NYMAG: Who is QAnon? The Storm Conspiracy, Explained

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On 10/10/2023 at 12:59 PM, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

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The Damning Details of the Lawsuit Against Sound of Freedom’s Hero

 

Tim Ballard, the real-life protagonist of the surprise hit film Sound of Freedom, seemed on the verge of breaking into another stratum of fame and power when the movie was released. Ballard, who had already been anointed something of a Latter-day Saints hero for his work rescuing child trafficking victims, suddenly became a national hero, appearing on the conservative news circuit to discuss the insidious threat of sex trafficking (and the need to “secure” the U.S.-Mexico border). Prominent Republicans urged their constituents to see the movie. Donald Trump hosted a screening of the movie at his private club in New Jersey. It wasn’t long before some began to speculate that Ballard would run for the U.S. Senate.

 

There had been hints of trouble for Ballard, though. The many critiques of Ballard’s organization, Operation Underground Railroad—that its unconventional methods were ineffective; that it seemed to exaggerate its accomplishments; that it prioritized giving wealthy donors an adventure over actual results; that it did a poor job of caring for the children after they were “rescued”; that it retraumatized the victims; that it even created demand for more trafficking victims—were dismissed by Ballard’s fans as petty attacks from the secular left. But it wasn’t just criticism; there were more serious signs of scandal. Since 2020, a prosecutor from Davis County, Utah, had been investigating possible communications fraud and witness tampering; Vice News reported that the investigation had looked into whether OUR had misled donors and that the investigation had involved multiple federal agencies. (That investigation was dropped in March 2023.) And in 2021, Vice reported that the previous year, an anonymous letter had circulated that accused Ballard and the organization’s leadership of misusing donor funds and of misconduct toward women. (The OUR board of directors said it investigated the allegations and found no evidence.) Finally, on July 13, Vice reported that Ballard had left OUR, which he had founded in 2013. (OUR and Ballard did not explain the separation initially, but OUR implied in a statement at the time that it was connected to the film’s release.)

 

The answers arrived a few days later, when the outlet learned that Ballard left after an internal investigation into claims several employees made against him. The seriousness of the situation was clarified when, on Sept. 15, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints publicly rebuked Ballard for “morally unacceptable” activities.

 

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[mcsluggo]

this last weekend was absolutely gorgeous.... a kind of Indian Summer, if you are still allowed to say that? 

 

Whatever you want to call it... my wife and i were eager to not let the gorgeous weather go to waste.     

 

On Sunday, we assembled survival packs with all the essential gear needed for a trek through the wilds of Potomac Maryland,...  knowing full well that we would be many many hundreds of feet from the nearest Lamborghini, if not hundreds of yards.   Careful and thoughtful planning.   

 

 

It was pretty scary.    

 

 

 

anyway, after a long, arduous, and dangerous trek through this wild jungle... we found ourselves in almost a different world, far removed from the everyday life that we know.   its unclear how long it had been since a human eyes had gazed upon this particular slice of wilderness.... 

 

but then we saw it.    a clear indication of how far from home we truly were.     

 

ancient technology, much different, and somehow stronger than any of the ubiquitous ephemeral machinery that we clutch-to today...

 

timeless.....   POWERFUL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i would like to see dominion try to wrap its puny little hands around THAT.   it can not be contained

[The Evil Genius]

Love the Zec was here stickers. 😆

[China]

On 9/29/2023 at 2:44 PM, China said:

 

A QAnon 'queen' and the Canada town that wants her gone

 

She claims to be the Queen of Canada, and now she's holding court in an abandoned school.

 

Romana Didulo, a QAnon-inspired conspiracy theorist, leads a group of supporters who have spent the last few years traveling around Canada in motorhomes and other vehicles.

Recently, the group moved into Richmound, a village of around 150 people in south-western Saskatchewan, and settled in at a former school.

 

Ms Didulo and around 15 to 25 of her followers have been at the site for about a week, says Thomas Fougere of Community TV, a local independent news outlet based in nearby Medicine Hat.

 

Soon after their arrival, the neighbours began pushing them to leave.

 

Around 100 local residents drove around the school on Sunday in tractors, semi-trucks and other vehicles, trying to drive out the incomers, according to Mr Fougere.

 

"It's the only place in the village where there's a playground and where kids can safely ride their bikes away from the highway," he said. "It's become a high tension situation. The town doesn't want them."

 

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On 10/7/2023 at 10:43 PM, China said:

 

'Queen of Canada' cult threatens Sask. village with public executions

 

The village of Richmound in rural Saskatchewan is turning to the province and the RCMP for help after a group of QAnon-aligned followers of the self-styled 'Queen of Canada' occupied a private building and threatened some residents and officials with public execution.

