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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: edwinland

LOL, really, that is the best you can fathom???

This is just a bunch of loonie toons all across the country as well as in others, and we look like nuts?

You should change your handle to BoilTheFrog, you do not what that means right??

Insightful that you place so much credence in what the MSM prints that you take their side...

Interesting, so few here feel that way

Hmmmmm


61 posted on 08/02/2018 11:18:33 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 100American

There are a hundred ways to teach. All work, if you get the student in class, and in the right frame of mind.

The first problem is to get the student interested enough to listen, the most ancient problem in education.


62 posted on 08/02/2018 11:19:59 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: mass55th

Sounds awesome, I am not quite at the same age as you but close and like you I was and still am a digger, inquisitive and not prone to follow trends or fads. I was in the crossover time up till Junior High school, but the early parts were much as yours, my High School was really tough and one of the best in the country, more PHD’s have come from there than any other HS in the Country. You had to apply to get in and the curriculum was rigorous and explorative

Love your profile, I understand you and I am a lifelong learner and will be so till it is dirt nap time

Enjoy your time left, I really enjoyed your post, and yes I do enjoy helping others to open their minds and ask questions, to search not just accept


63 posted on 08/02/2018 11:24:50 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: buwaya

As it is said in education are you the sage on the stage or the guide on the side

Self paced learning is part of the answer and ,making it engaging not rote based and monotonous. People learn in different ways, called multiple intelligences. Remember the Charlie brown cartoon where his teacher talks to him and all he hears is wah wah wah.

Education is under huge pressure to change from, the Dewey Prussian model to one allowing for self propulsion at your won rate more so than chronological grouping. Education today smacks more of indoctrination than education, and even in the Universities and colleges the heat is on for change and new effective methods


64 posted on 08/02/2018 11:29:36 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Consider the themes Q is pushing - the enemy of this drama are Trumps enemies, that they are traitorous swine of the worst sort, that the MSM is a propaganda system owned by them, and that Trump and team are trying to save us all from these devils.

That, regardless of whatever lies and exaggerations are embedded in the feed, is sound propaganda. If you can get people to listen to your propaganda then you are ahead. People begin to be persuaded, often, even by hearing an opinion they have never before encountered.

This is a cold civil war and it runs on propaganda.


65 posted on 08/02/2018 11:31:38 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: 100American

As for saying something intelligent, you should go first. With your seniority and all...


66 posted on 08/02/2018 11:34:02 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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The fakenewsers hating on Q certainly raises Q’s profile.

I do admit that the phrase “trust the plan” sets my teeth on edge. I trust God instead.


67 posted on 08/02/2018 11:34:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh noes. The Pearl Clutchers are concerned 😱😱😱😱
68 posted on 08/02/2018 11:44:06 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 100American

Spend a lot of time reading these days. Still digging into history through books. If I was younger and had money I’d be on the road to a historical society, or to a library to search through old newspapers on microfilm, or at the National Archives to dig through their records. I spent a lot of my vacations there, going through Civil War military records. At the time my dream was to be able to be locked into the Archives and have all night to search through stuff.

My mother...God Bless her, enjoyed reading, and she read to me when I was little. I can still remember that. My favorite story was “Rapunzel.” I was the baby of the family, and so she had the time to spend with me. She’d take me to the local branch library so I could get books. It was one of the reasons I was able to read before I even went to Kindergarten.

I used to ask God to let me live long enough so that I could read all the books in my bookcases, but then I’d cheat and buy more books. I’m not asking for much in the afterlife, just some good books to read, and my flavored coffees. That’s it, and I’ll be content.

Hope you’re content too.


69 posted on 08/02/2018 11:52:34 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: buwaya

It would appear to hurt American productivity. It’s inefficient. Plus Q doesn’t take anon input for real action.


70 posted on 08/03/2018 12:05:20 AM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: mass55th
you sound like a very interesting person...but I have to say at age 70 you have a long life ahead of you still, baring no major health problems...70 is really relatively young nowadays...

so keep reading/writing/digging...we need your input...

71 posted on 08/03/2018 12:08:22 AM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It gets harder to pull off that crap when an Organized Executive Branch Stable Genius operation is shutting down all your money, your gang armies and hit men, your leakers, your agents, your child traffickers, your puppet states (NK)...

When your tools get fired, force retired, quit and run...

When your pedo and pervert friends get outed, or caught...

When the CEOs you used to rely on bail from their jobs...

An operation that has access to the intelligence might of the USA... (One that “Had it All” before you had any idea how much trouble you were in.)

