Democrats QAnon panic attack has no merit

 Tucker Carlson:

QAnon is the greatest threat we face. Not inflation, not China, QAnon. Everyone is saying this, but you may be wondering: Just how dangerous is QAnon? Here's the answer: the District of Columbia National Guard announced Friday that all troops who took part in the mission to protect our democracy from internet conspiracy theorists will now receive medals in recognition of their heroic sacrifice.

The primary medal is called the Presidential Inauguration Support Ribbon. That's for people who were there for President Biden's inauguration. But that medal will be supplemented, in cases in which our heroes have earned it, by the Emergency Service Ribbon. So if you're a D.C. Guardsman who's been on duty in the city since late January, protecting America from Trump voters, you can add another medal to your chest. More may be coming. According to Air Force Lt. Col. Robert Carver, "Other federal decorations are also being considered."

That seems like a big deal. For context, more than 60,000 American soldiers and Marines fought on Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during the Second World War. About 15,000 of them died or were wounded there. Not one of those men got an official Guadalcanal medal for the experience, because the Pentagon didn't offer them. Guadalcanal may have been horrible and bloody, but it just didn't justify its own ribbon. Guadalcanal wasn't North Capitol Street. The Imperial Japanese weren't as fanatical as Trump voters and not half as dangerous.

Thursday, they told us, the war against QAnon was likely to escalate intensely. March 4 would be the Tet Offensive in the fight against right-wing insurrectionism. It was something called "QAnon Inauguration Day." Now, we've never heard of that before, but then we don't work at the FBI. The FBI has been monitoring the enemy through "SIGINT" -- that's "signals intelligence" for the neophytes out there. That means tweets, Facebook posts, TikTok, James Bond stuff.

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According to what our guys were hearing in the field, QAnon was preparing an invasion of Washington. And that means thousands of bearded groovy shamans in Viking hats marching across the Key Bridge to pillage Georgetown Cupcakes and end our democracy. It would have been a gruesome sight. Needless to say, Nancy Pelosi stopped work in the House of Representatives so that members of Congress could flee the city for their lives, and many did.

For example, Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., tweeted: "This all seems absurd if it wasn’t frightening ... [N]ow, our legislative plan tomorrow has been canceled as we are rushing tonight to finish the work we planned to do ... [T]housands of National Guard & Capitol Police will be on edge tomorrow as they stand watch over the Capitol. They will worry about possible attacks by American citizens ..."

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Not everyone ran from the sound of the approaching QAnon shamans. A few hardened war correspondents, like Chris Bedford of The Federalist, ran toward that sound. Chris Bedford of the Federalist is a man like that. While our elected representatives were clinging to the struts of the last chopper out of the city, Chris Bedford was at the Capitol itself.

And what was the scene there? With an empty street behind him, he said, "I was told that all of us conservatives are insurrecting today. Am I at the wrong place?"
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No, Chris Bedford, you weren't in the wrong place. There was simply nobody there. It took The Washington Post five crack reporters to determine this. They rushed to the scene, and their conclusion was, "…streets were quiet. People walked their dogs in the morning sun. Masked students sat on steps drinking coffee. Construction crews continued with their projects." That was their dispatch.

Jeff Bezos spared no expense. One reporter was assigned to monitor the construction crews. Another on the dog walking beat. No one there.

So why wasn't there anyone there? Where was the QAnon battle? "What?!" said MSNBC. "What QAnon battle? Nobody really thought there was going to be a QAnon battle."

Anchor Chuck Todd asked NBC News Justice correspondent Pete Williams: "Have we learned more about any specifics of this threat, or are you starting to think this is under the umbrella of maybe where we're being a little more precautious [Author's note: This is not an actual English word] since we underreacted on January 6th?"

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"Definitely the latter. Chuck, no question about it," Williams answered. "The intelligence that was gathered by law enforcement, I'm told, was of a specific group talking about the idea of doing an attack on the Capitol today on March 4th, talking about an idea, in other words, aspirational. I don't think anybody expected anything to happen today. But nonetheless, you know, abundance of caution seems to be the watch phrase here."
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It looks like the media and some in Congress got trolled by QAnon.  In what little I have read from this group, I get the impression that most of the time they are trolling and making fun of the left and this may be their biggest troll to date.  They appear to have been playing on the paranoia of the left.