Anonymous vows to take down, expose QAnon

Via The Hill

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The hacking collective Anonymous is pledging to expose the people behind the “QAnon” conspiracy theory.

The anarchist hacking group slammed the QAnon conspiracy as potentially dangerous and driven by a “brainless political agenda” in a video posted Sunday to what is widely considered the most reliable Anonymous Twitter account.

“We will not sit idly by while you take advantage of the misinformed and poorly educated,” the group said in the video, which was posted with the hashtags #OpQ and #OpQAnon.

The video depicts various figures with Anonymous masks acting out certain aspects of the QAnon conspiracy against a constant backdrop of the letter “Q.”

The video claims that Anonymous “knew who was responsible for Q” and thought it was funny at first. However, the group now believes the conspiracy theory has gone too far.

“Someone is going to get hurt, so we have to put our foot down and start some shit with you all,” the group said in the video.

QAnon shifted into the spotlight after numerous attendees at President Trump’s rally in Florida last week held Q-shaped cutouts and posters alluding to the conspiracy theory.

The wide-ranging and vague “QAnon” touches on a number of popular conspiracy theories: Democrats and prominent Hollywood figures are orchestrating underground pedophile rings; special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is a front for investigating 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former President Obama for their ties to said rings; and hundreds of sealed indictments may have already been handed down in the Clinton case.

The theory was started by a person on the message board 4chan last year claiming to be a high-ranking security official in the Trump administration. The individual or individuals goes by the identity of “Q” and has continued to fan the theory on online platforms.

A number of conservative figures have pushed back against the conspiracy theory on Twitter in recent days, including Michael Flynn Jr., the son of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

Anonymous has been adamantly opposed to Trump since he announced his candidacy in 2015. The group declared “cyber war” on Trump in March 2016, directing its followers to take down the then-candidate’s websites.

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Courage Valhalla Gothi
Courage Valhalla Gothi
August 6, 2018 3:37 pm

Go Anonymous Go!

Our Q who art in NSA
Hallowed be thy name
Thy indictments come
Trumps will be done
On earth as it is in Mar A Lago
Give us each day a cryptic message
Forgive us our misunderstanding
As we forgive those who misunderstand us
And lead us not to reality
but deliver us from reality

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
August 6, 2018 4:16 pm

Hey! Great news for the anti-Q -tippers! The guys with the plastic Guy Fawkes masks and Voxal voice modulators have jumped into the fray. Now we’re getting the heavy weights involved.

Wait, is that a good thing or a bad thing?

DRUD
DRUD
  hardscrabble farmer
August 6, 2018 4:29 pm

“It is neither good nor bad.”

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  DRUD
August 6, 2018 5:04 pm

I see what you did there.

DRUD
DRUD
  hardscrabble farmer
August 6, 2018 5:08 pm

I could hardly be expected to resist.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  DRUD
August 6, 2018 5:06 pm

Paid him back with the same coin, funny!

pagar con la misma moneda – payback

PlatoPlubius
PlatoPlubius
August 6, 2018 4:38 pm

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Mike
Mike
  PlatoPlubius
August 6, 2018 6:35 pm

What are they waiting for?

Anon
Anon
  PlatoPlubius
October 10, 2018 7:42 am

Mark 5:9

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
August 6, 2018 5:02 pm

Wait. Just. A. Darn. Minute.

Anonymous is a LARP. None of what Anonymous has promised has come true. Anonymous is a big problem because people will start trusting in Anonymous instead of writing letters to the editor and imagine the psychological damage that will be inflicted when nothing comes of this.*

*Please feel free to add any I may have overlooked.

Francis Marion
Francis Marion
  hardscrabble farmer
August 6, 2018 5:21 pm

I’m so confused.

Aren’t the research guys on 8 Chan anonymous?

Why would they expose themselves?

Who the hell is anonymous, anyways?

Anonymous
Anonymous
August 6, 2018 5:11 pm

Anonymous comes to the rescue of deluded Tetris-loving Q-drop addicted housewives. You may now return to your regularly scheduled housecleaning. 16 hours of Q, T4C, really?
EC

Anon
Anon
  Anonymous
October 10, 2018 7:22 am

terminally stupid

John Titor -13th Florida Shotgun Infantry
John Titor -13th Florida Shotgun Infantry
August 6, 2018 5:26 pm

This is not a joke, and as soon as I can find an IBM 5100 you are going to see a civil war.

Mr. Frosty
Mr. Frosty
August 6, 2018 6:58 pm

Soros is hiring Anonymous to hunt down Qanon. Interesting, I now believe in Q more than ever. They tried ignoring him, now they try to silence him.

Qanon encourages people to think. How much evil intent could come from such vague questions? He never asks for a reaction, just to think, pray and prepare.

Unonymous
Unonymous
August 6, 2018 7:41 pm

First time I’ve ever seen “Qanon” mentioned on the Drudge Report? So there’s that.

