The idea that the Kraken, a mythical monster, has come to symbolize the latest efforts to try to prove that President Trump won the election. This provides an appropriate image of a fantasy befitting sci-fi fans - or in this case - Trump supporters who continue to cling to the fantasy world in which their candidate did not to someone who said Trump said was “the worst candidate in the history of politics.”
Seriously, the continuing legal crusade to prove that President Trump beat Joe Biden needs a fantasy-type mascot, like the Kraken. According to Scandinavian folklore, the Kraken is a giant sea monster that leaps from the ocean to devour its adversaries at sea. The legend of the Kraken tells of this monstrous sea creature - that terrorizes sailors and is believed to have originated off the waters of Norway and Greenland where sailors spotted giant squid that can grow to 40 to 50 feet in length. The mythical monster was first depicted as crab-like, but over time it evolved into a more octopus-type sea creature.
It was attorney Sidney Powell who assigned the Kraken to her individual legal efforts to prove voter fraud in the 2020 election by saying that she was “releasing” the Kraken - a metaphor for her legal case - and the hashtag #ReleaseTheKraken spread faster than the coronavirus on social media. T-shirts with the words “Release the Kraken MAGA 2020 Team Trump” are available for purchase.
QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist group, is pushing the image that the Kraken represents the crusade to change the results of the election makes this all seem so juvenile.
Remember that QAnon is a group of Trump supporters alleging that Democrats, members of the mainstream media, and Hollywood elites are Satan-worshipping pedophiles that only President Trump can defeat.
The Kraken is supposedly going after massive voter fraud that includes stories of conspiracies and intrigue. Powell and others allege that Dominion Voting Services had a voter trove on servers in Germany, which has been proven factually false by the Associated Press fact-checkers and somehow is linked to the late dictator of Venezuela - Hugo Chavez - which has also been fact-checked as false.
Over the weekend, conservative media was spreading breaking news of a federal judge in Georgia who ruled the Dominion voting machines cannot be swiped clean. What some conservative media sites failed to mention was that within hours after getting new information about the legal challenge, the judge reversed his decision.
What many people are failing to realize is that the hashtag #ReleaseTheKraken and other baseless information is acting as clickbait and generating revenue for those willing to monetize political mythology.
I think it’s time to use the hashtag #ReleaseTheKraken as confirmation of the fantasy-like story being spread by those who will forever refuse to accept the outcome of the 2020 election. And they are a mirror image of themselves - who told everyone not happy with the 2016 election results - to get over it and “move on.”
Hey, but who wants to let a good fantasy involving a giant mythical sea monster end?
