Probably not what you want to hear, but: what's up, normie/non-anon here, I'll offer my honest prediction for six months.
MIDTERMS
Most likely: the House turns red but the Dems barely maintain majority in the Senate, due to poor R candidates. Biden legislation takes a nosedive in 2024-26 with a split Congress (hello, Obama Part Two).
Worth noting: Roe v. Wade getting overturned is the biggest possible monkey wrench, and it's making a lot of people ANGRY. Angry people vote. Will it be enough to carry Dems through midterms and keep the Senate and the House? Hard to say, this is uncharted territory.
COVID
It'll continue to dwindle, we'll see spikes here and there, but the message is out: we're done with this shit. Some will mask up in public, some won't, it's personal preference from here on out.
A COVID spike in the winter is likely (a spike of every viral disease is likely during each winter; everybody's cramped together inside), but nobody's going back into lockdown, that ship has sailed and we're all tired of it. Dem leadership knows it, and knows it won't succeed by playing COVID nanny again.
As for the vaxxed -- hot take, I know, but I think they'll (I'll) be fine. I see here on TGA there's a knee-jerk instinct to preemptively announce "the vaccine killed em" on every single death that happens anywhere, no matter how the person dies; I feel it paints an inaccurate picture.
FAUCI
Retired maybe, but probably still working, the guy's a machine.
ECONOMY
Gas prices have been going down the last few weeks, should continue. Inflation is the big issue, everything costs a fortune -- the clock is ticking for Biden to take action before the midterms arrive, because if there's one thing that will absolutely positively sink the Dems' midterm chances, well...
Ukraine/Russia might be over by Christmas, but it's going to be one of those slow burnout fade-away endings; I wouldn't expect a V-day parade in Kiev.
JAN 6TH
The challenge for these hearings is not convincing the Dems (because they already agree), and not convincing the MAGA crowd (because it can't be done); the hearings need to convince the fence-sitters and the moderates in-between. By digging into the events, relying on the right footage and the right details, they're breaking through and they're succeeding, but it's a hard act to keep up for six months. The diehards want a big carrot at the end of the stick, and that's arresting Trump.
But THAT is easier said than done, to put it mildly.
In fact, you can take this to the bank, I'm calling it now -- Donald Trump will NEVER see the inside of a prison cell. Logistically, legally, peacefully without igniting a nationwide insurgency war; it just won't happen, mark my words, I say he'll die of heart disease first.
VOTED FRAUD AND 2020 ELECTION
2020 election won't go anywhere; it's stone-cold history. All attempts at overturning it so far have failed; I'd wager further attempts to follow the same path,
The voter fraud -- well obviously this is where I veer off, because I don't subscribe to the idea that the election was stolen. But I know a lot of Republicans/Conservatives do, and some of them are in considerable positions of power.
The next stage of the voter fraud crusade is a legislative one: R's will be trying to adopt/change voter laws to address alleged weak points and fraud spots in the system (and then, in turn, using this legislation to tweak the election machinery with impunity and tip the scales as needed, "to even the playing field").
GHISLAINE
Nothing extraordinary, no bombshells; anything that happens, happens behind the curtain. If her capture makes the world shake, it's not something we're going to see.
RETURN OF Q
The drops just aren't what they used to be and the change in voice is too much to overlook; New Q doesn't do much to regain that lost trust, and plays the hits instead, references old glory. Eventually Jim Watkins realizes it's not as fun as he thought it would be, and gives up; New Q goes silent with a "hold the line" send-off.
I had just had a nagging feeling/intuition for years that things weren't quite right
That part is really interesting. I hope this doesn't sound accusatory/patronizing/belittling (I mean well but it's a hard line to walk), but that's almost verbatim what I've read on how people adopt conspiratorial thinking in general:
Sociopolitical turbulence generates a feeling of “something must be wrong” — relentless urgency, unease, and fear of the inevitable or unknown. As a result, I have a deep distrust of officials, politicians, and other members of The-Powers-That-Be running the country and allegedly maintaining this uncomfortable status quo, individuals now assumed to have evil motives: the world is shaking because They are shaking it.
edit -- that came from this infographic
Normie/non-anon here, been lurking forever, howdy.
Do you guys think there's something that draws a specific person to Q? Like, a specific wavelength that it already helps to be on? There's lots of wild overlap in people's "how did you open your eyes" stories, I've noticed.
I do not -- I'm not here because I'm a believer, I'm here because I want to know more about the people who are. Qanon is important and isn't going away; I want to know it front to back.
