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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

QAnon is a conspiracy theory so far reaching and comprehensive, there is virtually no other conspiracy theory it leaves untouched, from the government hiding the UFOs to JFK Jr. surviving his plane crash. The fact that it envelops so many other theories helps explain why QAnon is the most popular shadow-rule fantasy of our time.

... top Democrats are actually human traffickers and pedophiles, along with some Hollywood stars. Many are also supposedly Satanists and blood-drinkers and drug traffickers, too.

This cabal of evildoers is supposedly headed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, who are secretly planning a coup on the president. A sampling of other beliefs are: that the Rothschilds are supposedly leaders of a Satanic cult, that Debbie Wasserman Schultz sent MS-13 to kill DNC staffer Seth Rich, that the Rothschilds and/or JP Morgan sunk the Titanic (even though his own company owned it), and that Kim Jong Un was actually installed as a puppet dictator by the CIA.

The most salient belief Q followers drill down on in their analysis is that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is not actually investigating President Trump and his team for Russia collusion — that’s just a cover for his secret investigation of Hillary Clinton. Every day, Trump is putting on a circus for the media, making himself look like a fool; but behind the scenes, he is playing a highly complex game of 4D chess to defeat the deep state and drain the swamp, and even the most studious Q believers can only hope to get an inkling about his strategies.

As Q wrote on Aug. 14, as if in defense of the 4D chess theory of POTUS’s behavior, “Has POTUS made a statement AS PRESIDENT that hasn’t ended up being TRUE AND CORRECT?”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Jamestown1630

“Attention-span is only so long these days” Exactly! There has to be a show. Lead up education and acceptance. The idea of Hope, Opportunity and Freedom (hof) has to be given to advance what the Q movement is about. Of course this would include punishment of evil doers and the restoration of law in this land.

Imagine you wake up tommorow and something big and unexpected happened like 25000 trusted people arrested and 20k more are running away. Imagine with out the q narrative how that would look? Now when it happens, you wont be so surprized. Right?


241 posted on 08/22/2018 9:15:25 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: SamAdams76

I’m with you. At first I was curious. I even love conspiracies. Then I could see Q wasn’t real, but it doesn’t bother me that others believe and enjoy. I’m ok with that.


242 posted on 08/22/2018 9:53:37 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Para-Ord.45

>>Hillary is free, Comey,Clapper,Brennan,Lynch,Ohr,etc. No one in front of grand juries, no one under indicted, no trials, no convictions.
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So true.

Word has it that Mueller is getting ready to indict DJT Jr. for lying to the Special Counsel. You know how that works, right? They get some other person to give a different account, and “choose” to believe them.

Indicting Junior may well be Mueller’s planned October surprise.

If so, then maybe POTUS will declare that one bridge too many and FINALLY arrest Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller, and all the rest of them.


243 posted on 08/22/2018 10:30:35 PM PDT by Right-wing Librarian
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To: Right-wing Librarian

“Q” is disinformation.

Red shoes, pizzagate,rogue U.S. missiles flying around,Mueller is a secret good guy, Sessions is a genius, etc,etc.

Meanwhile back on planet Earth the noose continues to be tightened by Mueller with conviction after conviction which will end up with an Impeachment referral to the House most likely, this October with claims of obstruction of justice,abuse of power, etc.
IF the neo-marxist Dems take the House then Trump is painted into a corner he simply cannot escape. Think of the neo-marxists in charge of all the Committees issuing a continuous blizzard of subpoenas at the White House.

We’ve been paying attention. We have “Q” predictions that were waiting to release when the time comes. The time frame is by the end of 2018.


244 posted on 08/23/2018 8:42:34 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: Jamestown1630
Sure, as far as you know. But I disagree, of course. :)

Not long ago, Barry obama spoke of the two Amerikas, the one-sided Fox News watching America and his side, all the rest of one-stream media watching ‘main stream’ Amerika.

But why are there two Amerikas, when only the one real America will do?

Because P.T. Barnum was right. You really can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time.

Barry obama knows this for a fact and proved it to the rest of US. Twice!

