A forensic breakdown of the psychological operation that hijacked the American populist base, legally violated doctrine, and branded the people it was pretending to protect.
If Q was a weapon, used as you describe, to keep the patriots from starting a civil war, then I say "well done". If on the other hand, Q was an information operation with the goal of engaging the patriots to do some research, again, I say well done. I do not buy the idea that Q was designed to entrap, cause discord among families, or surveil the patriots. I believe it was used that way by opponents of DJT and as a way discredit the information Q was providing and marginalize the people waking up. The last thing Q would have wanted is to stop people from awakening to what our world had become. The silent majority is now better informed and more engaged in the political process. That education is continuing with DOGE. I credit Q with my personal awakening which is on-going. Was Q a psy-op, yes. Did the psy-op do more good than harm, yes. IMHO.
Many people are stuck on time tables and stated dates for things to take place..
I feel the Q Psy-Op was way more informative And helpful for people to Awaken to just how vast and scripted our corrupt matrix is , the lack of accountability for so many upper level players to not ever be punished for torturing and drinking Adrenochrome from the sovereign souls of the babies is a statement that spells out there is something beyond our comprehension of evil that we must face and destroy or there will be no future worth being a part of.
I guess if people are truly waiting around for a knight on white horse to come in and do this for them then your right. But I would like to add and its an opinion not a fact. None of what occurred in recent years was legal. And more importantly much of what is presumed to be legal in this country certainly isn’t lawful. We’re in a war and were supposed to act like the rules apply. Don’t trust officialdom or politicians any further than you can throw them. That’s the best policy. And hold their feet to the fire. Americans are wide awake. The last election proved that. The only question is if DJT is truly on our side or the carnival barker paid to lead astray. Only time will tell. But effectively exercising your rights is a must and you’ve been gold on emphasizing and educating there.
Bullshit main stream media uses propaganda lies and decipt to spread fear and manipulation to herd the public into mass conformity. Big pharma and the health care industry uses poisons for profit. And let's not forget about the food industry who's in cahoots with deep state agendas, the climate coax, chemtrails on ans on and on. And you want us to worry about Q. GTFOH.....
Q woke a lot of people up and it is not a violation of the Smith-Mundt Act to express an opinion, unless Q was a state-run operation and there is no evidence of that as far as I know. What is propaganda but someone's opinion? Your arguments are coherent, but in the long run Q did more good than harm IMHO. The populist movement is growing more and more popular. Whether Q hindered or supported that doesn't seem to have made a difference at this point. Perhaps we should all consign Q to the past -- it's been almost three years since Q has posted -- and concentrate on a brighter future.
What surprises me is how much of what Q pointed to brought attention to the underlying corruption. For instance, it showed the involvement of John McCain in all sorts of illegal activities that no one was seeing in real time.
So, whatever or whoever Q was in reality, it provided some insight into what needed to change and it called attention to the bad actors. Or, was all of that fake too? Was McCain a true patriot and being discredited for some other nefarious reasons? I guess the jury is still out.
I graduated high school in 1969.... Mr. Burke made it his mission to teach us to recognize brainwashing.... I can still hear his voice, "pay attention .... one day you will be in charge! If you stay stupid you will give this country away!"
I’m not basing comments on any truth or fiction about ‘Q’. Just noting the writing in this article is incredibly weak, broadly over generalizing, and poorly crafted. You can’t just dismiss something because you see no evidence of it (no authorization known, no signature seen, etc). That’s the weak sauce lazy writing we are accustomed to seeing from MSM when they make “widely debunked” claims about anything they’re told to push back on. Why haven’t (or couldn’t) you do better in this article… It’s paper thin. So weird, right?
Oh absolutely 💯. Back in those days I was still working for DIA. I tried to warn friends that Q was a PsyOp But they had already gone down the rabbit hole and were sold.
Some of the best informational writing I have ever read when it comes to MAGA and America First.... Absolutely outstanding work here my friend.. Very grateful to you for this!
