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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....

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 8chantrash; cultofq; denounced; deplorables; hoax; internet; notaninsider; q; qanon; qisyoutubers; trump
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To: 60Gunner; 100American

I too would be interested in seeing such a list.


141 posted on 08/03/2018 8:03:31 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

You mean like a Bombshell?


142 posted on 08/03/2018 8:09:33 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You DonÂ’t Know About Lonely...)
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To: TADSLOS

Depends on how much gas he’s built up. ;-)

But so far I say he is a French arms manufacture when you consider his ‘Bombshells’ have had the strength of a fart in a whirlwind.


143 posted on 08/03/2018 8:17:08 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer; 60Gunner

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?


Why don’t you answer my question in post 140. Why doesn’t Trump put a stop to it? If he really doesn’t know who Q is, it would be very dangerous for his Presidency to have millions of people reading about the fake goings on in his administration right?


144 posted on 08/03/2018 8:25:18 AM PDT by magglepuss
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To: 100American

Bullcrap. Look at Nostradamus. Gobbledygook interpreted all different way. I don’t happen to believe that Nostradamus was a seer, but if he was his circumlocution made his messages indecipherable and therefore useless. It’s not asking to be spoon fed to expect a communicator to be clear. Q’s stuff reads like Nostradamus to me


145 posted on 08/03/2018 8:46:44 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 1,000 Posts as of 8/11/17! Still not shutting up after all these years!)
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To: magglepuss

Because it entertainment. Trump has always used entertainment to misdirect and delight his fans. Back in the day do you think Trump would really jump into the ring with WWE wrestler? Its entertainment the problem is so many think its real.

Now I answered your question care to answer mine?


146 posted on 08/03/2018 8:53:35 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
I seem to remember something similar to Q back in the Clinton corrupt administration days. Would love to know if any oldtimers remember that?

Well, as far as hoaxes, there was "Deep In The Hurtgen Forest" which I'm sure you remember.

147 posted on 08/03/2018 9:18:50 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Kartographer

Oh please, that was no answer just a bunch of BS. Get back to me when you have a real answer not some WWE nonsense.

Oh, and as far as your question, it makes as much sense as your “Trump is trying to delight his fans” comment.


148 posted on 08/03/2018 9:19:44 AM PDT by magglepuss
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To: mac_truck
It's an effort to associate us all with low-IQ, narcissistic foolery.

And here you are right on cue, I mean Q, demonstrating your low IQ

Do you find yourself quoting the MSM frequently?


149 posted on 08/03/2018 9:37:38 AM PDT by edzo4 ("Well I truly would be thrilled if all/most of the Q stuff turns out to be real")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How? Exactly as they are covering Q now and that’s only because they can’t cover Q up altogether.

Personally, I love the responses here about Q and all that’s been breadcrumbed so far.

After all these years, beers and tears, the replies now by most of the usual suspects here just make me laugh, which is much better than what they’ve inspired in me before now.

To those of which I speak, the truth is out there, but it’s not that far out. Go read it and see.

150 posted on 08/03/2018 9:38:21 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: zaxtres

It wasn’t an actual Q thread. It was an article from The Seattle Times. Oops.


151 posted on 08/03/2018 9:51:23 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Zathras; All
Q has the same feel as the birth certificate talk early on. Many FR members were convinced it was going to be the end of Obama. In reality it was a story planted by the Hillary Team to distract the opposition.

Q is a distraction.

No, it is not a distraction but an opportunity to go around the corrupt media to get good info to the American people. Sorry you can't see that. It just proves how powerful the deep state is with all their machinations including corporations and this corrupt media. The sad thing is Americans keep falling for their BS and cave from the false public pressure created by their machinations.

The only thing that is going to change the environment is charging someone in the FBI, CIA, DOJ, State Dept or Senate with Obstruction and eventually sending them to prison.

Frankly, the Opposition isn’t afraid of the GOP and won’t be until their is action.

And how do you propose we get there from point A (expose the government corruption and worse) to point B (arrests, convictions) with the deep state owning so much of the culture and protecting its own??? It will never happen under these current conditions because so many cave, including FReepers, from the false public pressure created by the deep state corrupt media and their culture.

