TTQ DATABASE DELETED BY GHOSTS ON APRIL 17, 2022, ON “Q DAY”!
by Laura Mae April 22, 2022
Just in case you are wondering why this sudden onslaught of all these Real Raw News postings from early 2021 written by Michael Baxter…
On April 17, 2022, Q DAY of all days, WordPress somehow managed to delete my TTQ Database of 4 years. WordPress Techies and The Geek Squad had no idea how it could have happened, but said they could restore my website as of April 16. Thank God I wasn’t completely taken out of commission, but I was very upset as I misunderstood and thought the worst. Prior to that, FB would not allow any Q mentions, No Vaccination news, no references to my website, etc., for quite a while and I ended up in FB Jail on many occasions and quite frankly, I’d had enough with the 3rd World Authoritarian censoring of FB and YT!.
(Relieved that they restored everything BEFORE April 16, not AFTER. WHEW!)Within a minute of this comment I posted on FB, my 4 years of hard work to document what I’d lived through on my Q Journey since October 28, 2017, and my experiences following and supporting President Trump was GONE, or so I feared. More stress.
While trying to ensure I hadn’t lost any previous postings after the restoration, I stumbled on this little gem:
No, George W. Bush Was Not Hanged at Guantanamo Bay
The latest febrile QAnon fantasy from a prolific producer of content labeled “satire.”
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In January 2022, websites and social media accounts aligned with the QAnon cluster of conspiracy theories enthusiastically shared a false and distasteful post that claimed U.S. military officials had overseen the execution, at Guantanamo Bay, of former President George W. Bush.
For example, on Jan. 6, TrustTheQ.com published an article with the headline “George W. Bush Hanged at GITMO,” which claimed that the 43rd president had been summarily convicted of “murder and treason” and, having been detained at Guantanamo, was executed by hanging there “on Tuesday morning” [Jan. 4].
The same piece was republished on BestNewsHere.com, and formed the basis of videos by various conspiracy theorists who evidently interpreted it as an earnest account.
In reality, though, the “Bush execution” story was not only utterly false, but originated on Real Raw News — a website that routinely publishes sensationalist conspiracy theories and QAnon-adjacent clickbait, while using the disclaimer that the site contains “humor, parody and satire”:
Snopes regularly debunks some of the gory fantasies published by Real Raw News about the fictional arrest and execution of various political figures, including Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Chelsea Clinton and, of course, Bush — who was the subject of a fake “arrest” story by Real Raw News just weeks earlier.
As such, the stories’ trademark style — laughable dialogue, action-movie one-liners, and a seemingly infinite pool of anonymous “sources” inside the most elite and secretive U.S. military circles — will have become familiar to some readers, by now.
However, most readers perusing the story on TrustTheQ.com, for example, or watching “gh05tR0b 5’s” YouTube commentary on it, would not have been aware of its true origins, and would not have been directed to the “humor, parody and satire” disclaimer on RealRawNews.com.
This is one of the reasons why Snopes sometimes writes about satire — because even content that was originally published with a “satire” disclaimer is routinely stripped from that context and republished elsewhere, without any such warnings.
Sources:“About Us.” Real Raw News, https://realrawnews.com/about-us/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2022.Baxter, Michael. “George W. Bush Hanged At GITMO.” Real Raw News, 6 Jan. 2022, https://realrawnews.com/2022/01/george-w-bush-hanged-at-gitmo/.“Did Navy SEALs Arrest Hillary Clinton?” Snopes.Com, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-arrest-navy-seals/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2022.“Did U.S. Military Arrest Bill Gates?” Snopes.Com, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-military-tribunal/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2022.“George W. Bush Hanged At GITMO.” Best News Here, 6 Jan. 2022, https://bestnewshere.com/george-w-bush-hanged-at-gitmo/.Mae, Author Laura. (WRONG, MICHAEL BAXTER IS THE AUTHOR) George W. Bush Hanged At GITMO. 6 Jan. 2022, https://trusttheq.com/george-w-bush-hanged-at-gitmo/.“No, George W. Bush Has Not Been Arrested by Special Forces.” Snopes.Com, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bush-not-arrested-again/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2022.“No, Special Forces Didn’t Arrest Chelsea Clinton for Child Trafficking.” Snopes.Com, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/special-forces-chelsea-clinton/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2022.
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