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The Q Origins Project Profile picture
The Q Origins Project
@QOrigins
A close look at the earliest days of QAnon, showing Q's origins in, and relationship to, broader 4chan culture. WARNING: primary sources may be vile.
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Aug 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
There’s a story on NBC News you should ABSOLUTELY read if you have 5 minutes.

I’ll link it at the end.

A Texas cop who’s part of the far right (tried to start his own Oathkeepers chapter, even!) spent 2 years trying to land felony pornography charges on school librarians. 🧵 What he told people in /public/ — including his bosses, it seems — was: gosh, I’m just a devoted civil servant. If community members make a complaint, it’s my DUTY to investigate.

But actually he went to meetings held by anti-“porn” crusaders and told *them* to make a complaint.
May 21 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
TIL the guy who coined the phrase “go woke, go broke” wrote a whole entire book with the premise:

wouldn’t it be cool if Waffen-SS veterans were rejuvenated and placed in charge of the effort to stop soft, effete modern-day Germany from being overrun by aliens???

1/8


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Image “Origins,” you say, “perhaps that is a grossly unfair summary.”

OK, well, I fucking read that shit when it came out. I was a nerdy young conservative in 2005 and had *absolutely* been reading the entire series to that point.

It’s a 100% fair summary.
Apr 9 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
BOOK REVIEW CORNER: “The End” by Ian Kershaw

READ THIS BECAUSE: I *guarantee* you’re going to find at LEAST one thing that sticks in your mind for life. There are hardly any other books I’d say that of.

SUBJECT: the last months of the Third Reich. FAIR WARNING: this book features a *lot* of people trapped in awful situations waiting for terrible fates to befall them. Also, the stuff that will stick with you isn’t necessarily fun or uplifting.
Feb 12 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This piece has a bunch of good quotes (including some from me), but /none/ better than @rothschildmd’s at the end.

If nothing else, click in and scroll down to read that. It’s excellent!

Further thoughts in this thread. One thing I wish I’d conveyed in my interview:

QAnon, in the sense of “people who specifically believe that Q was legit,” /is/ on the decline.

But it’s NOT a spent force.
Aug 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“Think mirror” is a QAnon slogan often used in baking — that is, the search for hidden meaning in an image or text.

Ariel didn’t use the slogan in this post, but here he makes a direct & simple use of the *core concept* to suggest that the X app is somehow linked to Freemasonry: Image There /are/ less direct, less simple uses of “think mirror” — lots of them.

It’s a key part of how the “Q Clock” works, for instance (image credit: Travis View, AFAIK). Image
May 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Yeah, QAnon’s two best innovations were:

1) it had a hero and
2) it had a solution to the problem of the Cabal — namely the Storm.

This was a short, sharp spasm of violence that would purge all the political & cultural elites anons hated, & then Trump would lead a golden age. This is why QAnon is an apocalyptic-millenarian movement, not just a conspiracy theory.

BUT… the thing is… the anons themselves *are* 100% conspiracy theorists.
May 10, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This is a REALLY cool jumping-off point to discuss how INCREDIBLY flexible QAnon orthodoxy is.

And it’s not just flexible because, in the post-Q era (or the Biden Admin or whatever), a lot of anons place less value on the drops.

This is a claim you could’ve seen in 2020! So: 🧵 One of QAnon’s favorite thought-terminating cliches is “disinformation is necessary.” This is a GREAT way of blunting people’s discomfort when Q’s predictions — like arrests — don’t come true.

But it also has *big* implications *how the movement relates to Q drops.*
Mar 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This man is taking it harder than the anons.

Get off the cross, Junior. We need the wood. Also, Pol Pot’s regime killed like 1/4th of his entire country’s population!

I PROMISE, prosecuting Trump /for a crime he really did commit/ would not “make Pol Pot blush.”

But of course the point of that rhetoric isn’t *that it is true* — of course not, it’s shameless.
Mar 30, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“Can Christians be possessed by the Devil or only influenced by him?” was a hot theological question for Puritans in, like, the 1600s!

I just… didn’t think, when I was learning about the controversy, it would be relevant to understanding *modern-day* Christian conservatives. 🙃 Image Anyway, one of the most fiercely contested proof-texts on this question is 1 Peter 5:8, which warns believers that Satan goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Mar 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
BOOK REVIEW CORNER

@willsommer recently published “Trust the Plan,” his long-awaited QAnon book.

It’s a good companion to @rothschildmd’s “The Storm is Upon Us” — I worried that it would largely duplicate Mike’s work, but no!

STRENGTHS:
* Goes hard on the human cost of QAnon * Doesn’t get lost in the weeds — writing about QAnon, it’s easy to go “look at these insane things they believe” & then start trying to explain the lore behind each belief.

And suddenly your manuscript is 80% minutiae. Sommer stays out of this trap & focuses on the main thing.
Mar 8, 2023 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
In February 2020, anti-trans activists were working on a bill in Idaho.

A leaked email chain shows that, to defend against legal challenges, one suggested that they clarify the law’s intent:

ensuring “separate but equal treatment under the law.”

