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Judi Lynn

(160,588 posts)
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 12:39 PM Aug 2018

Here's the evidence that QAnon is an elaborate prank being played on gullible Trump-loving Boomers


BRAD REED
06 AUG 2018 AT 10:12 ET



Is “QAnon” — the self-purported government insider who is revealing President Donald Trump’s supposed plans to blow the lid off of a global pedophile ring — actually just an elaborate prank being played on gullible Trump supporters?

BuzzFeed News reporter Ryan Broderick has done a good deal of detective work and has put together some compelling evidence that QAnon may have been created by left-wing pranksters as part of a joke conspiracy theory that happened to succeed beyond their wildest expectations.

In particular, Broderick points out that the QAnon conspiracy theory bears some striking similarities to the plot of a novel called “Q” that was written by a group of Italian leftists going under the name of “Luther Blissett” back in the late 1990s.

In fact, the similarities between the two are so strong that three of the authors of the book — Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga and Federico Guglielmi — tell Broderick that they would not be surprised if someone used their book as the inspiration for the QAnon conspiracy.

More:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/heres-evidence-qanon-elaborate-prank-played-gullible-trump-loving-boomers/
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Here's the evidence that QAnon is an elaborate prank being played on gullible Trump-loving Boomers (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2018 OP
The brain 💀 Trump cult feeds on hate to forget about their own miserable 😭 lives, this is proof. Fred Sanders Aug 2018 #1
Marking to read later. n/t ms liberty Aug 2018 #2
Here is the link to the original article in Buzzfeed emulatorloo Aug 2018 #3
It amazes me DemKittyNC Aug 2018 #4
The problem here is that reality is just as deranged! Trump's kidnapping ring (DHS) is lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #10
Some people are making a lot of money off these chumps C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #5
FYI: It's not just Boomers. brush Aug 2018 #6
Weird but the majority of people photographed in that article are too young to be boomers. bettyellen Aug 2018 #7
A bunch of gay-bashers are wearing t-shirts with a big Q on it Merlot Aug 2018 #8
That's the best part! lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #11
Sasha Baron Cohen? (nt) ehrnst Aug 2018 #9

emulatorloo

(44,156 posts)
3. Here is the link to the original article in Buzzfeed
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 12:45 PM
Aug 2018
It's Looking Extremely Likely That QAnon Is A Leftist Prank On Trump Supporters
"What the fuck is wrong with boomers?"


Ryan Broderick
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on August 6, 2018, at 7:57 a.m. ET

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/its-looking-extremely-likely-that-qanon-is-probably-a

DemKittyNC

(743 posts)
4. It amazes me
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 12:46 PM
Aug 2018

How easily tRump supporters will believe in these far out and easily disproved conspiracy theories but will remain steadfast in their denial of their hero being an outright traitor by his own admission and acts to the country they 'supposedly' love.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
10. The problem here is that reality is just as deranged! Trump's kidnapping ring (DHS) is
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 02:25 PM
Aug 2018

supporting the activities of pedophiles and who knows what else in DHS, HHS, and privately owned baby-jails.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
7. Weird but the majority of people photographed in that article are too young to be boomers.
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 12:59 PM
Aug 2018

At least the ones who are doing weird investigations are. And they’re mostly men. But whatever gets you clicks, right?

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