Will Biden actually ever do anything to help Americans?

It’s interesting that you’d have to resort to conspiracy theorists and disinformation spreaders to compile such a ridiculous conclusion.

Meanwhile, back in the real world:

The Republican Party is about doing nothing

The Republican Party, judging from its lack of output in the House and Senate, has little to contribute to the restoration of Americans’ health and prosperity. They have essentially no interest in addressing racial inequity or in rooting out domestic terrorism. They want “unity” and want to “move on,” but to do what, exactly?
The Biden administration has entered office with a whirlwind of activity. “Whole government” initiatives and executive orders on racial inequality and climate change are married with an ambitious covid-19 relief plan. There are briefings galore, with both experts and White House press secretary Jennifer Psaki, who on Wednesday gave us a peek into the sort of salesmanship the administration is employing to gain bipartisan support. The president, the vice president, the director of the National Economic Council, the domestic policy director, the chief of staff and the legislative affairs team are talking to individual lawmakers, the Problem Solvers Caucus, relevant committee members, mayors, governors and more to seek consensus on a covid-19 plan. There is no room for downtime, let alone complacency in this White House.
To many, it is stunning to see such energy, urgency and activity coming from the White House. Whereas Republicans are loath to even acknowledge crises for fear of indicting their own former president’s performance, Democrats have plans, executive orders and bills to address dozens of problems, not to mention a fleet of nominees waiting to get started.
And what are Republicans doing? Well, over in the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took days to agree on an organizing resolution to get the new session underway. The vast majority of Senate Republicans said they do not want to have a trial to hold the instigator of a violent insurrection accountable. (How typical it is for them to stage a vote to tell us what they do not want to do.) They are stalling on the confirmation of a new homeland security secretary. They have no alternative relief package for covid-19. Most of their time seems to be absorbed whining about “censorship” or claiming Democrats are being “divisive.” They are offering no response to any of the multiple crises we face (e.g., climate change, the economy, health care, racial justice, domestic terrorism). Their “big idea” is to wait and see if the pandemic and economy get worse.
For years, the Republican Party has not been about policy or governance. It is certainly not about encouraging voting or expanding its party to reach new demographics. Instead, it has become a select club of malcontents. It has created a self-perpetuating grievance machine designed to further inflame their base.
Why do Republicans even want to hold power? Aside from appointing judges, the Senate has accomplished virtually nothing of significance since the 2017 tax cut. While running for reelection, the former president was continually stumped when asked what he would do in his second term.
The party’s antagonism toward the federal government has now morphed into hostility toward truth and governing at all. Its agenda is a list of buzzwords and lies to justify why it should do nothing (Climate hoax! Socialism!), culminating in the mother of all incendiary messages: the Big Lie that the election was stolen. The GOP seems to exist solely to promote resentment and to engage in performance art for intellectually dishonest and vapid right-wing media.
Maybe Republicans should give up running for office altogether because they have no interest in policy or governing. They can cut out the time-consuming task of showing up for their day jobs and devote all their time to what really drives them — raising money, stoking anger, tweeting and appearing on right-wing media. They at least demonstrate some interest and talent for those activities.

@Ronald J. Ward: What planet are you from?
Biden hasn’t done anything for anyone in his many years. It was his bill that began to place tax on social security, look it up 1983.
Now he comes in and plays dick tater. Killing really good paying labor jobs.
The climate hoax please show one climate model or prediction that came to pass, the polar bears are thriving and if you put in your search engine “NASA greening “you will see that the earth is greener with higher CO2. Twice the area of the USA us greener. Without a certain amt of CO2 the planet dies.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wpqla8lmktrkf5v/2019%2002%2015%20Corsicana%20c.pdf?dl=0
Science is not consensus or years of fear mongering false predictions and Brainwashing based on 150 years of sketchy selected data.
Those voting GOP are not anti government , just anti bloated control freaks with zero self control in taxing and waste.

