Drop 3880 (Feb 20 2020)
You have come far, Anons (Patriots).
You are ready.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5T 7Gr5oJbM
Prepare for the storm.
Largo Entertainment presents a film about loyalty.
- Where we go one... - We go all.
The calm...
What happened to my ship was not imagined.
...before the storm.
Hold tight!
I am a tenured professor at University of Miami
in the Political Science department.
I've been here for almost 12 years,
and I study conspiracy theories.
An online conspiracy theory has found momentum in the real world.
Here to break this all down, Joseph Uscinski.
I give most conspiracy theories a wide berth.
Unlike some of my colleagues,
I start out with the idea that it could be true,
but we just don't know yet.
One of the drops was about me
and said that I was part of the conspiracy.
They said that my poll was part of some coordinated effort to take Q down.
At which point, what they were saying about me was false,
so I'm, like, this is just full of shit.
As we've learned in our reporting,
this is actually becoming a political movement.
There's a once in a lifetime opportunity
to take this global cabal of Satan worshipping pedophiles out.
People conspiracy-theorize about things that they think are powerful.
We don't know exactly what this plan is,
and we don't care exactly what this plan is.
For people who have really strong conspiracy thinking,
what happens is that they start believing
in every conspiracy theory.
You told us where we go one, we go all.
Well, we believed you. We lived by it.
All these people tell me their families are being torn apart by QAnon.
I don't really think that there's a way to bring her out of it
since she's so deeply entrenched.
Where we go one, we go all.
With Q, it's sort of, like, yes, there's bad things in this world,
but Donald Trump, our savior, is here, and he's in office,
and he's gonna fix it all.
And it gives these people a lot of hope.
Q one day will be in every history book.
NEW FRINGE CONSPIRACY THEORY GROUP APPEARS AT TRUMP RALLY
If you could say one thing to the president, what would you say?
Who is Q?
Q is setting expectations to the point
where if those indictments don't come down
and those people aren't taken out in cuffs
that someone's going to fight fire with fire.
Q said prepare for the storm.
Is this a dangerous movement?
The resistance against Q is building.
We're talking probably millions of people believing in this.
Where we go one, we go all!
They promote a narrative that could disrupt the 2020 election.
Where we go one, we go all.
Prepare for the storm.
If this stuff doesn't come true...
We're taking back our country...
...someone else is gonna try and make it come true.
And it's gonna be biblical.
We have an army of digital soldiers.
Where we go one, we go all.
Q: INTO THE STORM
LOS ANGELES, CA
I'm basically homeless right now, and I don't have any income,
so I'm pretty much fucked here in LA. It's the truth.
I lived there for six years starting in October of 2014.
I left a lot behind there in Manila. I left pets behind. I left my wife.
I'm just tired of...
I don't know, letting people down constantly.
But it's the story of my life here.
Those Q people just don't understand law.
That wasn't very bright of Fred to come to United States
'cause Bill Clinton signed an extradition treaty
with the Philippines in 1995. Oops.
Yeah, oops. I'm just that stupid. I'm just that stupid. Oops.
You're so much smarter than me. You did it.
You cracked the code. Fucking idiot.
Sorry.
We're gonna pawn some of my stuff.
We got two gold coins.
We're also gonna pawn that watch that's sitting on the bed right there.
It was Ronald's watch. He sold it to me for less than it was worth.
I'm gonna try to get at least five grand for that.
I hope I can get six.
I feel like I'm way too old for this shit.
Like, maybe this would have been fun when I was 19.
Let's go pawn something, and then we can go buy some weed, man.
Okay, so if I sold everything, it would be 55 hundred.
I guess Ronald doesn't know as much about watches as he thinks.
Yeah, whenever I'm feeling down about this situation,
I think it's better to be free here in LA
than, like, locked up in the Bicutan Detention Center in Manila.
In half a mile, take exit 525A for Del Paso Road.
You picked an interesting time to come back to the States.
But we'd already planned to come back to the States.
I want to get back to what I was working on.
- Which was? - My books.
- What were you... - And a lot of goofing off.
With the lawsuit against Fred in the Philippines...
I'm not suing Fred in the Phil... There's no lawsuit.
He has criminal charges filed against him.
He doesn't worry about being sued
because he has nothing that's public that someone could take.
What are you gonna do, take his wheelchair?
He did ultimately have something to lose, right?
Like, he did have a condo and, like, a wife and a life.
He hasn't lost them unless he gives up on them.
He only has a misdemeanor against him.
My god, it's not like it's a...
A six-year minimum, right? So, it's like...
- I think that was maximum. - No, it's a six-year minimum.
You see how much I paid attention to it?
He should have probably not done what he did.
- Hello. - Hey. It's been forever.
I guess we've been messaging back and forth
so it doesn't feel quite as long, but...
A long time.
I was wondering when, like, when all that was going down with Fred,
around that time, Q posted, "Game Over." And...
Oh, did he?
He did. And I'd always wondered if that was in reference to Fred.
I don't know.
