The Three Types of Hopium

 From my observations, the three types of Hopium are:

1. Belief that God will act to restore Justice to the nation by some intervention (example).

2. Belief that Trump cannot have been outsmarted by them, and that he is still in effective control of the situation, waiting to bring the nation out of its nightmare. Wictor is the best example. He claims he uses no secret sources, only published ones, including Trump's own books.

3. Belief that a secret cabal of military officers within the government has been operating for the overthrow of the Establishment since the murder of Kennedy, that they have helped elevate Trump to the Presidency for this, and that they are still in effective control (along with Trump), and waiting for the moment to make their move.

They are not necessarily in conflict, although Wictor despises the folks in #3, who have taken a beaten lately among other folks on our side.

There is a backlash against the folks in #3, as it is believed they contributed to the mania that led people on our side to participate in the incident at the Capitol, and that moreover (and much worse) the whole notion of #3 was perhaps a psy op from one of the three-lettter agencies in our government, modeled after one that the Bolsheviks pulled after the 1917 Revolution in Russia. The idea is that you create a fake underground movement among your enemies to deceive them into passivity, as they believe that there are powerful forces already taking care of things.

Personally I don't know what to think about #3. I didn't know that what I wrote above was the basic concept behind it all until just recently. I figured that Seventeenth Letter source was someone passing on scuttlebutt they heard, that may or may not be true.  But what do I know?*

Of course there are plenty of Hopium-averse people on our side. They won't hear about any hope in terms of Trump coming back.

These latter folks are the Trump supporting voices on social media who have embraced "the bitter pill of reality" in some form, which is the notion that Biden is President and that perhaps justice will never served. It is best to "go on," which usually has some implication of action based on that sentiment. 

Among the Hopium averse folk are Saul, the curator of the underground forum. When Saul and Wictor get together in their podcasts, they can't talk about the election, however, as Youtube would strike them. They have to talk about it peripherally. On the forum, however, they can give free rein to their opinions. Wictor has been cagey about what he thinks might happen but he has dropped hints, pointing people to various articles with some commentary. I think I know his opinion about a timetable for a Trump comeback. 

*Thor and I actually solved the Kennedy murder by 2008, using only public sources on the Internet and in libaries. We even convinced Agnes of it. It was a satisfying result that made perfect sense. Thor later told his uncle, who had worked for a three-letter agency supplying montagnards in Southeast Asia, about our solution, including the name of the obscure individual behind it, and his uncle's response was "Yeah, that's what the Germans who trained me said." Over the years, not one bit of information I have seen has weakened my conviction that we solved the crime.