Some highlights from a Calm Before the Storm thread on November 2, 2017. This is CBTS thread #3, one of the earliest spaces for discussion of Q's claims.
Thread is linked below but, as always, the content is vile. Screenshots may be gross, too.
What we see in the screenshots above is that, as I have noted many many times, the anons were pickin' up what Q was puttin' down RIGHT away, with little or no clarification needed from Q.
In fact, let's zoom and enhance on that Canada-flag anon:
This is, indeed, the direction in which Q took the Uranium 1 narrative.
U1 is a deeeeeeeeep cut of QAnon lore. In brief, it comes from a Definitely Real Scandal™ thrown into the conservative mainstream by a journalist at The Hill, John Solomon, in mid-October 2017.
Q first started posting in *late* October 2017, meaning that U1 was still in the conservative media's news cycle at that point -- though not necessarily a frontburner story.
Still, U1 wasn't some weird, olde-timey story that had everyone scratching their heads.
This audience had, fairly recently, been breathlessly imagining that Uranium 1 would FINALLY bring Hillary down.
In real life, it was an absolute nothingburger and for SURE didn't provide material to North Korea -- or, as Q also implied, Iran -- for nuclear weapons.
Like, even the most fever-swampy of "respectable" right-wing media didn't suggest that.
But, as always, anons IMAGINED that their favored enemies were capable of *infinite* evil; and, as always, both the anons AND Q themselves played a little game of yes-and, so the story grew.
TL;DR: here, one of the most baroque aspects of Q's story -- "Hillary and Obama sold uranium to North Korea (which was really being run by the CIA anyway) so the Deep State could blackmail Trump with the threat of nuclear destruction if he and other patriots took power" -- is...
predicted and accepted, ALMOST in its entirety, by an anon who had just encountered Q a couple-three days prior. (The exception is that this particular anon hadn't twigged to the "CIA runs North Korea" part of the storyline, which Q had heavily hyped in previous drops.)
These people REALLY wanted to believe.
A few more examples before we go, including one anon LITERALLY just coming right out and saying it:
This thread is, in large measure, post after post of "what-if" speculation as anons whip themselves into a frenzy.
In fact, it's notable how RARE the sentiment "why don't we wait until tomorrow and see if Q's testable predictions actually come true?" is.
P.S. For some overall context, this thread was created RIGHT after Q's famous statement -- in drop 55 -- about how anons would know the Storm had arrived.
All this conversation was happening during the ~2-hour gap between that and Q's next statement.
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It covers, so to speak, the deep background of QAnon -- it goes into depth about some of the trends in Internet culture and 4chan culture that drove QAnon into prominence.
It also talks movingly (and with some incredible anecdotes) about the personal cost of QAnon.
And while it has some light overlap with Mike's book, Mike's is -- for me -- the book I would give someone who goes "What's the deal with this QAnon thing?"
But Van's is the book I would give someone who asked "Where does this QAnon thing come from?"
“Patriots” are flooding the hospital with calls demanding that they release her — also they’ve called the cops. So far on Telegram, I’ve seen calls to:
* Pull the fire alarm
* Storm in and take her
* Hang hospital staff
Oh, and a smug motherfucker with a Ron Paul sticker in his broadcast booth is doing some kind of audio livestream and pausing to say things like, “I guess that’s 111 subscribers in the past hour or so ago.”
Now, there’s some good news: it appears there are only a handful of people actually on the scene, so hopefully they WON’T try to barge in.
OTOH, imagine you’re working in the hospital emergency department, or a patient waiting there. The phone keeps ringing off the hook…
We -- meaning the Project -- are keeping tabs on a small "medical freedom" rally happening in the Midwest rn.
It opened with a Hebrew Roots pastor blowing a shofar. Here's a rundown of what the last speaker had to say, courtesy @kunstderfuge1 (who's giving us the play by play):
That last line does not, in any way, make me despair. 🙃
Anyway, the current speaker is of the "I'm not antivaxx, but..." AND ALSO "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but..." varieties (though fun twist: he claims to be vaccinated!).
Also it should be obvious that we're not, you know, ENDORSING his claims by reproducing them.
It's just interesting to see the same claims and rhetoric going around. Also, I keep wanting to ask: if the vaccine is killing people, why AREN'T you anti-vaxx?
Lin Wood’s plans to boycott the libs into submission are 300% going to fail, and he will: 1) blame the Cabal and 2) probably turn to even more violent rhetoric than the usual “the tree of liberty must, from time to time, be refreshed with the blood of Patriots and tyrants.”
At no point will he engage in any sort of introspection or even just… the briefest review of his many failed strategies.
And maybe that’s because he IS mentally ill.
Certainly his erratic and occasionally violent behavior has alarmed his friends and family for well over a year now, and, of course, there ABSOLUTELY was a time when he just…
On 3/28/2018, Q made a post claiming, depending how you read it, that either Q themselves or CodemonkeyZ -- Ron Watkins, the administrator of 8chan -- had been locked out of the Great Awakening board.
Turns out Ron replied!
In fact, it was a somewhat *testy* response: "I did not lock you out. I can see from the logs that you have logged into the... board owner account in the past 24 hours.... your account is unlikely to be compromised. If you need a password reset..."
Truly, an aggrieved IT nerd.
Then, to FURTHER address the claim, Ron provided a screenshot of the board log. (Not visible in our archive because we don't have images, but I was ALSO unable to get it to load from the source, because 8chan/8kun is held together by gum and baling wire).