I lost faith in the US govt to tell me the truth re: election security when Comey & @EACgov testified that it wld be really hard to hack an election bc voting machines supposedly don't connect to the internet, & an expert explained on C-Span this was BS.1/ csoonline.com/article/312639…
3/ It was like a death. Never in my life would I have thought my government would lie about something like this. Or, alternatively, be this incompetent. I spent the next three years feeling like I need to try to micromanage the situation bc I didn't trust them anymore.
4/ I know some people think it's bad for me to say this because it undermines voter confidence in elections. But guess what? I started out as an ordinary voter. This is what I found out. And I was horrified. There has been no reckoning for the lies.
5/ Reality Winner, who tried to bring a dose of reality to the situation, remains in prison. I do not trust our government re: election security. I just don't. They have never told us the full truth about 2016. They don't even try to be transparent.
6/ I discovered an objectively seriously problematic situation with America's largest voting machine vendor, ES&S, and not one person in Congress has reached out about it. The EAC wouldn't even comment. It is stonewalling on documents. What kind of banana republic have we become?
7/ PS. Of course I believe Biden won. All the polls predicted it. My concern is with the constant poll-defying Republican wins. And I feel we deserve to know if there was another attempt by Russia to hack this election. And I don’t trust the government to tell us.
8/ And I don’t like that Trump’s lies have scared experts into silence about real vulnerabilities. I’m not close with many of these experts, but I know enough to know that this is happening. Its real. And it’s a problem.
9/ I’d like to have faith that my government would tell me if any election was stolen. Until #RealityWinner is released and we are told a whole lot more about 2016, I will NOT have that faith. We shouldn’t have had to hear from Bob Woodward that Russians planted malware in FL.
10/ We shouldn’t have had to hear from David Shimer that Russia was in a position to edit actual vote tallies in 2016. Why is this info still classified?! Why is #RealityWinner still in prison?!
12/ PPS. I shouldn't have to have included post 7 to prove I'm not a Russian shill or MAGA. The burden should be on the government to provide evidence-based elections, making my "belief" irrelevant. Sigh.
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As I said, Christian Right activists are UNITED in their determination to ban abortion in all 50 states from conception forward. Voters deserve this info before November. (Meg Basham is a Doug Wilson fan girl & alumnus of the Claremont Institute, a Project 2025 partner). 1/
In June 2022, anti-choice activist Catherine Glenn Foster said during an event w/ Project 2025 leader Heritage that, after undoing Roe, “we will be moving towards abolition,” including “a constitutional amendment” so that “abortion simply shall not exist in the United States..”1/
2/ The event titled “Life After Roe” was co-hosted by Heritage (led by Kevin Roberts), the Ethics and Public Policy Center (led by Ryan Anderson), & Americans United for Life (led at the time by Catherine Glenn Foster). Here’s the link to the full video. youtube.com/live/d4zpJ8ivc…
Ryan Anderson agreed that, “the ultimate objective … is abolition of abortion, no lethal violence in the womb. That’s the ultimate objective. Overturning Roe is just the first step.” Anderson is president of the Ethics & Public Policy Center whose board includes Leonard Leo. 3/
JFC, America has taken on too much water. GOP megadonor Dick Uihlein is worth more than $5 billion and has spent more than $200 million on political campaigns and PACs. His causes include opposing abortion access. By True North, @thelisagraves 4/24/24 1/ truenorthresearch.org/2024/04/report…
Ryan Anderson—president of the Ethics & Public Policy Center, a Project 2025 partner—says that “religious liberty exemptions” aren’t enuf. Rather, he wants laws that force everyone to conform to Catholic beliefs (the so-called “natural law”) so that exemptions are unnecessary. 1/
2/ Ryan Anderson is the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) whose board includes SCOTUS puppeteer Leonard Leo and Princeton professor Robert George (another Catholic extremist). He gave these remarks at an event hosted by the Napa Institute which was founded by Leo ally Tim Busch. Here is the full video.
3/ “Within Catholic moral teaching, natural law arguments are commonly invoked to denounce “unnatural” and therefore immoral acts: contraception, same-sex sexual relations, and many assisted reproductive technologies…” uscatholic.org/articles/20180…
Heritage is the lead organizer of Project 2025. They want the next Republican president to give them control over approving and withdrawing approval of drugs. They are coming for birth control via the FDA, regardless of the courts. 1/
This is a redo of my post from February where I mistakenly called it Project 25. 2/
In 2018, evangelical extremist activist Ralph Reed thanked Trump for having “kept his word on #SCOTUS picks.” Trump sold out his country to corrupt anti-choice religious zealots in exchange for their support. 1/
It has always been a transactional relationship. 2/