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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 02:49 PM Jan 2021

'I'm the laughing stock of my family': QAnon believers implode as they watch Biden getting sworn in

President Joe Biden was sworn into office on Wednesday, and some believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory have apparently realized that they have wasted years of their lives believing in a complete fabrication.

As flagged by Jared Holt of Right Wing Watch, a QAnon group chat that occurred during Biden's inauguration found many one-time faithful followers disillusioned with the false claims they had been sold over the last four years.

"Well I'm the official laughing stock of my family now," wrote one. "Awesome."

"OMG none of this was real," wrote another.

NBC News reporter Ben Collins, who has been covering the QAnon phenomenon since it first started gaining traction on social media, has similarly found devotees slowly realizing that they've been had.

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'I'm the laughing stock of my family': QAnon believers implode as they watch Biden getting sworn in (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2021 OP
Love the "satire" tag. Way too late for that dude. TwilightZone Jan 2021 #1
They are all over Facebook today now that Parler is offline. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2021 #2
Flammenwerfer, that didn't work for Kathy Griffen, and in her case Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2021 #3
Haha just kidding. It was satire Midnightwalk Jan 2021 #4
"OMG none of this is real" Blue Owl Jan 2021 #5
Your boss has no Maga fans to greet him in Florida either............. riversedge Jan 2021 #6
They should investigate that ritzy organized-crime social club in Palm Beach: I hear struggle4progress Jan 2021 #7
gutless Q-cucks panicking, lolol Celerity Jan 2021 #8
Narrator: "But he was ALWAYS the laughing stock of his family." Grokenstein Jan 2021 #9
A step up. KentuckyWoman Jan 2021 #10
Drop in on FReeperville today if you have the time Tarc Jan 2021 #11
Oh, NOW it's an "enemy psyops campaign"! Grokenstein Jan 2021 #12
The entire Trump operation was an enemy psyops campaign. Midnight Writer Jan 2021 #14
QAnon believers grapple with doubt, spin new theories as Trump era ends: 'We all got played' Gothmog Jan 2021 #13

TwilightZone

(25,478 posts)
1. Love the "satire" tag. Way too late for that dude.
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 02:51 PM
Jan 2021

The FBI doesn't likely accept "I was only kidding" as an excuse for inciting insurrection.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,789 posts)
2. They are all over Facebook today now that Parler is offline.
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 02:52 PM
Jan 2021

Their comments in some of the news feeds sre HORRIBLE when it comes to Joe and Kamala.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
3. Flammenwerfer, that didn't work for Kathy Griffen, and in her case
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 02:55 PM
Jan 2021

it was the truth. Maybe the FBI will believe your CYA story, but don't count on it. Maybe move to Mexico for a few years, just to be safe?

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
4. Haha just kidding. It was satire
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 02:55 PM
Jan 2021

I like that last one. Basically dear FBI it was just satire.

That’ll work. Not.

riversedge

(70,299 posts)
6. Your boss has no Maga fans to greet him in Florida either.............
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:00 PM
Jan 2021



Josh Dawsey
@jdawsey1
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4h
No supporters or fanfare at Palm Beach airport as we await POTUS final arrival. Blue skies. Sunny and warm. Quiet tarmac.



?s=20

struggle4progress

(118,334 posts)
7. They should investigate that ritzy organized-crime social club in Palm Beach: I hear
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:01 PM
Jan 2021

the waffle station is actually cover for a child-porn ring, which is why it's guarded by Deep State Secret Service agents

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
9. Narrator: "But he was ALWAYS the laughing stock of his family."
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:05 PM
Jan 2021

"The only difference now was that it was no longer his 'badge of honor'."

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
11. Drop in on FReeperville today if you have the time
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:10 PM
Jan 2021
Very few on the political right recognized Q as a deception until the last couple of weeks. It also looks like Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Rudy Giuliani, and others were engaged in deception as well, with their stories of gunfights between Special Forces and the CIA in Frankfurt, Germany and discouraging Republican voters in Georgia from voting for the GOP candidates.


QAnon a deep state fraud? Who knew?


I’ve never understood exactly what Q was; except that it seemed darn juvenile.


Yet there are still true believers posting here on Free Republic. I question why we are so tolerant of an enemy psyops campaign being waged on this site.


‘Q-Anon’ Bears Striking Resemblance to Bolshevik Psy-Op From 1920s Known As ‘Operation Trust’


We're going to see a lot of this "Q? Nope never believed in it" backpedaling in the days to come.

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
12. Oh, NOW it's an "enemy psyops campaign"!
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:18 PM
Jan 2021

Clowns. Wonder what nonsensical cult they're shambling towards even now?

Gothmog

(145,542 posts)
13. QAnon believers grapple with doubt, spin new theories as Trump era ends: 'We all got played'
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:47 PM
Jan 2021

Only complete idiots would buy this crap. These idiots deserve to be laughed at




Followers of the extremist ideology QAnon saw their hopes once again dashed Wednesday as President Trump left Washington on the final day of his presidency, without any of the climactic scenes of violence and salvation that the sprawling set of conspiracy theories had preached for years would come.

As Trump boarded Air Force One for his last presidential flight to Florida, many QAnon adherents — some of whom had earlier this month stormed the Capitol in a siege that left at least two QAnon devotees dead and others in jail — began to wonder whether they’d been duped all along.

When one QAnon channel on the chat app Telegram posted a new theory that suggested Biden himself was “part of the plan,” a number of followers shifted into open rebellion: “This will never happen”; “Just stfu already!” “It’s over. It is sadly, sadly over.” “What a fraud!”.....

“It simply doesn’t make sense that we all got played,” one QAnon channel on Telegram said.
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