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Listen, I don't think this happens but...
(hexbear.net)
It's the funniest possible sequence of events, and no one wouldve seen it coming
What does that even look like for the culture of the US lol
Imagining the pure chaos as his followers panic. A wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Deep Q sects would decide that the real Donald died after the assassination attempt, either from his wounds or he got got at the hospital, and that he was replaced with a deep state plant through plastic surgery. Even deeper Q sects would decide that he survived getting got and had plastic surgery to look like random dude who keeps showing up at Q meetups to fuck lonely boomer women.
Don Jr and Eric both find another corpulent white dude to pretend is their dad to keep the grift going. Barron becomes known as The Fatherless and forges his own path.
I would be surprised if Barron isn’t already a messianic Q figure.
Off the top of my head, there was a sub-sect that thought he was Steve Bannon as a time traveler(?) advising Donald Trump how to do the Great Awakening right, and one where Barron was secretly the greatest chess player in the world and had been made the youngest grandmaster ever secretly for some reason
Qanon has some really creative lore. Like JFK Jr faking his own death and having plastic surgery to avoid being assassinated like his dad, only to come back and help Trump defeat the deep state.
It's genuinely really fascinating sociologically sometimes. I'm pretty sure the JFK Jr shit wasn't ever actually in any Q drops, but a community of lead addled boomers giving themselves psychosis through unrestricted internet illiteracy basically played the telephone game long enough to construct their own orthodoxy where JFK's failson that ran George magazine and died in a plane crash becomes a messianic figure that's gonna reveal himself to President Hamburgler and usher in a new golden age with magic sci-fi med beds or whatever.
I can't remember if it was an episode of Death is Just Around the Corner or a stream they did together, but Michael S Judge talked with
at some point about Q-Anon as the latest iteration in a historical cycle of American religious revivalist movements and esoteric mysticism and conspiratorial political fringes, and they got into the symbolism that Q followers have unconsciously tapped into and similar historical parallels that was really fascinating, I'll see if I can find it
The first being when they gathered in western New York for the end of the world and then it didn’t happen and then they splintered into Mormonism and all those other sects, right? What would the others be, the 1960s orientalist takes on Hare Krishna and Buddhism?
Found it! It's been like three years since I listened to it so I don't recall the specifics, but remember it being really interesting. Judge and Christman, two great tastes that taste great together
Thanks!
Steve Bannon, time traveler, is an awesome twist I did not see coming.
I so badly want a serial drama based on this lore that plays it totally straight.
the large adult son that was foretold
Speaking anecdotally, the more "normie" Trump voters out there I know all seem a bit bored and demoralized. Trumps schtick doesn't feel fresh anymore, that's part of the reason the "weird" thing is working so well. While they'd never admit it, most of the solidly middle and upper middle class ones have been doing pretty good under the Dems, their Roth IRAs have been doing bank. Biden wasn't the Judeo-Marxist dystopia they all imagined and pretending it is has gotten more and more exhausting for them.
I think a lot of them are quietly hoping he loses so they can slowly de-radicalize themselves, go back to whatever the conservative version of brunch is an be able to deny ever being a Trump fan at the next thanksgiving.