My 1/6 story: I've been writing about QAnon since January 2018 - when almost nobody knew what it was or took it seriously. I took did, because I saw its similarities to scams and frauds that had lasted decades by promising the same thing Q promised, except in blood, not money.
Many of the "disinformation experts" who now write reams about what Q "really" is wouldn't have known a Q drop from a hole in the ground when I was *screaming* for people to look at it not as some internet cranks, but as a burgeoning prophecy cult with a kill list.
I've never waivered from my belief that Q is not some high-level conspiracy, but a primal urge to get back at the people who are keeping you down, and the need for out groups to form in groups - all exploited by cagey grifters and spineless politicians.
"QAnon" as we knew it from 2017 to early 2021 doesn't exist anymore. It doesn't need to. The ideas it espoused - a deep state cabal oppressing patriots, funded by Jewish money and propped up by corrupt experts and pundits - are so mainstream that they don't need "drops" anymore.
Everything converged on January 6th: the messianic worship of Trump, the desperate need his followers had to be heard and respected, their astonished outrage that the deep state puppet Joe Biden could possibly take office, and their lust for blood to run in the streets.
On 1/6, I was deep into writing my book on QAnon, and didn't want the distraction of yet another Trump rally. But even just casually glancing at Twitter, I knew something horrible was happening. So I turned on the TV - and saw everything I'd been screaming about come to fruition.
Years of warnings and writing and interviewing and pleading for people to not write Q believers off as flyover country cranks - yet there were Q t-shirts on rioters breaching the Capitol, looking for members of Congress to kill.
For a second, I felt I'd failed. But I needed to scream louder. Reinforce that this wasn't a once-in-a-lifetime riot - but the expression of angry, violent, cultists who were determined to make their prophecy come true and make the blood run in the streets. The blood Q promised.
Q is silent, and "the storm" never happened. But the people who believe it will, someday, if they just meme and pray hard enough, they're still out there. They're our friends and family.

And I'm here too. Still screaming. Still writing.

Only now, people are paying attention.
And OF COURSE there's a typo in the first tweet.

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4 Jan
Other than Jim (who, let's face it, is the author of his own pain), what independent journalists or OSINT researchers have been suspended? I can't come up with anyone. It would be a big story if new management at Twitter is cleaning house of anti-Trump accounts...
She blocked me, so I guess I'll never find out.
I wasn't trolling, I really wanted to know. Maybe I could have helped bring some attention to someone being unjustly banned.
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1 Jan
Everything else aside, this isn't even historically accurate. German elites believed their leaders had been usurped by Jewish financiers and had betrayed their millions of war dead by suing for peace as they were on the verge of winning. It didn't just "happen."
Also, the "I'm the only one who can fix it" dude wasn't Biden or Fauci or Bill Gates. It was this guy:
The German people, particularly the professional military class, felt betrayed and humiliated by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which assigned them punishing guilt for a war they didn't start. It wasn't mass psychosis, it was the need for revenge and vindication.
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28 Dec 21
Like MTG and Boebert, Madison Cawthorn is an unstable and unqualified shitposter who won a chaotic GOP primary on the strength of his trolling, and has no business in the House. Where he met his wife is not the most disturbing thing about his political rise.
The guy jumped into a primary 2 days before the filing deadline, and was one of a dozen candidates in a jungle primary. He stood out because he was young and an outspoken troll, and won the general because of massive gerrymandering. The guy isn't Kim Philby, okay?
Sure, his marriage is weird. What about the guy isn't? His biography makes no sense and is riddles with easily disproven lies. And if his primary hadn't been a total mess, he likely wouldn't have won.
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27 Dec 21
I'm going to do a quick "best things I did this year" thread. And I want to start by thanking everyone who supported my work, or who reached out privately with information or questions. Out of dozens articles and over 200 interviews, comments, appearances, etc, here's the best:
Obviously, the big thing I did this year was finish, edit, and publish THE STORM US UPON US - the first book that examined QAnon from its precursor scams and frauds to the conspiracy theories it absorbed to how to get people out of it.

static.mhpbooks.com/the-storm-is-u…
Around the same time, I published an excerpt of the book in Time Magazine:

time.com/6076590/qanon-…
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21 Dec 21
A compelling case for why the National Guard was repeatedly delayed on J6: because Trump would have used their deployment as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act. Delaying might have made J6 worse, and thwarted the Trump crew's plan in the long term.
Trump and his dead enders, Flynn, Powell, etc, had talked openly of invoking martial law or the Insurrection Act and "re-running" the election. Thousands of armed soldiers on the streets of DC is exactly what they needed to do that. Chris Miller and his people knew that.
One theory is that Trump wanted the guard to break up street battles between MAGA loyalists and leftist protestors. While the counter protest never happened, the Capitol breach did - and with it allegations that the rioters were antifa or BLM agents. Perfect martial law fodder.
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14 Dec 21
800,000 dying people is a city the size of Seattle or Denver dying. Either you care about that or you don't. If you care, you got vaccinated and still mask indoors. If you don't care, you aren't doing that. There's nothing else to say.
If you don't care that 800,000 Americans have died of COVID, you wouldn't care if that number was 8 million. You're too special and important to care about what happens to other people. As long as it's not you. Which it won't be. Because you're special and important.
I've already had a verified "bodybuilder/jazz enthusiast" and a former Daily Wire writer get mad at me about this tweet.

Like I said, either you care or you don't.
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