My Take on Q: Don't Trust the Plan
The difference between stupidity, greed, malice, and conspiracy
In my article yesterday about Trump’s arrest, I got a few Q posts in the comments. Generally, I try to avoid arguing with people in my own comment section, as pretty much everyone is welcome here.
But since it came up, I’d like to share Stephanie’s Definitive Thoughts on Q, also known as “QAnon” by the media…though “QAnon” is a misnomer, in part taken from the QAnon.pub website that tracks Q posts. The “anons” (short for anonymous) as such are the followers of Q. The name of the movement is Q, not QAnon.
At any rate, here’s a comment thread from my post yesterday:
Trump Thing?
Big Pharma Betrayal?
Trump was asked to run as President by the US Military to help take down the WEF, Deep State, etc.
Their plan was to kill 7 billion of us.
There were two vaccines- Trump’s & Deep States.
Trump’s vaccine had in it everything he tweeted and talked about. Hydroxchlorquine, Ivermectin, Azithromycin, Doxycycline and Zinc. You can find out all of this information on Truth Social.
We were told that Covid had a 97% Survival Rate. We were told that these vaccines were experimental.
Trump never mandated any vaccines. Biden mandated the Deep State vaccines.
This was planned long before Trump.
The US has been under a Shadow Government since 2016.
The ‘ Real Trump’ ( there are many doubles) has been in the Cheyenne Mountain Military Base since 2019.
He’s the Commander In Chief of 50K Military.
The Global Militaries have been arresting people behind the scenes for years.
I appreciate all what the Global Militaries and President Trump are doing.
OK, to be fair, this might not be a Q follower per se, but much of this is Q ideology, specifically the idea that Trump has everything under control and is actually still running the United States from a military bunker.
Another reader responded:
That's a nice story. The only problem is that it is complete BS. Or more politely: there is zero evidence to support it.
All those stories about secret military tribunals are not only fantasy, but more importantly, not the way to bring about justice. Certainly not the way to bring light into the issues.
And just for interest: "Hydroxchlorquine, Ivermectin, Azithromycin, Doxycycline and Zinc" do not comprise a "vaccine". And you wouldn't give them all together, not even to someone who was very sick. Some of them may have prophylactic value, but mostly these are treatments - that should never be confused with a vaccine, which is a completely different thing.
To which the original poster responded:
Zero Evidence?
Won’t you been surprised when the EBS starts.
Goodnight. Not wasting my time chatting with you!
“EBS” here means “Emergency Broadcast System,” and the idea is that when the “true government” is ready to show themselves to the “normies” (normal people) and publicly pronounce the arrest of people like Hillary Clinton, they will use the Emergency Broadcast System to make the announcement.
Before Q, We Had the Tea Party
Before I talk more about the Q movement, let’s back up and take a quick peek at the Tea Party movement, which began circa 2007 during Ron Paul’s presidential campaign run.
(A little bit of trivia: an ex-boyfriend of mine claimed that he was actually the one who originally came up with the Tea Party idea. Initially, the “Tax Day Tea Party” was a fundraising idea for Ron Paul’s campaign, a money bomb, and that idea later was leveraged by Rick Santelli as a call to action for a greater Tea Party movement.)
The Tea Party was exceptionally well-branded and grassroots. The message: Taxed Enough Already, was clear and targeted. With a call to patriotism, and some fun costuming and tricorn hats, the Tea Party was a populist movement that had a lot of positive energy behind it, despite media denigration.
When I lived in Los Angeles at the time, I was curious about it – mind you, I had been a straight Democrat voter for my entire adult life at that point – so I went with an Hispanic friend of mine to a Tea Party demonstration in El Segundo. We had been told by the media that the Tea Party was filled with dumb hicks and racists, and we were pleasantly surprised to meet a lot of very intelligent people of a variety of races who were not the ogres that CNN was warning people about.
It was at that point that I realized that many of the stereotypes that I had held in my own mind about conservatives were wrong, and my mind and heart was opened to these many wonderful people who were simply trying to make the country a better place.
Because the Tea Party movement was so effective, unfortunately, the extremely politicized federal government under Barack Obama targeted the grassroots Tea Party groups via the IRS. The sad part about all of this is that this attack was hugely successful and destroyed the Tea Party movement. A lot of the local people who had been starting the groups simply were overwhelmed and did not know how to properly fight the IRS attacks on them. I think surrendering to this legal onslaught was a mistake, however.
Into the void walked Donald Trump. Given the failure of the Tea Party, people on the populist right needed some sort of leader, and Trump filled the bill.
Enter Q
Then, around 2017, some communications started occurring on 4chan, the infamous uncensored bulletin board, by someone calling themselves Q.
These messages were cryptic, and often about as clear as a daily horoscope. Meaning, you could read a lot into them. For whatever the reason, the Q messages took off. A new movement was born.
