Erick Erickson has the latest in bizarre right wing fantasies:
Many adherents of QAnon still believe Donald Trump will be sworn in to a second term. Over the last week, on social media channels that promote Donald Trump, wild claims circulated that banks will close on January 18th, which they will because it is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. But the conspiracists claim it will be to prevent the global child traffickers and traitors from fleeing. On the nineteenth, Donald Trump will finally round up all the traitors in Washington and he will be sworn in on the twentieth. As proof of this scheme playing out, they claim the Pope was arrested the other night (do not ask which night), as part of the President’s global sting operation against elite child traffickers.
For Erickson, this is a cry of woe and proof that we’re just not religious enough.
I’ll choose a far shorter path. For my right wing, QAnon, MAGA readers, I’ll pose a simple challenge, something even a computer programmer like me can dream up.
If the Pope is indeed jailed by next Wednesday, the day Donald Trump has his second inauguration, hey, you win.
But if neither comes true, you don’t simply lose. This is not a game, you see. If neither comes true, you should promise yourself – not me, but yourself – to do something monumental.
That monumental thing is to rethink your basis for believing things. Ask yourself why you’ve believed these horrible frauds. Why have you separated from the American mainstream?
That’s the challenge, if the Pope still walks free – and Trump is on the run, or even already arrested. To change the basis on which you believe things.
