A Q-federacy of Has-Beens
The Lone Ranger Dissident Rides Again?
For a while, I was a little upset that the far-right conspiracy theorists were grabbing power through paranoia. They had after looking drained the spotlight from those on the singular liberal loner who tried to connect the dots using rather rational evidence and seeing hidden connections. The right wing 4channers had no real finesse and little evidence, but they had brashness.
The old-school closet conspiracists used a mix of clever paranoia, examination of facts from different angles, and independent thought to arrive at seeing the undercurrent of a power elite acting for secret gain or keep control. Now that leftist dissidents lived under years of gloom and doom, it may be time for leftist conspiracy theorist to connect the real dots to keep an eye on the centrist elites again.
First, I encountered it from Infowars. They ramped up after rightwing conspiracies unapologetically after the Massachusetts’ shooting at Sandy Hook that left 28 dead (according to the news at least) and I found myself defending the truth against the conspiracies promoted by Mr. Jones after by brother, a liberal gay, parroted the idea of actors staging the shooting as only media event. The pushed the belief that killing spree didn’t actually take place. Just anti-gun activists staging an event. I found myself researching the facts and ‘actors,’ engaging in psychological studies of body postures used to control children during interviews, searching Google maps, and a host of other falsehoods. I called him an told him was true, children died, and start believing it.
But I had a bad small doubt planted in my mind.
Thus, for good measure, I researched the moon landing, heard each piece of evidence such as why flags don’t fly and the astronaut’s background was all black, then called my other brother who was on the far left, and told him Sorry, Neil did land on the moon. The earth’s magnetic field was probably enough to protect the moon walkers from radiation poisoning on their extended flight into near deep space. Then things died down. At least for me.
The right-wing tribes were starting to spring up and take over conspiracies, turning them into nut job ideas that lack evidence and solid analysis and contained great imaginative leaps. Without my knowing, Trump and company seemed to have appropriated the machinery of paranoia, turning it from a solitary late night desk study into a full-blown collaborative industry. The lone wolf leftist — played by Brad Pitt in Twelve Monkeys or Mel Gibson in, what else, Conspiracy Theory — faded away back into the woods.
Now Q has killed conspiracy arm-chairing completely. I’m sure there are still those liberals who have an inkling something is amiss, and the tea leaves point to it. But do they really want to vocalize their ideas that vote for a second impeachment is a myth, or even string red yarn on the wall connecting newspaper clippings and obscure photos of hidden bunkers in Nevada and ex-Nazi scientists hiding in Argentina? It just seems distasteful after an insurrection. Dis-trusting the establishment was the main pursuit independent liberals (which means free-thinking, open-minded), which had come about from a healthy ‘always question those in power’ mindset. But the tighty-righties were following the main power source itself. Huh?
Additionally, coming to conclusions of a cabal of pedophile pizza makers rigging election machines with the help of dead Venezuelan presidents? That’s just plain nutty. And worse, entrepreneurs and politicians have found a way to monetize conspiracy nuts with apps and merch and fund-raising. The pricing of conspiracies is wholly antithetical to the cause since every good leftist knows you have to follow the money. In the case of Q, it is too easy. The app makers like Parler and politicians like Ted Cruz are easy to trace and their motive is transparent: collect cash, and some power.
Back in Risky Business Baby
Now though might be the time to pull out the thumbtacks, cork board, and red yarn. With the Storming of the Capitol, with the lack of the riot police-wall on site that had so robustly showed up on the spur of the moment at peaceful Black Lives Matter protests the summer before, it may be time to at last start getting a buzz of paranoia. It’s been too easy to suspect Trump of foul play, after all since he hides everything in plain site. Leftist detectives haven’t had much to do. But now bits of information are arising and the questioning is starting: How did this happen?
We see that the requests for a sea of National Guards were turned down beforehand. The Pentagon was not interested, said some mysterious source, who indicated that he or she could not bother the Acting Secretary of Defense with this request. We see Mr. Sund, one of the heads of security and Sargent at arms of the Capitol police, tell of his efforts to get more help beforehand and then frantically call for help multiple time during the Storming, but to no avail. We see the fist pump, a knowing white power-like salute, by Josh Hawley entering the Capitol building that morning, as though to signal to the protest leaders, ‘bring it on, we’re good to go.’
The right-wing crowd was pumped up on media Q amphetamines and arrived ready for battle. They planned for months. They listened to the rally cries on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning by Don Junior, Giuliani, until the great leader came out and point his finger down at the Capitol and said, now “WE” will march. And so off they went, bats, guns, zip ties, pipe bombs in hand (and in sacks).
But when they got to the Capitol they found little resistance it seemed. Not many cops. The first few barriers to what should have been the most heavily guarded fortress of democracy that day certifying a presidential vote for leader of the free world were easily torn down.
After four collapsed rings, the insurrectionists found themselves breaking down windows and kicking in doors. Some of them seemed genuinely surprised they got in. They started snapping selfies and kicking back with their feet up in the speaker’s office and sitting in Mitch’s chair at the top of the Senate podium.
That genuine surprise seemed like the first hint that someone or groups of someones behind the scenes, pulling the strings. More clues emerged. One of the fur clad fellows was the son of a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge. The zip ties on the man jumping the railing in the senate seemed to anticipate political hostages would be taken. Summa Cum Laude Harvard Senator Cruz, also head of the Harvard law review like Obama, made a crazy conspiracy speech just days before on the hood of car in Georgia, entirely contrary to his Ivy League elitist lawyer training, then quickly tried to reverse himself. And who was it that send 80 plus buses to drive everyone there?
The mysterious suicide of one of Capitol police. Pipe bombs strategically placed to draw police away to weaken the perimeter security. The Pentagon, despite controlling the largest and best funded military in history, could not get any guards over until 4:30 pm, after the main event had largely ended. (It was only a five-minute drive from the Pentagon across the bridge for the thousands and thousands of corporals, captains, and patriots to take the action they were trained for.)
And our course Josh Hawley’s salute. That occurred to a select group of protestors who were waiting there, and not at Trump’s rally, we were told in one report. Who were this elite group? The Planners? The Organizers Nancy told us of on 60 minutes? A White brotherhood of Christian elite from Josh’s catholic cabal he openly backed?
I’ll let you decide and search for more clues. Piece together the mosaic. You’re off to a good start. But wait for the main clue: no one gets really charged, outside a few for photo ops to quell the masses and say healing was done, just a bit of jail time and some fines for illegally trespassing, causing a public disturbance, and excessive littering. Just those miscreants caught in the photos.
Will the mainstream media decide it was just a dizzying series of failures? Were there just “some bad apples”? Or is there something rotten at the core? You’ll have to keep collecting the clues and make up your own mind all alone. Group thinking and mob rule on either side might just not be in fashion anymore.
