News · moment 12 of 14
The QAnon Mom Who Faked a Michael's Kidnapping
from The Negotiator | The Tim Dillon Show #345 · #345
8 min
News
Tim covers the case of Katie Sorenson, the QAnon-adjacent wellness influencer convicted of fabricating a kidnapping attempt at a Michaels craft store, tying it to the broader collapse of QAnon prophecies like Guantanamo arrests that never happened.
- QAnon's popular because it's easier than understanding economic policy or monetary policy.
- QAnon takes real premises like human trafficking and political corruption and uses them as a catchall conspiracy to connect everyone with money or power as pedophiles.
- People won't let QAnon go because actual politics—debates about water treatment plants—is boring.
- Pretending you're freeing children from underground prisons is fun; understanding how government actually works requires reading.
- Katie Sorenson, a Bay Area mom influencer, was found guilty of lying to law enforcement after fabricating a kidnapping story at a Michael's store.
- Sorenson alleged a man and woman followed her in the store talking about her children's features and lunged for her stroller in the parking lot.
- Security footage from Michael's did not corroborate Sorenson's story, and police cleared the couple of any wrongdoing.
- Before her viral infamy, Sorenson was hawking essential oils as a wellness advocate in a multi-level marketing scheme.
- QAnon schizophrenics invent stories because reality hasn't delivered—no one went to jail, Hillary walks free, the Obamas weren't arrested at Guantanamo.
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