@Ronald J. Ward:

It’s interesting that you’d have to resort to conspiracy theorists and disinformation spreaders to compile such a ridiculous conclusion.

Calling opposing views “conspiracy theories” is quite working out.

He’s considering allocating COVID 19 funds for “climate change”
He’s reinstating taxpayer funding of abortion for the US and in foreign nations.
He’s going full blown Communism with “equity”
He’s imposed a xenophobic travel ban
He destroyed women’s sports and rights

Those are all facts. To say otherwise is….disinformation.

More jobs with Trump. Better Covid response (Biden would have killed millions), and we had piece of mind knowing Trump wasn’t bought by China.

Trump helped blacks, denounced violence, and built a great economy.

dictator Biden won’t, and can’t, do any of those things. He job as “vessel” for a truly unelected random woman will come to an end, in six months or so.

Gyno-supremecist Marxism: the current disease in the West.

The majority of Americans want…American. You’re silly deflection to the Republicans is invalid. It’s not about one party over the other.

It’s about the primacy of liberty over authoritarianism.

Trump is a good President.

Biden never will be, as he’ll never be acknowledged by history as a President at all.

But keep going to those Cult-meetings and call everyone speaking reason a “cultist”.

It won’t save you, in the end.

@Ronald J. Ward:

This is why the basket of gullibles cannot determine what is true and what is not true.

Here is what IS true; Beijing Biden has destroyed more jobs in his first seven days in office than any other modern president.

He destroyed Title IX to pander to the LBGQXYZ crowd in spite of the gay community being against it.

He ended federal contracts that have already been approved and signed without the authority to do so.

And in record time, he lost his first case in a Federal court.

Quite the guy, Beijing Biden. Give him two months and he will destroy the entire nation.

Ronnie Ward may be correct as Biden is just signing whatever is pushed in front of him by his puppet masters so in effect he if not destroying our Country, they are. He is the dummy, in more ways than one, to the Communist ventriloquists.

I just hope one of the documents says Do Not Resuscitate.

@Ronald J. Ward:

Simply because you create a list of spun talking points and add rhetoric and predictions does not determine they are true.

OK, Rainman, which of my list is not true?

And don’t just scream “That’s not true.” Give me proof of your claim my list is not true.

@retire05:

These are the rabid forces Biden is dealing with.

Opinion: The GOP struck a bad bargain. That’s how it got stuck with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Donald Trump has departed Washington, but he has left behind a new set of rules for Republicans. One of them is that words and deeds, no matter how reckless or disconnected from the truth, carry no consequences.

Which is how the party wound up with Marjorie Taylor Greene, a dangerous loon whom the voters of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District decided to send to the U.S. House.

Before she was elected last year, QAnon devotee Greene made a name for herself by spreading bonkers conspiracy theories, including that the school shooting tragedies in Newtown, Conn., and Parkland, Fla., were staged.

She has also embraced another one claiming that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton murdered a child during a satanic ritual and drank her blood.
And they just keep coming. Newly unearthed are social media postings in which Greene appeared to endorse, through likes and shares and comments, the idea of executing Democratic leaders. One of the posts she “liked” suggested getting rid of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with “a bullet to the head.” CNN’s KFile also found a 2019 video in which Greene harassed David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting who was making the rounds on Capitol Hill to advocate for gun control. The congresswoman-to-be shouted lies at the teen and called him “a coward” for not responding to her.

All of this has provoked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to let it be known through a spokesman that he finds her comments “deeply disturbing” and that he “plans to have a conversation with the congresswoman about them.”
In the meantime, McCarthy scheduled a meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Trump. He apparently hopes to smooth over any hard feelings the former president may have about McCarthy’s mild blandishment that Trump “bears responsibility” for the mob that he fed with false claims about a stolen election and then incited to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6.

So it looks like a stern talking-to, followed by a make-up session, is the worst that can happen within the Republican family these days. And should anyone else try to exact a punishment, the party will protect its own, as all but five Senate Republicans proved this week, when they voted against even holding an impeachment trial of Trump.