 

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A QAnon Cult Set Up a Compound in a Small Town. The Locals Are Fighting Back.

 

Hugh Everding, a bald hulking man of about 6’4”, stares out of the kitchen window of his bungalow as police vehicle after police vehicle rolls down the street headed towards a check stop manned by a half-dozen armed cops. 

 

Every entry point into this no-stoplight town has such a check stop, ready to interrogate both locals and miscreants on what their damn business here is. There’s little doubt that at this moment, Richmound, Saskatchewan, population 130, is the most fortified town in all of Canada. 

Seeing another cop car, Hugh takes a sip of his craft beer and turns to us and says that no matter the police presence, it’s just dead around these parts. 

“You can hear a mouse get a hard on out here,” he said. “Calm before the storm, I guess.”  

 

But you can always spot a storm brewing in the Prairies. In Hugh’s case, it was just across the street, where the so-called QAnon Queen of Canada and her followers had taken over an abandoned school. 

 

And in less than 24 hours, the town was ready to go to war with the cult next door. 

 

t had been almost a month since Romana Didulo, the so-called QAnon Queen of Canada, had come to town. The next day, on October 14, she was planning to hold a meet and greet for her followers in Western Canada and to perform a weird ritual in the abandoned school’s gym. 

 

The town was planning on holding a get-together of its own at the same time, one that would hopefully send the cult a simple message: Get the hell out.

 

Didulo’s cult moved into the town’s abandoned school around Sept. 18 after the property was gifted to them by a follower. They have spent much of the time filming anyone who comes too close to the school’s fence, convinced, according to records of their internal communication obtained by VICE News, that locals are possibly planning to poison their dogs or burn them out.  

 

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[Larry]

"There's no secret message in it!  I promise!"

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Notice he even wore his pink Pedo-Adrenochrome tie. Theses creeps all thought he was one of them!!!

 

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A QAnon-linked X user found shirtless pictures of the judge in Trump’s civil trial, and right-wing media brought them to Trump

 

On November 6, a QAnon-linked X (formerly Twitter) account posted an attack on New York Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, for sharing shirtless fitness update photos with his high school alumni group. It took just over 48 hours for the attack to travel through right-wing media to Trump’s Truth Social feed.

 

Trump’s November 8 post — which is no longer available on the platform — amplified an article from far-right outlet The Gateway Pundit that called the judge “unhinged.” It's one of many attacks right-wing media have levied against the judge, who has imposed a limited gag order on Trump during his trial.

 

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[China]

Drugs, QAnon, and Mummified Corpses: This Cult Doc Has Everything

 

Even by cult standards, Love Has Won was uniquely nutty, its gospel almost as laughable as its adherents were devoted. Founded by Amy Carlson, a Kansas native who convinced herself and others that she was a holy being known as Mother God who was destined to save mankind by assuming its sins, it was a ragtag group of misfits and outcasts whose every waking second was dedicated to making sure their leader was happy. In this case, that involved keeping her stocked up on booze, weed, and psychedelics, all of which were viewed as her “medicine” and facilitated her conversations with “The Galactics,” a collection of higher-plane gurus who advised Amy on the best means of “waking up” humanity and “ascending” to the heavens via their starship.

 

The leader of the Galactics? None other than Hollywood legend Robin Williams, with whom Amy and her disciples routinely chatted.

 

Executive produced by Josh and Benny Safdie, the three-part Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God (Nov. 13, HBO) is like the cartoon version of a typical cult docuseries, not because of its form—director Hannah Olson sharply and compellingly relays her tale—but because its particulars are so over the top. This is true from the get-go, as the proceedings commence with body-camera footage of police officers arriving on April 29, 2021, at the Colorado “mission house” of Amy and her Love Has Won acolytes. The house was a rundown shack decorated with Christmas lights, New Age-y drawings, and paintings, rainbow colors, and stuffed animals. Inside, what they discovered was the mummified corpse of Amy, who was wrapped up in a sleeping bag just as she had been while being transported across multiple state lines, post-death, from Oregon, where she’d passed away in a hotel room following a prior stint in Hawaii.

 

Amy’s body was in the residence because she’d convinced her flock that it was her destiny to depart Earth courtesy of the Galactics, and these loyal men and women were waiting for this spectacular phenomenon to take place. They were also convinced that, due to her three hearts (?!) and the fact that she was supposedly still radiating electric currents (?!), she was only dead by the standards of the “3D world,” their moniker for the superficial reality they’d identified as a Matrix-style façade. These notions were held by all and vigorously promoted by Amy’s partner Jason, who had joined their circle after years of petty crimes and homelessness. Jason was known as Father God—a supporting position that had previously been held by a few prior lovers, beginning with aged Amerith White Eagle (whose guidance convinced Amy to move to Colorado in the first place) and then young Andrew (who bailed before things got too hairy) and John (who stuck around and assumed the role of “Multiverse Father”).

