Thread by @QOrigins

Part III of Patrick Byrne’s opus about How We Tried To Do A Fascist Coup, is up.

Chapter title: “Crashing the White House.”

May I humbly request, @QanonAnonymous, a dramatic reading of the part where they socially engineer their way to the Oval Office?

deepcapture.com/2021/02/how-dj…

UPDATE: Patrick Byrne is EXTREMELY horny for his One True President, but, like

in a manly, straight, entrepreneurial way

also there’s a long segment where he whines about how hard it is to be a CEO, which I will spare you, for I am a benevolent overlord

It took a long-ass time for SLIGHTLY less fascist people to arrive in the room with these unscheduled intruders, whereupon Byrne accused them of being INSUFFICIENTLY fascist and Trump got big mad...

before, uh, saying... oh no, I don’t like that.

This is a stab-in-the-back myth forming in real time: “can you imagine what I could’ve gotten done here if I hadn’t been fighting my own people?”

Note that here the myth is directed at establishment Republicans — bc, and I had a whole thread about it, you can’t ride the tiger.

Here is how Byrne describes the moment the tide began to turn against the coup plotters.

I fucking swear to God, he really says this.

“The three male lawyers edged closer to the front, and then as though as some hidden signal, they all started being bitches.”

If this meeting went down remotely like Patrick Byrne says it did, then he, Flynn, and Powell really were sitting in the Oval Office feeding raw, unrefined QAnon ideas to the Trump.

Which, of course, is consistent with reporting at the time. So why’d we dodge the bullet? Well...

As Byrne tells it, they left the Whitr House with almost everything they wanted: Trump “verbally appointed Sidney Powell special counsel” and gave her a Too Secrey clearance, and the conspirators went home “elated,” chattering about insane right-wing fantasies:

In fact, can we zoom in on the insane right-wing lies these people *who had just persuaded the President, in Byrne’s telling, to try to overthrow the election* believed?

According to Byrne, they thought there’d be a “civil war &... Chinese takeover of our country” under Biden.

Civil war is, of course, a grim but real possibility lying ahead of us.

I’m strongly against it, which you’d think you wouldn’t have to say but here we all are. As I’ve said many times: in a civil war, you watch your children die of easily treated diseases for lack of medicine.

Let’s all fucking try to avoid that, especially right-wingers who think it will be a short, victorious war, or that they’d keep their standard of living during and after.

So civil war? Not a ludicrous fantasy, although I wish it were. But... that Chinese-takeover stuff? Goddamn!

100% raving lunacy completely disconnected from reality, and one of the people in that conversation was a *three-star general*.

But then, and here’s that stab in the back myth again, *dastardly establishment Republicans* like, uh, Tea Party firebrand Mark Meadows????? simply did a coup against the counter-coup with a bunch of polite refusals.

No, you can’t have an office, or an ID.

This is very funny...

But also very revealing on two levels: one, everyone knew Powell wasn’t supposed to have access to Trump and couldn’t reliably worm her way in again.

Two, this is how fascist narratives work, right? Effete, bureaucratic elites undermining “the will of the People.”

But why the fuck did Sidney Powell, if she was such a badass, take that sitting down?

That doesn’t seem very Ubermensch-y to me. Shame on you, Sidney Powell.

But before I go, I want to talk about a specifically QAnon question that this whole thing raises.

It concerns the nature of belief: did the top-level QAnon heroes, like Powell and Flynn, believe on some level in QAnon?

This account, if reliable, is a fairly definitive “no.” They’re grifting.

Flynn would already have known it was bunk, of course, bc he directed the DIA.

Also if you listen to a clip of Flynn interacting with Q supporters, it’s clear he doesn’t care about them even a LITTLE bit. He can barely choke his way through a few cliches.

But what about Powell? How do we know she doesn’t believe in QAnon? Well, she was alone with Trump...

for like half an hour and didn’t assume he KNEW what any of these QAnon ideas were; didn’t start talking about Q or the Q team or the Plan, as Byrne relates it; didn’t do anything but spout the same ideas we’d seen Q accounts talking about for weeks.

Well, to a true believer there is absolutely no question that there’s a Plan, and that Trump is in on it.

A true believer would have a VERY different conversation with the President.

Look at this guy from the comments — you think he’d approach this like Powell and Flynn did?

This guy is ONLY JUST NOW doubting The Plan on February 1st, with Trump out of office for weeks.

If that guy teleported into the Oval Office, he would, 100%, have proceeded on the assumption that Trump knew everything and was playing 5d chess.

But Flynn and Powell correctly assessed that Trump *didn’t* know any of the details of QAnon content because Q isn’t real. Duh.

So there you have it: the true believer vs grifter question is answered to my satisfaction... *to the extent that Byrne is reliable*, which... 🤔