Separate but… 🤔. When your legislation is Definitely Not Evil, you *often* have to stop and say things like:

“I second the motion to stay away from ‘separate but equal.’”
Mar 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Anons are unlikely to see this news.

It could easily be incorporated into their worldview — an anti-Tucker reading would call him a Deep State plant. A pro-Tucker one would claim he said this at the direction of white hats so he could stay tight w/Fox’s anti-Trump forces.

BUT… There are two key factors that argue against QAnon influencers picking this story up.

First, the right-wing infosphere — of which Tucker is the undisputed king — sets the agenda for anons’ discussions.
Mar 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So, one fun thing about sanctions for clowns who push the Big Lie in junk lawsuits —

and maybe @az_rww can weigh in on this, IDK —

is that the clowns can always turn around and fundraise *off the sanctions*, and maybe use that to pay when they lose their appeals, IDK. Image That’s fascistic little grifter Mark Finchem, btw, who introduced legislation to “set aside” the vast majority of Democratic votes in AZ from 2020 because of Definitely Real Fraud,

but, when approached by law enforcement, explicitly told them he had no evidence 🤔🤔🤔
Feb 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is just a couple days' worth of emails from Elijah List, a prominent Charismatic Christian newsletter that has all manner of prophecies & news of what's going on in that world, but is MOSTLY...

::gestures at the subject lines::

"Secret IRS Loophole May Change Your Life!" Anyway, it's not /news/ or anything that right-wing spaces -- and this is VERY much a right-wing space -- are overrun by ads like this.

But every time I see it in an explicitly religious context, it's pretty jarring.
Feb 27, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Currently listening to Stew Peters — one of the most vile, bloodthirsty influencers on the conspiracist right —

earnestly plead for unity in the face of the coming Antichrist (and also the federal government, which he describes as a “crime syndicate”). He concludes that “we need to lead people to the cross”

I don’t think… most people want to take their religious cues from a guy who spends so much time ranting about the gallows that are waiting for his enemies
Feb 22, 2023 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
In this thread you'll find some highlights from the AZ Attorney General's investigation into claims of 2020 voter fraud,

which the Republican incumbent mysteriously decided *not* to publicize a month and a half before the 2022 election. First, this pattern is very familiar: elected officials who PUBLICLY said "this was rigged! rotten! fake to the core!" would not repeat those claims if there were, y'know, possible /consequences/ for lying through their teeth. Image
Feb 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The big thing in the right-wing infosphere today:

Speaker McCarthy has supposedly given Tucker Carlson access to thousands of hours of J6 surveillance footage, to try to stitch together a Republican-friendly narrative of J6.

So: a counter-J6 committee, except it’s just Tucker. Also it will have no bearings, consult no witnesses, and obtain no documents.

But it WILL be a messaging exercise and will try to extend and expand upon conspiratorial narratives that are already in place.
Feb 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So, 👇👇👇 is indeed how Jim Stewartson acts — and Mike’s not the only person he’s done this to.

In Jim’s fantasy world, Jim is TOO SMART and TOO ELOQUENT and TOO RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING, so /powerful and sinister forces/ have to conspire to keep him down.🙄 Anyone who doesn’t embrace Jim’s theories (which are the product of very bad analysis — Jim starts with a conclusion and then tries to retro-fit all the facts to it, AND he’s so bad at fact-checking that he’s often wrong on what the facts ARE)…

anyhow, anyone who’s unimpressed?
Feb 17, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
It’s time for ~NEOCHARISMATIC NOTES~!

In this thread, you’ll listen to Lance Wallnau — a legitimately /big/ deal in the neocharismatic world — as he:

1) shills for “Patriot” food buckets

2) says he has an office prop of George Soros riding a dinosaur

3) plays w/a Trump toy If you’re sitting here like “what the hell is a neocharismatic?”, I got you covered. Stick around.

But anyway: this guy is a clergyman, and it’s WILD to hear him not only shill for a product that is widely advertised in the conspir-o-sphere, but engage in radio-host shticks too.
Feb 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This sitting US Senator,

who tried to overthrow democracy and install an unelected dictator after the 2020 election (texts show him hopping aboard the Election Overthrow Express & only LATER asking for evidence that Trump didn't just lose),

probably really IS scared of the WEF. I can't /prove/ he's sincere, of course. I have no access to his heart (such as it is) or his mind (such as IT is).

But a *lot* of conservatives -- including ones with enormous influence and power -- really are fully brain-rotted.

I mean, they're hopped up on Poasting Juice.
Feb 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Another fun ad from Elijah List -- a combination newsletter / ad feed targeted at Charismatics.

"You've heard about the wealth transfer..."

Yes, I HAVE heard about the coming wealth transfer. In QAnon circles, it's a post-Storm economic utopia. Or NESARA/GESARA. Here... it is, in the words of academics Brad Christerson and Richard Flory, an "assert[ion] that Christian believers will soon be the recipients of 'the largest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind,' which they will use to bring about the transformation of the world."