I'm unconvinced by the drops, bakes, and proofs, and I think following/accepting the Plan requires smoothing over a lot of logical leaps and cracks. I think part of the reason Qanon spreads so well is because it's so complicated: you can choose what part to believe in, and the sheer amount of extra detail helps disguise any discrepancies or contradictions that arise from smashing the lore together into new shapes.
Also, seeing anons' stories gathered together really highlights the recurring themes, how Q-dom takes hold in times of struggle: https://i.redd.it/qlzsmthlxqh71.png
gonna put my darkest prediction here, stash it for later.
Q teases more and talks shit and eventually endorses Ron Watkins for Congress, which everybody finds suspicious. Ron loses in the primary (because he's weird) and then Q will go silent again, and/or insist Truth Social Q is carrying the torch from now on.
Isn't that because that's where the big cities are?
Arizona -- that's Pima County that's blue, and that's where Tuscon/UofA is.
New Mexico -- that's Bernalillo County that's blue, which has Albuquerque (biggest city in the state).
California -- that's Los Angeles county, obviously, blue central.
I think this is kinda disingenuous. It's one county, yes, but it's the county where EVERYBODY lives.
NOTE: I don't 100% trust Breitbart. They have not been covering the voter fraud. But many of their articles seem legit.
I have a real problem with Breitbart because I personally think their writing is very manipulative, trying to guide what the reader thinks.
"The fates of several other establishment-aligned Republicans"
"after the establishment media whipped out their obituary pens for Trump’s political power"
"The mayor’s race in Los Angeles is also interesting and could signal an even further leftward lurch of the Democrat party."
Its all sorts of smug buzzwords fitting every news story into an existing framework and IMO it reeks of disingenuousness (the constant buddying to 45 doesn't help).
It's a reference to the show The Good Place: https://thegoodplace.fandom.com/wiki/Jeremy_Bearimy_Timeline
It's not that it's too far-fetched; I believe a cabal like that could exist.
But in my opinion, the arguments that it doesn't exist outweigh the arguments that it does. I've always been a Ruthless Pragmatist(TM), really focusing on the nitty-gritty practical moving pieces of a concept, and that's where the cabal theory starts to fall apart, as I see it.
Happy to answer anything -- I'll be here until I get myself banned :)
Q threw suspicion on Musk before -- he told Elon to fear the storm, nobody gets a free pass:
I personally think he's more an eccentric look-at-me type, than a cog in the big machine.
Every time I crack open the drops, starting from the beginning or at random, it always reads like the same stuff -- a lot of the same recurring troll/BSing tactics, no matter which drop I read, and I just don't find it convincing.
Didn't Q himself dismiss the JFK Jr stuff in drop #2611? https://qalerts.app/?n=2611
But you kind of make it sound like they want mob justice, and while I've seen people here and there lash out like that, Q clearly says all this needs to be done legally, with courts, and judges, and juries and evidence and all of that.
100 percent agree, Q is all about "It has to be done right" and that has proved to be a very useful out, keeping people from lashing out. The fallout from Jan. 6th has done the rest, putting a tight lid on Q/anon, but oh look -- now it's a pressure cooker.
To be completely honest, I don't think anons want mob justice at all ... until, ya know, the chips are down, in the heat of the moment, and it's on their side. But I think that's kinda human nature.
But likewise I don't know how you can call yourself an American if you don't think people guilty of those crimes deserve that kind of punishment, after getting their due process.
Agreed -- if HRC/Obama/Hollywood/etc were exposed as satanic cannibals or human traffickers etc, I want them punished to the fullest extent of the law. No one is above it, and it has to be applied, no matter how much I want to see em fry yesterday and flip the switch myself.
But again, just me entertaining that idea is buying into a foundational argument that I don't buy into: I think the evil is largely invented (whereas anons start with the assumption that the evil is real, and go from there, no looking back beyond that point).
On that second and third part, here is what I got: you don't buy the worldview itself, correct? You don't buy the cabal theory that Trump talked about in his Washington Establishment speech.
I don't believe in an octopus-like cabal pulling the world's levers with singular purpose and unity. I think some people try to become that, and some people get very far, but I also think the idea of the monolithic cabal enemy is more fictional than real, and violates too much of what I personally believe about human nature.
The idea of a deep state thwarting your every move is also a very convenient scapegoat if you're a guy like Trump who historically tries to avoid culpability and shift blame when things go sideways.
All this satanic baby killing human trafficking pedophilia stuff you think is too beyond the pale to believe. Do I understand you correctly?
I think all those things -- satanic baby killings, human trafficking, pedophilia -- are real and happen, some way more/less than others. Human trafficking is a global crisis that doesn't get the attention it should; I'd say pedophilia is the worst thing anyone can do on this earth and if anyone deserves to burn in Hell, it's people who hurt kids.
