QAnon hits the mainstream and Trump is on board

If, by some strange good fortune, you remain unfamiliar with QAnon, that's about to change. The conspiracy theory has finally gone 100 percent mainstream and is about to be fully unavoidable.

It's nearly certain there will soon be a QAnon supporter in congress, Fox News is running ads that wink at the conspiracy, and, hell, President Donald Trump is sorta backing it now too.

First thing first: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a right-wing candidate who buys into the QAnon conspiracy theory, won a House primary runoff election in Georgia on Tuesday. The district is deeply red, meaning she will almost definitely be elected.

If you need a very quick primer on QAnon, here you go: It's a deeply strange, pro-Trump conspiracy that believes the president is eventually going to expose and punish a massive pedophile ring among a cabal of U.S. elites. It centers on an anonymous online figure who goes by "Q," and it has so many strange and nearly untraceable tentacles that it's almost impossible to wrap your head around it completely.

QAnon backers, for instance, have promoted the idea that furniture retailer Wayfair is trafficking kids in overpriced cabinets. The entire conspiracy is completely unfounded and divorced from reality, but its supporters are fervent and very aggressive online.

Greene is apparently all about it.

"Q is a patriot," Greene said, for instance, in a YouTube video. "We know that for sure." She adds later in the video: "There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it."

Greene also has a history of making racist comments. She has said that Black people "are held slaves to the Democratic Party," according to videos uncovered by Politico.

"It’s a slavery system to keep their vote," she said.

Greene claims as well that there was an Islamic invasion of the U.S. government, and she has espoused her belief in the well-worn myth that philanthropist George Soros is a Nazi despite the fact that he's Jewish and survived the Holocaust.

As you can imagine, some in the GOP have been eager to distance themselves from Greene, considering her extreme and hateful comments and her ongoing support for a conspiracy theory popular on the fringes of the right-wing corners of the internet.

“The comments made by Ms. Greene are disgusting, and don’t reflect the values of equality and decency that make our country great,” said Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 2 Republican in the House, for instance.

But, lo and behold, everything changed when Greene won the primary this week. As goes Trump, so goes the Republican party, and the president threw his weight behind Green after she won.

"Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart opponent," the president tweeted Wednesday morning. "Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up - a real WINNER!"

https://mashable.com/article/qanon-mainstream-trump-greene/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

640 European Doctors Gather to Discuss the Overreaction to COVID and How It’s Damaging Society

Now European doctors gather to ask how did we get here with COVID.

On July 27, 2020, a group of frontline doctors in the US held a gathering in Washington D.C. where they expressed their concerns with COVID from a frontline doctor point of view. We reported:

Frontline doctors from across the US held a “White Coat Summit” on Monday in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus.

The doctors are very concerned with the disinformation campaign being played out in the far left American media today.

From their website: “If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease.”

These doctors claimed HCQ worked and was saving lives. Shortly after their presentation, and after 17 million views, the videos from the doctors were taken down by Facebook and YouTube. Americans were not allowed to see the truth.

One doctor at the conference said:

We want to defend our families and our citizens. Well and to close this, this story is really quite simple. If you look behind the curtains, you’ll see ok, this medical story with COVID-19, we have the facts – IT’S A SCAM – IT’S FAKE.

So we need to ask who gets the benefit out of this and who has got the power to CREATE THIS FAKE.

Well and the target, it’s about you. You the citizens, you and the economy, it’s about the economy stupid. It’s about the economy.

The doctors concluded that we need solidarity.

Over 600 doctors in Germany and Austria have come together in an organisation, to investigate why the covid over-reaction is occurring, damaging society

Tagged here to the point where the lead doc (and ex-army officer) explains why they are doing this: https://t.co/Zw4IKlfKo0

— Ivor Cummins (@FatEmperor) August 12, 2020

People are dying from COVID not from catching the virus, but from electing not to have surgeries that are needed.

Note the emotion that hits hims when he says "it's for my kids". And he's a retired army officer as well as a highly-accomplished MD>

Note it – and wake up.

— Ivor Cummins (@FatEmperor) August 12, 2020

The doctors have a website where they share more on the worldwide reactions to COVID.

