Thread by @JoyfulLife4Him

Flynn denies Q is legit, and says it’s a disinformation campaign to make people who believe it look like “kooks”! Yet, he has profited big time from Q merchandise and from Patriots who follow the messages of Q and believed he might be a part of its operation!

Here’s what he actually said about Q, “I have always believed it is a set up and a disinformation campaign to make people look like a bunch of kooks.”
Look at how he’s profited and look at his connections to people like Beanz, who Q called out early!

Also see my other thread about the Flynn’s lawsuit.
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The article I’m reviewing here also talks about that lawsuit.

Note: The statements I will use are adapted from this article. The words are not exact quotes.
theintercept.com/2021/06/27/qan…

His move to trademark the term “digital soldiers” ensured that only he and others who obtain his express permission can profit from the sale of “Digital Soldiers” branded merchandise.

This hints at his attempt to capitalize on a marketing and communication strategy that resonates with the Q community!

Flynn hitched his financial fortunes to QAnon at least as early as the summer of 2019, when he was facing a mountain of legal costs.

Flynn and others have built an empire from the Q movement, that has been hiding in plain sight for a long time!

Firms linked to Flynn and his surrogates, are entities registered in Florida, Virginia, and Texas, some of which are inactive.

They include a political action committee and a related firm now at the center of a $1.3 billion libel lawsuit connected to the 2020 presidential election.

The Flynn’s have denied involvement with Q and any association to the group. They are currently suing CNN saying they were mischaracterized as supporters of A when they took an oath as a family and each ended by saying, “Where We Go One, We Go All”.
salon.com/2021/03/26/mic…

They claim it had nothing to do w/a call by Q just 10 days prior, saying “Take the Oath”!

During this time many Patriots were videotaping themselves taking that same oath. The majority of these were Q followers.

Is it true, the Flynn’s oath was unrelated? I don’t believe so!

Posts that were made on Parler under Flynn’s handle included an exhortation to take “the oath.”

It was reported in March of 2021 that Flynn’s brother Joseph and four others had recently registered a 501(c)(4). That is a tax-exempt “social welfare organization” that can engage in lobbying and advocacy. It was called “Defending the Republic, Inc.” and registered in Florida.

Records indicate that Mike and Joseph Flynn, along with Sydney Powell, are listed as directors of a Texas corporation by the same name that shares an address with Powell’s Dallas legal offices. The Texas corporation was established on December 1, 2020.

Ties between Flynn’s legal defense fundraising campaign and his online business efforts became more pronounced beginning in May 2019.

Soon after Flynn sought to trademark the term “digital soldiers” and the website for Resilient Patriot, began redirecting to his legal defense fund.

As far back as the fall of 2017, public documents, internet registry records, and media interviews show Flynn and his surrogates began probing the possibility of deploying a viral online information operation that would tap into the minds of millions of social media users.

Flynn has attempted to capitalize on the “army of digital soldiers” he has built. The cast of characters, companies, and websites behind Flynn’s quest to profit from his insider status within the military and the highest echelons of WA’s national security establishment is vast!

In November, 2026 Flynn spoke to a group of high school and college students and declared, “This was not an election, this was a revolution.” He said Trump had been elected by an “army of digital soldiers.”

That moment would cement Flynn’s pivotal role in Q circles!

Flynn has been painted as a victim-hero in the fight against the deep state!

But is he really a hero?

See my thread on the infiltration into our government!
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The Q posts began in October of 2017, and by December 2020, an NPR/Ipsos poll found that 17 percent of Americans subscribed to the ideas espoused by Q.

Days after Flynn spoke to YAF, when his name was being floated for a high-level job in the Trump administration, a website called resilientpatriot. com was created, according to internet registry files.

*Now tell me why would they start that website before Flynn was fired?

While Flynn’s name does not appear in domain name records for that site, the registry records for another Flynn-linked website list Michael Flynn, Jr.’s email. Michael Jr. is said to have also used the name, Resilient Patriot on Twitter.

If Flynn played a role in creating that website in November 2016, it would have been an unusual move for a potential presidential appointee.

Many White House officials go to great lengths to avoid extra scrutiny of their business and personal affairs, and it is common practice in Washington for nominees to scrub their social media accounts and reduce their digital footprints.

Two months after he was fired from the Trump administration, in April, Virginia public records indicate that the state issued a receipt to Flynn for the creation of a company called Resilient Patriot LLC. Flynn’s
LinkedIn page lists him as president of a company by that name.

Flynn had offered to testify before Congress on what he knew about Russian interference in the 2016 election in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

Flynn’s sister Barbara and brother Joseph started a fundraising campaign to help pay Flynn’s legal bills.

Web archives indicate that resilientpatriot. com had been dormant for a time, but became active after this plea for money began!

Starting in May 2019, resilientpatriot. com began redirecting visitors to mikeflynndefensefund. org according to internet archives.

Initially, the fund garnered donations from 1000’s of supporters, per Joseph Flynn. He claimed however that, mounting legal fees appeared to be outpacing donations.

In order to help with the legal fees, the Flynn’s say they were forced to sale their 3 bedroom home in Virginia.

