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14 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

How about proving you arent a paid shill!!

 

I already did, a number of times.....even got you to prove you were a dinar holder like the rest of us....Here's a friendly little reminder of that exchange, in case it slipped your mind.....It seems you weren't actually done with me "forever".

 

On 6/14/2018 at 11:39 AM, Pitcher said:

image.thumb.jpg.42418152f8a463f5e79c4b2fc70826de.jpgHere you go Shabbs. 2 mil.  I have a lot more so are you satisfied. Now go report to HRC.  I’m done with you forever.

 

 

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Owning some Dinars and being on this website does not prove you are not a paid shill.  I could care less if you are or aren’t.  I made that statement because I think are one but also because you can’t disprove it.    

It’s a form of yellow journalism and the Dems use it all the time.  

 

Accuse accuse accuse, put your opponent on defense.  You do it everyday on this board.  It truly is embarrassing and it is a colossal waste of your time.  You seem like a bright person. Maybe you should join the VIP and let me teach you how to earn millions in Crypto.  

 

The key phrase in that last sentence is “ join the VIP”.

 

When will you  join the VIP and support this board instead of being an agitator.   You bring very little to the table except MSNBC talking points and of course just you opinion.  🤮

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5 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

Owning some Dinars and being on this website does not prove you are not a paid shill.  I could care less if you are or aren’t.  I made that statement because I think are one but also because you can’t disprove it.    

It’s a form of yellow journalism and the Dems use it all the time.  

 

Accuse accuse accuse, put your opponent on defense.  You do it everyday on this board.  It truly is embarrassing and it is a colossal waste of your time.  You seem like a bright person. Maybe you should join the VIP!">VIP and let me teach you how to earn millions in Crypto.  

 

The key phrase in that last sentence is “ join the VIP!">VIP”.

 

When will yo join the VIP!">VIP and support system">support this board instead of being an agitator who brings very little to the table except MSNBC talking points and Dem Party trash agenda Nonesense.  

 

The burden of proof lies with the accuser.....every CONSERVATIVE knows that.  And if your agitated, there is an ignore button as well as self-restraint in viewing posts that may offend your sensibilities.  Choose one.

 

Are you a Q believer or follower?

 

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Nice try.  

 

Do you believe in BLM or Antifa and the burning of businesses?

 

Do you believe in Defunding the Police?

 

Do you believe in the Rule of Law?

 

Do you believe in Lawlessness?

 

Do you believe in Censorship?

 

Do you believe in Open Borders?

 

Do you want higher taxes, high inflation, a destroyed economy?

 

Do you want to Cancel people who oppose you and your agenda?

 

Do you believe in Socialism?

 

Do you believe in Racism?

 

I think you do because the Party you support does!!

 

I am not a follower of Q and don’t really know much about it because I don’t do Social Media.  So since you so eloquently corrected me in your post, prove me wrong.  😂😂

 

BTW, I am far from agitated by you or your posts.  I’m just busting your baseballs because it’s so easy.  

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

Nice try.  

 

Do you believe in BLM or Antifa and the burning of businesses?  Yes, the movements exist, No I don't believe in burning businesses

 

Do you believe in Defunding the Police?  No

 

Do you believe in the Rule of Law?  Yes

 

Do you believe in Lawlessness?  No

 

Do you believe in Censorship?  Only to quell violence

 

Do you believe in Open Borders?  No

 

Do you want higher taxes, high inflation, a destroyed economy?  Our broken highway system won't pay for itself....and obviously NO to the last two

 

Do you want to Cancel people who oppose you and your agenda?  No 

 

Do you believe in Socialism?  I believe in Social Security....and helping those in need.

 

Do you believe in Racism?  Racism exists, Yes....so yes, I believe racism exists (Asian Americans aren't kicking their own asses)

 

I think you do because the Party you support system" rel="">support does!!  I'm not registered to any political party, but if I was, it wouldn't be the GOP of Today....5 years ago, I was on the fence.