PS. I had sent you that link where Major General Paul E. Vallely went on with Derrick Johnson... Hope you got the link.
Whether Q was purposefully misleading to intentionally divide your movement which are the same of Q annons, keep in mind it made millions think about the corruption and deep state crimes that are and have been committed.
All of you out there in the political movement that most Americans aren’t apart of because life gets in the way and we could never have attained the amount of information false or not regarding many issues if it weren’t suggested by Q.
We all became aware not all was truthful but looking back since 2017 a lot sure has held up as truth . People needed a way to stay connected though it wasn’t with your method as in attending rallies and being in a position to souround ourselves with other patriots like you have had the chance to do. So even if Q was in your eyes no a correct use of information it made most learn discernment and yes patience and a lot of frustration also.
Thanks for this excellent synopsis of the Q movement. I never got sucked in but I know it still had the effect of injecting hope into my life instead of action.
You speak as if these rules and regulations, codes and laws actually matter. They don’t. People choose of their own volition who they will or will not follow. When influencing that choice the only thing that matters is Universal Law. The law of free will. If humans are forced to do something against their will, their oppressors have repercussions, not from any law made by man. The illusion of both sides is the same. Thinking they have the ability to control the human mind. Just when either side thinks they have control, it only takes one event to awaken the masses. 2000 years ago it was Jesus. Now it appears to be the murder of Charlie Kirk. Not democrat or republican, not black or white. The power to choose your own path without the fear of death. A human without fear, who is beyond control, is what they fear the most.
Patti, you’re not wrong that humans are driven by free will. But to suggest that rules, laws, or regulations “don’t matter” misses the entire point of how influence and control actually work — especially when you're talking about psychological operations.
Here’s the hard truth: free will is exactly what modern psyops are designed to exploit. The goal isn’t brute-force obedience — it’s engineered consent. It’s about making people believe they’re acting on their own when in reality, they’re walking a carefully constructed narrative loop. You don’t control people by chaining their hands — you do it by shaping the reality they perceive and the options they believe they have.
This isn’t theory. It’s doctrine.
Michael Aquino’s MindWar, drafted inside U.S. Army PSYOP units, explicitly explains this: the ideal operation convinces the target to believe in the operation’s goals as if they were their own. As Aquino puts it, “You seize control of all of the means by which [the population] processes information to make up their minds, and you adjust it so that those minds are made up as you desire.”
JP 3-13 and JCOIE (Joint Concept for Operating in the Information Environment) show the evolution of this idea into modern doctrine. Influence isn’t about forcing people. It’s about targeting their beliefs, creating “cognitive effects,” and shifting perceptions. The law of free will is exactly what they exploit — because belief in “awakening” can be manufactured, too.
You’re right that fear is used to keep people in line. But here’s the twist: those running the psyops know that, and they’re ahead of you. They offer you not fear — but liberation from fear. They make you feel chosen, awakened, heroic. They give you the illusion of breaking free — while you're still playing their game.
Even QAnon, for all its “anti-elite” posturing, follows this script perfectly:
It mimics older LARP formats like FBIAnon and CIAAnon that conditioned chan users into seeing anonymous drops as truth.
It gamifies belief — turning free thinkers into “bakers” decoding breadcrumbs, locked in a feedback loop of self-reinforcing belief.
It leverages ritual memes, phrases like “Nothing can stop what is coming,” to groom loyalty and create emotional attachment to the movement.
So when you say “they can’t control the human mind,” you’re half-right. They don’t control it. They lead it. And they let you think you’re leading yourself.
That’s the most dangerous form of manipulation: when your enemy lets you choose your own chains — and makes you call them freedom.
If Q was a weapon, used as you describe, to keep the patriots from starting a civil war, then I say "well done". If on the other hand, Q was an information operation with the goal of engaging the patriots to do some research, again, I say well done. I do not buy the idea that Q was designed to entrap, cause discord among families, or surveil the patriots. I believe it was used that way by opponents of DJT and as a way discredit the information Q was providing and marginalize the people waking up. The last thing Q would have wanted is to stop people from awakening to what our world had become. The silent majority is now better informed and more engaged in the political process. That education is continuing with DOGE. I credit Q with my personal awakening which is on-going. Was Q a psy-op, yes. Did the psy-op do more good than harm, yes. IMHO.
