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First off, it's Q. The only handle that was tied to the source of that info was Q. The Qanon movement stemmed from that, but there was a lot of false and inaccurate info in posts not made by Q. Second, Trump is Q. He was the one managing the account. I'm not sure what you mean by believe in. You have never read through the Q posts and seen the accuracy of the info. You just assume it's fake because you have been told so. Some of the things said in the Q posts were accurate to a spooky degree years later. I think it's amusing to see someone who thinks a man can become a woman think they have a better grasp of truth because of one really good deep fake video. Or that Kamala Harris was worthy to be president over Trump.

You still believe in QAnon though right?

Here’s what’s really scary: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/30/nx-s1-5230801/qanon-capitol-riot-social-media Almost 19% of Americans believe in this stuff. That’s over 60 million people.

I think even the J6 MAGA Viking would shake his head at what a deluded Trump assboy you are. Normal Americans want good jobs and affordable goods and services, and don’t GAF about the QAnon fantasy epic that’s running through your pointy head. HTH

So it’s not like Qanon then, or is Qanon hosting RNC events too? I don’t actually believe this is Trump’s plan, but it’s not like these guys are just some whackos with no real connection to the party like Qanon people. The RNC isn’t going to let just anyone buy a sponsorship like that.

Pro-Russian channels and QAnon conspiracy theorists think Moscow is launching airstrikes on Ukraine to destroy bioweapon-manufacturing labs in order to prevent the American infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci from creating a sequel to the COVID-19 virus. This theory hangs on the entirely discredited idea that the coronavirus was designed as a bioweapon, perhaps by the U.S. government itself. And yet, the theory is being shared thousands of times, faster than regulated social media networks can yank the conspiracy theory down. On unregulated platforms, such as Telegram and 8chan, the conspiracy theory has become incredibly popular, racking up hundreds of thousands of hits each day. The theory is now being actively contributed to, and promoted, by one Russian embassy, an official Russian state propaganda outlet, and media channels in Serbia and China. The Russian government has laid the groundwork for this conspiracy for some time. In January, a Russian-language Telegram account warned that a “full-fledged network of biological laboratories has been deployed,” studying deadly viruses that are already making people sick in Kazakhstan with “American grants.” The Russian newspaper Izvestia ran a story in May 2020 making similar claims, and they have been repeated in pro-Russian Ukrainian news sites. A close advisor of Russian President Vladimir Putin himself has accused the United States of developing “more and more biological laboratories … mainly by the Russian and Chinese borders.” The conspiracy has received past support in Chinese propaganda, after Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Hua Chunying said last May, in response to claims in Australian media about China’s own supposed biowarfare programs, that the United States had been secretly working on biolabs and had 16 in Ukraine alone. Chinese state media has repeatedly spread the false claim that the coronavirus originated from the U.S. Army base at Fort Detrick. The conspiracy theory even pushed the Security Service of Ukraine to debunk the allegation of American-run bioweapons facilities in 2020. Yet the conspiracy theory emerged with new purpose this week. The most recent incarnation of this conspiracy theory seems to have begun with the moderately prominent—and now suspended—Twitter account @WarClandestine, which posted two maps comparing Russian airstrikes and “US biolabs in Ukraine.” “It certainly appears Putin is targeting the cities and locations with #USBiolabs present,” the account tweeted. “He is 100% going after the alleged bioweapons.” The @WarClandestine account, and others linked to it, do seem to legitimately belong to an American, whose first name is Jacob and who has occasionally posted images and video of himself—in one TikTok video, he says he served in the U.S. Army. Over the past two years, the account has frequently shared QAnon conspiracy theories, often racking up thousands of retweets on Twitter before being suspended from the platform for spreading misinformation. In December 2020, the account earned mockery after sharing an overwrought story of a date that went badly due to his support for Donald Trump. In recent weeks, the account was closely following the anti-vaccine occupation in Canada, at one point tweeting at Ottawa’s police force: “We got enough rope for your fascist asses too. When all is said and done, you’ll be swinging with the rest of them.” The supporting evidence for @WarClandestine’s Ukrainian bioweapons idea is flimsy, even by conspiracy theory standards: The account rests on little more than the assumption that all laboratories that accept American funding are responsible for creating bioweapons. It also uses the nebulous term “biolabs” to describe a wide swath of facilities, which are numerous and common in every European country. But even a lazy conspiracy theory can take hold if it is promoted enough. Within hours of the initial tweet, the conspiracy site Infowars published a story largely regurgitating the conspiracy theory. Not long after, the right-wing media site OpIndia ran a similar story. While Infowars’ social media reach is stunted by bans from most major websites, OpIndia’s version of the story was shared more than 2,500 times to Facebook. A constellation of other anti-vaccine and QAnon websites picked up the story from there. A write-up on one minor conspiracy site was shared widely among Bulgarian speakers. Through all this, the hashtag #usbiolabs began trending. TikTok videos promoting the theory racked up tens of thousands of hits. “If you believe those U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine aren’t making biological weapons, please sit all the way down,” one TikTok user said. A YouTube video, regurgitating the Infowars shared, was viewed some 350,000 times by Tuesday afternoon. After Twitter suspended @WarClandestine, screencaps of his theory were posted on Reddit, on a part of the site notorious for disinformation known as “r/conspiracy,” where it hit nearly 2,000 upvotes. On the QAnon sections of the fringe message board 8chan, users linked a series of unconnected data points to flesh out the sensational tale. The baseless nature of the conspiracy theory was picked up by such debunkers as Snopes and @PatriotTakes. With Russia’s war effort struggling against fierce Ukrainian resistance, the Russians gave the story a boost. On Feb. 27, the Russian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina came out endorsing the theory, posting on Facebook, according to Serbian broadcaster N1, that the United States was “filling Ukraine with biolabs, which were—very possibly—used to study methods for destroying the Russian people at the genetic level.” Requests for comment sent to the Russian embassies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada went unanswered. @WarClandestine, after being suspended by Twitter, reappeared under a new account not-so-subtly labeled “Definitely Not Clandestine” to share the Serbian news item. “My hypothesis was correct!” he wrote, in a tweet that garnered more than a thousand retweets in a matter of hours. He has also popped up on the unregulated social media sites Gettr and Telegram. By Tuesday morning, an official channel for Sputnik, a Kremlin-owned propaganda outlet, posted to Telegram: “Here are some of the documents on US biolabs in Ukraine,” posting documents from the U.S. government. (While they do not show anything nefarious or unusual, the documents appear to be offline as of Tuesday afternoon.) The idea has also returned to the fringes of Chinese state media, not heavily promoted but present in coverage. Mention of these biolabs and the missing documents were seen hundreds of thousands of times across an array of Russian-language Telegram accounts, including several that have had a particularly large role in spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda since the war began and that were, immediately prior, sharing information complimentary of anti-vaccine convoys in the United States and Canada. One concluded that “the United States was engaged in the creation of a deadly virus in a biolaboratory in Kharkov”—the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has been subject to a particularly brutal bombing campaign, with at least nine civilians dying in airstrikes on Monday. The premise of the theory is baseless. Ukraine has no labs labeled as “BSL-4,” the highest grade that allows them to work on the most dangerous pathogens, and only one BSL-3 lab. American support for the facility is not secret and has funded science on a number of zoonotic diseases in Ukraine: Washington also funds facilities in Georgia and even Russia-friendly Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. The United States has been engaged in a program known as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which cooperates on reducing epidemiological risk in Ukraine and elsewhere: Some of the Russian reporting has mistranslated this as the “Special Defense Weapons Agency.”

