Inside the QAnon Cult That Believes JFK Is About to Return

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Inside the QAnon Cult That Believes JFK Is About to Return​

It was 2 a.m. on November 1 when Maureen McNamara realized that something wasn’t right.

She had spent every waking hour of the past two weeks organizing a list of hundreds of QAnon supporters who were traveling to Dallas to see the resurrection of JFK, based solely on the predictions of one man, Michael Brian Protzman.

McNamara, along with hundreds of Protzman’s other followers, had been camped out in AT&T Plaza in downtown Dallas for up to nine hours at this point, and her patience was wearing thin.

“There were children sleeping on that ground,’ McNamara told VICE News. “There were elderly people, there were people with walkers, people with canes, people that were in pain, in a lot of pain.”

For hours, the crowd had been told that the big reveal was coming. There were whispered rumors about a house that would accommodate thousands of people that would become the “new White House.” Then a rumor made its way through the crowd that someone was about to appear in the windows of one of the hotels that overlook AT&T Plaza, with everyone from Princess Diana to JFK Jr. rumored to be appearing.

No one appeared, but then Protzman started to shout at everyone to turn off their phones and put them away, that something was about to happen. He told everyone to push back against the walls of the plaza and get ready. He stood three feet away from McNamara and told her:

“Don't worry, you have the best viewing position there is, you won't miss a thing. You won't miss a thing. Keep your eyes open. You're right where you need to be right now.”

But again, nothing happened. Then, suddenly, everyone was racing toward a small group of Protzman’s closest advisers. McNamara wondered if something was finally happening. But when she got through the crowd, she saw that all that was happening was that everyone was being given a T-shirt with Protzman’s online alias, Negative48, printed on it.

“Everybody's scrambling to get one, like we flew all the way to Dallas and stood around for 16 hours so we could have a T-shirt,” McNamara said.

. . . .

“He's acting like he's Jesus Christ with his disciples. Everywhere he went, there was this little group around him kissing this ring.”

And yet, she shelled out hundreds of dollars to go to a Rolling Stones concert that Protzman told everyone would be where JFK would finally appear.

“I was never a fan of the Rolling Stones, I had no intention of going there. But then last minute, everyone's saying you got to be there, you got to be there. And so I spent $300 on tickets and it was raw and rainy and cold and miserable.”

At that point, McNamara was done and began calling out Protzman for his empty promises. She was joined by some others, but many remained loyal, and “that is when the entire group just started turning on each other and it was ugly.”

 

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For McNamara, a devout QAnon supporter, the attraction of coming to Dallas was less the “intriguing” prospect of seeing JFK reappear and more about seeing like-minded people.

“What drew me in more than that was an opportunity to be with like-minded people, because everybody's story in this movement is that we've lost friends,” McNamara told VICE News.

“We've lost family, we've lost credibility, we've been isolated, we've been lonely, and we've been called lots of different names, ‘crazy’ among them. And so there was this opportunity suddenly to gather with like-minded people and that was what I wanted to do.”

When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World​

by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter

In 1954 Leon Festinger, a brilliant young experimental social psychologist in the process of outlining a new theory of human behavior - the theory of cognitive dissonance - and his colleagues infiltrated a cult who believed the end of the world was only months away. How would these people feel when their prophecy remained unfulfilled? Would they admit the error of their prediction, or would they readjust their reality to make sense of the new circumstances?

"We have all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief. We are familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed through the most devastating attacks.

But man’s resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief. Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view."​

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1460466365148459014

 

[Red Wave Rising]

Three posts of absolute total lies. The real Qanon has nothing to do with these dummies. I don't even follow but I do know that much. Your links are from Slate which is worse than a comic book. You link to a book that has nothing to do with the post. Plus you post a tweet by some fool who is nobody at all. All I see is a video of people singing We are the World. Not one word about Q or Kennedy.

It is really sad and sorrowful to see someone sink to such a depth of false information and utter propaganda and post it on a politics section. Do you actually think this smears any Trump supporter of conservative? Only a total fool would think that we have anything to do with this stuff.

You are this dumb and pathetic and you had the audacity to say bad stuff about ME when I joined? Are you 12 or 13 years old?

You only succeed in doing one thing and just one thing: You make yourself look really really bad.

I am actually embarrassed for you. You should really grow up and get a clue.

 

[User Name]

The real Qanon has nothing to do with these dummies...

I am actually embarrassed for you. You should really grow up and get a clue.

You say that as if you think that "the real QAnon" aren't also a bunch of dummies.