Were you ever able to figure out how Q managed to post
when 8kun came back online and pretty much no one else could?
He tried really hard. I don't know.
Finally, like, we're almost back to normal now.
But most of the user base is gone.
It's like, probably 95 percent is gone.
So, we were, like, the top thousand website in the world at the peak,
and now we're at 30 thousand or something.
Now it's mostly just Q Research.
If Q Research left, we'd probably just shut it down.
MARCH 2020
Fred escaped the Philippines
two weeks before the world went into full blown lockdown
over the Coronavirus.
And the virus now in all 50 states.
There are now more than 6,400 cases in the U.S.
That number's gonna skyrocket as more tests take place.
His plans to bring his wife to the States would have to wait
as he holed up in a room in North Hollywood.
Nobody really knows what's gonna happen with the Coronavirus.
Surely, it would affect me worse than most people.
The Coronavirus has really changed everything.
And it's reenergized the Q movement.
It's reenergized them, but it's also confused them.
Isolated, broke, and afraid, people turned to the internet for answers.
Plugged into a 24-hour doom scroll, the algorithms were there,
ready to lead people to increasingly extreme content.
Internet usage has skyrocketed 40 percent
since the Coronavirus started spreading.
Interested in spiritual solutions? How about the Great Awakening?
Worried about your kids' safety? What about child trafficking?
This whole pandemic thing? Actually a "plandemic" by the global elites.
This disease, this virus,
this is being used as an excuse to tank global economies.
This is being used as an excuse to have these supply chain disruptions.
That's one of the scariest parts about the coronavirus in my opinion.
Q didn't need to do anything.
In fact, Q didn't do anything for weeks.
What I've heard from my sources anyway,
Q was bound to end at some point. So, it's not a forever thing.
When the coronavirus first hit Asia, Ron freaked the fuck out.
He had a lot of theories, one of which involved a Harvard scientist
who had allegedly developed COVID as a bioweapon in a Wuhan lab.
These theories eventually found their way to his Twitter feed.
Meanwhile, Q remained silent on the matter.
But on March 23rd, Q finally took a position,
a position that perfectly matched what Ron had been saying.
Not long after, the President followed right in step.
Have you seen anything at this point
that gives you a high degree of confidence
that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of this virus?
Yes, I have.
And that's when Ron did something curious.
He deleted all of his COVID theories from Twitter,
saying, "We are now seeing more scientific transparency."
Really? Bioweapon is just a Q thing?
I feel like it is really started by Q people.
I feel like Ron Watkins is one of the leaders of that.
Ronald Watkins has been posting
that the Coronavirus is a bioweapon for months.
He's believed it for months. He probably still believes it,
and then we're supposed to believe that when Q backs his exact belief
that he suddenly just has a change of heart?
No, what really happened is Ronald was posting as Q,
looking for things to post. He went a little too far.
The mask slipped a little bit too much.
He got scared,
and then he decided to backtrack on his public account
to look less like Q, but that made him look more like Q.
He has the power to write Q drops. I know he does
because I know the software really well.
And to think that he hasn't written at least one is very naive.
I still think that Q is just as dangerous,
if not more so, during this pandemic.
And I think he's going to get people killed with his bioweapon theory.
Now, right as the global economy entered into a tailspin,
Trump decided great time to troll the public.
His head of social media tweeted out a popular QAnon meme.
Trump then retweeted it.
It was Q's biggest boost yet.
Did you see what Scavino, Donald Trump's Head of Social Media, tweeted?
- Violin thing? - Yeah.
This is coming from the highest up in the Trump campaign. I mean...
Dan Scavino, he manages his Twitter account.
They want to tap the power of Q.
Yeah, there's no other interpretation.
President Trump is confirming Q.
The only thing that we're missing now
is President Trump basically getting up in front of the media
and saying this is all real.
With this strategy, we are calling for a great reawakening of America
and a rebirth of patriotism, prosperity, and pride.
It is an awakening. If it is the Great Awakening,
which whatever that means, I don't know. It's a part of the awakening.
I'm sure Ronald feels like a genius when he sees Donald Trump
retweeting the "Nothing Can Stop What is Coming" violin meme.
I'm sure of that. 'Cause one of the main reasons
that Jim likes 8chan is not financial. It's power. They like the power of it.
Soon Q's theories became Trump's theories.
It's going to disappear one day. It's like a miracle. It will disappear.
Trump's theories became Q's theories.
We call them the Fraud and Death Administration.
Someone from the Q-munity would sell bleach as a cure.
Trump would sell it days later.
Right, and then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute.
Trump would push HCQ,
a drug that had no proven benefits for Coronavirus.
- Hydroxychloroquine? - I'm taking it. Hydroxychloroquine.
And Q would follow.
It was like "After you." "No, no, after you, I insist."
All I can tell you is so far, I seem to be okay.
And when Trump turned against masks, Q agreed, and Anons followed.
Are you gonna allow the government to tell you you have to wear a mask?
No!
The Deep State is behind this pandemic.
Their plan is to use this as the cover for the mass arrests.
