REVISED VERSION
On Saturday (5/11) I was checking the board while watching the livestream of Pompeo from the Claremont Insitute, and saw the first "Trust Kansas" post above. The picture was obviously FROM the ongoing livestream, but made no mention of that. Only someone currently watching would know that, so I took the post as from Q, and as an injunction to promote the livestream, as it might have something big.
(As it happens, some "Anon" responded to an earlier version of THIS post, claiming to have posted the "Trust Kansas" pic and claiming NOT to be Q. "Anon" points to the filename as evidence: it is a jpeg and the implication is that Q knows you are not supposed to post jpegs as they cause some error. But clearly this poster ALSO knows you should not post jpegs, and yet did it anyway, and is CITING that fact, and this absurdity turns out to be additional evidence that the poster really is Q.)
I was watching the livestream since I saw an "Anon" point out that Pompeo would be at Claremont with Michael Anton, author of "The Flight 93 Election". I had suspected the Storm might hit that night, and when I saw this I wondered if Pompeo would make some reference to Anton as a setup, so I watched carefully.
Pompeo said "reawakening" but at the end I was somewhat puzzled, since there was no mention of Anton or Flight 93. But then I thought about one line that puzzled me, and yet had seemed a letdown. Pompeo began by thanking some who were affiliated with Claremont, including his two speechwriters, who he said were responsible for his Leo Strauss joke. And yet there turned out to BE no Leo Strauss joke…
Let's Step back… Leo Strauss was a political philosopher known for studying how historical political writers used coded language to communicate in ways that allow them to avoid persecution and censorship while still effectively getting their message out. (Hmmm… sounds like…)
I was specifically looking for some reference to Anton as I watched, and when Pompeo mentioned Strauss, I had immediately caught that as the setup. But I was waiting for a joke that never came. But then I realized: that is the joke! They planned that I would watch the speech looking for the Anton reference, and knew that I would catch the Strauss setup, but would be puzzled by the lack of a joke… but would finally catch that the lack of a joke WAS the joke, and that they had ALREADY made me catch the Anton reference INDIRECTLY, just by mentioning Strauss.
I didn't know where they were going with this, but figured I was supposed to post my analysis of the joke when I got it, so I did, and some "Anon" responded with a comic panel suggesting that Strauss was a bad dude who influenced the neocons, who viewed ordinary Americans as cannon fodder and sought to use Strauss to establish totalitarianism:
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I responded that this seemed to have to do with the difference between "East Coast" and "West Coast" Straussianism, whereupon "Anon" replied: "Am vaguely remembering a vivid and loaded direct quote."
Pompeo's speech had no such quote on Strauss, but one of my own earlier posts did, and I surmised "Anon" was referring to that. It was part of a multi-part post arguing that Anton is "Q" and that they will use the "Let's Roll!" meme:
"Finally, and most decisively, Anton is a West-Coast Straussian. Straussianism itself is a political philosophy that gives particular emphasis to the idea that political thinkers, in certain times where persecution is likely, must present their ideas esoterically, via hidden meanings. West-Coast Straussianism was a particularly pro-American version of Straussianism touted by Anton's teacher Harry Jaffa (who wrote Goldwater's "extremism in the defense of liberty" speech). The most crucial historical figure when it comes to esoteric political writing is Plato, and anyone who has engaged in deep reading of Plato will recognize moves that Q makes."
The upshot is that this whole interchange was likely an effort to get me to promote that passage. But it was more than that, since it also exemplifies the POWER of the indirect communication methods that Q has developed over time (something which is related to the very content of the passage). Not so long ago I would have found it INSANE to believe that some random line in a speech by the Secretary of State was part of a setup for me to promote something I had posted on the internet months ago. Now I think that is pretty much the actual situation. Engaging with the Q op is really much more akin to engaging with Plato than to engaging with a snake oil merchant, and it is all well and good if someone has been deceived and doesn't know that, but anyone who actually argues for the contrary is literally an uneducated fool, and it is going to be important the people come to grips with this fact quickly when this all goes public.
The quote is from Part 1 of the synopsis linked below.