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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
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Posted on 02/05/2021 5:29:20 AM PST by MNDude

That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.“

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1 posted on 02/05/2021 5:29:20 AM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

the DS is feeling pretty insecure this morning


2 posted on 02/05/2021 5:30:04 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: MNDude

Now they confess


3 posted on 02/05/2021 5:30:20 AM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

Rubbing it in our faces thinking there will be no consequences.

L


4 posted on 02/05/2021 5:34:42 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: MNDude

It’s called a COUP. People need to swing for it.


5 posted on 02/05/2021 5:34:46 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: MNDude

I’d call that an admission of guilt.


6 posted on 02/05/2021 5:41:15 AM PST by diatomite (That grifter crook Biden or Kamella isn't my president and never will be!! Resist!!)
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To: MNDude

” ... it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”

At some point, conspiracy theories became conspiracy observation.


7 posted on 02/05/2021 5:42:25 AM PST by cdcdawg (My greatest fear is that our society will get what it deserves.)
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To: MNDude

Bttt.

5.56mm


8 posted on 02/05/2021 5:42:57 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: MNDude

Wwhat a joke! I attempted to read the article, but this was as far as I could get, “an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.”


9 posted on 02/05/2021 5:48:56 AM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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You know you can post more than a sentence from a source. 300 words below:

In a way, Trump was right.There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears...

Sometime in the fall of 2019, Mike Podhorzer became convinced the election was headed for disaster–and determined to protect it. This was not his usual purview. For nearly a quarter-century, Podhorzer, senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union federation, has marshaled the latest tactics and data to help its favored candidates win elections.. A group of liberal strategists he brought together in the early 2000s led to the creation of the Analyst Institute, a secretive firm that applies scientific methods to political campaigns..

Podhorzer began working from his laptop at his kitchen table, holding back-to-back Zoom meetings for hours a day with his network of contacts across the progressive universe: the labor movement; the institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace; resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn; progressive data geeks and strategists, representatives of donors...state-level grassroots organizers, racial-justice activists..

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

10 posted on 02/05/2021 5:51:41 AM PST by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned + destitute sinner + trust Him to save + be baptized+follow Him!)
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The insane fraud was so rampant through computers and the ballot box stuffing and cheat by mail.

Laughable that the Dildo Biden would ever win anything but for Globalists and Chinese pushing for it.

Gaslighting the obvious fraud.


11 posted on 02/05/2021 5:58:44 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: MNDude

Note Time calls it “Saved” vs. won. Glimpse into the Socialist mind of fraud and power at all costs.


12 posted on 02/05/2021 5:59:40 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Vaquero

Soon your wish will come true.


13 posted on 02/05/2021 6:01:23 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MNDude

BARF!


14 posted on 02/05/2021 6:04:03 AM PST by browniexyz
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To: MNDude

“Fortifying” — some propagandist at Time just earned a bonus for that one.


15 posted on 02/05/2021 6:07:10 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: wac3rd

They have perfected a way of governing America with only a minority support. And America’s future survival is placed in the hands of McConnell and McCarthy.

“America is fallen, is fallen!”


16 posted on 02/05/2021 6:07:57 AM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: MNDude

This is amazing. So they’re just outright admitting it, that they changed the rules of the game, got private industries to pressure and harass private citizens at government request, and coordinated at all levels, from changing and ignoring laws and staging riots, to closing Trump and supporters off from public forums and harassing them in the streets.

I was particularly taken with their perception in the fall that the election was going to “go wrong” ...that is, end up with Trump and the GOP getting in...because they were obviously alarmed by the rallies and Trump’s popularity. So they took steps.


17 posted on 02/05/2021 6:10:02 AM PST by livius
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To: MNDude

Evil masquerading as Virtue.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purposes indeed.


18 posted on 02/05/2021 6:10:14 AM PST by PBRCat
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"The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election"

Orwell's Ministry of Truth would be proud of such a headline. It's as ridiculously oxymoronic as burning a village to save it, or increasing the weekly chocolate ration from 10 grams to 5 grams.

19 posted on 02/05/2021 6:11:27 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: mo

I’d say they’re feeling pretty secure. They’re out there boasting about it openly and flaunting it because they know that they have cut off the opposition and were powerless.

Every line of this story proves Trump’s claims about the election. But they know they’re perfectly safe and they can stop pretending that it wasn’t a manipulated, illegal process that went all the way to the top.


20 posted on 02/05/2021 6:17:04 AM PST by livius
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