The Duran
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Authored by Deborah Franklin via AmericanThinker.com:
We’re living in dramatic times that are difficult to understand. One way to try to interpret them is through the cryptic clues provided by Q, which appear on an anonymous online forum and imply top-secret knowledge of upcoming events.
As I wrote in my article “An Introduction to Q,” “Q’s followers believe that Q is a military intelligence operation, the first of its kind, whose goal is to provide the public with secret information… Q is a new weapon in the game of information warfare, bypassing a hostile media and corrupt government to communicate directly with the public.” It’s interesting to note that shortly after my article was published here, American Thinker suffered a series of unprecedented hacking attempts. Also noteworthy is that Twitter permanently shut down the account of Zero Hedge, a popular finance blog, two weeks after it posted my article.
President Trump continues to bring attention to Q, repeatedly retweeting Q followers, featuring Q fans in his ad campaign, and making a public display of a “Q baby” at a rally. Yet the media never asks Trump the obvious question: What do you think about Q?
Instead, the media keeps ratcheting up its attacks on Q and the ever-growing worldwide movement that Q inspires. On February 9, both the AP and New York Times published blistering anti-Q articles, claiming that Q promotes baseless, debunked far right conspiracies and accusing Q of inciting violence in deranged followers. The day before this latest media ambush, a massive cyber assault temporarily brought down 8kun, the message board on which Q posts. Ron Watkins, 8kun’s administrator, tweeted,
“Attacks have been coming in all day. Very sophisticated and expensive attacks; the person paying for this likely has deep pockets.”
At the same time that 8kun was attacked, X22 Report, which covers Q postings, also was bombarded. On its Twitter feed, the site wrote it was “being attacked from 54 different countries using hundreds of different IP addresses, I have never seen anything like it.”
On February 12, in response to these events, Q posted, “Highly sophisticated ‘State-level’ attacks [v 8kun] followed by FAKE NEWS attacks [v Q] the next day? Coordinated? Ask yourself a simple question – – why? It’s time to wake up.”
In almost 4,000 posts, Q has painted a disturbing, multi-faceted portrait of a global crime syndicate that operates with impunity. In recent weeks, President Trump has grown more explicit about some of the syndicate’s crimes. Speaking to the National Governors Association, President Trump stated, in an almost casual, offhand manner, why the United States had recently upgraded its nuclear missile technology at great expense. “…we’re buying new, we have the super-fast missiles, tremendous number of the super-fast. We call them super-fast where they’re four, five, six, or even seven times faster than ordinary missiles. We need that because again, Russia has some. I won’t tell you how they got it. They got it supposedly from the Obama Administration when we weren’t doing it. And that’s too bad. It’s not good. But that’s how it happened.”
The President’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has also grown more specific in his accusations, tweeting “The Biden Family Enterprise has been selling his office for years. The corrupt media has been covering up. It was handed to me and I had the courage to reveal it knowing the Swamp would try to destroy me. I served my country. They are betraying it. I will not stop.”
Q followers were not surprised by President Trump’s remarks or Giuliani’s charges, since they have probed into Q’s numerous clues about the treachery of America’s elite. The Q Army reads the headlines through a different lens than those who rely on the mainstream media for information. For instance, Q followers expected Jussie Smollett’s recent arrest on charges related to his alleged staging of a hate crime, and they anticipate his hoax will be tied directly to two failed presidential candidates and their political strategies.
I would like to offer some Q references that may help to illuminate recent events and prepare us for future developments. With the defeat of the impeachment threat, President Trump appears to be launching significant countermoves against those he accuses of plotting a coup. Q followers anticipate that he will declassify sensitive government documents, revealing shocking crimes and collaborations. The exposed criminals are likely to respond with dangerous counterattacks, most of which are unseen by the public. As Q recently wrote, the silent war continues.
Let’s take a look at some recent events, in light of Q’s messages.
