The draft report may have been leaked, but this thing is going to be 3-hours with another hour of “debriefing” on the Senate lawn w/ a bunch of the AZGOP, so who knows how they’re going to try to spin this. Seeya later!
At the Crazy Towns Carnival, I mean AZ state capitol & the "anti-vax" rally is going on. They're also setting up chairs to watch the hearing later.
Already saw a small accident in the parking lot & walked up to Kari Lake arguing with someone on stage so it's already going well.
Looks like Kari was arguing with Steve Daniels of the far-right AZ Patriot Party. Daniels was also one of the speakers today who organized for this rally and the other one later, so again, it's already going well down here.
The official portion of the "anti-vax" sort of fell apart after the Patriot Party started arguing with Kari Lake. The other speakers lectured the Patriot Party and left, now they're giving their own speeches. Lots of groups arguing amongst each other it's hilarious.
Armed guards surrounding the stage. Lots of armed groups, in general. Seen some Oath Keepers & Bryan Masche gave a shoutout to the "Good Citizens" militia who's been a new group at these events. Also spotted Micajah Jackson in the crowd, who marched with the Piss Boys at J6.
Candice Graham Savino yelled at everyone on stage and was screaming, (with her kid in hand) about "chopping off heads" and "hanging" people. She was one of the people standing outside the Coliseum during the "audit" with the "arrest the traitors" banner. Nice crowd.
Lots of people here. The far-right "anti-vax" event ended in drama, now everyone is waiting for the final report hearing.
Lots of energy out here, Wendy just made an appearance.
The MAGA copium rally is in full swing now as the hearing is about to begin.
As the hearing began, we had a few hilarious disruptions. This guy was playing a banjo and harmonica, but got screamed away buy some heavily armed folks.
There's also some bullhorn shouting matches going on next to the stage.
Plenty of armed dudes patrolling the area, got some III%ers, that "Good Citizens" group again.
Quick break, today's just a weird mix of everything. There's anti-vaxxers, Ivermectin fans, pro-audit folks, "justice for j6" people, some who were at J6 themselves, militias, AZ politicians & candidates, etc.
Also, again, for the smart stuff being said in the actual hearing. Follow the brilliant @get_innocuous's thread. We're only an hour in. 😮💨
And we're back. Besides the big screen set up on the Senate lawn, there's also TV trucks parked across the street and driving around the capitol airing the "audit" report hearing on one side, anti-vax messages on the other.
The lawn cleared out, even tho there's still hours left. Some are hanging by the nearby merch & food but it's dwindled.
People clearly expected something more interesting than a boring hearing. A lady said to me "can't they just tell us who won and do all this stuff later." lol
Hearing over, queue the Mike Pillow ad. Even though there's still a "debriefing" on the lawn, most people have left (I assume out of boredom) and organizers are packing up the chairs. Don't worry, the Q merch IS still up, LMFAO.
This sparsely attended post-hearing rally is mainly just the group of people who lied & grifted off this thing. It's literally just everyone from the Stop the Steal crowd, you got Mark Finchem, Gail Golec, We the People Alliance, Anthony Kern, Fann, Wendy Rogers, Kelli Ward, etc.
Even the low-tier grifters like Adel Belgaied and Josh Barnett are here. And Barnett gave a shoutout to even lower tier grifters like Dave Jose and Liz Harris.
This white nationalist loser made a quick appearance before quickly fucking off to his groyper event at ASU.
Sen. Wendy Rogers is still calling for "decertification" (not a thing. also, of course she is 🙄). Here's her and the crowd losing their absolute shit.
Just another normal day on the capitol lawn. 🙃
Sen. Sonny Borrelli tells the audience "somebody belongs freaking against the wall."
Yikes, dude. Also, when you're making threats like this, at least have the nerve to say "fuck," you dorks.
C-C-C-Combo Brakey!
I'm out. Of course The John Birch Society left a pamphlet on my car. 🙄
Far-right POS Ethan Schmidt was also at today’s events. He was going around harassing media alongside Micajah Jackson.
Amazing that Jackson goes around doing this while representing Hub Radio Phoenix, which regularly hosts members of the AZ GOP. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
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Supervisor Gates said during the special meeting today that Bolick said she’s ready to move on from 2020 and 2022 election BS, but it looks like she’s been following the Kari Kraken cases and sharing all that copium-related nonsense: https://t.co/FxENmxLdgd
Sharing posts supportive of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Moms for Liberty, including one complaining about their recent designation as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
This event has had some pretty major changes. Sen. Wadsack and Rep. Elia Crane are no longer listed. Gionet is serving time in jail so he’s out. But neo-nazi Nick Fuentes is now the top listed speaker, alongside Jacob “Q Shaman” Chansley, and recently expelled Liz Harris. https://t.co/ibeE4TpNDZ
To be clear, Liz Harris IS still in an AZ GOP leadership position. Not long after being expelled from her seat in the AZ House, she won a vice chair position in LD-13. The flier also lists the Pima, Maricopa, and Yavapai GOP but no specifics who.
Also listed is “Culture War Criminal” the pseudonym of Ryan Sanchez, a well documented California neo-nazi who nazi’d too hard to the sun (was part of a neo-nazi fighting gang) and got his ass kicked out of the military. This POS has recently moved to AZ.
Jacob Chansley (aka the QAnon Shaman) is scheduled to be released from a Phoenix halfway house tomorrow. The next day, he has his first post-federal prison TV interview scheduled on the far-right, conspiracy peddling network OAN.
quite the rebrand
And Chansley is selling Q Shaman merchandise including this LOVELY dress of his screaming face, a "didn't do muffin," apron and a $99 "QultFellas" poster
If you ever wondered why 64-year old Paul Gosar posts like he’s a Zoomer groyper with a habit of shitposting for Nick Fuentes, wonder no more.
Meet Wade Searle, Gosar’s groyper staffer, who stood alongside Fuentes at AZ Stop the Steal. *sigh* he also took Fuentes' loyalty pledge.
Wade Searle is a dedicated Fuentes “intern” with a semi-large following in groyper world. He was known as "The Chicken Right," Chicken/“Chikken” and "Right Wing Chicken Wing," which were his multiple online aliases. He even mods on Fuentes' Cozy account. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/paul…
How did the deleted Chicken accounts get tied to Searle? A LOT of digging (read the article) BUT this post from a Nov. 2020 “Stop the Steal” rally in Phoenix definitely helped. Here he is taking pics with Nick Fuentes, Vincent James Foxx, Baked Alaska, & Jaden McNeil at the rally
The sad “AZ Revote” rally is still happening at the park across from the Phoenix Capitol. A few, including the folks with the “Scooby Doo Crew” QAnon cult spent the night. Less than 100 today.
So, there is currently a Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls march also happening at the PHX Capitol. A speaker with AZ Revote riled up the crowd saying there were "a bunch of Indians on their way to mess with Republicans.” Some with the "Revote" crowd grabbed their guns.
The "AZ Revote" crowd is confronting the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls marchers. Massive main character syndrome happening right now, thinking this is somehow related to them and their "revote" that nobody cares about and won't happen