QAnon: "Have we all been conned?"

[My Pet Orangutan]

‘My faith is shaken’: The QAnon conspiracy theory faces a post-Trump identity crisis

President Trump’s election loss and the week-long silence of “Q,” the QAnon movement’s mysterious prophet, have wrenched some believers into a crisis of faith, with factions voicing unease about their future or rallying others to stay calm and “trust the plan.”

The uncertainty has been compounded by the abrupt public resignation, also last Tuesday, of Ron Watkins, the administrator of Q’s online sanctuary on the message board 8kun.

Q has gone quiet before. But the abrupt lack of posts since last Tuesday — Election Day, which the anonymous figure had touted for months as a key moment of reckoning — has sparked speculation and alarm among the movement’s most ardent followers.

Some QAnon proponents have begun to publicly grapple with reality and question whether the conspiracy theory is a hoax. “Have we all been conned?” one user wrote Saturday on 8kun.

Wrote another: “HOW CAN I SPEAK TO Q???? MY FAITH IS SHAKEN. I FOLLOWED THE PLAN. TRUMP LOST!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT NOW?????? WHERE IS THE PLAN???”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/10/qanon-identity-crisis/

[Thekaspervote]

1. You've been conned! Wake up

[maxsolomon]

14. they were conned in 2016.

then they doubled down with the Q.

they're not voters; they're marks.

[nykym]

2. Drink the

Kool-Aid and all will be revealed.

[Mariana]

3. I think QAnon qualifies as a religion now

if the adherents are talking in terms of their faith being shaken.

[dchill]

4. "Have we all been conned?"

At least someone is conscious enough to ask.

[C_U_L8R]

5. No, you've been Qonned.

SuQkers !

[moondust]

6. "I FOLLOWED THE PLAN."

Tell us more about this so-called "plan" you were following. Did it involve ballots?

[Roland99]

15. I bet it did involve non-zero persons responding to pollsters fraudulently

[Blue Owl]

7. That's odd... there's nothing more trustworthy than an anonymous leader

[lagomorph777]

16. An invisible man in the sky. That's where I go for important information!

[lunatica]

18. LOL! LOL! LOL!

[Brainfodder]

8. It is fake, DUH, asshats.

Same dummies don't understand that anti-FA is simply Anti-Fascist?

Anti, like against, not for.

Fascism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Lazy id10ts!

"characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy"

[GoCubsGo]

9. Yes. Yes, you have.

By Q, by Trump, by the GOP. Instead of waiting for a plan, try thinking for yourselves for a change.

[Leith]

10. They are panicking without their orders

They sound like the characters in the Star Trek episode when Kirk keeps them from answering Vaal's call. They are confused and frightened, looking for guidance.

Poor little sheeple - they can't think for themselves for even a week.

[lame54]

11. I think it's spelled Qonned

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Did you drink bleach like trump said

[lagomorph777]

17. I think they didn't drink enough of it. They need to down the whole gallon.

[Meowmee]

13. You conned yourselves

Maybe there is hope if some can contemplate they were conned... maybe not... is Q an actual person? I assumed it was a figment of q anon nutsos imaginations. I wonder how much money they were conned out of.

[My Pet Orangutan]

19. Kick

[wellst0nev0ter]

20. These jamooks will find another excuse to be facists

They were once dittoheads, then they turned into Iraq morans, then teabaggers, then birthers, then trumpanzees, then pizzagaters, and now Qberts. These people are all the same

[mnmoderatedem]

21. anyone who needs to ask themselves that question

is too fucking stupid to live.

[Volaris]

22. And the snake oil didnt work, either.

No aliens at area 51...

Vaccines are safe...

Covid is real...

ONLY Oswald killed Kennedy...

It really IS pronounced democrat'IC'...

Medicare is not tyrannical socialism (AND grandma loves it)...

Your conservative voices ARE welcome; only your hate speech is not (ask Lincoln Project how many of their vids have been pulled off youtube...)

There really WASNT a guy with a million bucks in the middle east who needed YOUR help...

The earth really IS round!

And on, and on, and on...