Posted on 08/05/2021 8:46:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The QAnon Storm is Upon Us: Mike Rothschild on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Aug 5
Mike Rothschild: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Once dismissed as just another set of wacky conspiracy theories from the internet, the phenomenon known as QAnon has grown into a malignant force, infecting minds with dangerous fictions and amassing real power. What is this movement trying to achieve, and what happens next?
Thursday, August 5 at 7pm ET, on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, journalist Mike Rothschild will untangle the many threads of myth and misinformation that make up QAnon ideology and why its outrageous beliefs are no laughing matter.
Rothschild will examine the background conspiracies and cults that have fed the Q phenomenon, from its embrace by right-wing media and Donald Trump, through the rending of families as loved ones became addicted to Q’s increasingly violent rhetoric, to the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Rothschild believes the QAnon phenomenon shows no sign of calming, and that it’s time to figure out what QAnon really is, because QAnon and its relentlessly dark theory of everything isn’t done with us yet.
Free registration is required to attend this live Zoom event, so sign up right now.
Author of the new book The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, Mike Rothschild is a journalist focused on the intersections between internet culture and politics as seen through the dark glass of conspiracy theories. Since 2018, he has specialized in examining QAnon and is one of the first journalists to reveal its connections to past conspiracy theories and scams. Rothschild’s expertise has led to his becoming a leading commentator on the subject for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and elsewhere.
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a nonprofit educational, advocacy, and research organization headquartered in Amherst, New York, with executive offices in Washington, D.C. It is also home to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and the Council for Secular Humanism. The Center for Inquiry strives to foster a secular society based on reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. Visit CFI on the web at centerforinquiry.org.
The only ones I question are the ones defending the vaccine. Q was harmless.
It’s kind of sad but they are off on their own, discussing recipes and stuff. They don’t hurt anybody and it has to suck.
I was told Q wasn't concerned about my timeline.
That's true, but it wasn't personal. Q wasn't concerned with our timelines because we only knew a tiny fraction of what was going on and weren't in a position to drive the schedule.
The biggest part of 'Trust the Plan' translates into, "Trust President Trump."
To do that it means, 'don't work against what the president is doing.'
'Don't act like you think he doesn't know what day it is, how many days until the election and that time is runing out.'
'Don't demand he fire this person or hire that person as if he doesn't know how to manage people and needs to be told how to perform his job.'
'Don't pretend to support the president and then work to tear down his reputation for competence about his decisions over and over again as if he's failing and doesn't know how to be president. '
Don't organize protests against President Trump to 'tell him he needs to do something before it's too late!' or agitate for the public to withdraw support unless he obeys us.
'Don't show contempt for his decisions just because he can't give you classified information'
'Don't assume you know more than he does about how to run the country while he's under unprecedented attack by almost everyone with a microphone and most foreign nations.'
"Trust the Plan" = "Trust President Trump is working a strategy in the most dangerous time in our history and don't go looking for alternatives to replace him if he doesn't say what you want him to say. There IS NO ONE!"
It turns out, the Law Of War has a set of rules which bind the actions of our military and of President Trump if he refused to leave office because he knew he won. How would he prevail over the will of the China owned wings of the US and state governments? That path could take decades and during tha time, ever expanding riots/lawsuits/attempts to impeach him etc and require piecemeal litigation, at a time when our courts were corrupt. This civil unrest would weaken us as the US lay at the feet of our enemies in China and around the world - we can't be disabled by internal strife right now. We just can't.
It didn't matter at that point what we dearly wanted President Trump to tell the world (I wanted him to share what he knew too). But it would tear the country apart to try that with a compromised government. And given he couldn't tell us what he was doing, if we abandoned him for not refusing to leave, we would definitely lose our country and become China's slaves.
So trusting there is a plan, and realizing he didn't just give up his life and that of his family members to 'try' playing president for a few years in case it worked out okay, supporting the president and our military even when we don't like what we see happening, was key to President Trump's strategy. By what means would the MSM ever let President Trump understand his motives, methods - when would they let him reach the public while they tried to destroy him?
Where did his legally required lawful attempts to stop the steal get us? The US government had fallen and it's not because Q people supported the president, campaigned for him, advocated for his causes and his military.
This is the closest China has ever come to overthrowing the country and they weren't going to miss this chance. The Dems/Deep State/MSM had civil war on tap - well it would LOOK like civil war but it would be driven with foreign fighters and military grade 'protests'. The president and military had to calculate potential loss of life and loss of US Sovereignty for each strategy he and his military entertained. Scavino tweeted pictures of President Trump contemplating a portrait of Lincoln (hint: Civil War) and wrote, "For God and Country."
The goal is to save the republic without destroying the rule of law in the process. If he or the military were to set the law aside to go after our enemies, then the US would descend into lawlessness as that tactic would be deployed by every despot and dictator clawing its way to office after Trump left office. Using The PLan, the law of the land is still working to bind the conduct of war to free us from China's puppets even those the puppets themselves are behaving lawlessly. We must grip the constitution with both hands and hold on, lest we follow the foosteps of countries who no longer remember what stable representative government feels like to live under.
With so much we don't know, with freedom around the world at stake, these Trusting the Plan weren't going to protest to make President Trump enact our strategies (e.g., fire this person or hire that person), critique his intellect, patriotism, competence, sacrifices etc. by talking down to him, telling him how to save the country that had been fully subverted by China.
There are times when we must lobby against beloved Presidents, but on the information battlefield, with both sides fighting to retain the will of people and the fate of freedom around the world, "Now" was not the time for us to issue our demands.
I didn't get the timing I wanted either, but it's more important Q and President Trump got the timing they wanted.
