Move Over, Tinfoil Hats! QAnon Invades Congress

"Q" is the name of a James Bond character.

“QAnon is the mental gonorrhea of conspiracy theories," says Congressman Denver Riggleman (D-Va).

That's one way of putting it. QAnon is hyperbole-proof. You cannot look at this wacko cult of conspiracy theorists without shock, awe and nausea.

Nevertheless, on Tuesday, Georgia primary voters ushered in -- by 60% of the vote -- an honest-to-goodness true believer of QAnon, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

If you thought the Tea Party was weird, buckle your seatbelt. QAnon believes that a secretive international cabal of high-ranking, Satan-worshiping pedophiles runs the world. It's as if Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, the Marquis de Sade, the very weirdest of Rothschilds, the handsy-est graduates of Georgetown Prep, and all their sleazy friends, have their hands on history's gear shifts.

These are the "Pizzagate" folks who thought Hillary Clinton was involved in a ring of pedophiles operating out of the basement of a pizza shop in Washington, DC. (It turned out the restaurant had no basement, let alone sex traffickers.)

To top that off, the group thinks that a mysterious character named "Q" posts hints on line of what comes next. "Q" was a character in the James Bond movies. Today's "Q" could be the Internet Research Agency, Vladimir Putin, the ghost of L. Ron Hubbard, or the teenager who ran for president in 2016 under the name "Deez Nuts" -- no one claims to know.
QAnon also believes that Donald Trump is some sort of superhero fighting against the cabal. Of course, Trump likes that. He's flung happy words all over Greene like a confetti cannon.

QAnon is also distinctly a group of white supremacists. Marjorie Green has been outspoken about her poor opinion of Muslims, Jews, and Blacks, using a personal style reminiscent of flaming arrows in the night.

As The Hill wrote, Greene has compared left-leaning donor George Soros to a Nazi, said that Black Americans are slaves to the Democrats, and summarized the midterm results as an “Islamic invasion of our government.” This charmer says Nancy Pelosi is a “bitch” who should be kicked out of Congress. The FBI views QAnon as a potential domestic terror group.

The scariest part is that, according to Politico.com, dozens of QAnon believers and sympathizers ran for Congress this year. "Greene may only be the vanguard of a congressional faction that could cause long-term disruption to the party," Politico noted. Even the House Freedom Caucus, a deep-red conservative group, supports Greene.

For those of us who thought that the Tea Party would eventually die of well-justified embarrassment, QAnon is mind-boggling. But they're heeeere.

Do you think the Georgia Primary voters realized Greene was part of the QAnon cult of crazies, and voted for her anyway? Will she win in the General Election when the QAnon information is widely understood? How could Donald Trump possibly support a candidate who openly believes such appalling things? "Sean Connery James Bond" by JeepersMedia is licensed under CC BY 2.0

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/511771-win-by-qanon-believer-creates-new-headaches-for-house-gop?fbclid=IwAR3-mf2xVoF71uoCqSABOmydb-vdN8edh4mXw2aEWDeSbiTnl7NU8mBkcLo
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