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TIME Claims a Secret Cabal Manipulated the 2020 Election to Stop Trump, and People Have Questions
https://redstate.com ^ | Feb 05, 2021 9:45 AM ET | Bonchie

Posted on 02/05/2021 7:16:29 AM PST by Red Badger

This seems like the sort of thing you don’t say out loud but, like a serial killer, many in politics are just too absorbed in their own egos to not try to take credit for their deeds.

TIME wrote a very interesting piece making some very alarming claims. Namely, that a secret cabal banded together across the country to stop Donald Trump from winning re-election. This included everything from manipulating media coverage to getting election laws changed, at least according to TIME’s account.

Wat https://t.co/GiKXiWGduD pic.twitter.com/h0Z9yrPETf

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 5, 2021

If you had said this out loud on Twitter a few months ago, it would have gotten you banned. https://t.co/hub7XtzKfh

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 5, 2021

Yeah, this seems like a pretty big deal to me, and nakedly undemocratic, at least if you care about that sort of thing. Politics is inherently manipulative on some level, I suppose, but working to change election laws and quenching the flow of information to affect an election is a bit past your typical bluster on the stump.

Of course, none of this is especially groundbreaking to those who have been paying attention. For all the chatter about “dark money” and “interfering in elections,” it’s always been those on the left (and that includes the “right-wing” Chamber of Commerce mentioned here) who have had a no holds barred approach to winning. Given the control over popular culture, financial institutions, and political influence operations that the left wields, it’s hardly shocking they’d use every lever to defeat Trump.

Yet, the hypocrisy is still a bit much. We dealt with four years of hyperventilating about Russia and Facebook posts from anti-Trump forces, yet the reality of who is truly interfering in our elections hits much closer to home. The actions listed in the TIME article are also far, far more consequential and dangerous to free and fair elections.

I just want to say that it is the opposite of Democracy when a secret cabal of wealthy and politically connected elites conspire to manipulate the rules and laws of an election in order to win

But shit, not like this is a new storyhttps://t.co/RvTT0Kx8IX

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) February 5, 2021

No matter, this secret cabal isn’t made up of imaginary Russians so it’s all good. The left truly only care about election interference and manipulation when they deem it a threat to their own preferred outcomes. Otherwise, they are all for it. You won’t see the mainstream media decry this. You won’t see a tearful lament from Nancy Pelosi about the dangers it poses to our republic. Rather, this will all be ignored. Heck, it’ll be celebrated as a brilliant political strategy.

And while I’m sure some fact-checker will have qualms with me describing what this group did as manipulation, I believe the objective definition of that word more than applies here. When you seek to stop people from having information that could affect their vote, that’s manipulation. When you go and lobby to get certain laws changed specifically to help your side, that’s manipulation. It is what it is.

Meanwhile, Republicans can get in the game or get busy losing again.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1621; bideneffect; bloggers; cabal; deepstate; democrats; election2020; electionfraud; fortified; fraud; joestolen; loudobbs; mypillow; neilcavuto; newsmax; republicans; stolenelection; stopthesteal; timemagazine; trump; trump2020; voterfraud
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To: Red Badger
The most important takeaway from Quinn’s research, however, was that engaging with toxic content only made it worse. “When you get attacked, the instinct is to push back, call it out, say, ‘This isn’t true,'” Quinn says. “But the more engagement something gets, the more the platforms boost it. The algorithm reads that as, ‘Oh, this is popular; people want more of it.'” The solution, she concluded, was to pressure platforms to enforce their rules, both by removing content or accounts that spread disinformation [as defined by the Left] and by more aggressively policing it in the first place... In November 2019, Mark Zuckerberg invited nine civil rights leaders to dinner at his home, where they warned him about the danger of the election-related falsehoods that were already spreading unchecked...

Throughout election season, members of Podhorzer’s group minimized incidents of voter intimidation..They didn’t want to amplify false claims by engaging them,...Podhorzer, meanwhile, was warning everyone he knew that polls were underestimating Trump’s support.

The racial-justice uprising sparked by George Floyd’s killing in May was not primarily a political movement. The organizers who helped lead it wanted to harness its momentum for the election...

Activists began preparing to reprise the demonstrations if Trump tried to steal the election. “Americans plan widespread protests if Trump interferes with election,” Reuters reported in October, one of many such stories...

More excerpts of an almost 7,000 word article:

About a week before Election Day, Podhorzer received an unexpected message: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wanted to talk...Neil Bradley, the Chamber’s executive vice president and chief policy officer....wanted to send a broader, more bipartisan message. He reached out to Podhorzer, through an intermediary both men declined to name....

