Thread by @ariehkovler

Online MAGA and QAnon spaces aren't sad right now. They aren't angry. They're jubilant. They think they won the election.

Hang out in Trumpist forums and they're excited. Any day now, Trump will be announced as the winner, all the Libs will cry, riot and whine, and MAGA will rule.

The lightest version of this is the Trumpers who are convinced that SCOTUS is about to order "illegal votes" thrown out and toss the race to Trump in swing states.

Then there are those who claim that Democrats and the Deep State hacked the election using backdoored software, but that Trump has the proof.

Both red-hat MAGA and more Q-ish types are buying into the idea that all the ballots were secretly watermarked, or that they were put on a "QFS Blockchain"

https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1324399218287644677

The claim here is that the whole election was a feint by Trump to expose massive fraud, and that he will soon announce the truth, reveal the blockchain or watermark, and be acclaimed winner by all.

QAnon was always an apocalyptic movement, waiting for the day Trump and the military would expose the Deep State, arrest thousands of baddies and heal the world.

So naturally, the 'fake election' is their Judgement Day. They are sure Trump's final masterplan is being executed right now. Soon we'll all know.

Just a couple of examples of this stuff floating around, but there are literally thousands of them.

What happens to these people when there's no SCOTUS hearing, let alone a victory? What happens to them in January when President Biden is inaugurated?

I think a lot of them will refuse to accept Biden is President. Literally. They'll say Trump is secretly still President. He's allowing Biden to pretend but Trump is the one with the nuclear codes who's really in charge.

https://twitter.com/johndavidblake/status/1325510820491563009

Some of them will say he allowed himself to lose on purpose to trap them, whether "them" is the Soros-backed Libs or the adrenochrome-harvesting Black Hats. But he will return in power at the next election.

https://twitter.com/MattGlassman312/status/1325512097086771209

And some of them, especially the red-hat MAGA types, will be angry, disbelieving, convinced that Trump won Pennsylvania and Georgia and Wisconsin, but that Democrats faked ballots and stole the election.

Bottom line: it's going to be messy and scary. The FBI will have its work cut out.

Another point: on this election stuff, the always-vague boundaries between MAGA-world and QAnon seem to be extra porous. The wackiest stuff is bleeding into the MAGA mainstream.

Here's an example from a televangelist (warning: includes creepy laughter)

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1325513157926932480

This is fair. There *are* also people freaking out in these spaces, but they are both chastised for faithlessness and reassured by others when they do. The darkness is scary, but it leads to the light when Trump triumphs.

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1325527095796232199