Month: February 2020

“Help Me, Obi-Wan Durham…You’re Our Only Hope”

Mike Rothschild2 Comments

The QAnon conspiracy theory is a road that leads nowhere, with the only off-ramps leading to other roads that lead nowhere. It’s a constant stream of lofty promises and predictions that fizzle out, constantly kicking the can of a “great awakening” or “storm” of mass arrests down to another day – a day always coming “soon” or “next week” or some unspecified time that’s “about to happen.”

How much longer can this go on before a disgruntled Q believer decides to start the “great awakening” themselves? I have a feeling we’re about to find out, thanks to the one last reasonable hope that the QAnon movement has of the “deep state” being swept aside: the investigation by US Attorney John Durham into potential abuses by the FBI and DOJ during the Mueller investigation.

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How to Survive Your Tweet Going Viral in Trumpland

Mike Rothschild1 Comment

Of all the ways for a tweet to go viral, having one picked up by hardcore Donald Trump supporters is one of the less pleasant. But that was me over the weekend, when a five tweet thread I fired off late on Thursday night expressing my frustration at the Senate voting to avoid calling witnesses in the president’s impeachment trial.

Mostly, I wanted to let the gloating MAGA trolls making Twitter miserable know that at some point, the con that they’ve been drawn in by will unravel, and nobody will come to their rescue when it does. Basically, I called Trump voters an aspirational cult devoted to a con man who promised them riches and comfort, and is delivering nothing.

Here’s the first tweet in the thread. It’s pretty insulting, I must say:

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