Once upon a time in a country called America, a power-hungry political party called the GOP enjoyed about fifteen years of poll-defying victories after ensuring that America’s election system made it impossible to prove fraud. 1/
2/ They got away w/ it bc Democrats almost always conceded without a fight and because anyone who suspected fraud was called “tin foil” since they couldn’t prove it.
3/ America’s 2020 election flipped this situation on its head.
4/ After blocking Democratic legislation that wld have made it possible to prove whether fraud had occurred or not (by requiring robust manual audits 4 all federal races), the GOP claimed without proof that the election lost by their candidate, an infamous conman, was fraudulent.
5/ The GOP did this even though all the polls predicted that the conman would lose.
6/ In response, the Democratic Party overstated the security of the election and made no effort to try to conduct meaningful manual audits of their own poll-defying House and Senate losses.
7/ The GOP, despite having blocked legislation that would have required meaningful manual audits 4 all federal races & vendors, set out to bolster their baseless election-fraud narrative by conducting propaganda #fraudits of just one race & one vendor in cherry-picked counties.
8/ In response, the Democrats decided to NOT reintroduce legislation to require meaningful manual audits in the next election (2022) because doing so might bolster the GOP’s claim that the 2020 election was insecure.
9/ This was a problem because the system really was insecure. The GOP had made it that way by thwarting the Democrats’ efforts to fix it.
10/ Democratic voters might have insisted that their elected leaders reintroduce or write new legislation to make the system secure and transparent for the next election. But no one told them the truth, so no one knew to speak up, much less what specific changes to demand.
11/ The Democratic Party and media had fallen victim to a deadly group think. They had decided that maintaining public trust in elections meant pretending elections were more secure than they were.
12/ Sadly, this is not a fable. It is the all too true story of electronic voting in the United States.
13/ I am sounding the sound the alarm. Without the truth of how we got here and where we are and who is responsible, meaningful election-security reform and a happy ending to the American experiment may elude us.
Houraney “recalls encountering Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in Jan 1993” & says “Trump asked him to organise a party” w/ “some of his pageant’s finalists…[A]fter an hour at the party, Houraney says, there seemed to be only one other guest: Epstein.” 3/14/20 1/
ICYMI, during the 2016 presidential campaign, “Epstein invited [Peter] Thiel and [Thomas] Barrack to separate meetings with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations. **** Thiel, who had several interactions with Epstein starting in 2014, according to the documents, said his Oct 2016 meeting with Epstein & Churkin featured ‘nothing memorable.’
‘I was rather naive,’ Thiel said in an interview, ‘and I didn’t think enough about what Epstein’s agenda might have been.’ Barrack, founder of Colony Capital and a longtime Trump ally, declined to comment.” 1/ archive.is/2023.09.03-150…
Tulsi’s report seems to me like an attempt to distract. As I detailed on Medium, Obama stated in Dec 2016 that, “We have not seen evidence of machines being tampered with *** That doesn’t mean that we find every single potential probe of every single voting machine across the country. But we paid a lot of attention to it. We worked with state election officials, etc. And we feel confident that that didn’t occur.” 1/
If anything, I felt that Obama and others provided false assurances to the public about the legitimacy of Trump’s win in 2016. I explained my concerns in detail here. 3/ jennycohn1.medium.com/why-have-so-ma…
A whistleblower alleged that staff of Palantir—co-founded by Facebook investor/director Peter Thiel—had worked w/ Cambridge Analytica (CA) on the FB data it acquired. But a Palantir spokesperson claimed Palantir never had a relationship w/ CA & never worked on its data. 5/2018 1/
F#ck. “The prospective buyer of TikTok’s American operations” cited by Trump is an “investor consortium” that includes “Andreessen Horowitz,” the VC firm founded by Peter Thiel ally Marc Andreessen (which also played a role in Elon’s Twitter acquisition) - Bloomberg, 6/30/25 1/
Carbyne is an “Israeli emergency response startup” chaired by former Israeli prime minister EHUD BARAK & backed by PETER THIEL’S Founders Fund. Sum, a limited partnership, “owns 100% of Carbyne’s series A preferred stock.” JEFFREY EPSTEIN invested $1.5M in Sum in 2016. 1/
3/ Per the article, “Andrew Intrater is a business partner and backer of…Carbyne Ltd. Intrater is also one of the key figures questioned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team in connection to the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”