A global cabal kidnaps children & teens to have sex w/power-hungry men in secret locations, men who are also involved in a traitorous plot to undermine democracy.
Where have I heard that before?
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It isn't QAnon. It is the plot of a book published in 1836: The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed.
In the book, the "cabal" was the Catholic Church & claimed this happened in a Montreal convent.
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The book stirred outrage. The Canadians investigated it (Monk was Canadian) & found it to be a hoax. Even Protestants who wanted to believe it dismissed Monk as a fraud.
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What happened to Maria Monk?
She moved to Philadelphia. Americans embraced her book (it was one of the most popular books of the late 1830s, 1840s). She wrote a sequel.
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Americans didn't think it was a hoax. They thought it was real. To Monk's lurid tale, they added all sorts of gruesome details including rumors of cannibalism and international sex trafficking.
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But it wasn't just a ghastly sort of fan fiction. The story moved off the pages of a book to the streets.
Convents were burned, churches attacked, priests assaulted, and Catholic neighborhoods besieged by Protestant militias.
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That's bad enough - but the anti-Protestant gangs coalesced into a political movement: the American Party. In the early 1850s, they sent 70 adherents to Congress.
Their platform? Only native-born Protestants should be able to vote.
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I’m not entirely convinced that history repeats itself. But here we are: Joe Biden is a Catholic, one of the few Catholic candidates for president in American history. And what do we have?
Maria Monk, 21st century version.
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QAnon is American conspiracy theory at its worst. But it isn’t terribly original. We’ve been here before.
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*Anti-Catholic Protestant gangs!!!!!!!!!
WHY IS THERE NO EDIT BUTTON ON TWITTER?
The 7th tweet in this thread should read "Anti-Catholic Protestant gangs"
(This makes me want to move to Canada.)
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