Trump Acquitted of Impeachment Charges: When Republicans lost the House of Representatives in 2018, many Q followers were dismayed. They feared the Democrats would use their new power to unleash disruptive investigations and push impeachment. Q responded several times that the Senate was the target, emphasizing that the Q team’s midterm election strategy centered on strengthening the Senate as part of a long-term plan. With President Trump emerging from the impeachment ordeal at his political zenith, Q’s confidence in the midterm election results continues to resonate.
The Best Is Yet To Come: Trump’s New Reelection Theme
President Trump ended his recent State of the Union address by declaring, “The best is yet to come.” This statement, with its inherent optimism, appears to be central to his reelection message, and he and his team have deployed it several times.
The President debuted this message on January 28 by concluding his massive rally in Wildwood, New Jersey with these exact words. However, Q followers were already familiar with the slogan, because Q had dropped it at 2:26 that same afternoon.
Trump Hints at Tarmac Meeting Deal: On June 27, 2016, Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch held a supposedly impromptu meeting on her plane at Phoenix Airport, where they discussed (according to them) golf and grandchildren. Skeptics have long suspected that Clinton and Lynch were working out a deal in which Lynch agreed to drop the probe into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal in exchange for a payoff.
On January 14, at his Milwaukee rally, President Trump offered some insight into the nature of the payoff, when he suggested that Bill Clinton promised Lynch a Supreme Court appointment, which would be conferred after Hillary’s expected victory.
Q followers were already familiar with this scenario, because on February 6, 2018, Q had posted the following message about the Tarmac meeting: SC/LL deal > AS 187
Here’s how some Q followers interpreted that message: The Supreme Court/Loretta Lynch deal was connected to the purported murder of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. (Note: 187 is police code for murder. Q often uses this term when discussing alleged Deep State murders.) Scalia died suddenly at a Texas ranch on February 13, 2016, and was declared dead of natural causes over the phone. No coroner or medical examiner ever saw him and no autopsy was performed.
Trump accuses Adam Schiff of being “a very sick man.” President Trump has accused House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff of various acts of political chicanery, but in a January 26 tweet, he raised his criticism to another level: “Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!”
The president’s words immediately evoked one of Q’s signature phrases, which Trump himself has also said: “These people are sick.” But moving from “these people” to the specific person of “Adam Schiff” marks another phase of disclosure. On January 31, 2018, Q dropped hints that Schiff committed serious criminal acts that connected to the Standard Hotel chain. Q directed attention to a California helicopter crash that had just killed Kimberly Watzman, General Manager of the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood, and asked: “What happened @ those hotels?” Perhaps some context for these potential criminal acts may be inferred from Schiff’s close friendship with Ed Buck, a major Democratic donor who was arrested in October 2019 for killing two men with drug overdoses in his apartment and almost killing a third. Schiff has also publicly praised his friend, Dr. Bruce Hensel, the NBC medical correspondent, who was arrested in 2019 for sex charges involving a 9-year-old girl.
Q has named this extraordinary time “The Great Awakening,” in which the world moves from “dark to light.” As the darkness of horrific elite secrets gives way to the light of public scrutiny, our fortitude will be tested. But Q assures us, “You are watching the systematic destruction of the OLD GUARD.” And when the news gets too frightening, it’s worth remembering Q’s oft-repeated directive: “Pray.” Q posts are compiled here: https://qmap.pub/ https://qanon.pub/
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
An alternate view of Q. Is it a “firewall” against a Kennedy style, deep state assassination attempt? Q has effectively built a large body in the American populace that is completely aware that the deep state has, and is conducting an ongoing coup d’état against the Trump presidency. If there had been a similar awareness in regards to Kennedy’s presidency, I don’t think the assassination would have been attempted.
