I'm sorry, Baby Q was *hired by Cyber Ninjas for the Arizona "audit?"*
Hat tip to both the Arizona Republic and the Arizona Agenda Substack. My goodness.
The audio version is on a podcast called The Gaggle, if you wanna listen.
Also, if you’re not familiar with Baby Q’s whole deal, he claimed to be Q-from-the-future.
His big proof points were, basically, “if you bake hard enough you can find my name in some Q stuff! Sort of! Or close enough!”
Another proof he offered was “if I’m not really Q, how come I haven’t been arrested for publicly doing (insert illegal thing here)?” but of course he eventually DID face consequences.
The general consensus is that Steinbart is prrrrobably mentally ill, rather than grifting.
But hiring him fresh out of prison *kinda suggests* that whoever was making the hiring decisions knew who Steinbart was. And basically the only people who knew about him were:
1) his followers 2) mainline Q fans who hated him and his followers 3) Q-watchers.
Two of those categories would not rush to hire Austin Steinbart, so… 🤷♂️
It may be that someone recommended Steinbart to Cyber Ninjas and they snapped him up sight unseen. I’unno. But I’d LOVE to hear the story behind this.
Anyway, this is your daily reminder that even if *you* think this is ridiculous bullshit, the stakes are actually pretty damn high!
Republican elected officials and activists are willing to work hand-in-glove w/these people towards their shared goal of a Trump dictatorship. 🙃
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You may have seen Q's posts described as "cryptic." That's not ALWAYS true -- some were just links to tweets or what-have-you -- but there's a genre called "stringers" that looks a bit like (MADE-UP EXAMPLE):
DSRH_2021_GO_GO_GO
FTCPTD_2110
Gloves off
Godspeed
aRJT-2309-MZfSr
These were great fun for bakers -- meaning people who parsed these posts for clues about what Q might have meant-- because they could comb the news for any event that had appropriate initials, or letters, or (if they were into that kinda thing) the same gematria as a given word.
A famous early example was "Bunker Apple Yellow Sky," which I SWEAR I will one day do a thread about or die trying.
The short version is: anons decoded the phrase as meaning "Aylesbury" after a plane and helicopter collided with each other near that location in the UK.
This is a joint letter of recommendation and by God, it should have your name on it ASAP. It'll take like five minutes out of your life, and you know she deserves it.
Apply for access and I'll grant it ASAP -- I kept it restricted because, you know, ::gestures at Nazis::.
My contribution to the Conspiracy Chart Discourse(tm) follows:
1) It’s fine. I would even say it’s *good.*
2) @abbieasr is a well-respected researcher. If you watch this space, you know she’s one of exactly three English-lang. researchers who publishes on TikTok disinformation.
3) People who AREN’T in our corner of the internet will have all manner of reactions to the chart.
4) Some of those reactions are “lol what does this internet rando even know?” or, of course, “lol the global elites are using her as a tool to stifle discussion about REAL TRUTH.”
5) those reactions can safely be ignored, in the same way you could ignore me if I barged into a chemistry classroom and shouted “CARBON AND XENON ARE THE SAME ELEMENT! THE SAAAAME ELEMENNNT!”
If you’re like “But I’m just an accountant! What can I do?” or whatever, A) you can be an activist in your spare time AND B) maybe you can be a group’s treasurer. Thankless but important work.
You work in marketing? Great! Communications is a HUGE part of antifascist work.
Are you a really good cook? Bring delicious fucking treats to meetings!
You work retail and your schedule is unpredictable? Do what you can when you can, and make friends in the movement. Friendships keep everyone going.
Just came across a 4chan user whose Grand Theory was:
"Jews did Uranium 1 bc they were planning to nuke DC but only had American-supplied nuclear weapons, & they wanted to frame North Korea (plus Hillary and Obama), so they needed it to make sense that NK had American nukes."
The claim re. Uranium 1 here is building on Q's story: that U1 was a way for Hillary and Obama to funnel nuclear material to Iran and the CIA/Deep State-led bastion of North Kora, which was going to use nukes to blackmail any Patriot™ who somehow became President.
Needless to say, this is 100% disconnected from reality. I'm pretty sure it's even 100% disconnected from *how the right-wing media presented* Uranium 1; it's so... it's so...
I feel like a dog staring into a kaleidoscope. What even is happening???