And I have been battling my husbands 22 year old nephew who told me I needed to be in a looney bin for not believing in it today!

And the cult is too stupid to realize it.

That’s all it is.

has now spun out of control.

It is going to get people killed. A Time magazine article had this paragraph to give you a feel for what is going to happen.

Arthur and Frank explained they’re not followers of QAnon. Frank says she spends most of her free time researching child sex trafficking, while Arthur adds that she often finds this information on the Russian-owned search engine Yandex. Frank’s eyes fill with tears as she describes what she’s found: children who are being raped and tortured so that “the cabal” can “extract their blood and drink it.” She says Trump has seized the blood on the black market as part of his fight against the cabal. “I think if Biden wins, the world is over, basically,” adds Arthur. “I would honestly try to leave the country. And if that wasn’t an option, I would probably take my children and sit in the garage and turn my car on and it would be over.”

Hopefully, her quote will get her a visit from CPS.

There is merch to be sold.

to the woman who owned the hair salon in San Francisco for her "gotcha" moment (which is now totally forgotten), think how much this bunch of guys will drag in off of those same clowns all willing and able to get out a credit card.

In their flaming RW Trump Humper World you can make a fortune by spewing fake patriotism, hating Mexicans and spinning ridiculous "theories".

So they are making money while espousing the sickest of ideologies.

https://www.justsecurity.org/72339/qanon-is-a-nazi-cult-rebranded/

I chalked it up to being started by some conservative think tank meant to indoctrinate the conspiracy theorist crowd into the Republican party -- but what you've posted is a far scarier alternative that I didn't consider.

but this is interesting...

It is one thing to have fringe conspiracy theories that people believe in, but quite another to have it go mainstream and be endorsed by a political party.

Getting people to believe, en masse, absurd things sets them up for more absurd things and then, that can lead to horrific results. I am not being sensationalist about this, the potential is there, especially when whomever is behind QAnon seems to be utilizing and rebranding something we have seen before. You could say it is a Nazi cult as per this article:

A secret cabal is taking over the world. They kidnap children, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from their blood. They control high positions in government, banks, international finance, the news media, and the church. They want to disarm the police. They promote homosexuality and pedophilia. They plan to mongrelize the white race so it will lose its essential power.

Or maybe 8 chan?

The irony of which is that he promotes/allows pedophilia.

He seems to be involved but not the only one. The people who outed Gelinas are close to outing the rest.

"The man behind Qanon is a vile hate-merchant coordinating with OANN, Flynn and Russian intelligence."

The link to the Mediium story is a fascinating read.

https://medium.com/@registrarproject17/jim-watkins-is-q-the-russians-are-helping-him-and-other-adventures-b457848e210b

he's on top of this mess. His other Medium piece is good too. (Title something like "Q is coming for your family&quot

Of course, all the Q people will just say this is part of the conspiracy. "George Soros is paying him to pretend to be Q!"

I follow a few "leaders" on social media and with the outing of one of the "Q Team" yesterday, a viral post started off by saying something to the effect "Even if the 1% chance Q ends up being something nefarious, our cause is just and we're awake"....blah, blah

And pours it on the floor)

Unless it's a Bud Light, then it's OK to pour on the floor!

I endorse your message.

Seems more than a few don't want to see or acknowledge the rank and huge part anti-Semitism plays in this bullshit.

People like to laugh at these shit for brains freaks and just brush them off, but they should not be brushed off, they are mentally unstable and believe they are doing he work of God, just like the suicide bombers in the Middle East.

There is no doubt in my mind that we will once again be dealing with mass shooting in schools and churches if Trump loses, the right wing media will once again go out of their way to incite these nutters into violence.

with numbers vastly inflated by Russian bot farms.

I've gathered so many excellent resources that I can't begin to summarize them and the impact it has had on millions and millions of diverse people.

Regardless of who actually started it (it looks like it may be revealed fairly soon; the people who outed Gelinas know others), I have no doubt that people like Bannon and Putin have been amplifying (if not controlling) it since the number of ridiculously gullible people no doubt surprised even them.

the crazy contest.

As for who Q is? Who gives a shit. He's (I feel certain it's a he) is just another in the sea of right wing psychopaths.

They're so numerous, they're just a blur.

Nearly 600,000 people have voted for candidates who support QAnon
The overlap of Q supporters with Trump’s base of support is not a coincidence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/01/nearly-600000-people-have-voted-candidates-who-support-qanon/

Somebody is making a shitload of money off this.

And now it's its own brand of crazy.

A lot of this stuff originates on 4chan, which was originally just a bunch of internet trolls messing with people, but then actual white supremacists got involved.

It's a total shitshow.

And occasionally some American oligarchs get involved when they think it suits their agenda.

made up by some guys on 4Chan. I looked for the thread on Reddit and can't find it where it explains it all. I will keep looking.

Prior to the internet, the largest found intensely-insane population 'point of view' was confined by walls.
Now Q's quote anonymous qlues (sic) to create tapestries of sick-fiction, while assuring themselves that they are the 'moran-al majority'.

Stupidity, insanity, the ignorant and egoic are never not dangerous.

It's a grift that has gotten out of control

Low info idiots congregate on line

One person makes shit up as a goof.

low info idiots buy it all

Russians amplify it

Various grifters have seized on it to make money. But unlike, say, a religious huckster fleecing those who want a picture of a god that looks after them, this appeals to the worst anti-societal tendencies, like the Chinese Cultural Revolution did.

Yes, it matters. It's playing with fire.

They are cultists that do not accept reality. Armed, angry, and on a mission from their god.