I got every problem with the government saying we can't go out!
Target. This shit's all fucking over. This. Shit's. Fucking. Over.
Videos of people taking off their masks,
shouting a parade of wild theories...
I don't wear a mask for the same reason I don't wear underwear.
Things got to breathe.
Received more likes, clicks, and subscribes
than the CDC's dry, evidence-based guidance.
Even the normies out there, even they're beginning to question.
Q appeared to offer concrete, good versus evil answers
in a chaotic world, giving its adherents
a sense of control over the uncontrollable.
COVID is the biggest lie fake news has ever told.
How can you say that when you look at the numbers?
Well, I don't trust the numbers.
What evidence do you have besides online speculation?
There's months now of documented evidence for this.
What kind?
Nemos News Network, if you want to go search the...
- That's your network. - Absolutely.
I've been covering this since the beginning.
And with an election coming up,
some even felt inspired by QAnon to run,
tapping the power that its ever increasing community represented.
Honestly, everything that I've heard of Q, I hope that this is real.
24 QAnon candidates ran for United States Congress.
Two would eventually make it to Capitol Hill.
I just want to say to Nancy Pelosi,
she's a hypocrite, she's an anti-American,
and we're gonna kick that bitch out of Congress.
In 2018, 2019, QAnon was this thing
that was kind of growing in power in the GOP
but that you never thought that any political party would be sort of afraid
to offend QAnon supporters or alienate them.
But 2020 was really the year
that QAnon kind of came into its own as a force in the GOP.
In June, Trump's son posted an image of Q on Instagram before deleting it.
Two weeks later on the Fourth of July,
General Flynn lined up his family
to take his rightful place on the QAnon throne,
delighting QAnons and shocking anyone paying attention.
- Where we go one, we go all. - Where we go one, we go all.
- God bless America. - God bless America.
As QAnon's anti-establishment radical rejection of expertise
morphed into a political force, Twitter decided to take action
against what they called coordinated harmful activity.
The social media giant restricted or banned
150 thousand or more accounts.
They prevented links from connecting to QAnon websites
and blocked Q-related hashtags from trending.
In response, QAnon started writing cue spelled out as C-U-E, and 17,
because Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet.
Then the Anons got creative.
They hijacked a hashtag that overlapped with their own worldview:
hashtag Save The Children.
What was Twitter going to do, ban that too?
We have all tons of friends who tell us,
"This isn't real. The pedophiles, this is all Hollywood bullshit."
Soon Save The Children rallies began popping up around the country,
even internationally.
QAnons it seemed had found a new identity.
I am seeing at least five to ten QAnon
"Where we go one, we go all," sort-sort of all mixed in.
Look, we've got a Pepe right there. We've got a rare Pepe on the...
There's Adrenochrome here, Dismantle Pedowood, just within eyesight.
And Hillary Clinton in a orange jumpsuit.
It seems like Q's gone mainstream.
It's the new world. It's the new QAnon.
Yeah, it is the new... This is the New Anon.
I'm here because our children are supposed to be our future,
and our children are being sex trafficked across America.
And I don't understand why.
I think they think that any potential conversation
could be handing out a red pill.
If you frame the conversation just right and ask the right questions,
somebody will walk away, ready to do their own research.
Twitter's efforts to suppress QAnon had arguably backfired.
Q's adherents only became more convinced
that their mission was a righteous one.
But then you've got the evangelical pedophilia sort of coalition over here.
They're having a full revivalist moment right now.
There's a guy crying and lifting his hands up.
I think that's what's gonna happen now
is that the democrats are gonna become republicans
as we used to know them, and the GOP will become QAnon.
Where we go one, we go all!
So, just last week, Donald Trump was asked the question
which every QAnon has been waiting for.
The anticipation was built up.
"President Trump, will you disavow QAnon?"
I don't know much about the movement
other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.
But I don't know much about the movement.
Is this belief that you are secretly saving the world
from this Satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals?
Does that sound like something you are behind?
I haven't heard that,
but is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing?
He didn't confirm or deny his involvement,
and he got as close as he could to doing it without doing it.
He's staying safe with that, as he should.
As part of Fred's retaliation efforts to destroy Jim Watkins,
he had found a new partner in Aubrey Cottle.
We're kind of keeping it tight right now,
trying to figure out how to disrupt this Q shit as quickly as possible.
So, that's been the priority?
Yeah. It's starting to affect levels of government,
and it's getting really terrifying.
As you may recall,
Aubrey Cottle claims to be the founder of Anonymous.
It's a hacker collective started around 2006
that took on targets like Scientology and the Federal Reserve.
The tactics of Anonymous were borrowed in Gamergate,
Gamergate fueled the rise of 8chan, and eventually led to QAnon.
I understand how this entire Q shit functions implicitly
because they're using my playbook.
Stuff was workshopped
just talking about how it was possible in the first place to even do.
So, if it was possible to go and get some fucking racist, stupid buffoon
that has more money than brains into office,
we can do anything at that point.
