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From Trolling To Fleecing: Co-Creator Of ‘Q’ Hoax Explains Its Scary Evolution
The Federalist ^ | 10/30/2018 | Georgi Boorman

Posted on 10/30/2018 10:33:15 PM PDT by Simon Foxx

A little less than a year after the first QAnon post, which has since led hundreds of thousands of news junkies down a conspiracy rabbit hole, news correspondent Jack Posobiec from One America News Network spoke with one of the co-originators of the “Q” persona who runs a group of individuals posing as a high-level government intelligence officer. On an anonymous “free speech” platform called 8Chan, they leave thousands of riddles, “clues,” odd questions, and cryptic lines as bread crumbs for their followers to help them in their search for truth.

Many major media outlets have overviewed the nest of conspiracy theories nurtured within Q followers. While many have speculated about who is behind Q and how it came to exist, thanks to Posobiec’s extensive research and the confession of a co-creator who goes by the pseudonym “Microchip,” we now know, with a high degree of certainty, the real origin story of QAnon.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 8chan; christinaurso; colemanrogers; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; jackposobiec; mediawingofthednc; oneamericanews; partisanmediashills; posobiec; presstitutes; q; qanon; queers; quers; smearmachine; suckers
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DISCLAIMER: Please try NOT to reply to me when commenting on this article. I have NEVER read "Q", nor am I particularly interested in the phenomenon. Your "beef" (if you have one) is not with me, but with the author of this article.

I am passing along the link in the public interest, nothing more. I have NO position in this debate, nor do I care to be involved in it.

Thank you. :>)

1 posted on 10/30/2018 10:33:15 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx

A lot of people were sucked in by Q. Too bad, so sad.


2 posted on 10/30/2018 10:42:04 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: Simon Foxx
Like many cults, QAnon encourages its most dedicated followers to give money to the further the “great awakening” (of which Q is supposedly a leader)

I bounced in and out of the Q threads, so maybe I missed it, but I definitely lever saw any thing even remotely resembling a request for money.

3 posted on 10/30/2018 10:47:31 PM PDT by Chuckster (Battlestar Galactica is not fiction.)
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To: be-baw

I too have looked at some of the Q posts. I just couldn’t connect enough dots to keep it interesting. While most of the messages may have went over my head, a request for donations would have been easy to spot. UNLESS, it was buried deep enough that I exited before reaching.


4 posted on 10/30/2018 11:02:12 PM PDT by jmclemore (Go Trump)
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To: Simon Foxx

Perhaps the biggest money-makers in the Q realm are Coleman Rogers (PamphletAnon) and his wife Christina Urso (who goes by the name CodeMonkey), who started and run Patriot’s Soapbox (PSB), a 24/7 YouTube livestream of Q analysis and registered LLC. Unirock, who has been investigating QAnon for several months, believes that PamphletAnon is responsible for turning QAnon into a cash cow.

Christina Urso in not CodeMonkey. What else about this article is bogus? Why would it be published in The Federalist? We will know more shortly after the mid-terms.


5 posted on 10/30/2018 11:07:17 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: Chuckster

“I definitely never saw any thing even remotely resembling a request for money.”
Not only that, I definitely never saw anything even remotely resembling a sane comment or thought.


6 posted on 10/30/2018 11:09:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Simon Foxx
I have NO position in this debate, nor do I care to be involved in it.

And yet you involved yourself in it.

Fascinating.

7 posted on 10/30/2018 11:20:26 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Chuckster
Like many cults, QAnon encourages its most dedicated followers to give money

It's always a bad sign when a so-called journalist blatantly lies. It makes you wonder what else he says is a lie and if maybe he has some agenda.

But. Public interest, I guess, yea?

8 posted on 10/30/2018 11:22:22 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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Not only that, I definitely never saw anything even remotely resembling a sane comment or thought.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

9 posted on 10/30/2018 11:23:34 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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A lot of people were sucked in by Q. Too bad, so sad.

I got "sucked in" and I'm very happy that I did.

You would be too. And, to me, THAT is too bad, so sad.

But we are different people, so different things make us sad.

Right?

10 posted on 10/30/2018 11:25:20 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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“But we are different people, so different things make us sad.”

Right.


11 posted on 10/30/2018 11:26:23 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: jmclemore
While most of the messages may have went over my head, a request for donations would have been easy to spot. UNLESS, it was buried deep enough that I exited before reaching.

You didn't miss it, Jmclemore. Q has NEVER requested money or asked anybody to EVER give money to anybody anywhere. The author straight up is lying his face off to debunk the Q movement.

In fact, Q has posted several times to be wary of what the anons call "paytriots", those attempting to profit off the Q movement. Of which there are several.

Don't buy the hype. This article is agenda driven. Just ask yourself, whose agenda?

12 posted on 10/30/2018 11:28:29 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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Tried it didn’t like it. Thought is was a con. Bookmark for later reading.


13 posted on 10/30/2018 11:34:18 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: be-baw; bagster

14 posted on 10/30/2018 11:35:19 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: jmclemore; Karliner; bagster

15 posted on 10/30/2018 11:38:43 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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16 posted on 10/30/2018 11:41:35 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Not a "sane comment" or "thought"?

This concept sounds pretty good to me.

How about you?

17 posted on 10/30/2018 11:47:44 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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I hope you can realize that FReepers always reply to the original poster when they intend for it to be to the author of the sourced article, no reflection on you unless you take it that way.


18 posted on 10/30/2018 11:54:38 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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19 posted on 10/30/2018 11:55:30 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: bagster
Geeze, Bags you are so nice. I would have at least told the ole fasinator this story was posted on Freeper on the 29th. Should we tell him about POTUS?? 😈 He can wait for the book! HA!
20 posted on 10/30/2018 11:56:49 PM PDT by Lopeover (POTUS needs Republicans, the Midterm Election is about allegiance to the America First agenda!)
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