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Qanon Conspiracy Theories Part Three
Back in the 1990s I attended a UFO Discussion group once a month. The folks were evenly divided between right and left. |
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23rd June 2021, 01:22 PM | #2 |
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I think of it as the naturalnews.com crowd. The kind that started out railing against Monsanto and rainwater collection policy, with a helping of chemtrail woos, and ultimately became hijacked into an extreme right wing faction, leaning hard into Birther nonsense and adopting pretty much any anti-government conspiracy that came along. Except when Republicans controlled the presidency, Senate, and Supreme Court--then the government was still the enemy, but somehow the Democrats were controlling everything anyway and were still the ones that needed to be opposed.
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26th June 2021, 10:26 AM | #3 |
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26th June 2021, 10:52 AM | #4 |
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Mostly agree.
Wellness started out as a good thing. Who would disagree that the wellness of your fellow human is or is not a good thing? Then the woo crowd jacked it and folded it into the "spiritual" nonsense. The definition of "wellness" at this point is useless. Balancing your chakras is now part of "wellness". Those do not exist. The people promoting it know it is not real. But they have glommed onto the term as though it means something. It doesn't. |
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26th June 2021, 11:39 AM | #5 |
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26th June 2021, 12:27 PM | #6 |
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27th June 2021, 04:56 PM | #7 |
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The only reasonable response is to mock the insanity.
QAnon has always sounded like the most incredible low budget VHS movie, to me anyways, so I made the cover art [reddit.com] |
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28th June 2021, 04:34 AM | #8 |
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Sure, but this newfound militancy that goes along with being a Q crank seems like a new dimension. I suppose there was always a bit of that when you factor in more strident parts of the anti-vax community, but it does seem strange to see crystal and yoga instagram influencers becoming so interested in the Q death cult.
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29th June 2021, 08:12 AM | #9 |
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29th June 2021, 09:17 AM | #10 |
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All a reporter needs to do is ask these morons if violence is coming and they are happy to predict it. The delusions about Trump coming back to office in August should make for an interesting late summer 2021.
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29th June 2021, 09:27 AM | #11 |
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Plenty of them are a bit miffed because Trump is publicly announcing a publicity tour with Bill Oreilly. Q cranks are wondering how Trump will have time to tour the country when he's imminently going to be reinstated as the president and presumably be busy ordering the executions of all the deep state sickos and traitors.
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29th June 2021, 09:34 AM | #12 |
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Yep. It's amazing how exactly like every other conspiracy theory this is. Real-life action is always just around the corner. We saw this for years, that the new 9/11 investigation was going to happen and reveal all of the traitors, which would then be hung etc.
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29th June 2021, 12:19 PM | #14 |
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And new info is just around the corner proving that the GOvernment is covering up UFO's visiting Earth.(We just saw that with the exctiement over the just released Pentagon report on UFO,s which ended up saying there was no proof of UFO's visiting Earth).
Or that new dynamite infomation about the JFK assination is soon to be revealed. Yup, every there are new and earth shaking revelations just around the corner for every Conspiracy theory. Part of Conspiracy Theory DNA, I suppose. |
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29th June 2021, 12:21 PM | #15 |
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But, humor aside, that a few Qanon's might turn to violence is cause for concern. Yes, I know that 99% of those who talk about violence are full of Hot Air, and there chances of overturning the goverment are about zero,but the few who do turn to violence can kill or hurt a lot of innocent people. They need to have a eye kept on them by the Feds.
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29th June 2021, 12:22 PM | #16 |
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30th June 2021, 08:56 PM | #17 |
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All you so-called skeptics, it’s time to eat some crow. The Storm is happening! The Clinton Foundation and its CFO, Andrew Kessel, were just indicted by a grand jury…. ah… hmm… (squints at news page)… Sorry, I guess that was the Trump Foundation and its CFO Allen Weisselberg that were just indicted. Never mind.
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1st July 2021, 05:21 AM | #18 |
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Feds, probably. Local cops, lol no.
Local cops continue their hands off approach to right wing political violence. Proud Boys continue to throw violent street rallies and commit broad daylight assault without interference from local police departments. Proud Boys that weren't arrested for the Jan6 attack remain extremely active and belligerent on the West Coast. Cops and klan, hand in hand. Same as it ever was. |
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2nd July 2021, 03:32 AM | #19 |
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[CT Mode engaged]
That's what ((they)) want you to think. *snort* As if anyone called 'Weisselberg', sorry, ((Weisselberg)), would ever be convicted by the Rothschild-owned US judiciary. Obvious fake false flag news fed to you by the FSM!!! Sorry, MSM. Those lizard mind-control rays are messing with my mind. [/CT Mode] |
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5th July 2021, 12:49 PM | #20 |
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Wasn't the 4th of July one of the Q dates for Trump's reinstatement? It's hard to keep track of all the failures. Oh well, on to the next.
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6th July 2021, 11:49 AM | #25 |
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Mike Lindell finally clarifies on his prediction that Trump will be returned to power, citing Aug 13 date.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mike...atement-2021-7 Down stand too close to those goalposts, they are liable to start moving rapidly in about a month from now. |
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7th July 2021, 09:16 AM | #28 |
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I cannot imagine how my life would ever work out such that I would be photographed in front of a board like this. I straightened the photo and boosted the contrast, but I still can't make out the light green writing on the right side.
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7th July 2021, 09:23 AM | #29 |
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Is that supposed to be a list of Trump's top supporters? Project Veritas with an arrow to Trump, Dinesh D'souza with an arrow to Trump, Brick with an arrow to Trump. Brick??
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Looks like an anus to me.
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Seeing Paula White-Cain right under Trump's chin there reminds me that Journey is playing Lollapalooza this summer.
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There is video!
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Jesus (at the top and underlined) with an arrow to Trump. Why would he need anyone else?
ETA- on the "brick" thing, it looks like it says "suit brent" (all capitals) underneath. My google-fu led me to this story (at The Hill) about some loon in Pennsylvania who wore a brick-patterned suit to a Trump rally and was called up on stage to shake hands with Trump. His name wasn't "Brent," though, it was Blake, so, I don't know- Lindell is not just a nutjob, he's an incompetent one? |
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Would have been more credible if it had been drawn in feces.
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