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Interviews with further Cicada insiders will give us unprecedented insight into this most enigmatic phenomenon of the internet age.\n\nIn this interview, gHOST3301 and I review the complicity of Thomas Schoenberger, formerly one of two “head composers” in Cicada, whose greed and mismanagement of Chavez triggered the collapse of the order. We discuss the prospects for a reemergence of Cicada 3301 on January 5, 2020. We address Schoenberger’s colleagues, composer Michael Levine and television producer Richard Lech.\n\nI first asked Thomas Schoenberger for an interview on April 16, 2019. He ignored me, then he blocked me on Twitter, and he directed his co-conspirators to do likewise. I was subsequently blocked by DJ Genki and qntmpkts, despite an absence of prior interaction between us, and by several Schoenberger sock accounts.\n\nI later reiterated my invitation to Schoenberger in the interest of fairness and completeness. He continued ignoring me until I published my interview with Tafoyovsky: then he complained that I did not ask him for a review before publication. I no longer need Schoenberger’s input. His critics and a large tranche of internal Cicada documents in my possession evocatively speak for him.\n\ngHOST and I discuss the tenuous ownership position of Schoenberger’s profiteering cabal. Schoenberger and his crew may be able to sell the story of Cicada to Hollywood, but withstanding legal challenges by the artists who actually created Cicada’s infamous puzzles may prove difficult: the project could be paralyzed by a single judicial injunction.\n\ngHOST and I discuss the origin story of Cicada 3301, and the role of Debian Linux creator Ian Murdock, who was known as early as 2011 as The Architect: Murdock was allegedly a leading member of the original Cicada clandestine cabal, which remains covert today. 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These were the first two Q drops, posted on 4chan on October 28, 2017. \n\nMr. Furber became a proselytizer of Q, indeed I consider him the original Q evangelist, coordinating with other Anons in Discord chatrooms: They took Q from 4chan to 8chan, to Reddit, to YouTube, and then to Voat. History will remember Mr. Furber as a reason why Q went viral. \n\n\nI began my interview with Mr. Furber convinced that Q is a LARP, a Live-Action Role Play, and a psychological operation. I still believe this, but I now understand that Q is much more. \n\nUnderstanding Q as a LARP and as a psyop is useful, but it is not the whole story. QAnon borrows from previous LARPs, like Operation Chanology, and Cicada 3301, and any alumnus of the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg can discern that Q is a psyop. \n\nMarketing professionals likewise recognize Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in the Q drops, and tricks from the dark arts of advertising. Social scientists perceive the programming in Q, and political scientists marvel at the Q superconspiracy as an ideology. \n\nWhat I realized in the course of my interview with Mr. Furber is that all of these different ways of approaching Q, these different methods of understanding Q, all fall short: they do not encompass the entirety of a phenomenon that is becoming a movement, an influence on modern conservatism. \n\nDemocrats and neoliberals, the fake news media, desperately fear QAnon. They deride and dismiss Q, they paint millions of American patriots like you and I as lunatics, they claim that we are deluded. \n\nI hope that they continue believing this, as we combatants in the ongoing war for the popular conscience will hence defeat them. Our ideology rises: theirs fades. \n\nThe fake news media publishes endless articles trying to hypnotize us. History will remember the Pravda media's coverage of QAnon as an epic error, as most Americans were introduced to QAnon through the mainstream media. Now we look to alternative media for our explanations.