Failures and False Predictions
4chan Era
October 2017
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10/28/17 - Q claims that Hillary has been detained (edited to more accurately reflect the failed prediction- thanks Qultists). If this is so then there must not be much evidence against her, given that she's still out and about today! Unless you believe that she went through some shadow trial and is somehow being controlled, but countries where freedom and limited government overreach are valued aren't supposed to do things like that!
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10/28/17 - Q claims that Hillary's passport will be flagged on 10/30/17 and to expect massive riots as she's extradited.
8chan Era
January 2018
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01/21/18 - A flood was alleged to be coming. A flood consisting of various forms of media that I imagine were supposed to implicate somebody in something nefarious. Sadly, this flood never came.
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01/21/18 - Q makes some very certain claims about the Nunes Memo, which of course do not come remotely true when the memo is released a couple weeks later.
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01/22/18 - Q posts a confirmed fake Podesta email, then promptly deletes it. But not before his followers have time to notice.
February 2018
March 2018
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03/06/18 - The stage is set to release a video of Hillary Clinton doing spooky and evil things that would be impossible to defend and '[liberal undo]'. While this didn't happen, it did introduce some curious Q devotees to the world of child porn.
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03/15/18 - Q declares 'March Madness' and that 'the public will soon know'. Nothing came to pass.
April 2018
May 2018
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05/16/18 - Q passes off a shitty photoshop as proof that he has some sort of official document, implied to be an executive order.
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05/19/18 - Q leaks his own password. "On purpose", of course.
June 2018
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06/17/18 - Q engages with somebody who posted a verifiably misleading youtube video as if it were real (to the point where his followers were protesting).
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06/17/18 - Q posts this horrible photoshop job as if it were real.
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06/18/18 - Q responds to a horrible photoshop job as if it were real.
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06/26/18 - July - the month the world knows the TRUTH. Conspiracy no more. (Nothing came to pass.)
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06/27/18 - Q posts a link to yournewswire, a website known for straight-up fabricating information. Additionally, it has a twitter tag appended, suggesting that he found it randomly on twitter. Not great infosec for somebody dropping top-secret knowledge.
July 2018
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07/03/18 - Q posts a link to Breitbart with the twitter tag again.
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07/03/18 - Q posts a photo suggesting that he is on Airforce One. It is quickly debunked as an Obama-era photo that somebody took a picture of with an iphone. Spends quite a while doing damage controlled, including the old 'I trolled u' defense.
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07/31/18 - For his 1776th post, Q uploads an image that's supposed to function as 'proof' that he's working with Trump (Trump's signature + "#1776"). However, not only are the '#' and '1' very different from Trump's own handwriting, but even Q's followers found evidence that it's another photoshop job.
August 2018
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08/10/18 - Q's password is revealed yet again by a former believer attempting to reach out to those who are currently sucked in and debunks the belief that Q's passwords contain clues. Q finally upgrades to a secure trip.
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08/12/18 - Q makes an angry post suggesting that Omarosa admitted to broadcasting a 'CRIMINAL VIOLATION' by leaking recordings from the White House in violation of an NDA. Not only are NDA violations civil matters rather than criminal, but NDAs don't apply to public servants. It is also interesting that Q would get upset over leaks of confidential information when the entire premise of 'The Storm' is that a top government official with a seemingly endless supply of knowledge about international happenings is leaking information about vital government operations to strangers on an insecure message board known for harboring political extremists and at times illegal content.
Various/Misc
Q built up the release of the IG report for months. The night before the report was released, after its actual contents had been reported on for weeks, he panicked and pulled some pretty ridiculous damage control.
Occasionally Q types 'codes'. These 'codes' are easily demonstrated to be gibberish by experts in infosec and cryptography, aside from one that appears to be some kind of (Microsoft?) product license.
Deception Tactics
Q uses a number of tactics to keep people from catching onto the fact that he's spinning lies, or to keep them believing that he's making correct predictions. Some of these tactics are standard fare among false prophets, while others are new to the digital age. Here are some examples:
Most of the predictions and messages he posts are vague to the point where a large number of happenings can be applied to them. For example, 'watch the water' - if anything happens near water, or involving water, Q's followers can use it as confirmation that his prediction came true.
Q uses words that have been made by Trump in the past and/or are commonly used by Trump to give people the impression that he has some sort of relationship with Trump when Trump uses them again.
Why do most of Q's posts involve things that are currently hot topics in the news? If he's a super secret agent who is apparently privy to everything happening behind the scenes, then why would he almost exclusively discuss current events that are publicly known, e.g. the IG report and North Korea? Is everything the Deep State is involved in something that is publicly documented to some degree, aside from off-handed things like the Hillary Clinton tape that never materialized?
Similar to the point above, because Q's posts involve things that are either currently in the news or frequently in the news, there is a high probability that something will happen involving those things in the very near future. For example, there is a scandal within the Catholic Church every other month; if somebody predicts that there will be a scandal in the Catholic Church within the next month or two, there is an extremely high probability that this prediction will come true. Another example of this is [NK]; with Trump and Kim meeting together, there was an extremely high probability that something noteworthy would happen. That said, Q has missed his mark with this tactic, as those making educated guesses often do. For example, heavily suggesting that there would be some sort of big happening between the USA and Iran very soon after the cancellation of the Iran deal.
