Elon Musk's millions were behind the "Republican false-flag effort" to depress Democratic turnout with dishonest and cynical ads, you'll be shocked to hear:
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I wish it was shocking that billionaires and millionaires spend money to affect the outcome of elections but when one has the vast resources and greed, it’s expected. Too bad their humanity and empathy for the common good is so pathetic. They’ll never really get the love they yearn for.
The problem is, we all knew these ads were out there before the election. The dems knew these ads were happening. And they did nothing to combat them. They didn't even address them.
Why should we be surprised about this, only the democratic party wants to play by the rules, even though there are loopholes and ways to circumvent the every single rule.
If it’s not illegal, (or you’re not going to investigate them) then there’s no use in complaining about it. I want to see disinformation opps from the dems… This last election was won with disinformation. No one cares about the truth. Or how earnestly dems pursue it…
Given where I live, I personally received mailers that were "Harris has been great on Israel and a real friend!" and others that were "Harris has let Hamas run rampant!"
I knew they were psyops bullshit, but it wouldn't surprise me if they affected margins.
Not surprised in the slightest.. the easiest example is how often they portrayed trans issues to be a top issue for democrats when Harris was focused more on the economy and abortion rights
$215 million spent othering transgender females, a tiny % of the population that most would never meet. That is the perfect example of how modern day fascism works. Be afraid that the "they/them" ad was possibly one of the most successful in US political history.
I don’t believe Kamala lost. It was Stolen. Record turnout! Packed stadiums at Harris Rallies! Kamala got 15M less votes than Biden2020. tRump 3M less. 2020: 5 days to count mail-in ballots. 2024; election decided that night. 😡🤬🖕
I do think she still would have lost, but these tactics are undemocratic and in American regardless of their outcome. I'm sure there is some election law he broke, I wish he would see any amount of even attempted justice for doing this.
Exactly. People need to stop crowing over how much money Elon and company “lost” on Twitter. It was an investment that is about to pay off in multiples. There was too much liberal and socialist free speech on the platform.
Non affiliated adds or grey adds they call them apparently they take your data points from socials, maybe we make him/her stay home or swing vote . It’s the new electioneering brought to you by Zucks and Elon cyborg with the great help of Israeli tech based bot farms.
Channel 4 done a documentary about during the Biden Trump election and it was scathing behaviour by Republicans. The message was “Your vote counts for nothing you can’t change anything!” Facebook, Shitter megaphoned this crap. He believe he lost states he piled money into on swing voters
At the end of the day, The 15-18 million lazy democrats who stayed home and everyone who voted for Trump knew exactly who and what they were voting for. It’s only a matter of time before they get it. God help us all.
Of course they did. If they managed Brext and Trump first time...imagine how much more effective they are now. Meanwhile, legislators do nothing about social media.
Until the democrats deploy the same underhanded tactics as the republicans nothing will change. You can’t bring joy and hope to a fight against hate and anger. The objective is to win at all costs. Nothing can change until you win. Where are our “pit bulls”?
And I for one would like to know that half of my fellow Americans can’t be this darn gullible. Not with all these tools out here to inform you otherwise. The price of eggs? Really? Transgender what? Really? This isn’t a game! Lives are about to be changed in profound ways.
Most people are ok with losing. It’s just how. They would have us believe that most people voted for Democrats down ballot but either chose Trump. Or no-one at all or a third party candidate? BS. Inquiring minds need to know.
I’m afraid that Trump…this one unqualified MAN…has ruined our trust in our elections for the foreseeable future. And if we don’t find out for certain that this election was not rigged there will be more people not voting the next time. DO SOMETHING NOW!
It seems plausible. If anyone had the means it’s Musky. Trump is a cheat crook & a scared to go to jail punk. He’s a wannabe mobster. A con artist. They’re all in it together. And for the LIFE of me I don’t know why Democrats are taking the high road here. Trump wouldn’t. A deep dive here.
At the end of the day, it's the American voters who are either too ignorent or too sadistic. America got what they deserve...and the "finding-out" part has barely begun.
I know the Republican leadership wants people like me gone or dead. I’m trying to make the former happen before the Proud Boys have me on their kill list for the day.
Blame Kamala and the dems. Musk is a gross, bad touchy troll, but the republicans got handed the ideal epitome of establishment bad guy to run an "outsider" against. Trump is complete garbage and could only have made himself look good against this stupid neo-con simp.
Lets turn the page. Stacy Adam's needs to get to work. We need to start looking for talented progressives and independent and start showcasing them asap.
Was just wondering… does anyone remember our “space” hero’s from the 80’s? How exciting it was, eyes glued to the TV for a shuttle launch. Every kid having some kid of space toy. 🤔
Who’s excited now? Billionaires. Kids don’t care, there’s no more hero’s. The CEO’s failing to masquerade as them.
Musk is a twisted menace to society and democracy. I so appreciate your candor and interviewing skills.
