Loser Palooza Event This Saturday To Promote The ‘Big Lie’ of The GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’

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Above: Seven Arizonan Republican legislators face calls to ban them from the House and Senate: They are Republican Representatives Mark Finchem, David Cook, and Walt Blackman along with Republican Senators Wendy Rogers, Kelly Townsend, Sonny Borrelli, and David Livingston.

Friday afternoon is supposed to be the “big reveal” of the Arizona Senate’s GQP sham “fraudit” by QAnon conspiracy theorist Doug Logan aka Cyber Ninjas. We all know in advance it will feed the MAGA/QAnon cult’s fever dreams that the election was stolen (but somehow every state legislator’s election was perfectly legit). This is all stagecraft for the GQP’s Big Lie election strategy going forward for all future elections – undermining democratic elections is what authoritarian fascist movements do.

As part of this stagecraft, the Phoenix New Times reports Arizona Extremists Are Planning to Gather at the State Capitol — Just in Time for the ‘Audit’ Results:

The so-called “Justice For J6” campaign, a Trump-backed crusade in defense of the January 6 Capitol rioters, held a rally in Washington, D.C., this past Saturday, September 18. Capitol police were on high alert over the weekend in anticipation, but the event saw only sparse turnout.

See, A Rally In Support Of The Jan. 6 Rioters Drew So Few People That They Were Outnumbered By Law Enforcement And Reporters.

The MAGA/QAnon Trump red cap thugs instead are taking their seditious insurrection to the state capitols again, as they did with Trump’s “liberate” states from Covid-19 lockdowns shitshow in the spring of 2020.

Another such rally will take place closer to home this Saturday, September 25, when the same group intends to hold an event at the Arizona State Capitol. As it happens, the rally will take place the day after the scheduled release of the results of Arizona’s partisan “audit” — barring yet another last-minute delay.

While the D.C. rally wasn’t able to muster many big names from the American right-wing fringe — even Matt Gaetz declined to attend — Arizona’s “Justice for J6” lineup features several local politicians. Those include Sen. Wendy Rogers and Rep. Mark Finchem, plus Jim Lamon, a U.S. Senate hopeful who has apparently given a “generous” donation to the Justice For J6 organizers. (None replied to Phoenix New Times’ inquiries for this article.)

Just to be clear, “decertification” is not an actual thing. She is quite insane (self evident from her Twitter posts). She disgraces the uniform she once wore.

This is automatically disqualifying for public office. These seditious insurrectionists should be expelled from office and barred from ever holding public office again.

Also scheduled to speak at the Justice for J6 rally in Phoenix on Saturday is Jeff Zink, a Congressional candidate for Arizona’s 7th District who was present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. (Zink’s son was arrested in Texas the month after the riot on charges that he stormed the building.)

Zink was in D.C. over the weekend, too, where he made comments to the press that call into question his commitment to peaceful protest.

“If people aren’t heard then they go to the ballot box … that ballot box, if it’s corrupt then we have to go to the next one, which is the jury box,” Zink told Rolling Stone. “Well, now, what we’re finding out is … when we’re going to the jury box … it’s literally, you’re guilty until proven Democrat … so the last one, which we’ve only gone to once, is the ammo box.”

Incitement to violence is the Trumpster tactic. They are now a party of thugs.

Actual January 6 rioters are also scheduled to appear, including Micajah Jackson, a Phoenix resident who has marched with the white supremacist group the Proud Boys and who faces federal charges for storming the Capitol building (Jackson pleaded not guilty on all counts in July).

Greyson Arnold, a local white nationalist, outspoken Nazi sympathizer, and host of an amateur YouTube talk show is on the bill as well. And how could you have an Arizona rally in support of January 6 rioters without inviting former state Rep. Anthony Kern, who attended the Jan. 6 riots while in office and, according to an analysis by AZMirror, appeared to breach the Capitol?

