Itchy Ears and Conspiracy Theories
How Social Media Influencers Obscured America's Color Revolution
“Itchy ears” is a figure of speech based in 2 Timothy 4:3, that refers to people’s desires, felt needs, or wants; desires that impel a person to believe whatever he wants to believe rather than the actual truth itself, which is often uncomfortable. When people have “itchy ears,” they decide for themselves what is right or wrong, and they seek out others to support their notions.
There was mass chaos in the ether on the night of November 3, 2020, and it only grew over the next seventy-eight days when former Vice President Joseph R. Biden was inaugurated the 46th President of the United States of America. There is still disagreement among Trump voters as to how exactly “the election was stolen” but what is not disputed is that something(s) very discombobulating happened.
The chaos built as various claims of election fraud developed and spread across the internet like a wind-driven California forest fire determined to destroy any chance of salvaging any truths surrounding what every American saw happen in the months preceding the election.
Some call it a coup – a color revolution -- like those the U.S. produced within former Soviet or Soviet-aligned states. The tactics used in America’s Color Revolution, which began before Trump’s 2017 inauguration, are eerily similar to those used in Yugoslavia, beginning with spreading false stories and creating division within the young, idealistic, and itchy-eared population. U.S.-trained activists take over or create protest movements that use violent and destructive riots and civil unrest amid accusations of widespread corruption and wrongdoing driving distrust of government. In America, social justice issues such as LGBT rights, racism, and over- incarceration were key to success of both Black Lives Matter and Antifa in recruiting thousands of lobotomized young people who were just venturing from their “safe spaces.”
Not to be outdone, vast numbers of Trump supporters’ “itchy ears” became inflamed when the Qanon Info Op/ PSYOP began operating - “out of the Trump White House” in October 2017, according to Alex Jones of Info Wars. The psychological damage done by that operation may never be undone and it hasn’t stopped. It is a known fact that many of the people who entered the Capitol building on 6 January 2021 were itchy-eared Qanon believers! I tried to write on Qanon several times, but the scope is just mind-boggling and fortunately, if he is being truthful and I suspect he is not, Jones said all that needs to be said about it. Whether run from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or North on I-95, the Qanon operation was an integral part of America’s Color Revolution!
The first sign of America’s doom was when Fox News called Arizona, a key state, for Joe Biden, early on election night. The second a pause in vote counting in other key states. By 4 am, there were reports of “vote flipping” – tallies for Trump and Biden seemed to reverse right on the television screen as Twitter users captured and uploaded brief videos. As the days went slowly by, several claims of election fraud were made by various right-wing internet and social media influencers.
Herein, I will briefly describe the most visible claims of election fraud from that period, all of which ignored prescient warnings from some writers that events leading up to the election, the election itself, and the aftermath, including the January 6th storming of the Capitol by undiscerning itchy-eared Trump supporters were part of America’s Color Revolution.
China Did It
Perhaps the most viewed claim, until the 18 May 2022 release of Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” documentary, was the Mike Lindell funded story produced by Brannon Howse of Worldview Weekend, with Mary Fanning, and Alan Jones. Fanning and Jones run the website, theamericanreport.com and Mary recently joined John B. Wells Caravan to Midnight show as Executive Producer.
Fanning and Jones website prioritizes a few main topics such as Gulftainer, THE HAMMER, Qatar, and many are morphed and recycled as national, or world events unfold which can then be connected to create a new story. Fanning and Jones, “THE HAMMER”, original story claimed that President Obama had used a secret system to spy on American citizens, judges, politicians, and the Supreme Court. Why, we don’t know; NSA has always spied on American citizens.
The upcoming 2020 Election was linked on 28 October and again on 31 October, 2020, to category “THE HAMMER” that “Biden Using SCORECARD and THE HAMMER to steal another U.S. Presidential Election – Just like Obama And Biden Did in 2012.’
Just how Fanning and Jones knew that “THE HAMMER and SCORECARD” were to be activated five days before the election and that “Democrats tested their technology during the Democrat [sic] party primaries” is unknown, but that should raise eyebrows of anyone with a set.
Flashback to March 2017 when the world first heard of “THE HAMMER” from Thomas McInerney on Dave Janda’s show. It is common for McInerney or another party to “break news” that is later sourced to The American Report on other independent media such as Worldview Weekend, the Dave Janda show, and others. What was surprising was that McInerney appeared on the morning of 3 November with Steve Bannon on his War Room Pandemic show repeating the Fanning/Jones 31 October claim that Joe Biden was going to steal the election unless he could be stopped. Bannon had McInerney on a second time on Election Day. McInerney stated that, ‘these are all treasonous activities, and we cannot let them do it tonight.” The HAMMER and SCORECARD story of election fraud spread widely on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media with the help of Sydney Powell and others. Itchy-eared listeners surely felt deflated after those words from Bannon and McInerney.
