There's been a BIG development in QAnon-Land in response to @CullenHoback's documentary:

The Patriots Soapbox crew (Coleman Rogers and his wife Christina Urso, aka Radix) today pivoted to claiming that QAnon is a "psyop" run by the Mossad (Radix is more than a bit anti-Semitic).
Both of them have been *huge* promoters of QAnon. Rogers, in particular, was vital to the movement's ability to spread off of 4chan, and is a prominent suspect for either Original Q or, at the very latest, Early 8chan Q.

So... why would they bail on Q now? My contact suggests:
1. Context matters. Radix claims that Rep. Paul Gosar was going to come onto her program, but bailed on it once the media caught wind.

Now that the Eye of Sauron, in the form of actual media attention, is on them, perhaps they're trying to whitewash their image. Or Q-wash it🤷
2. There DOES seem to be an element of trying to say, "Hey, it's not us! We're not Q!" -- and this seems to be in response to the documentary. My source notes:
3. I cannot stress enough how much Radix, in particular, wants to blame The Jews™ for everything. Per my source, she frequently yammers about the "Khazarian Mafia" -- which is a bullshit way of referring to Jews that I'm not gonna explain here; ask for deets if you're curious.
But what's REALLY gonna throw a grenade into The Discourse about this (though I do still have to report it, bc it's both notable and true) is that the source Radix quotes the most -- and most approvingly -- is @River_Advntures' Medium article: blog.usejournal.com/qanon-is-propa…
After an introduction (screenshot 1), Radix quotes *19 grafs* of his article -- an absolutely huge amount of text -- and concludes by saying that, while she doesn't agree with EVERYTHING the author wrote, "everyone" should read it, especially the PsyGroup and Wikistrat parts.
Indeed, Radix appears to have embraced (whether tactically or out of conviction) the core of Morrison's/RiverAdvntures' theory: that an Israeli firm named PsyGroup was a key part of starting QAnon, working with other right-wing figures to do so.

Radix adds to the theory, though.
Specifically, she turns her focus on Israel. Again, this is just how she rolls; I want to be clear that River_Advntures, though he did focus on PsyGroup and discussed it (accurately) as a firm founded by Israelis, did *not* take the same anti-Semitic turn that Radix did.

So!
Radix's additions to Daniel's theory are, in summary:

1. Bibi Netanyahu was involved

2. Bibi bad because Israel bad because Jews bad.

3. Q SAYS they're connected to military intelligence, "but what if it's Israeli military intelligence?"

4. Kushner bad because Jews bad.
So! Why is all this notable? Why have I wasted so much of your precious time on this Earth explaining it?

Because ***this is cross-over between the worldview of Q critics (well, a loud minority of Q critics) and the worldview of QAnon followers.*** That's new & VERY interesting.
BUT there is a caveat: Rogers is a chan-CHUD. Radix, a white supremacist. These are folks who lie all the time, by the very nature of their... avocations, you might say.

And they've built their reputation and following entirely off of QAnon. Are they *really* gonna break up w/Q?
Or is this just a tactical denial to sort of Q-wash themselves until the press stops paying attention and they can slink back to their usual BS?

I don't know. This is, on the surface, a BIG break with QAnon -- but conspiracy theorists aren't known for their consistency.
P.S. Oh right! The source. Beware, the site is cursed (and Twitter was right to block it --you'll have to do a bit of work to get there.)

patriotssoapbox dot com /opinion/on-psychological-influence-ops-in-the-info-age-q-in-the-crosshairs/
P.S. I didn't mention this in the thread, but should have:

Patriots Soapbox has been SO thoroughly deplatformed that the only way they can get paid is if you mail them a paper check.

Revenue has GOT to be in the toilet. So if Q's not working for them, why stay loyal to Q?

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23 Mar
I've talked a bunch about dead ends being *good*, not bad -- about how investigators have to learn how to handle them emotionally or they're gonna have a bad time.

This short series of tweets brought to you by my current investigation: into *where my 2nd warm, fuzzy sock went*.
Stage 1 of emotional coping is practical, not emotional at all -- go over your dead-end toolkit and use all your little tricks.

