QAnon Supporter, Wins GOP House Primary in Georgia

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Anonkun said:
Going forward I think the best strategy for future Republican candidates is to focus on the protectionist, nationalist, and traditional values to which Trump speaks. In addition, while they should not attempt to simply mimic Trump’s personality, they can make sure they keep some of the “fighting spirit;” that is, they should be willing to work with Dems on some economic issues while being very firm on defending Christianity and patriotism from the current crop of sjw’s.
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Agreed. I think you’re exactly correct.
 
Dr_Meinheimer said:
I find it rich that the same people who have no issue with AOC, Omar, Taliab and the other non-descript one no one cares about now take issue with a QAnon supporter potentially in office.
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None of them deal in obvious falsities and racist conspiracy rumors as appear on Qanon. And your comment is a deflection.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Did you get this from Wikipedia?
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No, no, no.
" A city council member in California took the dais and quoted from QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory about “deep state” traitors plotting against the president, concluding her remarks, “God bless Q.”

A man spouting QAnon beliefs about child sex trafficking swung a crowbar inside a historic Catholic chapel in Arizona, damaging the altar and then fleeing before being arrested.

And outside a Trump campaign rally in Florida, people in “Q” T-shirts stopped by a tent to hear outlandish tales of Democrats’ secretly torturing and killing children to extract a life-extending chemical from their blood.

What began online more than two years ago as an intricate, if baseless, conspiracy theory that quickly attracted thousands of followers has since found footholds in the offline world. QAnon has surfaced in political campaigns, criminal cases, merchandising and at least one college class. Last month, hundreds of QAnon enthusiasts gathered in a Tampa, Fla., park to listen to speakers and pick up literature, and in England, a supporter of President Trump and the Brexit leader Nigel Farage raised a “Q” flag over a Cornish castle.

Most recently, the botched Iowa Democratic caucuses and the coronavirus outbreak have provided fodder for conspiracy mongering: QAnon fans shared groundless theories online linking the liberal billionaire George Soros to technological problems that hobbled the caucuses, and passed around bogus and potentially dangerous “treatments” for the virus.

About a dozen candidates for public office in the United States have promoted or dabbled in QAnon, and its adherents have been arrested in at least seven episodes, including a murder in New York and an armed standoff with the police near the Hoover Dam. The F.B.I. cited QAnon in an intelligence bulletin last May about the potential for violence motivated by “fringe political conspiracy theories.”"

www.nytimes.com

What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World (Published 2020)

It began online as an intricate, if baseless, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. Now it has surfaced in political campaigns, criminal cases and a college classroom.
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Nepperhan said:
You know, unverified slurs just don’t get us any further along. That’s just some irrelevant attempt at scoring debate points.
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The extreme partisans have learned to just shout off topic nonsense on threads that reveal bad things about their leader in the hope of derailing the discussion. Just ignore them and go on discussing the real issue.
 
I really don’t understand why this kind of fantasy-world magical thinking is not considered disqualifying. She is running for a seat that is pretty much a slam-dunk GOP win. Can’t they find some qualified sane person to fill that seat? There must be lots of folks living in that district who would be a good, solid conservative legislator.
 
It just goes to show how milquetoast and feckless the Republican Party is when simply showing a willingness to fight is enough to beat the establishment candidate.
 
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Saying something is deflection is often used when one does not wish to address the hypocritical point being made, or ignoring the “plank in their eye.”

The “Squad” has made angry, vulgar comments and promotes values so far out of the mainstream. I see them as out of place in Congress as any Qanon supporter. These standards we apply are arbitrary given candidates are selected from their local district and not subject to random, selective, and arbitrary opinion tests of their worthiness.
 
Dr_Meinheimer said:
The “Squad” has made angry, vulgar comments and promotes values so far out of the mainstream. I see them as out of place in Congress as any Qanon supporter.
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OK, we can accept those views or not. Qanon promotes fallacies and internet hoaxes which suck in the naive. That’s much more dangerous and malicious.
 
I hope that as rational people we would all be opposed to conspiracy theories regardless of which side of the political spectrum they come from. I think Ilhan Omar’s tweet about ‘all about the Benjamin’s’ reflects one of the oldest conspiracy theories, that Jews are a secret cabal running our society.
 
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Jim Jordan would be a good candidate to pick up the torch from Trump in four years from now
 
Jeanne_S said:
Jim Jordan would be a good candidate to pick up the torch from Trump in four years from now
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Well, he is probably the Trumpiest of the current crop of GOPers, that is true. He has to work through some issues before he is ready to take the step to the big stage though.
 
I feel Trump personified and embraced the talking points of right wing media.

Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Hannity, Ann Coulter, etc. without them, there wouldn’t have been an audience for Trump.
 
Anonkun said:
while being very firm on defending Christianity and patriotism from the current crop of sjw’s.
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“SJW” seems like an odd way to describe enemies of Christianity, since by all accounts at least one of the Saints of the Church, Oscar Romero, was a SJW.
 
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