Previous posts:
Deep Throat v. Q
Q The Conspiracy - A Phenomenon
The Gospel According To Q
A-Marketing We Will Q
The Name Of The Q
Q The LARP Carp
Spe-Q-lating On Q
In The Twilight Of The Q
Jonesing For Q
Analyzing Q-Analysis
The Q Prophesy
To Q Or Not To Q
A Quantum Of Q-Bit
Surfing the Q Wave
CQ CQ CQ
Q Tips And Quislings
Some Quick Q
The Q Treason
Q, for all intents and purposes, has not posted anything of consequence since 6 January 2019, when it claimed that Ted Cruz was also surveilled during the 2016 campaign cycle, when he and Trump were battling down the home stretch towards the nomination.
Q, as it is wont, fails to provide any evidence other than a handful of MSM links talking about how the
CIA spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Such a bombshell Drop should have riled up the Qniverse, since it would provide strong substantiation for the Trump Surveillance narrative, but the revelation has gone largely ignored by anyone, much less the Qvians.
Since that time,
Q has primarily re-posted past Drops or quoted Trump Tweets or simply given long lists of MSM links. As usual, there is never any affirmative interpretation given by Q, that is left to the Apostles and Acolytes whose job it is to generate consensus in the classic
Hegelian Dialectic style.
It is interesting to note that throughout last December and into early January, the Qniverse was a cacophony of rumors about impending unsealing of indictments, martial law and military tribunals. One could hardly find a moment of Q Commentary that didn't mention these topics and crow excitedly about the possibility.
Then I wrote my last article called
The Q Treason, and spent
a subsequent hour with Jeff Rense on topic, where I dissected the US laws, regulations and court decisions regarding both martial law and the tribunals. Curiously - though no one in the Qniverse that I have found has directly addressed my research - the topics vanished from the running commentary. Can I make a cause-and-effect case here? Without further information, no, but the coincidence leads to interesting inferences.
When I say vanished, I mean I have only heard the word "tribunal" mentioned once in passing, and not a single other reference for the past three weeks across the dozen or so commentators I monitor regularly.
The topics of martial law and military tribunals have floated around the Qniverse since nearly the moment Q appeared on 4Chan (later 8Chan). The idea was that the thousands of "sealed indictments" of high-ranking US officials and the impending arrests would lead to mass unrest and violence, and that the perpetrators would be tried by military tribunals because the civilian courts were so corrupt - and the perps masters of the process - that they would escape justice on technicalities not available in military courts.
The issues came to a head in late December, with Q Interpreters seeing imminent arrests around the beginning of January 2019.
Much discussion centered around
a widely circulated video by someone called "Law Johnston". Several searches of YouTube show that the video was circulated through third-party channels, as there doesn't seem to be any channel overtly operated by someone named "Law Johnston," though there is a channel called "
ManOfChanges," operated by a Lawrence Johnston, who promotes himself as a fine artist.
The video in question does not appear on the ManOfChanges channel, but at least
one of the videos on the channel appears to be hosted by a man looking similar to "Law Johnston" and this man has a similar
Sam-Elliott drawl and breathy delivery. Some of the videos on the channel also deal with various conspiracies, so it would be reasonable to link the two on circumstantial evidence.
Moving on, the imminent arrests and trials have now been replaced with speculation on
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the
Government Shut-Down.
On the topic of Justice Ginsburg, the Qniverse has decided that she is going to exit the Supreme Court any day now. There is quite a bit of speculation that she is already dead.
There is an obvious political problem here. President Trump has already appointed two justices, and a third would presumably put the conservative balance heavily on its side, with at least one more justice needing to be replaced in the next six years, assuming Trump is re-elected.
Obviously, the radical Marxist/Socialist elements within the federal government are in a panic over Ginsburg's imminent departure. Ginsburg is an iconic emblem of this political faction and her exit represents the end of any overt presence of this ideology on the Supreme Court bench.
Being well into her 80s, and having just gone through a
double lobectomy to remove cancerous nodules from her lung, it is
hardly a secret that she is on the way out.
The excitement in the Qniverse centers around the fact that Republicans kept the leadership of the Senate, which is solely responsible for confirming presidential appointments, particularly Supreme Court justices.
The Democrats have a vested interest in hiding Ginsburg's condition, and it would be quite apparent at the annual State of the Union Address normally given to the collected branches of the federal government by the president around the 20th of January each year. It therefore stands to reason, among a number of other issues, that
Speaker Nancy Pelosi would want to cancel the Address, using the shut-down as an excuse. The missing justice would overshadow any other message the Democrats would want to deliver in their post-address rebuttal.
Trump responded by cancelling Pelosi's overseas junket by
cancelling her Air Force transportation.
