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Among the points of QAnon chatter in the last couple days has been "crumbs" that supposedly indicate that rolling over like a bitch and signing the Omnibus Bill is part of Trump's 43rd Dimensional Chess. Apparently the idea is that since it's not really a *budget* but more a list of recommendations, Trump is free to spend the money however the heck he wants and defund Planned Parenthood and the NEA, and most importantly build the Wall. Amongst the QAnon gobbledygook of 24 March is some mention of "Green Castle Red Castle" which the fans are interpreting as a reference to the logo of the Army Corps of Engineers, and extrapolating to mean that Trump will take some of the billions allotted to the military and just task the ACE to build the wall itself, brilliantly side-stepping the Omnibus' explicit prohibitions on building the wall. QAnon is pretty much a modern day Nostradamus, in that he can just say whatever and literally thousands of people will attempt to interpret his words in hindsight to apply to whatever later events occur, and insist that he has accurately foretold the future. EDIT: quote:Mar 23 2018 13:14:06
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2018 08:44 |
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# ¿ May 10, 2024 05:33 |
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But why the "green castle" you might ask? Some Redditor did some digging and turned up that the ACE has an office in Greencastle, Indiana. Though apparently that office mainly covers locks and dams on the Ohio River, but Reddit got past this by literally just figuring "a dam is a kind of wall, so it still works!"
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2018 14:11 |
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Elea posted:It doesn't feel like conspiracy theories used to be this way, where something was always just about to happen and adherents were kept at a fever pitch, and I just don't understand how it's not exhausting for the people involved. Part of me wants to say "they can't spend the next three years expecting Hillary's going to be indicted ANY MINUTE NOW" but I'm not at all sure that's true. In total fairness, we've been waiting for Trump to get impeached for like a year now, but I think the fact that DOJ is actually charging Flynn, Gates, and Manafort and whatnot puts us much more in the realm of sanity.
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2018 15:02 |
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Mantis42 posted:For some reason they think ideology is genetically inherited. Merkel is Hitler's spawn is thus is a totalitarian globalist (I know, I know), Obama is Frank Marshall's secret kid and is a radical communist, etc. Don't forget that they also believe that Canada's President Trudeau is Fidel Castro's kid, despite his mom and Castro never having been in the same city anytime around his conception.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 05:47 |
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I'll give Q this: correctly predicting that Trump will keep *any* promise is certainly living on the edge.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 06:02 |
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 07:01 |
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I've been following this just a bit, but I'm still really unclear what Q fans are *supposed to do*? There's a lot of smug stuff like "if you don't get it and can't deal with the stress, that's fine, we got this and we're going to change history." But all I see Q people do is applying hindsight to feel smart about arglebargle posted days or weeks prior. Are they all supposed to turn out in the streets someday in response to orders from Q, or is this all just jerking-off at their computer desks and feeling like they're "part" of something important because they're reading conspiracy theories? Weird as it is to say, partial credit to the dude with a rifle who stormed Comet Pizza in DC, since when presented with a massive and horrifying conspiracy he actually got off his rear end and drove out to dive into it. Of course it was completely poinless, revealed nothing, and got him criminal charges, but I would be fine with more of that happening to Q folks so long as nobody gets hurt. Catholic nuns are out there chaining themselves to fences at nuclear installations for their beliefs, but the brave followers of Q don't seem to be doing a heck of lot other than keeping their powder very, very dry. It's like slacktivism with the smugness of being a conspirator.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 07:27 |
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Jay Rust posted:I don’t know much about 4chan, what’s stopping every rando from posting their own Q word salad? Duh, because their amazing predictions wouldn't come true and thus the faker would immediately be exposed as Not the Real Q.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 07:31 |
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Faith despite failure:quote:
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 07:54 |
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 07:56 |
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A reminder that uber-cryptographer Q was caught using the password "matlock". But once that became revealed, Qtards were all over themselves to explain that Q *deliberately* compromised their account, and it was yet another clue referring to Cold War-era ambassor Jack F. Matlock. So while it looked like complete incompetence, it was actually a hidden message disguised as idiocy!
