QAnon’s Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete

[Jkca1]

Many Republicans are anti-anti-QAnon. They won't explicitly support it, but in true cult-like fashion, they'll attack anyone who dares to criticize the QAnon nutjobs.

Some democrats support the BLM movement. Others do not. Some democrats support the defund the police movement, others don't. There is enough proven insanity on both sides of the aisle yet we keep electing the certifiable...what does it say about the electorate? The problem isn't the candidates people, it's the electorate. If I may quote Pogo;

 

[Grim17]

Hope that was intended with a heavy side of irony.

On the contrary... Anyone who thinks Qanon plays any role at all in republican politics, or thinks they are a significant player in conservative circles, is nothing but a conspiracy theorist. The left wants to convince people that Qanon is on the brink of taking over the country, but it's a bullshit excuse to avoid taking responsibility for their own shortcomings.

I've watched the democrats and left for the last 20 years rely heavily on the strategy "Make the right look worse than us to get democrats elected", because if the ran on the issues, they couldn't win jack shit.

.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Observing the Dems lying down for this convinced me.

Lying down????

 

[VanceMack]

Wait..was this "Q" thing you are yammering about responsible for giving out minimum sentences to pedolphiles? Is that what you are claiming? Or are you just trying to find some lame ass excuse to justify your support of someone that thinks pedophiles should just get a slap on the wrist.

 

[Phys251]

Some democrats support the BLM movement. Others do not. Some democrats support the defund the police movement, others don't.

Black Lives Matter is not insane.

Defund the police is not insane, but it is misguided.

There is enough proven insanity on both sides of the aisle yet we keep electing the certifiable...what does it say about the electorate? The problem isn't the candidates people, it's the electorate. If I may quote Pogo;

Both sides are not the same.

 

[Rawley]

"QAnon’s infiltration of the Republican Party has proceeded with frightening steadiness over the last couple years, its growing foothold marked by the arrival of conspiratorial politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene. According to Business Insider, Ron Watkins, widely believed to be one of the authors of the Q posts that started the movement, is one of nearly 60 Q sympathizers running for Congress in the 2022 midterm elections. ...The latest exemplar of the GOP’s descent into anything-goes nuttery is Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas...she has traveled far down the QAnon rabbit hole.

Thomas’s willingness to embrace even the most wild-eyed, Big Lie–fueled theories only affirms what we already know about some of her political peers....These include lawmakers and aspiring presidential candidates in the Senate. Earlier this month, Missouri senator Josh Hawley presented a long Twitter thread charging that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook” — a blaring Klaxon for QAnon adherents obsessed with child endangerment. He later repeated his criticisms on the first day of Jackson’s confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court, prompting a White House spokesman to assert that Hawley was engaging in a “QAnon-signaling smear.” Hawley’s remarks were later echoed by South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who, in addition to chiding Jackson for representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, told Jackson, “Every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited.” To cap it off, one of the Republican witnesses for the hearing was Alessandra Serano, an executive at Operation Underground Railroad, a well-funded anti-sex-trafficking organization whose vigilantism and weak relationship with reality resemble that of QAnon adherents.

The signs of the Republican slide toward full epistemic crack-up are all around us. One can see it everywhere lately, not only in the “why do you want to hurt children?”–type questions hurled by Republican senators at Jackson, but also in the revanchist anti-LGBTQ laws being introduced in Texas and Florida and in fearful talk of teachers “grooming” children on Fox News. The ginned-up moral panic, centered around the child-exploitation themes that helped give life to QAnon, is now a regular part of Republican political rhetoric."

Link

While a horrifying development, did anyone who watched the ascent of Trump in this shell of party not see this coming?

If you guys paid 1/100th of the attention you give to the REpubs to your own party, perhaps it wouldn't be going down the shitter.

 

[Jkca1]

Black Lives Matter is not insane.

Defund the police is not insane, but it is misguided.



Both sides are not the same.

Of course not. What ever side you have a bias for is naturally going to be the "correct" side. However, as an independent voter let me assure you that both sides could disappear tomorrow and the country would be better off. That's my "better off" bias kicking in.

 

[Mr Person]

Observing the Dems lying down for this convinced me.

The Dems lay down for the GOP to be taken over by QAnon'ing Trumpists? This convinced you of...something?

Huh?

