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Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

alpha_destroy posted:

So, if Mueller is actually investigating Obama and Hillary and poo poo, what about Trump calling the investigation a disgrace, etc?

It's an act to distract the deep state, obvs

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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

The Q theory hinges on the belief that Trump is secretly a genius playing 4D chess on an unprecedented level and all of the times when he acts like a senile racist grandpa or directly goes against what they think is reality is either an act to avoid tipping off people or coded messages only Q followers will understand.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Obama was simply an uppity nig-bad president to rail against. Trump is emboldening. Trump is proof positive that they don't have to hide who and what they are. You can be a literal Nazi and a dumb as bricks one at that, and still rise to be POTUS with his entire party bowing before him like none have before, and with even the Democrats acting like he should be respected and ~decorum~.

He didn't break brains, not really. He just gave people the courage to be themselves. Sadly, people in this country are loving monsters, so that's a horror story and not an inspirational tale.

But really, it's because Trump is, for racist failures, the ultimate inspirational story. If he can do it, anyone can.

Honestly the only thing that makes Trump different is that he inherited money and they didn't. Trump is for all intents and purposes, the same racist old nutjob they are. The only difference is in our great plutocracy the key point that he has money puts him above all of us, despite having the mental capacity of a hamster.

They see his "success" as something to admire and worship, when in reality he stumbled into it blindly by luck of the draw in life.

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


Here’s the thread with the Holy Cardboard Q and it’s lucky anointed family they are exactly what you’d expect a family of Qult Trump supports to look like. What’s gonna happen first? Attacking a random person for being a “Deep State assassin sent to kill them for being some of Q’s holy saints” or getting in a confrontation with some cops after being an rear end because people don’t understand how important and instrumental they are in SAVING THE WORLD from the Satan cannibal cabal after getting a massively inflated ego?

Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

I'm going to go with "take the mayor hostage until the police arrest the pedophiles at the local coffee shop."

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Dr. VooDoo posted:

Here’s the thread with the Holy Cardboard Q and it’s lucky anointed family they are exactly what you’d expect a family of Qult Trump supports to look like. What’s gonna happen first? Attacking a random person for being a “Deep State assassin sent to kill them for being some of Q’s holy saints” or getting in a confrontation with some cops after being an rear end because people don’t understand how important and instrumental they are in SAVING THE WORLD from the Satan cannibal cabal after getting a massively inflated ego?

Chuds 4 Christ (Trump)

Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

No no no, Fred Christ Trump has been dead for a while, you're thinking of his son.

RoboChrist 9000
Dec 14, 2006

Mater Dolorosa

TulliusCicero posted:

Honestly the only thing that makes Trump different is that he inherited money and they didn't. Trump is for all intents and purposes, the same racist old nutjob they are. The only difference is in our great plutocracy the key point that he has money puts him above all of us, despite having the mental capacity of a hamster.

They see his "success" as something to admire and worship, when in reality he stumbled into it blindly by luck of the draw in life.

Yeah, no, sorry if I wasn't clear, that's exactly my point. Trump is so nakedly unqualified and unremarkable that it becomes an exceptional thing. On some level the Trumpstaffel know that the only difference between themselves and Trump is that he was born into money, and so they see that as carte blanche to act according to their true, monstrous, selves, rather than hide it.
In my opinion, fascist strongmen aren't so much persuasive as they are enabling. They aren't convincing otherwise decent people to suddenly be monsters; they''re simply convincing the monsters that they can come out of the dark.

Plus, you know, all Americans are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. If the only difference between Johnny Klansman and Trump is money, well hot drat that is soon to be fixed because any day now they will become wealthy!

Smeep
Jan 20, 2004

Holy poo poo I go to sleep for a few hours and suddenly Q is mainstream. Now I guess all that's left is to wait for the first idiot who's tired of waiting for the mass arrests to show up in D.C. with a shotgun.

tek79
Jun 16, 2008

I'm somewhat new to this whole QAnon thing, and have only started to delve into it a bit because it appears I might actually be acquainted with a couple of people who buy into it, so I apologize if this has been discussed already. But are there any hints or clues as to who "Q" actually is? I'm seriously having a hard time imaging it to be anything other than some random dude loving with people on the internet who never really could have foreseen or intended it to become the phenomenon that it's grown into. And what happens when one or more of Q's adherents takes a few lives for their cause? Could whomever is leading these people on face actual legal consequences?