Amen, my friend.
Many people are stuck on time tables and stated dates for things to take place..
I feel the Q Psy-Op was way more informative And helpful for people to Awaken to just how vast and scripted our corrupt matrix is , the lack of accountability for so many upper level players to not ever be punished for torturing and drinking Adrenochrome from the sovereign souls of the babies is a statement that spells out there is something beyond our comprehension of evil that we must face and destroy or there will be no future worth being a part of.
I think you are full of it. How much they pay you and who paid you?
Who pays you?
Enough with the name calling you bitter old fool. Just creep off where you came from. You don’t play this game very well and you freely admit it.
I guess if people are truly waiting around for a knight on white horse to come in and do this for them then your right. But I would like to add and its an opinion not a fact. None of what occurred in recent years was legal. And more importantly much of what is presumed to be legal in this country certainly isn’t lawful. We’re in a war and were supposed to act like the rules apply. Don’t trust officialdom or politicians any further than you can throw them. That’s the best policy. And hold their feet to the fire. Americans are wide awake. The last election proved that. The only question is if DJT is truly on our side or the carnival barker paid to lead astray. Only time will tell. But effectively exercising your rights is a must and you’ve been gold on emphasizing and educating there.
Bullshit main stream media uses propaganda lies and decipt to spread fear and manipulation to herd the public into mass conformity. Big pharma and the health care industry uses poisons for profit. And let's not forget about the food industry who's in cahoots with deep state agendas, the climate coax, chemtrails on ans on and on. And you want us to worry about Q. GTFOH.....
Q woke a lot of people up and it is not a violation of the Smith-Mundt Act to express an opinion, unless Q was a state-run operation and there is no evidence of that as far as I know. What is propaganda but someone's opinion? Your arguments are coherent, but in the long run Q did more good than harm IMHO. The populist movement is growing more and more popular. Whether Q hindered or supported that doesn't seem to have made a difference at this point. Perhaps we should all consign Q to the past -- it's been almost three years since Q has posted -- and concentrate on a brighter future.
What surprises me is how much of what Q pointed to brought attention to the underlying corruption. For instance, it showed the involvement of John McCain in all sorts of illegal activities that no one was seeing in real time.
So, whatever or whoever Q was in reality, it provided some insight into what needed to change and it called attention to the bad actors. Or, was all of that fake too? Was McCain a true patriot and being discredited for some other nefarious reasons? I guess the jury is still out.
I graduated high school in 1969.... Mr. Burke made it his mission to teach us to recognize brainwashing.... I can still hear his voice, "pay attention .... one day you will be in charge! If you stay stupid you will give this country away!"
Didn’t we start something called the tea party movement before I ever heard of q and that was a grassroots movement not astroturf‼️🇺🇸
I’m not basing comments on any truth or fiction about ‘Q’. Just noting the writing in this article is incredibly weak, broadly over generalizing, and poorly crafted. You can’t just dismiss something because you see no evidence of it (no authorization known, no signature seen, etc). That’s the weak sauce lazy writing we are accustomed to seeing from MSM when they make “widely debunked” claims about anything they’re told to push back on. Why haven’t (or couldn’t) you do better in this article… It’s paper thin. So weird, right?
I think it is very well written.
Smithmundt.act 2012 Obama
After about a year of Q my husband and I realized it was crappy mind control to keep us in check.
We researched for years and came to the conclusion that it was just another psyop with enough truth weaved in to hook people. LOL
Oh absolutely 💯. Back in those days I was still working for DIA. I tried to warn friends that Q was a PsyOp But they had already gone down the rabbit hole and were sold.
Some of the best informational writing I have ever read when it comes to MAGA and America First.... Absolutely outstanding work here my friend.. Very grateful to you for this!