A great number of previously unknown details are laid out in, “Viral Slogan: Hammer and Scorecard” by Nicole Leaver and Joan Donovan on mediamanipulation.org and I encourage readers to review the piece. Leaver and Donovan do not report the details of Mike Lindell, Mary Fanning, and Brannon Howse producing a three-part, pre-inauguration, series of documentaries purporting to prove election theft. Lindell went on to host a cyber symposium in August 2021 to prove election tampering which would force the Supreme Court to overturn the election, according to Lindell. That effort failed and Lindell is facing a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, who Lindell and Fanning accused of vote switching.
What is more interesting is that the Dominion lawsuit (p. 35) in naming Mary Fanning provided her full name – Mary Fanning Kirchhoefer. Roger Parloff of Yahoo! News tracked her down but she refused to speak with him. Professor David Clements, who inserted himself into the election saga, in March 2022 claimed that “Mary’s husband Gregg Kirchhoefer of Kirkland and Ellis, which represent Dominion, had called and threatened him” for divulging what would amount to a huge conflict for Mary, assuming that those claims are true. Attorney Kellye SoRelle also claims that Mr. Kirchhoefer threatened her stating, on Twitter, that Mary Fanning is the wife of Kirkland and Ellis attorney, Gregg Kirchhoefer. At this point, there has been no evidence produced of wrongdoing by Dominion Voting Systems or by Mr. Kirchhoefer regarding the 2020 election.
Italy Did It
Maria Zack, founder of Nations in Action, claimed, in a 4 January 2021 conference call, that she told GA Governor Brian Kemp, of a vote-switching conspiracy in December and of the involvement of the U.S. embassy Rome and Italian government-owned Leonardo (which claimed to have been hacked as a cover). Zack claims she told President Trump all this on Christmas Eve and that she has evidence of the funding. You may recall that Patrick Byrne also visited President Trump with Sidney Powell during the Christmas 2020 season, but few mention Maria Zack.
Zack claimed that it was Tiffany Trump who put Maria in touch with her mother, Marla Maples; that Marla obtained access to President Trump for Maria Zack and her husband. Further, Zack said that she had been in touch with Michael Flynn for several weeks, that she had met with Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and others in D.C. and had been feeding information to Trump through Mark Meadows.
Watch Maria Zack speaking to the itchy eared listeners of Real America’s Voice.
More details of “Italy Did It – All Roads Lead to Rome” are available here and here with “Props to @KanekoaTheGreat, @CodeMonkeyZ, @PatrickByrne, 8kun, and others.” At this point, there has been no evidence produced of wrongdoing by U.S Embassy Rome employees or former employees, by Leonardo or its employees, or by any member of the Italian government, but that doesn’t stop itchy-eared believers from spreading the Italy Did It story.
Jovan Pulitzer & Cyber Ninjas
In a leadstories.com fact check on claims made by Jovan Pulitzer and published by “The Gateway Pundit on December 30, 2020, under the title "RAFFENSPERGER GETS CAUGHT: Georgia Ballots Were Printed DIFFERENTLY for GOP Areas vs. DEM Areas -- Election Was Rigged!" TGP caused quite a rash of itchy ears with that one.
In another election fraud claim, Jovan “Pulitzer alleged that ballots were printed in foreign countries, ballots were counterfeit and that bleed-through caused large-scale problems.” Pulitzer formed a company to contract with Cyber Ninjas’ Doug Logan who was himself contracted to help with Arizona’s election review of Pulitzer’s own claims.
Professor David Clements
David Clements was once friendly with Jovan Pulitzer, but that changed early in 2022 when the two began to feud publicly and online. Clements was put on leave from his teaching job for refusing to wear a mask; no worries – fellow election fraud . Clements gave a presentation at Mike Lindell’s failed Cyber Symposium last August.
Russ Ramsland
Russ Ramsland of Allied Security Operations Group claimed that several Michigan precincts had higher voter turnout than registered voters. Again, itchy ears heard his words and soon Russ Ramsland was a guest on several independent media shows including Economic War Room with Kevin Freeman, America Can We Talk with Debbie Georgatos, who was also on the Maria Zack conference call, CD Media’s Information Operation with L Todd Wood.
There were actions and inactions taking place in the U.S. after the 2016 election and 2017 inauguration of Donald Trump that signaled to the observant that something was very wrong in America. Black Lives Matter and Antifa were rioting regularly, destroying property and murdering people, yet few were arrested and fewer were prosecuted. Social media conversations were full of Qanon conspiracy theories while the independent media and, for a time, the mainstream media were silent. To some, it became apparent that Qanon supporters were being hoaxed, victims of an information operation or psyop. Those who saw through the fog could not reach those who believed what they heard with their itchy ears. Social media influencers rarely pushed back against the more outrageous claims stemming from the Qanon operation.
When the 2020 election resulted in a “win” for Joe Biden, social media influencers scattered, each in their own direction, and made claims of election fraud while providing no evidence. Thousands of hours of podcast audio and Bitchute or YouTube video were broadcast to the shocked and sad itchy-eared Trump supporters who heard what they wanted to hear and few if any discussed the state capture of our country in America’s Color Revolution.