Critics Say...

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Back in the days when my former editor and I used to criss-cross the Western States looking for a place to hit dead ball fungos we had a saying that we first ripped off from the good Doctor Thompson and then mangled:

"When the going gets weird, the weird move to Oregon"

Who knew how right we would ultimately turn out to be...

...Oregon Republicans have nominated a high-profile backer of the QAnon conspiracy theory as their candidate for a US Senate seat.

Jo Rae Perkins, who defeated three other candidates in a primary contest to be the Republican candidate, said in a now-deleted video after her victory: “I stand with President Trump. I stand with Q and the team. Thank you Anons, and thank you patriots. And together, we can save our republic.”....


Now.

Just to be absolutely clear, this QAnon thing is filled to bursting with absolute falsehoods that are destroying the American body politic from the inside.

This is how Joan Greve describes it in the Guardian:

...The QAnon theory has been embraced by some of the president’s supporters and centers on an alleged government agent named “Q”, whose top security clearance has provided insight into a deep-state conspiracy involving everyone from Hillary Clinton to special counsel Robert Mueller.

It also posits that Donald Trump is leading a behind-the-scenes fight against powerful forces protecting satanic paedophile rings, and that Q leaves clues for followers to decipher on internet forums...


So, how does this garbage continue to get spread far and wide, and legitimized to the extent such that a proponent can win a major party US Senate seat primary?

Well, here is how the nice polite republicans (a.k.a. NPR) describes QAnon at Oregon Public Radio:

...Critics of QAnon say followers have promoted a number of baseless and sometimes dangerous conspiracy theories...


Do you see the problem there?



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Our comment about Oregon wasn't meant to be derisive, it was just that things seemed so weirdly polarized in Oregon depending on which side of I-5 you found yourself on...
And just to be clear about all demonstrable falsehoodspreaders...There is absolutely no good reason to pay any attention to a certain  Ms. Coulter whatsoever...OK?


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