This brings up the issue of the government shut-down, which will be 30 days old on Sunday, 20 January 2019. The 30 days is important to remember.
It has long been lamented in the Qniverse that Trump cannot advance his agenda because the federal government is stacked from the ground up with Marxist/Socialist elements that infest the so-called "Swamp". The Qvians have long espoused the need for Trump to "drain the swamp," but no one could figure out how that would be accomplished without the mass arrests long promoted in the Qniverse.
It is no secret that in any government anywhere, the bureaucrats run the show. These lifetime employees of government establish a kingdom within the kingdom, then proceed to make it nearly impossible to get rid of them. Thus, in any real sense, it is these "swamp dwellers" who have the actual power, and not the elected or appointed leaders. This is a truism that is as old as government itself, and history is replete with leaders decrying the bureaucracy. They are represented by the classic character in history and fiction who whispers in the ear of the king, such as the Sheriff of Nottingham of Robin Hood fame, or Wormtongue in
Lord of the Rings..
In the US, it is virtually impossible to reprimand an apparatchik, much less fire one. The system was eloquently and succinctly summarized recently by
an "anonymous" op-ed piece in The Daily Caller. The writer's premise is that federal law allows employees to be "RIFed" only after a 30-day (22 working days) furlough. Reduction In Force (RIF) is the bureaucratic euphemism for "lay-off," which has been widely adopted by corporations, as well.
This "30 days" number immediately led Qvians to refer back to two previous Q Drops:
Q1280 was dated 27 April 2018, and Q1935 was dated 28 August 2018. Q1280 states, "Done in 30. [30]." Q1935 states, "Think FLYNN [30]. Exactly [30]."
It should be noted that Q1280 was widely interpreted at the time to refer to an upcoming prediction about John McCain's death, that supposedly dropped exactly 30 days before his death.
Q1935 appears to reference General Mike Flynn, though the Drop does includes a long list of federal bureaucracies and implies that they are "central to operational success," and goes on to say Obama/Clinton operatives within those agencies are preventing Trump from realizing his agenda - though not in so many words. The text does not link 30 to any of the agencies, nor does it imply RIFs as an option to clearing the agencies.
The two references to "30" are in context with Flynn and McCain, and do not appear to have larger contexts or implications.
It should also be noted that the only other reference to "30" in all the Q Drops is #1933, from 26 August 2018, in which Q appears to take credit for John McCain's suicide/murder. This Drop is
covered at length in my previous articles.
Taken at face value, it is impossible to say that either of these Drops directly implies a government shut-down extending longer than 30 days. In both contexts, they refer specifically to two individuals, and one of the Drops (1935) mentions a number of federal agencies and says they are critical to "operational success," but says nothing about using RIFs to clear them out. A search of Q Drops brings up no overt mention of RIFs or lay-offs, and the only mentions of "shut down" involve closing off various channels of Deep State communications.
Nothing I can find the Q Drops can be clearly interpretted to imply that the government shut-down was imminent, or that it would be used to RIF obstructing bureaucrats and clean out The Swamp. Neither does any Q Drop hint at anything but mass arrests as part of The Plan or a means to clearing The Swamp.
I mention all of this by way of noting that the three overt references to the number "30" in the Q Drops are now being interpretted to imply that Q was telegraphing to Qvians the use of the shut-down to RIF unwanted employees. This interpretation uses the Q mantra that "future proves past," thus this 30-day number for the shut-down must be seen as yet another Q Proof of fulfilled Q Prophesy.
To my mind, this is clearly an unwarranted conclusion. In fact, this closely resembles the habit of many Biblical interpreters to take passages far out of context and use them as proof that the Bible clearly anticipated events thousands of years later.
In fact,
US federal regulations DO allow furloughed employees to be RIFed after 30 calendar/22 working days, but there are enough catches to make any bureaucrat smirk appreciatively.
Firstly, the Furlough Rule excludes "Emergency Furloughs" related to appropriation
SNAFUs. Secondly, the rules require a re-organization plan be in place, describing how remaining employees will be shuffled around and job descriptions altered before the RIFs can take place.
It seems that
the existing rules exclude the current situation on two counts. It may be that reorganization plans do exist within the Trump administration, but no hint of that has leaked out yet.
In any case, the current shut-down was initiated by the lack of appropriation of funds, and so is exempt from the RIF rules, meaning that once the funding is in place, the employees will need to be furloughed an additional 30 days to be eligible for RIFs. Furthermore, the rules say that employees may have a "right" to be shifted to another position, rather than laid off completely.
So where does this leave the impartial observer wishing to determine the truth behind the Q Phenomenon?
We must conclude that Q is a marketing tool for the Trump administration. Its promotion of Republican ideals and candidates make it quite apparent that the operation has a clear political agenda.
