Q'Anon

@RedDenver  to add to your post above there is  this one.  They think the national guard is in DC to hand over govt to the military and take it from an illegitimate president

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Make a pack wt the devil and the devil always wins - never plays fair.    How many Q followers will figure out that trump was an empty suit only caring about himself and his brand?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-disowns-trump-saying-he-was-duped

Earlier this week, before Donald Trump left office in disgrace, he was heard consoling himself by saying that his fans still loved him in spite of everything. But it seems one of his most notorious and crazed supporters has abandoned him now that he no longer wields presidential power. The legal representative of Jacob Chansley—better known as the “QAnon Shaman,” who burst into the U.S. Capitol wearing furs and Viking horns—has said his client feels cheated by Trump. Referring to his client as “the guy with the horns and the fur,” attorney Al Watkins told the St. Louis NBC News affiliate KSDK: “[Chansley] regrets very, very much having not just been duped by the president, but by being in a position where he allowed that duping to put him in a position to make decisions he should not have made.” Chansley was arrested days after the riot, and last week he begged Trump for a pardon—but it never came.
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The craziness continues

https://www.chron.com/news/article/QAnon-believers-seek-to-adapt-their-extremist-15888820.php

And though several said some of QAnon's core promises had not come to fruition, many still saw the movement as having helped lead them down the path to other increasingly extreme and baseless ideas. Researchers worry that the QAnon movement's splintering could prove dangerous.

Colin Clarke, the director of policy and research at the Soufan Group, a security consulting firm, said he has seen white nationalists and neo-Nazi groups online seeking to "groom" disenchanted QAnon believers into their own hateful ideologies. The far-right movements, he noted, share what he called a "fringe fluidity" because they overlap in their ability to attract people prone to fringe beliefs about shadowy forces controlling the world.

"We're very likely to see QAnon lead to a steppingstone of . . . racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists," he said. "They're looking at this as an opportunity to grow their movement."

Many QAnon believers, Clarke said, have been pulled into the movement at a time of great anxiety: Trapped at home by the pandemic and worried about money and health, they're being presented with a never-ending assortment of polarizing "propaganda" that promises easy answers to intractable fears.

Now, with QAnon's prophecies falling apart, Clarke worries how many will react.

"If you're a true believer and you've been exposed, in that this is some elaborate hoax, people are going to be really pissed off," he said. "We've been so laser focused on jihadis for 20 years that we basically ignored this threat that has grown on our own soil. Now it's here and it's impossible to ignore."

QAnon promoters have in the last day held up an incoherent set of new theories to explain away Trump's anticlimactic exit from Washington: that the military is in control of the country, not Biden; that Biden and Trump have switched faces; that Biden's inauguration was illegitimate, and that the real one (for Trump) would take place in March; or that Biden has been in on the QAnon plan all along.

In QAnon-devoted Telegram channels and message boards, some QAnon believers have announced their worries that they now feel conned by a 4-year-old hoax: "Power has changed hands and that is the end," one user on Telegram said. "In the time we needed Trump and Q the most . . . They both shut up and left," said another on a QAnon-related forum.

But many others seem to have recommitted to QAnon, swapping explanations they feel validate their continued faith and echoing established QAnon slogans such as "Trust the Plan" and "Hold the Line." Others said QAnon had already attained a vast spiritual victory, by awakening the masses to an evil undercurrent that had been shaping the U.S. government, media and technology industries all along.

Q, who has posted nearly 5,000 cryptic information "drops" online since 2017, has not issued a single message on his home message board of 8kun in 44 days, leading some believers to a crisis of faith. And the father-son duo that leads 8kun have offered up different portrayals of the next QAnon phase.

Ron Watkins, 8kun's longtime administrator and a mass promoter of election-fraud conspiracy theories, said in a Telegram message on Wednesday that the White House transition meant it was time for his followers to "go back to our lives as best we are able." His father and 8kun's owner, Jim Watkins, later worked to defend Q's "historical value," saying on his Gab account that "the culture of our country has changed because of it."