The Republicans’ unwillingness to confront the dark forces within their party is not only unseemly but dangerous. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning of a “heightened threat environment” in which “ideologically-motivated violent extremists” are likely to act upon “perceived grievances fueled by false narratives.”

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) has announced that he will introduce a resolution to expel Greene from the House, which is something you would think the institution would want to do for its own sake.

At a minimum, Greene should be censured, with the idea that she is on some sort of probation that could lead to being kicked out if she doesn’t clean up her act.
But the predictable outcome, given the general mind-set of Republicans these days, is that such a drive would only elevate her as a martyr and bring wails of “cancel culture” from the prime-time pundits on Fox News.

She already is styling herself as a fever-swamp version of Joan of Arc. During the House debate on Trump’s impeachment — a proceeding that was nationally televised — Greene delivered her remarks while wearing a mask emblazoned with the word “CENSORED,” in protest of Twitter’s decision to suspend her for 12 hours for posting incendiary and false material about the election.

The real blame here, however, should rest with Republican leaders.

A big part of their job is selecting and recruiting candidates for open and competitive seats. Greene’s history of racist, anti-Semitic and incendiary comments was well known when she decided to run. But senior GOP officials — afraid of alienating the most extreme elements of the Trump base — did nothing to block her path when she entered a nine-candidate primary that was so fragmented she made it into a runoff with 40 percent of the vote.

In 2019, McCarthy and his fellow Republicans did strip Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) of his committee assignments, after King made indulgent comments about white nationalism and white supremacy. But that came as King was serving his ninth term and had compiled a long history of using racist language.

But barely three weeks after being sworn in for her first term, Greene was rewarded by McCarthy with a seat on the House Education and Labor Committee. Her assignment to a panel that gives her a role in shaping federal policy with regard to schools is “appalling, really beyond the pale,” Pelosi said Thursday.
Except the sad thing is, the Republican embrace of people like Greene and its tolerance of what she represents show the party no longer recognizes a line between what is and isn’t acceptable. They have made their bargain, and now they are stuck with it.

@Nathan Blue:

Rabid dogs like you see rational thinking as rabid.

The congresswoman you’re defending claimed that forest fires are caused by Jewish laser beams sent from space.

anything to take the heat off of the disaster that is dictator Biden and his bought Democrat Party.

And just today, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy crawled back to Trump like a whipped pup to kiss his ass after 3 weeks ago delivering a scathing reprimand of Trump inciting his thugs which lead 5 dead in the street.

You can lie about Dems being bought but you can’t even conceive a possibility of a Trump asslicking congressman being bought when he openly demonstrates it on live camera.

You don’t know what is true and what is not true.

NEVER! He is a NWO globalist!

Q.How do you spell relief? A. I.M.P.E.A.C.H- B.I.D.E.N

@Ronald J. Ward:

Your nonstop consumption of Breitbart, Rush, Hannity, Federalist, GWP, and such is precisely why you believe Trump is still the president and that the economy is great and COVID is rounding the curve and that climate change is a hoax and the CA forest fires are a result of laser beams shot out of space.

Your KKK-level prejudice and ignorance is astounding…as is your projection.

I read NONE of those media sources you invoke. You’re an indoctrinated fool looking for the non-existent strawman you’ve been induced to hate.

You, on the other hand, seem to have the simple-minded ideologies and hoax-beliefs that CNN et al continue to push.

So when you sling you feel good indoctrinated bullshit around and refuse to acknowledge facts and actual realty, it simply doesn’t leave room for you to be taken seriously.

Hehe. All of your “facts” are far from objective, and simply reinforce your bias..your desperate FAITH in things you really don’t know sh*t about. Your media sources will spin anything to make your “side” look good…telling you that anything that makes Dems look bad is just “Conservative Spin”.

Do you have an idea how f*cked up you are?