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

To be fair, republicans do not have a monopoly on Qnuttery. There are many on the left who think GW Bush had a hand in 9/11. Lately however, it seems you are correct in that the right are the leaders in this idiocy, even though it is a relatively small percentage.

Excuse me, I was there...many on the Left "did" think Dubya had a hand in it, but I kinda doubt more than a few handfuls remain in that.
I actually earned money doing post production chores on two docu's for a couple of "911 Troofers" back in 2002.
One of the shows was called "911 In Plane Sight", where I did extensive videotape logging and offline edit chores, then handed the logs and rough assembly EDL's to the producers,
all for the maybe not so lucrative sum of about 2500 bucks.

The fringe Left might still believe that Dubya spearheaded it but the truth is actually a lot more depressing. There was no "conspiracy" .... just a lot of money worship and a lot of hubris...
and a lot of "we're insured, who cares, it won't ever happen".

People with that kind of money tend to view a disaster like that the way you or I would view the engine on our car seizing up.
"Sucks, but call the shop and call the rent-a-car place, we're inconvenienced and the insurance will take care of it."

 

[Phys251]

Of course not. What ever side you have a bias for is naturally going to be the "correct" side. However, as an independent voter let me assure you that both sides could disappear tomorrow and the country would be better off. That's my "better off" bias kicking in.

Would it be though? My disagreements with the progressives are political, not personal. They don't invent these massive conspiracy theories like QAnoners do and then run for office on them.

Both sides are NOT the same.

 

[Bullseye]

"QAnon’s infiltration of the Republican Party has proceeded with frightening steadiness over the last couple years, its growing foothold marked by the arrival of conspiratorial politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene. According to Business Insider, Ron Watkins, widely believed to be one of the authors of the Q posts that started the movement, is one of nearly 60 Q sympathizers running for Congress in the 2022 midterm elections. ...The latest exemplar of the GOP’s descent into anything-goes nuttery is Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas...she has traveled far down the QAnon rabbit hole.

Thomas’s willingness to embrace even the most wild-eyed, Big Lie–fueled theories only affirms what we already know about some of her political peers....These include lawmakers and aspiring presidential candidates in the Senate. Earlier this month, Missouri senator Josh Hawley presented a long Twitter thread charging that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook” — a blaring Klaxon for QAnon adherents obsessed with child endangerment. He later repeated his criticisms on the first day of Jackson’s confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court, prompting a White House spokesman to assert that Hawley was engaging in a “QAnon-signaling smear.” Hawley’s remarks were later echoed by South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who, in addition to chiding Jackson for representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, told Jackson, “Every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited.” To cap it off, one of the Republican witnesses for the hearing was Alessandra Serano, an executive at Operation Underground Railroad, a well-funded anti-sex-trafficking organization whose vigilantism and weak relationship with reality resemble that of QAnon adherents.

The signs of the Republican slide toward full epistemic crack-up are all around us. One can see it everywhere lately, not only in the “why do you want to hurt children?”–type questions hurled by Republican senators at Jackson, but also in the revanchist anti-LGBTQ laws being introduced in Texas and Florida and in fearful talk of teachers “grooming” children on Fox News. The ginned-up moral panic, centered around the child-exploitation themes that helped give life to QAnon, is now a regular part of Republican political rhetoric."

Link

While a horrifying development, did anyone who watched the ascent of Trump in this shell of party not see this coming?

Yet another LW "the sky is falling" word salad. All the approved lib-cult mantras, slogans and catechisms. "Oh my God! They want to teach their children HISTORY!" " . . .and biology instead of Wokeness".
Breath into a paper bag for a few minutes - it' come down the hyperventilation.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Seems like "Qanon" is just the new version of calling someone a conspiracy theorist. The thing about "Q" bullshit is that this person or people claim EVERYTHING is a conspiracy. Everything.

Seems like?
When is the last time you actually had a conversation with a Qanoner? An actual conversation, where they try to "educate you" about it?

 

[SCrider]

Wow...the left really will bend over backwards to try and stop criticism levied against Jackson over a pattern of giving very low sentencing to child pornographers. That's just sick.

And this is exactly how these Q CT keep spreading. You grab a headline without any research or background and spread the CT crap. Congrats you are part of Q.

 

[Razoo]

The GOP is dead .....

It's all RINO .........

