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Pro-Trump conspiracy QAnon faces moment of truth following Biden win, social media crackdown
Many QAnon followers argue that Biden’s victory is illusory and are urging one another to trust the 'plan' while other supporters amplify baseless theories related to voter fraud.
JOSHUA BRUSTEIN and WILLIAM TURTON 11 November, 2020 12:56 pm IST
New York: QAnon, the online movement of pro-Trump conspiracy theorists, has entered turbulent waters. Its chosen candidate has lost, and its followers have been deprived of some of their most popular meeting grounds by a smothering crackdown from large social media companies.
Q, the anonymous online account at the center of the movement, spent the days before the election posting about taking back the country and holding the political elite accountable. “Are you ready to finish what we started?” Q posted on Oct. 31. At about 1:30 am on Election Day, the account posted a photo of an American flag, an Abraham Lincoln quote and a link to a clip of a song from the 1992 movie “Last of the Mohicans.” Then Q went silent.
Several hours later Ron Watkins, the moderator of 8kun, the message board where Q posts, announced he was resigning. He had to address issues in his marriage, he said, and wanted to resign before U.S. election results were announced so it wouldn’t look as though he’d quit because of the outcome. Watkins said his resignation had nothing to do with QAnon. “I never learned Q’s identity, and nobody ever reached out to me purporting to be Q,” he said in a direct message on Twitter.
All of this is testing the will of QAnon’s followers, who have stretched well beyond the U.S’s borders. The conspiracy revolves around the belief that a cabal of pedophiles run the world — and Donald Trump’s presidency would bring that all to an end. The mythology of Q always required a healthy suspension of disbelief, but the end of the Trump presidency will be particularly hard to explain away, according to Benjamin Decker, founder of digital investigation consultancy Memetica. “There’s a lot of questioning of beliefs,” said Decker, who has been following the conspiracy since its inception.
Still, many QAnon adherents continue to argue that Democratic challenger Joe Biden’s victory is illusory and are urging one another to trust the plan, based on their posts online. In the last week, supporters have amplified baseless theories related to voter fraud, such as the idea that the Department of Homeland Security printed official ballots with invisible watermarks, allowing authorities to identify counterfeit ballots that Democrats allegedly printed to steal the election. (The DHS doesn’t print ballots).
That this is happening without the guidance of Q, who purports to be a highly placed government official and is seen within the movement as an oracle, points to an aspect of QAnon that could make it more durable. It has matured to the point that it no longer needs its supposed leader as a driving force, experts said. “The Q brand is really powerful. It’s shorthand for, ‘You’re on our team,’ ” said Mike Rothschild, a researcher who is writing a book about QAnon. “I just don’t know that the Q poster themselves has that much value anymore.”
Q’s weeklong silence isn’t necessarily a sign the account won’t re-emerge. The account has gone silent for long stretches before, most prominently in the summer of 2019 when 8chan, the message board where Q then posted, went down for more than two months after white supremacists in Texas and New Zealand posted their manifestos to the site before committing mass murders in two separate incidents. Once 8kun emerged as an alternative, Q began posting again.
MORE AT LINK:
https://theprint.in/world/pro-trump-conspiracy-qanon-faces-moment-of-truth-following-biden-win-social-media-crackdown/541857/
American election: after the defeat of Donald Trump, the crisis of faith of the QAnon conspirators
Bhavi Mandalia by Bhavi Mandalia November 11, 2020 in World
What goes through the mind of a conspiratorial man when the conspiracy theory he believes collides with reality? Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election tests the faith of the QAnons.
>> US Presidential: How the QAnon movement conspirators became Donald Trump’s best allies
For these far-right conspirators, Donald Trump is a heroic, almost messianic figure, part of the war against a “deep state”, a globalized democratic elite, in cahoots with a pedophile and satanist network, which would govern the United States, even the world, in secret for decades. The hero had to reveal this cabal in broad daylight, have its members arrested. But when the prophecy was finally to be fulfilled, his presidency ended in defeat. This is what confuses the spirits.
This emotion is accentuated by the silence of the central personality of the movement: “Q”, the anonymous Internet user who, with cryptic messages, has propagated his conspiracy theory on social networks since the start of Donald Trump’s mandate. The last message from Q* dates back to election morning. An excerpt from the Gettysburg speech, given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, accompanied by a photo of an American flag fluttering in the wind and this promise: “Together we win”. Since nothing.
“I don’t understand why ‘Q’ didn’t send messages”, asks a QAnon the day after the poll. “Yes, I think we need to be reassured now”, answers another, quoted by Marc-André Argentino, doctoral student at the California University of Concordia, who studies the way in which extremist groups disseminate their propaganda on the Internet.
