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01-21-21 00:11 #1880
Posts: 2656Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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01-21-21 00:09 #1879
Posts: 154Originally Posted by Travv [View Original Post]
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01-20-21 23:13 #1878
Posts: 2656No pardons on the ground for Capitol terrorists!
Originally Posted by ShooBree [View Original Post]
https://www.bet.com/news/national/20...mutations.html
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01-20-21 22:52 #1877
Posts: 2656'I'm About to Puke': QAnon in Chaos as Biden Takes Office
As it became clear that Trump was not, in fact, going to suddenly appear and order the arrest of all the Democrats, QAnon believers began to wonder if they had been tricked.
As the rest of the country waited for Joe Biden to be inaugurated, believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory thought they were about to see something else: the long-awaited mass arrests of Biden and a host of other "deep-state" Democrats, followed by the restoration of the Trump presidency.
"Trump will walk out during the arrest and thank America for reelection," one QAnon supporter posted on a forum shortly before the inauguration. "This will be remembered as the greatest day since the-Day."
As Biden was sworn in, though, the mass arrests that QAnon believers call "The Storm," stubbornly refused to happen. Trump really did appear to have left office, rather than springing the sly trap as they had all hoped. . The Democrats really did have control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.
The tens of thousands of National Guard soldiers QAnon believers thought would help Trump retake Washington instead appeared to be there for a more obvious purpose: protecting the city from the same crazed QAnon believers who had violently attacked the Capitol two weeks earlier.
"I'm about to puke," one QAnon fan watching Biden take the oath of office wrote.
For more than three years, tens of thousands of QAnon believers have pinned their hopes for the future on a second Trump term. They've become convinced that the government is run by a cabal of satanic pedophile-cannibals, and that Trump is the only way to restore justice. Many of them, egged by promises that Trump's "Plan" included the eradication of diseases and personal debt, pinned their dreamson QAnon as well, alienating friends and family with their ideas.
Then, on Wednesday afternoon, the QAnon future vanished, presenting the ever-expanding conspiracy theory with its greatest challenge yet.
As Biden's inauguration became ever more certain on Wednesday, QAnon believers rapidly cycled through rationalizations. They claimed that Trump was stepping down as the head of the United States "corporation" an idea borrowed from fringe sovereign citizen legal theories to become the head of a restored republic. Some QAnon leaders claimed that Biden himself was in on the scheme, and would soon help Trump carry out the arrests.
As Biden finally took office, however, the mood changed quickly on QAnon forums. QAnon channels on messaging app Telegram filled with gifs of far-right mascot Pepe the Frog crying, as believers claimed they had been duped. Believers said they felt sick, or wanted to throw up.
"Trump fooled us," complained one Telegram commenter.
"All my family and co-workers think I'm crazy," wrote another.
"I feel stupid," wrote a third.
Even major QAnon boosters saw their faith in the bizarre conspiracy theory shaken on Monday. QAnon booster Roy Davis co-authored a bestselling book promoting QAnon under the alias "Captain Roy," even getting his sports car painted with a giant, blazing "Q" on the hood.
As Biden was sworn in, Davis initially told The Daily Beast he didn't want to comment until he was sure Biden was really president. But as Biden's new title became official, Davis said he was ready to move on from Q something his doctor has long urged him to do anyway.
"We misinterpreted it," Davis said. "Maybe we should have done something different."
Other top QAnon figures appeared to be backing away. As the former administrator of QAnon clues website 8 kun, Ron Watkins had control over who posted as the mysterious "Q" and has been accused of being Q himself. But on Wednesday, Watkins suggested that the QAnon fight was over.
"Please remember all the friends and happy memories we made together over the past few years," Watkins wrote in a Telegram post.
Still, there are many signs that QAnon and the kind of unreality world it promoted will persist.
As Trump's defeat became more certain, QAnon followers changed their claims, beginning to insist that the president's war against the "deep state" had only begun. As the shock of Biden's inauguration wore off on Wednesday, QAnon forum posters encouraged one another to "hold the line," claiming that they had merely misunderstood the QAnon clues.
The problem created by QAnon seems set to remain, as well. QAnon has been tied to three murders and a terrorist incident near the Hoover Dam, along with a series of other crimes. Biden's top intelligence chief has promised an analysis of the threat posed by the conspiracy theory.
Even as he distances himself from QAnon, for example, Davis still thinks "Q" really was a government whistleblower revealing the truth about the world.
"It wasn't some kid in a basement," Davis said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/im-abo...n-takes-office
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01-20-21 21:44 #1876
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by Travv [View Original Post]
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01-20-21 21:24 #1875
Posts: 1680Yep
Originally Posted by ScatManDoo [View Original Post]
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01-20-21 20:50 #1874
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by GDreams [View Original Post]
It's the same idea that is keeping Julian Assange in max-prisons for years on a 'bail' charge. And, he's not even a USA Citizen. Shouldn't anyone wonder at this point what a thing like Kambambala Harris (your president-in-waiting!) thinks about something like this website?
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01-20-21 18:17 #1873
Posts: 657'This Is What 80 Million Votes Looks Like': Biden Inauguration EMPTY (PICS)
Joseph Biden's "inauguration" is empty. It's that simple, and that humiliating.
And that goes beyond the COVID restrictions freshly introduced for the event – with even the near-side of the National Mall which is allowed to be occupied – empty.
As One America News's Jack Posobiec said on the War Room Pandemic this morning: "This is what 80 million votes looks like?
Compare the images from 2017 (Trump's inauguration) and 2021 (Biden's) for yourself. . . "
https://thenationalpulse.com/breakin...on-empty-pics/
Biden inauguration: Tight security, small crowd, big problems. . . Dallas Morning News. Trump snub casts pall, as do heavy troop presence after Capitol riot and sparse attendance. . .
Originally Posted by GDreams [View Original Post]
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01-20-21 04:49 #1872
Posts: 689Originally Posted by Travv [View Original Post]
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01-20-21 04:47 #1871
Posts: 689Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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01-20-21 04:34 #1870
Posts: 2374Anyone old enough (and not yet senescent, paulie) recollects how in the late 60's, it was the Left that entrenched power had to suppress in order to maintain their hegemony. Fast forward to now, and it's the Right that is being targeted.
It has everything to do with the suppression of Free Speech.
That 'the US Constitution doesn't touch private companies' is the means whereby your civil liberties will be taken away from you. Pay attention.
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01-20-21 03:26 #1869
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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01-20-21 03:14 #1868
Posts: 1680Travv
Here's the bottom line.
Go find yourself a nice quiet corner. Then man up and look to the midterms. The people have spoken and chosen a different path, which commences tomorrow.
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01-20-21 03:09 #1867
Posts: 1762Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
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01-20-21 01:16 #1866
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by Paulie97 [View Original Post]
If you ever get yourself able to comprehend the meaning and original context of classical liberalism you might be able to get a grip on the basics of the current system: 'neoliberalism'. Of course that would be wishful thinking: the 'political science' you reference has been rebranded as 'political economy' decades ago, long since evidently you had a book open in front of you.