Just When We Thought QANON Couldn't Get Any Weirder...

[GO-NAD!]

The Sad, Weird, and Hilarious QAnon Gathering in Dallas - The Bulwark

 

[WookieGR]

Do not ask what educated people can do for you, ask what idiots can do for your county.

 

[Eppie]

"It will not make more sense when you read it again." LOL

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

"We must accept finite idiocracy, but never lose infinite hope"
or
"Kakistocracy cannot drive out kakistocracy; only education can do that"

 

[lovinthehd]

Mental illness is a growth industry.

 

[Mr._Clark]

The Sad, Weird, and Hilarious QAnon Gathering in Dallas - The Bulwark

I'm not sure what you're getting at, this woman looks perfectly normal to me:

Thinking Trump is one of the seven kings is probably the most plausible item in the entire mess, albeit inadvertently so:

"If Trump were one of the seven kings, that would make him not the Messiah but something more like the Antichrist."

 

[GO-NAD!]

I'm not sure what you're getting at, this woman looks perfectly normal to me:

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Thinking Trump is one of the seven kings is probably the most plausible item in the entire mess, albeit inadvertently so:

"If Trump were one of the seven kings, that would make him not the Messiah but something more like the Antichrist."

It beggars belief. Unhinged doesn't begin to describe it.

 

[lovinthehd]

It beggars belief. Unhinged doesn't begin to describe it.

And that one of our two major political parties has embraced candidacy of those espousing this nonsense,

 

[panteragstk]

Ah yes, yet another massive trolling on unsuspecting morons.

I think they're heads would explode if they realized that all this was made up nonsense by internet trolls.

 

[davidscott]

Man too bad I moved from DFW to Florida last year. I could have been there!

 

[Mr._Clark]

I'd hoped that QANON would implode in some sort of a wacky conspiracy information vacuum. But, unfortunately, it's baaaaack:

>>>The leader of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which captivated a wave of Donald Trump supporters and infiltrated the Republican party, began posting again over the weekend, after nearly two years of silence. . . .

Earlier this year two separate linguistic studies determined that Paul Furber, a South African software developer, was behind Q’s early posts, before Ron Watkins took over the account in 2018.

Watkins’ father, Jim Watkins, owns the 8kun site – previously called 8chan – where Q posted their drops, and Ron Watkins is a former administrator of the platform.

Watkins has denied any involvement with QAnon, and the account stopped posting after Trump’s defeat. However, the silence failed to dampen enthusiasm among the right for the conspiracy theory.

Q’s new posts come as Watkins is running as a Republican for a congressional seat in Arizona. He has raised little money and secured no notable endorsements, and pundits are widely expecting him to be eliminated from the race when the primary is held 2 August.<<<

QAnon’s ‘Q’ re-emerges on far-right message board after two years of silence

Cryptic posts on 8kun ask ‘Shall we play a game once more?’ and ‘Are you ready to serve your country again?’

www.theguardian.com

 

[lovinthehd]

Man too bad I moved from DFW to Florida last year. I could have been there!

You're very close in Florida....

 

[Mojo Navigator]

This is a very sad sad time in America when Republican politicians exploit the mentally ill.

Let's be honest. These people are mentally ill. Not enough to be institutionalized. That is reserved for those determined to be an immediate risk to themselves or others. They have lost touch with reality.

Anybody with a background in healthcare knows what I am referring to. Flight of ideas, magical thinking, paranoia and gibberish.

 

[Mr._Clark]

This is a very sad sad time in America when Republican politicians exploit the mentally ill.

Let's be honest. These people are mentally ill. Not enough to be institutionalized. That is reserved for those determined to be an immediate risk to themselves or others. They have lost touch with reality.

Anybody with a background in healthcare knows what I am referring to. Flight of ideas, magical thinking, paranoia and gibberish.

QANON seems to have some appeal to at least some Bernie Sanders supporters:

>>>I was radicalized overnight. I went to bed as a liberal, a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter, social activist and a feminist. The next morning, I left the bed viewing Donald Trump — a man whom I had utterly despised — as a hero fighting a war against the Deep State. . . .

I think the fact that I was already a big supporter of Bernie Sanders primed me for the transformation — a process people call being red-pilled. One thing QAnon and Bernie have in common is the belief that there is a group of corrupt elites that makes it hard for everyone else in the country and the world to stay afloat. I hadn’t trusted the government entirely before 2016 — for example, I didn’t find the explanations of 9/11 or the assassination of John F. Kennedy to be satisfactory. But my distrust only strengthened when I started to support Bernie that year. I started to think that the news media, billionaires and the Democratic establishment conspired to keep Bernie from the presidency. This was a significant part of my bridge into QAnon.<<<

QAnon Almost Destroyed My Relationship. Then My Relationship Saved Me From QAnon.

How Covid isolation and supporting Bernie Sanders primed me to be sucked into a dark conspiracy theory.

www.politico.com

>>>Jitarth Jadeja is a hirsute man in his early thirties, charming and jovial, speaking with equal effusiveness about economics and his baby niece. He’s an atheist, pro-choice and pro-drug decriminalization, who supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would be deeply invested in a dangerous far-right conspiracy theory involving baby-eating Democrats and Hollywood actors. But for two and a half years, he says, that’s exactly what he was.<<<

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ex-qanon-followers-cult-conspiracy-theory-pizzagate-1064076/

Are these Bernie Sanders supporters mentally ill? Was Bernie Sanders exploiting their mental illness?

 

[shadyJ]

QANON seems to have some appeal to at least some Bernie Sanders supporters:

>>>I was radicalized overnight. I went to bed as a liberal, a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter, social activist and a feminist. The next morning, I left the bed viewing Donald Trump — a man whom I had utterly despised — as a hero fighting a war against the Deep State. . . .

