“They also see Trump as the only person fighting this criminal network.[184] Added to this is the belief that politicians and Hollywood elites engage in “adrenochrome harvesting”, in which adrenalin is extracted from children’s blood to produce the psychoactive drug adrenochrome.[185][i] This comprises claims that children are tortured, or sacrificed in Satanic rituals, to harvest the adrenaline that comes from fear.”
I began looking for The Real Jesus in 1987 after I read the Bible for the first time. It took me 36 years to find him. The Samaritan Moses appears to be the Real McCoy. Why was he buried in history – real history? Simple! The Roman Empire had enslaved much of the world – and took free people – and made slaves of them. When the legions of Pontius Pilate slaughtered and arrested the followers of The second Moses, there began a REAL REVOLT that swept into Rome and eventually destroyed it. St. Paul was HIRED to stop the Holy War by altering THE TRUTH. But, THE WORLD fell in love with Paul’s Big Lie, that Jesus was crucified and bloodied on the cross so everyone – but the Jews – will know eternal life. The Twelve Jewish Disciples of Paul’s fake Jesus – did not have a clue this was God’s plan, and that Jesus – was God. They were however impressed with his healing abilities – that have disappeared! No one has replicated them. If the disciple were – for real – they seem oblivious to the New Abolitionist Movement the Real God of The Jews – has launched – AGAIN! MAGA followers claim Jesus founded our Democracy, and freed the slaves – thus they are entitled to – OWN AMERICA. Trump’s Supreme Court – agrees!
Last night Christine Wandel called me, and I ended up reading my last post to her, and most of Wikipedia’s citation on Pizzagate and QAnon. She was shocked. She could not believe that followers of Trump invented EVIL SATANIC LIES in order to make Hillary Clinton look bad – and all the Democrats! Christine had gone to Mill’s college, and majored in religion. She voted for Trump in 2016, and called me a Snowflake. Christine used to be a Super Hippie – and thinks she still is. Her struggle to MOVE the monstrous QAnon Lie away from Trump, and over the the dark pile of the Democrats, was epic. I was deprogramming my oldest friend who tried to tell me Satanism was a real generic thing, and not practiced in just one party. She knew enough about religion, that the Republicans were employing their Satanic Invention – to hurt Americans! I told her President Trump did nothing to STOP this Satanic Cult – because he needs the votes! This made the President of the United – the most EVIL PRESIDENT in the history of the United States, because he employs Cult Lies to change the outcome of our elections.. AND THE SUPREME COURT DOES NOTHING TO STOP TRUMP AND QANON – who have to know Paul Weyrich and the religions-right invented the Abortion Crisis in order to weaken the Civil Rights Movement – and Black Citizens.
Why are unborn children being employed by the Christian-right, the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and members of the supreme court, to weaken the Power of te Democrats, and empower Neo-Confederates in the Red Stats. Why did the religion of the Jews employ unborn children to empower their belief system, as well as the Christian religion. As an artist, I wanted to behold and capture beauty n the world, and increase the Consciousness of Beauty. This makes me a Pagan accorded to the three religions that sprout out of the Seed of Abraham, who God bid to make an alter – and sacrifice his infant son. Trump’s appointment to the Supreme Court want this teaching put in our public schools.
If I become President of the United States I will pass a law stating all new Bibles printed, must have all accounts of the abuse of children – REMOVED – and all Bibles that contain The Threat of Issac, removed from our schools, because Abraham can be seen as the Patron Saint of adrenochrome Takers, where Trump Voters alleged Democrats terrorize little children in order to harvest their adrenochrome. Christine tried to tell me this was not possible, and thus I can not fairly put OAnon in Trump’s camp. I had to use the term “CULT CONSPIRACY THEORY” on her – several times!
