Furries To Blame For Buffalo Shooting, Say Stew Peters And Kandiss Taylor
It turns out the Buffalo shooter yesterday was a furry," Taylor wrote. "In my list of executive orders, I explicitly addressed and received blowback for tackling the perversions of the furry culture. Twisting the minds of Generation Z MUST END!" This is true. Kandiss Taylor has been freaking out about furries for some time now. One of her "executive orders" she'd sign as governor involves instituting a dress code in schools that will ban "furry" attire.
In his post, Peters then wrote that "The gun didn’t do it. A 'white supremacist' didn’t do it. A sick and demented furry did it," adding that "When Kandiss Taylor is elected governor, GA will be furry-free..."
Probably because he's a very big fan of free speech.
The picture in question is fan art of Martha Speaks, a cartoon about a dog named Martha who gained the ability to speak after eating a bowl of alphabet soup. The theme song for the show has been a popular internet meme for a while now.
Martha Was An Average Dog www.youtube.com
Peters followed that post up with an "explanation" of what furries are for his audience:
For those asking, a “furry” is someone who identifies as an animal. There are school districts with freak show, nose ring-wearing, purple haired ANTIFA crackpot groomer rapists for teachers that are bending a knee to this sickness and offering students litter boxes in the classroom.
Fact: Furries are not Conservative “white supremacists”.
Furries don't "identify" as animals, and no one is putting litter boxes in classrooms for them. That's not a thing. This is not to say there aren't people who claim to identify as animals, but they're not furries. They call themselves Otherkin or "therians," and sure, they're a tad ridiculous, but they're not bothering anybody.
Also, while looking at this picture does not necessarily mean alleged shooter Payton Gendron is a furry, neo-Nazi furries are in fact a thing and have been for a while now. The Daily Beast's Kelly Weill reported in 2017 that the Rocky Mountain Fur Con in Denver had to be canceled due to an influx of fascist furries, organizing themselves under the #AltFurry hashtag.
Of course, none of this matters to a guy who has been ranting for over week about how the US is giving $40 billion to Satanic Nazi cannibals in Ukraine so they can eat Russians. (We can assume the money is for seasonings and side dishes.)
I wish I were joking, but I'm not
Frankly, the only difference between believing Stew Peters's nonsense and believing that one is an elf trapped in a human body who remembers the language they spoke on their elf planet back when they were elves in elf bodies or the parent of 2,000 alien-human-hybrid babies is that the latter two aren't harmful to anybody.
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'Queen Of Canada' Telling Followers Not To Pay Their Bills Is Making An Old Cult New Again
Queen Romana telegram
Via VICE:
The bill-payment claims are causing direct harm to her followers, with many saying in their group chat that they've racked up thousands of dollars of bills. Many of Didulo's followers are vulnerable people, including seniors on fixed incomes, who could face steep consequences for these decisions. A page created by Didulo which allows her followers to ask her questions is filled with questions about bill payments.
"Dear Queen Romana I received a 24-hour notice for the power bill. Should I make a payment? Or will it be shut off?" reads one.
"Queen Romana please What do I say to the City of Red Deer trying to shut off my water on Monday," reads another. Some said that when they reach out for help about the situation, they’re mocked for their beliefs.
You'll notice that her name on her Telegram channel is "Her Majesty I AM Queen Romana." Her followers have taken to calling themselves "I AMs." This is actually significant, and I will try to explain why as efficiently as possible.
The "Ascended Masters" thing largely originated with Madame Helena Blavatsky, who is largely considered kind of the godmother of Theosophy/New Age bullshit, in the 1800s. Blavatsky claimed to have come up with Theosophy, her system of belief, by channeling "Mahatmas" or "Masters of Ancient Wisdom." (From the beginning, New Age stuff was always highly appropriative of Eastern religions.) Another New Agey lady, Alice Bailey, also claimed to channel a Master, an imaginary Tibetan named Djwal Kul. The "masters" were basically people who had been reincarnated to perfection and then just hung out in the ether waiting to get channeled by con-artists. They were also sometimes called "The Great White Brotherhood," which is perhaps why theosophy was so popular among Nazis.
Then, by the 1930s, you get "beloved messengers" Guy and Edna Ballard, who found the "I AM" Activity. The "AM" stands for Ascended Masters, which were pretty much the same deal as Blavatsky's Mahatmas/Great White Brotherhood. Their personal favorite Ascended Master was St. Germain, who was kind of sort of the same person as the Comte de St. Germain but also possibly an alias adopted by Sir Francis Bacon after he faked his own death and "ascended" using alchemy.
This is my favorite photograph of all time. Their faces just kill me.
Guy Ballard supposedly met St. Germain on Mount Shasta in California, and was told that he was the reincarnation of George Washington, which seems very likely. For her part, Edna was Joan of Arc and Benjamin Franklin. This is not important, just hilarious.
A big part of the "I AM" Activity and subsequent groups like CUT and the Bridge To Freedom are "I AM" Decrees. Here is Elizabeth Clare Prophet of CUT doing one.
In Ascended Master groups, decrees are basically prayers, usually said very fast over and over again for HOURS in hopes of manifesting them into reality. This is different from Queen Romana's royal decrees, but who knows where she's going with this.
Romana also uses a number of terms heavily associated with Ascended Master and other New Age groups — light, flame, etc. In addition to calling her followers "I AMs," she also calls them "Light Holders," a term favored by Canadian "mystic" Manly P. Hall. Her signature color is a particular shade of purple that tends to be popular among Ascended Master groups. It's highly unlikely that all of this is a coincidence. You can see the same color in the Elizabeth Clare Prophet video above.
It's actually surprising that she's the first to do this. While we think of right-wing groups as being Christian and New Age stuff as being for hippie dippie liberals, the Ascended Master groups tend to be extremely far right and "anti-communist." The whole reason CUT was out there in Montana hoarding guns in bunkers was because they thought the communists were going to launch an attack, possibly a nuclear one. It's also just about as confusing and bizarre as the QAnonsense, and thus should appeal to the same people.
Basically, although she seems like a regular old kook who may not be all there, she's actually cobbling a bunch of New Age crap together to create a new cult of her own. The references she uses are some pretty deep cuts and it's unlikely she'd be familiar with them without having some kind of background in New Age bullshit.
There is a reason there are people out there are refusing to pay their utility bills for her, and it's because this is some tried and true brainwashing magic.
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