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.
This article is a Leftie evaluation of Qanon.
Only slightly interesting in and of itself.
But where is Qanon?
The first rule of QAnon is one does not talk about QAnon.
Which board on 4Chan?
Was it the Democrat Party behind the freaky doings at Comet Pizza? Or just certain Democrat big-wigs?
Some folks say that Q is Jared. Others say that Q is Stephen Miller.
Thx Glenduh...good work.
Disinformation?
I don't think Donna Brazile is with that program.
Can you please give a Readers Digest version of that Great Awakening thread?
Thanks.
TY. This interests me. Thanks for these threads.
This article is a Leftie evaluation of Qanon
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My personal jury is out on Q, but this article isn’t an evaluation. It’s a defensive jab, as indicated by “widely discredited” and “conspiracy theory”, as well as the deliberate mischaracterization of PizzaGate.
Wherever and whomever Q may be, he/they live rent-free inside this writer’s head.
The red pill is turning into a suppository as events move swiftly forward.
Naive statements like that really make me laugh. So it just isn't possible that government can grow so large that its main goal is to preserve itself and grow at all costs, not to serve the public that created it and keeps it in office? It's not possible that the monstrous and unconstitutional administrative state, the "fourth branch," perpetuates itself at all costs? It's not possible for all the leftist radical hangers-on from a previous administration to fight tooth and nail the new administration working to root them out?
The author is a naif, a complete idiot and big government believer. But he is Brit or Indian, so it isn't surprising.
This is supposed to be a big week for the "great awakening"...
Lol... Praise Kek and bring on the covfefe. :-)
Way too much for that. Go here and read the FAQ of Q for the backstory and other resource links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/wiki/index
Yep. Supposed to be a big news week. Waiting........
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