You are exactly what a journalist is supposed to be - keep on keepin’ on 💙
This election suffered "digital psychological engineering". Fake news/vitriol/dis-mis-mal info/ conspiracies travel 5x further/deeper than truth online. X was one vector. Our 1st amendment was misused... "micro" targeting people who live online and manipulating their thoughts worked....
Kamala promising to continue support for the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestine was not a false-flag effort, saying that she was willing to break from Biden on the Capital Gains tax, silencing Palestinian voices at the DNC, these were not all false flag efforts.
Totally not a surprise.. this “movement” towards taking control of our country will employ any and every means to do so. In their minds the ends justify means and nothing is off limits. It is a coordinated effort that has been building since the early 80’s in my opinion.
Did they really suppress their opinion, though? I am a local subscriber so this is my main paper, and I can say with certainty they were far, far more clearly endorsing anyone but Trump from the get go than, say, the NYT. One more article literally would have made zero positive difference
I believe that was a panicked act of survival. A WaPo endorsement wouldn't have added to her support, it was expected anyway. The surprise endorsements from The Economist etc did nothing.
So endorsement would have done nothing but risked Trump's ire when he is openly seeking revenge and vengeance.
That's not what depressed the turnout. Stop giving excuses to Kamala. It was her depressing campaign that depressed turnout. It was her appetite for genocide. It was her refusal to hear the base. It was parading the Chaneys and having Clinton condescend Muslims. She ran a terrible campaign.
I’m not sure it matters anymore. Dems proved they will blindly put an illegal apartheid colony before their own people. I, obviously, am only speaking for myself, but I’ll never be voting for Dems again.
Pump up the jam, pump your muscle, get in tussle with your neighbours brain corpuscle. Helps with the rhyme if your name is Russel. Its GREAT to be autistic. NOT. Lol
We need to get smarter and be willing to get our hands dirty. I can’t believe we lost to a boob twice, and this time is just devastating. Just pissed off and venting. Sorry
And yet even with "foreign or domestic" they don't fight back! They bend to a fake electorate and a Con Man who now is hiding his grift before their very eyes, which are wide open BTW. I assure us all, if we are allowed to elect in 4yrs., & we win, they will stop the transfer of power.
I think what's getting lost in these comments is one idea of "hack". Whether it be starlink b.s. (personally don't believe) or voter suppression, and misinformation warfare, it was hacked.
Not saying you’re wrong or this hack took place at all. In real life I am a data scientist and software developer in some sensitive areas…all I’m saying is this is possible and needs to be either proven or disproven with facts. A simple hand recount will do it.
Or just making sure they're not registered to vote.
We lost this election in 2016. Trump getting to pick a full third of the SCOTUS and a massive amount of the federal judiciary allowed states to further disenfranchise and that's another part of how we get here.
For me, the proof is in places like North Carolina, where they booted the republican governor but still put Mango Mussolini into the White House, or how abortion ban proposals were shot down. I don’t disclaim that the money spent on propaganda, but a slim majority of Americans wanted this.
Yea…that is a good point. I’m not saying this hack is true or it is false. And a reasonable person could argue that Robinson was more repulsive than the cult leader. And he’s black. And they’re quite racist. When the proof is so simple to find, it doesn’t make sense not to look. Simple recount.
Swing states had ballots that only voted for potus and NOTHING else down ballot at orders of magnitude greater than non-swing states. This is statistically impossible in a ‘free & fair’ election. We’ve known the machines are hackable, and musk has specifically said as much. Believe what you want
It’s statistically impossible for 5-7% of Trump voters ONLY IN SWING STATES to ONLY vote for Trump and NOTHING else on their ballot, when neighboring non-swing states only have ballots like this making up .01% of his total vote.
This got lost in 2016 and is quickly getting buried again in 2024. Data is being used to manipulate elections. Peoples ’opinions’ are being reinforced with target use of psychographics.
As a person heavily involved with data science and AI, it is possible. But possible to proven it's a massive step and this only goes so far as generating a testable hypothesis
Recounts are reasonable. Assuming a conspiracy based on odd vote counts isn't really. After all--given the ad spend on the seven states I would be shocked if those ads didn't crowd out a ton of down-ballot voters, particularly low-info ones
This ad spending was quite literally new. They basically Cambridge Analytica'd the ad spend so Muslim groups were flooded with fake positive ads for Harris,but with a pro-Israel spin, and vice versa in swing states. It was designed to get votes like this and suppress Harris votes from the low-info
It’s statistically impossible for 5-7% of Trump voters ONLY IN SWING STATES to ONLY vote for Trump and NOTHING else on their ballot, when neighboring non-swing states only have ballots like this making up .01% of his total vote.
The good news is that Kamala has expansive powers on Jan 6. Send that back to the states.
Constitutionally speaking, does a president need to be alive to be president? Or is that one of those “grey areas” that 51 willing senators can erase by packing the court 🤔
There is nothing positive that can come of furthering this narrative. Yes, Elon was shitty. Yes, Donald Trump lies about everything. Yes, people were duped by false information.
The only thing we can do is move forward, plan for the midterm elections, and resist at every opportunity.
