So JFK, Tupac Shakur, and Kobe Bryant go to a MAGA rally....
And reality takes a holiday
Apparently, there is no conspiracy theory too wild for some QAnon followers.
Case in point: Members of a QAnon group based in Dallas have floated the theory that John F. Kennedy is not only alive, but disguised himself as former President Donald Trump over the weekend to attend a rally in Florence, Arizona.
As evidence, the group’s leader, Michael Protzman, claims Trump appeared to be shorter than he should have been, Vice News reported.
“You could tell it wasn’t Trump,” Protzman said in a live chat…referring to a moment where the former president invited Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to the stage.
Perhaps it’s something in the water, but the idea that JFK is not only alive and well but disguised as Donald Trump seems like the sort of feverish hallucination only a QAnon devotee would be capable of. Yet there was Michael Protzman, claiming with a straight face that “[y]ou could tell it wasn’t” Trump on stage at a MAGA rally in Florence, Arizona.
No, it could only have been JFK. And it turns out that JFK wasn’t the only dead celebrity to make an appearance at the rally over the weekend. Kobe Bryant and Tupac Shakur also rose from the dead just in time to sit behind Trump while he was speaking.
Seriously.
There’s a serious problem with the idea of JFK, Bryant, and Shakur all making cameos at a MAGA rally in the middle of nowhere in Arizona. Besides the obvious fact that all three are dead and have been for some time- in JFK’s case, since 1963.
JFK was a Democrat, and while Bryant’s and Shakur’s political affiliation were unknown, it seems unlikely that anyone of the three would’ve come within five miles of a MAGA rally.
It’s no secret that QAnon aficionados are willing to suspend disbelief long enough to believe in some pretty ridiculously outlandish stuff, but resurrecting people from the dead seems an unlikely scenario. Even given current technology, reanimating the corpse of a President who’s been dead for 59 years seems…unlikely. And would his fatal head wound have been magically healed? As for Kobe Bryant and Tupac Shakur, last I heard they were hanging out somewhere with Elvis and nowhere Florence, Arizona.
How do these people tie their shoelaces? I’ve got to believe they have jobs and families and that they somehow manage to function as adults. Given the stuff they’re willing to believe, though, one has to wonder just how much of their public school edumication really stuck with them.
And how desperate are they to believe in Donald Trump that they’ll twist reality into unrecognizable conspiracy theories with no basis in reality? What is it about the cult of QAnon that leads them to believe that there’s anything real about the theories spewed by the mysterious “Q?”
Listen to Michael Protzman, or any other QAnon devotee long enough, and you could be forgiven for thinking that they’re walking advertisements for the wonders of Thorazine.
They really shouldn’t be allowed into the general population unsupervised.
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