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Why Thousands Are Obsessed With A Nest Of Conspiracy Theories Called QAnon
http://thefederalist.com/ ^ | August 21 2018 | Georgi Boorman

Posted on 08/22/2018 9:19:05 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45

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To: Okeydoker

The best way to show you are not interested is to shut up and believe what you want. Leave others alone who disagree with you and quit attacking them.

You have no proof you are right and neither do they.

You are doing none of these things so you appear to be very interested.


221 posted on 08/22/2018 4:33:39 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: bagster

Qanon is an online mystery game - a cultish fad, and nothing more.

It remains to be seen whether it’s also a Deep State psyop, designed to distract, mislead, and ultimately divide Trump’s base.

That’s all I have to say to you.


222 posted on 08/22/2018 4:46:24 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

I’m not sure why Jim R. allows Q crap on his site, but kudos to him for allowing open expression — which is more than Facebook or Twitter allow. (And yes, I’ve seen his post about it, wondering about it’s credence and allowing it).

This kookiness doesn’t help the site, though. It’s right up there with the flat-earthers, the moon-landing-never-happeneds, the Alex Jones’s, and the Lyndon LaRouche‘s.

Y’all look like a bunch of fools.

But that’s okay.

Just wish you posted it all elsewhere...


223 posted on 08/22/2018 4:52:17 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

What bothers me about the entire thing is that it seems to have created a split among FReepers-—the pros and the cons.

The pros spend entire hours just posting on the Q thread when their input would be needed in other threads.

Maybe I’m being ridiculous,but it’s a disturbing change IMHO.

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224 posted on 08/22/2018 4:56:49 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears
What bothers me about the entire thing is that it seems to have created a split among FReepers-—the pros and the cons.

It need not be so. I let the "Q" people have their threads and I never go over there to piss on them like others do. I will go there and read what they have to say from time to time.

Let them have their space. I remember years ago, there were never ending threads here about Lord Of The Rings. Many of them went over 10,000 replies. I always found that obsession about a fantasy novel a little curious but I never felt the need to take them on and attack them for it.

225 posted on 08/22/2018 5:03:00 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: Magnatron
I’m not sure why Jim R. allows Q crap on his site,

Maybe he's an open minded free thinker, who allows free speech and for people to reseach and reach their own conclusions And not a close minded troll

-------------------------- Hey, if the vaunted Washington Post sleuths can have their ‘Deep throat’ FBI insider back in the pre-internet days of Woodward and Bernstein, then it’s entirely plausible that one or more honest FBI insiders might want to drop a few anonymous clues to internet sleuths regarding the rampant government corruption today that makes Watergate look like a foolish kid’s prank.

83 posted on
8/7/2018, 9:26:44 PM
by Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)

226 posted on 08/22/2018 5:15:59 PM PDT by edzo4 ("Well I truly would be thrilled if all/most of the Q stuff turns out to be real")
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To: Magnatron

I read a lot of the “Q crap” as you call it, and I concluded it belongs in my bookmark folder containing sasquatch, UFOs, unicorns, and “trust Sessions” links.


227 posted on 08/22/2018 5:20:40 PM PDT by damper99
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To: damper99

You left out bandersnatches & snipes!


228 posted on 08/22/2018 5:24:07 PM PDT by Reily
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To: dinodino

I do not trust SES-sions.

I do not trust anyone who tells me to trust SES-sions.

I came to that position the day after he was confirmed.

He has in turn only confirmed my position by his unethical and even illegal conduct.


229 posted on 08/22/2018 5:52:35 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Reily

Hey - another excuse to insert a great Pome!

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
  And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
  The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
  Long time the manxome foe he sought —
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
  And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.

“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
  He chortled in his joy.

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
   Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
   And the mome raths outgrabe.

