The cult within the cult

“Follow the white rabbit” is a Q thing. They rely heavily on Alice in Wonderland iconography. And yet living adults still take this seriously. https://t.co/cTvFwWluTD

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 9, 2019

As thousands of Trump supporters waited in line before the rally, a gaggle of QAnon believers walked around passing out flyers and Q-branded beer koozies. “Make some noise for Q, baby!” one woman screamed. A whole lot of people cheered her on

From yesterday’s Trump rally in Panama City Beach. A group of QAnon folks walked through the crowd, passing out flyers and Q-branded beer koozies.

“Make some noise for Q baby!” one woman screamed, and a lot of people cheered. pic.twitter.com/krKjRI91NQ

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) May 9, 2019

QAnon, or simply “Q,” is an anonymous poster on various web forums, namely 8chan, who claims to be a high-level government employee with inside knowledge of the Mueller investigation. Q, in a series of clues, has suggested that the Mueller investigation is all a smokescreen, and that Mueller and Trump have been secretly working together to expose a globalist cabal of Satanist and pedophile Democrats.

“QAnon is a military operation taking down the deep state,” explained the woman passing out QAnon flyers, who refused to give HuffPost her name. QAnon believers think the “deep state” — namely government officials inside the FBI, CIA and other agencies — have been secretly working to destroy Trump.

Later Wednesday evening inside the Trump rally, a woman named Jennifer Dills from Crestview, Florida, stood waiting for the president to take the stage, a Q-branded bag slung over her shoulder. “QAnon, baby,” she told HuffPost about her bag. “The great awakening. Where we go one, we go all.”

“My president,” she described Trump to HuffPost. “My president. Rock this town and bring back some hope to this area that’s hurting.”

Grass Valley, California is a city nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Each year, it plays host to Grass Valley Charter School’s Blue Marble Jubilee, an Earth Day celebration complete with egg carton painting and “frolicking” in bins of bird seed.

But since it’s 2019, QAnon ruined all of that.

Bizarrely enough, the conspiracies started when former FBI Director James Comey, living some 3,000 miles from Grass Valley, participated in the hashtag trend #FiveJobsIveHad on Twitter.

A Twitter user named Top Blog Sites, who has a QAnon website linked in his bio, extracted words from the tweet, somehow contorting the hashtag into “five Jihads.” He then circled the first letter of all the jobs Comey has had (grocery store clerk, vocal soloist for church weddings, chemist, strike-replacement high school teacher and FBI director, interrupted), stringing together the initials of the Grass Valley Charter School Foundation.

He noted that the group would be manning the Blue Marble Jubilee on May 11, musing that the tweet was a “coded false flag message” indicating that an attack may be planned to target the event.

Joe, have you seen this possible decode of Comey's latest 'bizarre' tweet? It's possibly a coded FF message - and the possible "target" is a big school/family event at a Nevada fairgrounds.
The date is around the time these things will be breaking also.🤔😐 pic.twitter.com/D4H00X0zAA

— Top Blog Sites (@TopInfoBlogs) April 29, 2019

The convoluted theory spread, with one QAnon follower warning that “nothing better happen at Grass Valley Charter School (@gvcharter) during their Blue Marble Jubilee on May 11, Jim,” before pointing out that Comey’s tweet had the same time stamp as when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11.



QAnon conspiracy theorists believe that there is a secret plot being fomented against President Donald Trump and his supporters by a “deep state” that involves some incoherent combination of coded messages, threatened coups and a secret pedophilic sex ring run by top Democrats.

As unhinged as the beliefs seem, they’ve catalyzed violence before, as when a gunman threatened Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in D.C. due to the man’s (baseless) belief that Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta were keeping child sex slaves in the basement (the restaurant had no basement, to start).

According to The Union, a local outlet, Grass Valley Charter was inundated with calls and emails from across the country.

Police dismissed the threats as “not credible,” but the organizers cancelled the event anyway.

“In the current social and political climate, schools and communities must take into consideration matters never before imagined,” the foundation wrote on the event page, calling the cancellation an “abundance of caution.”

“Of course, there is no question about putting safety first, however, we are devastated by the impact on our festival,” said Foundation President Wendy Willoughby in a statement. “Not only is it disappointing that the cancellation of this event deprives the families of our school and community a day of fun and connection, but the Blue Marble Jubilee also serves as a fundraiser. We now find ourselves not only out the potential dollars raised at the event, but also the money already spent in preparation.”

While Grass Valley Charter mourned the loss of needed funds, QAnon believers reveled in a disaster averted.

“It definitely won’t now thanks to anons [sic] decoding abilities,” a QAnon follower tweeted smugly of the “Jihad.” “Amazing people in this movement.”