Posted on 03/05/2019 12:21:14 AM PST by Simon Green
A book that pushes the conspiracy theory Qanon climbed within the top 75 of all books sold on Amazon in recent days, pushed by Amazon’s algorithmically generated recommendations page.
“QAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening,” which has no stated author, ranked at No. 56 at press time, was featured in the algorithmically generated “Hot new releases” section on Amazon’s books landing page. The book claims without evidence a variety of outlandish claims including that prominent Democrats murder and eat children and that the U.S. government created both AIDS and the movie Monsters Inc.
The Qanon conspiracy theory moved from fringe parts of the internet in 2018 to achieve national prominence thanks to supporters of President Donald Trump who wore clothes and held signs referencing “Q” at political rallies. The conspiracy theory’s rise was followed by a variety of Qanon-related moneymaking schemes that included merchandise for sale that could also be found on Amazon.
Adherents of the Qanon conspiracy theory falsely believe that the world is run by a Satanic cabal helmed by former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and that President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller are secretly working in tandem to eliminate the cabal.
The book, “An Invitation to the Great Awakening,” is currently No. 9 in all books about politics, and No. 1 in all books about “Censorship,” one slot ahead of Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” and immediately followed by classics “Lord of the Flies,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and “Of Mice and Men.”
The paperback, which cost $17 at press time, features outlandish claims, sometimes written in rapid succession with no evidence. On one page, the book baselessly claims that the United States government created AIDS, polio, Lyme disease, some natural disasters, two Indiana Jones movies and the Pixar movie Monsters Inc.
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I don't require comfort. I'm a natural man.
ALL of 'em? Wow.
Yes, all of 'em. Even you, HG. You "feel" like Q is a LARP, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. At this point, with all the evidence on the table and available, it is only "feelings, emotions, pride, etc" that prevent otherwise intelligent patriots from accepting the truth.
Faith. Gotta have it.
Not clicking your link. I know you're just trying to rick-roll me with gay George Michael. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
Having been called one... and knowing I ain't one... kinda causes me to question the veracity of such claims. Absent evidence.
I know you're not a paid distruptor, HG, or working for ShareBlue or any of the derp state paid disruptors. But that doesn't mean you're not a troll of a different color.
Let's not forget the real definition of "troll". The internet has come up recently with another term, "shill". I think that describes more precisely what paid disruptors, infiltrators, and derp agents are better than "troll". Troll is more of an all encompassing word now. Sorta like how I use "derp" to describe all dems, libs, dupes, unwitting derp supporters and more. Saves keystrokes.
I bet they love you too, given a chance.
They have no reason not to. I still don't understand the level of anger from some people who I am on the same side as.
There's those pesky feelings again.
Whoa.. that's a bit broad-brush wide-sweeping absolutist assumption there, cowboy.
All of what YOU consider evidence may not qualify as evidence to others.
You "feel" like Q is a LARP, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I've not discussed my feelings, especially my feelings for Q.
Are you now a judge of my emotions and those with whom I share relationships? Hence?
I know you're not a paid distruptor, HG, or working for ShareBlue or any of the derp state paid disruptors.
Correct. I'm just mildly contrary for kicks.
But that doesn't mean you're not a troll of a different color.
Now you're ragging on me because I'm black?
I still don't understand the level of anger from some people who I am on the same side as.
The Moonies didn't act hateful but folks still kinda wanted to beat 'em up.
Hence.
If my answers frighten you, then you should cease asking scary questions.
All of what YOU consider evidence may not qualify as evidence to others.
I know evidence when I see it. There is legion and a grippe and its all there for you to see if you but open your eyes and look. The same evidence exists for me as exists for "others" and it is equal for all. Some look, others don't. Not my problem.
I've not discussed my feelings, especially my feelings for Q.
But you have. As have all the other anti-Q shriekers. They have nothing real, logical, or reasonable to support their assertions. All that is left is feelings at that point. Are you now a judge of my emotions and those with whom I share relationships? Hence?
Absolutely, yes. Not sure what those you share relationships has to do with anything, though.
Correct. I'm just mildly contrary for kicks.
"Mildly", you say"
Now you're ragging on me because I'm black?"
Being black myself, I would never do no sucha' thing.
The Moonies didn't act hateful but folks still kinda wanted to beat 'em up.
Some young girls in Salem acted different and some folks kinda wanted to burn them.
Hence.
So gay.
Whut? Wasn't "Grippe" some kind of medieval disease?
This is marketing? Pshaw.
They have nothing real, logical, or reasonable to support their assertions. All that is left is feelings at that point.
Some folks might look at "Q Proofs" the same way. Hence....
Not sure what those you share relationships has to do with anything
Not much, but it was an unexpected aside, hence it was included.
Some young girls in Salem acted different and some folks kinda wanted to burn them.
Nah, they hanged 'em.
The Q LARP is dying. No arrest of Hillary, no arrest of Huma and no damn arrest of Podesta. Shoot, there’s been no arrest of anyone.
Then there’s the “Trust Sessions” and “Trust Wray” idiocy. Hell, I loved AG Sessions but he was up against it, under investigation by McCabe and didn’t budge on any of this.
Trust Sessions my rear end!
Now if you are really up to it BiggBob, you should contact a Trump campaign guy who is taking on any and I mean any Q LARP believers. He wants to talk to you!
