Trump Endorses Qanon

[woodley park]

Isn’t a big part of the Qanon mythology is that Trump knows about it and is sending cryptic messages in his speeches and tweets? Isn’t that kinda hurt by the fact Trump clearly is talking about it like he’s only vaguely aware of it?

That’s the thing about fringe conspiracy theories; they will just explain away the gigantic holes with ever more meandering justifications.

[Horus]

Isn’t a big part of the Qanon mythology is that Trump knows about it and is sending cryptic messages in his speeches and tweets? Isn’t that kinda hurt by the fact Trump clearly is talking about it like he’s only vaguely aware of it?

Of course, but these people have no logical consistency. They will simply say it's the next part of the "Great Awakening." It must be treated as a religion and not a normal conspiracy theory that can fall apart.

[Joe Republic]

Trump makes Gaston from "Beauty and the Beast" look like the most compassionate guy on earth.

I see we've graduated from Voldemort comparisons and have now moved on to the far more academic category of Disney villains.

Okay, fine.  Pick virtually any established work of fiction you want, and there’s a good chance the villain is comparable in some way to Trump.

[John Dule]

Wow! Trump is just like Thanos! 2016 was just like "the snap!" Joe Biden is Captain America! Barack Obama is like Nick Fury! Kamala Harris is Black Widow! The DNC is just like the Walt Disney Corporation! 2020 is like when the good guys reversed time to go back and save the world! WOOooooOOOAH

[AtorBoltox]

Wow! Trump is just like Thanos! 2016 was just like "the snap!" Joe Biden is Captain America! Barack Obama is like Nick Fury! Kamala Harris is Black Widow! The DNC is just like the Walt Disney Corporation! 2020 is like when the good guys reversed time to go back and save the world! WOOooooOOOAH

k. While you're doing this the rest of us will talk about the President endorsing modern day blood libel

[GP270watch]

Even sadder is that he's going to win re-election.

[Morning in Atlas]

hell world

hell world

hell world

[Ferguson97]

Anyone who still has a blue avatar should be embarrassed.

I switched to blue when the Dems put a black woman on the ticket.

... wow

[Sumner 1868]

Anyone who still has a blue avatar should be embarrassed.

I switched to blue when the Dems put a black woman on the ticket.

... wow

Yeah, Kamala is much lighter than Santander.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Trump didn't really endorse them and clearly has no idea who they are except that they support him.  But people like Ropar will say he did endorse them and so Qanon folks will hear that and end up believing it too.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Trump didn't really endorse them and clearly has no idea who they are except that they support him.  But people like Ropar will say he did endorse them and so Qanon folks will hear that and end up believing it too.

"Trump has no idea" is one of his defining character traits.

[Former President tack50]

Anyone who still has a blue avatar should be embarrassed.

I switched to blue when the Dems put a black woman on the ticket.

Out of curiosity, did you use a blue avatar when Dems had a black man on the ticket?

In other words, is your party switch based on racism, sexism or both?

[7,052,770]

Qanon is now your average Midwestern rural/small town Republican voter. They're the ones flooding social media now with the fake pedo stuff making it extremely hard to do actual work. Couple that with the evangelical southern bloc and you have an evil death cult that controls the party.

I live in a heavily evangelical bubble in the South, and I've never heard one person in real life mention this conspiracy theory, but, sure, continue with your anti-evangelical propaganda.

You live in a well-to-do, educated suburban circle of Evangelicals. It's not your scene of Evangelicals that are driving this.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/timmarchman/status/1296213161532588032

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Wow! Trump is just like Thanos! 2016 was just like "the snap!" Joe Biden is Captain America! Barack Obama is like Nick Fury! Kamala Harris is Black Widow! The DNC is just like the Walt Disney Corporation! 2020 is like when the good guys reversed time to go back and save the world! WOOooooOOOAH

What a ridiculous comparison. Thanos is purple. Donald Trump is orange.

