The era of Fake News is a strange one.
The same folks who shout "don't trust the
mainstream media!" also seem to fall for
every wacko conspiracy theory that comes
their way.
Now a new theory is gaining popularity
on Reddit and Twitter, and it's possibly
the craziest conspiracy theory yet.
Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm
Grant Pardee. It's called "The Storm," a
catch-all term for a number of different
conspiracy theories that all link
together from an anonymous source who
claims to have Q clearance, which is the
highest level of clearance in the US
government --
hence the source's alias, "Q-anon," aka the
"Q Clearance Patriot." Now this theory
is multifaceted and sprawling, but the
big idea is that Trump is winning. That
he is not actually under investigation
for collusion with Russia tampering with
the 2016 presidential election. In this
theory, all of that is a cover, a decoy
for the true targets, namely Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton. Q-anon's posts are
almost always a series of questions and
riddles that make you feel smart for
drawing whatever crazy conclusion you
want, but the basic gist as with every
conspiracy theory is they're all out to
get me, whoever "they" are.
This all started last year when Q-anon
posted on 4chan, the message boards
that's basically the chaotic evil-version of Reddit. His claim to fame on
4chan was predicting last year's mass
shooting in Las Vegas.
Although Q-anon's post was cryptic and
vague, it did include a warning to avoid
Vegas. It also included a bunch of stuff
about a secret Saudi Arabian-Hillary
Clinton cabal and various other
predictions that did not come true, but
nonetheless, now these hardcore true-believers believe they have an inside
source who can predict the future, and
luckily for them, it's the future they've
always been dreaming of. Q-anon's
predictions include that many Washington
establishment figures, like Hillary and
John McCain will be soon exposed for
their involvement in a global club of
"elite pedophiles," a group that also funds
ISIS, which was connected to Iran, which
is also funded by George Soros and the
Rothschild family, who supposedly control
80% of the world's wealth. Oh and
now President Trump is about to arrest
and punish these evil globalist traitors
in the coming "Storm" of arrests and
rightwing vindication. Yeah. It's a...
it's a lot. Oh, also. They're Satanists, or
maybe they're embodied by Satan? It's up
to you. If globalists can also be demons
from Hell, then they're both things but
if that's a bridge too far, just go with
"evil deep state globalist." Oh, and of
course the mainstream media. They're all
in on it, too.
Of course! That's why they're not
reporting on any of this. Not because
it's not real, but because they're all
part of this, and they're all in on it
together, naturally. You may have heard
that CNN is "Fake News" but did you know
that Anderson Cooper is also a secret
CIA spy, apparently? The idea is that the
CIA is part of the Deep State, which is
the term for the shadow government the
secret string-pullers who are all behind
the scenes making things happen. So,
according to Q-anon, Trump is not only
confirming these predictions, but he's
doing so with secret coded public
messages that only the true believers
can pick up on. And everything is part of
it. For example, Trump's inability to open
a water bottle isn't because he's an
uncoordinated doofus. It's because Fiji
is part of the conspiracy, man! And Trump's grammar isn't poor because he's lazy or
dumb. No, it's because he's a super genius
playing four-dimensional chess with all
of his enemies and he's passing notes
that only #MAGA red-pill-red
hats can see. This makes sense, right?
Before holding office, the president's
previous political resume included
tweeting about Barack Obama's birth
certificate, so it makes sense that they
all love doing these conspiracy theories
together. And to be clear, there's no
evidence for any of this. It's all just
conspiracies and speculation, and
honestly, it's a wish fulfillment fantasy
that one day all of your enemies are
gonna be struck down and you will be
vindicated. And all of it is from some
random anonymous source on 4chan.
Ironically, random anonymous sources is
something Trump complains about all the
time on Twitter, unless the source
happens to be positive about Trump, but
then it's true. See, if a prediction ever
comes true and it's written in a way
that it's vague that you could kind of
say it came true even if it didn't, but
if it does then you're like look I was
definitely right, I definitely know what
I'm talking about, but if a prediction
doesn't
come true then you can be like look I'm
still right, it's just that the shadowy
evil bad guys are winning and we need to
fight back even harder. That's why
conspiracy theorists are ready to
believe Q is the high level military man
he claims to be, even though the most
likely explanation is just some guy
sh*t-posting on 4chan. And look, dumb
conspiracy theories are a lot more fun
when they don't have real-world
consequences, but unfortunately, we now
live in a world where these dumb
conspiracy theories do have real-world
consequences. For example, Pizzagate was
a baseless conspiracy theory that people
laughed at, but it led to real-world
tragedy -- a young man stormed a restaurant
with an assault rifle to 'free' children
that he thought were being held there.
And now in June, the 29-year-old was
sentenced to four years in prison. Look,
if you want a more fun conspiracy theory
that's kind of like this one, but more
harmless, you should Google "John Titor."
I'll put a link in the description, but
that was from a couple years ago. It was
a guy that was claiming he was from the
future and he was also putting out all
these crazy predictions, but he did it in
a convincing enough way that people kind
of believed him for a while. He had
people going until it was sort of
definitely true that wait that guy was
totally full of sh*t, he was definitely not
from the future, but I guess it was fun
while it lasted. So what do you think? Is
this Q-anon person legit? Do you think
that Trump is secretly fighting a giant
shadowy satanic cabal of deep state
globalists and only his true believers
are picking up on his Fiji bottle messages?
Do you think I'm just kind of making fun
of this stuff because I'm a - for
the one world government that's coming?
Or do you think it's just a group of
people messing with the dumb and the
gullible on 4chan because this is the
Internet
and there are no rules and nothing
matters? We're interested in what you think, so COMMENT below and for more stories go
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