Posted on 09/16/2021 10:34:00 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
On Dec. 21, 2020, QAlerts, an aggregator of drops from the anonymous poster known as Q, called on his tens of thousands of followers on Gab to head to Washington, D.C. to protest the 2020 election.
“When the President of The United States requests your presence, you show up,” it wrote, calling on “patriots” to show up on Jan. 6.
Around the same time, the head of the Oath Keepers, a militia steeped in far-right conspiracy theories, demanded the same of its members.
“It is CRITICAL that all patriots who can be in DC get to DC to stand tall in support of President Trump’s fight,” wrote Stewart Rhodes, who founded the organization, on the Oath Keepers website.
On that fateful day in January, both the QAnon and the militia movement in this country converged in a massive spectacle, breaching the U.S. Capitol as far-right forces across the country merged in an attempt to overthrow the election.
What people watching couldn’t see though, was that the movements had crossed over long before. QAlerts, which helped spread the gospel of QAnon far and wide as the conspiracy was being purged from the internet, is connected to a founding member of the Florida chapter of Oath Keepers.
Public records and analysis of the app reveal numerous ties between the QAlerts app and Kenneth Rucker, who was listed on the charter documents of the Florida Oath Keepers. That crossover highlights the close relationship between a violent movement that fomented online and how it seeped into dangerous, real-life groups who have adopted it as their worldview and now build political movements around it.
When reached by the Daily Dot, Rucker did not directly deny his personal involvement with QAlerts.
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The video below is from Sunday morning for Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, 1 of the 13 marines from Aug. 26th. I never met him and I’m sure the same for the tens of thousands who showed up to honor him and his loved ones. He left behind a wife and newborn baby.
So proud of the town, Logansport IN is less than 15k, yet there were approximately 10k motorcyclists alone in the funeral procession. People lined the streets in every town they passed thru after a brief ceremony at Grissom Reserve AFB where his body was received at 10:30am.
They also had 4 A-10 Warthogs iirc flying in pairs and in the missing man formation in his honor. Feeling so many mixed emotions but mostly grief and sympathy for all who have lost loved ones during these trying times.
The video you posted was very moving (as I wipe the tears from my eyes).
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your kind warm response. Even before I got there I felt it was going to be overwhelming and moving, but much more so than anything I envisioned.
Thank you. These are sad times for God fearing Americans.
For the record, I enjoy the Q threads and activity participate when possible. The people I follow there are quite intelligent and rational. The best part of the Q threads is the optimism. I would much rather be infected with optimism than pessimism.
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