Dr. VooDoo
May 4, 2006


The idea so far is either it’s one of three things: A) A person with too much on their hands who knows they’re bullshitting but loves having all these idiots hanging on to their every word. B) A person with too much hands who believes their own bullshit and the internet has let them group up with crazy sycophants or C) A psyop from Russia to sow more discord in the American population

This last one has some weight because psyops like this has been done before and anytime there is doubt in the Qult ranks you have “prophets” like SerialBrain2 suddenly go active with seemingly preplanned charts to correctly translate the Q bullshit and smooth any doubt the core Qult might feel as promise after promise falls through but any of the three are equally possible really and Qultist violence has already spilled over into reality. See the Hoover Dam armored truck guy

Jethro
Jun 1, 2000

I was raised on the dairy, Bitch!
And let's not forget the compromised trip codes issue, so it could have started as A or B and then transitioned to C with the Qult non-the-wiser.

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

tek79 posted:

And what happens when one or more of Q's adherents takes a few lives for their cause? Could whomever is leading these people on face actual legal consequences?

no, 4chan shitposting designed to trigger idiots and schizophrenics is not illegal

Smeep
Jan 20, 2004

Ugh I just realized we’re going to have endless news cycles where media asks Trump to denounce Q like the Klan etc. and it’ll be like pulling teeth because like the Klan etc. it’s 100% Trump supporters.

Nckdictator
Sep 8, 2006
Just..someone

luxury handset posted:

no, 4chan shitposting designed to trigger idiots and schizophrenics is not illegal

There was that 4chan bomb hoax guy back in 2006 but I'm not sure if that logic applies here.

http://www.espn.com/espn/wire/_/section/nfl/id/3427307

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Nckdictator posted:

There was that 4chan bomb hoax guy back in 2006 but I'm not sure if that logic applies here.

http://www.espn.com/espn/wire/_/section/nfl/id/3427307

those are direct threats against specific locations, which is different from posting general nonsense targeted at nobody which a bunch of broken people interpret as commands to throw eggs at cops or whatever

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



tek79 posted:

I'm somewhat new to this whole QAnon thing, and have only started to delve into it a bit because it appears I might actually be acquainted with a couple of people who buy into it, so I apologize if this has been discussed already. But are there any hints or clues as to who "Q" actually is? I'm seriously having a hard time imaging it to be anything other than some random dude loving with people on the internet who never really could have foreseen or intended it to become the phenomenon that it's grown into. And what happens when one or more of Q's adherents takes a few lives for their cause? Could whomever is leading these people on face actual legal consequences?


Q is Roger Stone LARPing as the Riddler.

That is the most dumb explanation and in the hell timeline we are in, the most plausible.

Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

TulliusCicero posted:

Q is Roger Stone LARPing as the Riddler.

That is the most dumb explanation and in the hell timeline we are in, the most plausible.

The true Stupid Timeline answer would be that it really is someone high up in the Trump Admin, who is making poo poo up out of boredom and sycophancy because they've been frozen out of all the fun corruption.

What I'm saying is, it's Don Jr.

Space Skeleton
Sep 28, 2004

The way Q keeps desperately trying to prove they are close to Trump with what keeps turning out to be obvious fake junk means it can't be anyone who actually has or can ever get physical access to Trump or else they would have to be especially incompetent.

wilderthanmild
Jun 21, 2010

Posting shit




Grimey Drawer
That signature one with 1776 was easily the dumbest so far in my mind.

Goon Danton
May 24, 2012

Don't forget to show my shitposts to the people. They're well worth seeing.

Space Skeleton posted:

The way Q keeps desperately trying to prove they are close to Trump with what keeps turning out to be obvious fake junk means it can't be anyone who actually has or can ever get physical access to Trump or else they would have to be especially incompetent.

Goon Danton posted:

it's Don Jr.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




:thunk:

This actually checks out.

Don Jr. might actually be the world's most incompetent man at anything he does.

Although someone who can't get any physical access to Trump could be Eric. Poor guy can't find his way out of the basement :(

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!

tek79 posted:

But are there any hints or clues as to who "Q" actually is? I'm seriously having a hard time imaging it to be anything other than some random dude loving with people on the internet who never really could have foreseen or intended it to become the phenomenon that it's grown into.

It's very likely that multiple people have been / are Q. There are a few clear shifts not just in tone but in content over time, and some of those shifts have happened after unexplained breaks in the posting schedule. Q only posts on the chans, and does not use a secure tripcode. It would be simple for anyone to impersonate him.

This opinion piece was posted on a Q-mocking subreddit yesterday. It draws comparisons between the way the qult operates and the way disappointed fandoms search for answers - by creating a shared narrative that lets the group redirect their disappointment. I think it's likely that Q isn't just shitposting, but is instead a true believer. Additionally they either akready knew how to manipulate their target audience, or they've figured it out for themselves.

Things are about to get a lot more interesting. Multiple MSM outlets have published Q stories today...

McGlockenshire fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Aug 1, 2018

Flip Yr Wig
Feb 21, 2007

Oh please do go on
Fun Shoe
Doesn't "Q" post on chan boards? I've been assuming pretty much any random rear end in a top hat could call himself Q, so "Q" is just an amalgamation of random assholes' ideas.

