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LessAspin

(2,018 posts)
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 08:33 AM Oct 2021

Jim Caviezel's Q Guru Wants to Control Elections

Last edited Thu Oct 28, 2021, 10:16 PM - Edit history (1)



Actor Jim Caviezel stepped up his embrace of the QAnon conspiracy theory last weekend, appearing at a casino-themed QAnon convention called the “Patriot Double Down” in Las Vegas to deliver a speech drenched in religious and QAnon references.

In what had been billed to QAnon believers as a historic event, the actor best known for playing Jesus in Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ reenacted a speech from Braveheart, then urged the audience to send “Lucifer and his henchmen straight back to hell.”

"The storm is upon us,” Caviezel said, alluding to a QAnon slogan about an impending fascist takeover led by Donald Trump.

At the end of his speech, Caviezel embraced a man in a suede jacket and cowboy hat who was treated by the audience as just as much a star as Caviezel: a shadowy QAnon promoter who goes by the alias Juan O. Savin...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jim-caviezels-qanon-guru-juan-savin-wants-to-control-elections


Sad to see people, especially one from a favorite show of mine, continue to go down this rabbit hole and promote this crap.

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Jim Caviezel's Q Guru Wants to Control Elections (Original Post) LessAspin Oct 2021 OP
Local boy. and I'm not proud of that. Aristus Oct 2021 #1
"impending fascist takeover" Skittles Oct 2021 #2

Aristus

(72,523 posts)
1. Local boy. and I'm not proud of that.
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 10:17 AM
Oct 2021

He's the only person I've seen on TV who can pronounce "Puyallup" correctly. But that don't earn him any points in my book. He's a loon...

Skittles

(172,866 posts)
2. "impending fascist takeover"
Thu Oct 28, 2021, 11:16 PM
Oct 2021

he seems oblivious to the fact that he is a part of that effort

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