The point shouldn't be to wake people up to "Q", should it? The objective seems to be waking people up to the world around them. IF "Q" is a way to spark curiosity, that's neat!
Regarding security measures: I can imagine that asking attendees to turn their shirts inside is done with the intent of protecting the President (and everyone else) from assholes who would, say, want to do something crazy and scapegoat "Q" folks.
We really did. :)
My sister and I had to make an agreement a while ago not to even think about discussing politics in any capacity whatsoever, because the discussion went from "normal conversation about a thing" to "scorched earth blood feud" in under 3 minutes. HOWEVER: Last week, she texted me about what I thought re: The Kav hearings, etc.
I was like "It certainly was an interesting thing to watch", and she was like "Yeah, it was. And confusing." We left the conversation there.
TL;DR - That was the best signal of "our" success I've seen. :)
Eh. I dunno. That first one is kinda fake-seeming