4. Q Drops

The Coming Storm by BBC

Jan 4, 202235:33Society & Culture

QAnon and the plot to break reality... In Oct 2017 Donald Trump says something weird in a room full of military figures: “Maybe this is the calm before the storm.” A few weeks later a poster on 4chan who calls himself Q...

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