Let me continue to destroy your petty worldview. I’ve voted Democrat, and I would again. I voted for some Dems in this past election, for my state and local races.

Whatever the Dem party became, it’s no longer a party but a faction of rebels bent on taking over the country while using people like you to let it happen.

Ever has it been with totalitarians. They blame their rivals, in this case Trump, of doing what they are actually doing.

No. Everything you believe is a lie, and you are the very epitome of what you think you are fighting.

A useful, though impotent, beta-male cuck with no power and no future.

That’s you.

1. Provide federal assistance to low-income communities;
2. Protect Social Security;
3. Provide asylum for refugees;
4. Extend minimum wage;
5. Improve unemployment benefit system so it covers more people;
6. Strengthen labor laws so workers can more easily join a union;
7. Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of sex.

This list comes from an over six year old meme put out by the radical left wing group Occupy Democrats.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/oct/28/facebook-posts/viral-meme-says-1956-republican-platform-was-prett/

You want radical, I give you radical:

Of course, Ward/AJ is totally on board with Occupy Democrats radical left wing, socialist ideas and goals.

Ward/AJ goes on to say:

As for Trump, you back up nothing you say while ignoring a pandemic still ravaging the country and the economic results of it.

Did anyone notice that we, as a nation, were experiencing the biggest growth in 70 years benefitting those of all skin tones and ethnicities until the Chinese unleased a pandemic on the world with the aid of the WHO? Coincidence or deliberate? Ward/AJ never discusses that or lays any blame at the feet of the CCP which is the entity responsible for the Chinese flu. Why is that?

He also says:

He could pull a baby out of a mother’s arms and toss it on a bon fire and you would defend him while blaming democrats. In may ways, you have.

Yet, has no problem with the Democrats actually paying for pulling a baby, in parts, out of a mother’s womb up to and including the day the mother would deliver that baby naturally. What is the body count now? 64 million? More. Now American tax payers are on the hook for killing babies in other nations. Does Ward/AJ blame the Democrats for this inhuman practice? I doubt he does and is totally on board with the slaughter of the next generation.

Of course, in true radical left wing style, Ward/AJ, a person of color, plays the race card:

My personal belief is that he’s appealed to the white grievances of his followers, creating a base of those who among other things, felt like having a black president was crossing a line and going too far. He was your man to built a “wall” to protect you from the brown guys coming in and living in your white neighborhoods.

If you are white, there is no redemption from the past actions of your ancestors. It doesn’t matter if you married a black or a brown person, you are a “white supremacist” who hated Obama, not for his political philosophy, but because of his skin tone. Never mind that Obama is a half breed. Forget his white side that makes him a “white supremacist”, or his lily white Irish heritage, he is BLACK. If you are a person of color that supported President Trump, according to Ward/AJ’s beloved Washington Compost, you are a “multi-racial “white supremacist.”

And those like Ward/AJ will remind you of how BLACKS have been persecuted through out our nation history and it’s your fault if you’re white. Well, that is except for when BLACKS mounted their horses and were slaughtering red people. Ward/AJ will never mention that segment of history. To people like Ward/AJ, they will simply ignore that segment of history or declare those particular BLACKS were brave, dedicated men ridding the nation of the evil Native Americans.

You see, Ward/AJ thinks you are a stupid, evil white supremacist, no matter the color of your skin, because groups like Occupy Democrats have instilled that concept in his head as he accuses you of being brain washed by one man.

@retire05: @Mully:

You both suggest that considering progressives have promoted policies protecting the environment and that so-called conservatives (regressives) have rendered climate change a hoax, progressives are out to end the trucking industry.

That argument is ridiculous on every front, again exposing the fraudulence of the party of vagina grabbers.

Your gibberish of whatever you’re trying to spin of the temporary jobs is equally asinine. Those Keystone temporary jobs will be gone in a few short years and will take thousands of more jobs with them. Perhaps this is why both the Pipe Fitters Union and Teamsters supported Biden knowing he would gut Keystone.

