But don't JUST say Republicans are going to scream fraud if Trump loses.
Say: Republicans are going to scream fraud if Trump loses, and try to certify slates of electors that *ignore the real electoral results.*
Say: this will be an assault on democracy, on YOUR way of life...
and when they try this (and they WILL try it), we have to be ready for mass protests like the ones that brought down the Soviet Bloc in '89.
We have to be ready to fill the streets and shut down ordinary civic life.
Prep people with the knowledge of what the bad guys will say.
Give them knowledge of what the bad guys will do.
And give them a strategy to understand what the next moves are, years in advance, so that when they see it happen and go "Oh! Hey! This is exactly what the Dems TOLD me R's would try!" they can go "And we know how to beat it."
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“The pdf that’s floating around” is, of course, the coup PowerPoint.
.pps is an ooooold PowerPoint format, and someone we consulted last night suggested that it may not have been saved that way for compatibility on an archaeo-machine — some *printers* need old formats, too.
But it’s pretty unusual to encounter that format in 2021, which could be a clue to whose hands the PowerPoint passed through.
*However*, the pdf version of this file was MUCH more widely distributed than the PowerPoint. (Big ups to @z3dster for also finding the pps, by the way.)
The pdf was out in the wild on January 12, 2021, when it was released on at least the Telegram channels for:
* Lin Wood, an attorney who was heavily involved in trying to overturn the election, and
I often mention the December 18, 2020 meeting where Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn, & Patrick Byrne (the Overstock dot com guy) swept into the White House uninvited & ambled into Trump’s office, then tried to convince him to have the military “re-run” the election.
ASOG and Phil Waldron are names you know if you’ve followed @get_innocuous.
If you haven’t: ASOG is a firm that makes its living telling failed Republican candidates — many who lost in primaries, some that lost in general elections — that they lost bc of fraud.
Anyway, read the thread to see how these people — many of whom were and *are* instrumental in Stop the Steal bullshit — wanted to do a coup to ignore the election results with the help of SCOTUS and Pence.
This document was *in the hands of the White House Chief of Staff.*
Note that this “re-run the election” idea is fairly similar to what Sidney Powell and Mike Flynn pitched in the White House meeting with Trump on December 18.
Why would that be attractive to the Trump camp? Two reasons — first, obviously, Trump lost and they wanted a do-over.
1. Stolen-election cranks in Utah, some of them armed, are going door to door to record people without their consent while they ask questions about the election
In particular, read far enough to hit the quotes by @holden, explaining how “election fraud affidavits” work as a strategy for the Stop the Steal crowd— they let you take low-quality “evidence,” like (real example!) “I saw a mixed-race couple mail a large item while laughing”…
and turn it into an “affidavit” which the Stop the Steal crowd can cite as “evidence of voter fraud” through the simple expedient of just… writing the bullshit down and getting the author and a notary to sign it.
After that, it sounds all official & serious: ooh, an affidavit!
3. Some of the Definitely Real Hunter Biden Emails I've seen floating around, in my judgment, *are* probably forgeries. Pretty crude ones at that!
This, for example, is just... not at all how humans talk, but it IS a bunch of red meat for GOP'ers who wanna gin up a scandal.
That said,
4. Some of the items will probably be genuine too (in Macronleaks a LOT of items were genuine -- and boring -- while a few hand-crafted fakes were meant to lob a grenade into the French election right before people went to the polls).