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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: Fightin Whitey
I didn't say you were a wackjob.

Yea, you kinda did.

I’m glad to hear the Qwackjobs are donating money.

I don't get how you aggressive "anti-Qs" don't understand that calling people "Qwackjobs", "Qtards", "lunatics", "cultists" (you get the picture), isn't a "personal attack" on EVERYBODY who disagrees with you on the subject of Q.

And then accuse US of "personal attacks" when we take offense and dare to talk back. AND call the mods and further defame US by accusing us of attacking.

It boggles.

81 posted on 10/29/2018 10:34:53 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: detective

“Some Freepers follow “Q”.”

Some folks will fall for anything, whether their politics are left or right.

All you have to do is add a little mystery and tell them what they want to hear.

It really is that simple.


82 posted on 10/29/2018 10:37:34 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: bagster

What you said in 81!


83 posted on 10/29/2018 10:40:35 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: bagster
"While I agree with your overall sentiment, goodman, Q is not dividing anybody. Q, and Q researchers, preach and seek unity. It is one of our top goals. Others divide. Many on this thread, in fact. Sadly."

I am a Q researcher and preacher. I have followed and hoped, but I have to say that every day that passes without even a single high profile arrest the more I doubt.

Q is either exactly what they claim to be or it is a scheme to keep patriots divided and docile during the critical final phase of destruction of the republic. There is no third option.

The only things in Washington DC that do not lie are handcuffs!

It's put up or shut up time!

84 posted on 10/29/2018 10:42:29 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: sourcery; bagster

Thank you.....................


85 posted on 10/29/2018 10:42:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (I lie to pollsters......................ALL Of THEM!...................)
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To: bagster

I don’t take anything personally................


86 posted on 10/29/2018 10:44:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (I lie to pollsters......................ALL Of THEM!...................)
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To: Mariner
All you have to do is add a little mystery and tell them what they want to hear.

It really is that simple.

Yea, but is it really?

87 posted on 10/29/2018 10:46:16 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: detective

re: “What are your thoughts on the article? “

I love it. Send them on a wild goose chase. Someone must be having a hearty laugh behind the scene at all this ...


88 posted on 10/29/2018 10:48:36 AM PDT by _Jim (democrats create mobs. Republicans create jobs.)
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To: bagster

Yes, it really is.


89 posted on 10/29/2018 10:48:37 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: UCANSEE2

re: “Is the information valuable, regardless to whether there is actually a “Q” or not ?”

The question is, in that stream of ‘intel’, when does it stop being “valuable” and start being mis-info ... that happens w/o notice, BTW.


90 posted on 10/29/2018 10:50:43 AM PDT by _Jim (democrats create mobs. Republicans create jobs.)
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To: SENTINEL
Q is either exactly what they claim to be or it is a scheme to keep patriots divided and docile during the critical final phase of destruction of the republic. There is no third option.

I have to strongly disagree with your premise, goodman.

There is NOTHING bout Q or what he says that divides patriots. And NOTHING about it that makes patriots docile. Quite the contrary.

But, there are other possibilities than just those two. Q could be a larp. A joke. Some internet nerds in their mother's basement. But it's not. There is just too much proof of what Q is; Trump's alternative communication to the people.

The LAST thing it is, is some tricky Derp State psyop intended to make patriots docile. Too much of their dirt has been exposed for that to be the case. Why would they tell on themselves?

Really, why?

91 posted on 10/29/2018 10:55:32 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Red Badger
I don’t take anything personally................

Same.

#JustBusinessNotPersonal

😉


92 posted on 10/29/2018 10:57:15 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Mariner
Again, I have to disagree.

This is bigger than you know.

Nothing about it is simple.

93 posted on 10/29/2018 10:58:33 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

94 posted on 10/29/2018 10:59:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (I lie to pollsters......................ALL Of THEM!...................)
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To: bert
Hmmm.... I always thought that Q was the ghost of Quiddam

Me too. That's why I never gave it a second thought.

95 posted on 10/29/2018 11:01:24 AM PDT by eddie willers
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To: detective

It is my understanding that no articles about this topic be posted anywhere except on Q thread. This article is also uninformed and has significant errors.


96 posted on 10/29/2018 11:01:49 AM PDT by Lopeover (POTUS needs Republicans, the Midterm Election is about allegiance to the America First agenda!)
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To: bagster
All you have to do is look through the comments on this thread to see the division that has been sown by Q among patriots.

I am watching and hoping, but increasingly skeptical by the day.

I have two final glimmers of hope on this...the fact that Trump, knowing this is taking place hasn't said a word to stop it (unlike him)...and the massive list of sealed federal dockets.

Only timely arrests will prove Q true. My President does not need Q to fire people.

97 posted on 10/29/2018 11:02:11 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: Delta 21

Prosobec is a moronic self serving dick.


98 posted on 10/29/2018 11:03:08 AM PDT by Lopeover (POTUS needs Republicans, the Midterm Election is about allegiance to the America First agenda!)
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To: detective

knowing that the people they are after read the Q posts is why the anons have to research and figure which posts are false flags (usually traps for the deep state). Sometimes what happens in the news will debunk or prove what the anons concluded. I just lurk.

The important thing is knowing that the swamp creature lives deep, is international, is very rich, and is abominably evil. The swamplings are not all involved in every aspect. They are just slave tools and often disposed of after use. They do not know the head of the organization wants to torture the members for eternity. This is not a game.


99 posted on 10/29/2018 11:03:32 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: _Jim
The question is, in that stream of ‘intel’, when does it stop being “valuable” and start being mis-info ... that happens w/o notice, BTW.

There's plenty of "misinfo" mixed in. That was explained and has to be understood.

Nobody believes EVERY word that Q utters. In fact, most of the "info" comes in the form of a question. The "info" is researched, guessed at, and dot-connected.

Lots of times we get it wrong.

We understand that Q is also talking to the derps to gauge their reaction.

100 posted on 10/29/2018 11:03:40 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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