And I think that's what probably kicked a lot of this shit off.
What's your relationship to Fred actually right now?
I first started talking to him right after Christchurch
'cause I saw that he had felt like fucking dogshit for Gamergate
and all the shit that he kicked off.
And I feel responsibility, and I always felt bad for that.
I DM'd him on Twitter, and he said,
"Thanks, Aubrey. I thought you were a cuck when I was 18.
Just turns out I didn't have any experience."
Like, it's okay. That's okay. We're in this together, buddy.
It's his monster that won't die.
And if going and fucking over Jim Watkins is how he's gonna find peace,
all the power to him. I will help him any way I can
'cause I have a very bad feeling
that if this shit is not somehow curtailed before the election,
this is going to be very messy, very violent.
And right now, I got the feeling that they are going to push
for complete dismantling of the US democratic systems.
Has anyone from Trump's team or the government
reached out to you at this point,
given how much of a role you guys play with Q?
Nobody's reached out to us, as far as I know.
I mean, maybe someone reached out to my dad, but he didn't tell me.
I don't know. It's gonna get crazy towards the election.
I told my dad today, if you just want to shut down 8kun
because the heat's too much, I won't hold it against you.
But he says, "Winners never quit."
Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Now he's just giggling
that he holds this much sway over the American populace
and doesn't even care about the money anymore.
He's going fucking bankrupt over this shit.
He had to sell his pig farm.
Why did you end up having to sell it?
Because we needed the money.
Yeah, you seem more serious these days.
Well, when you live in America, you have to work.
It's expensive to live in America.
ANONYMOUS RETUNS
We're going to be exposing Jim in as many ways as possible.
OPERATION VINDICATOR
The left needs to learn how to also play fucking dirty.
And that's where I come in.
You got to flip this shit around on them.
If you're just gonna do peaceful protests and all that crap,
that's you're only going to get so far because really, they don't care.
They expect you to do that. Then they expect you to go home, go to sleep,
wake up the next day, and continue going and sucking Jeff Bezos's dick.
Fred became masterful at leveraging the media
to wage his war on Jim and on Q.
He goes on Twitter, and he lies and lies and lies
about a false narrative that he wants to push.
And then a bunch of lazy journalists who don't actually fact check,
they just take his word as if it was true
because he's a self-purported expert on the topic.
And then Fred goes to Wikipedia
where he's a top editor of Wikipedia.
And he edits the articles to source the journalists
that took his false facts. He's laundering facts.
Reporters basically wrote exactly what I wanted in certain instances.
ABC News, they basically wrote.
I don't know that I could have done it better.
How would you describe how Fred kind of gets his narrative out there?
He breaks the rules.
But I don't think he's the one causing me the heartache now.
I think that this is other people.
Aubrey had already pushed an article claiming
that 8chan was run by quote hardcore pedophiles.
Digging into Jim's digital past,
Fred and Aubrey discovered that Jim had registered a website
almost 20 years earlier called 00PRETEENS.COM.
Fred claimed it appeared to contain child porn
and successfully got a reporter from Mother Jones Magazine to follow up.
Hey, Mr. Watkins, this is AJ from Mother Jones.
Hi, AJ.
Fredrick Brennan said that when...
Who? Who? Boba Fett? I'm sorry, it's hard to hear you.
Fredrick Brennan.
I have nothing to do with him for years now.
So, it's come to our attention
that your hosting company has at various points over the years
hosted a lot of domains that appear to be related to child pornography.
And I want to try to understand what's going on with that.
Zero zero preteens dot com?
Yes, we deleted that when we found that in our list of websites.
That was maybe 17 or 18 years ago.
We're not child pornographers, and we don't host child pornography,
and we don't condone that, sir.
Now, you're attempting to get me to say something awful
so that you can print something extremely awful
and smear my good name some more tomorrow or the next day or whatever.
And I'm not gonna help you do that. Bye.
Have a great day, and, yeah.
Fred and Aubrey's attacks made an initial splash,
but once mainstream news sources investigated the claims,
they found that the website in question had no actual child porn.
It was only clickbait for pedophiles, which was gross but not illegal.
I'm really sick of being smeared by that guy.
One the thing with me, the nice part,
I went through it, now they say I'm immune.
I feel so powerful. I'll walk into that audience.
I'll walk in there. I'll kiss everyone in that audience.
New CBS news polls reveal a tight presidential race.
Former Vice President Joe Biden leading President Trump by nine points.
Because the only way we're gonna lose this election
is if the election is rigged. Remember that. It's the only way...
In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election,
Q was front and center on the national stage.
Trump openly serenaded his diehard QAnon fans.
It was the ultimate endorsement.
Can you just once and for all state that that is completely not true?
So, I do know they are very much against pedophilia.
They are very strongly against pedophilia, and I agree with that.
With the election looming,
YouTube and Facebook joined Twitter
by enacting numerous restrictions against QAnon-related content.
Seemingly overnight,
the massive footprint of QAnon videos and Facebook groups
were largely wiped from these platforms.
