3/ “They then dispersed to various points in the building, and messages show they were intent on heading to the Senate, where then-Vice President Mike Pence was presiding over a GOP-led challenge to Arizona’s electoral vote count.”politico.com/news/2021/03/2…
4/ Another possibility. He was apparently waiting for an excuse to declare martial law (or otherwise prevent certification) but it never came.
To win the propaganda war, it’s not enough to call the outrage over CRT & mask mandates fake. We must unmask the GOP’s real goal, which is to undermine public education. They are motivated by profit & a desire to teach their version of God in schools & to indoctrinate kids. 1/
TY. I don’t feel election integrity has been lost. But Trump’s lies, combined w/ both parties’ failure to even try to pass a federal manual audit requirement for 2022 or even a ban on internet connectivity to voting systems in 2022, has left me a bit speechless. 1/
There are always ways to improve security & transparency, but dang it. 2/
I’m still working on my election-security book. It will be a call to action, not a post mortem. But we are in a very bad spot fighting some very entrenched and misleading narratives around election security. 3/
“It’s not hard to see why The Fourth Turning’s apocalyptic…vision wld appeal to..Bannon; it offers the perfect rationalization for sociopathic behavior. He’s not breaking stuff for the thrill of it—he’s executing history’s larger plan for all of us…” 1/ newrepublic.com/article/161574…
“From his podcast’s YouTube channel, which claimed 330,000 subscribers before the platform shut it down permanently on January 8, Bannon aired the strategic rhetoric that inspired the insurrection in plain sight” 3/
I deleted my QT and blocked the person who posted the tweet below it bc it was apparently not from this election and perhaps not even the US. Sadly, many people fell for it, myself included, bc we have seen lines like this all too often in the US. #disinformation 1/
I should have checked it myself before my QT. Fighting disinformation takes constant vigilance. 2/
The #MAGAMoonies attended the 12/30/20 “Stop the Steal” event in Lancaster County, PA organized by Frank Scavo, who promoted it on Steve Bannon’s podcast. 3/
Lancaster County is in PA. It is home to Sam Lazar, who allegedly assaulted police on Jan 6. Frank Scavo of Old Forge, PA went on Bannon’s podcast on 12/30 to promote a “Stop the Steal” protest in Lancaster that day. A Jan 3 militia “leaders” planning meeting occurred there too.