Oh, you're oh so much focking smarter than the God knows how many investigators over the past six decades who put actual training and experience to work and thoroughly debunked the idea that Ruby was anything more than a total psychopath with brain cancer and a totally misguided idea. Now, factoring in Oswald's undeniable ties to Russia combines with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Communism paranoia and CIA craziness back then, it would made sense that Oswald wasn't acting along, but it's pretty clear he was the lone shooter that day. The only thing all this conspiracy crap does is make mentally insecure MAGAturds such as you think you're smarter than everyone else and are in the know. Flat Earthers, Qanon believers, Holocause deniers, moon-landing deniers, etc., all share that false feeling of intellectual superiority. But if it makes you feel good about yourself, carry on!

Everyone (which is the vast majority) who was imprisoned on the fraudulant charge of obstruction of an official proceeding. That charge has been thrown out by the Supreme Court as not applicable and yet numerous people are still in prison for this as lower courts drag their feet trying to figure how to extract those charges from the conviction. One specific case was one of the most prominent figures, “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley. He wore the funny custom and was peacefully led by Capitol Police into Capitol chambers (probably because they know his image was a good propaganda piece) where he read a prayer. He sat in jail for over three years much of it was unjustifiably done in solitary confinement as retribution for some of the legal arguments against the non-defunct obstruction charge.

