Joyce Bentley
Welcome to what is the 961st profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be briefly profiling Joyce Bentley, who was a 2018 and a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Nevada’s 1st Congressional District and also the latest in Republican candidates for Congress we’ve profiled who openly supported the Qanon conspiracy. In October 2018, Bentley shared a link to a Qanon account and posted, “Q- We Are The Plan.” Among the conspiracy theories in the single video she shared:
- “Our world has been under the growing influence of a vast transgenerational criminal mafia that was able to rise up to the highest levels of power. … Through a system of threats, blackmail, and bribery, they would come to occupy the highest levels of power in government, corporations, and education. You may know them as the deep state, or cabal.”
- “Most dangerously of all," members of the deep state "achieved almost total influence over the media -- their primary means of controlling the good people of the world who were just trying to get on with living.”
- “There was no way to continue without a plan to eliminate all threats to their survival, even if it meant imposing a single world government under their jurisdiction -- where no national identity, police force, or military could stop them. They called it globalism.”
- “Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal funded [Barack] Obama’s Harvard education and took power by proxy, picking his entire cabinet while buying vast quantities of control in our largest media companies.“
- "The western faction of the cabal was different. It was another kind of sick all together: a dark and deeply sinister death cult with a strong reliance on symbolism and numerology with levels of cruelty unimaginable to all right-thinking people. The reach and scale this secret society had achieved would have sent destabilizing shockwaves across the world were it ever to be publicly exposed.”
Once the press started reporting on her support of Qanon, Bentley deleted the post, but screencaps are forever. That had a lot to do with why she only got 31% of the vote in 2018 and lost to Congresswoman Dina Titus. In 2020, she made fewer Qanon support posts, and went with the pitch of “President Trump can’t be everywhere, and do everything, so I want to help MAGA”. That’s kind of backed up by her support for the expensive, brain-addled boondoggle that was Trump’s idea for a border wall along the U.S./Mexico border.
None of that, of course, stopped Bentley from winning the Republican Primary for the seat, but she got wrecked in the general election again by Dina Titus, earning only 33% of the vote. We’re guessing this will be her only run for office.