But the lengths to which Q/anon has taken those things, running with them, distorting them, tweaking them into its own narrative? That's what I don't believe/side with.
Ok, so what exactly are we NOT doing that you ARE? Because to me, from your tone and your intensity and your rhetoric
Not mine -- the extreme leftist tone, intensity, and rhetoric. The stuff that goes viral, gets stickied here, spreads on Libs of Tiktok, etc, because it's the loudest, most concise, and easiest to mock, but it's not a good reflection of reality. Nothing that spreads on social media is.
Liberals make fun of the extreme right and turn it into a straw man enemy; MAGA makes fun of the extreme left and turns it into a straw man enemy. That's political tribalism, man, it's better than sex.
But I digress.
Because to me, from your tone and your intensity and your rhetoric, it feels an awful lot like what you're saying is that what we SHOULD be doing is grabbing our guns and storming D.C. and all our state capitols and hanging the traitors by the neck and reinstalling Trump as President.
Yes indeed: if the world were as terrifying and evil as any given extremists make it sound, then nothing would be unjustified. If we're fighting for the soul of the world, there is no bridge too far.
But we're not fighting for the soul of the world. It just feels like we are, because people on the internet reap a social (and often financial) benefit from it. Moral outrage and fear-mongering are extremely profitable: tell your audience the sky is falling in two weeks (and it's all XYZ's fault), and they'll keep coming back for more. Nobody is immune to this -- it's human nature, and it sucks.
Is that not what you're saying? If not, what ARE you saying? What makes you, as a fellow freedom loving patriot, better than us?
Nothing, I'm not better or worse, I'm just a different kind of fellow freedom loving patriot I guess? Sideways, not above or below.
You apparently haven't been duped. So where's your army? Why haven't you stormed the castle gates yet? Are you suggesting that the only reason YOU haven't stormed the castle gates already is because you haven't convinced US to yet? Because from the looks of it based on the numbers on PDW vs GAW, we're definitely in the minority. If that's what you think needs to be done, what's stopping you?
I mean, this is blunt, but -- the fact that we're not in a battle, is what's stopping me.
Could it be because you're full of shit? You may not realize it but like half the shit you guys say over on PDW implies that you buy Q's view of the world anyway. Seems to me you're just too chicken shit to really look into Q and/or too chicken shit to align with it because you don't want to look like an idiot to your liberal masters, or you're just scared of being hurt again like we all were when the election didn't go as we hoped.
This is gonna sound like a Roy Orbison lyric, but: I've been hurt enough to not be afraid of it. I wrote this in another comment a while ago: https://greatawakening.win/p/12jwMGHJLQ/x/c/4JDEOgApwpi
So tell me, seriously, if I'm the delusional one, what is my delusion thwarting?
I'm not clear on "thwarting" -- it implies Q was a psyop designed to placate. That's the foundation you're beginning with and building upon it, but I'm beginning one step underneath it, if that makes sense? I don't think Q was a psyop designed to placate, or thwart anything. I think Q was a troll that convinced a lot of people because it hit the right notes at an extremely fucked-up time in the world.
Or I guess: the reason Jane Doe became an SJW Facebook warrior during the lockdown is the same reason John Smith became a Q follower during the lockdown. The same reason I took up cooking, and you took up gardening. We all needed stability, sought it in new places, and some of those places are more harmful than helpful.
How is my delusion holding YOU back from doing what you so clearly want to do?
It's not -- but it is, at the end of the day, an extreme group of folks who want to see celebrated hangings from the Washington DC lampposts (but can't admit it, because it's against the rules to say so). It doesn't matter who the hanged is, or who's doing the hanging; there is nothing in that image that shows an America that A) I can be proud of, or B) want to see brought to life (again).
Why come here and try to get the rest of us to be as upset and panicked and miserable as you are--what's the goal exactly?
Upset and panicked and miserable, I don't know -- if I were to wrap up the Q/anon burrito in an emotional tortilla, I think it'd be disappointed. But not disappointed in the believers, that's a huge important distinction to make.
I mean more like: disappointed that everything got this far, disappointed at how easy it is to exploit people's fears and uncertainties, and holy hell, really disappointed at the sheer number of grifters who are willing to do it, and lie to their audiences and prey on their suffering, because it pays so well in the outrage industry.
tldr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0 -- yes I do; people get paid very well for it, and not always in money.
Careful -- yall are taking the troll bait. They're fishing for conservative outrage to trigger, just like a decked-out MAGA-mobile on the opposite side.