" ... journalists just LOVE to spread crackpot theories.
This past Thursday, on March 4, Washington was paralyzed.
The National Guard troops were placed on high-alert with their unloaded weapons, the security fencing surrounding the Capitol was fortified, and Congress suspended its daily schedule.
This was all done in preparation for a renewed assault on our nation’s capital and our democracy.
The reason?
The devotees of Qanon — that amorphous and overhyped cabal of political zealotry — were supposedly claiming that is the true inaugural date and that a failure of a Trump swearing-in ceremony would lead to renewed violence.
The Washington Post eventually came out to sheepishly report ... ’A March 4 threat from militant Trump supporters proves a mirage’’.
... This non-episode reveals two details on the whole Qanon issue.
One is that the press is intent to use this group as a political tool to attack conservatives, presenting their crackpot theories as mainstream thought within the movement.
... to wield this weapon, the media needs to both pay close attention to Q theories, and then they need to broadcast them.
... The press has been so enamored over these conspiracy theories that they have developed their own version — dubbed BlueAnon.
The industry that strives to deride conservatives for allegedly being beholden to Q-theories is actually borderline obsessed with conspiracies themselves.
Here is the significant difference — while the hated Q-hysterics derive from randos on the internet, in the case of BlueAnon it usually involves crackpot theories pushed by the mainstream media.
... here is a list of just some of the wild claims we have witnessed being delivered in the press; you know, those people who despise conspiracy theories. ...
1. RUSSIAN COLLUSION WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN This was a four-year effort we all witnessed that ended up amounting to less than the center of a doughnut. It was such a widespread and unfounded claim that it actually has subsets:
1.a) The Steele Dossier
1.b) The Russian Pee Tape
1.c) ‘’There were dozens of convictions’’
... Mueller concocted dozens of convictions and guilty pleas, but what is not acknowledged is none of them were connected to the campaign.
Most convictions were against Russian hackers who will never face a charge here in the states, and all of Paul Manafort’s involved banking scams he ran before the election.
2. DONALD TRUMP WILL FIGHT TO RETAIN POWER ... The overriding theory was that President Trump would not accept an election result and fight to remain in power in tyrannical fashion.
3. TRUMP COULD LITERALLY OVERTURN THE ELECTION This was one that the press was convinced would play out last November.
The gambit was to have the electoral votes in states with Republican control be decided by the legislatures, in opposition to the voters, giving him an Electoral College advantage.
4. REMOVING TRUMP BY INVOKING THE 25TH AMENDMENT This had been a long-running fever dream from the left.
The idea was that it could be proven Trump was mentally deficient enough to have him forced from office.
That Joe Biden exhibited true mental deficiencies while on the campaign trail was not a concern.
5. THE PENCE PARDON GAMBIT
... involved Donald Trump stepping down before the inaugural so that Mike Pence would be installed briefly as President.
5.a) The Preemptive Pardon
... after he was sworn in Pence would pardon former President Trump.
Note: Adding to the crackpot nature of things, at no time was Donald Trump accused of any crime for which he needed a pardon.
6.THE JANUARY 6 RIOT WAS AIDED BY THE FACT THAT SOME CAPITOL POLICE LET RIOTERS INSIDE It was beginning to sound like some serious deep state shenanigans when it was tabled that the reason the rioters stormed the Capitol was because they had allies within the local police force opening the doors for them.
7. MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD WERE A THREAT FOR SECRETLY BEING PART OF THE INSURRECTION GROUPS
We Rep. Steven Cohen suggesting that members of the Guard are mostly male and thus Trump supporters, and could end up being a threat like other military members who have killed world leaders in the past.
8. THE PENTAGON WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD DELAY IN PROTECTING THE CAPITOL We can thank CNN’s Asha Rangappa for this gem, as Jeff Charles mentioned previously.
9. THE POSTMASTER GENERAL WAS FOLLOWING TRUMP’S ORDERS TO DERAIL MAIL-IN VOTING People actually protested outside his home in outrage, lack of evidence not a concern.
10. THE PRESIDENT WAS STEALING MAILBOXES OR LOCKING THEM UP AS A SIGN OF VOTER SUPPRESSION
Hey now, they had pictures of this taking place and everything. Proven!
11. PRESIDENT TRUMP ORDERED POSTAL SORTING MACHINES TO BE DECOMMISSIONED AHEAD OF THE ELECTION These dramatic images circulated in the press when they were in fact older machines scheduled to be replaced, or they were magazine sorters that were no longer needed. ... there was enough outrage that for optics the postmaster halted all switchovers of the machines — meaning the surge in mail-in ballots would be handled on outdated equipment.
12. THE ACCEPTABLE CLAIMS OF VOTER FRAUD After the election, it was considered an outrage to question any voting results.
13. PRESIDENT TRUMP ”CLAIMS’’ HE CAUGHT COVID IN ORDER TO PROMOTE HIS VACCINE AHEAD OF THE ELECTION Michael Moore and others said the ”claim’’ of a positive result was so the President would either win over voters, or to even promote his impending vaccine rollout.
14. TRUMP IS FAKING HIS RECOVERY AND WILL BE DOWN FOR WEEKS So said the doctors who were not treating him.
15. THE PRESIDENT WAS FAR MORE ILL THAN HIS TEAM OF DOCTORS WERE TELLING US Following a press conference by his doctors at Walter Reed the press ran with a wild story he was far sicker than explained.
This was based on an anonymous email sent out to the press."