Flynn had bought it for about $774,000. Joseph told ABC News that Flynn sold it for slightly less than $895,000.

In 2019 after the Mueller investigation, Flynn was said to have an estimated $4.6 million in unpaid legal bills.

Flynn then launched a new fundraising scheme, seeking to register “Digital Soldiers” under his name with the trademark division of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

He abandoned the registration of those words alone in May 2021 but applied to trademark “Digital Soldiers” when used in tandem with his distinctive red, white, and blue three bars and three stars logo.

He sought to hold exclusive rights to prevent anyone from selling similarly marked goods. Wherever his logo with “Digital Soldiers” is used, on anything from T-shirts to swimsuits to mugs and tote bags, he wanted to benefit financially.

The one’s predominantly interested in buying this type merchandise would be those in the Q community.

That August, digitalsoldiers. us was created, according to internet archive and domain registry records. The listed registrant for that site is also Michael, Jr.

Another site advertising a fundraising event for Flynn, digitalsoldiersconference. com, was registered on August 9, 2019.

The conference website’s main page included an image of an American flag with the stars arranged in a large “Q” beneath the words “The battle is joined. Victory will be ours.”

Scheduled for September 14, 2019, at an upscale mall in Atlanta, the Digital Soldiers Conference was the most visible sign yet that Flynn had yoked his personal brand & fundraising efforts to Q.

The website for the Digital Soldiers conference declared, “America, is on the verge of a digital civil war, & Flynn is a true American hero fighting the Deep State who put everything on the line for God & Country”.

Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and others were to be speakers!

The website advertised $99 general admission tickets for the conference, while a “VIP All Day” pass cost $500. Those interested in a sit-down dinner with Flynn and front-row access to speeches could buy the “Ultra VIP” ticket package for $2,500.

The “majority of proceeds from the Digital Soldiers Conference was to benefit his legal defense fund.

By October 2019, Flynn’s “digital soldiers” websites were joined by a real-world company: Digital Soldiers Media, LLC. Florida public records list Flynn,

His brother Joseph, and his son Michael Flynn Jr. as managers of the company and show an address in Englewood, Florida, where Flynn bought a home.

Part of the Digital Soldiers business plan appears to have been to sell T-shirts and hoodies bearing Flynn’s name and logo. The T-shirt sale model parallels another Flynn-backed website called,

The Shirt Show USA, which also aims to capitalize on Flynn’s hero status among QAnon followers.

But the sale of “WWG1WGA” T-shirts featuring Flynn’s name at $32 apiece was a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of dollars supporters were asked to cough up in a pay-to-publish scheme first advertised on a website linked to Flynn through his Digital Soldiers brand.

“We have an army of digital soldiers: citizen journalists,” an archived version of the digitalsoldiers.us site’s landing page declares, borrowing directly from Flynn’s 2016 speech.

It goes on to note that digital soldiers “from all over the world have stepped up to fill the void where real journalism once stood.”

*I wonder who responded and how they were and are being used? Are these people also paid? Don’t forget what we learned about “We The Media”!

“Soon,” the site promised, “you will be able to submit your story to the Digital Soldiers website, where in partnership with UncoverDC .com it will be vetted, edited, and shared with our network of thousands of fellow Digital Soldiers.”

The digital trails leading from Flynn’s digitalsoldiers.us to UncoverDC .com surfaced in the analysis of data collected from Parley social media accounts by the New America and ASU team.

UncoverDC. com was created on May 31, 2019, according to internet registry records; soon after, a company called UncoverDC, LLC was registered in South Carolina, according to public records.

Run by online influencer Tracy Beanz. Like many alt-tech sites that seek to monetize access to specially curated content generated by far-right influencers, UncoverDC offers paid membership options.

Beanz is listed as UncoverDC’s editor-in-chief, and an archived version of digitalsoldiers. us states that that site is a “project of General Flynn and UncoverDC,” linking the sites via a trail of digital breadcrumbs.

One of several conservative micro-influencers who have ridden the Qanon wave, Beanz is a central player in Flynn’s growing online profile.

Beanz also hosts a podcast called “From Dark to Light” and touts her credentials as an “investigative journalist.”

You can get a chance to engage directly with Beanz for only $125 a month, users who sign up for the “Say So” editor’s tier can get their investigative contributions published on the site.

Those seeking more tailored access or a private audience with Beanz can sign up for the “Luminary Tier,” where a $2,000 donation will also secure access to a group chat.

For an even more intimate experience, Luminary Tier members can pay $3,000 to have Beanz “convince a doubter on a hot topic” or $6,000 for a chance to see their name on the site’s “FOUNDERS page.” Donations of any denomination can also be made via PayPal.

Think about all this and ask yourself if this isn’t exactly what Q was talking about when he said the following?

Be careful who you are following.
Some are profiting off this movement.
Some are building a big following off this movement only then to RETREAT AND GO MAINSTREAM.

Patriots make sacrifices.
Some, the ultimate sacrifice.

Patriots are SELFLESS.
Do they ask for monthly payments to remain Patriots?
Think logically.
To some, it’s only about the money.

Who has gone MAINSTREAM?

Who now denies Q?

Who is PROFITING off this movement?

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