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Biden’s victory might look from the outside a significant blow to the QAnon community, which views Trump as their hero.But, to those deeply invested in the baseless conspiracy movement, the results are just more evidence that Q was right all along, and that the Democrats and the “deep state” are secretly controlling all aspects of society.
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Of course, it is important to remember in all of this that Q is not real and the reason for Q’s absence could simply be down to a change in those in charge of the website where they post their “Q drops.”Last week, Ron Watkins, the administrator of 8kun — and son of the site’s owner Jim Watkins — resigned suddenly. When VICE News asked him what he resigned, Ron Watkins said he had fallen “in love with woodworking and plan on focusing all my efforts into mastering it.”Brennan said that if Watkins has left the website, then “assuming he had a system to insert Q drops into the database…his replacement needs to get up to speed and is perhaps scared of doing something wrong and getting caught.”
But whatever the reason for Q’s silence, the reality is that the QAnon movement is going nowhere, even when Trump does eventually accept that he has lost the election and leaves the White House.“Did Christians give up their faith because no holy texts were created after the Council of Carthage established the biblical canon in 397 AD?” View asked. “The cessation of revealed information typically doesn’t mark the end of a faith-based movement. If anything, it merely marks the end of the beginning.”