Although the mystery of the forum poster known as Q has been all but solved – it's the guys who run 8chan, of course it's always been the guys who run 8chan – the movement they've inspired has kept gathering momentum, forming into its own snowball of idiocy with no input from above. — Read the rest

Things aren't going Donald's way. He thought he'd escaped Jack Smith's prosecution against him for subverting the election, but when it caught back up to him, he lost his mind and unleashed a torrent of unhinged paranoid ravings on his failing Truth Social account. — Read the rest

The insurrectionary accouterments of Jacob Chansley, better known as QAnon Shaman, must be returned to him. A judge ordered the U.S. Justice Department to give him back the "unmistakeable outfit" confiscated when Chansley was arrested for his part in the Jan 6, 2021 riots on Capitol Hill. — Read the rest

QAnon, the mainstream wing of the Republican Party, has opened an investigation into whether Kyle Rittenhouse is a transgender secret agent after he wavered for a few hours in his undying support for Donald Trump.

Rittenhouse, who became the poster child for the GOP after he traveled from Illinois to Wisconsin when he was 17 and shot two people to death and injured a third, posted on Xitter last week, "If you cannot be completely un-compromisable on the Second Amendment, I will not vote for you. — Read the rest

There's a new doc on Netflix that is well worth your time: The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem looks at one of the most toxic and destructive corners of the internet.

From Variety:

[The Antisocial Network is] about 4Chan, the popular imageboard website that became the Petri dish in which QAnon — the mother of all crackpot conspiracy theories — came into being. 

A mother's tragic decision, fueled by QAnon conspiracy theories, led to the deaths of her 13-year-old son and sister in the remote Colorado wilderness. Rebecca Vance, believing lies about a "Great Reset" plot by elites to control the world, fled her home with her son Talon and sister Christine to live off the grid at a campsite outside Gunnison. — Read the rest

Convicted Insurrectionist and Libertarian candidate for Congress in Arizona, Jacob Chansley, wants his fuzzy be-horned cap back.

I guess people don't recognize Chansley without his signature "Hey, look at me!!!!" hat. Can't he get the parts on Amazon again? Does the Shaman think that particular, seemingly made of a cheap costume boa and plastic Viking helmet, hat has magical powers? — Read the rest

Last month, Trump-loving Congressperson Debbie Lesko, who currently represents Arizona's 8^th Congressional District, announced that she would not be running again when her current term ends in January 2025. Hoping to fill her spot is none other than the QAnon Shaman himself, Jacob Angeli-Chansley. — Read the rest

Tim Ballard, the self-styled rescuer of sex-trafficked children and inspiration for the Christian thriller, Sound of Freedom, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that he sexually assaulted five women.

As reported in The Washington Post:

In a lawsuit filed Monday in Utah, the women alleged that Ballard would "manipulate" them and coerce them into sexual acts as part of his trafficking rescue missions via Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), the nonprofit he founded.

Michael David Fox of New Mexico doesn't seem like a very nice person. Look at this transcript of a voicemail he left for a Texas congresswoman, identified as V1 in the criminal complaint.

"Hey [V1], you're a man. It's official. You're literally a tranny and a pedophile, and I'm going to put a bullet in your fucking face. — Read the rest

Whether intentionally or not, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan trolled Donald Trump and his fellow Qnuts when she set his trial date for March 4 — the same date that QAnon had erroneously predicted Trump would take back power in 2021. — Read the rest

Here's a great new piece in the Arizona Mirror by Caitlin Sievers, which provides a deep dive into Jacob Chansley, aka the "QAnon Shaman," or, "America's Shaman," as he's currently trying to rebrand himself. Chansley pleaded guilty in September 2021 to a felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding when he raided the U.S. — Read the rest

Jake Angeli-Chansley, also known as "QAnon Shaman," was released from federal custody on Thursday, and went straight to Twitter to grace us all with his new 'look,' and to confuse us all with his new 'wisdom.' He tweeted a five-minute video along with the following text:

This is Jacob Angeli-Chansley.

Michael Flynn, the disgraced former national security adviser who pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI about conversations with Russia's ambassador, is suing a QAnon conspiracist named Jim Stewartson who claims Flynn invented QAnon.

You would think Flynn would enjoy being credited as the inventor of the crackpot conspiracy. — Read the rest

What Trump's very stable geniuses lack in intelligence they more than make up for in confidence. Check out Mike from Merrimack, New Hampshire as he explains to filmmaker Rod Webber what's really going on in American politics.

"Trump is still the president right now," says Mike. — Read the rest

Did you know that there are at least two musicals about QAnon? They are both rather unimaginatively named "QAnon: The Musical." 

The first satirizes QAnon and was created by comedy music group Un5Gettable—which includes Joe Cameron, Kyle Cothern, Brendan Hawkins, Ryan Richards, and Zach Harris. — Read the rest

QAnon is known for attracting very stable geniuses into its fold, so this case is quite the head-scratcher. Romana Didulo, the self-declared Queen of Canada and popular QAnon influencer, issued a royal decree last year making utilities and mortgages null and void. — Read the rest

Henceforth, insurrectionist idiot Jake Angeli shall be known as QAnon Sherman!

(Thanks, Bob Pescovitz!)

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Daily Beast journalist Will Sommer spent years researching the disturbing QAnon religious movement, which started on 8chan and has spread insidiously across the world, infecting even members of congress, most notably the unpleasant wacko Marjorie Taylor Greene. His new book, Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America, is reviewed by Dwight Garner in The New York Times:

These leaders are taking dangerous advantage, and they know it, of marginalized and disrespected people, many with debts or serious health issues, and promising them redemption in a coming "storm," led by the messianic figure of Donald Trump, that will wipe away institutions and thus their problems.

Last year, followers of QAnon influencer Michael Protzman (aka Negative48) organized a gathering of Q-Anon followers in Dallas, Texas, in Dealey Plaza, where John F. Kennedy was shot and killed, for the resurrection and second coming of JFK Jr.

As reported in Rolling Stone, "Initially, Protzman and his followers' activities in Dallas seemed relatively harmless and absurd — for example, singing songs in Dealey Plaza and unraveling dozens of toilet paper rolls in a hotel room. — Read the rest