MORE AT LINK:
https://pledgetimes.com/american-election-after-the-defeat-of-donald-trump-the-crisis-of-faith-of-the-qanon-conspirators/
How 2020 transformed big tech: the story of Facebook, QAnon and the world’s slackening grip on reality
The coronavirus pandemic has left us living more and more of our lives online. But the place where we chat with friends, get our news and form our opinions is full of vile and dangerous conspiracy theories. Is the world’s biggest social network doing enough to combat them?
by Alex Hern
Wed 11 Nov 2020 01.00 EST
As with many others in Britain, lockdown hit Rachel and her husband, Philip, hard. Almost overnight, the couple, both in their early 50s, found themselves cut off from friends, family and colleagues. Before the Covid-19 outbreak, they had both been working every day; now Philip found himself furloughed, while Rachel was put on rotation with other essential staff, working fewer shifts at odd hours. They were unable to meet up with their four adult sons and daughters. They had to attend a family funeral while remaining socially distanced.
Initially, Rachel coped in the way many others did. She played more video games than normal, and felt stressed at work, but as far as possible she managed. Her husband didn’t. For him, it seemed there must be more to it than the authorities struggling to cope with a novel virus and evolving expert advice. “The regularly changing and conflicting information that was coming from the government added to the feeling in him that they were making things up or covering something up,” Rachel says now.
Initially, Philip and Rachel (their names have been changed for this article) discussed his fears, but as lockdown went on, their conversations stopped. Philip was frustrated that Rachel wasn’t taking his concerns seriously: someone had to be benefiting from the situation, he insisted, and events such as Dominic Cummings’ Barnard Castle “eye test” only increased his belief that “they” knew the pandemic was fake, and the nation was being kept indoors for a more sinister purpose. Philip began to research what this sinister purpose might be. That, Rachel says, is what led him to QAnon.
It’s hard to describe the movement that Philip fell into. QAnon has its roots in the “pizzagate” conspiracy, which emerged four years ago after users poring over hacked Democratic party emails on the message board 4chan said that, if you replaced the word “pizza” with “little girl”, it looked as if they were discussing eating children. That claim – whether it was made in jest or sincerity is impossible to tell – spiralled into allegations of a vast paedophilic conspiracy centred on Comet Pizza, a restaurant in Washington DC.
A year later, a 4chan user with the handle “Q Clearance Patriot” appeared, claiming to be a government insider tasked with sharing “crumbs” of intel about Donald Trump’s planned counter-coup against the deep state forces frustrating his presidency. As Q’s following grew, the movement became known as the Storm – as in, “the calm before …” – and then QAnon, after its founder and prophet. At that point, QAnon was a relatively understandable conspiracy theory: it had a clear set of beliefs rooted in support for Trump and in the increasingly cryptic posts attributed to Q (by then widely believed to be a group of people posting under one name).
Now, though, it’s less clearcut. There’s no one set of beliefs that define a QAnon adherent. Most will claim some form of mass paedophilic conspiracy; some, particularly in the US, continue to focus on Trump’s supposed fightback. But the web of beliefs has become all-encompassing. One fan-produced map of all the “revelations” linked to the group includes references to Julius Caesar, Atlantis and the pharaohs of Egypt in one corner, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and 5G in another, the knights of Malta in a third, and the Fukushima meltdown in a fourth – all tied together with a generous helping of antisemitism, from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to hatred of George Soros. QAnon isn’t one conspiracy theory any more: it’s all of them at once.
In September, BuzzFeed News made the stylistic decision to refer to the movement as a “collective delusion”. “There’s more to the convoluted entity than the average reader might realise,” wrote BuzzFeed’s Drusilla Moorhouse and Emerson Malone. “But delusion does illustrate the reality better than conspiracy theory does. We are discussing a mass of people who subscribe to a shared set of values and debunked ideas, which inform their beliefs and actions.”
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/11/how-2020-transformed-big-tech-the-story-of-facebook-qanon-and-the-worlds-slackening-grip-on-reality
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At first, QAnon was a largely US phenomenon, with limited penetration in the UK. The pandemic, however, has changed that. According to recent polling by Hope Not Hate, one in four people in Britain now agree with some of the basic conspiracies it has promulgated: that “secret satanic cults exist and include influential elites”, and that “elites in Hollywood, politics, the media” are secretly engaging in large-scale child trafficking and abuse. Nearly a third believe there is “a single group of people who secretly control events and rule the world together”, and almost a fifth say that Covid-19 was intentionally released as part of a “depopulation plan”.
For Philip, trapped at home and searching for an explanation for a global pandemic, when all he could find was a void of information, QAnon was fertile territory. He already spent most of his time while furloughed on his phone looking for answers. What was the real reason for everyone being forced inside? How did the virus start? Who started it?
“In his mind, there had to be a reason for it,” Rachel says. Inevitably, his search took in Facebook, where the site’s recommendation algorithms were quick to connect him to individuals on similar quests. “Ultimately, it led to him becoming brainwashed,” she says.
For many, the existence of Facebook – and its sister products, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger – has been a lifeline in this period. The social network has always prided itself on connecting people, and when the ability to socialise in person, or even leave the house, was curtailed, Facebook was there to pick up the slack.
