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We need to learn how to talk to (and about) accidental conspiracists (Ruby Freeman did nothing but sell handbags)
Nieman Lab ^ | 12/19/20 | Ben Collins

Posted on 01/03/2021 3:41:06 AM PST by Libloather

I want to talk about Ruby Freeman.

Really, I want to talk to Ruby Freeman, but I can’t. She has been, bravely and correctly, off the grid since some psychopaths doxxed her shortly after the election.

I bet you don’t know who Ruby Freeman is, and that would make you a normal person. Here’s some background.

In reality, Ruby runs one of those kiosks in the middle of the mall that sells ladies’ accessories, purses - that sort of thing. She also helped count ballots in Georgia last month. Her business is called Lady Ruby’s Unique Treasures, and I don’t recommend you look at the Instagram comments for that store anymore.

That’s because, on 4chan and far-right blogs, she is some sort of Sith Lord/Al Capone combo, who personally stole the election by doing…something with briefcases? That part’s unclear, but what the QAnon people are certain of is Ruby Freeman - a 60-something election worker who also sells handbags at the mall - is part of the global conspiracy to steal the election.

**SNIP**

A lot of America slipped into conspiracy thinking during this pandemic, and they got there from yoga Instagrams and NFL forums and private church choir Facebook groups that were systematically invaded by QAnon and anti-vax recruiters. It’s going to be a rude awakening in the next few months as we find out which of our friends got sucked into truly astonishing tales of New World Orders and Great Resets that helped them cope - and just so happen to be spectacularly wrong.

We’re going to have to learn to create a vocabulary to talk about how their friends fell down the wrong YouTube hole and came out speaking another language.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: conspiracy; freeman; georgia; nbc
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Slowly and not too pryingly, you’ll suggest that maybe they shouldn’t trust things they heard on Facebook.

Or NBC.

Ruby Freeman didn't lawyer up because she sells purses at the mall. A plan was concocted and she was given orders on how to properly stuff voting machines. She followed those orders without knowing her actions were being recorded. She should have known that her actions will put her behind bars for a long time.

1 posted on 01/03/2021 3:41:06 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

If she did nothing but sell handbags, then why did she get a lawyer?


2 posted on 01/03/2021 3:42:54 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (We must FIGHT, I repeat it sir, we must FIGHT! -Patrick Henry)
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To: Libloather
We are here, because the old, dominant, progressive Media has repeatedly and viciously lied about President Trump for 4, almost 5, years.

The lies were blatant, easily proven, and destructive to the nation.

3 posted on 01/03/2021 3:48:56 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Libloather

Ruby Freeman is:

1) Black
2) Female
3) Democrat

I give the chances of her going to jail somewhere between slim and none and I believe I just saw slim mount his horse and ride out of town.


4 posted on 01/03/2021 3:49:52 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: EvilCapitalist

And she was not alone, her Daughter was also caught in the same video..

Who writes this propaganda crap thinking we believe them or our own eyes...

The Left propaganda machine is as crooked at the voting machines....

He next move would be picking the doors, because her usefulness to the DS is now over.

Well done chan’s for exposing the fraud...!!!!

Respects


5 posted on 01/03/2021 3:52:08 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: Libloather

Perfectly natural for someone involved in vote processing in a presidential election to be allowed to bring in her merch so she could run her side gig.
Nothing to see here.


6 posted on 01/03/2021 3:53:44 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

She could become a very wealthy, but possibly dead woman for coming out and telling the truth.


7 posted on 01/03/2021 3:54:05 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Libloather

except it won’t. Nothing is going to happen.
Not through our laws, courts or elected officials.
Nothing.


8 posted on 01/03/2021 3:54:54 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Libloather

Ruby is a snake in human clothing, and so is her fellow traveler who concocted this “article,” otherwise known as a pack of lies.


9 posted on 01/03/2021 3:56:50 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for empty smirking pantsuit Kamala Harris for President)
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To: Swiffer_Ralf

Democrats write this crap and have been for more than 60 years. For democrats, it isn’t conspiracy, it is a way of life.


10 posted on 01/03/2021 3:57:20 AM PST by exnavy
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To: Libloather
Handbag sales woman?
That's like saying Jeffrey Dahmer was just a wannabe surgeon.
11 posted on 01/03/2021 3:57:28 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Libloather
She "did somthing with briefcases" ???

Yes, she dragged them out from under the table where they were hidden, pulled ballots out, and started stuffing them into the machines.

"That part is unclear"

No, it isn't.