We must also conclude that Q is being used to promote a kind of anti-narrative that countermands the Mainstream Media. While some may see this as a good thing, controlling what people think and do without their express understanding of how it is done, for any purpose, is immoral and suspect on its face.
We must finally conclude that the Q Prophesies are in fact of little value when interpretting current events. We have been told repeatedly about sealed indictments, but there is precious little evidence they exist. We have been told repeatedly about The Plan, but it takes some rather strenuous mental acrobatics to extract any sign of a coherent and coordinated Plan from either Q's Drops or Trump's actions.
We have further been told repeatedly about The Storm, but there is scant evidence that this is anything more than Trump/Q reacting to the various efforts of the opposition to disrupt and possibly end his administration. In other words, Q is an effort on the part of the Trump administration to make reactions look proactive, and thus provide the illusion that Trump/Q are firmly in control and have anticipated every possible move by the opposition.
We have no reason to conclude that Trump/Q are secretly orchestrating major political events to achieve their agenda. Rather, we must conclude that Trump/Q are opportunistically taking advantage of situations as they arise, while attempting to project leadership and control over the situation.
In no case do we appear closer to the Qvian Holy Grail of seeing Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or any of the other arch-villains of the Republican weltanschauung being goose-stepped to the gallows, than we were a full two years ago when Trump took office - or three years ago when he started floating the idea of jailing Clinton.
Sure, a number of high-profile bureaucratic figures have been "resigned" or outright fired, but this is nothing extraordinary. It is par for the course in any change of administration. Get rid of past loyalists and replace then with current loyalists. Politics as usual - though perhaps in slower motion than most.
One might be swayed if some amazing maneuver allows Trump to RIF a full one-third of the federal work force, but that doesn't seem possible under the current rules - at least for another 30 days or more. Some "unsealing" of indictments and a few high-profile arrests might convince one of The Plan, but there doesn't appear to be any effort to prepare the masses for such a move in any of the media, including Q Drops.
If anything, the outstanding work of WikiLeaks and Tom Fitton/Judicial Watch will be the downfall of high-profile criminals long before anything Trump/Q appear to be doing.
One prime example of the lack of predictive power within the Qniverse is Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. The Qvians launched a maelstrom of excited speculation around the appointment of Whittaker after the resignation of Jeff Sessions in November 2018. The contention was that Whitaker was unbound by nearly any constraint and could quickly fire
Rod Rosenstein and
Bob Mueller, and then exit the scene when the new AG was confirmed by the Senate. In fact, Whitaker has spent his time fighting a court challenge to his appointment, pushing some papers around and warming a chair until the new AG is confirmed.
The Qvians have now shifted the same narrative to
William Barr, pending his confirmation as AG. Given the track record of the Qniverse to accurately predict future events, we will not hold our breaths. But we can say with some confidence that the Qniverse will find some way to take credit for predicting whatever does happen.
In short, Q does not have a better or worse track record than
any anonymous source in the MSM. In fact, given the gravity of Q's implied coming attractions, we can only conclude that Q is little more than a weaponized version of the Boy Who Cried Wolf at worst, and an ace PR team at best.
For their part, the Q Apostles and Acolytes never seem to follow through on any of the Events du Jour. Instead, they seem to quickly and effortlessly shift gears and completely forget about failed Prophesies, preferring to focus on the latest current events and the newest Storm Theory.
As noted above, the issues of impending Martial Law and Military Tribunals have simply vanished into the ether, with the Qniverse now focused on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the RIFs. In fact, even the "
73,090 "sealed indictments" (as of 31 December 2018) have simply slid into the memory hole. I have not heard any of the commentators mention them since early January. I attribute all of this to the fact that these items represent wildly failed predictions.
Granted, Q never overtly makes the predictions, but they are extracted by "code breaking" from Q Drops, and Q does nothing to disabuse Qvians of those conclusions, nor does it openly confirm them, which allows for significant wiggle room.
For their part, the Apostles and Acolytes wave off the failures with a kind of "the Lord works in mysterious ways" dismissal. "Future proves past," they always say.
Interestingly, none of this seems to dissuade the Qvians in the least. They easily switch from one focus to another, based on whatever issue the Trump/Q team command, without even so much as a wave back to the dying memes. They are consumed with "
confirmation bias" and refuse to acknowledge past failures and re-directions, instead focusing laser-like on the latest Q Theory.
For the student of marketing and mass media, the Q Phenomenon is a magnificent case study in the power of the medium when one has unlimited resources to throw at it. It behooves all of us to study this Phenomenon and learn how to identify it and inoculate ourselves from it, lest we fall prey to a significant new form of propaganda.
Even if the Q Phenomenon turns out to be completely innocuous and benign, at some point someone will land on the formula and use it for far worse ends.
Cue Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
