Q is Joe Biden, another non-US Politics thread (Q Anon, Qanon, Q_anon, Joe Biden is Q)

Back in the day, if you espoused a conspiracy theory like that you'd've been written off as a crank. Today, you toss some human trafficking pixies into the narrative and you're practically mainstream.

He does mention an AP/NBC poll where 70 percent of the public believed the gas shortage in '79 was an "industry hoax." Not necessarily that they believed Carter was in league with Exxon/Mobil, but that somebody was lying. Overall, though, agreed, the wilder stuff is much more mainstream now.

The recent QAA episode on the great awakening map is a good one.

https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-130-psychedelic-5d-qanon

xp that picture of lauren boebert, and everything about her, is really funny. sometimes i think the far right uses their own absurdity as a kind of shield, like they want you to underestimate them. this seems especially true of the boogaloo people.

I've been plugging away at _Reaganland_ for the last while...Perlstein mentions a Q-like conspiracy having to do with the gas shortage of 1979; some people thought it was all manufactured, that there were full oil tankers parked off the coast and that Carter was plotting with Exxon and Mobil to flood the market at just right the moment.

the boogaloo people, in adopting that moniker and wearing hawaiian shirts as their gang sign, are most certainly attempting to disguise themselves as harmless and ridiculous. it is the total opposite of the KKK approach of looking like wolves, while the boogaloo people want to look like sheep. they are both violent white supremacist scum.

trump was like that too, i think. you couldn't really mock him because he was already a clown.

boebert just reminds me of him in this sense. the bar called shooters, the little gun holster she wears around her thigh, it's just such a weird performance.

"the gun lady"

Just imagining the brainrot from listening to 130! Episodes of a podcast about Qanon dickheads.

Like, I don't need 130 episodes of anything about something I actually LIKE.

A gun-themed bar called Shooters is so clearly not a regular joe working stiff bar but a highly contrived Disney-style attraction for petit bourgeois assholes.

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/154371638_10224997875756180_5660368630465798191_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=3&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=FFiLApRNqskAX94-lJV&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=19969c42ba049058227016d8c7bdcb6c&oe=605FC143

Really leaning into that whole "it's just a stylistic preference" thing

Obama is nothing like Bush and I trust him to only kill the right people

i have at least two friends that do the 'here's hwy it's ok that our Democrat does this horrible thing' gymnastics, drives me nuts

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pic.twitter.com/nLEeYDyvb5

— G.W. Bush-era Leftism Bot (@DubyaEraLeft) March 1, 2021

Those are certainly letters

The schtick of that account is that it's all old images, right?

yes, that's a bush era cartoon, thought that should be obvious

Breaking on @MSNBC: The FBI and DHS have issued a joint intel bulletin warning that domestic extremists have discussed plans to "take control of the U.S. Capitol and remove democratic lawmakers on or about the 4th of March." March 4 is important to QAnon believers. @JuliaEAinsley

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 3, 2021

Give it up already. Sheesh.

I prefer the Q followers who were like "Shoot, maybe this Biden victory was part of the Plan all along?!"
The flexible ones, the taoist ones.

Q is Joe Biden, Joe Biden is Q

you'd think at a certain point the fact that literally nothing they have said was going to happen has actually happened would have an effect

it started off with Q making the prophecies, but it quickly became others making the prophecies with Q. it's an evolving shared decentralized game, and the unspoken goal is to create the most popular variant of the theory that others can attach themselves to

so if 3/4/21 isn't correct, than good: now it's someone else's turn

when i saw the photos of all the Q people protesting around the globe on 1/6/21, i knew it would never go away

when i saw the photos of all the Q people protesting around the globe on 1/6/21, i knew it would never go away

Can QAnon survive another ‘Great Disappointment’ on March 4? History suggests it might

https://theconversation.com/can-qanon-survive-another-great-disappointment-on-march-4-history-suggests-it-might-155192

i used to sometimes for fun listen to this harold camping guy on the radio in my car and he kept predicting the world would end on certain dates. he even bought billboards saying it would end may something 2011. still waiting!

I think Harold Camping was an Oakland dude, oddly enough. Or at least he broadcast out of the East Bay somewhere.

And yes, his world did come to an end.

🐦[Breaking on @MSNBC🕸: The FBI and DHS have issued a joint intel bulletin warning that domestic extremists have discussed plans to "take control of the U.S. Capitol and remove democratic lawmakers on or about the 4th of March." March 4 is important to QAnon believers. @JuliaEAinsley🕸
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 3, 2021🕸]🐦

Somehow I imagine these doofuses, unable to storm the Capitol this time, trying to storm Capitol Heights because of the name and then getting lost in the suburbs.

they're all going to show up at Federal Express and threaten to shut down the mail service

They're LARPing anyway... it'll be a choose-your-own-adventure kind of outing.

if you want to build a pillow fort at the Pentagon, go to page 14.
If you want to invade and seize Medieval Times, go to page 15
If you want to do something that actually matters, become somebody else.

