You've seen the "QAnon" or just "Q" signs at con man and sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump's "hillbilly Nuremburg" rallies. It's a fringe conspiracy theory about the "Deep State" and Rump's heroic struggle to overcome it. It's obviously nuts, another conspiracy theory from the fever swamps of the far far right.
Former Rethuglican consultant Rick Wilson (see also, "Twit Tweet, Thwap" below) has a funny and concerning look at the rubes that are swallowing this tripe in The Daily Beast:
"Conspiracies are hard. They're even harder when you're stupid. [snip]
After Donald Trump's rally in Tampa this week, the notorious QAnon scam became America's conspiracy of the moment. And why not? In the face of Trump's daily meltdowns, mood swings, and unmedicated rage episodes in which he lashes out at every target in reach, his base is desperately looking for a version of reality that gives them some comfort and stability.The Cletus Crowd that this appeals to are paranoid, ignorant of politics and civics, and eager to embrace a packaged conspiracy plot that a fourth-rate TV production company would laugh at if it were pitched to them. But the Cletus Crowd doesn't want to take the time to sort through the b.s. that Rump and the right wing are flinging at them. It reaffirms that they were right in suspecting that the cause of their multiple economic and social problems was a vast, hidden plot, and not the person they see looking back in the mirror.
This Q conspiracy is filling the political bloodstream of the Trumpentariat and has been bubbling up inside the right for the last few months, and while Will Sommer and others have covered the story, there seemed to be a media shock moment after the Qbots showed up at Trump’s Tampa rally.
Conspiracies—this one in particular—give their devotees a sense of coherence that is lacking in everything Trump does. QAnon presents Trump as the character he plays on TV; bold, commanding, strategic, and brilliant...as opposed to the real Donald Trump, who displays the dignity, intelligence, and honesty of a strip-club tout with tertiary syphilis."
(photo: So when are they going to start making tin-foil hats with MAGA on them?)
No fake shit here!!
ReplyDeleteOne Fly -- None indeed!
ReplyDeleteI've been aware of the Q-Anon qrackpottery for some time because there's a right-wing blogger I sometimes read who believes in it. The comment threads on those posts are like an outbreak of group insanity. I don't see how some of these people will ever get back in touch with the real world. Maybe when Mueller finishes his report on Trump and it's obvious none of the Q stuff was true.....maybe not even then.
ReplyDeleteSo when are they going to start making tin-foil hats with MAGA on them?
As soon as they can find a Third World country Trump hasn't pissed off to manufacture them.
Infidel -- The crazy seemed to blossom during Obama's term, when the bigots were looking for a way to discredit and demean him and progressive politics in general. The QAnon crap is a case of mass psychosis, and I don't know what shock it will take to snap these people out of it.
ReplyDeleteStab-in-the-Back and My Struggle were once fringe conspiracies, too.
ReplyDeleteGene -- The similarities are there, no question.
ReplyDeleteIf I read the reports correctly, the Q ur-conspiracy is an enormous pedophile ring. What terrible urges are these people repressing?
ReplyDeletemaxk -- There's a whole lot of projection going on there.....
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