One of the first curiosities of the guy who started the Q conspiracy troll is why he claimed "Q clearance" - pretending it was super high clearance when its just from Dept. of Energy. I think I know. It comes from a cartoon - Archer, about a goofy spy. The guy believed to.../1
...be the idiot posing as the secret spy Q - who has largely disappeared since being identified - is one of those anime, pop-culture geeks. Around the exact same time the Q character started dropping his "secrets," a particular episode of Archer ran for the first time on Hulu../2
...where, when surrounded by by military about to shoot him, Archer screams "Q clearance! I have Q clearance" - which is then identified as the highest level clearance available in the Central Intelligence Agency. (So high that Archer doesn't have it. He stole it off someone.../3
...else.) This is obviously not proof positive, but this is the only other place I have ever found where "Q clearance" is used to mean super-high intelligence clearance where you have access to everything, including military intel, rather than just Dept of Energy. And given.../4
...that the "Q" who has caused so much terrorism and chaos is a guy who loves cartoon and pop culture, and this "Q clearance" thing first appeared in a cartoon on a streaming service months before he used it as exactly what the fake Q claims it to be, it seems pretty clear.../5
...that American politics, neighborhoods, families, and efforts to fight as pandemic have been torn apart because some schmuck thought something he saw on cartoon was real, and could be used to create an online role playing game millions are too stupid to recognize as an RPG.

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