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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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To: Jack Black
are you willing to allow Q skeptics to post things without name-calling them now?

I dunno, Jacky soi.

Lemme take a poll of the rest of the Qtards, Qooks, Qtips, fools, and stupid people.

#TheBigLie

Go argue on the new fake thread you posted. I don't wanna do two.

161 posted on 11/01/2018 8:51:47 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: SaveFerris

1. Q posted exactly 30 days in advance TO THE MINUTE that McCain would be returning to the news.

2. McCain’s death was reported as occurring at the exact minute, 30 days later.

If people don’t want to believe that there are proofs, there is enough ambiguity to allow that. But the EXTREME coincidences, when added one on the other, are hard to dismiss as mere coincidences.

Those of us who read the Q posts can’t explain all of this (because we don’t have all the info, Q doesn’t tell everything) but there are several plausible theories on McCain’s death:

1. He was already dead and the Trump/Q team dictated when it would be publicly announced.

2. He was tried for treason by a military tribunal and sentenced to death. The sentence in military trials begins 30 days after the verdict.

In either case, if you recall, McCain had been “battling cancer” for over a year and no one ever saw him after about January of this year. Every so often, we’d get a “statement” from a spokesperson or his family, but after January there were no pictures, we didn’t hear his voice. Nothing. VERY ODD.

At this point, neither of the above theories is provable - AFAIK - but neither is disprovable, either. The only “proof” that McCain died from brain cancer at the time claimed is that “his family says” or “the media says”.

Consider also the fact that his death was announced to have occurred at an exact minute of the day. When do other death announcements contain that info? Never, at least in my memory. Browse through a few death announcements and check for yourself. Usually you get something like, “last night”, “early this morning” or whatever. You don’t get “at 3:28 PM”. Again, this is not ironclad proof, but it definitely makes you stop and think about it. And ask why.


162 posted on 11/01/2018 9:00:29 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Irishguy; mac_truck

>>>if they do have current access, could they not just post as Q and say...its all a larp...seems pretty simple way of proving they are Q, no?

You are exactly right.

mac_truck is a known anti-Q troll. I would not believe anything he says.

I did not start reading Q posts until they were on 8chan. There is no evidence whatsoever that Q was “taken over by YouTubers” or anything similar.

IMO, Q is a real thing. It’s a group of patriots including/sanctioned by POTUS. It is one of the greatest psyops in history. I believe it has multiple purposes. One of them is to communicate with patriotic Americans and give them hope during the very loooooooong process of restoring freedom and justice and dismantling the controlling Big Brother surveillance state set up over decades by those (in both parties) who want to control and exploit us. The situation is so vast and complex that a few posts cannot explain it. But that is the best short explanation I can give. The whole picture would take an encyclopedia to explain.

From a tech standpoint, the trip code provides the security that only someone with the code can post on 8chan. If those fakes who claim to be Q were really Q, it would be extremely simple to just use the trip code to post their identity. That has never happened.

However, it is certainly possible for the trip code to be compromised or cracked. I believe that has happened or has come close to happening on a few occasions. Q has periodically changed the trip code in order to prevent hacking.

There are some who say that elements of the Deep State embedded in one or more of our intelligence agencies are working against Q and in particular that they work to crack the trip code. I subscribe to that viewpoint, but whether I’m correct or not is IMO not relevant to the bigger picture.

I believe that one safeguard against hacking is that Q has 2 different boards on 8ch. So if one board is compromised, Q could deny/verify on the other and then change the trip code.

Re: YouTubers and “Paytriots” and money. Q has absolutely NEVER requested money. Never.

Whenever there is money to be made, you can bet that someone will fill that niche and try to make some. Legit or not. There are MANY you tubers and bloggers and tweeters who post about Q. IMO there are very few who are worth watching/reading. There are some who are in it purely for money. There are a very few who have a patreon/donate link that are hoping to get some support, but are legit and not merely profiteering from it.

JMO: those who are NOT legit and/or not really pro-Q/pro-Trump include Jerome Corsi and Alex Jones. Again, JMO. Microchip is definitely NOT Q.


163 posted on 11/01/2018 9:29:47 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Jack Black; bagster; mac_truck
If you went to the sources like "Neon Revolt", "Mountain Medic", James Corsi, etc. All of 'em are monitiing like mad. Mostly T-shirts, Corsi got a book out of his Q stuff. Shortly after he dropped out after denouncing Q as fake. The Q folowers denounced him.

Neon revolt, Mountain Medic, and James Corsi were not Q and Q denounced those who used it for mon> etization. That is not what this article claimed, that Q used his platform for monetization and those behind Q used if for that purpose. None of these people were Q. They were people who analyzed what Q was posting and as a sideline sold some Q merchandize such as T shirts. . . as did many T shirt manufacturers who also sold MAGA and Trump merchandise who were NOT associated with those movements either. This is what entrepreneurship looks like.