I have not been able to determine if John Fremont was a relgious man, or his wife. Yet, John is the first to emancipate American slaves – with the help of Socialist Germans. Christine was having an affair with Stefan Eins, a German artist who founded Fashion Moda. Stefan left seminary college. I suspect Gottschalk Rosemondt was an artist, and contributed to the grotesque work of Hieronymus Bosch – that I will shuffle in with the Hellish Religious Science Fiction of the QAnon Cult, that preys upon little children. As a Art Historian I declare QAnon – and Art Form, that along with the work of Paul Weyrich, have turned the most powerful nation on earth, into a Living Hill, where images of sacrificed children, including the gruesome crucifixion of God’s Son. It is my aim to remove THE EVIL BURDEN put on the shoulder of Little Children, so that Real Adult will get to work – SAVING EARTH!
Keep in mind how Children in the womb, and come out of the womb, are sorely used to create and support all-male religions. Abraham was a brigand who conquered and destroyed the goddesses of the Levant, that Trump’s supreme court – hates! The uphold the idea that only A Man Can Judge! Only a Man can swing the sword of justice, and pull a big knife on a little boy.
I alone figured out that John spoke when he was eight days old. The Koran has Jesus speaking minutes after he is born. In the painting of Mary and Elizabeth, we see the Greatest Religious theft of All Time, when Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth, and the infant Jesus – sucks John’s Holy Spirit-light from out his mother’s womb, and thus we have the Great Holy Spirit Fight – to this very day!
Gottschalk Rosemondt defended the Humanist, Erasmus, from Philip’s Inquisition, while the Habsburg Emperor invaded England and looted Incan gold in the New World. I will fly Philips standard over the head of The Holy Nine from now on. Count the people in the photo of the Cult Insurectionists. I count nine!
Philip’s foreign policies were determined by a combination of Catholic fervour and dynastic objectives. He considered himself the chief defender of Catholic Europe, both against the Ottoman Turks and against the forces of the Protestant Reformation. He never relented from his fight against heresy, defending the Catholic faith and limiting freedom of worship within his territories.[15] These territories included his patrimony in the Netherlands, where Protestantism had taken deep root. Following the Revolt of the Netherlands in 1568, Philip waged a campaign against Dutch heresy and secession. It also dragged in the English and the French at times and expanded into the German Rhineland with the Cologne War. This series of conflicts lasted for the rest of his life. Philip’s constant involvement in European wars took a significant toll on the treasury and caused economic difficulties for the Crown and even bankruptcies.
Six days ago I made an amazing discovery that will change Western Culture and the way we see Shakespeare. The fire at Notre Dame reminds me of Bosch’s panels. Has it occurred to anyone Paris was invaded from – The Underworld? Sometimes I wonder if I am the Arch Angel Michael.
The Evil Harvest of The Young
When you believe that someone is truly a godsend, you can excuse anything. It all becomes “for the greater good.” And when that happens, it is a slippery slope to gross abuses of power that continuously increase in magnitude.
QAnon flag featuring the Q logo and the movement’s prominent slogan “Where we go one, we go all”, at a Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, in 2020
The core QAnon conspiracy theory is that a cabal of Satanic,[2][3][4]cannibalisticchild molesters are operating a global child sex trafficking ring which conspired against former U.S. President Donald Trump during his term in office.[8] The QAnon conspiracy theory has direct roots in Pizzagate, an Internet conspiracy theory that appeared one year earlier; it also incorporates elements of many other theories.[9] Some experts have described QAnon as a cult.[9][10]
Followers of the conspiracy theorists say that the Trump administration secretly fought the cabal of pedophiles, and would conduct mass arrests and executions of thousands of cabal members on a day known as “the Storm” or “the Event”.[11] QAnon conspiracy believers have named Democratic politicians, Hollywood actors, high-ranking government officials, business tycoons, and medical experts as members of the cabal.[12] QAnon has also claimed that Trump stimulated the conspiracy of Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the sex trafficking ring, and to prevent a coup d’état by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros.[13][14] QAnon is described as antisemitic or rooted in antisemitic tropes, due to its fixation on Jewish financier George Soros and conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family, a frequent target of antisemites.[15][16]
Although it has its origins in older conspiracy theories, the first post by Q was in October 2017 on the anonymous imageboard website 4chan. Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, who had access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States.[17] Q soon moved to 8chan, making it QAnon’s online home.[18] Q’s often cryptic posts became known as “drops”, which were later collected by aggregator apps and websites.
