Ron Watkins (the once and perhaps future admin of 8kun) has broken his silence on Telegram.

His last message, on Inauguration Day, featured a passage widely lampooned as "the real Storm was the friends we made along the way," *which was an almost-fair paraphrase*.

Now he says:
I don't think he's gonna come off QUITE as well as he imagines he will. But that's just me!

Here's his January 20th message, BTW.
Watkins, who spent the months between the election and the inauguration trying to start a civil war (at one point explicitly urging Trump to "cross the Rubicon"), *also* found the time to rebrand himself as an "expert" on voting machines, because he claimed he'd read a manual. 🙄
UPDATE: Ron, perhaps stung by criticism, explains himself further:

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12 Mar
Have these fuckers learned nothing from the "Antifa civil war" they expected on 11/4/17?

And all the OTHER claims of civil war and CoMMuNiSt iNSuRgEncY the right wing has fallen for *since* then?

... Oh, right! They've learned that the claims keep believers riled up.
And SINCE the claims work when there's a deadline attached, why not just... extend the LARP indefinitely?

"Guys, we're gonna need to fight through an Antifa roadblock soon."

"Uh... when?"

"Ssssomeday? Like. Probably soon. Anyway let's LARP about how to do it."

"... sure!"
Yesterday I talked about how QAnon spread in part because it's a shared world-building project -- collaborating with friends to build a fantasy world is fun and creative.

@nickmartin is MUCH better placed than I am to say if the people engaging w/*this* fantasy are having fun.
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11 Mar
IMO we don't spend enough time talking about how Q's followers -- a whole lot of 'em, anyway -- straight-up take orders from Q.

Consider Jenn here: Q talked about making QAnon more mainstream, so she did interviews.

Or consider the "digital camouflage" drop, or the Oath, etc.
We REALLY dodged a bullet when Q more or less stopped posting after November 3rd.

How bad would it have been if Q *had* posted something like "Storm (insert city here)'s ballot counting operation to save the state for Trump?"

I'm guessing... bad. Very, very bad.
So why *didn't* Q do it?

If Q really is, as some people have speculated, a foreign "psyop" aimed at sowing division in US society,

A) why not *use it* operationally to plunge us into a terrible constitutional crisis?

and

B) why abandon it at all?
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9 Mar
ADVENTURES OF YOUNG GEORGE WASHINGTON, HIMBO EXTRAORDINAIRE

Now, everyone knows there are two things that make a Quality Himbo(tm): Hotness, on the one hand, and a combination of earnestness and... um... not-very-brightness, on the other.

Which should I show first?
Also, for people who -- understandably -- are like "Uh. Wait. What?", here you go:

The people have spoken!

And they want proof of how hot young G.W. was.

This is fair!

So let's talk about the time George Washington, age 19, was bathing in the river and two local girls *stole his clothes* so they could get a better eyeful.

founders.archives.gov/?q=%20Author%3…
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5 Mar
LIN WOOD TELEGRAM UPDATE:

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:
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5 Mar
TWO (BARELY) LOST DROPS FROM 11/1/2017 (BETWEEN DROPS 33 AND 34)

Let me be clear: these are, by far, the *least*-lost drops I've ever posted about.

But they are, technically, lost -- and it IS delightful that Q posted this content and got *only one reply* the first time around.
See, these posts are identical to drops 34 and 35 (which Q reposted less than 2 hours later, in another thread).

But unlike canonical drops 34 and 35, THESE posts vanished without a trace. They slid off the board in short order, drawing only one reply.

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
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).

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
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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.

Here's a key paragraph.

patreon.com/posts/qanons-c…
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:
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