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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: Safrguns
Big difference between supporting and worshiping.

Big difference between supporting and saying you don't trust him, he's the anti-christ, and he will turn on us. Not you, but us (me) who "worship" him. Apparently, he's already turned on you, you who stand above it all in judgement.

I'm afraid you talk out of both sides of your neck, mealy-mouth.


261 posted on 07/20/2021 3:04:58 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Safrguns
Unfortunately, my analysis of the evidence suggests otherwise.

And even more unfortunately, your analysis of the evidence brought you to the conclusion that Trump is an untrustworthy anti-christ, Trump supporters worship and deify him, and that a lion in a meme is Jesus.

I'm afraid your evidence analysis is shoddy and malfunctioning, goodman. Better if you just listen to Uncle Bagster and do as I do, and say as I say.

I tell you these things only because I like you.


262 posted on 07/20/2021 3:09:49 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Safrguns

Sometimes, a lion is just a lion - Sigmund Freud.


263 posted on 07/20/2021 4:00:32 AM PDT by meyer (I swear to protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic!)
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To: meyer
Wasn't that Groucho Marx what said that?


264 posted on 07/20/2021 4:33:48 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

>>> Better if you just listen to Uncle Bagster and do as I do, and say as I say. I tell you these things only because I like you.

LOL.. you little liar! You fit the title of this thread SO WELL! You are completely oblivious to your own narcissism.


265 posted on 07/20/2021 5:39:42 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: rx; All
Confirmation of the already-public information that a missile was fired at AF1 6/10/18, which had a nearby F16 aircraft able to thwart the attack (as claimed by Q) came from an authoritative source known to me.

A missile that no one saw in real life...including two pilots and plane load of passengers on a commercial flight passing by, and an air rescue helicopter crew that was taking off at the exact moment the 'streak of light' was recorded on a time delay camera.

Also, you can see in the video that is a populated area, yet not one single person reported seeing a streak of light or any unusual noise.

As usual, the dopey Q-anons did ZERO research to corroborate this story, or question why a "rogue submarine" would choose the middle of a populated area to shoot a missile at Air Force One.

266 posted on 07/20/2021 5:59:34 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: bagster
This is really all that's necessary

No it really isn't.

As has been explained to you repeatedly time lapse photography creates optical illusions with light...and this is an example of one.

The photo was explained in detail a week after the Q-anon hoaxters tried to claim it was a missile launch. The account is here Let's Talk About That Mysterious 'Rocket Launch Over Whidbey Island' Photo (Updated)

267 posted on 07/20/2021 6:22:45 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: meyer
But how the he$$ can you see that picture and think anything but missile or rocket?

The Q-hoax was built around folks like you.

268 posted on 07/20/2021 6:38:11 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck
Most who trying to follow your line of argumentation would quickly realize the thin gruel and nonsense on which you have constructed it.

Unbiased, automated video imagery clearly confirms the missile claim in the most straightforward way. That evidence would be extremely difficult to manufacture artificially. Your anti-Occam's razor answer: It wasn't what it plainly seemed to be despite the alternate explanation's being built on of a house of cards.

You infer it was the responsibility of those who didn't see or hear anything to report same, to corroborate the suppositions of a non-event, as your low horsepower research has concluded. That they haven't made such report you claim to somehow strengthen your narrative.

From an alternate reality, you imply responsibility on the part of those whose responsibility it actually was to detect such a missile, to report it sufficiently publicly that your low horsepower research would have found it.

You claim the existence of what you deem to be a "rational explanation" should cast out all other explanations and evidence.

You fallaciously imply there could not be anyone who could successfully work to keep evidence of the missile from the public, e.g., the attempted murderers, the planners, operatives and cover-up artists, perhaps such as you may be.

