QAnon (10 Viewers)

[Dragon]

This organisation and its reach is seriously scary. When the head of the New York Police Department's second-largest police union openly shows his support of this "organisation" then something is seriously wrong!

The head of the New York Police Department's second-largest police union gave a television interview Friday afternoon while sitting in front of a mug emblazoned with QAnon imagery and slogans.

The mug behind Mullins featured the word "QANON" and the hashtag #WWG1WGA, which stands for "where we go one, we go all," a popular slogan among QAnon supporters. At the center of the mug was a large letter Q, which refers to a supposed government insider who, according to QAnon supporters, posts cryptic clues on the Internet about the "deep state."


More than a year ago, the FBI reportedly assessed that QAnon was a dangerous movement that was likely to inspire its most extreme members to commit violent acts of domestic terrorism.

In recent weeks, QAnon supporters have been posting videos of themselves reciting an oath and repeating the "where we go one, we go all" catchphrase that is seen on the mug. They say they are preparing "digital soldiers" for an apocalyptic reckoning, when thousands of "deep state" pedophiles will be arrested and prosecuted at military courts at Guantanamo Bay.

https://us.cnn.com/2020/07/17/us/head-nypd-union-qanon-mug/index.html

 

[samiam5211]

So Mike Lindell is holding an "elections summit"

MTG is/was there, along with:

Dr. Douglas Frank, an Ohio math teacher who has risen to prominence from speaking throughout the country about the 2020 election and false claims of it being stolen. He spoke earlier this year under the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol.

Jenna Ellis, a former Trump campaign attorney, also spoke alongside Lindell. Ellis this week was ordered to travel to Georgia to testify in front of a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies' roles in influencing the 2020 election.

Steve Bannon, a former Trump political adviser who was recently convicted on charges of criminal contempt of Congress, was also present at the event Saturday morning, speaking in an interview with one of several right-wing TV outlets.

JFK Jr. was there in spirit.

 

[bird]

So Mike Lindell is holding an "elections summit"

MTG is/was there, along with:

Dr. Douglas Frank, an Ohio math teacher who has risen to prominence from speaking throughout the country about the 2020 election and false claims of it being stolen. He spoke earlier this year under the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol.

Jenna Ellis, a former Trump campaign attorney, also spoke alongside Lindell. Ellis this week was ordered to travel to Georgia to testify in front of a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies' roles in influencing the 2020 election.

Steve Bannon, a former Trump political adviser who was recently convicted on charges of criminal contempt of Congress, was also present at the event Saturday morning, speaking in an interview with one of several right-wing TV outlets.

Ah, another idiot from my state, Ohio. Whatever else Ohio may lack we sure have an abundance of idiocy on the right.

 

[Optimus Prime]

More on the “Queen of Canada”
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She travels Canada in a flag-draped RV with an entourage. She greets supporters in small towns, who eagerly film the encounters on mobile phones. She’s called on her disciples to execute healthcare workers and politicians who support mass vaccination campaigns.

To her more than 60,000 followers online, she’s the newly-installed Queen of Canada. But to law enforcement and national security officials, she represents the threat that online conspiracy theorists may be all too capable of inflicting real-world harm.

Romana Didulo, a leader within a fringe Q-Anon-linked movement, has claimed sovereignty over Canada, gaining limited but growing popularity amid an erosion of trust in the country’s democratic and civil institutions…..

“A leader will articulate a problem, and then provide those solutions, even if that problem doesn’t necessarily exist. And that is what she’s doing to a group of people who are afraid and who have complete and utter distrust in the institutions of their country.”

At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Didulo instructed supporters across the country to deliver pseudo-legal ‘cease-and-desist’ letters to businesses and hospitals across the country, demanding they end all public health measures.

In November, as public health officials scrambled to vaccinate as many Canadians as possible from the coronavirus, Didulo posted a message on Telegram ordering the ‘Kingdom of Canada Military’ to “shoot to kill” anyone vaccinating children under 19 years old. She also called on supporters to destroy all coronavirus vaccines or “bioweapons” in order to halt the mass rollout.

She also claimed that military tribunals would be held, and healthcare workers would “receive not one, but two bullets on your forehead for each child that you have harmed as a result of injecting this experimental vaccine”…….

“The worst thing that we can do is actually make fun of it. It validates their opinion that when they’re mocked, they really know the truth. Calling them crazy, or using other derogatory terms towards them makes them feel validated that they are on the right path,” said Celestini, who points out Didulo’s reach has grown outside of Canada……

‘Queen of Canada’: the rapid rise of a fringe QAnon figure sounds alarm

Romana Didulo claims sovereignty over Canada and is gaining fame online as trust erodes in the country’s civil institutions

www.theguardian.com

 

[SamAndreas]

More on the “Queen of Canada”
=========================

She travels Canada in a flag-draped RV with an entourage. She greets supporters in small towns, who eagerly film the encounters on mobile phones. She’s called on her disciples to execute healthcare workers and politicians who support mass vaccination campaigns.

