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‘We are Q’: A deranged conspiracy cult leaps from the Internet to the crowd at Trump’s ‘MAGA’ tour
Washington comPost ^ | August 1, 2018 | Isaac Stanley-Becker

Posted on 08/01/2018 8:35:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo

On Tuesday evening, the dark recesses of the Internet lit up with talk of politics.

“Tampa rally, live coverage,” wrote “Dan,” posting a link to President Trump’s Tampa speech in a thread on 8chan, an anonymous image board also known as Infinitechan or Infinitychan, which might be best described as the unglued twin of better-known 4chan, a message board already untethered from reality.

The thread invited “requests to Q,” an anonymous user claiming to be a government agent with top security clearance, waging war against the so-called deep state in service to the 45th president. “Q” feeds disciples, or “bakers,” scraps of intelligence, or “bread crumbs,” that they scramble to bake into an understanding of the “storm” — the community’s term, drawn from Trump’s cryptic reference last year to “the calm before the storm” — for the president’s final conquest over elites, globalists and deep-state saboteurs.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: conspiracytheories; fl2018; freerepublic3674854; q; qanon; qisfake; qistrash; trumprally
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To: j.havenfarm

There is not or Q. Q is everyone everywhere.
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21 posted on 08/01/2018 9:04:47 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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To: JudyinCanada

“My question is, can you still be deplorable and irredeemable?”

I noticed that the “irredeemable” label has been forgotten. Irredeemable has sinister implications. Reminds me of Soviet imagery written about by various historians — pictures of rows of people with rifles pointed at the back of their heads.


22 posted on 08/01/2018 9:07:08 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Steve_Seattle

It seemed to me from crowd shots that there were a large number of “Q” signs.


23 posted on 08/01/2018 9:09:25 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: Hostage
Here you go.


24 posted on 08/01/2018 9:10:24 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: j.havenfarm

I suspect that “Q” is semi-official fan-service by the Trump administration. Another comm channel.
There are an awful lot of quite clever but deniable connects between Trump statements, etc. Trump certainly knows of Q.

Q claims powers of prophecy, I don’t know if it has prophecied correctly yet. It’s a sort of wish-fulfillment fantasy leveraging off some facts - there are indeed unprecedented conspiracies in play, many have been revealed. It’s not much of a stretch to imply others.


25 posted on 08/01/2018 9:17:16 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: Yo-Yo

"Deranged"? Is that the best they've got. Ha. Try harder.


26 posted on 08/01/2018 9:18:28 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Yo-Yo

Q would agree, “CNN sucks!”


27 posted on 08/01/2018 9:18:55 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Yo-Yo

Let’s put this Q BS to bed right now:

Q POST : “JUN 26 2018 22:10:09 (EST)
NO. 1918277
...July 2018- the month the world discovered the TRUTH... “

OK ? JULSY HAS COME AND GONE.
Obama,Hillary,Brennan,Clapper,Kerry,Strozk,Page,Powers,Rice et.,etc., NOT UNDER INDICTMENT, NOT UNDER ARREST, NO PROSECUTED.


28 posted on 08/01/2018 9:19:45 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: so_real

Deplorable didn’t work? Too stupid not to vote for Trump kinda backfired too? What would you have them call us?


29 posted on 08/01/2018 9:22:20 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Yo-Yo
It is stunning to me how many ppl in this #TRUMPTAMPA crowd have QAnon signs or t-shirts. That is not a healthy sign for GOP or for America.

Well, those are two separate issues. America is thriving. GOPe? Well if they flounder, sink and drown the only tears here will tears of joy.

30 posted on 08/01/2018 9:25:39 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Yo-Yo

“Deranged”?

As deranged as Black Lives Matter, when they insisted a cop tried to pull a 300 pound man into his car with one arm, his left arm?


31 posted on 08/01/2018 9:29:18 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Para-Ord.45
Me, I'm still on the fence about Q, but to your question, Q has an answer for you:


32 posted on 08/01/2018 9:32:04 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

:) Likey

I’ll append it to my obnoxious posts.

Thanks Yo-Yo!


33 posted on 08/01/2018 9:32:17 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Q Fringe))
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To: Para-Ord.45
OK ? JULY HAS COME AND GONE.

One of the cult posted here this morning to let us know that "the world changed last night."

I did notice it got darker, then light again.

34 posted on 08/01/2018 9:33:40 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

One of the cult posted here this morning to let us know that “the world changed last night.”

I did notice it got darker, then light again.


No worries. I’m sure Huber will ride in with the cavalry at any minute. Haha.


35 posted on 08/01/2018 9:34:48 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Para-Ord.45

It wont happen. Q is a success among some because they WANT to believe that some behind the scenes activity is taking plce to bring the obama clinton deep state criminals to justice. You certainly cant blame folks for wanting THAT to happen! All of us wish that would occur today!!

The reality is that there likely is NO pending charges against clinton obama or the deep state. Rosenstein and sessions are inept political hacks and two faced bureaucrats. They have no interest in taking on these people. Trumps constant criticism of sessions is all legit. He is not faking his outrage in order to deflect attention from the upcoming storm of arrests, etc. Even nutwad mark bradman aka sundunce over at Conservative Nuthhouse no longer believes that sessions, rosenstein and mueller are white hats secretly doing trumps bidding.

Q has predicted all justice coming in July. Didnt happen. Now it is predicted for August. Probably wont happen either. Q people will ALWAYS have an explanation to explain why Q things dont come to,pass. Or they will simply declare that it doesnt matter. It has become cult like, like a religion. It isnt based on proven fact as much as sheer faith.

You can tell how irrational the believers are based solely on their reaction to any questioning of their secret society. Watch the hatred, vitriol, name calling in action. That tells you all you need to know about the Q stuff. Meanwhile logical folks practice Occams Razor: the simplest explanation is almost always the correct one. The more complicated and convoluted, the more likely it is incorrect.


36 posted on 08/01/2018 9:36:21 AM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: Yo-Yo

Yeah no.

EVERYONE knew, long long ago, the FISA warrants on Page were based on Hillary/Putin`s propaganda document.
July came and went, there was no bombshell, no arrests, no indictments.


37 posted on 08/01/2018 9:42:50 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: Okeydoker
-- Q has predicted all justice coming in July. Didnt happen. --

C'mon man. Criticism works best when supported with true facts, not fake ones.

Q posts in raw text form, easy to search for "july."

38 posted on 08/01/2018 9:48:53 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Fightin Whitey

“One of the cult posted here this morning to let us know that “the world changed last night.” “

Oh that. That was planet Mars` closest its been to Earth in like 20 years.

With Q`s own post we can just show it to them and tell them absolutely nothing happened in July. If they try claim the FOIA FISA we all say EVERYONE knew long ago the warrants were based on Hillary`s collusion with Putin.

Q is manipulating peoples` desire for a White Knight to come riding in and arrest all the bad guys.
That is cruel and nefarious.


39 posted on 08/01/2018 9:49:31 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: pt17

“ake news, false flag psyops, leftist trojan horse, rumor mongering exercise, a political prank, all of these or something else? Folks are laughing somewhere. Let’s see, where are all the Q-bots and what are they jabbering about today? Now this is entertainment, not information. I am guessing somebody’s already working on the book.”

So many assertions from you.

No proof.


40 posted on 08/01/2018 9:52:13 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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