Recently, someone in the comments section asked me what I thought about Q Post 238, which came out on November 30, 2017.

Somehow this particular post went in one ear and out the other when I originally read it. I had put no time into researching this post in any way. In answering the question about what I thought about Q post 238, I had no thoughts on the post.

Why didn’t I do any digging into this post early on?

Maybe it’s because I didn’t directly discover the Q posts until about a month after this post was released, and I had to quickly get caught up on two months’ worth of posts, therefore I likely skimmed over some. Maybe I was just exhausted from having two young children at the time. Maybe I was preoccupied with the holidays. Or maybe, not having a connection to it in any way, it just flew over my head. I think the latter is the case here.

At the time, people like the Obamas and the Clintons were obviously people I knew, Soros I knew a little bit about. With 9/11, I had an emotional experience with, but Sidley Austin? Nothing.

It’s understandable that when Q posts included something or someone I recognized, it would draw more of my attention. Humans are strange. It is said we like to hear the sound of our own name spoken in conversation. Our brain activity spikes when someone says our name. When I say humans are strange, I mean all of us, not just the people we see as being on the other side of the aisle. It makes sense that when we scroll by something that we have no connection to, we keep right on going.

People like to hear the things they want to hear. The things they already agree with. We seek validation. Generally speaking, people don’t like to have their preexisting beliefs challenged. I get it. But we must understand this about ourselves when we are exposed to information. If it is something that goes against our preconceived understanding, we must acknowledge how we will naturally receive it. We must understand that somewhere in that 2.65lbs of meat between our ears, a system is working to reject or ignore anything that challenges its belief system.

If I can see this in other people, then I must admit that I am no different. I must, we must all admit that we have a propensity to protect our existing beliefs and reject or ignore information that challenges those beliefs or understandings. Just as a Christian protects their theological beliefs, a liberal will protect their political beliefs, or a black pilled, defeated person will protect their negative beliefs. This protective mechanism isn’t always a bad thing, it’s just a thing we must recognize in ourselves.

What was it Mark Twain said?

“It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them they’ve been fooled.”

As a member of the truth community, we can start to believe we have it all figured out. We believe we can’t be deceived; this can be a dangerous attitude to have. We must always be humble enough to understand that at one time, most of us were deceived as badly as normies are today, and somewhere along the way, something triggered a change in us. But we haven’t all of a sudden become immune to being fooled.

To use a baseball analogy, the normies can’t hit a fast ball. The media just keeps throwing fast balls in the strike zone, and the normies can’t seem to get their timing right. It’s swing and miss after swing and miss, so why would the Deep State do anything differently?

The truthers are like a baseball player that figured out how to time a fast ball. Maybe they start their swing early to catch up to the heater. But now that the truther has shown they can hit the fast ball, the Deep State starts to add in some change ups, throwing off their timing. Now the truther is way out in front of some pitches, and late on others.

In many cases, truthers fail to accept or understand that the Deep State is feeding us some disinformation to get our timing off. We go down rabbit holes, we share information we later discover isn’t true, we create division over disinformation, and the disinformation we share ruins our credibility. We appear to be crazy conspiracy theorists even if 9 out of 10 things we say are true. That one thing nullifies all the truth we may share.

This is all by design. The media highlights the disinformation we share, and it justifies the normies not believing anything we have to say.

‘Didn’t you say the Hell’s Angels were heading to Colorado?’

We believe the disinformation that is created to lead us astray. We refuse to listen to anything that challenges our existing beliefs. Disinformation works best if it lines up with the things we already believe. We are so willing to accept it without vetting it out.

Does it make sense now why Trump couldn’t just come into office in 2017 and arrest everyone who is Deep State or somehow connected to the Deep State on day one? Too much of the population would have freaked out. It would have shattered half the country’s belief system. Covid was a perfect example of how illogical, easily manipulated and easily panicked much of the American population can be. Imagine if Trump had locked up the people half the American population viewed as being the good guys; a civil war would have occurred.