 

I am not a follower of Q and don’t really know much about it because I don’t do Social Media.  So since you so eloquently corrected me in your post, prove me wrong.  😂😂  You're on Social Media in this very conversation...just proved you wrong.  :facepalm:

 

BTW, I am far from agitated by you or your posts.  I’m just busting your baseballs because it’s so easy.  You've busted nothing....you'll simply disappear like you always do, and then reappear when you're feeling froggy, like always, very predictable.

 

 

 

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13 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

you'll simply disappear like you always do, and then reappear when you're feeling froggy, like always, very predictable.

 

Nothing wrong with being predictable.  I always know it’s Mon-Friday 8 am -4:30 pm because you are always on this site spewing your hate of Trump and Conservatives during those hours of the day.   I guess those are your Paid Shill hours.  

 

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12 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

Nothing wrong with being predictable.  I always know it’s Mon-Friday 8 am -4:30 pm because you are always on this site spewing your hate of Trump and Conservatives during those hours of the day.   I guess those are your Paid Shill hours.  

 

 

I have zero issues with Conservatives.....Trump certainly isn't one of those, as he's lived his whole life enjoying the excesses of others hard work.  I don't know one single Conservative who isn't above putting in the work themselves....do you? 

 

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The Independent

“She’s under a spell, it’s scary”: Son chronicles his mother’s descent into the dark world of Qanon

 
 
Justin Vallejo
Wed, June 9, 2021, 5:58 AM·7 min read
 
 
<p>Sean Donnelly filmed attempt to remove mum, Tammy, from the pull of QAnon</p> (Sean Donnelly)
 

Sean Donnelly filmed attempt to remove mum, Tammy, from the pull of QAnon

(Sean Donnelly)

The eight minutes of Sean Donnelly’s short film confronting his mother are uncomfortable to watch.

In the aftermath of the US Capitol riots, epithets against QAnon believers in the cultural zeitgeist graduated from the basic basket of deplorables to insurrectionists tearing down America’s democracy.

Against that backdrop, the California director turned the camera onto efforts to pull his mum, Tammy (surname withheld), from the spiralling rabbit hole of plandemics and paedophile cannibals.

 

The result is an uneasy contrast between a son’s compassionate attempt at deprogramming his mother’s sincere belief in the “truth”, and the unspoken image of Q-supporters burned into the psyche of non-believers by the country’s media apparatus; Racists, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.

“I don’t think my mum is a bad person. I think she’s actually one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met, I think she means very well, and I don’t think that she’s full of hate or something,” Mr Donnelly said.

“It’s a thing a lot of people struggle with. I have a lot of friends whose parents have gotten into this stuff, and I think it’s difficult for a lot of relationships.”

Discussing the short, QAmom - Confronting my mom’s conspiracy theories, with Mr Donnelly and Tammy is as uncomfortable as watching the film itself.

In an interview with The Independent, the mother and son pair grappled with their relationship from opposite ends of an ideological spectrum in an earnest, if awkward, attempt to reach some seemingly impossible understanding.

Tammy, she suddenly revealed, didn’t know her son was making a movie. Yes, she did, Mr Donnelly insisted. She did know he was going to make a video, but not this documentary, she said. He said she obviously knew she was being interviewed on camera and he told her a movie was being made. It wasn’t some sneak attack or trick.

Those videos were just to help with their memory on the bets, Tammy said. She didn’t know he was filming a documentary until he came to collect the money.

That money is the $700 Mr Donnelly won from seven $100 bets that seven QAnon predictions would not come true, which formed the basis of the film documenting his attempt to dislodge his mum from the spell of conspiracies.

The film ended on the hopeful note that Tammy may be at least be less confident in the so-called “truth”, if not convinced they’re simply conspiracies theories.

Two months later, did it work?

“To me, they’re not conspiracies, they’re all truth,” Tammy said. “You might be interested to know, do you know where the word conspiracy theory came from and why it started?”

Well, sure. Or as the story goes, at least. It was supposedly created by the CIA to demonize anyone looking too closely at the assassination of John F Kennedy in the 1960s.

But that, as Mr Donnelly interjects, “is a conspiracy theory in and of itself. There’s evidence going back to the 1800s of conspiracy theories”. As far back as the War of 1812, the Federalist and Jeffersonian Republican Parties engaged in conspiracy theories by rhetoric, if not by that name, as traced out by Smithsonian.

