Q: Into the Storm

Anywhere you want to sit.

I know it's hard to get beer off tatami floors, but...

No, no. Please.

Feel, you know, make yourself at home. Totally.

I got five emails this morning.

"New York Times," BBC, NPR, Fox.

Now for me, those are the enemy.

What are these people accusing you of?

- Have you heard of QAnon? - Yes.

- What do you know about QAnon? - Um...

A type of movement

that's shrouded in secrecy.

And I have heard of it, but I...

Yeah, I have no idea what it is.

I see.

- This is how the story goes. - Mm-hmm.

I believe one of Donald Trump's most trusted people

who has a Q-level security clearance

is dropping, like, these

little tidbits of information anonymously online.

So this is the second QDrop.

It really sets the stage for everything else.

"Mockingbird. HRC detained.

"Not arrested yet.

"Where is Huma? Follow Huma.

"This has nothing to do with Russia yet.

"What is military intelligence?

"Why go around the three-letter agencies?

God bless fellow patriots."

This information was dropped anonymously

by someone with a pseudonym QAnon.

- This is QAnon? - Yeah.

He rarely states specific facts with a period.

Basically, this is the very beginning of these

drops that have captivated the minds of...

- Millions. - Millions. Yeah.

And people are attacking me to get this shut down.

Because I provide a place for him to...

to talk.

Or her.

Or whatever it is.

I'm not, uh, going out of my way to host QAnon.

QAnon's just another user of my website.

QAnon picked your website.

Correct. Because every other website banned him.

Reddit banned him. 4chan banned him.

What about 8chan?

Is there 8-- Isn't there--

Yeah, that's my website.

We have not banned it.

You're 8chan?

Yeah.

I'm your neighbor.

Wow!

Yeah. You-- Are you a user?

No, but I... I know it.

What, what do you think? Like, I've been your neighbor for two years now.

What, what'd you think I did?

I thought you were a Chinese translator.

Everybody likes free speech.

But there's a tipping point for everybody.

When is free speech too much?

The storming of the Capitol.

The storm.

It was an event that Q had promised its followers

for nearly three years.

The persona behind this movement,

an anonymous figure known only as Q,

had somehow risen from the darkest reaches of the internet,

to the seat of the Capitol.

And while a shocked nation searched for answers,

to me, it seemed like an inevitable conclusion

to an absurd and almost unbelievable story.

Lock her up! Lock her up!

A story of how a website changed the world.

All with the help of a single letter.

Lock her up!

And we're gonna win big. You just watch.

Have you ever wondered why we go to war?

Or why you never seem to be able to get out of debt?

Why there is poverty, division, and crime?

What if I told you there was a reason for it all?

What if I told you it was done on purpose?

What if I told you that those

who are corrupting the world, poisoning our food...

Q. The media's trying to label it

as a conspiracy theory.

It's interesting how they use that.

- Mm-hmm. - You know, the conspiracy word.

How they relate conspiracy with Trump's audience. You know?

Conspiring against what? What is it?

Anybody ever ask that question?

What did we conspire against?

The deep state? What, what is it?

What are we after? We just want information.

Uh, what are we a threat to?

We're a threat to the organizations that control the information.

That's all it is.

Good patriots in the US military

and their global partners

asked Trump to run for President

so they could take back control of America legitimately

without alarming the public.

Trump was a good choice, obviously,

because he overcame the voter fraud and won.

But he was a patriot,

and he was loved and admired by the public.

Even when he won,

the cabal still had no idea what he was a part of,

and the sophisticated plan that was about to unfold against them.

The plan. Now, in the normal world,

the word plan, it wouldn't have had any special meaning to me.

But in the Q universe, it takes on a totally different meaning.

Because whenever I hear "plan,"

I think, "Trust the plan."

And when I see the number 17, I think Q.

When I see an owl, I think Molach.

The Nike slogan, "Just Do It. Q."

I can't hear the name Clinton without thinking body count,

and it doesn't matter if you trust the plan or want to unravel it.

QAnon creeps into your thoughts.

It changes the lens through which you see the world.

Maybe that was Q's true purpose:

to lure in people with a question,

then slowly change how they think.

- So what is Q? - What is QAnon?

I am Q.

Q's method of reaching the masses

seemed like something pulled from the pages of a sci-fi novel.

They wore shirts and signs emblazoned

with only the letter Q.

An anonymous character

who shares cryptic messages through an online forum

in order to reveal a secret plan

and save the world from the evil global cabal.

You think Hillary Clinton's a, a pedophile?

- Worse. - What's worse than a pedophile?

Uh, human sacrifice. Child sacrifice.

Um, newborn babies.

QAnon also told its followers

to question everything.

It was part interactive game,

part religion, part political movement.

More traction after some famous faces.

Roseanne Barr, Curt Schilling the former major leaguer.

Followers shared a desire for revolution.

That all of the ills of the world

were on the brink of being cured.

You could even get inside access to this plan.

You could even help.

We voted for Obama each time.

- Twice. Yeah. - Twice.

I bought into the media. The first Black President.

Sure, let's check it out. Let's give him a shot.

That's all I felt.

We always voted Democrat.

Like, we were in a Democrat state.

We had a very busy lifestyle.

We never really researched. And now,

with Q, our eyes are open.

That's why they call it "The Great Awakening,"

'cause we're like, holy crap.

There was a lot of stuff going on, and--

It was only our fault for not paying attention.

Jenn and Jamie had been red-pilled in 2018.

This concept of red-pilling

comes from that scene in "The Matrix"

where Keanu Reeves' character chooses to take the red pill,

which reveals a hidden reality.

All I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

This is how followers see Q,

as the ultimate red pill.

That's one thing about Q.

He's positive. He's patriotic.

Whoever Q is, they want

everybody to come together.

They want you to do your own individual research.

The media, everything, everybody's just lying to you.

We know the corruption is bad.

We just didn't realize how bad it was.

Q gives us an insight.

Millions of people were following

this supposed government insider's every message,

also known as QDrops,

waiting for the moment that justice would be served.

From October of 2017,

and continuing through the 2020 election,

Q wrote nearly 5,000 drops.

Sometimes there would be more than 10 drops in a single day.

Sometimes 10 days would go by without a single message.

Q's drops are numbered in sequence,

interpreted by followers,

then translated into memes

and fired like ammo across the battlefield of the internet

before eventually landing on your grandma's Facebook page.

And on more than one occasion,

they found their way to the President's Twitter feed,

the Resolute Desk of the internet.

We don't believe Q is just one specific person.

We believe it's a team of what some people say is military people.