I was reading this article this morning and I'm like, "Yeah, yeah,
old news, tell me something new." I thought the reason #45 has gone full
Q is screechingly obvious. Hint: it is. But then I got down to the part
I'm going to quote, and I'm like "Oh snap, I've seen a lot of that on
RORT. This dweeb is right. The whole damn retrumplican party has gone
full Qanon," We've seen many examples of that here.

"But it's also a movement that has become much less about the branding
and iconography of QAnon. A lot of the really weird stuff has been left
behind, but QAnon's ideas are much more mainstream than they ever were
before: The idea of an all-powerful government that conspired to keep
Trump out of office, and staged COVID-19 just to make sure that there
could be mail-in voting fraud, and then that the election was stolen.
All of these things are now mainstream Republican tenets. You can't be successful in the modern GOP if you think that the 2020 election was
fair. And a lot of that comes from the normalizing of conspiracy
theories that you got with QAnon."

https://www.rawstory.com/here-s-the-reason-reason-trump-has-gone-full-qanon/

The thing gets interesting when he talks about how Q absorbs and
connects current events.

We are LONG past the time when it's time to "put up or shut up."
The orange asshole stood up in front of his audience at CPAC and told
them he had PROOF. And would finally release it within a short time
frame. Naturally that NEVER happened EVER in the entire history of the
world. For the simple reason that there is no proof. NONE, not even a
hint of proof. Do the retrumplicans catch a clue when no proof is
presented? LOL, of course not, they don't even blink.

"Most Republicans still falsely believe Trump’s stolen election claims.
Here are some reasons why.

In poll after poll, about 70% of Republicans say they don’t think Joe
Biden is the legitimate winner of the 2020 election."

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/70-percent-republicans-falsely-believe-stolen-election-trump/


The reason is obvious. It's sort of like running off and joining
the circus, only they ran off and joined the cult. Back during the last
century I saw many examples of that in and around Eugene OR. My favorite
was the one that sent out women to seduce guys. I met them downtown a
couple of times. They were quite charming, and, as they say, "doable". I didn't.

Late in the last century, when I lived in Tucson, I knew a guy universally known as Crazy Larry. Everyone called him that and believed
it was accurate. Even his girlfriend. He was proud of the name and made
sure you knew it. Among other things his claim to fame was based on the
fact that he never met a conspiracy theory he didn't absolutely love.
Back then he stood out. If he's still alive the poor fool has become
just another part of a big cult. If so, I'm sure *that* would make him
crazy.

TB

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