Fortunately, the Law of War has an entirely different set of laws governing what our military can do to defend our country if, specifically, Washington D.C. is occupied by a foreign aggressor. The occupied territory specifically has to be D.C., or else different laws apply, and it has to be done by an enemy like China.
That's why the Deep State keeps shrieking that our enemy is Russia and oddly enough, trying to make D.C. a state (escape the Law of War clause).
Given the best conditions to ensure the US can defend itself from China have been met via The Plan, allowing the farce in DC to play out this far means that our military is authorized by extensive terms defined in the Law of War, to rip the entire Biden administration out (as one unit, basically) without working it's way through this office and that agency.
The infiltration is so thorough, our country would never survive a room to room search/litigation and battle to remove traitors had President Trump simply refused to leave office. The MSM and Deep State would foment civil war and drag out every trial with every conceivable delay. Traitors would escape exposure and hang on to emerge years later.
You've seen that our courts are controlled. They 'expose the proof we have of treason' strategy wouldn't work as long as Trump retained office and China was not occupying D.C. through puppets becaue there could be no sufficient military answer per Law of War terms.
It's not over yet. When General Flynn spoke around the time President Trump was pretending to decide whether or not to leave in order to avoid Civil War (PDJT already knew), General Flynn said pointedly a few times that we needed 'limited martial law'. Later I realized he wasn't just opining, he was telling us what we actually HAVE in place.
Anyone who thinks China wanted to turn down Biden's invitation to 'secure the capital' with 350,000 Chinese soldiers for January 20th (or was it January 6th) has NOT been paying attention. Our military did not give Biden an active nuclear football upon his inauguration for the same reason our military would never hand America's nuclear football to China directly. Things are not what they seem.
The timing and optics may not have been to my liking. But, The PLAN is a winning strategy.
There wasn't another alternative. There isn't another president-in-waiting to take on the Deep State. They couldn't attempt a 20 year strategy of eradication. It had to be this way. The public would never, could never being to understand how captured our government was. They would have despaired and given up.
THE PLAN requires, as a patriotic duty, that none of us despair. That's a battle tactic - the Deep State is using psyops to make us think all is lost. The Q people have done their best to pray, as Q reminded us, to support each other, stay together (morale, collaborate across the aisle, race, religion), keep support for President Trump going strong despite the optics.I've seen people who don't follow doing the same things to stay on point and I haven't noticed anyone blaming them for the steal.
The current enduring US government is operating partially under the military and organized in a structure called "Devolution" (regional mil control to remove need for coordination while maintaining defense against China and our numerous enemies). Basically, we have the limited martial law Flynn spoke of. Things are coming to a head now. We couldn't have the simpler resolution I certainly hoped for. Pushing Trump to enact our timing would fail.
I'm grateful to God for giving us warriors the world fears, a president our enemies fear, patriots who haven't given up and will stand rather than kneel. God is blessing America.
Prayers up for President Trump, who won the 2020 election by a massive number of votes, the military forces who remain faithful, and all patriots - may God strengthen us for the coming challenges, like none ever seen before in US history. I pray that God grant us swift, crushing victory of China's puppets and operatives of every malign tactic and strategy.
That predicted car bombing in London on February 16, 2018? Yeah, nope. John McCain's resignation? Yeah, nope. Pope Francis arrested on felony charges? Not so far. "Bombshell" revelation about North Korea in May 2018? Sorry, nothing there. Mass suicide of President Trump's enemies on February 10, 2018? Nope. Major DoD event February 1, 2018? Nope.
Yet these people still believe in this nonsense. No matter how many failures happen, they still buy it. Daily thread still posted here too. They worship Q like it's some kind of Nostradamus, but really it's more like this guy:
Or more likely this guy...
Now they make up new fantasies about vaccines containing Bill Gates mind control microchips and alien DNA and graphene oxide. Or that the 5G cell towers create SARS-CoV-2 virions inside your body. Or that the vaccines sterilize everyone (despite the thousands of documented births and pregnancies recorded for vaccinated persons). Or that the vaccines make you magnetic.
There's this whole mythology that they develop. They did it when Q was dropping nonsense onto message boards for Internet trolls and they're doing it now for other topics. It's sad to see because some people get confused by it.
I'd like to hear ONE piece of violent rhetoric from Q. Just one.
A Rothschild squeeing about Q. Imagine that.
At this point the Qballs are complicit in the con.
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Its funny how you brain dead normies have faded back into your lounge chairs, got your vax, and wear your masks like good little lab rabbits.
or “In before the first 50” for the first 100 or so replies...
Millions of people across the world and right here at home took to the streets in support of Trump. Millions were inspired to become politically active who had never been before. Many millions crossed over and voted R for the first time in their lives.
Q woke up the world, and we ain't going back to sleep with you.
#TrumpLandslide
Mickety, you spelt 'Q fact' wrong.
But then, you believe missiles are helicopters.
Oh. I’ve just been trolled by the king of Qtards. See post 28. I guess I need to add to my original post 5 thusly:
Yet if you look at such a thread, you see nothing more than a bunch of delusional folks doing nothing more than chit chatting and shooting the breeze AND ONE MORON POSTING CUTE LITTLE MEMES WHEN HE’S NOT ON OTHER THREADS BEING FREE REPUBLIC’S BIGGEST TOOL.
Sometimes we talk about your mom.
Not vaxxed here and never will be.
And you Qballs are still con artists.
We still trusting Durham?
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Imagine that.
#WeSeeYouDerpy
Oh I forgot, Q say’s Trump will be back in office in February, April, August and October. Love it to happen but I’m reality based. 2024 is good enough for me (my personal prediction:-).
Once again, you vomit up nonsense, Puker.
Awww, you think my memes are cute.
C'mere, brother....
Your brain is vaxxed. You are a controlled specimen.
#DerpStateMouthpiece
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