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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?”


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To: Windflier; All

you folks are missing the point....

True or not, the whole Q mythology thing is a huge thorn in the side of the media left, as it gains traction among the normies. Q posts now get bot brigaded, which says a lot in itself.

They are afraid of the narratives taking hold, and it becoming an underground populist trend.

The media is getting desperate to silence it. Remember, these are the same people who truly believe that the Russians spending $46,000 on cute little Bernie memes on Facebook cost Hillary the election.


21 posted on 08/22/2018 9:39:30 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Hostage

I would think you are getting used to it now that the media and even conservative publications are exposing this scam, and the gullible stupid folk who fell for it. The number of q exposes in the last 15 days has multiplied.


22 posted on 08/22/2018 9:40:22 AM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: Para-Ord.45

In what way is Qanon a theory? Conspiracy or otherwise?

All I see are a bunch of Qbots pretending they are hip to stuff everyone else knows about. Yet they think they know it first.


23 posted on 08/22/2018 9:41:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Mean, hostile, agressive people own mean, hostile, agressive dogs.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
-- Q-tips to the defence in 3...2...1 --

Author puts up a strawman. Para-Ord.45 falls for it.

24 posted on 08/22/2018 9:42:10 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: so_real

What difference does it make if Trump fires Sessions now or after the election? All this Russian hoax mess and the legal problems for
Flynn, Manifort, Popodopulus and Cohen were set in motion by
Sessions recusal. Sessions is AWOL and scared stiff.
So what difference does the timing make?
Sessions damage has already been done.


25 posted on 08/22/2018 9:43:51 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Trust Sessions" Yeah Right")
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To: Windflier
I loved the "Q" story and wished it was all true.

The best fiction blends truth with imagination. That is what "Q" appears to be. I have been greatly entertained.

Time to get back to work.

26 posted on 08/22/2018 9:43:53 AM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: Okeydoker

Scammed indeed.

Qanon is just this years version of Pizzagate. Or think Birthergate oh so many years ago.

I get it. People want to believe they are smarter than everyone else.

And Q allows them to live that fantasy.


27 posted on 08/22/2018 9:44:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Okeydoker

And why can’t the Federalist be part of the deep state cabal? They have relationships with over 400 newspapers... why would this organization be any different?

You have to stop thinking as a Republican or a Democrat and start looking for truth.

If you believe only one party or the other lies to you, you being had.


28 posted on 08/22/2018 9:44:42 AM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: Okeydoker
YEAH BOSS! WHATEVER YOU SAY! GET THOSE Q MOFOS!


29 posted on 08/22/2018 9:45:33 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: Okeydoker

“Just more exposure of the Q nonsense.”


I agree,but some people just like intriguing puzzles so I ignore them——it will eventually collapse under it’s own weight.

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30 posted on 08/22/2018 9:45:48 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Para-Ord.45

Q-tips? Senseless comment


31 posted on 08/22/2018 9:46:42 AM PDT by Dartoid
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To: Para-Ord.45
This cabal of evildoers is supposedly headed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

Those are two followers, not leaders.

It helps to understand a conspiracy theory before trying to debunk it.
32 posted on 08/22/2018 9:48:29 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

POTUS is one of us. Q is with him. Q is letting ‘we the people’ know what is happening behind the scenes. The swamp is being drained. Sealed indictments waiting for right time. Huber and his 400 attorneys are piling up proof and charges. ‘ We have everything. We have the servers. These people (the left) are stupid. Trust the plan. Military tribunals.’ WWG1WGA. MAGA


33 posted on 08/22/2018 9:48:45 AM PDT by LookingUp
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To: Cboldt

Here’s another straw man for you Q-tip:

“Q! No.1918277

...July 2018- the month the world discovered the TRUTH... “

Sweet f**k all hapened in July. Sweet f**k all happened in August and we are 9 days away from September.
Hillary is free, Comey,Clapper,Brennan,Lynch,Ohr,etc. No one in front of grand juries, no one under indicted, no trials, no convictions.


34 posted on 08/22/2018 9:48:53 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: Para-Ord.45

Exempting the off topic items, it is not a theory.


35 posted on 08/22/2018 9:49:05 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: so_real
Except for one thing ... Sessions serves at the will of the POTUS

Does he? Does the President truly desire to keep Sessions on as AG? Has he not fired him, because he believes that Sessions is honestly doing his job?

Or, has the President left him in place because firing him would create more problems than it would solve?

If you ask me, Sessions is serving at the displeasure of the President. He's certainly voiced his displeasure over and over again.

36 posted on 08/22/2018 9:49:46 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
If I hear “Trust the Plan” one more time . . . Vomit
37 posted on 08/22/2018 9:50:39 AM PDT by iamright (Support FR, freedom's voice!)
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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. --

Wow. That's right! You got something right for a change!

38 posted on 08/22/2018 9:51:44 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Para-Ord.45

Why are people drawn to Q? Because he gives them hope. Its really pretty simple.

And if you think about the conspiracies that are discussed there, I don’t see anything wrong with understanding how the FISA program worked against Trump from before the election. I dont see an issue with focusing on child trafficking.

Sure, any time a collection of nerds get together, there are the typical 9/11 truthers and what not.

But, the whole intent is to do your own research and follow what you find. I don’t see a whole lot wrong with that.

But, in the end its probably an Ovaltine scam.


39 posted on 08/22/2018 9:52:38 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DouglasKC
Why doesnt Prez Trump disavow Qanon?

It would be beneath his dignity as president to even comment on this kook fad.

40 posted on 08/22/2018 9:52:39 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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