I've had some success redpilling a few close friends (who were helplessly indoctrinated) recently with this tactic and thought it worth sharing because it's something that could be scaled up…
I sent the attached image and asked them to humor me with an intellectual exercise, pointing out 45's capitalization of "Scott Free" and Q's drop. Framing it as an intellectual question, rather than a debate, generated a lot more interest in the subject than me just explaining it all outright:
I began by agreeing with them that there is a large portion of the media and political pundit class who want to see Trump gone, or at least not win in 2020. They've tried now for two years to hang any form of Russian collusion on him (failed), obstruction of justice on him (failed), and now have shifted to campaign finance violations (will fail) … almost all of which was written and pushed by the MSM without proper (or any) sourcing. Instead the media has relied on pushing bogus "sources" and innuendo. Many, many times these stories have been retracted later due to errors or outright falsehoods, other times have led to reporters being fired for false reporting (Brian Ross).
So, there's a clear agenda to get rid of Trump by any means necessary in the media world - even if it means rushing unsourced stories or pushing falsehoods on their readers with an eye on a larger goal of ousting Trump, justifying any violations of journalistic ethics with "it's for the greater good of the world".
This got them to agree that there is a desire to "get Trump" and a willingness to float innuendo to do so. Meanwhile, every Q story written (of which there have been dozens and dozens) in the WaPo, NYT, CNN, Daily Beast is framed as being nonsense, fake, and/or a cult. This group of friends agreed with this assessment, as reading about Q in sources like the above had been their only exposure to Q.
Once you have that established, we get to the rub of the intellectual exercise…
IF it can be reasonably proven that Q+ = Trump, which is a claim with much more actual evidence to support it than any of the Russian/Collusion/Obstruction nonsense, why isn't anyone in the anti-Trump corners of the MSM tying Trump to Q+?
I asked them to think about the ramifications if that was done (anons already know) - remember I'm framing this around their misconceptions of Q:
Q has posted some inflammatory material that 99% of the MSM viewers would find laughably insane. Everything from Nazis, to ETs, to blood cults with members from the world of entertainment have been mentioned by name. IF the media went out and proved Q+=Trump, it would ruin the man and his administration without evidence to back up these claims. You could get people rightfully calling for a 25th amendment solution to Trump's administration since this would be evidence of POTUS conducting a disinformation campaign on the American public while pushing salacious and unverified gossip as fact. Even more to the point, the anti-Trump celebrity sect who often finds themselves in Q's sites could easily launch lawsuits for libel and slander that would ruin his political credibility.
Even MORE than that, if the media proved Trump = Q+ and showed there was no evidence for the material shared, it would cripple Trump's base who have bought into the Q. Ultimately, the easiest way to get rid of Trump is not proving Russian collusion - it's proving Q+ = Trump.
Right?
(this is where they start to nod and agree…)
Yet… no one in the anti-Trump media will do it. No one will make that leap. Instead they spend their powder trying to keep people from reading Q, painting Q as a fake cult with dangerous ideas. Shouldn't they be taking the opposite tact?
Once I got them to agree on that point, which is easier than you'd think if you lay it out, I brought up the other side of the coin.
What happens if the media proved Trump is Q+ but Trump had the evidence to back up each and every claim?
It would be the end of the media. It would be the end of the GOP. It would be the end of the DNC. It would be the end of nearly every single control structure put into place over the past century and change…
So, is that why no one is trying to tie Trump to Q in the MSM? Because they know the evidence exists to back up the claims and doing so will only increase Q's visibility?
If it's not that, why hasn't this been a tactic taken? It seems like it would check all the boxes the TDSers want in terms of getting rid of Trump.
Food for thought for those anons looking for new ways to open up the minds of those around them.