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What is The Storm? Conspiracy theory that mysterious White House official QAnon is leaking secrets
ibtimes.co.uk ^ | Kashmira Gander

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conspiracytheory; qanon; thestorm
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To: Guardian Sebastian

I don’t recall that. Obama is such a lightweight ignoramus that many people believed he was merely a mulatto puppet.


81 posted on 01/16/2018 5:08:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MayflowerMadam

LOVE IT!!!


82 posted on 01/16/2018 5:08:25 PM PST by Cats Pajamas
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To: CaptainK

Just a thought, Q posted “Who is talking, Think Big, Think Bigger, Think Biggest.”

On all the blogs I have read lately they are all imagining that Comey is spilling the beans, but what if it is the President who is talking? Isn’t he the biggest?


83 posted on 01/16/2018 5:10:47 PM PST by Guardian Sebastian (God Bless President Trump and Keep Him Safe)
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To: bankwalker
He is communicating with individuals on his team.

In this era of impossible to break cryptography, why would,somebody do that?

84 posted on 01/16/2018 5:11:10 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Steve Van Doorn
This represented the Hawaii "false" alarm Q gave three days before the event.

LOL! Alright, if you say so......

Just curious, why isn't this guy speaking English rather than code crap??????

Folks will believe what they want to believe I guess............LOL!

85 posted on 01/16/2018 5:11:47 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: bankwalker
It's not done to create mystery. He is communicating with individuals on his team, much like George Webb does.

Right....over the internet where the whole world is falling for his crap......As I asked before, since he's anonymous, why isn't he speaking English and being more specific?

86 posted on 01/16/2018 5:15:14 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Cats Pajamas

He changed that to 60-40


87 posted on 01/16/2018 5:15:32 PM PST by stockpirate (Give Peas a Chance)
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To: RoosterRedux
But where is Qanon?

Sessions is on Tucker's show right now and he is Qs hero.

88 posted on 01/16/2018 5:15:55 PM PST by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: bankwalker

The good old days of Michael Rivero are back!


89 posted on 01/16/2018 5:17:31 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Golden Eagle
said, "if Q might have left you a clue to something that did happen"

None of them are 100% that there is no doubt he gave advanced information.

I really liked the chess board one myself from Assange working with Q. It gave at least four clues that in the very least Assange is working with Q.

If you add them all together it does shows substantial evidence Q knows something.

The whole idea is to get you to think. As Q puts it expand your thinking.

90 posted on 01/16/2018 5:18:40 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: RoosterRedux

I think it’s the real deal.


91 posted on 01/16/2018 5:18:43 PM PST by stockpirate (WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL. PATRIOTS. Q)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I for one LOVE IT!!! I'm intrigued, fascinated and hooked with Q's solve the mystery riddles...SIMPLY LOVE IT!! CAN'T WAIT for the next one TO DROP!!😀
92 posted on 01/16/2018 5:19:55 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: RoosterRedux

93 posted on 01/16/2018 5:22:48 PM PST by Despot of the Delta
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To: Steve Van Doorn
The whole idea is to get you to think. As Q puts it expand your thinking.

Nice post. And I do really appreciate this new group of bloodhounds looking outside the MSM for their information.

But Q is never going to hand anyone anything of significant value, in advance. It purposefully speaks in code and riddles, which could mean a countless number of things. My concern is that people will miss actual things that are happening in real time, while playing the game of seeing what Q threw against the wall might have actually stuck.

94 posted on 01/16/2018 5:27:45 PM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "I'm disappointed in the Attorney General. He should not have recused himself immediately...")
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Sorry but you’re sadly mistaken. A couple of times information was posted that didn’t happen for two more days.


95 posted on 01/16/2018 5:29:33 PM PST by stockpirate (WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL. PATRIOTS. Q)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Q is doing lots of secret stuff. Except everybody here knows about it, and anybody who reads the links. But nobody else.

Make sense?


96 posted on 01/16/2018 5:31:28 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“The author is a naif, a complete idiot and big government believer.”

An accurate summation on your part.


97 posted on 01/16/2018 5:32:44 PM PST by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Golden Eagle

Yes in short, and for all the posters on this board and their silly responses I say do your homework. Too bad the quality of the posters here has declined in the almost 20 years I have been here.

There is a Deep State and if you do not know that then you better catch up quick. If you think things are gonna just jump into your lap well I got news for you, they have been and all the whiners here will be reminded when the time comes as all their posts are saved and searchable.


98 posted on 01/16/2018 5:34:53 PM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: RoseofTexas

Q uses the the Socratic method


99 posted on 01/16/2018 5:35:12 PM PST by Despot of the Delta
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To: Golden Eagle

100 posted on 01/16/2018 5:38:11 PM PST by Despot of the Delta
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