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The way the President answered the reporter's question combined with the mental health issues of some of the Q faithful is not good, not good. I don't know if there are enough people monitoring this type of extremism. They really are domestic terrorists.

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  On 8/20/2020 at 9:47 PM, Buzzrock said:
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/904237192/journalist-enters-the-world-of-qanon-it-s-almost-like-a-bad-spy-novel?ft=nprml&f=

 

Good listen on NPR from the Atlantic journo who has done the most digging.

 

How come no one can figure out who this person is? Seems like if the FBI really wanted to they could track them down.

 

It’s been several people over time. It’s currently Jim Watkins.

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  On 8/21/2020 at 8:02 AM, MaybeACoordinator said:

Have any of the old-time posters succumbed yet? Who will be the first Q-Nut among us? 

(Maybe it's already happened -- haven't been on here much the last few weeks.)

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I fucking guarantee you that based in statistics alone there are probably 4-5 surly posters with well known handles that are QAnon dipshits. 

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  On 8/21/2020 at 9:35 AM, SydneyCarton said:

I fucking guarantee you that based in statistics alone there are probably 4-5 surly posters with well known handles that are QAnon dipshits. 

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Oh for sure...I just wonder which of those will be the first to snap... And once that trailblazer goes we will have a little contingent on our hands...WWG1WGA and shit. 

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  On 8/21/2020 at 11:22 AM, MaybeACoordinator said:

Oh for sure...I just wonder which of those will be the first to snap... And once that trailblazer goes we will have a little contingent on our hands...WWG1WGA and shit. 

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Not to mention the little Q oath a bunch took a month ago and the probable email list they all subscribe to.
I mean if they were being used for grifting it’s bad  enough. If they were the butt of a Piltdown man War of the Worlds Area 51 nationwide phenomena wherein a pimply faced Orson Wells Junior types on 1/1/21: oh hey,  joke is over. New year and I’ve got things to do I could perhaps say what was that again?


But this is a mobilizing of the slightly mentally unhinged and the folks behind it appear to be searching for the one match to trigger the fire. The Protocols tweet by the automated FBI file may have been random  but with so few people educated or trusting people when they say it is a hoax (uh huh) it is going to be bad and that is the intent. All in some misguided form of patriotism.
 

 

 

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A friends wife, who appears to be on the outskirts of Q, was whining yesterday about a Facebook group regarding  “Anti-child trafficking” was closed down by Facebook. I assume it was more of a Q group than a real advocacy group.

she has other posts where other friends (not mine) get very Q heavy in their discussion.

you can tell from the Facebook discussion, intelligence is lacking in some of these people. I know.  Shocking.

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That NYTimes article is really sobering and demonstrates how it's working its way into the mainstream of the GOP - even to the extent that the Republican Party of Texas is borrowing their language in its new slogan. And, just as the Republicans thought they could control Trump, they're going to find that they're going to get taken over by this new batch of nuts and grifters.

The Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond Trump
As the president all but endorses the internet-driven conspiracy theory, it is shifting from the fringes of the internet to become an offline political movement.

Late last month, as the Texas Republican Party was shifting into campaign mode, it unveiled a new slogan, lifting a rallying cry straight from a once-unthinkable source: the internet-driven conspiracy theory known as QAnon.

The new catchphrase, “We Are the Storm,” is an unsubtle cue to a group that the F.B.I. has labeled a potential domestic terrorist threat. It is instantly recognizable among QAnon adherents, signaling what they claim is a coming conflagration between President Trump and what they allege, falsely, is a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile Democrats who seek to dominate America and the world.

The slogan can be found all over social media posts by QAnon followers, and now, too, in emails from the Texas Republican Party and on the T-shirts, hats and sweatshirts that it sells. It has even worked its way into the party’s text message system — a recent email from the party urged readers to “Text STORM2020” for updates.

The Texas Republicans are an unusually visible example of the Republican Party’s dalliance with QAnon, but they are hardly unique. A small but growing number of Republicans — including a heavily favored Republican congressional candidate in Georgia — are donning the QAnon mantle, ushering its adherents in from the troll-infested fringes of the internet and potentially transforming the wild conspiracy theory into an offline political movement, with supporters running for Congress and flexing their political muscle at the state and local levels.

Chief among the party’s QAnon promoters is Mr. Trump himself. Since the theory first emerged three years ago, he has employed a wink-and-nod approach to the conspiracy theory, retweeting its followers but conspicuously ignoring questions about it. Yet with the election drawing ever closer and Mr. Trump’s failure to manage the Covid-19 pandemic harming his re-election prospects, the White House and some Trump allies appear to have taken to openly courting believers.

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  On 8/21/2020 at 12:48 PM, bolverk said:

 

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Definitely agree with you there. Tea Party>Freedom Caucus> QAnon. They tried the Freedom Caucus but it wasn't sticking so now they have grasped that this is their one best chance. Incredibly dangerous. I'm wanting to put a yard sign out, but am a little hesitant because it makes me a target in a largely ultra conservative community that I know has Q people and guns. Yes, they are that crazy I fear.

