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Ifwe were all asked to describe a prophet, few of us would sketch out a conduit for God that materially resembled L. Ron Hubbard or Donald Trump. Yet both men sit atop a pyramid scheme of devotees that would make the most successful conman salivate. They are (or were, in Hubbard’s case) self-centered, image-obsessed, money-hungry, conspicuously mendacious sex pests who have enjoyed a lifetime of getting away with it despite all the safeguards society naively believes are sufficient to rein in men of this sort. It is almost enough to make one proud to be American. Here, on these shores, anyone with flexible enough morals can end up nearly deified.
To say that Hubbard consorted with the shady underbelly of his era is a profound understatement. According to biographers and contemporaries, Hubbard joined the goings-on at the Parsonage, a home owned by John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons. Aside from Parsons being instrumental to the foundation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (to the degree that people joked that JPL stood for “Jack Parsons Lab”), Parsons was an ardent occultist and acolyte of the Great Beast himself, Aleister Crowley. Hubbard was an active part of the Parsonage, seen indulging in group sex, magical masturbation, and Thelemic rituals. From the moment he appeared on the Parsonage’s doorstep, a house that was by design filled with libertines and fans of the demonic, he was warmly embraced. He embraced back just as hard. Parsons adored him on sight, writing that he “is a gentleman; he has red hair, green eyes, is honest and intelligent, and we have become great friends. He moved in with me about two months ago, and although Betty and I are still friendly, she has transferred her sexual affection to Ron.”
Crowley himself stated in a letter, “I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these louts,” referring to Parsons and Hubbard. It takes some effort to have the self-appointed Antichrist think you are a bit much.
After defrauding thousands from Parsons on a boat business that never existed and absconding with Betty Northrup, Jack Parsons’s polyamorous partner, one would think that the stink of Hubbard’s previous affiliations would never wash clean. The official party line of Scientology is that Hubbard was secretly infiltrating this occult den so that he could take them down from the inside, and that he rescued poor Betty from a life of continued indignity and married her — though he was still married at the time and stayed with Betty for five years, all the while reportedly physically and emotionally abusing her. (Betty, according to those who knew her while she was at the Parsonage, reveled in debauchery and managed to scandalize even Parsons from time to time.) It is far easier to imagine that an ex-military man would enjoy a house full of group sex rather than serving as a missionary sent to exorcise a house.
Like Trump, Hubbard was a born entertainer, a sci-fi writer ruled good (or persistent) enough to hobnob with the literary stars of his era. Much of Hubbard’s “official” biography is embellished, if not outright fraudulent. He attributes to himself feats of daring-do and spiritual elevation that cannot be verified and are often contradicted by the gentlest fact-checking or a cursory thought. His exaggerations are positively Trumpian, the very stable genius who claims with no evidence that he witnessed Muslims partying on 9/11 and nearly bedded Princess Di. No matter how well chronicled by video evidence and their own statements, any fact is false and to be shunned if it does not accord with what they are claiming today. Their followers are only too happy to defend them against contradictions. The leader is the sole source of truth, even when he said otherwise a year ago or even yesterday. A follower doesn’t question these gaffes or outright lies, only accepts that it is all part of a greater plan. Even asking for clarification is a sign of fatal disloyalty. Those who doubt are exiled, leaving them out in the cold with the infidels and more moderate Republicans.
There are telling coincidences between the men. Both were mediocre students at best, and they were rarely at their best. Both had disqualifying physical ailments to evade military service, which miraculously vanished afterward. Hubbard wrote to himself: “Your eyes are getting progressively better. They became bad when you used them as an excuse to escape the naval academy.” However, whereas Trump was born with unfathomable privilege and no concept for the worth of money, Hubbard came from a working-class background and understood how important money was. He is a conscienceless Jay Gatsby. No matter how differently they got there, they both worshipped only the Almighty Dollar and value other people only in their utility.
None of this is meant to comment on Trump’s actual political leanings, merely that he runs the country in a way that would likely give Hubbard a good chuckle — or would cause the verbose sci-fi author to give notes. Hubbard wrote, tipping his hand, that “any human group is likely to elect only those who kill them.”
Hubbard’s rhetoric would have made him a great politician. This is not a compliment. He was charismatic and able to convince people to destroy themselves to please him. He understood how to keep up a ruse that he didn’t believe, but which lent him more power. That is almost the textbook definition of modern politics for both establishment parties — but he, like Trump, is nakedly obvious about it.