\n\nAnd Q is ubiquitous on alternative media. Facebook, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, MeWe, Minds, Gab, Spreely, SteemIt--Q communities flourish on forums and websites--and Q programming on YouTube, Twitch, Periscope, DLive, DTube, and BitChute is legion. \n\nQ posts exclusively on 8chan, one of the lone remaining bastions of free speech. Anons then spread the Q testament. One Anon known as @IAMBECAUSEWEARE on Twitter freely publishes the aggregated Q drops in .pdf format as The Storm on Patreon (Version X.VI, Updated May 2, 2019). The more that the ideological Left screeches about Q, the further Q spreads. \n\nMainstream media is losing us forever. We are unplugging and canceling our cable contracts and watching what we want, when we want. We are not just saving money, we are liberating our minds:  the endless propaganda, the fake news, the slow, dishonorable seppuku of the dinosaur networks, all is laid bare. The Fourth Estate is dying. \n\nBack to my interview with Mr. Furber. Some may not realize it, but we are natural lie-detectors. With training, we can detect deception. Some liars--intelligence professionals, criminal confabulators and the schizophrenic--present a challenge, but a trained observer using a timeline as an interview tool can detect a liar perpetrating a lie. \n\nPolice detectives elevate this to an art form. Telling a lie sequentially is easy. Telling a lie backwards, not so much. \n\nPolygraphers manipulate complicated apparatuses as a tool to put liars off their stride. What they are actually doing is observing your body language, a host of physical indicators, and your language patterns. The \"box\" is not the lie detector: the operator is. \n\nI did not begin my interview with Mr. Furber intending to trip him up. I am not a journalist. I do not practice gotcha journalism. I am a political scientist and an historian, and I also happen to be a school-trained 18F intelligence sergeant. I wanted to verify some facts and to flesh out the Q narrative. \n\nI did that much, and more. As we talked, I realized that Mr. Furber is not a co-conspirator in a LARP. He did not fake the Q drops. He does not know who authored them. His story is believable, fluid, continuous and coherent. He could tell his tale chronologically and backwards, with no internal inconsistencies. His body language is not deceptive. \n\nSo I did not learn from Mr. Furber who is perpetrating Q. I do not believe that it is Mr. Furber, and he was on a short list of suspects before our interview. We must never forget that QAnon could literally be anybody. \n\nI reinforced a suspicion that Q changed hands at certain points, that different crews took over Q, and Mr. Furber agreed with this thesis. Further investigation, textual analysis cross-referenced to events, may tell this part of the story. But neither of us knows who wrote the first two Q drops, though claims were made, and neither of us is certain who is running Q at this time. \n\nI do harbor suspicions. I know that Q is not an intelligence professional. I will publish the proofs of this soon. Nor is Q a lone individual. Q is a group, and Q says as much. Whomever is running the Q operation is literate in historical conspiracy theories. \n\nQ could be a political scientist, someone with long familiarity with conspiracy literature over decades, like myself--or like Mr. Furber. This likely describes just one or two members of the Q team. But I do not think that Mr. Furber is Q. Nor does he know who is posting Q drops now. \n\nI will integrate my interview with Mr. Furber into my ongoing research. I will post it to a censorship-resistant video host like DLive, given time. But I now need to adjust my working hypothesis, and I need to modify several chapters of my Q analysis. Q is not just a LARP. Q borrows from historical LARPs, but Q is much more. \n\nThere is no question that Q is a psyop. I will publish an analysis explaining these aspects of the Q movement in time. Perhaps most significant, Q is also new media: to say that QAnon is  native to alternative media is true, but again, it is not the whole truth. \n\nThis is what we all must admire: whatever else Q is, however this great mystery is eventually explained, Q red-pilled millions of sleeping Americans and others around the world, and we will never go back to sleep. \n\nMillions of us will never trust mainstream media ever again.\n\nThis is the triumph of QAnon. Whomever is doing it can own this much, and they should sleep well at night. \n\nWe will never go back to sleep. \n\n=\nRevised May 4, 2019: 0318 hrs. Bangkok Local.",
