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The Truth About Q-Anon
Dr. Seb Gorka homepage ^ | April 8, 2019 | Dr. Seb Gorka

Posted on 04/10/2019 10:11:03 AM PDT by romanesq

During the 2018 Midterms in the United States, strange signs started appearing at political rallies. Held up by non-descript attendees, the signs read simply, “We are Q.” For those Trekkers out there, you might be confused: no, these rallygoers were not making an oblique reference to the infamous Star Trek: The Next Generation character portrayed by John de Lancie. The group appeared from the fringes of internet chat rooms, such as on the website of 4Chan, a peculiar mixture of cyberpunks and various online misfits.

“Q” is derived from an anonymous poster on the internet forum, a source claiming to have a top secret clearance with the U.S. intelligence community. This person (or group of people) spun an intricate conspiracy theory that many Far Right activists on gonzo internet forums picked up and began disseminating to wider audiences online and in their communities.

The conspiracy goes like this: the real purpose of the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was not to investigate Donald Trump, but instead to investigate Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and people like former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta. The QAnon conspiracy theory is far-reaching, with new pieces added with regularity, in the form of what Q supporters refer to as “breadcrumbs.” One such addition to the conspiracy theory last year was that the Mueller probe was also looking into the now-deceased Senator John McCain (R-AZ) for his illegal activities.

What is the ultimate end of the QAnon conspiracy; what does Mueller hope to achieve, according to them?

That part, like most conspiracy theories, is conveniently not knowable. The Mueller investigation, having ended in a whimper rather than the bang the Trump-hating Fake News was hoping for, should have been the end of the QAnon conspiracy theory. QAnon conspiracy theorists have simultaneously argued that the ultimate target of the Mueller investigation is either the “Deep State” of nefarious anti-American, globalist actors, or the aim is to pursue high-profile pedophiles in the United States government and in other powerful circles related to the government.

QAnon’s Pernicious Connections to “Pizzagate”

Now for the most pernicious aspect of the QAnon conspiracy theory. In 2016, conspiracists on 4Chan and other similar fringe messaging boards claimed that the emails stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s (and subsequently made public by WikiLeaks) contained secret messages referring to a powerful ring of pedophiles who were using a local Washington, D.C. pizzeria as a base of operations to conduct their crimes. None of these claims were true. But, what ended up happening was that the highly irresponsible conspiracy theory triggered a mentally unstable man, who in turn took a gun to a D.C. pizzeria with intent to use it.

The source material for these theories is the vile, uber-fringe 4Chan and 8Chan. 4Chan was launched in 2003 as a place to share images and discuss Japanese anime. In fact, it was modeled on the Japanese anime internet boards, such as Futaba Channel. Over time, though, the already eclectic group of online personalities that 4Chan attracted devolved into something darker. It became a haven for crazed conspiracy theorists from both sides of the political divide. 4Chan also became popular among the white nationalist community, and also became a place for hackers and other criminals–including child pornographers. If there was a Hell on the internet, 4Chan was Hell.

Meanwhile, a similar website, created by gonzo software developer, Frederick Brennan, 8Chan was launched in 2013 as a response to what Brennan believed was the rise in authoritarianism, censorship, and surveillance on 4Chan. Despite the fact that 8Chan has become the 3,857th most viewed website in the world, with an average of 35,000 unique visitors per day and 400,000 original posts per day, it too has become mired in controversy. 8Chan, which has been billed as the more libertarian (though, perhaps libertine would be better) 4Chan, has apparently become a hub of international child pornography postings. This became such a problem that, in 2015, 8Chan was blacklisted by Google search. It is a profound understatement to claim that anything positive or good comes from these boards. Yet, it is precisely from sites like these that the “Pizzagate” and now the QAnon conspiracy theories emanate.

Alternative media figures, such as Mike Cernovich, have also furthered the “Pizzagate” and QAnon conspiracy theories. Some of these individuals have massive social media followings. With big internet names furthering the conspiracies, it was only a matter of time before disaster struck. In 2016, when the pizzeria shooting happened, several media outlets attempted to lay the blame at the feet of people like Cernovich. This only gave the Fake News Industrial Complex more fuel in their ongoing war against President Trump and the Right.

The very same group of internet Alt-Right activists and online forums that furthered the “Pizzagate” conspiracy have also spread the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Here are some of the other bizarre, totally inaccurate predictions that QAnon has made:

01/21/18 – A flood was alleged to be coming. A flood consisting of various forms of media that I imagine were supposed to implicate somebody in something nefarious. Sadly, this flood never came.