To her more than 60,000 followers online, she’s the newly-installed Queen of Canada. But to law enforcement and national security officials, she represents the threat that online conspiracy theorists may be all too capable of inflicting real-world harm.

Romana Didulo, a leader within a fringe Q-Anon-linked movement, has claimed sovereignty over Canada, gaining limited but growing popularity amid an erosion of trust in the country’s democratic and civil institutions…..

“A leader will articulate a problem, and then provide those solutions, even if that problem doesn’t necessarily exist. And that is what she’s doing to a group of people who are afraid and who have complete and utter distrust in the institutions of their country.”

At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Didulo instructed supporters across the country to deliver pseudo-legal ‘cease-and-desist’ letters to businesses and hospitals across the country, demanding they end all public health measures.

In November, as public health officials scrambled to vaccinate as many Canadians as possible from the coronavirus, Didulo posted a message on Telegram ordering the ‘Kingdom of Canada Military’ to “shoot to kill” anyone vaccinating children under 19 years old. She also called on supporters to destroy all coronavirus vaccines or “bioweapons” in order to halt the mass rollout.

She also claimed that military tribunals would be held, and healthcare workers would “receive not one, but two bullets on your forehead for each child that you have harmed as a result of injecting this experimental vaccine”…….

“The worst thing that we can do is actually make fun of it. It validates their opinion that when they’re mocked, they really know the truth. Calling them crazy, or using other derogatory terms towards them makes them feel validated that they are on the right path,” said Celestini, who points out Didulo’s reach has grown outside of Canada……

‘Queen of Canada’: the rapid rise of a fringe QAnon figure sounds alarm

Romana Didulo claims sovereignty over Canada and is gaining fame online as trust erodes in the country’s civil institutions

www.theguardian.com

A good article but they overlooked the fact that she actually is the Queen of canned sardines in mustard sauce.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

If she came to the United States, she could probabaly become the next Gov of Florida...

 

[bird]

If she came to the United States, she could probabaly become the next Gov of Florida...

Don’t aim so low.

Republicans would nominate her for president

 

[samiam5211]

Apparently Trump is reposting Q anon drops from 2017 on Truth Social now.

I saw it posted on tigerturds, if it was really posted by Trump, it's just another sign that he will burn it all down before he goes to prison.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

I 100% believe he would rather have his parrots burn it down in honor of himself...

 

[Optimus Prime]

A QAnon follower and election denier killed his wife and injured one of his children after “falling down the conspiracy rabbit hole,” his daughter says.

Igor Lanis, 53, was gunned down by the Walled Lake, Michigan, Police Department on Sunday after he allegedly fatally shot his wife Tina, 56, and shot his daughter Rachel in the leg and back.

Officers were talking to a neighbour in the 1200 block of Glenwood Court when they heard the shots and returned fire from Lanis, according to The Detroit News.

Rebecca Lanis, who was at a party at the time of the shooting, said her father’s mental health had declined due to his obsession with conspiracy theories, including 5G towers, world leaders being lizards, and vaccines, the Daily Beastreported.

In a Reddit entry posted just hours after the killings and titled “My Qdad snapped and killed my family this morning”, Rebecca said the 2020 Trump election loss and the following widespread denial by far-right groups had made things worse.

“He had a sense of reality,” Rebecca told the Daily Beast. “But then after 2020, when Trump lost, he started going down these crazy rabbit holes.”

“[Expletive], Qanon. I hope the FBI tightens its grip on you and that your lackies rot in prison (and hell) for poisoning so many people,” Rebecca wrote on the Reddit QAnon subpage…….

QAnon fan killed wife after ‘falling down conspiracy rabbit hole,’ daughter says

Igor Lanis, 53, was gunned down by police on Sunday after he allegedly killed his wife Tina, 56, and shot his daughter Rachel

www.independent.co.uk

 

[brandon]

A QAnon follower and election denier killed his wife and injured one of his children after “falling down the conspiracy rabbit hole,” his daughter says.

Igor Lanis, 53, was gunned down by the Walled Lake, Michigan, Police Department on Sunday after he allegedly fatally shot his wife Tina, 56, and shot his daughter Rachel in the leg and back.

Officers were talking to a neighbour in the 1200 block of Glenwood Court when they heard the shots and returned fire from Lanis, according to The Detroit News.

Rebecca Lanis, who was at a party at the time of the shooting, said her father’s mental health had declined due to his obsession with conspiracy theories, including 5G towers, world leaders being lizards, and vaccines, the Daily Beastreported.

In a Reddit entry posted just hours after the killings and titled “My Qdad snapped and killed my family this morning”, Rebecca said the 2020 Trump election loss and the following widespread denial by far-right groups had made things worse.

“He had a sense of reality,” Rebecca told the Daily Beast. “But then after 2020, when Trump lost, he started going down these crazy rabbit holes.”

