re: We now know who Q is!

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That would have been out there years ago, as every journalist that knew about Q would have loved to be the one that doxed him.

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Yep, Q's identity has had a hefty bounty on that info and NO ONE has been able to suss it out. Trying to circle back after 3.5 years and say it's the father/son who own 8ch/kun is lazy, at best. #MuhPigFarmerPornographer, amirite?

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I think Q, at this point, is most likely CodeMonkey and his father. This would makes sense on why he's able to hide his identity .... he owns the board.

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of course that is possible, and most likely to some degree. We have seen that there are different styles or writing with Q, different eras of Q drops and the HBO Doc has/will touch on some chicanery and shenanigans in the background with Q

but Q got "linked" in the MSM to violence with the Christchurch shooting and then El Paso shooting and that got 8chan shut down, Why would the Watkins seek out more scrutiny and not only "allow" Q to post on 8kun, they create a cyber trail and post as Q themselves?

Also if the Watkins are Q, then that should be relatively easy for NSA or DHS to sniff out and expose them. Why would the Watkins open themselves up to Federal charges, indictments and potential extradition for a LARP?

To add to all of that, I think Trump would have been more proactive about commenting on it or trying to stop it if it was truly a LARP.

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a group promoting him as a world-historical hero fighting Satanic villains

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Provide a link to this.

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o add to all of that, I think Trump would have been more proactive about commenting on it or trying to stop it if it was truly a LARP.

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which is where I am too, because he never really dealt with it, just sort of evaded the questions as the MSM turned up the heat more and more on the Q fuels rabid conspiracy theories leading to violence and insurrection storylines

Jim Watkins going to DC and testifying in front of Congress is fascinating to me

Here is a WAPO article on it
WAPO 9/12/19

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Jim Watkins also would become the face of one of the Internet’s most notorious sites, 8chan, defending the anonymous message board as a beacon of free speech even as it became a platform for announcing and celebrating mass murder.

Subpoenaed by the House Homeland Security Committee, Watkins, now 55, came to Washington last week for closed-door questioning by congressional staff on the site that before its recent collapse had styled itself “the darkest reaches of the Internet.”

But 8chan was only the most infamous of Watkins’s strange and tangled business web, which expanded for years from a shabby Manila office to millions of computers around the world — fueled by the strange chemistry of the Internet, where virtually anyone can turn a few servers into an online kingdom with its own culture, followers and code.

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No transcript was released of Watkins’s back-and-forth with committee staff, but the committee’s leaders, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Rep. Mike D. Rogers (R-Ala.), released a statement thanking Watkins for providing “vast and helpful information” about his companies and said they looked forward to “his continued cooperation.”

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Watkins last week was photographed on Capitol Hill with a scruffy mustache, mutton-chop sideburns and a flag pin on his tie of Mississippi, the home state of Thompson, the committee’s top Democrat, who had subpoenaed him. He wore another pin on his collar of the letter Q, probably a reference to the 8chan-rooted fringe conspiracy theory QAnon, which claims that President Trump is secretly working to disrupt a sprawling cabal of world-dominating pedophiles.

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Watkins told The Post that he was questioned for four hours by congressional staff, that they had treated him “very fine,” and that he expected to be called back again. He said the site would assist with law-enforcement requests but would not ban what he called “constitutionally protected hate speech.”

The fate of 8chan, he said, is “the biggest test for freedom of speech since maybe 1969.”

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But Brennan, who split with Watkins last year following a long period of dysfunction and anger over the site’s direction, now pans the site as a long-lost cause, saying Watkins is severely unqualified to oversee the noxious platform he helped create. “8chan should never come back online,” Brennan said. Of Watkins’s latest comments, Brennan said it’s “more shady behavior from a man who thrives in the shade.”

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Watkins has said repeatedly he makes no money from running 8chan, and Brennan has claimed that the site’s content has made it repellent to advertisers, limiting its mainstream reach. Watkins told One America News last week that 8chan had earned about $12,000 a year in gross revenue and that the recent decision by some companies to stop working with 8chan was “commercial terrorism.”

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this article screams to me that Jim Watkins is protected, Watkins knows he is protected and Congress wanted to know why he is protected and by whom. There is no other reason I can think of why he would voluntarily leave Manila, fly to DC, expose himself to arrest to testify behind closed doors and no transcript would be available for a private citizen testifying in front of Congress on a public safety matter.

All this for a LARP? then he opens 8kun and opens himself to even further scrutiny? why would he and his son do that?

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Scavino was attuned to the Q community and messaged to them in an ongoing way. Trump himself loves anyone who loves him and wasn't about to denounce a group promoting him as a world-historical hero fighting Satanic villains.

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one thing though Doc, the Q movement was being tied to violence, extremism and criminal behavior in the MSM during the run-up to the election. Why allow your Presidency and re-election campaign to be associated with these wild conspiracy theories and internet looney tunes?

seems strange to me

Hillary Clinton’s Secret Service Codename.

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there is no new Q info so there is no reason for a "Q Thread"

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The drops that were to happen are happening, and it's good to be able to continue to discuss them.

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Now that we know that the shipping market was pushing traders into bigger vessels, the question now is... did the DS take advantage of this market structure to fake an accident or was it an honest mistake and they got too greedy in terms of capacity?
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Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. Chief Executive John Wobensmith told Bloomberg that "it just shows you how tight the overall dry-bulk market is, and it's only going to get tighter." He said soaring shipping rates are "not something that is for the next three months - this has got legs going well into 2022 because of the low supply situation."

Wobensmith said dry-bulk freight rates had averaged around $18k per day this year, up 40% from last year. Rates are expected to continue to climb into the second half of the year as volumes of commodities sourced from emerging markets will remain elevated.

More disorder nears as President Joe Biden's $1.9-trillion relief bill is making its way into the economy, expected to turbocharger consumer demand for products made overseas, which will only result in additional stress on the global supply chain.

Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Lee Klaskow noted last week that dry bulk had begun 2021 on a "high note. China and an expected global economic recovery have set up one the strongest opening quarters for dry-bulk demand in a decade."

The lesson to be learned is that global supply woes are being amplified by government and central bank interventions to save the global economy. As a result of letting economies run hot, inflationary expectations worldwide are moving higher as government bond yields soar.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/largest-dry-cargo-ships-haul-unusual-loads-dry-bulk-market-tightens

interesting tugboat names trying to help evergreen