QAnon Celeb Tries to Leave Q Behind to Run for Congress in Arizona (Ron Watkins)

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I interviewed alleged QAnon mastermind and now GOP House hopeful Ron Watkins about his congressional bid, and it got interesting.

His campaign manager's reaction: "Ron, Ron, oh God, oh God!”

QAnon Celeb Tries to Leave Q Behind to Run for Congress in Arizona
Former 8kun administrator Ron Watkins is set to test the limits of QAnon celebrity.
thedailybeast.com
6:22 AM · Oct 19, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-celeb-tries-to-leave-q-behind-to-run-for-congress-in-arizona


Ron Watkins is best known as the accused operator of “Q,” the anonymous forum account that sparked the QAnon conspiracy theory. After announcing his bid for a battleground congressional seat in Arizona last week, though, he’s tried to distance himself from QAnon.

He’s off to a bumpy start.

In an interview Monday with The Daily Beast, Watkins and science fiction author Tony Teora, his “volunteer campaign coordinator,” struggled to explain why, if Watkins is not involved in QAnon, he’s among the keynote speakers at a QAnon conference called the “Patriot Double Down” in Las Vegas this coming weekend.

“When you say that’s a QAnon convention, I never saw anything posted that it’s a QAnon convention,” Teora said, until a reporter for The Daily Beast pointed out that the conference’s organizers use the aliases “QAnon John” and “Q Queen Amy.”

Further cementing the conference’s QAnon ties, a poster for the event features both “Q” and “17,” an important number for QAnon believers since “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet.

“The number 17 is just an auspicious number,” Watkins said.

“Ron, Ron, oh God, oh God!” Teora said.

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[underpants]

1. If you haven't seen the multipart documentary on them I'd highly recommend it

He and his father are some strange people. I felt sad that Fred got mixed up with them.

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2. What's it called?

Is it streaming?

[underpants]

3. Q: Into the Storm on HBO Max

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14215442/

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4. Thanks

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[intrepidity]

5. Even better, for Audible subscribers, is this:

I enjoyed Cullen Hoback's HBO doc, but this podcast series was more deeply satisfying, for me.

Finding Q: My Journey into QAnon
By: Nicky Woolf

https://www.audible.com/pd/Finding-Q-My-Journey-into-QAnon-Podcast/B09BVZRLCN

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6. Thanks.