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Old 8th November 2021, 05:56 PM   #201
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Originally Posted by eerok View Post
I'm afraid their confusion goes much deeper than that. Reality is not an option. JFK himself was expected to appear as well.
We have an interlocutor here who promoted the JFK Jr. CT; I'm pretty sure it's a common Q-nut delusion, one of many.
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Old 8th November 2021, 06:03 PM   #202
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Trump set the stage for all this ****, and that will be his legacy.
I think that's very true. Trump's legacy is an abomination.
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Old 8th November 2021, 06:11 PM   #203
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A modern nutter miracle.

The reflection of the sun off a Q necklace lands on the back of the Quiltist that predicted JFK Jr would materialize in Deally Plaza. (reddit.com)

I'm afraid that the Q BS will only get worse.
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Old 9th November 2021, 03:24 AM   #204
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Originally Posted by eerok View Post
Sorry, but it's not my fault that there's so much to post in this thread today. I truly wish there was not.

"Watched the 2004 Spongebob movie for the first time in 15+ years and it’s easy to see all the NWO imprints this time around" (reddit.com)
I agree that most current Villains in US politics are very much like Plankton: everyone pretends that they are much scarier than they actually are, if you look closely.
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Old 9th November 2021, 08:05 AM   #205
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Protzman is the guy with the bird on his shoulder mentioned above.
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Protzman has built a huge and deeply loyal following of over 100,000 people on his Telegram channel, where he makes predictions using a bastardized version of gematria, the Jewish numerology system that assigns a numerical value to a name, word, or phrase based on the letters used and inferring some sort of spiritual or mystical meaning behind the phrase....
Protzman needs to up his game. Gematria is so old school. It is time for the ET Corn Gods to get involved.
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Old 9th November 2021, 06:54 PM   #206
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Oof. The crazypants have legs.

Some of the Qult remains in Dallas one week after JFK Jr failed to return. Today they met back up at the site of JFK Sr's assassination and sang a rendition of "country roads". (reddit.com)

Such buffoons. Why is reality so hard for these people?
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Old 9th November 2021, 07:08 PM   #207
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Because they are Lost Souls?

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A lost soul can't lead the people, nah
A lost soul can't lead the people, no
A lost soul can't lead the people, uh
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Old 9th November 2021, 07:41 PM   #208
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Originally Posted by eerok View Post
If they didn't have CTs to pretend they are smarter than you, know things you don't know, they'd be lost. Imagine, imagine being married to one of these credules.
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Old 9th November 2021, 08:17 PM   #209
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I like this comment...

Originally Posted by reddit user
They saw a reflection of a Q. That means another 6 months of predictions that won’t come true.
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Old 9th November 2021, 08:37 PM   #210
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Country Roads, take me home…
To the place, where I belong…
(Loudly) Dealey Plaza!
(Softly) Mountain mama…
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Old 9th November 2021, 10:19 PM   #211
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Don't they have jobs?
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Old 10th November 2021, 05:56 AM   #212
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Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza View Post
Don't they have jobs?
Surely this is a holy mission worth mortgaging their houses and cashing in their life savings for. Bird Boy is likely hoovering up whatever they have.
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Old 10th November 2021, 10:38 PM   #213
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Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza View Post
Don't they have jobs?
Likely a mix of retirees, people who receive passive income like landlords and such, and people whose job literally is QAnon; i.e, social media "influencers" and personalities who make money by promoting and discussing QAnon on the internet.
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Old 11th November 2021, 06:10 AM   #214
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Originally Posted by Checkmite View Post
Likely a mix of retirees, people who receive passive income like landlords and such, and people whose job literally is QAnon; i.e, social media "influencers" and personalities who make money by promoting and discussing QAnon on the internet.
Yeah, it's sad, but spreading BS has always been a career choice for some.
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Old 11th November 2021, 12:13 PM   #215
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Anybody with a bird on his shoulder could predict things.

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Old 13th November 2021, 05:00 PM   #216
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Parental controls, baby.

Am I ****** up for putting parental controls on my parents TV and internet? (reddit.com)
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So I turned on parental controls on my parents TV and internet, blocked OAN and Fox on the TV...and blocked a bunch of Q keywords and known sites on their router so it can't be accessed by any device on their network.

I figure this should at least keep them from becoming further indoctrinated while I figure out how to get them deprogrammed.

Ethically, is this too going too far?
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Saw someone do something similar during the Trump years.

