Wingnuttery

This is probably not a real thing:

What's troublesome though is that given some of the weird shit that comes from these clowns, it's easy to see how people could take it at face value.

Even the debunkment at Reuters waffled a little on it:

News outlets have previously reported that Perry has amplified claims that Italian satellites were involved in manipulating U.S. election results, a charge that Department of Justice (DOJ) officials dismissed as false.

The claim about Chinese thermostats used to manipulate election results has been linked to a Perry associate, Jeffrey Clark, a former DOJ official.

According to the Washington Post, Clark submitted a request in December 2020 for an “intelligence briefing about an allegation that the Chinese were controlling U.S.-based voting machines via internet-connected smart thermostats,” but the Justice Department dismissed the request as “not credible.”

We've reached a pretty bad place when the liars are telling us that the people reporting on their lying are lying.