QAnon Tearily, Tragically Reckoning With the Shock That Biden Is President
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Supporters of QAnon, the right-wing conspiracy purporting that a Satanic, pedophilic cabal is plotting against former President Donald Trump, are confused. They woke up Wednesday morning convinced that Trump had one more trick up his sleeve to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president, that the inauguration would be interrupted by martial law, that a prophecy predicting Democrats would be arrested and executed en masse for child sex trafficking would finally come true. Obviously, the so-called Great Awakening never happened, and the true believers are unsure of what to do now.
The New York Times reports that Q forums are filled with dismayed and heartbroken followers, many of whom are finally realizing that they’ve been duped.
Some QAnon believers tried to rejigger their theories to accommodate a transfer of power to Mr. Biden. Several large QAnon groups discussed on Wednesday the possibility that they had been wrong about Mr. Biden, and that the incoming president was actually part of Mr. Trump’s effort to take down the global cabal.
“The more I think about it, I do think it’s very possible that Biden will be the one who pulls the trigger,” one account wrote in a QAnon channel on the messaging app Telegram.
Others expressed anger with QAnon influencers who had told believers to expect a dramatic culmination on Inauguration Day.
“A lot of YouTube journalists have just lost one hell of a lot of credibility,” wrote a commenter in one QAnon chat room.
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“It’s over,” one QAnon chat room participant wrote, just after Mr. Biden’s swearing-in.
“Wake up,” another wrote. “We’ve been had.”
Well, that’s what happens when you get your news from conspiratorial “YouTube journalists” who wouldn’t recognize credibility if it smacked them across the face.
But really, they’re going through it.
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