 

[CaughtInThe]

 

[Razoo]

Rick Perry wants to tax the POOR, but now seems to be walking that back for some reason. LOL.

Mitch has said he would not bring forth that Rick Scott RINO BS. Can Mitch be trusted? Not lately.

 

[CaughtInThe]

 

[Jkca1]

Would it be though? My disagreements with the progressives are political, not personal. They don't invent these massive conspiracy theories like QAnoners do and then run for office on them.

Both sides are NOT the same.

We can agree that conspiracy theories are wrong. Both sides are guilty of having them right. Plenty of crazy out there.

 

[Fishking]

And this is exactly how these Q CT keep spreading. You grab a headline without any research or background and spread the CT crap. Congrats you are part of Q.

Lol...pretty sick you're defending soft treatment of child pornographers.

 

[Jezcoe]

Madison Cawthorn says he has been invited to Congressional orgies and have seen Congress critters do bumps of coke.

He should name names.

 

[j brown's body]

Some democrats support the BLM movement. Others do not. Some democrats support the defund the police movement, others don't. There is enough proven insanity on both sides of the aisle yet we keep electing the certifiable...what does it say about the electorate? The problem isn't the candidates people, it's the electorate. If I may quote Pogo;

Not conspiracy-mongering groups.

 

[tres borrachos]

"QAnon’s infiltration of the Republican Party has proceeded with frightening steadiness over the last couple years, its growing foothold marked by the arrival of conspiratorial politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene. According to Business Insider, Ron Watkins, widely believed to be one of the authors of the Q posts that started the movement, is one of nearly 60 Q sympathizers running for Congress in the 2022 midterm elections. ...The latest exemplar of the GOP’s descent into anything-goes nuttery is Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas...she has traveled far down the QAnon rabbit hole.

Thomas’s willingness to embrace even the most wild-eyed, Big Lie–fueled theories only affirms what we already know about some of her political peers....These include lawmakers and aspiring presidential candidates in the Senate. Earlier this month, Missouri senator Josh Hawley presented a long Twitter thread charging that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook” — a blaring Klaxon for QAnon adherents obsessed with child endangerment. He later repeated his criticisms on the first day of Jackson’s confirmation hearing to the Supreme Court, prompting a White House spokesman to assert that Hawley was engaging in a “QAnon-signaling smear.” Hawley’s remarks were later echoed by South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who, in addition to chiding Jackson for representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, told Jackson, “Every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited.” To cap it off, one of the Republican witnesses for the hearing was Alessandra Serano, an executive at Operation Underground Railroad, a well-funded anti-sex-trafficking organization whose vigilantism and weak relationship with reality resemble that of QAnon adherents.

The signs of the Republican slide toward full epistemic crack-up are all around us. One can see it everywhere lately, not only in the “why do you want to hurt children?”–type questions hurled by Republican senators at Jackson, but also in the revanchist anti-LGBTQ laws being introduced in Texas and Florida and in fearful talk of teachers “grooming” children on Fox News. The ginned-up moral panic, centered around the child-exploitation themes that helped give life to QAnon, is now a regular part of Republican political rhetoric."

Link

While a horrifying development, did anyone who watched the ascent of Trump in this shell of party not see this coming?

Teachers "grooming" children for what exactly?

 

[Phys251]

We can agree that conspiracy theories are wrong. Both sides are guilty of having them right. Plenty of crazy out there.

You have deluded yourself if you think that progressives have anywhere near the level of conspiracy theories that the Far Right does.

-Pizzagate
-Sandy Hook truthers
-Anti-maskers
-Anti-vaxxers
-QAnon
-The Big Lie

Nothing from the progressives comes even close to this.

 

[j brown's body]

Lol...pretty sick you're defending soft treatment of child pornographers.

Your argument is rubbish.

Senator Hawley’s Disingenuous Attack against Judge Jackson’s Record on Child Pornography | National Review

He distorts her record on ‘sex offenders.’

www.nationalreview.com

 

[Razoo]

MAGA is plagiarism"the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

MAGA = make America Green Always in the environment as well as OUR WALLETS through self sustaining economic growth which RINO Supply Side Reaganomics has never done. That's right the RIGHT WING GLOBAL ECONOMY has put millions out of jobs across the USA and created big debt by 24/7 borrowing from BIG BANKS = another reason to close 500 off shore military establishments.