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Friday, August 2, 2019

The Eat A Baby Edition: QAnon

The Omnivore remembers the good old days when "Eats a Baby" was sarcastic code for "does the worst thing you could possibly imagine"--such as "Trump could eat a baby on live TV and people would still vote for him."

Today, the QAnon conspiracy believes that Hillary & Co. are literally pedovores. Literally--and The Omnivore doesn't mean that figuratively. Of course the FBI has finally flagged them as a threat.

QAnon is what happens when you build your political identity on being out of power and then take power. Everything is still wrong--you still don't have that all-important-respect of the elites. Your plant still closed, and so on (somebody else's stock portfolio is doing great--but that smug asshole kept telling you they were doing better and better through the Obama years and you knew that was bullshit!). You've gotten so used to blaming it all on the liberals--but now you're in power. So what gives?

What gives is the Deep State--the Shadow Masters (including, still, Hillary) who are fucking things up behind the scenes and keeping your magic-POTUS down. Yes they are. You invent a global conspiracy that emotionally keeps you in the all-forgiving position of The Bullied so that your rage is made "righteous" because of the imprecations thrust upon you.

Armed with the armor of the butt-hurt, you set off to do battle with, well, everyone.

The Omnivore Knew This Would Happen
One of the most common patterns in political discourse today is that people who support Trump work overtime to minimize the threat of the conspiracy-infested far-right. This includes things such as:
  1. Whattabout Antifa??? (Well, what about them? Who have they killed?)
  2. Rejecting any upturn in right-wing violence ("hate crimes are fake! Yes--ALL of them!" and The Ominvore's favorite: "THE FBI DATA DOESN'T SAY THAT!" . . . except it does)
  3. Trying to hand-wave any connection between the alt-right and Trump (see the epic "Bannon didn't know what he was talking about!" for a particularly sad example).
  4. Head-In-Sand Over Conspiracy Theory. In this case: "QAnon isn't any kind of movement--it's just like 1 or 2 people . . . or something?")
The reason this has to be done--and why the FBI classifying QAnon as a threat is legitimately a fairly big deal--is that if this line of defense falls then behind it is the realization that the right has been coddling racist and conspiracy theorists for, well, a very long time because they are useful in terms of political votes.

The problem with QAnon in particular . . . is that it's a Time Bomb.

The Ticking Q-Clock
 The term Q-Clock actually refers to something specific The Omnivore isn't talking about here* but in time-bomb terms, the Q Conspiracy theory goes like this:
  • Trump was recruited by Military Intel to get rid of the Deep State and the pedovore cults
  • Trump is doing this. There is a Plan. That Plan involves mass arrests and then public executions (the Q Community clambors for this!)
  • It's coming soon. Real soon. . . . not that soon.
Q has built up an expectation that Things Will Happen. The dignity and respect the members crave will be restored when they are Proven Right** all along and the walls of the World You Used To Know come tumbling down as Trump enacts his plan and releases all the intel to the media.

The Q Guys revel in seeing their families and friends stare aghast at the raw nature of reality and in awe of themselves--the True Followers of-Q--realizing "Crazy Uncle Bob was Right About Everything All Along!"

As, predictably, time goes by and this does not happen, people get frustrated. They get mocked--both by friends and by people inside the Q-Community, if they complain (even a little). They are told to Take Action--against the Deep State.

Note: The Q Community usually contains a disclaimer saying they don't believe in violence. This is, of course, nonsense. They are a bunch of angry blood-thirsty boomers. While they may not be the most capable of violence as a demographic, they certainly believe in it--they want the streets to run with the blood of the pedovore Democrats. They hunger for it.

So, yeah--as time goes on--as The Plan eventually fails to materialize--rather than realizing they were duped (they are incapable, just like people who fall to the Nigerian Prince scam) they will simply get angrier and angrier and angrier.

Kaboom.



* The QClock is a brain-twisting construct of True Believers who think that Q's posts represent a time-line that goes into the future to predict important events.
** A big part of Trumpist mythology is that "soon" his antics will pay off and North Korea will denuclearize, the great shining wall will spring up, and the American Economy will outpace the ballooning deficit. This is the same psychological phenomena as grandma telling you eventually that Nigerian prince will send her the millions . . .YOU'LL SEE!

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