The world is waking up to the COVID-19 scam.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/640-european-doctors-gather-discuss-overreaction-covid-damaging-society/

Prof: 'The Constitution is racist'

North Central College professor Adam Kotsko put out a series of controversial tweets attacking the Constitution and white people.

Kotsko called the Constitution racist in “design and effect” and claimed that “white cultural common sense” is aimed at killing “enough” Black people.

One Illinois professor recently took to Twitter to insist that America’s legislative foundation is “racist,” and that America should therefore “abolish” the Senate and Electoral College.

North Central College professor Adam Kotsko, who teaches the history of philosophy and religion, tweeted August 3 that “the Constitution is racist,” going on to qualify the statement by saying it could “operate in non-racist ways” but also claiming that “the design and effect of the constitution, in all its iterations, has been racist.”

https://campusreform.org/?id=15415

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/12/watch-live-joe-biden-kamala-harris-make-first-appearance-as-democrat-ticket/

Joe Biden: I Picked Kamala Harris Because She’s ‘Ready to Lead on Day One’

Joe Biden (D), the Democrat Party’s presumptive nominee, said on Wednesday that he selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate because she is “ready to lead on day one.”

The remark comes as Americans continue to doubt his mental fitness and overall ability to lead, with the majority of likely voters indicating the belief that his running mate will take over during his first term.

“If @KamalaHarris and I are elected, we’re going to inherit multiple crises, a nation divided, and a world in disarray. “We won’t have a minute to waste,” Biden said in a Wednesday tweet. “That’s exactly why I picked her: She’s ready to lead on day one”:

His statement, that Harris is “ready to lead on day one,” drew mockery from critics.

“LMAO. Joe Biden’s pitch to America is ‘vote for me, my VP will take over soon!'” one user said.

“At least you admit(unwittingly) that she’ll be in charge on day one,” another added.

“She’ll be the one leading,” another quipped. “Not you.”

Biden’s pitch for Harris follows a Rasmussen poll released this week, revealing that the majority of likely voters do not believe Biden will serve all four years if elected.

Respondents were asked, “If Biden is elected in November, how likely is it that his running mate will be president before the end of Biden’s four-year term – very likely, somewhat likely, not very likely or not at all likely?”

Fifty-nine percent of likely voters indicated that it was likely that Biden’s running mate will take over before his term’s end. The bulk of Republicans, 73 percent, as well as independent voters, 57 percent, said the same. Perhaps most significant is the number of Democrats who hold the same view. Forty-nine percent of Democrats believe it is likely that the scenario plays out. Despite that, only 45 percent of likely voters considered Biden’s running mate selection as important to their vote.

The survey came as Biden and his team continue to dismiss speculation of his purported cognitive decline.

“No, I haven’t taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test?” Biden told Errol Barnett this month.

“I am very willing to let the American people judge my physical, mental fil–my physical as well as my mental fil–fitness,” he added, struggling to say the word:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/12/joe-biden-i-picked-kamala-harris-because-shes-ready-to-lead-on-day-one/

Mayor Lightfoot: Biden Key to Getting Gun Control for Chicago

During an August 12, 2020, appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) suggested Joe Biden is key to securing more gun control for Chicago and the rest of the country.

Co-host Mika Brzezinski played a clip of President Trump offering federal help to Chicago, wherein Trump said:

Together, the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois have 25,000 police officers, sheriffs, and guardsmen, available to quell any violence. They can do it very quickly, very easily, if allowed to do their jobs. All available federal support requested to stop the violence, and arrest the criminals, we have to be asked by the governors or the mayors and we’ll be there very rapidly.

Mayor Lightfoot responded, “Those are the words of somebody who doesn’t understand the first thing about local policing.”

She then pivoted to push for more gun control, suggesting the federal government needs to “pass common-sense gun reform, make sure that everybody has background checks, stop the availability of ‘assault weapons,’ people that are on a no-fly list shouldn’t be able to get weapons, the list goes on and on.”

Lightfoot stressed her belief that the election of Joe Biden to the White House is key to securing these and other controls for Chicago and the rest of the country. She said, “I need a leader in Washington, DC, who is willing to take on the gun lobby and do what’s right for our children and our cities. That is not President Trump, we need Joe Biden.”