Wrong on that one too. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/tom-hanks-sexy-baby-pedophile-epstein/ An Instagram post takes a Tom Hanks clip out of context to falsely claim he condones pedophilia An Instagram post claims to show proof that the actor Tom Hanks supports pedophilia. The Jan. 3 post showed a snippet of Hanks clapping his hands and shouting “sexy baby” at a child walking down from a stage. The video’s caption said, “Tom Hanks Not Even Trying To Hide It,” and includes several hashtags, such as #epstein and #ghislanemaxwell, referring to Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who died in jail in 2019 before being tried on sexual abuse and sex trafficking charges, and Ghislaine Maxwell, a friend of Epstein who in June was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. PolitiFact has rated Pants on Fire similar, unfounded statements about Hanks and pedophilia. The Instagram post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.) The post takes Hanks’ clip out of context. It’s from a sketch the actor did in 2011 for the late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” satirizing the reality television series “Toddlers & Tiaras.” “Toddlers & Tiaras,” which aired from 2009 to 2016 on TLC, was criticized throughout its run for sexualizing young children competing in beauty pageants, wearing costumes and performing routines that were considered overly adult in tone. The sketch mocked the reality show; it did not endorse pedophilia. It featured Hanks as an overbearing father obsessed with a fictional daughter named Sophie winning a nonexistent child beauty pageant called “Miss Ultimate Sexy Baby Nevada.” QAnon conspiracy theorists have long claimed, without evidence, that some prominent politicians and celebrities are involved in a satanic child sex trafficking ring. We rate this claim about Hanks as Pants on Fire!

The difference between Qanon and Feminists is that Feminists isn't a far-left part of your party. It's literally your entire party. Qanon folks are small, fringe right.

Well before J6, people of moderate to high intelligence who supported Trump were concerned that Qanon was controlled opposition. There were a lot of idiots and goobers to activate. And I'm sure some legitimately dangerous, malevolent people. But the whole thing really stinks of having more dimension than that.

About "Gays Against Groomers" https://www.advocate.com/news/gays-against-groomers-exposed Gays Against Groomers Is Not a Grassroots Organization: Report A new report pulls aside the curtain and reveals the background of those working to spread anti-LGBTQ+ hatred using the hate account Gays Against Groomers. The founder of Gays Against Groomers, Jaimee Michell, and her partners are former ultra-MAGA Trump followers who spread anti-transgender propaganda with QAnon conspiracy theories and links to extremist militias, according to a Media Matters for America investigation published last week. In response to accusations that it spreads homophobia and transphobia, GAG claims that, as a “coalition of gay people,” it and its members cannot possibly spread anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda. Furthermore, they claim that any attack on the group is homophobic. However, GAG is not a grassroots initiative but a right-wing project seeking to gain political and financial advantage by using anti-trans rhetoric, according to the left-leaning media watchdog. GAG was formed last year “to protect the kids” from “sexualization, indoctrination, and medicalization,” Michell claims, and it has gained prestige in right-wing circles along with Chaiya Raichik’s Libs of TikTok, which also attacks the LGBTQ+ community. Both have promoted the use of the anti-LGBTQ+ slur “groomer.” Media Matters found that GAG isn’t Michell's first venture in far-right social media circles. She was a prolific MAGA Twitter user in 2016 and 2017, often peddling QAnon conspiracy theories. During the 2020 election cycle, she frequently corresponded with Ali Alexander, the “Stop the Steal” founder. During a "Stop the Steal" rally in November of that year in Washington, D.C., Michell claimed the presidential election had been stolen. Michell was listed as a contact for the Wisconsin "Stop the Steal" rally using the online alias “TheGayWhoStrayd.” During the January 6 insurrection, Michell posted support for the rioters on Instagram and Telegram, including reposting extremist Milo Yiannopoulos’s content. Michell has engaged in continuous right-wing grievance culture online, complaining about everything from mitigation measures surrounding the global pandemic to mocking the killing of George Floyd, Media Matters reports. [...]

Clownzo-loving Qanon nut rams car through FBI gate in Atlanta. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ervin-lee-bolling-fbi-gate-crash-suspect-trump-qanon-1234998775/

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump shared more than a dozen posts on his social media network Wednesday that call for the trial or jailing of House lawmakers who investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol, special counsel Jack Smith and others, along with images that reference the QAnon conspiracy theory. The former president began posting a string of messages Tuesday evening after Smith filed a new indictment against him over his efforts to undo his loss in the 2020 presidential election. The new indictment keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against Trump following a Supreme Court opinion last month that extended broad immunity to former presidents. Trump reposted a doctored image that was made to look like President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in orange prison jumpsuits, among other political figures, and a lewd post about Harris and Clinton that referenced a sex act. One post seemed to suggest former President Barack Obama should be tried in a military court. Another social media meltdown today. If Trump was your grandpa, you’d cut off his internet access and double his meds. He’s not well.