Do you have enough to stand up to the bad predictions and defend the Q LARP?
Well, do you?
Contact him on twitter @JohnWicksofPolitics or let me know and I will try to help connect you guys for a nice chat.
He wants to help you guys get back to reality! Let’s do it.
Thin ice.
My eyes are open, Baggy. It's why I don't worship at the alter of The Prophet Q.
That's been my take on this nonsense from the very beginning.
I’m very sorry, coaster, if I misrepresented what you said. I’ve gone over your post and mine several times, and may have misunderstood the post of yours that I quoted. Please accept my sincerest apologies.
But, to make myself clear, I do support our President, I voted for him. However, “Q Anon” is a ridiculous, paranoid fantasma, a transparently inane hack, a guile, a limerick, a pose, a fake, a fraud, and a vapor...was my point.
I almost begged the Mods and Mr. Robinson to zot all this Q stew this morning, it’s an albatross. It’s someone’s soc/psych doctorate in the making. And an embarrassment to sober, reasonable people.
Get out the decoder rings, it’s almost time for the next installment!
It's only amazing to the Q faithful. Everyone else knows that Qanon is a silly internet hoax that doesn't warrant the President's attention.
Painfully slow.
Most rational adults who've been exposed to Qanon, concluded it's a hoax or a deep state psyop over a year ago.
Quite the opposite. General Flynn’s brother and sister, and George Papadapalous all admitted to being followers just in recent weeks. While in the other side, you have endless stories from the game news trying to discredit it.
How was it Q knew a year in advance the military would build the wall? I remember the “rational adults” laughing at that suggestion a year ago.
Isn't he the same guy who said that Hillary had been fitted with an ankle monitor, and that she was headed to Gitmo?
That guy? LOL
And you haven’t heard POTUS say keep gitmo open and “use it for her”?
I bet you would be surprised to learn they have recently installed wheelchair ramps at Gitmo.
Confirmation bias. I swear, you guys will take just about anything as a 'sign'. Do you read chicken entrails too?
And why isn't Hillary in Gitmo yet? I guess she lost her bracelet and can't be found. Yeah, that's it. No way would Q ever lie about such a thing.
Are we still trusting Sessions, or is that topic veboten now? I thought it was holy writ. Was firing Sessions part of The Plan? Must be, because Q would never lie about such things.
It's 4-D chess, and Q will explain it to you. Except he won't, because he only speaks in riddles, so you can't ever prove he lied. If his prediction didn't come true, it's not on him. It's on you, because you decoded it wrong.
Man, I think I'm finally getting the hang of this Q stuff!
I should’ve dialed back the harsh. Contrition here.
If anyone has confirmation bias it’s you. I suppose you really believe Trump accidentally misspelled “bye Hillary” this week because that is what the MSM has brainwashed you into believing. No meaning, Trump just keeps accidentally misspelling things again and again.
Funny you should mention Sessions, Q just mentioned yesterday that his purpose was to fire all of the old staff which he succeeded in doing. Whoops, guess you’d better go back to CNN to get the real story.
Come on, man. You're a smart fellow. Q said to "Trust Sessions". You Q folk repeated it like a religious mantra for months and months.
And so you did, then Trump fired him.
Wait....what? Why would the President fire Sessions when Q told us to trust him? You mean to tell me the President really meant what he said about Sessions all those months? Whoa....who knew?
Looks like Q and his merry followers were the clueless ones. Everyone else took the President at his word, and most of us also saw through the pathetic, cowardly weasel early on.
Trump was right about Sessions and Q was dead wrong. The truth was in front of your face all along, but you chose to believe a lying internet hoaxer instead.
We were told a year ago it was all a show.
All I know is that Trump just retweeted the exact same tweet Q tweeted yesterday by Jim Hanson. Of the thousands, he picked this one. Q constantly writes “coincidence?” Guess he can write it again.
If there was a confirmation bias, we would be finding coincidence with Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, Cruz, etc. But we don’t. There is only one person constantly makes these Q confirmations, and that is President Trump.
Within the next 30 days,Trump will retest the exact same things Q does, tweet exact one minute after Q does, tweet or say phrases Q said (like he said “We are entering a Great Awakening” last week).
But unfortunately, despite how unlikely this is to be, your confirmation bias will make you dismiss it.
But the confirmations are becoming more and more direct and frequent.
Well, who on earth can argue with that? Correlation is confirmation!
I notice you ignored my questions about Jeff Sessions for a second time. Q told us to trust him, then Trump went and fired him. What do Qubists make of that?
Did Q and the President get their signals crossed? Did Q not get the memo that Trump was unhappy with Jeff? Millions of people reading Trump's tweets heard the message loud and clear.
I thought Q was some sort of trusted insider. How could he be so out of the loop that he missed something so huge? Why did he keep telling his followers to "Trust Sessions", when the President was tweeting the exact opposite?
Oh yes, I remember now. You Qballs told us it was all part of "The Plan", and that they were playing good cop bad cop, while working behind the scenes to bring down the deep state.
When the President finally fired his worthless hide, you Qbists went dead silent. Without admitting that Q got it wrong, you hypocrites changed your tune to, "Trust Trump's Plan".
You guys are frauds, just like your dear leader.
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