather believe our lying eyes.

From your propganda piece....

I happen to be experienced with complex time-lapse photography. It's worth noting that this type of photography can result in the appearance of distorted time and space in multiple ways.

You are looking at a two-dimensional image of a complex 3D event, under unique lighting and environmental circumstances. What looks like a rocket being traced by its own exhaust plume as it rises into the heaves can actually be an object on a flat or even a descending profile coming towards you, or even an object moving away.

Long distances traced by light can appear short and vice-versa, depending on the depth of the light being traced. The fact that the exposure lasts seconds, not fractions of a second, can also complicate making an accurate initial interpretation, but that information can also be beneficial when trying to decipher a mysterious image like this one.

*snip*

The Alaska Airlines jet (ASA94) descending from the northwest would have been out of the frame of the camera, although at first, it looked like a possible explanation as either the aircraft's lights or its contrail could have possibly caused the illusion. Then we noticed an air ambulance helicopter—an EC-135T2+ registered as N952AL belonging to Air Methods—flying right in the vicinity of the Skunk Bay when the image in question was captured.

Your propaganda piece goes on to explain how the missile is actually a helicopter.

In other words....

Reality....

Mickety, you need to give up on this ridiculous helicopter theory of yours. It makes you look stupider than if Joe Biden and Kamaltoe Harris had a retarded butt baby.


131 posted on 07/18/2021 1:16:18 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: ready2brd
Ahh, yes. The super secret military operation that posted classified intel on Chan boards mostly known for Nazi propaganda and child porn. Yeah, totally legit.

Not so 'super secret' if it was posted all over 8chan, hey?

And since when is 8chan 'mostly known for 'Nazi propaganda' and 'child porn'?

You and other derps like to say that to discredit the site and any information posted there, I understand that. But it, like the entire derp state anti-Q psyop, is nothing but a huge lie.

Which makes anybody that repeats those huge lies a huge liar.

I'll let you do the math.

#YourEntirePostIsDebunked


132 posted on 07/18/2021 1:23:06 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: mac_truck
Well, at least I get to be Moe.

I got that goin' for me.


133 posted on 07/18/2021 1:29:04 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Wilhelm Tell
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Q cons-piracy stuff originated from a foreign, hostile power to keep people distracted and divided.

The mildly retarded are rarely surprised.

pro tip: If your theory is correct, explain why Trump didn't shut it down in a hot second, like he could have with a word. Or maybe you think he was a foreign agent too?


134 posted on 07/18/2021 1:31:59 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: NoLibZone
Q anon was created by Soros to undermine the conservative movement.

You win the prize for most retarded comment on this thread.

Riddle me this, rabbit. If Q, who claimed to sit at Trump's right hand, was a Soros (or Russian, or Chinese, or LARP, or fat kid in the basement, or some internet grifters), why did Trump suffer it to live and give it a wink and a nod, when he could have shut it down with a word?

Do you think that if it was a Soros production, Trump would not have known that?

Use your brain before you open your yap.


135 posted on 07/18/2021 1:35:59 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Safrguns
Even YOU act like Q is some God... now trying to demean MY character do defend your own IDOL WORSHIP!

Dude, you're a whacko bird.

Q is a source of information, not a god. Point me to one human being on earth who thinks Q is a god or a 'false idol'. That's your crazy voice talking to you. Stop listening.

p.s. You impugning Q people as 'idolators' is character assassination, you loon.


136 posted on 07/18/2021 1:41:24 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

>>> Dude, you’re a whacko bird.

I really don’t care what you think.

I found the image offensive and even blasphemous.

Your continued attempts to take shots at me as a means of defending the image speaks volumes.

I never once spoke about “Q People”.

I said YOU!


137 posted on 07/18/2021 1:49:27 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Safrguns
I really don’t care what you think.

And I don't care that you don't care.

I found the image offensive and even blasphemous.

Because you're insane in the membrane. And even more so because you think ANYBODY cares what you find 'offensive and blasphemous'.

Your continued attempts to take shots at me as a means of defending the image speaks volumes.

To the best of my knowledge (and I'm always right) that was my first attempt to comment on your whacked out 'I'm offended' Karen post. So there have been no 'continued attempts'.

Besides, I was commenting on You, not the meme. Since you are the problem here, and not the meme.

I never once spoke about “Q People”. I said YOU!

Of course you did, liar. The meme is a Q meme and you called Q people 'idol worshipers'. Own your foolish words, knucklehead.

...speaks volumes.

This is nothing new. I always speak volumes. My words are liquid gold, each one worth ten of yours.


138 posted on 07/18/2021 2:05:30 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Libloather

What this article fails to understand is that the Q movement actually was a branching off of another movement that existed before the Q posts appeared. that was the Anon research movement. people would get on line and research a subject or let loose with a little inside information about what was going on within government and corprat interests. Most of the info on pedophilia is only hinted at by the Q posts but a bulk of the info on pedophilia predates 2017 when Q started to post as a anon within the 4 chan anon movement. even a lot the human trafficking information predates 2017. from the beginning one of the things that most who are critics of the Q posts have never understood was that the post had two purpose. the first was a troll of those in government and the entities out side government that control politicians and bureaucrats. this means that exact information can be out right lies and the nuance of the lie would point to actual criminal activity that the lie was based. this nuance was the actual secondary purpose. getting people curiosity up about a particular idea.

I personally am agnostic on all of this. I have no idea who is doing the posts and whether there is any connection to military intelligence Like some who fallow the posts believe. I have gone back and fourth om all of this becouse I have observed it since almost the beginning. If Q was a disinformation campaign by a foreign entity or some idiot with way to much time that hated Trump it has been a massive failure becouse it got individuals to mobilize over issues important to them. these people are not trying for state and fedral power they are trying to get power locally on school boards county seats and city boards. Some of them might be out there but those individuals wont be successful unless they can convince other of the validity of there opinion with out Quoting a Q post.

sorry for any grammar mistakes and spelling. I am dyslexic and there is a tendency for people to have difficulties when My posts are more then three sentences.


139 posted on 07/18/2021 2:07:42 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: bagster

Now your just flaming.. so FO


140 posted on 07/18/2021 2:14:22 PM PDT by Safrguns
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