JIM WATKINS IS Q AND THE RUSSIANS ARE HELPING HIM
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Aug 16 · 14 min read
The man behind Qanon is a vile hate-merchant coordinating with OANN, Flynn and Russian intelligence.
Hello
This document is split into two parts, for different audiences.
PART I is the high-level story of the origins of Qanon intended for people directly involved.
PART II is a more analytical view of the confluence of Russian and domestic enemy actors and how they represent a major threat to the 2020 elections. There are receipts. Also less cursing.
PART I
Jim Watkins is a grifter, a literal traitor, and ‘Q’
Dear people directly affected by the cult / alternate reality game known as QAnon:
You are being exploited by Jim Watkins and Russian intelligence, in conjunction with a pack of traitors, grifters, amoral politicians, and plutocrats who do not care about any of you.
Jim Watkins runs 8kun and has been ‘Q’ since at least the Great Blackout of 2019.
For the uninitiated, this was a THREE MONTH period of time when 8chan went down, and the ”government intelligence operative” you pretend to believe in could not figure out how to use Twitter or whatever.
This “insider” had to wait for Jim Watkins, a washed-up, racist pig farmer and [NSFW] t-shirt merchant hiding in the Philippines, to strap his shitty bulletin board back together with smoke signals and Russian money.
Before that it was both Jim AND the venal grifters at Patriot Soapbox running Q, but Jim seems to have figured out how to cut them out when he got yanked off the internet for allowing mass murders to be broadcast on his website.
Because of that, he was questioned by Congress about his connections to Russian intelligence and the weaponization of disinformation from his website, which is precisely what is currently happening to you.
More: https://medium.com/registrarproject17/jim-watkins-is-q-the-russians-are-helping-him-and-other-adventures-b457848e210b
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That will make it clickable here on DU 
Update 4:51pm CT: In a statement to Daily Dot, the Twitter account listed on QMap’s Patreon page confirms they established the QMap site, claims they are “not associated with Watkins” and that they moved to VanwaTech because “Qmap suffers denial of service attacks regularly, hence the need for a content delivery network that could stop it.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/who-is-qanon-jim-watkins-rumors/
Over the weekend, a rumor started to make the rounds on Twitter and among QAnon watchers, which seemed to blow a lid on a long-simmering mystery. It said that the mysterious poster who makes the Q drops, the cryptic messages posted on message board 8kun that give the movement its direction, had been unmasked and revealed to all. And the poster was none other than 8kun’s owner, Jim Watkins. Previously the owner of 8kun forerunner 8chan, Watkins had already given congressional testimony wearing a QAnon pin and started a political SuperPAC devoted to boosting QAnon-friendly candidates. There was already speculation that Q and Watkins were linked, as when 8chan went down in August 2019, the Q poster didn’t make their drops somewhere else, instead waiting around for months while 8chan found a new service provider and rebranded as 8kun. But while it would make sense for Watkins to be responsible for Q’s posts, there’s been no conclusive proof of it, and both Jim Watkins and his son Ron, who writes the code for 8kun, deny having any link or knowledge of who Q is, even as speculation has persisted for years they were behind it.
So what was it that changed to spark this newest rumor? Anti-Q activists discovered that 8kun.top has the same IP address as QMap.pub, the most popular aggregator of QAnon’s drops, along with the home of the “QAnon Prayer Wall.” The term “QMap” dates to an early Q drop from November 2017 that states “QMAP 1/2 confirmed. This is the key.” Q drop aggregators are critical in the movement, since Q promoters generally don’t want followers navigating a racist and difficult-to-read site like 8chan for Q content. So these sites serve as a way to let followers know that a Q drop was made and confirm that it’s real by linking back to the drop on 8kun. And with tens of thousands of people using it at any given moment, QMap is the most popular of the aggregator sites. It was originally hosted by Amazon Web Services, but for whatever reason, at some point in the last few months (it’s not clear when), it switched to internet security firm VanwaTech. If this name is familiar to Q watchers, it’s because it’s the same firm that was revealed in October to be the new security provider for 8kun.
Link to tweet
While Q has never explicitly endorsed one of the aggregator sites, he did link to a tweet where someone is holding up a sign with QMap’s name on it. So essentially, both the only place that Q drops are made and the most popular place where Q drops are disseminated and confirmed as have the same internet service provider. But why does it matter? And how does it prove or not prove that Jim Watkins (who blocked the writer of this story on Twitter) runs both sites, and has been making Q drops? The short answer is it doesn’t prove Jim Watkins is Q, despite people shouting that online all week.
Link to tweet
And nobody still knows for sure who Q is other than the actual Q poster. But getting to the bottom of what the link between 8kun and QMap actually means for the Q movement touches on so many of the most salient points about the QAnon phenomenon: mystery, blind belief, complex technical facets, and grift. At heart is the connection between the QAnon conspiracy itself and the aggregator sites like QMap.pub that get the word out to the faithful.
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much more at the top link
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-dot/