But those same services have also enabled the creation of what one professional factchecker calls a “perfect storm for misinformation”. And with real-life interaction suppressed to counter the spread of the virus, it’s easier than ever for people to fall deep down a rabbit hole of deception, where the endpoint may not simply be a decline in vaccination rates or the election of an unpleasant president, but the end of consensus reality as we know it. What happens when your basic understanding of the world is no longer the same as your neighbour’s? And can Facebook stop that fate coming to us all?
Since its foundation, in Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room, Facebook has tackled its share of challenges. Some have stayed fairly constant: no social network gets many users without needing to tackle spam, for instance, though the Facebook of 2004 would struggle to remove the 3.3bn junk posts that the company took down in the first half of this year.
Others are unique to a company with 2.7 billion users that operates in almost every country in the world. Facebook has become a centre point of civil society. It’s more than just a place to share photos and plan parties: it’s where people read news, arrange protests, engage in debate, play games and watch bands. And that means that all the problems of civil society are now problems for Facebook: bullying, sexual abuse, political polarisation and conspiracy theorists all existed before the social network, but all took on new contours as they moved online.
And this year they really moved online. As the initial lockdown was imposed across much of the world, people’s relationship to the internet, and to Facebook in particular, evolved rapidly. Stuck socially distancing, people turned to social networking to fill an emotional void.
Suddenly, the company found itself staring at unprecedented demands. “Our busiest time of the year is New Year’s Eve,” says Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s vice-president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, over a Zoom call from her London home. “And we were seeing the equivalent of New Year’s Eve every single day.” It was, she says, the inevitable result of having “almost the entire planet at home at the same time”.
Rachel agrees. “I believe the lockdown played a huge part in altering people’s perception of reality,” she says. When Covid restrictions came in, the rules of social interaction were rewritten. We suddenly stopped meeting friends in pubs, at the coffee point or by the school gates, and our lives moved online. And for many of us, “online” meant “on Facebook”.
I first heard Rachel’s story from QAnonCasualties, a forum on the social news site Reddit where she, and thousands like her, have congregated to seek advice and support after their loved ones fell into the cult. Her first post, in July this year, was titled: “I’ve finally reached the end of my tether.” She described a marriage of 25 years, and a family with four grownup children, being shattered by a husband who had sunk “further and further into this conspiracy”.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/11/how-2020-transformed-big-tech-the-story-of-facebook-qanon-and-the-worlds-slackening-grip-on-reality
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“It’s got the stage where I no longer understand him or even recognise him,” she wrote. Others echoed her story. Posts with titles such as “Grieving my dad while he’s still alive” and “Today I filed for divorce from my QAnon-obsessed husband” rub shoulders with pleas for help from those who still hope they can win loved ones back.
Beyond the heartbreak and anguish on QAnonCasualties, there is a common thread: a feeling that their friends and relatives are inhabiting a different reality. “On all levels, from the old-school conspiracist who just wants to uncover corruption to the alien interdimensional vampire demon QAnon believer, they ignore reality and latch on to narratives that support their version of reality,” says Robert Johnson, one of the moderators of the board, adding that most of the recent posts are from people radicalised in lockdown.
Early on in the pandemic, Facebook moved to make the most of the situation. As almost all of its 50,000 or so employees, as well as its army of contractors, were sent home, and Zuckerberg talked up the benefits of remote working, the company handed out grants to small businesses to help them switch to digital operation – $100m (£79m) globally, and another $100m in the US – and retooled its product offerings to take advantage of the new normal. But for all the work it put into smoothing the transition to lockdown life, Facebook also knew it had a problem brewing. The company’s never-ending battle with misinformation on its platforms was about to step into overdrive.
For a long time, the company had resisted acting on the problem. Moderation is hard enough already: simply finding and removing every example of unambiguously banned content on Facebook is a huge task, with comparatively easy-to-automate searches for things such as adult content still throwing up dizzying numbers of edge cases and errors. When it came to tackling misinformation, Facebook had a stated philosophical objection. “As a principle, in a democracy, I believe people should decide what is credible, not tech companies,” Zuckerberg told an audience at Georgetown University last year. But the company was also motivated by the fact that misinformation isn’t as straightforward to identify as nudity, graphic violence or even hate speech.
For one thing, there isn’t even a commonly accepted definition. It is a sibling of disinformation, which is the deliberate spreading of falsehoods. But the line between “misinformation” and simple “inaccuracies” is blurry. Generally, the focus is on the potential for harm. A rumour that, say, the Canadian emo pop star Avril Lavigne was secretly replaced by a body double in the late 2000s is probably untrue, but unlikely to qualify as misinformation. Conversely, a rumour that Trump died of Covid-19 in early October and has been secretly replaced by a body double almost certainly does.
But wherever the line is drawn, the problem is the same: to find out if something is misinformation, you need to know the truth. Were Facebook to ban it directly, the company would effectively need to run an entire journalistic enterprise within its own moderation team.
As a compromise, Facebook partnered with journalists in 2017. Around the world, independent factchecking organisations were given funding and tools to mark viral posts on Facebook as true or false (there are a number of other categories, including “satirical”, “altered” or “missing context”). If the posts were false, their reach – the extent to which the Facebook algorithm showed them to others – would be diminished, and users would have to click through a warning sign to read them.
