The QAnon conspiracy theory involves (Jewish) Satanist cabals and transcendent orders of (mostly Jewish) Illuminati pulling the levers of a (still mostly Jewish) world order. Seriously. And it involves Donald Trump as the Great White Savior who is secretly working with Robert Mueller on the world’s most elaborate trap to snare radical Muslim Barack Obama and radical atheist Hillary Clinton and reveal them as tools for this ancient international sect of Jewish-Satanist-pedophile child sacrificers who have controlled every “criminal president” for a century. Again … seriously. It’s the conspiracy for people for whom the network of basement-connecting tunnels and elaborate ring of sex slaves being traded through pizza orders of Pizzagate seemed just too likely.
As Donald Trump ramps up his rally appearances to a near-daily event, the QAnon crowd seems to be on an exponential growth curve. In the last week, they’ve appeared in numbers at Trump events, waving signs, shirts, and banners to express their belief in this Theory of Very Special Specialness. If dinosaurs, Elvis, and Bigfoot made an appearance in QAnon’s “breadcrumbs” next week, the adherents would find a way to make it fit. Just the fact that the secret dispatches from the secret font of wisdom are called “breadcrumbs” probably has Trump supporters across the nation burning slices of Wonder in the hopes that their toaster will be first with the next dispatch.
As Daily Beast reports, the sheer lunacy of the QAnon theory is deeply offensive to those who merely believe that Donald Trump is a good man out to help America through his deep concern for middle-class working families and his innate understanding of the intricacies of everything ever. Even Trump supporters who spent years rolling in throes of Lock’er Up ecstasy, like former Breitbart reporter Lee Stranahan, are feeling just a wee bit embarrassed to be playing on the same team with these guys.
Stranahan: It’s not just dumb, it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s unprecedentedly dumb in the history of American politics.
Understand that Republicans were not embarrassed about discarding their claimed concern over the deficit for a tax cut that gave almost all its benefits to billionaires, or ripping up health care for millions of Americans just because it was associated with Democrats, or separating immigrant families at the border to create permanent orphans out of hundreds of children. But this Q stuff is concerning. And the biggest reason for that concern is that the whole conspiracy … may really be a conspiracy. Just not the kind that Republicans believe.
On Monday, Buzz Feed reported that there is increasing evidence that QAnon reflects a genuine conspiracy: a conspiracy to make Republicans look like idiots. Specifically, the whole QAnon “theory” seems to be a test conducted by the “lulz” crowd of the 4Chan and 8Chan troll sites specifically to see how far they could push older, tech-ignorant Trump supporters.
Why would these troll sites that have mostly supported Trump conduct an operation that puts Trump supporters in a bad light? That doesn’t take an elaborate theory: They’re assholes. Trump’s ability to screw with the system was what appealed to them in the first place, and now that Trump is the system, they’re happy to screw with him. Whatever causes the most misery for the most people is always high on their hit parade. Recent messages on 4Chan have seen some earlier participants in spreading “crumbs” revealing in how “normies and boomers” were “sucked in” by the inane information that was passed out in inscrutable haiku-like snippets and obsessed over on Facebook pages and YouTube videos.
The Buzzfeed story draws attention to similarities between the QAnon information produced so far, and a obscure book called Q that was published in 1999—a book that was specifically designed as a set of coded messages concerning government conspiracies and a call to anarchy. Of course … that could be a new conspiracy. It would certainly be in the scope of 4Chan’s general assholery to spin up a new conspiracy theory around their old conspiracy theory. Because then they could “win” twice, by sucking in a whole new crowd of believers.
In the meantime, many Republicans are just wishing people would get back to sensible theories … like how Barack Obama was running guns or Hillary was selling uranium to the Russians.
Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator who positioned himself as a pro-Trump thought leader, said in a video Sunday that QAnon believers were making all Trump supporters look “like a bunch of idiots.”
Honestly, the only thing needed to make Trump supporters look like a bunch of idiots is the label “Trump supporters.”