 

Amy used the internet to spread her message, which comprised hippie-dippie nonsense about being one with the universe; various 9/11, QAnon, and pro-Trump and Hitler conspiracy theories; and amorphous biblical-via-sci-fi dogma. She did this while perpetually stoned, drunk, and tripping balls, since non-stop partying was central to her ethos.

 

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The QAnon Queen’s Compound Is Now a Ghost Town

 

The QAnon Queen of Canada has left her compound in rural Saskatchewan…. For now, at least.

 

Romana Didulo, a cult leader who has convinced hundreds of people across the world she’s the true queen of Canada (among other eccentric things), has been living in an abandoned school in the small Saskatchewan town of Richmound for over a month.

 

But a video sent to VICE News by a local shows Didulo’s team unloading belongings including surveillance gear from the school into several motorhomes and vehicles. One local told VICE that the school, which once almost always had cult members outside filming anyone who came close, is now a ghost town. 

 

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[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

This Musk chap is a dingleberry on the shih tzu butt of life.

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The number of Americans who agree with each individual question has increased significantly between 2021 and 2023. Today, around one-quarter of Americans agree a storm is coming that will sweep away elites in power (27% in 2023 vs. 20% in 2021); that violence may be necessary to save the country (23% in 2023 vs. 15% in 2021); and that the government, media, and financial worlds are controlled by Satan-worshipping pedophiles (25% in 2023 vs. 15% in 2021). 

 

To assess overall belief in QAnon, PRRI created a composite measure from these three questions and identified the following three groups:     

QAnon believers: Respondents who completely or mostly agreed with these statements.    

QAnon doubters: Respondents who mostly disagreed with these statements.    

QAnon rejecters: Respondents who completely disagreed with all three statements. 

 

Since March 2021, the share of QAnon believers has increased significantly, from 14% to 23% today. The percentage of Americans who completely reject QAnon beliefs has significantly decreased from 40% to 29% in 2023. Additionally, the share of those who generally doubt — but do not fully reject — QAnon beliefs has increased slightly from 46% to 49% in 2023.

https://www.prri.org/research/threats-to-american-democracy-ahead-of-an-unprecedented-presidential-election/

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We Regret to Inform You the Pizza-Crazed Conspiracy Theorists Are at It Again

 

PROMINENT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS — including Gen. Michael Flynn — are promoting an unfounded theory that pedophiles have been using Etsy to distribute child porn, sold under the guise of wildly expensive digital downloads of images of pizza.

 

This new conspiracy theory has emerged from the fecund muck of QAnon and Pizzagate — both of which hold that the world is run by an unaccountable cabal of satanic child sex traffickers, and both of which thrive on decoding of supposed secret messages. The fixation with pizza among conspiracy adherents stems from the belief that “cheese pizza” is predator code for child pornograpy or that pizza, generally, can be a veiled reference to pedophilia.

 

Early this week, cybersleuths in Q-friendly corners of X (formerly Twitter) began highlighting strange listings on Etsy, the e-commerce platform for arts and crafts. These vendors purported to sell digital downloads of images of pizza — some of them marketed with images of hungry children — for exorbitant prices, running thousands of dollars. 

 

Amateur investigators pointed to odd Etsy shops, including YummyYumPizza, which was offering an encrypted “Pizza file” for $4,000. Another seller offered a similar “Pizza Image” for $9,000. One sleuth posted a screenshot of an offering for a “cheese PIZZA picture” at $3,000 writing, “Damn @etsy has CP for sale. Instant encrypted downloads.” 

 

These shops are no longer active on the site. An Etsy spokesperson reached by Rolling Stone on Wednesday characterized the claims of illegal image sales as “completely baseless.” The platform has been removing such pizza listings, the spokesperson added, not because the company has uncovered risks to child safety, but because they violate other platform policies — including unreasonably inflated pricing.

 

The fever swamps, however, are not easily deterred. Alarm over the pizza pics soon filtered up to a verified X user named Liz Crokin, a prominent QAnon influencer with 280,000 followers, and whose bio includes the declaration “Pizzagate is real.” 

 

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[LD0506]

What - and I cannot stress this enough- TF??!?

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[Ball Security]

22 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

Do we have an eye roll emoji reaction. This guy is so boring.

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