Posts Made By: Mel Maki

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

A total lie, but you're free to spew that one as you spew many others.  Most conservatives don't even know who Q Anon is.  

And the usual laugh out loud statement you made above that 1/3 believes in Conspiracy theories, is really classic projection as your entire party for 4 years has continued the lie that Donald Trump was a Russian spy.

Hell, you and others here still believe it.  Your entire political party is a conspiracy theory, and the leftist media is just a propaganda wing of the Democrat party.  

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"Nearly three in 10 Republicans believe the claim driving the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to a survey released last week by a conservative think tank.
According to the survey by the American Enterprise Institute, 29% of Republicans believe the baseless claim that former President “Donald Trump has been secretly fighting a group of child sex traffickers that include prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites.” That’s the idea at the center of the false QAnon conspiracy theory, which has gained millions of supporters across the United States and was praised repeatedly by Trump."'
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/nearly-30-percent-of-republicans-believe-central-tenet-of-qanon-conspiracy-poll-658992

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I like the source of the particular poll in question, a conservative think tank...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Lol!
"On July Fourth, before President Donald Trump spoke to the nation from the White House lawn, he spoke indirectly to another community on Twitter: QAnon.
That afternoon, he retweeted 14 tweets from accounts supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory, a sprawling and ever-mutating belief that a mysterious government official who goes by “Q” is leaving online clues about a messianic Trump’s secret plan to dismantle a cadre of Washington elites engaged in everything from pedophilia to child sex trafficking."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/12/trump-tweeting-qanon-followers-357238

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

They obviously shaped Trump's...

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Mel, it's not credible to deny the effect that QAnon and other conspiracy theories had on Trump supporters. Their prevalence among the Capitol rioters for example is well understood and documented. Like it or not, Trump gave oxygen to white-supremacists, conspiracy kooks, and disenfranchised right-wing voters and brought them into the Republican tent. What the Republican party has to do now is decide what they are going to do with this fringe Trump constituency. No one is saying that mainstream Republicans are part of this noxious crowd, but to deny their existence or to claim they are of no significance is simply not credible.