I watched that segment on John Oliver and I need to go back and rewatch it. They've talked about the  way the conspiracies feed a part of a person's needs, but I think there is a hormonal component to it, rather like gambling or other compulsions and I cannot recall if he had time to address that in his show.

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  On 8/21/2020 at 9:35 AM, SydneyCarton said:
I fucking guarantee you that based in statistics alone there are probably 4-5 surly posters with well known handles that are QAnon dipshits. 

I’m sure Swam is intelligent enough - and has enough critical thinking skills to ward that off in his head. Look at the body of his posts.
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  On 8/16/2020 at 12:08 AM, Anastasis said:
Willie was just a funny write in protest vote. Although I do still have my Willie For president 2016 shirt and wear it from time to time. Haven’t decided who I will write in this time but i am pretty sure it will not be an elderly white man with mild cognitive impairment. 

Your thinking reveals far greater cognitive impairment. A clear binary choice stumped you.
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  On 8/21/2020 at 8:02 AM, MaybeACoordinator said:

Have any of the old-time posters succumbed yet? Who will be the first Q-Nut among us? 

(Maybe it's already happened -- haven't been on here much the last few weeks.)

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The numbers guy who was real anti-vax seems like an obvious candidate. I don't remember if he made it over to Surly or not, though.

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  On 8/21/2020 at 3:38 PM, wildcat09 said:

The numbers guy who was real anti-vax seems like an obvious candidate. I don't remember if he made it over to Surly or not, though.

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 As I recall, Numbers bailed before the changeover. There one day, gone the next. He was on a fairly short list of posters who I really thought we might be hearing about on the news some day. We joke about that a lot...there's that "which of y'all is this" trope -- but Numbers was straight up psycho. TOR was another on that list. I was on extended hiatus for the Beduin era but it seems like he would fit, too. And then there was TxTow....

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  On 8/21/2020 at 12:48 PM, bolverk said:

signaling what they claim is a coming conflagration between President Trump and what they allege, falsely, is a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile Democrats who seek to dominate America and the world.

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Glad they cleared that up. 

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Ok, did a search on page one of that thread, Numbers, Dr Teeth, Dr BitchinPHD, Emeroid,Epi Quinn, Itsmedan seem to believe or are willing to, with MNlonghorn10 leaning in a bit due to some creepy art. There were 2 socks pushing it mostly, with some assists from DSA, drycreek and Cal88. Earlybird looks like a lean too. I couldnt make up my mind on Trousertrout and maninblack and i got too bored to keep reading. No wonder I did not CR back in the day. I did learn that bad teamate is an old fuck with kids in their 40s. I had a different take on him.

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B_T has said before he is a Boomer and I figured it was true but it's the internet and I don't know you all in "real life" although some of you folks do know each other. You know how if you don't know someone sometimes you come up with an image? I've always pictured him as a cross between Jeff Bridges in Lebowski and that actor from Road House. Not Swayze but the one that gets killed after helping with the bad guys. I can never come up with that actor's name. B_T probably looks nothing like that, but that's just what I always picture when I read his posts. (yeah, I'm weird like that. I do it with books too).

It suddenly dawned on me that he might be insulted, and it isn't meant that way, so if you read this B_T, apologies in advance.

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  On 8/21/2020 at 4:16 PM, MaybeACoordinator said:

 As I recall, Numbers bailed before the changeover. There one day, gone the next. He was on a fairly short list of posters who I really thought we might be hearing about on the news some day. We joke about that a lot...there's that "which of y'all is this" trope -- but Numbers was straight up psycho. TOR was another on that list. I was on extended hiatus for the Beduin era but it seems like he would fit, too. And then there was TxTow....

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Honestly, given how many posters TOS and Surly have had, it's a wonder there's not more of those types. I guess they disproportionately go to aggy.

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  On 8/21/2020 at 5:22 PM, burntorangebongos said:

Ok, did a search on page one of that thread, Numbers, Dr Teeth, Dr BitchinPHD, Emeroid,Epi Quinn, Itsmedan seem to believe or are willing to, with MNlonghorn10 leaning in a bit due to some creepy art. There were 2 socks pushing it mostly, with some assists from DSA, drycreek and Cal88. Earlybird looks like a lean too. I couldnt make up my mind on Trousertrout and maninblack and i got too bored to keep reading. No wonder I did not CR back in the day. I did learn that bad teamate is an old fuck with kids in their 40s. I had a different take on him.

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No shit about Bad Teammate? Mind: blown. I thought he would be about the age of those kids. 

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  On 8/21/2020 at 5:22 PM, burntorangebongos said:

Ok, did a search on page one of that thread, Numbers, Dr Teeth, Dr BitchinPHD, Emeroid,Epi Quinn, Itsmedan seem to believe or are willing to, with MNlonghorn10 leaning in a bit due to some creepy art. There were 2 socks pushing it mostly, with some assists from DSA, drycreek and Cal88. Earlybird looks like a lean too. I couldnt make up my mind on Trousertrout and maninblack and i got too bored to keep reading. No wonder I did not CR back in the day. I did learn that bad teamate is an old fuck with kids in their 40s. I had a different take on him.