Here’s a quick rewind to the seven conspiracy theories featured in the film that Tammy bet would be proven true by 1 April.

1) Joe Biden will not be in office. 2) Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, James Comey “and the rest of them” will be arrested. 3) A Hollywood star like Tom Hanks or Oprah Winfrey will be arrested for paedophilia, satanic worship and sacrifices. 4) Huge election fraud with the Dominion machines will be 100 per cent proven, with no dispute. 5) The Capitol Hill riot on 6 January was definitely Antifa and Black Lives Matter and it was 100 per cent arranged. 6) FEMA and the military are in control. 7) The Pope will be arrested for being a paedophile and molesting children.

It took about four years, or roughly a single presidential term of Donald J Trump, for Tammy to go from a New Agey and health-focused suburban mum who never watched the news and rarely followed politics to fall down the spiritual yoga pathway into her click of “freedom friends”.

Her first exposure to QAnon were giant Q signs, Q hats and Q shirts in an Instagram video of a Trump rally. To this day, she doesn’t believe she follows QAnon or its “Q drops”.

“I found it very patriotic, it looked like it was a way for patriots and freedom fighters and people who were fighting for the Constitution and their liberties to kind of unite,” Tammy said.

“So I don’t follow Q per se, but some of the people I listen to probably follow Q… my beliefs aren’t really related to QAnon.”

The people she listens to are podcasters and content creators that often pivoted from previous careers in government, health, science, biology or another profession of expertise to disseminate alternate perspectives to an audience thirsty for views outside the mainstream orthodoxy.

But as Mr Donnelly points out, one of the first videos his mother shared four years ago was an explicit Q-drop repeating the greatest hits of the world’s conspiracy theories, like the 9/11 terror attack being an inside job.

“I was like, where are they going with this, what is this building towards, then at the eight or nine-minute mark it went, ‘and the person that’s going to fix it all is Donald Trump’. And I was like, whoa what is this? Then it said, QAnon. That was my introduction, I thought that was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. What was that?” Mr Donnelly said.

At some point, Tammy added drinking what is effectively bleach to her health regime of yoga and spirituality.

The US Food and Drug Administration warns consumers of the life-threatening danger of Miracle Mineral Solution, or sodium chlorite, in distilled water. When “activated” by the citric acid in lemon or lime juice per directions, it becomes chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleaching agent.

It scares her son.

“It’s illegal in this country, it’s basically bleach, and they tell people to drink it to cure Covid and Autism and all this stuff,” Mr Donnelly said. “This stuff is pretty serious. People have died from it. And my mum says, ‘I take it all the time, whenever I feel bad’.”

It’s not bleach, it’s one step away from bleach, Tammy said, and it’s actually cured a lot of people.

“I’ve been drinking it off and on for 30 years, I have it in the house all the time. Two to three times a year if I feel like I’m really getting sick, because it kills everything. I take two or three drops at the most,” she added.

There’s no nudging Tammy from the firmly held beliefs, and her insistence she would have won those seven bets if not for the corruption of mainstream media news, like The Independent, supposedly protecting criminals and making Joe Biden look like a saint.

"Can you imagine if our borders looked like this when Trump was president? Every media station would be up one side and then the other. I believe they’re all true, the problem is, is that Hollywood is run by satanic paedophiles,” Tammy said.

And the film wasn’t a cathartic exercise in bridging the familial divide.

“I don’t think there’s anything about it that would bring you closer. I feel like I lost money, I was made out to look a bizarre conspiracy theorist. So I don’t think that it portrays me very good,” she added.

But Mr Donnelly’s point wasn’t to bring them closer together, or make fun of his mum, or make her look crazy. He hopes to help families grappling with internal division caused by a sophisticated movement that targets different demographics through different pathways, whether it’s the 8chan computer nerds or suburban housewives.

"I see it more like a drug addiction. Its kind of like, my mum is really addicted to this stuff. She really likes it, she’s got to know the truth, and she watches it all the time,” he said.