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Gorka's academic reputation is contested: dismissed by political scientists as a weak researcher with partisan publications to his credit, Gorka's PhD was issued by Corvinus University of Budapest. Keep in mind that up to now, Gorka's critics were partisan themselves. %0A%E2%80%A8With a resume primarily as a guest lecturer with defense agencies of the US government, Gorka failed to complete a degree at Harvard, yet he cites his incomplete attendance on his LinkedIn page. I am impressed that he was even admitted to the program, and not interested in why he failed to matriculate. %0A%E2%80%A8Sadly, Gorka brings weak methods to the Q arena:\n  Gor\n@@ -1298,16 +1298,35 @@\n  nobody \n+who follows Q Anon \n respects\n@@ -1381,17 +1381,15 @@\n  no \n-reflexive\n+cultish\n  par\n@@ -1427,16 +1427,40 @@\n  I am a \n+political scientist and \n critic o\n@@ -1477,16 +1477,60 @@\n enomenon\n+ with lesser academic credentials than Gorka\n . But I \n@@ -1693,18 +1693,22 @@\n job.%22 %0A%0A\n-Hi\n+Gorka'\n s first \n@@ -1745,26 +1745,54 @@\n ond \n-is likely\n+sentence contains elements of fact\n . Then \n-he\n+Gorka\n  lin\n@@ -1797,19 +1797,20 @@\n inks to \n- an\n+that\n  article\n@@ -1847,19 +1847,72 @@\n s the Q \n-con\n+moneymaking grift and the ex-convicts that perpetrate it\n  in a la\n@@ -2552,85 +2552,98 @@\n s?%22 \n-I lost respect for Gorka after just these two sentences. Gorka all but agreed\n+Gorka managed to alienate me with two simple sentences. Gorka's characterizations coincide\n  wit\n@@ -2654,28 +2654,23 @@\n ke news \n-characteriza\n+descrip\n tions of\n@@ -2869,16 +2869,42 @@\n cs know.\n+ Not to belabor facts, but\n  Q was o\n@@ -3091,28 +3091,24 @@\n 28, 2017. %0A%0A\n-But \n Gorka is mer\n@@ -3263,33 +3263,27 @@\n  is \n-buying into the character\n+endorsing the equal\n izat\n@@ -3377,15 +3377,19 @@\n ken \n-comment\n+implication\n  is \n@@ -3455,17 +3455,17 @@\n acist. %0A\n-%0A\n+%E2%80%A8\n Gorka co\n@@ -3490,21 +3490,16 @@\n when he \n-then \n mischara\n@@ -3514,21 +3514,18 @@\n  Q Anon \n-adopt\n+us\n ing the \n@@ -4042,52 +4042,8 @@\n rka \n-loves that word %22gonzo,%22 as we will see. He \n+\n adds\n@@ -4370,221 +4370,183 @@\n .%22%0A%0A\n-Remember that Gorka is not a native English speaker. English is not his first language, and good editors are hard to find. So we should give\n+What surprises me is that Gorka turns out to be just another fake news fake journalist. We thought that\n  Gorka \n-a p\n+w\n as\n-s\n  on\n- his syntax. But there is no hiding his toxic personality\n+e of us, one of the MAGA faithful. Not so much. But read on\n . %0A%0A\n@@ -4623,15 +4623,8 @@\n e, a\n-n acute\n  cri\n@@ -4724,206 +4724,11 @@\n oes.\n- Gorka is said by those who meet him to lack a smooth personality. Others cut the bullshit and just say that Gorka is an asshole. %0A%0AThis article is not a criticism of Gorka's abrasive personality: a\n+%0A%0AA\n fter\n@@ -4802,19 +4802,21 @@\n ence to \n-him\n+Gorka\n  to oppo\n@@ -5860,24 +5860,16 @@\n nce and \n-utterly \n convince\n@@ -6211,16 +6211,17 @@\n lefantis\n+,\n  posted \n@@ -6251,17 +6251,17 @@\n ere \n-supremely\n+more than\n  pro\n@@ -6362,16 +6362,374 @@\n hers. %0A%0A\n+Comet Ping Pong also matters because its website featured an encrypted section that was accessible only to those with the URL, which was distributed by word of mouth. Hacktivists found the page, they found the encrypted data, but they failed to crack it. 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Consider yourself duly warned.