Remember, you don't have to accept defeat until you're actually defeated!
Stage 2 is unique to this investigation: discover that your cat left a HUGE gastric gift for you right in the middle of the staircase.

Take a moment to be grateful that at least you didn't step in with your BARE foot.
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My thoughts on the first two episodes of the HBO documentary:

* So far, this is a good introduction to the "what" of QAnon. I do wish that it showed more of the reality of QAnon -- more of the human cost, strained relationships, etc -- but you'd need believers to consent, so🤷
* Trust me when I say it is VERY, VERY DIFFICULT to boil down the story of the 1/5/18 coup -- and the relationships between the various players -- into like an 8- or 10-minute narrative. That was impressive. And I learned stuff from it!
* I do wish we'd spent more time with the believers even apart from the effects on their families. QAnon is an execution cult, selling people on the belief that once all of Trump's enemies are killed, everything'll be better.

So... why do they believe that? 🤔 Seems probe-able.
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When I was re-examining early Q suspects, I also took a fresh look at Paul Furber (a software engineer from South Africa, heavily involved in spreading QAnon off 4chan).

Q's use of "RC" to mean "registered charity" in drop 2 suggests someone from the Commonwealth, BUT...
you'd have to have a messed-up sleep cycle to be making those posts from South Africa.

Maybe Furber DID, however. If he typically worked with American companies, it'd make sense to sync his day up with his colleagues'.

As always with Q stuff, the evidence is ambiguous.
But anyway, these little scraps of evidence pointing at *several* different players -- and also the fact that the most interesting "I was Q" confession floating around out there points to a group being behind Q, as well -- inclines me to think that Q-as-group is very plausible.
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18 Mar
Anyway, this anon summarizes Q's story:

"He was saying that the Antifa riots will be a catalyst for Trump to use his executive powers to send in the Marines & establish martial law. Which also means he can send the Marines into Langley and the FBI headquarters and take control."
You know a LARPer is makin' an impression when you're ten posts in and you've already seen two people go "Put me in screencaps, please. I want to be a part of history." (Screencaps are... I'll show you a sample and you'll see what's up. Primitive and ugly, no? Like /pol/ itself.)
But anons HAD to resort to this kind of device, early on, to track Q's posts (or the posts of any long-term LARPer). Eventually there were so many posts they created community-run spreadsheets (e.g. "STORM IS HERE" and "Q QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER")...
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You know what? Let's livetweet some research!

I'll be reading through Calm Before The Storm thread #4, from 11/2/17.

For the perplexed: CBTS threads were created to talk about Q, though CBTS #4 is *so* early on there's plenty of talk about other LARPers.
archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/147…
First notable post:

"Okay, I read all four threads, it was either a god-tier larp or legit. I honestly think it was legit for maybe the first time in my life.

but I don't understand WHAT op-anon was saying was going to happen."

More on Op-Anon shortly (I read ahead; sue me.)
You might think that "Op-Anon" means OP Anon. You are wrong. There was an anon in an earlier thread claiming to be an "operator" in the Special Forces sense.

4chan LARPers *love* to say that. Highway Patrolman claimed to be a 6'7" Special Forces vet/SWAT cop w/15 combat tours.
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MegaAnon was the most successful LARPer on 4chan when Q came around.

To be clear, I don't think she was Q. There are a TON of differences between them. But her basic story -- at least, the story she was telling a few days before Q popped into being -- was AWFULLY familiar. 1/12
If I had to choose one post from her oeuvre to show what her deal was (and I do, or this would be a million-tweet thread), this would be it.

In this post, Trump is a 5D chessmaster who knows *everything* about the swamp & his staff. And he has a plan. 2/

archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/146…
I encourage you to read that post closely -- it hits a *ton* of the same notes Q went on to hit starting a few days later.

Like Q, MegaAnon's theories, too, were spun off from Pizzagate -- they centered on child sex abuse & claimed that Trump was saving kids from the swamp. 3/
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