When I refer to Scientology, I don’t have in mind most Scientologists the same way if I were criticizing Catholicism for covered up systematic child sex abuse, I would not be criticizing most Catholics. What their respective churches do might fill them with chagrin (or it may not), but they are perhaps not directly culpable for belonging to a group which cynical men use for their profit.
Snickering at the beliefs of Scientologists is decades out of vogue but, for the sake of completion, the higher echelons of the religion state that Earth is a prison housing aliens who, 75 million years ago, were thrown into a volcano and exploded with hydrogen bombs on the order of Xenu, the dictator of the Galactic Confederation. This turned them into immortal spirits — body thetans — that attach themselves to people, thus causing their problems in life. These thetans can only be exorcised through Scientology’s auditing. And, honestly, what is the problem with believing that if it doesn’t come with violence? It would be simple to cherry-pick most religions for their most ridiculous elements — it would also be beside the point. Not all religions decide to follow this up with stalking, harassment, identity theft, stealing and destroying government records, and assault, however.
The radical revision of what Hubbard was doing at the Parsonage reminds one in no small way of the QAnon movement. QAnon is a troll improv game, a constant “Yes, and…” that was never meant to reach these depths. QAnon starts from an understandable premise: those in power sometimes behave in unethical ways, if not outright criminal. Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, this led to wildly jumping to conclusions based on no evidence but the last thing that was said.
At this point, it is beyond question that Donald Trump has had close interactions with child sex traffickers and considered them friends, at least enough to wish Ghislaine Maxwell well and be seen in photos. It is almost tired now to recount how Trump said that being a star permitted him to sexually assault women. He chuckled that his friend Jefferey Epstein (“terrific guy”) liked his girls “too young.” He boasted on the radio on several occasions that he leveraged sponsorship of teen beauty pageants so that he could burst in on them and see them naked.
Child trafficking is occurring among the rich and powerful, those who also cozied up to Jefferey Epstein, flying in his so-called Lolita Express to his so-called Pedophile Island. Bill Clinton visited. So did Donald Trump, frequently. Epstein’s flight log was a veritable Who’s Who. Not all of them are guilty of sexually abusing underage girls, but all of them knew enough to report on it. And none of them did.
QAnon could not care less about the details. Anything more mundane than a satanic, cannibalistic cabal isn’t worth their time. UNICEF estimated in 2002 that 1.2 million children are trafficked every year. This is serious and tragic and most everything QAnon does is a mockery of their trauma, LARPing about child sex abuse.
Despite all this, QAnon sees Donald Trump as a paragon of virtue. They believe that all his missteps have been in the service of taking down an international child sex trafficking ring.
The QAnon theories are ridiculous beyond parody and morph daily. At present, the Democrats, under the direction of Hillary Clinton, have bred a race of underground child sex slaves whose fear-saturated adrenal glands they harvest for adrenochrome, a light pink, easily available substance formed by the oxidation of adrenaline that does not have a solitary recreational side effect outside of fiction, primarily Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. (In other countries, it is used to treat blood clotting.) This rape factory was at one point run out of the basement of a pizza restaurant that does not have a basement, which has not stopped the #Pizzagate hashtag from showing as a trending topic on Twitter from time to time. QAnon eats lesser conspiracies for breakfast, incorporating them and growing larger still.
Scientology, to the United States government for 25 years, was as much a religion as Trump University was an institution of higher learning. Hubbard knew that the government was spying on him — which they were, unlike Trump’s frequent and unfounded paranoia of a Deep State within the federal government. In 1973, he ordered some trusted Scientologists to infiltrate the Department of Justice and the IRS under a plan he called Operation Snow White meant to uncover “false and secret files.” Once there, they copied any record about Hubbard and Scientology. At one point, they hid a bug in a conference room a day before there was to be a meeting about Scientology. Hubbard personally didn’t suffer consequences, though he let those he ordered, including his third wife, Mary Sue, hang in the wind. To the true believers, there is not a law that isn’t worth breaking or a sacrifice worth making if it is to the benefit of their leader.
One cannot but point out that both Hubbard and Trump cut ridiculous figures, so how could they possibly be the leaders of cults? In a sense, it is because they are foolish to outsiders that they are able to attain such power. If we were presented Brad Pitt and Idris Elba, we would shrug and accept that they were acceptable godheads. They have raw charisma and are physically attractive. Of course people want to follow them and believe they knew the path to salvation. Bombastic, frumpy men shouldn’t hold effortless sway over millions, yet here we are.