But for many of Q's promoters and followers,
this only made them want to fight harder.
Pandemic be damned,
they gathered in Arizona for Q-Con to plan their next moves.
And Jim was one of the sponsors of the event.
It's an honor to hang out and to meet you
and get this kind of one on one 'cause...
How does it feel to be doing what you do?
You're helping the country, which I respect.
We would be doing what we're doing whether or not
it was the in thing right now.
We've been doing it for 20 years.
I noticed everyone here seems to think I know who they are.
What do you do, Craig? You're from JustInformed Talk?
I'm a Christian evangelist,
and we're just exposing what's happening and with your help.
I mean, you're integral. You and Ron and everyone else.
But Ron and I are not Q.
No, you're the platform that's been chosen to host Q,
which is even more important in a way
because you're fighting on the front line.
You've put substantial time and investments into your site,
and they just turn it off? They owe you money.
It's violence.
And everything has been removed.
All of the research, all the work that these guys are doing,
you can't find it in a search engine.
And you can't find it on YouTube anymore,
can you, as of two days ago, right?
And welcome to my world now where everything that you do is destroyed.
Stay on the battlefield even when you get taken down
'cause I know that's not easy.
I've, you know, kind of experienced some censorship myself.
So God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you.
Thank you for those words.
These were normal people.
There were stockbrokers and business owners
and all sorts of people at this meeting today.
There's millions of people that are involved in this now.
You know, they're gonna have tactics and measures
to try to disrupt the election.
You need to start standing up for what you believe in
because if we keep on cowering, we keep on hiding,
we keep on pretending that it's not happening,
guess what happens to us?
Please tell your family and friends
everything you hear here today and share it.
And make sure that they understand that our country is at stake right now.
Right, so I was de-platformed off of YouTube.
They took down my channel and everybody else's.
But you got to understand.
The mainstream media had a monopoly on information in this country.
We've broken that. That's why they deleted my channel off YouTube.
280 thousand subs, 60 million views, gone overnight.
You think it's by coincidence?
Or do you think it's by design
that they're trying to silence our ability
to go around their complete command and control of the narrative?
So, give me a year. Give me a couple years.
I'm gonna be just as big as I was, if not more.
And it's gonna be because you deleted me.
Like, you know what I mean? Like...
If Q was Trump and his group,
after the election results are over, if Trump loses, Q will go away.
Q will literally go away if Trump loses.
They will erase this, and they'll erase my company. We'll probably die.
I mean that's how serious they will erase it.
If Trump wins the election and he's Q,
then Q will just stop because he won't have any interest in it anymore.
Why bother wasting any brain cells on that? Why?
ELECTION DAY NOVEMBER 3, 2020
It's finally election day here in the United States,
and Americans are heading to the polls
to cast their ballots for the next US president.
This country is nervous with many people fearing violence
if celebrations or protests get out of control.
On the morning of the election,
Q posted a quote from Abraham Lincoln,
an image of what was once the largest free-flying flag in America,
and a link to the movie Last of the Mohicans.
It was a bizarre post.
And that same day, Ron resigned as the admin of 8kun,
saying he had brought the ship to dock.
At the point where I left,
I could guarantee the defense of online free speech,
but from there forward, I can't guarantee that,
so I'm going to leave now before 230 being repealed or destroyed
in the next term of whoever's president.
Remember, Section 230 is known as the law that created the internet.
Without it, a website could be sued for things their users say.
Now, this was maybe the one thing that Trump and Biden seemed to agree on,
that it should be overturned, but for opposite reasons.
Trump's philosophy was if I can't say whatever I want, well, no one can.
While Biden's stated intention was to force tech companies
to remove hate speech, extremism, and alleged falsehoods.
And I am sure they both are interested in repealing or removing 230.
And in that situation, the site should cease to exist, in my opinion.
After four long, tense days, we've reached a historic moment.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will become
the 46th President of the United States.
I'm so excited. This is what we needed.
This is what we've been waiting for. It's a day of celebration.
It's not over yet, and the truth will prevail.
What do you think's gonna happen right now?
I like Trump. He's going to concede,
and he's gonna go back and make a whole bunch of money
and make the Trump empire get big again.
He's gonna grab the world by its pussy.
As you know, I've claimed certain states, and he's claiming states.
So, we can both claim the states,
but ultimately, I have a feeling judges are gonna have to rule.
But there's been a lot of shenanigans,
and we can't stand for that in our country. Thank you very much.
Good on him. Fuck them. Don't answer any of their questions.
Once Trump decided not to concede,
the entire Q movement had a new cause.
The vote count was false in several states,
and we're not going to let them steal this election.
So, all Trump needed to prove was that he had actually won,
which QAnons were already primed to believe.
Who had a plan that could, at a minimum, cast doubt on the election?
Surely someone had a plan.
Skeptics are looking at irregular patterns in vote data,
in particular, software irregularities
that would switch votes from President Trump to Joe Biden.
Trump had previously resisted calls to improve election security,
and whether or not there were valid concerns,
his legal team must've been low on options
because their last hope at proving
the election was fraudulent was none other than...
