Now, hear me out: I am not bashing Q, as I am a huge Q guy. The Q posts changed my life. The Q posts ignited in me a desire and capacity to research and seek truth that I didn’t know was in me. The mere mention of something by Q caused me to drop everything to research it or even download or buy a book on the matter. I went from reading a book once every six months to more like every six days.

Q changed the way I see the world, the way I understand history. Q exposed human depravity that has caused me to lose sleep at night, but I would rather know the truth than to live a life oblivious to the evil that torments society, especially children.

Because of Q, I’ve been called crazy, I’ve lost friendships and relationships. But because of Q, I’ve done a better job of keeping my family safe, both physically and emotionally. Through discernment and understanding that was developed in me through following Q, I make better financial decisions, I make better health decisions and I have a stronger conviction that God has it all under control. Because of Q, I better understand the war we find ourselves in is a spiritual war, a war for our souls. Because of Q I understand that it doesn’t need to be this way, we aren’t designed by God to live in fear, to hate each other, or to be debt slaves to the system created by the Cabal.

So why am I asking the question, “was Q doing more bad than good”?

For those who have eyes to see, the Q posts have been illuminating. But what about the others? What about those who weren’t awake or ready to wake up when Q began to post? What about those who still aren’t ready to wake up, or for those who Jack Nicholson’s character so eloquently said in the movie A Few Good Men, “you can’t handle the truth?” Did the Q team discover after the fact that it would be better to pivot away from posting, or was it always the plan to stop when they did, and to temporarily start up again when they did?

If one looks at Q as a personal trainer, was their purpose to motivate and teach Anons how to research and connect the dots, to understand how to use the gym on their own to become fitter and stronger? Was it their intention all along to release the Anons into the wild when they thought they were ready to survive and thrive on their own? Or did they discover that the Anons were relying too much on Q’s guidance, and their presence was holding the Anons back?

Were the posts like manna and quail falling from the sky, allowing the Anons to avoid doing the work they were being trained to do? Did the Anons need more independence the way a teenager needs to rely less on their parents in order to become an independent adult? Or was there more to it? Did things not go according to plan? Did Q stop posting because they discovered it was doing more harm than good?

I’m sure everyone reading this has heard of Q. Whether one has directly read Q posts or not, much of what the truth community understands today came from the Q posts. From George Soros to Epstein Island, much of what has been revealed about the Deep State Cabal first began with information being revealed by the Q team. It’s as though they are constantly predicting the future, but in reality, they unlocked and cracked open the door for Anons to push open further.

An example of this process is Jeffery Epstein.

Before Q, most people didn’t even know he existed, or that women and children were regularly being trafficked and abused in government intelligence blackmail operations. As Q grew this understanding in Anons, it eventually reached the general public. When Epstein died in prison, a significant portion of the American population believed he was murdered to keep him from talking. In less than two years, what was once considered crazy talk became accepted fact by much of the country and world.

The Q Posts

The Q team began posting on 4chan—and eventually 8chan—starting on 10/28/2017. In the beginning only 4chan regulars on this image board website knew about the Q posts, but because of the post’s significance they quickly spread outside of this small community. Q posts quickly began to be read and decoded by people in the truth community on popular places like YouTube and Twitter. This is where I first leaned of Q. In fact, I’ve never been on the chans, I’ve never needed to be, because the posts were being made available immediately to the masses on more easily accessible sites.

The Q posts would come out multiple times a day, but it was not uncommon to go days or weeks without a new post. The Q team posted 4,958 times between 10/28/2017 and 12/08/2020, before going on an 18-month hiatus. What was significant about 12/08/2020? The day before, on 12/07/2020, President Trump created Executive Order 13961, the continuity of government act. Many reading this recognize it as Devolution; the EO gave Trump the power to put together a small group of people to oversee and preserve the national essential functions of the government if there was evidence of election interference.

I believe that the tight-rope-walking-act we’ve been experiencing the past 3 1/2 years has been done with an invisible safety net underneath. That invisible net is the small group that Trump enacted to oversee the current administration. As bad as things are—and they are bad—this group has not allowed and will not allow the Deep State in charge of the US government to completely destroy America.

As mentioned, Q went on an 18-month hiatus, and didn’t post again until Roe v. Wade was overturned on 06/24/2022. Q is the 17th letter of the alphabet, and there was 1,700 days between Q’s first post and the Roe v Wade post. They posted for six more months before ending their communications again. Their last post was on 11/27/2022. If you add 1+1+2+7+2+0+2+2, it equals 17. The last word they posted was the word, “ascension.”

What is the definition of ascension?

Ascension is defined as the act of rising to an important position, or a higher level. Many have heard the word used in the Bible, when Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven 40 days after his resurrection. Please do not think I’m elevating Q to the level of Jesus Christ, but the parallel is interesting. Jesus left his followers to return to Heaven, and in so doing, allowed his disciples to be filled with the Holy Spirit, giving them the strength and understanding necessary to further the spread of the Gospel.

Ascension means the act of rising to a higher level.

I think it’s pretty easy to see that many have risen to a higher level because of the Q posts. Discernment, understanding, hope, trust, courage, humility … the list goes on and on. Many Anons have gone from Gomer Pyle to Rambo. The general public has not gone unaffected either. The masses have been influenced by the few who have refused to shut up, who have refused to give in to the pressures applied to them.

