By Jay Baker
From Russia to Q with love
The big conspiracy theory of the 2016 national election was that it was hacked by Russia. Barack Obama first posited the notion that Russia might be trying to influence the election — and claimed to have told Vladimir Putin to stand down — as the summer of 2016 wound down and Donald Trump became the inevitable nominee.
Hillary Clinton picked up the idea and ran with it. Of course, Trump was supposedly soliciting Russia’s help when he joked that maybe Russia could locate Hillary’s missing emails. “Russia interference was proven by 17 intelligence agencies,” Hillary lied during one of the debates, as if the spooks in the American intelligence agencies were known for telling the truth… ever.
When the intelligence agencies released their findings on the Russian interference we learned that it consisted of an ad spend of a couple hundred thousand dollars on Facebook by firms alleged to be Russian troll farms and some appearances by Trump operatives on RT, an internet Russia-owned news organization with ratings lower than Rachel Maddow reruns.
When the Democrat National Committee emails were released by Wikileaks we heard from the DNC and the lying American intelligence agencies (who at the time were working “Operation Crossfire Hurricane” to create the groundwork for an anti-Trump coup operation as “insurance” — according to FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page — against the unlikely event that Trump defeated the “chosen one” in the election) that Russians had hacked the DNC servers. Lying FBI Director James Comey claimed the DNC had been hacked by Russia, and the trope became conventional wisdom for the propaganda media.
It was later that we learned that Comey had exactly zero evidence that Russia had hacked anything. The DNC’s cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike had done all the investigating, and the FBI had been barred from even looking at the DNC’s servers. Crowdstrike is owned by an anti-Putin Russian national with ties and sympathies with Ukraine. On top of that, WikiLeaks released a trove of information that showed the CIA had a bug it could place in any purloined digital file that would make it appear as if Russia had hacked it.
All the caterwauling from the Witch from Chappaqua, the DNC and the DNC’s propaganda arm — the corporate legacy mainstream media — led us to the Robert Mueller witch hunt and the Inspector General’s report, both of which proved there was no election interference by Russia, but the real interference was by the DNC and Clinton campaigns which employed a British national former? spook to solicit dirt on Trump from shady Russian (maybe) sources.
Crowdstrike’s participation in the coverup of what actually happened (our theory is that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich leaked them) to get the DNC’s emails to WikiLeaks where they could be released to the public was shoved down the memory hole. It resurfaced for a time when news of Trump’s call to Ukraine’s president started making the rounds. Trump mentioned Crowdstrike and the server on the call. It disappeared back down the memory hole as the impeachment crowd focused on Trump’s nonexistent “pressure” to dig up dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden and Burisma.
I rehash the last three years of 2016 Russia meddling conspiracy nonsense in order to lay the groundwork for the 2020 version that is already beginning to take root. Last week the tech information website Wired.com planted the seed that the QAnon conspiracy movement was working to hack the election.
The boss wrote to you about QAnon last year. For a refresher, go here. Essentially, QAnon or Q is a web-based phenomenon that drops cryptic messages on dark web message boards and occasionally on social media like Twitter and Facebook that are said to interpret or explain Trump’s actions as he works to “drain the swamp.”
According to Wired, Q is going to try and influence the 2020 election, much like they did the 2019 elections for governor in Kentucky and Louisiana.
Wired claims Q and another amorphous group called EndChan “used Twitter to influence governors’ races in Kentucky and Louisiana, posting tweets and memes in favor of Republican candidates and attacking their opponents. They analyzed social media conversations, including popular hashtags, to decide where and how to weigh in.” They then used memes (photos or cartoons with messages on them) posted to Twitter to mock Democrats and their positions.
If Q and EndChan sought to influence the elections with memes and jokes, they were pretty miserable at it. Republicans lost in both races. But Wired is concerned that Q and EndChan are hard at work stealing the next election for Trump.
This is self-important nonsense and fake news.
While some analytics show that as much as 87 percent of the U.S. population has heard of Twitter, it is used by only about 7 percent of Americans. Users are overwhelmingly leftists. And about 25 percent of Twitter users are blacks.
Ninety-three percent of the electorate doesn’t use Twitter. Those 7 percent that do are predominantly left and/or members of the media. That’s not exactly a target-rich environment for swaying the election to Trump in this era of hyperpartisanship and divided electorate.