01/21/18 – Q makes some very certain claims about the Nunes Memo, which of course do not come remotely true when the memo is released a couple weeks later.

01/22/18 – Q posts a confirmed fake Podesta email, then promptly deletes it. But not before his followers have time to notice. 02/09/18 – Next week [Next week] was declared ‘suicide weekend‘. Nothing came to pass.

02/21/18 – Q predicts that the founder of Twitter is removing accounts because he and his Deep State friends are in deep trouble. Nothing came to pass.

03/15/18 – Q declares ‘March Madness’ and that ‘the public will soon know’. Nothing came to pass.

04/02/18 – April was supposed to be a “BIG month“, full of happenings including but not limited to arrests, the release of the IG report, the wall, “military start”, and unsealed indictments. Nothing came to pass.

Where Does QAnon Go From Here?

Things have gotten even stranger for the QAnon conspiracists now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted his final report. While the report has not yet been made public, Attorney General William Barr has seen it, and he has issued a summary of the report.

AG Barr explains that Mueller has not proven any collusion or coordination between President Donald Trump, his top 2016 campaign staffers, and Russian intelligence. The focus of the investigation was Donald Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Podesta, or even John McCain were not targets of the Mueller probe in any way as Q promised.

The fact that the QAnon conspiracy theory is tied in with the “Pizzagate” fiasco is bad enough. The more damaging part is that these cult-like actors link themselves to the Trump movement, despite the fact that no member of the Trump movement has anything to do with these insane theories. They are the outgrowth of a pathetic group who exist online, in the dark corners of the worldwide web. That they have attached their delusions to the Trump movement is unfortunate.

But, they do not represent and are not affiliated with President Trump, his supporters, or those who work for the president.

Recently, some Q supporters have insisted that certain pictures of President Trump and key advisers in the White House “prove” that they are, in fact, members of the Q conspiracy because their positioning makes it appear as though they are displaying subliminal messages about Q. These internet personalities claim to be supporting the President. Yet, consistently, their actions have shown that they are not allies of the President. They damage and besmirch the Trump movement with their irresponsible actions.

In that their actions, both directly and indirectly, aid those who would do damage to the Make America Great Again Agenda and see it fail. Whoever Q or QAnon may be, they are most decidedly not close to the President, they are not Conservatives, and with every post they make, they subvert the MAGA Agenda.


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To: bagster; BiggBob; marron; Windflier; KitJ; Revel; thoughtomator; TauntedTiger; higgmeister; ...
Sorry I'm late, too!

It's been a delight to read this thread!

Thanks Mods! Thanks All!

Some of us could save the shills a lot of work with their
"Q" Paytriots refrain. We already have so much more than
they do.

Instead...
I would love for everyone to watch this 4 Star General
discuss the battle sphere we are engaged in.

A US 4 Star Army General who considers this video a weapon,
and invited its creation.

He stressed the importance of multi-domain ops,
particularly in the human, social communications domain.
In other words, us.

Weapons to save even our enemies.

These weapons, it seems...

Political Grace. The art of disagreeing well.
The ultimate countermeasure to those who would divide:
Intentional unity.
The Future of War and how it affects YOU-Multi-Domain Operations

Now, consider also Michael Flynn
talking about a civilian army of digital soldiers... :
Citizen journalists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=V2MgTd3LgB0

Now, once you've listened to both of those videos,
IF you STILL don't think American Security Forces are
doing battle in "Q" space...

You should be asking why the heck not?!!

(But don't bother, they are. And so are us Q types.)

Where We Go One, We Go All.

421 posted on 04/11/2019 12:23:34 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: Windflier
This thread is making me hungry for some Quisp cereal.

Oh em gee. Look what I just posted on the real thread earlier to night, since you mentioned it. Somebody confused Quisp with Quix (unintentionally, I think). So I pulled this thought bubble out of my memory banks.

(I even made a meme)

Bagster trivia:

One time, Quisp and Quake cereal had an ad campaign in which Quisp (little space alien) would race Quake from the east coast to my little home town of Lompoc, Calififornia. True story, I forget who won.


422 posted on 04/11/2019 12:42:44 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Quisp wears long sleeves to hide the track marks from banging all that Adrenochrome.
True story.


423 posted on 04/11/2019 12:49:35 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner
Quisp wears long sleeves to hide the track marks from banging all that Adrenochrome.

And Quake slams steroids in his fat ass.

Back off my alien, bro.


424 posted on 04/11/2019 12:52:32 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: PCPOET7; bagster; ransomnote

I don’t know who Q is either.