So far, the programme has been a mixed success. Reducing the reach of false content certainly helps: just a few months after it was launched, Facebook said a factcheck would lead to 80% fewer viewers of a piece of false content. But factcheckers have complained about the limits placed on them by the social network, ranging from restrictions on their ability to factcheck political adverts to a lack of feedback from Facebook about how much, or little, their work is actually helping.
And that was before Covid hit. “We went early as a company in closing down globally,” says Mendelsohn. “You would class us as conservative in that respect, and we will be conservative coming out as well.” Now, six months on, Facebook has a skeleton team in some of its offices and datacentres, and employees coming in to work on the company’s augmented and virtual reality products, such as its Oculus headsets. But the bulk of its staff are still working from home, something that Zuckerberg has said is likely to continue well past the end of the crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/11/how-2020-transformed-big-tech-the-story-of-facebook-qanon-and-the-worlds-slackening-grip-on-reality
Indeed. I bet Friday will be a Great day! Let's see what happens… :D
My Facebook Friend Is Into QAnon and Turning Racist
by Bonita Applebum November 11, 2020
Hey Bonita,
I have a lifelong friend that I mainly keep in touch with via Facebook and a few random text messages on the holidays. Lately he’s been posting a lot of QAnon conspiracy theory stuff and also some straight-up racist memes on social media. (Breonna Taylor deserved her fate, for example, since her name was on the warrant, too.) Thankfully, he hasn’t texted any to me—yet. I just hate looking at this stuff. It’s so disappointing and hurtful, because I’m not white like he is, and it makes me question if I’m actually safe around him, though we haven’t been in each other’s physical presence for years.
Lastly, he has bipolar disorder, and his condition is chronic, meaning that even when his medications are working properly, he still acts in a way that others would think of as wacky. I worry that his diagnosis makes him more gullible to conspiracy theory stuff. I know that people with mental illness need support, but I really don’t want to read this ridiculous shit from him on social media. Should I cut off contact or try to talk with him about it? I kinda want to just cut him off. We rarely talk as it is.
I haven’t had to deal with anything this serious as far as friends getting sucked into conspiracy theories, but I do have a few friends who are preppers out West, real “sovereign citizen” types. They believe conspiracy theories that blow QAnon out of the water, and they think it’s really just a “psy-op” to distract people from the true workings of the deep state. Seriously, QAnon isn’t fringe enough for them. They changed their entire lives years ago in preparation for Armageddon.
The good thing about them is that, while they believe some out-there type stuff, most of it is fairly grounded in reality (secret shadow government that makes deals at Bohemian Grove, that kind of stuff) and they don’t have any mental health diagnoses that I’m aware of. They’re sane adults choosing what to believe and, for that reason, I don’t have any problem with it. I wouldn’t have any issue with your friend’s perspective if it were more grounded, and if his mental health issues were not clearly exacerbating your concern.
Honestly, as a person of color like you, I find the racism to be almost the biggest issue for me. Also like you, I’ve had white people in my life who held blatantly racist opinions, and I’m willing to bet that this guy would not agree that he is racist if you confronted him about it. Been there, done that, and it’s rarely worth the triggering and hurtful argument it causes. I mean, it’s up to you if you wanna talk this out with him, but you already are not in contact with him much, so why change that? You do not need to subject yourself to racism or racist abuse, ever.
You saw some hateful crap on his Facebook page, but luckily he hasn’t directly reached out to you to try to indoctrinate you himself. I think it’s in your best interest to unfriend and unfollow him on social media, and don’t start any conversations that you aren’t down to finish. Even if you do, you have every right to just walk away.
I have had relationships with people whose mental health diagnoses were chronic, too, and I’ve had to make hard choices about how much I can have them in my life. At the end of the day, you have to consider the good that comes from being friends with this person and how it measures up to the bad that comes along with it. We are not bad people for prioritizing our own mental health in the face of someone with their own struggles, and I think that for people of color, collective racial trauma absolutely affects our mental health. I’m sure he’d appreciate having another person out there to call a friend, but not at the cost at hand. You don’t have to make a scene of anything, but you don’t have to reach out to this guy, either. I think it’s time for a friends list cleanup, homie.
https://flagpole.com/advice/hey-bonita/2020/11/11/my-facebook-friend-is-into-qanon-and-turning-racist/
This hit piece hurt muh sides! muh concerns! kek
last one… today! kek
‘TRUST THE PLAN’: QANON FOLLOWERS REACT TO TRUMP’S DEFEAT
Some QAnon followers have expressed helplessness and confusion after Donald Trump, their so-called saviour, was defeated in the US election.
UPDATED 7 HOURS AGO
BY EDEN GILLESPIE
Followers of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon have reacted with both panic and an air of confidence over news that President Donald Trump was defeated in the US election.
As major US networks called the election in the favour of Democrats candidate Joe Biden, some appeared to lose faith in the movement.