One of the weirdest aspects of this MAGA movement is making this a political issue. Started with the Qanon people. Super odd, super creepy.

MAGAturds sure like their felons and Qanon followers!

That’s like saying people that believe Qanon stuff are representative of all Republicans.

You’re the one lying. He was 100% MAGA. And Qanon. And conspiracy. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/28/pelosi-attacker-online-hints-conspiracy-immersion-00064093

This kinda reminds me of when all the MAGAtards suddenly had amnesia as to QAnon

Wasn't qanon just a made up liberal short-lived phase to distract from the very real destructive Antifa?

You don’t know what Qanon is either right?

Cool so I can project all the Qanon people’s opinions as opinions you hold as well?

LeftTards doing what LeftTards do: This is from the Washington Post. Oliver Anthony and the ‘mainstreaming’ of conspiracy theories The sudden success of the singer’s ‘Rich Men North of Richmond,’ coupled with other pop-culture gains, marks a huge crossover moment for far-right ideas in mainstream entertainment, experts say By Anne Branigin August 17, 2023 at 10:55 p.m. EDT If you had asked someone at the beginning of the month whether they had heard of — let alone listened to — Oliver Anthony, you probably would have gotten a blank stare in return. Now, the singer from Farmville, Va., with a fiery beard and big voice is everywhere because of his viral song, “Rich Men North of Richmond.” Since its debut on Aug. 8, Anthony’s performance of “Rich Men North of Richmond,” shared on the YouTube channel Radiowv, has been viewed more than 17 million times and became the No. 1 song on the U.S. iTunes chart. According to Billboard, the song is now on pace to enter the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 next week. This feat is virtually unheard of for a newcomer like Anthony, an unsigned talent without any substantive following or known industry connections. But Anthony’s ascent isn’t just remarkable for its scale. The song, which alludes to politicians and other nefarious powers-that-be, has been boosted predominantly by far-right influencers and outlets, who have hailed “Rich Men” as a new working-class anthem. Story continues below advertisement But with lyrics such as “I wish politicians would look out for miners, and not just minors on an island somewhere” — an apparent reference to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking — “Rich Men” also nods to conspiracy theories and grievances that are deeply rooted in far-right circles. (QAnon believers often cite Epstein as proof that a global cabal of elites has been trafficking children.) Some believe the success of the song, particularly on the heels of “The Sound of Freedom,” a box-office smash that echoed QAnon propaganda, signals a mainstreaming of ideas that were once fringe. In the weeks before Anthony’s viral success, Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” rocketed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 after conservatives rallied behind the controversial single. Critics accused Aldean of advocating for vigilante violence and said the music video contained coded threats against Black people. Story continues below advertisement But Anthony’s rise arguably is even more notable. Aldean was already an established country music star with a large and loyal fan base. Anthony seemed to come out of nowhere. “Rich Men” is credited to a songwriter named Christopher Anthony Lunsford, believed to be Anthony’s legal name. His social media presence is relatively spare: Anthony recently joined Twitter, and his posts on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube focus on his music, his land and his dogs. According to Anthony, he used to work in a factory in western North Carolina but now lives “off the grid” in the Piedmont region of Virginia, on 90 acres of woodland he hopes to convert to a farm on which he can raise livestock. In a recent YouTube video, shared the day before his viral performance was released, Anthony said he began writing songs in 2021, and considers himself “pretty dead center” when it comes to politics. “It seems both sides serve the same master, and that master is not someone of any good to the people of this country,” Anthony said. Story continues below advertisement The most revealing window into Anthony’s worldview may be a YouTube playlist he curated, “Videos that make your noggin get bigger.” The list includes performances from Luciano Pavarotti and Hank Williams Sr., but it also features several talking heads popular among the far-right — Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan — as well as multiple clips putting forward the conspiracy theory that Jews were responsible for 9/11. Mike Rothschild, a journalist and author who covers conspiracy theories, doesn’t think these connections are incidental: “If you are plugged in enough to the conspiracy world to drop a reference to Epstein island into a song you’ve written, that’s not the only thing you’re consuming.” (Anthony did not respond to multiple requests for an interview.) Story continues below advertisement Even if most people don’t pick up on the reference — or skip right over it — it’s significant to fans who harbor similar beliefs, Rothschild said. “The people who do know … it’s the only thing they care about,” he said. The song has won plenty of conservative fans north, south, east and west of Richmond. