How an obscure Texas security firm helped convince Americans the 2020 election was stolen from Trump

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

WaPo Does Deep Dive Into Origins Of “The Big Lie”
May 10, 2021

The Washington Post reports:

Key elements of the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump took shape in an airplane hangar here two years earlier, promoted by a Republican businessman who has sold everything from Tex-Mex food in London to a wellness technology that beams light into the human bloodstream.

At meetings beginning late in 2018, as Republicans were smarting from midterm losses in Texas and across the country, Russell J. Ramsland Jr. and his associates delivered alarming presentations on electronic voting to a procession of conservative lawmakers, activists and donors.

Briefings in the hangar had a clandestine air. Guests were asked to leave their cellphones outside before assembling in a windowless room. A member of Ramsland’s team purporting to be a “white-hat hacker” identified himself only by a code name.

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[MySideOfTown]

1. Now we know where TFG got the idea

to shine a light up your ass to cure covid, and a bonus on how to cheat on the election.

[catrose]

2. My first thought

[certainot]

3. they might have helped with coordination and a few talking points but as usual with all this,

without trumputin friend limbaugh to steer 1500 radio stations for them they couldn't do squat.

it's fucking absurd that media keeps ignoring the elephant pile under the rug, the talk radio monopoly that's been used to set up the pretext for all this. if they analyzed limbaugh's transcripts they'd see all the same stuff coming out of limbaugh's ass too, which made it much easier to sell to republicans whos political success depended on parroting limbaugh