Anonymous ID: f1b95a Oct. 17, 2020, 3:26 a.m. No.11115804   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5807 >>5828 >>5865 >>5889 >>5983 >>6035 >>6155 >>6392 >>6440 >>6487

The QAnon disciples next door

By Mark Chiusano

Updated October 17, 2020 6:00 AM

 

I had some conversations with Long Islanders in recent weeks that went in strange directions. The kind of directions that make you want to jump in the ocean and keep swimming for a while.

 

The reason for the strange directions was the QAnon phenomenon. If you haven’t heard about QAnon, a helpful way to describe it is that it is a mass delusion. It starts with an anonymous internet poster or posters who "leak" out "information" about what are in reality wild conspiracies. The general gist is that pedophiles secretly rule the world and President Donald Trump is battling them and the so-called deep state as he tries to save the children. But the conspiracies touch on child sex trafficking, English comedian Ricky Gervais, the Kennedys, the Clintons, complicated clock cosmology, and lots of other tangled threads. It’s baseless and potentially dangerous, and has been identified as a potential domestic terror threat by the FBI. However, Trump plays along for political gain — including when he refused to denounce the collection of conspiracies during a Thursday night town hall and said instead, "They are very much against pedophilia."

 

This internet-born material matters because it is infecting the beliefs of real people, including some congressional candidates and perhaps even some of your neighbors and friends. It takes real, complex, terrible things — like sex trafficking and deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes — and twists them into fakery. Other mistruths get pulled along in its wake. In this way, QAnon has become an unreality vector.

 

A look at some Twitter users whose bios feature QAnon slogans — like WWG1WGA (Where We Go One We Go All) — and whose geo-location is set to Long Island lets out an idea of what has filtered to the world. Those accounts include some from Jericho and East Islip saying that Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris has actually died or been arrested, or that Trump was "INFECTED somehow by the Deep State." The accounts involve a vocal Long Beach Islanders fan who also raised an exaggerated incident much cited in right-wing media about military mail-in ballots found "in a ditch" in Pennsylvania.

 

It includes Terence Hohlman, a 43-year-old father from East Meadow who in a phone interview said some wild stuff about CIA operations and how the media gets a daily 4 a.m. email with talking points that dictate what journalists will talk about each day.

 

It includes Radomir, a 39-year-old Suffolk County resident who agreed to speak if identified only by his middle name, given that he believed his internet presence has led to someone putting up fake cellphone towers to "monitor my cell phone calls."

 

Hohlman and Radomir acknowledge that some of the QAnon stuff is pretty out there, but that doesn't stop them from believing much of it, because — and here’s the key — they did their research.

MORE AT LINK:

https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/mark-chiusano/qanon-mark-chiusano-conspiracy-theories-donald-trump-twitter-1.50039647

Anonymous ID: f1b95a Oct. 17, 2020, 3:28 a.m. No.11115813   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5889 >>6155 >>6392 >>6440

South China Sea threat: US pushes Beijing as Trump sends

warships to disputed waters

A US NAVY carrier has conducted exercises in the South China Sea amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing.

By RICHARD PERCIVAL

PUBLISHED: 09:30, Sat, Oct 17, 2020 | UPDATED: 09:44, Sat, Oct 17, 2020

The group also undertook maritime strike exercises and coordinated tactical training, the US Navy said in a statement.

 

The US regularly sends warships through the disputed waterway, an action which China condemns.

 

China claims nine-tenths of the South China Sea, through which some $4trillion (ÂŁ3.06trillion) of trade passes each year.

 

Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have competing claims.

 

The US Navy said the exercise was done to “build and maintain war fighting readiness that is responsible, flexible, and honours enduring commitments to mutual defence agreements with regional allies and partners”.

 

The navy stressed the operations were “lawful” with strike group commander Rear Adm. George Wikoff, adding: “Throughout our deployment, we continue our long tradition demonstrating the United States’ commitment to the lawful use of the seas and maintaining open access to the international commons.”

 

Prior to arriving in the South China Sea, the USS Reagan was operating in the Indian Ocean before returning through the strait.

 

However, China said the United States was seriously undermining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait over their military exercises and deployments.

MORE AT LINK:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1348884/south-china-sea-latest-news-us-warship-military-drills-taiwan-strait-donald-trump

Anonymous ID: f1b95a Oct. 17, 2020, 3:48 a.m. No.11115932   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5966

>>11115865

notable

If not already.

WARNING TO WOODBE JOURNALIST ABOUT

MUCKRACK.COM

Good job exposing them and avoiding their trap, Anon.

I fucking love that shit.

 

Post a hit piece and not only get to kek at it but learn about the piece of shit deep state journo's who wrote them!

Teamwork!

Anonymous ID: f1b95a Oct. 17, 2020, 4:10 a.m. No.11116071   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>11115905

Congratulations!

confetti and shit falls from the sky

You are our 1 Millionth Iwantitnownothingishappeningfag!

 

I see what is wrong, your dipey is soaking wet!

You just need a quick freeing and flipping!

 

Are military tribunals public affairs?

Military tribunals are reserved for the most serious of crimes that normal court systems are not able to deliberate and nothing about the current legal structure would force the US gov into publicizing any of it.

 

So try to imagine that some of these traitors have already been tried.

Imagine that some are being allowed to save their family names and in some cases even their own lives by playing their role in the really big picture show.

Imagine.

What other theory do you have to explain away why someone like Lindsay Graham would Flip so quickly and so drastically concerning his opinion of POTUS?

 

and the worst part is… some of us can carry on in this vein all damn day long and you do not have shit to explain any of it away.

Totally Historic!

Suck it! kek

and once again, Congratulations Fuck Face! :D

Anonymous ID: f1b95a Oct. 17, 2020, 4:29 a.m. No.11116193   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>11116111

Well I enjoy a good doom story about as much as anyone so I would love to hear your theory.

 

If you ask me, suddenly removing 70% of our corrupt government officials would look like a coup de tat and that most certainly could panic the world and also activate every deep state asset all at once = people would lose their fucking minds.

 

Slow drip was not the only way it was simply the best way. I mean, if you care about loss of life and the mental state of WE THE PEOPLE.

 

Anyways, tell us what you know! kek

Anonymous ID: f1b95a Oct. 17, 2020, 4:39 a.m. No.11116252   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>11116150

Great now it's 4-5 we still lose :D

 

When I looked at Scalia and learned that he was hunting buddies with Dick Cheney and good friends with Ruth Bader Ginsberg (they even had an annual family dinner on new years day) I started thinking that perhaps ACB is not our girl either yet feel free to call me crazy.