The Keystone pipeline project is no more than the rich man using our government to make more money by ultimately shipping crude cheaper from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and then to China. The idea of allowing the rich man to steal farms and property through domestic domain to ultimately cut jobs for profit is disturbing in itself.

But as always, you side with the rich man like an obedient basket of gullibles.

@Ronald J. Ward:

You both suggest that considering progressives have promoted policies protecting the environment and that so-called conservatives (regressives) have rendered climate change a hoax, progressives are out to end the trucking industry.

Where have I ever said “climate change” is a hoax? Provide my statement on that issue, verbatim. But the Paris Accord is nothing more than a money drain on American taxpayers as the nations involved do not meet the standards they agreed to in the first place. Only the U.S. does. Of course, there is the issue of China (once again) that is the biggest polluter on the globe. But you will never critique China. You seem to be a supporter of the CCP, which surprises no one.

That argument is ridiculous on every front, again exposing the fraudulence of the party of vagina grabbers.

Your crassness is beyond measure. All you know is insult tactics. Do you really think that comments like that makes you sound intellectual?

Your gibberish of whatever you’re trying to spin of the temporary jobs is equally asinine. Those Keystone temporary jobs will be gone in a few short years and will take thousands of more jobs with them. Perhaps this is why both the Pipe Fitters Union and Teamsters supported Biden knowing he would gut Keystone.

Were not the (non-existent) “shovel ready” jobs touted by Obama temporary? Or do you think that highway construction is constantly in one spot? Of course, highway construction crews, if you bother to look, all seem to be made up of men who cannot speak English hired by unscrupulous construction companies that donate to the Democrat Party. Jobs For Illegals program.

Of course, the Teamsters (truck drivers) would never try to kill a project that didn’t benefits them, would it? Better to have pollution belching trucks transporting the oil from Canada than a non-polluting pipe line. And since you are so worried about the theft of land via “domestic domain” (whatever the hell that is) I highly recommend you donate the land you reside on back to the Native American tribe it was stolen from. Let us know when you do that.

@Ronald J. Ward:

You just confirmed that the objective is to save big oil money. And in the process, farms and private property will be confiscated for the higher profits for big oil and ultimately jobs will be lost.

So in your pointy little head the land over which a pipeline is buried is lost to the owners? It costs jobs? Like the jobs created to fufill all the regulations to insure the pipeline is maintained.
You post out your ass, not any research or knowledge.
https://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas/wells-to-consumer/transporting-oil-natural-gas/pipeline/pipeline-safety.
Do you know what a pressure sensor valve is where if sensed pressure drops below a certain pressure valves close minimizing any spillage? Does your derailed choo choo have such safe guards Buffet sucker?
look at all the land lost from the pipelines https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-pipelines-united-states

@retire05:

1

. Provide federal assistance to low-income communities;
2. Protect Social Security;
3. Provide asylum for refugees;
4. Extend minimum wage;
5. Improve unemployment benefit system so it covers more people;
6. Strengthen labor laws so workers can more easily join a union;
7. Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of sex.

This list comes from an over six year old meme put out by the radical left wing group Occupy Democrats.

Even your very own link to Politifact rates it as “Mostly True” and saying: “All told, the meme is generally accurate in portraying these seven elements of the 1956 platform, with some caveats”.

Did anyone notice that we, as a nation, were experiencing the biggest growth in 70 years benefitting those of all skin tones and ethnicities until the Chinese unleased a pandemic on the world with the aid of the WHO?

Aside from your rhetoric, that we were in this economic boom you say is not true, as had been explain to you many time. The BLS numbers do not and never did validate that claim. This was something that Trump, a lifelong con man and a man that lies like most people breathe, told you.

Yet, has no problem with the Democrats actually paying for pulling a baby, in parts, out of a mother’s womb up to and including the day the mother would deliver that baby naturally.

