Roseanne Barr is tweeting about QAnon, a new Pizzagate-style conspiracy theory

Will Sommer

The success of ABC’s “Roseanne” reboot has brought new attention to comedian Roseanne Barr’s belief in the absolutely crazy “QAnon” conspiracy theory.

Barr alluded to the theory on Twitter on Friday night, baffling her followers.

Confusing as it may be, Barr’s tweet, heavy with references to Pizzagate-style global pedophile rings and Donald Trump’s cover triumphs, its in well within her previously expressed beliefs in QAnon.

Even stranger, Barr herself plays a role in this conspiracy theory!

QAnon is a kind of mega-conspiracy theory popular with fringe-minded Trump supporters like Barr. It combines recent conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and the Seth Rich murder conspiracy, as well as classic conspiracy elements like fear of the Rothschild family.

QAnon believers are convinced that the world is run by a nefarious deep state cabal of Democrats, celebrities, and intelligence community figures (many of whom, they claim, are pedophiles).

Trump is about to take them all down, in their telling, often with sealed indictments that are hidden from the public. Hence Barr’s tweets about massive pedophile networks.

Here’s the backstory, which I covered for my newsletter on right-wing media, Right Richter. In late October 2017, an anonymous person calling themselves “Q”?—?a reference to the high-level “Q” security clearance, “QAnon”?—?started posting cryptic clues across anonymous internet forums.

They’re so vague that they can mean anything, or be taken to be signals about whatever the day’s current events are. And, of course, literally anyone could be posting these clues.

Here’s an example from November:

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Make sense? Of course not. But there are massive PDF’s devoted to “decoding” the clues offered by Q. Conspiracy-minded outlets like Infowars and various YouTube streamers have built up communities are decoding the “clues.”

Reddit recently banned its leading QAnon decoding community, while YouTube has threatened to crackdown QAnon streamers?—?a sign of the growing concern at social media networks about the conspiracy theory community.

Meanwhile, QAnon believers have become convinced that GOP nemeses like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have already been secretly arrested and taken to Guantanamo Bay?—?or will be there soon.

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