Reality Check for Conservative Fan-posters and Conspiracy Nuts... Guber, Huber and Horowitz bite the dustAnother Big Ugly is a Big Nothing Funny to see the folks at CTH... on an emotional downer (again)... it's deja vu all over again!
News of yet another "big Ugly" that is not there, and was NEVER there, is only a shock because they IGNORED, or even drove away people (trolls) like me who tried for 2 years to give them a more realistic analysis.. or at the least to caution them that they were believing in "Speculation only" that at best was only a POSSIBILITY.. and not a proven fact (yet)
The Q thing is simply absurd in it's claimed foundation. A "Trump himself" controlled "plan" in cahoots with a senior Staff member. Illegally leaking snippets of info (on known Larp sites like 4Chan and 8Chan), to inform and assist the "Q-movement" members in their grassroots support (doing exactly what I can not imagine??). All comic-book level stuff presumably from the mind of some dim-witted teenager? The so called "revelations" by Q are a mixture of stating known snippets of information along with the obvious, and twisting them into a puerile Conspiracy Theory. Utilizing the age-old Fortune-telling scam technique of presenting VAGUE AND AMBIGUOUS pronouncements, the meaning of which is open to the readers own imagination and "a-posteriori" "confirmation". Not at all a proper logical (scientific) "prediction" done in advance ("a-priori") and tested (maybe abandoned) as facts are known. In fact the Q "quatrains" are often meaningless nonsense which could mean anything.. especially viewed by susceptible subjects..imagining, and reinforcing each other as to some "deep meaning".
However, as silly as Q is... it is only ONE of MANY "Conspiracy Analyses" of US politics being promulgated online... especially on Twitter and at Blog sites. A "Twitter thread" seems to be regarded as a "reliable source" despite the fact that is just the musings of an individual... spread over a series of tweets. It is no less unsupported speculation in that form than it would be if the person posted the same "Theory" as a comment somewhere. TWITTER is NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE in and of itself. To quote it as a source is silly. If one is inclined to give such speculative musings consideration... then it is all there at twitter already... along with what believers and critics chose to say about it. It is not necessary to copy it to other sites as if it were already proven facts because it was "published" on Twitter.
It is not simply a matter of WHERE people get their information, unless they believe just one source (some Twitter or Blog "Guru") and ignore all others. We all do rely on Media reports (even Twitter stuff). The critical thing is how much WEIGHT you give what you read. Some facts are included and valuable... but the writer's "analysis" is at best speculative, at times clearly Conspiratorial, biased or simply unintelligent. The best info is a combination considering multiple sources and.. YOUR OWN logical thought process. THINK!
IF there ever is a "Big Ugly" it will not be in the form of a REPORT by OIG, Congress etc. It will NOT be the fact that there is "more exposure" of yet more details of corruption (we have more than enough nfo to KNOW that lots of crimes were committed by lots of KNOWN people). It will not be because we get to see more documents (with or without redaction). In fact if such documents ARE made public, then likely it is an indication that they are not considered evidence, needed in an investigation or prosecution of crime.
If there is A BIG UGLY, it will be heralded by signs of Criminal Investigations... search warrants, raids on homes and offices, subpoenas, testimony to LE investigators and before Grand Juries. The first stage will be arrests and indictments followed by the usual Judicial process and TRIALS... and eventually long prison sentences.
The evidence is real, the Indictments are fake...