Ron Watkins, a large systems technical analyst.
Ron had apparently read the instruction manual
for the voting machines manufactured by a company called Dominion.
Ron began asking leading questions,
casting doubt on Dominion's voting machines,
leading questions that sounded a hell of a lot like Q.
I was looking at this manual
with the mindset of a penetration tester, of which I am.
I'm reading the manual with a discerning eye.
Yeah, Ron is definitely a penetration tester if nothing else.
I looked at it with a pen tester type mentality,
and I found where if I was trying to throw the election
and I had that manual and I was in charge of that machine,
what I would do to throw the election.
I found a lot of issues with the software,
and I started tweeting about them,
and it seemed to have gone viral.
If I could've predicted which QAnon promoter
do you think is gonna become a mainstream rightwing figure,
I would not have said Codemonkey.
That guy used to just tweet, like, "Site's down."
Or, "Deep state's after us. Back in an hour."
And suddenly, he's blossomed into this guy
Trump's just retweeting constantly.
You now have the ear of the president.
Yeah, that's quite interesting.
I've been told that he's paying very close attention to what I'm saying.
And you said 20, like, journalists reached out to you at the same time?
Yeah, they said, "Are you Q?" That was their question.
And I was, like, nope.
And then I believe he didn't post for a week or a week and a half,
and then he did end up posting.
And conveniently, he posted
while I was doing my interview with Chanel Rion, so that proves I'm not Q.
Okay. You know how you can schedule a tweet?
You could also schedule an 8chan post.
Like, to me, that doesn't mean anything.
Ron Watkins is now gonna be the voter fraud guy.
Yeah. I can't say I completely saw that pivot coming.
Why pick Ron in this moment?
I guess it's just because he didn't have any other options?
- Like, what happened? - Maybe they know him already.
Just saying.
Goodbye, Villa Park. Can't say I'll miss this place.
Can't say that at all.
With an indictment hanging over his head,
it would've been unwise for Fred to return to the Philippines.
So he broke up with his wife, had his dog mailed to him
and permanently decorated his arm
with a tribute to his feud with Jim and with Q.
You don't see it in the wings in the bottom part?
Oh yeah, they're... Okay.
Fred was moving on, specifically to the East Coast to live with his mom.
He also wanted to be within earshot of Washington DC.
Thank you for helping me escape to LA, but I'm very sick of it.
Do you think that it's possible then
that Ron and those guys actually had a connection with Flynn
or any of those guys once upon a time?
Probably. Yeah.
And how much did Trump and his team know about Ron Wat-like,
there's all these kind of questions that we could raise.
The council that Biden is setting up specifically around radicalization,
people like me can contact the people on that council.
Yeah, I mean, you have a lot of power now.
Almost every tweet
that you're publishing now gets 10,000 or more retweets.
Yeah, you know that Sullivan guy? Jason Sullivan.
He finally gave me access to that tool that he was showing last year.
If Q is trying to utilize or optimize abilities on Twitter,
we can make 'em better.
I thought Twitter had like caught it and kind of...
No, he got banned from Twitter, so he had to rebuild it.
And his rebuild is only being used by me now.
And it's a super tool. Like, this tool is amazing.
My account is the second most powerful Twitter account next to Trump.
You have the second most powerful Twitter account
next to Trump right now?
- When I'm tweeting, yes. - When you're tweeting.
So, really curious to see if you figure out who Q is.
Well, I don't I don't know if there'll be anything definitive.
Do you feel it's a failure
that you weren't able to figure it out after so many years?
I mean, I'm just kind of chronicling all this...
But you would want to have the smoking gun evidence?
You know, but I think that unless Q decides or comes out
and says, like, "Yes, I am Q." You know?
That's never going to happen, I think.
Right. So, when you're trying to figure out who's behind Q,
you have to really look at motive. I mean, you have motive.
What's my motive?
You could have had motive to take down the mainstream media,
to red pill the masses, to get information out to people
that wasn't getting out any other way, to...
If you look at my Twitter feed, that's what I'm doing publicly now.
It is what you're doing publicly now, yeah.
I've spent the past what? Like, almost 10 years every day
doing this kind of research anonymously.
Now I'm doing it publicly. Like, that's the only difference.
Ron had just given me one of the biggest Q proofs to date.
Or should I say proof that he's Q?
Now I'd kept a running tally of all the forensic evidence,
suspicious moments, and contradictions he'd made along the way.
Let's review some of what we know.
He'd know nothing about Q on one day...
I barely even follow it, honestly.
Far too much on the next.
Why would Q wipe a board?
Because he wanted to go into like a different act, like in a play.
I assume that's why he did it.
One day he knows all the vital players.
He wrote like a long rant about Tracy Beanz being, like, a patriot.
Weeks later, he has no clue.
He's brought up,
Tracy Beanz is somebody that was communicating with him prior to...
I don't know who that is.
Why lie? When 8kun comes online,
hardly anyone was able to post except for Q.
