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

Saw my second QAnon car in the wild today.

This is probably wishful thinking, but is Q going away? Did they finally realize they were wrong after the millionth thing in a row wasn’t true? Or are they just waiting for some really big dumb thing to happen

waiting for dumb shit.

Now that 'Q' has stopped feeding them his series of conspiracist bread crumbs, it feels like QAnon has both disappeared and hasn't. They lost some of their cohesion and identity when Q stepped away, but they are still just as crazy and gullible, a pile of fuel ready to be ignited and eager to burn.

What if we introduce “puzzles” to the people of Q? We can tell them it’s all in the service of finding the big secret, or whatever they call it these days. But then, by the time they realize they’ve been doing recycled jumb-o crosswords from 1982 and sudoku, it’s way too late because they’re hooked! Don’t lead these q horses to just any water. Lead them to the water that is far far away

km I think you're the man for the job!

I think I posted about this before on some other thread but a truck with a Q bumper sticker has been parked across the street from my house working on a construction site most days for the past year. A couple months ago a traffic cop was writing someone a ticket for illegally parking too close to a driveway and the people on the construction site were verbally harassing him at the top of their lungs - ya know, traffic cops, the deep state. In any case, Q may wax and wane but the aggression and hatefulness and paranoia are alive and kicking

Huh, I assumed that the revival would be about the revival - the new Q posts seem to be just splitting the fan base on the forum I read (which turned full Russophile over the last few months)

ReTruthed

https://i.imgur.com/WXDTmUw.png

so he's the commander of the army of the dead and that excites his base?

World War Good One World Good Again

The Storm, The Kraken, Jesus, all definitely coming real soon, any day now, better invest in our gold coins!

it looks like he's farting steam

is that lore?

ReSharted

xp

The Storm, The Kraken, Jesus, all definitely coming real soon, any day now, better invest in our gold coins!

if it's a shitstorm we're talking about, I'd say it's already here

Trump is really stepping his QAnon outreach — last night he posted a video filled with overt QAnon memes on TruthSocial. pic.twitter.com/YIG2wFGyMY

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 23, 2022

The Q stuff all works in sync obviously with the talking about "grooming" and "butchering" children (the latter the favored phrase for gender-affirming care). Mainstream Republican rhetoric increasingly feels like Q LARPing.

I'm not saying it won't work but it feels pretty desperate.

It feels like doubling down to maintain his existing set of rubes

Moves and countermoves.
The “silent” war continues.
Q

is one of the dumbest things to believe in

People out there. They’re thinking and doing stuff. Making moves. Silently. ok?

things you don't see

ICP’s “fucking magnets / how do they work?” line, but instead of questioning it they make up a new theory of how magnets work, and then their entire fan base believes the theory and it becomes reality for them

I'm not saying it won't work but it feels pretty desperate.

"Work" in what sense? The Q people are a subset of Trump true believers, who are a subset of Republican party members. This does not grow his potential voter base by one person.

It feels like doubling down to maintain his existing set of rubes

This seems like a naive take to me. It will “work” for the Kochs etc by significantly increasing manipulation of elections.

Folks, what True the Vote is doing with QAnon influencers -- employing them, using them to target an election software company, funneling supposed claims they have to law enforcement -- is starting to become one of the biggest stories in the history of QAnon. https://t.co/7jNzj2pSos

— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) September 20, 2022

*2020, not 2016

Y’all know Hitler only had the support of ~30% of the electorate when he took office. Where do you think this is going? It’s not like once the corporate sector is comfortable with openly spouting their “democracy? lol” line they’ll go back to telling us all to get along so they can sell Cokes.

QAnon followers search for hidden meaning in cryptic messages from a supposed military leader with the code name “Q” and in Trump’s own pronouncements. The Negative48 spinoff focuses on deciphering meaning using a takeoff of gematria, an ancient Hebrew tradition of assigning numeric values to letters. (Forty-eight, the group says, is the value of the word “evil.”)

god, please tell me that 48 isn't just the numerical order of the letters of "E V I L" in the english alphabet

E...5 +
V...22 +
I...9 + oh...god, fuck
L...12 there is no god, fuck all of this
_____
48

DAMMIT, this shit is EXCRUCIATING to confirm

One man with the group who didn’t identify himself illustrated how it worked using the name of this newspaper. “The Washington Post?” he said. “W is 23 in the alphabet. P is 16. Thirty-nine. Angel 39. Which angel? Lucifer was an angel.”

oooooooh FUCK

trump's embrace of them makes sense: very worst case scenario for trump is that he's not able to steal the 2024 election, and if so he can rely on Qanon and the special elite level of Qanon geniuses to give him money for the rest of their lives. it won't be enough to keep funding his incredibly tacky lifestyle, but he will always be very comfortable by any other stands by taking their money

the "get a brain morans" guy must be like a god to these people

that guy was a fed

The Moran guy must be like an ancient philosophical overlord to them like Aristotle

The “silent” war continues.

If only it were. Silent, that is.

he can rely on Qanon and the special elite level of Qanon geniuses to give him money for the rest of their lives.

...and Dornald Troomps Jr has been positioning himself to inherit his daddy's magical grift machine.

Trump Jr becoming commander of Qanon would be a very idiocracy kind of near-future

Easy enough to rewrite the ancient prophecy from "JFK Jr" to "DJT Jr".

Seems like they could find something for Eric to do.

Oh definitely! I mean he could just say “I’m the president” and then go live with them

Eric is clearly the vat-grown clone that DJT's brain will be placed in after his lifestyle wreaks its natural reward.

https://i.imgur.com/BsSKXNX.png

If anyone's hungry for some tin foil stew, here's some more meat for the broth.

https://www.postingthroughit.com/findpodcast/

(It's a ~30 minute podcast giving a good overview developments of recent months from a couple of experts. Choose your preferred platform and find the latest episode "#175: Trump is Q-posting his way through midterms (feat. Mike Rothschild)")

Some highlights (apologies for any transcription mistakes):

It is a legitimizing of these [election denial] movements...and using it not for personal gain...but using it for electoral purposes...and this goes right back to the beginning of the 2020 cycle. A lot of people are not understanding how much is going on at very low levels to make sure this is repeated throughout the country...these people are not just clowns, grifters or internet trolls...people are drawn to "let's blow up democracy to own the libs".

Noteworthy names named: Dinesh D'Souza, True The Vote

bonus points: the host, Jared Holt, is a regular target of Glenn Greenwald

Ha didn't know that but much respect to Jared Holt for sure.

people are drawn to "let's blow up democracy to own the libs"

fuck that 'own the libs' shit. those people are drawn to fascism because they feel their power is slipping away under democracy, whereas under fascism they can unleash state-sponsored violence to put them back in control.

Seems to be different names for the same shit sandwich?

also known as the "McRib" iirc

most people don't read "own the libs" literally, as in "enslave the libs", but if you translate the language that says they only intend to use the amount of violent force required to ensure that they resume entire control over society, that's the import of it.