“I lost my wife over Q and he just abandoned us when we needed him the most,” one user wrote on the QAnon 8kun forum.
“Q, have you abandoned us? How about a little encouragement,” another person wrote.
“We are limping through this with bans, lockouts, censorship. Gave our all and still no results,” they added.
While another follower claimed “Q has lost all credibility. Q is dead.”
QAnon is the unsubstantiated theory that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles run a global child sex-trafficking ring that’s plotting against Mr Trump’s presidency.
The theory began on the imageboard 4Chan in 2017 when a user named ‘Q’ claimed to be a high-level official who had access to classified information.
QAnon followers have grown accustomed Q’s information drops, who they believe leaves clues for them to decode.
Since President Trump’s defeat, Q has stayed silent on 8kun, the website where all of their posts appear.
The imageboard itself has also slowed. According to The New York Times, “on a recent day, there were fewer new posts on one of 8kun’s QAnon boards than on its board for adult-diaper fetishists.”
While Q’s silence upset many loyal adherents of the conspiracy theory, others were unshaken. These followers posted on the forum praising Mr Trump who some consider the supposed ‘saviour’ of the movement and casting speculation on the election result.
“There is no hesitation in my mind when I say to TRUST THE PLAN,” one person wrote.
“Don't expect to hear much these next few weeks but TRUST that things are happening, even if they can't be revealing tonight and the swamp rats will be punished.”
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/trust-the-plan-qanon-followers-react-to-trump-s-defeat
The winning is literally killing me, Kids! Make it stop! Please! :D
Followers, right!!! Media plants for your stupid fucking fake news story! kek
Duterte extends Philippines' military deal with US
Extension will give Biden time to renegotiate current agreement
CLIFF VENZON, Nikkei staff writer
November 11, 2020 18:19 JST
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to extend the Visiting Forces Agreement with the U.S., Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Wednesday, amid continuing tensions with China in the disputed South China Sea.
The extension would give Manila and Washington, which will usher in a new administration under Joe Biden as President in January, more time to discuss options for the troops deal, a key aspect of their defense alliance, an analyst said.
Duterte early this year ordered the abrogation of the 1998 agreement, which facilitates the entry of American troops into the Philippines for annual military drills, after the U.S. suspended the visa of one of his political allies.
But Manila in June suspended the abrogation for six months extendable by another six months amid heightened U.S.-China rivalry and Beijing's fresh moves in the disputed waters at the time.
Locsin informed U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien about the VFA extension, citing both governments' efforts to maintain stability in the South China Sea.
MORE AT LINK:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/South-China-Sea/Duterte-extends-Philippines-military-deal-with-US
Arrrr!!
Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania ballots defy the laws of physics
By Andrea Widburg
November 11, 2020
So far, one of the immutable laws of physics is that, while time may be relative, it travels in only one direction: forward. That’s why it’s suspicious that Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots apparently engaged in time travel, with voters allegedly mailing over 23,000 ballots before they even received them from the state. Over 100,000 Pennsylvania absentee ballots raise questions. But you can be assured that our leftist media hacks will continue to insist that there is no evidence anywhere in America of voter fraud.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/tens_of_thousands_of_pennsylvania_ballots_defy_the_laws_of_physics.html
Georgia’s GOP Congressional Reps Demand Answers About Alleged Voter Irregularities
JOSHUA CAPLAN 10 Nov 2020
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressional Delegation for Georgia sent a letter Tuesday to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger requesting information regarding allegations of voter irregularities in the Peach State’s 2020 presidential election.
Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter, Drew Ferguson, Austin Scott, Jody Hice, Barry Loudermilk, Rick Allen, and Representatives-elect Andrew Clyde and Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote to Raffensperger:
As Members and Members-Elect of the Georgia Congressional Delegation, we are deeply concerned by continued, serious allegations of voting irregularities in our state. The Georgia Republican Party and the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign have received reports of deceased or ineligible voters casting ballots, eligible voters being denied the opportunity to vote, and Republican poll watchers and observers being denied access to activities and meetings critical to ensuring a fair, accurate, and transparent vote tabulation.
The letter continued:
As such, we write to request your thorough review of the allegations brought forth by the Georgia Republican Party and the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign. Specifically we ask you fully examine and grant the requests laid out in their letter addressed to you earlier today before certification of the November 3, 2020 General Election.
The letter concluded: “A fair election ensures all legal ballots are counted. We are united in asking you to ensure that such is the case and look forward to your prompt response.”
The development comes one day after Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) called on Raffensperger to resign over his management of the state’s election.
“The management of Georgia elections has become an embarrassment for our state. Georgians are outraged, and rightly so,” the statement via Perdue and Loeffler reads. “We have been clear from the beginning: every legal vote cast should be counted. Any illegal vote must not. And there must be transparency and uniformity in the counting process. This isn’t hard. This isn’t partisan. This is American. We believe when there are failures, they need to be called out — even when it’s in your own party.”
