'My faith is shaken': The QAnon conspiracy theory faces a post-Trump identity crisis

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump’s election loss and the week-long silence of “Q,” the movement’s mysterious prophet, have wrenched some QAnon believers into a crisis of faith, with factions voicing unease about their future or rallying others to stay calm and “trust the plan.”

The uncertainty has been compounded by the abrupt public resignation, also last Tuesday, of Ron Watkins, the administrator of Q’s online sanctuary on the message board 8kun.

Q has gone quiet before. But the abrupt lack of posts since last Tuesday — Election Day, which the anonymous figure had touted for months as a key moment of reckoning — has sparked speculation and alarm among the movement’s most ardent followers.

Some QAnon proponents have begun to publicly grapple with reality and question whether the conspiracy theory is a hoax. “Have we all been conned?” one user wrote Saturday on 8kun.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/my-faith-is-shaken-the-qanon-conspiracy-theory-faces-a-post-trump-identity-crisis/ar-BB1aS0RK?li=BBnb7Kz

Have you been conned? Does a bird shit in the sky?

[Thekaspervote]

1. Yes dearie you've been conned!!

[MacKasey]

2. FBI should be able to expose Q

Once tRump is gone

[intrepidity]

3. I've read that Jan 20 is now their hard deadline

You know, how cults have these dates that they just keep pushing, until finally they set a hard deadline? And then the cult goes all Heaven's Gate or whatever. Like that. Get 'em out while you can, if you can.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. After that it will be 2024, and so on, until they are exposed and

crushed.

[Atticus]

4. "Have we all been conned?" DOES DRACULA HAVE AN OVERBITE? nt

[callous taoboy]

5. I fucking hate Q. They've wrecked one marriage in my family.

They've turned half of my family into people I don't know anymore. We were once a tight-knit group, yes, with some political differences, but now the other half of us are the enemy, I suppose. Hope they collapse like a cheap tent and the faithful learn they got burned.

[Neema]

6. "Have we all been conned?" Dude, really? YA THINK?!

I can't even with these people.

[Klaralven]

7. Millenarianism

Henri Desroche observed that millenarian movements often envisioned three periods in which change might occur. First, the elect members of the movement will be increasingly oppressed, leading to the second period in which the movement resists the oppression. The third period brings about a new utopian age, liberating the members of the movement.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. As somebody who's somebody said,

It is far easier to fool people than it is to convince them they've been fooled.

[C_U_L8R]

9. The attack of Andy Kaufman's ghost

This has been some magnificent performance art. Really brought the idiot out of the idiots.

[Squinch]

10. *Snork*

[underpants]

11. I'm lost!!!

[Initech]

12. That's what you get for following a deranged, made-up fantasy cult!

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Zombie shit-house squirrels. One and all.

[cayugafalls]

14. Of course they have been conned...wtf. Stupid knows no bounds.

[Newest Reality]

16. Yes...and BIG TIME!

Do cows fart?

It was easy, too. Not substantiating and not fact checking your information, is a quick trip down the rabbit hole of infamy. You can believe ANYTHING.