In light of Ron Watkins' announcement that he's running for Congress, there are a LOT of folks -- including analysts I like and respect -- saying he's Q.
I'm not so sure! Ron as *sole author* of the Q drops -- even from January 2018 forward -- seems almost impossible.
Why? 1/6
The photos above are a comparison of times we *know* Q was behind a keyboard -- because they were interacting with other users in 8chan or 8kun threads -- and Ron's tweets (he was EXTREMELY online, though who among us isn't?).
The big gaps are *probably* when each author sleeps.
Ron appears to be sleeping during the late morning to mid-afternoon, Pacific time.
Q appears to be sleeping midnight-ish to 8-ish, Pacific time.
And Q is often active during Ron's (most likely) sleep schedule.
So this strongly suggests Ron and Q are different people, BUT...
There *is* a wealth of circumstantial evidence pointing to Ron having *some* sort of involvement with Q.
There are a few possible solutions to that.
One is that Q was a team of people and Ron was a part of the team, thus generating all those circumstantial connections.
Another is that Ron may have taken over as the exclusive Q author when 8chan went down and came back as 8kun.
8kun Q *was* often lazy and uninspired, posting drops that (for instance) urged people to watch "Hannity."
A third: Ron really isn't Q.
Which is right? 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
BUT...
It is exceedingly unlikely that Ron is *the only author* of the Q drops.
P.S. As always, if you have any questions, please feel VERY free to ask.
P.P.S. I know I said it's a 6-post thread but I maaaay come back to add additional evidence & explain some stuff for normies.
UPDATE: OK, yes, I cannot keep my big mouth shut. :D
EXTRA EVIDENCE: my team found metadata attached to 27 of Q's images. 68% of these appeared to be from the West Coast, which is not consistent with Ron's location in Japan.
It’s *amazing* how much prepper talk involves guns, gold, and goods & how little involves questions like:
“what’s the *most* hygienic, least water-contaminating place to poop if the sewer system breaks down?”
or
“How will I get medication for my loved ones w/no supply chain?”
Access to meds would be an especially acute problem after society collapsed; virtually everyone w/conditions that are lethal if untreated would die (often horribly, in front of their families).
That’s diabetes and cancer and a whole host of other conditions. But there’s more!
Lack of clean drinking water would also be a HUGE killer.
Between that and the collapse of medical care, you’d have a lot of people — especially children and infants — dying in agony from waterborne illnesses, which typically kill their victims via diarrhea-induced dehydration.
One of Q's early claims was that John McCain was faking his medical problems, for Reasons™: "What if John M's surgery was fake? Why would this occur?" wrote Q in drop 18, during their first thread that *really* caught on.
This claim resonated with a few anons, but... *why?*
One thing to remember is that 4chan's /pol/ board was both rabidly pro-Trump and wildly conspiratorial.
Trump's enemies were its enemies, and Trump's antipathy towards McCain is well documented. Also, McCain had recently been the critical vote to scuttle Obamacare repeal...
So anons were *extra*-mad at him.
When you add in the VERY conspiracy-friendly nature of 4/pol/, you start getting into... how shall I put it... the natural consequences of thinking everything's a false flag:
your brain falls the fuck outta your head bc you're so credulous.
They also (correctly, IMO) talked about the pleasure inherent in being able to vent one’s spleen on a captive audience & get applause for even the most lunatic lines.
We focus mostly on the intimidation side of why these people go to scream at schoolboards — that they…
very much *want* their desires enacted and they’re willing to intimidate officials to make it happen; that it advances their authoritarian worldview to, if they lose elections, simply strongarm the victors into doing what they want ANYWAY; etc etc.
UPDATE ON AMERICA’S LARGEST PROTESTANT DENOMINATION:
After a prominent Southern Baptist lost his position for *very* cruel treatment of sex-abuse survivors, his supporters formed the “Conservative Baptist Network” & are busily obstructing efforts at investigation & reform. 1/5
The amazing thing is: the investigation they’re stalling isn’t into Paige Patterson — the good ol’ boy whose defenders formed the CBN.
It’s a much more general, broad-scope investigation that’s supposed to yield info
& recommendations re: why abuse survivors are ill-treated.
Hint: it’s patriarchy — the welfare & reputations of male sex abusers (especially if they have status within the denomination, say as pastors) is, again and again, shown to be more important than the health and safety of their victims.
BEHOLD, A NEW LOST DROP -- our 14th! This one was discovered by @kunstderfuge1.
And THIS one strongly suggests Q was using Tor! How? More on that in a moment, but first: what's the lost drop, and what is Tor?
As for the lost drop, it's the first post in the image below. 1/8
Let's take a moment to establish context. This post was made right when 8kun was taking its first baby steps towards MAYBE sorta being online again, after a 3-month absence. (If you don't know the story, feel free to ask for details.)
Very few people could access it.
So the canonical drop -- #3571 -- was Q's first post after the downtime.
How do we know they're by the same person? First, because /BAS_Test/1 and /2 seem pretty thematically consistent! Almost like Q just forgot to enter their tripcode the first time around. But second...