MORE:
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/11/10/georgia-gop-congressional-delegation-demands-answers-about-alleged-voter-irregularities/
Article was from yesterday yet it registers as 1 hour ago so should be updated
Letter: Election fraud? Why, whatever do you mean?
By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
November 11, 2020 at 1:11 a.m.
Let’s not hear any more of that “election fraud” stuff.
OK. So the Democrats spent the entire Trump presidency trying to get rid of him by whatever baloney they could dream up. So the never-ending Russia investigation was based entirely on lies from Trump-haters. So Chuck Schumer said he had solid evidence that somehow disappeared at crunch time.
So they tried to impeach the president over a meaningless telephone call.
So the mainstream media made a habit of taking Trump statements out of context, then lying about his meaning. No, he didn’t say every illegal alien was a rapist, murderer, or drug smuggler.
So they regularly lied about Trump’s invented racism, ignoring Biden’s racist past and his recent racist statements.
So the Democrats have worked feverishly to find as many like-minded voters as possible; from jails, high schools, recent border jumpers, and, like they did in the JFK election, from cemeteries.
So why would anyone believe the Democrats would try to fix this election? Gee whiz. That would have been unethical. Anyhow, they’ve already told us there’s no way to prove anything.
Even if it could be proved, so what? There’s plenty of proof that Biden and family got rich selling influence to China and other countries, and nothing will ever be done about that. There’s plenty of proof that Hillary broke more laws than Bonnie and Clyde combined, and nothing will ever done about that.
So just shut up about election fraud and be obedient little minions.
— Jack McWherter, Cherokee
https://www.chicoer.com/2020/11/11/letter-election-fraud-why-whatever-do-you-mean/
Ok which one of you anons wrote this for Jack? kek
AG Barr tells DOJ to investigate allegations of voter fraud
The move, which reverses long-standing policy at the Justice Department, allows federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of voter fraud before states certify their election results.
By | November 11, 2020 at 2:00 AM CST - Updated November 11 at 2:00 AM
Video at Link - https://www.kplctv.com/video/2020/11/11/ag-barr-tells-doj-investigate-allegations-voter-fraud/
Old dogs trust the plan so all of this election "news" is for all of you pups who probably have not
bothered to read all of the drops.
Read them! All of them! and join us in comfy AF land or not, the choice has always been yours.
OPINION: Trump has little evidence of voting fraud or illegal ballot counting
November 11, 2020 3:14 am by Teegan Oshins, CORRESPONDENT
The Trump administration has been working hard to deny President-elect Joe Biden’s projected win of the general election. Since poll workers started counting votes, President Donald Trump has accused Democrats of submitting illegal ballots in virtually every way possible.
His claims, however, have little to no evidence to back them up.
“If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us,” said Trump at a Nov. 5 press conference at the White House.
He also cited poll workers obstructing the view inside Michigan ballot-counting locations with pieces of cardboard as evidence of illegal activity. He said this blocked “observers” who were meant to be there from watching the counting.
This was disproven by FactCheck.org, an organization that examines the validity of politicians’ claims. It is true that civilians were blocked from watching the count, but observers hired by the state were allowed to witness the tallying of votes.
Trump then accused Pennsylvania and Georgia of pushing back on providing ballot-counting locations with observers, until a judge ordered them to allow poll watchers to be present.
During the press conference, Trump also insisted that Detroit received ballots at 4 a.m. on Nov. 4, despite polls having been closed for eight hours.
“The final batch did not arrive until four in the morning. And even though the polls closed at 8 p.m., so they brought it in … and nobody knew where they came from,” he said.
This, though, was also disproven by FactCheck. The suitcase people thought to be full of illegal ballots actually stored camera equipment for media photographers.
Despite many claims that absentee ballots would create fraud, a Washington Post analysis found that only 372 cases were possibly found out of the 14.6 million votes cast in 2016 and 2018 combined.
The most obviously baseless protest was the “stop the count” movement. Many Trump supporters stood outside of various ballot-counting locations in Arizona and Michigan chanting “stop the count.” They thought any ballots counted after Election Day were illegal and therefore did not count them, according to Business Insider. This escalated when the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Michigan on Nov. 3 asking poll workers to halt counting the ballots.
It is common, however, for ballots to be counted far after Election Day. Federal election laws allow for ballots to be counted up to a month after Super Tuesday. This is specifically due to absentee ballots, which increased substantially this election due to COVID-19.
Absentee ballots were primarily in favor of Biden since Trump used fearmongering to prevent his supporters from using mail-in voting.
“The fraud and abuse will be an embarrassment to our country,” Trump tweeted about absentee voting in August.
Now, Trump seems to be confused and upset that mail-in voting has been to Biden’s benefit, citing this as evidence that illegal voting occurred.
“It’s amazing how those mail-in ballots are so one-sided,” Trump said at the press conference.
His rhetoric against mail-in ballots would inevitably work against him, which he should have predicted. Instead, Biden promoted absentee voting, telling constituents that it is a safer form of voting during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in his projected victory.