So, now what? Once fooled, how do you unfool we, the people?

With Truth, that’s how. With verifiable truth that proves without a doubt that they’ve been fooled.

Trouble is, in the bigger picture, we’ve been given over and we’re living in a grand delusion of Biblical proportions.

And, the enemy is determined to keep it that way.

That’s a bit harder to fix.

245 posted on 08/23/2018 8:56:11 AM PDT by GBA (Beliefs => Reality. Believe... wisely.)
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To: GBA

Something like Q would be an extremely roundabout, off-putting way of getting Truth out to the people. It alienates more than it convinces.


246 posted on 08/23/2018 9:30:49 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630
You might be right about that.

I’m open to suggestion. What’s your move?

What’s the right way to get the Truth out?

It’s as though we, the people, are flying VFR, just out having fun and wound up in a fog bank.

Vertigo is going to kill US, but we don’t believe it.

We only trust our feelings and we won’t look at nor trust the instruments.

247 posted on 08/23/2018 12:42:34 PM PDT by GBA (Beliefs => Reality. Believe... wisely.)
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To: Jamestown1630; GBA

Trump allienates Jamestown.

Trump has an entire deep state against him.
Some in the deep state called themselves Never Trumpers.
Some Never Trumpers are not deep state and had to be dragged across the goaline by Trump in 2016.

And maybe Q is the same process. Getting people to take sides, like Trump had the ability to do in the election

How many had even a modest respect for the Bushes before the past election, and there is Trump ,allienating them by just being himself.
A non deep state shill.

This alienating is a Trump move.

In one way Never Trumpers can now voice their love for the deep state by being Never Q.
Q is an outlet for Never Trumpers to be heard loud and proud again.

They have been given a voice to defend the deep state by saying Q actually hurts Trump!
Hurts Trump?
Really?

How? By airing deep state dirty laundry/connections that are certainly no fans and outright enemies of Trump?

Some of this feels like watching Trump run against all those career politicians and how messy it got here at times..
Alienating indeed. Maybe more like isolating..

If Q and Trump are on the same winning team, How many Never Qs will be dragged across the goaline, and how many will be isolated and exposed?


248 posted on 08/23/2018 1:30:12 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: dinodino
Are you drunk? Think just for a second about what you typed, then try your post again.

No I'm not drunk. You're making the assertion that this qanon stuff is hurting Trump. Yet he does nothing to stop it and indeed actually seems to be encouraging it.

So I asked you if it's so harmful to Trump then why doesn't he jump on the msm bandwagon and mock and denigrate qanon and those who read the stuff?

If it's so harmful why doesn't Trump curry favor with the public and the press and dismiss it as a hoax?

The answer is obvious. It's because it's NOT hurting him. It's helping him. Simply put, you are wrong in believing that the qanon stuff is harmful to Trump. It's just the opposite.

249 posted on 08/23/2018 3:44:09 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Jamestown1630

Q is the ultimate multi-level marketing scheme.


250 posted on 08/23/2018 3:50:41 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (If I knew when I was going to need my gun, I wouldn't need my gun.)
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To: delchiante; GBA; mad_as_he$$

You guys are going to have to find someone other than me to argue with.

I don’t believe that Q and Trump are in ‘cahoots’.

Trump may alienate some, but his campaign and tell-it-like-it-is manner obviously engaged many and got him elected against the predictions of all the so-called cognoscenti. They will again.

He - and we - did it without any help from Q. Trump is practically a force of nature - by being himself and saying and doing what he does, he creates a very visceral contrast in the individual mind between ‘politics as usual’ and all the cynicism which politics have engendered - and a possible better way. He appeals to common sense, speaks for the common man, and instills Hope.

Trump has done that - not Q.

I haven’t seen anything clear and substantive from the Q phenomenon that hasn’t shown up somewhere else. And Q is just open-ended, suggestive lines into which people can read anything they like - and boy, do they; probably helped along with suggestions by others who ARE ‘in cahoots’ with the Q project.

