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dajoki

(10,678 posts)
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 09:06 AM Aug 2019

These q nuts are unredeemable...

Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos Are Scheduled to Speak at a Conference Organized by a QAnon Supporter
The right-wing event aims to prepare “social media warriors” for a coming “digital war.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/michael-flynn-and-george-papadopoulos-are-scheduled-to-speak-at-a-conference-organized-by-a-qanon-supporter/

Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos, two former Trump foreign policy aides who both agreed in late 2017 to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, appear to have found some new allies: QAnon conspiracy theorists.

Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser before he was forced to resign after news reports that he’d misled officials about his private conversations with Russia’s ambassador. He and Papadopoulos are listed as speakers at the upcoming “Digital Soldiers Conference,” a one-day event scheduled for September 14 in Atlanta that promises to ready “[p]atriotic social media warriors” for a coming “digital civil war” against “censorship and suppression.”

Other featured speakers include Bill Mitchell, an online broadcaster and conspiracy theorist; singer and Trump backer Joy Villa; and a “mystery guest.” The event is being organized by Rich Granville, the CEO of Yippy, Inc, who has a Twitter feed littered with references to QAnon, a conspiracy theory centered around the notion that Trump is secretly taking down an international ring of pedophiles that includes high-ranking Democrats. QAnon supporters believe that an anonymous person known as Q is dropping online clues about this supposed clandestine operation. The web page for Granville’s conference prominently features an American flag festooned with a Q.

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Flynn’s legal shift has coincided with his apparent move toward conspiracy theorists who have embraced him as a hero. After Flynn’s plea, many conservative writers argued he was unfairly prosecuted and suggested his case would be thrown out. QAnon believers added their own spin, theorizing that Flynn was actually working with Mueller to help defeat the so-called deep state and expose a liberal pedophile ring.

Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., a frequent purveyor of right-wing conspiracy theories, espoused QAnon views when he tweeted in late 2016 about “PizzaGate,” a conspiracy theory that a DC pizzeria was part of a child sex ring involving senior Democratic officials. Flynn Jr. lost a job on the Trump transition team due to those tweets. Flynn Jr. has since renounced QAnon. But General Flynn’s brother, Joseph Flynn, and sister, Barbara Redgate, have signaled support to QAnon supporters, according to the Daily Beast. Joseph Flynn delighted believers last March by tweeting the letter Q. He later deleted the tweet but suggested his account had been hacked by “the team.” Some QAnon followers interpreted his tweet to be a reference to their theory that a “Q Team” of hackers is working to help Trump.

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These q nuts are unredeemable... (Original Post) dajoki Aug 2019 OP
Be nice if a treason conviction turns up. Be helpful by association in a scum skimming empedocles Aug 2019 #1
At least this time around, we'll be onto their bullshit. Initech Aug 2019 #2
Sucks that Flynn appears to be walking around a free man still Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2019 #3
Q should be shut down due 42bambi Aug 2019 #4

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
1. Be nice if a treason conviction turns up. Be helpful by association in a scum skimming
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 09:11 AM
Aug 2019

clean-up operation.

Initech

(100,102 posts)
2. At least this time around, we'll be onto their bullshit.
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 09:39 AM
Aug 2019

My only problem is that I hope that the media doesn't aid in spreading the bullshit.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,437 posts)
3. Sucks that Flynn appears to be walking around a free man still
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 09:50 AM
Aug 2019

Was he basically just let go, now that the Mueller probe is over? WTF?

42bambi

(1,753 posts)
4. Q should be shut down due
Wed Aug 14, 2019, 10:16 AM
Aug 2019

to incitement, slander, lies and threats. It's used as a weapon against reality.

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