The Q messages touched on a lot of issues and conspiracy theories that people had been hoping would be uncovered for years. The deep state, the corruption of politicians like Hillary Clinton, and the idea that white hats were actually working behind the scenes to save us. It was a good story.
I am reminded of a series of blog posts by a young man who claimed he was talking to a “DC insider” while Obama was in office. The blog posts were fascinating. Many so-called inside scoops were shared that appealed to the emotions of people who thought that Obama was a Manchurian Candidate at best. The guy who was the “insider” was written to sound suspiciously like James Carville, complete with a Southern drawl.
I used to read these blog posts as they were extremely entertaining. However, they were presented as real, when in the back of my mind I thought, surely, these are fiction. It turned out later that the blog blogger ended up writing a book and ended coming out as a fiction writer.
Perhaps because I remembered this story, I wasn’t taken in by Q at all. At first, I thought it was just a LARP. LARP stands for Live Action Role Play. My theory was that some 4chan kid came up with this spy persona to string people along and have fun. In fact, I think that still might have been what initially started Q.
At some point, however, or perhaps that’s how it was from the start, Q was possibly hijacked for a more nefarious purpose.
Now, the funny thing is, or not so funny, really: I think the media has it completely backwards as to the actual danger of Q. The media likes to portray Q as some sort of terrorist group. Q people terrify them and perhaps that is where they are projecting their fears. I’ve also read some posts by an author here on Substack who claims that Mike Flynn started Q and modeled it after ISIS, which is absolutely hilarious to me.
Why is this hilarious to me? Because the ultimate result of Q has not been terrorism but absolute paralysis on the part of the people who had previously been involved with the Tea Party movement.
OK, yeah, we had January 6th, but despite media hype, that wasn’t meant as an assault on the capital but a peaceful protest, one that is very rare among conservatives, as they don’t usually like to sully themselves with street action.
I suppose it is possible that some people decided to use the Q movement at that time to try to stir up a faux revolution on Capitol Hill, but that is actually off brand for Q. Q never calls for street violence. In fact, much of the Q movement believes that any and all street protests are “traps” designed to make the movement look violent, so they go overboard and don’t protest at all.
Effective silencing of a movement.
This is what amazes me about some of these weird stories that the media publishes about these so-called “former” Q members. Here is one in Politico where the guy claims that Q made him think that violence was OK (emphasis mine). What the hell is he talking about? This isn’t Q’s message at all.
When I found QAnon, I didn’t just flirt with it — I fell deep. I internalized the idea that the world was run by the Cabal, a Satan-worshiping child-molesting group of liberal politicians, Hollywood moguls, billionaires and other influential elites. I believed that Donald Trump was leading the fight against the Cabal and that there was a plan in place to defeat them. I couldn’t wait for the coming of the Storm, QAnon’s version of judgment day that would herald the announcement of martial law and a wave of public executions. I was looking forward to the execution of Hillary Clinton, whom Q portrayed as a pedophile and a murderer. I would have cheered. QAnon showed me that I can be enthusiastic about violence, and it’s hard to forgive myself for that.
He also claims in this article that he woke up about Q being false because Trump said “tippy top” prior to Q, and clearly if that was a message to people then Trump would never have said it before. Well, that’s also illogical, because perhaps the Q team knew that Trump said it in the past, and then used it as a purposeful cue to people. This is neither here nor there, but, I want to point out how some of the weird stuff that you’re seeing in the media isn’t really accurate in terms of the problems with Q or what Q really represents for people…and I do wonder how many of these Q defectors are real people or just made up.
So what is the real, big problem of Q that I’m talking about? The problem with Q is that the entire message, if you want to boil it down to one thing is this: Trust the plan.
Trust the Plan. And Do Nothing.
Trust the plan is a phrase from Q that it basically says: the white hats are taking care of things, you can relax and just trust us.
So let’s circle back to the post that was shared on my Substack yesterday: People shouldn’t worry, Trump has everything under control still and is running things from a secret military base. When they’re ready they will alert us via the emergency broadcast system, and everything will be OK, because the truth will finally come out.
Too long didn’t read (TDLR): Don’t worry, don’t bother to do anything, everything’s being taken care of for you.
In my mind, the main message of Q has been the opposite of a call to violence. It’s a call to inaction and complacency.
Q is basically telling people to not organize, to not protest, to not take up arms.
(By the way, I am not saying that people should take up arms so please do not take this analysis as an endorsement of violence.)
What I am saying is that the entire Q movement has been highly effective at basically kneecapping the populist patriot movement and turning it into a passive consumer of Q porn, as opposed to an active movement that is engaged in changing things on the local, state, and federal level.
As such, it is my opinion that Q, even if it started as a LARP, is now a psy-op that is designed to turn would be conservative activists into complacent sheeple. I’m sorry if that’s a harsh analysis for those of you who follow Q. But I think you’ve been had.