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What is The Storm? Conspiracy theory that mysterious White House official QAnon is leaking secrets
ibtimes.co.uk ^ | Kashmira Gander

Posted on 01/16/2018 3:55:42 PM PST by RoosterRedux

"You guys know what this represents? Maybe it's the calm before the storm," President Donald Trump told reporters ominously as he posed with military commanders and their spouses in October 2017.

Since then "The Storm", partly in reference to this moment, has taken on life as a conspiracy theory wrapped up in conspiracy theories on pro-Trump message boards on online forums.

The Storm boils down to the idea that the US president is working to wipe out the effects of globalisation, a concept much hated by his supporters. To achieve this, he will apparently dismantle the 'deep state'.

This widely discredited conspiracy theory suggests that the US government is secretly run by a cabal of officials and elite members of finance and industry in a way that negates democracy.

The term has also been used to describe the leadership in Turkey and Russia. On top of this, every move Trump makes is a victory for The Storm - regardless of how it appears or is reported.

How do they know this? Because they are tipped off by a user known as QAnonymous, or QAnon, whose name references Q: the highest level of security clearance in the US.

They believe that this Q figure, who first posted on 4Chan on 28 October, has taken to message boards like 4Chan and 8Chan - widely regarded as the Wild West of the internet - to share the top-secret goings on in the highest reaches of power.

The topics discussed include Pizzagate. This saw websites falsely spreading [yeah, right] the rumour that the Democractic Party was running a child trafficking ring in the basement of the Comet Ping Pong fast food restaurant in Washington DC - culminating in a gunman opening fire there in November 2016.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conspiracytheory; qanon; thestorm
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To: Hot Tabasco
How would you say there is going to be an emergency nuclear missile attack or alarm set off without saying it?

Why wouldn't he say exactly that? There information is from the National Reconnaissance Office (Q clue was "owls") This information isn't legally allowed to be used to stop US citizen perpetrators only if they're foreign operatives.

They're listening but they can't use that information.

101 posted on 01/16/2018 5:43:21 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: RoseofTexas

Me too!


102 posted on 01/16/2018 5:45:10 PM PST by bonfire
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To: iontheball

“The first rule of QAnon is one does not talk about QAnon.
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It’s curious why there is this insatiable desire to out the subject when he needs to remain anonymous to do his job.”

I agree. I don’t need to know who he is.
I just appreciate the info.
I think Trump would have said Q is not telling the truth.
I also think he needs to remain anonymous to do his job.”

I also do not mind that things are going slow.
Trump can’t just have Hillary arrested and not expect
the left to go nuts.
Her crimes need to be explained to her supporters so
they see she is what we have always said she is.
When she gets arrested, it needs to be for good.
She needs to hang for treason.


103 posted on 01/16/2018 5:46:33 PM PST by missthethunder
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To: Hot Tabasco

That’s so funny. I was thinking the same thing. Michael Rivers and Deep in the Hurtigan Forrest


104 posted on 01/16/2018 5:46:42 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 100American
for all the posters on this board and their silly responses I say do your homework. Too bad the quality of the posters here has declined in the almost 20 years I have been here.

True that. Back in the beginning, it was almost intimidating to even make a post here, because any illogical BS would be thrown back in your face so quick you would be so ashamed that you carefully examined everything before you dare raised your voice again.

But today people don't have the same level of shame, or forethought. Our job isn't to shut them down, just ask the questions that actually make them think. For themselves.

105 posted on 01/16/2018 5:48:32 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "I'm disappointed in the Attorney General. He should not have recused himself immediately...")
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To: stockpirate
said, "A couple of times information was posted that didn’t happen for two more days "

that is a strange statement to make. Who says cryptic wording has time stamps? Other then the last one he gave with "next week" a false flag (that is this week.) I don't remember anything other then that one with a time stamp.

What are you referring to?

106 posted on 01/16/2018 5:48:46 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Golden Eagle
said, "My concern is that people will miss actual things that are happening in real time"

Yeap. Even if the whole thing is a LARP it's still freaking entertaining and gets you to think about a larger picture.

The very least it does seem to me that the deep state is being chiseled.

107 posted on 01/16/2018 5:53:52 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Hot Tabasco
It seems to me that an individual now posting in total anonymity would be more specific with his messages rather than posting cryptic crap that allows his followers to interpret them as they wish........

The cryptic Q crap reminds me of what the Long Island Medium does. Have you seen her show?

Q plays the same game.

108 posted on 01/16/2018 5:54:12 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: SaxxonWoods

Wow. Good point.


109 posted on 01/16/2018 6:02:48 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Steve Van Doorn
The very least it does seem to me that the deep state is being chiseled.

Could be. I guess I'm just old school where you attack a problem head on. Like you attack sinus congestion with nasal spray right up the nose and clear it right up, verses swallowing some pill or liquid into your stomach and hoping it eventually helps. But thanks again for your explanations.

110 posted on 01/16/2018 6:06:43 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "I'm disappointed in the Attorney General. He should not have recused himself immediately...")
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To: RoosterRedux
. . . . supposed to be a big week for the "great awakening"...

It’s already Wednesday (almost) - where’s the “big week” ?

111 posted on 01/16/2018 6:16:16 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: RoosterRedux

“Q: the highest level”

I thought Q was just a DOE nuke clearance, as in, you work w/reactors, etc..

Highest would be eyes only.


112 posted on 01/16/2018 6:16:42 PM PST by fruser1
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To: MNDude

Sure looked like it.


113 posted on 01/16/2018 6:25:16 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: surrey

Every week is supposed to be a big week and then nothing.


Nothing ever happens to criminal Democrats. Enjoy the beltway theater but don’t get your hopes up, IMO.


114 posted on 01/16/2018 6:28:44 PM PST by lodi90
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To: RoosterRedux

Q`s last post promised something big on Monday.
Well,we`re waiting ...


115 posted on 01/16/2018 6:55:22 PM PST by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Wow this article is propaganda at its finest. They used some lame example in the end to disprove Q. When there are real examples that definitely prove that Trump and Wikileaks are connected. They won’t even mention Q Material that could not possibly be explained with their troll theory. Look for the “Consequential” -”Consensual” change in trumps tweet. And how Q predicted it right before it happened. That is just one example that can’t be explained away by their troll theory.


116 posted on 01/16/2018 7:11:34 PM PST by Revel
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To: Golden Eagle

Or stop it as soon as it’s known what and where.


117 posted on 01/16/2018 7:16:17 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Golden Eagle
"chiseled" vs "blow it up"

Clearly that was debated. Q generally said Trump wanted to go with the rule of law even know this was placed under the emergency power act. IE: war.

118 posted on 01/16/2018 7:18:23 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Para-Ord.45
said, " Q`s last post promised something big on Monday"

Strange how miss reading post is the most common error with this "Code"
Posted on the 14th: "BEWARE of MAJOR FALSE FLAG attempts this week"

This guy sees if anything happens.
So far a number of flight hijackings signals (Squawk7700) have been sent by all kinds of different airplanes yesterday. all planes have come back. It's been quite until
30 minutes ago a new one came up and the Air force set out two AWACS planes which sounds interesting.
https://twitter.com/scottanthonyusa?lang=en

119 posted on 01/16/2018 7:41:54 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Golden Eagle

I found one of the better Q Videos from a while back. The good ones are hard to find now. I think that Google and Youtube are jiggering the search results so that they can’t be found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAsdjT32kA8

Tell me how you can explain everything in that video.


120 posted on 01/16/2018 7:58:12 PM PST by Revel
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