I do not say anything. I do not ask questions, I do not ask for more information, I do not discuss talking points – nothing. At this point, the more “Q” nonsense I hear from her, the more I wonder where the smart young woman I married almost 30 years ago went to. So I actively don’t seek this shit out.
I don’t blame you one bit.
Plus, it’s a command! I’m not sure where Q believers are supposed to march to, but I suspect they know.
Not sure if deserving of own thread, (or how de-rail-y it might be here) but the idea of having a qanon-supporting spouse sounds like…a very curious handful? Had she been generally right-leaning / conservative all along? A Fox News watcher? How do you deflect if she broaches? Was it incremental, or were there marker events that precipitated the decline? Pardon the 20 questions curiosity (you did mention that you do not ask for information, so, we can leave it at that, too, if you wish).
Not to put too much of a spotlight on him if he doesn’t want it, but I’ve expressed my sympathy to @Daithi_Lacha before, possibly earlier on in this very thread, as a fellow doper who has a right-wing cult member in his immediate family. In my case it’s my 18 year old son, who doesn’t necessarily believe in Q (though he says they have some “good ideas”). Bu he is a hard, hardcore trumper. He is absolutely in-your-face about how trump is the best president ever and the eeeeevil Democrats stole the election.
I’ve thought about starting a thread, maybe in IMHO, asking about recommendations to deprogram a brainwashed trumper. Or maybe a support group thread for people who have trumpers or Q acolytes in their immediate family would be a good idea.
Yeah, I don’t want to derail either, but I’ll answer briefly. When we first met, Mrs Lacha was a proud Irish girl, well pleased with her country’s semi-socialist framework (utilities, healthcare, airline etc); she was openly disdainful of America’s “reds under the beds” past, and amused that we were all such prudes. She abhorred the death penalty and thought our gun culture was insane.
Even back then, though, she railed against the “Trilateral Commission,” the Bilderberg group, the Rothschilds, and other shadowy organizations that pushed the common man around (in theory). It didn’t really affect our day-to-day, she’d just get a bee in her bonnet sometimes.
Twenty years ago, she started taking the concept of sovereign citizenry seriously. So much so that she tried to use it as an excuse to get out of what she owed to her credit card companies. That backfired, of course, and she ended up having to declare bankruptcy. She saw that as a net win because she still stuck it to her creditors.
And then she started talking about HARPA, and of weapons that could control hurricanes. I told her to shut up about that particular nonsense.
And then she became close friends with a gay Republican couple who despise Democrats. And then Donald Trump happened. And then Q Anon happened.
So now she’s a pro death penalty Trump idolizer who hates Ireland (or the current version thereof), wants to learn how to shoot, and despises Communism, Socialism, China, and Democrats. COVID is a hoax or at least has been a global government-manipulated natural disaster, masks are useless and are tools designed to take away everyone’s freedoms, and anyone who wants the vaccine - myself included - are stupid sheep.
So I guess this has turned into a mini pitting of my wife. SAD!
Too late to add that after the HARPA thing:
And the Sandy Hook happened, and when I told her about it after picking her up from work, her very first response was, “Are you sure it actually happened? It was probably staged by the media.” I think I called her a monster then.
There is no helpful way to address your home situation, so instead I offer my heartfelt concern for your mental wellbeing and hope something happens to change her mind.
And I thought -I- had it bad with my cousins in Israel being rabidly pro-Trump because of his stance on Israel. Showing that (unsurprisingly) few outside the US care about his idiocy, lies or destruction of democratic norms, as long as it is positive for their purposes. sigh
As the OP, I don’t think that personal anecdotes of how family members or friends turned into Q acolytes is a derail at all; very much the opposite, actually.
As a guy who watched my son gradually convert to a hardcore trumper over the past few years, I’d be very interested in hearing personal accounts of how people come to believe this stuff. So anybody who wants to share their personal stories, please share. Thanks for sharing your story, @Daithi_Lacha.
ETA: @Daithi_Lacha, what is the HARPA thing? I just googled it, and I’m not seeing anything topic realted tot hat acronym that is obviously CT-related.
Ah! A thousand apologies – I meant DARPA.
https://www.darpa.mil/
Probably meant HAARP. There’s a lot of conspiracy theories associated with it.
Ah, that makes more sense, thanks! They must be behind those wildfire-causing space lasers.
Ooh, missed it by that much!
Imagine the horrors if HAARP and DARPA joined forces, and were funded by the Rothschilds!
To be fair, DARPA was involved in HAARP.
DARPA is involved in a lot of military science, including publicly acknowledged tech like precursors to the Internet, RISC processors, BSD Unix, Tor-like anonymized routing, etc. And of course direct military applications, like predators drones and such.
It’s no secret (heh) that DARPA has advanced tech that it doesn’t let on to the public.
Like Jewish space lasers.
You’d end up with what the QAnon crowd already have: a lot of “herp derp”.
So, not the Deep state, but the Derp State.
It’s right there in their name. Anyone in the know can see it plain as day.
Deciduous And Riparian Property Arsonizer
See also:
Hebrews And Associates: Razers of Properties