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 10:04 |
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I've been casually dropping into r/greatawakening and its hilarious watching them rationalize their way around anything that contradicts the Q narrative. For example, Q has supposedly indicated that Hilary Clinton has been indicted and is under house arrest, but then why has she been on a public speaking tour in India? Among the theories are a) she's skipped town and gone to a country less-likely to extradite her (though India has had an extradition treaty with the US since 1997 b) Trump has cunningly *let* her go to India because it'll be easier to send the SEALs to black-bag her and extraordinary rendition her to GITMO, with the added possibility that somehow arresting her in the US would lead to rioting in the streets but snatching her from Mumbai would be no biggie. As always, it's applicable to take a look at the Wikipedia article on When Prophecy Fails, a scholarly examination of a UFO cult in Chicago that was awaiting the end of the world, and what happened to them when the world obviously didn't end. quote:Festinger and his colleagues infiltrated Keech's group and reported the following sequence of events: I'm just inordinately tickled that when an alien failed to come to the Chosen, their immediate reaction was "well, maybe that clock is fast..."
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2018 21:34 |
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More crumbs!quote:976
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2018 04:39 |
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quote:HRC 2.12.09 The QTards are trying to figure out what happened on either 2 December 2009 or 12 February 2009. One popular guess is that there was a plane crash in New York state on 12 February 2009 that killed a human rights activist who worked on Rwanda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407 quote:Alison Des Forges, a human rights investigator and an expert on the Rwandan genocide. ... To hear the right wing go on about it, you'd think that Hillary Clinton is the third-leading cause of death in the US, slightly behind heart disease and cancer.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2018 05:33 |
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For an alleged high-level covert operative, Q spends a buttload of time hand-holding worried suburbanites: EDIT: apparently "/GA/" is assumed to be "Great Awakening" so this is some kind of rumble in the Q community that Q's internet presence is under cyber-attack or something, thus the freaking out across multiple boards and channels. This is way too complicated to figure out, but I idly wonder what the economic impact of Q is, given that a bunch of the YouTube analyses, blog pages, etc. are all selling ad-space. Given how huge this is to a fuckload of idiots, I woudn't be surprised if this is getting into the millions of dollars of ad revenue spread out over a large number of accounts. I mean it's not centralized or something where "Q" would personally be drawing in a large chunk of the money, but it's providing right wing welfare beer-money to a small army of pundits. I'm baffled that people are getting tons of views for *30 loving minute* videos where they ramble about individual Q drops. So a non-zero number of people are spending hours looking at a screen of memes and news-clippings while some mouthbreather speculates wildly. TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Mar 29, 2018 |
# ¿ Mar 29, 2018 05:36 |
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There is *so* much "sure this admin looks incompetent, but trust them, they have an awesome plan!" I somehow had not realized that, unlike a lot of Freepers, the Qtards are pro-Sessions.
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2018 01:26 |
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Welp, Q has Roseanne Barr in his corner. So he's got that going for him.quote:She was back in January, and has since resumed tweeting about QAnon, in apparent contradiction of fans who had previously claimed Twitter was censoring her conspiracy tweets. Since Friday, she has tweeted or retweeted content relating to QAnon (or its other name “The Storm”) at least four times, in addition to a March 24 tweet that read “MKULTRA,” the name of a 1960s CIA mind-control program. The context for the tweet was not clear. https://www.thedailybeast.com/roseanne-keeps-promoting-qanon-the-pro-trump-conspiracy-theory-that-makes-pizzagate-look-tame
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2018 01:38 |
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The naives are getting restless for Sessions' 18,500 sealed indictments:https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/17/dont-ignore-the-obvious-key-words-from-ag-sessions-including-under-oath/ posted:SW Richmond says:
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2018 04:24 |
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Kinsky posted:lmfao that last post is so I don't even know where to begin The shout-out to Randy Weaver is pretty telling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Weaver In fairness I agree that Randy Weaver's case at Ruby Ridge was excessive violence from the Feds. Much like with David Koresh, they had ample chances to just nab him when he was out in town and avoid a violent standoff. Neither of those guys were great people, but turning a simple arrest into a bunch of dead people is just not a good look for the government. That said, is a white supremacist militiaman *really* your single best example of government overreach? You can't pick someone a little less controversial who's been wronged by the Feds?
