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From Trolling To Fleecing: Co-Creator Of ‘Q’ Hoax Explains Its Scary Evolution
The Federalist ^ | October 29, 2018 | Georgi Boorman

Posted on 10/29/2018 8:37:17 AM PDT by detective

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: conspiracytheories; cult; hoax; hoaxes; microchip; oan; posobiec; q; qanon; qers; queers; wishfulthinking
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To: detective

This is that a rehash of the original Q is not real story. I love it. “ high degree of certainty,” which is another way of saying no certainty whatsoever. The people posting here did not read the article, have not done any research on Q, but will always have an opinion.. Guaranteed .


41 posted on 10/29/2018 9:38:43 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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To: bagster

The information - the education - is what is valuable.


42 posted on 10/29/2018 9:38:54 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: Fightin Whitey
I’m glad to hear the Qwackjobs are donating money.

I'm not a wackjob.

Take it back.

43 posted on 10/29/2018 9:40:19 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bert
I always thought that Q was the ghost of Quiddam

You don't believe in Q, but you believe in ghosts?

44 posted on 10/29/2018 9:41:30 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Squidpup

Larp?


45 posted on 10/29/2018 9:41:37 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Red Badger
Source/link?...............…

It's preferable that you do your own homework.

46 posted on 10/29/2018 9:42:19 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: proust
These people are stupid!

I'm very smart, thankyouverymuch.

47 posted on 10/29/2018 9:43:15 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster
Image result for serious cat

Are the Podestas in Jail? Has anyone even been charged with the abuses Pizza Gate raised?

No? Then that's why I said "so what"?

I'm sure if I cared to look, I could find a Q drop that would have predicted an arrest or a charge or whatever.

And of course - it too would be false, incorrect and wrong.

48 posted on 10/29/2018 9:47:03 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: proust
lol non-believers shall be smited!


49 posted on 10/29/2018 9:51:42 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

The poster made a claim without substantiation...................


50 posted on 10/29/2018 9:53:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (I lie to pollsters......................ALL Of THEM!...................)
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To: ransomnote

Ping!................


51 posted on 10/29/2018 9:54:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (I lie to pollsters......................ALL Of THEM!...................)
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To: detective

I never took it as conspiracy - some guy has inside info on what Sessions and Huber are up to, or he doesn’t. We shall see.

Even if Q turns out to be right, it simply means that Sessions is doing his job with a very tight leash on information, as he has done in the past.


52 posted on 10/29/2018 9:54:38 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: detective

Man, I was wondering if someone would post this lol. I almost did, but am sick of the personal attacks and just plain all around lunacy of the Q schtik.

Of course it’s fake. I now avoid at all costs. They’ll mostly fade after Sessions is gone.

Federalist is a great, primo site. Like OAN, who also exposed Q as a fraud. Another article on the Federalist today discusses when Magoo gets axed. Not if; when. People are trying to persuade Trump not to humilliate Magoo by firing him directly after midterms, but to “let him resign gracefully” on Jan 1 with the rest of the turnover. They say Trump is not persuaded so far.


53 posted on 10/29/2018 9:56:09 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Huber will saaaaaaave ussss! ....Not.)
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To: SW6906
The information - the education - is what is valuable.


54 posted on 10/29/2018 9:56:52 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: detective
does the "hoaxer's" IP address match those of all the Q posts?
55 posted on 10/29/2018 9:56:54 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

“The people posting here did not read the article, have not done any research”

That is the case with almost every article posted on FR.


56 posted on 10/29/2018 10:00:03 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

“Trust Sessions”/ s


57 posted on 10/29/2018 10:02:40 AM PDT by damper99 (pu)
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To: Durus
Larp?


58 posted on 10/29/2018 10:03:39 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

“I was wondering if someone would post this lol. I almost did, but am sick of the personal attacks and just plain all around lunacy of the Q schtik.”

Personal attacks and lunacy are not a problem for me. I deal with them all the time.

Thanks for the reply. I have always thought “Q” was a little bit of inside knowledge and a lot of vague clues designed for the naïve. But that’s just me.

Other people may have more information and insight.


59 posted on 10/29/2018 10:05:51 AM PDT by detective
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To: Responsibility2nd
No? Then that's why I said "so what"?

Not to be argumentative, serious cat, but this is what you said.

QAnon is just this years version of Pizza Gate. I do admit that I followed that conspiracy theory a little more than I should. But I soon realized that even if it were 100 percent completely true - so what?

If pizzagate were true, and of course it is, then it's a pretty big "so what" if you ask me.

#OwnYourWords

60 posted on 10/29/2018 10:08:51 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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