First take the quote marks off “firewall” and then drop the term altogether. What “firewall” would protect against assasinations? There is only one reason why Trump has not been taken out yet, and it is because only the military could actually set up that level of protection. A military that became totally fed up with decades of serving evil people that sat in the oval office or the branches of government, including any miltary upper crust which became corrupt. The military is literally sworn to protect the nation and its people and constitution — as its duty — and will… Read more »
For the most part, I usually agree with what you say, but you keep coming back to this idea “The military is literally sworn to protect the nation and its people and constitution — as its duty”. I’m sorry Paul, this may have been true ONCE, but the actions of the US Military over the last twenty years PROVE this to be false. How did the war in Iraq “protect the nation and its people”? How did the US Military, fighting alongside ISIS and the PKK to overthrow the legitimate Government of Syria, even going so far as to take… Read more »
In a vastly — but very sophisticatedly — corrupt system, all the things you mention can take place, without people knowing any better, including those involved. How do think things were able to get so far — and for so long? Q likes to remind followers that tactics go both ways, with respect to everything: FISAs, psy-ops, you name it. Consider this: there may be players that are said to be “going rogue” in the intel and military, those whom we call the bad guys, right? But what if the environment has become so corrupt over the years that there… Read more »
As a nice additional coda… Carlos Osweda had some good tweets today (as usual). Among his comments: “You know what almost nobody EVER acknowledges that Trump has? Agency. The capacity to act. There’s no doubt that Trump’s Judas goats got Bloomberg into the race. The plan has two steps. First, shatter the Democratic party. Mission accomplished. The Dems are reduced to a choice between an elderly communist and a creepy power-mad billionaire who wants to tax the poor. I always remind people that Trump has not yet begun to fight. They ask me, “Why hasn’t he?” The reason is that… Read more »
I think he has also had to lay the groundwork for his own political and physical safety first. And yes, you are correct, I am HIGHLY speculative, I think we talked about that in the context of how I viewed the Soleimani assassination, I looked at literally half a dozen scenarios, and tried to evaluate all of them without prejudice, in the context of what were the previous patterns of all the players, who had whos back, and who didn’t, and most importantly, who benefited. Of course you are right, I do use a highly speculative methodology, and I should… Read more »
Did you ever read my “Soliemani” narrative? If not, let me know, I will post it here. I would be interested in your take on it, it is not the mainstream narrative by a long shot. It is based on looking at all the pieces I had access to, and a careful examination of motive.
Sorry, but I can’t go back to Soleimani anymore. Let’s move on, shall we…
Trump has to do things in a timely manner. He has already indicated a willingness to cooperate with Putin, Xi, Kim, Rouhani, Zelensky and others. Backchannels exist for that, but public optics must be right and always based on solid conditions. Timing is everything, and for many things — e.g, he just can’t go willy-nilly arresting or pardoning people (especially if there’s a plan in place), which easily costs him politically. You can’t seem to help hanging onto what’s past, on all that has already happened, in order to keep doubts and cynicism going, which only taints the present outlook,… Read more »
I have been reading Q’s posts sporadically since 2016, back when I was on Minds.
I truly hope your big picture view is correct. But no important arrests, thus far.
I really do hope so, that Trump will be protected and realizes his vulnerability
I’ve only listened to a couple of x22 videos and this is only my opinion of limited observations, but my b.s. meter clicks on. Q may be for real, but I x22 seems like constant hype.
The so-called BS-meter of many people is set far too low, which means it goes off too easily. Credulity is a bitch, as they say.
For the record, there are now 144,844 Sealed Cases in PACER. Think about that instead, what that suggests. While you’re at it, put the setting on your Patience meter higher, it’ll better help you to enjoy the show.
Yes, but this is one of the things that kind of made me go “meh” back in 2017. They really aren’t much good when they stay sealed. I know, I know, the wheels of justice turn slowly, but MAN!
FWIW, My Soleimani narrative, if it is in fact correct, is very much supported by the relative quiet between Iran and the US in the six weeks since, and would VERY relevant to events moving forward.
I think you miss the entire point about sealed indictments: CONTROL. That is one of the primary ways they can have leverage over others. There are indictments which will never be opened — because they were effective in getting people to step down and resign from their positions, or for cooperating or flipping from one side to the other, or forced to assist in various other ways. Therefore, the number quoted represents a tremendous amount of leverage. (And following the X22 Report daily I am able to make sense of many things like this.)
DAFUQ is this conspiritard nonsense?
If the Duran wants to lose all credibility this is the way to go about it.
Qanon my word.
For real ??