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    QANON Victory

    QAnon follower wins Senate primary in Oregon

    Christopher Wilson
    Yahoo News May 20, 2020, 10:38 PM GMT+7

    QAnon follower wins Senate primary
    Yahoo News




    A follower of QAnon, a conspiracy theory that has been spreading from the far fringes of right-wing social media into more mainstream Republican circles, won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Oregon Tuesday, crediting fellow followers for her victory.

    “Where we go one, we go all,” said candidate Jo Rae Perkins in a tweet published prior to the results coming in, quoting a popular slogan from the conspiracy theory. “I stand with President Trump, I stand with Q and the team. Thank you Anons, and thank you patriots. Together, we can save our republic.”

    During a victory speech live-streamed to social media
    , Perkins concluded by saying, “As we Q people like to say, ‘Where we go one, we go all.’”

    QAnon is a theory built around belief in an international conspiracy of high-ranking government officials to kidnap, abuse, torture and kill children — the delusion under which an armed North Carolina man attempted a rescue mission at a Washington pizzeria in 2016, the baseless Pizzagate conspiracy seen as a precursor to QAnon. President Trump, in the Q worldview, is working behind the scenes to expose and disrupt this conspiracy but has been thwarted by “deep-state” bureaucrats and global elites. The narrative is fed by cryptic posts on internet message boards from the anonymous “Q,” who followers believe to be a high-ranking intelligence official, or possibly even Trump himself. Popular YouTube and social media pages promulgate and analyze Q’s vague messages, turning the obsession into something of a game for many followers.

    Perkins is the former Republican chairwoman in Linn County, located just south of the capital city, Salem, and had run in prior Republican primaries in 2014 (U.S. Senate), 2016 and 2018 (the state’s Fourth Congressional District). She was originally running for the House seat again in 2020 but withdrew to enter the Senate race. As of the latest results, Perkins had earned just short of 50 percent of the vote in the four-candidate race. The runner-up was former naval officer Paul Romero, who reached 30 percent.

    Perkins has made her support of QAnon a central plank of her campaign, telling Right Wing Watch in a January interview, “It’s a very highly calculated risk that I’m taking. Most people play it a lot safer than I do. It’s either pure genius or pure insanity. It’s one of the two. The voters are going to have to be the ones that make that decision.”

    “I think that there’s probably a lot of us out there, but I just happen to be bold enough to say, ‘Hey, I’m following Q because I want to know, because if the Q team is real, I want to know about it,’” Perkins added in the same interview, in which she compared believing in Q to believing in Jesus Christ, as a matter of faith that transcends proof.

    “Q is most likely military intelligence,” suggested Perkins in the interview, “and they've been out there watching what's been going on with our country for decades and they are partnered with President Trump to stop the corruption and to save our republic.”

    Trump has retweeted accounts that promote QAnon
    , and his rallies have had plenty of attendees sporting Q-related apparel and signs. Last year, Yahoo News reported that an FBI document had identified QAnon as one of the “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists” that were potential terrorist threats.

    “The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts,” the document states. It also goes on to say the FBI believes conspiracy-theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.

    The memo noted a 2018 incident in which a heavily armed man in an armored truck was arrested after blocking traffic on the Hoover Dam. He was demanding the release of the inspector general's report on Hillary Clinton, an obsession of QAnon supporters. In February, the man, 32-year-old Matthew Wright, pleaded guilty to making a domestic terrorism threat, aggravated assault and unlawful flight from a pursuing law enforcement vehicle. Two assault-style rifles, two handguns and 900 rounds of ammunition were found in the armored truck.

    Last year, the lawyer for a man accused of killing a New Jersey mob boss said his client’s “support for ‘QAnon’ went beyond mere participation in a radical political organization. It evolved into a delusional obsession.”

    According to the liberal watchdog group Media Matters
    , dozens of candidates who support QAnon attempted or are in the process of attempting congressional bids in the 2020 cycle.

    Perkins will be up against incumbent Democrat Jeff Merkley, who first won the seat in 2008. Merkley won his 2014 reelection bid by 19 points, but recent margins in statewide contests have been closer, with Clinton winning the state by 11 points in 2016 and Democratic Gov. Katie Brown winning by 7 points in 2018. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, the other member of the state’s U.S. Senate delegation, won his bid for reelection by 23 points in 2016.
    Majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd

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    Thank the gods she has basically no chance of winning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Thank the gods he has basically no chance of winning.
    ...-Hillary, 2016...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    ...-Hillary, 2016...
    Its Oregon FFS.

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    It sounds very much like a slightly less crazy version of Trump

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    It sounds very much like a slightly less crazy version of Trump
    I don't know, he's a liar and an idiot. She sounds like she believes this shit.

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    Sounds like someone SKkin would vote for ...

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    ^ Why? Q is bullshit. Primrose path...

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    Quote Originally Posted by SKkin View Post
    ^ Why? Q is bullshit
    ...that's a relief...

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    About as useless as Alex Jones.

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    So how are their conspiracy theories any less valid than your own.

    They can Google up just as much 'proof' as you can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    So how are their conspiracy theories any less valid than your own.

    They can Google up just as much 'proof' as you can.
    ...that's likely the case when opinion=proof...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    ...that's likely the case when opinion=proof...
    So basically missiles disguised as planes blew up and WTC and it was brought down by Thermite-wielding Jews at the same time.

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    GOP Senate Nominee 'Literally Physically In Tears' After Campaign Retracts QAnon Support

    Sebastian Murdock
    HuffPost May 23, 2020, 4:44 AM GMT+7



    GOP Senate Nominee 'Literally Physically In Tears' After Campaign Retracts QAnon Support

    The Republican nominee for Oregon’s U.S. Senate seat is a staunch supporter of QAnon and is fighting against her own campaign to promote the dangerous conspiracy network.

    Insurance agent Jo Rae Perkins won the GOP nomination by a landslide earlier this week to run against Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat. Part of her voter appeal might be her belief in QAnon, a right-wing conspiracy that claims President Donald Trump is involved in stopping a pedophile network of Satan-worshipping cannibals who have infiltrated every level of government and the mass media.

    Republicans, including the National Republican Senatorial Committee and The White House, have so far declined to comment on their new ally, ABC News reported. But Perkins own campaign team attempted to distance its candidate from QAnon on Wednesday, saying in a statement that Perkins “would never describe herself as a follower.”

    Perkins didn’t agree with that statement, telling ABC News the following day that she was “literally physically in tears” after she read the statement on her personal Twitter account.

    “My campaign is gonna kill me,” Perkins told the publication. “How do I say this? Some people think that I follow Q like I follow Jesus. Q is the information and I stand with the information resource.”

    That “information resource” is bunk and has led to dangerous real-world consequences. In 2018, a man took his AR-15 and his armored car to Hoover Dam to demand the government come clean about supposed crimes related to QAnon beliefs. A Colorado woman was arrested earlier this year after attempting to kidnap her son with the help of QAnon followers. And the New York Police Department arrested a woman in April who was carrying 18 knives and threatened political figures.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    GOP Senate Nominee 'Literally Physically In Tears'
    She's "literally a fucking retard".

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