Probably the shittiest thing about QAnon is that it turns people into paranoid conspiracy freaks even if they don’t believe in the QAnon conspiracy mythos itself. Like, here I am thinking “Wait, are the Republican governor and lawmakers of Missouri winking at the QAnon fans by calling this the Wayfair Bill, just to get them whipped up that they’re ‘taking action’ against an alleged front for the Clinton-Soros-Tom Hanks Satanic child sex trafficking cabal? I bet they are.” It took a minute or two before it fully dawned on me, and then “FUCK! I’m making up an imaginary conspiracy theory about hidden signs cynically aimed directly at believers in an imaginary conspiracy theory.”

And that my friends, is the true insidiousness of QAnon. It’s not enough that it sucks in so many wayward souls – impressionable, gullible people into its utter madness, it also sucks the somewhat less impressionable, gullible people – those of us self-tasked with observing and reporting on the madness. I’m here starting to “see the patterns within the patterns” in one of the most mundane workings of government and as such turning into the very evil which I seek to destroy.

Sure this will probably end up being noticed by the Q fans and it will probably be the subject of a shit ton of insane ramblings on their forums. That part’s a given. But that’s not the real question here. It’s whether or not Missouri Republicans intentionally and knowingly referenced one of QAnon’s greatest hits in an otherwise unremarkable piece of legislation, especially when calling it the “Amazon Bill” probably would’ve made it more recognizable? Would they really do that?

On second thought, fuck it. They probably did. Trust the plan.