Airman Higgs
Airman Higgs
August 6, 2018 8:01 pm

We are officially way beyond the realm of absurd, and are now well into Beavis and Fucking Butthead territory.

You know what? I’m out. Y’all have fun.

Jack Hammer
Jack Hammer
  Airman Higgs
August 6, 2018 11:49 pm

Did Airman get triggered and flounce?

Anon
Anon
  Jack Hammer
October 10, 2018 7:23 am

maybe just got tired of stupid people with nothing better to do

TJF
TJF
August 6, 2018 9:32 pm

Surreal. When the Q business started, I wanted to believe, but was skeptical. Then after a couple months of nothing happening like Q seemed to be saying it was going to happen, I just tuned out to the whole thing and figured either it would be shown to be a ruse or it’s a real thing, and I could just leave it alone until it was revealed one way or the other.

Now, with a MSM push to discuss and belittle Q makes me think that maybe there is something behind it after all.

Not sure what to think of Anonymous. Not sure if they are real or a conspiracy theory.

IndenturedServant
IndenturedServant
August 6, 2018 11:25 pm

Alright dingleberries………

I’ve got $1000 that says Q or more specifically his droppings (hehe) are legit. I’ll bet one person a grand or two people $500 or 4 people $250 or 10 people $100. I’m not going lower than $100 as it gets too onerous for admin to quickly . Two conditions, admin has to agree to handle some minimal mailing once the winners are decided and all participants must agree to, and define terms that decide the winner in advance.

My thought is that if I lose, I’ll mail an appropriate number of US Postal money orders or cash to admin in the appropriate amount and each winner will mail a SASE to admin so he can send you your winnings. If I win, each loser sends their $ to admin (USPSMO or cash) and I’ll send a SASE to admin so I can collect.

I’m unsure as to what will define Q being legit and I’m more unsure of timeline with regards to Q but if we can come to terms I’ve got a grand that ain’t doin’ nuthin’ but gathering dust right now. Considering that the anti-q team doesn’t know much if anything about Q, I’m not sure if we can reach mutually acceptable terms but I’m open to ideas.

What say the doubters? Easy money?

Courage Valhalla Gothi
Courage Valhalla Gothi
  IndenturedServant
August 7, 2018 9:47 am

You would have to define the terms of what constitutes “legit” in your book for anyone to consider taking this bet.

IndenturedServant
IndenturedServant
  Courage Valhalla Gothi
August 7, 2018 3:22 pm

From my post above……..and very clearly written:
“………..all participants must agree to, and define terms that decide the winner in advance. ”

No need to worry as you are excluded for lack or reading comprehension skills dumb ass.

IndenturedServant
IndenturedServant
  IndenturedServant
August 7, 2018 3:27 pm

What? None of you negative Nancy’s want to take my money? All mouth and no ass is exactly what I expected.

jb
jb
August 7, 2018 12:08 am

Enjoy the show.

Will
Will
August 7, 2018 12:45 am

Anonymous are an FBI op.
I thought everyone knew this.
One of their founders, Sabu, got turned by the feds. A week later? He kicks off occupy Wallstreet.
Google Sabu, read it for yourself.

Some of you guys are so mentally tied to being against Q, that you are literally siding with the MSM and an FBI controlled hacker group.

Jesus Christ, thank god im not in a foxhole with you.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic
August 7, 2018 12:49 am

This is starting to get really interesting. Can’t wait to see the results.

Unknowable
Unknowable
October 10, 2018 7:29 am

Might I suggest a new contender?

“Unknown” shows up in a spectacular video released on (pick your platform) and exposes both the Q and the Anonymous as being military and/or cia operations supporting and opposing (take your pick) the good guys (again, take your pick) and then suggests that your best hope is to continue to follow Unknowable clues, which will be left on a variety of truth-seeking blogs and forums (your favorite here).

Unknown will become the new Q, having shown the frauds to be poor predictors of known events unfolding. While Unknown sips his Uncola (no pun intended but hopefully appreciated) in the shadows and drops vague, somewhat mysterious hints about the days of future past, he soon develops a group of followers calling themselves Flautists because they code their messages on musical scores which play disturbingly in the background. Unknown’s predictions will inspire a whole new energy movement promising to send a rocket to the moon using solar panels by the end of the Trump Presidency.

With Flautists sending trills into the eardrums of millions about the possibility of a electric rocketship to the moon during Trump’s reign, which Unknown slyly suggests will be longer than FDR’s, hinting at enormous constitutional alterations ahead. An electric rocket on the moon taking an electric golf cart this time instead of that dune buggy contraption.

That is my opinion, rarely seen or voiced, at least here.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
October 10, 2018 8:14 am

So they gave up?

Anonymous, so powerful they couldn’t locate a LARP in his Mother’s basement.