View Full Version : CNN - How this South Carolina mom escaped QAnon
Doomsday Dallas
02-03-2021, 11:50 AM
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/tech/qanon-mom-former-believer/index.html
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (CNN Business)Ashley Vanderbilt says her four-year-old daughter Emmerson knew "something was wrong with her mom."
"I wasn't one hundred percent there like I should have been," she recalls.
After November's election she spent days on TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube becoming indoctrinated into the world of QAnon. By inauguration day, she was convinced that if then President-elect Joe Biden took office the United States would literally turn into a communist country. She was terrified that she would have to go into hiding with her daughter.
Many QAnon believers have clear political motives, but Vanderbilt says she is a passive participant in politics.
"I've always been someone that you just tell me what to do and I do it. I grew up being told we were Republicans, so I've always been that straight red ticket," she explained in an interview with CNN near her home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, last Saturday.
She doesn't watch the news. "What have we heard the last four or five years? Don't watch the news. 'Fake news.' 'Fake news.'"
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Serious survival story right here. Glad she was able to overcome.
Code Breaker
02-03-2021, 11:59 AM
My goodness look at that land whale :roll:
Doomsday Dallas
02-03-2021, 12:10 PM
the article doesn't really provide much information as to how she escaped other than having faith in God.
Vanderbilt credits her faith in God for helping her out of QAnon. While she was deep in the conspiracy theory, she said that Trump was becoming an almost messianic figure for her who could do no wrong. She recalls once asking herself, "Am I putting even Trump above God?"
if this woman didn't have faith... only God knows where she would be today.
~primetime~
02-03-2021, 12:16 PM
Now it's your turn to escape Dooms...instead of living in the never ending mindset that "She was terrified that she would have to go into hiding with her daughter."...what all the Alex Jones's of the world sell.
you've been trapped for a while now and life is too short to spend it waiting on the apocalypse you'll never see.
Doomsday Dallas
02-03-2021, 12:28 PM
Now it's your turn to escape Dooms...instead of living in the never ending mindset that "She was terrified that she would have to go into hiding with her daughter."...what all the Alex Jones's of the world sell.
you've been trapped for a while now and life is too short to spend it waiting on the apocalypse you'll never see.
Really?
and what is it that your side is selling? Covid Fear non stop. And now climate change fear...
http://www.climatedepot.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screenshot-2018-10-08-at-10.02.29.png
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idk... if I can just survive 12 more years... I might be able to witness our inevitable apocalypse.
And you think maybe your side is misleading the Black Community just a little with their fear politics?
~primetime~
02-03-2021, 12:41 PM
MSM definitely fear mongers...no arguments here...they always have...because fear is what gets attention and they need attention to make money...if MSM headlines "everything is basically normal today" then nobody reads, and most people can see how transparent that is.
But conspiracy land is the absolute epitome of fear mongering...they live under the guise that everything around them is trick to get them, all major events are a broadway play to fool them, that Lady Gaga is out to steal their soul, etc....it's like CNN on steroids
Doomsday Dallas
02-03-2021, 01:46 PM
MSM definitely fear mongers...no arguments here...they always have...because fear is what gets attention and they need attention to make money...if MSM headlines "everything is basically normal today" then nobody reads, and most people can see how transparent that is.
But conspiracy land is the absolute epitome of fear mongering...they live under the guise that everything around them is trick to get them, all major events are a broadway play to fool them, that Lady Gaga is out to steal their soul, etc....it's like CNN on steroids
Ok, but now we need to fear the conspiracy culture it's self... and because there is a fear of this conspiracy culture... who knows where this will take us.
being fearful of fear mongering... that's a new one, but I'm sure your side will play that card to the fullest extent possible.
~primetime~
02-03-2021, 01:59 PM
Ok, but now we need to fear the conspiracy culture it's self... and because there is a fear of this conspiracy culture... who knows where this will take us.
being fearful of fear mongering... that's a new one, but I'm sure your side will play that card to the fullest extent possible.
People (on both sides) do need to wake up to all the fear mongering that goes on.
IMO the people who are truly 'woke' are the ones that aren't obsessing over any of the political drama or conspiracy from any angle or direction...they are the ones ignoring it all and actually living their lives. And the "sheep" are all the people wasting away on social media daily engaging in political drama....and yeah I'm guilty of it, most Americans are.
Nanners
02-05-2021, 03:53 AM
Ok, but now we need to fear the conspiracy culture it's self... and because there is a fear of this conspiracy culture... who knows where this will take us.
being fearful of fear mongering... that's a new one, but I'm sure your side will play that card to the fullest extent possible.
:oldlol:
nice one
SATAN
02-05-2021, 04:21 AM
Really?
and what is it that your side is selling? Covid Fear non stop. And now climate change fear...
http://www.climatedepot.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screenshot-2018-10-08-at-10.02.29.png
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxL2jAbWsAADQr1.jpg
idk... if I can just survive 12 more years... I might be able to witness our inevitable apocalypse.
And you think maybe your side is misleading the Black Community just a little with their fear politics?
Deflecting. Typical ATS guy right here.
Doomsday Dallas
02-05-2021, 08:38 PM
Deflecting. Typical ATS guy right here.
I was not deflecting...
-pt- said I was waiting on the apocalypse, and I pointed out that many democrats who are heavily invested in "Science" are giving that apocalypse a time table of 12 years.
They aren't waiting on the apocalypse... they are being proactive about it.
btw... if you really want to look at the science, check out the Doomsday Clock...
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Think we got 100 seconds left.
But -pt- is always under the impression that I think the "end of the world" is near... and that's not really true.
I've always maintained that the "end of America" is near... and most of that foreseen doom is related to the economy.
It's one giant bubble, and while life may go on once it pops, it sure won't be the quality of life that we are use to.
But I'm sure "the great reset" is just another one of those made up conspiracy theories.
Doomsday Dallas
02-05-2021, 08:41 PM
Science™
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