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.
― treeship., Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
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.
― Mosholu Porkway (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― Compromise isn't a principle, it's a method (Aimless), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
trump was like that too, i think. you couldn't really mock him because he was already a clown.
― treeship., Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
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.
― treeship., Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
"the gun lady"
― treeship., Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Just imagining the brainrot from listening to 130! Episodes of a podcast about Qanon dickheads.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 21 February 2021 06:34 (three years ago) link
Like, I don't need 130 episodes of anything about something I actually LIKE.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 21 February 2021 06:35 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 21 February 2021 06:37 (three years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 26 February 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
Obama is nothing like Bush and I trust him to only kill the right people
― Towards a Britain-Free Planet (Left), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
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
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
uh
pic.twitter.com/nLEeYDyvb5— G.W. Bush-era Leftism Bot (@DubyaEraLeft) March 1, 2021
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 March 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
Those are certainly letters
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 March 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
The schtick of that account is that it's all old images, right?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 1 March 2021 07:41 (three years ago) link
yes, that's a bush era cartoon, thought that should be obvious
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 March 2021 09:33 (three years ago) link
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
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
Give it up already. Sheesh.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
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.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
Q is Joe Biden, Joe Biden is Q
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
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
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
so if 3/4/21 isn't correct, than good: now it's someone else's turn
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
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
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:22 (three years ago) link
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
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
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!
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
I think Harold Camping was an Oakland dude, oddly enough. Or at least he broadcast out of the East Bay somewhere.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
And yes, his world did come to an end.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
🐦[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🕸]🐦
― Bruno Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
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.
― Bruno Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
they're all going to show up at Federal Express and threaten to shut down the mail service
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
They're LARPing anyway... it'll be a choose-your-own-adventure kind of outing.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
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 15If you want to do something that actually matters, become somebody else.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
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.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
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.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
Capitol Records is comparatively unprotected, just sayin
― wake me up before you cuomo (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
the Quapital
― treeship., Thursday, 4 March 2021 00:17 (three years ago) link
They can storm Capitol Total Landscaping.
― nickn, Thursday, 4 March 2021 00:18 (three years ago) link
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.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 4 March 2021 00:32 (three years ago) link
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.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 March 2021 00:39 (three years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 March 2021 09:20 (three years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 4 March 2021 09:29 (three years ago) link
I read more talk of 'bracing' for extremists.. have any actually shown up? Or is The Great Re-ReAwakening cancelled?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
iirc from post-prediction doomsday manual, the next steps are pretty simple:
...SCENARIO 2.4.22: A specific date was prophesied but nothing happenedprotocol: 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
SCENARIO 2.4.22: A specific date was prophesied but nothing happenedprotocol: 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
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
so did this happen, or
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
yes, we were spiritually judged by Trump so Biden became Trump and doesn't know he's Trump yet, but will know in 3 months time during the activation
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
the calendar is wrong, folks, come back later on the true date
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 4 March 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link