Q said that some won’t face the punishment they deserve, as some have to remain in power for the nation to function. Many don’t want to hear this, but it is the reality of things.

Who is this referring to?

Some people in the media, in big business and in politics. Some of these people have genuinely recognized the error in their ways, some have had their strings cut, and some will in the future. Many within the Deep State Cabal won’t be offered a deal at all, as their crimes against humanity are too severe.

I’ve only been what I consider fully awake for about seven years. I used to believe some pretty dumb stuff. I fell for the 9/11 narrative hook, line and sinker. I fully believed it for at least three or four years before questioning any of it. I voted for both Bushes, Romney and McCain. How could I ridicule anyone for their stupidity? I take the cake.

I get it. I once believed the way the normies still believe today, but I don’t anymore. It’s possible that people can change. It’s possible that someone who wasn’t a big fan of Trump two years ago, or six years ago, might actually, genuinely support him now. It’s possible their hearts and minds have been changed and they aren’t trying to deceive anyone. People change. People wake up.

Some people still don’t trust JD Vance because he hasn’t always appeared to be a fan of Donald Trump. Some still don’t trust Elon Musk. It’s wise to be cautious with one’s trust, but when someone has shown they’ve changed, when the evidence becomes overwhelming that they are on the good guy’s team, at some point, one has to let go of their animosity.

Sidley Austin

When I read the Q post saying “happy hunting,” I immediately thought I should be looking for some sort of corruption, but in reality, hunting is about searching for food … something good. In other words, I should keep an open mind to what I’m looking for. But with that being said, I have to also be aware of where my preconceived beliefs will lead me.

Some may recognize Sidley Austin as the law firm that started out of Chicago in 1866 and grew into an international law firm that now has 2,300 lawyers and 21 offices throughout the world. Some may know that in the Summer of 1988, Barack Obama met his future wife Michelle while interning at the Chicago branch of Sidley Austin. Michelle worked there for three years. She later went on to say she didn’t like working there because it wasn’t black enough—not that she was treated badly for being a woman, or a woman of color, but that there just weren’t enough black lawyers there, and it made her uncomfortable.

She clearly fails to understand that Blacks don’t make up a very large percentage of lawyers in general. Her illogical DEI wokeness seems to go way back.

A couple of things stand out to me about the law firm Sidley Austin: One, it has a massive international, globalist reach, and two, with the thousands of people who have worked there, I didn’t recognize many, besides the Obamas, but one name does stand out: JD Vance.

JD Vance worked at the Columbus, Ohio branch of Sidley Austin after graduating from Yale School of Law.

Let me just state that if I was running a globalist Deep State operation, I would want law offices throughout the world in key cities, much like Sidley Austin. Conversely, if I was looking to take down the Deep State, I would infiltrate that law firm.

I have no idea what Q was leading us to when they said, “happy hunting.”

Was Q letting us know about Vance back in 2017, or were they leading people to something I didn’t personally find? Whatever the case, it caused me to discover some things I never would have otherwise.

I’m going to do my best to try and convince the reader that Donald Trump and JD Vance have been working together for at least a decade. If you aren’t a fan of Vance, you will likely want to read what I have to say as adding up to just a bunch of coincidences. I understand.

I’m going to bring up a lot of people you likely have no connection to, names you are hearing for the first time. My advice is to not worry about connecting all the red strings and thumbtacks on the corkboard of your mind. My advice is to just make a “ding” sound in your mind every time a connection is made to Trump, and to add them up when you are done reading. Remember that a lot of what I am about to talk about occurred before Trump ever announced he was running for POTUS, and before Vance ever became a politician.

Let’s look at the name JD Vance.

JD, James David, but JD also stands for Juris Doctor, a professional degree required to practice law. Essentially, a JD is a law degree. Interesting, but maybe not a symbol, just the name he goes by.

In Hebrew, Vance means ‘God is gracious,’ but I want to focus on the Old English meanings.

