I don't think we did choose him. There was so much disenfranchisement, voter suppression, misinformation, misleading ads, foreign interference, & possibly voting machine hacking in this election. Why couldn't I get my swing state to do a hand recount audit with a paper trail? They've said nothing. - ThreadSky

zenzinnia.bsky.social • 9 days ago

I don't think we did choose him. There was so much disenfranchisement, voter suppression, misinformation, misleading ads, foreign interference, & possibly voting machine hacking in this election.

Why couldn't I get my swing state to do a hand recount audit with a paper trail? They've said nothing.

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adibug12.bsky.social•9 days ago

I agree. Things do not add up and all swing states should be doing audits!!! The election truth alliance has some interesting data.

destiny-plus.bsky.social•9 days ago

It’s scary if we let “misinformation, misleading ads, foreign interference” get the best of us then we have no business eliminating the department of education or Voice of America. Too many dumb voters or we still don’t know how precious democracy is.

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

We've allowed this.

Our "truth in advertising" law exempts political ads.

22 out of 25 of the largest political voices on X & FB are right-wing propaganda.

Fox "News" stated in a court filing that their network is not intended to be factual. It's for entertainment only. Do viewers know that?

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

There were misleading "transgender ads" that ran non-stop for months leading up to the election in my swing state. It was during every single commercial break. I think that's a big part of what swung the election here.

scubistacy.bsky.social•9 days ago

How weak are the people who are afraid of men who wear dresses? Come on, this is embarassing.

feliatrix.bsky.social•9 days ago

This kind of misses the point though doesn’t it? The “ad” didn’t force people to vote for this. Propaganda works because it preys on desires. Those trans ads worked because Americans love to bully what they perceive to be weak. A man in a dress in their minds. We’re not as great as we think we are

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

I agree, but if our truth in advertising law applied to political ads, they couldn't have run them. Trump signed the transgender rights law during his first term, not Biden. The ad made it seem like transgender ADULTS were playing on sports teams with minor girls. Where in America would that happen?

beachjon.bsky.social•9 days ago

Propaganda works when it comes from many places and is continuous and because many Americans lack critical thinking skills.

hansumjay.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yep! It only works on the people who want it to work

lobleytea.bsky.social•9 days ago

It also worked because transphobia is rampant in our country making trans people an easy scapegoat. We need to do more as as country to stand up to that.

albireo-50.bsky.social•9 days ago

They view it as if it is.

frommelenchen.bsky.social•9 days ago

Greg Palast did find this as well.
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

theolivegal.bsky.social•9 days ago

Please check out Election Truth Alliance. They’re published data showing clear vote manipulation in swing states that swung the vote away from Harris to Trump. This isn’t conspiracy theory. It’s based in fact, including that Trump breached voting machine data in multiple swing states in 2021.

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

I know. I've seen it. DOGE staffer, Ethan Shaotran wrote an election hacking program in 2020 that masquerades as "election security software." He and Musk were traveling around together to all the swing states in the months leading up to the election. Then he magically gets a job in DOGE.

theolivegal.bsky.social•9 days ago

Whoah! Is there any documentation of this? How did you see it? Might want to contact Election Truth Alliance with that info. I’ve personally been working with some folks I know in threat intelligence looking into POC attacks on known vulnerabilities in the software. But this could be a smoking gun…

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

Here's the website from 2020 HackGT7 with dates that correspond to the dates of the test files.

Not only was it sponsored by X, but also by facebook, Microsoft, & the Clinton Foundation, among others. This issue probably goes really deep. I wonder if it's all linked to Curtis Yarvin.

https://2020.hack.gt/

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

Here's the archived devpost page with DOGE staffer Ethan Shaotran on it. At the bottom, it says, "The generation script (https://generate.py) enables the generation of semi-randomized ballots that fit certain satisfiability criteria." Sounds like election hacking to me!

https://web.archive.org/web/20250204131222/https://devpost.com/software/ballotproof-vision

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suspersists.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thank you for this!!! I have posted this so many time my thumbs are falling off (I use my phone).

suspersists.bsky.social•9 days ago

thiswillhold.bsky.social•9 days ago

ETA is aware, this thread includes that piece:
https://bsky.app/profile/thiswillhold.bsky.social/post/3lgonzoinsk25

emilyweatherwax.bsky.social•9 days ago

Absolutely, and there was a significant number of people who didn't vote, which is another issue. But even with the voter suppression and possible interference, it shouldn't have been close. And the fact that it was is sickening. He's not wrong that we need to confront this issue...

emilyweatherwax.bsky.social•9 days ago

We all know people who supported him and people who continue to support him or to be in denial about what is happening. Racism and transphobia have been effectively weaponized by the right to make people happily surrender their rights in exchange for "protection" from trans people and immigrants

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

There was a billion-dollar campaign on the right to get election workers in every precinct. They were trained on how to disqualify ballots and whose to disqualify. Tens of thousands of people in the swing states said their mail-in ballots either never arrived or were never counted.

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

Provisional ballots were rejected. States purged voter rolls days before the election without notifying people. When they showed up to vote, they were told they had been purged, and it was too late to re-register. It's not that people didn't vote. They were prevented from voting.

zenzinnia.bsky.social•9 days ago

Even with all the interference that went on, he still got less than 50% of the popular vote. It was close, very close. I don't think he won WI, MI, PA, AZ, or GA, to be honest.

emilyweatherwax.bsky.social•9 days ago

I don't think he actually won either. However, I do think there were millions of people who did vote for him, and that's the symptom of a very bad problem.

emilyweatherwax.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm aware and acknowledged that there was voter suppression. That's a huge issue. We still need to recognize that there were plenty of people who did vote for him, and deal with the choke hold right wing media and disinformation have on a lot of people.

iaminit2.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yes, the gerrymandering in NC is blatant and absurd!

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