QAnon Qwazy Quote

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.

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."

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.

(photo: So when are they going to start making tin-foil hats with MAGA on them?)