Where Are You, JFK?

I haven’t done one of these in a while but this one is loony. This post is kind of stream of consciousness – more so than usual.

Okay…one would think that after a while, if something does not pan out as predicted, one would start to disbelieve a theory rather than double down on it.

The latest insanity is the QAnonsense conspiracy about JFK, Jr arriving in Dallas to either run with Trump as his Vice-Presidential candidate or to anoint Trump as President. Somebody sets a date as for when JFK, Jr will appear and when that doesn’t happen, another date is set or maybe they just say he will eventually appear. I don’t know – I don’t follow closely what the QAnonsense says.

Some QAnonsense are still in Dallas and have been for maybe three weeks. Why do they persist in this belief? Don’t they wonder what JFK had been doing since 1998 or 1999 when he died? How is he coming back to life? Or did he really die and just went into hiding? Don’t they wonder about that? Don’t they ask questions to make sense of this non-sensical belief?

It’s funny and yet not so funny. If they were looking for a job and somebody looks through their social media, will the researcher find materials about all of the QAnonsense? If this type of stuff is all over their social media, wouldn’t the researcher or company kind of look askance at the critical thinking skills being displayed? Companies need people who can think and these QAnonsense followers are not displaying critical thinking skills. They are either ignoring the evidence or simply just not asking the thoughtful questions.

Take the Mike Lindell’s assertion that he has incontrovertible evidence that there has been voter fraud and Trump should be President. Back in May 2021, it was reported that at least a quarter of Republicans believe that Trump really won the election and that there has been voter fraud. The problem is: if Mike Lindell really has the proof, I would think he would have shown them by now to get rid of his very expensive suit from Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic. I’ve heard that he could potentially lose his company and be “poor” like the rest of us. So, if he has evidence, he would have ponied it up way back when Dominion and Smartmatic sued him for billions of dollars of damages.

Instead, he said that the evidence would be shown to the world at his rally event back in August and all of the IT forensic guys were invited to look at the evidence. Once everybody saw the evidence, everybody would agree that there had been fraud and the Supreme Court would readily install Trump.

Except that event was a bust: nothing was shown or it was something very weak, just laughable, something close to being a bunch of crock.

Next, he said that he would have state lawyers file a complaint (or something, I’m not clear) to the Supreme Court – maybe to nullify the election or declare Trump President – I’m not sure. He was supposed to do this on Tuesday (yesterday)…except, the complaint wasn’t filed. Of course, he has his explanations why the complaint hasn’t been filed. (Fingers are pointing towards the RNC – more conspiracy thinking.)

Who believes Mike Lindell? Do any of the QAnonsense believe him? If they do, don’t you think that by now, they would be questioning him and think that if he had the evidence, he would have displayed them a long time ago? Again, just some thinking through the questions should be leading folks to look askance at his claims.

Other weaknesses that punch holes in the fraud claims need to be addressed:

If you are going to believe the fraud claims, you have to address the above three items because they all basically say: there is no evidence of fraud.

So, if any QAnonsense believe in the fraud claims or Mike LIndell’s assertions, they need to ask serious questions. I don’t know if they believe in the voter fraud but it is very likely, considering that a quarter of the Republicans do. (By the way, I would not be surprise if any Democrats are QA believers.) Anybody looking to hire would need to assess the thinking quality of these Q people because it kind of looks like they lack thinking skills. A look through their social media could identify those who incline towards the QAnonsense and that discovery could make it hard to get them hired.

So, it’s funny and yet it’s not funny.