I don’t like the Q stuff as it has shown up on FR because it’s full of ugly, unwholesome imagery and worn-out conspiracy-theory ideas that are not good for people. FR doesn’t need this crap. Trump doesn’t need it associated with him, either.

And yes, mad_as_he$$, I’ve seen with my own eyes how many people are making money out of it.

Free Republic and websites like it have done far more to remove the scales from eyes than Q will ever do - without any help from any Q-type influence.

Trump just needs to keep being Trump, and the good people on this website need to keep posting reliable information and sincere, thoughtful commentary as they’ve always done -

And Get Out and Vote!

73


251 posted on 08/23/2018 4:28:51 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630; GBA; mad_as_he$$

Quote-(Trump may alienate some, but his campaign and tell-it-like-it-is manner obviously engaged many and got him elected against the predictions of all the so-called cognoscenti.)

Trump,before he got elected, accused Hillary of human trafficking in Haiti.

Let’s not forget Trump and Obama’s birth certificate.

It seems Trump is/was into Conspiracy theories before Q came on board.
Trump being Trump.

Do you believe Trump if Q happens to swerve into a Trump conspiracy theory?
If or when Obama claims Kenyan citizen ship,will Trump be looked at as a conspiracy theorist or a truth teller?
How about if/when Hillary and her Haiti human trafficking comes out..
Trump a conspiracy theorist or a truth teller?

Time will tell..


252 posted on 08/23/2018 6:21:39 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: delchiante

Oh - and ‘goaline’ isn’t a word.

Just sayin’...


253 posted on 08/23/2018 6:25:06 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

It is when I have no auto correct on and chubby fingers and small spacebar.

Which reminds me. Trump and Q had some odd coordinated misspellings awhile back.
Somebody,maybe aFReeper, caught that..


254 posted on 08/23/2018 6:34:08 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: DouglasKC

Probably because at most the President is mildly amused about it. He’s a bit busy these days to devote any appreciable attention to it.


255 posted on 08/23/2018 6:35:50 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberals, piss off. That is all.)
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To: delchiante

What does any of that prove about Q?

Anybody can ride on the coattails of some suggestion that’s been put out there before, and make themselves appear to be an ‘oracle’.

Arrests? Indictments? Grand Juries?

And I don’t really care about them. I’m not into vengeance, I’m into the future; but -

Still Waiting for all the Q effluvia to bear some - ANY - fruit...


256 posted on 08/23/2018 6:36:05 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

One thing is that Q and Trump share in the conspiracy theory that Hillary is into human trafficking.
Do you believe that wild conspiracy theory?

Your President does..

Your President accused his opponent of human trafficking. Quite a wild conspiracy theory for sure..

We are talking about Trump just before the election accusing his opponent of human trafficking.. probably considered by many to be a wild conspiracy theory..

Q is certainly riding Trump’s coattails of a wild conspiracy theory..
Trump stated it in 2016 and Q in 2017.

Did you hear Trump then? You could. Q the conspiracy theorist linked to conspiracy theorist Trump speech..

Apparently, there are some arrests in the human trafficking area.. Just not Hillary yet, if we believe Trump.
The President and his wild worn out conspiracy theory.

If Trump has evidence of human trafficking by Hillary,why isn’t she in jail?
Maybe somebody should ask the President that question.
Trump didn’t get that from Q.


257 posted on 08/23/2018 6:58:24 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: delchiante

Anybody can do anything, and make it appear in any way that they like, in this new Virtual World.

This is why people need to get back to ground, and trust their instincts and highest ideals as the measure by which they judge everything that they encounter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog

(Maybe your fat fingers need one of those BIG phones, for old people. I’m looking into them myself...)

Good Night!


258 posted on 08/23/2018 7:00:46 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

Good night Jamestown.


259 posted on 08/23/2018 7:15:21 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: Jamestown1630

Wasn’t trying to argue with you. Just made an observation based upon your comments. It is disconcerting to me also to see FReepers with a long and accurate posting history, with regards to a certain subject, ridiculed because they try and refute some of Q’s claims.


260 posted on 08/24/2018 12:49:21 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (If I knew when I was going to need my gun, I wouldn't need my gun.)
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