There have been some great stories about Michael Brian Protzman and his Negative48 cult looking for JFK. Jr. But I haven't seen anyone talk about what the name "Negative48" actually means. I believe it's a direct lift from QAnon, and proves Protzman is angling to be the new Q.
Q drops constantly use random gibberish to convey what are supposed to be military codes or secret messages. Many are just random left/right banging on a keyboard - SJAH_X-830198374 or B19-2. But one that shows up five times in March 2019 and never again is [-48].
What does it mean? The number is specific enough that it might mean "T-minus 48 hours." Or it might mean nothing at all. It was only used on March 4/5, and nothing in particular happened two days later. But Protzman knows that Q fans will know that phrase means...something.
Other potential "new Q's"- Ron Watkins, Patel Patriot, etc - have actively run away from Q iconography and mythology. But Protzman has leaned into it, hard. He's sucking up the people who really like the weird aspects of Q and don't want it mainstreamed or sanitized.
Taking "-48" as "T-minus 48 hours," Protzman is using Q iconography to keep his followers in a constant state of frenzy. That whatever is supposed to happen is always about to happen in just a few days. So don't lose faith, don't stop trusting me - or you'll be out in the cold.
I think Protzman believes he is the successor to whoever was writing the Q drops, and understands how much certain people look at them as scripture. He knows what he's doing, even if it seems completely outlandish and brainwormed. It is, of course. But it's also dangerous.
Those Q drops that reference "-48" came in early March 2019 - two years later almost to the day, Protzman launched his Telegram. It might mean nothing or something, like everything else in this world. But those early posts lean HARD on Q drops.

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5 Nov
About two dozen Q drops were made on 11/5/17, though the number varies based on time zones. It was another big day in the leadup to "the storm" that President Trump would be unleashing while sequestered in Asia. Some of the more noteworthy goings on this day:
Just after midnight PST, D93 lays out a major tenet of Q: there's always a bigger fish, and a bigger cabal controlling the cabal that we thought was the big cabal that controlled everything. Case in point: "HRC was a puppet but her strings were recently cut."
The next few drops are about the Clintons ("Bill wants a deal") and Saudi Arabia, along with numerous mentions of "The Godfather Part III." Q really loves the least-loved part of the Godfather Saga.
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4 Nov
11/4/17 was a big day for Q drops - nearly two dozen, with Q pumping out even more nuggets as the clock rolled over into 11/5 PST. I won't summarize them all, but here are a few of the "highlights" as Q's thriller moves closer and closer to its climax (ew):
Q starts their spree by talking A LOT about Saudi Arabia, declaring that the following posts "will equate to the biggest drops ever disclosed in our history." This will matter quite a bit in a few days, but doesn't add much to the story now.
D72 sees Q again interacting with an anon following the story. People are clearly digging this and getting a lot out of it. Q also drops "Disinformation is real. Distractions are necessary" as he subtly rewrites his own story to focus on Saudi Arabia.
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31 Oct
10/31/17, four years ago today, was another big day in the evolution of the QAnon conspiracy theory. Q made 9 drops, cementing some of the biggest concepts in the movement's mythology. A few highlights (??) of these drops are:
Drop 14: The first reference to QAnon hero Mike Flynn, along with a barrage of rhetorical questions hinting that Trump was "asked" to run for president by military officers, and that he "knows where the bodies are buried."
Drop 15: The claim that "Soros, Clintons, Obama, Putin, etc. are all controlled by 3 families (the 4th was removed post Trump's victory)." I have never figured out who these families are. Also, Q claims "11.3 - Podesta indicted" and "11.6 - Huma indicted" Maybe this year!
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29 Oct
Anyone can celebrate the 4th anniversary of Q's first two drops, but today we celebrate the 4th anniversary of the day when Q really cemented itself as a conspiracy theory to watch. Q made 11 drops on 10/29/17, claiming among other things:
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"POTUS is 100% insulated - any discussion suggesting he’s even a target is false" and "Patriots are in control. Sit back and enjoy the show."
"John M never had surgery and that was a cover for a future out if needed against prosecution?"

"Obama also had an alias along with each of his cabinet members."
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28 Oct
The first drops in what would become QAnon were posted 4 years ago today. But the social and psychological forces that made Q a worldwide movement stretch back decades and centuries. I spent three years chronicling it all for THE STORM IS UPON US.

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I've written extensively about the movement for @dailydot, and the site has an entire set of stories to "commemorate" this important event in American paranoia.

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My story is on how the movement transformed with the end of the Q drops, the ultimate failure of "The Storm," and the increasing absorption of mainstream conservatism by a blob of insane conspiracy theories.

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This op-ed makes a persuasive case that "Havana Syndrome" is a mass psychogenic event. Any supposed "attack" based on secret technology and carried out among a narrow band of people without any real motive should be treated very skeptically.

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There are definitely physical signs that some of the people afflicted by "Havana Syndrome" are going through something. But the technology proponents believe is causing it doesn't exist, and the motive behind the "attacks" doesn't make any sense.
It's classic conspiracy theory stuff - secret technology and obscure motives used as an explanation for something that doesn't make sense otherwise. This is how our brains process chaos, by using whatever is at our disposal to turn it into order.
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