PS. I had sent you that link where Major General Paul E. Vallely went on with Derrick Johnson... Hope you got the link.
Whether Q was purposefully misleading to intentionally divide your movement which are the same of Q annons, keep in mind it made millions think about the corruption and deep state crimes that are and have been committed.
All of you out there in the political movement that most Americans aren’t apart of because life gets in the way and we could never have attained the amount of information false or not regarding many issues if it weren’t suggested by Q.
We all became aware not all was truthful but looking back since 2017 a lot sure has held up as truth . People needed a way to stay connected though it wasn’t with your method as in attending rallies and being in a position to souround ourselves with other patriots like you have had the chance to do. So even if Q was in your eyes no a correct use of information it made most learn discernment and yes patience and a lot of frustration also.
God Bless America!
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Thanks for this excellent synopsis of the Q movement. I never got sucked in but I know it still had the effect of injecting hope into my life instead of action.
You speak as if these rules and regulations, codes and laws actually matter. They don’t. People choose of their own volition who they will or will not follow. When influencing that choice the only thing that matters is Universal Law. The law of free will. If humans are forced to do something against their will, their oppressors have repercussions, not from any law made by man. The illusion of both sides is the same. Thinking they have the ability to control the human mind. Just when either side thinks they have control, it only takes one event to awaken the masses. 2000 years ago it was Jesus. Now it appears to be the murder of Charlie Kirk. Not democrat or republican, not black or white. The power to choose your own path without the fear of death. A human without fear, who is beyond control, is what they fear the most.
Patti, you’re not wrong that humans are driven by free will. But to suggest that rules, laws, or regulations “don’t matter” misses the entire point of how influence and control actually work — especially when you're talking about psychological operations.
Here’s the hard truth: free will is exactly what modern psyops are designed to exploit. The goal isn’t brute-force obedience — it’s engineered consent. It’s about making people believe they’re acting on their own when in reality, they’re walking a carefully constructed narrative loop. You don’t control people by chaining their hands — you do it by shaping the reality they perceive and the options they believe they have.
This isn’t theory. It’s doctrine.
Michael Aquino’s MindWar, drafted inside U.S. Army PSYOP units, explicitly explains this: the ideal operation convinces the target to believe in the operation’s goals as if they were their own. As Aquino puts it, “You seize control of all of the means by which [the population] processes information to make up their minds, and you adjust it so that those minds are made up as you desire.”
JP 3-13 and JCOIE (Joint Concept for Operating in the Information Environment) show the evolution of this idea into modern doctrine. Influence isn’t about forcing people. It’s about targeting their beliefs, creating “cognitive effects,” and shifting perceptions. The law of free will is exactly what they exploit — because belief in “awakening” can be manufactured, too.
You’re right that fear is used to keep people in line. But here’s the twist: those running the psyops know that, and they’re ahead of you. They offer you not fear — but liberation from fear. They make you feel chosen, awakened, heroic. They give you the illusion of breaking free — while you're still playing their game.
Even QAnon, for all its “anti-elite” posturing, follows this script perfectly:
It mimics older LARP formats like FBIAnon and CIAAnon that conditioned chan users into seeing anonymous drops as truth.
It gamifies belief — turning free thinkers into “bakers” decoding breadcrumbs, locked in a feedback loop of self-reinforcing belief.
It leverages ritual memes, phrases like “Nothing can stop what is coming,” to groom loyalty and create emotional attachment to the movement.
So when you say “they can’t control the human mind,” you’re half-right. They don’t control it. They lead it. And they let you think you’re leading yourself.
That’s the most dangerous form of manipulation: when your enemy lets you choose your own chains — and makes you call them freedom.
Serious question: Is Sarah Adams (DOD employee since 2019) and the group of government-adjacent former operatives and spooks coalescing around her (including Shawn Ryan and Kyle Seraphin) the next psyop targeting patriots (particularly veterans)? If so, what can be done? https://open.substack.com/pub/ageofdisinformation/p/the-sarah-adams-hangout?r=maeol&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false