Anyone gonna start the “Where is ‘Beech?” thread? I’d be better if it was coming from someone else.
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Anyone gonna start the “Where is ‘Beech?” thread? I’d be better if it was coming from someone else.
Let him know his threat level credibility is roughly like my dog barking at a squirrel for an hour while said squirrel just sits there on a utility line in my back yard.
Dog "imma bark and bark and bark and bark and, bark and bark cause, I dunno, I'll just bark and bark and bark and bark"
Dirk finally goes out back "shut the **** up man..." throws rock at squirrel. Barking ceases.
Also, let 'Beech know some Liberals around here love him even though his threat level credibility is pretty awful.
Well....I reached out to Beech yesterday and I still haven't heard back. Crickets.
It's a little disconcerting...his reassurance that Trump would continue as president for another 4 years was one of the few things I could consistently rely on. Like every day I knew the sun would rise in the east, Kurt would wallpaper the General Discussion section with awesome memes, and Beech would remind us all that Trump would still be in the White House after Jan 20.
I guess the next step is reaching out to @accadacca to see if he's heard anything...:ne_nau:
In all seriousness, I hope he's good. I suspect his wife's not happy with him throwing $100 away to some guy from the internet in Colorado? Maybe? I don't know what happened there now that Dan went AWOL.
Thanks for checking on him.
Oh he's fine. He's probably dreaming up some really clever way to come back in and save face. He's still my hero.
You guys are all blind--he's just waiting for the big a-hah moment still to come, come on man...:rockon:
"QAnon in crisis as day of reckoning fails to materialize". https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...o-materialize/
"QAnon adherents called it “the storm.” At midday on Wednesday, there were supposed to be blackouts across the US, military tribunals led by Donald Trump, and the mass execution of Democrats in the streets.It did not happen. Instead, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th US president and the day of reckoning anticipated by the pro-Trump conspiracy cult failed to materialize, dismaying the faithful.
“QAnon believers invested all their remaining hopes in false beliefs that Trump would take action validating their theories before or during inauguration,” said Jared Holt, a research fellow focused on extremism at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. “For some followers, watching Biden and [Vice President Kamala] Harris sworn into office was a breaking point in their beliefs.”
QAnon followers had been among the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 in the hopes of overturning the results of the November presidential election, which Trump and many of his followers say was rigged.
According to QAnon prophecies, Trump would maintain power as electrical outages spread across the US on January 20. But when the lights stayed on in America, the mood in QAnon circles turned dark.
Believers began proclaiming: “Nothing!!!!” on messaging apps, their verdict sometimes accompanied by angry face or broken heart emojis.
“We all got scammed, you caused us all to lose friends over this charade,” posted one member of a QAnon discussion group created a few days after the Capitol riot. “Now we all sit with egg on our face.”
“Q,” the pseudonymous poster or posters behind the nearly 5,000 arcane messages that form the central scripture of the conspiracy theory, did not offer any explanation.
But Ron Watkins, whose father owns the imageboard where QAnon’s posts are hosted, said, “We gave it our all. Now we need to keep our chins up and go back to our lives as best we are able.”
The setback was only the latest in a series of reversals for the QAnon movement, whose ranks grew dramatically in 2020 during coronavirus pandemic-related lockdowns.
Facebook said on Tuesday that it had removed more than 40,000 QAnon Facebook and Instagram pages and accounts since August as part of a clampdown on extremists. Accounts belonging to QAnon influencers were removed by Twitter earlier this month, shortly before the website permanently suspended Mr. Trump.
QAnon supporters were also affected by the closure of Parler, the “free speech” social network popular with conservatives, after Amazon suspended web hosting services to the platform earlier this month.Nevertheless, some QAnon believers attempted to find ways to explain the situation or fell back on the cryptic messages that characterized many of QAnon’s posts. “Trust the plan,” wrote one.
Experts warned that individual conspiracies within the wider ideology—such as anti-5G and anti-vaccine narratives—would likely live on, possibly morphing into something more menacing.
“For many people, there won’t be an easy step back.
The engagement cycle has been too addicting and empowering,” said Molly McKew, chief executive of consultancy Fianna Strategies and an information warfare expert. “And what if they decide to latch on to a new, less lazy and incompetent leader than Trump? The power in this belief system hasn’t dispersed yet.”
^^^Yikes!
I got in touch with Acca -- he hasn't heard from Beech either. Hoping Justin is OK. I don't think he'd be the type to fling himself headfirst into the Qanon lifestyle, but who knows?
I imagine he is doing a hard reality-check (just like other QAnon followers) who were hoping and wishing and praying for a bloody violent overthrow and second civil war! Besides, aren't "walls" suppose to keep people out of the capitol? GOP lovers love saying "BUILD THE WALL", yet our own wall protecting the US Capitol was breached by the same-people who shout "BUILD THE WALL". Ironic. Moronically ironic. So I guess, walls don't work after all...?
I mean when you are card-carrying NRA member with 20 AR-15 guns and barns filled with ammo...what else are you suppose to do? "Occupy" a federal building?? Nah, they want the zombie apocalypse where they can get away with murder and shoot their own neighbors because they lean towards more government and regulation. And now for the next 4 years, we will get sore-losers posting the same "meh" memes of how Biden "stole" the election...blah blah blah...and how so many people voted for him yet didn't watch his inauguration, etc.
Well, what's revealing about that is that "the people" were willing to vote for anyone besides Trump. And it's not all about the "orange bad man" as who their intended hatred is all about, but rabbid Trump supporters. Woot Woot...goes the Trump train!! LOL. Trump supporters would STILL be a martyr for him years later. They would gladly march in his name because they know of the pushback that they get from their neighbors and community. It's not about "supporting" Trump, but rather turning their hatred towards their neighbor that doesn't vote or lean right. That's how much they worship him and bow down to him. There are a few here even that worship and pray to Trump. It's not the conservative values that they back, but the man himself. I digress..
So when the prophecy of execution of Democrats in the street, and Trump riding his personal tank down 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, doesn't happen...what else are they suppose to do?