Twitter and Facebook have moved aggressively to stomp out conspiracy theories and viral misinformation, announcing this month that they have removed a combined total of more than 100,000 QAnon-linked accounts. But tens of thousands of new subscribers have joined some of the more prominent QAnon channels on Gab, Telegram and stand-alone websites in recent days.

"Does it make sense that Trump would 'give up' like this?" said one QAnon account on Gab with more than 130,000 followers Wednesday night. "What if it had to be this way, what if this actually ends up being the best way? . . . Call me crazy, but I don't think this movie is done."

Tiffany, the QAnon-believing mother and online boutique owner in Oklahoma, said she has lost friends due to her views and been "censored" by Facebook and Twitter, which suspended her accounts for comments she made on conspiracy-related groups. But she said she feels just as firm as ever in her beliefs - and in her questions about a darker reality behind what's happening in the U.S.

"They can try to silence us as much as they want. But there's too many people who have realized this stuff," she said. She added that the QAnon movement, even without Trump or Q's direct involvement, has already given way to something far more permanent.

"Q added a little bit of texture to the situation," she said, "but the reality was you could see the fraud that happened with your own eyes."
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Time for recovery programs

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/checked-reality-qanon-supporters-seek-75546696

More than a week after Donald Trump departed the White House, shattering their hopes that he would expose the worldwide cabal, some QAnon adherents have concocted ever more elaborate stories to keep their faith alive. But others like Smith are turning to therapy and online support groups to talk about the damage done when beliefs collide with reality.

The QAnon conspiracy theory emerged on fringe internet message boards in 2017. At root, the movement claims Trump is waging a secret battle against the “deep state” and a sect of powerful devil-worshipping pedophiles who dominate Hollywood, big business, the media and government.

It is named after Q, an anonymous poster who believers claim has top-secret government clearance and whose posts are taken as predictions about “the plan” and the coming “storm” and “great awakening" in which evil will be defeated.

It's not clear exactly how many people believe some or all of the narrative, but backers of the movement were vocal in their support for Trump and helped fuel the insurrectionists who overran the U.S. Capitol this month. QAnon is also growing in popularity overseas.

Former believers interviewed by The Associated Press liken the process of leaving QAnon to kicking a drug addiction. QAnon, they say, offers simple explanations for a complicated world and creates an online community that provides escape and even friendship.
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She was stunned by Biden's inauguration. How this South Carolina mom escaped QAnon


Vanderbilt credits her faith in God for helping her out of QAnon. While she was deep in the conspiracy theory, she said that Trump was becoming an almost messianic figure for her who could do no wrong. She recalls once asking herself, "Am I putting even Trump above God?"
 
Vanderbilt reflects that she could perhaps have been pulled out of QAnon before inauguration day if Trump himself condemned it. Instead, he flirted with it and tacitly embraced it by retweeting prominent QAnon accounts and saying positive things about QAnon followers.
 
Instead, she had a revelation of her own.
 
She was able to do something that many people, including some elected representatives and a few members of the Republican Party, are not. She has admitted she was wrong and has condemned QAnon as a dangerous political movement.
 
knapplc said:
She was stunned by Biden's inauguration. How this South Carolina mom escaped QAnon


Vanderbilt credits her faith in God for helping her out of QAnon. While she was deep in the conspiracy theory, she said that Trump was becoming an almost messianic figure for her who could do no wrong. She recalls once asking herself, "Am I putting even Trump above God?"
 
Vanderbilt reflects that she could perhaps have been pulled out of QAnon before inauguration day if Trump himself condemned it. Instead, he flirted with it and tacitly embraced it by retweeting prominent QAnon accounts and saying positive things about QAnon followers.
 
Instead, she had a revelation of her own.
 
She was able to do something that many people, including some elected representatives and a few members of the Republican Party, are not. She has admitted she was wrong and has condemned QAnon as a dangerous political movement.
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Well it's good to see her belief in one fantasy pulled her out of another I guess but there's a common thread here.

 
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