It’s plausible to believe the Q team stopped posting when they did in 2020 because they wanted to give the Anons the opportunity to become independent. It’s plausible to think they came back for six months to let the Anons know they are still around. It’s plausible to believe the Q team no longer posts because they believe their work is done, and that the Anons are now fully capable. But it’s also possible that the Q team learned that they had become a distraction, that to continue posting would do more bad than good.

The way I remember Q being received by the mainstream media and the public goes something like this: At first ,when Q was only being discussed on the chan boards it was being completely ignored by the MSM. When Q started to reach more people, the media started to mock it as being crazy, and the people following the posts were painted as cult members.

As the Q movement began to grow, there was no way to ignore it any longer, there was no way to ridicule it enough to keep people from following, so the Deep State then began to infiltrate the Q movement. Paid shills were put in place and existing Q influencers were paid to send Q followers off course. These paid shills demonized patriots like General Flynn. They’ve spread lies about people like Mike Pence. They’ve pushed ideas that aren’t real, and take focus away from important issues; they’ve sent countless truth-seekers down endless rabbit holes. They’ve caused division within the community. In some cases, they’ve posed as Q followers solely to financially exploit the people within the truth community. Some of these shills have already been or will later be ordered by their overlords to ultimately turn on Donald Trump.

It is possible that the media actually did a good job of demonizing Q. It’s possible that the media was successful in creating a situation where any exposure of the Deep State and their crimes would be presented to the general public as being “crazy Qanon conspiracy”, allowing many people to ignore the information and disregard any exposure of the Deep State.

The general public believed the Covid lockdowns were necessary, and that any talk of Covid being anything less than a death sentence was considered Qanon conspiracy. The general public believed the Covid Vaccines were safe and effective, and that refusing to be jabbed was crazy Qanon rhetoric. The general public believed the 2020 Elections were safe and secure, and the only people who believed they weren’t fully secure and legit were said to be crazy Qanon cult members. J6 demonstrators were conflated with crazy Q people.

The media was able to convince many that Pizzagate was a Qanon conspiracy theory, and children weren’t really being trafficked and abused, not only in this case, but anywhere. Some people have been convinced that child trafficking in general isn’t real, or at least that it’s not widespread, they believe it’s all a crazy Qanon conspiracy that was proven false.

If every evil and corrupt thing being exposed about the Deep State Cabal and brought into the light was being easily brushed under the rug as being a Qanon conspiracy theory, one can understand it if Q decided that they needed to go away.

If Q isn’t posting, how could new information be as easily considered a Qanon conspiracy theory? People still believe things are Qanon conspiracy theories, but it’s harder to brush off information coming out today when Q hasn’t posted in two years. Many people who once ignored and disregarded information are now beginning to explore the subject matter for themselves.

While Q was posting, anytime more evidence of corruption and depravity by the elite came out, the media immediately claimed it was crazy Q rhetoric, and the mind-controlled population would quickly shut off their brains and look for the shiny object the media wanted them to look at instead. I don’t think the Deep State Cabal has been given enough credit for how well they discredited Q; the character assassination and false claims were very effective on the mind controlled.

Because of the media’s constant attacks on Q, some Anons were afraid to admit they followed and believed Q. Some stopped following and believing Q, but most just never accepted Q. By the time most heard of Q, Q had already been ridiculed and demeaned incessantly. Most people aren’t willing or able to stand in defiance of what appears to be the public majority. Most people are too weak and insecure and can’t tolerate being mocked or laughed at, even when the people mocking them are complete liars and fools.

I’m not saying I know why Q stopped posting, but it’s possible and it makes sense to me why Q would come to the conclusion that it would be best for them to stop posting. I believe many people are awake because of Q, and even more are now awake because they stopped posting.

Q has shaped the way I now see the world, how I interpret information, and research topics. I still look to the Q posts to see what they might have said about a particular person or event. The Q movement has been invaluable in exposing the Deep State Cabal and slowly waking up the masses.

Let me leave you with something I’ve been thinking about lately—I should point out I’ve been noticing a lot of “8’s” of late. I’m not sure what to make of it, it’s just an observation. Q mentioned “dark to light” 33 times in the posts. In Q drop 888 from 3/8/2018, Q says this, “Thank you Kim. Deal made. Clowns out. Strings cut. We took control. Iran next. Q”

Q is referring to the supreme leader of North Korea. Q makes it known throughout the posts that the CIA created and controlled North Korea, and used it as an imaginary threat to the US and the world. This would allow the CIA to maintain power, and for the military industrial complex to thrive off of our fear.

A year after Trump became POTUS, it’s implied that North Korea’s CIA strings were cut. We all remember the monumental meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un at the DMZ in Korea. Trump crossed over the border and shook hands with Kim Jong Un. While the media insisted Trump would get the US into a nuclear war with North Korea, he was creating a better relationship with North Korea than had ever existed before.

North Korea is represented by the initials DPRK. DPRK looks a lot like DARK, as in DARK TO LIGHT, or rather DPRK TO LIGHT. North Korea went from dark to light. They were freed from their Deep State chains.

From the Q posts, we understand the same CIA control exists in Iran.

Have the strings been completely severed, or is there still more work to be done?

Time will tell. But the best is yet to come.

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