Trump has refused to concede and is allowing the election to carry on based on illogical accusations of illegal activity and voter fraud. He is grasping at straws attempting to stay in office. His administration should concede, but it is becoming more unlikely by the day that America will witness a smooth transition of power.
http://www.usforacle.com/2020/11/11/opinion-trump-has-little-evidence-of-voting-fraud-or-illegal-ballot-counting/
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Indeed, fren, indeed.
I have been High AF for the last 40 years almost.
I have done work for the SS, the President at that time, all major media and several fortune 100's.
I just lit one! :D
BTW
always add LB/PB on top of links for last or past breads, please.
Like this:
LB/PB
So people with limited access know that the link takes them to past or last bread.
I kek'ed and ok I snorted a little bit as well! :D
Bummer! yer one of them "Q hit pieces are bad ummmkay!" people huh? :D
Back in the day day every hit piece was a badge of honor.
Those were the days!!!
GM, Sam
These people are stupid and very very paranoid! kek
Around 4 am it was a like a massive wave of muh joo shills and other assorted rookie punk bitches rolled in.
So Comfy!
No Doubt, Anon.
Today's hit pieces are tippy top kek and I been scraping for love you long time.
The Pain and Panic is Glorious!
Legalize it!
kek!
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"a bruised reed I shall not break and burning FLAX I shall not quench until I sendeth forth judgement unto Victory!"
and then after that I still won't quit! :D
Sure… no problem.
Only got easier over time.
My Supervisor's did not seem to care as long as I took care of business and taking care of business is what I do! Usually! kek
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Most FAGGOTS have no clue about Trauma/ptsd and until their faggot asses do
they need to STFU about Cannabis as Medicine.
Fuck Tucker! Fuck Ingraham and anyone else who puts this amazing plant down.
not me sorry as I took a break from scraping hit pieces until today as this place is literally packed full of fucking Karen's hence no notables for the 5-6 hit pieces I took the time to scrape today…
Well alrighty then…
Prove Anon wrong
SOROS took over for Rothschild and both work for a Hidden Hand.
Soros controls the Dem Party
Soros takes orders from P
P = Pope/Papal royal families (black nobility) no not the swiss guard, Papal orders of knighthood such as the knights of Malta, St Sylvester etc etc
and Papal orders such as the Jesuits.
Come at me, Anons!
kek
Fuck off concern fag!
this shit is easy.
Look at the image of the owl
Consider the name Q gave to the image of the owl and now solve for [P] =
Did matrixxx send ya?
Enjoy!
I never retreat!
I never surrender!
I leave it all on the field!
VATICAN RCC RESEARCH FILE 2.0
More truth than most can handle.
99% IN THE HOSPITAL
PART I
>>11306328 Q DROP#189'''The Cult Runs the World GODFATHER III > PAPAL ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD > VATICAN'''
>>11306340 Q DROP#714'''Q Threat to Clowns CIA > Vatican? Catholics In Action, Catholics In America'''
>>11306348 Q DROP#851CIA & Vatican Helped Nazi Officers Escape
>>11306360 Q DROP#936'''The Nazi Order Vatican > Jesuits'''
>>11306372 Q DROP#997Pope will have a Terrible May - "Those who backed him pushed into the LIGHT"
>>11306379 Q DROP#1002'''The BITE that has no CURE Vatican Viper Symbolism "Symbolism will be their downfall" '''
>>11306412 Q DROP#1021Did US taxpayers pay $3.5 Billion for the Predatory Sexual Abuse Perpetrated upon Americans by the Roman Catholic Church?
>>11306430 Q DROP#1413'''Guardian of the Pope Owl Photo Q named the owl photo "Guardian_P" '''
>>11306440 Q DROP#1763'''Sex Abuse in the Church "Those you are taught to TRUST the most….. Dark to LIGHT." '''
>>11306453 Q DROP#1831'''POTUS Roasts Corrupt & Evil Hillary Clinton at Catholic Charity Event "Surrounded by EVIL." '''
>>11306467 Q DROP#1879100s of Priests in PA Molested 1000s of Children "House of GOD?"
>>11306475 Q DROP#1916'''Priest Hits Crying Baby at Baptism "Man of God?" '''
>>11306478 Q DROP#1950Holy See Corrupt Universal Government of the Catholic Church
>>11306489 Q DROP#2152Pope Francis Compares Vatican Whistleblower to Satan
>>11306494 Q DROP#2590'''Australian Cardinal George Pell Found Guilty of Sexual Abuse "[CARDINAL PELL] Dark to LIGHT." '''
>>11306507 Q DROP#2594Cardinal George Pell 3rd in Command at Vatican "Define "pecking" [Animals].
>>11306522 Q DROP#2894Vatican Treasurer Cardinal George Pell Found Guilty of Child Sex Charges "Many more to come? Dark to LIGHT."
