Thread by @SchottHappens

I'm watching the live stream of @UTJasonPreston's event with Roger Stone.

The speaker when talking about guns just said, "We have something in our audience tonight the Democrats don't have. Bullets, guns and God."

So, that event is going swimmingly.

@UTJasonPreston Another speaker just said, "We don't want to overthrow the government. We want to overthrow the people who are perverting the Constitution. We can all agree that Congress is full of people who pervert the Constitution."

Yikes.

Roger Stone, looking like a 4th tier Batman villain, says the election is no longer a fight between Republicans and Democrats.

"It's a fight between light and dark, a fight between good and evil, a fight between the godly and the godless," Stone says.

Stone urges the crowd to call or visit Mitt Romney's office and urge him to resign.

"Let's do it! Let's do it!" yells one person in the crowd.

Stone leads the crowd in a "lock her up" chant.

"Lock everybody up," yells a person in the crowd.

Jason Preston says there will be "an army of patriots" going to Washington.

"We will not comply and we will not back down!" he says to big cheers.

At this point, I'd like to raise a practical question: Comply with what and back down from what?

"We have one of the deepest and darkest deep state threats here in Utah," Preston says.

What is he talking about? I'm so confused.

"Tomorrow is when we show Utah's deep state the door," Preston says.

Can he point them out to me before he does that?

I'd like to figure out who they are.

Why is Roger Stone just standing on stage while Preston speaks?

Preston says the most important thing he'll do in Washington is "light the fire of Liberty in the people."

"If we can create more Steve Christiansen's, more Phil Lyman's, this country will be in good shape," Preston says.

Preston brings Alena Ericksen, who is running for state Senate, on stage.

She sued the state and Davis School District over COVID restrictions for nearly $1.6 BILLION.

She also shares some views with the sovereign citizen movement.

sltrib.com/news/politics/…

Now on stage is Kish North, the head of the Utah Patriots militia group.

That group's manifesto reads, in part, "We are pioneers, immigrants, and loyal Americans who love God, family, and our country. We fight to maintain its purity."

This has devolved into a rapid-fire open mic night with lots of people coming up to promote whatever they're working on.

Angie Martin, the #utleg candidate who is deeply into QAnon is on the stage now.

I wrote about her in this story:

sltrib.com/news/politics/…

Steve Christiansen is delivering the closing prayer.

Preston comes back on to yell more about "We the People," which means the closing prayer was a LIE!

Livestream over.

I will be live on the scene at the GOP convention in Sandy. If you see me, come over and say hello.

Will Mike Lee's staffers block me from getting to my computer? Will I get jumped by some Proud Boys?

Who knows?