1/ Alright, everyone. I watched @DineshDSouza's new film #2000Mules (twice) and have put together a review of the movie. I cover what they got right, what they got wrong, and what they fail to prove. I think this is an important piece. Please share and RT. readtangle.com/2000-mules-fac…
2/ I want to first remind everyone that this is a *new* theory. The stolen election theories started with the granddaddy of them all -- Dominion Voting Systems. But they have changed, repeatedly, and now landed here. Back at election fraud.
3/ From the very opening scene in this film, D'Souza is misleading viewers with a viral clip of Joe Biden that has been deceptively edited and taken out of context. I explain here:
4/ The movie then pivots into perhaps the most debunked election fraud claim yet. The idea that Biden overtaking Trump in the middle of the night was somehow unexpected or proof of fraud. I explain how we knew this was likely before the race even started:
5/ There are loads of other spurious claims that the movie introduces or recycles (like that Trump won bellwether counties or was outperformed by every Republican candidate, all of which is false)
6/ The central claim in #2000Mules, though, is the idea that a group of 2,000+ people (D'Souza estimates as many as 54,000) were conducting a massive ballot harvesting scheme to overthrow the election.
Simply put: D'Souza never comes close to proving this.
7/ The cell phone location data thesis is spurious for a number of reasons, which Gregg Phillips (featured in the movie) has actually admitted in testimony before the Pennsylvania state senate
8/ Here is Phillips conceding that without footage in Pennsylvania (which they don't have in the movie) they can't know for sure if innocent people are being caught up in their data dragnet
9/ One of the main characters in the film has *already been investigated* by Georgia state officials. They exonerated him, saying all five ballots D'Souza shows him depositing were for family members. readtangle.com/otherposts/200…
10/ D'Souza, Phillips and Engelbrecht also allege over and over again that they have videos of the same people appearing at different drop boxes in the same day and placing ballots in them. Yet they never show such footage in the film.
Not once!
11/ D'Souza actually responded to this criticism with this tweet:
12/ These two photos show one man depositing in a drop box on 2 different days -- which is not the central "mule" claim purported in the movie.
Even worse, it looks like the guy is an innocent caretaker/nurse of some kind, who can legally deposit ballots for ppl in his care.
13/ D'Souza and his team never once explain why in such a scheme Democrats would use dropboxes when they could use their own mail boxes or the Post Office, which would be much less public scenes! He also never explains how these ballots would not be caught.
14/ The film also frames ppl wearing gloves or taking selfies with ballots as somehow suspicious, despite the fact a) it's cold in Nov-Dec-Jan! and b) we were in the middle of a pandemic. 🤔
15/ Most telling, though, is what @DineshDSouza *doesn't* tell the viewer.
He presents "True The Vote" as a non-partisan org despite the fact it is a Tea Party offshoot run by lifelong and vocal conservatives. #2000Mules
A) Actually presented this data to Georgia officials, who said it was not sufficient evidence even for an investigation! OR
B) Why they couldn't easily prosecute the ppl they have identified, if the crimes are real?
17/ Perhaps most telling of all, though, is the #2000Mules team won't even hand over the incriminating information they say they have to officials to investigate!
They were *literally subpoenaed* for it because GA would want to know
1/ Alright, friends. It’s starting, and I want to get ahead of it. Four years later, can’t believe we are doing this, but… ELECTION FRAUD DEBUNKING MEGA THREAD, PART II
We’ll have a lot of re-reruns from 2020 (original thread below). Send me any you see. I will investigate everything with an open mind, and flag legit evidence. Let’s begin… #Election2024
2/ An oldie but a goodie. This person has added fake audio to the video that didn’t exist when it was first released in 2020. You are watching two election workers “cure” a ballot the machine couldn’t read. 100% normal. 100% legal.
3/ I actually used this video as my primetime example in 2020. Disheartening to see it shared again 21 hours later, with fake audio dubbed in, and already has 2,000 RTs. No community notes. Here is my post about it from 2020: readtangle.com/election-fraud…
2. Biden declared a major disaster on Saturday, which means survivors can already apply for FEMA funds
3. There are 5,000+ national guardsman in North Carolina
4. The U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Health and Human Services are all working throughout the region
5. Biden spoke to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) who said he got "everything he asked for" from POTUS in Georgia.
6. Gov. Roy Cooper (D) asked Biden, Harris and Trump to stay out until rescue missions were complete for obvious reasons
7. Local groups and orgs typically lead the immediate relief efforts; the feds support with $$ and additional resources but are rarely the first to respond (again, for obvious reasons)
8. FEMA & local groups are shipping in food and supplies via truck, plane, and even freaking mules!
9. FEMA search and rescue teams are on the ground and have been for days
10. This website is full of people lying about 1-9.
If you want to do something productive, here is a list of ways to help from a Western NC radio station. They include: Donating to Hope Mill Inc's Hurricane relief, donating to operation Airdrop, supporting local charities, etc.
And, by the way, conservative Republicans in Congress literally kept additional FEMA funding out of a stopgap bill *5 days ago* ... so if you hear them asking why we are giving money to Ukraine but not FEMA, that's why.
1/ Don’t talk about this much publicly, but 3.5 years ago, I was in one of the darkest places I had ever been. I had applied to about 60 jobs and gotten zero of them. On seven occasions, I was a finalist for a reporting job I really wanted. All seven times, I got rejected.
2/ I had no idea what to do. My gig at the time, where I'd been for 7 years, was turning into a full on video outlet. I was no longer writing. I had ideas I wanted to execute but no idea how. Then my former colleague/boss/friend @catematthews mentioned something called Substack.
3/ I had some ideas I wanted to execute, namely a politics newsletter that summarized arguments from across the right & left on big, divisive issues. So I started a Substack, came up with a name, and sent out a few crude emails. Today, I just got this notification from Stripe:
Here are 5 of the most interesting political misconceptions that exist and persist in America today 🧵
1. “The Supreme Court is hopelessly divided.” Actually, over the last decade, 43% of all SCOTUS decisions were 9-0 *unanimous* decisions. In 2021-2022, roughly 60% were 9-0, 8-1, or 7-2 decisions. scotusblog.com/2022/07/as-una…
2. “Democrats hate police.” Ask a Republican, and they’ll estimate that about half of all Democrats think most police are bad people. Reality? Less than 20%. This is part of the “perception gap” perceptiongap.us
Every day, I write to one of the most politically diverse audiences (maybe *the* most?) in all of political news. Here are the five pieces from @TangleNews that got the most positive feedback from across the political spectrum this year:
If you think the NYTimes purposefully included a swastika in its crossword puzzle please get to therapy
If you actually need an explanation
1) This isn't what a swastika looks like 2) This shape happens when creating crosswords 3) The reader who made this crossword proudly explained the design!