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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: corlorde

if i want your opinion I’ll just go read the New York times

or watch MSNBC


161 posted on 08/03/2018 10:33:02 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

See post 160 please.


162 posted on 08/03/2018 10:38:47 AM PDT by corlorde (The president condemned and denounced QAnon)
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To: corlorde

see post 161 troll


163 posted on 08/03/2018 10:42:24 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; corlorde
see post 161 troll

So true, this person (as well as a few others) have been obsessed with trying to stop this good movement since almost the beginning.

It's not just the deep state's media assets going in to overdrive trying to squash this movement.

CGato

164 posted on 08/03/2018 10:46:36 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: miss marmelstein

not to mention the old bats that troll them


165 posted on 08/03/2018 10:47:18 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

There are no old bats on Free Republic. Only immature men (on Q threads).


166 posted on 08/03/2018 10:51:28 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

By the standard of my birth certificate I am a mature man at 71. By my wife’s standard I am a teenager.


167 posted on 08/03/2018 10:54:17 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: miss marmelstein
plenty of old bats and bitties, Look closer
168 posted on 08/03/2018 10:55:15 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: ThePatriotsFlag
Trolls shills and The MSM against Q

Trump could end it with one tweet and doesn't WHY?

Trump knows Q why don't you?

TRUMP KNOWS Q

TRUMP KNOWS Q WHY DON'T YOU

169 posted on 08/03/2018 10:55:40 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 guys have no sense of humor. Which is why most of your wives walked out on you. Take a look!


170 posted on 08/03/2018 10:58:30 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Conservative Gato

I’m not part of the ‘problem’; and I don’t accept your manipulative attempt to guilt us into conceding that there is any real value in this.


171 posted on 08/03/2018 11:01:31 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: miss marmelstein

no sense of humor, not true, the crap you post is hysterical


172 posted on 08/03/2018 11:01:34 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: Zathras
In reality it was a story planted by the Hillary Team to distract the opposition.

so your premise is that Hillary created an internet site to bring patriots together to research her crimes and corruption by posting links on that site to news article to help those patriots make the connections and expose and spread the info about the depth of the corruption?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha No wonder you don't understand the Socratic method...

173 posted on 08/03/2018 11:06:05 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

Well. Hillary did convince trump to run so he could lose the election for her too. Hahaha


174 posted on 08/03/2018 11:10:15 AM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: miss marmelstein
There are no old bats on Free Republic. Only immature men (on Q threads).


175 posted on 08/03/2018 11:12:37 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

ah the rare moment we get to observe the troll mating ritual

watch as the male while timid and smaller and less intelligent than most males initiates the mating by praising the female and singing in unison.


176 posted on 08/03/2018 11:25:00 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: Jamestown1630; All
I’m not part of the ‘problem’; and I don’t accept your manipulative attempt to guilt us into conceding that there is any real value in this.

Why should you feel "guilted" in to something that is proven and good? I am correct where there has been a lot of closed-mindedness, preconceived bigoted notions, and intellectual laziness (thank you to the FReeper who pointed that out) going on when it comes to what this Q movement is all about.

If you notice I included myself in the part "We are part of the problem" because we are. At least I DO recognize the great opportunity this Q movement or The Great Awakening is and I'm doing something positive about it for family and country. Like I said, you don't have to believe in Q to understand this is a good movement. The Q threads have great resources for at least getting a good intellectual understanding of what is going on.

What gets me is people on here wants to discuss this without having a clue what is it all about. That's intellectual laziness at its finest.

CGato

177 posted on 08/03/2018 11:27:03 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: exDemMom
"As for Q...I looked at one of his musings and found it nonsensical."

To date, there have been over 1800 such "musings". How astute of you to have formed your conclusion based on a sample of one... </SARC>

TXnMA
 

178 posted on 08/03/2018 11:33:41 AM PDT by TXnMA (Craig Dubh Clan Chattan!)
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To: higgmeister

YES! I do remember that. And it was a hoax. Thanks!


179 posted on 08/03/2018 11:42:49 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: mac_truck

LOL!


180 posted on 08/03/2018 11:55:57 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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