The conspiracy theory expanded into a viral phenomenon and quickly went beyond Internet culture, becoming familiar among the general population and turning into a real political movement. QAnon followers began to appear at Trump reelection campaign rallies in August 2018,[19] and Trump amplified QAnon accounts on Twitter through his retweets.[20] QAnon’s conspiracy theories have also been relayed by Russian and Chinese state-backed media companies, social media troll accounts,[25][21][26] and the far-right Falun Gong-associated Epoch Media Group.[32]
Since its emergence in American politics, QAnon has spawned movements around the world. The exact number of QAnon adherents is unclear,[4][33] but the group maintains a large online following.[3][4] After increased scrutiny of the movement and its hashtags, mainstream social media companies such as Twitter[34] and Facebook[35] began taking action to stop the spread of the conspiracy theory.
QAnon followers have perpetrated acts of violence on numerous occasions.[36] Members of the movement actively took part in the 2020 United States presidential election, during which they supported Trump’s campaign and waged information warfare in an attempt to influence voters.[37][38] After Joe Biden won, they were involved in efforts to overturn the results of the election. Several associates of Trump, such as General Michael Flynn[42] and two members of his legal team, Lin Wood[47] and Sidney Powell,[53] have promoted QAnon-derived conspiracy theories. When these tactics failed, Trump supporters – many of them QAnon followers – attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Capitol attack was a watershed moment for QAnon and led to a further, more sustained social media crackdown on the movement and its claims.[54][55]
Child sex trafficking and satanic sacrifice
QAnon effectively merged with Pizzagate by incorporating its beliefs, namely that children are being abducted in large numbers to supply a child trafficking ring, which the followers equate with the cabal. They also see Trump as the only person fighting this criminal network.[184] Added to this is the belief that politicians and Hollywood elites engage in “adrenochrome harvesting”, in which adrenalin is extracted from children’s blood to produce the psychoactive drug adrenochrome.[185][i] This comprises claims that children are tortured, or sacrificed in Satanic rituals, to harvest the adrenaline that comes from fear.[186] The aforementioned “Frazzledrip” video in which Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin allegedly murdered a child was said to depict an “adrenochrome harvest”.[74] One version of the QAnon theory posits that the child abusers use adrenochrome as an elixir to remain young.[188]
#SaveOurChildren graffiti on a bridge in Lufkin, Texas
In June 2020, a group led by QAnon promoter Timothy Charles Holmseth, which called itself the Pentagon Pedophile Task Force despite having no connection with the Pentagon or any U.S. governmental agency, attracted attention by spreading false claims about tens of thousands of children being held hostage and tortured in New York City.[189][190] Also by 2020, some followers began using the Twitter hashtag #SaveTheChildren (#SaveOurChildren was also used),[191] coopting a trademarked name for the child welfare organization Save the Children.[192] This led to an August 7 statement by Save the Children on the unauthorized use of its name in campaigns.[193] In September, Facebook and Instagram tried to prevent #SaveTheChildren from being associated with QAnon by redirecting users who searched for the hashtag to the child welfare group;[194] in October, Facebook announced that it would try to limit the hashtag’s reach.[195]
In the same period, QAnon followers also created a conspiracy theory that falsely accused furniture company Wayfair, a competitor of Overstock in which QAnon promoter Patrick Byrne had been the CEO, of selling expensive furniture to launder money gained from child sex trafficking.[196][197]
Similar groups in both the U.S. and the U.K. helped organize street protests that they say raise awareness of child sexual abuse and human trafficking.[198][199] These protests and hashtags have often avoided social media restrictions[200] and tend to attract more women and a more politically diverse and younger crowd than typical QAnon groups, including people opposed to Trump and his leadership. These groups are considered to be linked to the Pastel QAnon community.[201]
QAnon’s child abuse allegations against popular entertainers are notably based on the unproven claims of the actor Isaac Kappy, who in 2018 accused multiple Hollywood stars of pedophilia.[175][202][203]
