'Patriot Games' In Dallas: Flynn Calls For A Coup On Memorial Day

DALLAS, TX —Not so long ago, the idea that self-proclaimed American patriots would cheer the suggestion that our Armed Forces should overthrow a government duly elected by the people of the United States would have been unthinkable.

Now it's how we pass Memorial Day.

During a Q&A at Dallas' For God & Country Patriot Roundup over the weekend, an attendee asked former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn "why what happened in 'Minimar' (Myanmar) can't happen here."

"No reason," Flynn replied casually. "I mean, it should happen here."

In pre-Trump America, Flynn would be now living under a rock in disgraced obscurity for having lied to the FBI and pleading guilty to the charge in a court of law. Instead, he was pardoned by his former boss and received a rock star's greeting at this weekend's QAnon festival of mistruths, half-truths and truth-free events in Dallas.

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Anyone who didn't believe that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles in charge of Hollywood and controlling America as part of a "Deep State" conspiracy wasn't welcome to observe or report. And because that's the way the attendees and organizers structured it, there was no one to call B.S. when the convention hall started to smell like a stockyard at slaughter time.

Earlier in the weekend, conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell was asked what happens if the states currently looking for the umpteenth time for lost, missing, stolen or changed ballots in Arizona and Georgia find what they seek. She served up the red meat fresh and juicy.

"We're definitely in uncharted territory," she told the approving crowd. "There are cases where elections have been overturned. But there's never been one at the presidential level, which everybody will jump to point out. That doesn't mean it can't be done, though."

Then she digressed: "There's always the first case. And as far as I know, this is the first case of abject fraud and obtaining a coup of(sic) the United States of America. So it's going to have to be dealt with. It should be that he can simply be reinstated, that a new inauguration day is set. And Biden is told to move out of the White House. And President Trump should be moved back in."

Never mind that Powell has already warned the public through her own lawyers not to trust her. In responding to a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems (who she accused of stealing or changing millions of votes) after the 2020 election, her attorneys make that clear.

According to The Chicago Sun-Times, her legal response to the suit admits that Powell had said, “Democrats were attempting to steal the election and had developed a computer system to alter votes electronically.” But at the same time, “no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.”

There must be a lot of unreasonable people in America, because it seems most of those who believed her then still believe her now.

According to a just released poll of 5,100 Americans by the Public Religion Research Institute, some 15 to percent of respondents believe in QAnon's core ideologies. And of course, one of the telling factors as to whether a person is making or drinking the QAnon Kool-Aid is where they get their information.

Here's Fox TV's Tucker Carlson attacking our troops . . . on Memorial Day.

All of this is starting to make the outcome of the American Experiment look a lot less certain than it did before the Trump Presidency. Before Weapons of Mass Destruction. Before Iran/Contra. Before Watergate. Before the Red Scare.

At this moment, some 23% of Republicans and 15 percent of all Americans agreed in the PRRI poll that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.”

The survey found that 20 percent of Americans and 28 percent of GOP party members subscribe to the notion that “there is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.”

Of those polled, 15 percent of Americans and 28 percent of Republicans believe America is "so far off track" that "true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country."

And if those canaries in the coal mine weren't worrisome enough, consider this: QAnon — which, remember, has been designated by the FBI as a domestic terror outfit —is beginning to find attentive ears among independents and Democrats as well.

Among the respondents 13 percent of independents and 7 percent of Democrats said they agreed that the media, government, and the world of finance is being controlled by Satanists who are running a side hustle replete with child sex slaves.

The scariest part about all of it? Set aside that the movement incubates through innuendo and rumor without any light from the mainstream media (i.e. the real world) permitted to stunt its growth by challenging a viewpoint or presenting an alternative. Don't forget that no one has stepped forward to say he or she or they are "Q," to substantiate the sources of their information.

Here's the truly scariest part: the non-partisan pollsters, PRRI, point out that if 15 percent of Americans have adopted these beliefs, that's roughly equivalent to 30 million people. According to PRRI founder Robert P. Jones, that means the group is statistically "the same size as white evangelical Protestants or white mainline Protestants."

You can't call them fringe fanatics anymore.

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