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33 minutes ago, Mudface said:

We're all going to burn, aren't we? We're having to rely on the US electorate- of all people- to give Biden- of all candidates- enough votes to beat this cunt so soundly that he's shamed out of office.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/27/trump-loses-election-what-happens-possibilities

 

 

 

Democracy eh.

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To be honest, the fact it's even a close run thing is testimony to how fucked we are. He advocated injecting bleach to cure a virus and as the death toll rocketed posed with tins of beans on his desk for an advert. Trump and Johnson aren't the problem, the fact that enough people exist on earth to consider them viable options, is.

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Never knew what this Qanon bollocks was until I read this recent explainer from the Beeb.

 

"At its heart, QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory that says that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.

QAnon believers have speculated that this fight will lead to a day of reckoning where prominent people such as Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed."

 

 

 

 

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QAnon[a] (/kjəˈnɒn/) is a far-right conspiracy theory[7][8] detailing a supposed secret plot by an alleged "deep state" against U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters.[9] The theory began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by someone using the name Q, who was presumably an American individual initially,[10] but probably later became a group of people,[11][12] claiming to have access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States. Analysis by NBC News found that three people took the original Q post and expanded it across multiple media platforms to build internet followings for monetization. QAnon was preceded by several similar anonymous 4chan posters such as FBIAnon, HLIAnon (high level insider), CIAAnon and WH Insider Anon.[13]
 

Q has falsely accused many liberal Hollywood actors, Democratic politicians, and high-ranking officials of being members of an international child sex trafficking ring. Q also claimed that Donald Trump feigned collusionwith Russians to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the ring and preventing a coup d'état by Barack ObamaHillary Clinton, and George Soros.[14][15][16] 

 

"Q" is a reference to the Q clearance used by the Department of Energy. QAnon believers commonly tag their social media posts with the hashtag #WWG1WGA, signifying the motto "Where We Go One, We Go All".

 

QAnon adherents began appearing at Trump re-election campaign rallies during the summer of 2018.[17] TV and radio personality Michael "Lionel" Lebron, a promoter of the theory, was granted a photo opportunity with President Trump in the Oval Office on August 24, 2018.[18] Bill Mitchell, a broadcaster who promotes the QAnon conspiracy theory, attended a White House "social media summit" in July 2019.[8][19] According to analysis conducted by Media Matters, through July 7, 2020 Trump had amplified QAnon messaging at least 185 times by retweeting or mentioning 114 QAnon-affiliated Twitter accounts, sometimes multiple times a day.[20][21]

 

At an August 2019 rally, a man warming up the crowd before President Trump spoke used the QAnon motto "where we go one, we go all," later denying it was a QAnon reference. This occurred hours after the publication of a report stating that the FBI determined QAnon to be a potential source of domestic terrorism — the first time a fringe conspiracy theory had been so rated by the agency. [22][23]

Into 2020, the number of QAnon adherents was unknown and appeared small, but had an outsize presence on social media, particularly Twitter. Followers had also migrated to dedicated message boards such as Endchan and 8kun, where they organized to wage information warfare to influence the 2020 elections.[24] On June 24, 2020, Q exhorted followers to take a "digital soldiers oath," and during ensuing weeks many did, using the Twitter hashtag #TakeTheOath.[25] In July 2020, Twitter banned thousands of QAnon-affiliated accounts and changed its algorithms to reduce the spread of the conspiracy theory.[26]

 

 

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US Vice-President Mike Pence with members of the Broward County, Florida SWAT team on November 30, 2018; the man at the left of the image is displaying a red and black "Q" patch used by believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Photo was tweeted, removed and then substituted in Pence's feed.

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Detail from photo showing the QAnon patch. The black-and white patch to the left has been reported to be that of the SWAT team. Regulations forbid the wearing of either patch, and the deputy was reprimanded and removed from the SWAT team as a result.[1]

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There are no depths....

 

 

President Donald Trump’s campaign group has been accused of violating federal election law, by funnelling $216m (£166.6m) through private companies to hide payments to family members and other organisations.

The campaign has been accused of funnelling payments to family members of Mr Trump, including $180,000 (£139,037) to Donald Trump Jr’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and to Lara Trump, the wife of his other adult son Eric Trump, according to HuffPost

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26 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

There are no depths....

 

 

President Donald Trump’s campaign group has been accused of violating federal election law, by funnelling $216m (£166.6m) through private companies to hide payments to family members and other organisations.

The campaign has been accused of funnelling payments to family members of Mr Trump, including $180,000 (£139,037) to Donald Trump Jr’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and to Lara Trump, the wife of his other adult son Eric Trump, according to HuffPost

Rinse it while you can boys we’re going down.

I reckon he will look for a pardon on exit, and there should be none granted, but the democrats will probably fold on it.

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7 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Never knew what this Qanon bollocks was until I read this recent explainer from the Beeb.

 

"At its heart, QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory that says that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.

QAnon believers have speculated that this fight will lead to a day of reckoning where prominent people such as Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed."

 

 

 

 

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Red Phoenix is your man for this 

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1 hour ago, cloggypop said:

Red Phoenix is your man for this 

 

If someone else is needed to point out that the entire QAnon thing looks like it's mainly due to a bunch of 4chan and twitter fascists stringing people along with constant bullshit then maybe. I can't be sure though, have never spent much time with it because even reading a little exposes how right wing they are and that switches me straight off from having any real interest.

 

I've probably spent more time listening to the Alex Jones folk song than I have reading that crap, haha.

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