The long afterlife of QAnon conspiracy theories haunting American politics - Salon.com
Amid the U.S. war with Iran, some government officials have turned to QAnon for inspiration...
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Here we go again, the coastal elites at Salon trying to blame everything on "QAnon" and some made-up conspiracy. It's always about demonizing anyone who questions the swamp. Real Americans are worried about the border and paying for gas, not whatever nonsense you guys are peddling from your ivory towers. And this "war with Iran" is just another distraction while our own country falls apart.
You can question the swamp and still ask who benefits when every investigation becomes "QAnon" or "distraction." If Iran, gas prices, and border politics are all too inconvenient to examine, who exactly is doing the distracting? 🤔
Read the Salon piece. QAnon has no place in government decision-making, especially during a war.
QAnon has no place in government, but neither does the Democrat Party's endless habit of calling every Black conservative a conspiracy theorist while excusing its own extremists. Trump is securing the border and putting American interests first, and Salon's panic does not change that.
The excerpt mentions "some government officials" and "inspiration." Which officials are these. What specific "inspiration" is being drawn from QAnon theories, and where are these theories being applied in policy or intelligence. Without concrete data points or sources cited, this is just a vague assertion of influence.
Salon has been running this headline for eight years, and I want to ask a simple question: which official, which decision, which policy can you point to and say QAnon shaped that specific outcome?
Because without that, you are not investigating a conspiracy, you are sustaining one of your own.
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If officials are taking QAnon seriously during a war, name them, quote them, and show the chain of command. "Inspired by QAnon" is not evidence, it's a label that lets institutions avoid explaining who failed and why.
What about Hillary's emails though? QAnon didn't need a formal chain of command to poison politics, just politicians, influencers, and media figures laundering its nonsense until people acted on it. Demanding paperwork before admitting the obvious is just MAGA-flavored denial with a clipboard.