Hubbard, the wilier of the two, grasped enough the need to seduce celebrities into Scientology to make up for any personal deficit. He understood the necessity of drawing in the right sort of people — attractive, successful, famous — to be the face of his church. Scientology has maintained a far better celebrity retinue than QAnon. Which has the edge here: the Mission Impossible series or Scott Baio in the sequel to a 2003 Gary Busey film about being reincarnated as a Pomeranian? Point: Hubbard.
Both these men are honest to the degree that most people know on sight who they are. Yes, they are liars, but isn’t it your fault for thinking otherwise? They are Nigerian Princes. Anyone with an ounce of skepticism — and certainly with an internet connection — understands that the grammar of this spam would not belong in official correspondence (and that Nigeria is a federal republic with a president, not a king). That is the point. Their misspelled, nonsensical letters are a filter that lets through only the gullible. QAnon throws “Subterranean, satanic child sex ring” at you, knowing that most people will roll their eyes and walk away, leaving only those who are ready to believe this and more. By the time Scientology springs the bad sci-fi at you, you have given them too much of your money to turn back.
Neither Hubbard nor Trump are Bernie Madoff, a man who managed to steal tens of billions because he seemed so trustworthy and capable. Hubbard and Trump lack guile, replacing it with raw chutzpah. They will tell the room they are being scammed, insult those who leave, and give an ingratiating wolf’s smirk to those who herd closer. They don’t need to know much but are masters at energizing the fervent and desperate. It is a power that could be, in theory, used for good, but it is often used for illicit gain.
There are t-shirts reading “Jesus Died for Us, Trump Lives for Us.” A woman asked sincerely if we might not add The Book of Trump to the Bible. Scientology has had to fight to be recognized as a church in other countries, unsuccessfully on occasion. While QAnon does not espouse being a church — though it might become one in due course — evangelicals have all but canonized a man raised on Norman Vincent Peale’s Prosperity Gospel, a belief that God rewards the best of his flock with money (a statement that would cause Jesus Christ to start flipping tables). Some believers hold that Trump’s inarguable success despite himself proves that he must be a godly man since a faithless man could not have been so rewarded with earthly pleasures. Even the more sophisticated version of this is nuts: the idea that, okay, fine, Trump isn’t any kind of believer, but there must be something about him, something that makes him worthy of being God’s vessel at a time such as this. Trump recently had a brush with COVID-19 — if, for whatever reason, Trump were to die, you could expect that QAnon would understand his death to be at the hands of the Deep State. And there is no question he would be seen as a martyr.
Scientology doesn’t have this problem. Hubbard isn’t truly dead, merely on another plane. He will one day return, and the organization is in the good hands of David Miscavige until he does. When Miscavige shuffles off this mortal coil or ascends to the higher realms, the baton will be passed to another. The Church of Scientology gets to retain their prophet without worrying that he will one day lose an election to an evil alien or, god forbid, a Democrat.
Just as Scientology has many shells, companies, and nonprofits they have bought to subtly introduce Scientology into one’s system, QAnon lives by the YouTube videos of people “just asking questions.” The algorithm will wear the unwary down with suggested video by suggested video until they are indoctrinated and radicalized, almost unsure how it happened. Likely it is something to do with fluoridated water calcifying the pineal gland.
Trump did not create QAnon. (Some in QAnon believe he did create it and posts as Q+, but the cryptic syntax of that identity seems beyond him.) Trump has publicly approved of the group, saying, “I heard that [QAnon] are people that love our country.” It does not decrease his fondness that the FBI calls QAnon a domestic terrorist threat. If they were not so worshipful of him, he would decry them in 70 tweets over an hour. These were far from the first words he offered in favor of the group, saying before that he hadn’t heard much about QAnon beyond that “I understand they like me very much” and “It is gaining in popularity.” Trump, like Hubbard before him, lives by his inflated ego. Both men understood that unflappably being regarded as a god made flesh will beat justified, earned respect any day. In any case, how bad could this group really be if they have the good sense to like him? The logic of narcissism is unassailable — at least to oneself.
