Thread by @jengolbeck

A few people have asked what's up this week with the pro-Trump and QAnon crowd, so I'm going to consolidate my answers here. The main things we're watching is (1) how worried we should be about March 4th and (1) what happens with the impeachment trial 1/

https://twitter.com/beckster305/status/1359111612490264578

March 4 was the original Inauguration Day in the constitution. Some QAnon types now believe that will be when Trump resumes the Presidency. They think the US became a corporation in 1871, owned by the City of London, & that the military is working to bring the Corporation down 2/

When the Corporation falls, we'll go back to the old date & Trump will become the 19th president (bc the ones during Corporation didn't count). This borrows from the scary Sovereign Citizens Movement. We want to make sure the QAnons don't turn into SCMs 3/ splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…

Anyway, they think the military is working to dismantle the corporation now and The Storm of arrests they'd expected on 1/20 may now come before 3/4 and Trump will be back.

Interestingly, the Trump Hotel is jacked prices around that date
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Forbes has a good article about this. Also, I have to share this VERY QAnon post about the prices. They sure do like "researching" numbers… 5/
forbes.com/sites/suzanner…

All that said, it doesn't seem like anyone is planning to DO much right now. They think the military is going to handle it. That doesn't mean there won't be action…

And that transitions us to the impeachment trial. Trump is back in the spotlight. What will he do? 6/

As I've said before, I think the main reason we didn't have more violence after the insurrection is because Trump was thoroughly deplatformed. If he'd had his Twitter account, he would have railed against someone and his followers would have acted. 7/

The trial is creating a platform this week. He could use it to incite his followers. I'm not sure he will (and neither are they), but they are mad and if he did something, many would follow 8/

So there are no organized plans on a large scale for action during the impeachment trial or around March 4th...yet. But it's a fragile time and Trump is once again a big wildcard /9

I am so deep in that I forgot to mention this above: They care about the number 17 because Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet. They look for 17s all over and see them as little winks of acknowledgement. 10/