6 storming of the Capitol in Washington D.C., which saw countless QAnon tee shirts and flags in attendance. 3, 2020, Trump’s movement, his legal team, and his QAnon die-hards have witnessed too many setbacks, embarrassments, defeats and rebukes to count, culminating in the Jan. They’ve continued poring over every communication from Trump, believing they contain secret messages. As is always the case with cultish thinking, the Q interpreters and influencers simply changed their interpretation of Q’s always vague proclamations, pointed to the numerous ways Trump could still magically reverse the election results, and insisted that #BidenWillNeverBePresident. Predictably, Q has also gone silent online, and currently hasn’t posted in more than a month.Īs we noted then, however, a conspiracy theory like this is like a hydra-when one head is chopped off, two more will summarily take its place. Instead, Trump lost the election by more than 7 million votes to Joe Biden, sending some members of QAnon into a tailspin of cognitive dissonance and disbelief, as we wrote about at the time. Trump was “guaranteed” to win a crushing victory that would affirm his last four years of relative inaction, leading to a glorious second term as President in which “The Storm” would finally take place, and “the swamp” would finally be drained. 2020 election was a jolt to the system of QAnon believers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, given all the Trump worship, the Nov. They even believe that many public figures who died in the last four years were actually secretly executed or assassinated-if you’re thirsty for blood and haven’t been given any, you can always invent fake executions, right? Especially if the alternative is admitting that none of Q’s predictions have ever been correct. These people really love the idea of mass, televised executions, by the way. From the beginning, they have believed that Trump will sweep all the bad guys aside in an ever just-around-the-corner event known as “The Storm,” which will involve mass arrests of everyone that Anons disagree with, culminating in military tribunals and televised public executions. ![]() According to Q, Trump is waging a secret holy war against the cabal and The Deep State, sometimes mentioned as different things but often treated as one and the same-a malignant group of embedded politicians who seek to thwart his will. Q practitioners love Trump like a sane person might love the idea of world peace, or warm cinnamon rolls. The objects of worship are twofold: Q himself, and Donald J. Originally starting on fringe imageboard 4chan, “Q” passes along this information via extremely vague, prophetic sounding “Q Drops,” which are then interpreted by online influencers who have built up their own cults of personality as what are essentially the high priests of this particular cult. government official with access to secret information. ![]() QAnon proponents note that they actually call themselves “anons,” and they get their communications from “Q,” a mysterious online presence who purports to be a high-ranking U.S. Anyone and everyone who isn’t a Q believer is “the cabal,” and the cabal wields this influence so it can establish some sort of tyrannical New World Order while also doing batshit things like drinking the imaginary drug “adrenochrome,” which they believe liberals are extracting from children to achieve immortality. The “cabal” is all-encompassing and controls every aspect of liberal politics, global infrastructure, higher education, popular culture, mass media and worldwide charitable organizations. If you’ve only seen the term plastered around, though, and still don’t know what it all means, here’s the most basic summary I can offer: QAnon is a disproven and baseless far-right conspiracy theory that essentially alleges the world is run by a Satanic cabal of left-wing cannibalistic pedophiles and child traffickers. The threat of mass delusion represented by QAnon has now gone mainstream, which makes it both easier and harder for rational Americans to fight. Suffice to say, things have changed in the last few months-it’s difficult to imagine anyone following the news of the Capitol riots hasn’t picked up at least the barest understanding of the danger presented by believers of this particularly warped alternate reality. 3, 2020-the majority of Americans were likely still completely unaware of the sprawling, web-based conspiracy theory we now know as QAnon. It seems quaint to think that at the start of 2020-hell, on Nov.
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