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How the Trump campaign came to court QAnon, the online conspiracy movement identified by the FBI as a violent threat
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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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To: bagster

Ping to me. Waiting for the day when I can post a vanity sayin “I told ya so” to all the folks beyond the trees who try to throw shade at us.


61 posted on 08/13/2020 4:32:45 PM PDT by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

that “very likely motivate some domestic extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent activity.”
I only needed to read this far.


62 posted on 08/13/2020 4:35:02 PM PDT by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial........)
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To: ARW
This article is lobbing a softball to big tech to censor all content involving Q stuff.

It sure seems important to the derp state media to silence, discredit, and eliminate the Q movement.

Why is that? It sure ain't because it encourages violence, like they say, because it doesn't. That's like saying Donald Trump encourages violence, which they also say. There must be another reason.

What could it be?


63 posted on 08/13/2020 4:35:30 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

derp? De Derp derp. hmmmmmmmmmmm


64 posted on 08/13/2020 4:37:20 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins #150Kclub)
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To: Flick Lives
What is 8kun? Does the WaPo reporter mean 8chan?

8kun is the new iteration of 8chan, which was taken down after massive and ongoing attacks by what I affectionally refer to as the Derp State.

All because of Q.


65 posted on 08/13/2020 4:37:39 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Responsibility2nd

No, it is a top priority for the FBI. We wouldn’t want anything to interfere with their sponsorship of Antifa and BLM.


66 posted on 08/13/2020 4:38:46 PM PDT by ScholarWarrior
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To: bagster

It is also quite odd that all these came out recently one after another and Q has not posted since the 31st. Derps, spending ammo?


67 posted on 08/13/2020 4:39:13 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #Godwins #150Kclub)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Me too. Just wait until you see what they WILL become.


68 posted on 08/13/2020 4:39:54 PM PDT by ScholarWarrior
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To: Sirius Lee

I like that. Nice.


69 posted on 08/13/2020 4:41:10 PM PDT by ScholarWarrior
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To: familyop
Then they should stop buying the Washington Post.

I don't think he was being literal.

C'mon, man.


70 posted on 08/13/2020 4:41:14 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: 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.

Absolute BS.

If that were really the case, we would have heard no end of it by now.

Nor can they prove it anyways.

71 posted on 08/13/2020 4:42:28 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: JennysCool

Fair. Meaning a false flag?


72 posted on 08/13/2020 4:42:35 PM PDT by ScholarWarrior
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To: TangoLimaSierra
Nope. 8kun is the new iteration.

Oooo, we both said 'iteration'.

Awesome.


73 posted on 08/13/2020 4:42:42 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Flick Lives

That’s the tepid replacement for 8chan.


74 posted on 08/13/2020 4:44:59 PM PDT by ScholarWarrior
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To: familyop
The QueerAnon stuff is typically artistic but getting old and tiresome.

What does that even mean?

You want old and tiresome? Read a few threads out here. You could cut and past the comments from one thread to another and you wouldn't even notice.

It looks like an episode of Grumpy Old Men (Walter Mattau/Jack Lemon).


75 posted on 08/13/2020 4:45:28 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: ScholarWarrior
Who knows? I do think the Post, NPR and CNN coming out with pieces on Q at pretty much the same time is a little ... unusual.

Collusion???

76 posted on 08/13/2020 4:48:40 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: BigpapaBo
Ping to me. Waiting for the day when I can post a vanity sayin “I told ya so” to all the folks beyond the trees who try to throw shade at us.

They'll still be in denial.

The model for that is Epstein. Three years ago they mocked and ridiculed us for talking about the Epstein stuff.

Now they discuss it like its the thing to do. Because events and CNN told them it was true.


77 posted on 08/13/2020 4:49:06 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: MNDude
The Wash Post actually coming out against peddling conspiracies now? Did they change their editorial policy or something? Will they start printing real news?
78 posted on 08/13/2020 4:50:58 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: CJ Wolf
It is also quite odd that all these came out recently one after another and Q has not posted since the 31st. Derps, spending ammo?

They got to keep the message alive lest people forget.


79 posted on 08/13/2020 4:53:11 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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