I think the fact that I was already a big supporter of Bernie Sanders primed me for the transformation — a process people call being red-pilled. One thing QAnon and Bernie have in common is the belief that there is a group of corrupt elites that makes it hard for everyone else in the country and the world to stay afloat. I hadn’t trusted the government entirely before 2016 — for example, I didn’t find the explanations of 9/11 or the assassination of John F. Kennedy to be satisfactory. But my distrust only strengthened when I started to support Bernie that year. I started to think that the news media, billionaires and the Democratic establishment conspired to keep Bernie from the presidency. This was a significant part of my bridge into QAnon.<<<

QAnon Almost Destroyed My Relationship. Then My Relationship Saved Me From QAnon.

How Covid isolation and supporting Bernie Sanders primed me to be sucked into a dark conspiracy theory.

www.politico.com

>>>Jitarth Jadeja is a hirsute man in his early thirties, charming and jovial, speaking with equal effusiveness about economics and his baby niece. He’s an atheist, pro-choice and pro-drug decriminalization, who supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would be deeply invested in a dangerous far-right conspiracy theory involving baby-eating Democrats and Hollywood actors. But for two and a half years, he says, that’s exactly what he was.<<<

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ex-qanon-followers-cult-conspiracy-theory-pizzagate-1064076/

Are these Bernie Sanders supporters mentally ill? Was Bernie Sanders exploiting their mental illness?

Some people are just drawn to extremes, because extremes offer a simplified view of society. There is some root cause of all social ills, and that is appealing and easy to understand for some people, even though it is absurd. A lot of people are repulsed by complexity and nuance. And when there is only one root of all evil, it can give people a sense of agency and power over their situation, as though they could do something about it. It's a lot easier than navigating a world that is a tangled jungle of forces, factors, causes, and effects, and a world of moral ambiguity.

 

[Trell]

QANON seems to have some appeal to at least some Bernie Sanders supporters:

>>>I was radicalized overnight. I went to bed as a liberal, a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter, social activist and a feminist. The next morning, I left the bed viewing Donald Trump — a man whom I had utterly despised — as a hero fighting a war against the Deep State. . . .

I think the fact that I was already a big supporter of Bernie Sanders primed me for the transformation — a process people call being red-pilled. One thing QAnon and Bernie have in common is the belief that there is a group of corrupt elites that makes it hard for everyone else in the country and the world to stay afloat. I hadn’t trusted the government entirely before 2016 — for example, I didn’t find the explanations of 9/11 or the assassination of John F. Kennedy to be satisfactory. But my distrust only strengthened when I started to support Bernie that year. I started to think that the news media, billionaires and the Democratic establishment conspired to keep Bernie from the presidency. This was a significant part of my bridge into QAnon.<<<

QAnon Almost Destroyed My Relationship. Then My Relationship Saved Me From QAnon.

How Covid isolation and supporting Bernie Sanders primed me to be sucked into a dark conspiracy theory.

www.politico.com

>>>Jitarth Jadeja is a hirsute man in his early thirties, charming and jovial, speaking with equal effusiveness about economics and his baby niece. He’s an atheist, pro-choice and pro-drug decriminalization, who supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would be deeply invested in a dangerous far-right conspiracy theory involving baby-eating Democrats and Hollywood actors. But for two and a half years, he says, that’s exactly what he was.<<<

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ex-qanon-followers-cult-conspiracy-theory-pizzagate-1064076/

Are these Bernie Sanders supporters mentally ill? Was Bernie Sanders exploiting their mental illness?

There are several GOP members of Congress that are affiliated with QANON or otherwise sympathize with it, and it does not even to be particularly fringe either in that party.

 

[lovinthehd]

QANON seems to have some appeal to at least some Bernie Sanders supporters:

>>>I was radicalized overnight. I went to bed as a liberal, a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter, social activist and a feminist. The next morning, I left the bed viewing Donald Trump — a man whom I had utterly despised — as a hero fighting a war against the Deep State. . . .

I think the fact that I was already a big supporter of Bernie Sanders primed me for the transformation — a process people call being red-pilled. One thing QAnon and Bernie have in common is the belief that there is a group of corrupt elites that makes it hard for everyone else in the country and the world to stay afloat. I hadn’t trusted the government entirely before 2016 — for example, I didn’t find the explanations of 9/11 or the assassination of John F. Kennedy to be satisfactory. But my distrust only strengthened when I started to support Bernie that year. I started to think that the news media, billionaires and the Democratic establishment conspired to keep Bernie from the presidency. This was a significant part of my bridge into QAnon.<<<

QAnon Almost Destroyed My Relationship. Then My Relationship Saved Me From QAnon.

How Covid isolation and supporting Bernie Sanders primed me to be sucked into a dark conspiracy theory.

www.politico.com

>>>Jitarth Jadeja is a hirsute man in his early thirties, charming and jovial, speaking with equal effusiveness about economics and his baby niece. He’s an atheist, pro-choice and pro-drug decriminalization, who supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would be deeply invested in a dangerous far-right conspiracy theory involving baby-eating Democrats and Hollywood actors. But for two and a half years, he says, that’s exactly what he was.<<<

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ex-qanon-followers-cult-conspiracy-theory-pizzagate-1064076/

Are these Bernie Sanders supporters mentally ill? Was Bernie Sanders exploiting their mental illness?

Sounds more like a sound bite from a Bernie supporter impersonator.....I'd sure like to see any indications of any federally elected representative that is a supporter of Qanon in the democratic camp....while it wouldn't totally surprise me, pretty sure that sort of representation lies on the republican side of stupidity.