Pay attention to Brazil: if you’re gonna choose *one* foreign country to go “Oh, they have something that’s exactly like Trumpism there,” Brazil is your best bet by far — right down to evangelicals being the political power base.
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)—
“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.