QAnon Figure Ron Watkins Announces Plans to Run for Congress in Arizona

[Zorro]

Source: Rolling Stone

Prominent QAnon figure Ron Watkins has announced his plans to run for Congress in Arizona via a dramatic video on Thursday. Earlier in the day he filed a “statement of interest” to run in Arizona’s first congressional district against Democratic Rep. Tom O’Halleran, an initial step to petition for signatures to appear on the ballot, as Vice reports.

His apparent bid will make him the most prominent QAnon-related person to run for office in the United States, signifying how deep the far-right conspiracy-driven group has recently taken hold within the Republican party.

In the clip released Thursday evening, he appeared outside Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office. He lauded the AG for “proceeding on election fraud cases” and re-upped the QAnon false claim that the election was stolen from Donald Trump via election fraud. His beliefs along with encouragement from his pastor Jeff Durbin from Apologia Church led to his decision to run against O’Halleran, whom he called “O’Hooligan” in the video.

“I’ve come to realize that following God’s word is not always the easiest route but if we don’t follow our beliefs and the founding principles of our nation, it will crumble this must stop now,” he said. “Therefore I have decided to double down with God as my compass to take this fight to the swamp of Washington D.C. I am here to formally announce my run for Congress in Arizona district number one.”

Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/qanon-ron-watkins-congress-arizona-1242682/

[dalton99a]

1. And thou shalt be called The Party of QAnon

Thus saith the LORD

[hibbing]

2. Have flat earthers joined yet? n/t

[Harker]

8. Surely that's just over the horizon. n/t

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. Soon:

Professing a belief in the Big Lie will become the Kiss of Death. It will become the litmus test for certain political failure. Common, everyday voters will make a determination at election time. If you believe that Trump beat Joe Biden, you're out. And all of this, "I'm not sure who won the 2020 election" nonsense will be interpreted as believing in the Big Lie.

Reality has a way of eventually winning the day.

[intrepidity]

4. Doesn't he live in Japan? nt

[BigmanPigman]

6. Or the Philippines.

[BlueIdaho]

5. Will there be a competing Republican candidate on the ballot?

That could really work to our favor.

[madeup64]

7. "I've come to realize that following God's word is not always the easiest route"

"Because that book he wrote is long and I'm not really that great with the reading comprehension skills necessary to understand literary works not named "Go Dog Go." So instead I follow a guy who fucked a pornstar while his wife was at home recovering from having his child and then paid her off to keep quiet."

I'm almost positive Rolling Stone must have missed that part of the quote.

[joetheman]

9. Grifters have to grift. nt

[sakabatou]

10. Not another whack job!

[Ziggysmom]

11. Spread and post everywhere, Ron and dad Jim enable child pornography

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/jim-watkins-child-pornography-domains/