Not only does it resolve (IMO) The Mystery of Drop 35™, but it has -- in one stroke -- forced me to change my opinion of whether Q was an evangelical: I now think it's unlikely.
How'd I get all that from just 👇? Come find out! 1/10
So, the mystery of drop 35 is: in the excerpt below, Q mashes together two famous verses (John 3:16 and a selection from 1 Corinthians 13) in a way that's COMPLETELY alien to how Christians use the Bible.
Why?
And Seth proposes an answer: because Q saw it on Bible Gateway. 2/
Now, that seems weirdly specific. How likely is it that Q even WENT to Bible Gateway?
Turns out it's *very* likely.
See, BG is the most popular site out there for Biblical text lookup (it's a top-1000 site OVERALL, per Alexa). Its only serious competition is Bible Hub. 3/
Longtime readers will know that I'm not ridin' the "QAnon is Russia!" train -- but I like and respect @Dragnet_News, who IS riding the train but is a tenacious & knowledgeable passenger.
One part of this article is especially interesting.
The article notes that Your News Wire (a fake news site described by an EU body as a "Russian proxy") made a claim that dovetailed VERY nicely with Q's predictions: it said that John Podesta was arrested on November 4, 2017 -- just like Q had claimed.
What Dragnet News *doesn't* mention, but IMO probably should have, is that Your News Wire wasn't the only fake news site to publish that story on November 5.
A British site called Neon Nettle ran the same story...
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.
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. 🙄
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:
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.