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) were quick to applaud “Rich Men North of Richmond.” “You’ve created an anthem for our times. Congratulations, Oliver!” Boebert tweetedSunday, while Greene called the song “the anthem of the forgotten Americans who truly support this nation.” Megyn Kelly discussed the song on her show with former House speaker Newt Gingrich, saying the song reminded the country of “the importance of economic issues.” Story continues below advertisement An early champion of the song was Jason Howerton, a right-wing journalist who co-founded Reach Digital, a conservative consulting firm based in Texas. Share this articleShare Howerton, a self-described multimillionaire, seemed to suggest last week that he had helped Oliver produce the song, tweeting: “When I offered to cover the cost for Oliver to produce a record, I had NO idea what would transpire, nor did I know just how powerful his story was or the situation that God was inserting me into.” When asked about his connection to Anthony this week, Howerton responded that he is “not working with Oliver in any official capacity” and is “not really the guy to talk about country music.” Story continues below advertisement Anthony’s meteoric rise has provoked its fair share of skepticism — and other theories. Some have accused him of being an industry plant, an artist who presents as independent but is secretly backed by rich and powerful insiders. Others have speculated that “Rich Men” was the product of “astroturfing,” a coordinated marketing or PR campaign pretending to be a grass-roots movement. Rothschild doubts that’s the case. For one, it’s hard to purposefully make something go so viral, so quickly. And if the country music industry did have this power, they would probably go for someone “more marketable” than Anthony, he said. “I don’t think there needs to be some kind of scheme or a scam to make this guy popular,” he said. “I think this just the right thing, at the right time, for the right group of people.” Story continues below advertisement The arc of the song’s rise supports that line of thinking. Right-wing influencers quickly picked up the video across different social media platforms, including Telegram and Twitter. As “Rich Men” gained traction online, more people tried to capitalize on the song’s popularity: YouTubers posted reaction videos; detractors dunked on it; country music blogs and entertainment sites wrote about it — all expanding the song’s reach. But the song has an undeniable appeal to audiences beyond its right-wing talking points, country music experts. Protest anthems — anti-establishment missives on behalf of a forgotten, rural working class — have a long history in folk music and country music, noted Ted Olson, a professor at East Tennessee University who studies country music and Appalachia. Story continues below advertisement “Rich Men” is also just general enough in its message that many listeners are able to project their lives and experiences onto it, he said. Many fans may skip over the song’s contradictions — with its lyrics that advocate for the working man while mocking “the obese milking welfare.” “Unpacking a song involves a lot of these layers of analysis, which maybe a lot of listeners are not wanting to do,” Olson said. Don Cusic, a professor of music industry history at Belmont University in Nashville, credited the song’s popularity to Anthony’s style of singing: straining and sincere, full of emotion and conviction. This pared-down appeal is a far cry from Aldean’s slick Nashville production. Anthony’s “got a voice that just cuts through,” Cusic said. For Rothschild, the popularity of “Rich Men,” like “The Sound of Freedom” before it, signals a major turning point for “conspiracy culture.” Not only is there more acceptance of these ideas in mainstream discourse, but the far-right is gaining ground in the world of pop culture, a world that has long been dominated by leftist personalities and values. Even if conspiracy theories have long flourished in conservative news outlets and podcasts, this crossover moment is significant, Rothschild argues. It demonstrates the power and influence of right-wing networks, he said: “When this community puts its muscle behind — particularly marketing — something, it could be a big hit.” It could also further expand the scope of the far-right’s reach, into places where people may not be expecting to hear those ideas. Rothschild said he believes more people are likely to hear “Rich Men” or watch “Sound of Freedom” than listen to the vast majority of conservative podcasts. In the meantime, Anthony is making plans to go on tour and release an album. This week, an upcoming Anthony show at a Farmville restaurant sold out in just three minutes. The 300-person venue originally had an open mic planned for that night, which Anthony signed up for. A manager for the restaurant, Jessica Dowdy, told the Roanoke Times that fans as far away as Ohio and New Hampshire were coming to hear Anthony perform. “One guy said he’s driving 10 hours.”

QAnon rots your brain, mmkay?

So you have no evidence that these biolabs are creating bioweapons, but you still think they are and you call it common sense. Hilarious. This is how weak minds work. This is how conspiracy theories spread. A normal intelligent person will look for the truth, and a normal intelligent person will use the facts that are out there to base their opinion on. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/02/ukraine-biolabs-conspiracy-theory-qanon/