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.
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— 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.
I agree but it wasn’t secret unless you consider the pedophilia in the Lincoln Project secret despite the fact guys like Karl Rove knew about it since the 80s
They definitely worked to defeat Trump and just like the bills they now have in Congress, it’s all clothed in “legality”. Everything from “They’re private companies” to “The governor issued an election order”.
And now the list is so long including “It’s official policy to invite illegals here and help them get in”.
I don’t read this as Time making a claim. They were laying out the claims that OTHERS had made.
Time is clearly not an objective source for news.
https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1357702352850083841
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
BY MOLLY BALL
FEBRUARY 4, 2021 5:40 AM EST
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.
The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.
Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump’s ouster.
They might be trying to get out ahead of some things that are about to break.
BY MOLLY BALL
A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”
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.
Corporate globalists have been anti-AMERICA for quite some time.
Who do you think conspired/consented to the global shutdown?
It’s been very good business for Big Tech. More streaming. More online shopping. More hardware (to work/school/entertain from home).
Bill Gates was barely done with his Event 201 wargame presentation when they found an opportunity to put it into play.
PEOPLE ARE NOT DROPPING DEAD IN THE STREETS FROM COVID OR BEING STACKED LIKE PLANKS OF WOOD. But that was the scene we were shown last February.
Who knew?
The swamp runs deeps friends. I grew up in Florida. In the 70’s/early 80’s we were already experiencing the problem with invasive species. It’s unknown how many Burmese pythons roam the Everglades, but estimates are in the tens of thousands. ...as in Washington and throughout our political system, thousands of “invasive species” exist. It’s said every python removed from the Everglades gives native animals down there a fighting chance. But sadly, based on the incredible reproductive rate these reptiles possess, it’s already well, known to be a losing battle. The “good/native” creatures will eventually be endangered to the point of extinction.
Sound familiar? Good politicians are on the endangered species list....and in grave danger of being eaten alive in their own habitat/swamp. :(
If you tell Dems to be sure and go vote on Wednesday, or to cast their vote at a special internet site, you're going to jail.
If you publish outrageously skewed suppression polls, or cull out the wrongly-voted ballots you've harvested then "misplace" them, you get a wink and a nod, and go on your merry way.
Significantly, the story omits all mentions of Soros using his dollars to elect hyper-partisan activists to such positions as prosecutors, attorneys general and secretaries of state when such officeholders could manipulate election procedures and control the vote counting.
Zuckerberg’s charitable donations to election boards and commissions came with strings attached and ought to have been called out as election interference. Ballot security measures and signature verification rules were largely tossed. If illegally cast ballots were rejected monosyllablic Joe would be mumbling to himself in his basement.
Of course, let’s overlook Pennsylvania and Wisconsin where voting procedures were changed without legislative approval.
I knew Rove was a POS, but what man turns a blind eye to pedophilia?
Bernie the Bolshevik tried to sell us western style socialism. They ‘re going full stop Stalin or Mao, depends on how many di ions they have.
Rather than utterly ignoring it.
That could be called a first step...
Divisions
“I knew Rove was a POS, but what man turns a blind eye to pedophilia?”
Answer: Another pedophile.
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