Michigan GOP Rep. Wears QAnon Pin at Pro-Trump Protest

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A Republican state rep in Michigan wore a QAnon pin to a protest today, telling @cam_joseph the pin is meant to show her support for "a group of people who are digital warriors."

Michigan GOP Rep. Wears QAnon Pin at Pro-Trump Protest
“A lot of the people that are here today follow the same channels and they understand,” Michigan GOP Rep. Daire Rendon told VICE News.
vice.com
2:38 PM · Oct 12, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnjpj/michigan-rep-daire-rendon-q-anon-protest

A Michigan Republican lawmaker wore a pin with a flag with a “Q” on it as she addressed demonstrators at an election protest Tuesday in Lansing supported by former President Donald Trump—and made clear she buys into the sprawling conspiracy theory.

Michigan Rep. Daire Rendon told VICE News that the Q represents “a group of people who are digital warriors,” who “pass information around and reveal information that’s been kept hidden for a very long time,” based on information from the “highest level of intelligence in the United States government”—tropes of the false conspiracy theory central to QAnon.

Rendon confirmed to VICE News that she wore the pin, an American flag with a gold Q on it that was spotted by the Detroit News’ Craig Mauger, during her speech, and said that she wore it partly because she knew there’d be plenty of like-minded people in the crowd.

“A lot of the people that are here today follow the same channels, and they understand,” Rendon said. “They’re not buying the same mainstream pablum that gets fed to us every day by the mainstream media.”

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[Midnight Writer]

1. The GOP decided finding the loonies and pushing their buttons would be a clever political strategy.

Now the loonies own them.

[FelineOverlord]

2. She's really qrazy

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3. Who is surprised by this?