\n+off the 'chans. %0A%E2%80%A8As for child porn--the Anons know who posts it on both boards, and it is not them. External actors post the worst content on the 'chans to attract official scrutiny and to get them shut down. The Anons delete child porn found on their boards. You can imagine who might want to shut down the last remaining centers of free speech on the internet. \n  %0A%0AT\n@@ -12531,17 +12531,17 @@\n ber, 201\n-7\n+8\n , coordi\n@@ -12655,28 +12655,21 @@\n d Q \n-projected its spores\n+spores spewed\n  acr\n@@ -12778,143 +12778,737 @@\n ds. \n-I discuss the perceptible versions of Q in a forthcoming work. From 8chan, Q's gnomic utterances are analyzed and discussed by %22bakers%22\n+After a ten day pause to regroup after expos%C3%A9s of the ex-cons running the Q grift were published in late March and early April, Q returned to 8chan on April 11, 2019. %0A%E2%80%A8The 8chan con artists running the psyop needed to reorganize. 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For those who are not familiar with the Q movement, Q posts on 8chan, and %22bakers%22 analyze Q's gnomic utterances\n  on \n@@ -13634,17 +13634,16 @@\n hannels.\n- \n %0A%0AHistor\n@@ -13804,26 +13804,16 @@\n s media \n-literally \n committe\n@@ -13831,14 +13831,14 @@\n al s\n-eppuku\n+uicide\n  by \n@@ -13896,45 +13896,125 @@\n it. \n-Q continues to spread and consolidate\n+By failing to ignore Q, by demonizing Q, by ranting against Q, the fake news media facilitated the proliferation of Q\n , li\n@@ -14186,17 +14186,8 @@\n ore \n-suddenly \n foun\n@@ -14284,22 +14284,38 @@\n ls, \n-learn\n+research\n ing \n-thing\n+conspiracy theorie\n s th\n@@ -14769,40 +14769,47 @@\n  to \n-simply \n let him \n-speak for himself\n+hang himself with his own words\n . Go\n@@ -15428,16 +15428,22 @@\n %E2%80%9D%0A%0AI am \n+still \n shaking \n@@ -15783,16 +15783,26 @@\n believe \n+comprises \n the Trum\n@@ -15815,20 +15815,8 @@\n ment\n- consists of\n ? 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They will not go back to sleep. The puppeteers pulling our strings are only gradually realizing that we see the strings, and we refuse to dance for them anymore. %0A%0AI am working on an historical analysis of the Q movement. I started out just writing an article, a simple article. Then I fell down the Q rabbit hole, and I am still falling. %0A%0AWhen I hit bottom, I will finalize the book. I wish that I could project when it will be complete. It will be as long as it needs to be. It will take as long as it takes\n+It is unsparingly exclusive, and Gorka will find himself outside the MAGA movement looking in after this article. We do not need Sebastian Gorka. We do not want Sebastian Gorka. We are leaving him behind. %0A%E2%80%A8Reading this analysis by Gorka, I realize that Gorka not only fails to understand Q, Gorka does not understand President Donald J. Trump. %0A%0ANor does Gorka understand modern conservatism, nor the direction that our conservative movement is heading. %0A%0ANo matter how much fake journalists like Gorka may hate it, Q is a movement, and it is still--despite reams of bad analysis and lies, despite massive counter propaganda--still growing, it is still spreading, and those who follow Q are becoming more entrenched as Q teaches them more effectively than any other form of media. %0A%0AQ is new media. Q tells Q partisans to research for themselves, to think for themselves, and in the process, Q red-pills millions of deplorables who previously were asleep, passively absorbing fake news propaganda. %0A%0AThese good Americans, all of them deplorables like you and me, the Q masses, our tribe, are now awake. They will not go back to sleep. 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      "body": "![IMG_0893.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcauTdi4UE3CsaHGJij5HCzpTMNFrp642oaCzZ4r8WWEU/IMG_0893.png)\nDr. Sebastian Gorka tweeted another disparaging comment about Q Anon, linking to an article that he wrote on his website.\n\nSebastian Gorka advances no one's agenda with his sophomoric condemnations. Gorka's reputation in academia is mud: he is dismissed as a weak researcher, with no significant publications to his credit. Gorka hates the Q'verse, and Q partisans hate him right back. Donald Trump, Jr. defended Gorka, but the collective Q'verse shrugged: nobody respects Gorka. \n\nI harbor no animus for Gorka, and I am no reflexive partisan of the expanding Q'verse: I am a critic of the Q phenomenon. But I lack patience with bad analysis of Q, and Gorka's analysis is defective. \n\nOn April 10, 2019, Dr. Gorka tweeted \"Q is NOT on America's Side. It's all a con job.