This is more of what the Trump party of vagina grabbers, insurrectionists and conspiracy theorists have instructed you to believe and repeat. The National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act- the law allowing selling of baby parts passed by a bipartisan vote. Yet blindly and without question follow the orders of your masters.

And as long as I’ve visited here, this is the first that I’ve seen some concerned over abortion or baby parts. Or for that matter, fossil fuel emitting trucks.

A look at one of President Donald Trump’s statements from his State of the Union address how it compares with the facts:

TRUMP: “African-American, Hispanic-American and Asian-American unemployment have all reached their lowest levels ever recorded.”

THE FACTS: What he’s not saying is that the unemployment rates for all three groups have gone up since reaching record low levels.

Black unemployment reached a record low, 5.9 percent, in May, but rose to 6.8 percent in January.

Latino unemployment fell to 4.4 percent, its lowest ever, last October, and Asian unemployment fell to a record low of 2.2 percent in May. But Latino and Asian unemployment also have increased, in part because of the government shutdown, which elevated unemployment last month.

The African-American rate is still nearly double the jobless rate for whites, at 3.5 percent.

The most dramatic drop in black unemployment came under President Barack Obama, when it fell from a recession high of 16.8 percent in March 2010 to 7.8 percent in January 2017.

‘Trump Just Used Us and Our Fear’: One Woman’s Journey Out of QAnon
During the political fallout after four years of Donald J. Trump, one question is what will happen with the followers of conspiracy theories that bend Americans’ perceptions of reality.

WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2017, Lenka Perron was spending hours every day after work online, poring over fevered theories about shadowy people in power. She had mostly stopped cooking, and no longer took her daily walk. She was less attentive to her children, 11, 15 and 19, who were seeing a lot of the side of her face, staring down into her phone. It would all be worth it, she told herself. She was saving the country and they would benefit.

But one day while she was scrolling, something caught her eye. People claiming to be sources inside the government had posted on Facebook that John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff, was about to be indicted. And yet on her phone she was watching a video that showed him chatting casually in front of an audience. Around the same time she saw Hillary Clinton, another supposed target for an indictment, walking in Hawaii, looking relaxed and holding a coffee cup.

“She just wasn’t behaving like someone who was about to get arrested,” she said.

It was the first nagging feeling that something did not add up. Five months and many more inconsistencies later, Ms. Perron, a consultant in the insurance industry in suburban Detroit, finally called it quits.

“At some point I realized, ‘Oh, there’s a reason this doesn’t fit,’” she said. “We are being manipulated. Someone is having fun at our expense.”

Her journey out of that world could be instructive: As the country begins to sort through the political fallout from four years of Donald J. Trump, one looming question is what will happen with the followers of QAnon and other anti-establishment conspiracy theories that have been bending Americans’ perceptions of reality.

There are signs that some have lost faith: Mr. Trump left Washington last week, blowing a hole through a key QAnon belief — that Mr. Trump, not President Biden, was the one who would be inaugurated on Jan. 20. But others are doubling down, and experts believe that some form of the QAnon conspiracy theory will remain deeply embedded in the nation’s culture by simply morphing to incorporate the new developments, as it has before.

QAnon believers are part of a broader swath of Americans who are immersed in conspiracy theories. Once on the far-right fringes, these theories now hold people from across the political spectrum in their thrall, from anti-lockdown libertarians to left-wing wellness types and “Stop the Steal” Trumpists.

The theories can be malevolent, causing real-life damage to people who end up in their cross hairs: the parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting who have been harassed by conspiracists, or a Washington pizza restaurant shot up by a man who had come to take down a child trafficking ring he believed was housed inside. Q sweatshirts dotted the crowd that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.

But while much has been said about how people descend into this world, little is known about how they get out. Those who do leave are often filled with shame. Sometimes their addiction was so severe that they have become estranged from family and friends.