Trump is worshiped by a vocal minority, which baffles most and embarrasses those who understand that they voted for a president and not a messiah. Trump is the golden calf of evangelicals, who shrug off his involvement with proudly breaking most commandments. (He has not disrespected his parents, though he has disrespected the parents of fallen soldiers. Nor has he directly murdered anyone, though he wanted the Central Park Five executed even after it was clear that they were not guilty, an act for which he has of course never apologized. Some may quibble that the rising death count for COVID-19, for which Trump takes no responsibility at all, is a form of murder, but that isn’t as clearly attributable to that specific broken commandment. The Old Testament God was more in the business of dispensing plagues on errant peoples, not arbitrating them.)
Hubbard, always mistrustful of those who might say he had a personality disorder or two, made psychiatry to be the greatest of all sins to his followers. Not merely “We don’t believe in the use of mental health treatments,” but “Psychiatry caused 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.”
Scientology’s war against psychiatry has an added edge. Vulnerable people show up to one of their centers looking for help. Instead of talk therapy, they hold e-meters and confess their every secret to an auditor, who writes these down to later use as leverage against the person. During these sessions, there are no attempts at advice or forgiveness — that is not the point of the meter. Since they are getting all their mental health from Scientology and since they are more likely to need it because they are not getting other treatment, they are dependent on the organization.
It was not merely mental unease the auditing could relieve. It could also boost one’s intelligence, make them more physically attractive, and cure blindness. It is unclear if they believe Scientology will cure a pandemic, though why wouldn’t it? At a high enough Operating Thetan level, death itself is optional.
Trump is no stranger to snake oil. While the COVID-19 epidemic has worsened, he has advocated treatments and cures from the useless to the outright lethal. It is difficult to say how many people believed him and tried these, but we can attribute at least one death directly to his opportunistic misinformation about hydroxychloroquine.
It does not matter to those taking medicine at his behest that Trump has nothing like a medical degree and boasts anti-scientific views (such as that vaccines cause autism or that light bulbs cause cancer). The point is not that he could be right, but that swallowing an unproven or illogical treatment is a sacrament of belief in Donald Trump, a man who could not be trusted to run a casino but sits in the Oval Office.
When COVID-19 hit the scene, QAnon first said that its existence was a hoax. When it became clear that we were indeed in the grip of a pandemic, they pivoted to saying that it had been created by the Deep State/Fauci/Obama as a tool to take down Trump before he could rescue the children and incarcerate Hillary Clinton. It is, apparently, worth the entire world losing almost a million people if it helps Biden into the White House.
One doesn’t rise to the heights of American politics without a dirtied soul and certainly doesn’t stay there without signing off on a crime against humanity or two.
Trump isn’t doing much that another president hasn’t. He is simply doing these things concurrently, with a seemingly increasing frequency, and removing our plausible deniability by tweeting about it. He lays bare the compounding flaws in the system about which former presidents had the sense to be circumspect. Worse is that he successfully flouts the basic decency of the office. It only makes his followers love him better. He is a jingoistic, paranoid, greedy, self-aggrandizing, lazy, dishonest, classist, nepotistic, racist, and sexist adulterer keen to cage minorities, demonize opponents, and murder people abroad. Find me a president who is not guilty of at least one of these sins. The only crimes that seem uniquely Trump’s are obliterating the Emoluments Clause and cozying so openly to fascist dictators who scorn America. Everything else has been tried before, though usually with consequences beyond a sternly worded press release. He is a man who has seen few consequences in life and will push until a rule stops him (at which point, he will sue). Much of what people point to as his unsuitability for public office was made plain long before he rode down the escalator. We are constantly shocked at the particulars, but the generalities were his birthright. Trump has always been forthright about what he was. Why wouldn’t we believe it?
Trump behaves as though he has no idea that this is not only unbecoming of a president but illegal. He certainly doesn’t care, having been given no reason to. Often, both Trump and Hubbard seemed to slip through the clutches of the law not because they were innocent but merely because they had the resources to sue and hold things up in court until their opponents were exhausted. Trump gets litigious if a publication implies that he is not as rich as he says he is — not even poor, but simply not a billionaire. As Hubbard put it, “Attack is necessary to an effective defense.” This well could be the Trump family motto. It barely deserves mention here how many of the people Trump brought into the White House have been arrested, indicted, and incarcerated, all to help Trump. Hubbard savaged any reporter who suggested that Scientology’s problematic history is cause for concern — or even attacked reporters for suggesting that they attacked reporters.