\" \n\nHis first sentence is debatable. His second is likely. Then he links to  an article on his website. I will address the Q con in a later work. For now, let us focus on Gorka and his article. \n\nIn this article, Gorka harkens back to signs at Trump rallies in the lead-up to the 2018 Midterm Elections. Gorka remembers: \n\n\"...strange signs started appearing at political rallies. Held up by nondescript attendees, the signs read simply, \"we are Q.\" \n\nGorka explains: \n\n\"The group appeared from the fringes of internet chat rooms, such as on the website of 4Chan, a peculiar mixture of cyberpunks and various online misfits.\" \n\n(Sebastian Gorka, \"The Truth About Q-Anon--America First with Sebastian Gorka,\" SebGorka.com, April 10, 2019).\n\n\"Nondescript?\" \"Online misfits?\" I lost respect for Gorka after just these two sentences. Gorka all but agreed with fake news characterizations of Trump supporters as mouth-breathing Walmart shoppers. Gorka's elitism is on full display. \n\nMore, Q was no longer on 4chan at the time of the Midterms, as all Q partisans and informed Q critics know. Q was on 8chan, an entirely different site, and on Discord, Reddit, Voat, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Gorka intends to malign Q: so he mentions only 4chan, where Q was born on October 28, 2017. \n\nBut Gorka is merely getting started. He calls Q loyalists \"Far Right activists on gonzo internet forums.\" Before you read past this statement, think about it: Gorka is buying into the characterization of the \"far right\" with White nationalism pushed by the fake news media.  The unspoken comment is that Q partisans are \"far right,\" therefore they are also racist. \n\nGorka confirms his intent when he then mischaracterizes Q Anon adopting the same derisive talking points disseminated by the fake news media. \n\n\"The conspiracy goes like this: the real purpose of the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was not to investigate Donald Trump, but instead to investigate Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and people like former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta ... One addition ... to the conspiracy last year was that the Mueller probe was also looking into the now-deceased Senator John McCain (R-AZ) for his illegal activities.\" \n\nGorka loves that word \"gonzo,\" as we will see. He adds:\n\n\"QAnon conspiracy theorists have simultaneously argued that the ultimate target of the Mueller investigation is either the \"Deep State\" of nefarious anti-American, globalist actors, or the aim is to pursue high-profile pedophiles in the United States government and in other powerful circles related to the government.\"\n\nRemember that Gorka is not a native English speaker. English is not his first language, and good editors are hard to find. So we should give Gorka a pass on his syntax. But there is no hiding his toxic personality. \n\nGorka's mixing of correct and incorrect assessments of Q offend even me, an acute critic of the Q movement. Gorka not only does not understand Q, he cannot persuade anybody who does. Gorka is said by those who meet him to lack a smooth personality. Others cut the bullshit and just say that Gorka is an asshole. \n\nThis article is not a criticism of Gorka's abrasive personality: after reading his article on his eponymous website, I went from indifference to him to opposition. Gorka's reputation for weak research follows him even to the Q'verse. \n\nThen Gorka compounded my dislike by sowing fake news talking points:\n\n\"Now for the most pernicious aspect of the QAnon conspiracy theory. In 2016, conspiracists on 4Chan and other similar fringe messaging boards claimed that the emails stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s (and subsequently made public by WikiLeaks) contained secret messages referring to a powerful ring of pedophiles who were using a local Washington, D.C. pizzeria as a base of operations to conduct their crimes. None of these claims were true. But, what ended up happening was that the highly irresponsible conspiracy theory triggered a mentally unstable man, who in turn took a gun to a D.C. pizzeria with intent to use it.