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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In case u were wondering why many on the far right support Israel: “For more than a century, prominent European and American xenophobes have embraced Zionism because it offered Jews—who they didn’t want in their own countries—somewhere else to go.” 1/ jewishcurrents.org/antisemitic-zi…
2/ “Zionist leaders grasped this from the outset. In his 1882 manifesto Auto-Emancipation, often described as one of Zionism’s founding texts, …activist Leon Pinsker explained that ‘the struggle of the Jews for national unity & independence’ is ‘calculated to win the support of the people by whom we are now unwanted.’”
3/ “In 1895, Theodor Herzl confided in his diary that ‘the anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends.’”
Elon Musk’s UK “civil war” tweet was in response to a tweet by Ashley St. Clair, a close associate of Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec. They were together inside Roger Stone’s tent on 1/5/21. 1/
“Elon Musk suggested that ‘civil war’ was inevitable in response to false claims about the recent UK riots,” sparking a “diplomatic firestorm.” The British government has “condemned his actions, with one official complaining that Musk was ‘accountable to no one.’” 8/8/24 1/ thedailybeast.com/countries-cant…
NatCon panelist Timon Cline wants SCOTUS to reverse Everson, which held that the Establishment Clause applies to the states. He says that, in the past (which he apparently prefers), states cld & often did limit full civil participation to Protestants & had “Christian religious tests for office” & robust blasphemy & obscenity laws. 1/
Um, right wingers want SCOTUS to overrule the 1947 SCOTUS decision in Everson, which has prevented states from establishing & enforcing an official state religion (SCOTUS puppet master Leonard Leo co-chairs the Federalist Society.) 7/3/24 1/ fedsoc.org/fedsoc-review/…
3/ A major driver of the movement to ignore or reverse Everson appears to be Yoram Hazony, leader of the National Conservatism (NatCon) movement linked to Peter Thiel & JD Vance. This is an article from 5/23/22. americanreformer.org/2022/05/yoram-…
NatCon’s 2022 Statement of Principles—signed by Peter Thiel, Project 2025 leader Russ Vought, William Wolfe, & many others—harmonizes w/ Joel Webbon’s remarks. It was also signed by NatCon founder Yoram Hazony who has said that Jews shld live in Israel. 1/ nationalconservatism.org/national-conse…