WE are PART of the problem for not recognizing this and doing something about it. At least the good guys in government and President Trump is throwing us a bone and giving us this opportunity with this Q movement. It allows us to go around the corrupt media and get good info to the American people in order to wake them up from this deep state slumber they have been in for at least half a century, if not more.

If you fail to recognize where this opportunity is part of the plan to take back our country, then you are part of the problem. We have to be united in this front, whether you believe in Q or not, this opportunity is REAL. At least you recognize what the problem is, now understand there is a plan to get this done (take back our country) and you can participate by not caving to the false public pressure the deep state is engaging at the moment to try to squash this good movement. They have all their media assets going in to overdrive on this now.

They are very powerful with all their machinations as they were able to squash the Tea Party and Hussein's BC, DON'T allow them to do this again to the good people of America with this great opportunity whether you believe in Q or not, it's the movement that is a good thing if anyone would bother to check it out. There are plenty of Youtubers and FReepers who have done great work and the YTer's have good videos if anyone needs to catch up. The Q threads are great resources for this.

WWG1WGA!!!

CGato

152 posted on 08/03/2018 10:03:08 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: Jamestown1630; All
And anything can be made to look like anything you want.

See my previous post. So much close mindedness, intellectual laziness, preconceived bigoted notions going on here. Like I said, WE ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM if we can't see what a great opportunity this is to help take back our republic, whether you believe in Q or not, it's the opportunity and movement that is a good thing.

Be a part of the solution or continue to be part of the problem.

CGato

153 posted on 08/03/2018 10:09:51 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: edzo4
Yes, you spamming the same links and graphics over and over again is making a difference. Maybe learn how to resize your trashy images.
154 posted on 08/03/2018 10:12:10 AM PDT by corlorde (The president condemned and denounced QAnon)
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To: Big Red Badger

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.


Yup, we can be our own worst enemy and the deep state likes it that way. We have a great opportunity to change that but the closed mindedness, the intellectual laziness, the preconceived bigoted notions, the enemedia propaganda, takes its toll on these people and they cave. It’s really sad but some people will never get what a great opportunity this is to take back our country because of those things.

I pray where they come to understand The Great Awakening isn’t just a great gift for the normies out there, it’s also for them.

CGato


155 posted on 08/03/2018 10:16:18 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: vpintheak; Reno89519; All
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.

That's false and just more uniformed discussion on this thread. Those who researched the early messages from Q and Trump's team understood what was going on in North Korea, long before anyone else knew. It's all verifiable when you look at the Q drops now, "Future Proves Past".

The Q followers/researchers were way ahead of the curve and only people inside the President's circle would know what was really going on there. The revelations about North Korea was huge.

CGato

156 posted on 08/03/2018 10:21:07 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: corlorde

(The president condemned and denounced QAnon)


Now your just resorting to outright lies. If the president doesn’t support this movement, why doesn’t he spend 30 sec. sending out just one tweet. “Q Anon is fake news”. That’s it, q would be gone. Why hasn’t he done this?


157 posted on 08/03/2018 10:22:57 AM PDT by magglepuss
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To: j.havenfarm
Bullcrap. Look at Nostradamus. Gobbledygook interpreted all different way. I don’t happen to believe that Nostradamus was a seer, but if he was his circumlocution made his messages indecipherable and therefore useless. It’s not asking to be spoon fed to expect a communicator to be clear. Q’s stuff reads like Nostradamus to me

False and more uninformed discussion. See my previous post about North Korea. The revelations about NK was bigly.

CGato

158 posted on 08/03/2018 10:23:06 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: corlorde

big trolls get big pictures.

nice ad hominem attack do you think it distracted people from you stupid trolls parroting the MSM?


159 posted on 08/03/2018 10:23:51 AM PDT by edzo4 ("Well I truly would be thrilled if all/most of the Q stuff turns out to be real")
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To: edzo4
You are making less sense than usual.
160 posted on 08/03/2018 10:28:48 AM PDT by corlorde (The president condemned and denounced QAnon)
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