just like an anon said earler, 4am talking point
WH press secretary: Can't offer 'guarantee' there is no N-word recording
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/president-trump-says-no-tape-exists-him-using-100506527–abc-news-topstories.html
because it highlights their sheer stupidity
Bolton to meet Russian counterpart for ‘Helsinki summit follow-up’ – White House
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton will meet with his Russian counterpart next week for follow-up discussions on issues raised at the Helsinki summit, the White House confirmed.
After meeting officials in Israel and Ukraine, Bolton will head to Geneva to meet with an unnamed Russian representative to “discuss a range of national security issues,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Tuesday, calling it a “follow-up” to last month's summit in Helsinki.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said earlier that a meeting between Bolton and secretary of the Security Council Nikolay Patrushev could happen “by the end of the summer.”
News of the meeting comes just hours after the website of the Congress published the text of a “sanctions bill from hell” proposed by some of the most outspokenly anti-Russian US Senators.
Last week, the State Department announced the US would be imposing additional sanctions on Russia over the alleged chemical attack in Salisbury, England this spring. Unless Russia provided "reliable assurances" that it wouldn’t use chemical weapons in the future and agreed to "on-site inspections" by the UN, the State Department said another round of sanctions would be imposed within 90 days. This would include a near-total trade blockade, downgrading diplomatic relations and banning the Russian airline Aeroflot from flying to the US.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump met in the Finnish capital on July 16. While Moscow hailed the summit as a positive step in normalizing relations with Washington, the US political and media establishment just about accused Trump of treason.
While some of Trump’s critics in his own party echoed the claims of the opposition Democrats, they thought the demand to have the translator from the meeting with Putin testify before Congress was going too far.
Relations with Russia should not be held hostage to internal US political disputes, Putin told Fox News after the summit. Democrats have latched onto accusations that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election – and helped Trump – as a way to explain Hillary Clinton’s defeat.
https://www.rt.com/usa/435962-bolton-geneva-helsinki-followup/
https://twitter.com/LizCrokin/status/1029464237737881600
more horseshit
QAnon conspiracy theory was spread by social media hustlers.
NBC News has blockbuster report by Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins tracking the spread of the so-called QAnon online conspiracy theory. While the report doesn’t answer the question of who created QAnon, it does provide a convincing account of how it went from being an obscure series of internet postings to a theory with a mass following, often visible at the rallies of President Donald Trump. Although sprawling and opaque, the core of the QAnon theory is that President Donald Trump is fighting a secret war against a cabal of pedophiles who dominate the American government and Hollywood.
Key to the spread of QAnon were a handful of social-media savvy entrepreneurs. “In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website, one of the most extreme message boards on the internet, banded together and plucked out of obscurity an anonymous and cryptic post from the many conspiracy theories that populated the website’s message board,” Zadrozny and Collins write.
A central figure in promoting QAnon is Tracy Diaz, a Youtube creator who had previously promoted the Pizzagate theory. In early November, Diaz started promoting QAnon, at that point only a few esoterica posts.
“Diaz followed with dozens more Q-themed videos, each containing a call for viewers to donate through links to her Patreon and PayPal accounts,” Zadrozny and Collins note. “Diaz, who emerged from bankruptcy in 2009, says in her YouTube videos that she now relies on donations from patrons funding her YouTube ‘research’ as her sole source of income.”
Diaz worked with the husband and wife team of Coleman Rogers and Christina Urso, who created “the Patriots’ Soapbox, a round-the-clock livestreamed YouTube channel for QAnon study and discussion. The channel is, in effect, a broadcast of a Discord chatroom with constant audio commentary from a rotating cast of volunteers and moderators with sporadic appearances by Rogers and Urso.” Like Diaz, Rogers and Urso used QAnon as a money making venture, picking up revenue from donations. Rogers, like Diaz, had a history of subscribing to conspiracy theories before QAnon. He had previously promoted the idea that Democrats worshipped Satan.
As NBC reports, some QAnon skeptics suspect Rogers as the probably fabricator of Qanon’s posts:
Still, Qanon skeptics have pointed to two videos as evidence that Rogers had insider knowledge of Q’s account. One archived livestream appears to show Rogers logging into the 8chan account of “Q.”The Patriots’ Soapbox feed quickly cuts out after the login attempt. “Sorry, leg cramp,” Rogers says, before the feed reappears seconds later.
Whoever QAnon might be, we now have a better understanding of the mercenary infrastructure that made it popular.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/150680/qanon-conspiracy-theory-spread-social-media-hustlers