'It is a trap!': Inside the QAnon attack that never happened

[DonViejo]

Why fears of violence on March 4, the mythical day Trump was supposed to be inaugurated to a second term, proved unfounded.

By TINA NGUYEN

03/07/2021 06:55 AM EST

In a joint intelligence bulletin earlier this week, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security delivered a jarring warning to state and local law enforcement: violent domestic extremists “motivated by the QAnon conspiracy theory” might be mobilized to action because they believed Donald Trump would be inaugurated on March 4.

But the date came and went without serious incident. It wasn’t that the false and sprawling conspiracy theory that accuses “Deep State elites” of running a secret pedophile ring was losing steam. Rather, it was at least in part because QAnon followers smelled a trap.

In the weeks leading up to March 4 — the day in QAnon lore when Trump was actually supposed to be inaugurated for a second term, thus taking the country back from the Joe Biden — QAnon influencers had been discouraging their massive audience to avoid attending any event on that day, suggesting that any planned gatherings would be “false flag operations” designed by the government to make them look bad.

“FOR ALL YOU SHILLS, MSM LURKERS AND NORMIES VISITING TODAY - Q HAS TOLD US MARCH 4 IS A TRAP,” a user posted Thursday on GreatAwakening.win, one of the larger QAnon web forums. “THEREFORE ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS IS NOT US!!”

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[Irish_Dem]

1. They're in a trap of their own making.

They have built a mouse trap for themselves.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. They felt safe on January 6th

although that siege was coordinated between rump's maladministration and their own leaders. Once Joe Biden came into office, their actions were revealed with copious documentation of malfeasance - much of it due to their own video recordings and social media postings. They helped set their own trap on that one, and it's just now tightening around them.

[underpants]

3. Q *is* a trap

A mind trap

[Hugin]

4. Sorry, but, it's like a law or something to post this here.

[underpants]

11. 😆

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[Hotler]

5. Most are still grounded by their moms. nt

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

6. The Qwackos think a large, obvious, well publicized National Guard presence is a

a "trap".

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Deplorables are mentally unstable, easily misled when fed delusions

I attribute a large part of it to advertising, they are conditioned to respond in a predictable way. They were and remain vulnerable to con men.

[Volaris]

8. 'Therefore, anything that happens, is not us.'...and that would be why nothing happened.

Because all the actual seditious treasonweasels stayed the fuck home.

Funny how that works, innit Q?

[Kaleva]

9. They'll never win because they are so out of touch with reality

[JFK60]

10. Being delusional is easy, you just reshape the delusion instantly...

Some sweeping “event” on a “big day” didn’t happen? Of course, it was a trap. Or the Deep State foiled it. Or whatever.

These whackjobs just shift their delusions by the seat of their pants. It’s easy when you’re untethered from reality.

[Silent3]

12. While there's still plenty to worry about from these nuts, another January 6 isn't it

All of the Trump toadies were expected to show up on January 6, for a pre-planned, pre-scheduled event.

The mistake/plan was not taking that event as a serious threat. Those who knew the real threat were in power, and didn't want to stop it. Those who failed to recognize the threat hopefully now know that skin color isn't the best gauge of danger.

A giant crowd can't just show up and gather in full strength out of the blue in DC without setting off many, many alarm bells now. The Trump cronies who would have turned a blind eye are now either gone or outnumbered. Even a scheduled event of Trump supporters will set off alarms.

The biggest danger going forward is single attackers or small groups, not rampaging hordes.