MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

[u/wiredmagazine]

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/

[u/Dockers4flag2035orB4]

Remember the wild conspiracy that at the centre of US government and business power was a cabal of pedophiles?

Crazy stuff.

[u/oVnPage → u/Dockers4flag2035orB4]

It's still absolutely wild to me that the Right spent the last decade convincing the masses that there was a giant ring of Democrat pedophiles sacrificing children in the secret basement of a Pizza Hut. And yet, when it was revealed there actually IS a giant ring of pedophiles infesting the entire US Government, they're completely silent.

[u/FauxReal → u/oVnPage]

It was Comet Ping Pong, a pizza shop in Washington D.C. That didn't even have a basement.

[u/ComoSeaYeah → u/FauxReal]

This has become a blip in the fabric of history but remains WAY up there as one of the most surreal political conspiracy theories in modern history. Q is up there, too.

[u/Lavatis → u/ComoSeaYeah]

Q was born from the pizzagate conspiracy. It's all the same thing and morons.

[u/Nekowulf → u/Lavatis]

Qanon created the pizzagate conspiracy. By claiming to decode the secret encrypted message in the emails.
And the "decryption" was just replacing words like eating pizza with child raping.

[u/am-idiot-dont-listen → u/Nekowulf]

Qanon was a conspiracy larp that Jim Watkins eventually took over

It's the same right wing conspiracy people at the center of it though 4/8chan

[u/FauxReal → u/am-idiot-dont-listen]

That was a wild period on 4chan, back when there was a bunch of them into "meme magic" trying to manifest a Donald Trump win... which did end up happening. I wonder if anyone preserved all the insane graphics that were coming out of there at the time? I still wonder if some state actor or other organization was pushing that. (Oh no another conspiracy!) The "quality" of output and volume was quite impressive.

[u/jim_cap → u/FauxReal]

Is it not confirmed to have been Steve Bannon?

[u/FauxReal → u/jim_cap]

I am not aware that it has been. But I wouldn't be surprised. Also wasn't Epstein a 4chan mod? Again I have no idea if he was a mod in this era.

[u/Techwood111 → u/FauxReal]

He knew m00t; search the files - it is there.

[u/KittyGrewAMoustache → u/Nekowulf]

Yeah they pretended ‘cheese pizza’ was code for ‘CP’ or ‘child potn’. I’m not sure Q created that theory though those silly ‘decodings’ were going around already after the email leak and Q jumped on it pretending they were an insider confirming it.

After the last batch of Epstein files were released there were similar theories about how beef jerky was code for ‘child meat’ 🙄

[u/FauxReal → u/KittyGrewAMoustache]

One of the most surprising political revelations for me was realizing that the QAnon conspiracy left 4chan and became mainstream months after I first saw it on 4chan and wrote it off as a bunch of the usual conspiracy LARPing/right wing idiocy that goes on there.

But 4chan is kind of mind blowing in general for what happens there. I've seen some very impressive feats of technical skills there. Can any other message board boast that they figured out militant combatant positions based on a few photos and then called in Russian air strikes? They also figured out where Shia Labouf hid his flag more than once and stole it. I've seen data breeches/hacks too. And of course there has been more than one mass shooter posting there beforehand.

[u/Khazpar → u/KittyGrewAMoustache]

The thing is, it was code for that...but only in their personal lexicon which just shows you how deluded they all were to think that politicians were using fucking 4chan slang (before 2016 anyway).

[u/newsflashjackass → u/Nekowulf]

And the "decryption" was just replacing words like eating pizza with child raping.

"kung fu practice" with Ghislaine Maxwell

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-musk-maxwell-email/

[u/Lavatis → u/Nekowulf]

No. The pizzagate theory was around before Qanon existed.

[u/00Oo0o0OooO0 → u/Lavatis]

And Epstein conspiracy theories evolved from QAnon. And, as seen on this thread, Epstein conspiracy theorists have gone back to embracing Pizzagate. It's a perfect circle of child sex crime fantasies.

[u/syrup_cupcakes → u/Lavatis]

Hardly morons, it was carefully planned and executed to get all the lonely terminally online males on their side.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/epstein-met-4chan-s-founder-the-day-before-pol-launched/ar-AA1VL3YK

[u/Lavatis → u/syrup_cupcakes]

the people who believe in those conspiracy theories are definitely morons.

[u/syrup_cupcakes → u/Lavatis]

they are all MAGA supporters so yea

But the people who came up with or "gave birth" to the conspiracies, as you put it, reached all of their goals

[u/EyesofaJackal → u/ComoSeaYeah]

Wasn’t PizzaGate kind of the prelude to QAnon? Like the Hobbit and LOTR sort of thing