\"\n\nThis is not what Pizzagate alleges, and any honest conspiracy theorist knows it. The Podesta Leaks do contain a substitution code pertaining to pedophilia: anyone who reads the emails of John Podesta walks away changed for the experience and utterly convinced of it. \n\n![John+Podesta+Pedo+Code.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXcHoK35rmQTmSHn3JhtBjT3wE8rtn2ABszKxgZLdEghZ/John+Podesta+Pedo+Code.jpg)\n\nFake news defenders of social elite pedophilia insist that Comet Ping Pong is the epicenter of the conspiracy. I will be quite specific. Comet Ping Pong matters because its owner, James Alefantis posted Instagram photos that were supremely problematic. They remain unaddressed and un-investigated to this day, by all but PedoGate researchers. \n\n![Sick+Jimmy+Comet+Chicken+Lovers+Instagram.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmW8gpSjLVovGdV45zu4rAfy6wooYJpPNtfYWrVZa326U5/Sick+Jimmy+Comet+Chicken+Lovers+Instagram.jpg)\n\nPizzagate does not claim that Hillary Clinton was cannibalizing or raping infants in the nonexistent basement of Comet Ping Pong. That is how the fake news media defines Pizzagate, erecting a straw man, so they can disprove it and declare victory. \n\n![Breitbart+Infamous+John+Podesta+Pedophile+Tweet.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUd7wedwAfGVaYL71TonGf85K8iCZp7Qw17cKrJXJrK48/Breitbart+Infamous+John+Podesta+Pedophile+Tweet.png)\n\nNot only does Gorka adopt the pernicious characterizations of the fake news media, he states, \"None of these claims were true.\" This statement by Gorka ruined him for me, and forever removed him from my good graces. Gorka is not just wrong. He is solidly in the enemy camp, an enemy that defends and covers up elite circle pedophilia. \n\nYou will find elsewhere on this website an analysis of PedoGate in 48 chapters. I eviscerate these fake news claims that Gorka adopts with such aplomb. \n\nWorst of all, Gorka throws out the \"conspiracy theorists are potentially violent\" trope so beloved by the purveyors of fake news, jettisoning any lingering hope of credibility. \n\nBut this article is not about Pizzagate or PedoGate. It is about the transparent analyses of Sebastian Gorka. Gorka then passes judgement on the 'chans. He condemns 4chan first. \n\n“The source material for these theories is the vile, uber-fringe 4Chan and 8Chan. 4Chan was launched in 2003 as a place to share images and discuss Japanese anime. In fact, it was modeled on the Japanese anime internet boards, such as Futaba Channel. Over time, though, the already eclectic group of online personalities that 4Chan attracted devolved into something darker. It became a haven for crazed conspiracy theorists from both sides of the political divide. 4Chan also became popular among the white nationalist community, and also became a place for hackers and other criminals–including child pornographers. If there was a Hell on the internet, 4Chan was Hell.” \n\nGorka does not understand the 'chans, much like the fake news media does not understand them, and what people do not understand, they generally fear. The 'chans may be the lone remaining bastions of utterly free speech, so it is inevitable that the worst sort of antisemitism and bigotry would infest them. \n\nNobody is under any compulsion to surf 4chan. 4chan does not compete with Twitter or Facebook. If you are incapable of contextualizing stupidity, then you should not explore 4chan. Those who bring intellectual maturity to the exercise quickly realize that 4chan provides a safe harbor for opinions that literally cannot be expressed anywhere else. For this reason alone, we must protect and defend 4chan and 8chan. \n\n(For the record: Blogger refused to allow me to link to 4chan and 8chan, and started throwing up Save errors after I inserted links to them. Censorship is real, it is pernicious, and it is ubiquitous across all net services.) \n\nThen Gorka turns his stereotypical guns on 8chan. \n\n“Meanwhile, a similar website, created by gonzo software developer, Frederick Brennan, 8Chan (sic) was launched in 2013 as a response to what Brennan believed was the rise in authoritarianism, censorship, and surveillance on 4Chan. Despite the fact that 8Chan has become the 3,857th most viewed website in the world, with an average of 35,000 unique visitors per day and 400,000 original posts per day, it too has become mired in controversy. 