Trump said that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single voter. Hasn’t that been all but proven by now? Trump and Hubbard both would blithely lie to your face, but it is their moments of boastful truth that are the most galling. You see he is a monster, don’t understand why those around you don’t, and he doesn’t care. You were never willingly going to do what he wanted, but he bets that he has followers enough to force you. Even Trump’s impeachment was nothing more than a talking point to prove that the lying media and lazy Dems than something he can point to as unfair and why he should get a third term.
Men like them are adept at interpersonal jujitsu. The more you hate and mock them, the more they can use it against you, the stronger they become. Nothing infuriates them more than being ignored, lampooned, and discounted.
The Church of Scientology’s overt threat has seemingly tapered off, though it would be unwise to let them off the hook. QAnon, the newcomers on the block, is just getting started. Just as Germany had to ban the Church of Scientology from their country, QAnon may find itself on the wrong side of legal action outside the country — and it has demonstrably infected those abroad, though not near the same level as Americans.
Though the doctrine of Scientology is fixed at this point, Q has the ability to be freewheeling and stream-of-consciousness. Anything that enters the popular zeitgeist can (and likely will) be incorporated into the grand conspiracy, including UFOs, the Kennedy Assassination, MKUltra, or the lack of McDonald’s Szechuan sauce. While one can become a heretical Scientologist by going outside the text approved by Hubbard — Freezoners, Scientologists who practice the religion without the Church, suffer exactly this fate — anyone loud and credulous enough can be a member in good standing of QAnon. Yes, they might argue over exactly how children are being kidnapped by the elites and what parts of their bodies the Clintons find most succulent, but there is a core assumption from which they are building, even as it is lunatic from the outside.
Like any cult, the best way to get your members energized is to hallucinate an enemy beyond redemption. Who is going to defend an intergalactic dictator who is the source of all the world’s ills, working his infernal deeds through psychiatrists? How can anyone vote for the Democrats when they slice off the faces of their four-year-old rape victims while drinking pineal gland cocktails during tête-à-têtes with Satan himself? If they had opponents and not nemeses, there would be the possibility of nuance. (Even saying that nuance exists could be a dangerous activity as adherents are not known for levelheaded reactions to dissent and questioning.) Instead, there is only black and white (for QAnon, a supremacy of white). It is blasphemy to hold anything less than the most extreme position because “Maybe the Democrats aren’t literally diabolical cannibals” is tantamount to endorsing the murder of toddlers. Therefore, a vote that isn’t for Donald Trump is a vote for opening the gates of hell. Anyone who opposes a former reality show star with numerous bankruptcies and lawsuits against him for crimes from housing discrimination to defrauding a children’s charity is part of the Deep State.
As Anthony Storr put it in Feet of Clay, “Gurus tend to be intolerant of any kind of criticism, believing that anything less than total agreement is equivalent to hostility.” Both groups consider fake any information that is contrary to their edicts from on high. Trump has supplanted his previous catchphrase “You’re fired” with “Fake news,” by which he means anything that does not accord with reality as he is choosing to see it at this moment. If anything that might sow doubt comes before the eyes of a QAnon supporter or inveterate Scientologist, they are to consider it a lie put there by evil forces, which starkly contradicts the common QAnon declaration that one should do one’s own research. When the research is only permitted to be from a narrowing echo chamber, it is no research at all. (If you ask them which Q prophecies have come to pass, they will smirk and tell you to do your research because they haven’t done theirs — had they done real research, they wouldn’t salivate for Q-drops.)
It is better for the believers that they don’t. Evidence is antithetical to faith. You can’t build a strong cult if things keep going your way. That would make you mainstream, and your power is being outsiders. That QAnon believers such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jo Rae Perking are being nominated to public office, that the central figure of QAnon holds the highest office in the land, does not matter because most people still doubt and mock them.
If The Storm, when the elites are rounded up for punishment and the truth is revealed in the Great Awakening, ever happened — and it absolutely won’t — it would be a shot to the heart of the QAnon. Grasping at straws and seeing method in the madness gives them a sense of purpose, which their bizarre scrutiny of the Podesta emails demonstrates handily. (Even Edgar Maddison Welch, who brought guns to Comet Ping Pong to rescue children from a basement that did not exist, said of his failure not that he was lied to but that “The intel on this wasn’t 100 percent.”)
