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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4751268" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/technology/qanon-inauguration.html" target="_blank">QAnon believers struggle with inauguration.</a>Followers of QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, have spent weeks <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/qanon-meme-queen.html" target="_blank">anticipating </a>that Wednesday would be the “Great Awakening” — a day, long foretold in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-qanon.html" target="_blank">QAnon prophecy</a>, when top Democrats would be arrested for running a global sex trafficking ring and President Trump would seize a second term in office.But as President Biden took office and Mr. Trump landed in Florida, with no mass arrests in sight, some believers struggled to harmonize the falsehoods with the inauguration on their TVs.Some QAnon believers tried to rejigger their theories to accommodate a transfer of power to Mr. Biden. Several large QAnon groups discussed on Wednesday the possibility that they had been wrong about Mr. Biden, and that the incoming president was actually part of Mr. Trump’s effort to take down the global cabal.“The more I think about it, I do think it’s very possible that Biden will be the one who pulls the trigger,” one account <a href="https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1351920247536836609" target="_blank">wrote </a>in a QAnon channel on the messaging app Telegram.“Some appeared to realize that they’d been duped.“It’s over,” one QAnon chat room participant wrote, just after Mr. Biden’s swearing-in.“Wake up,” another wrote. “We’ve been had.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4751268, member: 48469"] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/technology/qanon-inauguration.html']QAnon believers struggle with inauguration.[/URL] Followers of QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, have spent weeks [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/qanon-meme-queen.html']anticipating [/URL]that Wednesday would be the “Great Awakening” — a day, long foretold in [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-qanon.html']QAnon prophecy[/URL], when top Democrats would be arrested for running a global sex trafficking ring and President Trump would seize a second term in office. But as President Biden took office and Mr. Trump landed in Florida, with no mass arrests in sight, some believers struggled to harmonize the falsehoods with the inauguration on their TVs. Some QAnon believers tried to rejigger their theories to accommodate a transfer of power to Mr. Biden. Several large QAnon groups discussed on Wednesday the possibility that they had been wrong about Mr. Biden, and that the incoming president was actually part of Mr. Trump’s effort to take down the global cabal. “The more I think about it, I do think it’s very possible that Biden will be the one who pulls the trigger,” one account [URL='https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1351920247536836609']wrote [/URL]in a QAnon channel on the messaging app Telegram. [B]“Some appeared to realize that they’d been duped. “It’s over,” one QAnon chat room participant wrote, just after Mr. Biden’s swearing-in. “Wake up,” another wrote. “We’ve been had.”[/B] [/QUOTE]

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