I am actually embarrassed for you. You should really grow up and get a clue.

 

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You say that as if you think that "the real QAnon" aren't also a bunch of dummies.

I am actually embarrassed for you. You should really grow up and get a clue.

I think he's actually embarrassed by them for making MAGA look bad.

or worse than usual...

if that's even possible...

 

[Red Wave Rising]

 

[annabenedetti]

Yep, it's possible!

 

[marke]

I think he's actually embarrassed by them for making MAGA look bad.

or worse than usual...

if that's even possible...

Misguided rubes are not necessarily a reflection of others who do not support the false beliefs of the deluded rubes themselves. If so we could accuse every democrat alive of hating God and country and doing everything in their power to destroy both, just because so many leftist democrat mobsters act like that.

 

[Red Wave Rising]

 

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The QAnon JFK Cult in Dallas Is Tearing Families Apart​

“My sister may be too far gone, but it's not too late to bring awareness to others. Do not fall into this trap.”

Katy Garner and her sister grew up in a small town in Arkansas and were always close.

“We both were cheerleaders in school, made pretty good grades, and loved to just hang out with friends and each other. No one has a perfect childhood, but we had each other. We knew that. And that's what made us so close. We even have matching tattoos to remind each other of that,” Garner told VICE News.

They both became nurses, and Garner’s sister married a doctor and had three children.

Then, around the time of the 2020 presidential election, Garner’s sister started looking at some of the conspiracy theories swirling online about how former President Donald Trump lost the vote. Ultimately she found QAnon.

“It took her about three months to become totally obsessed,” Garner said. “That’s all she would talk about. You could call her and somehow the conversation would turn into how we live in a world with reptilians and how the Clintons are evil baby-eaters.”

Then she found Michael Brian Protzman, known to his followers as Negative48, who is the leader of a QAnon offshoot that’s been camped out in Dallas for the last three weeks awaiting the return of John F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr.

Garner’s sister left her family behind and drove to Dallas about a month agoand has cut off almost all communication with her family. . . .

Katy says her sister’s brief messages to her parents have gone from “be home in a few days” to “I am not coming home, my husband can take care of the kids. I am not leaving until this is over.”

While the group initially appeared to be waiting for the reappearance of JFK, over the weekend, the tone of Protzman’s comments shifted dramatically. Besides proclaiming that he was God’s representative on earth, he also took part in a video chat where participants openly spoke about having to experience death in order to learn the truth.

 

[Red Wave Rising]

"Hi, I am annabenedetti"
"Hi, I am Rusha"

Its time for another episode of fake news and fake posts

 

[Gary K]

With what we know about how the government works against it's own people I wouldn't doubt that it will come out at some point that the group that showed up was a group of government agents, or a group of crisis actors paid to show up and feed a narrative. I've known too many independent business owners and middle aged middle class people who have worked their entire lives that followed the Q narrative to believe such yarns about them. It's just more smearing of conservatives.

 

[annabenedetti]

With what we know about how the government works against it's own people I wouldn't doubt that it will come out at some point that the group that showed up was a group of government agents, or a group of crisis actors paid to show up and feed a narrative. I've known too many independent business owners and middle aged middle class people who have worked their entire lives that followed the Q narrative to believe such yarns about them. It's just more smearing of conservatives.

Q followers are crisis actors now?! You might want to check with @Jefferson on that.

 

[marke]

Inside the QAnon Cult That Believes JFK Is About to Return​

It was 2 a.m. on November 1 when Maureen McNamara realized that something wasn’t right.

She had spent every waking hour of the past two weeks organizing a list of hundreds of QAnon supporters who were traveling to Dallas to see the resurrection of JFK, based solely on the predictions of one man, Michael Brian Protzman.

McNamara, along with hundreds of Protzman’s other followers, had been camped out in AT&T Plaza in downtown Dallas for up to nine hours at this point, and her patience was wearing thin.

“There were children sleeping on that ground,’ McNamara told VICE News. “There were elderly people, there were people with walkers, people with canes, people that were in pain, in a lot of pain.”

For hours, the crowd had been told that the big reveal was coming. There were whispered rumors about a house that would accommodate thousands of people that would become the “new White House.” Then a rumor made its way through the crowd that someone was about to appear in the windows of one of the hotels that overlook AT&T Plaza, with everyone from Princess Diana to JFK Jr. rumored to be appearing.

