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Calm before the Storm
Are we living under a two-tiered system of justice?
Why do the wealthy and powerful escape prosecution for their crimes?
Using wit, wisdom, and gravity, an unknown intelligence insider known as “Q” has been communicating with anonymous citizens on message boards since 2017.
Q says corruption is worse than we know. It has invaded the corporate world, the media, academia, Hollywood, the church and other parts of society. It is the cause of war, poverty and countless problems that rob us of our potential.
Q’s mission is to bring about the “Great Awakening”— a coming era when we'll unplug from the media programming that has indoctrinated us and awaken to the truth.
The truth is: corruption is deeply entrenched in our society. But the two-tiered system of justice that has enabled it is being dismantled and replaced. A storm is coming that will sweep criminal power brokers into the dustbin of history.
Get your popcorn ready. The show is about to begin, and you have a front-row seat.
Why do the wealthy and powerful escape prosecution for their crimes?
Using wit, wisdom, and gravity, an unknown intelligence insider known as “Q” has been communicating with anonymous citizens on message boards since 2017.
Q says corruption is worse than we know. It has invaded the corporate world, the media, academia, Hollywood, the church and other parts of society. It is the cause of war, poverty and countless problems that rob us of our potential.
Q’s mission is to bring about the “Great Awakening”— a coming era when we'll unplug from the media programming that has indoctrinated us and awaken to the truth.
The truth is: corruption is deeply entrenched in our society. But the two-tiered system of justice that has enabled it is being dismantled and replaced. A storm is coming that will sweep criminal power brokers into the dustbin of history.
Get your popcorn ready. The show is about to begin, and you have a front-row seat.
356 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 27, 2020
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About the author
Dave Hayes
2 books19 followersDave Hayes, formerly a paramedic of 35 years, taught advanced cardiac and basic trauma life support, high-angle rescue, and community preparedness. Hayes has been writing since 2009 and authoring fiction and non-fiction books since 2013. Dave is known as a public speaker, author, podcaster, and teacher, and has written more than twenty books on faith and the spiritual life under the pen name Praying Medic. He lives with his wife, an artist and graphic designer, in sunny Arizona.
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February 6, 2020
A must read for anyone who follows Q
I started following praying medic on YouTube and on Twitter. His YouTube videos are so enlightening on decoding queue. Without praying medic I would never follow Q. this book is engrossing, well written. A tour de force
I started following praying medic on YouTube and on Twitter. His YouTube videos are so enlightening on decoding queue. Without praying medic I would never follow Q. this book is engrossing, well written. A tour de force
March 3, 2020
Had to read this two times to try and get the full extent of what is being revealed. Very well written, a great primer on Q. Cannot wait for the next installment.
February 11, 2020
Excellent
An easy read for those not familiar with Q. For those that have followed since Qs entrance and not understood all of Qs messages this book helps in understanding information v disinformation. Looking forward to the next book in Q Chronicles.
An easy read for those not familiar with Q. For those that have followed since Qs entrance and not understood all of Qs messages this book helps in understanding information v disinformation. Looking forward to the next book in Q Chronicles.
March 26, 2020
Must read! Following Dave (praying medic) on YouTube and have learned much about the Q movement. This book helps to follow the timeline. More importantly, it lays out what has been going on in the world before, during and after the election of President Trump. A real eye-opener.
February 9, 2020
Very informative!
Following Q can be confusing and interesting at the same time. I frankly needed all of this information to understand how to read the drops more accurately.
Following Q can be confusing and interesting at the same time. I frankly needed all of this information to understand how to read the drops more accurately.
July 12, 2020
Very informative. Dave (Praying Medic) was recommended to me when I first started following Q’s posts and The Great Awakening. We first started following his Q interpretations on YouTube. Then started following him wherever possible. Dave gives great, reliable insights to assist our own research. This book was very helpful as I began learning how to connect the dots and better understand Q and the Q Movement.
August 16, 2020
This book was way better than i was expecting! It exceeded my expectation! As someone who follows Q (though not religiously), I don't try to decode it myself, I'm not a member of 8Kun or 8chan where Q used to post. I follow Dave and a few other decoders on youtube to stay abreast with Q. Dave, IMO, is probably the most thorough and logical decoder. HE KNOWS HIS SHIT! In his first Q book he goes through many of the Q drops from the first few months (Oct-Dec 2017) plus a few more from 2018 and 19. Back in 2017 I was not following Q yet, so a lot of those original drops I haven't seen or I didn't remember. So it was nice to get a very detailed breakdown of the decodes.