Trump addressed the crowd that afternoon, peddling the lie that lawmakers or Vice President Mike Pence could reject states’ electoral votes. He told them to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell.” Then he returned to the White House as they sacked the building. As lawmakers fled for their lives and his own supporters were shot and trampled, Trump praised the rioters as “very special.” It was his final attack on democracy, and once again, it failed. By standing down, the democracy campaigners outfoxed their foes. “We won by the skin of our teeth, honestly, and that’s an important point for folks to sit with,” says the Democracy Defense Coalition’s Peoples.

101 posted on 02/05/2021 12:16:02 PM 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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To: agatheringstorm

Talk about “getting out in front of a story”; this is probably the most epic example of getting out in front of a story that I’ve ever seen. If an investigative journalist like John Solomon were to have uncovered all of this and written the story without all of the leftist spin, this would be the story of the decade.
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BINGO

They complain about a couple of smashed windows at the Capital?
ha!


102 posted on 02/05/2021 12:16:56 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Red Badger

Looks like those foreign nations that interfered in the 2020 election want people to stop talking about it. Time to point to America as the key player. Just like China sneering that China virus (Corona) was created by the US.


103 posted on 02/05/2021 12:34:04 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Red Badger

They never changed the law to the extent that it allowed votes to be switched from Biden to Trump.

Or ballots to be filled out illegally.


104 posted on 02/05/2021 12:36:28 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: iontheball

yup.


106 posted on 02/05/2021 12:42:57 PM PST by MIA_eccl1212 (When the bad guys have leverage they use it)
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To: EEGator

a participant that’s who...


107 posted on 02/05/2021 12:45:21 PM PST by MIA_eccl1212 (When the bad guys have leverage they use it)
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To: Red Badger

Election Fraud bump for later....


108 posted on 02/05/2021 1:03:26 PM PST by indthkr
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To: null and void

Yeah but there are always a few that get some courage or want to act impartial after the fact.

But you’re right. At least it’s being reported.

What scares me are the INSANE election laws dems want to pass while they have the majorities.

Online voting. Don’t even need SS number.

Universal mail in ballots.

16 year olds voting.

Unlimited harvesting.

Trump still has a lot of work to do.

He is the ONLY one who will say out loud what is going on and he needs to get his own organization going...so his message gets heard and can be found easily.

Poor guy. He’s still our biggest hope and he’s not even in office.


109 posted on 02/05/2021 1:16:48 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

which may be why the cabal is driving Biden to strip the military of its oath-keeping, committed American patriots.
even as we speak... trying to identify and drive them out.

I suspect that this is also why the traitors want their CCP and globalist enclaves protected, like DC is with “no go” areas that are closed or cordoned off using razor wire to designate their “green” zone habitats.

Funny the traitors don’t realize they have voluntarily agreed to be surrounded by razor wire like criminals... the metaphor is lost on them because they are just too flipping stupid to figure it out.


110 posted on 02/05/2021 1:43:51 PM PST by MIA_eccl1212 (When the bad guys have leverage they use it)
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To: struggle
They might be trying to get out ahead of some things that are about to break.

https://michaeljlindell.com/

111 posted on 02/05/2021 1:53:31 PM PST by SisterK (Let the King of my heart Be the fire inside my veins)
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To: MIA_eccl1212

I think the cabal know what is happening. Hence the desperate death throes. EO’s nobody is following etc. They know the troops are there to cage them they just don’t want you to know it.


112 posted on 02/05/2021 2:31:05 PM 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: Heartlander


113 posted on 02/05/2021 2:37:42 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: Red Badger

Only the true braindead believe creepy Biden got 80 million votes and won.


114 posted on 02/05/2021 2:45:54 PM PST by bcr100 (ht)
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To: Red Badger

Uh oh... Time is going to lose their twitter account!


115 posted on 02/05/2021 3:17:40 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: sevinufnine

That is truth, well said.


116 posted on 02/05/2021 3:44:09 PM PST by Ambrosia (Born in NC, then PA, NY,WV, NM, SC, and FL & back God/Freedom=Priority!)
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To: Red Badger

Military going full China vaccine push now in the United States.

Remember those pictures?


117 posted on 02/05/2021 4:17:39 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: a fool in paradise
“...the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.”

Aka, “The Resurrection of The Third Reich” here in the USA. Unbelievable!

118 posted on 02/05/2021 7:04:53 PM PST by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds to me like white hats are in control.


119 posted on 02/06/2021 12:28:47 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Red Badger

Save


120 posted on 02/06/2021 12:53:08 AM PST by octex
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