On 8/29/2022 6:55 PM, kmiller wrote:
Jeez. This is just so hard to believe. I mean, the orange goon doesn't
like these guys, does he? HawHawHaw!
Dozens of accounts that were banned from other social media sites for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory have found a home on Truth Social,
the platform created by former President Donald Trump, an apolitical
watchdog media organization reports.
NewsGuard, which analyzes and rates news outlets on transparency and credibility, identified 88 Truth Social accounts with more than 10,000 followers each that have promoted slogans, graphics and beliefs
associated with QAnon.
Of those accounts, 47 have been verified by Truth Social and 32 were previously banned by Twitter, NewsGuard said in its report, which was released Monday.
QAnon is an evolving collection of conspiracy theories that center on
the idea that government, media and financial elites are
Satan-worshiping pedophiles. Many followers of QAnon believe that Trump
and "Q," an anonymous government official with high-level security
clearance, are working to take down the network of famous and powerful
child sex-traffickers.
https://people.com/politics/qanon-focused-accounts-banned-twitter-flourish-boost-from-trump-truth-social/
Oh hell. #45 isn't just hosting that bullshit. He's wallowing in it.
"With legal peril rising, Trump turns to QAnon and 4chan memes for support
David Knowles·Senior Editor
With the Justice Department investigation of his handling of classified documents pressing forward, former President Donald Trump spent Tuesday
morning posting dozens of messages to Truth Social, his financially
troubled social media platform, and sharing content from QAnon-linked conspiracy theory accounts and 4chan message boards.
Trump posted or reposted more than 60 messages early Tuesday, hours
after he demanded on Truth Social that he be declared “the rightful
winner” of the 2020 election, amplifying several memes that portrayed
him as a political messiah, attacking President Biden and moderate
Republicans and portraying Democrats as greater enemies of the state
than Russia.
Among the conspiracy theories Trump reposted Tuesday was one that
suggested that it was the FBI and members of antifa who had stormed the
Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, rather than his own supporters, anti-vaccine
messaging and assertions that U.S. intelligence agencies do not have the
legal authority to conduct an ongoing review of the classified documents
Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort in apparent violation of the
Presidential Records Act.
Many of the posts Trump has shared have contained QAnon messages and iconography."
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He reminds me of that old slogan. "They became what they beheld."
I doubt that #45 has ever been a real person. He's the result of what he
sees around him, which is mostly television. At least 2 of the attorneys
he's hired recently are people he saw on TV. He's like Peter Sellers in
"Being There". Television is one of his few remaining connections with something that could be called reality.
"Being There - Original Theatrical Trailer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOOghKacg40
"Being There Ending"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bow1ZJTV4L4
"Being There (1979)
Buy or Rent
PG
What would happen if the American public got the leader it deserved?
Peter Sellers plays an innocent and illiterate gardener who ends up the
most influential man in Washington, D.C.--simply by Being There. Gentle
and slow-witted Chance (Sellers) tends a garden on a palatial estate and
knows nothing of the outside world except what he sees watching
television. Then a limousine hits him, and everything changes. Elevated
to celebrity status by the limousine's powerful passenger, Eve
Rand(Shirley MacLaine), Chance charms everyone, including the President
of the United States (Jack Warden). Can his simple but wise gardening
metaphors solve the country's complex problems? Chance helps peace grow
and flourish in this comic, cautionary fable about the power of simplicity.
TB
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