This assortment of Capitol rioters and Arizona elected officials — or both, in Kern’s case — is being brought together by “Look Ahead America,” a group led by little-known former Trump campaign aide Matt Braynard. Braynard’s organization claims to want to “rewrite” the events of Jan. 6 and calls the rioters facing federal charges “political prisoners” (despite the fact that the majority of those arrested are not behind bars, and none of those convicted have yet been sentenced to more than eight months in jail). At least twelve other states will see rallies sponsored by Braynard and his group at their state capitols on Saturday, including Texas and Colorado.

Andrew Williams, a spokesperson for the Phoenix police department, wrote to New Times that the department “was not aware of any public safety concerns” related to the Sept. 25 rally in the city, and that he could not share any response plans, if they existed.

“Any response to an event will be determined by intelligence-driven information,” he added.

Oh, but if it was a Black Lives Matter protest, you can bet the Phoenix police department would be out in force to make arrests under Arizona’s new illegal protest law enacted by Republicans this past session. Somehow the new law does not apply with equal force to white nationalists, Nazi sympathizers, and MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrectionists.




5 thoughts on “Loser Palooza Event This Saturday To Promote The ‘Big Lie’ of The GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’”

  1. The Arizona Mirror adds, “GOP lawmakers will appear alongside white nationalists, Nazi apologists, at rally to support insurrectionists”, https://www.azmirror.com/2021/09/23/gop-officials-will-appear-alongside-white-nationalists-nazi-apologists-at-rally-to-support-insurrectionists/

    A rally planned for Saturday at the Arizona Capitol that aims to support “political prisoners” of the January 6 insurrection will feature speakers who are white nationalists, have endorsed Nazi ideology and are facing charges for storming the U.S. Capitol alongside GOP legislators.

    The event is organized by a group that boasts two officials from the Arizona Senate’s election “audit” on its leadership team.

    One of the speakers, “American Greyson” Arnold, has used his social media pages to post memes lauding Nazis as the “pure race” and lament the American victory in World War II. He also called Adolf Hitler a “complicated historical figure.”

    [T]he most recent slate of speakers also includes Republican state legislators Mark Finchem and Wendy Rogers — the former was at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and the latter cheered on the violent failed coup on social media — U.S. Senate candidate Jim Lamon, and congressional candidates Jeff Zink and Eli Crane.

    The lineup also includes Micajah Jackson, who is facing federal charges for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. The FBI alleges that Jackson participated in a march alongside members of the Proud Boys chapter from Arizona and that he entered knowingly without permission.

    Jackson’s online persona regularly shares conspiracy theories, and both he and Arnold are considered “Groypers,” a subset of the white nationalist community who often troll conservatives who they feel are not extreme enough. Though loosely organized and members of many different groups, groypers are almost all followers of white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

    One of the main goals of groypers is to push conservatives in a white nationalist direction and one of their strategies is by presenting their views in a mainstream appearance or within mainstream organizations.

    [A]nd two officials from the Arizona Senate’s self-styled “audit” of the 2020 election in Maricopa County hold leadership posts in Look Ahead America, the group organizing Saturday’s rally.

    Senate “audit” liaison and former Secretary of State Ken Bennett is the “state chairman” for Look Ahead America, while Julie Fisher, his deputy liaison, is the group’s “state operations coordinator.” Fisher also worked for the Trump campaign in Arizona in 2020.

    Bennett told the Arizona Mirror that he is on a “leave of absence” from the organization to focus on the election review, and was not involved in planning the event or choosing the speakers. He did not respond to additional questions about the speakers or their support of extremist and racist ideology.

    Rogers, Finchem and Lamon did not respond to a request for comment about Arnold’s past comments.

    Finchem attended Donald Trump’s rally earlier that day and marched to the Capitol. Although he insisted that he never got within 500 yards of the Capitol building, footage emerged months later showing he was directly in front of the east steps at the Capitol after pro-Trump rioters had already broken through a series of barricades and police lines, and then smashed their way into the Capitol building.