I don't know about ethically but I think it's a good idea.
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Parental. That’s kind of awesome.
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Tough love is important.
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Old 17th November 2021, 05:16 PM   #220
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Those weirdos still haven't gone home yet.

JFK Jr crowd at Deally Plaza last night 😭 (reddit.com)
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Originally Posted by Orphia Nay View Post
Saw someone do something similar during the Trump years.

I don't know about ethically but I think it's a good idea.
I read a similar story where someone did that and it WORKED--he felt like he got his real parents back just by cutting them off from their insanity supplier.
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Those weirdos still haven't gone home yet.

JFK Jr crowd at Deally Plaza last night 😭 (reddit.com)
Ya have to admit. The responses are hilarious. Or would be if there were not lives at stake.
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Old 17th November 2021, 10:10 PM   #223
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We have an interlocutor here who promoted the JFK Jr. CT; I'm pretty sure it's a common Q-nut delusion, one of many.


Twisting the 1990s claim that the fishy plane crash death of John-John, a sure winner of any race he entered, against W or Hillary...(long before Qanon)...into Qanon makes good fodder for the resident dishonest revisionist.

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I think that's very true. Trump's legacy is an abomination.
Whatever you say..Do tell.....


Which great accomplishment(s) of Joe and/or Kamala are your favorite)s)?
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Originally Posted by Bubba View Post
Twisting the 1990s claim that the fishy plane crash death of John-Johhn, a sure winner of any race he entered, against W or Hillary...(long before Qanon)...into a Qanon makes good fodder for the resident dishonest revisionist.
No, what happened was I confused one stupid JFK Jr. conspiracy (his being alive) that you didn't hold, with another stupid JFK Jr. conspiracy (his being murdered) that you did.

Of course I apologized for the confusion after you pointed out which stupid JFK Jr. conspiracy you promoted but you dishonestly forget that part. Sort of like when you forgot to admit you were wrong about the 2020 election as you promised, or when you "forget" to attribute other's words when you post them as your own.

Again, I apologize for mixing up the cement-headed JFK Jr. conspiracies.


ETA: Add revisionism to the growing list of isms this interlocutor does not understand.
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Remember that really, really pissed off former prosecutor (and sex machine to all the chicks) was going to get Donny Depends reinstated? Well if you thought that was stupid . . .

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The former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell called a Pentagon official demanding a mission to save the CIA director last year, citing a false QAnon conspiracy theory, according to a new book.

In "Betrayal," excerpts of which were published by ABC News, the journalist Jonathan Karl wrote that Powell phoned Ezra Cohen, a senior Department of Defense official, shortly after the 2020 election claiming that CIA Director Gina Haspel was in danger.
"Gina Haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in Germany," Powell told Cohen on the call, according to Karl's book. "You need to launch a special operations mission to get her."

Powell was referring to a false theory spreading in QAnon circles which claimed Haspel had been injured and captured during a top secret CIA mission to steal a computer server belonging to a company named Scytl in Frankfurt. The theory claimed that Haspel had then been flown to Guantanamo Bay and "received a tribunal for treason."

Powell believed the servers contained evidence showing that hundreds of thousands of US votes had been switched with rigged voting machines, and that Haspel set out to secure the servers so she could destroy the evidence, Karl wrote.

Powell, who has long referenced QAnon conspiracy theories, was axed from the Trump campaign's legal team in mid-November 2020. The journalist Maggie Haberman reported one Trump advisor saying at the time that it was because "she was too conspiratorial even for him."
Now where's that Kraken?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahaha!!! These Q-credules will fall for anything!
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Whatever you say..Do tell.....


Which great accomplishment(s) of Joe and/or Kamala are your favorite)s)?
Just to poke at this question in brief, here's an article that lists a fair few good things to choose from, with some context.

Let's look at some of Joe Biden's many accomplishments in his first months as president

Here's a simple rough summation from the end, though.

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It appears that Joe Biden is more interested in fixing what’s wrong with America than in his predecessor’s playboy lifestyle of golf, resort living, and lavish vacationing at a $151,500,000 cost to taxpayers.
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Biden also managed to keep his cabinet and Chief of staff, unlike Trump.
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Which great accomplishment(s) of Joe and/or Kamala are your favorite)s)?

