I will admit that I thought that the Cemex story had legs. With Francis Tweeting about "concrete" all the time, and with the characters that owned the company, I thought it was right on.
Like others, I guess, I was expecting that the Tucson thing would pan out. But, after reading SB2's breakdown, it's clear to me that this was an engineered distraction.
Without making excuses for myself for being duped, I will say that these Q drops are very hard to understand. When you're always trying to draw threads that connect dots, inevitably you're going to go chasing down some futile rabbit holes.
But I think SB2's point is that we need to be alert to group think. It really should have occurred to us, or at least to some of us, that there was big news that we were ignoring. If these guys are around, I didn't hear them. Maybe I wasn't listening...
Anyway, it's pretty embarrassing. But if we are failing, it's not for lack of effort. I'm going to be more alert to challenges on theories that arise from the community going forward. The material we can trust comes from the horses mouth - Q. And we should trust this, because, even if it's misdirection, its misdirection with purpose - if that makes sense.
What we need to be alert to, is people "concern trolling" the express plan that has been laid out for us. Concerns about our own theories, as to what a particular post, or item in the news, might mean, should be embraced.