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Nevilledog

(55,134 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 11:16 PM Feb 2021

McCarthy just said he doesn't even know what QAnon is.



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Donie O'Sullivan
@donie
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Feb 3, 2021
McCarthy just said he doesn't even know what QAnon is.

So the House Minority Leader doesn't care to learn about a set of beliefs that helped inspire an insurrection at the Capitol.

Donie O'Sullivan
@donie
McCarthy not calling this stuff out, sends the message to QAnon followers that they should continue to believe in the conspiracy, a former QAnon believer told me.

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McCarthy just said he doesn't even know what QAnon is. (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2021 OP
He's lying. Karadeniz Feb 2021 #1
👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧ spanone Feb 2021 #10
The first rule of the fight club... Tanuki Feb 2021 #2
he knows Skittles Feb 2021 #3
Too cold for him to read too? Solly Mack Feb 2021 #4
Sniveling shit liar jpak Feb 2021 #5
Of course he knows... IcyPeas Feb 2021 #6
Better find out, McQ 'cause Cha Feb 2021 #7
He's a lying asshole liberal_mama Feb 2021 #8
He's either lying or he's just plain stupid turtleblossom Feb 2021 #9
BOTH!!! Celerity Feb 2021 #19
Correct. He's lying AND he's EXCEPTIONALLY stupid JHB Feb 2021 #22
He probably doesn't UNDERSTAND it... LeftInTX Feb 2021 #23
Exceptionally is right. He sounds dumber every time he talks Walleye Feb 2021 #25
Stupid liar. dalton99a Feb 2021 #11
Riiight... Best_man23 Feb 2021 #12
Hey, I don't know WHAT IT is... LeftInTX Feb 2021 #13
Me neither I feel stupid GusBob Feb 2021 #17
See that is why McCarthy can say what he's saying LeftInTX Feb 2021 #20
I know what it is: Lock him up. Feb 2021 #29
Liar, liar, someone's pants is on fire dustyscamp Feb 2021 #14
Moron. moondust Feb 2021 #15
Just like they claimed they did not read the orange one's tweets. Nt helpisontheway Feb 2021 #16
Geez! Staph Feb 2021 #18
He's telling a 1/2 truth... LeftInTX Feb 2021 #21
F'in liar. Taking a page from the Dotard's playbook. JDC Feb 2021 #24
QAnon has been a huge political news item for months. Why hasn't oasis Feb 2021 #26
That means he's totally out of contact with his constituents. KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2021 #27
Like hell he doesn't know! sakabatou Feb 2021 #28

spanone

(142,054 posts)
10. 👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧👍🏼⇧
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 11:42 PM
Feb 2021

IcyPeas

(25,781 posts)
6. Of course he knows...
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 11:34 PM
Feb 2021

Don Lemon just said McCarthy made plans a few days ago to talk with marge today... so he knows... he's lying.

JHB

(38,334 posts)
22. Correct. He's lying AND he's EXCEPTIONALLY stupid
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 12:58 AM
Feb 2021

Not an ounce of plainness to be seen.

LeftInTX

(34,852 posts)
23. He probably doesn't UNDERSTAND it...
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 01:11 AM
Feb 2021

Kinda like when you look at a graduate level physics course and say, "I don't know what that is"...Same thing...

Therefore, he can get away with saying he doesn't know WHAT it is.....

Do you really know WHAT it is? It's like jello...

A bunch of conspiracy theories that do not make sense..

Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.[1] The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia.[2] He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness".[3][4] He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential, over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.[1][5]


LeftInTX

(34,852 posts)
13. Hey, I don't know WHAT IT is...
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 12:11 AM
Feb 2021

Does anyone really know WHAT IT is???

I know about it...I know it's weird..I know it's conspiracy theories, but actually WHAT it is....I don't know


It's all semantics.....

LeftInTX

(34,852 posts)
20. See that is why McCarthy can say what he's saying
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 12:54 AM
Feb 2021

He knows about it, but he doesn't know WHAT IT is...

Nobody knows what Q is except Q...

moondust

(21,352 posts)
15. Moron.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 12:20 AM
Feb 2021

I'm guessing the QOP elevated him just to try to get more footing in CA without much regard for his (lack of) ability to do the job.

Staph

(6,474 posts)
18. Geez!
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 12:47 AM
Feb 2021

My 97-year-old mother knows what QAnon is, at least in general terms. I try not to give her the goriest details.

So, the minority leader is less informed than a 97-year-old who doesn't use the internet and only reads her local newspaper? I don't think so!


LeftInTX

(34,852 posts)
21. He's telling a 1/2 truth...
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 12:56 AM
Feb 2021

Nobody really knows what QAnon is except for a very small minority of adherents...

Who is Q? Who is the leader? What do they believe in?
It's like jello....
It's not a real organization....It's strange beliefs.....

Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things.[1] The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia.[2] He defined it as "unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness".[3][4] He described the early stages of delusional thought as self-referential, over-interpretations of actual sensory perceptions, as opposed to hallucinations.[1][5]


QAnon doesn't make sense to most people...It probably doesn't make sense to McCarthy....
Jewish Space Lasers, cannibal cults?? WTF is that??...(Sounds like a bizarre movie) I don't know WHAT that is. He doesn't know WHAT that is. That doesn't mean he has not heard about. That doesn't mean he doesn't know that it's something bad...But he's "off the hook" because like the rest of the world, he doesn't understand it...


Do you know what this is? There are various degrees of WHAT
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oasis

(53,978 posts)
26. QAnon has been a huge political news item for months. Why hasn't
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 02:02 AM
Feb 2021

McCarthy assigned a member of his staff to do research?

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,796 posts)
27. That means he's totally out of contact with his constituents.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 02:03 AM
Feb 2021

You had one job to do.......


Resign, asshole.....

Thanks for posting, Nevilledog......

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