Trump Tweets QAnon Conspiracy Theory Message Amid Unrest

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

President Trump reposted a message amid national unrest on Sunday expressing support for the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, a movement the FBI considers a potential domestic terror threat. In his tweet, Trump quote-tweeted a May 30 tweet from “Sean Cordicon,” a QAnon conspiracy theory promoter. Cordicon’s tweet included a Trump rally highlight reel and a message to his audience that they are “the calm before, during, & after the storm.” Cordicon’s tweet appears to be a reference to “The Storm,” a QAnon concept that imagines Trump and the military suddenly arresting and either executing or imprisoning top Democrats. Trump responded to the tweet with a one-word message of his own: “STRENGTH!” Shortly after Trump retweeted the message, Cordicon’s account was suspended. Twitter told The Daily Beast the account was suspended because its owner had been banned from the site already.

Trump’s retweet of the “storm” message was taken as proof by QAnon believers that the arrests were about to begin, with one popular QAnon account tweeting “Here we go.” Earlier on Sunday, Trump declared that he would designate left-wing antifascist “antifa” demonstrators as terrorists. But QAnon believers have committed a number of alleged crimes, having been charged with two murders, a terrorist incident, and two child abduction plots, among other crimes.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tweets-qanon-conspiracy-theory-message-amid-unrest

[Chainfire]

1. And it just keeps getting crazier and crazier.

We need to flatten the insanity curve.

[riversedge]

2. gawd. Trump hangs around with the criminals

[Maeve]

3. The fool has no idea what can of worms he's opening

His brain is squirmin' like a toad

[pecosbob]

4. Retweeting terrorists are we now?

[cayugafalls]

5. If we lived in a true Republic, Trump would have already been impeached and

frog marched to jail for fomenting domestic born terrorism.

Instead we live in a Fascist Orwellian State where the Anti Fascist are the terrorist and the Fascist are "Good People".

God Save The Republic.

Vote, it's all we have left.

[Ford_Prefect]

6. WHY has Twitter not banned Trump for the exact causes as the other guy???

Trump repeated banned content which is a TOS violation for anyone else.

[Grasswire2]

8. yes exactly nt

[oldsoftie]

10. The only reason is he's president. Everyone else gets canned

[dustyscamp]

7. I laugh at people who think Trump will leave office peacefully

[Tommymac]

11. In the end He'll resign so Pence can Pardon him.

He ain't getting any love from Joe.

[musette_sf]

9. Of course he does.

[paleotn]

12. Seems Donnie and his magats are a clear and present danger

a terrorist organization as insidious as Al Qaeda.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. The Orange Anus thrives

on anything controversial. This Slug just pumps shit out there and waits for a reaction which gets his Gonads off.

He has crossed the line so often that the Media has normalized his actions as,oh well.

[JudyM]

14. Storm was the metaphor Hitler used in the beginning...

The Sturmabteilung, literally Storm Detachment, was the Nazi Party's original paramilitary wing. It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Its primary purposes were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties, especially the Red Front Fighters League (Rotfrontkämpferbund) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and, especially, Jews – for instance, during the 1933 Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses.

The SA were colloquially called "Brownshirts" (Braunhemden), from the color of their uniform shirts, similar to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts. Brown-colored shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large number of them were cheaply available after World War I, having originally been ordered during the war for colonial troops posted to Germany's former African colonies.[1] The SA developed pseudo-military titles for its members, with ranks that were later adopted by several other Nazi Party groups, chief amongst them the Schutzstaffel (SS). The SS originated as a branch of the SA before being separated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

Certainly this usage is a coincidence

I’m starting to think we’d better be ready to fight like hell.

[Mr. Evil]

15. Is there anyone with the sense enough to realize that this shit cannot go on any longer?

And as 'they' say, if you live long enough you'll see everything. I truly believe we've reached our limit.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. "Strength"

...as if we need the Fulvous Führer reminding us that he is a fascist fat fuck.

To bad you skipped your history classes, Donny. You would know what always eventually happens to your kind.

[SergeStorms]

17. Trump is nuttier...

than squirrel shit. He's mentally ill. And congressional republicans stick their finger in their ears and pretend to not hear a word the crazy mother fucker says.