Conspiracy Theories surrounding Trump

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Why not.....

I laffed way out loud at this one: Donald retweeted Randy Quaid....see below:




Donald J. Trump

@realdonaldtrump

Are you listening Republicans?



Randy Quaid

@randyrrquaid

We’ve lost confidence in the system that elects our leaders. 79 million Americans believe election was rigged, the results fraudulent. We need an in-person-only-paper ballot re-vote, especially in the States where flagrant irregularities have occurred. No accuracy, no democracy!




Randy Quaid has traveled a long, strange road since his beloved supporting turns in films like Christmas Vacation, Independence Day, and Kingpin. Somewhere along the line between then and now, it’s hard to tell exactly where, something, well … changed. In 2010, he and his wife fled to Canada to escape what they described in a handwritten note to their attorney as “Hollywood star whackers” who were out to kill them (they was also escaping felony vandalism charges). A years-long asylum struggle ensued, and in 2015 the Quaids were arrested trying to sneak back into the U.S. through Vermont. They’ve since posted several bizarre rants online indulging outlandish conspiracy theories about how they’ve been persecuted by Hollywood and the news media.



Now, Quaid has some thoughts on how to sort out this whole election mess. President Trump thinks Republicans better listen up

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Oh dear...

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Had to look him up, that shit was too interesting. Fucking whack jobs! 😂

"In 2009, Quaid and his wife were arrested for allegedly defrauding an innkeeper in Santa Barbara by using an invalid credit card to pay a $10,000 bill. The two were released on bail that evening and subsequently paid most of the bill. However, they repeatedly failed to appear in court and warrants were issued for their arrest. They eventually appeared in court the following year where the case was dismissed against Randy Quaid for lack of evidence. His wife, Evi, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of fraud and was placed on probation for three years in addition to having to spend 240 hours in community service.

In September 2010 Quaid and his wife were charged with burglary after they spent five days occupying the guest house in a vacant home they once owned in Santa Barbara. The Quaids claimed that the home was wrongfully transferred to a third party by the use of a forged signature. Warrants for their arrest were issued after they failed to appear in court, and as a result, they also forfeited their bail.

In October 2010, Quaid and his wife moved to Vancouver, Canada, where they sought asylum protections under the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, stating that they feared for their lives in the United States. Border authorities arrested the couple for their outstanding warrants in the U.S. After they were granted bail, Quaid gave a press interview,and later, the couple's asylum-seeking story was detailed in an article by U.S. magazine Vanity Fair. Quaid's wife Evi was granted Canadian citizenship in 2011, based on her parentage, and Randy sought permanent resident status as the husband of a Canadian. In January 2013, this request was denied.

Quaid lived in Montreal beginning in 2013 and was briefly arrested for not checking in as a non-resident. In 2014, the Quaids sued the State Department for revoking their passports in 2011. By 2015, Quaid's legal appeals in Canada were exhausted, and he was notified he was to be deported. One week prior to the deportation date, the couple drove across the Canadian border into Vermont, where they were detained by U.S. Customs. The couple were detained pending an extradition procedure ordered by the State of California.

On review of the State of California's case, the Vermont judge found irregularities, and voided the extradition request, whereupon the Quaids were released and allowed to remain in Vermont without conditions. With his lawyer at his side, Quaid asserted in a press conference that the reason he was released was that the California judge had issued an arrest warrant before the alleged crime had been committed. In principle, the Quaids were subject to arrest should he travel to another state, yet in 2017, they vacationed in California without incident. He and his wife plan to make Vermont their permanent home since his wife grew up there."

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Online far-right movements are splintering in the wake of last week’s Capitol riot, as some radical anti-government movements show signs of disillusionment with the relatively hands-off approach of some QAnon conspiracy theorists amid warnings of future violence.

Users on forums that openly helped coordinate the Jan. 6 riot and called for insurrection, including 4chan and TheDonald, have become increasingly agitated with QAnon supporters, who are largely still in denial that President Donald Trump will no longer be in the Oval Office after Jan. 20.

QAnon adherents, who believe Trump is secretly saving the world from a cabal of child-eating Satanists, have identified Inauguration Day as a last stand, and falsely think he will force a 10-day, countrywide blackout that ends in the mass execution of his political enemies and a second Trump term.

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Images from the far right.

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What I find amazing is that people who follow along with these conspiracies never stop and think, "Hey, maybe they're lying. Maybe they made it all up."

If you truly believe that there is widespread voting fraud, then, of course, a revolution is the correct response. Just think, for a minute: What would you do if Donald Trump was actually given a second term after all the ballots have been counted, and he lost 306-232? Would that not be a cause for action of the highest order?

So, the problem isn't with the response by the masses of people. It's in the fact that so many of them believe that the election was stolen.  There isn't any evidence of widespread fraud - not even close to the degree that is necessary to swing an election.  There isn't even a consistent method by which people believe the election was stolen; it's anything from dead person voting, to illegal immigrants voting, to people crossing state lines to vote, to votes were switched by Dominion, to votes were switched by Smartmatic - a company whose voting machines are not used in the USA, except in one county in California - to duplicate ballots. It's wild.

The problem is that our politics has been so broken for so long, that, for many people, the sides of good and evil are very clearly defined. Like a 1980's cartoon, whatever the good guy says must be true and anything the bad buy says that contradicts the good guy, must be false and a purposeful lie. There is no nuance. There is no room for the idea that the person that you like might be lying to you, or might just simply be wrong. It's never considered. Ever. Therefore, facts have to be twisted to fit the narrative, and when that doesn't work, the followers have to fall back on excuses like, "there's a plan we don't know about."  These people aren't conditioned to distrust their own side. The people propagating these lies know that they're lies, but they use the lies to control people.

It's dark and it's disgusting.

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Totally agree ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^