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Jul 10, 2022, 26 tweets

#sackdanandrews has been trending lately, leading the charge was Kirralie Smith amongst a mirror image of the same anti-Dan network on Facebook. So it begs the question, are the Vic Libs using Cambridge Analytica or whatever form it takes nowdays? Let's look at the evidence..

If you pour over every scrap of information out there from whistleblowers and the like about how CA worked and what they got up to, as I have, the first thing that stands out is their use of Astroturfed organizations as the focal point of their campaigns

They mention this being a common play but all up I can only find mention of 3 of them. The branding, however, is strikingly familiar. Reclaim ___, Reignite ____, and ____ Forward. Reclaim was also commonly used with events surrounding the Tea Party.

When The Q Society linked up with Geert Wilders and Steve Bannon's network back in 2015 and formed the Australian Liberty Alliance, we saw an anti-Islam protest movement spring up under the banner of 'Reclaim Australia'.

Fast forward to 2020 and a young man who independently worked on the 2016 Trump campaign, Vice Chair of the Sunbury Branch of the Liberal Party - Edward Bourke - started a 'Political action group' by the name of Victoria Forward.

Early in the pandemic they ran a fairly noisy campaign against the proposed Brumby cull in Victoria. Representing Victoria Forward on this campaign was 2 People. Stephanie Bastiaan, wife of (now former) Liberal Party powerbroker Marcus Bastiaan and a woman named Monica Smit.

Then as Melbourne entered our 2nd lockdown Monica branched out and created Reignite Democracy Australia. Notably, not only did it share branding with an astroturfed organization set up by Cambridge Analytica, but also with a program run by the IPA called Generation Liberty.

Monica's boyfriend at the time was Morgan C Jonas, who worked alongside Avi Yemini with the Australian Liberty Alliance. Here they are hosting a Pro-Israel counter rally in 2018 under the banner of the ALA.

Speaking of Avi, here he is a couple years earlier in the UK covering the Brexit Vote for the 'Australian News Network'.

This guy does love a protest movement. Here he is as the spokesperson of the #sackdanandrews movement back in 2018 due to the raging gang crime being perpetrated by African youths. Ironically he is calling for mandatory sentencing for violent offenders.

Anyone in Victoria might have noticed the weirdly overhyped threat of gang violence hyped up by the Liberal Party and the (Newscorp) media leading in to the 2018 election. Coincidently im sure, this is the first year the Liberal Party linked up with Charles Kochs data firm, i360.

The campaign itself was run by Victorian Liberal Party director Nick Demiris, a factional ally of Bastiaan.

also coincidently, Avi made a speech to a rally in the UK for Tommy Robinson, head of the English Defense League, where he proclaimed 'Tommy is my leader'. This was directly after claiming he is the worlds proudest Jewish Nazi. Looking at who funds Tommy is very interesting..

The same dark money network behind Trump, linked in with The Council for National Policy, Russian Trolls and 'right wing Australians'. They are referring to the ALA.

Financier of Cambridge Analytica, Robert Mercer, through the Gatestone Institute paid Rebel News to fabricate fake news footage of Muslims in Europe as part of the Trump Campaign.

So it shouldn't be a surprise that on the 27th of July 2020, the day after reignite democracy was launched, Avi Yemini goes silent on his website that he had been updating daily and over the course of the next month a whole host of 'alt media' personalities pop up out of nowhere

All revolving around this network of anti-Dan Andrews Facebook groups that people were lead to through a campaign called #givedantheboot combined with constant paid advertising and frantic outrage hyped up by Sky News.

Then once everything was in action, this guy pops back up.

Then over the next few months while the rest of the state is in lockdown trying to stop the spread of Covid, we basically just went through the list of known stunts from Cambridge Analytica campaigns. I've gone into all this in much greater detail here - medium.com/@pestcontrolau…

With every stunt they funneled more outrage into these Facebook groups through Vic Forwards paid advertising.

This again is exactly what they did with Hilary Clinton, except the outrage wasn't around lockdowns it was thanks to Pizzagate, which over time evolved into Qanon. In these groups, Qanon was prominently pushed.

Though they also pushed localized conspiracy theories regarding the cops and the claim that the Andrews government is illegitimate and must be deposed through revolution, then later on that he was bashed down the stairs.

Again i've gone into great detail on these groups here - medium.com/@pestcontrolau… and here - medium.com/@pestcontrolau… but long story short these groups are run by this guy..

Yes that's Tim Wilson, formerly of the IPA and Brad Rowswell, a factional ally of Marcus Bastiaan. In fact Rowswell was the first ever guest to appear on Reignite Democracies Youtube page.

This is just the beginning but im out of space. There is serious questions to ask here, I suggest reading through all the stuff i've put on Medium from the start to fully grasp the situation - medium.com/@pestcontrolau and we'l have to tackle the rest next time. Thanks for reading.

Just gonna leave this here. As depressing as this stuff is, you gotta have some fun with it.

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