They're LARPing anyway...

The problem is that some of them are LARPing with body armor and loaded semi-automatic rifles and handguns. This can become a problem if they really get into their role-playing.

My guess is not much will happen tomorrow and 9/11/21 will become the new date where everything changes, it fits their shitty action movie sensibilities.

Aimless otm. I think this bullshit would be a lot easier to laugh off if we didn't already know how many of these dudes are heavily armed and/or work for groups with access to military grade weapons. Do I think they'll successfully storm the Capitol again? No. But it annoys me to see people shrug this off as if its inconsequential.

Somehow I imagine these doofuses, unable to storm the Capitol this time, trying to storm Capitol Heights because of the name and then getting lost in the suburbs.

Capitol Records is comparatively unprotected, just sayin

the Quapital

They can storm Capitol Total Landscaping.

it just seems to me like March 4th is a big deal to the magical-thinking Q believers, the day when the scales fall from everyone's eyes, we realize that the US hasn't been a country since 1871, the military mobilizes, etc. Jan 6 was supposed to be a day when Congress could take a specific action and fix the stolen election, and there was a certain bonkers logic to the idea that a mobilization of people would push Congress to do what they wanted. But nothing election-related is actually happening tomorrow, so what's going to be the spark?

Looking at the big publicly visible Q forum they seem pretty doubtful that anything will happen.

Mostly likely a few grumpy old dudes in mossy oak and MAGA caps, loitering in front of state capitol buildings... they couldn't get the time off work to drive to D.C.

Yeah, without a big focus like "Mike Pence can turn this around", it'll diffuse, people will find their own deadlines or slow processes for realising that nothing is happening - some might realise that nothing is happening others, will get back to what they see as the great work. A quote from the forums:

If we're looking at anything being done behind the scenes to act as countermeasures, it seems likely that they will continue to be covert and unannounced to the greater public. Meaning soft moves, not hard ones. If you think about it, without controlling dissemination of information across the majority of the popular platforms, narrative positioning and hence moving the population to the much vaunted 'military tribunals' is a logical and practical impossibility. If you took over the major airwaves and showed the greater population what their rulers truly were, to try and get support for hard actions, you'd be effectively playing into the enemy's hands of dividing the country and perhaps irreparably so. It is likely not a campaign of in your face confrontation, but the years of positioning to levers of power that you're looking at, that is assuming, anything is being done at all.

For our part, the answer is clear, people have to carry on with their lives as best they can and create the country they want for themselves and their children, as best they can.

I mean there will definitely be a problem where there's a bunch of people who felt like the system was in some way representing them, and now don't (and have further "evidence" that the system is broken and invalid), and they're heavily armed and belligerent. And Q is serving as a plank in the ramshackle platform that supports anti-vax, anti-mask, that's not good - one of the Wins of the Day yesterday was Texas governor Abbott lifting coronavirus restrictions.

it started off with Q making the prophecies, but it quickly became others making the prophecies with Q. it's an evolving shared decentralized game, and the unspoken goal is to create the most popular variant of the theory that others can attach themselves to

It's interesting because it's an example of what memes (in Richard Dawkins' original conception) were - the idea mutates when it needs to (when the road runs out on Jan 6th) and the strongest (the ones with the highest upvotes on the forums) continue - these are the ones that can latch onto an existing structure, like the Sovereign Citizen movement, or bible studies - being able to read everything as a biblical reference is a very similar skill to being able to read everything as a Q-code.

I read more talk of 'bracing' for extremists.. have any actually shown up? Or is The Great Re-ReAwakening cancelled?

iirc from post-prediction doomsday manual, the next steps are pretty simple:

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SCENARIO 2.4.22: A specific date was prophesied but nothing happened
protocol: go back to the bible and/or ancient calendars. at some point, mistakes were made and the whole world is now on the wrong calendar. only you and your friends know what the correct date and year is now

CNN was covering this yesterday...I guess they have to, but that really seemed to me to be a case where you're just feeding into the possibility of something happening. Cover it, and I'm sure there are people who think "Well, we'd better do something or we look weak"; ignore it (beyond a quick story about the Capitol closed for the day--you can't really ignore that) and the incentive to go through with this insanity diminishes. Not that I claim to understand this mindset.