I couldn't even see the website, and he's already posting.
Then there's the love of pens, which he only let slip on one occasion.
I found the fountain one. It was three thousand dollars.
And the watches, which he never talked about and literally hid from me.
When I saw the pen and the watch,
I was like, "Oh my god, they're speaking right to me."
In order to write the earliest Q drops,
you didn't need special insider knowledge
or connections to Trump.
You just needed to be familiar
with what the Anons already researched and believed.
And you needed to understand the Socratic method
and basic military strategy.
Q began reflecting research gathered in the digs back at Anons
in the form of questions.
It became a feedback loop. And in order to give Q a pulse,
you'd want a network of like-minded individuals
capable of building excitement and ceding the message.
The engine revved up, and those who started talking about Q
as if it were legit were showered with attention.
My channel has just grown so much. It's just exponential growth.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Now, it's no secret
that law enforcement and ex-military networks monitored the Chans.
And once Q started getting traction,
it attracted bigger fish with an appetite for information warfare.
But it needed a DC insider to lend QAnon believability.
Enter Jerome Corsi who gets involved about six weeks into Q.
Now, Corsi has a history of serving as an ex-military proxy.
About three years ago, a group of generals came to me.
We know that in the past, he's pushed Vallely's agenda.
And when explaining why he got involved with Q,
Corsi tells Tracy Beanz...
A number of people who I consider to be very important to me
said you better start looking at this. So, I started looking at Q.
Make of that what you will. Corsi then got Alex Jones.
A lot of what I saw QAnon say was really good intel.
And they took Q to a wider audience.
Honestly, if Alex hadn't covered Q through Corsi,
I would've never covered it.
Ron would have been foolish
not to have had his eyes on Q from the very beginning.
And once Q was on 8chan,
wouldn't Ron have done whatever was necessary to keep Q on the platform
as part of a bigger strategy for gaining power?
Q to him was like a prized pig. He wanted that pig so bad.
As the administrator of 8chan,
taking over Q's tripcode would've been as easy
as rifling through a filing cabinet.
We know there was a writing style change,
which might explain why Ron went out of his way
to reaffirm that Q's style never changed.
I like how Q's very consistent with what he does.
And in order to throw off anyone who came sniffing around,
wouldn't it be smart to create a fake digital forensics trail,
one that leads to someone from Trump's inner circle?
The IP pointed in the neighborhood of five houses.
And one of those houses is Steve Bannon's house.
Maybe this is why Paul Furber becomes convinced
on January 5th of 2018 that Q was hijacked.
Was he seeing this new forensics trail that pointed to Steve Bannon?
I sent a private message to Codemonkey,
and I said, "Dude, that is not Q, and you know it."
Of course, this theory lacked definitive proof,
someone saying, "Yeah, I did it,"
which brings us back to what Ron told me.
If you look at my Twitter feed, that's what I'm doing publicly now.
It is what you're doing publicly now, yeah.
I've spent the past almost 10 years every day
doing this kind of research anonymously.
Now I'm doing it publicly. That's the only difference.
Yeah, I've noticed you.
Don't think for a second
that half the threads on /pol/ weren't me digging.
Ron had always been adamant that he wasn't really a user of 8chan.
I don't post much there myself.
Every once in a while, I'll post as admin.
He always claimed he wasn't involved in the research or the digs.
Even as a user, I don't partake much in their discussion.
And I don't know the intricacies in exactly what they're doing.
But then, in our final conversation, perhaps wanting the credit,
he admitted something shocking.
Ron hadn't just been participating in Q research.
It sounded like he was leading it.
So thinking back on it,
it was basically three years of intelligence training,
teaching normies how to do intelligence work.
It's basically what I was doing anonymously before but never as Q.
See that smile? Ron had slipped up.
He knew it, and I knew it.
And after three tireless years of cat and mouse, well...
- Never as Q. I promise. - Never as Q. 'Kay.
'Cause I am not Q.
- And never was. - Oh, man.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
JANUARY 5, 2021
Jim, hey.
Hey, okay. Did you see what Ron posted on Twitter?
That I should meet up with you. 342, Hamilton Hotel? Okay.
- Hi. I'm Jim. Nice to meet you. - I know. So, come here Jim. Hold on.
One, two... I'll take a couple. Three, four, five. There you go.
- You're Codemonkey's dad? - Yeah.
Codemonkey!
We love Codemonkey! Yay! Yay, Codemonkey! Yay!
Okay, should we go to a quieter area than this?
Okay, I'm gonna go over here if you can hear me over here.
I'm gonna make a claim. It's gonna shatter some institutions.
This is completely something nobody is gonna see.
It's coming out of left field. Nobody has any idea what I'm gonna drop.
Oh my god.
Six people arrested so far on a range of charges.
We're talking about carrying a rifle without a license.
We're expecting more data, more reports during the overnight hours.
I will be with you tomorrow, shoulder to shoulder.
We will win this fight,
or America will step off into a thousand years of darkness.
We did not have a free, fair, and transparent vote.