Travis View wrote in a Washington Post column that QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theorists harm the credibility of the fight against child sexual abuse, as their baseless claims are a distraction from actual crimes. Followers of these theories have also credited themselves for arrests of criminals in which they had no part: QAnon promoter Jordan Sather credited Jeffrey Epstein‘s arrest to 4chan and 8chan, while none of the investigative reporting nor the indictment referenced these forums.[204] Some of the conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death have also brought people to QAnon.[184]
In May 2022, The New York Times reported that QAnon supporters were intercepting child migrants at the Mexico–United States border and collecting information about their families on the premise that they were falling prey to sex-trafficking schemes.[205]
Other QAnon beliefs
See also: Syncretism (merging of belief systems as a general notion)
QAnon supporters awaiting the return of John F. Kennedy Jr. in Dealey Plaza, on November 22, 2021
QAnon Anonymous, a podcast dedicated to analyzing and debunking the QAnon movement, calls it a “big tent conspiracy theory” due to its ability to constantly evolve and add new claims. QAnon has incorporated elements from many other preexisting beliefs: besides its immediate predecessor Pizzagate, the theory has added features from much older conspiracy theories, such as those about the Kennedy assassination, U.F.O.s and 9/11.[9] In 2018, Liz Crokin said that John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death and that he is Q.[206][207] Other followers adopted variations of the Kennedy conspiracy theory, asserting that a Pittsburgh Trump supporter named Vincent Fusca is Kennedy Jr. in disguise and would be Trump’s 2020 running mate.[207] In November 2021, hundreds gathered in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, the site of President Kennedy’s assassination, believing they would witness the return of Kennedy Jr., or both Kennedys. Attendees expected the event would herald Trump’s reinstatement as president, that Trump would step down to allow Kennedy Jr. to become president, and that Kennedy Jr. would then name Michael Flynn as his vice president.[208][209][210] According to QAnon researcher Will Sommer, about 20% of QAnon followers believe the JFK Jr. theory, while the majority finds it too “farcical on its face”.[207]
Protester advancing the Pizzagate conspiracy theory
According to QAnon researcher Mike Rothschild, “while Q has a number of precursor conspiracy theories and scams… no conspiracy theory feeds more immediately into Q than Pizzagate“.[56] Pizzagate began in March 2016 with a leak of Clinton campaigner John Podesta‘s emails, which promoters of the theory believed contained a secret code detailing child sexual abuse.[57] Pizzagate followers said that high-profile Democrats were sexually abusing children at a Washington, D.C. pizzeria, which led to an armed attack on the establishment by a gunman who believed the conspiracy theory.[58]
The allegations of child sexual abuse and the centrality of the Clinton family to this abuse became a key part of the QAnon belief system,[57] but in time the Clintons’ centrality to this was de-emphasized in favor of more general conspiratorial claims of an alleged worldwide elite of child sex traffickers.[59] Q has referred to Pizzagate claims without using the term.[57] QAnon followers often used the hashtag #SaveTheChildren to promote the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.[60] This has caused protests from the unrelated non-governmental organization Save the Children.[61]
Influence of 4chan culture
The investigative journalism website Bellingcat has called /htg/ or “Human Trafficking General” threads on the /pol/ board of 4chan “the missing link” between Pizzagate and QAnon. Instead of focusing on a limited supply of email material to comb through, the /htg/ culture allowed users to actively participate in the imagined storylines. A key /htg/ poster was Anonymous 5 (also known as “Frank”), who claimed to be a child prostitution investigator. But the lack of a coherent narrative was a constraint on the /htg/ trend, and it never achieved Pizzagate’s popularity.[62]
The main tenets of the QAnon ideology were already present at 4chan before Q’s appearance, including claims that Hillary Clinton was directly involved in a pedophile ring, that Robert Mueller was secretly working with Trump, and that large-scale military tribunals were imminent. His posts specifically targeted individuals who were hated in the community beforehand, namely Clinton, Barack Obama, and George Soros. Bellingcat says that the idea of the “Storm” was copied from another poster named Victory of the Light, who predicted the “Event”, in which mass, televised arrests of the “Cabal” were forthcoming.[62]
