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Sadly, I am completely unsurprised, because supporting Trump is a cult-like behaviour.

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All of the crazy right wing groups have flourished under Trump. The Q Anon group is unreal in my logical mind. But there is nothing logical in America today.

Chaos reigns. Trump is the Commander-in-chief of Chaos.

I worry about the aftermath of the election.

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I’m right there with you Cathy as you can probably tell from my rant here. Thank goodness my hair is already gray because if it weren’t before it sure would be after the last 4 years.

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I voted in person absentee today. Today was the Equinox. Equalize. A new season. My fervent hope is that we can win this election without a war in the streets to get Trump out of the White House.

The MSM is doing nothing to help the situation. Thank goodness for Judd.

Hang in there Sarah. Vote in person absentee. I don't trust the mail.

Damn criminal administration.

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We decided that this election is worth risking our lives over so we’ll be voting early in person. Thankfully we have a Democrat as governor so our BOE’s are headed my Democrats and I’m very familiar with the hoops they are going through to keep themselves and voters alike safe.

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This is all so very surreal it’s depressing. How will we overcome this? How will we persevere? How will we survive? And, how long will it take to overcome this rot? Is it even possible? Four years has taken it’s toll on me. I used to have the will to fight... I will vote, with my dying breath I will vote, but in the core of my being I do not believe it will be a solution.

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What makes me so furious about this topic is that Trump himself was a human trafficker and is a rapist. Just ask Noel Casler and E Jean Carrol. You’d have to be blind deaf dumb and brainwashed to imagine Trump would ever make serious efforts to stop pedophiles. He’s friends with them!

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Hell, he’s a charter member!

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I mean, I'd still consider QAnon a "fringe" group, but agreed, that doesn't mean they should be taken lightly either.

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John Birch Society was a fringe group, but they set the tone throughout much of the 1950s.

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Fringe groups have a way of growing. This one has all the makings of good foot soldiers for the commandant. (And a youth group thrown in for good measure.)

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This group, I have read, is a leaderless, disorganized group centered around the idea of saving children (beware of wolf in sheep's clothing). So how do they communicate and organize? Through Facebook, of course. How did Judd get through that entire article without giving FB a shout-out?

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They exist mostly on sites like chan 8 or 8 Chan whatever the hell it is. My son showed me some of those posts. They are free wheeling on those sites.

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Nothing, absolutely nothing surprises me any more concerning this nest of assholes who are now well on the way to completely ruining us as a country. We have had to stand by and watch various members of Trump’s coterie run our Constitution through their shredder. I’m sick at heart that so much stupidity and ignorance has been allowed to flourish under the guise “individual rights”. These people have never been taught that with their individual freedom goes responsibility to recognize where their freedom ends and others’ begins. Selfish doesn’t begin to describe the actions being taken to dismantle everything. To say the year 2010 wasn’t pivotal to all of this would be ignoring history and the monumental apathy that led to the republican take-overs of statehouses, state governors and the House/Senate at the federal level. This Q mess along with the right-wing talking machine of FOX is just the tip of an ugly iceberg that our ship of state has hit and we are sinking. I’m just wondering who’s going to survive it.

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It's been building since Nixon. W Bush, Cheney and Rove openly shred the Constitution. Famously said, "The Constitution is just a piece of paper."

Trump, The Federalist Society the 1%Conservatuves like Koch Bros just took it to a higher level. My bet is Q is one of those smart rich boys who knows the Poltergeist routine with the white male and female of moderate to low IQ who dreams of being a lottery winner. Plays on the anger of their station in life, gives them someone to blame.

Absurdly crazy nonsense they swallow like Mom's Apple Pie.

Q knows the line from Poltergeist that fits you and me and everyone else of good sense and caring. "It knows what scares you." IE

Chaos, mayhem, 4 million gun buyers screenings in the month of May 2020, the Militia in my backyard, martial law...

Yep. Q knows what it takes.

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Penny - How right you are. And there are so many examples of this through time and space. I cannot help but believe this is a cover for other insidious behavior. What are they doing and what are they hiding when they declare themselves to be defenders of children?

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Satan is only effective to those who believe. What does it say when the leaders of Christianity disregard the warnings of Hell? To their followers it communicates that Hell is not real, Satan is anyone who is on the opposite side, and morals are for other people.

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You hit that right on the nose!!

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