Posted on 08/13/2020 2:42:25 PM PDT by MNDude
The viral online movement, which took root on Internet message boards in the fall of 2017 with posts from a self-proclaimed government insider identified as “Q,” has triggered violent acts and occasional criminal cases. Its effects were catalogued last year in an FBI intelligence bulletin listing QAnon among the “anti-government, identity-based, and fringe political conspiracy theories” that “very likely motivate some domestic extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent activity.”
The Trump campaign’s director of press communications, for example, went on a QAnon program and urged listeners to “sign up and attend a Trump Victory Leadership Initiative training.” QAnon iconography has appeared in official campaign advertisements targeting battleground states. And the White House’s director of social media and deputy chief of staff for communications, Dan Scavino, has gone from endorsing praise from QAnon accounts to posting their memes himself.
The president has repeatedly elevated its digital foot soldiers, sharing their tweets more than a dozen times on the Fourth of July alone. His middle son, Eric, who is 36 and a campaign surrogate, recently posted, and then deleted, an image drumming up support for his father’s Tulsa rally that included a giant “Q” and the text, “Where we go one, we go all.”
Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with a Russian diplomat in late 2016, recently recorded a video of himself repeating an oath originating on 8kun, a message board where Q, who claims high-level security clearance, posts esoteric references and half-baked ideas that followers call “bread crumbs.”
“Where we go one, we go all,” intoned Flynn, his right hand raised, at the end of the oath, which otherwise follows a generic script administered to new members of Congress. Flynn did not respond to a text message seeking comment
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Closely connected, no doubt, with the Boogaloo Movement™, another white supreemist terrorist threat identified by Your FBI.
Nobody rioted, nobody attacked, yet it’s a “violent threat”?
The Faggots Being Incompetent should be ashamed.
Interesting they forgot to enumerate a single violent act by QAnon or a supporter. (Comet Ping Pong shooter?)
Meanwhile innumerable BLM riots are ongoing and have the full support of establishment Democrats.
Hmm ... another mainstream media article about “Q”. CNN and PBS have also published articles involving “Q” in the past couple of days.
Something’s up.
THIS is all the WaPo has?
The viral online movement, which took root on Internet message boards in the fall of 2017 with posts from a self-proclaimed government insider identified as “Q,” has triggered violent acts and occasional criminal cases. Its effects were catalogued last year in an FBI intelligence bulletin listing QAnon among the “anti-government, identity-based, and fringe political conspiracy theories” that “very likely motivate some domestic extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent activity.”
FBI aka FIB is the real violent threat.
Q folks wipe their behinds with trashed WaPo’s.
I missed the videos of QAnon looting buildings, burning police stations, and beating citizens. The Fake News is spreading the fertilizer so thick they better be careful it doesn’t go Beirut on them.
Trump’s best defense to this nitpicking garbage is a good offense — on the major MAGA issues.
Q is nonsense supported by misguided people on the right as well as what is probably a bit of foreign influence, but it’s hardly a major, violent threat. It’s the leftists that are actively destroying this country.
For two months, BLM and Antifa have been burning buildings and automobiles, assaulting people, looting, and smashing windows, and the only threat the FBI can see is Q-Anon because they publish “conspiracy theories”? I detest what the FBI has become.
The FBI never did this and it’s a lie that the Washington Compost claims it did.
There was was ONE document that came out of a single FBI office in Arizona that casually mentioned it. Nothing from FBI leadership, zero.
For a LARP that Q team sure is plugged in and making the leftists squirm. All this effort for a LARP?
Even here on the vaunted Free Republic you see people siding with the likes of the Washington Compost. You would think that hearing the Compost publish things against QAnon might make people on the right suspect there is something to it rather than joining them. Sad really.
Violent threat? C’mon, man!
QAnon is among a group that ‘very likely’ motivates ‘some’ people to commit ‘sometimes violent activity’.
Unlike groups that have wrecking things, starting fires, looting, attacking law-enforcement officers in places like NYC, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis.
Just the mention of Qanon seems to trigger a royal tissy fit in some ppl.
PBS Frontline did a whole show on Trump and Alex Jones. I was intrigued. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/alex-jones-and-donald-trump-how-the-candidate-echoed-the-conspiracy-theorist-on-the-campaign-trail/
Finally remind me why the FBI isn't on the chopping block?
It’s the Washington Compost. Take it with a grain of salt.
This article is lobbing a softball to big tech to censor all content involving Q stuff.
repeating an oath originating on 8kun, a message board ...
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What is 8kun? Does the WaPo reporter mean 8chan?
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