I do know where to find a legion of the most selfless,
tireless patriotic MAGA researchers and volunteer citizen
journalists, though. Pray’ers, Diggers and Meme’ers doing
MAGA stuff.

Q did that.

Whether Q did it from mama’s basement, some dorm room, the oval office, or with a DARPA AI...

Q did that.

So without knowing or even trusting Q, I can thank Q for that.

~Easy


425 posted on 04/11/2019 12:57:57 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: higgmeister

Or Qanon might be doing the Horsy Trojan thing.


426 posted on 04/11/2019 1:34:19 AM PDT by arthurus (f)
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To: bagster

I’m back.

I had a second bowl of Quisp to help raise my Q consciousness.

I think it’s kicking in. Your posts almost make sense to me now!


427 posted on 04/11/2019 1:37:13 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier
Attaboy.

Now go chug a biggo glass of Ovaltine and all will be revealed.

#Finally


428 posted on 04/11/2019 2:33:26 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster
Attaboy. Now go chug a biggo glass of Ovaltine and all will be revealed.

Don't get ahead of yourself, Reverend. Remember I said that your posts almost make sense to me. 😜

429 posted on 04/11/2019 3:15:00 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: arthurus

So your premise is
Someone is trying to trick us by telling us to trust Trump, Not to trust the MSM, to stay united, don’t fall for identity politics, research everything for ourselves, think for ourselves,
And pointing us towards the massive fraud and corruption the left commits

Seems plausible. LOL

So that is why I believe that anyone who doesn’t “get it” either 1) has never read a single page of it. or 2) has a vested interest in preventing it...

Or like q would say:

Find the loudest voices.

Those who are the loudest….
Have the most to FEAR

Those with the most to lose are the loudest.

Investigate those in front of the camera who scream the loudest.
These people are really stupid.


430 posted on 04/11/2019 5:23:41 AM PDT by BiggBob
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To: Windflier
I had a second bowl of Quisp to help raise my Q consciousness.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

431 posted on 04/11/2019 5:31:48 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: bagster
Didn't Michael Jackson say something like that back when he was black (and alive)?

Not unless he was Guns-N-Roses.

Bad Apples

432 posted on 04/11/2019 6:12:43 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner; bagster

Jackson five
Not just Michael
Way before Gn’R

https://youtu.be/1wunv9U4IWk


433 posted on 04/11/2019 6:29:55 AM PDT by BiggBob
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To: bagster

> They have given up after a lifetime of losing to the derps.

You should direct that snide remark to an individual who doesn’t have the biggest conservative victory between Reagan and Trump as a feather in his cap.

Take all the political victories by every person on this thread other than myself, multiply them by a thousand, put them on the other side of the scale, and mine is still unquestionably the weightier.

So to be specific, I’m tired of losers like you sitting on your butts and doing nothing.


434 posted on 04/11/2019 6:32:28 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: BiggBob

Needs more cowbell.


435 posted on 04/11/2019 6:33:20 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Too much Tinkerbell :^)


436 posted on 04/11/2019 6:45:59 AM PDT by BiggBob
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To: KitJ
Hey Kit, as far as this goes ....

I have to ask your opinion on McMaster though. What do you think about the timing of his father’s death and his sudden departure from the Trump agenda which resulted either in his firing, or resignation?

I’m not playing ‘gotcha’. My personal opinion is that his father was killed to send a message to him and he immediately complied with people that wanted him to change.

I think his father’s death was suspicious and not properly investigated.

Thoughts?

First I heard of it, I will look into it.

437 posted on 04/11/2019 6:48:31 AM PDT by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: thoughtomator
You should direct that snide remark to an individual who doesn’t have the biggest conservative victory between Reagan and Trump as a feather in his cap.

And what might that be?

438 posted on 04/11/2019 6:56:40 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Disestablishmentarian

It may be my imagination, but I see a certain playfulness in the back-and-forth between Q and Trump. So while this is certainly serious business, and well thought-out, it looks to me that Q and Trump are, indeed, joined at the hip. He seems to be a younger guy, someone who is in all the meetings, and someone Trump trusts completely. Almost like a son. Probably not a son, but someone about that age who Trump sees in that light. There are some other things I (think) I see that I would not say in an open forum... And I wait to see if I’m right.


439 posted on 04/11/2019 7:09:54 AM PDT by marron
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To: humblegunner

I’m the one who hounded Eric Cantor out of office AND in the process got him to drop his opposition to the Benghazi Commission - thus allowing the discovery of Clinton’s email server to be made.

Without exposure of that email server we’re talking about President Hillary today.

You’re welcome.


440 posted on 04/11/2019 7:10:30 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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