The Q Anon Cult

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America has a new cult, one that seems both laughable and dangerous at the same time. It is identified by the single letter Q, or as Q Anon (Q-Anon). The movement began recently, predominantly online, in October 2017, less than a year ago at the time of writing. It began on the anonymous posting board called 4Chan, which has a reputation for pranks, such as hacking sites so they end up unwittingly showing off pictures of pop singer Rick Astley. Q was / an anonymous user who opened a thread called “Calm Before The Storm.” The title comes from a vague line uttered by Donald Trump during one of his speeches. Most other Q postings similarly relate to Trump. The name Q, with its hint of question mark, and mystery, relates to a level of high security clearance in the US government. Q started claiming to be releasing crumbs, and cryptic titbits of classified government information encouraging his or her or their readers to make of it all what they like. Far from being saddened that their President ends out tweets on Twitter filled with typos and random CAPItaliZATion Q-Anon followers see such messages as fresh crumbs of hidden truths for their eyes only and calls to action. What most of us see as just dumb strikes Q-Anon followers as rolled gold. They are prepared to believe every conspiracy theory going, Trump can do no wrong. Putin is his friend, the outspoken survivors of school shootings who eek gun reform are really jut crisis actors as far as some of these Qupid morons are concerned,. Their world is more topsy turvy than a Mad Hatter tea party. With a President who believes that you already need photo ID to buy bread and groceries, it is hard to think how to convince a Q-Anon follower that they are wrong. Q’s readers quickly became a following, the bakers, cooking up the crumbs into whatever conspiracy they want. They have come to believe that as Trump appears to often peak inconsistently, incoherently, and in contrary ways, the actual clear message is irrelevant beside the hidden truths in the coded messages in the underlying confusion. For Q-Anon followers, the truth as most of us with it means nothing. The message that the media is the enemy of the people is interpreted literally a the media dismisses the crumbs of inconsistency as a weakness while Q followers (calling themselves Bakers for cooking up their own conspiracies) thrive on the nonsense, they see the general media as a threat for its focus on the bigger picture. Until very recently the Q-Anon supporters have existed only online, but at Trump’s rally in Tampa Florida earlier this week, followers, wearing Q tee-shirts and carrying banners, turned up in droves and loudly heckled reporters, especially CNN’s Jim Acosta. They are egged on by Trump’s own increasingly rabid anti press rhetoric, which goes as far as to incite violence. Q-Anon belief are bizarre. The very security status of Q is preposterous, and nothing posted by Q comes across as in any way classified material. Q –Anon believe that Mueller is actually working with Trump in a complex ruse designed to expose traitors in the government and secret services. Q believe that Hillary Clinton is arrested and tracked with a concealed ankle bracelet. Just about anyone Q-Anon disagree with is a paedophile. (with no evidence to base such hateful claims upon). The Titanic was not sunk by an iceberg, but by business entrepreneur, J P Morgan. By summer 2018 Q Anon was moving from the cyber-world to the real World. A man from Nevada, armed with an AK-47, blockaded a road going over the Hoover Dam claiming that he was on a mission for Q. Apple launched an App called QDrops, which proved very popular until the media started asking about it and Apple terminated its use. Roseanne Barr, fired from TV after her racist outbursts, has become a Q-Anon supporter. The problem is that after the Tampa Rally gained them mass media attention, their numbers are likely to grow. Trump is unlikely to criticise the movement as it essentially takes a pro-Trump stance but in supporting an anti-truth and anti-media position, (where every conspiracy and crackpot theory can be mined for hidden meanings namely whatever crap you want to mould it into), the movement is extremely dangerous. Q may or may not be some prankster, just pushing a silly joke to its limits. Q might just as easily be fully aware of what s/he or they are orchestrating, fuelling the irrational to further belief that Trump’s immaturity, corruption, and befuddlement carries some sort of hidden agenda that they and Q alone are smart enough to see. These people are polishing poo, and trying to undermine anything that isn’t poo. They are as deluded and brainwashed as any cult recruits. The Q-Anon movement may seem laughable to many, but they have a potential to be extremely dangerous indeed and within a very short period of time. Youtube – Jim Acosta heckled by Q Anon followers Arthur Chappell