QAnon supporters have been seen holding signs and wearing Q shirts at Trump rallies since 2018, and on several occasions over the last few years, the president has retweeted accounts that promote the theory.More than 60 current and former congressional candidates have promoted or embraced the unfounded QAnon theory, according to a count by Media Matters, a left-leaning research site that tracks conservative media.Though some of the candidates have gone viral over unproven claims including the false theory that Beyonc is pretending to be Black and weaves Satanic references into her music few of them have any chance of being elected.
The fraction of candidates linked to QAnon who have done well in competitive seats have distanced themselves from the theory. There is something about this political moment that emboldens these candidates to run, said Joanne Miller, a University of Delaware associate professor who studies political psychology and conspiracy theories. And the presidents own outsider status is what has endeared him to QAnon followers. Trump is a genuine Washington outsider, and whats central to the QAnon community is the belief that the whole political system is corrupt, said Travis View, a conspiracy theory researcher who co-hosts the QAnon Anonymous podcast, which breaks down QAnons various elements. ![]() They call the moment when the Clintons and other members of the cabal will be arrested The Storm, a term inspired by an offhand comment Trump made during an October 2017 photo-op with high-ranking military officials and their spouses. You guys know what this represents Trump asked the news media. The conspiracy theory has been laid out by an anonymous figure known as Q likely a group of people who leaves cryptic messages for his followers to decipher on the website 8kun (Q previously posted on 4chan and 8chan). Qs followers believe that, once they convince others, there will be a Great Awakening. A Pew Research Center poll released in March found that 76 of Americans had heard nothing at all about QAnon, 20 had heard a little about it, and 3 had heard a lot. He added that variations in Qs tripcode (the unique set of numbers and letters that link posts by the same person on anonymous imageboard websites like 4chan) and writing style over the years suggest the identity of the people behind Q has changed over years. A Tripcode Movie From 30As wacky as a pedophile deep state working against the president sounds, thats the plot of Oliver Stones JFK movie from 30 years ago, said Joseph Uscinski, an associate professor of political science at the University of Miami, where he studies why people believe in conspiracy theories. Less than a year before Q started posting, the unfounded Pizzagate theory took off. On Dec. 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch drove from his home in North Carolina to the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C., where he was convinced children were being held captive as part of a sex trafficking ring organized by Democrats and Hillary Clinton. When he realized there was no evidence of a trafficking ring, he left his weapons in the store, walked out and was arrested. No one was harmed, and Welch was sentenced to four years in prison in June 2017. ![]() HRC extradition already in motion effective yesterday with several countries in case of cross border run. Passport approved to be flagged effective 1030 12:01am, Q wrote. Expect massive riots organized in defiance and others fleeing the US to occur. The posts are filled with vague clues and questions (Why does Potus surround himself w generals What is military intelligence Why go around the 3 letter agencies reads Qs second post), and followers often rely on others to decode the messages. They often rely upon these internet QAnon influencers who are called decoders. And these decoders, they purport that they are sort of able to understand and break down and demystify the Q drops for the laypeople who may have some trouble understanding what they mean. View says that if a person believes Trump in the past has promoted conspiracy theories because he has special insight into whats the truth about reality that the mainstream media isnt reporting on, then you might come to believe that he will continue to do that as president.
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