Is Q still that big anyway?
AIUI even people crazy enough to believe that stuff in the first place started to notice that none of the predictions were right, and the closest we came to “the storm” is photos of Trump sipping champagne with pedophiles (he’s playing the loooong game).
And there have been no “official” Q posts this year.
The second coming of Kennedy thing was a sign of how it’s really only the densest of hardcore remaining.
Back then, there were plenty of right-wing dyed-in-the-wool Democrats. Remember Strom Thurmond?
The idea that JFK would be a Republican today is a talking point I encounter sometimes. It’s totally divorced from reality, but it’s a way for Republicans of a certain age to hold on to a popular figure from their youth. Now the Q people have transferred it onto the son too, I guess.
I suppose we’d call them DINOs today.
I will say that my wife has stopped making multiple cryptic “the storm is coming” comments per week, but she always hides her cellphone face from me whenever I pass by (she’s on Telegraph and who knows what else), or quickly mutes her phone when she’s listening to a “news” report and she knows I’m within earshot. Also I no longer hear her confidently proclaiming that Trump is going to be reinstated by so-and-so date, so that’s something. Now it’s all about the “plandemic.” Le sigh.
I’ve seen some arguments that all the time Trump spent hanging around those degenerate Democrats was just him doing undercover work to gather evidence against them.
Similar to Trump as above, I think the notion is, he had to fake his death to escape the clutches of the Democrats. Having grown up in the inner circle, he’s personally aware of all the things “they” do, and is poised to expose it all.
In two weeks, of course.
I myself don’t personally know any Q believers, but a friend of mine told me he knows one. He said the guy believes that “many of the major events of the 20th century never happened”, though the only specific nutty belief he described to me was that the guy thinks Joe Biden is not actually Joe Biden but is really JFK Jr. wearing a Joe Biden mask.
He said the guy is otherwise a normally functioning guy (stable job and family situation etc.). But he also said the guy had something of a troubled family background and went through a lot as a kid, and is now living some humdrum existence. My friend thinks that this is a chance for the guy to be a part of Something Big, and be one of the Select Few perceptive people who know the Real Truth which eludes the foolish masses of common people.
About twice a month I will see a Q bumper sticker or window decal on a car here in suburban Atlanta. Nice luxury SUV’s too, not a beater pickup truck.
Unrelated aside, but overall I’ve seen fewer RW extremist bumper stickers around here, except for this one guy who used pieces of duct tape to spell out a paragraph-long anti-CRT screed, on the tailgate of his 1981 F-150. But up until around 2018 I used to see a lot of 3 percenters, Proud Boys, Moron Labia, etc. Apparently the definition of “economically insecure” leaves enough wiggle room for ownership of a jacked-up $50K pickup truck.
Seems legit to me.
Looks like I’m out of the loop: 
TIL
I was behind a pick-up truck in a drive-through food place the other day, and it had three stickers neatly spaced on the back window:
3%---------------Molon labe--------------------Trump Pence/Make America Great Again
Truck had Saskatchewan plates on it. 
I don’t know much about Saskatchewan except that it shares a border with Alberta (aka North Texas).
Hmm… could this be somebody we know?
It’s the province that’s so boring, the only reason its borders aren’t perfectly straight is the curvature of the Earth.
The late great Peter Gzowski did not agree with you. He frequently stated that “Saskatchewan is the most Canadian of all provinces.”
One of my mom’s oldest friends and her husband are right into it. They believe in lizard people, JFK Jr isn’t really dead and he’s helping Trump (who is really the president and running things from the white house and Biden is just pretending with a green screen. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks have kidnapped over 30 thousand children and fed them to aliens who live in hell 5 miles below the ground. Trump is going to save the world including somehow getting rid of everybody’s mortgages (how that works for people not even in the US is beyond me but it’s going to happen!)
Just absolute crazy nonsense and they (she and her husband) truly believe it.
I disagree. Religious beliefs are, by and large, a matter of social convention and custom. There is nothing crazy and millenarian about, say, Lutheranism. Religious practices are mostly soothing social glue – a church is a place to meet your friends, engage in some feel-good charity, and listen to someone tell you to be nicer to your neighbors.
CT is something that appeals to people who feel helpless against forces they do not understand at all, much less able to manipulate. They offer a sense of being an insider ‘in the know’ to outsiders who fear the truth, which is that they know nothing.
In Saskatchewan they refer to Manitoba as the most boring province.
He doesn’t believe in Q but just about everything Q believes, he does. He was into all of this stupid shit before Q was “cool”.
Still believes Clinton is feasting on baby blood, still believes George Soros is controlling everything, thinks covid is a joke…
I’m keeping my distance.
He believes in “questioning everything”, which is okay to some degree. It amazes me that he’s educated and has an extremely high IQ. He still think he’s researching all this stuff…
A friend of mine is a huge Trump supporter, anti-vaxxer, and fan of Alex Jones. I think he was also a Q supporter at one time as well.
He attended the January 6 event, but (wisely) didn’t go in the Capitol building. A few months afterwards he claimed that the people who stormed the Capitol were not Trump supporters, but Antifa. He showed me YT videos that “prove” it. Looks like he still believes it, as he posted this message to his FB account a few minutes ago:
Would have been leaving for the trip about this time a year ago. I was hopeful that we were going to DC to make a difference. To stop the steal! There was intel that Antifa were going to be there disguised as Trump supporters to start shit. Which there were plenty of them at the Capitol. What was not known was how many undercover FBI agent provocateurs ended up being there to entice the crowd. And there ended up being quite a few.
When someone is using YouTube videos to disprove something they saw with their own eyes, there’s nothing you can do. If he won’t believe himself, why would he believe anyone else?