You attempt to turn the absence of a number of people's awareness about the missile's existence into a responsibility of the anons, which, such that if they cannot find such persons willing and able to counter your report, you deem it your right to cast whatever they might otherwise claim into some "dopey" trash heap. Yes, "not one single person reported seeing [it]" except those that did. Gee, you're so convincing --NOT!

You're quite willing to lie to say anons "did ZERO research." When one has been shown to lie to the court, the jury is admonished that they may disregard every part of the liar's testimony. You are such a person.

Without evidence and in Leftist fashion, you attempt to ridicule a large number of people who have done much credible research, as nonetheless "dopey." Many Freepers such vacuous rationalizations.

Sorry, bub, that and a $1.25 might get you a McDonalds cup of coffee.

269 posted on 07/20/2021 9:03:47 AM PDT by rx (Truth will out!)
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To: bagster

Might have been Groucho - I don’t know.

But nevertheless, sometimes a lion is just a lion.

And sometimes an airborne, cigar-shaped object with a trail of combustion, pointing straight up is just a missile.


270 posted on 07/20/2021 9:14:13 AM PDT by meyer (I swear to protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic!)
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To: Safrguns
LOL.. you little liar! You fit the title of this thread SO WELL! You are completely oblivious to your own narcissism.

Okay, Sigmund Fraud. Do you charge by the hour?

I'd like to make an appointment for the 12th of Never. In the meantime, tell me all about how Trump is the anti-christ and will turn on us, but that you support him.

Question: Why do you support the anti-christ? Just curious, Professor.


271 posted on 07/20/2021 10:31:14 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: meyer; mac_truck
And sometimes an airborne, cigar-shaped object with a trail of combustion, pointing straight up is just a missile.

That's what I was thinking.

But sometimes...juuuuust sometimes, its a helicopter.


272 posted on 07/20/2021 10:41:24 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: mac_truck
As has been explained to you repeatedly time lapse photography creates optical illusions with light...and this is an example of one.

Of course it does, Mickety. Of course it does.

The photo was explained in detail a week after the Q-anon hoaxters tried to claim it was a missile launch.


273 posted on 07/20/2021 10:48:45 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: mac_truck; meyer
The Q-hoax was built around folks like you.

It certainly was.

#SuperiorMinds

You are the unicorn that was late to Noah's Ark.

#DontBeSad


274 posted on 07/20/2021 10:51:16 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: rx; mac_truck
Thank you for taking the time to explain to the man in black.

Of course, it will have no effect on him, he's fully engulfed in the cover up, like a good derp should be. There's no turning back for him.

Others can read this, however, and they see the truth. Mickety is a worthy foil to bounce the truth off, his shtick is way too obvious.


275 posted on 07/20/2021 11:08:25 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: mac_truck

Holy crap!!

We’ve uncovered an imbecile who swallowed the helicopter story, and still sticks to it to this day. Does being a moron pay much?


276 posted on 07/20/2021 11:23:25 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: NoLibZone

“ Q anon was created by Soros to undermine the conservative movement”

Where do I begin…

Well, first off, there is Q (which is a group of people) and there are anons, which are people who dig into things. #fail

Soros created Q? Please I’d love to see the sauce on that. Please present your evidence post haste.

What? You have no evidence? You posted unprovable claims yet Q is the fake one? #failagain


277 posted on 07/20/2021 11:28:42 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: rx

You are the king of mixed metaphors.

Your prize is one slightly used, marked with dog’s teeth, rubber duckie! 🦆


278 posted on 07/20/2021 3:10:07 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: bagster

>>> tell me all about how Trump is the anti-christ

I never said he was.

You are not reading what I say.

Why should I bother responding to you if you are going to misquote me and ignore what I have said?


279 posted on 07/20/2021 3:41:30 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: miserare

You thought I took a razor to the rubber duckies after I blew up the inflatable metaphor? Oh, you, the manatee hour!

I know, I know, mixing dirigible and inflatable metaphors.


280 posted on 07/20/2021 3:49:46 PM PDT by rx (Truth will out!)
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