And they're going to be standing on this soil tomorrow.
This is soil that we have fought over. Fought for.
And we will fight for in the future.
JANUARY 6, 2021
January sixth,
the day the Congress was supposed to certify the electoral votes,
the day that Trump would hold his Stop the Steal rally.
Joining us now, the Mayor of Washington, DC, Muriel Bowser.
Are you prepared for what may be coming today?
Our Metropolitan Police Department is on it.
And we're very prepared to have a peaceful protest.
We are going to the Washington Monument.
- Okay. That's where the party's at? - That's where the party's at.
On Twitter, Ron said he was about to drop the mother of all bombs.
And in the runup to his drop,
Ron was gaining thousands of followers per hour.
Ron had messaged me
that the White House had back channeled him a scoop.
He claimed he had audio and other documents
that purportedly showed Vice President Mike Pence had attempted
to steal the presidency from Trump.
The intent was clear,
to stoke anger towards Pence on the day
that he was scheduled to confirm Biden as the next president.
Yeah, the mother of all bombs is Mike Pence's treason,
and we got like a thousand pages of documentation
and four hours of audio and video proving it.
So we have the source.
- Where did it come from? - Seth Rich, I guess. I don't know.
It's gonna be a storm. Right?
That's what got... The storm clouds are around the Biden camp.
A gathering storm.
How're you doing?
This is Brian from the Red Pill Road Show.
Hey. How're you doing? This is Cullen.
- Yeah, have you guys met? - We did.
I remember him.
Freedom!
I met him in Arizona.
I can't wait to go home and show my neighbor.
My neighbor's got like the Black Lives Matter stuff all over.
I said, "Hey, look what the rest of America's doing, big guy."
- Do you feel proud of Ron? - Huh?
Do you feel proud of Ron?
I'm proud of him, yeah.
I'm concerned about him, but I'm also proud of what he's doing.
We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol.
USA. USA. USA.
We're going to try and give them
the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.
- So, now we all march up the road? - I guess so.
He said he's gonna lead us.
This march wouldn't be happening right now if it hadn't...
If Q hadn't been there.
It started as a LARP, and...
It became real. It's real. You know?
It's American history now. It belongs in there.
- Hey, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.
This is, like, August 28, 1963 at the dawn of a new era,
like when Martin Luther King had his March on Washington.
And they didn't have as many people here as we have.
We the people! We the people! We the people! We the people!
The Congressmen need to get in their tunnels and go away.
We go inside, and we elect new ones.
This is the most non-business thing you've ever done.
Yea-exactly. Exactly.
Oh, they're out the window. Let's check it out!
You guys did that to her. You shot her!
Freedom! Freedom!
Little could we have imagined the assault
that was made on our democracy.
Overnight, a fifth death announced from the siege of the U.S. Capitol.
The Feds say they think the threat will last for weeks.
This is rebellion. It is treason. It is lawlessness. It is unacceptable.
There has to be an investigation.
What happened today will be used to justify stripping you of the rights
you were born with as an American.
The words of a president matter.
This is going to be one of those days
that you will always remember where you were.
It will live forever in infamy.
Q had trained its followers to find patterns
in the noise of the internet,
co-authoring a story full of absurdities
in hopes they might result in atrocities.
Fred claimed he didn't want any media attention,
but his Twitter account spoke loudly, writing,
"All that was done in darkness must come into the light.
All that of those who enabled Q must be investigated."
"You will all write a bunch of think pieces, and nothing will change."
Q's believers prayed that Trump would keep fighting the election results.
But their hopes were soon dashed.
You will never again see a tweet from President Trump.
A virtual purge of accounts tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory.
They include Michael Flynn and a shadowy figure, Ron Watkins.
President Trump, if you see this, please save us.
I never believed that God was gonna allow the evil to take over again.
Dominion voting systems announced today it's suing Rudy Giuliani.
Donald Trump should not hold office one day longer.
Anderson, I apologize for thinking that you ate babies.
You actually believed that I was drinking the blood of children?
Yes, I did.
(January 20, 2021) We gave it our all.
Now we need to keep our chins up
and go back to our lives as best we are able...
As we enter into the next administration
please remember all the friends and happy memories
we made together over the past few years...
God bless.
CodeMonkeyZ
Q appeared to be done posting for now.
Rudderless, some Anons abandoned the ideology for good.
For the QTubers, censorship and the idea of being canceled
became their new rallying cry.
What more could they take from me? They've taken everything. Right?
They took my channel, tried to, like, put me out of business.
Yet I'm still here.
Maybe Q would take on a new form
or splinter into factions like offshoots of a religion.
Others might get absorbed into some of the more extreme groups
that stormed the Capitol that day,
or its strategies might simply be repurposed
to incite radical ways of thinking
in those of any political persuasion.
But Q derives its power from anonymity from myth.
And now that we've seen the forces behind the operation,
will its believers choose to devote their lives
to a cause propagated by a cynic
who treats the whole world like it's a game?
A guy in a green hat
looking to embrace infamy.