(Although they both vary quite a bit from their base hue depending on when you see them.)

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Isn’t a big part of the Qanon mythology is that Trump knows about it and is sending cryptic messages in his speeches and tweets? Isn’t that kinda hurt by the fact Trump clearly is talking about it like he’s only vaguely aware of it?

Of course, but these people have no logical consistency. They will simply say it's the next part of the "Great Awakening." It must be treated as a religion and not a normal conspiracy theory that can fall apart.

John Dule would say: actually it's religions which should be treated as conspiracy theories.

[Middle-aged Europe]

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1296230667987177472


https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1296265384908206080

[Middle-aged Europe]

Former President George W. Bush senior adviser Karl Rove condemned President Trump for not forcefully denouncing QAnon.

Rove called Trump's failure to distance himself from the conspiratorial group during Wednesday afternoon's press briefing a "big mistake" during a segment on Fox News's Special Report afterward.

"This is a group of nuts and kooks, and he ought to disavow them. They might like him, but they like him because they think he is fighting an incredible war against forces of pedographic evil. It’s just ridiculous. Disavow them, get done with it," he added.

...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/just-ridiculous-karl-rove-says-trump-failing-to-condemn-qanon-was-a-big-mistake

[cg41386]

Even sadder is that he's going to win re-election.

Nope.

[John Dule]

Isn’t a big part of the Qanon mythology is that Trump knows about it and is sending cryptic messages in his speeches and tweets? Isn’t that kinda hurt by the fact Trump clearly is talking about it like he’s only vaguely aware of it?

Of course, but these people have no logical consistency. They will simply say it's the next part of the "Great Awakening." It must be treated as a religion and not a normal conspiracy theory that can fall apart.

John Dule would say: actually it's religions which should be treated as conspiracy theories.

The subconscious motivations for believing in religion and believing in conspiracies are virtually identical.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1296230667987177472


https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1296265384908206080

High energy Jeb!

[Progressive Pessimist]

Isn’t a big part of the Qanon mythology is that Trump knows about it and is sending cryptic messages in his speeches and tweets? Isn’t that kinda hurt by the fact Trump clearly is talking about it like he’s only vaguely aware of it?

Yeah, if one were to argue for QAnon being a part of reality, Trump discussed it in a way that really interferes with the narrative. Had he said that he never heard of it before the QAnon followers would say that he is just keeping it all a secret from the media. Had he outright endorsed it they would say that "the time has come" or some s***. But instead we get this weird middle-ground between both of them that still makes them look like the fringe lunatics they are as Trump simplistically only minds their positive feelings for him and sort of delegitimizes whatever sort of claims they have of him being this central figure to their conspiracy.

[WD]

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1296230667987177472

https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1296265384908206080

High energy Jeb!

We should have clapped

[Storr]

Former President George W. Bush senior adviser Karl Rove condemned President Trump for not forcefully denouncing QAnon.

Rove called Trump's failure to distance himself from the conspiratorial group during Wednesday afternoon's press briefing a "big mistake" during a segment on Fox News's Special Report afterward.

"This is a group of nuts and kooks, and he ought to disavow them. They might like him, but they like him because they think he is fighting an incredible war against forces of pedographic evil. It’s just ridiculous. Disavow them, get done with it," he added.

...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/just-ridiculous-karl-rove-says-trump-failing-to-condemn-qanon-was-a-big-mistake

I can't believe I'm agreeing with Karl Rove. But, it's 2020 and here we are.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Wow! Trump is just like Thanos! 2016 was just like "the snap!" Joe Biden is Captain America! Barack Obama is like Nick Fury! Kamala Harris is Black Widow! The DNC is just like the Walt Disney Corporation! 2020 is like when the good guys reversed time to go back and save the world! WOOooooOOOAH

Even taking that at face value, the analogy falls apart because when Falcon says, "On your left," Iron Man accuses him of helping Thanos and then they all start relitigating the snap.