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2018 05:08 |
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 05:52 |
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quote:[–]NC-Stern-MarkDo you believe in coincidences? - Q 3 points 4 hours ago My stars, the Executive branch is against child prostitution? This must *all* be real then. quote:[–]brittserExpand your thinking. - Q 2 points 2 hours ago
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 05:56 |
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I'm enjoying that this is my top Google hit for "qanon" and I hope it is for a bunch of Qtards too and is sending them into paroxysms of rage:quote:Who is QAnon? The Storm Conspiracy, Explained - NYMag
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 08:17 |
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It's too long to post, but the Q arguments in r/conspiracy are just precious: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/7sb1x4/qanon_the_storm_the_awakening_and_why_it_should/quote:Whether Q is truly representing the good guys trying to drain the swamp or is an intelligence psych-op to consolidate power, is anybody's guess. However, Q's portrayal in the mainstream media leads me to believe my first assumption. It should not come as a surprise it is lumped in with other conspiracies that many of us believe to be true.[quote] So the argument is that Q *is* a Trump insider, and the things they're predicting are indeed coming true, but their postings are secretly nefarious attempts to pacify the True Truth Seekers and keep them away from yet deeper truths involving Zionists and lord knows what else. The OP had a link to something about "35 world events that Q accurately predicted" but apparently The Deep State killed off that subreddit: quote:CBTS_Stream: banned Fortunately someone saved it on another format: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/949272861969182721.html
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 08:23 |
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gently caress it, we'll do it live: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/949272861969182721.htmlquote:"35 World Events That Support Q's Posts are True and He is an Insider”— Edited and formatted for Twitter. Also, corrections made. Let’s add supporting links, images, and articles where they are not already included. reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/…
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 08:26 |
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Mantis42 posted:Does Q think the Forbidden City is actually off limits to outsiders or what? Duh, it's right there in the name. Think, McFly! EDIT: I like Trump's upcoming meeting with North Korea being trumpeted as an astounding victory, when North Korea has been trying to meet with US presidents for several administrations because they want the credibility boost (which Trump is giving them). Photos of Trump and Kim sitting together are going to posted all over the drat nation in North Korea to prove that Kim has forced Trump to the table and is respected as an international leader. The tankies gonna love that poo poo too.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 08:47 |
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Gen. Ripper posted:By my estimates there's a 76.6% (repeating, of course) chance he thinks China is still an actual communist state. Holy poo poo, you still have the av I bought you. I was so drat drunk when I bought that, but I'm glad you're (apparently) enjoying it. It was based on some actual post I saw on a right-wing forum somewhere.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2018 09:31 |
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In March the Daily Dot came out with some great historical precedent for QAnon: The QAnon conspiracy isn’t new; it’s the oldest scam out there The article draws comparison to two big conspiracies of the 90s-00s, the NESARA/Omni scam, and the Iraqi Dinar scam. -- NESARA was a proposed financial reform from a 1990s book called, wait for it... Draining the Swamp. It involved the standard libertarian spank-bank of eliminating the Federal Reserve, banning interest on loans, forgiving all consumer debt, national sales tax, and of course going back on the gold standard. A new-age cultist called "Dove of Oneness" started promoting Omega Bonds, run by a scammer named Clyde Hood, which somehow involved buying bonds that were magically supported by European currencies and somehow tied to NESARA, that would "roll over" and make their owners millions. Hood pimped these bonds, and Dove ran around the Internet including Yahoo Groups and talked them up with a combination of financial millennialism, UFO cults, globalist conspiracies and general "stuff the US government doesn't want you to know." When Hood went down for scamming $12.5 million, Dove dropped him like a bad habit, basically Stalin-style accused him of revisionism, and continued to work seemingly full-time on hyping up NESARA and Omega online. She started accepting donations, and then went way the gently caress off the rails with conspiracy theories, particularly after 9/11 happened (she claimed it was a controlled demolition). Dove hit her peak in the mid-2000s, chilled out slightly, then got slammed with a bunch of IRS liens and died broke in 2010. -- The Iraqi Dinar scam I remember personally, since way back before it became an Internet Thing. There was a trend among US military personnel in Iraq (which may well have been totally organic) of buying up physical stacks of Saddam-era Iraqi dinars (which were next to worthless) in anticipation that like after the '91 Gulf War the dinar would be somehow revalued and make everyone rich. This was goofy enough when it was just troops buying duffel-bags full of dinar off of Iraqi contractors working on the base (who I'm sure were ecstatic to trade Monopoly money for hard currency), but years later it exploded online, and people weren't buying literal bags of dinar so much a investing in scam artists who claimed to be somehow invested in the dinar revaluation and planning to pay their investors millions once the magic hit. I am not an economist, but the DD article makes clear that currency revaluations don't magically create wealth, instead they just turn into Weimar-esque death spirals, and/or leave people holding a lot of funds that they can't even trade in for the new currency. But that didn't stop folks from running around forums, Facebook, and early-stage Twitter hyping the dinar, and promising that the revaluation that would make everyone rich was "just around the corner". Add to this yet more shadowy government conspiracies, claims that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were savvy and holding billions of dollars worth of Iraqi dinar, etc. The dinar thing picked up momentum after the 2007-2008 financial crisis, when people were desperately looking for get-rich-quick to make back the money they'd lost. Eventually the feds got involved, various dinar hustlers were jailed, but there are still twits out there pulling the "any day now" as recently as March 2018 for the date when war-torn and chaotic Iraq will somehow become a major producer of global wealth. This is the high-points, but the article is overall worth a read, since basically Q is recycling a lot of old material, including almost exact parallels to the "sealed indictments" rumor that's so important to Qtards because it promises them that all the mean bad people are going to be punished and the white hats vindicated. TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Apr 2, 2018 |
# ¿ Apr 2, 2018 02:29 |
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Goddamit, I hate this kind of thing. Unless noted investigative journalism rag "www.maga1776.com" actually did all the legwork to find these numbers, we can assume that they just got the number off some alleged gov't site or paper. Well, *cite* your drat sources people. I would be totally willing to believe there was a massive uptick in HT arrests if someone pointed me at a credible source for it, but your lovely MAGA blog is not really a convincing argument for anyone not already firmly in your pocket. I realize this is idiots making memes for idiots, but as someone who's worked in research it's frustrating to see a blatant disregard for the utter basics of sourcing your data.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2018 21:52 |
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:Fortunately the wayback machine has it: https://web.archive.org/web/20171218082412/www.maga1776.com/rescue.html MA&S&C&NGA! Are you open-minded enough Conservapedia shout-out to consider that maybe those other nations posted zero arrests in previous years, and it is only since Trump Put Them On Notice that those other, lesser nations got off their duffs, saluted the POTUS, and started arresting preverts? TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Apr 2, 2018 |
# ¿ Apr 2, 2018 22:56 |
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I took a few minutes to add up all the non-US cases, and got 1,497. So *assuming* the rest of the chart is accurate, that's still a substantial increase. That said, do we have any remotely good reason to trust this chart's methodology at this point? What I'd really like to see is the equivalent total US numbers from the exact same source, but for 2017, which would provide an actual (theoretically) consistent data set for the chart. EDIT: from earlier in 2017, but Reason has a good breakdown of the silliness of the numbers. Part of it is that they're taking *very* limited snapshots of previous years' data (like not even from all 50 states) and for 2017 they're counting basically anything that they can get their hands on that involves the sex trade, including apparently people buying sex from freely consenting adult sex workers. In one example case: quote:478 people arrested in a statewide California sting that included zero sex-trafficking arrests, according to a press release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. One-hundred and forty-two men were arrested for attempting to pay consenting adult women for sexual activity. Thirty-six men were arrested for pimping. The rest of those arrested—300 in total—were women taken in on prostitution charges or people in trouble for charges unrelated to commercial sexual activity. This was exactly my question: are they busting women (and men) sex workers and counting *their* arrests as "human trafficking arrests"? And the answer would be yes, yes they are. https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-trafficking TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Apr 3, 2018 |
# ¿ Apr 3, 2018 05:43 |
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quote:Troops to Border.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 03:39 |
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Qtards are attempting to dunk all over NYT columnist Michelle Goldberg who recently wrote an editorial calling out Qfans for being idiots. "Dunking" is a relative term, and one point Qfans are fixated on this week is that at the Easter Egg Roll, Trump was standing next to a giant WHITE RABBIT! As in "follow the white rabbit", and explicitly distinct from, I dunno, every other president who ever did an Easter event? And then they go off on a tangent comparing Trump to JFK. Pause and imagine, if you will, DJT dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. https://twitter.com/dhobe13/status/982315523072393216 https://twitter.com/DebunkAtheists/status/982320843907710981 https://twitter.com/ExtremeNapkins/status/982358480475406336 TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Apr 7, 2018 |