-Lewis Carroll


230 posted on 08/22/2018 5:54:35 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: dinodino
Q garbage hurts Donald Trump. The mainstream media love to give coverage to Q’s followers, because they are insane and the media can use them to paint a picture that all conservatives are crackpots. Nothing at all positive for President Trump can come from this Q idiocy.

The question remains...if it's so harmful why not jump on the msm bandwagon and mock and denigrate qanon and those who read the stuff? If it's so harmful why not curry favor with the public and the press and dismiss it as a hoax? The answer is simple...it's because it's helping him.

231 posted on 08/22/2018 7:01:44 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: bagster

Every time these Q-Snits are asked to prove Q is a Kook, they resort to the early Q posts when the Q following was a small group.

In those early posts. Q wrote in a different way, not addressing the public at large but rather putting out warnings to Antifa and other Soros’s paramilitary insurgents. And Q used disinformation to throw them off. And he succeeded.

But Q-Snits always point to some stupid little item like Podesta was never arrested. Yeah, well a crook named Mueller jumped in to ‘investigate’ the Podestas, why? Because arresting Tony Podesta would have blown the whole Uranium One criminal dealings wide open. So Mueller jumped in there to take over the investigation to protect and cover the Podestas just like he and Comey had done all along with Hillary and the Clinton Foundation.

And Podesta had 100X more dirt on him than Manafort. But Manafort was raided, thrown in prison, in solitary confinement, railroaded, and now convicted as CNN filed a motion to get the juror names. It’s all in plain sight what POTUS is dealing with. And POTUS has shown incredible restraint, much more than I ever could.

So yeah, Podesta didn’t get arrested on November 4. Big fricken whoop!

And POTUS was walking around cussin’ because his DOJ was so impotent.

And the Q-Snits point out that National Guard wasn’t called up around November 4. Yeah? So what? Soros had backed down and Antifa didn’t cause the mayhem they were planning to create. And what did happen on Nov 4? Saudi royals were taken down bigtime. And there were Q posts that alluded to that happening.

As more and more Anons joined who were clearly Trump supporters, Q changed the posting style to speak at/with them directly.

So the question is why these Q-Snits can’t find a Q post written by Q, not by an Anon, in say the last nine months that shows Q is a Kook or a leader of Kooks? Because there are no such posts.

So why do they persist?

They are either frauds or fools.


232 posted on 08/22/2018 7:08:55 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: Hostage

“They are either frauds or fools.”

Or they have a whole lot to lose if Q is real. Corruption, money laundering, sex trafficking, pedofilia maybe?


233 posted on 08/22/2018 7:11:50 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Para-Ord.45

My first response to the title is that the “elite” are thinking they are about to control. Are they really that stupid?


234 posted on 08/22/2018 7:22:35 PM PDT by TBall
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To: DouglasKC

I think Q shot his wad after the initial big bounce in the MSM.

People get really tired of endless anticipation; with Q there’s never a climax or denouement - you just get rolled-over with every ‘drop’.

Attention-span is only so long these days; and folks finally figure out that they’ve been sucked into something that isn’t exactly what they thought it was.

The people aren’t as stupid as those who would like to MANAGE them seem to think that they are. Most conservatives think for themselves, and take information from an eclectic variety of sources.


235 posted on 08/22/2018 7:22:45 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Mears
What bothers me about the entire thing is that it seems to have created a split among FReepers-

I still love you Mears!

Bagster


236 posted on 08/22/2018 8:04:35 PM PDT by bagster ( "Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: Mears

There aren’t really that many ‘pros’, relative to the rest of us.


237 posted on 08/22/2018 8:23:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: bagster

Thanks,Bags——or do I have to call you The Oracle?

:-)

.


238 posted on 08/22/2018 8:50:58 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears
Haha.

Big Papa will do.

:)

Bagster


239 posted on 08/22/2018 8:53:33 PM PDT by bagster ( "Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: DouglasKC

Are you drunk? Think just for a second about what you typed, then try your post again.


240 posted on 08/22/2018 8:59:54 PM PDT by dinodino
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