Benito's Nephew. Where Did They Get That Idea?

 

Although some have seen the resemblance. QAnon has been peddling nonsense about the Mango Mussolini, Donald J. Trump, as the son of legendary general, George S. Patton; nephew to Benito Mussolini and descendant of both Abraham Lincoln and Jesus H. Christ.

The two-part conspiratorial Jesus Strand series, uploaded in October 2021, racked up more than 300,000 views on YouTube until it was removed last week after Newsweek alerted the platform.

In the videos, Dallas QAnon leader Michael Protzman and other conspiracy theory influencers, who between them have tens of thousands of followers on social media, promoted numerous bogus beliefs, which included that Trump was related to the infamous Italian dictator.

One conspiracy influencer said: "Our beloved President Donald Trump is a general like his father George S. Patton, a builder like his uncle Benito Mussolini, and a unifier like his great grandfather Abraham Lincoln."

In the clip, Mussolini's dictatorship is whitewashed with claims his imperialist campaigns in Africa were done to improve the standard of living in Ethiopia and Libya.

For the record, Trump is not Mussolini, much as he shares the same grandiose instincts. Trump has what he claims to be his own hair. Benito lacks the merkin. Trump does exhibit the other dictator's signature clenched jaw and protruding chin but Mussolini would never, ever have let his ass get that big.



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  1. LorneJanuary 11, 2022 at 8:41 AM

    It seems that nothing is too outrageous for the egregiously stupid to accept, Mound. How did it come to this?

    BTW, thanks for 'merkin', a word I was unfamiliar with.

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    1. The Disaffected LibJanuary 11, 2022 at 4:57 PM

      You're quite welcome, Lorne. As for how it came to this I would have to know much more about hallucinogens to even guess.

      We are watching so many once unimagineable things unfold that it can be impossible to make any sense of it. Is this just the ultimate horrible nightmare from which I'll awake to find my world as it should be? Or are we just experiencing something that has always existed without our knowing?

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