I highly recommend this eye opening book to anyone who is new to Q especially and wants to know what it is all about then make up your own mind if you think that Q really IS a military intelligence operation headed by President Trump to save our country and save the world from the New World Order Cabal. With everything that is going on the last several months, all the deep dives into the plans of the NWO that I have known for over 15 years seem to be coming true. I really HOPE that Q is real and not a psy op, because if it isn't real, WE ARE ALL F'ED!!!!!! FOR REAL! IT IS THAT SERIOUS!
This book is also great for Q followers as well to get a more detailed analysis or a refresher.
I highly recommend this eye opening book to anyone who is new to Q especially and wants to know what it is all about then make up your own mind if you think that Q really IS a military intelligence operation headed by President Trump to save our country and save the world from the New World Order Cabal. With everything that is going on the last several months, all the deep dives into the plans of the NWO that I have known for over 15 years seem to be coming true. I really HOPE that Q is real and not a psy op, because if it isn't real, WE ARE ALL F'ED!!!!!! FOR REAL! IT IS THAT SERIOUS!
This book is also great for Q followers as well to get a more detailed analysis or a refresher.
February 6, 2020
I really great introduction to the first phase of the Q operation. Nicely laid out, easy to understand. I have followed Praying Medic's Q decode videos and this is a nice compilation of all that info. I like that he doesn't go off on wild speculations, just presents the Q post and relevant research.
April 25, 2020
I have been following QAnon since the early posts in late fall of 2017. A lot of territory has been covered in that amount of time. This book is excellent in that it is concise, well-researched and organized and the glossary is a huge plus. Clearly the best book I read yet on the subject.
May 3, 2020
A Must Read
As an introduction to all things Q, there is no better primer. Particular attention to the philosophy, process, and strategy of revealing intelligence information makes this book a valuable tool in sifting through the cacophony of information.
As an introduction to all things Q, there is no better primer. Particular attention to the philosophy, process, and strategy of revealing intelligence information makes this book a valuable tool in sifting through the cacophony of information.
July 14, 2020
Excellent, clear and concise! Eye opening read on current political events and key players. Good starting point for those who have started following Q and have a lot of questions decoding the messages.
September 6, 2020
Perfect explanation for the Q movement
One of the best Q books I have read. The author does a great job at breaking down the posts. Where We Go One We Go All
One of the best Q books I have read. The author does a great job at breaking down the posts. Where We Go One We Go All
December 16, 2020
A Brilliant Book
Being a non American it took me a while to understand the abbreviation, but as I went through the book I was catching on.
Thoroughly enjoyed this, it tested my brain and tested my memory.
I’d highly recommend this book to all Americans to understand Q and the President of America, President Donald Trump.
I was intrigued by the knowledge between Q and the President. Loved the missing letters and clues, ingenious. And some of the words your used like, crumbs, sauce, etc.
As I read the book, I felt President Trump was Q. But later on I found out, it’s not solely him.
Thank you Dave for this book. You write in a way that an outsider can understand Q and follow Q’s information.
I look forward to reading your second book. The Great Awakening.
Being a non American it took me a while to understand the abbreviation, but as I went through the book I was catching on.
Thoroughly enjoyed this, it tested my brain and tested my memory.
I’d highly recommend this book to all Americans to understand Q and the President of America, President Donald Trump.
I was intrigued by the knowledge between Q and the President. Loved the missing letters and clues, ingenious. And some of the words your used like, crumbs, sauce, etc.
As I read the book, I felt President Trump was Q. But later on I found out, it’s not solely him.
Thank you Dave for this book. You write in a way that an outsider can understand Q and follow Q’s information.
I look forward to reading your second book. The Great Awakening.
October 28, 2020
Gave a lot to think about
This is an introduction to Qanon and the world wide plot the wealthy and powerful have been acting on for decades. In it, the author shows you the communications that have been sent and explains their meanings. It's up to you to verify if it's all just a hoax, or if a shadow war is going on to try to save the USA.
This is an introduction to Qanon and the world wide plot the wealthy and powerful have been acting on for decades. In it, the author shows you the communications that have been sent and explains their meanings. It's up to you to verify if it's all just a hoax, or if a shadow war is going on to try to save the USA.
December 6, 2020
Bought for honest review.wow this has a lot of great information on what is going on in politics and the world. This is also the secret codes from Q in a way that you can understand easily . Thank you praying medic.
August 5, 2021
An amazing book for people who are ready to take the red pill. We can always choose to accept reality as it is or, research; document, and explore what really goes on in this crazy world.