Even if they did get a hit (if you scattershot vaguely long enough, a hit might happen), that is all the believers would see. They would be blind to the many conspicuous misses by the nature of being a part of the group; if they were open to seeing the errors and considering them more objectively, they would not affiliate themselves with QAnon.
Republicans are permitted to doubt — and frankly are overdue. QAnon cannot doubt. They are not Republicans. They are Trumpists. While I may not politically agree with Republicans, I understand the broader points of their arguments and respect the push-and-pull of governing. Aside from an undue reverence for Ronald Reagan, they were as independent of the person in the White House as their political opponents. Trumpists and QAnon, which have increasingly blurred together, do not have the liberty to see Donald Trump as anything less than their glorious leader, despite his obvious manifold failures.
When Trump (one hopes willingly and with grace) leaves office and faces the consequences of his lawsuits without having taken down demon-worshipping, child-raping Democrats, what is QAnon to do? Does QAnon need Trump now any more than Scientology needs Hubbard? An inspiration and icon, but also incidental to their snowballing goals and legitimacy. For these groups, isn’t it better that their figurehead is unable to make further gaffes, to be human, to disappoint them again with evidence of his flawed mortality?
Of course not. Every bizarre utterance out of either man’s mouth needed to be justified to those on the outside who were attacking the followers by being awful enough to repeat exactly what the leader said verbatim. Every time Trump tweets covfefe and the late-night hosts mock him for a week, QAnon must entrench themselves further by explaining exactly what it secretly means. Anyone tweaking Trump in the media only makes QAnon surer that he is the messiah. Stephen Colbert can only preach to the choir because his jokes are blasphemy that increases the confidence of QAnon. Calling them nothing but toothless, brainwashed, mouth-breathing deplorables doesn’t help them see your point.
Likewise, anyone speaking ill of the Church of Scientology or Hubbard only makes the members defensive. You don’t defend things you don’t love. Shouting facts will never sway a true believer. It forces the believer to feel like an aggrieved party, cloistering further with those who believe even harder, those who are certain paradisiac confirmation is only a little farther on for the faithful — and won’t you all be sorry when it is here and you doubted?
Men like Trump and Hubbard are sharks. If they are not moving toward another source of money, they might stop breathing. In Scientology’s “Governing Policy” document, Hubbard wrote, “Make money. Make money. Make more money. Make other people produce so as to make money.” Trump would agree wholeheartedly. It is not a matter of improving the lives of those who entrust these men with their faith. Indeed, little could matter less. It is about exploiting them for a larger bank balance.
Most establishment Republicans do not, by and large, consider Donald Trump to be the only thing keeping the world from chaos. They still understand that this is a representative democracy with a Constitution that enumerates clear term limits, though Trump “jokes” too often about eliminating these. There will, god willing, be other presidents. Their party should not hitch itself entirely to a solitary man. This belief is far less universal than it ought to be. Some politicians cannot resist an ideologue.
The people who gave Trump money for his scam university only wanted a better life for themselves. The same is true for low-level Scientologists told to sign billion-year contracts of servitude and sign over worldly assets. It is hard not to feel some sympathy for them, along with others he has blithely defrauded. Maybe not a lot of sympathy, but some for those who have been duped. As invested as they are, they cannot express hesitation now. So much of their time, money, and ego is tied up with the continued success of this organization. They have cut ties with family and friends who cautioned them that they were joining a cult.
Sympathy does not come with a promise of absolution. Both QAnon members and Scientologists have committed felonies with a righteous smile on their lips, feeling emboldened that their affiliation with their leader immunizes them to the consequences of the action.
It would be naive to think that the recent revelation of the likely identities of Q will do much to abate its threat. (Shockingly, it is probably the people who own the imageboard, funnel the fundraisers, and act as Q’s interpreters. It was not, in any way, a secretive government official with Q-level clearance. Go figure). It has been a long time since QAnon needed Q, just as their need for Trump in the flesh can be transferred to whatever their form of Miscavige might be.
On January 24, 1986, L. Ron Hubbard died at 74 of natural causes (or was bodily assumed to a higher level, though it’s more succinct to say that he died). Scientology went on, less publicly threatening and more powerful for it.
On June 14, 2020, Donald Trump turned 74. No doubt, behind the scenes, Trumpists and QAnon (or the owners of 8kun) are planning their next move should the inevitable one day occur.
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