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Trump base latches onto ‘Q’ internet conspiracy cult
The Seattle Times ^ | August 2, 2018 | Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-Becker

Posted on 08/02/2018 9:37:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Energized by the internet persona Q’s complex web of conspiracy notions about the forces aligned against President Donald Trump, Q’s followers have spread virally online and now, in real life too, forming a movement known as QAnon.

From somewhere in the vast and mysterious “deep state,” a dissident agent rises up to give the people cryptic clues about how their heroic president will push back the forces of evil and make America great again. The renegade informant is known only as “Q,” and if he actually exists, it’s not as a character in a movie, but somewhere in the Washington, D.C., bureaucracy.

Energized by Q’s complex web of conspiracy notions about the forces aligned against President Donald Trump, Q’s followers have spread virally online and now, in real life too, forming a movement known as QAnon that is making itself visible at Trump’s rallies and other public gatherings.

QAnon is the latest in a string of conspiracy ideas that take hold of the public’s imagination in times of social stress and technological change. And QAnon is something new, a leaderless popular movement made up of people who believe in no one and therefore are willing to believe almost anything.

To believers, Q is a pseudonym for a well-placed U.S. government agent who is posting online distress messages and bits of intel, known as “breadcrumbs,” in an effort to save the country — and Trump — from hostile forces within the government. Q’s missives started appearing last October on 4chan, the mostly anonymous website where fringe ideas incubate and blossom....

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 8chantrash; cultofq; denounced; deplorables; hoax; internet; notaninsider; q; qanon; qisyoutubers; trump
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To: 100American

Could you list for us all of the firings and indictments of any deep state players that have been the direct result of anything Q has posted?


121 posted on 08/03/2018 5:43:11 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: edwinland
Allow me to answer that question: because they love writing stories that make the Trump supporters look bad. And this one does that in spades.

Winner!....give that man a cigar.

122 posted on 08/03/2018 5:48:53 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Kartographer
More to be learned in reading Travis McGee novels than all ‘Q’ post put together.

Yup.

123 posted on 08/03/2018 5:52:11 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You DonÂ’t Know About Lonely...)
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To: familyop
That's what the Q foolery is for. It's an effort to associate us all with low-IQ, narcissistic foolery.

Bttt!

124 posted on 08/03/2018 5:52:59 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: 100American
Bringing traitors to justice is not about "journeys" or "epiphanies." The longer we play this silly game, the more deeply they become enmeshed in the fabric of our government.

You come across like a troll. And trolls troll because they really have no other defense or logic with which to support their claims to moral or intellectual superiority.

125 posted on 08/03/2018 6:11:29 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I seem to remember something similar to Q back in the Clinton corrupt administration days. Would love to know if any oldtimers remember that?


126 posted on 08/03/2018 6:14:23 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Reno89519

Agree...the GOP-T base isn’t buying into Q. We get “tagged” with this we will lose. Q should be equated to horoscopes. Fun to watch, but only as reliable as the neighborhood crystal ball.


127 posted on 08/03/2018 6:15:12 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Agree. No way a few kids “in someone’s” basement is going to that much trouble for so long.


128 posted on 08/03/2018 6:20:33 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Salvavida

Bravo - well said


129 posted on 08/03/2018 6:36:13 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: Conservative Gato

You bring to mind the “Tea Party”
and the way it started as grass roots,,
Leaderless yet focused.
Then it turned to infighting and finally
Vilified by the media and politicians.
“Q” may be avoiding these issues.


130 posted on 08/03/2018 6:39:39 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The whole scenario reminds me of a faux-reality show called SIBERIA that NBC aired a few years ago. NBC was very careful in their promotions to NOT reveal this new reality show was FAKE. - More accurately - it was a dramatic mini-series under the guise of a Survivor-style reality show.

Well, they fooled me! It wasn’t until toward the end of the first episode that you realized - holy crap - this is a drama!!!

The show was tremendously well written. And after every episode you were left scratching your head - and heading for the internet to do some research on what we just saw - and what might be coming next.

It was a blast - I have FB friends to this day who were just random people who were analyzing the show.

Point is - fiction can be tied to reality very easily. All the references in this fictional show - were real...real history, real science - driving the plot of a FAKE show.

Be careful.


131 posted on 08/03/2018 6:48:44 AM PDT by GG-1
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To: GG-1

SIBERIA Episode 1

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11gi3k


132 posted on 08/03/2018 6:54:26 AM PDT by GG-1
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To: mass55th

I’ve ignored all the Q threads on the site. Don’t even know what they’re pushing. Don’t want to.
__________________________

You can’t say “all” because you responded to this one. oops!


133 posted on 08/03/2018 7:09:39 AM PDT by zaxtres
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To: 100American
this is educating the public by giving them trails to follow that enables them to awaken to the truth they find, not what they are told

Plenty of longitudinal education studies have shown that allowing students to come to their own conclusions provides a lasting memory of the endpoint information than having them told and required to retain it.

134 posted on 08/03/2018 7:09:56 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: kelly4c; Extremely Extreme Extremist

I would like to know how some kid in a basement got North Korea to ‘present’ Trump with an Alice in Wonderland sized envelope (see chapter 6 of Alice in Wonderland) in the 6th month of this year.

That kid may be in the basement of the White House.
:)


135 posted on 08/03/2018 7:10:20 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: Steve Van Doorn

There have been plenty of reports about Huber outside of Q:

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/381888-mystery-surrounds-sessions-appointee-to-fbi-investigation

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/1/john-huber-us-attorney-leading-fbi-investigation-s/


136 posted on 08/03/2018 7:30:33 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Reno89519

I agree 100%. It’s gonna be: “Trust the plan” for the next 6 years. All gibberish, rumor and innuendos, and no results. Just like it’s been so far.


137 posted on 08/03/2018 7:51:13 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: JonPreston; TADSLOS
"Something big is about to drop."

I say he took a triple dose of Ex Lax and ate a whole box of prunes and what's about to drop is one of the biggest loads of fertilizer to ever hit the net!
138 posted on 08/03/2018 7:59:22 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: mac_truck
Nice hat...where can I get one?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJOhk

139 posted on 08/03/2018 8:00:27 AM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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To: familyop

That’s what the Q foolery is for. It’s an effort to associate us all with low-IQ, narcissistic foolery.


Did you see the FLA rally? There was a sea of Q posters and cut outs. So either POTUS knows exactly who Q is, and is endorsing the movement. Or he doesn’t care if his supporters are, as you put it, showing themselves to be low IQ narcissistic people. Which one is more likely?

All it would take is one tweet “Q Anon is fake news”. and the whole thing would be over. Why hasn’t that happened?


140 posted on 08/03/2018 8:03:27 AM PDT by magglepuss
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