May 5, 2020
Eye Opening
Great summary of the background. Will bring you up to speed what is currently happening. Frightening reality. Highly recommend if you want to understand.
Great summary of the background. Will bring you up to speed what is currently happening. Frightening reality. Highly recommend if you want to understand.
May 6, 2020
Excellent read.
Hard to w down. Very vital for not just those politically minded,but for every one who considers themselves to be a good guy. WWG1WGA
Hard to w down. Very vital for not just those politically minded,but for every one who considers themselves to be a good guy. WWG1WGA
May 11, 2020
I could not put this book down! Read to get a greater understanding of all the stuff going on in the world. Truly an eye opener! Will not disappoint.
May 29, 2020
Insight
A must read if you are concerned about the world and world events. Well written and easy to understand. A gift to yourself in today’s world.
A must read if you are concerned about the world and world events. Well written and easy to understand. A gift to yourself in today’s world.
June 18, 2020
Awesome!
Very insightful, easy to follow. A great guide for normies/newbies. Highly recommend if you follow the Plan. Thank you! WWG1WGA 🇺🇸
Very insightful, easy to follow. A great guide for normies/newbies. Highly recommend if you follow the Plan. Thank you! WWG1WGA 🇺🇸
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June 18, 2020Very informative, broken down into easy to understand language, factual and a good beginning guide to catch up on the corruption in America.
September 24, 2020
Extraordinarily well done! Looking forward to the next in what simply must be a continuing saga.
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October 16, 2020Loved it
Dave is a wonderful.writer. I felt like.he was in my family room having a conversation with me. He describes everything so easily. Thank-you, Dave.
Dave is a wonderful.writer. I felt like.he was in my family room having a conversation with me. He describes everything so easily. Thank-you, Dave.
February 18, 2021
A book that interprets some of Q’s posts, organized by category, not by chronology. I have no problem with the author or his book, but it’s Q that annoys me.
Q uses codes, but then what’s the point of these codes when he wants people to crack them? And then when people don’t crack them fast enough, Q just goes ahead and explains what his codes mean! Examples:
In his 11/4/17 post, he explained that Alice & Wonderland meant Hillary Clinton & Saudi Arabia (50-51). So why did he bother to have this in code earlier if he was later just going to spell it out?
On 11/7/17 when he posted a bunch of plus signs. There were no clues to go on for what these meant, and yet Q expected the anons to figure it out. Four days later, Q explained what each of the plus signs meant (221).
“C_A” for “CIA” (117). Too easy to decipher, so what’s the point?
“[R] = Renegade” (134). He told everyone what it meant.
The author says that Q purposely puts out disinformation to throw off his opponents. But that can easily be used as an excuse every time one of Q’s predictions turns out to be wrong. How can we take anything Q says to be true if “disinformation is real” and “distraction is necessary”? (63)
“It conceals the truth from those who aren’t interested in finding it, but makes it available to those who sincerely want to understand it” (67). That’s a lame excuse. Obviously Q’s true opponents (not trolls) would want to know the truth behind his messages and would devote time to finding out what his codes mean.
Why does this info even need to be released to the public? If corrupt people are going to be arrested, then why not just let it happen without informing the public beforehand? Even trying to do so is tipping off the enemy to cover their tracks and prevent the prediction from coming true.
Q’s posts are annoying. He says things like this: “Others monitoring (friends and enemies)” (82). Why couldn’t he say it like “Both friends and enemies are monitoring”? It’s like Q tries to make his sentences as hard to read as possible, and it’s not like the bad sentence structure hides the meaning; it just makes it annoying to read.
Instead of just saying “no” to something, he asks “do unicorns exist?” (68) Obviously they don’t, but that kind of code is so easily cracked that it’s not even worth coding, so what’s the point? It’s like Q tries to be cryptic on purpose, for his own enjoyment.
Q predicts that it’s part of the enemy’s plan to have the US defund the military and start a third world war (208-212), and Obama and Hillary would help bring this about, but the plan got derailed because Hillary didn’t win the presidency. I can see most of Q’s predictions still coming true anyway because of covid-19 and Biden being elected. However, it doesn’t make sense to me why the democrat leaders would want to defund the military. They need the military for their wars.
The book didn’t convince me that Q is really a person with inside information. Trump posted so much on Twitter that it’d be easy for anyone to post a minute before he did or the same minute he did. If Q is real, then I think he’s not very smart to try to reveal predictions about what will happen. Q thinks random anons on the net are going to crack his codes while the CIA won’t? HA!
