The last real asset Ron Watkins has, at least in my opinion, is the knowledge of who wrote the Q drops. So at what point does he just announce "I wrote the Q drops, and will tell my story to the first outlet that pays me?"
Ultimately, Ron cares about Ron. Remember his "election fraud video that would save the world" that was full of malware? He doesn't care if admitting he was Q sends believers into a spiral. And chances are, it won't. These people are used to being lied to.
All he has to say is "The Q drops came to me through God, I was only the conduit" and most Q believers will be totally stoked about it. Plenty of televangelists and charismatic leaders have done it before.
As to legal repercussions, I don't see how the drops aren't protected speech. Or even if US law applies to content written in Japan and posted by a site owned in the Philippines. He has far more liability for stuff he tweeted under his own name.
Obviously, I can't read his mind. And I think a lot will depend on how he's received at the Patriot Double Down. But if he bombs there, his knowledge of who was behind Q becomes the only thing of value he has left.
Anyway, don't underestimate Ron. He meme magic'ed his way into getting retweeted by Donald Trump, getting interviewed for national TV, and making himself into an expert on a subject about which he knew nothing. He's not stupid.
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Today is the 4th anniversary of Donald Trump's bizarre comment that casually started the dominant conspiracy theory of his presidency. I chronicle it in THE STORM IS UPON US, and am going to quote from that to tell a brief version of the story.
"On October 5, 2017, Trump called the White House press corps, who had been dismissed for the day, back to the State Dining Room. The president was holding court with top-ranking military officers and their families, enjoying the pageantry and adoration of the office..."
"And in that muddled, speaking-to-nobody-in-particular tone into which Trump so often dropped when speaking off the cuff, he casually launched a conspiracy theory that would shatter America’s brain.
Antivax rallies around the world, from Chicago to Barcelona to South Africa - all using the same icongraphy and the same social media tags. This is where to look - not DC.
Why are these all in English? That's a good question, but I'd imagine it's easier to make hundreds of slightly different fliers in one language. And the antivax movement is hugely popular in English-speaking countries.
Clearly this effort to turn out worldwide protests is well-organized and funded. But that doesn't make it fake or inauthentic - if people show up to the rallies, the movement is authentic. And people show up to these rallies, we've seen it over and over.
The DC lawyer indicted by QAnon hero John Durham's probe appeared zero times in the Telegram channel of any major Q promoter until news broke of his indictment. Now it's a sign that THE STORM is here. Some storm - one random guy indicted on one charge of lying to the FBI.
I can't imagine getting excited after four years of waiting for a Perkins Coie partner to get hit with one indictment. But that's why I'm not a QAnon believer, I guess.
The last time the Q faithful got this excited over nothing was when FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith got indicted for altering an email in the Russia investigation. Q even made a drop that it was the first of many indictments. He avoided prison, and just got his law license back.
The nuclear chain of command right now is dangerous and potentially catastrophic. Milley can be an advocate for changing it. But in January 2021, the President had the final and only authority to launch - not him.
If people want to roast me and call me a Trump lover for this, fine. But civilian control of the military is a foundational principle of the United States. Milley violated it - and the next JCOS to do so could take it a lot further.
Among Twitter's trending topics are "#DoNotComply," "Dictator Biden," "King Biden," "Biden regime," #massnoncompliance" and "GO TO HELL." So you can tell that "facts not feelings" conservatives are having a little trouble keeping their meltdowns to themselves.
These are real reactions, being boosted by the biggest influencers in conservative thought and media. It's not Russian bots or troll farms. People truly believe that doing the bare minimum to protect others and themselves is tyranny to be met with violence.
Just shutting up and getting the free, safe vaccine that keeps them out of the hospital never occurs to them. Because they're special and important.
This is another lie about me from a person who lies constantly about me and other journalists he dislikes. I do not have and have never created an ".ru email account."
I blocked this person months ago after he spread lies about me exchanging emails with figures in the right wing conspiracy theory world. He continues to obsessively screen grab my tweets and twist them into lies. Why he does this, only he knows for sure.
This person makes up conspiracy theories about journalists working together to harass him, and puts me at the center of it. No such conspiracy exists, and it never has. I have never conspired with anyone to do anything to this person. Again, it's lies on top of lies.