Liz Harris is the mother of the “canvassing” strategy that’s the last, best hope of Trump Wuz Robbed truthers.
Here she shares a video by Austin Steinbart, “Baby Q” himself, where — inter alia — he claims credit for the self-immolation of a Phoenix businessman (about 32:00 in).
Steinbart claims to be Q from the future (though his followers say that’s oversimplifying).
This is why, at about 30:40 in the video, he explains that the “news media is a big part of why we had to do QAnon this way.”
Again, Harris explicitly says “This video explains it all!”
One thing it PROBABLY explains is how Steinbart —who, at the time, was fresh out of the federal slammer (his whole shtick had basically been “If I’m not Q, how come the FBI doesn’t arrest me when I do all these illegal things?” and reader, you will never guess what the FBI did)—
Anyway, Steinbart was fresh from the pen in April & started working for the Arizona “audit.”
We know from assorted pieces of documentary evidence that the guy who ran the “audit” had a close enough relationship with Liz Harris that he wanted to use her “canvass” in his findings.
Now, he ended up not doing that. There are several reasons, but I think we could fairly boil them down to: her work product sucked shit and was roundly mocked the moment she released it.
But the relevant part here is that they WERE tight once upon a time...
aaaaaaaaaaand I will bet you a penny that Liz Harris is the one who recommended Austin f'ing Steinbart to help with the "audit."
So that resolves -- to my satisfaction, anyway -- a little mystery that had been chewing away at my brain cells ever since I learned he was hired.
Anyway, it's SUPER cool that this Steinbart Stan™ gave birth to a movement that's spread to other states & is producing Trump Wuz Robbed propaganda that's totally decoupled from the question of *what the actual ballots show* -- that isn't even INTERESTED in that question.
It's great. I LOVE that this is the world we're living in now, and every day I wake up singing a hymn of thanksgiving 🙃
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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!