Q’s followers treat him like he’s a prophet or God. But s/he/they is just another human who can make predictions that turn out to be wrong. His followers need to stop blindly following him and acting like everything is part of the plan.
I learned some interesting things:
The reason Hillary Clinton wasn’t prosecuted for using private emails for government business: Obama did the same thing (136). “The Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation . . . confirmed that 13 people close to President Obama did indeed use private emails. The most logical reason for using a private email address would be to avoid having your emails made public as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The second most likely reason would be to avoid detection by the NSA” (155).
Hillary “has said publicly that her political mentor was Senator Robert Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan member” (152).
“Osama bin Laden was a longtime friend of Alwaleed bin Talal. At the time of Q’s post, Alwaleed owned the top five floors of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the location of the Las Vegas (LV) mass shooting” (153). Eyewitnesses of the shooting died under mysterious circumstances (173).
Quote from MSNBC host Joe Scarborough about Trump: “We saw him for 12 years behind closed doors. Never, ever once—I’ll say it under oath. I’ll put it in an affidavit—never once heard him say anything close to being racially insensitive. Never once” (186).
“There is often a terrorist attack or mass shooting following a news cycle that casts Democrats in a negative light” to distract the public (189). Reminded me of the killing of George Floyd that happened right after Joe Biden said “If you don’t know who to vote for between me and Trump, you ain’t black.”
Q uses codes, but then what’s the point of these codes when he wants people to crack them? And then when people don’t crack them fast enough, Q just goes ahead and explains what his codes mean! Examples:
In his 11/4/17 post, he explained that Alice & Wonderland meant Hillary Clinton & Saudi Arabia (50-51). So why did he bother to have this in code earlier if he was later just going to spell it out?
On 11/7/17 when he posted a bunch of plus signs. There were no clues to go on for what these meant, and yet Q expected the anons to figure it out. Four days later, Q explained what each of the plus signs meant (221).
“C_A” for “CIA” (117). Too easy to decipher, so what’s the point?
“[R] = Renegade” (134). He told everyone what it meant.
The author says that Q purposely puts out disinformation to throw off his opponents. But that can easily be used as an excuse every time one of Q’s predictions turns out to be wrong. How can we take anything Q says to be true if “disinformation is real” and “distraction is necessary”? (63)
“It conceals the truth from those who aren’t interested in finding it, but makes it available to those who sincerely want to understand it” (67). That’s a lame excuse. Obviously Q’s true opponents (not trolls) would want to know the truth behind his messages and would devote time to finding out what his codes mean.
Why does this info even need to be released to the public? If corrupt people are going to be arrested, then why not just let it happen without informing the public beforehand? Even trying to do so is tipping off the enemy to cover their tracks and prevent the prediction from coming true.
Q’s posts are annoying. He says things like this: “Others monitoring (friends and enemies)” (82). Why couldn’t he say it like “Both friends and enemies are monitoring”? It’s like Q tries to make his sentences as hard to read as possible, and it’s not like the bad sentence structure hides the meaning; it just makes it annoying to read.
Instead of just saying “no” to something, he asks “do unicorns exist?” (68) Obviously they don’t, but that kind of code is so easily cracked that it’s not even worth coding, so what’s the point? It’s like Q tries to be cryptic on purpose, for his own enjoyment.
Q predicts that it’s part of the enemy’s plan to have the US defund the military and start a third world war (208-212), and Obama and Hillary would help bring this about, but the plan got derailed because Hillary didn’t win the presidency. I can see most of Q’s predictions still coming true anyway because of covid-19 and Biden being elected. However, it doesn’t make sense to me why the democrat leaders would want to defund the military. They need the military for their wars.
The book didn’t convince me that Q is really a person with inside information. Trump posted so much on Twitter that it’d be easy for anyone to post a minute before he did or the same minute he did. If Q is real, then I think he’s not very smart to try to reveal predictions about what will happen. Q thinks random anons on the net are going to crack his codes while the CIA won’t? HA!
Q’s followers treat him like he’s a prophet or God. But s/he/they is just another human who can make predictions that turn out to be wrong. His followers need to stop blindly following him and acting like everything is part of the plan.
I learned some interesting things:
The reason Hillary Clinton wasn’t prosecuted for using private emails for government business: Obama did the same thing (136). “The Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation . . . confirmed that 13 people close to President Obama did indeed use private emails. The most logical reason for using a private email address would be to avoid having your emails made public as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The second most likely reason would be to avoid detection by the NSA” (155).
