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Nevilledog

(51,170 posts)
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 09:27 PM Jan 2021

Without Their 'Messiah,' QAnon Believers Confront A Post-Trump World



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With Trump out of office, some researchers worry believers of QAnon — a baseless conspiracy theory that the FBI has called a domestic terrorism threat — will become even more extreme and conspiratorial.

Without Their 'Messiah,' QAnon Believers Confront A Post-Trump World
With former President Donald Trump out of office, Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg suggests some who believe in the baseless conspiracy theory will become even more extreme.
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5:51 PM · Jan 28, 2021


https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961507953/without-their-messiah-qanon-believers-confront-a-post-trump-world


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Without Their 'Messiah,' QAnon Believers Confront A Post-Trump World (Original Post) Nevilledog Jan 2021 OP
They were so sure..... OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2021 #1
They'll just amend it and claim it was supposed to be about Dumbass Jr all along. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2021 #2
Unfortunately, they will re-engage with him and his grievance when he us given a platform emmaverybo Jan 2021 #3

OAITW r.2.0

(24,556 posts)
1. They were so sure.....
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 09:29 PM
Jan 2021

how many cults in the past "just knew"? It is part of our humanity. There are a lot of people who need validation of their warped sense of reality.

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
3. Unfortunately, they will re-engage with him and his grievance when he us given a platform
Fri Jan 29, 2021, 12:24 AM
Jan 2021

via impeachment trial. Putting Trump center-stage again will excite their hopes that good overcomes evil in the end. Since there is little to no chance Senate can convict, he returns to Washington a conquering hero, proving that Dems, in the black hats, keep trying to destroy him, and by extension them, white hats pursuing global satanic pedos.

Wish he could stay de-platformed and any legal repercussions that might have teeth be played out
away from the new administration. In the meantime, it might have been possible that a fuller picture of Trump’s involvement in Jan. 6 would emerge to increase chances to hold him accountable as in put away, not kept like a pacing tiger Dems walk yet again in front of his mind-controlled devotees. They had a window through which disenchantment was beginning to waft. They were questioning, sone pulling back the curtain. Wizard had shriveled slightly. But now his image gets a big boost as he is allowed to enter the fray, standing toe to toe with new admin, manipulating media, re-energizing all his MagaQ, White Supremacist base. Don’t aim for the king if you are going to mss.

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