We are the storm

[Divad123]

So “We are the storm” is the slogan for Texas, and also for Qanon. In typical fashion, instead of changing it to something that doesn’t give recognition to crazies (and secure their votes), they deny that that is what they were doing, and double down and turn it into an expression of religious freedom.

After all their so called ‘principles’ have been shown to be lies, all they have left is religion, and so the political strategies of the right are now instantly translated into religious principles.

Now you’re not criticizing their strategy, your criticizing their religion, and they (and every televangelist) can scream ‘religious persecution’.

It plays well in Ohio.

So it goes.

[ms liberty]

1. Did they steal that phrase from Game of Thrones?

Probably. They're none of them particularly skilled in original thinking, are they?

[Gothmog]

2. The Texas GOP's new slogan echoes a conspiracy group

Allen West is an idiot and now the Texas GOP is using a Q-ANON slogan

Link to tweet

Shortly after Allen West took over as the Texas GOP chair last month, he gave the party a new slogan — "We are the storm" — and plastered it everywhere: fundraising emails, social media accounts, even on T-shirts and hats for sale.

West, a former Florida congressman, indicated he drew inspiration for the slogan from an unattributed quote that he likes: "The devil whispers to the warrior slyly can it withstand the coming storm. The warrior responds, 'I am the storm.'" Others, however, saw something more nefarious: a dog whistle to the QAnon conspiracy movement — the one that President Donald Trump notably declined to denounce Wednesday, saying he did not know much about it while also speaking favorably of its followers.....

The QAnon movement adheres to an unfounded theory that a mysterious government official named "Q" is exposing a plot against Trump by "deep-state" actors involving satanism and child sex trafficking. Some believers have been accused of plotting or carrying out violent crimes, including killing a New York mob boss. In April, an Illinois woman was arrested after she traveled to New York with illegal knives and wrote on Facebook that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden need to be "taken out."....

The concept of "the storm" is a significant part of QAnon vernacular, said Mark Fenster, a law professor at the University of Florida who studies conspiracy theories....

"The Republican Party is being led by an internet cult that believes in dangerous, extreme far-right conspiracy theories," party spokesperson Abhi Rahman said in a statement. "West can try to deny it’s connection, but it’s there in plain sight for everybody to see.".