This is not over. - Jan 6 was the "test transaction"

And now permanent fencing is going up around the Capitol.

OMG, just when I think I have a handle on the level of crazy out there, I find that I have underestimated it.

I got an update from my coworker who is a staunch pro Trump person. Our conversations at the beginning were fascinating but there became a point I could no longer understand how someone I felt was pretty smart could fall for some of this. She told me that the inauguration was fake. President Biden is not going to be president long. We are under military control and they are using President Biden as a screen. She states that the entire military contingent there guarding on Inauguration day deliberately turned their backs on him when he came through. They did not salute. She pointed out that he did not have access to the Pentagon and when I pointed out that Trump denied him the access during transition and he now has access, she went with "well I wouldn't have given him access either." She also keeps saying "just watch, big things are coming and you are going to be shocked." Except she has been saying that for a year and so far NONE of the things she talks about have happened. She believes in the child sex abuse ring run by democrats and Hollywood. She believes that Trump cleared out Gitmo in order to house all the people that are going to be arrested in connection to that ring. She believes we are getting a new currency and all debts will be forgiven to reset the financial issues, she believes 100% that Trump won the election and that President Biden is not the true president. She believes that COVID is nothing more than a strong flu strain and that the numbers are over inflated so that states can get more money. Every single conspiracy out there she is a believer and claims to have spent hours upon hours researching these things and she is the only one aware of what is going on in the world. It truly is fascinating. She didn't give dates like March 6th but now Im going to ask and see what rabbit hole that takes us.

Ha! My daughter is in the Navy and the minute Biden was sworn in she was instructed to remove Trump's picture from their Chain of Command wall....she's been in for five years. She said when they had to replace Obama with Trump it wasn't nearly as quick. She sent me a picture of her removing Trump's picture, so not all of the military has been informed of the Biden screen.

Meidas Touch poking the bear:
youtu.be/vsxq-wpKsos

It amazes me that someone who has such loony beliefs is functional; I have been wondering about it.

I didn’t know that because, to my knowledge, I have not met one of them. They are generally portrayed as unhinged in the media.

I am offering this as an observation and not a direct comparison or criticism, but there are millions of functional people walking around who believe that a virgin gave birth, that the earth was literally created in 7 days, and that dinosaur bones were put in the earth as a hoax or test of faith - among a great many other improbable things. There are functional people who think that Scientology is truth, that a man found scripture under a tree in New York, that god led their people out of the desert and asked them to cut off their sons’ foreskins and never eat pork or shellfish as a sign of their faith, that there are multiple humanoid gods who reign over various aspects of life, etc, etc.

When you consider the wide variety of unlikely things that functional people believe, it’s not that hard to see how a need for belonging and shared culture - in addition to a strong dose of white supremacist fantasy - led otherwise normal people to engage in the Q conspiracy theory. People are remarkably able to compartmentalize their thought processes this way.

This is like my sister too. On the one hand she is highly functional, is way more organized than I am, runs her house like a tight ship. (I can almost guarantee there are no expired cake mixes in her cupboard, LOL!) BUT she is religious to a fault (and the church she goes to is sometimes described as a cult by former members, there’s a lot of group think going on there) and some of the things she comes up with are downright wacky.

She won’t talk about the crazy stuff with just anybody. Aside from her immediate next door neighbors and occasionally us non-local family members, I doubt very much that she really even talks to anybody else who isn’t a friend from her church and I’m sure they all believe the same stuff she does. She absolutely lives inside that bubble. If you happened to be the cashier who rings her up at the grocery store, you would think she’s a totally rational, really nice and normal lady. You would never think for a second that she believes some of the nutty conspiracy theory stuff she has said to me.

She sounds just like my crazy neighbor lady, right down to the phrasing "just watch, big things are coming." 

Unless discussions happen, we have no idea who believes what. We have no idea if someone is a wife beater, burgler, documented or not, child molester until someone points it out. Of course they also don't put bumper stickers on their cars as do many political persons do.

I have a friend I had no idea about until after she mentioned a specialist doctor I found for her was Muslim. She said but that's ok, because he is very good. I knew then and realised there had been other signals I had missed. It was an awakening for me.

I’ve spent time on r/QAnonCasualties, a supportive subReddit for people whose family or friends have embraced Qish conspiracies (the term “Q” is rapidly falling out of favor among adherents). If nothing else, I’ve learned that believers are a very loose confederacy - not only when it comes to all the conspiracy details but also when it comes to functionality and ideological focus:

-Some are educated professionals who keep going to work. Some run functional households and are involved in the community. Many are occupationally functional but have, say, thrown out/banished spouses or of-age children who got the Covid vaccine.
-Some have transferred all their savings to gold, stopped working and stopped paying bills - including mortgages and taxes - because Trump will forgive their debts, abolish taxes and redistribute wealth.
-Some have been evicted or foreclosed and are spending their savings living in hotels literally waiting each day for The Darkness.
-Some pay their bills and live very normally but police streets and malls, approaching girls who look like they’ve been trafficked to offer rescue. 

-Others still are probably actively planning political rebellion or are waiting for the bat signal to join in.