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How An Oath Keeper Brought Qanon To The Masses
DAily Dot ^ | Sep 16, 2021 | Claire Goforth

Posted on 09/16/2021 10:34:00 AM PDT by American Number 181269513

On Dec. 21, 2020, QAlerts, an aggregator of drops from the anonymous poster known as Q, called on his tens of thousands of followers on Gab to head to Washington, D.C. to protest the 2020 election.

“When the President of The United States requests your presence, you show up,” it wrote, calling on “patriots” to show up on Jan. 6.

Around the same time, the head of the Oath Keepers, a militia steeped in far-right conspiracy theories, demanded the same of its members.

“It is CRITICAL that all patriots who can be in DC get to DC to stand tall in support of President Trump’s fight,” wrote Stewart Rhodes, who founded the organization, on the Oath Keepers website.

On that fateful day in January, both the QAnon and the militia movement in this country converged in a massive spectacle, breaching the U.S. Capitol as far-right forces across the country merged in an attempt to overthrow the election.

What people watching couldn’t see though, was that the movements had crossed over long before. QAlerts, which helped spread the gospel of QAnon far and wide as the conspiracy was being purged from the internet, is connected to a founding member of the Florida chapter of Oath Keepers.

Public records and analysis of the app reveal numerous ties between the QAlerts app and Kenneth Rucker, who was listed on the charter documents of the Florida Oath Keepers. That crossover highlights the close relationship between a violent movement that fomented online and how it seeped into dangerous, real-life groups who have adopted it as their worldview and now build political movements around it.

When reached by the Daily Dot, Rucker did not directly deny his personal involvement with QAlerts.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailydot.com ...


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Never been a follower.
1 posted on 09/16/2021 10:34:00 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
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To: American Number 181269513

There is some reason to believe that Stewart Rhodes is an FBI plant. As for Q, I would not be surprised if it’s also a Deep State disinformation tool. It seems much more useful to the left than to the right.


2 posted on 09/16/2021 10:41:00 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: American Number 181269513
My name is QAnon.


3 posted on 09/16/2021 10:43:28 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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On that fateful day in January, both the QAnon and the militia movement in this country converged in a massive spectacle, breaching the U.S. Capitol as far-right forces across the country merged in an attempt to overthrow the election. …
Wow, that sure is a creative way to misspell “BLM and Antifa”.

Then again, they believe in the so-called “far right” too.
4 posted on 09/16/2021 10:46:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: American Number 181269513
the Oath Keepers, a militia steeped in far-right conspiracy theories...

Right. Got it. No need to read further

5 posted on 09/16/2021 10:46:20 AM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: Steve_Seattle
As for Q, I would not be surprised if it’s also a Deep State disinformation tool. It seems much more useful to the left than to the right.

Yup. I said this all along. It was an opiate for the gullible.

"Sit back and enjoy the show".

6 posted on 09/16/2021 10:47:10 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: American Number 181269513

Article a whole cloth creation of the agit-prop federals who were inside the Capitol and filming their allies in BLM and AntiFA.

for reference— what has happened to John Sullivan agent provocateur clearly friends with fbi and treated with kid gloves— his cover being- “Insurgence USA, a protest group for “racial justice and police reform,” and began referring to himself as “Activist John” Sullivan.

Finally, there is no QAnon. There are apparently followers all over the world of Anonymous researching digital activists, and then there is supposedly somewhere in fedgov a character unkown, called Q. This article is proof that the entire op is a real cluster screw run by the internal leftists in our fedgov as one more form of entrapment methodology. Or it is a thing— and leftist commies are scare crapless. One of the two.


7 posted on 09/16/2021 10:47:36 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: American Number 181269513

Is this one of those qanonsense threads that’s protected, or are we allowed to express our disdain?


8 posted on 09/16/2021 10:50:41 AM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: American Number 181269513

This is also one more effort to destabilize the original Oathkeepers. The Oathkeeper’s Oath is threatening to what should be the Constitutional structure of our Republic.

Imagine what that represents to the self-preserving embeds in our administrative class of Statists.


9 posted on 09/16/2021 10:51:08 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Q sure has done service for the left. It got millions of people to waste their time and energy on crazy rabbit trails “Trust Sessions!” It made noise and muddied the water and that gave cover for Democrat corruption and cheating.


10 posted on 09/16/2021 10:51:54 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell
Bingo. Perfect summary.

11 posted on 09/16/2021 10:57:24 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: American Number 181269513

What amazes me is how so many fell in with that nonsense. Didn’t the Q-berts insist Trump would be reinstalled as President in August?


12 posted on 09/16/2021 11:08:24 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: Steve_Seattle

Elections are won by getting votes, traditionally. The current state of voter fraud aside all of these fringe issues simply deflect people from the goal of winning elections. “Trust the plan”, antifa, blm, natural born citizen, sovereign citizen, etc etc are sideline issues that siphon off energy that could be spent convincing undecideds and independents to vote against RATs. Q may be amongst the worst of these deep state operations. How many people sat idly by waiting for “The Plan” to happen?

Divide and Conquer has been an effective internal security operation. Not just at dividing the nation but at dividing the forces that oppose the RATs.


13 posted on 09/16/2021 11:31:56 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: American Number 181269513

Q true or Q qrap, either way you look at it the worse things get the sooner the shtf. Ill trust Nature’s Law more than the so called White Hats.


14 posted on 09/16/2021 12:30:35 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Kevmo

You are free to express your disdain even when you are wrong.

So all you who criticize the Q movement without doing any of your own research can just go...

get vaxxed!


15 posted on 09/16/2021 12:39:57 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( )
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To: Wilderness Conservative

16 posted on 09/16/2021 12:47:20 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Do not go quietly into that good night. We won't be taken alive. Molon Labe.)
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To: BrandtMichaels

We are free to do so on open threads but not on those protected qtard threads.


17 posted on 09/16/2021 2:04:39 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: John S Mosby

Lets all try to remember that Donald J. Trump told everyone to show up. So patriots showed up.


18 posted on 09/16/2021 4:02:29 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Precisely correct. About 200-300K showed up. And the LOCAL AntiFA and BLM working with the fibbies and Pelosi et al— raided the Capitol, and the Capitol police did NOTHING, they opened the doors. This was WELL before the end of Trump’s speech when the bulk of the rally walked up to the Capitol.

Nothing like what Pelosi is trying to create with her pals in leftist la la land, and desperate hos like Liz Cheney.


19 posted on 09/16/2021 5:51:42 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: BrandtMichaels

Ping


20 posted on 09/16/2021 8:18:04 PM PDT by Jumper
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