The QAnon Conspiracy Has Stumbled Into Real Life, And It's Not Going To End Well

[ck4829]

On June 15, when he packed his AR-15 and drove an armored vehicle onto the bridge near Hoover Dam, Matthew Wright had a mission. He’d gleaned it from a berserk conspiracy theory that circulates mainly online, and now here he was, offline, near a very real dam, with a not-at-all-virtual rifle.

As he blocked traffic, he held up a sign. “Release the OIG report,” it read. He wanted the same thing that so many others that subscribe to the all-encompassing QAnon conspiracy theory want: some sort of proof of a “deep state” conspiracy, run by the liberal elite and Hollywood, to commit and then cover up an array of atrocities, from child sex trafficking to false-flag shootings. And they thought they would find at least some damning evidence in the Department of Justice’s inspector general report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

The report he was looking for had actually been released the day before, and it didn’t have any of the information he and the rest of the QAnon followers sought. Of course, the theory’s adherents believe there’s another inspector general’s report they haven’t seen, one with all the “true” information, and they’ll fight to get it.

On the day he was arrested in Arizona on a variety of federal charges, Wright was acting as a soldier for “Q.” That’s the handle of an anonymous poster on equally anonymous message boards 4chan and 8chan and on Reddit since late last year. In letters Wright wrote from jail, intended for President Donald Trump and various government offices, he signed off with the QAnon motto: “For where we go one, we go all.” He also referred to a “Great Awakening,” another likely allusion to QAnon.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/qanon-conspiracy-real-life_us_5b54bbafe4b0b15aba8fe484

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. How have they not shut down this asshole?! Clearly a threat to public safety.

[genxlib]

2. That would only feed the conspiracy

The thing about conspiracies is that anything done to prove them wrong is simply seen as part of the cover-up.

[Princess Turandot]

3. If you mean Wright, he's in jail awaiting trial on numerous felonies,

including terrorism and aggravated assault. The terrorism charge could result in a sentence of life without parole.

He is being held on a $1 million bond. (Originally, it had only been $25,000. Then his attorney requested a bail reduction hearing. After the judge read the guy's recent letters, he instead raised the bail to $1 million. Oops.)

[Javaman]

4. what makes qanon attractive to the right wing mouth breathing morons is this...

it's their version of the "Unification Theory". Unlike the actual scientific theory, this hair-brained theory is all about putting all the crazy ass right wing nuttery under one giant umbrella.

It's basically a one stop shop for stupidity.

no longer do they need to search deep into the night on 4chan to find all the various linking threads to connect all things they hate to the "deep state", qanon satisfies that.

at the core of all their personalities is something very basic; the right wing nut jobs are intrinsically intellectually lazy.

and that's what makes qanon popular with them, it does all the work for them.