Year: 2021

The Guardian reports that “Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents.

The key meeting took place on 22 January 2016, the papers suggest, with the Russian president, his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present. They agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position. Russia’s three spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to support Trump, in a decree appearing to bear Putin’s signature.”

The Hill Reporter: [GQP Rep. Lauren “Bobo”] “Boebert was one of the speakers at the three-day grift fest disguised as CPAC… And she definitely performed for the base, knocking President Joe Biden and his administration by saying things like, ‘We’re here to tell the government we don’t want your benefits, we don’t want your welfare. Don’t come knocking on my door with your Fauci Ouchi, you leave us the hell alone,’ Boebert told the CPAC crowd.

Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to the rant in a tweet:

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At the the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas this weekend, members of a cult identified as Patriots Soar circulated a hare-brained, seven-point plan for overturning the US government by impeaching Pres. Biden and Vice Pres. Harris and installing the disgraced ex-president in the White House.

Its premise is utter nonsense and the plan could be dismissed as nothing more than sop intended to energize the base, which it is – if the Q-inspired right-wing base weren’t already radicalized, armed and dangerous, as they displayed when they invaded the U.S. Capitol intending to kidnap and kill members of Congress as well as the US vice president.

Here’s an overview of the plan from the Independent:

Step one of the plan is to “pull back the curtain on the horror show that is today’s ‘Democrat Party’. Watch Pelosi melt, like the Wicked Witch of the West. See the Black Caucus and other key groups flip, unexpectedly, and watch the tables turn”.

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Reminder: People who are anti-antifa or anti-anti fascists, which means they are supporters and enablers of fascism.

Legit media outlets are tracking the rise of Q-supporting fascists who are running for office in local, state and congressional elections. It appears to be an alarming trend:

Time Magazine reports on candidates in local elections:

“The long-term impacts are really dangerous,” says Jared Holt, a disinformation researcher at the Atlantic Council. “We’re supposed to have our leaders make decisions based on shared sets of facts. If we decide that for elected officials to believe in an outlandish byzantine conspiracy theory like QAnon is O.K., then the door is effectively left open for that shared sense of understanding to further erode.”

Here are a few fascist-movement politicians the magazine found who are currently in office:

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