No one appeared, but then Protzman started to shout at everyone to turn off their phones and put them away, that something was about to happen. He told everyone to push back against the walls of the plaza and get ready. He stood three feet away from McNamara and told her:

“Don't worry, you have the best viewing position there is, you won't miss a thing. You won't miss a thing. Keep your eyes open. You're right where you need to be right now.”

But again, nothing happened. Then, suddenly, everyone was racing toward a small group of Protzman’s closest advisers. McNamara wondered if something was finally happening. But when she got through the crowd, she saw that all that was happening was that everyone was being given a T-shirt with Protzman’s online alias, Negative48, printed on it.

“Everybody's scrambling to get one, like we flew all the way to Dallas and stood around for 16 hours so we could have a T-shirt,” McNamara said.

. . . .

“He's acting like he's Jesus Christ with his disciples. Everywhere he went, there was this little group around him kissing this ring.”

And yet, she shelled out hundreds of dollars to go to a Rolling Stones concert that Protzman told everyone would be where JFK would finally appear.

“I was never a fan of the Rolling Stones, I had no intention of going there. But then last minute, everyone's saying you got to be there, you got to be there. And so I spent $300 on tickets and it was raw and rainy and cold and miserable.”

At that point, McNamara was done and began calling out Protzman for his empty promises. She was joined by some others, but many remained loyal, and “that is when the entire group just started turning on each other and it was ugly.”

How many wackos can we find spouting nonsense of all kinds? People demonstrate their foolishness when they abandon God to pursue sin.

 

[marke]

Q followers are crisis actors now?! You might want to check with @Jefferson on that.

Rebels against God have always filled America with wicked, perverted, ungodly, twisted, deranged, and demented ideas followed by actions. Democrats were completely perverted by leftist rebels against God during their attempts to overthrow the elected government of President Trump for four years. What have the violent leftist democrat rioters been claiming justifies their violent looting, assaults, burnings, shootings, and bombings over the last two years? They have been claiming America is evil because of white supremacy, black slavery and oppression, rich businessmen, crooked cops for arresting resisting blacks, and so forth. BLM founders claim they are trained Marxists and their goal is to destroy capitalism in America.

None of that is new. Bill Ayers, for example, bombed the US Capitol and other federal buildings in the 1970s because he believed the US government was evil and violent anarchy and riots were necessary to 'fix' things. Bill Ayers is still an unrepentant enemy of America and the free market. Saul Alinsky, a mentor of Hillary Clinton's, advocated anarchy and destruction of American society for various nonsensical reasons. Alinsky was also a servant of the devil.

But these democrat rebels against God were far from a small isolated minority. The democrat party is full of atheist, secularist, hedonist perverts of righteousness and proponents of wickedness.

We can go back to 1901 and look at the leftist rebel, Leon Czolgosz, against God who shot Republican president William McKinley. He believed like so many Marxist rebels, that the American free market and subjection to the righteous rules outlined by the US Constitution were evil and his assassination of the president was a heroic act against that evil. Sort of like leftist democrats joking about or advocating murdering President Trump.

Leon Czolgosz - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Czolgosz believed there was a great injustice in American society, an inequality which allowed the wealthy to enrich themselves by exploiting the poor. He concluded that the reason for this was the structure of government.

The assassin was motivated by the devil and he shared the same kinds of Marxist hatred of America that so many millions of American democrats do today.

 

[Red Wave Rising]

Why does Anna really post this ridiculous dumb thread? She knows that her Marxist Democrat Party has turned to sheer evil in everyway, teaching race hate to kids, enacting socialism, promoting all manner of sexual perversions including to kids, plus they have destroyed the economy, gas prices rising, food prices rising, a racist senile president, surrender in the middle east, and the list just goes on.

This Q gives her something to cling to. So, here are 22+ more conspiracy theories, beloved by many, to keep her busy

