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July 14, 2021, 6:17 am
Courting conspiracy theorists was always going to backfire on the Republicans who have decided to do just that. When the basis of a belief system involves wild accusations, nonsensical symbols, and nothing based on actual facts, then there’s no telling when the winds will shift and someone will find themselves on the outs.
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Oklahoma pastor Jackson Lahmeyer is learning that firsthand after relying heavily on that segment of voters as he prepares to challenge Republican James Lankford for his Senate seat in 2022.
Lahmeyer has spent this year palling around with the likes of Lin Wood and Michael Flynn, looking to win over QAnon believers as he joins them in insisting on peddling the lie the election was stolen — something Lankford has refused to do.
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But last week, the pastor posted a photo of him with his daughter, Eva, and sent QAnoners into a frenzy of accusations. Why? Because she was wearing red shoes, a big no-no in the world of QAnon insanity.
“It was a harmless post but there is an individual out there who has been spreading things about me that are not true such as I am creation worshipper, a new world order globalist and more nonsensical stuff,” he wrote on Facebook. “This person has also been spreading the narrative that I’m involved in Child Sex Trafficking. I guess red shoes represent pedophilia according to this individual?”
There’s something deliciously appropriate about Lahmeyer suddenly being faced with people spreading ridiculous and easily disproven lies about him, which is exactly what he has done on his own campaign trail. Not that he’s realized that in the slightest—he called this “the UGLY side of Politics” in his post, failing to grasp that it’s always been ugly, he’s just finally on the receiving end of it.
Lahmeyer also lamented that “some people don’t have enough discernment to determine right from wrong” (seriously) and explicitly said that he is “in no way involved in Child Sex Trafficking, pedophilia or devil worship.”
“If you believe that it actually says more about you than it does me,” he added.
Of course, none of this is surprising to anyone not taken in by QAnon.
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Obviously expecting any self-awareness or change of heart after being on the other side of things would be too much, and Lahmeyer appears to be continuing to court the QAnon vote and pushing false conspiracy theories of his own.
It takes some people far too long to learn things the hard way, apparently, but it seems pretty likely he’ll have another chance before long.
*First Published: July 14, 2021, 6:17 am
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