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Dave Weigel, writing for WaPo's The Fix this afternoon:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/31/the-conspiracy-theory-behind-a-curious-roseanne-barr-tweet-explained/
Absolutely, yes. As the Hill's Will Sommer quickly explained, Barr had echoed a relatively new theory that grew out of Pizzagate that the president is quietly cracking down on the pedophilia network and that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's probe of foreign meddling in the 2016 election is an extremely effective distraction from his real investigation of the Democrats tied to that network. We know this, or know this, because Q, an anonymous account on the 4chan message board, says so and claims to be a government operative with the highest level of security clearance.
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Barr did not mention #QAnon in her tweet, but she has repeatedly tweeted or retweeted links about the theory and asked whether QAnon could contact her via direct message. Most recently, on March 23, Barr retweeted a summary of Q-based theories of how the just-passed omnibus spending bill would unleash law enforcement on the pedophile ring.
Here is what the post says:
1. Bill passes, immediately releasing funds to our military.
2. Swamp drain begins, military seizes TRILLIONS in cabal assets, returning them to the people.
3. IG report drops showing just how f---ed up this swamp really is, revealing pedophilia, extortion, murder, treason and SEDITION. Punishable by DEATH.
4. Panic? No panic. This has been planned so far in advance, very few understand how calculated every move is. The strings will be cut from the propaganda machine and the people will stop falling for the garbage MSM. They will be so appalled by the vileness and sliminess of these creatures it will make them SICK to their stomach.
5. Patriots take back our country.
It's a pretty typical product of the #QAnon genre, promising the final defeat of the president's enemies and engaging in some inventive ideas about how the military works.
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I skimmed back through Roseanne's sewer of a Twitter account to see if she might have deleted her retweet of that tweet:
Link to tweet
The retweet is still there, and the crazy person (or cynical fake news peddler) Roseanne retweeted is now peddling the new RW meme that the Parkland shooter had been bullied by Emma Gonzalez and so she's to blame, not guns.
No idea whether Roseanne is demented enough to retweet that one.
But I can't see the advertisers on her show wanting to be associated with this sort of thing very long.
And I expect her ratings to decline sharply.
WhiskeyGrinder
(23,399 posts)long."
ABC just reupped for season 2, so.
highplainsdem
(51,484 posts)Major Nikon
(36,877 posts)BSdetect
(9,042 posts)Doodley
(9,969 posts)dhol82
(9,399 posts)I remember when it first surfaced and was shocked before I got a grip.
Think it was the first time I saw a conspiracy theory.
http://secretsofthefed.com/homosexual-george-bush-pedophile-sex-ring-and-blackmail-of-congress/
oasis
(51,315 posts)CentralMass
(15,440 posts)rockfordfile
(8,725 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,291 posts)Good luck with that move abc. She will tweet your network to death.
oxbow
(2,034 posts)We know that no such trafficking will be revealed. In the meantime, Muellers investigation continues, with a few less RWNJs helping spanky obstruct it.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)One was a little German boy.
GusBob
(7,450 posts)Leave one or both of them alone!
spanone
(137,283 posts)Hate abounds.
Racists are acceptable.
White supremacists are equals.
What. Thee. Fuck?
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,157 posts)Is that the CLOUD Act that was hidden in the spending bill?
I've been avoiding every mention of Rosanne Barr -- her show 'way back when seemed like it was just hateful remarks with canned laughter -- and this reinforces my gut feeling. She's still spewing shit.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,988 posts)ooky
(9,413 posts)ABC giving this woman a platform is bizarre.