'QAnon Queen' livestreams from Jimtown, no-one notices

‘QAnon Queen’ Romana Didula’s RV outside Port Hawkesbury on Tuesday, after leaving Jimtown. (JACK RONALDS PHOTO)

Jimtown deputy Mayor Jamie Braid kept looking up from his roof on Monday afternoon.

A convoy of RV’s were down at the beach.

A strong temptation tugged to amble down, make an observation, talk a bit, pry a bit and collect some curiosity to relay in the next meeting of the Jimtown Department of Public Works.

But he had a roof to jury-rig tight before November chases him off.

The Jimtown Enquirer’s editor was similarly tempted.

Done work early, three hours left in a dying October day and dealing with a big poplar down in the yard.

A saw rattling in his hand, plugging away at miserly firewood weighed heavier than the worry that Jamie would get first dibs on the convoy of manatees backed up at the bottom of a beach road clogged with Hurricane Fiona’s wrack.

Our mayor lay bedridden at the bottom of the road, recovering from a ladder-fall suffered during the storm’s cleanup.

The decline of Western Civilization had arrived at Jimtown Beach and the Jimtown Department of Public Works missed it.

As we all put our heads back down to the doings of fall, a woman known to her 55,000 followers as Her Royal Highness Queen Romana Didulo, Queen of Canada and (as of late) self declared envoy between the United States and Russia over the war in Ukraine, was live-streaming at the Jimtown Beach.

(Editor’s note: if you don’t believe it, Google her name).

“When you remove the sensationalism, the fake studio images choreographed, remember a fake news anchor who said it’s ‘knee deep down here’, here is reality, yeah,” she told her followers over her Telegram social media app.

“A lot of trees fell down but we have not seen any damages, unless some of the trees fell on some of the houses which we cannot see, up there.”

Some of the trees had fallen on some on some of the cottages she could not see “up there.”

And on ‘Queen Romana’s’ way out the harbor road from Antigonish, where she’d declared to her followers that because she couldn’t see tree-stumps the storm damage must be a big conspiracy by the government and media, she’d managed to not notice the flattened corn fields of Beckers and Kenedy’s farms and the top ripped off a silo.

Now far be-it for The Jimtown Enquirer to engage in “sensationalism.”

But Fiona was a hell of a blow.

Enough so that Fiona MacKinnon can expect to be needled with references that grow increasingly trite when she returns over the decades of summers to come.

Queen Didulo, a thought leader of the sovereign citizens movement which denies the authority of the Canadian government who is alternatively known as the ‘QAnon Queen’, was apparently drawn to Jimtown not by its reputation as home-port of the Jimtown Raft but by its being within the kilometer-long confines of road signs declaring it ‘Antigonish Harbour’.

“This is their harbor, as you can see it is open ocean,” she told her Telegram followers as she looked out on St. George’s Bay.

“High winds can be expected.”

Of course, the harbours (which were hard hit) are further up the road at Cribbons, Ballantynes Cove and Arisaig.

Jimtown hasn’t been a harbor for half a century, since Vince Boudreau and a few other long passed, but not forgotten, patriarchs gave up on dredging the cut to Ogden Pond in which they moored their brightly-painted Northumberlands.

‘Truth’ and ‘reality’ are big words that the Jimtown Enquirer appreciates get thrown around a lot outside the confines of its coverage area by sad people who have a poor grasp on either.

On Monday, everyone in Jimtown missed what could have been the year’s most bewildering encounter with a non-Jimtowner to repeat tales of back and forth through the long winter to come.

Videos on Queen Didulo’s Telegram channel on Tuesday showed her track-suit wearing followers underneath her RV, broken down outside Port Hawkesbury, grinding off what they claimed was a faulty drive-shaft coupling.

It was a sway-bar linkage.