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Might want to do some more research.

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Man I have to say, I'm super fucking disappointed that we moved from TOS and didn't tell Emeroid.  I would've been dunking on his ass daily in PM's about his lack of yelling about the deficit.  Would've also had a betting pool going for how long he'd wait after Trump is gone before he started yelling about it again.  My over/under would've been 5 days after election, and I would've taken the under and would expect it would be the under and blame already shifted to biden for Trump's deficit balloon.  That guy was a special piece of shit.

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I forgot about him. I actually remember him even though I wasn't a member back on shaggy. That other poster, Swam4Texas, used to have long back and forths with people, too. I still see people refer to him on here but I'd forgotten about Emeryoid (didn't he use a 'y' in his handle somewhere?).

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Yes, I misspelled his handle. Sorry, Dr. Teeth, but I didn't go through the whole thread so that was what it appeared to be on page one. Interestingly, it was sock accounts that was pushing that hard, with one of the socks that just posted on that one thread alone. 

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  On 8/21/2020 at 12:48 PM, bolverk said:

That NYTimes article is really sobering and demonstrates how it's working its way into the mainstream of the GOP - even to the extent that the Republican Party of Texas is borrowing their language in its new slogan. And, just as the Republicans thought they could control Trump, they're going to find that they're going to get taken over by this new batch of nuts and grifters.

The Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond Trump
As the president all but endorses the internet-driven conspiracy theory, it is shifting from the fringes of the internet to become an offline political movement.

Late last month, as the Texas Republican Party was shifting into campaign mode, it unveiled a new slogan, lifting a rallying cry straight from a once-unthinkable source: the internet-driven conspiracy theory known as QAnon.

The new catchphrase, “We Are the Storm,” is an unsubtle cue to a group that the F.B.I. has labeled a potential domestic terrorist threat. It is instantly recognizable among QAnon adherents, signaling what they claim is a coming conflagration between President Trump and what they allege, falsely, is a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile Democrats who seek to dominate America and the world.

The slogan can be found all over social media posts by QAnon followers, and now, too, in emails from the Texas Republican Party and on the T-shirts, hats and sweatshirts that it sells. It has even worked its way into the party’s text message system — a recent email from the party urged readers to “Text STORM2020” for updates.

The Texas Republicans are an unusually visible example of the Republican Party’s dalliance with QAnon, but they are hardly unique. A small but growing number of Republicans — including a heavily favored Republican congressional candidate in Georgia — are donning the QAnon mantle, ushering its adherents in from the troll-infested fringes of the internet and potentially transforming the wild conspiracy theory into an offline political movement, with supporters running for Congress and flexing their political muscle at the state and local levels.

Chief among the party’s QAnon promoters is Mr. Trump himself. Since the theory first emerged three years ago, he has employed a wink-and-nod approach to the conspiracy theory, retweeting its followers but conspicuously ignoring questions about it. Yet with the election drawing ever closer and Mr. Trump’s failure to manage the Covid-19 pandemic harming his re-election prospects, the White House and some Trump allies appear to have taken to openly courting believers.

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We Are The Storm, Pandemic, Plague, Murder Hornets, Sharknado, Bro Country...

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  On 8/21/2020 at 1:13 PM, Gatorubet said:


I’m sure Swam is intelligent enough - and has enough critical thinking skills to ward that off in his head. Look at the body of his posts.

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The flip side of critical thinking skills is that they are the same as rationalization skills. Smart people with underdeveloped psychologies can sustain a belief in nonsense better than most. Bobby Fisher is a good example.

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  On 8/21/2020 at 1:22 PM, Anastasis said:

False dichotomy. 

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You  defend your choice in politics in a manner that is similar to this choice in religion:  you argue why a particular Christian denomination gives you pause because of its stance on female pastors and whether the Host is real or symbolic - and you refuse to support that denomination even when the other choice is a child sacrificing Baal cult.. 

 

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  On 8/22/2020 at 2:48 PM, ndawg said:
The flip side of critical thinking skills is that they are the same as rationalization skills. Smart people with underdeveloped psychologies can sustain a belief in nonsense better than most. Bobby Fisher is a good example.

My post was total sarcasm.
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Oregon GOP candidate for Senate is a QAnon adherent.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/jo-rae-perkins-qanon-oregon-senate-race/index.html

I get that any reasonable Republican politician in Oregon does not want to run for a senate seat because they know it aint going to happen. However the national party needs to recruit people to not embarrass the national party. Can a state party prevent someone from running under their umbrella?

Of course, I assume the national GOP office is as disorganized as the WH. Even though I'm normally a Democrat, its bad for the country to have bad, if not dangerous candidates on the GOP side. The pendulum always swings back and you never know what could potentially happen. It also starts to legitimize crackpot theories when they can point to major candidates as backing them.



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