In Old English, Vance means “people who live near marshlands”, or “swamp dwellers.” I can hear it now, someone out there is saying, ‘see, I told you, JD Vance is a part of the swamp.’

Bear with me.

The name Trump has a few different meanings, and two of them I find particularly interesting. One meaning of the name Trump is “conquering king”, while another is “triumphant victory.”

Now consider what you are reading when you see a Trump/Vance flag or banner. You are essentially reading, “conquering king over the swamp”, or “triumphant victory over the swamp.” Does anyone think this is a coincidence? Does anyone think Trump didn’t know exactly what he was doing when he picked a running mate with the name Vance? It would seem to me that Trump knew he was going to pick Vance as his second VP long ago.

But what if I told you Vance wasn’t his original name?

JD Vance was born Bowman, after his biological father. Later, his mother remarried, and he took his stepfather’s name of Hamel. In April of 2013, eleven years ago, he changed his name to Vance, after his grandmother.

What was it I said? Trump and Vance have likely been working together for over a decade. It wouldn’t surprise me if Vance has been working with the patriots since his time in the military, and that everything since then has been about building to the point we are at today.

How about the name Pence. Pence is derived from Pentz. The distinguished German surname Pentz is derived from "Pentz," the name of a city located in the Baltic territory of Pomerania. Where is Pomerania? Prussia.

Have you read the Prussiagate series? What do the Trump/Pence signs and banners essentially say, “triumphant victory over Prussia.” Was Trump’s first term about taking out the Cabal families, and the second term about removing the Cabal’s puppets that have been left in place? This is a question, not a statement.

I’m not going to argue whether Pence is good or bad, as he obviously isn’t a part of Trump’s second term, nor is he endorsing Trump. What I will say is that Pence was used by Trump for a purpose.

Some say Trump lacks discernment for picking Pence as his VP. Does anyone accuse Jesus Christ of lacking discernment for picking Judas as one of his disciples? There’s a saying, ‘keep your friends close and your enemies closer.’ It’s at least plausible that Trump used Pence to give the Deep State a sense of false security, as well as to pass on disinformation to them.

Some know that JD Vance entered the Marine Corps and fought in the Iraq war. Afterwards, he attended and graduated from Ohio State University, after which he graduated from the Yale School of Law. This is where he met his wife, Usha, also a lawyer. Now, let’s start making some connections between Trump and Vance before Trump ever walked down that escalator, announcing his running for POTUS, and well before Vance ever became a politician.

While at Yale, JD Vance was introduced to his future wife Usha by their mentor, professor Amy Chua. Chua specializes in international business transactions and globalization. Sounds a lot like Sidley Austin. While at Yale, JD also met his future mentor and Trump ally Peter Thiel, who took an immediate liking to him. This was 2011.

Professor Amy Chua is married to another law professor at Yale, Jed Rubenfeld, who specializes in Constitutional Law and first Amendment rights. Recently, Rubenfeld was publicly critical of Trump’s guilty verdict, calling it dangerous and unconstitutional. Chua and Rubenfeld’s daughter clerked for Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court Justice that Trump appointed.

When Kavanaugh was being attacked during his Supreme Court nomination by people like Kamala Harris, Amy Chua wrote a letter of support for Kavanaugh, essentially vouching for his character. Chua was later attacked by the media and accused of inappropriately partying with her students. This was an obvious character assassination, the kind we’ve seen many times before when people go against the Deep State.

Speaking of Brett Kavanaugh, Usha Vance clerked for him, as well as the Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. She also clerked for Amul Thaper. Thaper was Trumps first court of appeals appointee in 2017.

Let’s get back to JD Vance.

As I mentioned, Vance graduated from Ohio State University, then Yale Law School. Vance clerked for a couple of years before joining Trump ally Peter Thiel at Mithril Capital in 2015, where he learned the ins and outs of the Big Tech and venture capital world. Vance left Mithril Capital to start Narya Capital. Narya Capital funded the company Rumble.

