So I had an interesting experience trying to find a right wing reaction to that really fucking dumb Trump statement from Thursday where he insists that removing inactive voters from the Georgia registration rolls before the election would have changed the outcome in that state, as if people who did not vote would have won him the state if they also weren’t allowed to vote. I highlighted the words “It is coming out FAST and FURIOUS“, right clicked on “Search Google for…”, and learned that Fast and Furious 9 is hitting theaters on Friday. Then I added quotation marks to the search bar to capture the phrase verbatim, hoping to find Breitbart, Fox News, Daily Wire, the Gateway Pundit, or some other MAGA-friendly website covering the statement.

My hunch was that the editorial staffs of those sites would ignore it due to the sheer dumbassery of the statement and so far it seems to be holding up [though in the middle of me writing this a new OAN article with the tweet included popped up and I got sidetracked into commenting there]. The first result from a right wing site is the QAnon fan hub GreatAwakening.win, and man this is a doozy.

Should go without saying that not a single one of them pointed out the gaping plot hole in the statement. The main thing these Q freaks focus on is the number of words capitalized – which is 17, and the 17th letter of the alphabet is the one between P and R and you see where this is going.

Yeah, they’re superstitious about being the 18th upvote.

Then there’s the FAST and FURIOUS part they work to decipher. Because former Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress by Republicans and blah blah blah whatever that bullshit scandal was, the phrase – like “Solyndra”, “Unmasking”, “Hydroxychloroquine”, etc – is burrowed deep into the MAGA mythos of the Deep State socialist plot to destroy America.

And the movies somehow fit in too. As well as Paul Walker* and that poor kid who was dating Georgia Governor Kemp’s daughter/working as a Kelly Loeffler campaign aide who died in a car accident in December. Because they both died in car crashes is supposed to be the connection here, since there are no coincidences – or statistics that say auto accidents are by the far the most common cause of death for Americans under age 44, for that matter.

Was it crazy to think that at least one of these assholes would address the yawning void in Trump’s logic here? I suppose. Was it fun looking over this bullshit? I am kind of a masochist, so yes.

*Side note: The Paul Walker part freaks me out just a little bit. When I went on a minor sock binge last year I created accounts called OMEGAnon, the whole thing being a satire of QAnon and, well…

…the whole joke of course that Paul Walker’s fictional role was more or less the same as JFK Jr’s in the QAnon mythos. I had just randomly picked Walker as my “secret agent” in that satire since he also died tragically at a relatively young age with most of his public life ahead of him. I felt a little bad about it then and a little bit more now. Walker was by all accounts a good guy and had been killed while riding shotgun in a car driven by a fan after a charity event where Walker had raised money for relief efforts after a bad hurricane had hit the Philippines in 2013. It was disrespectful to his memory and I regret it, even if it was just some silly bullshit designed to annoy the MAGA freaks.