Hillary “has said publicly that her political mentor was Senator Robert Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan member” (152).
“Osama bin Laden was a longtime friend of Alwaleed bin Talal. At the time of Q’s post, Alwaleed owned the top five floors of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the location of the Las Vegas (LV) mass shooting” (153). Eyewitnesses of the shooting died under mysterious circumstances (173).
Quote from MSNBC host Joe Scarborough about Trump: “We saw him for 12 years behind closed doors. Never, ever once—I’ll say it under oath. I’ll put it in an affidavit—never once heard him say anything close to being racially insensitive. Never once” (186).
“There is often a terrorist attack or mass shooting following a news cycle that casts Democrats in a negative light” to distract the public (189). Reminded me of the killing of George Floyd that happened right after Joe Biden said “If you don’t know who to vote for between me and Trump, you ain’t black.”
July 28, 2021
What a powerful political thriller I found this book to be! Dave Hayes, “The Praying Profit,” takes us from the earliest days of “Q,” an unknown exposer of corruption and underworld dealings of powerful political figures and their antics to disrupt and control our world as we know it to showing us how to read the Q postings and code openly posted in various public forums of what is happening in our world—sometimes before it even takes place.
If you are a non-believer in Q and her/his/their purpose, the reading is still edge-of-your-seat fascinating as Hayes is the ultimate researcher to decode and prove Q’s predictions in futuristic fashion. In your case, think of it as science fiction. Many of us would do well to open our eyes and look around at just how rapidly our world is changing. We are challenged to explore more and to dig deeper than what multi-media outlets want us to know. Are these the end times of Bible prophecy or just revealings of what has always been with a new awareness of how corrupt our world is?
The time period of the book is basically 2016/2017 to time of publication in early 2020 and is tabbed as “Q Chronicles, Book 1.” Just how do the wealthy and privileged escape what corruption they are involved in without punishment? Is there a two-tiered system of justice? One review says, “Q says corruption is worse than we know,“ having invaded all aspects of our society at every level all over the world.
The last part of this work is a glossary of Q terms to better understand the messages Q leaves on social media in plain sight. Hayes calls Q-speak a Socratic method by asking questions, prompting those interested in gathering their own research to verify the remarks or to be redirect further. A frequent direction is to “follow the money” and covers Presidents from Clinton to Trump, including their dealings with foreign countries.
If you are a non-believer in Q and her/his/their purpose, the reading is still edge-of-your-seat fascinating as Hayes is the ultimate researcher to decode and prove Q’s predictions in futuristic fashion. In your case, think of it as science fiction. Many of us would do well to open our eyes and look around at just how rapidly our world is changing. We are challenged to explore more and to dig deeper than what multi-media outlets want us to know. Are these the end times of Bible prophecy or just revealings of what has always been with a new awareness of how corrupt our world is?
The time period of the book is basically 2016/2017 to time of publication in early 2020 and is tabbed as “Q Chronicles, Book 1.” Just how do the wealthy and privileged escape what corruption they are involved in without punishment? Is there a two-tiered system of justice? One review says, “Q says corruption is worse than we know,“ having invaded all aspects of our society at every level all over the world.
The last part of this work is a glossary of Q terms to better understand the messages Q leaves on social media in plain sight. Hayes calls Q-speak a Socratic method by asking questions, prompting those interested in gathering their own research to verify the remarks or to be redirect further. A frequent direction is to “follow the money” and covers Presidents from Clinton to Trump, including their dealings with foreign countries.
December 23, 2021
So very interesting. That Q is a phenomenon that books will some day struggle to explain is unquestionable. I am grateful to David Hayes, in the here and now, for attempting the task. Though it is clear he himself does not understand the meaning of every post, he opens up interesting insights into many of the meanings. It will eventually take President Trump himself and the intelligence team behind the Q posts to explain all. I personally hope it is all true, and there are good people fighting to save the world. Time will tell.
November 7, 2021
Good Timeline & Explains
I gave Calm Before the Storm because it is a good timeline & explains the QAnon movement & it's attraction. Regardless of your opinion on QAnon, to bring back any civil discussion in this country we need to understand what people think & what they hold to be true.
I gave Calm Before the Storm because it is a good timeline & explains the QAnon movement & it's attraction. Regardless of your opinion on QAnon, to bring back any civil discussion in this country we need to understand what people think & what they hold to be true.
October 18, 2020
This book was just ok. I was interested in the Q movement and was hoping for a better understanding. I don't feel like I know much more than I did before. It is still very confusing to me. I wanted more of an in depth breakdown of each Q post.
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