[QUOTE=Travv;2523894]Joseph Biden's "inauguration" is empty. It's that simple, and that humiliating.[/QUOTE]The Trump stain will be with the United States for a while.
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[QUOTE=Travv;2523894]Joseph Biden's "inauguration" is empty. It's that simple, and that humiliating.[/QUOTE]The Trump stain will be with the United States for a while.
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.
[URL]https://www.thedailybeast.com/im-about-to-puke-qanon-in-chaos-as-biden-takes-office[/URL]
[QUOTE=ShooBree;2521665]LMFAO! They are most certainly not "heroes". They are black supremacists. Just look at the deranged woman Biden thought was a good pick:
[URL]https://meaww.com/tucker-carlson-accuses-kristen-clarke-joe-biden-pick-as-doj-civil-rights-division-racism-harvard[/URL]
Black supremacists will play a big part in Bidens administration.
Too bad white liberal Americans wants to destroy the country. USA is on the path to become the next South Africa or Zimbabwe, a no-go area for white people.[/QUOTE]Agent Orange pardoned Little Wayne and Kwame Kilpatrick among dozens of Black heroes. The white supremacist insurrectionists waited in vain for pardons that never materialized. They will spend the next several years trying not to drop the soap. What a bunch of suckers! LOL!
[URL]https://www.bet.com/news/national/2021/01/20/kwame-kilpatrick-lil-wayne-trump-presidential-pardons-commutations.html[/URL]
[QUOTE=Travv;2523894]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. . . "
[URL]https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/this-is-what-80-million-votes-looks-like-biden-inauguration-empty-pics/[/URL]
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. . .[/QUOTE]What are you getting at? That Trump won because his inauguration had way more people than Biden's, right?
[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2522956]As ShooBree crumbles to his knees, sobbing uncontrollably.
Unable to be consoled when he thinks about no longer getting all those personalized Tweets that Trump would send only to him, and his nine cats.[/QUOTE]He is locked in vigorous debate with his council of nine cats regarding the contents of the note that Trump left President Biden. The cats assert that Agent Orange was actually the Democrat's man all along and that he colluded with Zuckerberg to flush out all of the QAnon wackos and white supremacists nut jobs on social media, allowing the FBI to arrest and incarcerate them. SB is having a hard time believing his nine cats although they make a good case, seeing how no pardons were forthcoming for the insurrectionists. After all, did not Agent Orange say that he loved them? SB argues with the cats that he must be dreaming and that any moment Agent Orange will appear on Fox to say that it was all a big hoax and he is still president. The cats roll over meowing in laughter!
Let's ask a trusted news source, Sean "Spicey) Spicer to weigh in on size matters, or Sara Sanders, who changed her story about the FBI while under oath and the hot breath of the independent counsel. Spicer and his motorized lectern is applying for a spot in the White House press room.
[QUOTE=Golfinho;2523945]That's the whole idea: make an example of Trump to send a message to anyone who would dare to presume that he could run for the Presidency, as if the USA was a democracy where the citizens could choose their leaders.[/QUOTE]Its not about sending a message to anyone who would dare to run for the presidency. It is about the fact that Trump is is a pile of putrid corruption whose sole purpose in running for President was enrichment and self gratification. If he had only a modicum of competence he would have been well on the way to making himself President for life.
[QUOTE=Golfinho;2523733]That 'the US Constitution doesn't touch private companies' is the means whereby your civil liberties will be taken away from you. Pay attention.[/QUOTE]Correct, private companies can get away with abuses that democratically elected governments couldn't dream of. And I agree with you, that will be the downfall. Until we institute democratic principles within the workplace, the US will always be a plantation nation and far from free. Keeping the balance of power between labor and capital through the democratization of the workplace is essential especially with automation. Workers having a say in what is produced, what technology is used to produce it, and how it is distributed is paramount if we are ever to truly call ourselves a free society, which in essence it never has been.
Gabon's opposition says it was cheated of victory, after official results showed a turnout of 99.93% in President Ali Bongo's home region, with 95% of votes in his favour. Elizabeth Blunt has witnessed many elections across Africa, as both a BBC journalist and election observer and looks at six signs of possible election rigging.
