Q is a person and needs to be revealed. Just like the Wizard of Oz, that will end it.

[garybeck]

Part of the QAnon storyline is that Q is a person in the federal government with inside info about what is "really" going on.

According to an NPR reporter investigating QAnon, Q has/had an entity on Parler and has been very quiet since 1/6.

Remember in The Wizard Of Oz, they all believed everything until the moment when they saw the man behind the curtain. That needs to happen with Q.

I would guess the FBI already knows who it is. I understand there are probably good reasons for not revealing it at this point. But i hope they do soon, or perhaps someone else will spill the beans.

Regardless, it is perhaps the most important step in dismantling this dangerous network. When the man in the curtain is revealed, it will most likely cause many/most QAnon followers to have their "wizard of Oz moment". He is most likely NOT a federal official with inside information, as they believe. this will be a rude awakening for many.

For my money, it's either Giuliani, Roger Stone, a Russian agent, Trump himself, or a combination of all of them.

after Q is revealed, many will jump ship.
the sooner the better.

[samnsara]

1. kushner

[maxsolomon]

13. Not even remotely possible.

Logically.ai tracked it to this POS in September: Jason Gelinas of New Jersey. Then he shut his Qmap website down immediately and that's been the end of it - for a while.

https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/11/qanon-website-shuts-down-after-nj-man-identified-operator/3472475001/

Is he Q? He's as close as anyone's got. It's not the Watkins (8chan, 8kun).

[msfiddlestix]

16. Q is this guy Jason Gelinas and he works for Citigroup!

From the detroitnews link you provided:

A LinkedIn profile for Gelinas says he works as an information security analyst at Citigroup. Citigroup declined to comment.

Did you check out that image of him carrying that humongous Q sign?

Since this much has been uncovered, and there's quite bit there in the links, although I feel like Detroit News makes it easier for me to digest what Logistic uncovered, I'm amazed that the FBI hasn't arrested him yet. they have to know about this guy.

[MacKasey]

2. YES, YES, YES!!!

If they know tell us now, if they don't krnow, they should be finding it out now.

It could be Putin, it could be Trump

Q is a terrorist organization, public enemy number 1!

[Thunderbeast]

3. My guess is Bannon and Stone

with help from Manifort and funding from the Mercers.

[genxlib]

4. I doubt that it is a single person

It probably started with some individual. But I think the personality has been coopted by many for manipulation purposes.

It won't matter anyway. Either people will believe that person is credible and elevate their status. Or believe they are a patsy put forth by the deep state. There is no scenario where a true believer will be dissuaded by an announcement that some less than credible person is Q.

[Rorey]

6. Excellent points NT

[Rorey]

5. Of your four suspects

I would eliminate three, because they're not smart enough to pull it off, and they're too arrogant. They'd want everyone to know who they were already.

I think Q is an American, and I think that's why s/he stopped with the riots on the Capitol. I think they realized that there was a real possibility of getting charged with inciting that deadly riot.

I suppose there's a possibility that Q was part of the riot, too.

Those are just my thoughts.

I do wish that whoever it is would come out and say so, but I don't see that happening. At this point, there's too much legal liability. The only way, IMO, that Q would confess is if he's first caught.

[brooklynite]

7. Nobody revealed the authors of the Federalist Papers, who wrote some fairly radical stuff

Its been determined that they were -- in aggregate -- written by Madison, Hamilton and Jay, but the specific authorship of each article has never been confirmed.

[DBoon]

8. for all we know, it could be software in Saint Petersburg, Russia

"Q" may not be entirely human, and may not reside within the USA

[RANDYWILDMAN]

9. They will never jump ship, they will drowned on it

Those people who follow this are NUTS and need serious mental health help.

The people who came up with this and Trump approved it are pure dirt bags

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I wondered briefly whether the Nashville RV bomb guy was 'Q'

I was swiftly dissuaded from that notion, but it crossed my mind.

[lame54]

11. That's why Trump never had a dog

[Klaralven]

12. Q is almost certainly Jim and Ron Watkins -- what more do you want?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Watkins_(businessman)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Watkins

[maxsolomon]

14. It's not any of those. It's probably Jason Gelinas.

Logically.ai tracked it to this POS in September: Jason Gelinas of New Jersey, a Citigroup exec. Then he shut his Qmap website down immediately and that's been the end of it - for a while.

https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/11/qanon-website-shuts-down-after-nj-man-identified-operator/3472475001/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-07/who-is-qanon-evangelist-qmap-creator-and-former-citigroup-exec-jason-gelinas

Is he Q? He's as close as anyone's got. It's not the Watkins (8chan, 8kun).

[intrepidity]

15. Please read this:

The Making of QAnon: A Crowdsourced Conspiracy

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2021/01/07/the-making-of-qanon-a-crowdsourced-conspiracy/

[0rganism]

17. "Q-anon" has become a stand-alone complex

The bootstraps and scaffoldings have long since been removed, there is no individual or even small group of individuals who control things, though there may still be a handful trusted to inject ideas into the Q-machine. Other than that, it appears self-sustaining.

Accusing an individual or group of "being Q" will only serve as evidence of Q being a real person. As soon as the alleged perpetrators are rounded up, another Q-sourced message will arrive saying "the deep state tried to get me but they missed" and the idiocy will continue apace. We will never catch a "real" Q.

[mackdaddy]

18. I think it was a small conspiracy group of Trumper insiders.

They were using the Game theory used in adventure video games to bring people in, and get them hooked.

Bannon used the Cambridge Analytica electronic gaslighting in 2016. I think this is just a newer approach.

They found some one who knew how this Game that plays people worked, and went all in. My guess is all the usual suspects. Bannon, Stone, and Flynn and his lawyer Kraken Powell were probably the top ring with whoever the tech guy was.

There is video of Flynn and Powell and several others making an "oath" to Q anon at a Summer party.

This same bunch were also Core in the "Stop the Steal" conspiracy.

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. At this point, even if one person admitted to being "Q",

the Q-bots wouldn't believe it. It has transcended one person. "I am Spartacus."

Meanwhile, I know who "Q" is. We all know. We have always known. It's Desmond Llewelyn.

I never joke about my work, 007.

[dawg day]

20. I thought the IP address was traced to some guy named Watkins who started on 4-Chan

and of course has nothing to do with the administration. He's just a trickster who probably is shocked that all these people really can be led to believe in lizard people and alien lasers from space.

[dawg day]

21. Here's an article that explains who this Watkins guy is--

And how he started the whole Q fraud.

And no matter how many articles identify this guy, the Q-uidiots still believe he's a Trump aide who knows everything.

"Q" hasn't posted in weeks... perhaps he's finally horrified himself.

[haele]

22. BTW, I found out that a "Q" clearance is a DoE clearance.

It's actually a basic version of a basic Top.Secret classification ( not even a TS-SCI lor TS-N level).
So Q is familiar with the Department of Energy. Maybe.

Haele