Lightfoot did not mention that background checks for retail gun sales have been in place across the country since 1998. Those checks–National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks–are performed by the FBI on every person who tries to buy at gun at retail.

Moreover, the state of Illinois requires would-be gun purchasers to first acquire a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card, and the process for obtaining that card requires a background check. That represents a de facto universal background check system within the state of Illinois.

The state also has a 72-hour waiting period for all gun purchases.

Moreover, Cook County, Illinois, already has an “assault weapons” ban. NPR reports that the ban also prohibits “high capacity” magazines and was unsuccessfully challenged in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals last year.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2020/08/12/lightfoot/

Dem Rep Left Private Plane and Million-Dollar Lake House Off Financial Disclosures

Matt Cartwright running as man of the people

Rep. Matt Cartwright (D., Pa.), who has cast himself as a "fighter" for working people, failed to disclose his ownership of a private plane and million-dollar lake house in financial disclosures required by Congress.

Cartwright, who represents Pennsylvania's toss-up Eighth Congressional District, has for years omitted from his financial disclosures a limited liability company that owns his $180,000 private plane as well as a trust that holds a Lake George, N.Y., lake home valued at $1.35 million.

Neither the LLC, Archer Partners, nor the trust, the Hague Personal Residence Trust, have appeared on any of the annual disclosures Cartwright has filed since his election in 2012.

Members of Congress, political candidates, and high-level government employees are required to file annual financial disclosures to make public information that includes sources of income and assets. Rules mandate they divulge "information concerning each asset held in a trust" in which the politician, spouse, or a dependent child has a beneficial interest.

Contacted by the Washington Free Beacon, a spokesman for Cartwright said the congressman would be filing his new annual disclosure, which now shows assets valued between $100,000 and $250,000 in Archer Partners LLC and between $250,000 and $500,000 in the Hague Personal Residence Trust, of which Cartwright is a part-owner. The congressman also amended disclosures from prior years to include the LLC and trust.

"Every year, the Congressman files his financial disclosures, along with any necessary and appropriate amendments to submit additional detail to prior disclosures," Cartwright spokesman Matthew Slavoski said in an email.

The updated financial disclosures show that Cartwright and his wife Marion Munley are now worth between $4.3 and $15 million. Cartwright purchased the four-seat private plane, valued at around $180,000, and registered it to Archer Partners in 2017. State records show Archer Partners is registered at the congressman's home address in Pennsylvania.

Flight logs indicate that the plane has been flown to the Lake George, N.Y., area at least twice this year between April 20 and July 20, a period much of the country has spent isolating at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/dem-rep-left-private-plane-and-million-dollar-lake-house-off-financial-disclosures/

N.Y. Cops Were on Top of a Crime Wave—Then the Protests Came

Data show NYPD arrests down following Floyd protests, even as violence rose

NYPD arrest rates cratered amid the protests following the death of George Floyd, official city data show, suggesting that the timing and tone of mass anti-police demonstrations may have contributed to New York City's violent crime spike.

The city, like many across America, is struggling with a wave of shootings and homicides that has reached historic highs. But for many weeks, the NYPD kept pace, amping up arrests in response to the rising violence.

In June, however, ratios of arrests to criminal complaints fell sharply, coinciding with the start of the Floyd protests. City officials have blamed the decline on the continuing rise in gun violence since then, while the NYPD complains of an underfunded department stretched further by the need to respond to protests and looting—and some police officers grumble about their treatment.

All that suggests that protests against the police may be indirectly contributing to a summer of violence unlike any over the past decade. That linkage, which mirrors the trend in at least Minneapolis, suggests that the twin phenomena of nationwide demonstrations and an unexpected spike in homicide may not be as unrelated as some analysts have suggested.

New York, for years lauded as one of America's safest cities, is witnessing the same spike in violence that many other American metropolises have faced this year. Data from the NYPD show that crime fell to historic lows in the days after the city was locked down for the coronavirus pandemic and New Yorkers sheltered in place.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/n-y-cops-were-on-top-of-a-crime-wave-then-the-protests-came/