The theories seem crazy to Ms. Perron now, but looking back, she understands how they drew her in. They were comforting, a way to get her bearings in a chaotic world that felt increasingly unequal and rigged against middle-class people like her. These stories offered agency: Evil cabals could be defeated. A diffuse sense that things were out of her control could not.

The theories were fiction, but they hooked into an emotional vulnerability that sprang from something real. For Ms. Perron, it was a feeling that the Democratic Party had betrayed her after a lifetime of trusting it deeply.

Her immigrant family, from the former Yugoslavia, were union Democrats in working-class Detroit who had seen their middle-class lifestyle decline after the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement. As an inspector for the insurance industry, she spent decades in factories seeing union jobs wither. Still, she stayed with the party because she believed it was fighting for her. When Bernie Sanders became a presidential candidate she found him electrifying.

“He put into words what I couldn’t figure out but I was seeing around me,” said Ms. Perron, who is now 55. “The middle class was shrinking. The 1 percent and corporations having more control and taking more of the money.”

She felt sure the Democratic establishment would back him, and she began volunteering for his campaign, meeting many new friends in the movement. But she felt that the news media was barely covering him. Then he lost the 2016 primary. When she began reading through leaked emails that fall, it looked to her like the party establishment had conspired to block him.

She spent weeks combing through the emails, hacked from Mr. Podesta, the Democratic National Committee and Mrs. Clinton. Her stunned discovery enraged her and put her on the path to conspiracy theories and, eventually, QAnon.

“There was no hint of conversation about the working class,” she said about the emails. Instead, she said, it was “expensive dinner parties, exclusive get-togethers.”

The emails were Ms. Perron’s doorway to the conspiracy world, and she found others there too. She was no longer a lonely victim of a force she did not understand, but part of a bigger community of people seeking the truth. She loved the feeling of common purpose. They were learning together how to research, looking up important people in the emails and figuring out how to trace them back to big donors.

“There was this excitement,” Ms. Perron said. “We were joining forces to finally clean house. To finally find something to explain why we were suffering.”

The community was growing, and also going to darker places. Ms. Perron remembers watching and sharing videos appearing to link a Washington pizza parlor to Mr. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton and a child sex trafficking ring. The dots were hazy, but she and her newfound friends on Facebook and Reddit drew bright lines connecting them. It sounds crazy now, she said, but at the time it felt so real and disturbing that sometimes she felt physically ill.

“It was all of us,” she said of the early months of her immersion. “It was these puzzle pieces that we all got to play around with. We were all sort of authoring this.”

If the early months were a build-your-own-adventure designed by different groups, all the theories were snapped together into one giant “deep state” explanation after Q, the anonymous person or people at the center of QAnon, first posted in late 2017, she said. Q’s information drops had an addictive effect, drawing her in again after she had started to have doubts.

“Q managed to make us feel special, that we were being given very critical information that basically was going to save all that is good in the world and the United States,” she said. “We felt we were coming from a place of moral superiority. We were part of a special club.”

Meanwhile, her family was eating takeout all the time since she had stopped cooking and her stress levels had shot up, causing her blood pressure medication to stop working. Her doctor, worried, doubled her dose.

People who tried to talk her out of the conspiracy theories by sending her factual information only made it worse.

“Facts are not facts anymore,” Ms. Perron said. “They are highly powerful, nefarious people putting out messaging to keep us as docile as sheep.”

As the months went on, the claims she was seeing grew more outlandish. There were slickly produced videos of cannibalism and Satanism within the Democratic Party.

“The people I got to know on social media, they started to look stranger and act stranger and I didn’t want to be like that,” she said.

Mr. Trump himself was a source of doubt. Q presented him as a brilliant mastermind, and for a while she accepted that. But it became harder to reconcile that persona with what she observed in real life.

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Another twinge of self-consciousness came during a phone conversation with a childhood friend. “I remember calling my best friend and getting all into the number of pedophiles in government and that they’ve taken over the whole government system,” she said. “I felt a part of her saying, ‘This is not the friend I recognize.’ It never came out in words, it was just a sense that I had.”

