{"id":35435,"date":"2018-06-24T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35435"},"modified":"2018-06-24T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T11:20:08","slug":"anyone-promoting-regime-change-in-iran-is-an-evil-piece-of-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35435","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Promoting Regime Change In Iran Is An Evil Piece Of\u00a0Shit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/06\/23\/anyone-promoting-regime-change-in-iran-is-an-evil-piece-of-shit\/#comment-1799\">Anyone Promoting Regime Change In Iran Is An Evil Piece Of\u00a0Shit<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-4822\" class=\"post-4822 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-trump tag-caitlin-johnstone tag-iran tag-maga tag-qanon tag-regime-change\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-23-at-9.46.01-AM.png?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-23-at-9.46.01-AM.png 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-23-at-9.46.01-AM-300x148.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"380\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>I have been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/951605374498435072\">saying all year<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/wikileaks-calls-qanon-a-likely-pied-piper-operation-e5c4f4fac4a\">8chan phenomenon known as \u201cQAnon\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is bogus, and as time has gone on the evidence has become overwhelming that it is an establishment psyop designed to herd the populist right into accepting the narratives and agendas of the establishment orthodoxy. Whether they\u2019re claiming that every <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/centrists-are-very-concerned-that-donald-fucking-trump-isnt-hawkish-enough-cce8e3cd1c64\">capitulation the Trump administration makes to longstanding neoconservative agendas<\/a> is actually brilliant 4-D chess strategy, or saying that Julian Assange isn\u2019t really trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy, QAnon enthusiasts are constantly regurgitating talking points which just so happen to fit in very conveniently with the interests of America\u2019s defense and intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>A recent \u201cQ drop\u201d (a fancy name for an anonymous user posting text onto a popular internet troll message board with zero accountability) <a href=\"https:\/\/8ch.net\/qresearch\/res\/1809166.html#1809336\">makes this more abundantly clear than ever<\/a>, with text reading as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\"><strong><em>Free Iran!!!<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Fight<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Fight<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Fight<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Regime change.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>People have the power.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>We stand with you.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Q<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019re cheering for a longtime neoconservative agenda to be accomplished in one of George W Bush\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axis_of_evil\">Axis of Evil<\/a>\u201d countries, you are cheering for the establishment. Or, to put it more clearly to Q followers, you are cheering for the deep state.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DgVFWDfVMAElfXB.jpg\" width=\"521\" height=\"686\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So now you have conspiracy-minded populist right wingers being manipulated into supporting the same standard Bush administration globalist agendas that Alex Jones built his career on attacking. The support for regime change interventionism in Iran isn\u2019t limited to the QAnon crowd, having now gone fully mainstream throughout Trump\u2019s base, and I\u2019d like to address a few of the arguments here that they have been bringing to me:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone Promoting Regime Change In Iran Is An Evil Piece Of\u00a0Shit I have been saying all year that the 8chan phenomenon known as \u201cQAnon\u201d\u00a0is bogus, and as time has gone on the evidence has become overwhelming that it is an establishment psyop designed to herd the populist right into accepting the narratives and agendas of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20643,17039,135,441,1779,561,1740,20279,20278,1343],"class_list":["post-35435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-8chan","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-cia","tag-iran","tag-narratives","tag-neocons","tag-psyops","tag-q","tag-qanon","tag-regime-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35436,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35435\/revisions\/35436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}