    And Zink, who is running for Congress against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, has connections to the events: His son was arrested for trespassing, assault and damaging property. Zink has said that his son is falsely accused, but the FBI contends that photos from his son’s own Facebook page and security camera footage put his son at the scene and show him damaging property.

    Lamon, who is vying for the GOP nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, has given millions of dollars to Looking Ahead America, according to reports by independent journalist Hunter Walker and Axios.

  2. Laurie Roberts of The Republic writes, “Sen. Wendy Rogers cues up the crazy (again) with her latest call to decertify the election”, https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2021/09/22/sen-wendy-rogers-cues-up-crazy-again-decertification-talk/5810505001/

    Sen. Wendy Rogers on Tuesday passed along an impassioned plea from “The American People” to her colleagues in the Senate as she ramped up her call to decertify Arizona’s election.

    Not that they actually could do that.

    Or would do that.

    Or even have a reason to consider doing that here in the real world, where things like facts and evidence and credibility and the law must be taken into account.

    It’s unclear who wrote this bizarre letter to Arizona senators this week. But Rogers clearly endorses it.

    Quoting no less than John F. Kennedy, the letter calls on the Arizona Senate to take action based on the not-yet released results of an audit conducted and paid for by the Trump conspiracy crowd.

    And it implores senators to consider the laughable conclusions of a door-to-door canvass that produced not one shred of actual evidence of fraud.

    And to consider the scientific stylings of famed CueCat inventor/treasure hunter Jovan Hutton Pulitzerand his “kinematic artifact detection,” which isn’t actually a real thing.

    And to consider the findings of various other conspiracy mongers, grifters and hangers-on who have attached themselves to the Senate audit.

    Does anybody see just how crazy this has become?

    [A]ll this, because Donald Trump lost an election?

    Goodness.

    [R]ogers didn’t explain how the Senate will make this this significant decision that will ripple through the ages when the Legislature isn’t even in session and thus can’t even vote on what to have for lunch.

    Nor did she explain how a Senate that couldn’t muster enough support to enforce its own subpoenas would be willing to topple democracy.

    Nor did she cite so much as a single law or provision of the U.S. Constitution that would allow her and her fellow senators to decertify the results of an election held nearly a year ago.

    I asked Rogers if she really intends to pursue decertification of Arizona’s election and if so, to cite the legal authority that would allow her cancel the vote of millions of Arizonans.

    Here was her reply:

    “What rock did you crawl out from under?” she replied, via Twit I have a petition with 950k signatures calling to #decertify. Did you get your orders from Soros this morning?”

    (Note: Wendy Rogers frequently engages in anti-Semitic rants against George Soros, revealing her white Christian Nationalist racist beliefs.)

    Note the lack of any legal citation or any evidence that Rogers is living here in the real world, where things like things like facts and evidence and credibility and laws must be taken into account.

    What she does have, however, are hundreds of thousands of angry Republicans whom she has pummeled with misinformation and disinformation and flat out lies about Arizona’s election, convincing them that nefarious things happened here – and, oh by the way, can you rush $100 to her campaign fund?

    [I] don’t know if the ages will ripple but they certainly will one day cringe when they look back upon what has been done to our beloved state.

    Shame on you, Senate President Karen Fann, for letting it come to this with this mockery of an election audit.

    “The American People” have spoken, Rogers tells us.

    And here I thought that’s what we did 323 days ago … .

  3. I had to go look for myself.

    That actually is Rogers profile pick.

    TIL that Wendy Rogers is an eleven year old boy who really loves movies with wizard fights.

    What a freak.

  4. The “protest” law is so vague as to be unconstitutional and useless, which is what Borrelli and Rogers are. You can write the script on report from a mile away. What are the odds the “report” says the entire election was perfect, except Rogers and Borrelli’s elections, which should be decertified.

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