Grandpa Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days
Posted on 07/18/2021 5:14:32 AM PDT by Libloather
A few years into waiting for “the storm” to sweep away former President Donald Trump’s enemies, some believers in the prophetic QAnon conspiracy theory have decided to take matters into their own hands.
These “digital soldiers” aren’t picking up guns or marching on the Capitol - though many actually did that. Instead, nearly 100 Q-aligned candidates ran for Congress in the 2020 election, according to watchdog site Media Matters for America, with dozens of others running for governor, state legislature seats and county offices. Some were hardcore Q evangelists, while others had merely retweeted a QAnon hashtag. But all had shown some deference for a violent prophecy cult that was turning conspiracy theories into gospel.
Like so many of QAnon’s predictions, these candidates mostly failed. The majority didn’t get past their primary or ran in solidly Democratic districts and had no chance of victory. A few won at the state level, and constant media fixture Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has spouted QAnon-friendly conspiracy theories for years, won her deeply Republican congressional district in Georgia. But she was an outlier.
Post-2020, Q believers are once again gearing up to run for office and grow their movement, but with two major strategy changes. One is that Q believers are now getting involved in local elections for school boards and city councils and showing up at board meetings to scream about Q-linked topics. The other is that many of these candidates no longer identify as believers in QAnon - or even acknowledge that a movement with that name ever existed. They’re taking their “secret war” to new recruits looking to strike back against a way of life they feel is eroding - without the public acknowledgement that such a war exists.
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Interesting how commies alternatly deny and embrace ‘ Conspiracy” isn’t it ?
( weasels)
Come on folks. Grow up.
The insults and name calling add nothing to the discussion.
Re: Q - I never understood FReepers going to the “main” Q thread on FR with the intent of being disrupters. What’s the point in that? You’re just going there to cause trouble. Why?
Some Religion threads used to get that way in the 2000’s - and insults would fly.
Grandpa Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days
I refer you to post #63
No, that’s speculation and theory which you have gussied up and presented as fact.
- see https://www.newsfromtheperimeter.com/home/2018/8/16/seattle-suicideplane-crash-q-operation
Key use of words such as “likely”, “source” [secret], “allegedly”, “theory”, “believed” in that article.
Theory is the key.
Why?
Use your words, rabbit.
Q did no such thing.
Put up or shut up.
In the magical world of Furry, anything that is a 'theory' can't possibly be true. Even if the circumstantial evidence adds up to something, it is definitely nothing.
And we wonder why the derps win? It must be nice for them to have our own people covering for them.
Define 'we', rabbit.
It most certainly did...drop #133 was the earliest reference.
How is it that I know Q better than you?
There is a rational explanation of the so-called missile launch.
Q-anons are just too dumb to believe it.
You’re lying through your foul teeth.
Q was linking Covid to election fraud months *before* the election.
For another, that post was not from Q.
The watermark shows it was created on deviantart.com.
Learn to read instead of just making random stuff up, and then projecting onto Q followers.
Good post.
I keep being reminded of a meme:
“Anyone got any good conspiracy theories? All of mine have come true.”
A major problem, as I see it, is that too many people are uncomfortable with anything outside the manipulated mainstream consensus. Humans want to fit in and be liked. Yeah, sure: everything needs to be run through a filter of logic, probability and known science. However, way too much of what has been accepted as *known* keeps being upended by discoveries of revisionism, hidden facts and outright falsehoods.
Personally, I ran into this situation about 25 years ago when researching a local issue that ended up leading to a myriad of rabbit holes. I cannot pinpoint the time when the unease turned into a huge gut-punch. I had to withdraw and regroup and cease talking to anyone outside a small circle of trust. Then I watched those same rational, sometimes fairly unimaginative, folks reach similar conclusions and go through the same response I’d experienced. Over the years, some would sidle up to me and whisper:”How did you know back then?” Others would say “You were right.”
Not that it mattered, in the end. Most will still go along to get along.
Anyone had former skeptics just shake their heads and declare:”Alex Jones was right all along.”? I have and from what I can discern, this demoralizes more than empowers the speaker.
Most of what we “have always known” keeps turning out to be false.
When that becomes inescapable, what’s left?
So you admit you like to swallow...specious explanations.
Ahh, yes. The super secret military operation that posted classified intel on Chan boards mostly known for Nazi propaganda and child porn. Yeah, totally legit.
And Q post 1 - Hilary arrested, no deal. Hahahaha
That’s not even a non-sequitur.
Q post 1 is part of the Q apocrypha now. I’m sure one of the Q faithful will be coming along shortly to tell us why Clinton was never arrested.
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