Today is the official publication date of my latest book, OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP. Synchronistically, only a few days ago, Q decided to crawl out of the woodwork and start posting again after eighteen months of silence. It would be darkly amusing to think that Team QAnon elected to do this as a way of commemorating the pub date of OPERATION MINDFUCK... but of course the real reason is that these new Q posts are just desperate attempts at damage control following Cassidy Hutchinson's damning testimony at the January 6 hearings. The fact that Trump's people felt the need to resurrect Q in order to combat these hearings is telling indeed. To understand what truly fuels the fascist ideology behind QAnon, read OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP!!!
PRAISE FOR OPERATION MINDFUCK:
“Voltaire
suggested that those who can make us believe absurdities can make us
commit atrocities, and QAnon provided the practical demonstration.
Robert Guffey’s razor-sharp postings illuminate how a collage of Shaver
mysteries, Discordian prankster politics and recreational conspiracy
theory played out as dissociative American fugue. Jaw-dropping and
essential.”
—Alan Moore, author of V FOR VENDETTA and WATCHMEN
“One of the most difficult aspects of confronting QAnon conspiracism is finding the time and resolve to delve into its ever-expanding network of self-reinforcing connections and concepts. Robert Guffey does that work for you in OPERATION MINDFUCK, a codex to madness and a critical examination of how a massive fraction of our culture has imbibed a counter-reality. Guffey also explores underground sources lost on many mainstream historians, bringing us into an (occasionally ingenious) netherworld of outsider thought forms. Guffey is the Ernest Shackleton of paranoia—and one hopes his journey will result in a happier ending.”
—Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award-winning author of OCCULT AMERICA and UNCERTAIN PLACES
“OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP by Robert Guffey tackles the conspiracy theories Q draws from, the history of the Q phenomenon, and the eventual attempts by mobs at least partially influenced by Q, and certainly influenced by Donald Trump, to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. The book is well-researched, with a full Bibliography of notes that reference and identify each quote from each source that Guffey cites. Guffey, additionally, has a long background studying conspiracy theories and their origins [...]. Guffey is not a lightweight.”
—Steve Henn, author of AND GOD SAID LET THERE BE EVOLUTION
“Whether QAnon is a religion, a cult, a joke, a political movement, or just an online game gone awry, Robert Guffey‘s OPERATION MINDFUCK: QANON & THE CULT OF DONALD TRUMP (OR Books, 2022) is his attempt to figure it all out. Guffey’s pedigree in this area is unmatched [...]. Throughout OPERATION MINDFUCK, Guffey follows Theodore Sturgeon’s advice he quoted in his book CHAMELEO (OR Books, 2015): 'Always ask the next question.'”
—Roy Christopher, author of DEAD PRECEDENTS: HOW HIP-HOP DEFINES THE FUTURE
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