8Chan, which has been billed as the more libertarian (though, perhaps libertine would be better) 4Chan, has apparently become a hub of international child pornography postings. This became such a problem that, in 2015, 8Chan was blacklisted by Google search. It is a profound understatement to claim that anything positive or good comes from these boards. Yet, it is precisely from sites like these that the “Pizzagate” and now the QAnon conspiracy theories emanate.”\n\nQ emanated from the 'chans because Q began as a LARP, and the world's most effective LARPers are on the 'chans. It is as simple as that. When you fold in the fact that the 'chans may be the lone remaining bastions of free speech on an increasingly siloed, censored and balkanized internet, there is no mystery why Q began on 4chan and why Q persists on 8chan. \n\nThose who are incapable of understanding 'chan culture should stay off those boards. Again, nobody is under any compulsion to browse either service. The Anons on 4chan and 8chan never put out a Welcome sign, and they are unsparing towards \"normies\" who do not belong there. \n\nIf you bruise easily, if your feelings are readily hurt, if racism, bigotry, misogyny, sexism and antisemitism offend you, then stay the hell off the 'chans. Consider yourself duly warned. \n\nThe Anons who masqueraded as Q on the 'chans knew that Q needed to be disseminated to a broader audience immediately after its inception. They accordingly migrated to Reddit in November 2017, until Reddit banned them--not once, but twice. \n\nAs the world witnessed these successive attempts to throttle the growing Q movement in March and September, 2017, coordinated with thousands of fake news articles criticizing Q, the attempted censorship predictably backfired and Q projected its spores across the internet. \n\nYet another iteration of Q continues to post Q drops to 8chan as I write these words. I discuss the perceptible versions of Q in a forthcoming work. From 8chan, Q's gnomic utterances are analyzed and discussed by \"bakers\" on dedicated 8chan boards, on Discord, on VOAT, on websites, on forums, on Twitter, on Facebook, and on multiple YouTube channels. \n\nHistory will record that the attempt to kill Q instead disseminated Q to millions of mainstream readers that recognized censorship and rejected it. The fake news media literally committed ideological seppuku by trying to suppress Q and they still do not realize it. Q continues to spread and consolidate, like a virus. \n\nHuman curiosity is boundless. The fake news media maligned Q in such derisive terms that millions of eyeballs that never explored alternative media before suddenly found themselves in Discord chat rooms, on 8chan boards, on VOAT, and following YouTube channels, learning things that resonated with their own politics and their own values. \n\nGorka then lists failed Q predictions, which are legion, and which require a separate treatment. So I will elide past them here. \n\nBut Gorka confirms: not only does he not understand Q Anon, he does not understand the 'chans. Worst, Gorka does not understand the MAGA Faithful. \n\nI apologize for the length and the number of these quotes from Gorka's article, but it is better, I think, to simply let him speak for himself. Gorka continues:\n\n“The fact that the QAnon conspiracy theory is tied in with the “Pizzagate” fiasco is bad enough. The more damaging part is that these cult-like actors link themselves to the Trump movement, despite the fact that no member of the Trump movement has anything to do with these insane theories. They are the outgrowth of a pathetic group who exist online, in the dark corners of the worldwide web. That they have attached their delusions to the Trump movement is unfortunate. But, they do not represent and are not affiliated with President Trump, his supporters, or those who work for the president.”