QANON

STANV said:

https://www.healthline.com/health/quinine-in-tonic-water

Originally meant to treat Malaria but for maximum effect combine with Gin.

 Gin?  What a concept.


ridski said:

 Well, that and the price.

 I can't argue with that. Turns out it doesn't taste any better than Canada Dry or Schweppes.


basil said:

STANV said:

https://www.healthline.com/health/quinine-in-tonic-water

Originally meant to treat Malaria but for maximum effect combine with Gin.

I am very malaria prone

So it's a prophylactic for you. 


In QANON news


here's another one


From McSweeney's -

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hqwl?fbclid=IwAR2Mck1Gy5o92p3aeqRLmpKzYxLvpGFxMJbK_SVK0Im5-a7-VKTrCGE8mXc

HQWL

by DEVORAH BLACHOR

With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg.

I saw the dullest minds of my generation destroyed by hashtags, stupid gullible red-capped,

scrolling mindlessly through the 4chan boards at dawn looking for breadcrumb droppings,

jacked methheads jonesing for deep state conspiracy links to Hillary and Lisa Page and the dumbfuckery of Pizzagate,

who ignorant and hate-filled and AR15-toting rose up stupid in Tea Party grievances of White Supremacy floating under the guise of small government,

who emptied their wallets to Christ and saw Jerry Falwell Jr. unzipping his pants on luxury yachts inebriated,

who cheered on caged children with cruel “lol own the libs” eyes hallucinating Alex Jones and Chachi has-beens among the Karens of suburbia,

whose falsehoods were amplified on Facebook for clicks pushing divisive deza on the fragile psyche of our broken nation,

who believed a Trust-The-Plan Storm-Is-Coming Red-Pill Elder-Zion-Protocol Great-Awakening delusion idolizing a second rate Jim Jones false messiah daughter-craving reality TV Studio 54 has been,

yackety-yakking screaming ranting about Save-the-Children child trafficking rings while blindly trusting Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach pal Donald,

who worshiped a cowering bone spurs snake oil-selling casino-bankrupting wife-cheating shyster,

who ate taco bowls in coastal elite towers or drank bleach in Mar-a-Lago or bragged his “sir” stories of gibberish,

whose gold toilet throne of staggering crassness was aspirational,

who slurred and spewed hatred and vomited 20,000 lies from an over-bronzed mouth hole of ratings and caravans and Antifa and people in the dark shadows controlling the streets and black-uniformed thugs on airplanes and Obamagate and big bags of soup,

who let 190,000 die because masks are for cucks, shrugging at a deadly virus to show “strength” while they gasped their last breath

who praised basement-dwelling militia of incels shooting paintball guns off flatbed trucks out of Dixie murdering protesters,

to restore the systems of hierarchy and drag his foot before you shameless, stoking fears to assuage white guilt and console endless boundless male fragility,

... (continued on link)



Anyone catch the Qanon documentary that was just on in 6 parts on HBO?

Seems like that movement provided a lot of fuel for what happened on January 6th.

I believe and hope that Q has lost steam since.  But we really need to examine how people are falling for this nonsense and who is ultimately behind it.  

Here's one recent response from a Q follower:

“Did you at the time believe that high-level Democrats and celebrities were worshipping Satan? Drinking the blood of children?” Cooper asked, referring to some of the baseless theories to come out of the conspiracy movement.

“Anderson, I thought you did that, and I would like to apologize for that right now. So, I apologize for thinking that you ate babies,” Jadeja said.

“You actually believed that I was drinking the blood of children?” Cooper asked.

“Yes, I did,” Jadeja responded.

“Was it something about me that made you think that?” Cooper asked.

“It’s because Q specifically mentioned you, and he mentioned you very early on,” Jadeja said. “He mentioned you by name, and from there — he also talked about, like, for example, like, your family.”

“People still talk about that to this day,” he continued. “There were posts about that just four days ago. ... Some people thought you were a robot.”

The Trumpers aren't far from the Q cult.


I saw the first 2. I wasn't happy with the way the Qultists were being portrayed, as if it was a fun, almost  innocent game, whereas in reality it was tearing families apart. Does it get better? I'll finish watching it if it does.


I would say to hang in there with it.  His assessment about who Q is at the end is pretty decent.

I think I was a little underwhelmed after the first 2.  But I think it got better and it was more focused on the dynamics between Jim and Ron Watkins and Frederick.


I started this thread 2 years ago, when it wasn't quite clear where QANON was heading.

Now, in 2022, Trump has basically gone all in on it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-qanon-truth-social-meltdown-1234584590/


Another view of the Trump rally.


One thing for sure - we now have the T**** salute - he loves things that stick.  ie: lock her up - YMCA - Build the wall - who's going to pay for it?  (I think the latter part has faded away)   Drain the swamp - etc


QAnon is quite a worrisome phenomenon.  Anywhere from 4-20% of people believe in QAnon or its fundamental ideas, including 15% who support this idea:

"Consider a recent poll from PRRI. It asked Americans whether they agreed with three separate statements, each a part of the QAnon belief system, but it didn’t mention QAnon by name. Fifteen percent of Americans agreed with the statement “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.” 

The above quote is taken from an excellent article that reviews polling issues with QAnon.  https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-hard-to-gauge-support-for-qanon/.

Even if 15% support this idea, that's still 45 million people who can potentially be activated by Trump, QAnon's savior, to engage in political protests that may reach disruptive and unlawful levels, and support fascist-like laws, values and candidates that believe in the "big lie" and will be willing to overturn democratic elections.

While such numbers are terrifying, they are consistent with a large percentage of individuals who have always been susceptible to wildly untrue beliefs, as those that might have been propagated in the National Inquirer and other such scandal sheets in past years, and now are alive and well on social media. 

drummerboy said:

I started this thread 2 years ago, when it wasn't quite clear where QANON was heading.

Now, in 2022, Trump has basically gone all in on it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-qanon-truth-social-meltdown-1234584590/


Just finished Andy Borowitz book (Profiles in Ignorance) and expected lots of yuks and not much substance, based on his NYer "reports" but found his categories interesting. 3 of them: ridicule (Quayle, "potatoe"), acceptance (Ivy-educated GOP pols playing along with **** they know is nuts), and celebration (It's cool to be a nut job, MTG, Bobert). 

Wondering when/if Acceptance people jump ship as Trump embraces Q.


GL2 said:

Just finished Andy Borowitz book (Profiles in Ignorance) and expected lots of yuks and not much substance, based on his NYer "reports" but found his categories interesting. 3 of them: ridicule (Quayle, "potatoe"), acceptance (Ivy-educated GOP pols playing along with **** they know is nuts), and celebration (It's cool to be a nut job, MTG, Bobert). 

Wondering when/if Acceptance people jump ship as Trump embraces Q.

I've learned a lot of smart people I know are just plain f*cking greedy.  They went with Trump because he was good for company profits and good for lower taxes.  It feels like many in the "acceptance" crowd made their peace with his insanity years ago.


Agree. They’re the worst. They know he’s nuts, unlike pathetic dolts who believe. 


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