Previous “anons”
In its most basic sense, an “anon” is an anonymous or pseudonymous Internet poster.[63] The concept of anons “doing research” and claiming to disclose otherwise classified information, while a key component of the QAnon conspiracy theory, is by no means exclusive to it. Q was preceded by so-called anons who also claimed to have special government access. On July 2, 2016, the anonymous poster “FBIAnon”, a self-described “high-level analyst and strategist” who claimed to have “intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Clinton case”, began posting false information about the 2016 investigation into the Clinton Foundation and claimed that Hillary Clinton would be imprisoned if Trump became president. Around that time, “HLIAnon”, standing for “High-Level Insider Anon”, hosted long question-and-answer sessions, dispensing various conspiracy theories, including that Princess Diana was murdered after trying to stop the September 11 attacks. Soon after the 2016 United States elections, two anonymous posters, “CIAAnon” and “CIAIntern”, falsely claimed to be high-ranking Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers, and in late August 2017, “WHInsiderAnon” offered a supposed preview that something that was “going to go down” regarding leaks that would affect the Democratic Party.[64]
Origin and spread
A 4chan user named “Q Clearance Patriot” first appeared on the site’s /pol/ board on October 28, 2017, posting in a thread titled “Calm Before the Storm”,[1] a phrase Trump had previously used to describe a gathering of American military leaders he attended.[1] “The Storm” later became QAnon parlance for an imminent event in which thousands of alleged suspects would be arrested, imprisoned, and executed for being child-eating pedophiles.[11] The poster’s username implied that they held Q clearance,[65][66] a United States Department of Energysecurity clearance required to access Top Secret information on nuclear weapons and materials.[67]
A pro-Trump protester wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a common QAnon logo, at the “Stop the Steal” rally on November 14, 2020
Q’s first post said that Hillary Clinton was about to be arrested, which would cause massive unrest and be followed by numerous other arrests. A second message was posted a few hours later, saying that Clinton was being “detained” though not arrested yet and that Trump was planning to remove “criminal rogue elements”. The post also alluded cryptically to George Soros, Huma Abedin, and Operation Mockingbird.[68]
Many other messages followed; Q’s activity surged in November, with most posts expanding upon previous theories about Hillary Clinton. Other conspiracy theories were later added, notably involving Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.[69] An Internet community soon developed around interpreting and analyzing posts attributed to Q, and several of these conspiracy theorists became minor celebrities within the community.[70][71] Followers started looking for “clues” that would confirm their beliefs, including in the most commonplace phrases and occurrences: in November 2017, Trump sipping water from a bottle was interpreted as a secret sign that the mass arrests would soon take place.[72]
Though QAnon immediately integrated Pizzagate’s theory of secret child sex trafficking rings operated by the elite, it went much further by implying a worldwide cabal and by incorporating elements from various other conspiracies. One of the earlier rumors QAnon followers spread was that such figures as Hillary Clinton, her daughter Chelsea, and Senator John McCain had already been arrested and indicted, and were wearing ankle monitoring bracelets during their public appearances.[72] In the following months, the QAnon community helped spread other rumors such as the “Frazzledrip” theory, which purported the existence of a “snuff” video showing Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin murdering a child, drinking her blood and taking turns wearing the skin from her face as a mask.[73][74]
In November 2017, two 4chan moderators, Paul Furber (also known as “BaruchtheScribe”,[64] a South African conspiracy theorist with an interest in U.S. politics)[75] and Coleman Rogers (also known as “Pamphlet Anon”),[64] worked with YouTuber Tracy Diaz to promote QAnon to a wider audience.[76][77] This involved setting up the r/CBTS_Stream subreddit, where subscribers came to talk about QAnon. The subreddit was permanently closed in March 2018 due to incitement of violence and posting private information.[64] QAnon spread to other social media, including Twitter and YouTube.[70] Rogers and his wife, Christina Urso, launched Patriots’ Soapbox, a YouTube livestream dedicated to QAnon, which they used to solicit donations. U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert was a guest on the channel.[76]