And we may not want to stop their worst plans. We stopped a lot of them last time and the idiots think everything was fine. People may need to feel the effects of their actions.
I have to admit, logic does'nt work on MAGA folks and feel like they need to see it for themself. We're all going to feel it. I just want to still have an America when it's over.
Mehdi can you please add your voice to the swathe of experts calling for a swing state recount. The evidence of irregularities is mounting and the consequences are critical for the world.
elons a sauceless gremlin freak but that’s business as usual w american politics(pacs and lobbies) in the end kamala depressed her own constituents tacking to the right and deploying liz fucking cheney
Can someone in the media make some noise about this before it is too late to request recounts? I’m not saying Trump cheated, I’m just saying we should make sure he didn’t.
Harris voters were turned off by her right wing views, you don't need a flash flag operation to do that. She did it herself because "she was speaking."
Not shocked by anything anymore. EXHAUSTED and outraged, but no longer shocked. I'm curious as to why so many men get away with abuse and rape for decades. Maybe it's time for men to take responsibility for the things men do and begin raising boys to become kind and capable instead of rapists.
What did he do with all that info he gathered from voters? He got their names, address, and voter registration status. Did he do something nefarious with it?
We saw those ads. I saw those ads and yelled into the black hole of Twitter. Did Harris’s team see those ads? Did she have a rapid response team countering those ads?
We even called in the bomb threats in key democratic voting precincts! Gotta love the left though, not a word on rigging the election! Giving me a free pass!
Yeah with the help and blessings of the Washington Post. The same paper that would not endorse her has the audacity to write this type of article. Why care now?
The disturbing idea is that the election of 2024 was not legitimate. If lying to people to get them to not vote is considered business as usual then we are closer to a Russian type government than we care to admit.
Make sure your thoughts on n this matter are heard — where they matter! It’s easy to ignore social media banter but not so easy to avoid official lines of communication that become public record upon submission.
O, now the Washington Post wants to start doing actual journalism? Here, I’ll let Mick and the boys describe our feelings about WP
And The New York Times https://youtu.be/GuyTZJyo-FY?si=1Ydz9cY3DvK5xbwp
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I loathe using this word and I don’t do so lightly, but… I truly hate these people.
Would people have been swayed if they actually, and go with me on this, “believed” in what the DNC was pushing?
If someone said Kamala was for school vouchers, sure.
If someone said Bernie was for school vouchers, bullshit.
Belief matters in games of lies.
I knew they were psyops bullshit, but it wouldn't surprise me if they affected margins.
Trump ran a corrupt campaign & lied about his plans
Wouldn’t that really be fitting.
They pretended to be Harris ads, then wildly misrepresented what her policies were.
For Muslims, it was stuff like "She hates Palestinians"
And for Jewish people, it was "She hates Israel"
Shocking is the unpreparedness or cluelessness of the dems.
https://youtu.be/zlOCucpEs5o?si=NjgJ32KBLGJHKcE4
https://youtu.be/zlOCucpEs5o?si=YQ9N1dl7L8nDBHTT
The US is no longer a functioning democracy.
It is a plutocracy. An oligarchy. And inevitably, a fascist regime bolstered by racism, Christian nationalism, and willful ignorance.
There is little hope. Violence seems inevitable.
Will they ever have the BALLS to stand up to greed?
Asking for Ind Voters who never voted for any pedophiles on the epstein list, such as Bill Clinton or Trump.
http://archive.today/2024.11.18-061030/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/15/republican-ads-false-flag/
What crazy 1920s propaganda world are we living in?
Who’s excited now? Billionaires. Kids don’t care, there’s no more hero’s. The CEO’s failing to masquerade as them.
You are exactly what a journalist is supposed to be - keep on keepin’ on 💙
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151721941
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
He’s not president yet.
So endorsement would have done nothing but risked Trump's ire when he is openly seeking revenge and vengeance.
https://youtu.be/pi6dVYinQt4
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
Exit polling seemed to line up with where everything ended up.
There are other ways to make sure your opposition's votes aren't counted. Challenging ballots, as an example.
We lost this election in 2016. Trump getting to pick a full third of the SCOTUS and a massive amount of the federal judiciary allowed states to further disenfranchise and that's another part of how we get here.
The good news is that Kamala has expansive powers on Jan 6. Send that back to the states.
Constitutionally speaking, does a president need to be alive to be president? Or is that one of those “grey areas” that 51 willing senators can erase by packing the court 🤔
The only thing we can do is move forward, plan for the midterm elections, and resist at every opportunity.
We need a Lindell for us now
But that cannot explain why 78MM voted for Putin!!
Elmo works for Putin!!
Same MO.
While I'm sure Republicans "gave it the old college try," it was Kamala herself who turned off Democratic voters.
It turns out that, not only genocide, but the blatantly obvious lying to our faces didn't sit well with us.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/vicepresident/
And The New York Times
https://youtu.be/GuyTZJyo-FY?si=1Ydz9cY3DvK5xbwp