Infrastructure.
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Which great accomplishment(s) of Joe and/or Kamala are your favorite)s)?
Biden didn't kill Americans by interfering with covid response in an attempt to win an election. Biden isn't a walking, barking personality disorder. Biden isn't a joke around the world. Biden isn't a traitor to his country. There's a lot more, but I know you're only pretending to be interested.

Not being Trump is a great accomplishment in itself.
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Which great accomplishment(s) of Joe and/or Kamala are your favorite)s)?
The way they trigger the Trumptrash/Q-idiots/Antivax/Election fraud schmucks is #1 in my book.
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Whatever you say..Do tell.....


Which great accomplishment(s) of Joe and/or Kamala are your favorite)s)?
The performance of Biden and Harris have nothing to do with the performance of Trump. Whataboutism is not a good look.
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Now where's that Kraken?

Playing hockey in Seattle.
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This is so sad. I was guilty myself of laughing at the people waiting for JFK Jr. in Dallas, but the followers of this numerology guy seem genuinely lost to some extent.

Vice News - QAnon Cult Tearing Families Apart

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Then she found Michael Brian Protzman, known to his followers as Negative48, who is the leader of a QAnon offshoot that’s been camped out in Dallas for the last three weeks awaiting the return of John F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr.

Garner’s sister left her family behind and drove to Dallas about a month ago and has cut off almost all communication with her family.

According to Garner, her sister has so far handed over about $200,000 to the group, and is being forced to drink a hydrogen peroxide solution and take “bio pellets” to ward off COVID-19 and stay healthy. Her phone calls and messages are also being monitored, according to Garner, who believes her sister will never return.
Some of them are apparently suggesting that they have to "experience physical death" to "come out on the other side" and at least one of them is heading to Waco, echoing something about the Branch Davidians...
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This is so sad. I was guilty myself of laughing at the people waiting for JFK Jr. in Dallas, but the followers of this numerology guy seem genuinely lost to some extent.

Vice News - QAnon Cult Tearing Families Apart



Some of them are apparently suggesting that they have to "experience physical death" to "come out on the other side" and at least one of them is heading to Waco, echoing something about the Branch Davidians...
Oh what's the harm?
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Oh what's the harm?
My mom has dementia. My greatest fear is when she answers the phone when I'm not home, because she could invite some dangerous person to the house, or agree to some kind of home service she cannot afford. To people who don't know her she comes across as rational and competent unless the conversation is longer than ten minutes, and then it is obvious something is off.

The harm is people who mean well, but could possibly have mental deterioration, are being taken advantage of by some truly evil people using the Qanon flag to bilk them out of cash, or possibly send them on a suicide mission of some kind.

In my mom's case I have hidden her debit card, and we sold her car. But can't do anything about the Qanon-driven nut with an AR-15 who decided to rescue people at the pizza parlor where I've stopped to have lunch. That's the harm.
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My mom has dementia. My greatest fear is when she answers the phone when I'm not home, because she could invite some dangerous person to the house, or agree to some kind of home service she cannot afford. To people who don't know her she comes across as rational and competent unless the conversation is longer than ten minutes, and then it is obvious something is off.

The harm is people who mean well, but could possibly have mental deterioration, are being taken advantage of by some truly evil people using the Qanon flag to bilk them out of cash, or possibly send them on a suicide mission of some kind.

In my mom's case I have hidden her debit card, and we sold her car. But can't do anything about the Qanon-driven nut with an AR-15 who decided to rescue people at the pizza parlor where I've stopped to have lunch. That's the harm.
It's a riff off this website.
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Rolling Stone has a great write up on the convergence Qanon loons, and JFK CT loons in Dallas:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...plaza-1261278/
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Originally Posted by Axxman300 View Post
Rolling Stone has a great write up on the convergence Qanon loons, and JFK CT loons in Dallas:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...plaza-1261278/
It is truly difficult to know whether to laugh or to cry . . . or start to build a new Ark to leave this planet.
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Old 23rd November 2021, 02:35 AM   #240
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Earlier in the summer you may have heard of this lady, a QAnon influencer who declared that secret-president Trump has appointed her the literal queen of Canada, and has amassed thousands of fanatically loyal followers who are willing to harass businesses, schools, and pedestrians on the street with her "cease and desist" orders to stop obeying or COVID mandates or taking pandemic-related safety precautions or risk "execution".

In the last two days her rhetoric has shifted from sovereign-citizen-type silliness to explicit solicitation of her followers to kill health care providers.

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