I’ll court embarrassment by making a prediction: Over the next few weeks & months, QAnon is going to shrink significantly as it becomes clear Biden’s just getting a normal term. But the core who remain via whatever story they make up will be even more dangerous & nuts.
More nuts because any moderating influence from people even tenuously connected to reality will be gone. More dangerous because “Trust the Plan” had a convenient soporific effect. Trump’s people were going to round up the evil satanist pedophile cannibal Elites, after all.
If you keep the Cabal fantasy minus the notion that the people in power have a Plan to stop them, some percentage are going to conclude THEY are the true Plan & need to “fight back” directly.
Doesn’t have to be a very big percentage when your pool is tens or hundreds of thousands of people to do a lot of harm.

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22 Jan
How QWorld is coping (so you don’t have to wade into the sewer yourself): (1) Biden’s inauguration was faked, possibly with a lookalike, and all the images you’re seeing of Biden in the Oval Office are actually from a movie set. You can tell because the wallpaper changed.
(2) The United States was transformed into a private corporation in 1871 (don’t ask) but then secretly dissolved & restored to a real government by Trump, so Biden has been cleverly switcharooed and is only “President” of this now-defunct corporation.
The second hallucination, as far as I can tell, is based on an inexplicable misreading of a statute “incorporating” a government for the District of Columbia as somehow transforming the entire United States into a corporation. Yeah.
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As with Powell’s “Spyder,” I wonder if this stuff gets traction in part because it’s so OBVIOUSLY absurd to anyone technical that the folks who could easily debunk it can’t imagine it’s worth the time to do so.
It’d be like writing a long essay explaining the world isn’t actually run by Lizard People. Who could fall for that in the first place? And if they did, well, they’ve probably got a screw loose and writing a rational response ain’t going to help.
Except it turns out NOT to be so obviously gibberish to the non-technical, for whom it all sort of sounds like gibberish, and the absence of a response gets interpreted as “the MSM is AFRAID to talk about the evidence."
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The article claims unsourced “raw data analytics” obtained by the crank site prove that various “IP addresses” associated with election offices were “hacked” by “IP addresses” in various foreign countries. It is word salad with gibberish croutons.
The article ends with an unsourced list of foreign IP addresses, paired with the domestic IP addresses they supposedly “hacked”. (You don’t “hack” an IP address, but whatever.) There is no reason to think this list represents… well, anything.
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If his “100% evidence” turns out to be “Spyder” or one of these other infosec cosplayers, someone please call me an ambulance, because I’ll definitely rupture something laughing.
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It is a lie, AND it’s protected speech.
Though depending on the details, it might incur liability for defamation if the speaker knew or should have known it was a lie...
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