Washington Post endeavors mightily to smear the Q movement

by Isaac Stanley-Becker August 1 at 6:43 AM

(this anons comments in parentheses)

“On Tuesday evening, the dark recesses of the Internet lit up with talk of politics.”

(“dark recesses lit by flames” …how original, the standard trope of Americans as cave-dwelling Neanderthals…frightful Jungian archetypes, all in the opening line. Nice hackwork, Ike. But who actually are the practitioners of dark arts, including the art of misrepresentation, slander and lying? Who would do such things, WaPo? To whom did the label “Fake News” stick? Who is it fawning over satanic pageantry at socialite fetes, pals around with Abramovich, advocates for unpopular measures like open borders, voting rights for non-citizens, and homosexual marriage? Who denigrates conventional wisdom and morality, and actively promotes the concept that transgression of centuries-old moral boundaries is “a societal good.” Who here is the one advocating 'Dark to Light?'”

“… 8chan, , which might be best described as the unglued twin of better-known 4chan, a message board already untethered from reality.”

(I reckon if you’re unglued from the untethered you’re something like Hillary Clinton, but the writer doesn’t specify.)

“What Tuesday’s rally in Tampa made apparent is that devotees of these falsehoods — some of which are specific to faith in the president, others garden-variety nonsense with racist and anti-Semitic undertones — don’t just exist in the far reaches of the Web.

(“Falsehoods.” What falsehoods? Is a single fact presented by Q countered by this Washington Post “thinkpiece?” Why not? Isn’t it easy to gainsay “falsehoods?” Have at it, WaPo; we’ll wait.)

“The video-sharing website came under criticism this week for unwittingly becoming a platform for baseless claims, first promoted on Twitter and Reddit by QAnon believers, that certain Hollywood celebrities are pedophiles. A search for the name of one of those celebrities on Monday returned videos purporting to show his victims sharing their stories.

(Don’t be coy, boys, we know it’s Hanks. So let Hanks sue Sarah Ashcraft for defamation. I certainly would if someone accused me of purchasing a 13 year old as a slave. I’d sue Twitter as well. Tom? They got any attorneys where you live?)

(photo of normal Americans, MAGA hat-wearing denizens of fly-over country, with which to frighten the WaPo readership)

“The prominence of the “Q” symbol turned parts of the audience into a tableau of delusion and paranoia..

(you gotta laugh at the cheap wordsmithying here…”a circus of human despair…a smorgasbord of psychiatric luncheon meats"

Blah blah. But search if you must, dear reader, you will find not a single fact to dispute any of the “absurdities” the this WaPo hack describes. Why is that?)

“Pray Trump mentions Q!” one user wrote on 8chan. He didn’t need to. As hazy corners of the Internet buzzed about the president’s speech, his appearance became a real-life show of force for the community that has mostly operated behind the veil of anonymity on subreddits.

(“Hazy corners”—HA!. Best squint while reading this stuff, anons! This must be how leftists glimpse reality…“His appearance became a real-life show of force”—yeah, that’s called a politician rallying his base. Like when Obama appeared “in real life” and read from his teleprompters. Sheesh. Is this what now passes for cleverness on the Left? Good luck with that, guys.)

(At this point the skilled propagandist, his finger on the pulse of the American people, deploys a ‘random’ tweet from a fellow journo and self-described “lifestyle coach.”

–It is stunning to me how many ppl in this #TRUMPTAMPA crowd have QAnon signs or t-shirts. That is not a healthy sign for GOP or for America.

— Adam Smith (@adamsmithtimes) July 31, 2018

(If that’s the case, Adam, maybe you should take some time off, you sound as though you’re developing a case of vaporlock.

What’s not healthy is calling yourself a journalist while ignoring the astonishing legacy of corruption all around you.)

continued Part 2

(But here's the meat of the article, the WaPo's Litany of Crimethink, faithfully collated by one Isaac Stanley-Becker)

“In the black hole of conspiracy in which “Q” has plunged its followers, Trump only feigned collusion to create a pretense for the hiring of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who is actually working as a “white hat,” or hero, to expose the Democrats. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Soros are planning a coup — and traffic children in their spare time. J.P. Morgan, the American financier, sank the Titanic.

"In the world in which QAnon believers live, Trump’s detractors, such as Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, wear ankle monitors that track their whereabouts. Press reports are dismissed as “Operation Mockingbird,” the name given to the alleged midcentury infiltration of the American media by the CIA. The Illuminati looms large in QAnon, as do the Rothschilds, a wealthy Jewish family vilified by the conspiracy theorists as the leaders of a satanic cult. Among the world leaders wise to satanic influences, the theory holds, is Russian President Vladimir Putin.

(The WaPo referring to alleged ‘Operation Mockingbird’ has to be one of the richest things I’ve ever read. You know who alerted us to Operation Mockingbird? Your own reporter, Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame!)

(Also, props to Isaac the Propagandist: he works in the widely-lampooned term ‘Illuminati’ just before ‘the Rothschilds,’ and only mentions the Rothschilds as lol satan enthusiasts. I can hear the heads shaking in Georgetown already. But note the elision: No mention of the families’ 200 year history of financial manipulation, of their being the driving in force behind the creation of Central Banks in Europe and the US, those engines of massive public indebtedness. “Black hole,” indeed—exactly where journalism goes to die at the No. 2 “paper of record.” No facts from Isaac the Propagandist, but hey, I got free deliver from Amazon!)

“QAnon flirts with eschatology, fascist philosophy and the filmmaking of Francis Ford Coppola.

(Sounds like a pretty good college course, actually: ‘Apocalypse Nunes & the Populist Mythopoeism of Evil.’)

“Adherents believe a “Great Awakening” will precede the final storm foretold by Trump. Once they make sense of the information drip-fed to them by “Q,” they will usher in a Christian revival presaging total victory.

(writer must have sorely wanted to work ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’ in there somewhere.)

“The implication is that resolving the clues left by “Q” would not just explain Trump’s planned countercoup. It would also explain the whole universe.

(wow, almost like NeoLiberalism, or Marxism)

“When “Q” is absent for long stretches of time, followers take note. “Please tell me where to go,” one wrote last month. “I feel lost without Q.”

(Not terribly different from Isaac, I’d wager, when his shrink goes on vacation in August.)

(So, anons, not a single fact presented in this “very authoritative” newspaper to refute a single thing that has appeared in 3000+ threads on Q research. Not even one. I guess we’ll just have to assume that Isaac would like to have presented us with counter-arguments, but he simply didn't have the time.

Notice, though, how he employs only words that appeal to the readership’s fears and emotions: that is, he employs only rhetoric. His job is not to educate, but to alarm, to confirm the readers in their Inside-the-Beltway delusions.

Q is trying to wake the American people up. Writers like Isaac of the mighty Washington Post only want to keep people asleep, keep them ‘comfortably numb’ in their miasma of spittle-flecked hatred of Trump and the American people.)