Deep in the twisted bowels of the 4chan Message Board’s conspiracy sickened but yet shambling and haltingly ambulate Golem, exists a happy space for drumpf supporters; a blissful world in which the idiot that they voted for is not a drooling, babbling, incoherent blob of imminently impeachable excremental tissue, but rather the hero of their fever dreams - disproving their piss poor electoral instincts by secretly teaming with Special Counsel Robert Muller III to take down Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and the other cartoon villains of #PizzaGate, and set to right the rapidly self destructing world view they cherish.
And Roseanne happily abides therein.
But I’ll let Michelle explain:
“Last week Roseanne Barr — who, with the hit reboot of her show, has become one of the most prominent Donald Trump supporters in the country — tweeted that the president has freed hundreds of children a month from sexual bondage. “He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” she wrote. (The tweet has since been deleted.)
Barr’s tweet, puzzling to the casual observer, was a reference to QAnon, an expansive, complicated pro-Trump conspiracy theory. The theory is fascinating as an artifact of our current political derangement, but more than that, it’s profoundly revealing about the lengths to which some Trump supporters will go to convince themselves that his presidency is going well.
As Paris Martineau explained in New York Magazine, QAnon was born last October, when someone claiming to have “Q” level security clearance started a cryptic thread on 4chan, the online message board and troll playground. It was titled, “The Calm Before the Storm,” a phrase Trump had recently used. Q posted hints, some in the form of questions, ostensibly meant to help clued-in Trump supporters understand what was really going on in Washington beneath the facade of chaos and incompetence. (“What is military intelligence? Why go around the 3 letter agencies?”)
From these clues, a sprawling community on message boards, YouTube videos and Twitter accounts has elaborated an enormous, ever-mutating fantasy narrative about the Trump presidency. In the QAnon reality, Trump only pretended to collude with Russia in order to create a pretext for the hiring of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, who is actually working with Trump to take down an inconceivably evil and powerful network of coup-plotters and child sex traffickers that includes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and George Soros.”
There is much more nuttiness dissected in Michelle’s piece, and I urge you to click over there for your own enjoyment, but the above captures the gist of it.
As it is rather a long piece I will include here her concluding paragraph, which sums up the motivation for the clown parade nicely:
““You cannot possibly imagine the size of this,” said a Q dispatch last month. “Trust the plan. Trust there are more good than bad.”” Q almost certainly doesn’t know any state secrets, but he, she, or they understand that some fervent Trump supporters require more reassurance than they’re willing to admit. Their desperate conviction that they will be proven right about Trump betrays a secret fear that they will be proven wrong.”