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@PiperK
Oct 6, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
What? Elon Musk is paying people to sign up for his Trump PAC. I thought vote buying was illegal. Image
Here's the law. 👇 Image
This could be considered payment for registering to vote. I signed up as Karen LooneyTunes to see what would happen, and the next page makes it look like you have to register to vote to get the $47. Image
Providing any incentives (even cookies!) for registering to vote is illegal. Image

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Aug 26
I'm reading this and highly recommend. Christopher Steele got such a raw deal, as did all his sources. 1/ Image
People misread the Steele dossier. It's what I'd call "fluid intelligence" that was collected from dozens of sources, all of whom were saying the same thing.

It was collected and reported in the moment, with urgency. The FBI ignored it for months, which helped Trump win. 2/
They should have announced an investigation into Trump's Russian connections before the election, or at least kept quiet about Hillary's emails if they were worried about the Hatch Act. 3/
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Aug 21
Tulsi Gabbard's allegiance is to her guru, Chris.

Chris's cult is financially connected to a Hong Kong-based company (Qi) that has been charged with fraud.

But his ties to China go back to the 1980s. 1/ Image
Chris Butler was kicked out of high school in Hawaii, but claimed he reached enlightenment by age 20. He also had a (pretty bad) rock band.

Eventually, he joined the Hari Krishnas but got kicked out of there, too. 2/ Image
At the same time, across the world in China, a 16-year-old girl claims she heard his rock music (um.... unlikely) and went to meet him in Hong Kong, and then Manila. Not much is known about her.

But this woman, Zhang Huilan (aka Wana Lai), later became his wife and still is. 3/
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Jul 22
I'm reading Gabbard's full 114-page document release. Most of it has to do with U.S. election infrastructure. It also covers the U.S. response to Russian election interference. 👇 1/ Image
Her document release contradicts the claims she's making on TV. It's all about how Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump....

She also released the "highly classified" version of this report. 👇

Why? 2/ Image
The "highly classified" version is even stronger in its assessment that Putin wanted Trump as president and that Putin historically favors the GOP. 3/ Image
Read 11 tweets
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Jun 23
Tomorrow, Trump is meeting with DRC and Rwandan representatives to sign a "peace plan."

This makes me think of the Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter, who killed two Democratic politicians and has connections with people in the DRC government. 1/
Boelter claimed he was working with "fisherman" on the "Rwandan coast" of the DRC, which must mean along Lake Kivu. 2/ Image
What's interesting is that this is in M23-held rebel territory and a war zone. 3/ Image
Read 8 tweets
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Jun 17
Vance Boelter said he decided to go to the Congo after meeting the DRC Ambassador to the United States, Francois Balumuene.

I discovered that they indeed met at this event in Worthington, Minnesota, in December 2018. The Ambassador is on the far right. In the middle is Boelter's friend and "business partner." 1/Image
Boelter's friend Mcnay Nkashama takes people on mission trips to the Congo through his "Global Impact Center." Boelter would later travel with them when he went to preach in the DRC. 2/ Image
In 2018, at the meeting with Balumuene, Vance Boetler discussed possible business opportunities in the Congo, and the ambassador encouraged people to go there. He said he liked Vance's idea. 3/ Image
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Jun 5
Not a word from @FBIDirectorKash about the Nazi group here in Washington state who attacked a military base to steal weapons, hitting a soldier in the head with a hammer.

They've been selling military weapons online for years and have a thousand followers on Instagram. 1/ Image
Their business logo is a Nazi symbol. 2/ Image
And they sell gear celebrating war criminals. They are veterans of the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. 3/ Image
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