When she first left QAnon, she felt a lot of shame and guilt. It was also humbling: Ms. Perron, who has a master’s degree, had looked down on Scientologists as people who believed crazy things. But there she was.

But she has come to appreciate the experience. She has talked to her children about what she went through, and has learned to identify conspiracy dependence in others. She agreed to speak for this article to help others who are still in the throes of QAnon.

There are many. Ms. Perron volunteers as a life coach, and recently was working with a 40-year-old man who had lost his marriage and was falling asleep at work. At some point, he began texting her Q links. She realized he was staying up all night consuming conspiracy theories.

“I was watching his life fall apart,” she said. “I had no way to penetrate it. I could not even make a dent.”

She said she was no longer working with him.

Mr. Trump may be gone from government, but Ms. Perron believes that the ground is still fertile for conspiracy theories because many of the underlying conditions are the same: widespread distrust of authority, anger at powerful figures in politics and in the news media, and growing income inequality.

Unless there are major changes, Ms. Perron said, the craving will continue.

“Trump just used us and our fear,” she said. “When you are no longer living in fear, you are no longer prone to believe this stuff. I don’t think we are anywhere near that yet.”

A lot of people don’t know where their favorite conspiracy theories originated.

@kitt:

All dictatorships need a boogie man, or more than one. QAnon is just one of the boogie men that the left is fixated on.

@Greg: Did you ever hear of a running inside joke? Pedos inside our government has been proven, behold how many times Clinton flew with Jeffy, there are others on the flight logs, Mueller used one as a witness. Weiner anyone? Hunters laptop?
Why would they fear or even dislike a movement that hates pedos?
Trump doesnt like pedos and said so, as should every descent human.So is it just that Trump admin arrested hundreds of traffickers and saved hundreds of children now make you pro child trafficking Greggie?
Its Strange that twitter can hunt down and remove Trump supporters but cant remove the child porn from its site. The calls for violence against Trump when he was president, and jihadi terrorists. Its perfectly fine for blue checks to want to kill all white men that doesnt break their rules but people get removed for bible scripture.
Why do you think Q believers are so dangerous? I find it a harmless distraction as they weave conspiracies and try to make predictions that like climate experts never come to pass.
WW1WGA isnt an oath, any more than saying Semper Fi makes someone a Marine, or One for all and all for One makes you a Musketeer.
These fear mongerers need to find a real threat. Like Antifa attacking federal agents and buildings.

ARRESTED | HORRIFIC CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN
HAROLD “”HL” MOODY | FORMER DEMOCRAT PARTY CHAIRMAN STREAMED LIVE VIDEOS OF CHILDREN BEING RAPED
– JURY TRIAL RESET for 2/1/2021 at 9:30 AM

Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Arkansas
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edar/pr/little-rock-man-arrested-child-pornography-charges-following-online-investigation

@kitt:

That’s a load of totally bonkers QAnonsense.

QAnon Leftist conspiracies aside, how about that real and completely verifiable money Biden has taken and made from China?

Now that’s a real scandal.

@Greg:

One doesn’t have to know the name of the virus to be a carrier.

Indeed. One day you might learn the definition of the virus you carry: Marxism.

Didn’t click your link. As I said, I’ve never heard anyone talk about QAnon other than Leftists.

Like you.

Back to the topic at hand: the Biden disaster.

-He canceled the Keystone pipeline and its 11,000 jobs
-Biden rescinded the travel ban on terrorist sponsoring nations
-He ordered the border wall and its 5000 jobs shut down
-He jacked up the price of insulin and Epi-pens.
-Biden rescinds Trump order banning Chinese Communist involvement in US power grid

The globalist, Marxist agenda continues.

Please keep an eye on any Chinese citizens your work with, and report them to the FBI if you suspect they are spying/stealing.

@Greg: I guess as you wont answer you are all for Child trafficking. You have the correct party affiliation for it.