Welcome to what is the 967th profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Samuel Williams, who was a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 16th Congressional District in both 2018 and 2020, and the latest in our cavalcade of Qanon cultist dips***s who tried to get elected to Congress.
Some examples of Q content from Williams included:
- He once posted that Sharia Law could happen in the United States at the hands of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
- Williams, during protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, retweeted a warning about a race war, and claimed it was suspicious that he had a closed casket at his funeral, casting doubt on whether Floyd actually died..
- He claimed that during a a protest in El Paso that Congresswoman Veronica Escobar was “calling the shots”.
- He once retweeted a claim that Hillary Clinton lost a court appeal “over emails about child molestation, torture (and) trafficking” with a reference to Pizzagate, the part of Qanon’s content that led a believer to fire an assault rifle in a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.,
- He shared a tweet from an account with a Q avatar and wrote in a CAPS LOCK post that “many, many” will be executed for their crimes against humanity, such as murdering children to obtain adrenochrome, a chemical compound that QAnon theorists believe is extracted from kids (it’s scientifically insane stuff more worthy of the Maze Runner trilogy than reality).
After repeatedly sending out social media posts where he would link with Qanon hashtags and slogans, he was confronted by Texas Monthly if he supported the Qanon conspiracy, and denied it, because of how insane it all is. Probably because he threw Qanon under the bus about two weeks prior to Texas GOP voters making the call, realizing he was never going to win against Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar in a left-leaning district with an albatross like Q around his neck . While he finished first in the GOP Primary in March, he failed to clear the 50% threshold and had a runoff election to contend with. After throwing Qanon supporters under the bus and saying he only was posting Qanon hashtags to sucker the real true believers into following him, the number of votes he got from Republicans in his district was halved, and he was defeated by the “still not rejecting Qanon” candidate, Irene Armendariz-Jackson, who we should get around to profiling at some point as well. But we’re going to point out.. that difference in support? Going from over 5,000 votes in a crowded primary to 2,500 in a runoff only two weeks after rejecting Qanon? That’s what’s scary. Republican voters abandoned this guy when he rejected the insanity. This is a lesson that seems to have impacted Republicans in Washington, who seem to be doubling-down again, and again on Qanon, and why they would give a nutcase like Marjorie Taylor-Greene a standing ovation.
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