“They kind of get these people hooked on this thing, and in the same way you shouldn’t blame a drug addict too much, I think it’s sort of like a disease or something. So I guess I think of it that way. She’s put under a spell, and she’s fallen under this stuff and I think it’s scary and sad.”

 

https://news.yahoo.com/she-under-spell-scary-son-095819344.html

 

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JUN. 11, 2021, AT 6:00 AM

Why It’s So Hard To Gauge support For QAnon

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Just how many Americans believe in the QAnon conspiracy? Recent polling from June shows it’s around 15 percent. But wait, a poll from last October found it was 7 percent. But even that is high compared to a rolling survey that pegged it at 4 percent earlier this month. 

Why the disparity? Maybe, in an attempt to minimize the power of QAnon, a secretive clique of polling elites signed a contract with Satan and Marina Abramović to offer wildly different survey results … or maybe it’s just difficult to poll about QAnon.

 

As much as QAnon feels like a distinctly modern phenomenon, much of its lore is rooted in conspiracy theories that have existed for decades or, in some cases, centuries (the core one is that a global cabal of elites is running a Satanic child sex-trafficking and cannabilism ring). It’s part of what has helped QAnon gain as much traction as it has, a kind of big-tent conspiracy movement that combines aspects of many different out-there beliefs. But it’s also what makes it hard to measure.

What if someone thinks a few Q ideas sound plausible? Should a poll consider them a “believer?” What about Americans who endorse QAnon beliefs without realizing they’re associated with QAnon? 


It’s difficult to poll how many people believe in QAnon

Pollsters have strategies for solving these dilemmas, but it’s hard to solve all of them at once. Accounting for one dilemma — say, avoiding the term “QAnon” so you don’t scare off people who are hesitant about sharing their affiliation — opens the door for another (capturing people who aren’t affiliated with QAnon at all). As a result, each individual poll asks very different questions and, ultimately, measures different things.

Consider a recent poll from PRRI. It asked Americans whether they agreed with three separate statements, each a part of the QAnon belief system, but it didn’t mention QAnon by name. Fifteen percent of Americans agreed with the statement “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.” That statement is the central tenet of QAnon, but it’s also not a belief unique to the movement. Fears about Satan-worshipping pedophiles predate QAnon entirely, so belief in that statement isn’t limited to people who follow — or have even heard of — Q, according to Mary deYoung, a professor emeritus of sociology at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. DeYoung has studied the so-called “Satanic panic,” the inaccurate belief popular in the 1980s that Satanic ritual abuse of children was widespread in this country. A 1986 ABC News poll found that 63 percent of Americans believed members of religious cults had “too much influence in this country,” and 54 percent of America thought there should be laws against Satan worship, per a 1987 Williamsburg Charter Foundation poll. 

 

The other statements that PRRI polled, about a “storm coming” to “sweep away elites in power,” (20 percent) and that “patriots may have to resort to violence” (15 percent) aren’t unique to QAnon, either. The “storm” prediction mimics the apocalyptic language of evangelical Christianity, and resorting to violence would be endorsed by any number of right-wing militia or extremists. 

Natalie Jackson, PRRI’s director of research, said the firm had existing conspiracy theories in mind when designing the survey and carefully worded the statements to match what they found in QAnon sources. She also said that QAnon’s breadth of conspiratorial topics is partly why PRRI focused on the beliefs themselves, rather than asking respondents to self-identify as QAnon supporters. Someone could potentially be subscribing to QAnon ideas without realizing they’re part of the movement, and PRRI wanted to capture the beliefs of those people as well. (Other polling firms have focused on asking about beliefs, rather than QAnon affiliation, and they’ve found similar rates to the PRRI poll.)

“The bigger picture here is less about QAnon itself and more about people believing a conspiracy theory that is so wild. I never thought I would write a survey question like this in my career,” Jackson said. “At that point, does it really matter if you are formally affiliated with QAnon, or is the more important thing that you think this is a real possibility?”  

But along with the potential to attribute belief in QAnon to non-QAnon conspiracy theorists, asking about specific beliefs can run another polling risk: expressive responses, a phenomenon where people sometimes answer survey questions with what feels closest to their views, rather than what they believe is true. Take a 2016 poll from UMass Lowell/Odyssey, where nearly a quarter of millennials said they would prefer that “a giant meteor strikes the Earth, instantly extinguishing all human life” over either Hillarious Clinton or Donald Trump winning the election. In a 2020 version of the poll in New Hampshire, a majority of Democrats chose the meteor over Trump winning a second term. 

