Before I tune out for the weekend I'm going to write some indisputable facts. Anyone can verify these at http://fec.gov/data .

Parler took in $253,475 in advertising revenue in the 2020 election cycle from three sources - @DevinNunes, a super PAC, and @mtgreenee.
@DevinNunes spent a normal-looking $1400 in mid August. @mtgreenee spent a normal-looking $4500 in the week leading up to November 3rd, even though her Democratic challenger @KevinVanAusdal dropped out of the race on September 11th.
After she wins her election in a landslide, she proceeds to spends over $100k the following week. This is all after Biden has been called the winner. Anyone can see this on the government-run FEC website right here. https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&recipient_name=parler&two_year_transaction_period=2020&min_date=01%2F01%2F2019&max_date=12%2F31%2F2020
The Stop Socialism Now super PAC spends $41,075 in November advertising on Parler. In their FEC filings, they always specify exactly which candidate the ad expense is for when reporting disbursements for Facebook ads. For Parler, they don't specify anyone.
@mtgreenee spends $206,500 in two weeks, then stops spending completely. Keep in mind that she still has an outstanding $500,000 that she loaned her campaign. Meanwhile her construction company has taken a $150-$350k PPP loan for COVID relief.
When @mtgreenee applied for that loan, she had to affirm that "Current economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary" - for a construction company in Georgia where COVID restrictions were especially relaxed. She loaned her campaign 3X what the government loaned her.
@parler_app is financed by billionaire conservatives and wants to be treated as any other tech company. Can the CEOs of Twitter please answer, is it normal for your politically-connected investors to have a campaign and a super PAC unload $250k onto your books in two weeks?
The Internet Archive has publicly released its scrape of Parler. It would be a very easy task for anyone to go find out what $250k in advertising revenue buys you on Parler, especially since they publicly displayed impression counts for their posts.
Keep in mind that @mtgreenee is within her rights to spend money on other candidates, she just has to report it as an in-kind contribution because there are limits in place. If she was 83% of Parler's ad revenue, she should be in ~83% of the ads.
In early 2019 she spent $27,200 of her own money on the consulting firm Landmark Communications, whose owner Mark Rountree is politically well-connected. After that initial expense, the contributions start flowing in from people with ties to @MarkMeadows and his wife.
It is highly unusual for the US Secretary of State to involve himself in a House election like that, especially when the district is guaranteed Republican. It is even more unusual to intervene on behalf of a candidate that has self-professed her belief in the QAnon conspiracy.
I'll finish with a single opinion - I think what Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, and Marjorie Taylor Greene understood before anyone is that #QAnon is America's newest voting bloc.
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