\n\nI am shaking my head all the way on the other side of the world in Bangkok. Pizzagate is real. Gorka confirms his reputation for weak scholarship by parroting the fake news media's talking points that dismiss it. \n\nThen Gorka states: \"... no member of the Trump movement has anything to do with these insane theories.\"\n\nPrecisely whom does Gorka believe the Trump movement consists of? QAnon partisans comprise a large part of it. If Gorka understood Q, he would know this. If he truly understood the Trump movement, he would know this. \n\nThe fact is, the Trump movement is evolving in ways that leave weak researchers and abrasive personalities like Gorka in the dustbin of history. \n\nGorka is off on his own bizarre ideological tangent. He says that Q is \"decidedly not close to the President, they are not Conservatives, and with every post that they make, they subvert the MAGA Agenda.\" \n\nI agree that Q is not \"close to the president,\" and I address this at length in my forthcoming book about the Q movement, which is now up to some 21,000 words in length. \n\nAs for claiming that Q partisans are \"not Conservatives,\" I think that this remains to be delved, as what, exactly, is a Conservative these days? We see a breakdown of historical and traditional definitions of Democrat and Republican, the dual-party paradigm is more blurred every day. \n\nWe see this much: the deep state is real, and it includes both Democrats and Republicans. The true battle for the future of humanity is globalism v. nationalism. We find globalists in both parties. Nationalists pretty much appear to be condensed in the old Republican Tea Parties. \n\nThe worst members of the deep state are, in fact, Republicans, if only because they masquerade under false pretenses and pretend to be conservatives. I did not make up the term \"RINO.\" But it is apt. \n\nFor purposes of moving along, let us just agree with Gorka that Q partisans are conservatives of a new type. I think that Q loyalists would agree, and I think that this is an accurate characterization. We can belabor it further elsewhere. \n\nBut we must wonder: whom does Gorka think makes the so-called \"MAGA Agenda?\" \n\nNot Gorka. Assuredly not him. Gorka does not speak for me, and after this article, I do not think that Gorka will speak for more than a small, irrelevant slice of the collective Trump movement. \n\nThe MAGA Agenda is bigger than Gorka realizes. It is more inclusive than Gorka understands. Reading this analysis by Gorka, I realize that Gorka does not only misunderstand Q, Gorka does not understand President Donald J. Trump. \n\nNor does Gorka understand modern conservatism, nor the direction that the conservative movement is heading. \n\nLike it or not, Q is a movement, and it is still, despite reams of bad analysis and lies, despite massive counter propaganda, it is still growing, it is still spreading, and those who follow Q are becoming more convinced that Q teaches them more than any other form of media. \n\nQ is new media. Q tells Q partisans to research for themselves, to think for themselves, and in the process, Q red-pills millions of people who previously were asleep, passively absorbing fake news propaganda. \n\nThese people, deplorables, the Q masses, our tribe, are now awake. They will not go back to sleep. The puppeteers pulling our strings are only gradually realizing that we see the strings, and we refuse to dance for them anymore. \n\nI am working on an historical analysis of the Q movement. I started out just writing an article, a simple article. Then I fell down the Q rabbit hole, and I am still falling. \n\nWhen I hit bottom, I will finalize the book. I wish that I could project when it will be complete. It will be as long as it needs to be. It will take as long as it takes. \n\nFor now, dismiss the superficial and stereotypical analyses of bad researchers like Sebastian Gorka. Do not waste another moment of your time on him. \n\nGorka is irrelevant. Gorka does not understand Q, Gorka does not understand you, and Gorka does not understand me. \n\nDoc T sends. \n\nBangkok\nApril 12, 2019\n===\n\n![IMG_0893.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcauTdi4UE3CsaHGJij5HCzpTMNFrp642oaCzZ4r8WWEU/IMG_0893.png)",
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