Posted on 05/17/2023 6:44:08 AM PDT by nitzy
I think I've had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people at the Capitol on 1/6, and probably even Trump himself. Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to them is that, while they'll defend those positions w/info they got from Hannity or Breitbart or whatever, they're not particularly attached to them.
Here are the facts - actual, confirmed facts - that shape their perspective: The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan's July 2016 memo, etc). These are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. The intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (incl forged documents) is a big deal to them. Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. We only learned the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence because of a court order. Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew. This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff - who were on TV saying they'd seen clear evidence of collusion w/Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn't - all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was ALL fake. At first, many Trump ppl were worried there must be some collusion, because every media & intel agency wouldn't make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning, and shed many illusions about their gov't when it didn't happen.
We know as fact:
a) The Steele dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign
b) The FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op
c) Steele's source told the FBI the info was unserious
d) they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying.
Trump supporters know the collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam, then watched as every institution - agencies, the press, Congress, academia - gaslit them for another year. Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The DoJ, press, & gov't destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected admin. This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naive belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper. GOP propaganda still has many of them thinking in terms of partisan binaries, but A LOT of Trump supporters see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs Jeb Bush election.
It's hard to describe to people on the left (who are used to thinking of gov't as a conspiracy... Watergate, COINTELPRO, WMD, etc) how shocking & disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and hate ppl who don't stand for the Anthem. They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or gov't official, because they feel most betrayed by them. The idea that the press is driven by ratings/sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they'd be all over the Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.
This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true. They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots. They always claimed the media had liberal bias, fine, whatever. They still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. Now they don't. It's a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence.
Time Mag told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving, among others, leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution. Throughout the summer, Democrat governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn't just the mail-ins (they lowered signature matching standards, etc). After the collusion scam, the fake impeachment, Trump ppl expected shenanigans by now. Re: "fake impeachment", we now know that Trump's request for Ukraine to cooperate w/the DOJ regarding Biden's $ activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. Then you get the Hunter laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a "mistake" - but, ya know, the election's over, so who cares? IT goes w/o saying, but: If the NY Times had Don Jr's laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the NYT wouldn't have been banned.
Think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. The NY Post was banned for reporting on true information. The reaction of Trump ppl to all this was not, "no fair!" That's how they felt about Romney's "binders of women" in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13m more votes than in 2016, 10m more than Clinton got! As election night dragged on, they allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew. Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real.
Media & Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange - the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc - but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!). Everyone knows that, just as Don Jr's laptop would've been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would've been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof. Even the courts' refusal of the case gets nowhere w/them, because of how the opposition embraced mass political violence. They'll say, w/good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house?
It's a fact, according to Time Magazine, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were "protests", but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too. Forget the ballot conspiracies. It's a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system. They knew it was unconstitutional, it's right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn't see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn't implied, it was direct.
a) The entrenched bureaucracy & security state subverted Trump from Day 1
b) The press is part of the operation
c) Election rules were changed
d) Big Tech censors opposition
e) Political violence is legitimized & encouraged
f) Trump is banned from social media.
They were led down some rabbit holes, but they are absolutely right that their gov't is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost; it might've kept him alive.
“Judges have families, too.”
They should be just as concerned about the right as the left.
They only fear the left, and thus we get the boot. Until we react in kind nothing will change.
This is also a good essay on why the only way out of this morass is a military intervention.
No Voter ID
Automatic voter registration
All mail in ballots
5 states stop counting ballots at 3:00 a.m. because Dems are behind, after counting resumes, Dems win...
Ballot Harvesting
etc...
This is also a good essay on why the only way out of this morass is a military intervention.
Close, but the military has been subverted. Obama saw to that. See recent recruiting efforts to confirm.
The only way out of this is the 2A. (which is under a direct attack fueled by “mass” shootings)
Bttt.
5.56mm
Trump did not lose. we let the steal happen.
bfl
what they don’t get is that antifa and the blm were working with the deep state on J6.
In the first week or two after J6 —there were hundreds of youtubes that showed antifa knocking down barriers and breaking windows. they showed antifa coming out of busses in groups for the J6 event.
they all disappeared.
This essay lays out a good case for why many would believe 2020 was a sham election. I still think Dems gamed the system and exploited covid but Trump lost by taking their bait. And we know from the Roe leak at SCOTUS that the Left have no problem making death threats against members of the highest court, violating law by protesting at their homes in an attempt to intimidate them and there is no accountability. Judges only have to be human to see themselves in the Left’s target and rule against Trump.
It goes further, we had a Democrat in the form of Joe saying racist things while Trump was falsely accused of being a white supremacist over and over. The lies, misinformation and fakes news are very real, very partisan, and there’s no accountability.
The reality is, we should all be in the streets daily demanding action and accountability but we have lives and jobs to go to, we can’t rent a mob. The scam seems bigger than we are. It’s not surprising there was a protest at the capitol. It’s surprising it was mostly tourists meandering through.
Only part of the military has been subverted. Not all. Go read Trump’s Executive orders which for some unknown reason Biden has renewed every year. Then take a look at the law of war manual. To this day nobody knows what is in Trump’s PEAD’s (presidential emergency action documents) which he wrote before departing DC. They are so highly classified even Congress cannot look at them.
I feel pretty sure Trump instituted continuity of government before leaving DC. Everything we are witnessing now is the red pulling of the public so they finally see that the DOJ, the Congress and the courts are too corrupted to clean up the country.
It is amazing how quiet the FISA judges have been in regards to the entire crime. As I said in another thread, “the dog that doesn’t bark speaks loudly”.
I grew up in the Philly area and had my radio locked on KYW 1060 when the Phillies weren't playing. Last night I Ihearted KYW 103.9 to hear the local news on the mayoral primary. Instead, they were interviewing some local academic on the issue of voting in general. He was talking about how Philadelphia was working hard on ensuring voter rights but needed to do more (Saturday voting, weeks-early voting) instead of requiring that people have to bring their "birth certificates" to the polls (as a joke). He then talked about the "horrible" bill that was just passed in Florida, which was mostly technical revisions but requiring voter ID, as if it were the institution of a right-wing dictatorship. It reminded me of how wide the gulf is between us and them, and "them" aren't going to give up ever, so we must never lessen our diligence.
It is RACIST to claim minorities have difficulty obtaining Gov’t issued photo ID.
Hell we have money/banking transfers, etc without problems.
Voting should/could be handled the same way. JMO
It is entirely possible we have reached Rand's tipping point where the looters and moochers outnumber the producers. If so, then the USA is getting the exact government it desires - and there is no realistic way for the producers to make the public not want it.
You presume a virtue not in evidence in those assigned the duties of programming.
Actually, we could, but that isn't the problem. All "mobs" have more than their share of government plants. The difference is that their mobs' plants are there to help the mobs succeed (cf. "Antifa"), while our mobs' plants are be there to ensure they fail (cf. "1/6").
This is why military intervention is eventually going to be the only way this is turned around. We are seeing a practice run in today's news, with the FL National Guard being sent to the border, to do what the border patrol can't and the US military won't. Red states need to be expanding their National Guards, since they, alongside the citizen resistance, are the military that would fight the left's military.
“They led a lynch mob against a high school kid.”
Two high school kids. First the Covington kid, then Rittenhouse.
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