# ¿ Apr 7, 2018 02:32 |
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It's both fascinating and terrifying that in TYOOL 2018 the outsider, edgelord, paranoiac stance is to *support* the sitting POTUS.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2018 02:41 |
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Feinne posted:I mean the stronger the disconfirming information becomes the more they'll believe their narrative if history is any teacher. The South gonna rise again. https://www.theonion.com/south-postpones-rising-again-for-yet-another-year-1819565548
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2018 05:00 |
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The Qcrowd firmly believes "there's no such thing as bad publicity". Being publicly called morons by the NYT: this is good news for quote:NewsWe are now on the NY TIMES!!! This is YUGE! THIS WILL RED PILL MILLIONS! The MOVEMENT is going to GROW EXPONENTIALLY. nytimes.com quote:Bad publicity is great for the movement. People will realize the media is saying its "crazy" and "delusional", but millions of people are waking up and will look into this What planet are you from where the net result of Pizzagate isn't "whacko walks into restaurant and fires rifle at ceiling"? quote:Worked for me. Kinda. At first I heard Pizzagate I was like whatever you crazy quacks! Now it's almost like a given. If Pizzagate isn't a really successful and credible thing, then why do I keep insisting it is? quote:Any type of publicity is great. It spreads awareness on a subject. This movement will never die like pizzagate. We have way too many people following now, it's going mainstream.... and we have a ton of back up plans if the board gets shut down. Have faith patriot! Wait, whatever became of "March madness"? quote:Yup! Really hoping these April Showers will bring the May flowers. How many movements have ever crowed that Roseanne Barr is in their corner? quote:i agree but do hope that some folks will think for themselves and dig deeper. However we have Roseanne Barr on the Q team, how many more will slip out of the closet? I like the tangential admissions: quote:Never doubt it. Trump is a great leader and he/we ARE winning. It’s pitiful to see how delusional and brainwashed they are. My sons are the same. They think I am insane. At my age, I KNOW good when I see it and God Bless(ed) President Trump, he IS good. TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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Q made some post implying that he has a photo of Obama in "tribal" clothing pointing an AK47 at the "red whit and blue" (possibly the US flag or a photograph of Kennedy/Trump/etc). While some Qfans are excited for this photo to drop and finally prove Q absolutely undeniably right, a faction is *already* preparing their excuses for when this never happens:quote:CT mode The pic exists (as well as the HRC video) but Q team don't plan on releasing it anytime. I think Deep State was planning something sinister, Q found out and threatened to release it, DS caves in to the threat (it must be really damaging to BO's image) and they are at a temporary stalemate. Same case when Q announced HRC video. By necessity, they've already gotten really good at explaining why all this vitally important stuff never ends up being publicly visible. Like why Hillary Clinton et. al. are still publicly walking around and doing stuff instead of locked up in Gitmo. This guy gets it: quote:Nobody is going to care. TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Apr 7, 2018 |
# ¿ Apr 7, 2018 05:17 |
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Wikipedia finally got off their duffs and made an article for QAnon last week. And it's already become a honeypot for (mostly IP) editors coming in to remove the term "conspiracy theory" and insert stuff like "truthbomb". It was laying low at first, but at least for me Google's algorithm now puts it on the first page of ghits, so the insanity is only beginning. Standing by for them to just lock the page to anyone that doesn't have 500 edits on their account or whatever. I like Wikipedia, so I'll drop in now and then to see if Reddit or whoever else starts forming a posse to do a cross-forum invasion, so I can use an IP address to drop a dime to the admins to alert them to any rush of idiots coming to gently caress up the page. IP editing works both ways, bitches.
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2018 04:18 |
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https://twitter.com/intheMatrixxx/status/982716464066187264 https://twitter.com/paul_serran/status/982758701542137856 https://twitter.com/Fulcrum__News/status/982764407955566592 https://twitter.com/DoberFanPinschr/status/982824604598177793 TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Apr 8, 2018 |
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Relevant Tangent posted:Enormous antlers get bucks laid, nobody is getting dicked off QAnon. I have a chilling image of an OKCupid date where two people sit down for beers and happen to find out that they're both huge Q fans, leading to a passionate relationship that will inevitably fail over the lack of indictments against Hillary Clinton.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2018 04:16 |