Jerome Corsi is a particular piece of work. Q called him out almost by name when Q said that anyone monetizing by writing books about Q should be avoided because they had no more inside track on Q info than anyone else. Corsi did a 180 and became a Q nay-saying opponent. . . because Q followers stopped buying his book. Corsi was writing about Q purely for the money. When it stopped flowing he stopped writing pro Q things.

164 posted on 11/01/2018 9:47:08 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot)
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To: dennisw; be-baw; bagster
Q - Info was always crap and I have not spent more than five minutes of my life reading that crap....THE BEST PART was how Sessions had tasked Huber in Utah to investigate the deep state. How Huber was going to indict 40,000 or more people. PATHETIC. Complete garbage.

"Complete garbage." So states the man who proudly asserts he has not bothered to invest more than FIVE MINUTES investigating what he has blithely made a judgement about. . . to people who have studied it in depth for over a year. Good JOB, Dennis, YOU are continuing your pattern from the Apple threads, jumping to conclusions from complete ignorance to people who are much more knowledgable than are you. Simply amazing.

165 posted on 11/01/2018 9:54:18 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot)
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To: Swordmaker
Jerome Corsi is a particular piece of work.

And fat.

Above all else, he is fat.

166 posted on 11/01/2018 9:57:34 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: SubMareener
I doubt that the PSB is the cash cow that is claimed by this writer. And of course, it costs money to run a YT channel - people can only do things for free for so long, after all.

The one problem with Q is he/their claim that "they have it all". If this is truly the case, why in the world would you let this run up to and past another election cycle? If the Democrats get the House or the Senate - and they might get the House - you can pretty much kiss goodbye whatever glorious plan the Q team might have concocted. If Q was in a position to put the hurt on the Derp State, it should have been done months ago. In fact, June would have been a good time since that was when the Left were openly threatening Trump's family on Twitter and elsewhere. Instead, here we are holding our breath and crossing our fingers hoping that the mostly inept (except for Trump) GOP can hang on to their congressional advantage. Yep, great plan.

167 posted on 11/01/2018 10:03:19 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom.)
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To: Swordmaker

“to people who have studied it in depth for over a year”

That’s just funny.


168 posted on 11/01/2018 10:09:19 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Not a bad post. But, respectfully, you’re missing the bigger picture.

I can say that respectfully, because I was missing it too, for a while.

Most of us, when we realize that Q is “real” and that Q “has it all” then immediately jump to the thought that if that’s true, then what’s the big hold up? Why doesn’t Trump arrest all the perps?

It’s because arrests without convictions are useless. And you can get convictions when the DOJ and many judges are corrupt. So before the arrests happen, Trump is working to clean out the corruption in the justice system.

And not incidentally, in Congress. Did you notice the large number of congressvermin who declared that they were retiring? Those of us who’ve been paying attention/following Q believe that many of them were offered a deal: retire or be prosecuted. The most obvious among them is Paul Ryan. Here is a man at the pinnacle of his career - Speaker of the House - and he suddenly retires????? Who does that????? No one. Trump/Q is not taking on Democrats/liberals; he is taking on corruption and the Deep State. That crosses party lines.

So yes, it’s a great plan. But it’s not one that can be executed overnight. The Deep State has been burrowing into the system for many decades. Fixing that is not an overnight job. It’s not even a one year job. I have no idea how long it will take, but I can see the incredible progress being made and while that doesn’t stop me from being impatient and wanting it all done RIGHT NOW, it does prevent me from complaining about how long it’s taking. :-)


169 posted on 11/01/2018 10:47:37 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

(Considering the number of resignations from the FBI and DOJ don’t you think that a lot of damage has already been done?)

“We have it all..”

They may have it all, but not be able to release it all. There may be legal limitations on the use of that information. (Something to do with leaking?) However, there is nothing that prevents them from stirring things up and letting targets know in a general way that they have information.

If there are ongoing legal investigations and prosecutions these take time to develop. You do not take in-process legal work product and fork it into the hopper on one side of a political campaign.

Finally, even if the information can be released there is no guarantee a leftist media that will even cover it.

The purpose of Q is to engage and encourage the Chans and others willing to listen to engage politically and to focus on areas of illegality. Whatever they manage to learn through research outside official channels is not subject to official restrictions on use.


170 posted on 11/01/2018 10:51:24 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Jack Black

Awwwwwwww.....poor little baby. You anti-Q shills followed the communist rules of overloading the system on this board with your cry baby belly aching about Q thinking you could get the whole thing banned just like the liberal progressive dimocrats. Instead Q got confined to a thread and you people are supposed to stay off of there but yet you continue to troll with threads like this because now you get kicked off the Q threads with your disruptive BS.

I’ve seen you people in action and your kiddie temper tantrums and your BS. Whine to someone else because I’m not listening to your crap.


171 posted on 11/01/2018 11:15:07 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: MagnoliaB

Q certainly brings out the best in people!


172 posted on 11/01/2018 11:17:19 AM PDT by Reily
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To: generally
But it’s not one that can be executed overnight.

