Did you think QAnon was crazy? They're just getting started. What happens when your predictions about Trump bringing "The Storm" on Inauguration Day, sending the Clintons, the Obamas, Pelosi, Schumer, and numerous others to the gallows or Guantanamo Bay all turn out to be nonsense?
You double down on the nonsense, of course! More craziness from the wingnut crowd, discussed in Digby's article at Hullabaloo, "QAnon lives on."
Here's an excerpt:
According to a report from Vice, the latest theory being passed around by right-wing extremists is based upon writings from members of the fringe “sovereign citizen” movement and a unique interpretation of American history.
As the Vice report notes, “Sovereign citizens believe that a law enacted in 1871 secretly turned the U.S. into a corporation and did away with the American government of the founding fathers. The group also believes that President Franklin D. Roosevelt sold U.S. citizens out in 1933 when he ended the gold standard and replaced it by offering citizens as collateral to a group of shadowy foreign investors.”
“Over the weekend, QAnon groups on Gab and Telegram, where most QAnon supporters have found a home since they were kicked off Twitter and Parler was de-platformed, commenters have been sharing documents describing the 1871 act, claiming it proves that Trump will be sworn in on March 4,” the report states. “The source for this date is the fact that 1937 was also the year when inaugurations were changed from March 4 to Jan. 20 — to shorten the lame-duck period of outgoing presidents. QAnon followers believe that Trump will become the president of the original republic, and not the corporation that they believe the 1871 act created.”
Cults can live on, even when their predictions have not taken place; cultists' longing for their fantasies to come true is unquenchable:
In the early 19th century, New York farmer and Baptist preacher William Miller preached that the return of Jesus Christ was imminent. His prophecy was based largely on his study of the biblical book of Daniel. His interpretation led him to conclude, initially at least, that Christ would return sometime between March 1843 and 1844. When March 1844 passed without the appearance of Christ and his angels in the sky, Miller picked another date —April 18, 1844—which also slid by without cosmic incident or divine intervention. A follower of Miller’s, Samuel Snow, proposed a third date in October, but the Day of Judgment had still not arrived. The Millerites were understandably disillusioned. One member, Henry Emmons, wrote that he had to be helped to his bedroom, where he lay “sick with disappointment.”
You would think that three false prophecies, collectively known as the Great Disappointment, would be the end of the Millerites. To be sure, some members did leave to join the Shakers, but others began to reinterpret the prophecies about the end of days. One group began to argue that they were only partly wrong. The prophecies weren’t about the Second Coming and end of the world but, rather, about the cleansing of a heavenly sanctuary. It wasn’t an earthly event, it was a heavenly one, and this explained why, to us mere humans, it might appear that nothing had happened. It was out of this group that the Seventh Day Adventist Church arose. Today the Seventh Day Adventist Church has between 20-25 million members. They are, according to Christianity Today, “the fifth largest Christian communion worldwide.”
Where does Tucker Carlson fit into this narrative? Turns out our friend Tucker believes that Biden and his authoritarian friends are trying to turn Americans into slaves by controlling their minds -- telling them that the QAnon stuff is a pack of lies! There's the true enslavement, stifling free thought! QAnon devotees are entitled to their opinions!
Tucker claims that society is profoundly “changing right before our eyes” and the proof is in the denouncing of a batsh*t crazy Republican conspiracy theory movement.
“The threat is from an idea. It’s called Qanon,” Carlson said.
Tucker tells his rubes that if he doesn’t defend QAnon, then tyranny will prevail over our democracy.
Oh, and by the way, remember how QAnon people embraced the Seth Rich and the Pizzagate stories? Well, even worse, now they're believing Frazzledrip. (And if you don't know what that is, you're in luck -- you're better off not knowing. Don't look it up.)
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