The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

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    A friend of mine made some very good observation regarding this article:

    The nit I'd like to pick with my friend is that if what he say about the article is correct, then those "wastes of skin" had the correct moral stance.
     
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    Mods: please move this to Political Opinions and Beliefs. I accidentally posted in the wrong form! Thanks
     
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    It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”
    From the linked article. ^^^^^^^

    I think the article is point to something Christopher Krebs, trumps head of cyber security in charge of the election stated. This was one of the most secure elections in USA history.
     
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    . The chief difference between the U.S. and countries that lost their grip on democracy, he concluded, was that America’s decentralized election system couldn’t be rigged in one fell swoop. That presented an opportunity to shore it up.
    Also from the link.

    I think this is the biggest reason it is very difficult to fraud an entire election.
    And a big big reason for not having National elections. As of now, we have 50 separate state elections. Each run by the 2 parties, separately from every other state.
    Makes it extremely difficult to rig an election.
     
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    The article inadvertently admits that the election was rigged. It just editorializes all of the manipulations as positive. It really is some 1984 ****.

    But hey, this is what America is. There are only 2 options now. One of them I can't say here, but the other is leaving the country. I'll probably opt for the latter.
     
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    One man's saved election is another man's stolen election. Or something like that I may have gotten it wrong.
     
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    Cambridge Analytica Ltd was has been shown to possibly be one of the main contributing factor to a trump presidency.
    Why is nothing an issue as long as it is beneficial to Republicans but “1984” when Democrats (and this wasn’t just Democrats, it was members from all affiliations that saw the jeopardy trump and his cult — no one here of course — was putting America in)
     
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    This election was only the most recent sign. This country has been corrupt as hell for a long time, but I was reluctant to admit it until now. It's not about party, because both are corrupt.

    The system itself is irredeemable.
     
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    Unfortunately, I don’t disagree
     
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    We likely disagree on some of the details, but ultimately, the important thing is to understand the nature of the system we're dealing with.

    Too many people put their trust in a system that simply uses them. Some even mistakenly think they are free. I was one of them for the longest time. I have to admit that there are times when I wish I still had that illusion.
     
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    You're on a roll... all good posts above by you.

    I agree. They are admitted how they rigged the election in every way they could imagine. From the massive amount of Dark Money Biden received (record breaking), to the MSM rigging their coverage, to suppression of the vote by our "Free Press". I think they didn't intend to reveal their Orwellian machinations, but they did. I think many on the Left actually think this is alright. They have been conditioned that the ends justify the means. It's pretty sick stuff.
     
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    :roflol:

    "sick stuff"? :bored:

    Actually, there seems to be a massive outpouring of Sour Grapes from people who still can't accept the results of a Free and Fair Election.

    Anyway, as to the OP, I like Molly Ball--And, she made some very good points.

    Tl;Dr--Politics Ain't Fair--Just WIN, Baby...

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    At some point, you may realize that the only side that wins is the elite. They don't care about your interests or the public's. That's not sour grapes. That's just reality.
     
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    Yeah, I'm sure it was hard to rig this election. But being hard, doesn't mean impossible. In fact the article proves such.

    Fortify the election? By working behind the scenes out of sight by The People? By changing rules and laws? Steering media coverage and controlling the flow of information? I reject the bald faced lie that they were not rigging the election. You rig elections by doing exactly what they did. By controlling information. By changing the rules and laws to favor one side. By hiding the truth from The People. THAT is how you rig an election.

    Even MSN admits that if more people had known about Hunter Biden then they would not have voted for Biden and that it would have given Trump a clear win. Media's hiding of Hunter Biden scandal robbed Trump of clear win: Poll

    And yet they suppressed the information about Hunter Biden. Youtube refused to let The New York Posts video stay up. Claiming that they would not allow hacked information to stay up. Twitter did the same. Well, like DeSantis said....you can pee on my leg but don't tell me its rain. If that information had been against Trump they would have left it up and promoted it.

    You have an article right here claiming, admitting, that the Elites conspired to rig the election. Admitting that they conspired to do these things. That they did everything that they could to suppress Trump.

    Oh yeah, they say that they were just "fortifying" the election. That they were combating "misinformation" (Hunter Biden was not "misinformation"). That they were doing it all in our best interests.

    Bullshit. They were rigging the election to get Trump removed. They couldn't let The People decide for themselves. They had to manipulate The People.

    This was a rigged election. Period. Straight out of a dictators handbook at that.
     
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    You have them admitting that they rigged the election. And you don't care. Because it got rid of Trump. You must not be American. Because no True American would accept this.
     
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    Lol...you gotta love the amount of bullshit that sour grapes can produce.
    Let’s cut to the chase, eh?
    If trump had won, you people wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about rigged elections, so spare us the faux outrage.
     
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    The article is definitely trying to paint the stolen election as something positive. It isn't.
     
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    Wrong. I waited for four years for proof the Russians had any significant influence on the 2016 election. We had a Special Counsel investigation and spent millions on it and it produced very little.
     
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    If you change 100k of the 161 million votes, you change the entire election.

    So, no, that is a stupid excuse. I'm amazed that people still try and repeat it as some sort of justification as to why it's impossible.

    And in reality, you could change the entire election with a lot less.
     
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    No true American accepted trump’s sedition attempt.
    This is what happened to the trump cult when they tried to start an insurrection.
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    Lol...If you had changed 70k votes in 2016, you would have changed the entire election. Got any more stupid excuses?
     
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    So... we agree?

    It's stupid we agree?
     
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    I agree that whining about voter fraud is stupid.
     
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