Originally published at: How the Epstein Files Reveal the Final Failure of QAnon - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The most enduring conspiracy theories often contain kernels of truth, though it is debatable whether any popularly theorized conspiracy has later been proven as real by unassailable facts. But if one popular conspiracy theory seems to have been promoted from “theory”…
“It’s easy to look at Epstein’s communications with billionaires and royals, famous directors and scions of old money, and see the dealings of a cabal. In those countless emails…”
And yet George Soros does not seem to appear in any of Epstein’s e-mails because if he was there the GOP would have it in skywriting across the country.
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Its 20th century form began with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the aftermath of the First World War,
The Protocols predates the First World War; I believe it is now thought to have been concocted for the Kishinev pogrom in 1903.
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imo’ Q heard whispers of EPSTEIN and his cabal..but had no proof of anything,sadly, Q has been proven right to some extent, we now know that it WAS about sex with minor girls and rich powerful men, including the now POTUS, still unproven., who has started a war to distract the forever gullible american public..so far 7 military men have been killed, where it ends , no one knows..
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“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” – Shakespeare
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Not only the losers of QAnon, but the nation’s militia groups who screamed their asses off about federal abuse of power and taking away freedoms and it plays out in real time and not a fucking word.
Oh, and you red state bastards: your silence also on this issue has been duly noted.
(Cue the “not all people in red states!” crowd missing the rhetorical point.)
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this bloody fantasy caught on with people struggling to understand why Trump wasn’t fulfilling the promises of his first presidential campaign
Still amazed that the simpler and more obvious explanation — that he was a lying grifter who never intended to fulfill those promises — wasn’t, and still hasn’t been, accepted by the majority of his flock.
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“QAnon was supposed to be the plan to save the world. But the world is exactly the same as it’s always been.”
I don’t know about “exactly the same.” Rather a bit worse, if you ask me.
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One can’t help but seriously think back to Trump’s and his administration initial attacked on Sen. Kelly’s and the other five Democrats in order to publicly delegitimize their views and points as they are afraid of what that group is saying. The Republican base has accepted the lies and distortions for so long that they have abdicated rational thought. If Sen. Kelly and the others were allowed to speak, their backgrounds will resonate with some on the far right and his message will cause questions to be asked. Trump cannot allow that to happen. Much of what Trump does and says is to change the whiplash narrative so that no one has the time to focus and attack and educate his base on that topic. And the press continuously falls for this.
One never truly knows the motivations of another person, but it certainly looks like the current attacks on Venezuelan boats, then the quest to take over Greenland, followed by attacks on Iran and threats regarding Cuba are nothing more than weak, but deadly, attempts to change the narrative away from the Epstein files in which Trump’s name appears more times than he wants people to believe or accept is even possible (and that’s after the “cleansing” of the report by the corrupt DOJ).
We need a set of vocal people of divvy up topics and to maintain pressure on Trump and his minions to address and actually answer these questions. On a daily basis. Expose their stupidity and corruption, and the true benefactors of Trump’s policies. Trump knows that he can change the narrative by making a new outrageous statement or action, leaving him room to continue with what he wants from the start. And we all fall for it. Focus and demand answers. Show respect for the offices, but not the individuals in the offices. The Republicans do not follow the “Marquess of Queensberry rules” of engagement, so neither should the rest of us.
Pound facts, pound the laws, and pound the consequences of Trump’s actions. The Republicans sold their base the idea that the Democrats were giving things away to “others” at the expense of their (Republican’s) base, and FOX and others further cemented this lie. They were frightened of Sen. Kelly because of his background and how he can potentially break through the mountain of lies they’ve carefully built and maintained. They will stop at nothing to publicly destroy him. If he succeeds, they are finished. And they know it.
The Press needs to continue asking for answers that we know we will never get, but this will set the stage for November. It is appropriate to publicly recall John Kerry’s words and paraphrase them once again for those who intentionally forget them, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Iran? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
After Trump’s press conference fiasco, the President and his administration owe the public the answer to these questions. And so does the entire Republican Party. The public should not let them breathe until they do so.
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Where is the section of the article where you state that Trump and his minions are the cabal that was preying on children WHILE leading the conspiracy dupes around looking for the cabal. Now that he needs to expose the cabal he stuck because the calls all came from inside the house!!
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This epic sh1tshow is where IOKIYAR truly intersects with “every accusation a confession.”
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The most interesting part of this whole thing is the complete denial and lack of interest in the Epstein class by the minions and the people most screaming about Hillary. When confronted with facts, they keep harboring on Hillary and Bill and completely ignore the monstrous behavior of the Epstein class because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
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I think this piece should be posted on Reddit, just choose any subreddit that deals with politics, because every time there’s a post about anything having to do with Epstein it instantly devolves into a lefty version of Q Anon. Except now, it’s all somehow “the zionists” doing, and Epstein was a secret Mossad agent whose death was faked and he’s now living a secret luxurious life somewhere.
It’s one thing for the fascist trump regime to leave us angry and dispirited, it’s another to find solace in crazy right wing conspiracies reimagined as the weapon that will finally separate tRump from his Cult. It will never happen! 30% of “real ‘Muricans” will literally drink the Kool-Aid before denouncing their orang Hitler. I just hope they call me when it’s time to hand out the matching trump branded track suits!
Heck, it still hasn’t been accepted by the “mainstream” infotainment media. Much less the Felon’s obvious dementia, obsession with vengeance over imaged slights, and overall unfitness for office.
They’re still taking him seriously, as if he doesn’t belong in the (politically incorrect) madhouse.
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The enemy of the deep state turned out to be its most high-profile protector.
In a word, the Republican Party.
Okay. That’s two words.
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Count Dracula. Dr. Frankenstein. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. Grand houses, never small cottages, are the homes that are haunted (unless the ghost is friendly, as in the wonderful “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”).
I haven’t seen “Sinners” yet.
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US priorities are clear.
By comparison, more than 800 Patriot interceptors were fired in just days in the Middle East during the recent US-Israeli war with Iran.
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Another hint that Zelenskyy wasn’t a charter member of Epstein’s little power&pussy cabal…
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Yeah, except the guy that the Q-faithful elected as their savior turned out to be one of the guys in the pedophile ring. It’s like Pizzagate was real, except it wasn’t a pizzeria, it was a palatial upper west side NYC townhome, and it wasn’t a cabal of liberal elites, it was a cabal of conservative elites. It’s almost like one of those “every right wing accusation is a confession” sorts of things.
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