One is not exclusive of the other. You can have a long-term plan that deals with clearing out a good portion of the Derp State while also having a shorter term plan that removes obvious bad actors in government. Some of that short-term exfoliation has taken place, apparently, what with removal or resignations of some DOJ and FBI types. But in the end, that hasn't really amounted to much, while also having obvious government criminals like Lois Lerner and the Awans seemingly getting a pass from Sessions and Co. Why in the world would you not go after the low-hanging fruit like Lerner and the Awans? Does not compute.

173 posted on 11/01/2018 11:27:49 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom.)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

I am grateful for the jigsaw puzzle. I wish what they said was true, “Trust Sessions. Trust the plan.” But mostly it’s malarkey. I mock Hannity for his “tick tock” broken clock. This Q stuff is much the same.

But I don’t understand the rage that Prosobiec has towards these people. They are on our side. And the trolls on their threads act like jerks.


174 posted on 11/01/2018 11:31:09 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Considering the number of resignations from the FBI and DOJ don’t you think that a lot of damage has already been done?)

Obama had 8 years to load the government up with his flunkies, and not just via appointments. I'm sure there were plenty of Leftist "civil" servants hired during the Obama years who are now a part of the (illegal) takeover of our government at the lower reaches of Fedzilla. So no, a small number of firings/resignations is just a tiny scratch on the hull of a battleship. You can't just arrest a bunch of people without due cause, of course, but even slam-dunks like Lerner and the Awans - flunkies not necessarily a part of the "Muh Russia" nonsense - have been allowed to walk. Not exactly a plan that instills a lot of confidence.

175 posted on 11/01/2018 11:49:03 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Any lover of big government is an enemy of freedom.)
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To: MagnoliaB
Oh please. Grow up. A lot of articles are accidentally double posted, it literally happens every day.

It's funny to hear Q-derps complain about "overloading the system on this board", when Ransomnote reposts the exact same twenty pages of stuff every five days like clockwork. And not only that, for some reason double posts (one right after another) the same pages in that.

Spare me your sanctimony.

176 posted on 11/01/2018 11:56:58 AM PDT by Jack Black (Is Q dead? Still no new Q posts since Oct 9.)
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To: generally
Listen to yourself:

2. He was tried for treason by a military tribunal and sentenced to death. The sentence in military trials begins 30 days after the verdict.

Come on, really? McCain had been publicly struggling with brain cancer for years, and had gone home to die in January

The idea that there was a secret military trial and instant execution of McCain is truly Way Way Out in La La Land.

You might note that Hassan, the Islamo-Nut-Job who killed all those people in Texas was convicted and sentenced to the Death Penalty more than Five Years Ago, on August 28, 2013. He's still eating free food in a Texas jail.

And, oh yeah, the actual shooting event was on Nov 5 of 2009. So we are coming up on the 10th anniversary of it. So a person who everyone, even the vast majority of Dems and libs think is an evil POS who needs to die can't be executed after a massive public crime, for at least 10 years.

But they same system secretly tried and executed John McCain (regarded as a hero by many, and respected for his service by many more) in a few months, on his death-bed.

It's pure fantasy.

Seriously, just listen to that theory and tell me it's not self-parody crackpot conspiracy theory!

177 posted on 11/01/2018 12:18:12 PM PDT by Jack Black (Is Q dead? Still no new Q posts since Oct 9.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Your question has been asked and answered. Q’s last post before they went silent explained the delay. If the Democrats take the House then President Trump has two months to round them up.


178 posted on 11/01/2018 12:31:34 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: Major Matt Mason
Matt, thanks for your reply!

The decision to not prosecute L.L. was first made in 2015, before the current DOJ, which declined a request from 2 Republican lawmakers to reconsider. It disappointed me and a lot of others here.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/349846-gop-lawmakers-furious-after-doj-declines-to-prosecute-lois-lerner

“The Justice Department declined to prosecute Lerner in 2015 under former President Obama, but Brady and Roskam wrote a letter in April to Sessions asking him to reconsider the department's decision.”

"In a letter Friday afternoon, Sessions rejected their request, writing that based on a review of the case, it "would not be appropriate" to reopen the investigation." "While "the Department's investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement at the IRS," the Justice letter said, the probe "had not uncovered evidence of criminal intent by any IRS official."

Again, very disappointing, but they do not have unlimited resources to correct the mistakes of the previous (Scummy) AG.

The entrenchment of the left in the Federal bureacracy has extended back decades, not just 8 Obama years. You have to have a reason other than politics to fire Government workers. The people at the top were shown to be engaging in illegal behavior and some will be prosecuted for it. If they can get a list of the "Democratic Socialist" and check their attendence and work product that would be a good place to start!

Until Conservatives start to enter Federal Service in large number this will probably not change. (I don't think this will happen.) The best thing we can do is reduce the workforce, combine or eliminate overlapping responsibilities and departments, and limit their power over us.

179 posted on 11/01/2018 12:36:11 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Jack Black

I don’t care if you believe in Q or not. Just don’t shit post if you’ve never spent even 15 minutes doing a little research. How stupid is that?


180 posted on 11/01/2018 12:42:53 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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