1. Too many voters. Watch the turnout figures they can be a big giveaway. . . I once reported on an election in the Niger Delta where some areas had a turnout of more than 120%. "They're very healthy people round here, and very civic-minded," a local official assured me. But a turnout of more than 100%, in an area or an individual polling station, is a major red flag and a reason to cancel the result and re-run the election.
2. A high turnout in specific areas. Why would one particular area, or one individual polling station, have a 90% turnout, while most other areas register less than 70%? Something strange is almost certainly going on, especially if the high turnout is an area which favours one particular candidate or party over another.
3. Large numbers of invalid votes. Keep an eye on the number of votes excluded as invalid. Even in countries with low literacy rates this isn't normally above 5%. High numbers of invalid votes can mean that officials are disqualifying ballots for the slightest imperfection, even when the voter's intention is perfectly clear, in an attempt to depress votes for their opponents.
4. More votes than ballot papers issued. . . If there is a discrepancy, something is wrong. And if there are more papers in the boxes than were issued by the polling staff, it is highly likely that someone has been doing some "stuffing". (Except in the USA where vote counters are seen on video kicking out the authorized vote monitors then pulling out suitcases filled with ballots for off the books counting. . .)
5. Results that don't match. It is now standard practice to allow party agents, observers and sometimes even voters to watch the counting process and take photographs of the results sheet with their phones.
(Except in the USA where vote monitors are kicked out due to "water leaks" and the windows are covered with cardboard while the 'count" continues. . .
6. Delay in announcing results. Election commissions, particularly in Africa, can appear to take an inordinately long time to publish official results. . . Giving time to "massage" the results. . ."
[URL]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37243190[/URL]
Reading this article somehow reminds one of the sudden change after a delay at 4 in the morning then drastic "change" in the "winner" after the results were "massaged".
Seems weird that "the most popular politician in the USA" had virtually no turnout for his rallies or inauguration and had numerous election 'glitches" - need to stop trusting my eyes and believing the "truthtellers" in the mainstream media like Dan Rather. LOL A suspicious person might believe after reading the hallmarks of election fraud that the USA had an "African" style election. . .
[QUOTE=Tavares;2523993]What are you getting at? That Trump won because his inauguration had way more people than Biden's, right?[/QUOTE]
Lady does a great job with this Bill Withers classic, dedicated to our healthcare workers.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4n_jDe0JsQ[/URL]
[QUOTE=RunMann;2523692]What do you think those 80 million plus Biden voters are going to think and say?[/QUOTE]Half of these 'voters' have been dead for more than 50 years.
[QUOTE=ScatManDoo;2523701]I think so. The evidence is clear that he invited and incited a riot at the capital to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.
[/QUOTE]What exactly did Trump say or do to encourage people to riot? Can you show me this clear evidence including any direct quotes?
Funny how the US authorities can muster up tens of thousands of troops, police officers and secret service agents to lock down DC to protect Joe Biden at the inauguration, yet when the Burn Loot Murder and anti-fa mobs went on a 6 month riot spree last summer in cities all over the US the authorities looked the other way. These Democrat sponsored mobs murdered more than 25 people, injured many hundreds (many were left with life-changing injuries), caused over USD2 billion in damages and thousands of businesses were destroyed. When will the Democrats be held to account for their treachery?
[QUOTE=Goatscrot;2524007]Keeping the balance of power between labor and capital through the democratization of the workplace is essential especially with automation. Workers having a say in what is produced, what technology is used to produce it, and how it is distributed is paramount if we are ever to truly call ourselves a free society, which in essence it never has been.[/QUOTE]Way too far out leftist concept for our so-called liberals, who are in reality neoliberal totalitarians. As has been said, the political game in America is played between the forty yard lines.
[QUOTE=Mdemde;2524151]Funny how the US authorities can muster up tens of thousands of troops, police officers and secret service agents to lock down DC to protect Joe Biden at the inauguration, yet when the Burn Loot Murder and anti-fa mobs went on a 6 month riot spree last summer in cities all over the US the authorities looked the other way. These Democrat sponsored mobs murdered more than 25 people, injured many hundreds (many were left with life-changing injuries), caused over USD2 billion in damages and thousands of businesses were destroyed. When will the Democrats be held to account for their treachery?[/QUOTE]Never, the Democrats will never take any responsibility for the violence perpetrated by their voters and supporters. Most liberals are brainwashed beyond repair by the liberal media. Just have a look on the liberals on this forum. Damaged goods.