>>11306537 Q DROP#2918'''Trump's Roast of Hillary Back in 2016 Reveals Her Dark Secrets "Symbolism will be their downfall" '''
>>11306550 Q DROP#3565'''Q Links to Pope's Tweet on Human Trafficking "GODFATHER III. It's going to be BIBLICAL" '''
>>11306563 Q DROP#3709'''Vatican Ambassador to France Resigns after Molestation Allegations "Those you are taught to trust the most…." '''
>>11306591 Q DROP#3957"Sleepers [Pro] will shift position [Nay]. [Paul Ryan_Fox]" Rupert Murdoch Papal Knight Fox news dominated by Catholics.
>>11306685 Q DROP#4303CIA's Use of Journalists and Clergy in Intelligence Operations "CIA coming back into the news [soon]?" Who really controls the Media?
>>11306697 Q DROP#4408We Are in the Middle of Another Enlightenment Approaching the Precipice. Against (the monarchy, the privileges of the
nobility, the political power of the Catholic Church)
>>11306720 Q DROP#4429'''Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Letter to POTUS-Biblical Battle Light vs Dark"Armor of God" Vigano is not our friend.'''
>>11306736 Q DROP#4799Rebuffed by Vatican, Pompeo Assails China and Aligns With Pope’s Critics
When does a Church become a playground?
When does a Church become a business?
When does a Church become political?
When does a Church become corrupt?
When does a Church become willfully blind?
When does a Church become controlled?
FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT!
VATICAN RCC RESEARCH FILE 2.0
More truth than most can handle.
99% IN THE HOSPITAL
PART II
>>11307180 '''MEET GEORGE SOROS A "Jew" or a Catholic Court Jew?'''
>>11307149 WHAT IS A COURT JEW?
>>11306887 ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr. "The CIA killed my Father RFK and Uncle JFK" + Vaccines>COVID on Ron Paul's Show.
>>11309278 MEET ANTHONY FAUCI - A ROMAN CATHOLIC JESUIT WITH MANY CONNECTIONS TO THE DEEP STATE.
>>11307590 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND THE VATICAN CONNECTION
'''24 year assistant Director of the Who, Milton Siegel explains exactly how the Vatican controls the W.H.O. consider the implications now with covid.'''
Is the story about China controlling the W.H.O a cover story? Does the Vatican secretly control China? The CIA?
>>11306927 Revealing look at the Director of the CIA when J.F.K. was assassinated, John A McCone. Part I
>>11306949 Revealing look at the Director of the CIA when J.F.K. was assassinated, John A McCone. Part II
>>11307201 MEET BERNHARD STEMPFLE Catholic Jesuit Priest who wrote and edited parts of Mein Kampf
>>11307730 Adolf Hitler And The Jesuit Order - Part I
>>11307750 Adolf Hitler And The Jesuit Order - Part II Von Papen, Mussolini, Fascism, Pious XII
>>11307784 Adolf Hitler And The Jesuit Order - Part III Jesuits and the CIA
>>11307499 Cuban Immigrant warns of evils of Socialism - at TRUMP round table event - Castro was trained by Catholic Jesuits
>>11307274 MEET ALPHONSE LOUIS CONSTANT AKA Éliphas Lévi Zahed Failed Catholic Priest responsible for adding "SOLVE ET COAGULA" to Baphomet image
>>11307925 MEET ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANO - Deep State, Deep Church, Invisible Enemy
>>11307021 MEET TIMOTHY DOLAN Archbishop of New York - Deep State/Church
>>11307305 MEET ADAM WEISHAUPT - FOUNDER OF THE ILLUMINATI - STRONG JESUIT CONNECTION
>>11306800 Q said "Soros takes order from P." Q DROP#416
>>11306807 Q asks "Who controls the [D] party" and "Who really controls the [D] party?" [GS] George Soros? Q DROP#3749
>>11306822 Q said "Guardian of the Pope" and titled the accompanying image of an owl "GUARDIAN_P" Q DROP#1413
>>11306775 Drops#3749, 416and1413basic decode>P = Pope/Papal Royal Families (Black nobility) Papal Orders of Knighthood (Malta)
Orders such as the Jesuits.
>>11306837 Drops#3749, 416and1413basic decode>P = ? Part II
>>11307120 '''Link between SAUL ALINSKY and the Roman Catholic Jesuits Alinsky and the Jesuits also link to Obama and Hillary Clinton'''
>>11307397 SONS OF LIGHT VERSUS THE SONS OF DARKNESS - THE WAR SCROLL - PART I VIGANO MUST ENJOY THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
>>11307428 SONS OF LIGHT VERSUS THE SONS OF DARKNESS - THE WAR SCROLL - PART II VIGANO USED THIS THEME
>>11306863 CHINA VATICAN SECRET TWO YEAR DEAL IS NOT A SECRET ANYMORE.
What did Q name the Owl image file?
GUARDIAN_P
and what is the drop concerning?
GUARDIAN of the Pope.
What an amazing coincidence!
You aren't looking an answer…
Jews and Masons are Vigano and Marshalls scapegoats just like Satan is the scapegoat of church dogma.
"Does the thought of Satan exist?"
I wonder why Q said that way, don't you, Anon?
Fucking SSDD, these kids dont even read the drops…