At 9:13 AM, Lin posted that he was going to drop a document that would change the world: PROOF that Mike Pence is guilty of unimaginative...
I mean, unimaginaBLE crimes.
Come with me on a voyage, children. Learn how serious & competent Lin Wood is.
Now, you would think he would just post the TRANSCRIPT at 9:13 or thereabouts. But no. He didn't post squat.
He knows *how* -- just like *I* know how to specify that all of this happened on March 3rd but mysteriously forgot to put it in the first tweet.
So I sympathize a BIT.
"But Origins," you say, "Lin is an old man. DOES he really know how to post documents on Telegram?"
Absolutely! Because he posted two other PDFs -- like this one -- and still no sign of a PDF on the feed.
Possibly, for reasons we will get to in a sec, he posted & deleted. But:
The first appearance of the transcript on his feed (at least the first one that remains intact NOW) is at 10:38 AM, when he posted content from *another* person which purports to be the whistleblowers testimony.
In the interim he appealed for funds and posted 2 other documents.
At 10:53 he posted an article from the Populist Press (a site that @mmfa has referred as Steve Bannon's "newsletter," and it was indeed being hyped by Bannon's media properties within days of its launch) referencing his claims.
But still no Lin-provided transcript, unTIL...
Waaait forrrrr iiiit...
"I another mistake" (sic), wrote Wood, "and did not react the court reporter's name from the whistleblower transcript. Law & Crime... started asking her questions.... The transcript below has been redacted... Law & Crime will have to look elsewhere."
No, see, it WON'T have to look elsewhere. It *already found her*, Lin.
Time is linear. It moves in one direction only.
You can't unfuck this turkey, buddy.
I'm not gonna delve into the "whistleblower" transcript because A) it's 1:00 and B) I am frankly feeling pretty eye-rolly about QAnon content right now, and this material deserves a *serious* look instead of a dismissive scoff -- I should effortpost, not shitpost.
So instead...
Let me close with a question.
If you REALLY WERE a whistleblower whose life was in danger, would you look at this sequence of events and say, "I want the 'I a mistake' guy to represent me, if he can find time between fundraising appeals & updates on his disciplinary hearings?"
UPDATE: I have looked at the interview. Surprise! It's wet garbage.
It starts with the "whistleblower's" claim to have 4 graduate degrees, but you can't PROVE he really does bc Rod Rosenstein *personally* tried to get the records purged & goes downhill from there.
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It's not that no one NOTICED the posts -- we know because another anon started a thread titled "To Q Clearance Patriot" to discuss them (this was after the lost drops were posted and before the canonical drops went up).
I praise @dappergander (and point people to their Patreon) A LOT. I should probably explain why!
Gander is the best analyst of any Q-watcher, and it's not especially close. At my *best*, I'm abouuuut... oh, 75% as good as one of Gander's more middlin' pieces.
And I ain't bad!
But Gander is BETTER. Let's go to the tapes to show you what I mean.
A month ago, Gander wrote a piece about the canonization process -- that is, the way anons built up a list of posts that they thought were by Q.
I've poked at the canonization process a LITTLE bit -- I try to keep my research roughly chronological, but this is such an obviously important subject that I've taken little nibbles here and there, trying to understand it.
So I speak with some authority, I hope, when I say:
Also: while writing that tweet, I was delighted to find out that @ArkadyMartine is a Byzantinist.
Partly 'cause it means I might someday get to see her gloss on one of my favorite historical figures, Basil I.
Partly 'cause I hope she and @HNTurtledove are pals.
But mostly...
Her close study of how the Byzantine empire worked has clearly informed her *fictional* empire, and helped her build a world where -- and this is really the heart of her achievement -- the culture she spends most of her time writing about *works like an empire does*.
It's easy, of course, to sneer at QAnon people when they say stupid things.
And some of them ARE remarkably uninformed about how the world works.
Here's the thing, though: *everyone* is vulnerable to the same kind of thinking they engage in, even professors.
So you or I might think, "Ah, I could never be THAT ignorant!" -- and sure, maybe you couldn't. Maybe you DO know more about life than PatrQT1717 or whatever.
But you are *absolutely* capable of being wrong and then doubling down, & doing it again and again. That's very human.
I have a book called "The Osiris Complex" that... well, the author is a psychiatrist, and he THINKS it's about how he was able to see the truth of Satanic Ritual Abuse and (what was then called) Multiple Personality Disorder.
(Also: ping @abbieasr -- get the book, it's so good)
According to this anon, writing roughly 8 months before Q's first appearance, the CIA was waging a shadow war against President Trump on behalf of "globalists," to "protect the Pizzagate ring."
But Trump was fighting back with help from anons and the online far right in general.
Trump's victories included:
"- FBI has finished Flynns investigation and found nothing wrong.
- Pizzagate still going strong, new findings on Podesta...
- Hundreds of Child Sex Rings being dismantled by the FBI the past 2 weeks
- Soros under financial investigation," aaaaand...
I've kept out of the Great State Debate until now, but COME ON.
Hilary's position was: "that MIGHT be a Nazi symbol. But you know what's DEFINITELY true? Yesterday. US Rep. Paul Gosar spoke at an event staged by Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes™. Today, CPAC let him speak anyway."
And people responded to THAT by calling her a Nazi?
Hey, y'all, instead of debating the stage, we really COULD be talking about actual literal undeniable fascist shit happening right across the street from CPAC.
Here are some choice quotes from Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes™:
After the El Paso shooting, Fuentes said: "The easiest way for Mexicans to not get shot and killed in Walmart is for them to not fucking be here."