It’s the end of the year, and the end of an era. Things are eerily quiet as we creep toward 2025, and this moment of stillness is a perfect time to take account of the most significant things we observed over the years. Back in June, when Julian Assange won his freedom, Frank read an email on the air which laid out the story of Q. That email has been reproduced below. With expectations high as Trump is set to return to the White House, let’s take a trip down memory lane.
Frank,
You should open the floor for some discussion about Q soon, since it used to be a big topic on the show, but has since kind of died out. You have always been able to keep yourself on the periphery of the subject, but it was fun theorizing over the latest posts every week.
Here’s how I remember it.
Q was something that dominated and captivated conservative media for over three years, until one day it suddenly evaporated, and we just went on with our lives, without any closure, and with a noticeable loss of energy and excitement. This is something that needs to be talked about, so let’s go back to the beginning.
The “Lock Her Up!” chants were always the most intense part of Trump’s 2016 rallies, and they were triggered whenever he brought up how Hillary Clinton kept state secrets on a private home server that practically every intelligence agency in the world had access to. That July, the anti-corruption narrative exploded with the revelations of Pizzagate. To briefly recap, Wikileaks published John Podesta’s emails after his phone was left behind in a taxi. The emails showed politicians and celebrities using obviously coded language, which according to the FBI, was used by pedophiles and sex traffickers.
The official media story omits those details, and only explains how a crazed gunman attacked an innocent pizza parlor in DC. He fired only one round, which miraculously destroyed the hard drive containing images and videos of events held there. The Pizzagate narrative culminated with the NYPD seizing Anthony Weiner’s laptop that October, and with Eric Prince explaining to Breitbart News how officers were driven to tears and vomiting because of what they saw.
After Trump was inaugurated, self-proclaimed insiders began starting threads on 4chan to leak details about political battles and geopolitics that were ignored by the media. 4chan was likely chosen because of how effective its users were at digging through, and disseminating information during the campaign. Sometimes they posted under pseudonyms like “White House Insider Anon,” but oftentimes they posted anonymously.
Throughout 2017, those posters generated hype around things like Trump’s vague and ominous statement that his dinner with military leaders was the “calm before the storm.” One of the more fantastic counter-narratives they spun concerned the Las Vegas shooting. They claimed it was a coverup for an assassination attempt on Trump and Saudi Prince Muhammed bin Salman, who were secretly meeting in Vegas that night. A month later, bin Salman executed a purge across his country, resulting in mass arrests.
It was around that time when the user named “Q” first posted, and claimed that Hillary Clinton was about to be arrested. That rapture date came and went without incident, and Q began a lengthy series of posts detailing the history and structure of the hidden forces that secretly rule the world. However, Q didn’t last long on 4chan, whose users don’t take kindly to OPs who don’t deliver.
The Q name and tripcode then moved to 8chan, and continued to describe alleged ongoing clandestine operations that were shaping the coming shift in the global power structure. The posts started to include what became known as “Q Proofs,” which were displays of techno-mathematical wizardry designed to establish credibility. Many of the proofs were cryptically tied to Trump tweets via misspelled words and time stamps. To Q’s credit, they were dazzling, and honest readers were forced to acknowledge the level of sophistication. The intense planning and coordination required to pull off such exotic feats suggested Q might indeed be a military operation, and not just an elaborate, one-man troll.
The daily hysterical drama brewed by the media over real-world events also seemed to bolster Q’s credibility. There was a non-stop deluge of devastating evidence of criminality and abuse of power, especially in the FISA Court, which was all cleanly woven into a coherent narrative by the Q posts. From the Jeffrey Epstein story to the North Korea summit, and a million clues in between, the smell of revolution was in the air.
The most sensational moment of the Q frenzy was probably the funeral of George H. W. Bush in December 2018. In the months prior, Q consistently posted the code “D5” in connection with the tagline, “Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming.” D5 is the highest classification for an avalanche, but the code assumed a deeper meaning after Bush died on November 30th, and his funeral was scheduled for December 5th. Just after the political elites found their seats, cameras caught them discovering small envelopes inside their programs. Hillary maintained a stone-faced expression as she read her letter, but the Bush family was much less disciplined. Laura looked at George Bush Jr. in absolute shock, and Jeb seemed close to a mental breakdown. There appeared to be genuine terror on his face. Meanwhile, Trump was all smiles… at a funeral. To this day, we still don’t know what was in those letters.
To those following Q in early 2020, the global lockdowns starting that spring seemed like the perfect pretext to mass arrests, and they were largely peacefully complied with. Later that year, the media finally started acknowledging Q by name on television. The Q posts took on an even more aggressive tone, and Trump blatantly promoted it in multiple tweets. When reporters finally asked Trump about it directly, he feigned ignorance, while simultaneously saying it would be a good thing if he were fighting satanic pedophiles. The media ferociously denied the existence of such groups, and both sides were left unfulfilled.
Then the election was stolen and Trump left the White House. The mass arrests everyone had been bracing for throughout most of his presidency never materialized, and we descended into the dark age we’re still living in today.
So, what do you think? What was it all about? Will Q storm back onto the scene, or did it already serve its purpose, for better or for worse?
