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Fox News Now Running Commercials for ‘Trumpy Bears’ and the Internet is Having a Field Day

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There are two epidemics overtaking this country. One obviously involves a virus that attacks the respiratory system (among other systems). The other epidemic is a viral meme involving a conspiracy theory – the “Q-Anon” people – who believe that Donald Trump is a hero, here to “drain the swamp” from the deep state, which involves rooting out Satanic cannibal Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who traffic children while committing horrific abuses. Among other “predictions” that the “Q” people have believed over the years is that Robert Mueller was working with Trump in investigating this giant conspiracy and that JFK Jr. was not dead and would come back on July 4th of 2020 to join Trump on the ticket as his VP.

The fact that none of it has come true hasn’t yet dulled the edge among the hardcore loyalists, indeed the true believers are more convinced than ever. Recently Twitter took action to shut down thousands of “Q” accounts and studies show that over 200,000 Facebook accounts follow one of the primary “Q-Anon” groups.

Now it has gone mainstream enough to be on Fox News, the holy grail of “standard Right-Wing politics.” The ad below is for “Trumpy bear,” a product that has been on the market (unbelievably) for a couple of years and is popular among the “Q-Anon” crowd. The commercial seems to reach out to these “Q” people, stating that a “storm is coming” and “you cannot defeat the storm, I am the storm!” If one simply watched the commercial without knowing any background, one would assume this is a Saturday Night Live parody. After all “Trumpy bear makes my golf game great again?”  Yet if one understands the “Q” background, the “I am the storm!” and the “secret zipper” it suddenly gets very scary.

One of the most worrisome aspects about the commercial is whether or not people believe they’re ordering something that will prove their “bona fides” as the nation goes forward – “a storm is coming.” It is both humiliating and scary that Fox is shamelessly airing the ads.

The people behind the bear are denying that they’re with the Q movement.

So if that is true, they have to explain how “A storm is coming, you cannot defeat the storm, I am the storm” relates to “the Great American Grizzly!” It doesn’t relate to it. Whoever made the ad is almost surely well aware of the “Q” conspiracy imagery and also knows that the association is marketing gold. The company probably knows it won’t be able to run ads on Fox News if it acknowledges a link to the conspiracy. After all, Twitter is shutting down accounts.

Of course, shutting down accounts or deny airtime simply feeds the conspiracy, which is what makes them so dangerous. There is no argument around it that can’t be defeated and any action against it furthers the agenda.

Twitter had an absolute field day:

We will keep our eye on it. This is scary.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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