Joshua Dyck, an associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Public Opinion at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, explained that they never believed these respondents were being sincere. “The reason we asked the question is because it’s funny, and because it is a measure of negative partisanship and expressive responding — people will say something crazy!” said Dyck. “Sometimes I don’t know what to do with the QAnon response. Do people actually believe in the global conspiracy, the pedophile ring, or is it just that they hate Hillarious Clinton that much?”

Dyck said getting around the expressive response dilemma is difficult, but that experimental research has shown that offering people money, for example, can improve their ability to give factual responses and reduces the impact of expressive responses and partisan bias. 

But overcoming one set of dilemmas sometimes opens the door for a new one. Joseph Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami who has been polling Americans on QAnon since 2018, chooses to focus on explicitly naming the movement, even if that means missing some “shy” QAnon followers. 

 

Each of his QAnon surveys asks respondents to rate the conspiracy theory on a “feelings thermometer,” from 0-100, with higher scores indicating more positive feelings. QAnon consistently rates in the mid-to-low 20s, making it one of the least-liked political groups Uscinski and his colleagues have asked respondents about.

Uscinski points out that when Americans are asked point-blank if they’ve heard of QAnon, or if they believe in it, the results are also consistent. In August 2019, an Emerson poll found that 5 percent of voters said “yes” when asked simply, “Are you a believer in QAnon?” Among Americans who had heard of QAnon, 7 percent said they believed it was true, according to an October 2020 poll from Yahoo/YouGov. Similarly, a rolling tracker from Civiqs has found that less than 10 percent of Americans consistently say that they are a supporter of QAnon and that number has declined over the past year (from 7 percent in September 2020 to 4 percent this week).

“The good news is QAnon is not that big,” Uscinski said. “The bad news is a lot of the wacky ideas that are prominent with QAnon are big, and they probably were long before QAnon ever showed up.” 

Asking respondents directly whether they believe in or support QAnon avoids picking up unrelated conspiracy theorists, but it also runs the risk of another polling pitfall: social desirability bias, which is when survey respondents give the answer they think is more socially acceptable, rather than what they honestly believe. Jackson said that some Q believers may be skeptical of pollsters to begin with, and that they’re less likely to admit affiliation when asked directly. Not mentioning QAnon directly can soften this effect. Uscinski, for his part, thinks the risk of a social desirability bias with QAnon is minimal, given the unabashed zeal with which proponents seem to demonstrate their support

The best strategy for untangling all of these issues is to ask a lot of different kinds of questions, according to Dyck. Ideally, this would be done in one survey and repeated regularly with the same set of questions, but resource constraints mean that’s not often practical. 

Instead, these different kinds of questions measuring different aspects of QAnon support are spread across many different surveys. That makes it harder to draw conclusions, but when you add all the polls together, it becomes clear that the number of Americans who are truly down the QAnon rabbit hole is likely small, and the number of those individuals who would be willing to act violently in the name of the movement is a tiny fraction of the total population. That’s not to say that QAnon isn’t a concern — it is. But the number of Americans who make up the population of true believers is likely smaller than it sometimes appears.

 

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-hard-to-gauge-support-for-qanon/

 

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1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

have zero issues with Conservatives.....Trump certainly isn't one of those, as he's lived his whole life enjoying the excesses of others hard work.  I don't know one single Conservative who isn't above putting in the work themselves....do you? 

 

Oh I think you do have issues with Conservatives.  Your writings reflect your views Daily.   

 

You're obsessed with Trump. He’s not the President anymore.   

 

I’m 68 years old and I'm mostly Conservative but I do care about people and back many Progressive causes.  

 

The reason I don’t spend much time on this part of DV is because I’m in the VIP section working with other like minded members who want to earn money.   After all someone has to work, earn money, and pay the Biden 43% taxes so his supporters can stay home and play video games on unemployment.  