“[Expletive], Qanon. I hope the FBI tightens its grip on you and that your lackies rot in prison (and hell) for poisoning so many people,” Rebecca wrote on the Reddit QAnon subpage…….

QAnon fan killed wife after ‘falling down conspiracy rabbit hole,’ daughter says

Igor Lanis, 53, was gunned down by police on Sunday after he allegedly killed his wife Tina, 56, and shot his daughter Rachel

www.independent.co.uk

The QAnon aspect of this sucks, but I also want to point out the gun control conversation, as well.

You’re much more likely to die from gun violence if there’s a gun in your home. You’re much more likely to kill a family member than an intruder with your gun. And a woman is much more likely to be killed by a domestic partner than an intruder.

All of these statistics converged on this story. If there wasn’t a gun in the house, this woman would likely still be alive.

 

[CoolBrees]

Clearly rap music and lack of Jesus was to blame.

Or maybe he didn’t have a father to give him a strong, straight male influence

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

Clearly rap music and lack of Jesus was to blame.

Or maybe he didn’t have a father to give him a strong, straight male influence

Tom Hanks made him do it.

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

The QAnon aspect of this sucks, but I also want to point out the gun control conversation, as well.

You’re much more likely to die from gun violence if there’s a gun in your home. You’re much more likely to kill a family member than an intruder with your gun. And a woman is much more likely to be killed by a domestic partner than an intruder.

All of these statistics converged on this story. If there wasn’t a gun in the house, this woman would likely still be alive.

Anyone questioning that needs to redo the commonsense section of their brain.

 

[Booker]

There is no bottom...

Trump openly embraces, amplifies QAnon conspiracy theories

After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows. On Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform, the Republican former president reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel...

www.yahoo.com

 

[SFIDC3]

There is no bottom...

Trump openly embraces, amplifies QAnon conspiracy theories

After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows. On Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform, the Republican former president reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel...

www.yahoo.com

And I’m glad for it…this reeks of desperation….I hope the Republican Party implodes over this….

 

[Taurus]

And I’m glad for it…this reeks of desperation….I hope the Republican Party implodes over this….

Only if they lose and lose big enough to actually lose.

All those state elections that Dems blew off for decades are coming back to haunt us all.

 

[MT15]

If anyone saw the clips of Trump’s Ohio rally on Saturday, he has pretty much fully embraced the cult experience. He played a song used by QAnon in the background and had a very singsong cadence over it. The people raised one or both hands and swayed. Many of them pointing one finger in the air supposedly the QAnon slogan: Where we go one, we go all IIRC. It looked like a religious revival. It was chilling.

 

[Optimus Prime]

For a man who believes in nothing, has no coherent ideology or value system except his own continuing relevance, obsesses over conspiracies, and subsists on grievance and anger, Donald Trump took a long time to fully embrace QAnon. For some time, the former president has been flirting with the cult—which believes, among other preposterous things, that Democrats are part of a global child-sex-trafficking ring that Trump will ultimately defeat.

But lately, that courtship has turned into a consummated marriage, as Trump incorporated QAnon tropes into an Ohio rally and started spreading them on his social-media service.

This has understandably provoked a lot of hand-wringing from Democrats and disillusioned former Republicans, who rightly fear that Trump will incite QAnon supporters to violence. But the outrage from respectable quarters matters far less to the former president than his own political plight. Trump, who had previously maintained at least a little distance from QAnon, is only signing on now because he’s flailing.

Trump and many of his aides face major legal problems. The January 6 hearings and revelations that he was holding classified documents at his residence in Mar-a-Lago have helped drive his favorability rating to its lowest point in a year and a half. Even if he manages to fire up some supporters by explicitly endorsing QAnon, he is likely to alienate many more Americans for whom the cult’s ideas seem creepy and off-putting.

Nevertheless, early last week, on his social-media platform, Truth Social, Trump posted a picture of himself with a QAnon lapel pin and the slogan “The Storm is Coming”—words that describe the destruction of his enemies and perhaps even the live televising of their execution. This past weekend, at a rally in Ohio, Trump played music that mirrored a QAnon anthem, apparently prompting the crowd to respond with a Nazi-like salute.

The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols argues that Trump is finding a “new pool of recruits” and adds, “I didn’t think American politics could get much darker, but here we are.” I am more optimistic. Trump is at or near rock bottom. His overt adoption of QAnon shows that he has few alternative political strategies left to play. He is grasping at straws, not solidifying his political base.

The challenge Trump will have with QAnon is that it is a rabbit hole of weirdness whose weirdness cannot easily be masked. Trump doesn’t believe in QAnon any more than he believes in much of anything. If he did, he would surely know that the amorphous cult is an unreliable partner; indeed, some participants turned on Trump before when they thought he gave up the White House too easily.

“Trump didn’t invent Q and he doesn’t control it,” the digital-misinformation researcher Joan Donovan, a co-author of the book Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America, told me via direct message. “These digital soldiers are not of his command.”.............

Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He’s Stuck