I guess I could have figured that one out. I've thankfully forgotten the actual mechanics of 4chan posting.
VVVVVVVVVV

Flip Yr Wig fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Aug 1, 2018

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Flip Yr Wig posted:

Doesn't "Q" post on chan boards? I've been assuming pretty much any random rear end in a top hat could call himself Q.

He uses a tripcode. Except its changed a few times.

Smeep
Jan 20, 2004

hobbesmaster posted:

He uses a tripcode. Except its changed a few times.

Yeah this is the part that drives me crazy. If it's changed, why are they buying into the idea that it's the same person/people?

What's gone wrong in their lives that they need to believe this so badly?

CodfishCartographer
Feb 23, 2010

Gadus Maprocephalus

Pillbug
I feel like maybe Q just started as some trump chud making up and roleplaying a pseudo-scifi story ala John Titor, and then holy poo poo people actually believe it, time to keep rolling with it. Maybe at some point they stopped, and then some follower / believer decided to take up the mast with new tripcodes. Who knows? The "secretly Russia trying to sew american chaos" is a little :tinfoil: for me, but we're in hell dimension so who knows.

Post poste
Mar 29, 2010

Smeep posted:

What's gone wrong in their lives that they need to believe this so badly?

They're mediocre assholes enabled by the king rear end in a top hat.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

hobbesmaster posted:

He uses a tripcode. Except its changed a few times.

Wait, what? Lmao, that even more hilarious than I assumed. What is their explanation for him posting from different "accounts" ? Did the original/previous accounts ever post again to contradict the other dudes?

Smeep
Jan 20, 2004

oh poo poo they just asked Sarah Sanders about Q

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

TulliusCicero posted:

Q is Roger Stone LARPing as the Riddler.

That is the most dumb explanation and in the hell timeline we are in, the most plausible.

i can't actually reject this one

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Smeep posted:

Ugh I just realized we’re going to have endless news cycles where media asks Trump to denounce Q like the Klan etc. and it’ll be like pulling teeth because like the Klan etc. it’s 100% Trump supporters.

I'm like 80% sure that there are at least a few Klan members who are real mad about the Trump administration's friendship with (the absolute most garbage of) Catholics. :v:

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!
The tripcode change thing happens by posting "I'm gonna change my tripcode", then posting with the new tripcode, then posting with the old quoting the new to authenticate it.

It's a fool's exercise anyway given the tiny computational power needed to crack tripcodes.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

McGlockenshire posted:

The tripcode change thing happens by posting "I'm gonna change my tripcode", then posting with the new tripcode, then posting with the old quoting the new to authenticate it.

It's a fool's exercise anyway given the tiny computational power needed to crack tripcodes.

So someone brute forced the tripcode and moved to a new one so the previous guy couldn't contradict him? Lmao, has the previous Q ever posted under their old tripwire again after such a switch?

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

How the gently caress hasn't some Chinese Bitcoin mine already started brute forcing these accounts and ask the rubes to sent them money for the cause/salvation?

Smeep
Jan 20, 2004

Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:

How the gently caress hasn't some Chinese Bitcoin mine already started brute forcing these accounts and ask the rubes to sent them money for the cause/salvation?

Someone, I don't know if it was here or the Qult thread on reddit, was predicting that Q will at some point move to a paid platform where he'll reveal super-secret crumbs to members.

Friends Are Evil
Oct 25, 2010

cats cats cats



https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1024721945940684806

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin
Jul 19, 2000


Oven Wrangler
The Q posts have been scrubbed off 8chan and most of the archive sites, but one of them got lazy, so here they are, rescued out of the memory hole -



This is some deep dish pizzagate all right. "Walnut sauce" is adrenochrome, the elite superdrug created through child rape torture, facilitated in this case by the Clinton Foundation's mass abduction of Haitian earthquake orphans.

Also, enjoying the continuing irony of the Pedofinder General operating out of an imageboard that prominently advertises its anime child porn board right on the loving top banner.

Friends Are Evil
Oct 25, 2010

cats cats cats



Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:

The Q posts have been scrubbed off 8chan and most of the archive sites, but one of them got lazy, so here they are, rescued out of the memory hole -



This is some deep dish pizzagate all right. "Walnut sauce" is adrenochrome, the elite superdrug created through child rape torture, facilitated in this case by the Clinton Foundation's mass abduction of Haitian earthquake orphans.

Also, enjoying the continuing irony of the Pedofinder General operating out of an imageboard that prominently advertises its anime child porn board right on the loving top banner.



Yeah, of course it loops back into Pizzagate.

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Flip Yr Wig
Feb 21, 2007

Oh please do go on
Fun Shoe

Smeep posted:

oh poo poo they just asked Sarah Sanders about Q

So what happened here? I haven't seen anything about this.

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