{"id":44188,"date":"2020-05-24T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=44188"},"modified":"2020-05-24T16:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:12:45","slug":"look-at-the-gop-woman-running-against-jeff-merkley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=44188","title":{"rendered":"Look at the GOP woman running against Jeff Merkley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/20\/us\/oregon-senate-perkins-qanon.html?searchResultPosition=1\">Take a good look. Actually, read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her name is Jo Rae Perkins. She will be running against Jeff Merkley (D-OR) for his Senate seat. And she believes, promotes and is running on every insane conspiracy, COVID and more, rocketing around the crazies and the stupids in this country. You know, what we would otherwise call &#8220;countrymen,&#8221; except&#8230;no.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no longer pertinent to ask the question, &#8220;Where does the GOP <em>find<\/em> these people?&#8221; Because &#8220;these people&#8221; are apparently the only people the GOP<em> can<\/em> find. And I&#8217;m not posting this to raise any alarms about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\">the absolutely wonderful Jeff Merkley<\/a>. In fact, a few items from this astonishing story could be subtitled: &#8220;Watch the GOP commit mass suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>SEATTLE \u2014 Republicans in Oregon have selected a Senate candidate who promotes the <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/what-is-qanon.html\">QAnon conspiracy theory<\/a>, the latest sign that conservatives are increasingly willing to embrace a movement built on a baseless series of plotlines about President Trump battling a shadowy globalist cabal.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Ms. Perkins said in an interview that the vote in Tuesday\u2019s election was \u201cmonumental\u201d as she saw QAnon supporters around the state and the country back her campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe are seeing more and more people getting emboldened as we see more and more information get out there,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd as people put together more and more pieces of the puzzle, they can see, yeah, this is real.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/09\/us\/politics\/qanon-trump-conspiracy-theory.html\"><em>The conspiracy theory<\/em><\/a><em> began in 2017 when someone claiming to have top-secret information began posting under a pseudonym to the online message board 4chan. Those continuing posts from the person identified as \u201cQ\u201d have woven a fantastical plot about the planet\u2019s elites: a global cabal of politicians and celebrities controlling governments, media, banks and a child sex-trafficking ring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Whenever you see<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p13yRc-bkB\"> &#8220;child sex-trafficking ring,&#8221; or &#8220;pedophilia,&#8221; think Russia.<\/a> Because I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s where this particular awfulness comes from. So much so, that I&#8217;m all in with, &#8220;Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much.&#8221; Choose your favorite gentleman.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The posts portray Mr. Trump as a heroic mastermind working with patriotic members of government to dismantle the cabal and \u201cdeep state\u201d actors, leading up to mass arrests of the likes of former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. Adherents pore over each new Q message, hunting for clues and patterns, pointing out coincidences involving the number 17 because Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet and embracing theories such as the idea that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his own death and is alive now posting as Q.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, I could just continue with this, but you understand how nuts this all is. But Jo Rae believes it, every little bit:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8230;Last May, the F.B.I. included QAnon in an intelligence bulletin that warned of potential violence stemming from \u201cfringe political conspiracy theories.\u201d But pushback against the conspiracy theory has been met with yet further theories of a growing plot.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI believe that that was some of the deep state actors in the F.B.I. trying to put out disinformation,\u201d said Ms. Perkins, an insurance agent who had previously lost primary campaigns for seats in Congress in 2018, 2016 and 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a good look. Actually, read it. Her name is Jo Rae Perkins. 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