In the case of the failed Iran deal predictions, Q uses another distraction- posting about Iran again and again to give followers the impression that things are still going to happen and make them forget when the deadline has passed. If/when something big does happen in Iran, his followers will believe that he accurately predicted it despite the fact that he's been hinting for months that something would happen very soon.
Why does Q photoshop some images that he implies are real? Why does he run many images through filters and/or crop them, two of the easiest ways to make an image impossible to reverse image search? If all of them are real and taken by Q, then why are some images clearly amateur while others seem to be taken by professional photographers? The answer is that, while Q does take some photos (e.g. the ones with the pen), he draws photos from different sources (or takes pictures of them, in the case of welcomeaboard.jpg) and edits them so that they can't be reverse-searched.
Q uses thought-terminating cliches like 'trust the plan' and 'disinformation is necessary' to keep the people he's hooked from thinking clearly about what's going on. His followers rationalize failed prediction after failed prediction as 'there are things going on behind the scenes' or 'Q said disinfo needs to happen to throw off the Deep State (why would the Deep State use 8chan of all places for information??)', which protects Q's legitimacy from being questioned.
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Mike_Foster ago
That's an awfully long list. Any Qtards care to offer a rebuttal?
hangry ago
No, they will shout "shill!" "paid by Soros!!" "WHY ARE YOU HERE????"
bopper ago
Why do you 'hang' here so much hangry lol?
hangry ago
I don't hang out in subs. I read the feed of everything coming into voat.
bopper ago
Okay. Dang where do you get the time..
hangry ago
Try it. Choose "all" at the top left of your screen, then "new." You can block whatever subs that don't interest you - I block adult subs, QRV, and a few others.
bopper ago
I've heard that, maybe I'll do it since you mention it..
UK_Bloke_Awoke ago
So you sit there and watch whatever anyone throws at you....
Really...
Really?
When you go shopping do you walk into every store, regardless?
Do you use a satnav, or just drive at random?
Are you still reading me?
Even now, although I’m not agreeing with you, and therefore not worth reading...?
Rotteuxx ago
This is an extremely stupid series of short sentences, you should feel shame for exposing your lack of cognitive abilities.
You start off with an ad hominem attack on @hangry, insinuating that he has no critical thinking skills.
Then you double down on exposing your possible retardation by equating browsing/v/all/new with impulsive shopping habits.
Followed by an very moronic logical fallacy where you pretend that unless you have gps in your car, you're bound to drive randomly as if normal human beings don't have a decent sense of orientation.
And finally you quadruple down on stupidity by concluding that since you don't agree with @hangry, he probably won't even read your reply.
Seriously, don't try so hard. You don't have the IQ required.
srayzie ago
When it comes to @hangry who is always talking shit to me here, I don’t like the punk either.
Rotteuxx ago
But do you go around posting the stupidest of comments to reply to him and then try and defend your stupidity by downplaying what you wrote ?
srayzie ago
No. Our communication with him telling me he’s gonna block GreatAwakening and shit. I didn’t know him before this. I don’t know I’d he knew me.
Rotteuxx ago
You lost me
srayzie ago
Sorry. I was typing from my phone and auto correct screws me up. I’ll fix it.
UK_Bloke_Awoke ago
Hahahahaha
You realise I clicked the wrong reply button, do you? Hence short apols...
So H and I have played before, several times and he eventually unbenned me...
I believe he always reads my replies, and I read his, because often he’s quite fun, as I’ve acknowledged often, though YOU aren’t up to speed...
Are you so slow that you didn’t get my analogy that sitting watching v/all, which catches every sub unless blocked, implies a lack of choice (i.e. a sense of orientation) that would otherwise allow you to more rationally choose the items on which you are going to spend your time, becomes virtually the same as driving without satnav, following each and every random road (submission) that appears next...
I’m not extolling my IQ or my qualifications.... nothing to see here...
Hand_of_Node ago
Implies an interest in the world around you. I browse v/all, my voat subscriptions, voat preview, and 44 other tabs, at the moment. 7 of those tabs are for a site where I have 169 subscriptions in a wide variety of fields and/or topics. Several other tabs are similarly 'diverse'. Further, when I first moved to this area, I drove virtually every road and street within 10 miles, and many of the major or more significant roads and public thoroughfares outside the local area.
I'm not convinced that an obsessively narrow focus is a virtue.
bopper ago
Lol, you pegged me wrong, I'm just being nice. I'm a staunch Q supporter, and have been with Q since the beginning.
Srayzie the mod and I discussed starting this subverse, long time ago, we're good friends. BTW I like your comments, I see them all the time.
Hand_of_Node ago
Would you be willing to answer a few straightforward questions?
If I had more hours in the day, i'd be interesting in doing a study of the "Q believer" demographic. I don't, but am curious about the specific target demographic of this psyop, and the effectiveness of its techniques. Answer as many or as few as you like. Number references would be great.
bopper ago
Tomorrow if I can, never been in a cult, not a jew, aware of the JQ, race realist.
UK_Bloke_Awoke ago
I replied to Hangry.. I know we’re good, Bops...
bopper ago
Well CRAP lol...I thought so :)