1. I think people are focusing a little too much on Q-as-dogma rather than Q-as habits-of-mind that crossed over (and are shared by Trump.) They are:

A. Any opposition can be dismissed by attacks on motives.

B. There is always a hack around democracy and law.

2. Q dogma points toward the opposition being part of an international child sex cabal, but it could just as easily be Trump retweeting that the Georgia Secretary of State had a fictional Chinese agent brother or that Pence was weak. Anybody in the way is the enemy.

3. The second Q-habit-of mind is that there is always a way out of small-d democratic election results and formal lines of government power.

4. In the outlandish Q form, it means that Trump has been running secret military tribunals and that Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act to reverse the election.

5. In the Trump form, it was constitutionally questionable-at-best, but normatively outrageous actions like the president going to the state legislatures and the Congress to reject certified Biden electors.

6. The Sidelney Powell kraken nonsense was the meeting point of Q mythological insanity and Trumpian opportunism.

7. But so was the riot. When it comes right down to it, what Q and Trump have in common is that they are entitled to win and are entitled to use any method they can get away with in order to get what they want.

The bad guys are crooks. The good guys are patriots.

8. I was watching a video from a Q(ish) guy. He was one of the saner ones in that he accepted a strong possibility that Trump wasn't going to be president come January 21.

9. He was saying that if the military didn't intervene to reverse the election, then "patriots" were gonna do this and patriots were gonna do that. Basically, the law was no constraints on *them*.

10. Of course one difference between Q rioters and Trump is that he is a physical coward. They, scum that they are, committed violent crimes in front of the authorities.

Trump ran back to the White House and condemned the riots when twitter suspended his account.