1. Some of the most popular conspiracy theories in the US surround the Kennedy assassination.
2. Some people believe the American military installation Area 51 is researching and experimenting on aliens and their spacecraft.
3. Some people believe that the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Alaska is a mind-control lab.
4. The Safeguard Complex in North Dakota was built during the Cold War but some think it's related to the Illuminati.
5. There have been 2,032 Bigfoot "sightings" in Washington state.
6. There's a giant active volcano under Yellowstone in Wyoming, and if it erupts, it could wipe out the US. Conspiracists believe the government knows when the eruption will happen.
7. Some believe the FBI or the Ku Klux Klan were involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and believe Ray was framed
8. The world's most famous UFO sighting happened in Flora, Mississippi.
9. Loch Ness Monster
10. There have been countless sightings of a Loch Ness-like monster at Flathead Lake, Montana.
11. Denver International Airport underground structure that is either used as bunkers or as the headquarters of the supposed world-controlling group the Illuminati.
12. Some believe the chamber behind Mount Rushmore holds some big secrets.
13. Some people in Idaho say the government is poisoning them with chemicals.
14. John Dillinger is Indiana's most notorious criminal, and a lot of conspiracies surround his jail escapes and death.
15. Jimmy Hoffa, a famous labor leader, disappeared in Michigan in 1975, sparking countless conspiracy theories.
16. By 1988, there were 3,000 reports of UFO sightings in Wytheville, Virginia.
17. Some people believe the Joplin tornado in 2011 was actually created by the military.
18. An abandoned ghost town in New Jersey became one of the internet's earliest conspiracy theories when people theorized the town was the site of a group that practiced interdimensional travel.
19. People have witnessed mysterious lights floating around Brown Mountain in North Carolina, leading to a number of conspiracy theories.
20. An astronomer at the Ohio State University recorded a signal that is theorized to be sent from an extraterrestrial being.
21. The Masons hold an annual meeting in the Malheur Cave in Oregon, sparking conspiracies theories.
22. Russia Collusion

 

[marke]

1. Some of the most popular conspiracy theories in the US surround the Kennedy assassination.

I believe the irrefutable testimony given by LBJ associate and felon, Billy Sol Estes, that implicated LBJ and other crooked democrats in the JFK murder. I believe what Billie Sol Estes said about another LBJ associate, the convicted murderer Mac Wallace, who was convicted of murder but released without jail in a case involving LBJ's sister. Wallace was defended in court in Texas by LBJ's lawyer and a Texas judge only gave him probation in response to his jury conviction for first-degree murder. Democrats always seem to get away with murder while non-democrats are strung up like salt hams for minor infractions if democrats want them lynched.

 

[Gary K]

Q followers are crisis actors now?! You might want to check with @Jefferson on that.

LOL. So you're back to flat out misrepresentation once again. You're getting desperate again.

 

[Stripe]

Inside the QAnon Cult That Believes JFK Is About to Return​

It was 2 a.m. on November 1 when Maureen McNamara realized that something wasn’t right.

She had spent every waking hour of the past two weeks organizing a list of hundreds of QAnon supporters who were traveling to Dallas to see the resurrection of JFK, based solely on the predictions of one man, Michael Brian Protzman.

McNamara, along with hundreds of Protzman’s other followers, had been camped out in AT&T Plaza in downtown Dallas for up to nine hours at this point, and her patience was wearing thin.

“There were children sleeping on that ground,’ McNamara told VICE News. “There were elderly people, there were people with walkers, people with canes, people that were in pain, in a lot of pain.”

For hours, the crowd had been told that the big reveal was coming. There were whispered rumors about a house that would accommodate thousands of people that would become the “new White House.” Then a rumor made its way through the crowd that someone was about to appear in the windows of one of the hotels that overlook AT&T Plaza, with everyone from Princess Diana to JFK Jr. rumored to be appearing.

No one appeared, but then Protzman started to shout at everyone to turn off their phones and put them away, that something was about to happen. He told everyone to push back against the walls of the plaza and get ready. He stood three feet away from McNamara and told her:

“Don't worry, you have the best viewing position there is, you won't miss a thing. You won't miss a thing. Keep your eyes open. You're right where you need to be right now.”

But again, nothing happened. Then, suddenly, everyone was racing toward a small group of Protzman’s closest advisers. McNamara wondered if something was finally happening. But when she got through the crowd, she saw that all that was happening was that everyone was being given a T-shirt with Protzman’s online alias, Negative48, printed on it.

“Everybody's scrambling to get one, like we flew all the way to Dallas and stood around for 16 hours so we could have a T-shirt,” McNamara said.

. . . .

“He's acting like he's Jesus Christ with his disciples. Everywhere he went, there was this little group around him kissing this ring.”

And yet, she shelled out hundreds of dollars to go to a Rolling Stones concert that Protzman told everyone would be where JFK would finally appear.

“I was never a fan of the Rolling Stones, I had no intention of going there. But then last minute, everyone's saying you got to be there, you got to be there. And so I spent $300 on tickets and it was raw and rainy and cold and miserable.”

At that point, McNamara was done and began calling out Protzman for his empty promises. She was joined by some others, but many remained loyal, and “that is when the entire group just started turning on each other and it was ugly.”

So people believe things, therefore... something?