Why isn't this woman in a room under some hot lights? Why isn't someone offering her some sort of immunity, In exchange for giving up who put the briefcases under there, who told her they were stuffed with ballots, And who told her to start pulling them out and stuffing them into the machines. Who told her to give the order to clear the room?

I'm pretty certain she is not the criminal mastermind behind the plot

12 posted on 01/03/2021 3:58:15 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K

the writer, Ben Collins is NBC, ex-Daily Beast:

Nieman Lab: PREDICTIONS FOR JOURNALISM 2021
Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2020, here’s what they had to say.
https://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2021/

Wikipedia: The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is the primary journalism institution at Harvard...
Several prestigious literary or journalism awards are based at the Nieman Foundation. They include three given in connection with the Columbia University School of Journalism...

Ben Collins (NBC) Retweeted
Tweet: Chris Krebs
New year, same old #disinfo. The election wasn’t stolen. Anyone that tells you otherwise, including the President and the objectors, are lying to you. Many are angry he didn’t win, but that’s on the campaign & these claims are harmful to our democracy. There will be a reckoning.
2 Jan 2020
https://twitter.com/C_C_Krebs/status/1345170403552067584

he’s been associatd with Brandy Zadrozny (NBC) previously, & noted at FR:

AUDIO: 53m07s: 7 Aug: Brookings Institution: Podcast: Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny explain QAnon
BEN COLLINS and Brandy Zadrozny are NBC News reporters focusing on mis- and disinformation in health and politics. Here, they speak with Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic and Evelyn Douek about QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory built around anonymous internet posts heralding Donald Trump as the righteous leader of a struggle against a cabal of “deep state” elites running an extensive child sex trafficking operation. They discussed how social media platforms have allowed QAnon to spread and how its ability to plug into other conspiracy theories, permeate the mainstream, and incite offline violence have made it particularly pernicious.
https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/podcast-ben-collins-and-brandy-zadrozny-explain-qanon/

21 Oct: Revolver: Meet NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny — The Woman In Charge of Doxxing and Destroying Trump Supporters
https://www.revolver.news/2020/10/brandy-zadrozny-dox-trump-supporters-glamorize-pedophiles/


13 posted on 01/03/2021 4:13:52 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

there are only two types of people in the FakeNewsMSM.

one, those who know Trump won the election.

two, those who pretend Biden won.


14 posted on 01/03/2021 4:14:46 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: exnavy

I totally agree


15 posted on 01/03/2021 4:18:17 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: MAGAthon

meant to note the Collins artice and one by Zadrozny are part of:

Nieman Lab: PREDICTIONS FOR JOURNALISM 2021

the rest of the articles - a lengthy list - look just as un-readable.


16 posted on 01/03/2021 4:18:33 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

What’s funny is so many of the same writers who now say Trump’s challenge to election fraud is a “threat to democracy” were the SAME ones who four years ago backed Jill Stein’s lawsuits and Hillary claim she really won, and then helped concoct a story—out of whole cloth—about how the Russians won the election for Trump and he conspired with them to do so.


17 posted on 01/03/2021 4:27:24 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: MAGAthon

Apparently the folks at NBC news know how to investigate innocent people without even looking at the evidence.


18 posted on 01/03/2021 4:28:56 AM PST by Tom Bombadil
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To: Libloather

What a bunch of leftist drivel. Ruby Freeman and her daughter are lucky they aren’t in jail for a long time. IF all’s right in the world, they and a bunch of their co-conspirators will wind up there eventually. What they did to this country is truly a travesty. Much worse, IMHO, than anything done by BLM or Antifa.


19 posted on 01/03/2021 4:40:00 AM PST by upchuck (The deep state swamp: You gotta be a snake killer or a snake. ~ h/t .44 Special)
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To: Libloather

Ben Collins spent a lot of words to say nothing.

All he said is that a lot of people watched Ruby on video and drew a logical conclusion from those videos that something nefarious was going on.

Then because those people naturally wanted to talk to others about it that they are spreading conspiracy theories.

Well, I hate to the one to say it, but conspiracies do exist. All the available evidence points to this woman being involved in Voting Fraud.

Ruby should be investigated. Ruby should be subpoenaed and questioned under oath. We should know what she was doing with those suitcases.

The very fact that those tables were draped was a violation of law. There were so many violations of law going on in that room that the that video in itself should be grounds to decertify that states election.

Ruby is the tip of an iceberg the size of Texas.

Ben wasted a lot of words to say nothing. His little post is an effort to sway minds in to thinking that those that see voter fraud under every table are confused simple minded dupes.


20 posted on 01/03/2021 4:43:55 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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