re: Ezra Q'd
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>>Q-anon garbage
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>ffs, i'm confused
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>does he mean "Qanon" is garbage?
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>or does he mean Q and anons are garbage?
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>>Q-anon garbage
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>ffs, i'm confused
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>does he mean "Qanon" is garbage?
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>or does he mean Q and anons are garbage?
Yes. For people who are not True Believer in QAnon/"Q and anons" it's a distinction without a difference.
research "Cohen" and "vatnik".
in this interview Cohen Vatnik expresses dissatisfaction that the Trump circle didn't take the QAnon/"Q and anons" threat seriously but were amused by it, while Ezra thought it should have been nipped in the bud ….
Ezra Vatnik suspects that Q and anons are a malign psyop by a hostile foreign adversary
== ‘Are you QAnon?’: One Trump official’s brush with an internet cult gone horribly wrong
Some believed he was “Q,” the mythical figure behind an intricate and sprawling conspiracy theory. Here Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a senior Trump intelligence official, shares the story of his ordeal for the first time.
….prominent Trump administration official said he’s been battling the movement for years — pleading with his government colleagues and figures in the tech industry to recognize the real-world danger posed by the internet-based fantasy.
Since 2018, many members of the cult-like group have been convinced that its shadowy leader and founder is actually Ezra Cohen-Watnick, an intelligence specialist who worked in various Defense Department jobs before accepting a senior post on the National Security Council staff soon after President Donald Trump came into office in 2017.
“It’s clear that the QAnon conspiracy was a core of what was going on at the Capitol and I want to do everything I can to delegitimize this conspiracy,” Cohen, 34, told POLITICO in an interview. “The country deserved better on Jan. 6 — what transpired was appalling and completely at odds with our democratic principles.”
Asked about the violence at the Capitol, as well as the role that Trump played in stoking it through his speech that day and the conspiracy talk he fomented in the weeks after the election, Cohen said: “The administration should have crushed this QAnon stuff as soon as it materialized.”
In his first public comments on his ordeal, Cohen detailed a nightmarish, two-year-long fight to extricate himself from the QAnon saga. He said he’s speaking out now because he is again a private citizen, wrapping up his service as a Trump appointee at the Pentagon, and because he is outraged over the tragic events of Jan. 6.
Asked about Trump’s role, Cohen responded in general terms, saying that many in the administration treated the conspiracy theory as amusing long after it passed that point.
Cohen, who specializes in countering influence of foreign adversaries like Russia and China, says the persistence and sophistication of some of those involved in QAnon have convinced him of a foreign presence in the movement.
“In my professional opinion, being in the intelligence world, it really appeared to be a foreign state actor or a very organized operation,” he said. “I just don’t see that level of sophistication as just an amateur thing.”
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anon disagrees with the last paragraphs.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/qanon-trump-ezra-cohen-watnick-460520