Also in November 2017, posts by Q moved to 8chan, with Q citing concerns that the 4chan board had been “infiltrated”.[64] Thereafter, Q posted only on 8chan.[18] In August 2019, 8chan was shut down after it was connected with the El Paso shooting and other violent incidents. Followers of QAnon then moved to Endchan, until 8chan was restored under the name 8kun.[78][38]
Vice President Mike Pence with Broward CountySWAT team members, on November 30, 2018; the man on the left wears …
… a “Q” patch (close-up) used by followers of QAnon[b]—the deputy was reprimanded and removed from the SWAT team as a result. The photo was tweeted, removed, and then replaced in Pence’s feed.[79]
QAnon first received attention from the mainstream press in November 2017; Newsweek called it “Pizzagate on steroids”.[72] Gossip columnist Liz Crokin, a Pizzagate follower, was one of the first public figures to embrace QAnon and became one of the movement’s most prominent influencers.[80]Fox News personality Sean Hannity and comedian Roseanne Barr spread the news about it to their social media followers in early 2018,[81] and the conspiracy theory gained traction on the mainstream right.[82] At this time, InfoWars host and far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed to be in personal contact with Q. This led to the presence en masse of QAnon followers at a July 2018 Trump rally for the midterm elections in Tampa, Florida, the first visible presence of the QAnon movement at Trump rallies.[83]
Some Christian pastors introduced their congregations to QAnon ideas. The Indiana-based Omega Kingdom Ministry tried to combine QAnon and Christianity, with Q posts and Bible quotes both read during church services.[84] Some Christians, such as pastor Derek Kubilus, call QAnon heresy,[85] but most U.S. pastors have not taken a stand against it.[86] More generally, QAnon’s rise coincided with increasing radicalization and violent episodes in American far-right movements.[87]
QAnon-related merchandise was widely available on Amazon‘s online marketplace in 2018.[88]QAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening, a book said to be authored by a group of 12 QAnon followers, neared the top of Amazon’s bestsellers list in 2019, possibly through algorithmic manipulation.[89][90] Also in 2019, QAnon blogger Neon Revolt (an alias of former aspiring screenwriter Robert Cornero Jr.) self-published the book Revolution Q: The Story of QAnon and the 2nd American Revolution, which became an influential text among the QAnon community and was also distributed by Amazon.[91] In 2020, Politico noted that 100 titles associated with QAnon were available on Amazon Marketplace, in many different languages and with generally positive reviews.[92] QAnon-related merchandise was also available on Etsy and Teespring, and pages relating to the conspiracy theory were on Patreon and GoFundMe.[93]
Sites dedicated to aggregating the Q posts, also called “drops”[94] or “Q drops”,[95][78] became essential for their dissemination and spread. QMap was the most popular and famous aggregator, run by a pseudonymous developer and overall key QAnon figure known as “QAPPANON”.[96][97] QMap shut down shortly after the British fact-checking organization Logically published a September 2020 report[98] that theorized that QAPPANON was a New Jersey-based security analyst named Jason Gelinas.[97][99] Multiple online communities were created around QAnon: in 2020, Facebook conducted an internal investigation that revealed that the social network hosted thousands of QAnon-themed groups and pages, with millions of members and followers.[100]
According to Reuters, Russian-backed social media accounts promoted QAnon claims as early as November or December 2017.[23] In 2018, Time called Q one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet.[101]Russian government-funded Russian state media such as RT and Sputnik have amplified the conspiracy theory since 2019, citing QAnon as evidence that the United States is riven by internal strife and division.[21] In 2021, a report from the Soufan Center, a research group focused on national security, found that one-fifth of 166,820 QAnon posts in the United States between January 2020 and February 2021 originated in foreign countries, primarily Russia and China, and that China was the “primary foreign actor touting QAnon-narratives online”.[26][102][103] The far-right Falun Gong-associated Epoch Media Group, including The Epoch Times, has also been a major promoter of the conspiracy theory.[32]
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