Most reading this recognize Rumble as being the free speech version of YouTube, which is closely integrated with Trump’s Truth Social. Narya means “a powerful person, manly.”

(Editor’s note: I thought it was worth pointing out here that every project Thiel has been involved with is named after Lord of the Rings lore. Mithril is a mythical metal that is light as a feather, but hard as dragon scales, while Narya is the name of one of the elven rings of power that Gandalf ends up becoming the steward of.) —

Let’s go back and look at a judge that Vance clerked for after law school: Alex Kozinski.

Judge Kozinski was appointed by Reagan in 1985 to the 9th Circuit. He was likely going to be appointed to the Supreme Court by Trump until he was suddenly accused by multiple women of sexual harassment. Kozinski claims he was guilty of making off-color jokes, nothing more. He retired in 2017.

One of the women who accused Kozinski of sexual harassment was Katherine Ku. Ku spent 27 years as the executive director of Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing. Stanford Research Institute.

Hopefully these three words mean something to the reader. This is where much of the CIA funding goes to develop technology, as well as mind control research. The technology is later given to private citizens, where they become the face of the technology. Think Google, or Facebook, or Apple or Amazon. Think MK Ultra.

Ku was the executive director of the technology licensing at Stanford. You decide what to make of this. To me, this says she was in charge of licensing CIA & DARPA-created technology to figureheads in the private sector.

As I mentioned, Kozinski underwent a character assassination after it became clear that Trump was looking to appoint him to the Supreme Court. Following the attack on his character in 2017, Kozinski retired. In July of 2022, Kozinski joined Trump’s legal team in suing Twitter for forcing him off the platform two years prior. It’s important to understand that Elon Musk didn’t buy Twitter until late October of 2022, four months later.

What does this all mean?

I haven’t really solved anything in this research. I can’t say anything as definitive as, ‘it was Colonel Mustard, with the candlestick in the conservatory,’ but it is just interesting to discover all the connections. I didn’t know any of this, or any of these people minus the Vances before I did this research.

What did I uncover?

JD Vance, his wife, his mentor at Yale, his mentor’s husband, their daughter, the judges they clerked for, Vance’s mentor in business, the social media company he funded … ALL of them have ties to Trump. Many of these connections go back to before Trump or Vance ever became politicians.

Hopefully I’ve made it clear that the plan has been in place for quite a while.

Trump and Vance’s relationship goes back much further than most people would assume. Trump’s choice of Vance as his VP pick probably goes back to immediately after Vance graduated from Yale and changed his name in 2013. Likely, it goes back even further; Thiel took a liking to Vance in 2011, but from 2013 on, there are way too many coincidences to ignore.

As Trump has said, he rarely went to DC before he became POTUS, so the connections aren’t a case of running in the same circles. Trump has planned his second term for a long time, and in my opinion, Vance has been an important part of that plan from early on.

Some are probably thinking, ‘but Vance said some bad things about Trump in the past.’

Consider that it could be Kayfabe (fake animosity,) created to give an illusion of distance between Trump and Vance. If Vance appeared to be an anti-Trumper, it would allow him an easier path around the Democrats and Neocons on his way to being elected a Senator.

Maybe this information I presented didn’t change some people’s opinions, but hopefully it made people think that there may be more to what we are experiencing than meets the eye. How is it possible there are so many connections to Vance and Trump that occurred before either of them ever got into politics?

Trump, an older New York real estate billionaire, and Vance, a much younger military vet turned law student from Ohio.

These guys didn’t exactly ride the same subway home from work or have season tickets next to each other at Yankee Stadium. Being Republican politicians didn’t come until later. Did the same military leaders who recruited Trump to run for POTUS in 2016 also recruit Vance into politics?

If I am right, and this much-detailed planning has gone into Trump’s second term, I for one am excited to see it play out. It’s hard not to see that a switch has recently been turned, and now everything that comes out in the media seems to make the left look bad, while vindicating Trump.

The best isn’t yet to come; the best is currently happening.

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