Republican Candidate For U.S. Senate In Oregon Proclaims Allegiance To QAnon

[turbinetree]

By Kate Riga
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May 20, 2020 11:12 a.m.

Republican Jo Rae Perkins, now the official challenger to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) in November, acknowledged her Tuesday night primary win with a proclamation of her solidarity with acolytes of the QAnon conspiracy theory.


“Where we go one, we go all,” she says in a Twitter video, brandishing a “#WWG1WG” sticker with the group’s motto in hashtag form.

“I stand with President Trump, I stand with Q and the team,” she continues. “Thank you anons and thank you patriots. And together, we can save our republic.”

QAnon is a sweeping far-right conspiracy theory which envisions a secret battle between President Donald Trump and a “deep state” supposedly working to destabilize him. The belief system is stitched together from a series of other conspiracy theories, such as Pizzagate, comprised of often incoherent assertions.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republican-candidate-senate-oregon-qanon-jo-rae-perkins

[sunonmars]

1. So in other words, a complete nutjob.

[Aristus]

2. How long before she shows up at the local pizza parlor with a gun,

demanding to "see the babies!" - ?

[dawg day]

3. These Q conspiracies are all contradictory-- besides being nuts

Sometimes Trump is in secret alliance with Clinton and Obama against (someone bad).

I don't think Merkley has much to worry about.

[AJT]

4. How's that Mars child sex slave thing going....

[Mike 03]

5. What the hell kind of loser did she run against that she won a primary??

The banjo player in Deliverance?

[Solly Mack]

6. Where we go wackadoodle, we go all wackadoodle.

[jberryhill]

9. lol

[Wounded Bear]

7. Politics is starting to sound like an endless stream of X-Files episodes...

[maxsolomon]

8. Q is now the GOP Mainstream.

She'll come within spitting distance of Merkley no matter what lunacy she spouts.

[MineralMan]

10. So She Demonstrates That She Is a Loser?

Oh, well...

[Shrike47]

11. Merkley is going to be re-elected no matter who runs against him. No sane person would run.

[Roland99]

12. Cuckoo for Chloroquine

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. 43 current or former 2020 congressional candidates who belong to the QAnon cult

41 are listed as Republican; 1 calls themselves "Independent", but was a delegate at the 2012 Republican National Convention. Can't find the other, or I miscounted.

https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020

[struggle4progress]

14. Everybody knows QAnon is a conspiracy to distract us all from the take-over by the

shape-shifting body-snatching alien lizard people