Now we know why Trump always calls his enemies low-energy: It’s because the DoE is running the country! All of the real power (!!!) players are high-energy! John Doe (John DoE!!!) is Q, and uses radiation to kill enemies!
The Lizard People who use the blood of Christian children to make their cheesy matzoh (cheese pizza) made the LHC to break through the flat Earth to bring more of their kind over from the trans Earth, to invade our bathrooms and capture more children. This is the halfway point, people: The decay is set in, and it’s getting hot. Our third revolution is upon us.
(… Half-Life 3 confirmed.)
(None of that is real, just making fun of them. But you couldn’t be sure it wasn’t real until I told you.)
Someone made a spreadsheet of the Q “breadcrumbs” and linked them to the allegedly relevant Trump tweets. So the entire Q story is real, there’s no other possible explanation.
And I wasted 15 minutes of my life watching this video. Well, I did learn some things, like that the Kim family of North Korea has been captive to the Clinton globalist cabal for years and has only recently broken free. So they’re the good guys now, as is Putin ( I think, they showed his picture when they were talking about the good guys.)
I am recommending that you watch the first 3 minutes it may be the most cognitive dissonant thing I’ve ever seen. Because - with great dramatic flourish - they ask, you, the viewer, to imagine how horrible it would be if a CRIMINAL was elected to our country’s highest office. And then they tell you about how Trump saved us from that fate.
I’m fascinated by this stuff, largely because I have a friend that’s a hard core CT. I view it as a minor mental disorder involving the way the brain prioritizes information and makes connections. Also with the amygdaloid fear response. I actually had some success in getting him to recognize his disproportionate fear responses - which is why I haven’t given up on engaging with him — but the other issues remain. It’s maddening.
I notice the article merely mentions Roseanne Barr in passing. It doesn’t reveal that the tweet that got her fired had to do with her believing in QAnon crap. You probably wondered why she would go after some Obama administration who most people didn’t know existed. Valerie Jarret features heavily in QAnon’s crap.
And, of course, the followers of QAnon think that Roseanne’s tweet was about the conspiracy, and that her firing was THEM silencing her. You can learn more on the first Yes Yes No segment of the Reply All podcast. A transcription is provided below the podcast, if you’d rather read than listen. And here’s a link to their blog where they post screenshots of (and links to) the Tweets they discuss.
Apologies if this is already widely known, or you saw my earlier link in a different thread.
Whoever is behind it has definitely learned in a hurry how easily manipulated these people are. They show up obediently at rallies when instructed to do so.
As Ann Hedonia posted, there’s almost certainly a brain-structure component to being prone to embracing conspiracy theories. But an interesting element of the Q phenomenon was pointed out in a Politifact article, yesterday:
It’s not that these people are trying to process a loss of the Presidency to a political opponent. It’s that they’re having trouble processing a win by their own side.
I think that’s because Trump is so clearly unfit. Whether it’s dementia or not, Trump, time and again, appears stupid, weak, overly-deferential to foreign dictators, and horrifyingly mired in his own resentments and vindictive feuds.
For people with that pro-authoritarian mindset–which frequently accompanies right-wing CT enthusiasts–this is an untenable situation.
John Mulaney’s metaphor ‘there’s a horse loose in the hospital*’ communicates the distress that both right and left-wing thinkers suffer when contemplating that out-of-control horse and the damage it can do to patients and staff alike. The left reacts, basically, by calling for the horse to be removed. But the right can’t see that as a solution, because it would mean losing power (and ceding it to their enemies the left).
So the only solution that can give pro-authoritarian right-wing thinkers any relief is to rewrite reality entirely—to declare that the rampaging horse is actually a wise, shrewd, calm, strategically-thinking All-Father. This All-Father cares about his right-wing children and will take care of them! What appears to be out-of-control petulance and stupidity is, in actual fact, planned and directed action, which will lead to Wonderful Things.
This is how you get from Trump’s obvious gaffes and childishness, to ‘Trump has it all planned out, it’s all 7th-dimension chess.’ They believe it because it’s too distressing to believe anything else. They have to believe it.
And in order to believe it, they have to construct a different reality in which it could be true. That reality collapses when facts are applied to it, so…facts are the enemy. Believe only what Q posts! Everything else is A Lie!!!11!!!
When my parents worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, both of them had Q clearance. It was required to go into any of the secure sections of the laboratory. When I went to work as a summer student (not on classified stuff) my supervisor thought about getting me one just so that I could visit the main staff members in their offices but it was decided it was too expensive.
The point being that Q clearance sounds more impressive than it is, and is unlikely to give you access to the secret cabal behind the US government.
That’s true of clearances in general, given how compartmentalized secretive organizations are.
Except, of course, for janitors and IT people, who have plenary access to clean up after everyone, reset passwords which have been forgotten, and get the printers which print sensitive and classified material to work.
I took a two hour car trip with my Trump supporting brother today. We didn’t talk politics until we were pulling into our destination. I asked him what he thought about this Qanon stuff. He had no idea what it is. He also had no idea what Pizzagate was. I explained both to him and read a little of the Wikipedia entry for Pizzagate. His reply was “We’re fucked.” This from a guy that doesn’t drop a lot of f bombs.
My dad sold industrial batteries and had some and charging equipment in the secure area of Los Alamos, so he had Q clearance to be able to get at it. I’m assuming it was part of a power backup system but was too dumb to ask as a child. Anyway, when he showed up one time, a hiccup in the paperwork resulted in his sitting in a room for a half-hour under the watchful eye of a corporal with a Tommy gun until it got straightened out. He did not appreciate it.
A significant percentage of my career as a DoD employee was spent with a TS clearance. What many people don’t realize is that access to classified information also requires a “need to know.” Nothing in my job required me to know about top secret plans for military operations in Afghanistan, so I couldn’t have found out such things. Nor did I need to know the President’s travel particulars or the names of intelligence agents. My clearance permitted me access to information specific to my job at the time. Period. There were times even my boss wasn’t allowed to know the particulars of what I was researching.
So the notion that anyone anywhere knows all the secrets is beyond ludicrous! Plus agencies are very protective of their stuff, and they don’t want to share anyway.
Not that reality means anything to QAnon believers.
QAnon is ridiculous, and any registered voter who believes this nonsense should be barred from voting.
First, the story comes from 4chan, which should never, under any circumstances, be taken seriously.
Second, this is a story that needs to be discredited as much as possible. Look what happened at the pizza parlor in Washington, D.C. A man, who believed Hillary Clinton ran a sex-trafficking ring at the restaurant, brought a gun and held up the place, asking where the kids were.
These are dangerous times, and the last thing we need is another conspiracy theory – there are already too many – that could endanger people.
