23. “Biden’s inauguration itself was a key part of the plan, the new theory held, and Trump would return as President in the coming few weeks. Then, certainly, all the deep-state arrests would happen. That was ***a step too far*** for Vanderbilt.”

Wut!

24. She was convinced Joe Biden’s inauguration would transform the country into a Communist state. She believed she’d have to go into hiding with her daughter. She believed the Democrats and the Jews and “the Globalists” are cannibals.

25. **And** she was **disappointed** when the military did not publicly execute Der Führer’s enemies in cold blood. But wait **whoa**—a conspiracy theory adapting to reality? That’s a step **too far**!?

26. Look, I don’t understand why Vanderbilt thinks she escaped QAnon. I do know, using my intuition, that she does not understand why either.

27. In not understanding why, she’s vulnerable to the influence of a CNN journalist reporting a national story about a QAnon believer who escaped. Vanderbilt, in being someone who always did what was asked of her, continued being someone who did what was asked of her,

28. in this case, giving O’Sullivan a story he was asking for, however tacitly. And in the process of telling that story, he obscured a terrible conclusion about Vanderbilt.

29. That she felt fooled into believing there would be blood does not change the fact **she wanted blood**.

Full article: https://stoehr.substack.com/p/no-ashley-vanderbilt-did-not-escape

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