Confusing you with fear, uncertainty and doubt about who has turned on you...

Getting all the t’s crossed and i’s dotted until it’s time for the hammer to fall...

Do you suppose a stable genius approved global swamp draining operation might include a green lighted communications / investigation / intelligence gathering / Pro “Dig the Truth Out for Yourselves and Vet it Ruthlessly as a Unified Team” Psyop?

I do.

Do you see any Psyops going on? (Besides the MSM, of course.)

I do.


72 posted on 08/03/2018 12:12:51 AM PDT by EasySt (Truth will Prevail)
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To: j.havenfarm
Then Q needs to speak clearly, or not speak at all.

Exactly. My brain hurts trying to decipher the cryptic messages, so I ignore it all. I've got a full time job keeping my busy...if you're saving the country then spit it out, man, we don't have time to waste. Paul Revere didn't toss out bits off cryptic BS..he yelled the "The British are coming, the British are coming". Crystal clear in his messaging.

73 posted on 08/03/2018 12:37:57 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: buwaya

It’s not brilliant, it’s stupid.


74 posted on 08/03/2018 12:40:33 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: 100American; Salvavida; All
And obviously there is far more to it if the MSM is so worried they have begun taking up lots of time talking about it. If it was not a threat, why would they do so....

Tick tick tick...

Indeed, we are in an information civil war. The deep state has their gatekeepers of all things info, the media, and we have a new channel to get unfiltered information with the Q movement or The Great Awakening.

It's really a brilliant strategy to get good info to the American people by bypassing the gatekeepers of the deep state. The deep state and their media want to continue to take us down the path of totalitarianism, where President Trump and this Q movement wants to wrestle power from them by exposing their corruptions, and return it to the We the People.

The Q movement is about restoring freedom and liberty. It's a thing of beauty to watch and many good people here at Free Republic are missing out on. When the stories are written about this great chapter in our history, what are you going to tell your children and grandchildren your part in this? It's a great time to be an American to witness this going on in real time. It's easy to join in and awaken others. A united American people makes it much easier to take down the deep state and prepares us for when this information civil war breaks out on the surface.

The deep state and its enemedia are now attacking Q because they are desperate to squash it. DON'T let them silence our best opportunity to win back our republic.

Freegards!

CGato

75 posted on 08/03/2018 12:49:42 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Exactly as they did.

And the ironic thing is, they are the very thing they condemn.

They are such ministries of misinformation, right out of 1984.


76 posted on 08/03/2018 12:56:43 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: EasySt; Reno89519; All
They delight in the multitude of alignments between the two, but if Q didn't have this habit of dropping clues that lead to real, verifiable, timely, relevant information, the Autist community would have shredded it long ago.

No doubt, look what they did to Shia Labeouf. LOL

They went to the autists on the chan boards because if this was anything bad, their beautiful minds would have figured it out long ago. There is a very good reason they went to the chan boards first and let it grow from there. Brilliant stuff.

CGato

77 posted on 08/03/2018 12:58:39 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: drypowder
Q is a deep state hoax that misleads believers down a path of false hope that the deep state its self is being setup for destruction behind the scenes. It’s a propaganda ploy by the deep state to distract attention from their controlled and steady destruction of this country

Then it's not working cause I don't see anyone being lulled into a false sense of security by what he posts (which makes no sense to me)

I've tried following it but just cannot wrap my mind around all the code words and innuendos. I can't keep them straight.

But if people want to follow it, I don't see that it's going to hurt anyone. On the contrary, seems like the biggest followers are the biggest patriots, unlike the following the MSM has.

78 posted on 08/03/2018 1:01:28 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: higgmeister
I am not one of those QAnon followers but I don't chose to condemn anyone else for it.

Please provide your opinion about the "Radio Londres" sort of purpose by posting phrases such as "Jean has a long mustache", etc.

Thank you for keeping an open mind. So many closed minds here lately. I started following about a month after the first drops and was intrigued but skeptical. The proofs since then has me convinced President Trump's team has something to do with this. It really has been great as a new channel of good information that bypasses the corrupt enemedia, to deliver it to the good American people.

There really is a ton to catch up on but there are many Youtubers who have made good videos on getting people caught up. Praying Medic is one of the better ones, IMO but there are more recommended on the Q threads. Thanks again and Freegards!

CGato

79 posted on 08/03/2018 1:04:16 AM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Well it’s certainly not “some kid in his mom’s basement.”


80 posted on 08/03/2018 1:10:08 AM PDT by kelly4c
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