Is It a Military Intelligence Coup?

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I don't know that there is anything that could make me think that c was a military intelligence operation bent on arresting the padafiles. A i would just have to have some really, really irrefutable evidence, and i haven't seen it. I'm open to that being true, if somebody can convince me in a clear and linear and coherent way. And no one has been able to do that so far. So i'm open to its being possible. Of course, we still don't know who made the drops. As long as we don't know for sure, there is always the possibility that it was done by some kind of a conspiracy. But i just don

Michael Shermer speaks with Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, about QAnon and its followers.

On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a gathering of military officials. He said it felt like “the calm before the storm” — then refused to elaborate as puzzled journalists asked him to explain. But on the infamous message boards of 4chan, a mysterious poster going by “Q Clearance Patriot,” who claimed to be in “military intelligence,” began the elaboration on their own. In the days that followed, Q’s wild yarn explaining Trump’s remarks began to rival the sinister intricacies of a Tom Clancy novel, while satisfying the deepest desires of MAGA-America. But did any of what Q predicted come to pass? No. Did that stop people from clinging to every word they were reading, expanding its mythology, and promoting it wider and wider? No. Why not?