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3 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

Oh I think you do have issues with Conservatives.  Your writings reflect your views Daily.   

 

You're obsessed with Trump. He’s not the President anymore.   

 

I’m 68 years old and I'm mostly Conservative but I do care about people and back many Progressive causes.  

 

The reason I don’t spend much time on this part of DV is because I’m in the VIP!" rel="">VIP section working with other like minded members who want to earn money.   After all someone has to work, earn money, and pay the Biden 43% taxes so his supporters can stay home and play video games on unemployment.  

 

I pay my taxes too, just like you.

 

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FBI warns that QAnon followers could engage in 'real-world violence'

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - The FBI has warned that followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory could again engage in violence against political opponents out of frustration that the theory's predictions have not come true.

Believers in the conspiracy theory - which casts former President Donald Trump as a savior figure and elite Democrats as a cabal of Satanist pedophiles and cannibals - played a prominent role in the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

In a June 4 bulletin distributed to members of Congress and seen by Reuters, the FBI said its experts believe that some believers in predictions of political upheavals promoted on QAnon websites and bulletin boards believe they can "no longer 'trust the plan.'"

Those have included predictions of disclosures about Democrats' involvement in child-trafficking rings, Hillarious Clinton's arrest and the restoration of Trump to the White House.

 

Given the failure of QAnon's predictions to materialize, the FBI bulletin warns that some QAnon adherents "likely will begin to believe" they have an "obligation" to transform themselves from "serving as 'digital soldiers' towards engaging in real world violence" against Democrats and "other political opposition."

The FBI attributes at least some of a falloff in support for QAnon to the non-occurrence of events, such as Trump's restoration, which QAnon predicted but which failed to materialize, and also to large-scale deplatforming of QAnon materials by social media companies.

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-warns-that-qanon-followers-could-engage-real-world-violence-2021-06-14/

 

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This is the same FBI that knew about things that were going to happen on Jan 6 and did nothing. 

The same FBI that lied about a false dossier against a sitting president to get an illegal FISA warrant to

get illegal surveillance on U.S. citizens. Very trustworthy bunch of treasonous snakes. 

First they sow an idea. Then false flag one to make their predictions come true.    :bs: article.

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The Week

FBI: Some QAnon adherents no longer 'trust the plan' or Q's prophesies, may turn to violence

Peter Weber, Senior editor
Tue, June 15, 2021, 12:04 AM
 
 

The FBI and the Homeland Security Department's intelligence office are warning that many adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory have become disillusioned as the movement's false prophesies keep not materializing, and some of those followers will likely turn to violence, according to a report released Monday by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.).

One main tenet of the QAnon conspiracy was "The Storm," where former President Donald Trump would stay in power and his enemies in the "cabal" would be tried and executed. At least 20 of the people arrested for participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection are QAnon followers, the report says. After President Biden won and took office, some QAnon adherents have come to believe Trump is the "shadow president," while others "likely will disengage from the movement or reduce their involvement" as Biden continues to be president.

A main concern, the two-page unclassified FBI report says, is that violent "adherents of QAnon likely will begin to believe they can no longer 'trust the plan' referenced in QAnon posts and that they have an obligation to change from serving as 'digital soldiers' toward engaging in real world violence — including harming perceived members of the 'cabal' such as Democrats and other political opposition — instead of continually awaiting Q's promised actions which have not occurred." Believing in QAnon is not in itself a violation of any law, the FBI underscores.

 

Heinrich and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked the FBI for its QAnon assessment in December. "QAnon refers to a complex and constantly evolving conspiracy theory that is promoted by a decentralized online community that has morphed into a real-world movement," the report explains. "Its foundational principle holds that a corrupt cabal of 'global elites' and 'deep state' actors run a Satan-worshiping international child sex trafficking ring, and engaged in plots to conduct a coup against a former president of the United States while he was in office." You can read the two-page memo at CNN.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-qanon-adherents-no-longer-040421755.html

 

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Oh my, you fellas don't approve of the sources?....Say it ain't so.  B)

 

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I truly feel sorry for you.  :shrug:  When your sources are constantly lying to you, how can you consider them sources?

 

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